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Helicopters
used to help
clean forests
Associated Press
JASPER — Helicopters that drop
bombs" on East T exas forests can
clear away undergrowth and irn-
irove the narvest of timber more ef-
iciently than the usual foot soldiers,
foresters say.
According to industry officials,
helicopters have become an integral
part of the timber business, saving
time, labor and money.
Two years ago, the U.S. Forest
Service used a giant helicopter to air-
beetle-infested trees from the
Four Notch area in the Sam Hous
ton National Forest near Houston.
More recently, large timber com
panies are using the aircraft to burn
off undergrowth much more quickly
than workers on foot can do the job.
Specially rigged helicopters with
‘helitorches" dispense a mixture of
fatty-acid soap and gasoline called
alumagel. When the pilot presses a
lever, a spark plug ignites the gel
atine-like capsule, which falls to the
ground and starts a fire.
When undergrowth and foliage
are reduced, arson is curbed and the
chances of a wild lire diminish, said
Ken Addy, an area forester head
quartered in Bon Wier.
Owner Bob Ewing of Custom Air
Service of Jasper says his company’s
services are in demand during the
peak burning season from January
through March.
Ewing said one of his helicopters
working with a ground crew of pro
fessional foresters can burn 1,000
acres in two to three hours com-
tared to the usual three days it takes
or a ground crew, which must use
hand torches to $tart the Fires.
International Paper Co. used the
method first in East Texas, and
other timber companies are discov
ering the tool. Boise Cascade Forest
Resources and Kirby Forest Indus
tries also used the helicopter method
this season, the Beaumont Enter
prise-Journal reported.
GOP candidate search
What’s up
AGGIES ALLEMANBERS; m\l meet 7:0'
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'Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Student Activities Office in the
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308 Rudder for officer elections. Everyone weict
TAMU PHYSICS CLUB: will meet at 7:30 p.m. it
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AMERICAN P.O.W.A.R: will be in front of the
POW/MIA bracelet orders.
BETWEEN THE LINES: will present “The Night < „
IStlT at 7:30 p.m, at the Bra?.os County Courthouse. Tick
ets an sale at Rudder Box Office.
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Hall. Dr. John Hovle will speak.
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504 Rudder.
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Rudder.
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surtrs.
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applications at 208 Pavilion. Deadline for submission is Fri
day at 5 p.m.
TRAP & SHEET CLUB: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 110
tary Science Bldg.
Items for Whzt’s Up should be submitted to The Battulioja,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de
sired publication date.
Clements for governor?
Associated Press
DALLAS — Former Gov. Bill
Clements has spent much of the past
six weeks talking to people like
Roger Staubach and Ross Perot in an
effort to find a strong Republican
opponent next year for Democratic
Gov. Mark White.
Since none of those have given
much inclination to run for gover
nor, Clements is still searching for
ualified candidates to carry the
iOP banner against W’hite next
year, the Dallas businessman said in
an interview with The Dallas Morn
ing News.
Despite past statements that he
wouldn’t run for office again, Clem
ents said there is a possibility he him
self will oppose Wnite, who stunned
Clements with an upset win in 1982.
“Gov. Clements doesn’t really
want to run, but I think as a last re
sort he would,’’ one of Clements’
“closestassociates” said, according to
the News.
Clements met last weekend with
some high-ranking Republican offi
cials to discuss potential candidates,
including himself, the newspaper re
ported Sunday.
Asked if the talk that he might
run is accurate, Clements said, “With
all the ifs and ands and huts, which
makes it speculative, I guess you’d
have to say that’s probably correct.
But it’s not anything I’m wanting to
do or I’m running for.”
Clements said his recruitment
drive is not aimed at his tabbing one
particular candidate.
“I’m not trying to recruit one of
my big buddies in order to say this is
my candidate,” Clements said. “If we
can get two or three or four viable,
outstanding and highly regarded
candidates, why not?”
White is vulnerable because of
several things, he said, in particular,
advocating union dues checkoffs for
state employees.
“Union dues checkoff is as sensi-
Group seeks to halt
program to cut timber
Associated Press
BEAUMONT — Although the
Sierra Club has filed a suit to halt
imber cutting in national wilderness
ireas of Texas, U.S. Forest Service
ifficials say the conservation group
ssplit over the issue.
