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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
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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
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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.
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