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Prairie View A&M
Former president of university prevails
in lawsuit against City of Prairie View
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Su
preme Court rejected Monday the
appeals of Prairie View and its
mayor, who were sued for arresting
the president of Prairie View A&M
University.
The court let stand a ruling that
the city and mayor are not immune
from being sued for allegedly violat
ing the university president’s rights.
The case stemmed from a dispute
over city sewer lines running across
the campus of Prairie View.
In 19/8, Dr. Alvin I. Thomas, the
university president, ordered an
aide to prevent the city from run
ning sewage through the city’s re
cently completed sewer lines on the
campus.
After sections of the city pipes
were cut and capped, Mayor Eristus
Sams swore out a complaint, charg
ing Thomas with destroying city
property. And since Sams was also a
city magistrate, he was able to issue a
warrant for Thomas’ arrest.
A federal judge ruled that the city
had trespassed on the university
property and that the university was
justified in cutting the sewer lines.
The judge awarded Thomas
$25,000 in damages and lawyers’
fees against Sams but said the city
was not liable.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap-
g eals ruled last May that neither
ams nor the city was immune from
the suit.
The appeals court said Sams had
complete immunity in his actions as
a magistrate but not as mayor. The
fact that Sams’ duties were linked
does not protect him against the law
suit, the appeals court said.
A&M profs collect shells
to study past marine life
By SALLY TAYLOR
Reporter
Two Texas A&M scientists, Dr.
Robert J. Stanton and Dr. Eric Pow
ell, collect sea shells but not just for a
hobby.
The two have combined their ef
forts to determine how living marine
animals go on to create fossil records
and how these records can be used
to reconstruct a marine community.
Stanton, of the geography depart
ment, and Powell, of the oceanogra
phy department, have collected
groups of shells from Texas bays
and attempted to find in them clues
about what the environment was like
when the organism lived in them.
“This is interesting in a theoretical
sort of way because you can say
something about the history of the
earth, life and time,” Stanton said.
/ Sea shell formation begins with
the death of animals in the commu
nity, Powell said. Then these re
mains are incorporated into marine
sediments — some of them are pre
served and some of them aren’t, he
said.
“We know that when something is
preserved, it is preserved because it
las been buried deep in the sedi
ment,” Powell said.
When Stanton and Powell un
earthed a group of shells, they had
to determine how closely the group
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paleontologist in the
Texas A&M geography
department
reflected the community of orga
nisms living in that environment.
To get an idea of what was going
on in recent marine communities,
Stanton said he and Powell visited a
bay every six weeks to see what orga
nisms were living there, growing and
dying, and whether the dead shells
were being preserved.
The two agreed it was difficult to
reconstruct the history of basic com
munities because so few organisms
were preserved.
“I think we were impressed by the
fact that most things that are living
and dying really disappear quite
readily,” Stanton said.
Powell said the two have learned
that “almost nothing” is preserved.
Stanton said he, a paleontologist,
and Powell, an ecologist, work effec
tively as a pair for the study of shells
that are preserved.
“Ecologists see a one-time view of
things, but they don’t have that long
term perspective that paleontologists
do,” Stanton explained. “Most pa
leontologists go out and collect fos
sils, and kind of treat them as post
age stamps, never knowing enough
about what these fossils were really
doing when they were alive.”
Stanton and Powell’s next big pro
ject will be to go offshore into a
deeper marine environment next
spring — the continental shelf in the
Gulf of Mexico.
“The logic of doing the work in
the bays was to look at the shell for
mation process simply,” Stanton
said.
“Now we have an idea of the proc
esses and we want to go out into an
area that is more difficult to sample.
But we want to see if the same proc
esses are taking place, or if they are
different out in the open marine as
compared to the bay.
“One of the things we would like
to do is to be able to take samples be
fore and after a hurricane. But I
don’t know if one will be polite
enough to go through our study site
or not.”
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Radiation may be linked to deaths of military workers
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — At least five
former workers at a closed-down
military operation that handled ra
dioactive uranium have died of can
cer, a San Antonio newspaper has
reported.
The San Antonio Light reported
it confirmed the five cases after for
mer worker Felix Garcia said he be
gan searching for his former co
workers at the Air Force Directorate
of Special Weapons.
Garcia said he found that 12 of his
25 former co-workers who cleaned
uranium dust out of dummy nuclear
warheads have since died.
The 25 workers were employees
of a special weapons maintenance
program at Kelly Air Force Base.
Phebe Brown, spokeswoman at
Kelly Air Force Base, said employees
of the special weapons section were
not exposed “to anything more than
low-level radioactive depleted ura
nium,” calling the radiation level
harmless.
Officials say uranium-covered
rags used in the cleaning process
and the uranium dust were placed in
metal cans and trucked to Medina
Base, where they were buried.
The base, closed in the early
1960s, was located on what is now
the Lackland Training Annex at the
Lackland Air Force Base.
Brown said Air Force officials are
not sure where the cannisters were
buried since the cannisters were bur
ied from 1950 to 1965.
“In that time frame, there are no
disposal records,” she said. “We
didn’t start keeping those until 1965
because there was no requirement to
do so. There’s no way of knowing
where those containers went. There
are no records anyplace.”
The Environmental Protection
Agency has asked the Air Force for
more information on what was bur
ied.
Garcia said he began looking for
his former co-workers after reading
news reports of toxic waste tainting
groundwater around Kelly AFB.
Health officials say anyone hand
ling the material should wear protec
tive devices over the nose and
mouth. But Garcia said employees
wore only gloves and aprons.
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