In Louisiana, for example, Dr. Pat
Sewell of Shreveport, La., immedi-
ite past chairman of Louisiana’s
Kate chapter of the Sierra Club, sup-
Dorts the forest service’s program of
utting trees in Louisiana’s only na-
ional wilderness area to slow an epi-
iemic of pine beetles.
Sewell, who represents Louisiana
)n the national council of the Sierra
ulub, said he can’t speak for what is
3est for Texas because “Texas may
3ea totally different deal.”
But Sewell said forest service offi-
ials convinced him that cutting trees
vas necessary in Louisiana, where
he forest service is battling the worst
3ine beetle outbreak on record.
"Perhaps if we had a larger wil-
lerness and the beetles weren’t on
he border, threatening private and
kher national forest lands, my posi-
ion might be different,” Sewell told
he Beaumont Enterprise-Journal.
Sewell, a physician, said that dur-
ngan inspection of the 8,700-acre,
; pme-dominated Kisatchie Hills Wil-
•Jerness in Louisiana this past winter,
lie found an incredible infestation.
“The question was, do we let the
leetles kill the trees, or remove
hem?” he said. “In my opinion,the
lutcome would have been the
ame.”
Bruce Jewell, forest service
pokesman at the regional headquar-
ers in Atlanta, said Sewell’s position
pleases him because it shows “there
is another side to this issue.”
Ned Fritz, chairman of the Texas
Committee on Natural Resources,
said, “No one has the right to give up
more than 1,000 acres of wilderness
for the next 50 years or more merely
to prove they’re responsible.”
Fritz and other conservationists
fighting to stop beetle cuts on the
34,800 wilderness acres in East
Texas argue that control cutting
doesn’t work and does more damage
than the beetles do.
George Russell of the Sierra
Club’s Lone Star Chapter said that,
in all 60 forest service control cuts
that he has inspected in Texas,
beetles had jumped the buffers and
were attacking neighboring trees.
It would be better, Russell said, to
let the beetles kill even a majority of
pines in part of a wilderness area,
leaving some stonger pines and the
hardwoods, than to level a section of
the wilderness.
The Sierra Club Legal Defense
Fund, on behalf of the Sierra Club,
Wilderness Society and Texas Com
mittee on Natural Resources, asked
a federal judge in Tyler to halt
beetle control cutting in the five East
Texas wilderness areas. A hearing
has not been scheduled.
The request for a preliminary in
junction contends that the forest
service cutting program violates the
federal Wilderness Act, Endangered
Species Act and National Environ
mental Policy Act.
The request does not attempt to
restrict the forest service’s beetle
contol program on non-wilderness
national forest lands in East Texas.
Bill would
require pools
to be fenced
Associated Press
DALLAS — When his 22-
month-old son fell into the family
swimming pool and suffered per
manent brain damage, University
Park oilman Jim Francis thought
he was alone with his tragedy.
But after spearheading a
statewide effort to compile statis
tics on similar accidents, Francis
learned that as many as 250 chil
dren either die or suffer severe
brain damage after falling into
neighborhood swimming pools in
Texas each year.
In an attempt to reduce that
toll, two Dallas legislators have in
troduced a bill in Austin to re
quire fences around residential,
swimming pools.
“Young children are like ung
uided missiles, zigging and zag-
ging their way to the pools,”
Francis told The Dallas Morning
News. “People put their children
in playpens because it keeps them
there. We vyant to make pools se
cure, like playpens.”
The bill is being modified by
members of two legislative sub
committees, but in its original
form it would require pools at sin
gle-family residences and apart
ments to be surrounded on all
sides by fences.
Under the proposed state legis
lation, a fence with a locked gate
would have to separate the home
from the swimming pool if a win
dow or door opened from the
residence to the pool.
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tive an issue as there is in Texas, and
for Mark White to advocate that is
amazing,” Clements said.
At his last weekly press confer
ence, White insisted he had no posi
tion on the checkoff legislation, al
though he acknowledged that he
had some of his legislative aides sur
vey some of the lawmakers to deter
mine if they would support the bill,
which is backed by the AFL-CIO.
“I simply wanted to find out what
the status of the bill was,” White said.
Sen. Phil Gramm, once a conser
vative Democrat and leading Boll
Weevil before changing parties and
winning election to the U.S. Senate,
has made overtures toward former
Rep. Kent Hance, suggesting that
Fiance oppose White as a Republi
can in 1986.
Hance wouldn’t rule out a switch
of parties, saying he’d learned
“never to say never,” but indicated
such a strategy is not in the cards,
the News reported.
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