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Friday, January 26, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11 R.l. OH YEAH. PAT THIS /5 "TYKE WE FRESHMH". by Paul Dirmeyer ssible to be "The 'pal wary n.duringy final stj aitiere^ 'a^meiit.^ upany Hbici •'lilosutftl •tie steelw 'lie hiriij rsin the a pt»ple sai "Pany foky li 1 labor cwj not higheJ nllion dollar! S ' CloH'en J ID "orltenl nring the|Msl mj of the J 'll,100 wJ it of them J new jobs. J id a job sej tdwithml I,Its, has y siirepaiei (jobs. The a ual job tnn isdingamiy sunies, seaidj orjobs. J i lather suJ have not tsj Iping evervn We’ve helpdi )le findjohj istou Lighii^ otliers,” j jj as of Mom lad undeip eh training enter beimo NASA jobs won’t change with new space station Officer cited for bravery By Ed Ahmis Reporter I University Police Officer Gene Wilganowski has received the Texas Department of Public Safety’s highest award for brav ery — an outstanding achieve ment since he is not a DPS take trooper. I The Department of Public Safety Director’s Award is nor mally given to DPS troopers for outstanding acts of bravery, but two years ago it was opened to people outside the DPS. Wilga nowski is the first police officer outside the DPS to receive the award. I On Dec. 18 Wilganowski was riding with a friend who is a DPS trooper. They became involved in a high speed chase which led them to the Golden Girl Mini Movie House south of College Station on Highway 6. A fire broke out, trapping seven peo ple in the building. Five were able to escape on their own. While the DPS trooper called for assistance, Wilganowski rushed into the flames to save the other two. He managed to pull one vic tim to safety, but the other could not be saved. DPS Director Col. James B. Adams presented the award Tuesday night in Hearne, Wil- ganowski’s hometown. The award recognizes “significant service to the mission of law en forcement,” and fellow officers readily agree that Wilganowski has uncommon dedication to his job. Wilganowski was nominated for the award by the DPS troop er at the scene of the fire. The nomination was then presented to a reviewing board before final approval. It was only the third award to be given in a period of more than two years. The award is given only when it is merited, rather than on a periodic basis. Wilganowski says he was very surprised by the award, and is glad he was able to save a life. United Press International SPACE CENTER, HOUS TON — Johnson Space Center Director Jerry Griffin said Thursday JSC will be heavily in volved in the space station prog ram proposed by President Reagan, but employment will not increase dramatically. “We will obviously be one of the major players,” Griffin said. “I think in the near term it’ll be a very modest impact in terms of people because we re going to kind of ramp this thing up in a way that makes sense.” JSC and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., NASA’s manned space program leaders, have been en gaged in a friendly rivalry to be lead center in space station de velopment. JSC directed the shuttle program. NASA Administrator James Beggs said in Washington a lead center will be selected late this year or early next year and NASA personnel will be realigned to strengthen the directing center. Griffin said it will not make a significant difference which center leads because all centers are going to be involved. “This is one program where we’re going to insure we use all the talent in NASA that we can muster, and I think we will see a great deal of all installations in NASA involved,” Griffin said. JSC now employs about 3,500 government workers and another 6,500 contract em ployees are involved either at the center or in off campus. At the peak of the Apollo moon program, government and con tract workers totaled about 15,000. With the shuttle program graduating from development to operations, JSC needed a new development program to keep some of its people occupied. JSC has proposed a modular manned system. Marshall’s plans have been oriented toward unmanned platforms, JSC spokesman Steve Nesbitt said. Griffin said the biggest be- nefit of President Reagan’s com mitment is that, if Congress goes along, it will give NASA and JSC a new, longterm program to make use of existing engineer ing talent. “I think we’re talking about a development period of eight to nine years and then an opration- al period that might span another 20 or 30,” Griffin said. “It depends, again, on how well we are able to design life into this thing.” Photo by Bill Hughes Gene Wilganowski try Doctors hopeful for bubble boy Ken’s Automotive 421 S. Main — Bryan 822-2823 [ viny; to (It ■ United Press International were ulkcB HOUSTON — Doctors for pc V\edn D av id “the bubble boy” said I survtv i Thursday it will take a few more rial at Ik months to determine the success noiher! of a bone marrow operation de- ide thai signed to provide the immune- ioihImi : deficient boy with disease fight- d .Ik- » ing cells. iikasiijp “We have not yet have con- G ' elusive evidence that the trans- irjay will ik plant was successful, however, pumps to we haven’t had any indications it lope tonui w m nol be successful,” said Dr. William T. Shearer, an immuno- iling "itli li legist at Baylor College of Medi- ■ serious f cine. e said. V “We remain optimistic. Tests igers ei". are being conducted on a daily basis, but it could be a few more months before we will be able to make a conclusive report,” Shearer said. David, 12, has lived his entire life in a series of sterile, plastic bubbles because he has no im mune system to protect him against illness. He received an experimental bone marrow in fusion from his sister Oct. 21 that doctors hoped would pro vide him with disease-fighting cells. Shearer initially predicted doctors would determine the procedure’s success within three to six months of the operation, but he said Thursday it would take longer than expected. “We have had preliminary in dications that the concentration of certain immunoglobulins, which are potential anti-bodies, and that the number of whilte blood cells called lymphocytes in David’s blood have increased. While these findings are not conclusive evidence the treat ment was successful, they are en couraging signs,” Shearer said. Shearer previously said about two of about 12 children who have undergone the bone mar row transfusion treatment still survive, but he said those who died were near death when the treatment occured. “We can only speculate that it has taken longer because first, David is much older and much larger than the other children with severe combined immune deficience who previoisly re ceived bone marrow tranplants of treated monoclonal anti bodies,” Shearer said. “Second, David was not ill at the time the bone marrow was transplanted and the other chil dren were. Third, David’s im mune system, what little there was, was not suppressed by drugs or radiation as was done in the other patients,” he said. David, whose full name has been withheld, has never been seriously ill because of his sterile environment. He is shuttled be tween his “bubbles” at his home and the hospital by a portable space-type suit with breathing apparatus. 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