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, 80 No. 34 USPS 045360 12 pages
College Station, Texas
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new solar system exists
United Press International
PASADENA, Calif. — Astro
nomers have photographed for the
first time evidence indicating a pre
viously unknown solar system exists
around a star twice as big and 10
times as bright as the sun, scientists
announced Monday.
Dr. Bradford Smith, of the Uni
versity of Arizona, said the photo
graphs reveal a vast swarm of solid
particles that form a disk 40 billion
miles in diameter around Beta Picto-
ris, a star about 50 light years from
Earth.
Earlier this year, infrared radia
tion detected the first evidence of
the disk and raised the possibility
that another solar system may exist.
The photographs provide the first
visual proof to support the finding.
“The indications are fairly good
we are seeing another solar system,
although we can’t actually prove
there are planets around this star,”
Smith said in a telephone interview
from Hawaii.
Smith, who teamed with Richard
Terrile of NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, said the significance of
the discovery is partly “philosoph
ical.”
“It shows our own solar system is
not unique,” he said. “There are
many who believe that the fact that
our sun has planets around is some
strange thing that happened. What
we now know is that there is another
example of it and there are good in
dications there are many, many
more.
“Other solar systems exist and
■other planets, and, if one wants to
extrapolate that, than other life ex
ists.”
The particles that compose the
disk, ranging from tiny grains to
chunks a few miles across, are proba
bly made of ices, silicates and or
ganic carbon compounds — the
same materials that compose the
planets of our solar system, he said.
Scientists believe the disk is no
more than a few hundred million
years old, a youngster compared
with our own solar system, which is
4.5 billion years old.
“I think this is just the beginning,”
Terrile said. “Technology has
reached the point where we can just
about see planets in other systems.
We haven’t quite done that, but
we re very close. These images indi
cate that the planets are probably
out there and they’re probably
within our reach. ”
Using a specially equipped 100-
inch telescope at the Las Gampanas
Observatory near La Serena, Chile,
the astronomers made the photo
graphs, but it was not until they had
been processed by computer that the
two faint streaks of light extending
outward appeared.
To the naked eye, Beta Pictoris
appears as a faint star in Pictor, an
obscure constellation in the southern
skies.
Smith said thal although it is twice
as large as the sun and at least 10
times as bright, Americans can only
see it clearly from the extreme
southern parts of the country. It re
mains permanently below the hori
zon to most people in the Northern
Hemisphere.
UAW leaders celebrate
approval of two pacts
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Photo by DEAN SAITO
Cord Ozment, a sophomore landscape ar
chitecture major from Hillsboro, works in
the Langford Architecture Center on a per
spective drawing for one of his classes.
United Press International
DEARBORN,'Mich. — The newly
ratified contract at General Motors
— which provided the blueprint for
a pact at Ford Motor Co. — will
change the negative image of the
United Auto Workers and give it a
positive role in auto industry affairs,
a UAW leader said Monday.
Approval of the GM pact on a
57.4 percent “yes” vote was an
nounced hours after agreement was
reached late Sunday on the pro
posed three-year Ford contract. The
GM contract affects 350,000 workers
and is scheduled to be signed Friday.
The GM contract appeared early
on to be in trouble due to “no” votes
by traditionally dissident plants. A
turnaround came when UAW presi
dent Owen Bieber warned a nation
wide strike would result if the con
tract was rejected. Union stall
members were then dispatched
across the country to explain the
pact and drum up “yes” votes.
At a news conference, UAW Vice
President Donald Ephlin praised the
work of his staff and said the con
tract may prove to be a turnaround
for the union itself.
The union has called a meeting of
its 160-member Ford Council for
Wednesday in Detroit. The group,
made up of local presidents and
plant representatives at 54 locals,
must endorse the new agreement be
fore it is goes to the membership for
ratification.
The Ford contract follows closely
the pattern established by the UAW
at GM — an apparent victory for the
UAW since Ford bargainers had said
they would not “walk in lockstep”
with the GM pact.
Ford will set aside about $300 mil
lion and GM up to $1 billion to pay
wages of workers displaced by new
technology, the consolidation of
plants or the company’s shipment of
work to non-U AW sources.
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LOVELADY — Dangerous in-
ates at the Eastham Unit caused a
ort circuit in the electric locks on
heir solitary confinement cells and
eld a guard hostage for 50 minutes
iefore 40 guards stormed the cell
lock Monday.
