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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1986)
The Battalion Friday, September 5, 1986 Section B Krafts lu, »ent hasli# st began r in the two jei »n. The nent arious pn lore than Photo by Mike Sanchez I ig the bBhe recently renovated Commons Snack Bar has a new name and a Denominator, started renovation at the end ot Spring ’86, and the n . which is now called the Common work was finished during the second summer session. ng toe ra^ne recently rcnovaieii i.ommo a hosprsHew face to man h. Fhe snat k b; ■as admksV _ . j. ■ ion Lvnne Vi.| for the Its til Disonte ’ive am !:■ the fourp| now a golf course designer ‘ at "MrT WORT H (AP) — Aside from his leg- stitute I; ipry successes as a player , Arnold Palmer is r ^ Hosp: * l ‘ omm (? "' e ll known for his development of the purses. [leroted ' i’ 1 die approximately 75 projects he’s tmentoftH 0 P ec ^ are l * ie W est at La Quinta, Calif.; itiencv ''B^ ua * n ^ au '’ Hawaii; and Beat Creek in i .fried Itfiison,Colo. Hi also is designing courses in Japan and ( j i( , |- a( thei overseas locations. However, with the scheduled opening next ajjjntTjBg °f The Golf Club at Fossil Creek, golfers P I HeDallas-Fort Worth area soon will have their irst opportunity to play an 18-hole ^^^^Hipionship layout designed bv Palmer. ^Hie 6,960-yard course, located just west of Haltom City at the intersection of Loop 820 and Interstate 35-West, is the focal point of a 1,150 acre community known as Fossil Creek. Depending upon the severity of the winter, Fossil Creek could be ready as early as March, according to golf director Claye Atcheson. “Ed Seay, Palmer’s principal partner, walked the course the other day, and he liked what he saw," said Atcheson, who added that Palmer has checked the progress at his course every other month. “This is a critical stage, so his people are out every two weeks,’’ he said. “We won’t seed the bent grass greens until September, but if we have a mild winter like last year, we should have a ma ture course by early spring.” The course is primarily for the residents and business owners of the Fossil Creek community. Those with annual memberships, along with guests at the planned 400-room Marriott Hilton, will have the first privileges for the course. It will then offer limited resort or guest fee play on an available tee time basis. Atcheson ex pects the green fee and cart package to he $40. Palmer worked to take advantage of the prop erty’s terrain, two creeks and a lake to give it a unique look and play. Water will come into play on 15 of the 18 holes, including the peninsula green on No. 13. There also will be holes called The Scottish, The Serpent, The Cliffs and The General. Palmer, who has 61 tour victories and career PGA earnings of almost $2 million, is scheduled to he on hand next spring for the grand opening. Du Pont cooks up crawfish bait ORANGE (AP) — Crawfish, the small, lobster-like crustacean that is tempting the tastebuds of many Americans, is becoming part of a new business for Du Pont. The company, with the help of two enterprising workers at the Du Pont Sabine River Works, is man ufacturing and selling bait that at tracts the Tittle critters into traps. But while other companies also manufacture and sell bait, Du Font’s formula creates a new long-life bait that does not deteriorate in water and lasts 5-7 days in the trap. The start of a million-dollar busi ness frequently is accomplished with a single idea. Jay Daigle’s idea, com bined with Mai Smith’s laboratory experience, launched the new busi ness for the company in record set ting time. “The secret of this was the idea that we could use a polymer to ac complish what we needed,” Smith says. “It was the recognition that the industry wanted this and there was a need for it. Once the idea was gener ated, we already had the technology within Du Pont to create it.” Daigle, then a part-time lab ana lyst, went to Smith with the idea that a polymer could act as an adhesive and hold the bait together without disintegrating in the water. A poly mer is a chemical product that is used for a variety of consumer prod ucts, such as plastic food wraps, eye glass frames and even the covering of golf balls. Since Du Pont already produced a polymer that was not water soluble, the development consisted of cre ating a formula of the usual bait materials — fish meal, fish byprod ucts and fish oil — that could be held together by the polymer until the crawfish consumed it. “There was a need for it,” says Da igle, a crawfish farmer for five years. “I have my own crawfish pond and was tired of working with the messy fish all the time. I needed something that would last longer.” Fish scraps that are used as crawf ish bait deteriorate in the water, leaving a residue in the traps that must be removed daily, he ex plained. Artificial baits also disinte grate after 12 hours in the water, making it necessary for the crawfi- sherman to rest the traps every day. “The bait initially costs more than other bait, but the overall cost is less because it lasts longer and lowers the labor costs,” Smith says. Working on their own time at first, and later with Du Font’s stamp of approval, the two men developed the bait in about two years, com pared with the standard product de velopment time of about 10 years. Other company executives the men talked to about the project thought they were joking about crawfish. As the project progressed and the demand for time and money increased, they had to get approval from more company executives. “There would be this long silence on the phone whenever I would first talk to anyone about developing a crawfish bait,” Smith says. Now the company is ready to go into full-scale commercial produc tion with the winter bait. The com pany had limited the marketing of the summer bait as a test. The winter bait marketing plan is gearing up for a big November push. “We will be a major force in the winter bait market because the main competition is fish, which is very ex- ensive then, and the other artificial aits are ineffective in cold weather,” said Daigle, who now is promoted to a marketing specialist for the crawf ish venture. 3-Pc. Fish Dinner $ 2.99 crisp, tasty crunch outside. . . served up tender and flaky inside. With all the fixin’s: thick-cut fryes, fresh cole slaw and two hushpuppies. Try it — the great taste will bring you back for more! oke$. -and We make student loans for Texas 1-800-253-LQAN • ONE HOUR APPLICATION PROCESSING • ON LINE STATUS CONFIRMATION • LOAN CONSOLIDATION • ASSURED ACCESS THROUGH 1990 • PLUS LOANS • 24 HOUR “COURIER PAC” SERVICE • TWO DAY CHECK SERVICE • TWO DAY NOTICE OF GUARANTEE SERVICE • TOLL-FREE HOTLINE - 1-800/253-LOAN Expect more from Certified Savings - We do more than just sign checks. 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