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State and Local
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The sale B^ e * en ^ aca Dorsey, director of
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opment Division of the Texas Engi-
O^SjMering Experiment Station (TEES),
111 Iran an( i Penny Beaumont, assistant dep-
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eadership Texas is a program
r) me pul th a i tries to combine continuing ed-
e people ucttion and leadership development
Bh information and discussion of
Htjor policy issues in Texas, Dorsey
these (jii%id.
ovide thecBThe program was organized in
1983 by a number of women from
the Foundation for Women’s Re
sources in Austin who wanted to get
women more involved in leadership
ositions, Dorsey said.
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identify and develop women leaders
in Texas, Dorsey said.
“Leadership Texas wants to instill
in these participants more experi
ence, confidence and understanding
about what it takes to be a leader, so
that when these people, like myself,
go back to our jobs, we will have
more resources and networks to fall
back on,” Dorsey said.
Dorsey, who is working to com
mercialize university and private lab
oratory research and to give techni
cal support for new and small
technology-based companies in
Texas, said that the program will
help her in her position at A&M.
“I am meeting women at other
schools and at companies that are in
terested in working with industry,”
Dorsey said. “This provides me with
a network in which I can identify
more companies, more individuals
and more educational institutions
for my own program.”
Beaumont agreed with Dorsey
and said the program will help them
take these skills and be more effec
tive in their jobs at A&M.
“Several of these women are in
jobs similar to what I do, which is
public relations in engineering, so it
is always useful to compare the pri
vate and public sector’s activities,”
Beaumont said.
This program, Beaumont said,
also helps her get assistance in doing
her job.
Dorsey said they both already
have made some excellent contacts
that will help the engineering pro
gram and the TEES’ Technology
Business Technology program at
A&M.
The Leadership Texas program is
composed of a cross-section of
women that represent all parts of the
state, Dorsey said.
“Women are from both the public
and private sectors,” Dorsey said.
“There are people from educational
institutions, state agencies, financial
and operating companies, as well as
some volunteers that are very active
around the state.”
Beaumont said the program
wants to make a real, conscious ef
fort to encourage minorities to par
ticipate in the program.
Dorsey said the program will con-
ist of six two-ana-a-half-day semi-
sist
nars at different
the state.
locations around
The seminars are on current is
sues that are important to Texas
leaders, Dorsey said.
The first seminar on “The People
and Cultures of Texas” was held
Jan. 20 in San Antonio, Dorsey said.
In addition to the seminars, Dor
sey said, there is an extensive list of
reading on a broad selection of top
ics program officials feel would be
good for anyone who wants to make
a change in their community.
Dorsey believes that Leadership
Texas will improve the status of
women at A&M.
“Ultimately I do believe that this is
one way in which women at A&M
can be more visible and have a
greater impact on the Texas way of
life,” Dorsey said.
Police charge man of using credit card
of dead Odessa man found in dumpster
■LUBBOCK (AP) — Lubbock po
lice said Monday they were holding a
■n on charges he used the credit
pid of an elderly Odessa resident
whose charred remains were found
in a dumpster.
■Eddie Wayne Roberson, 32, of
■narillo was arrested Wednesday in
Liibbock and jailed on $50,000
bond, police said.
Bhe is accused of using the credit
card of Jack Doherty, 84, who was
reported missing Jan. 7.
The severely burned body of a
man was found Jan. 19 in a trash bin
in Lubbock. Police in Odessa and
Lubbock were able to identify the
victim by comparing the remains
with a description of the missing
man.
Police said they do not yet know
whether Doherty was a victim of foul
play, but have questioned Roberson
in connection with his disappearance
and death.
“We have discussed his
relationship with the man (Do
herty),” Lubbock police Sgt. Randy
McGuire, said.
McGuire said Lubbock police are
awaiting autopsy reports and a rul
ing on the cause of death from Lub
bock County Justice of the Peace Bill
Ross, and their investigation is
continuing.
Dr. Ralph Erdmann of Amarillo,
who is performing toxicology tests
on the remains, said his report
should be given to police Tuesday.
“We didn’t see any evidence of
foul play,” Erdmann said. “But we
don’t have too many answers.”
Erdmann said he was working to
resolve inconsistencies between
statements given by Roberson and
toxicology test results.
Investigators initially believed the
victim may have been living in the
dumpster and set a fire inside it to
stay warm.
