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Vol 80 No. 8 CISPS 045360 14 pages
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, September 12, 1984
Diana lands,
residents flee
United Press International
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Hurricane
Diana thundered past Cape Fear
Tuesday night with winds over 135
mph, hurling waves 10 feet high
against abandoned beaches and
heading for a landfall north of Wil
mington.
Hundreds of thousands fled from
the mighty storm.
Winds of more than 100 mph
roared through the streets of Wil
mington, left a virtual ghost town by
residents who rushed inland in such
nicthat the National Guard had to
called out to unsnarl traffic.
Trees bent and snapped, signs
blew away and rain was hurled in
walls against the buildings. Power
lines were ripped loose and sparks
flickered through the blackness and
the blinding rain.
The storm was only 30 miles
south-southeast of downtown Wil
mington.
Forecaster Mark Zimmer at the
National Hurricane Center in Miami
said it appeared from its present
course that Diana would angle into
the coast between Wilmington and
Morehead City before midnight, but
its wobbly course made an accurate
landfall prediction impossible.
It was headed for the same area
where Hurricane Donna killed 50
and caused $1.3 billion damage 24
years ago to the day.
Winds of 100 mph whipped the
lonely Oak Island Coast Guard sta
tion at Cape Fear, where Coast
Guardsmen worked to save the two-
man crew of a fishing vessel that
failed to reach home in time.
Fire sirens howled out the storm
warning at midday across the
beaches and marshlands of the
North Carolina coast from Wilming
ton south to Cape Fear, the dreaded
shoals where the pirate Blackbeard
once lurked.
North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt
called out the National Guard to
deal with the frantic exodus from
Wilmington, where roads leading in
land were jammed with evacuees.
Nearly 14,000 people in North and
South Carolina huddled in public
shelters, most were jammed to ca
pacity. A coastal area of several hun
dred thousand residents was vir
tually abandoned.
Sheriff’s Capt. B.D. Mayes in
Brunswick County said only a hand
ful of threatened residents in his
county refused to leave. “We told
them if they weren’t going to leave,
they had to tell us who their next of
kin is so we coidd notify them,” he
said.
Petty Officer Grady Sillings said
the Oak Island Coast Guard station
got a distress call at 7 p.m. from a 40-
foot fishing vessel blown aground on
Campbell Island in the Cape Fear
River.
Motel clerks reported there was
not a vacant room for 100 miles in
land. Hurricane parties began in
motel bars while lights flickered and
the cries of the revelers drowned out
the moan of the wind.
Zimmer said the storm’s steering
currents were weak and it was lurch
ing hack and forth as much as 20
miles off its general course.
The rich Grand Strand area of
high-rise condominiums and golf
courses around Myrtle Beach, S.C.,
was spared the devastation feared
earlier, when forecasters expected
the storm to come ashore between
Wilmington and Myrtle Beach at
high tide, hurling waves 16 feet high
against the coast.
“Everybody is hunting for rooms
and we just don’t know where to
send them,” said Lee Martin at the
Holiday Inn in Florence, S.C., 75
miles inland from Myrtle Beach.
“My computer shows there are no
rooms in Holiday Inns as far north
as Lenoir, N.C.”
The highest winds, the hurricane
center said, were packed tightly in a
25-mile-wide ring around Diana’s
40-mile wide eye. Winds up to 74
mph lashed out 50 miles to the west.
National Guard Maj. Gen. Hubert
Leonard in Wilmington said, “We
have 210 men on duty in Wilming
ton and 355 are on their way to
Greenville and Little Washington.
We have two jeeps with floodlights,
and armored personnel carriers to
manuever through debris. We have
three helicopters at Raleigh-Durham
Airport and three more on standby
in South Carolina to come in behind
the storm.”
Glashow recounts
changes in physics
By KARI FLUEGEL
Staff Writer
Nobel laureate Dr. Sheldon Gla
show Tuesday night in Rudder Fo
rum discussed the revolutions in
particle physics which brought
knowledge of elementary particles to
its present state.
