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(Dine in Only) 99 no coupon necessary just bring something that has FATBURGER written on it. Offer good Mon.-Fri. after 6 p.m., expires Dec. 4th 'C'M •'-Jr! Page 4/The Battalion/Monday, September 7,1987 Gramm supports effort to brine biotechnology center to Texas By Drew Leder Staff Writer Sen. Phil Gramm expressed his support of the effort to bring a na tional biotechnology center to Texas in a briefing to the Texas A&M Board of Regents Saturday af ternoon. Dr. Robert Stone, the director of Texas A&M’s Institute of Biosci ences and Technology, gave a brief ing to Gramm, U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, and state Rep. Richard Smith, R-Bryan, about a plan devel oped by Stone and other members of the institute to make Texas the nation’s leader in biotechnology re search and bring in many new jobs. The institute’s plan entails the building of two research facilities in the Texas Medical Center in Hous ton, a large expansion in research capability through federal funding and a partnership among A&M and 37 other institutions within the med- ical center. Stone said. The focus of the research will be on human nutrition, bioengineer ing, comparative veterinary medi cine and biotechnology, which is ex- pected to be a $200 billion industry by the year 2000. Board of Regents chairman David Eller, also present at the briefing, compared the expected growth in bi- :nnc otechnology over the next 13 years to the growth in the computer indus try in the past 15 years. Obtaining the desired $50 million in funds for the program will require an appropriation by the U.S. Con gress, beginning with $50,000 for a feasibility study which will be under- Photo byJmvJanner Sen. Phil Gramm speaks at the Board of Regents meeting Saturday. for a feasibility study in 1988 Stone said if the institutee quire the initial funding fa study, he is convinced Cong!:: then see the “richness of the pi Even though other statesa;- to make similar proposal: T exas’ proposal is circulatedi.- Congress, Gramm said, he Texas will still have a goodek: getting funds for the project “We’re starting early enouc enough advantages . .. to wits up on merit,” he said, “and committed to winning." The advantages Gramm rt:; to are in the form of an alreac research effort in biotechnoi:; A&M, the medical center and: state institutions and the p% for a joint effort among these unions. Eller also expressed confidti 1 exas’ chances. “There won't lx* any body it can oiler this type of rescan technology," Eller said. The United States, at p leads the world in biotechnok thin margin over Japan. Th biotechnology research ces Massat huselts, California a* the Gulf Coast. Eller said of these have the exicnsivetil capabilities (he institute ns bring to T exas. taken by the U.S. Department of Ag riculture in cooperation with the in stitute. Getting the appropriation will in volve competition from other states wanting to fund thier own projects. Barton said when Congress re cessed in early August there had been project proposals from other states but no similar proposals. He also said he was confident that the institute would receive the money Gramm said he will me: Wednesday with DepartmeE J riculture representatives the proposal with them. He he would like the institute id presentation to the Tcxa sional Delegation in order state-wide support fortheprej Gig ’e Jickolas Me vhile watchi DPS marks casualties of Texas roodip 01 during holiday weekend at 14 deadtO C Forme (AP) — Fourteen people, includ ing three pedestrians and two bicycle riders, have died on Texas highways so far during the Labor Day holiday weekend, Department of Public Safety officials said Sunday. The DPS predicts there will be 42 deaths in the period, which runs See related story, Page 12 from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. The latest reported accidents in clude one involving Lorenzo Agui lar, 16, of Lockhart, who died at about 7 p.m. Saturday from injuries he suffered after his bicycle collided with a car, DPS spokesman Mike Cox said. The collision occurred Friday eve ning on Texas Highway 142 in Lock hart, he said. Edward Newton Phillips, 43, of Longview, died at 12:07 a.m. Sun day from injuries he suffered when the car he was driving collided with a tractor-trailer rig on Loop 281 just east of Longview late Saturday night. Tynna N. Cerventes, 15, of Refu gio, died at 12:10 a.m. Sunday from injuries she suffered when the bicy cle she was riding collided with a ve hicle in Refugio at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The driver of the car left the scene but was later arrested, Cox said. The driver is being held in Refu gio on charges of driving while in toxicated, Cox said. Angelia Denise Hunt, 21, of Longview, a pedestrian, died early Sunday morning when she was struck by a vehicle on a Longview street. Cox said there have been few sta tistically significant changes in the types of accidents because of the new 65-mile-an-hour speed limit. “You never really see any real rhyme or reason to it,” he said. “What you usaually see is sort of unusual things,” he said. “Out of rour accidents, two of them involved somebody on a bicy cle and one of them was somebocly afoot,” Cox said. Other fatalities include 19-year- old Benjamin Huber of Austin. Huber died in a one-vehicle acci dent in northwest Austin early Sat urday. Tarrant County Jail receives order for expanded facility FORT WORTH (AP) — Tarrant County Jail cells built for 15 people are often crammed with more than two dozen inmates, some sleeping on the concrete floors of the State’s most overcrowded j ail. “It’s hell,” Bill Broome, the newly hired jail administrator said of the conditions at the jail. “I’ll tell you that right now.” The Texas Commission on Jail Standards has given Tarrant County until Sept. 23 to provide a bunk for every inmate or face an order