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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
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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-
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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.
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“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.
Carroll said although the
country has a number of stills
producing rum, they are “too
inefficient” for fuel production.
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