Glashow is the 1979 winner of the
Nobel Prize in Physics for his contri
butions to the theory of elementary
particles.
He has been affiliated with Texas
A&M for two years and holds the ti
tle ol University Scholar.
“It’s nice to lie back at Texas
A&M,” Glashow said. “I’ve been
away for a while ... because it’s been
hot.”
Texas A&M is one of the four uni
versities working with the governor’s
oilke and the Houston Area Re
search Council to locate the world’s
largest scientific particle accelerator
in Texas.
During his lecture, Glashow, who
is a professor at Harvard University,
compaired the discovery of the more
than 100 different elementary parti-
des to the discoveries of the 109 el
ements in the periodic table.
Though the growth of knowledge
about elementary particles was simi
lar to the growth of knowledge
about elements, it took 100 years to
discover all the elements and 10
years to discover the particles, he
said.
“Hadrons and elements had the
same type of population growth, hut
with hadrons it happened ten times
faster,” he said.
This growth in knowledge began
in the early 1950s when accelerators
helped find more new types of parti
cles, Glashow said, and in the 1960s
there was a virtual explosion of in
formation.
Many more discoveries were
made in the 1970s which Glashow
called “'The Spellbinding 70s.” One
of those discoveries was seeing neu
tral currents.
“All our present standard theory
arose in this remarkable decade,”
Glashow said. “Getting the Nobel
Prize made it particulary memorable
to me.”
Today’s view of elementary parti
cles is different from the view of the
1950s.
“Electrons are elementary, but
neutrons, protrons and mesons are
composite systems made of quarks,”
he said.
One of the latest discoveries in
particle physics is the fundamental
particles which complete the peri
odic table of quarks and leptons. The
table was completed with the discov
ery of the top quark in Geneva, Swit-
zerland.
Glashow attributes the fact that
the most recent discoveries were
made in Europe to the nature of the
accelerators in Europe.
Even with the recent discoveries
many questions remain unanswered.
Some of those mysteries include
the “Einstein Problem” which con
cerns describing gravity and solving
the question about the first moment
of creation. Another unsolved prob
lem questions the dominant form of
matter in the universe.
“Astronomers aren’t working on
it,” Glashow said. “Nobody is work
ing on it. Maybe you.”
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Gromyko agrees to meeting
with Reagan on arms talks
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan, announcing his first high-
level talks with a Soviet leader, said
Tuesday he will meet with Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko to con
vince the Kremlin the United States
“means no harm” and wants to ease
the threat of nuclear war.
The Sept. 28 session at the White
House, coming just weeks before the
general election, was aimed in part
at undercutting Democratic chal
lenger Walter Mondale’s claims that
Reagan’s policies have plunged the
country into a collision course with
the Soviets by fostering an arms
race.
“The most important thing is
what understanding I can reach with
Foreign Minister Gromyko to con
vince him that the United States
means no harm,” Reagan told re
porters in announcing that the So
viet foreign minister had accepted
his invitation.
He said his goal at the session will
be “to reduce the level of arms and
to improve our working relationship
with the Soviet Union.”
Reagan, referring to nuclear
stockpiles, stressed the importance
of trying “to see if we cannot lessen
this threat hanging over the world,
and for which the Soviet Union and
the United States are mainly respon
sible.”
He said nuclear weapons “could
affect nations, all nations, whether
they were involved in a controversy
or not. It would have an effect on all
of civilization and I just want to see if
we can’t do something that will rid
the world of this threat.”
Saying the session will touch “on a
range of issues of international im
portance,” Reagan sought to
dampen expectations by saying:
“The time has come that maybe any
thing that can perhaps get a better
understanding between our two
countries” should take place.
Describing the White House
meeting as “confidential,” Reagan
dismissed suggestions that the tim
ing of the invitation had been geared
to the upcoming presidential elec
tion.
The meeting will take place after
Gromyko talks with Secretary of
State George Shultz in New York.
