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SPRING SAVINGS £ Page SAThe Battalion/Thursday, March 22,1984 $ !■ 20% off all Twisties 20% off all wedding bands and wedding sets in stock 30% off all Ifepsakf wedding bands and Keepsake® wedding sets in stock DOUGLAS JEWELRY Locally owned and operated for over 20 years. 1623 Texas Ave. Armadillo leprosy found in Texas ^ 212 N. Main Downtown Bryan 822-3119 College Station 693-0677 $ PERSONAL SAFETY AND * AWARENESS WORKSHOP ..offering insights into maintaining freedom for modern lifestyles United Press International DALLAS — A government study has found that armadillo- borne leprosy — an infectious human disorder — is generally concentrated along a 100-mile wide coastal strip of Texas, the state with the nation’s highest leprosy rate. “Our studies indicate the lep rosy risk grows the closer you get to the (Texas) coast and the farther you move south,” said Dr. Keith Clark, director of the state’s zoonosis control division. Sat. March 24 9am-1pm PROGRAM • Rape and Personal Assault Prevention • Methods of Self De fense (Wear Appropriate Clothing) • Ways to Positively Educate Children About Their Safety A&M Consolidated High School sponsored by Humana Hospital and Brazos County Rape Crisis . Center SPEAKERS Carolyn Ruffino Brazos County Rape Crisis Center Mahesh Dave, M.D. Child & Adolescent Psy chiatrist Brad Lamb Dir. United Martial Arts College Lt. Bernie Kapella College Station Police Dept. Zoonosis is the study of ani mal diseases transmissible to man. “If, however, you live more than 100 miles from the coast. the chance of encountering an infected armadillo are less than 2 percent. Down along the coast, the chances are more like 5 to 12 percent.” The Findings, which include summaries of five independent studies, were to be released Thursday at the annual “Dis eases In Nature” conference. The conference is a spinoff of a World War II committee ap pointed to protect the nation against Nazi biological weapons. An advance review by UPI of the three-year surveillance re port indicates the danger of lep rosy increases with direct con tact with animal tissue. “We know of at least one case in which a man, who dressed Leon Patfllo In concert Thursday, March 22, 7:30 p.m. Bryan Civic Auditorium Tickets: $5.50/advance $6.50/door Scripture Haven - College Station Brazos Valley Christian Books - Bryan Sponsored by M.S.M. and Aldersgate Concerts COOPED NEST IN A TREEHOIJSE! SPECIAL RATES AVAILABLE IF YOU LEASE BY APRIL 1st! If you’ve been nesting in one of the A&M dorms, now could be the time to fly the coop. Treehouse Apartments give you more room than dorm housing while keeping you close to cam pus. Only a block from A&M, Treehouse Apart ments offer all the secur ity and convenience of dorm life. 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O’ A&M treehouse apartments Move up in the world 205 Jersey St. West / College Station, TX 77840 / 409/696-5707 out armadillo meat for sausage, contracted leprosy,” said Clark. “There have been other cases, but we haven’t confirmed them. “Frankly, nobody knows for sure the cause and effect order of leprosy — whether armadil los give it to humans or humans give it to armadillos. “One thing for certain,” he said, “there is no longer any reason to believe that armadilli) leprosy is any different from the human disease.” Clark’s study summarized pi oneering work by Dr. Jerome Smith at the University of Texas-Galveston, published last year, which reported 2 1 of 450 armadillo samples — roughly 5 percent — in Texas coastal re gions were infected. “The percentage increased to 12 percent in the Brownsville- Harlingen area,” Clark said, where many human leprosy cases are concentrated. More than 340 samples, ana lyzed in the report, were gath ered by the zoonosis division, Atlanta’s Centers for Disease Control, the Gulf South Re search Institute and an inde pendent team from Abilene Christian College, he said. The Findings generally con firmed that most infected were concentrated in coastal portions of the state, away from the interior. “These rates reflect the in- United Pi JpiTTSBL )f out, M° ! stance within a particular pa illation,” he said, “and notrj essarily the rate in an eniii county or region.” Leprosy is a chronic lions disease caused by