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United Press International
BRYAN — Former Texas
A&M football player Edd
Hargett joined the chorus of
Republicans Wednesday who
were critical of Gov. Mark
White for setting a special
legislative election during the
conservative school’s spring
break.
“As a former student, it up
sets me that Gov. White has
obviously done this to disen
franchise the conservative-
minded vote of the Aggie net
work of 48,000 students and
'employees,” said Hargett,
now a member of the Texas
Economic Development Gom-
mission.
White touched off the
GOP’s ire when he set March
10 as a special election date to
fill Rep. Bill Presnal’s seat in
the state legisalture. Presnal, a
Bryan Democrat, resigned the
office to work as a vice-
chancellor at A&M.
“Mark White, probably in
consultation with the Demo
cratic candidate in Brazos
County, undoubtedly looked
at the high Republican vote
totals in Texas A&M precincts
and decided to give and edge
to his candidate over Republi
can Richard Smith,” said GOP
State Ghairman George
Strake.
While’s aides said the tim
ing of the university’s spring
break was not a factor in their
decision to set the election for
March 10.
But Smith said many A&M
students are conservatives
who tend to vote Republican
and blamed the selection of
the March 10 date on either
party politics or a lack of
knowledge in the governor’s
office about A&M’s schedule.
“It’s hard for me to believe
that the state’s highest elected
official does not have access to
information regarding when
A&M students will be on
spring break,” Smith said.
for the special election would
have been March 3, before
A&M’s break begins.
Shrimp predicted as new crop
Prosecutor, cop deny
reports on 2 suspects
United Press International
lj KILGORE — A prosecutor
and police official Wednesday
blasted as “totally false” reports
/ a grand jury soon would hear
) evidence against two suspects in
He deaths of five people at a
Kentucky Fried Chicken res-
ldenl1 taurant.
annoiM “\y e ' ve had suspects since day
one,” said Kilgore police spokes-
^ , "Ban Jerdy Wolverton. “We’ve
had hundreds of them but,
through the course of the inves
tigation, most have been
cleared.”
H Rusk County District Attor
ney William Brown was quoted
heir cat as saying two people had been
g thro. jingled out as suspects and that
nation information would be presented
a theca to a grand jury in March,
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But Brown said in Hender
son Wednesday he made no
such statement.
‘‘It is totally inaccurate,”
Brown said. “A reporter called
here that had heard street talk
and attempted to verify it
through us. When we didn’t
verify it the way he wanted it
done, he wrote up his street talk
and attributed it to us.
“We do have some leads that
we hope will pan out, and we’re
checking all the leads as they
come in. If and when we’re able
to develop enough information
we feel we can go with, then we’ll
go forward. When and where
that will be, it’s too early to say.”
Four employees and a bystan
der were taken from the res
taurant as it closed Sept. 23.
They were later shot to death on
-Grandstaff trial
moves to Week 3
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thewaiehl AMARILLO — A U.S. Dis-
The nct^ctjury is hearing its third week
11 alsoM: oFtestimony in a 3>5 million civil
Is tobelx-: suit concerning the 1981 shoot-
ntities. & t n & °f 6666 Ranch camp fore-
sysienisK tnuii James Grandstaff.
)00 and# Judge Mary Lou Robinson
iVednesday denied a mistrial re
quest from attorneys for the city
of Borger. Attorney Wayne
[Sturdivant made the request late
Tuesday, saying witness Jack
•Kpiton had expressed opinions
without being an expert in his
I Grandstaffs widow, Sharon,
Bed the suit against Borger and
Me counties of Hutchinson,
t|irson and Gray.
Grandstaff, 31, was shot by
authorities who mistook him for
a fugitive. Mrs. Grandstaff pre
viously testified her husband
had been trying to help author
ities hunt for a man near their
home early on Aug. 11, 1981.
Benton, a former Depart
ment of Public Safety employee,
had investigated evidence Texas
Rangers collected after the
Grandstaff shooting.
He said his tests and calcula
tions indicated the gunman was
lying on the west side of a road
when he fired the shot as Grand
staff was bending over. He said
he did not have any conclusions
about which of the six officers at
the scene had fired the fatal
shot.
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The recent arrests of suspects
in multiple killings in Sherman
and Mount Pleasant may have
triggered the incorrect reports
concerning the Kilgore slayings,
Brown said.
“We got some sparks from the
Sherman case and the Mount
Pleasant case, and they picked
up this street talk on this one and
tried to add it to them,” he said.
“This one’s nowhere ready yet.”
By CASEY RAMSEY
Re port er
Texas usually brings to mind
oil, cowboys, huge cattle ranches
and fertile farm lands. But
much of the land, more than a
million acres, is not suitable for
ranching or farming.
Until now, that is, when re
search at Tas A&M University
indicates that the land may be
ideal for raising a new crop —
shrimp.
The research, funded by the
Texas A&M Sea Grant Program
and the Texas Agriculture Ex
periment Station, has been very
successful in shrimp maricul-
ture—the raising of shrimp in
saltwater ponds. The program
has already become the first in
the continental United States to
produce two shrimp crops in
one year, said Feenan Jennings,
director of the Sea Grant
program.
The mild winters, flat coastal
plains and the availability of salt
water makes the Texas coastal
region an ideal location for rais
ing shrimp in saltwater-filled
ponds, he said. In addition the
shrimp farm operation is a good
investment.
A yield of 1,000 pounds of
shrimp per acre is valued be
tween $3,500 and $4,000. This
compares to cotton which is
valued at only $400 to $500 an
acre. These figures, combined
with the fact that each year the
United States imports 50 per
cent of its shrimp, valued at
more than $500 million, illus
trates the financial importance
of this new technology.
Jennings compares breeding
shrimp to the domestication of
cattle.
“Until cattle were domesti
cated, man had no control over a
potential food source,” he said.
“Once he got control, he could
use them for his benefit. Man’s
ability to control shrimp is para
llel to this.”
Jennings said that before
mariculture can achieve full
commercial success, the entire
shrimp life cycle must take place
in captivity. A big problem is
finding a way for shrimp to
breed naturally while in cap-
tivitv.
Texas A&M’s mariculture
program began in 1968, but re
searchers were unable to induce
the shrimp to spawn in captivity
until 1979. The solution to the
problem was found quite by
accident, Jennings said.
“It was noticed by researchers
that captive shrimp who had
somehow knocked off one of
their antenna-like eyes were
ovulating naturally.” Jennings
said. —— :
The shrimp are now caught
by hand and one eye is removed
with a razor blade, a process cal
led ablation. It is believed that
when a certain gland in the stalk
of the eye is removed, hormonal
changes occur and the shrimp
can ovulate naturally, Jennings
said. Prior to this, the shrimp
were caught while in native
spawning grounds off the Texas
coast and moved inland, a costly
and time consuming process cal
led “sou l 'eirie'.”
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