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Milk crate theft costs creamer
at A&M more than $1,200 yearl
By Tom Eikel
Reporter
Although stealing is frowned
upon at Texas A&M, the theft of
plastic milk crates is a common oc-
curance.
Every year, roughly 400 milk
crates owned by the Dairy Products
Laboratory (the Creamery), are sto
len at a cost of more than $1,200,
Creamery Production Superinten
dent Frank Chase said.
“It really makes me mad because I
don’t think people are aware of how
much it costs,” he said.
The crates, which the University
uses to transport its 8-gallon disposa
ble bags of milk, cost anywhere from
$2.50 to $6 each, depending on size,
he said.
In March 1987, Chase had 250
crates in inventory and of those, only
15 now remain, he said.
“I had to go out and buy another
$800 worth of cases just to get me
through June or July (1988),” he
said.
Chase said the Creamery stores its
crates indoors, but after deliveries
are made to campus dining facilities,
the empty crates stay outside on
their delivery docks until someone
from the Creamery returns to pick
them up. It is from these areas that
many of the crates are stolen, he
said.
Chase said he isn’t sure who is tak
ing the crates, but it is easy to see
where a great many of them end up.
Milk crates can be seen in dorm
rooms, offices and on the backs of
mopeds and motorcycles. Chase said
that if he sees one of the Creamery’s
crates on the back of a vehicle, he
doesn’t hesitate to reclaim it.
“You’re stealing someone else’s
property,” he said. “It’s like me stop
ping by your room and stealing a
E air of your shoes. I know it would
e great to use (the crates) and ev
erything, but they’re not yours.”
People steal the crates to use for a
variety of purposes, primarily stor-
age. y
Chase said there is always a sharp
increase in the number of crates sto
len both at the beginning of a semes
ter, when students are building their
shelves and bringing in belongings,
and at the end of a semester, when
students leave and take their things
with them.
The crates have a warning printed
on them which says “Use by other
than registered owner punishable by
law,” but this does little to deter their
theft, he said.
Chase said he had hoped the sale
of similar crates in stores would re
duce the number of crates stolen
from the Creamery, but these sales
didn’t seem to make a difference.
“Before you couldn’t find cases
like that in the stores, now you can,”
he said. “They’re different, they’re
not quite as sturdy as these, but you
can find them in the stores, whereas
four or five years ago you couldn’t.”
Despite this, the loss of the crates
has remained fairly constant over
the past few years, he said.
Chase said that he would like the
Creamery’s crates to be maroon and
white, but he thinks people would
just steal more.
“We don’t put our name on them
anymore because people would steal
them because they said Texas
A&M,” he said.
“It’s not only us that’s losing cases,
it’s industrywide,” Chase said. 1 he
nation’s dairy industry loses millions
of dollars in stolen milk crates each
year, he said.
In Pennsylvania, for example, a
law went into effect last year which
makes it illegal to possess milk crates,
Pennsylvania Association of Milk
Dealers spokesman Earl Fink said.
Photo b\ FredtrA
Fink said people caught with the
crates are subject to fines of up to
$300 and 90 days in jail. However,
the state offered a 60-day grace pe
riod in which people who had milk
crates were allowed to return them
without being penalized, he said.
“The program appealed to the
community’s law-abiding nature,” he
said.
Fink’s association spent more than
$40,000 on newspaper and radio ad
vertisement and worked with va
rious colleges and universities in the
area to promote this amnesty pro-
The plastic crates used by the A&M Creamery cost betweenSSjl
and $6. About 400 of them are stolen each year.
gram. Thousands of crates were re
turned, he said.
California has a similar law, and a
Coalition for Milkcase Reform has
been established there that employs
an ex-police officer to rouna up
missing crates, Fink said.
Stealing milk crates from the
Creamery is a Class C misdemeanor
punishable by a fine of up to $200
and possible jail time until the fine is
paid.
University Police Direcii
Wiatt and Foods Services fe
Lloyd Smith both said in pi*
tei views that Chase had i
formed them ol thetheftpr
but each said he would beri
help in controlling thesituaiki
Chase said future theftsrf
ported to the police.
