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Friday, January 20, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9 Warped \MD THAT5 All For CAnruf f/V£W5, A/OW IT'S TIME FOR OUR m WEATHER CRITIC, RAUL ISTORft, WITH A REVIEW OF THIS WEEKS WEATHER. 'OR INVOLVES U5. IT PRAGS, THERE'S NO PEVELOFHENT, SO WE NEVER REML1 CARE ABOUT IT. by Scott McCullar JdilhOUS© I Fislt Riehards Restaiurant ^ 7ve SEEN WATCHING THE WEATHER f THIS WEATHER IS TEDIOUS ANP IT Iandi Ausr$/\y in pisafpointep. /never satisfies, it hap a lot i ,THE WEATHER'S BEEN WEAK. THINlEOF POTENTIAL, VET FAILED TO IT NEVER CAPTURES OUR INTERESTIliVE UP TO IT AND SETTLED FOR /AEPIOCRITY. THIS COLD WEATHER IS WITHOUT BELIEVABLE CHARACTER 50 WE NEVER REALLT TAKE IT k SERIOUSLY. ISO ANYWAY, MY RECOMMENDATION lIS, STAY HONIG.,'CAUSE /'M ONLY GIVING IT £ SNOWFLAKES OUT OF A POSSIBLE 10. IT AW BE ROTTEN OUT THERE, BUT WE'LL JUST HAVE TO WEATHER IT OUT- THIS IS THE WEATHER CRITIC,PAULSpRH Cooking did not remove EDB United Press International AUSTIN — Significant re- r1 ^- sidues of the potent cancer- llle ^ r causing chemical EDB remained rnfol j n three of seven grain-based ' and (food products, even after they ll *' " ■ were cooked, the Texas Agricul- uhis‘ ture Department said Thursday. s and Assistant Commissioner Ron olds lx White said the cooking tests inesca[dj were performed by the state at nwlr the request of the federal En- dl voii.! vironmental Protection Agency. I “All of the product conuined movedi EDB residues before cooking changt and three contained detectable iiblidiv amounts of the chemical after being mixed and cooked exactly as directed,” he said. I The tests did not determine, said White, how EDB residues were changed during the cook ing process or whether the carci nogen contaminated the air dur ing cooking. In an additional 22 tests of grain-based foods, he said none of four ready-to-eat breakfast cereals contained the chemical. Tests also proved negative on samples of corn chips, eggs, oranges, corn meal, flour and corn oil. But White said EDB did turn up in several dog food samples. “While these tests showed that all EDB residues do not cook off, as some have claimed, they also proved that an over whelming majority of grain- based products can get to mar ket at a competitive price and be completely free of this danger ous chemical,” he said. Traces of EDB — ethylene dibromide — were found earlier this month in products taken from Texas supermarket shelves. The chemical has been widely used as a pesticide in the grain and citrus industries, although its use has been res tricted by the EPA. Despite calls from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower and environmental ists that contaminated products be removed from stores, state health Commissioner Robert Bernstein, has said he needs more information about EDB before issuing a removal order or setting standards on how much is safe for human con sumption. After similar findings in De cember in Florida, health offi cials there ordered the tainted products removed from Florida grocery stores and set a state wide minimum exposure stan dard. The Texas Health Depart ment said last week it could find no traces of EDB in 22 samples of public drinking water sup plies from around the state. wedding postponed \ United Press International HOUSTON — Convicted kil ler Richard Wilkerson planned to be married Thursday, but was transferred to Texas death row before he could exchange wed ding vows. Wilkerson was transfered to the Ellis Unit in Huntsville be fore his fiance, Rene Maldeaux, 18, arrived for the wedding. , Wilkerson, 19, was sentenced to death for the July 1 robbery slaying of the manager of the Malibu Grand Prix speedway and video arcade. A jury con victed Wilkerson of stabbing Anil Varughese 42 times and sentenced him to die by lethal injection. Maldeaux said she did not believe her boyfriend is guilty. G G SOI Wellborn Road College Station “A True Dining Experience In A Relaxed Atmosphere" Starting January 23rd Fish Richard’s is serving Lunch 11:30 - 2:30 Monday - Friday Soups, Salads, Sandwiches, Crepes, Quiche, Prime Rib Daily Special irand m whA abduettf k allow underji hone calls reporting deaths; robably made by prankster S, 1 A FREE Kodak color enlargement! Pay for two, same-size Kodak color enlargements, get the third enlargement free... • Up to 16" x 24" enlargements made from KODACOLOR Film negatives, color slides, color prints, or instant color prints.