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Dermatologist says
fair skin is what’s in
due to cancer risks
By Kelly Champman
Reporter
Porcelain skin is in.
That’s the latest word in fashion
from dermatologists.
Increasing numbers of skin can
cer cases have prompted dermato
logists to work with agencies to bring
porcelain skin into fashion, Dr. C.M.
Caperton, a Bryan dermatologist,
said.
“Dermatologists are working to
gether and with modeling and ad
vertising agencies to change Ameri
ca’s love affair with the sun by
developing a campaign called ‘Paler
is Better,’ ” Caperton said.
One objective of this campaign is
to make people recognize that the
Victorian look of porcelain skin
should be the ‘in’ look instead of
bronze skin.
“Another objective is to educate
people on which skin type is more
susceptible to the sun and what they
can do to avoid it,” he said.
Caperton links the increase in skin
cancer cases to modern lifestyles and
attitudes.
“People’s lifestyles are the main
reason for the increase in skin can
cers,” he said.
For instance, within the past 30
years people have taken to the out
doors for recreation. The style of
less clothing also has contributed to
the increase in skin cancer cases be
cause more skin is exposed to the
sun, with the image of a suntan rep
resenting beauty also being a factor.
People considered at high risk for
developing skin cancer have fair
skin, blond or red hair, blue or gray
eyes and burn easily.
However, people who have dark
hair and skin also are at risk. While
the risks are less than 1 in 1,000 for a
black child born today, odds have in
creased for whites of all skin types to
1 in 100, he said.
Skin cancers make up 20 percent
of all cancers and 90 percent of skin
cancers occur on sun-exposed skin,
Canerton said.
Many people already have re
ceived half the sun damage they will
get for life by the time they are 20
years old.
But how much sun is too much
sun?
The First sign of too much sun is a
sunburn, Caperton said. The skin
turns red because ultra violet light
from the sun has penetrated
through the skin and damaged the
blood vessels.
Repeated exposure resulting in
sunburns increases a person’s
chance for developing skin cancers.
Another sign of too much sun is
moles that appear on the skin after
years of overexposure to the sun.
Skin cancers generally take three
forms: melanoma, squamous-cell
and basal-cell.
A sudden or continuous change in
a mole is a sign that it could be can
cerous.
Melanoma is the easiest of all skin
cancers to detect, Caperton said. It
begins in or near a mole or other
dark spots in the skin. The edges are
ragged or blurred and one half of
the mole does not match the other
half.
Shades of tan, brown and black
also are present and the size of the
mole suddenly increases.
Squamous-cell skin cancers often
start as sun spots that are hard,
crusted and warty type growths. If
left alone, some of these may pro
gress to a rapid growth of skin can
cer, Caperton said.
Basal-cell skin cancers are clear,
solid growths that bleed in the early
stage of forming. They also appear
as sun spots that are hard and
crusted looking.
The best way to decrease the
chance of developing skin cancers is
to wear a sun screen with the sun
protective factor from 15 to 29. Sun
screens are most effective when ap
plied 30 minutes to one hour before
sun exposure and when reapplied
after swimming or sweating, Caper
ton said.
What’s Up
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Wednesday
GREEN EARTH SOCIETY: Will meet at 7 p.m. at the Flying Tomatotoj
trip to the Guadalupe River and plans for the fall. For more information call;;
bert Gonzalez at 845-9093.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS:Will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 145 MSC. Formoreir?;
mation call the Center for Drug Prevention and Education at 845-0280.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION:Will meet at St Mary's StudentC»s
For time and more information call Rose Kinnebrew at 846-8765.
Thursday
TAMU INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCERS:Will meet at 7:30 p.m. Rude;
Fountain to teach beginning and intermediate dances at a special outdoorss
sion. Singles and couples are welcome. For more information call Ellen atlg
2415.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCHOLICS:Will meet at 6 p.m. in 146 MSC. For no
information call the Center for Drug Prevention and Education.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 146 MSC For merer
mation call the Center for Drug Prevention and Education at 845-0280.
ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS AND FREETHINKERS Will meet at 7 p.m
Sully statue in front of the Academic Bldg., to discuss “art and life."
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Beat
The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department from July 18
through Sunday:
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• Two bicycles were stolen
from various locations around
campus.
• A speed limit sign, two park
ing lot signs and three “Do Not
Enter” signs were stolen from
campus.
• A student reported that
someone stole a blanket from her
clothesline.
• Someone stole a 6 volt bat
tery from the Engineering Phys
ics loading dock.
• Thirty-six toner cartridges
for a laser printer are missing
from the inventory of the Com
puting Services Center.
• A student reported that
someone stole his wallet at the
Bus Stop Snack Bar
BURGLARY:
• A woman reported
someone stole $140 from her.
let, which was in a root
Krueger Hall.
A
student reported
someone stole his nigh sdi
ring from his room in Dorml
• Another student repo:
that someone stole his passp
and $200 from his room
Hobby Hall.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• Someone forced open a -
dow frame at the Corps-areal:
ric care center. A cash rejis
was damaged, but nothing;
peared to he missing.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT:
• A student reported tk
male approached her near:
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Committee
names lawyer
in Wright case
AUSTIN (AP) — The House
ethics committee on Tuqsday named
Chicago attorney Richard J. Phelan
to investigate allegations against
House Speaker Jim Wright, saying
an outside counsel was needed to as
sure the public that the probe would
be fair and objective.
Chairman Julian Dixon, D-Calif.,
said all six Democrats and six Re
publicans on the committee agreed
on the choice of Phelan, an active
Democratic fund-raiser.