forc ing the transfer of excess inmates to other county jails, at a cost of $11,000 a day. With an average population of 1,692 prisoners a day, the Tarrant County Jail is bursting at the seams. The jail averages 284 prisoners over capacity, and nearly 500 more than the number state regulators say it should have. Tarrant County’s overcrowding exceeds that of any other Texas county, according to a survey by the Dallas Times Herald and statistics from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. Inmates complain of being crammed for up to 22 hours inside hot, stuffy holding cells with as many as 40 other inmates — more than double the cell’s capacity. Other complaints include long waits to see a doctor or to get pre scription medicine, a shortage of sanitary napkins for female prison ers, a lack of supervision and not enough bunks. Steve Howell, 29, who awaits trial for burglary in the county jail, said, “I’ve seen people’s heads gashed open, people stabbed with pencils, pens, whatever people can get ahold of. I’ve seen people molested in this place.” Long-term expansion of the jail, approved by voters in April as part of a $114 million bond package, has been a high priority. But officials only recently decided where to build a new 1,248-bed maximum security jail, and completion is at least three years away. Jack Payton, a 38-year-old Gen eral Motors worker, called his four days in the Tarrant County Jail last June his worst experience since com bat in Vietnam. “Seeing the guys doing things and how they were treated, I thought, ‘This is war,’ ” Payton, who was ar rested on charges of trying to cash a forged check, said. “ Just survive it the best way that you can.’ ” Another man, Kim Dexter Black, spent 83 days in the jail waiting to come to trial on charges of carrying a club. Black, who lives in Everman, called his three-month tenure in the county lockup torture, complaining of too little food, crowding and ten sion among prisoners. Bob Dearing, an inspector who visited the Tarrant County Jail in July 1986 and again last July 15, said it was clear that conditions had wors ened in the past year. “The crowding has gotten worse,” Dearing said. “It does make things deteriorate the more crowded it gets.” Sharks seen near coast of Texas where 3 women were attacked CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Sharks were seen offshore on Saturday, officials said, off Mustang Island, where three women were attacked by sharks earlier in the year. There were no reported sightings of sharks Sunday, but schools of porpoises were spotted, a Coast Guard spokesman said. On Saturday, authorities had warned beachgoers that several sharks, some up to 10 feet, had been seen in the area. Area beachgoers remained cautious as they stayed in shallow water Sunday. The reports of sharks and large schools of fish were near the shore between Bob Hall Pier and the Port Ar ansas jetties. Jesse Arriaga, a Nueces County park deputy, said there were fewer people on the beach compared to last year. He said most beachgoers seemed to be staying close to the shallow water, perhaps because they had heard about previous shark attacks “People see a fin and they start yelling; they’ve just seen too many ‘Jaws’ movies,” he said. Two women swimming half a mile apart near Port Aransas were attacked by sharks in mid-July. Both women sustained bite wounds that required hospitalization. A 16-year-old girl lost her right arm in a shark attack north of Mustang Island State Park last April. Rebecca M. Myers, 21,offfc Ji was killed in a head-on coll:: ... before noon Saturday on Highway 71. about five mite^5 ce o ^ lcer co i >1 ( i iluintms in ( iilliiad"t ^ atally she 1 hree ot het s were injured * en ' a g e Amai i accident Utten years ago Eight i it he*i people have# W1 j h ho P e accidents during the holidat end. The toll predicted this ] slightly lower than the 48 ntfiJ predicted for the 78-hour Is fy period in 1986. Last year, 38 of the 51 Lad:, traf fic deaths were rial and avoidi :hanrber. —— See relatec Hp the resultt: dents in which drunken dnvi: Jimmy Paul A a factor, DPS director LeoG-icted twice and sai ri- wice for the 19’ To beef up enforcement .foyer, the dau said the DPS assigned extratnjtate lawmaker i to the highways during the ng t h e longest Day weekend. nore than 250 ow. I just kind of Vanderbilt, 34, s; UNDER! ICE CREA Sellers makinf new fake despite law I on Moyer, and t ocale, where she HOUSTON (AP) - FaL hot to the back c official-looking identified j cards are still being sold new law meant to stop theii! duction, a prosecutor said The sellers are using ah hole to the statute — instek the usual Texas ID cards,t* with out-of-state labels areh made and sold in Houston, Most sellers of fake IDS' complied with the new la« some have simply switch^ ; cards from states like Art: Colorado, Florida and Louis- ^ Fvprvnr said assistant District Af r * Jeffery D. Ross, who wentP for phony ID cards Saturda'~~““ — ■ earlier last week. PSSn “This kind of puts a ki ' rCH 9 tilings,” he said. “Thiswill cf ®| a whole new problem.” The law, which went inter Tuesday, requires any docu( : deceptively similar to adriv£ (l cense or personal identifc' certificate issued by the st# ; Texas to be stamped with words “not a government # • Come 17 JI ment” in quarter-inch !ette [: the front and back. But the law doesn’t menti° ! cards from other states. “If these new cards start: , senting a problem, we’ll hL; see about getting the lawcMfi again,” Ross said. Ross said his office cracking down on ID-card® in the county to make surt : are complying with the la" The new law makes selli 11 ! ; ID card too similar toadri'rt ^ cense a Class C misdeP : punishable by a $200 fine. ': | ond offense ups the chatf Class B misdemeanor. Possessing such a card against the law, earning 3,1 fender a citation the firs 1 and a Class C misdentf” charge on a second offense Tues