The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 20, 1984, Image 9

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    Friday, January 20, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9
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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.
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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
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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.”
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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.
No layaways or rainchecks
No Returns or Refunds
*Buri Furniture-SO^o
•Folding Chairs-SS^o
•Director’s Chairs-TS^o
•Selected Stemware-25 °7o
•Kobo Furniture Setting-25'70
•Children’s Furniture-50‘70
•Paper Lanterns-SOVo
•Bedspreads from India-50‘70
•Selected Coffee Mugs-25‘7o
•Aprons-TO^o
•Holiday Candles-SO^o
•Bamboo Wallhangings-SS^o
•Imported Coathangers-SO^o
•Formal Folding Tables-SO^o
•Toys and Games-SO^o
•Christmas Decorations-50*7o
•Dish Towels-35%
•Hanging Lamp Shades-SOTo
•Palm Leaves-SO^o
•Ital. Sidechairs-SOVo
•White Wicker Bath Setting-50‘70
•Plate Stands^S^o
•Trivets-SOVo
Listed above are sample savings! Others throughout the
store! Sale begins on Thursday, January 5, 1984.
Look for yellow dot tags and stickers!
Pjee 1 imports
associate
store
Manor East Mall (adjacent to Clothworld)
Texas Avenue at Villa Maria-Bryan, Texas
10:00 am to 9:00 pm weekdays-10 am to 6 pm-Sat.
Telephone 779-8771
vaughn said.
“When the recovery begins
later this year or early next, it
will be a gradual one and it will
reflect dramatic changes in our
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Mon
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10:30am - 3:30pm
Friday
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Also 10%-75% off all
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