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Tuesday, February 7, 1984TThe Battalion/Page 5 n ents iduation entso: ive iy at Oiii noonm. rs of aw :ide egistnij linar tfi| ii Ada® I lucaiiorj !0 p.m,i[ blicisu Baylor donates still, fuel equipment to Honduras United Press International WACO — Baylor University is donating a still and fuel pro duction equipment to Hondu- !17M$C : ras * n an attempt to help the en- xgy poor Central American ountry transform its abundant sugar cane crop into fuel. The solar-powered equip ment, which was in use in Waco, has been disassembled and parts of it currently are en route to Honduras. Under plans put together by Baylor’s Institute of Environ mental Studies, the equipment, once assembled at a farm coop erative at the village of Aqua Blanca Sur on the northern Honduran coast, will transform sugar cane into alcohol. Dr. Ron Carroll said that would provide not only fuel, but also would open a much needed alternative market for sugar cane producers in Hon duras. “The problem they’ve faced in the past is selling it to big sugar cane mill operators. They feel they’ve been cheated in the past,” Carroll said. “What they’ve been looking for is an al ternative market for their sugar.” He said the still, which can produce from 1,200 to 1,500 gallons of alcohol per day, would provide that alternative market by transforming the sugar into ethanol, which could be burned as fuel. “It can be used fairly easily in a variety of small engines for example, two-cycle engines, or it can be mixed with engine fuel with no modifications (to the engine),” Carrol said. In a country that must im port all its petroleum products, the sugar-to-alcohol distillery could lead Honduras to energy self-sufficiency. “Our estimate is that roughly a third of the sugar production in Honduras would basically meet all their fuel require ments.” A five-member team is cur rently in Honduras preparing for assembly, and “we’re hoping to have it actually functioning in six months,” Carroll said. “The still is going down to be the property of a small-scale sugar cane cooperative,” Carrol explained. Its transport costs are being borne by the Hondu ran government and a private foundation in Washington, D.C., Baylor officials said. The Baylor distillery is the first in what Carroll said would be a series of fermentation cen ters set up at 11 cooperatives, which serve an average of 50 to 100 farmers each. “There are, I think, 11 of these cooperatives, and this is the first still to go down as a sort of a prototype,” he said. Although the equipment is solar-powered, Carroll said it could be modified. Prison warden, majors fired for inmate brutality United Press International idustm! can iik HUNTSVILLE — A Texas Department of Corrections arden and three majors were ired Monday in a massive lousecleaning following an in vestigation by federal officials nto charges of brutality with ( prison inmates. Two corrections officers ^vere fired and seven other offi cials — including two captains — were transferred to other units and demoted. Three cor rections officers received pay TJP 1 cuts, according to TDC spokes- A " u ^ man Rick Hartley. A final decision was pending ^or one assistant warden, who as relieved of duty, said TDC pokesman Rick Hartley. The personnel actions were he result of internal TDC in- estigations stemming from a eport last year from a prison lonitor, appointed by Special aster Vincent Nathan. Vin- ent was appointed by U.S. Dis- rict Judge William Wayne Jus- ivoul of the tai .ies,he»s| s the ctionav lie says, lable to aduates portunito irtunilH as din! ngwithtl aduatioo rience e-job kwilleni image h-relaidif take a l| I elop, wit f® nt taking! oneysayt i-range.f- scheme' loping for tice, who ordered in 1980 sweeping prison reforms. Terminated was Darrington Unit Warden David Christian, 41, who had been with TDC 19 years. Details of the incident or incidents involving Christian were not released. Also fired were Maj. D. W. Wallace, 36, who had been with TDC 13 years; Maj. D.D. French, 33, a 13-year veteran. Both were in the Darrington Unit. Retrieve Unit Maj. Er nesto O. Carranza, 35, who had been with the department 12 years, was also fired. Maj. Richard L. Simmons, 33, of the Eastham Unit, was demoted and transferred to an other undisclosed unit, Hartley said. Assistant Warden Manuel Ochoa, 42, who had been with TDC 20 years, most recently at the Pack II Unit, was relieved of duty pending demotion. Hart ley said a final decision in Ochoa’s case has not been made. Also terminated was one ser geant and a corrections officer, both from the Ramsey I Unit. Two captains and two ser geants were demoted and trans ferred, and three corrections officers received two-step pay decreases. “In addition to the actions listed, there were 26 repri mands, one probation, and five exonerations,” Hartley said. MSC CAFETERIA Where You Get More For Your Money OPEN 6:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Daily “QUALITY FIRST” “It’s modified so that it can be run simply on solar power or on a variety of alternative power sources, whichever proves to be cheapest,” Carroll said. “There shouldn’t be any problem in getting parts. There’s nothing sophisticated about the still. All the parts, all the repairs could be handled lo cally,” he said. 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