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Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, February 12, 1988 MEMEBM TIME: DATE: PLACE: 8:00 P.M. TUESDAY, FEB. 16, 19SS 203 HECC PROGRAM: REPRESENTATIVES FROM BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE GOOD MORNING WAKE UP TO A NEW AWARENESS NATIONAL COLLEGIATE DRUG AWARENESS WEEK FEBRUARY 8-1 NC©AW EVENTS Center for Drug Prevention & Education OPEN HOUSE !! 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The Chamber Players of the U.S. Air Force Band of the West, as part of d six-concert tour, will make their first stop at Texas A&M to perform these and other musical selections. The Chamber Players, whose lineup consists of a woodwind quintet and a brass quintet, also will perform marches written by classical composers for wind hand. Robert Washburn’s Con certino for wind and brass and William Mayer’s Essay for Brass and Winds. Both quintets will give individ ual performances, as well. The U.S. Air Force Band of the West is based at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, and is commanded by Col. Benny Knudsen. Assistant Conductor and Dep uty Commander Lt. Steve Grimo will conduct the band’s perfor mances during the tour. Admission to the performance is free and open to the public. City officials look for new utility firm to supply power By Bobby Bernshausen Reporter College Station’s contract with Gulf States Utilities expires in 1991, but city officials are already looking for a new contractor. College Station, along with Cald well, Kirbyville and Newton, has commissioned Lone Star Municipal Power agency to help in the search. The four cities also are conducting an independent search. The contract with Gulf States was originally drawn up for twenty years. Garry Lange, Technical Su perintendent for the College Station Utility Service Center, said that the contractor proposed a rather large rate increase, which put the contract under arbitration. The final decision ended the contract five years from that time. Director of Public Utilities John Woody said that the city has sent re quests to about twenty power Compa nies, and within the last week has re ceived five answers. Woody said that the city is looking to find a company that can best fit their needs at the lowest cost. He added that the search doesn’t mean that the city won’t remain with Gulf States. “Shopping for power is no differ ent than a housewife looking through grocery ads to decide which store to shop at,” Woody said. “Though she may have some loyalty to one in particular, if somebody else offers her a better price, with the same quality or better, she may shop around.” Although it would be easier to stay with Gulf States, which would elimi nate the conversion process, the city will make its decision “based on re liability, low cost and availability,” Woody said. Out of the companies under con sideration, Woody said that the city should have the list narrowed down to two or three possibilities within six months. State puts road blocks out to bar Florida citrus McALLEN (AP) — Highway roadblocks will be set up to keep Florida citrus out of Texas during a 30-day emergency quarantine de clared Thursday, a state agriculture official said. “We’ll have roadblocks in East Texas on Interstate 10, and also probably on Interstate 20 beginning Monday morning to stop any trucks that have Florida citrus,” Deputy Agriculture Commissioner Mike Moeller said after meeting with cit rus producers. The Texas quarantine is in re sponse to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision Tuesday to lift a ban on shipments of Florida cit rus to other citrus-producing states. The ban went into effect after bacte rial citrus canker was discovered in Florida in 1984. “We’ve got to do this to prevent citrus canker from coming into Texas,” Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower said. “If we let it in, we are letting in an economic disas ter for Texas farmers and workers, for the Rio Grande Valley economy and the entire Texas economy.” Hightower charged that the U.S. Department of Agriculture bowed to pressure from Florida growers when it lifted the ban. Moeller said trucks carrying Flor ida citrus “will either be turned around and sent back to Florida or, if possible, fumigated, sealed and sent on their way across Texas to their destination.” The quarantine applies to fruit as well as plants, Moeller said. Citrus canker can cause defolia tion and other damage to leaves and twigs of plants, and can render the fruit unmarketable. Officials: Radiation at firms not harmful DALLAS (AP) — Trace radioac tive leaks from air guns found at six area Firms apparently did not con taminate workers or products, state officials said, Ratliff said water is suspected of loosening the epoxy glue that held the radioactive substance in the 3M Texas Radiation Control Board spokesman Richard Ratliff said state investigators have checked 70 com panies in the state that produce food/beverage, cosmetic or chemical products, and have found contami nation at 10 of those sites, including three Coca-Cola bottling plants. _ guns. The only contamination found at the bottling plants was in the vac uum cleaner bags, Ratliff said. Ratliff, however, said investiga tors found no threat to the public at any of those sites, eight of which are in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Judge says man’s rights not violated They include: the Ashland Chem ical Co. plant in South Dallas, KTI Chemical Inc. in Carrollton, a small plastics company in Denton, a photo lab in Austin and one in Dallas, an unidentified chemical company in Dallas and four Coca-Cola bottling plants — two in Dallas and one each in Fort Worth and Houston. The Coca-Cola products that may i pi have been affected were confined to stacks of aluminum can lids and the metal caps used for bottles, officials said. The problem air ionizer guns made by 3M Corp. use compressed air that shoots past the radioactive polonium-210. The compressed air, positively charged by the polonium, reduces static and knocks off any aluminum specks from lids and caps, while a high-speed vacuum cleaner gathers the specks. DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge has tossed out a $2.5 million lawsuit filed by a man who was arrested and jailed for eight months for a crime he did nopcommit. ,:v X ^ ■i Judge Robert Maloney ruled last week that Marvin Wells’ constitu tional rights were not violated by his arrest and incarceration. Wells had sued the Carrollton and Mesquite police departments. Wells’ mother, Ruth Settles of Flint, Mich., said she thought the ruling was unfair. “If somebody is arrested and then kept in jail for eight months when he did nothing wrong, it looks to me like his constitutional rights were vi olated,” she said. Wells was arrested for a robbery and slaying at a Carrollton conve nience store Nov. 21, 1985. He was identified from a videotape taken by a store camera. 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