^pnsurance board approves rate increases
B AUSTIN (AP) — The State Board of Insur-
fance on Monday approved an average 3.9 per-
■nt increase in automobile insurance rates, a
|change that will mean a $134 million increase in
premiums.
■ Specific rates for the 52 rating territories in
fexas will be released Tuesday, board spokes-
f an Lee Jones said.
The rates vary by territory, type of vehicle and
Coverage and driver history. Insurance compa
nies are also allowed to sell auto coverage at re
duced rates. According to the board, about 67
percent of the policies now in effect were written
at a discount below the board-approved rates.
The average discount is approximately 12 per
cent.
Board members voted unanimously for the 3.9
percent increase, which goes into effect May 1.
The board’s staff had recommended a 2 percent
increase that would have added $68 million a
year to premiums. The insurance industry asked
for a 10 percent, or $344 million increase.
According to Gaylon Daniel, staff actuary for
the insurance board, under the 2 percent in
crease, drivers in 40 of the 52 rating territories
would have seen decreases in their auto rates.
In asking for the rate hike, the industry cited
increases in medical care costs resulting from
auto wrecks
NRC suspends
device blamed
in radiation leak
DALLAS (AP) — The Nuclear
Regulatory Commission has or
dered 3M Corp. to suspend dis
tribution of a device blamed for
leaking radioactive particles at
factories in Texas, Pennsylvania
and California, officials said
Monday.
Health inspectors began check
ing for radiation at a dozen plants
that use the device.
“The NRC’s concern is that,
while this doesn’t appear to be a
great health hazard to workers or
to the public, it does represent ra
diation that has gotten out of con
trol,” said Joe Gilliland, a spokes
man for the NRC in Arlington.
The NRC ordered 3M to sus
pend distribution of its air-gun
ionizers last week after reports of
leaking polonium-210, a natu
rally occurring radioactive iso
tope of polonium, at plants in
Dallas and Easton, Pa., Gilliland
said.
The air guns use polonium-
210 to produce small amounts of
radiation to neutralize static elec
tricity charges and remove small
particles of dust in applications
where a high degree of purity is
needed. The polonium is encap
sulated in tiny ceramic spheres
which are chemically bonded to
the device.
Polonium leaks were later dis
covered at a plant in Carrollton
and at three sites in California.
Approximately 12 factories
that use the air-gun ionizer in
Texas will be inspected this week,
said Bob Free, an investigator for
the Texas Bureau of Radiation
Control.
“We’re concerned primarily
with industries that are making
containers for products that are
ingested,” Free said. “That’s the
thrust of this first effort.”
Polonium-210 is dangerous
when taken internally, such as
through inhalation or ingestion,
but not externally, officials say.
3M spokesman Ted Pickens
said the microscopic ceramic
spheres 3M uses to encapsulate
the polonium are too heavy to be
inhaled and pass through the
body when ingested because they
cannot be absorbed.
Free said officials are making
the sampling checks to determine
if widespread inspections or a
E roduct action are necessary, but
e would not identify the plants
being checked.
3M is also testing ionizers at va
rious industrial locations across
the country, said Pickens, in Aus
tin.
“The NRC’s concern is
that, while this doesn’t
appear to be a great
health hazard to work
ers or to the public, it
does represent radia
tion that has gotten out
of control. ”
— Joe Gilliland, NRC
spokesman
Pickens said approximately
20,000 air gun ionizers are in use
by several thousand companies.
“What we’ve put together is a
testing program to go to a variety
of customer applications and find
out under what circumstances
there is a problem and to quantify
that these (leak) incidents are iso
lated situations,” Pickens said.
The first Texas leak was found
at an Ashland Chemical Co. plant
in Dallas on Jan. 23, Gilliland
said.
Regulators inspected that plant
after a polonium leak was discov
ered at an Ashland plant in
Easton, he said.
Ashland’s Dallas plant tested
37 workers for contamination,
but the initial tests proved neg
ative, said Richard Ratliff, direc
tor of the compliance and inspec
tion program for the Texas
Bureau of Radiation Control.
Tests were ordered for seven
workers at KTI Chemicals Inc. in
Carrollton following the detec
tion of polonium near ionizers at
that plant last week.
Radiation levels at the Ashland
and KTI plants were lower than
levels of some medical X-ray pro
cedures, Ratliff said.
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