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INTERVIEWING IN YOUR PLACEMENT CENTER ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 & 7 Luby’s Cafeterias, Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange with sales exceeding $175 million last year. your advertising dollars do better in H m ^535 ■ Doctors hope baby will live after transplant Associated Press HOUSTON — Doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital Tuesday said they were “cautiously optimistic” that an 11-week-old infant suffering from immune deficiency syndrome would survive an experimental bone marrow transplant operation. The infant, identified only as Agnes Theresa, was born Oct. 28 without the ability to combat dis eases. Doctors on Dec. 11 transplanted two ounces of bone marrow from the baby’s 6-year-old sister in hopes that Agnes’ system then would begin producing her own ability to fight infection. Since the transplant, Agnes has grown four pounds and three inches and now weighs 12 pounds, 10 ounces and measures 28-‘A inches, the hospital said in a statement. “Agnes Theresa appears to be my most successful transplant patient to date,” Dr. William T. Shearer, direc tor of the David Center at Texas Children’s Hospital, said. The center is named after Hous ton’s so-called “Bubble Boy,” who also suffered from severe immune deficiency syndrome and lived vir tually all of his 12 years in a plastic germ-free bubble. Complications following a bone marrow transplant forced physicians to free David from the bubble. He died last Feb. 22. Agnes’ progress has been so good have be doctors have been able to remove a special tube in her heart that was in serted in case she needed additional drugs to combat reaction to the mar row transplant. “The baby’s growth told us weeks before the laboratory tests turned positive that an early and powerful immunological reconstitution was taken place,” he said. Shearer said it would be another month before doctors can say for certain whether the initial progress would be sustained. Unlike David, whose bone mar row transplant was not a perfect match, Agnes Theresa’s was perfect, doctors said. It was the second such operation at Texas Children’s Hospital. Official says water bill needs modifications Associated Press AUSTIN — The water bill before the Legislature needs revisions to meet the needs of farmers and ranchers, a Texas Farm Bureau offi cial said. John Baker of Temple, chairman of the bureau’s water policy commit tee, said the main problems are wa ter rights, the formation of water districts not controlled locally and the control of ground water. “We believe the key issue in new water legislation for farmers and ranchers will be to maintain the existing ownership of ground water rights and to give no further grounds regarding surface water rights,” Baker said at a Farm Bureau luncheon. The House Committee on Natu ral Resources continued its review of the water package put together by Gov. Mark White, Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby and Speaker Gib Lewis. Baker said underground water should remain the property of the landowner and the state should not regulate underground water conser vation districts. The Farm Bureau would rather see the districts con trolled on a local level, he said. Other issues of concern to the Farm Bureau are conservation pro gram research, agricultural loan programs, provisions on bays and es tuaries, future water storage facili ties and water quality and pollution, Baker said. The bay and estuaries provision in the water bill is of major concern to farmers and ranchers, especially those who use reservoir water, he said. Coastal interests want any wa ter bill to include protection of fresh-water flow to bays and estua ries. During the 1984 drought. Baker said, Gulf Coast rice growers were hurt when reservoir water was sent downstream to help shell fish nurse ries. “The consequence was less water for rice growers at a critical time in their production cycle,” Baker said. Farm Bureau President S.M. True of Plain view said his group also will monitor farm labor legislation, tax changes and farm-to-market road bills. Around town Fish camp counselor applications open Student ‘Y’ Fish Camp has counselor applications available no* through Feb. 28. Interested persons may pick them up on the sec ond floor of the Pavilion. For more information, call 84a-1133. Big Event looking for job requests Bryan-College Station area residents and businesses are encour aged to submit job request for the Big Event, a four-hour servia project sponsored by Student Government. More than 5,000 Agg» will participate in the project on March 2. To place a job request contact Maritza Pena at 845-3051 in the Student < Government Office Students may nominate professors Forms for the Former Students Association Distinguished Awards for teaching may be picked up in 802 Harrington Tower Students mav nominate liberal arts professors for teaching, studen: relations ana staff/faculty awards. Nominations are also being ae cepted for the 1985 “Preferred Prof Award”. This award, spon sored by the Cap & Gown Senior Honor Society, is presentedeaci year to a faculty member exhibiting outstanding qualities of soviet, leadership and scholarship. Nominations are due Friday by 5 pm.is 208 Pavilion. Low school scholarships offered to Aggies Three tuition-free scholarships ate being offered to Texas A&M ops students wishing to study law at Baylor University. 