Wednesday, October 3, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 ILITT SIOTNtM IEATRES $2.50 TIM 1st faottwa •tafia on a On SAT A 84JN. Stutfaffta ID Friday Sanior CHkran* o cts 5W ling twice ii i air soma 1 re thanona rd (B.S.)an: ass receiwi in music ii s hecanplf lieces on tk Queen’s visit stirs U.S. city United Press International SHERIDAN, Wyo. — The Octo- | ber visit of Queen Elizabeth II to f Sheridan is creating only mild excit- ; ement among the locals, although I the dty is quite busy preparing for the visit. The excitement is no greater than that generated by her husband’s visit to the area 15 years ago, local offi- | cials said. “We’re proud to have the queen | visit,” Sheridan County Commis- [ sioner Pete Frith said, “It’s not some- I thing that happens every day, but ji there is not a hue arid cry about her 1 coming.” 'I Acting Sheridan Mayor Bill Lilley s said the town is excited about Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s visit, but it is a private visit and we respect i that. ! The queen will be in Sheridan for I a vacation as the guest of Lady Por- I Chester, sister of Wyoming Sen. Mal- | colm Wallop, and wife of Lord Por- : Chester, manager of the queen’s horse racing stables. The queen is scheduled to arrive I Oct. 12, after a tour of Canada and I visit to Kentucky, and then return to England Oct. 15. | Sheridan County Sheriff Bill Johnson said U.S. Secret Service and British agents have been in Sheridan on and off during the past several months making security prepara tions. No public appearances are ; planned during the short visit, but the queen will visit at least four local businesses, including one in Sheri dan, Johnson said. Johnson said his deputies, the Wyoming Highway Patrol and Sher idan police would provide security backup for the queen’s visit. A Royal Air Force VC-10 jet has ialso landed at the Sheridan County [ Airport to ensure the facilities there are adequate for the queen’s visit. Around town Science students must take exam Any junior or senior in the College of Science who has not pre viously taken the English Proficiency Examination should plan to take the test Oct. 15 unless they have completed English 301 with a minimum grade of C. Students in the College of Science are required to pass either English 301 or the test in order to qualify as a degree candidate. The English Proficiency Exam will be administered by the En glish department. Students in the biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics departments should register for the exam in 313 Biolog ical Sciences Building prior to the exam. Voter registration deadline approaches Saturday is the last day to register to vote in the November elec tion. Aggie GOP will have registration tables in the MSC, Blocker Building and Zachry Engineering Center this week. Big Event job requests accepted now Job requests are now being accepted from the Bryan-College Sta tion community for projects for the Big Event. Student organiza tions wishing to volunteer for this 4-hour service project are encour aged to pledge. Deadline for organization pledges is Nov. 1. Job requests will still be accepted after that date. Contact Mark Maniha at 696-5930, or Maritza Pena at 764-0770. Aggie Players present Liliom tomorrow The TAMU Aggie Players will open their 40th season with the haunting, romantic fantasy, “Liliom” at 8 p.m. tonight in Rudder Forum. “Liliom” will also be presented Thursday, Friday and Satur day. Tickets are $4 for the general public and $3 for Texas A&M students and are available at the MSC Box Office. Reservations can be made by calling 845-1234. Christian video shown in MSC today Anyone interested in viewing a Christian broadcasting video should stop by the MSC main hallway today before 5 p.m. Bumper stickers as well as brochures will be handed out free of charge. Surgeons use skull bone to repair facial defects ed mathemaic iese fidds $ w relates laid. 00 P.M' United Press International NEW YORK — Plastic surgeons are harvesting bone from the skull and using it to repair facial deformi ties from birth defects or car crashes. “We can take out head bone as saw dust and make it into a pate and put it into an area where there is a hole,” said Dr. Henry Kawamoto, as sociate clinical professor of surgery ;at the UCLA Center for Health Sci- twtts. “MateTYzA can a\so V>e VaYen | out in little chips or Hakes, or we can take it out in strips and use it to build up noses.” Kawamoto said there are many advantages in harvesting bone from the head instead of hip or ribs — a traditional source of material for plastic surgeons. “There are no scars that can be seen,” he said. “They are hidden by the hair. The area of the donor site, the head, is close to the area we are working on, the face. “The only pain is a little headache. “Many patients stay in the hospital just overnight versus five to seven days, the case when bone is taken from the hip or ribs.” He added that the patient doesn’t have any pain in the ribs, or have to limp around in the case of hip bone being used. Kawamoto talked about the bione grafts from the cranium while par ticipating in an Arqerican Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons seminar at the New York Academy of Medicine. “Such grafts are much sturdier, surgeons are finding,” he said, “and the grafts are not reabsorbed - or reabsorbed very bu\e. “One approach to harvesting bone from the cranium is to remove the outer half of the skull, using a saw or chisel-like instrument. “Because