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\GGIE PARTNERS FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS: will have its first meeting of
jhe semester at 7 p.m. in 274 Reed.
THE NATIONAL ENGINEERING SOCIETY (TAU BETA PI): Dr. James H.
:arle, head of the division of engineering design graphics, will speak at 7:05
i.m. in 102 Zachry on “America’s Future.” This event is open to the public.
LIBERAL ARTS STUDENT COUNCIL: will have a general meeting for all liberal
arts majors at 6 p.m. in 503 Harrington.
MPHA KAPPA PSI: will have a formal rush function at 7 p.m. in Clayton Wil
liams Alumni Center.
*l SIGMA EPSILON: will meet at 7 p.m. in 206 MSC for an orientation.
flSC LITERARY ARTS: is accepting submissions of poetry, prose and graphic
art through Feb. 20 for the 1988 Litmus.
\&M TRAP AND SKEET CLUB: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 308 Rudder.
>SI CHI/PSYCHOLOGY CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 701 Rudder.
1ILLEL JEWISH STUDENT FOUNDATION: will have a snack and study ses
sion at 7:30 p.m. in the Hillel building.
IBA HONORS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 704 A-B Rudder.
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ECONOMICS SOCIETY: Dudley Fishburn, executive editor of The Economist,
speak at 7:30 p.m. in 201 MSC.
MERICAN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS: Tim Chinn, director of the Brazos
hapterofASCE, will speak at 7 p.m. in 110 Civil Engineering.
FACULTY FRIENDS: will have a faculty forum lecture, “Signs of the Ages," with
istronomical evidence for God's existance at noon in 110 Civil Engineering.
ILEY LECTURE SERIES: will have an informational session at 7:30 p.m. in
105 Rudder. Membership applications are available in 216 MSC.
GGIES FOR JACK KEMP: will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
ATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN: will have a meeting at 8:30 p.m. in
04 Rudder.
PEECH COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in 153
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ATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: Arthur Anderson will be
iresenting information on careers in data processing at 7 p.m. at the Ramada
hn penthouse.
ETA BETA BETA: will meet at 6 p.m. in 109 Heldenfels.
AGGIE LEAGUE OF ENGINEERS: will meet at 6 p.m. in 203 Zachry. Pictures
or the Aggieland will be taken. All engineers are welcome.
HE BIG EVENT COMMITTEE: will meet at 7 p.m. in 230 MSC.
ADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 115 Kleberg.
'AFRICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in Zachry building to
ake pictures for the Aggieland.
MT. PLEASANT AREA HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 302 Rud
der.
PRE-LAW SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder.
ALVIN HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. at the Flying Tomato.
NATIONAL RESIDENCE HALL HONORARY: will have a general meeting at
8:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder.
TAMU SAILING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 109 Trigon.
CAP AND GOWN SENIOR HONOR SOCIETY: will have an information session
for juniors wanting to apply at 7 p.m. in 401 Rudder.
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN: will pre
sent “Digital Painting” by artist Julia Hoerner at the CAED gallery through Feb.
12.
SILVER TAPS: will be at 10:30 p.m. in front of the Academic Building.
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■ LUFKIN (AP) — Angelina
.County is billing the state $31,839
for housing inmates who aren’t be
ing taken by the Texas prison system
because of overcrowding.
1 But Angelina County Judge Dan
Jones said the state comptroller’s of
fice told him he could expect no
money until Texas Attorney General
Jim Mattox issues an opinion on
whether the counties are liable for
holding such prisoners,
if Jones said he was told that opin
ion may not be issued for three tea six
months. Meanwhile, he said, “Some
body’s going to have to pick it (the
I bill) up because it’s going to break all
| the counties.
R “If they are refusing to accept new
prisoners that have been sentenced
to the TDC, it is certainly not this
county’s problem.
I “But they are making it our prob
lem by forcing us to pay for housing
them until they get good and ready
to accept them.”
|| Angelina County in East Texas is
one of several counties that have
billed the state for housing the in-
ates.
Cancer patient
given surprise
Super Bowl trip
HOUSTON (AP) — A mysterious
stranger handed over two Super
Bowl tickets and a wad of spending
money to a Houston travel agent last
week and had her make reservations
at a posh San Diego hotel, all to sur
prise a youngster the benefactor will
never meet.
The anonymous person has for
the past 11 years donated a weekend
Super Bowl travel package to va
rious young cancer patients at M.D.
Anderson Hospital.
Selected by a hospital committee
to watch the Denver Broncos play
the Washington Redskins Sunday
was 17-year-old Vincent Ross, an en
ergetic and outgoing Fort Worth
high school student who has Hodg
kin’s disease.
