Wednesday, October 9, 1985rThe Battalion/Page 5
Texas Air raises
offer to acquire
'^Frontier Airlines
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Associated Press
HOUSTON — Texas Air Corp.
; | ( m Tuesday increased its bid for
lock in financially troubled Frontier
f ‘ tirlines from $20 to $22 a share.
Houston-based Texas Air, the
latent company of Continental Air-
nes, on Sept. 30 offered to buy 60
' liis i icrcent of Frontier’s 12.5 million
Mwhc hares of outstanding stock.
The Texas Air offer is $5 a share
note than a bid offered by a coali-
, ion of Frontier employees.
'lerlnt.aH
e of i Bruce Hicks, a Texas Air spokes-
tan, said the offer is for all out
fit Ending shares of Frontier stock.
Texas Air said that its latest offer
Stock in Denver-based Frontier
s ^ ould expire at midnight Oct. 22.
"Hit But Frontier shareholders are not
lulite : heduled to vote until Oct. 30 on
P^Jie labor coalition’s $17-a-share of-
l sa gn ;r.
sprout!The Frontier group last month
led a federal lawsuit seeking a pet -
uinent injunction against Texas
asr ar'^attempted buy out.
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Staff Writer
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veland’, S () l lie Texas A&.M agriculture
the d [radpates may be eligible for up to
$t em . >100,000 in low-interest farm loans
fProposition 10 is approved by vot-
trsNov. 5, state Rep. L.P. Patterson
t A Aaid in a public hearing Tuesday.
Ivv P‘t u erson, D-Brookston, and
Texas Land Commissioner Garry
llls 1 dauTo said the proposed Farm and
hj "I land i F inance Program is designed
h Ted ■ oaid young farmers.
Warped
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Rabies outbreak reported in border town
Associated Press
EAGLE PASS — State health offi
cials say they are concerned about
keeping a rabies outbreak in Piedras
Negras, Mexico, from crossing the
border.
Rabies cases have been reported
in 60 dogs, a person and a cow this
year in Piedras Negras, said Dr.
Kathryn Tull, a Texas Department
of Health veterinarian from Uvalde.
Four cases in animals have been
reported across the river in Eagle
Pass.
Tull said officials are concerned
the problem will worsen because of
lax anti-rabies enforcement pro
grams in Eagle Pass and the attitude
of Mexican health authorities.
“Unfortunately, Mexico doesn’t
think they’ve got a problem,” she
said. “They don’t seem to be
alarmed that there are 60 to 80
deaths a year there because of ra
bies.”
Eagle Pass does not have an ani
mal control facility, Tull said.
Last week, authorities put to sleep
a 2-month-old mixed breed puppy
who bit its owner. Tests showed the
animal had rabies and the dog’s
owner, his wife and their son, 10, are
undergoing anti-rabies injections.
Most rabid dogs in Texas have
contracted the disease from skunks,
bats or foxes, Tull said.
Tull said health officials are visit
ing Eagle Pass schools, this week to
teach children about the problems of
rabies.
10 designed to aid young farmers
Under the provisions of the pro
gram, a farmer would be eligible to
apply for one of the 5,000 loans if 35
percent of that farmer’s income the
past three years has been derived
f rom farm or ranch products. How
ever, Patterson said recent graduates
who do not meet that qualification
would be eligible if they have
worked on their family farm and
meet other criteria.
To qualify, an applicant must
have been a Texas resident for five
years, must have experience in farm
ing and must have a net worth of less
than $250,000.
Mauro said he was concerned that
the average age of the American
farmer is 60. He said the program is
aimed at helping young farmers and
ranchers to own rather than rent
their farm land.
If passed, the loans will be fi
nanced by the sale of up to $500 mil
lion in general obligation bonds is
sued by the Veterans Land Board.
Mauro said no tax money will be
used — the borrower will cover the
cost of administering the program
through fees established by the
board. Interest rates will be deter
mined after the sale of the bonds.
Patterson, who co-authored Prop
osition 10 with state Sen. Bill Sarpa-
lius, D-Amarillo, said applicants can
pay off the loans in up to 40 years.
The loans would require a 5 percent
down payment, he said.
Patterson said the current loan
program of $20,000 or TO acres was
simply not enough.
Biomass products
may help farmers
increase incomes
By KATHY MCHUGH
Reporter
Aggies who want to become
America’s fanners may be able to
make more money than they ever
imagined if products made from
plants and animal wastes can be sold
as a source of energy, says a Texas
A&M professor.
“As most people know, farmers
have recently been in a terrible fi
nancial state because they have pro
duced more products than they can
sell,” says Bill A. Stout, a professor
of agricultural engineering and a
leading authority on alternative en
ergy.
One way to help farmers get back
on their feet again and to raise prof
its is by marketing biomass energy
products, Stout says.
Biomass is a form of solar energy
that is stored in all organic matter
except fossil fuels, which include
coal, oil and natural gas.
This energy is stored in products
such as corn, cotton, wheat and
many other plant types and also in
animal wastes, Stout says.
“If we could get these plant
materials into the market as a selling
product farmers, producers and
consumers would be happy,” he
says.
There are four basic processes
through which biomass energy can
be derived.
In the alcohol fermentation proc
ess, sorgum grain is converted into
ethanol, which can be used in alco
holic drinks or as a fuel for vehicles,
Stout says.
Anaerobic digestion is a forma
tion process in which starch from
sorgum grain is converted into
methane gas. Stout says.
Animal manure also is con
verted into methane gas through
this process. Methane is used in
heating homes and in gas stoves,
he says.
Diesel fuel can be processed
through plant-oil extraction,
which involves squeezing seed oil
from corn, soybeans, sunflowers
and cottonseed.
“There’s only one small prob
lem with diesel being made from
corn oil and that is that your car
exhaust may smell like popcorn,”
Stout says.
The final process is that of gasi
fication, which involves the burn
ing of cotton gin trash (particles
left over after the cotton was proc
essed) which produces carbon
monoxide and hydrogen.
“People are not using these
processes today because of the cost
and probably won’t use them for
another 10 years or so or until it is
extremely necessay to use them,
whichever comes first,” Stout says.
This research needed to be
done and was well worth the time
and tax dollars that was put into it,
he says.
Stout and Edward A. Hiler, pro
fessor and head of A&M’s Depart
ment of Agricultural Engineering,
have published a book on biomass
energy titled “Biomass Energy: A
Monograph.”
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15,000
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9,000
4,975
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14,700
7,500
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14,000
7,600
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12,500
5,975
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10,900
5,245
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6,500
3,250
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5,200
2,875
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6,300
3,150
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4,900
2,895
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3,700
1,885
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3,300
1,850
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33.00
1,650
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4,900
2,595
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3,300
1,760
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3,300
1,745
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3,300
1,745
.93 pts
3,250
1,685
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2,950
1,520
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2,850
1,525
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1,800
995
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2,800
1,435
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2,700
1,350
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2,600
1,335
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1,700
975
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1,700
975
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1,700
930
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1,650
865
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1,350
650
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1,650
795
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1,750
820
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1,595
785
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1,495
770
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1,395
735
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1,150
535
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1,175
695
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1,050
520
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1,250
660
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1,240
630
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590
295
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625
325
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625
320
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425
235
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410
225
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400
215
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11,500
5950
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1450
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790
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485
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