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Let us paint a T-shirt for you! Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, February 2,1987 Scientist tests blood substitute Texas Basket Company has custom- designed, hand-painted T-shirts in our factory store! Navasota Open Monday through Saturday 9-5 (409) 825-8030 Let us paint a unique design for someone special or for your special group or event. Or choose one already painted from the rack! We make ‘em for Aggies large and small. Order yours today! » * **.•.*,"'*• * LUBBOCK (AP) — A doctor at Texas Tech University’s Health Sci ences Center says he is working to perfect a derivative of cattle blood that can be used to replace human blood. Dr. Mario Feola, a professor of surgery at the center, has been de veloping a solution using the hemog lobin of cattle blood as a human blood replacement. The solution can be used when no human blood is available to transfuse to a person in critical need of blood, he said. The hemoglobin — a protein that carries oxygen to the body’s cells — can be injected into a patient regard less of blood type and acts as a short term substitute for human blood. The solution will keep the patient alive for a few days until his own body rebuilds blood cells to a normal level, he said. Cattle and human hemoglobin are very similar in molecular structure, and cattle hemoglobin carries oxy gen even better than the human sub stance, Feola said. Feola said the hemoglobin solu tion has been used successfully in ex periments with mice, cats, rabbits and monkeys. No adverse immunological reac tions surfaced in the test animals, Feola said. Feola said he hopes to obtain Food and Drug Administration ap proval within the year to begin test ing the solution on humans. While human blood can stored no longer than several weeks, the he moglobin solution can be stored in powdered form for months, he said. \aggie\\\ s |)/cinema/ New Films Included in the MSC Feb. 2-Feb. 6 WEEK ONLY! State studies air pollution in D-FW area DALLAS (AP) — State officials are studying the “brown cloud,” a persistent layer of air pollution that doctors say endangers the health of Dallas-Fort Worth area residents. To determine the smog’s makeup and origin, the Texas Air Control Board is conducting a $500,000 re search effort called the “Brown Cloud Study.” The smog bank is different from smog layers over Los Angeles and Denver, wdtere mountains trap the pollution, health officials said. Smog in the Dallas-Fort Worth area occurs on cool mornings be tween October and March, when bright sun creates an air inversion in which warm air traps car exhausts, dust and other gases. Experts say the brown cloud ef fect increases during windless peri ods, during which small fronts from the north block the prevailing winds from the soutinwest that otherwise would serve to cleanse the air. Melvin Lewis, regional director of the air control board, said the cloud is growing. “It used to look like a futuristic bubble over downtown,” he said.“But now, it’s not just over downtown. It’s a blanket that covers the Dallas-Fort Worth area.” The first reliable results should be available in November, said Robert Brewer, who helped organize the study for the stale agency. What’s up Monday BRAZOS COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER: w training sessions tor new volunteers through Fridayfr (i:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Call 77(i-RAPE for applications a formation. MSC SCONA: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 206 MSC. TAMU JUDO: will hold practice Monday, Tuesday ai Wednesdax from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in 230 (’>. Rollie Whin New members are welcome and no experience isnt essai\. BUSINESS STUDENT COUNCIL: will hold symposia seminars concerning ‘“Women in Business" from 8am noon in 102 Blocker and f rom noon to 2 p.m. in I Blocker. A luncheon xvill be held at noon in the Colb Station 1 lilton. INTRAMURAL RECREATIONAL SPORTS: entries; slam-dunk, \x alls ball, pre-season sof tball and softballi available in 159 Read. ALPHA ZETA: Dr. L. S. Pope will speak at 7 p.m. in 1131ii berg. COLLEGIATE 4H: will meet at 8 p.m. in the loungeoflii berg Animal and Food Science Center. MSC CAMERA CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 20b MSC. AMERICAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION: will meet 6:30 p.m. in 165 Blocker. AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: \x ill hold f ree square danceb f rom 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.nn in 226 MSC. SIGMA TAU DELTA: is accepting applications for a members through Feb. 9. Applications are available ai English department office. FISH CLASS ’90 COUNCIL: s ign up for class committee the Student Programs Office. beiru hush-hus Iran and started to Bge negot ftfety, a se ■ “These sind the o ■nonymitx ■ “The p: (telephone Efety,” th Iranian e Krth.” I Waite, ] Ranterbui Km. 12 o Keedom i I The At Seen publi Best Beirt ■ate with Kction th; iff in Tuesday TAMU EMERGENCY CARE TEAM 701 Ruddet. PRE-LAW SOCIETY: \x ill meet at 8:30 p.m SADDLE & SIRLOIN CLUB: will meet at berg. MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: A ggiecon-18 workers Kill at 8:30 p.m. in 4 10 Rudder. All those interested in wo on Aggiecon-19 should attend. STUDENT Y: xvill meet at 6 p.m. in 225 MSC. STUDENT Y — AGGIE FRIENDS: will meet at 7 p.m.mJ Rudder. INTRAMURAL RECREATIONAL SPORTS: entriesJ racquet ball singles and team bowling are available tin’f p.m. in 159 Read. AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS & ASTEif NAUTICS AND AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHAV CAL ENGINEERS: Col. Leonard Vernatnonti uilldis I the National Aero-Space Plane .it 7 p.m. in 108 Harr.:| ton. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY: student sec; xvill meet at 7:15 p.m. in 103 Soil and Crop Sciences. ECONOMICS SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 125 Block MOUNT PLEASANT AREA HOMETOWN CLUB: meet at 8:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder. OMEGA PHI ALPHA: will hold a meeting for prospe. j members at 7 p.m. in 145 MSC. TAMU ONE-WHEELERS: will meet at 6 p.m. in front of Rollie White Coliseum. CAP AND GOWN HONOR SOCIETY: will meet at p.m. in 401 Rudder. HUMAN FACTORS SOCIETY STUDENT CHAPTER meet at 7:30 p.m. in 333-B Zat hry. WILDLIFE BIOLOGY SOCIETY: will meet at 7:30pr 207 Harrington. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION: will meeiJ p.m. 1 uesdavs in the meditation room in the All F | Chapel. MSC FRESHMAN LEADERSHIP DYNAMICS: I bership applications are available through 1 tiesdavinj MSC. LIBRARY TOURS: signup sheets are available at the fit! Hoot reference desk. I he tours are scheduled forRd 1 1 a.m. and 3 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridavssj at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. ‘ PARENTS WEEKEND: applications and scheduleforniiJ available for anx group planning an actix itv. Appliaiiil are due Feb. 27. PARENTS WEEKEND COMMITTEE: applications; nominating 1987-88 Parents of the Year are avallj| through Friday in the Commons, Sterling C. Evansl brary, the Memorial Student Center and the Pavilion. ■ WASH! sing Whit< K^t arms Intelligent t<j) resolve tween for viser Rob< Ks in F prcle. ■ The be Kstimony ■louse CF on whethe approval, ipipment! 1 McFarl give the ] Hut the cl president I The c< testifying Kansfer and by V Ind CIA ! E McFarl ■ecretary ! who had < ( verse,” ai Kaspar W missed it; I “Altho cord of a Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working dr prior to desired publication date. Families take buyout offei leave dangerous salt don MONT BELVIEU (AP) — More than 100 families have taken advan tage of a petroleum industry buyout plan and moved off the salt dome beneath their homes. But others who can’t afford to move or weren’t included in the of fer remain in this Southeast Texas families and five churches accepted. One church and 18 families rejected the offer. Many businesses left behind are feeling the pinch from the exodus. feed and hardware stored! do half the business weonct 1 ! Harp, operatoro! ' t nisganf "Our business is gone, I'll tell you that," Everett Soileau, owner of the ® c/ttexp. tsse Date: February 3, 4 and 5 Time: 10:00-4:00 Place: MSC Sponsored by APO CITIBANK®* CmtesfMSouS, OakoteS, MA Msmfcef *=0fC town. They often congregate in an old feed and hardware store to gripe about the offer or discuss their di minishing community. “I’ve lixed atop ‘the Hill’ for 43 years,” said Orland Forbus, 73, a re tired mechanical employee. “It used to be a real nice place, but now it looks like a skeleton town.” The reason for the move lies be neath the town — a giant salt dome in which hazardous petroleum prod ucts are stored. There have been evacuations and explosions, including one in Novem ber 1985 at an underground gas storage xvell that left two men dead and prompted an evacuation of the town’s 1,700 residents. Nine months ago, a group of com panies made a $20 million offer to 134 families and six churches to help them move off the dome. Businesses were left out of the of fer, as were 80 families who still had laxvsuits pending against the compa nies. Another 60 families who wanted to move lived just outside the boundaries of the target area. Of those included in the deal, 116 Eddie and body shop in his rejected a $57,000 buyout his home because it cliditt compensation for hisbuiM Fa Fn wf Sunshine Mining hopes its Golden Eagle will fly r— DALLAS (AP) — Sunshine Mining Co. is hoping its fortunes will soar w'ith the new Golden Ea gle gold piece, which the com pany mines, refines, mints and markets. Its earnings hampered by the slumping petroleum and silver mining businesses, Sunshine is the only company in the United States to see its coin through all phases of production. Sunshine officials say the one- ounce Golden Eagle will be priced below what dealers are asking for the U.S. government’s new American Eagle gold coin and Canada’s Maple Leaf. Spot market gold prices currently range around $15. .“We have sold a few hundred (Golden Eagle) coins, but it is only just getting off the groupdI William Davis, Sunshiu'J president of finance. By contrast, almost American Eagles were* up in the first two daysali ( l were made ax ailahle h Mint last October. 8 The company says its 1 over all phases of product 1 ] give it an edge in the! gold coin market. Sunshine’s coin, milled at the company mine in Western Nevada' able in one-ounce coinsat j smaller sizes. Gold ore! Nevada mine is shippe' company’s refinery at 9 Idaho, where it is refined purity.