* • Offer ends February 22, 1984. 'Prints, slides, or Kodacolor film nega tives cannot be combined in the same order to quality « AMI I A 401 University Dr ■ I H 14 I 1 Sll 1 . INI . College Station, Texas 77840 • 713 846-5418 Energy in '84: Slow recovery United Press International | SAN ANTONIO — A Ionian claiming to work at a ricui hospital turned the usually harmless pasttime of prank tele phone catling into a cruel joke stale c this week, telling people their re- e relatives had been seriously in ti RoTju red or killed, police said oiial Thursday. iitendeil J Police Lt. Jack Summey said Dec the rash of prank calls began last revoked weekend, when a San Antonio woman was asked by an alleged agree® thedait ut its ; 'jiSake * /ojKra® esniJU '' United Press International om&J HOUSTON — The energy- I be exp oriented engineering and con- he pr°l struction industry should bot- he da' tom out and begin a slow recov- ously 1 ery in late 1984, an industry ex- 1(1 m pert said Thursday. , “It will bounce around the lie daj bottom for most of 1984. The jng ibli fenergy industries are in the ear- L *ssica 1 ly stages of a recovery, but it’ll be SepW a long time before that turnar- id a fe' ound truly impacts on the en- t l abaiiAineer-cons true tor,” said riofan [Donald C. Vaughn, president of (Mib' I M.W. kellogg Company. i Vaughn, speaking at the 20th - - annual Houston Outlook ’84 =? u ' economic conference, said he lees a “continued delay in new , | vatLiant construction as producers t vearsii ^ 01 ^ off inventories and build ial( | er Up utilization rales which are ! , 3 ; Mill in the 70 percent range in itiesli 1 1-S. refineries and the 50 to 60 ^ ^ d percent range in Europe,” ved. * a ’ hospital employee for permis sion tooperate on her mother. The woman was told that her mother had been seriously in jured and r father killed in an automobile accident, he said. Summey said between 40 and 50 calls have been made, mostly by a woman claiming to work at Humana Hospital in San Anto nio. But some of the more recent calls could be the work of copy cats, he said. “It’s a difficult investigation,” Summey said. “We’re dealing with an unknown source that randomly picks people from the telephone book. There’s no way to trace the calls unless you get an idea of where the source is.” He said police investigated the possibility the caller is a dis gruntled hospital employee or a mental patient. “But right now, we have no real concrete or valid suspects,” he said. ‘T hope it runs its course.” CasaOle MEXICAN RESTAURANT “The number of new worl dwide engineering and con struction manhours available to our industry in 1984 will be fully a third less than they were three years ago,” he said. Vaughn said the “boom days” are over for energy-related en- ? ;ineering and construction irms. He said the industry will likely get most of its business in makeover work, updating plans and making them more energy- efficient and versatile. In Houston, the site of Kel- logg’s world headquarters, the engineering and construction industry “is probably less than half the size it was two years ago” and will “remain lean” to stay competitive. industry. We no longer compete only with domestic and Euro pean contractors, but with Far Eastern and Middle Eastern companies (with) lower operat ing and labor costs,” he said. Vaughn predicted engineer ing construction firms will be come more involved in the ear liest stages of projects, assisting in site selection and financing. SUNDAY SPECIAL 11 A.M. to 8 P.M. ALL YOU CAN EAT! DINNER OLE' Two Cheese Enchiladas, Tamale, Rice and Beans. Taco, Chalupa, Chile Con Queso Tortilla and Guacamole Salad. $4.95 LOCATED IN POST OAK MALL West entrance between Wilson's and Dillards. per person BUSINESS HOURS Sunday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon.-Thurs., 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 11 a.m.-IO p.m. Phone 764-0933 Once^a even 50 on selected PRE-INVEN Doors open Floor stocks only. 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