bacttii that attacks the skin, nerves. It is characterizedl |t e d, and t skin ulcers and limb deforni l ns will be ties. | ce nturies Texas has more indigemjM^journal cases than any other state. Mp our con “That’s in addition to iM es uons at cases brought in with the mOlybefore 2 of Asians and different intiX,.profit V grants,’’ Clark said. "ThemiiM 0 fpiusbui ases runs arouU'f| )e journ l^‘i year. M, format I here is more leproissconfer* around than most of us ininByJitholas he said. purity coi [on can’t n tses her of new Inmate begins hunger strike; officials monitoring conditionl nitia! pres [iment vv In agreen Imdent tl |ress confe world at United Press International LEWISBURG, Pa. — Prison officials are monitoring the con dition of a Colorado man who launched a hunger strike to protest his confinement at the Lewisburg federal penitentiary, a spokesman said Wednesday. But Clifford Kinney, exec utive assistant to Warden George Wilkins, denied allega tions by inmate John McBride, 28, of Durango, Golo., that he has been placed in solitary con finement and is being fed intra- veneously. “We don’t force-feed in mates,” said Kinney. “If that be came necessary, it would not be done at Lewisburg.” McBride is serving a 40-year sentence as alleged mastermind of a $15 million bomb extortion plot against a Gulf Oil refinery in Baytown in 1982. Four peo ple were convicted or pleaded guilty in the scheme. In a letter released by his for mer attorney Monday, McBride said his incarceration at Lewis- burg violates a 1983 plea agreement that stipulated he would serve his time at Termi nal Island, Galif., a minimum- security prison. Kinney said McBride, who arrived at the maximum-secu rity Lewisburg facility Feb. 15, was moved to the prison’s hos pital unit March 9 when offi cials became aware of the hun ger strike so his condition could he monitored daily. McBride claimed in , ' ls „ lel Mn most w he stopped eating March2. ■ |0Lirna Prison physician Dr. Vef es[ions j,, Strubeck physician Dr. V iL ions , n ■ vv ' a V* 1“'says- Bndc Wednesday morningz* on , he "he seems to be okay now.* jves a (Strubec k) can see no causdiB^Uolk) concern,” Kinney said. 1. Kinney said although J Hom)L . k Bride refuses food, he has w I p, ( drinking water and coffee, ■ : w j| f le added McBride is held! I, „ t . ne ’ i a | himself in a hospital .room i|^, TOt k s are oilier inmates with mednH problems, “but we don’t I solitary confinement here] such.” Kinney said if Strubeckd let mines McBride’s health! deteriorated to a life-thread ing condition, the inmatewiltl transferred ly have lx Pc b< The Law Firm of SAMUEL M. TIDWELL & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Presents a Seminar on Immigration Law: UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT, PLANNING THE FUTURE” To be held at 7:30 P.M. on Friday, March 23, 1984 Room 302, Rudder Tower Texas A&M University Admission is free - Open to the public Questions will be accepted after the presentation AT&T hike inquiry requested United Press International AUSTIN — The lawyer represents consumers in ui rate cases Wednesday asked he foliov irted to Depat k'tklnesday. tllS Of. Ml > A blue tdt was glies Hall > A mar ed bicvcl Hobby 11 • A Inn in ed bicycl Fedci.il (.om mu ideations Co! Aston H; • A Hew ir was slo tit Office * A suitle mission to investigate whelll AT&T Communications’recti rate hike request would suit dize its national managenieii attempts to lobby against!# ningaCa ei ;d legislation. contain AT&T Communications feideand se its rate hike request on with the Texas Public Ul Commission last week, savic® Student might not he necessary. But Jim Boyle, consul counsel in PUC rale cases,si he still was concerned then hike could have been used boost the utility's successful! forts to fight legislation could have kept telephonerl in check. “Almost 50 percent oi all penses which AT&T inclui in its Texas rate filing will paid to ATT-C (the mara ment firm), and $133 millioi ATT-C’s total expenses are voted to public relationsorg eminent affairs department Boyle said. “Ratepayers should not asked to subsidize ATT 1 Views on telephone regulalii -o Hook'i A -vv V/ VX O.J' ^ Happy Hour Everyday! Half-Price Drinks - 11am-6pm ^ 9(T/ "LZ. 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