Tuesday, February 17, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
Tanning salons offer variation
on ‘catching a few rays’ theme
By Stacey Babin
Reporter
| With Spring Break, just a test or
o away, many tanning salons in
ollege Station are finding their
nning beds full, but there is dis-
igreement as to whether or not
e beds are safe.
A suntan is a sign of strength
and youth,” says Linda Rosas,
jwner of The Other Eclips.
However, since it’s February
and the sun can’t quite satisfy the
eed for a good tan, tanning sa
lons try to meet that need.
I Most salons have special rates
on their sessions now, but for sin
gle visits the price usually is be
tween $6 and I?.
i Membership prices are about
|35 a month, or $140 a semester
with unlimited use of the beds.
James Barrett, owner of TAN
U, says tanning salons start new
customers at about 10 to 20 min
utes in the beds. The customers
then can build their duration up
to 30 minutes — the maximum
time the Food and Drug Admin
istration allows people to lie in a
tanning bed per visit, Barrett
says.
“Thirty minutes is equal to
about three to five hours in the
sun,” he says.
Barrett says the Solaire tanning
beds he owns can be safer than
the sun. They emit only 2 percent
of the Beta ray, which triggers the
tanning process, and 70 percent
of the Alpha ray, which actually
tans the skin, he says.
The Beta ray is the ray that
causes skin cancer, he says.
But Dr. Terry Jones, a College
Station dermatologist, opposes
the use of the tanning beds.
The beds use a different, more
intense wavelength than the sun,
Jones says.
The long-range effects, such as
early aging or skin cancer, are too
great a risk to get a tan, he says.
“You don’t sit six inches away
from the sun,” he says.
Although the FDA regulates
the time spent on the beds, Jones
says it doesn’t regulate how many
sessions people can attend.
Barrett says before he allows
his customers to lie in the beds, he
asks if they are taking any sun-
sensitive medication that can trig
ger a reaction. Skin tone also is a
factor when deciding how long a
customer should be in the bed, he
says.
Barrett says his customers also
are asked to wear goggles to pro
tect their eyes when they are in
the beds.
Tava Johnson, an employee at
Perfect Tan, says if a customer
does burn, it is not like a sunburn.
“The skin becomes red and
itchy, more like a rash,” Johnson
says.
Rosas says although the tan
ning beds are good for people
who desire some skin tone, it’s
best to consult a physician before
tanning and to use the bed in the
right manner.
'rosecution unlikely for drug-dealing guards
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Texas
Bn guards who deal drugs to in-
nates are being fired, but lack of evi-
Be means the officers rarely face
Binal charges, authorities say.
Ben prison employees have been
ired in the past year for trying to
ring drugs into prisons, but only
;0 P!ne li as been indicted, the Houston
13Ct Bp
McALLEN (AP) — Law officers
Bd more than a ton of marijuana
) ni || the Rio Grande Valley, including
,100 pounds hidden beneath a load
I Bvatermelons, authorities said
lone lay.
r Acting on a tip, U.S. Customs offi-
ers found marijuana in a tractor-
railei rig Saturday night on a high-
1 iy outside Edinburg. The driver of
truck was arrested pending a
nl earing before a magistrate Tues-
etilly.authorities said.
r , The drug was found underneath
Chronicle reported Monday.
“They had enough evidence to
administratively fire someone but
not enough to prosecute them,” said
David Weeks, special prosecutor for
prison crimes.
Department disciplinary records
since 1984 show drug smuggling is
widespread and helps the growth of
a load of watermelons, officials said.
In 11 separate cases, Border Pa
trol agents across South Texas seized
1,462 pounds of marijuana between
Friday and Sunday, said Juan Gar
cia, assistant chief of the McAllen
sector.
“It was a normal weekend,” Gar
cia said. “We do this daily, really. It
used to be 800 pounds or 200
pounds would really be something
big. Now we have five, six, eight
cases a day. That’s nothing abnormal
for us.”
prison gangs and inmate violence.
“Drugs are an insidious problem
in the institutions,” Weeks said.
“We’ve come to realize that drugs in
the institutions are tied to a lot of
bad things, including the gangs.”
In one 1985 incident, corrections
department internal investigations
showed 17 guards at the Ellis II Unit
Agents arrested three people
and confiscated 846 pounds of
marijuana Sunday night as seve
ral people were carrying it across
the Rio Grande upriver from
McAllen, Garcia said.
“That’s a small load for us now,”
he said.
Agents also seized 288 pounds of
marijuana being carried across the
Rio Grande near McAllen early Sat
urday morning, Garcia said. Six peo
ple carrying the drug fled back into
Mexico, he said.
participating in a yearlong drug and
alcohol ring. But most of the em
ployees were allowed to quit and no
criminal charges were filed, the
newspaper said.
In another incident, charges were
dropped against a guard who alleg
edly tried to set up a marijuana and
gambling ring with ties to Las Vegas.
