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March 28,1988 7:00
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A&M horticulture clubs offer seminars,
display plants during fifth annual fair
By Maria Elena Saade
Reporter
About 1,000 people attended the
fifth annual Plant Fair Saturday at
the Horticulture Forestry Sciences
Building.
Free seminars included talks on
floral designs, pruning fruit trees,
xeriscaping or using small amounts
of moisture, Texas wildflowers and
woody ornamentals.
Tammy Kistner, a sophomore
horticulture science major from San
Antonio, said about 10 people at
tended each seminar.
The fair was sponsored by the
Texas A&M Floral Ornamental
Horticulture Club and the Horticul
ture Society.
Dennis Joy, Plant Fair co-chair
man, said the seminars are put on by
faculty members and horticultural
science graduate students.
Plants were displayed by various
on- and off-campus clubs including
the Brazos Valley African Violet
Club, the Brazos Valley Orchid So
ciety, the Floral Ornamental Club
and the Horticulture Society.
In addition to the displays, plants
were also sold by the participating
clubs.
Proceeds from the sales went to
ward scholarships and other educa
tional projects for the A&M Horti
culture Society. Joy said the
horticultural science students went
to Canada last summer to study bo
tanical gardens and farms.
Floral club president Jerry Drew
said the Floral Ornamental Club
went to Abilene during spring break
to visit Garden World, a retail nurs
ery.
Drew said funds for his club not
only come from the Plant Fair but
also through monthly club plant
sales from the A&M horticulture
greenhouses.
The floral club sold tropical house
plants, with Boston ferns being the
most popular, he said.
Joy said the Horticulture Society
sold more than half the plants the
members brought in. He said his
club is planning to go this summer to
different greenhouses and wineries
in Texas.
Joy said the Horticulture Society’s
most popular plant was the pink
splash, one with dark green leaves
that are sprinkled with polka dots.
The Brazos Valley African Violet
Club sold their African violets. Ruth
Goeke, a member of the violet club,
said violets sold for $2 to $4.
The Student American Institute
of Floral Design sold dried plants
and cut flowers.
The club collected $115 overall,
she said.
Texas-grown citruses also were
sold by the Horticulture Graduate
Council. The funds from the sales
are used for scholarships as well,
Garry McDonald, a graduate stu
dent in horticulture, said.
Besides citruses, pecans and pista
chios also were sold by the graduate
council.
Delta crash leaves legacy
of tragedy, lawsuits, blame
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP)
— After scores of suits, countersuits
and settlements and 2‘/2 years of
trauma for survivors and their fami
lies, some people involved in the af
termath of the crash of Delta Flight
191 are concerned about whether
the tragedy has resulted in much im
provement in air safety.
On Aug 5, 1985, the flight from
Fort Lauderdale slammed into the
ground while approaching Dallas-
Fort Worth International Airport.
Families of the 137 killed and 2/ in
jured have collected millions, and
Delta and its insurance company ex
pect to pay more than $100 million
by the time the last 35 claims are set
tled. •
But the federal government has
not come up with the money for a
new radar system to prevent such a
tragedy from happening again.
“That’s the . . . sad part,” said
West Palm Beach lawyer James
Torres, who last week won a $3.5
million verdict for Gayle and Dennis
Zarnt of Boca Raton, and whose 15-
year-old daughter died after the
crash. “I really don’t think anything
is any different.”
Aside from dollars won in law
suits, few victories have come from
the crash that safety investigators
said was caused by wind shear, a sud
den powerful shift in wind direction.
Legal blame has not been fixed.
And the government, bound by
technology and budgetary con
straints, still has not installed special
radar equipment to detect wind
shear in the nation’s air traffic con
trol towers.
Junior elementary education major Laurie Bernhard
Kirkscei, an English graduate student, examine the
plants at the Horticulture Plant Fair Saturday.
It will be 1992 at the earliest be
fore the governmfent begins to use
the $551 million worth of sophisti
cated equipment that can warn pilots
before they encounter wind shear.
The program calls for the new ra
dar, called Doppler, to be placed in
131 of the country’s busiest airports.
“We have been moving as fast as
we can,” said Fred Ferrar, a spokes
man for the Federal Aviation Ad
ministration. “Doppler that can be
used by air traffic controllers and
not only by trained meteorologists
has taken a long time to develop.”
Since 1972, federal estimates
show that 577 people have died in 17
commercial airliner accidents involv
ing wind shear. The National Trans
portation Safety Board has repeat
edly urged the phenomenon be
tackled thoroughly.
But plans for studies have been
slow, and today most airports rely on
a dated wind shear alert system that
can only detect weather conditions
where wind shear might be present.
More airports use the low-level
detection system now than w'hen
Flight 191 fell victim to the wind
shear, but the system has been im
perfect. The sensors at Dallas-Fort
Worth airport did not sound an
alarm until Delta 191 lay in flaming
fragments.
The FAA has hired the Boeing
Co., in conjunction with other com
mercial aircraft manufacturers and
United Airlines, to develop a pro
gram to teach pilots how to skirt
wind shears and how to survive
those they cannot avoid.
Walter Campbell, a Fort Lauder
dale lawyer whose firm handled
seven of the crash cases, noted the
tragedy’s result of more awareness
of wind shear.
“But has anything really good
come of the crash?” Campbell said.
“I’m not sure. You have some people
who are dead, some people who
have suffered irreparable losses.”
Suspect firesl
lawyer for lacj
of mistakes
DALLAS (AP) — A
charged with attempted <
murder fired his attorney
way through his trial because
wasn’t making enough mistaki
Jerome Anthony johnson,
then mounted his own
against the charges, including
gravated robbery and caf
murder.
Johnson, who studied crimi
justice in college, fired Ytu
Sung Choe because she
making enough ‘reversible
rors’ ” that would helphimg
new trial in an appeals cot
Choe said.
“He said he planned it ever
fore he was arrested,” she
“He told people, ‘If they ca
me, this is what I’m going
do.’ ”
Johnson was sentenced FrK
to 47 years in prison, halfwhal
could have received.
Johnson was charged with
bing a 53-year-old woman
her 80-year-old mother in
vember. Neither woman was
jured, but prosecutors saidJ
son accidentally shot
accomplice as he fired a guo
one of the women.
The Association of
Former
Students
Spring Senior
Induction Banquet
Monday & Tuesday, April 4 & 5, 1988
6:30 p.m.
MSC Room 224
All May graduates are invited to attend. Complimentary tickets will be
available as long as they last, Tues. March 29, Wed., March 30 and
Thurs., March 31 in the lobby of the Clayton W. Williams, Jr. Alumni
Center.
This is your invitation to attend the formal induction of all Class of ‘88
graduates. August grads welcome.
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