“You are stealing someltaj
said. “It's just like shopliflinj;
there’s no diff erence at all.
Relations
(Continued from page 1)
fensive nuclear weapons by 50 per
cent.
“The treaty is important to show
the two countries can reach an
agreement, not only to limit the
buildup of nuclear arms, but to elim
inate an entire catagory of nuclear
weapons,” he said.
“It (the INF treaty) laid ground
for farther, longer-reaching
agreements and our task is to turn
this relationship into equal parties,
having respect and understanding
for each other,” Khripunov said.
He said the public’s awareness
about the devastation of nuclear
arms has caused a change in the way
people perceive a nuclear war.
“Nuclear weapons are weapons of
genocide,” Khripunov said. “Nu
clear war would be a state of non-be
ing for mankind. The arms race and
fear of a nuclear war have a very de
pressing ef fect on the human race.”
Khripunov said he believes the
new foreign policies of the Soviet
Union, perestroika and glasnost, are
built on a solid foundation.
“Perestroika in Russia is like a
solid, good building,” he said. “It has
a good foundation — socialism — it
has solid walls. But as far as the inte
rior is concerned, some floors re
quire refurbishing (and) repair and
some floors should be refurbished
completely.
“We are united in one desire to
change for the better using the foun
dation of socialism.”
Khripunov said the process is just
starting to take hold.
“Now we are in the first stage of
implementing our program,” Khri
punov said. “Perestroika is the eco
nomic process. Democratization is
the soul of perestroika; there cannot
be perestroika without democratiza
tion. Glasnost is an important part of
democratization. It makes public
many things that were not known in
the U.S.S.R.”
Khripunov put much of the em
phasis on the administration of the
United States.
“We have no other alternative but
to improve our relations,” he said.
Dr. Robert German, director of
the Office of Analysis for the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe with the
U.S. State Department, said he won
ders if the accelerated pace of dia-
And German is skeptical!
flow fast change may occur.
“It is too early to tell how li
reforms are going to go, desp:
apparent improvetnents inl'iB nn . [
Soviet relations,” he said pji ec j
really is some question asIok feasil
and how fast things may occur.
logue and negoiation between the
United States and the Soviet Union
signifies a change in relations be
tween the two nations.
German believes the Unitedi
and the Soviet Union always*
competing with each other.
“Our relationship will alfil
one that combiheselementsofl
eration with elements oft
tion,” German said. “Wehawl
“There are limits to the extent to
which our relations will be im
proved,” German said. “There is a
transition going on in the Kremlin.
Change is something discussed, but
practiced very little.”
realistic and realize the
process of the United States*
sustain a relationship basedts
on arms control. There has
progress across the board,
“We will always be gl
and our relationship willalwap
competitive one.”
Mining investments of college officials cause concer
oop
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HOUSTON (AP) — The personal
investments by two top Central
Texas College officials in a obscure
Nevada mining company is raising
questions among educators, the
Houston Chronicle reported.
$110,000 in Double O Resources
Corp., which developed links to the
Killeen-based college’s research and
communications affiliate.
In addition, an elite and secretive
college research team known as the
American Group prepared a busi
ness plan and operations manual for
Double O Resources.
It was reported Sunday that
Chancellor Luis Morton Jr. and
President Philip Swartz invested
Morton regularly visited Las Ve
gas, and his son worked for Double
O Resources as a $5,000-a-month of
fice manager, where a college com
puter was used.
vate corporation and agit“
provide managerial service
three years to the gold-i
ture, officials said.
In exchange, a Killeeid* la 'j f
While officials said no college
money was invested in Double O Re
sources, the American Group prom
ised to raise $1 million for the pri-
publicly governed consorhifl
CTC and three related opfl'
units received 250,000 sM
Double O Resources stock, lln|
paper said.
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Miscellaneous (no photographs)
entries:
will be accepted in the MSC Gallery frorn
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Entry fee is $3.00 per piece, limit 4 pieces.
judging:
February 25,1988.
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