Two inmates were hospitalized,
light others were treated for eye and
lung irritation from tear gas, and
|vo prison guards suffered wrist in-
ries, said Phil Guthrie, spokesman
r the Texas Department of Cor-
icdons.
The wing held 21 inmates Guthrie
escribed as “the most dangerous
|inds of prisoners in the system.”
The incident began about 3:05
m. when officer Ronald Willmon,
1, was grabbed by inmates who had
peed themselves from their cells,
he inmatesi handcuffed Willmon
ith his own handcuffs, Guthrie
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ces on the cells with a fail-safe de-
fee so if the system shorts out like
Jring a fire the doors open,” he
id. “The inmates had figured out a
ay to short it out by manipulating
Jthe light fixtures and get the doors
open.”
Jack Knapp, an inmate serving a
ife prison term from Jasper County,
eld Willmon hostage and asked for
a walkie-talkie. When the unit war
den brought the device to him.
about 40 officers stormed doors at
opposite ends of the cell block.
“They fired a tear gas round into
the unit and rushed in,” Guthrie
said. “The inmates had barricaded
the door with lockers, furniture and
other items. It took them 10 to 15
seconds to get through it.”
Willmon, who was not injured, es
caped during the confusion.
“T he incident was very well han
dled,” Guthrie said. “They didn’t
waste a lot of time going in to get the
officer out.”
TDC spokesman Charles Brown
said officials were examing the lock
ing system Monday afternoon to
prevent the prisoners from manipu
lating it again.
The incident followed a weekend
of violence at two other prisons. An
inmate at the Darrington Unit in Ro-
sharon was found dead in a shower
Sunday after being stabbed 24 times.
Five others were wounded in a fight
at the unit.
Another inmate was stabbed to
death and seven injured Saturday at
the Coffield Unit in Tennessee Col
ony.
Guthrie said the TDC, which has
seen 309 stabbings including 19 fatal
attacks this year, “is going through a
very difficult transition.
“While this period of violence is
alarming and frustrating ... we are
confident we will get on top of this
problem in the months ahead.”
By KARLA K. MARTIN
Staff Writer
It’s a twentieth century reform,
but it’s not one of labor condi
tions or even alcohol abuse, it’s a
reform of emotions.
Since the late 70s, the Delta So
ciety, a non-profit international
resource center, has worked to
make people understand the
emotional needs between humans
and animals. During the first day
of the society’s three-day confer
ence at the Aggieland Hotel, lec
tures, conferences and
workshops were presented to ex
press these needs.
Linda Hines, the Delta Society
executive director, said the Socie
ty’s main goal is to provide infor
mation about pet programs both
in the United States and overseas.
“We start with community pro
grams,” Hines said. “Most of our
volunteers are small community
groups or individuals interested
in beginning a program using
pets that will help the people in
nursing homes, mental institu
tions as well as residential
homes.”
Hines listed miny of these pet
placement programs, where spe
cially trained dogs, cats, rabbits
and guinea pigs are brought into
nursing homes, hospital cancer
wards, clinics for abused children
and in handicapped homes to
provide “unconditional love”.
Dr. Doris Drow, a supporter of
the Pet-a-Pet program, said the
results of animals on the mentally
and physically ill are remarkable.
“You would not believe how
these animals have helped these
people,” Drow said. “People who
are so withdrawn from society re
spond to the pets.”
Another recent topic re
searched by the Delta Society is
the effect of pets within prisons.
Kathy Quinn, a Society mem
ber who has worked with juvenile
deliquents, said that pets are per
fect for rehabilitation.
“If you want to rehabilitate
people, you have to give them ho
pe,” Quinn said. “Pets give them
an incentive, a goal. If you don’t
give these inmates some kind of
hope, they will come out even
more angry than they were when
they went in.”
Dr. Leo K. Bustad, Delta So
ciety president, said these animals
provide inmates with a strong de
sire for good behavior.
“Say a person is in jail for life,”
Bustad said. “If he is given an ani
mal, he soon becomes attached to
it. The threat of having that close
companion taken away makes
him want to do everything he can
to keep it.”
In some prisons, animal train
ers bring puppies for inmates to
train as aids for the physically
handicapped.
“They never harm the ani
mals,” Bustad said. “Once a bird
suffocated when an inmate put it
in a box to keep it safe, but he
didn’t mean to kill it.”
Photo by DEAN SAITO
Stephen H. Sheldon speaks Monday afternoon at the Delta
Society conference.