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Landscaping important
to energy conservation
By PAUL HERNDON
Reporter
Proper landscaping around a
house or apartment can cut heating
and cooling loads up to 30 percent,
says an energy information specialist
for the Texas A&M Energy and
Mineral Resources Center.
Students should look for apart
ments surrounded by trees and grass
instead of asphalt and concrete, said
Nancy Hawkins.
“A student should try to avoid
renting an apartment that faces
west,” she said.“or one that has a pa
tio with a picture window facing west
because they collect the most heat
during the day.”
Hawkins said re-learning the tech
niques of natural insulation can help
reduce the cost of utility bills.
Strategically placed trees, shrubs
and vines on and around east and
west walls can reduce the wall tem
perature by as much as 25 degrees
during periods of direct sunlight.
Shade trees can reduce the
amount of solar heat in a house by
40 to 80 percent, depending on the
density of the trees, according to a
report by the center. Climbing vines
can reduce wall temperatures eight
to 14 degrees.
Although landscaping helps with
insulation, Hawkins said too many
house plants can add to the energy
consumption of a house.
“Indoor plants add to the humid
ity,” she said.“The higher the hu
midity, the more an air conditioner
has to work to keep a house cool.”
Another way to keep air condi
tioning costs minimal is to take care
of the yard. A well-kept, 1/4-acre
lawn can do the same work each day
as a 42,000 British thermal unit cen
tral air conditioner running for 48
hours, according to the report.
Hawkins said landscaping should
be a supplement, rather than an al
ternative, to proper insulation be
cause its effectiveness as a conserva
tion measure depends on the local
environment.
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WASHINGTON — The Reagan
[Adminstration has agreed to a new,
[higher offer to the states in a dispute
ver offshore oil-lease revenues if
[Congress passes it, Sen. Phil Gramm
aid Thursday.
Gramm, R-Texas, said the Office
)f Management and Budget, speak-
ng on behalf of the adminstration,
lad pledged that if Congress passes
egislation giving states 27 percent of
the offshore revenues, President
Reagan will sign the measure.
Such legislation is currently pen
ding in Congress.
The government has put about
$6.4 billion in an escrow account
pending settlement of the issue of
how to divide revenue from oil
leases in a three-mile offshore band
shared by the states and the federal
government.
Under the administration’s new
offer, if approved by Congress,
Texas would
payment of
said.
jet an immediate lump
|375 million, Gramm
The last offer made to the states
by the Interior Department was 16
and 2-3 percent of bonuses (pay
ments for the leases) and rentals.
The federal government would get
the oil royalties.
Under the new proposal the states
would get 27 percent of the bonuses
and rentals.
Slouch
By Jim Earle
‘‘With the increase in tuition, we won’t have the option to fail courses
like in the good ole days. ”
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 lest June 27 unless they have completed English 301 with a
minim urn grade of C. Students in the College of Science must pass
the proficiency exam <>r satisfactorily complete English 301 by the
“““ 7 semester of their junior year in order to qualify as a degree
late. '
State school to core for child
Mother wins 2-year battle
The English Proficiency Exam will he administered by the en~
glish department. Students in the biology, chemistry, mathematics
and physics departments should legister for the exam in 152
Blocker before June 27.
Associated Press
GALVESTON — An 8-year-old
mentally retarded girl is being trans
ferred to a state school after her
mother — saying she could not af
ford to care for the child at home —
refused to claim the girl from an
other state facility.
Family District Judge Andrew Z.
Baker on Wednesday ordered Me
lissa Elaine Collins transferred from
the Beaumont Respite Center to the
Richmond State School for at least
60 days while Galveston County so
cial services officials hunt for a per
manent facility for the child.
Kathleen Gomez, the girl’s
mother, has refused to take the girl
home, contending the child should
be cared for by the state because she
cannot afford to give the child
proper care.
At the same time, Gomez has re
fused to give up legal custody of the
child to the state.
“I’m a bit bitter,” Gomez said after
Wednesday’s hearing. “I don’t think
it was necessary for the state to get
another 60 days of custodianship.
But they tell me I’ll be able to visit
my daughter anytime. And I will.”
The woman said the point of her
effort is that she should be able to re
tain full parental rights.
But she said she believed her two-
year fight, capped by the “abandon
ment” of her daughter, had worked.
“I’d still be trudging through the
system trying to get help for my
daughter” if she did not take the ac
tion, she said.
Former director
of sanctuary
is sentenced
Associated Press
BROWNSVILLE — The former
director of a shelter for Central
Americans was sentenced to two
years in prison Thursday after she
told a federal judge she would con
tinue to violate immigration laws.
“Some things are worth going to
jail for,” Lorry Thomas, 41, the for
mer director of Casa Oscar Romero,
told reporters outside the court
house.
Thomas told U.S. District Judge
Ricardo Hinojosa that her religious
convictions would prompt her to
continue helping Central Americans
fleeing their war-torn region.
Hinojosa said he had no choice
but to sentence her to prison.
Thomas pleaded guilty May 30 to
hiding Raul Dominguez, 28, in the
trunk of her car. The two were ar
rested May 12 at the Border Patrol
checkpoint at Sarita, about 70 miles
south of Corpus Christi, authorities
said .v
In a pre-sentence investigation
statement, Thomas said, “I have
done this many times before and I
will continue to do it.”
Hinojosa told the defendant that
there were other ways to help Cen
tral Americans, but breaking the law
was not one of them. He ordered
Thomas to surrender to authorities
on June 27 to begin serving her sen
tence.
But the judge said he would give
Thomas 120 days to reconsider her
statement about continuing to break
the law. Hinojosa said that if she did
change her position, he would con
sider reducing the sentence.
Her attorney, Lisa Brodyaga, said
neither she nor her clients were sur
prised by the sentence.
Thomas had faced a maximum
five years imprisonment and a
$250,000 fine.
She was released on $20,000 bond
after ref using for two weeks to be re
leased on a personal recognizance
bond because the Nicaraguan ini
tially was denied bond.
Dominguez has since been freed
on a $5,000 bond.
During her arraignment, Thomas
said she was helping the man flee
dangers in his country imposed by
U.S:-backed rebels fighting the
Sandinista government.
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