A Wynne Unit guard was fired
but not prosecuted for allegedly sell
ing an ounce of marijuana to an in
mate for $150, the newspaper said.
Officers usually are not caught
with the drugs, thus leaving authori
ties without enough evidence to
prosecute, Weeks said.
Joe S. Fernald, interim chief of in
ternal affairs for the corrections de
partment, said prosecution takes a
back seat to stopping smuggling.
“We’re not seeing an organized
conspiracy of officers involved in
drugs,” he said. “If anything, the in
mates are organizing and manipulat
ing the guards.”
jgents seize drugs hidden under melons
Longer warranties
offer improvement
in U.S. car quality
By Tami Tate
Reporter
The “war of warranties” offers
consumers the security of believing
he quality of American-made cars is
mproving, a Texas A&M marketing
professor says.
Longer warranties are a technique
to convince consumers that U.S. cars
are built better than they previously
have been, Dr. James McNeal says.
McNeal and Dr. Richard Hise,
also a marketing professor at A&M,
examined the absence of warranties
on inexpensive supermarket goods.
They concluded that although
consumers may rely on warranties
for assurance of quality when they
purchase expensive items, they do
not when purchasing inexpensive
items.
McNeal cites car purchases as an
example of this.
“Longer warranties symbolize
quality in a car to consumers,” he
says. “A warranty is an assurance
made by a seller with respect to the
quality of the goods he offers.”
In 1981, the Chrysler Corn, estab
lished longer warranties witn a five-
year, 50,000-mile warranty on its
new cars.
Two weeks ago, General Motors
Corp. countered Chrysler’s warranty
with a six-year, 60,000-mile war
ranty on its new cars.
Mike Knight, auto dealer for Bos
sier Chrysler Dodge and Isuzu of
Bryan, says, “General Motors tried
to revolutionize the market by top^
ping Chrysler’s warranty. Chrysler,
in turn, answered GM’s warranty
with a seven-year, 70,000-mile war
ranty.”
Tnis warranty is valid for all 1987
Chrysler automobiles bought on or
after Jan. 31.
“The warranties are competitive,”
Knight says. “The whole point to
having longer warranties is being in
competition.”
Steve Isgitt, general manager of
Bluebonnet Motor Co., of Navasota,
says competition with Chrysler is one
reason GM upgraded its car war
ranty.
“The main reason for increasing
our warranty is to instill a sense of
confidence in the buying public,” he
says. “Warranties give the impres
sion that the manufacturer believes
it has a good product. GM is trying
to say it has confidence in its cars.”
A GM dealer with Quality Pon-
tiac-Buick-GMC Trucks Inc. agrees
with Isgitt. “General Motors has bet
ter built autos than they used to,” he
says. “That’s the reason we are back
ing our cars with the new warranty.
“Chrysler will probably have to in
crease the price of its cars to com-
ensate for its new seven-year
0,000 mile warranty.”
McNeal says the longer six- and
seven-year warranties hurt the liabil
ity of a car company.
“There are two reasons to guar
antee a product: to encourage con
sumer purchase of the product and
to limit the seller’s legal liability to
his consumers,” he says.
Chrysler took the risk of offering
longer warranties, thus increasing
their liability obligations, to encour
age consumer purchase, McNeal
says. Now, GM is competing with
Chrysler.
“GM’s longer warranty is a com
petitive marketing effort to deal with
imported cars and Chrysler,” he
says.
“The new warranties are publicly
bragging about the manufacturer’s
E roduct,” McNeal says. “This will
enefit the consuming public be
cause quality of the automobiles will
increase.”
Consumers will appreciate the
longer warranties because they help
protect the buying public, he says.
“Most consumers are willing to
pay extra for a product with a war
ranty,” McNeal says.
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Baseball,
"Lincoln Portrait"
and the
Brazos Valley
Symphony Orchestra.
Imagine (if you can) a baseball hero as comfortable with a symphony as
with a baseball bat. Atlanta Braves hero, Willie Stargell will perform in concert
with the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra, Thursday, February 19 in Rudder
Auditorium at 8 p.m.
The MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society presents Willie Stargell narrating
Lincoln Portrait with the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra, Franz Anton
Krager, Music Director and Conductor.
Stargell will narrate Aaron Copland s "Lincoln Portrait , a collection of
Abraham Lincoln s papers and speeches designed to show a mote personal
side of man who changed American history, fie will also perform "Peter and
the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev, a delightful piece which even your children will
enjoy.
Stargell has performed with such noted orchestras as the national
Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C., the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
with Leonard Slatkin, the Baltimore Symphony, and the Pittsburg Symphony
Orchestra with Andre Previn.
Fill your nights with the music of our own BVSO and Willie Stargell. Order
your tickets for the February 19 performance at the MSC Box Office.
4r Memorial Student Center • Texas AfifM University • Box J-l • College Station TX 77844-9081
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