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I AUSTIN — Attorney General for lobbying the Legislature.
Jim Mattox, acknowledging a politi- Attorneys hired by agencies can
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issaultijndi: I MaUox also heatedly repudiated As a result, Mattox said, the
delegates ^ leports that his office has overspent agency lawyers often take actions
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“I expect this (the proposal) won’t
happen before I’m dead and gone,”
Mattox said of his proposal to put all
state government lawyers under his
control, “but it. ought to be ad
dressed.”
However Rep. Bob Bush, D-Sher-
man, chairman of the committee,
said he doubted Mattox’s proposals
would ever be implemented.
A&M entomologist
gives gardening tips
University News Service
Garden enthusiasts combating in
sects this summer should look for
the active chemical when buying pes
ticides rather than the product’s
aame, says a Texas A&M entomo-
jlogist.
“You’ll be better off looking for
the active ingredients you want,”
aid Dr. Rodney Holoway, “because
products often contain the same in
gredients but are sold by different
companies which use their own mar
keting formula and charge different
prices. The amount you pay doesn’t
alway indicate how much pesticide
you are buying.”
During dry weather insects head
for watered plants, he said, and the
time to spray is when they first
strike.
“There aren’t as many insects this
year compared to w etter years,” said
Holloway, who works with the Texas
Agricultural Extention Service and
the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station as a pesticide impact assess
ment specialist.
“People should remember, how
ever, that a lush green garden will
attract insects particularly when the
weather is dry.”
In many cases different pesticides
can be used in the same situation, he
added. Diazinon, malalhion, Sevin,
j|J Sand Dursban are the most popular
insecticides used in Texas because
they have multiple uses, Holloway
said. Chlordane is limited by the En
vironmental Protection Agency for
termite control only. It lasts longer
than other pesticides so it’s ideal for
termites, he added, and since it is ap
plied under slabs, of under houses,
people generally don’t come into
contact with it.
He said pesticides can be safe
when handled properly, and home-
owners can rid their homes of insects
like cockroaches and fleas, although
professional pest control operators
generally do a more thorough job.
“People who use cockroach spray
should treat along the baseboards
and empty kitchen cabinets to treat
them,” said the entomologist.
Holloway said few people are
killed from misusing pesticides and
that almost all fatalities occur from
accidents.
“When you use pesticides accord
ing to the directions they can be very
safe,” he said. “When you dilute
them with water, the final solution
might kill an insect, but it won’t have
the same effect on an adult.”
If possible, spray insecticides on
plants before they start bearing
fruit, he said, and be sure to wash
any vegetables that have been
sprayed.
Photo by PETER ROCHA
Landed Shark
This shark being taken to the Texas Cooperative Wildlife
Collection under the Sterling C. Evans library. The shark is
one of two caught off the Texas coast near Brownsville. The
sharks are being added to the museum because they are fairly
rare.
Reagans attend
lunch with queen
United Press International
LONDON — President Reagan
enjoyed a “quiet little lunch” with the
queen Tuesday at the 600-room
Buckingham Palace while opposition
leaders in Parliament traded shots
with the government over gun-tot-
ing U.S. Secret Service agents.
The private luncheon at the pal
ace, a major attraction for visitors to
the British capital, was described as
an informal foursome — Queen
Elizabeth II and her consort, Prince
Philip, and Reagan and his wife,
Nancy.
While the queen and the president
discussed Wednesday’s D-Day cere
monies and traded notes on horses,
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
got a tongue-lashing in the House of
Commons for “caving in” to Wash
ington on the security issue by allow
ing some of Reagan’s bodyguards to
carry guns, despite Britain’s strict
gun laws. —
Reagan was meeting with
Thatcher, who shares his enthu
siasm for conservative economics,
for an hour at No. 10 Downing
Street Tuesday evening. Afterward,
Secretary of State George Shultz,
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan
and other top U.S. officials were to
join them for dinner.
White House spokesman Larry
Speakes said the question of Irish
unification — discussed during Rea
gan’s visit to Dublin — could crop
up. The United States is ready to be
helpful but certainly would not as
sume the role of mediator in the po
litical and religious conflcit, Speakes
said.
The security dispute enlivened an
otherwise low-key day in the midst
of a 10-day European tour that gave
Reagan a chance to prepare for a
whirlwind round of events Wednes
day highlight by visits to the Nor
mandy beaches where more than
150,000 Allied troops stormed
ashore June 6, 1944, to wrest Eu
rope from Nazi control.
Last week, Scotland Yard said no
foreign security men accompanying
leaders to the seven-nation London
economic summit beginning Thurs
day would carry firearms. Britain’s
gun laws are so strict that only police
on special duty — such as guarding
foreign dignitaries — carry guns.
Scotland Yard reversed itself
Monday night and said two of Rea
gan’s guards would carry “pistol-
type handguns.”
Gerald Kaufman, a Labor Party
leader, called the decision a “kick in
the teeth” to British police and said,
“We are now told our policemen
can’t be trusted and the only people
who can be trusted are the body
guards who allowed an assassination
attempt oh President Reagan in his
own country almost to succeed.”
Replying to criticism during the
question period in Commons,
Thatcher said, “We are ultimately
responsible for the security of visit
ing statesmen to London: But we do
not discuss security matters.” She
said that whatever was being done to
protect Reagan on this visit had been
.done before.
The lunch at Buckingham Palace
was Reagan first visit to the royal res
idence, located on 45 acres in the
heart of London. Mrs. Reagan was
making her third visit, her
spokeswoman, Sheila Tate, said.
Tate said the first lady described
the 90-minute get-together with the
queen and prince as “a quiet little
lunch” in the family dining room of
palace, a 600-room structure that be
came property of the crown in 1762.
“When the queen and the presi
dent get together, they talk about
horses for a while,” Mrs. Reagan told
Tate. Reagan and the queen both
ride for pleasure, and the two went
for a canter during Reagan’s state
visit in 1982 when he stayed at
Windsor Castle.
Remarriage a way to cope
United Press International
NEW YORK — Many divorced
men who remarry do so as a way of
coping with the acute sense of fail
ure they feel after divorcing.
“American men hate to fail. They
are supposed to be winners in the
arena of marriage as in every other,”
said Anthony Brandt, who inter
viewed a cross section of remarried
men for an article in the May issue of—
McCall’s magazine.
Brandt found that five out of six
divorced men remarry.
He also found the divorce rate
higher for second marriages than
for firsts — 38 percent versus 34
percent.
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