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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
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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.
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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
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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
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