The last time Gromyko visited the
White House was in 1978, for a ses
sion with Jimmy Carter.
Children prime victims of abuse
By ANN BRIMBERRY
Reporter
A nine-month-old infant suffer
ing from severe malnutrition was ad
mitted to St. Joseph Hospital follow
ing a court order. His skin was loose,
his body was weak, his eyes bulged,
his stomach protruded, and he was
unable to cry aloud.
The baby was placed in the care of
the Department of Human Re
sources and the case was opened for
investigation.
This is just one example of ap
proximately 60 reported child abuse
cases per month occurring in Bryan-
College Station.
“Sometimes, depending upon
what the abuse is like, the child
doesn’t know that this is any differ
ent from anybody else’s family,” Dr.
James Hyden, co-director of the
Brazos Family Institute, said. “Ho
wever, they do know that they don’t
like being hit, or beat up, or sexually
mistreated, but they just don’t know
the difference.
“Often, as one might expect, the
problem is not openly admitted to
and is a very secretive thing that peo
ple are trying to cover up and not let
you know. Many times it is through
the support of some third party out
side the family that the DHR may
get onto the case and discover an
abuse really happened.”
Hyden said the investigation pro
cedure depends on the severity of
the report. “If someone calls up the
police and says, T’m aware right now
that someone’s really beating the
devil out of the kids next door; I can
hear the kids screaming,’ they send a
patrol to investigate.”
At this point, the Department of
Human Resources assigns one of its
six social workers to the case to de
termine the severity of the abuse.
“Anyone who suspects child abuse
can call in and remain anonymous
and not be held libel,” said Sue Jack-
son, Department of Human Re
sources childrens’ protective super
visor. “However, failure to report
child abuse is a Class B misdemea
nor.”
If the abused child is less than six
years old, he is considered a high
risk priority and contact is made at
the home within 24 hours, Jackson
said.
At this point six things must be
determined: the nature, extent and
cause of the abuse; the identity of
the person responsible for the ne
glect; names and conditions of the
other children; evaluation of the
parents; adequacy of the home envi
ronment; and the relationship be
tween (he parent and child. An in
terview must be held with the victim.
“Emergency removal follows if
the child is in danger of sexual or
physical abuse,” Jackson said.
See ABUSE, page 14
New cadets in fall ’85 to get physicals
By DAINAH BULLARD
Staff Writer
Beginning in the 1985 fall semes
ter, freshmen who join the Texas
A&M Corps of Cadets will he re
quired to have physical examina
tions, Col. Donald Burton, Corps
commandant, said.
The provision for mandatory
physicals follows the death of a*
Corps member last month.
Bruce Dean Goodrich, a 20-year-
old transfer student from Webster,
N.Y., died Aug. 30 after participat
ing in an off-hours exercise session
conducted by three junior members
of his company, F-I. Preliminary au
topsy results suggest that Goodrich
died from heat stroke.
The main purpose of the physi
cals is to discover health problems of
the incoming cadets, Burton said.
All new students are required to
complete a health questionnaire, he
said, but some health problems are
not covered by the form.
Burton said the armed forces re
quire physicals for cadets who have
military scholarships or military con
tracts. However, this requirement
leaves the health status ol a large
number of cadets unaccounted for,
he said.
The Corps is “screening” current
health records for cadets who have
specific health problems, such as
obesity, Burton said. Cadets with
specific health problems will receive
physical examinations immediately,
he said.
“I’m mainly concerned with those
who need to be brought along at
their own rate (during physical
training) to catch up with the
group,” Burton said.
Plans are underway to arrange
physical examinations for students
who join the Corps during the
spring 1985 semester, Burton said.
The facilities of the A.P. Beutel
Health Center and the Physical Edu
cation Department may be used to
conduct the physicals, he said.
With the exception of cadets with
specific health problems, current
Corps members will not be required
to have physicals. Burton said, be
cause of a lack of facilities and doc
tors to perform physicals on all the
cadets.