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Nine months ago, Owens moved TreeSweet’s main offices from Los Angeles to Houston. He had spent all of his 43 years in Los Angeles, but taxes there were “stifling” and he was hesitant to build a nationwide company from one end of the coun try, he said. Since Owens took over in January, TreeSweet has taken some actions usually associated with larger com panies. Last week, the company dropped wholesale prices on orange juice by 12 to 15 percent. Owens said he ex pects the rest of the industry to fol low suit because, in the wake of seve ral severe freezes, prices had been on the rise. TreeSweet also bought General Foods’ Birdseye Orange Plus and Awake juice brands just six months before Philip Morris launched a $5.6 billion bid to buy General Foods. Philip Morris’ bid is still pending. TreeSweet nets about 2 percent of the orange juice sales, Owens said, but its market is a patchwork quilt that includes states in the Northeast, Southwest and West. But Owens said he wants to estab lish a national market for TreeS weet, and he may look to the grape fruit to do it. “Grapefruit, per se, is an excellent product,” said Owens, an admitted fan of the fruit. “It’s a product, in my mind, that’s underdeveloped. It’s associated with diet, yet the percep tion is that it doesn’t taste very good.” He said TreeSweet is working on a grapefruit cocktail juice that he hopes consumers will buy as an “all day drink” instead of a breakfast beverage. Slouch By Jim Earle “It just must be cheap material. When I was a freshman they were baggy.” Testimony begins in convalescent home murder trial Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — A nursing home patient was allowed to lie in her own waste for so long that her flesh began to rot, a prosecutor said Monday in the state’s murder case against a convalescent center and five of its workers. “Her death was unnatural, a hom icide,” said Texas Assistant Attorney General David Marks in opening statements to a state district court jury. Marks’ comments marked the be ginning of testimony in the murder trial of Autumn Hills Convalescent Center Inc. and five of its current and former workers. On trial are Robert Gay, 58, Au tumn Hills president; Mattie Locke, 42, a nursing consultant; Ron Pohl- meyer, 41, Autumn Hills vice presi dent; Virginia Wilson, 62, former administrator of the nursing home; and Cassandra Canlas, 31, former director of nursing services. The defendants are accused of murder in the Nov. 20, 1978, death of Elnora Breed, 87. The elderly woman died 47 days after she was admitted to an Autumn Hills facility in Texas City. The defendants also are charged with the death of Edna Mae Witt, 78, but are being tried only in Breed’s death. The trial was moved to San Antonio because of extensive public ity. “What was happening at Autumn Hills when Elnora Breed was there was an epidemic of rotting flesh — an epidemic of neglect and gross abandonment of its patients,” Marks said. Breed’s sister, Ruth Linscomb, 83, the first witness to testify for the prosecution, said she visited her sis ter at Autumn Hills every day she stayed there. “Her bedclothes were dirty,” she testified. “She hadn’t had no bath, hadn’t combed her hair.” Linscomb said she complained to the nursing home officials about the care her sister was receiving and they would “clean her up.” UT scientists to be among first to use space telescope “l expect we’ll . . . (get) enough data to keep us rea sonably busy for quite a few years. . . . The only sure thing any scientist involved with the space telescope ex- pectsTrom it are things that no one can expect. ” — Dr. David Lambert, University of Texas astronomer. Associated Press University of Texas scientist will be among the first users of a $1.2 bil lion space telescope that, among other things, will try to determine whether planets are orbiting neigh boring stars. The space telescope, said to be powerful enough to see the light of a firefly 10,000 miles away, will be car ried aloft in August by the space shuttle and put into orbit 310 miles above the Earth. The UT scientists are astro nomers Bill Jefferys, Peter Shelus, Fritz Benedict, Paul Hemenway, Lawrence Trafton, David Lambert, and Edward Robinson. Paul Dun- combe, an aerospace engineer, will join them. “We are what are called ‘guar anteed time’ observers because we’ve been working on the telescope for al most eight years now,” Jefferys said. Divided into teams according to pro jects or the instruments they will use, guaranteed observers will dominate the first 30 months of the planned 15-year mission of the telescope. The telescope will be run by re mote control from ground stations in Maryland. Some scientists have stored projects on computer for re lay by radio to the telescope. Others will work directly from ground sta tions. Jefferys heads the astronomy team, which will study the positions of stars and their motions. One of the projects of the team will be to search for planets beyond the solar system. “That’s certainly the most exciting project we have because of the impli cations of life elsewhere,” Jefferys said. “We’ll have several shots at it. We may discover sopiething very quickly, within a few years or maybe never.” Even if other planets are found, they would still be too far away to be seen in photographs, except as tiny points of light, he said. Robinson — a member of the high-speed photometer team, which will use the instrument to measure brightness — also will study distant stars and galaxies. Trafton is on the high-resolution spectrograph team. The instrument breaks lignt into its component parts. Trafton is the only team member who will use the telescope to study outer planets of the solar system: Ju piter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. One of Trafton’s projects will be to seek images of Jupiter to deter mine whether it has an aurora — a luminous electrical discharge — around the polar regions, similar to the auroras of Earth. Lambert is the only scientist at UT who is a guaranteed time observer not on a specific team. He was one of four scientists who advised the tele scope manufacturer on overall de sign. “I prefer to think of it as an obser vatory rather than a telescope be cause it’s going to be a very versatile instrument,” Lambert said. “I’ve heard some astronomers liken it to the steps taken by Galileo when he started using a really primi tive telescope to see the rings of Sa turn for the first time,” Lambert said. SCHULMAN THEATRES Entertairmq The Bra/os Valley Since 1926 V OTCl-Plaxa 3 located at 77* Southwest Pfcwy. Wendy’s) $2 so -KTAM Family Nlta-Tuaa. ME Ill-Plaza III -Studants with currant 10 to A&M. Blinn J.C., Bryan High A AAM Consolidatad -Mon.-Wad. 1 Soon: Sliver Bullet ComhM PLAZA 3 693-2457 M Ii iidiW Fkwy iMdetf Woedr’i MANOR EAST III Qjfenes ofQocL cJWtvqe i4e.s.-«e.7:za-v : 4e SmuSmm. Jt:l5-4i4S~7:20-*5« Mea.-FH.7tiO.9tJS Silverado Get ready for the ride of your life, wi L.-A TTo U SmUSmm. 2:3a~*:SO-7:M-9:M *Um. - FrL 7O0-9-.13 Ir’s all in rhe name of science. Weird Science. 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