the skull is composed of three layers — a ‘sandwich’ kind of structure — it is possible to split the layers apart, take what is needed and still leave the brain covered.” The surgeon said this technique is called “split thickness” cranial bone graft. Another technique, a “full thickness” graft, might be used if a great deal of bone is required to reb uild the face on a deformed child, he said. In that situation, the entire bony structure on top of the head can be removed, leaving the brain tempo rarily exposed. Kawamoto said the bone layers are then parted, or split. One layer is used and the unused part is re turned to its original position, once again covering the brain. In another technique described by the UCLA surgeon, an instrument resembling a miniature oil drill is used. “Potholes” about the size of a dime are drilled through the outer two layers of headbone. Kawamoto said during the proc ess, bone shavings similar to wood shavings, are collected and used to fill depressions or gaps in the facial area being repaired or recons tructed. He said such shavings are com monly used to fill in the gaps created by a cleft palate, and would precede corrective dental work. Kawamoto, who holds dental and medical degrees, said it is technically possible to harvest the entire skull cap. “Some regeneration of the (skull) bone will occur but not a great deal,” he said. “What remains, however, is of sufficient strength to protect the brain during normal wear and tear.” Nuclear plant to hit financial target CSW’s future looks bright jnd ButW ja United Press International DALLAS — Durwood Chalker is both an optimist and a prudent busi nessman. Chalker, the chairman of Central and South West Corp., is confident the costly South Texas Nuclear Power Plant near Bay City is now on its revised schedule and will hit its revised financial target after years of huge cost overruns. However, although Chalker be lieves the generation of nuclear en ergy could be vital to meet America’s power needs in the future, he says he is much too prudent to get his company involved in another nu clear power project. “No way!” he said when asked about involvement in other nuclear projects. “You would have to be crazy to go to your board of directors or stock holders and suggest a new nuclear project,” Chalker said. “And that’s really unfortunate. Nuclear energy is the least violative of the ecology and it is the cheapest, if it could be built in a timely manner.” Central and South West, a hold ing company for four electric utili ties serving a substantial area in Texas, Oklahoma, northern Loui siana and western Arkansas, is a 25 percent partner in the South Texas project. Its share now is estimated at Sl.4 billion. Critics suggested the South Texas Project could be considered a costly cloud hovering over the otherwise bright future of CSW. “I don’t consider it a cloud,” Chalker said. “It is something of an uncertainty. But if you look at things like the supply and price of natural gas, and things that might affect coal generating plants such as acid raid legislation and railroad rates, I think everything in electrical generation has a degree of uncertainty. “The uncertainty is not knowing how rational the licensing board might be when we get it ( the South Texas plant) built. It’s something of a roll of the dice.” When the project was started in 1975, cost for the two 1,250-mega watt generators was projected at $1.4 billion. They were scheduled to be on-line in 1980 and 1982. The plant now is projected to cost $5.5 billion and on-line in 1987 and 1989. Electricity demand in the area served by CSW companies is grow ing steadily at a rate of between 2.5 percentand 3 percent a year. The corporation’s revenues were affected to some degree by the re cent national recession. CSW serves a substantial area along the Mexican border where peso devaluations caused soaring unemployment and it also serves many communities in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana where the gas and oil industry re cently has been staggering. But CSW income and dividends continued to increase each year. The company has increased its dividends for 33 years consecutively, a figure exceeded by only four other companies on the New York Stock Exchange. Beginning this fall new transmis sion facilities will allow for intercon nection of subsidiary companies making Texas part of the national power pool and able to draw power from other states or contribute power to them when needed. The interconnections also will put CSW companies into one system- wide power grid. Computers based at the Dallas headquarters will con stantly monitor and control the sys tem which uses computers to figure out the most economic source of power for any area and makes sure that source is used. “We will be, in effect, an energy broker here in Dallas for our four electric utilities,” Chalker said. “The computers will consider such factors as the type of fuel, the current price of that fuel, the efficiency of the generating units and the location of the load.” Though it sounds like a system only an accountant or an engineer can appreciate, Chalker estimates that in 20 years the computer-run, interconnected system will save cus tomers $2.3 billion. WEEKNITE8 BOTH THEATRES OPEN AT t:4S P.M. ALLEGE N. .846-6714 CHARLES BRUNSON j.m.'Hir.Hi'i.-i IN THE MALL 764-0616 J SAT/SUN: WEEKNITES: 7:1S-t:38 GHOSTDUSTERS AAT/8UN: WEEKNITES: 7:4S-«:4S CHRISTOPHER PENN th® Vi/cL/jfe. 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