Ross said that after his mother got
a call from M.D. Anderson about his
trip, she had a bit of trouble convinc
ing him that his dream of going to a
Super Bowl game was about to come
true.
The news finally sank in, and now
Ross would love to meet and thank
his benefactor.
ntrenf Rf*n*»*» NTMt-/ who
has made the arrangements for the
annual Super Bowl trip for the past
decade, is the only person who
knows the donor’s identity. She will
only say that he or she is a Houston
resident.
“First, I’d give him a big hug and
tell him that he has made this young
man very happy,” Ross said. “I’m
going to write him a letter (delivera
ble through Maltz). I feel very
lucky.”
Ross plays cornerback and run
ning back for his Southwest High
School football team and runs the
mile relay and 100- and 200-meter
dash on the track team.
He appears in excellent health,
but it was not always so.
He was first diagnosed as asth
matic at 8, but a Houston doctor de-
temined the real cause of his illness
was Hodgkin’s disease, a cancer that
affects the lymph nodes.
Except for a recurrence of the
cancer in August 1986, Ross has re
mained healthy and in remission,
though he still makes a trip to Hous
ton every six weeks for blood tests.
Officials to inspect
50 Texas factories
for radiation leaks
because tne state prison system is
near its court-ordered capacity,
nearly 5,500 felons are in county
jails awaiting transfer to the Correc
tions Department.
Sheriffs and county officials have
been complaining about the situa
tion for months.
County officials have been told
that help is on the way in the form of
new prisons, but relief isn’t expected
for more than a year.
Gov. Bill Clements issued an
emergency declaration last week that
will allow construction of 2,250-bed
maximum security units in Amarillo
and Gatesville.
Galveston County Sheriff Joe Max
Taylor said, “It will be between 18
months and two years before they
can give us any relief.”
Galveston County sent the state a
bill for $65,000 two months ago, but
Taylor said the county probably
won’t see a cent.
“They (state officials) say they are
looking into into the legal entangle
ments” of paying counties for hold
ing state prisoners, he said. “Really
it’s just doubletalk.”
DALLAS (AP) — State health of
ficials Monday will begin inspecting
50 Texas chemical and soft-drink
factories that have the same device
that has been linked to radioactive
leaks at plants in the Dallas area.
The decision by the Texas De
partment of Health followed the de
tection of radioactive polonium 210
last week at KTI Chemicals Inc. in
Carrollton.
On Jan. 23, a similar leak of polo
nium 210 was found at the Ashland
Chemical Co. in South Dallas. Offi
cials also have detected contami
nation in recent weeks at a factory in
Pennsylvania and three in Califor
nia.
All the leaks have been traced to
an air-gun used to clean containers
and bottles. The air gun is made by
3M Co.
The latest leak was discoverd late
Thursday at KTI Chemicals, a sub
sidiary of Union Carbide Corp.
KTI officials said the leak of polo
nium 210 posed no danger to the
public, but that seven workers have
been tested for contamination.
Those test results are due later this
week.
Ashland’s South Dallas plant
tested 37 workers for contamination,
but the initial urine samples proved
negative, according to Richard Rat
liff, director of the compliance and
inspection program for the Texas
Bureau of Radiation Control.
If inhaled or absorbed into the
body, polonium 210 can move into
the digestive tract and lead to can
cer.
The radiation levels at the Ash
land and KTI plants were lower
than levels of some medical X-Ray
procedures, Ratliff said.
Both KTI and Ashland have sus
pended operations at their Texas
plants while a cleanup plan awaits
approval from the state agency.
Because the leakage came from
several 3M air gun models the prob
lem could be more widespread than
originally thought, Greg Cook, a
spokesman for the Nuclear Regula
tory Commission, said.
About 20,000 3M air gun ionizers
are in operation around the country,
officials said.
3M notified state officials that
there are 200 air guns in use in
Texas, Ratliff said.
Half of the Texas factories make
chemicals for sale to the computer
industry or for government re
search, he said. About 10 companies
bottle soft drinks and the rest use the
device for bottling chemicals for de
veloping film, he said.
The air gun devices use polonium
210 to neutralize static electricity
charges and remove dust in applica
tions where a high degree of purity
is needed.
The device looks like a garden
hose sprinkler nozzle that is inserted
into glass or plastic bottles, accord
ing to Roger Schrum, an spokesman
for a chemicals packaging plant in
Easton, Pa. that was closed after a
similar leak was discoverd.
The polonium is encapsulated in
microscopic ceramic spheres, which
are then chemically bonded to the
nozzle.
Compressed air rushing through
the nozzle is ionized by radiation
from the polonium and acquires a
positive charge, which then neutral
izes the static charge of any dirt in
side the bottle. Once clean the bot
tles are used to hold chemicals for
the semiconductor industry, which
requires material with a high degree
of purity, he said.
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