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But we have agreed on half full,” said League president Lois Carpenter of Midland. “In our view, the new water plan and the legislative package (that ac companies it) are steps that will move us father down the road to ward meeting the state’s water devel opment needs,” Carpenter said. The plan would allow the state to issue $980 million in bonds to fund water projects such as reservoirs, treatment facilities, flood control projects and other work. The plan also would extend $250 million of the state’s credit to insure local water project bonds against de fault. Another $200 million in state bonds would be used to provide low- interest loans to farmers buying wa ter-saving irrigation equipment. Gov. Mark White and legislative leaders are strongly pushing the plan. It has been opposed as too weak by some environmental groups, including the Audubon So ciety and the Texas Committee on Natural Resources, although the Sierra Club decided to remain neu tral. Carpenter said the League de cided to endorse the plan despite its faults because, “This represents sig nificant progress.” “But we emphasize that the glass in question still needs to be filled, and we will continue to lobby future legislative sessions for stronger posi tions, especially in groundwater management and in natural re sources protection,” she said. Catherine Perrine of Dallas, the League’s water analyst, said it is im possible to predict what voters will think of the plan. “I haven’t the foggiest notion what voters are going to do ... They’re very nervous about approv ing large sums of money. It’s just hard to say,” she told a news confer ence. Accounting for Excellence I oday’s graduate in _ public accounting is as much an entrepreneur as is someone starting a business. Your education, intelligence, energy, and determination are your capital. Your return on that capital will be governed by how and where you invest your time and energies. 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Eugster, director of the Texas Veterinary Medical Laboratory, “If an ani mal comes in here, it’s dead.” The Texas Veterinary Medical Laboratory is a service organiza tion that aids Texas veterinarians, ranchers and animal owners in analyzing tissue samples for va rious diseases, bacteria or viruses. “This lab is like a diagnostic laboratory for people,” Eugster says, “Doctors send in specimens and we run the requested test or we test it in several of our labs to find out what the problem is.” When specimens are sent in, he says, most are pieces of the liver, lung, intestine or any other perti nent section of anatomy which will help identify the problem. The diagnostic laboratory has several labs within it such as toxi cology, virology, bacteriology, mi- cology and histology. Each time a specimen is brought in, it is di vided up and goes through each of the labs so that each possible option can be examined. If the veterinarian is close to the Bryan-College Station area, he may send the entire carcass in and the lab will examine it and extract the necessary samples for testing. Over 4,000 practicing veteri narians in Texas use the diagnos tic laboratory for reaffirmation or for identification of problems or diseases. Many times people will bring in animals that they suspect have not died from natural causes, Eugster says. One of the more mysterious cases, he says, was one involving a horse insured for a large sum of money. The courts sent the car cass to the laboratory for evalua tion. The routine tests showed nothing to indicate the cause of death, Eugster says. Through more specific obser vation it was found that the horse had been suffocated with a plastic bag, a method which almost leaves no trace in the body, he says. But Eugster stresses that most cases involve routine lab work. The diagnostic laboratory is one of the largest in the country, Eugster says. The laboratory in College Station handled 60,000 cases in the past fiscal year. Photo by KYLEHAWm Dr. A.K. Eugster, director of the Texas Veterinary Medical Labfr ratory, uses an electron microscope to examine tissue. The laboratory, located on Agronomy Road in the Veteri nary Medicine Complex, is a divi sion of the Texas A&M Univer sity System. A branch office in Amarillo deals mainly with the feedlot and swine operations in the Panhandle. In the past year the Amarillo branch handled over 15,000 cases. While the diagnostic laboratory is not officially connected with the Texas A&M College of Veter inary Medicine, he says there is a lot of exchange between the two. The Small Animal Clinic and the Large Animal Clinic both use the diagnostic laboratory for tests as well as joint consultations. 7™.- manent stall of 85 with ten to® students working part-time 22 prof essionals who hold eitk a D.V.M. oraPh.D. “The lab is open 365 days year,” Eugster says, “but that misleading.” At night one professional ait three laboratory technicians art on duty, but they are not intk lal>oratory. They’re on call ami have beepers for emergendts On state holidays such as Labor Day, Christmas and the Fourthol July, the laboratory works witbi skeleton crew of one or two pro fessionals present and three tech nicians.