1 heseare the jo- Tu seph Milton Nance scholarships available lor first year law student' and renewable in the second and third years if the recipient main tains a C +. Only students who have done all or most of their pre-b* work at Texas A&M w ill lx* eligible. At the time of applying for scholarship the student must have applied or be in the process of ap plying to Baylor Law School. The application deadline is Feb. 8. For forms and additional information, contact Dr. J.M. Nance at the His tory Dept, in Harrington Tower. La cc At S I I' ent.s shou substantial Senior honor society accepting members ! e s ,he 1 lUjlM Lnivei sitv budget wri Applications are now being accepted for membership iotoCapi wn Senior Honor Society. Qualifications include a 3.25 Gown Senior Honor Society. Qualifications include a 3.25 GPR,"5 hours completed by Jan. 1, 1985 and active involvement in schol arship, leadership and service activities. Information sheets avaiiablt in Cap & Gown cubicle on the 2nd floor of the Pavilion, the libran and at information sessions held Wednesday and Thursday at 7 puu in 410 Rudder. Applications are due on fc’eb. 8 bv 5 p.m. in lb YMCA. Masquerade Ball scheduled Friday I C. Robe chancellor Sjthe openii Appropriai ■'looking at rime targ jrogram. The Class of ’86 will present a Masquerade Ball on Friday froraS p.m.-midnight. Tickets are $10 per couple and On sale now at the , MSC. Kemble re “pain! toney pro nittee men location as anomic assei Duchesses needed tor Cotton Pageant Kemble i Stion hikes I realistic an ilion.” Applications are now available for duchesses to the 51st Annual Pageant. Any campus organization is invited to enter aeon- , as well as sororities and fraternities. The winner receives a $500 scholarship to TAMU. Entry fee Ls $40. The pageant willk held March 29 and 30. For applications and information, call Patrice at 764-7133. I Texas s ||nnong the iber hour, a Writing contest accepting entries le Texas A&M Writing Contest will be accepting poetry and stories from graduate and undergraduate students from Entries can be sent through the campus or delivered di sh Department maUroom. Address entries to: The Contest. Students may submit up to three ed and or one short story. All entries must be typed and must student’s name on (he poems or short stories. A 3x5 in- iould include name, aadress and phone number. The up to 15 poems and up to 5 short stories, avail- item for this column, come by The Battalion office in Panel is questionin care of discharged state mental patients Associated Press “These are vital issues to agricul ture because they affect our costs and the way we farm,” True said. True said some farmers and ranchers will have a hard time com plying with new pesticide regula tions, especially those in high density population areas. Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower has put together a pesti cide regulation package that some farmers say would be costly to imple ment. AUSTIN — “Serious questions” exist about whether the state pro vides adequate care for discharged mental patients, according to a panel monitoring court-ordered im provements in Texas’ mental hospi tals. In a report issued Monday, the three-member panel said it had doubts about whether hospitalized patients are getting better care, even though the state met the first of four court-ordered deadlines and now has more staff and fewer patients at its eight hospitals. The panel cited recent newspaper coverage about patients being bused to Houston, dropped off at a bus sta tion and left to fend for themselves. That and reports of inadequate after-care service in Austin “raise se rious questions about the mental health delivery system’s current ca pacity to adequately serve and main tain clients who have been dis charged from the hospitals,” the report said. The panel also said mental health workers in the eight state mental hospitals are suffering from “serious morale problems.” The persistence of those problems raises questions about whether the measures taken by the Texas De- artment of Mental Health and ental Retardation to meet the first pa M deadline are “having the desired feet of improving the quality ofc for mental patients,” the panels* The department is operating 1 der an order by U.S. District H Barefoot Sanders of Dallas. W der requires each mental he* worker to be caring for no in #|1 than five patients during the • and no more than 10 at nij September. Department officials have $ they plan to achieve the news patients ratios by discharging P 1 tients whenever possible rattier^ by hiring additional workers. The officials agreed to meet t' new staff-to-patient ratios by red 11 ing patient rolls by 352 or hiringS" workers every three months. The panel reported the dep^ ment met the first deadline by^ ducing by 369 the number of md 1 ® patients and by hiring 70 mfl 15 health workers from May throtf October 1984. The panel said it reviewed reco 1 * of patients at Austin State Hospi 1 and Terrell State Hospital in an tempt to determine the kindoftf received by discharged patients. The records noted where the? tient would be living upon dischaff and showed, in almost all cases,ih an outpatient appointment hadb^ scheduled with a community agein 1 the panel said. Foie’ Store Ron Acc« a tre man to e> path chal If yo Foie Mike