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Aggieland wins awards
Yearbook is largest in U.S.
By BOBBY FOSTER
Reporter
The 1985 Aggieland yearbook
should be available to pick up Sept.
29 in the English Annex. Students
who have pre-paid need only their
student I.D. card to get it.
Don Johnson, coordinator of stu
dent publications, says the 848-page
Aggieland is the largest college year
book printed in the United States.
About 20,000 are sold annually.
The 1984 Aggieland, under edi
tor Dena Brown, has won two
awards from the Columbia Scholas
tic Press Association in its annual
yearbook contest.
It received an overall award in the
first class division and All Colum
bian for outstanding cover and pho
tography.
“We had it in mind to make it a
better book — less mistakes, more
accuracy,” Brown says. “And for the
first time in years we met all deadli
nes.”
In addition, the Printing Industry
of America gave the 1984 Aggieland
one of its 10 annual awards, which
are based on printing quality alone.
Brown says the 1984 Aggieland
was printed by The Delmar Com
pany, which wanted the best quality
it could get.
“I went to the publishing plant in
North Carolina when it was being
printed,” Brown says. “I slept there,
and they would wake me up to go
down and check every color layout.
"Because Delmar did such a good
job, the PI A is actually their award.”
Brown says she had such success
Aggieland
because of the talented staff she had
to work with.
A staff of approximately 20 stu
dents works on the Aggieland each
year, a tradition since 1895.
The first book, called the Olio,
had 133 pages and was published by
the Corps of Cadets. Olio is Italian
for “hash.”
The second yearbook, published
in 1903, was called the Long Horn.
In 1913, the editors changed the
name to one word, the Longhorn.
In 1949, the student body voted to
change the name to the Aggieland.
The first edition of the Aggieland
was gray and featured the Aggie
ring in gold.
The 1984 Aggieland is the first
one not to have the ring on the
cover. Instead it features the Texas
A&M seal.
A complete collection of Texas
A&M yearbooks is in the archives of
the Sterling C. Evans Library.
Associated Press
DALLAS — Merchandise ear
marked for the needy has been sys
tematically siphoned from a Salva
tion Army thrift store operation and
sold for profit or transferred to asso
ciates of a key executive of the char
ity, the Dallas Morning News re
ported Sunday.
The newspaper also said in a
copyright story that Maj. Lairon
“Larry” T. White, 61, an ordained
Salvation Army minister, also con
verted into his own name a $7,150
fishing boat, a $4,000 car and a $660
motorcycle that had been donated to
the Salvation Army.
The News said the Salvation
Army suspended White on Friday
after it was informed of the newspa
per’s findings.
“A thorough investigation has al
ready been started by the Salvation
Army concerning the allegations
and, should any of the allegations be
proved, appropriate action will be
taken,” said Lt. Col. John Mikles,
Texas divisional commander.
White’s attorney, Robert C. Hin
ton, said that the major denies any
intentional wrongdoing.
White, a 42-year veteran of the
Salvation Army, had headed its vast
Dallas resale operation of new and
used merchandise for the past de
cade. The Salvation Army said its re
sale operations netted more than
$3.2 million in Dallas County last
year.
The News said that among the
findings that surfaced during its
four-month investigation were:
— Boxes of new merchandise do
nated by Roach Paint Co., Neiman-
Marcus, Culwell & Sons, and other
Dallas corporations were routinely
separated from other merchandise
offered for sale in daily public auc
tions. Large quantities of that mer
chandise was sold at a Amite City,
La., bargain store operated by a for
mer Salvation Army employee who
describes himself as a “good friend”
of White’s.
Fire ants are here to stay, expert says
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — After years of
frustrating efforts to eliminate the
red imported fire ant, state officials
concede that the pest is here to stay
— at least for the time being.
Fire ants, which can sting up to 20
times in a row, are a major problem
for farmers since they attack crops,
make deep nests that damage farm
machinery and can spread across
vast areas in a short time.
The state Department of Agricul
ture, which has spent $20 million
over the past decade trying to get rid
of the ants, is trying a new approach.
“They’re here, we’ve got them,”
said Mark Trostle, the agency’s chief
expert on the fire ant. “And there’s
no way to get rid of them until we
learn more about them.”
Fire ants are a new field of study
for scientists who have been re
searching them only for the past de
cade, Trostle said.
“We used to think eradicating fire
ants was the answer,” he said. “Now,
we’ve learned that’s a bad word to
use. It’s better to say, ‘control, relieve
and suppress.’”
The worker fire ants also take
“nuptial flights,” mating in the air as
high as 1,500 to 5,000 feet, drifting
in the wind for five to 15 miles, and
landing in new territory to set up an
other colony.
Not even floods and heavy rains
can stop the pesky insects. Their sur
vival instinct is so strong that even
during floods and heavy rains,
rather than drowning, fire ants float
to the top of their mounds, gather
into a ball and drift down the waters
to a dry area to re-establish a colony.
“The biggest restriction as far as
keeping them from moving readily
has been the drought in West
Texas,” Trostle said.
The fire ant sting is one of the
most potent in the insect world. A
single, aggressive ant will anchor it
self onto a victim with its powerful
jaws, then inject venom through a
stinger. One ant can sting up to 20
times in a row.
The Agriculture Department has
been receiving $1.9 million a year
since the 1970s — nearly $20 million
total — from the Texas Legislature
to find ways to fight fire ants.
The federal government had ap
propriated $500,000 to Texas in
1984, but denied the Agriculture
Department money this year be
cause state officials had requested
using the funds for research rather
than a large-scale treatment pro
gram.
“We’re against that (treatment
programs),” Trostle said. “It’s not
going to work that way. The fire ant
will just fly out.”
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