Dixon said Phelan and his Firm,
Phelan, Pope & John, would be paid
no more than $300,000 for their
work. He said it was impossible to es
timate how long the investigation
will last.
Phelan, who appeared briefly be
fore television cameras outside the
closed committee room, said “As I
see our job, it’s to conduct an inde
pendent, full review of all the facts
that have been presented in the in
quiry and report back to the commit
tee.”
But Dixon, in response to a ques
tion, said Phelan would not be au
thorized to go beyond the scope of
the six-count resolution of inquiry
unanimiously adopted by the panel
on June 9.
That drew a complaint from Rep.
Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., Wright’s
chief accuser, who said no probe
could be considered independent if
it does not permit investigators to
follow leads to their conclusions.
“The independent counsel has to
be truly independent,” Gingrich
said. “He cannot be on a short leash
held by the Democratic chairman of
the committee.”
Just a few hours before the an-
nouncment, the lobbying group
Common Cause asked the commit
tee to demonstrate publicly that any
outside counsel will have authority
and independence.
That could be done by giving the
investigator full authority to investi
gate, review documents, issue sub
poenas and present evidence to the
panel; to hire whatever staff is
needed to conduct the probe; and to
recommend formal charges be
brought before the committee if
warranted, Common Cause, which
describes itself as a citizen’s lobbying
group, said.
Wright is under formal investiga
tion on charges of using his office to
lobby federal officials on matters
where he had a Financial interest,
and for alleged improprieties in the
publication of a book by a campaign
contractor on which Wright received
unusually high royalties, among
other charges.
Wright said today he does not
know Phelan, but said, “Apparently,
he’s a reputable attorney.”
Florida police chief accepts
appointment to Dallas start
DALLAS (AP) — Stressing com
munication as a way to ease racial
tensions, the police chief of a small
Florida gulf coast city Monday ac
cepted appointment as chief of po
lice in Dallas, the nation’s seventh
largest city.
Mack M. Vines, 49, chief of police
in Cape Coral, Fla., was named to
succeed Billy Prince, who resigned
in April with police and community
relations in disrepair.
Characterizing his new job, Vines
said, “It’s keeping lines of commu
nication open and putting people in
the right position.”
In selecting Vines, City Manager
Richard Knight rejected three Dallas
police officers who were among nine
finalists for the job.
“I felt that we were at a point in
time in our history we needed a
fresh perspective,” Knight said.
Vines said his administration
would bring “1988 policing” to Dal
las.
“That’s the 1988 into the 1990s
concept today, it’s getting the com
munity involved,” he said. “Crime is
a community problem, it’s not solely
a police problem.”
Knight said Vines will begin the
job on August 22.
Vines, a 28-year law enforcement
veteran who has been chief in Char
lotte, N.C., and St. Petersburg, Fla.,
said he did not think coming to Dal
las from Cape Coral, population
44,000, posed a problem.
“Cape Coral has really, in all es
sence, enhanced my career, because
I found myself involved with more
hands-on law enforcement in deal
ing with a number of issues I didn’t
have to do at a larger agency,” Vines
said.
Vines is paid $57,000 to run the
Cape Coral department. His Dallas
salary will be $85,600, according to
Knight’s aides.
Vines said he is prepared to work
with the controversial Citizens Re
view Board, a panel championed by
minority leaders concerned about
the department’s record of using
deadly force.
The Citizens Review Board, cre
ated in January with investigative
powers to consider complaints
against police officers, had its sub
poena power stripped by the City
Council last month, a moved sup-
ported by the Dallas PoliceAsB
lion.
Vines said he has little love'll
view boards but said policeshotiiH
responsible to the public.
“(Citizens) have a right torf®
and we have to answer thee I
lions,” Vines said. “I have ife
problem with civilian reviewkfe|
. . and I think most progressivtiy
nistrators would say the same'I •
“More often than not,dviS
view boards are generated th :i |
lack of communication,”hesa«l|
Marvin Crenshaw, a blad| ! |
munity activist who is a frequeriij
ticipant in City Council niee|||
said minority leaders would ill
wait-and-see altitude concerniJB
new chief.
Dallas Police Associations
dent Monica Smith pledged|M
group’s support of Vines.
“I think he can be reallysutfiB
as long as there is an undersufl
that what is in this departmemH
greatest asset, and that is thefl
police officers,” Smith said.
Execution-style slaying of man
sparks narcotics investigation
AUSTIN (AP) — The execution-
style slaying of John Frank Garcia, a
former Texas school teacher wanted
in the United States on kidnapping
and drug trafficking charges, has
sparked a major investigation into
the narcotics underworld operating
on the U.S.-Mexico border, authori
ties said Tuesday.
Hernan Guajardo, judicial police
director in a northern Nuevo Leon
state capital, said Garcia was “a per
son dedicated to narcotics traffick
ing on a grand scale.”
Gilberto Sanchez, Guajardo’s as
sistant, said Tuesday the investiga
tion into the slaying and Garcia’s in
volvement in the narcotics trade
would extend to both sides of the
border.
Capturing Garcia’s killers, he said,
would provide an important break
in the war on drugs.
Garcia’s body was found shortly
after midnight Saturday in an aban
doned car in Guadalupe, a suburb of
Monterrey, about 140 miles south
west of the Texas border at Hidalgo.
His head had been covered with a
gauze bandage and his hands were
tied behind his back. He had been
shot in the head four times at close
range with a 9mm Firearm, police
said.
Garcia, also known as Juan Fran
cisco Garcia, Miguel Garcia Olivares
and various other names, had plastic
surgery to change his appearance
and his body was identiFied through
Fingerprints provided by the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration
and the FBI, authorities said.
Guajardo said police believe Gar
cia had been kidnapped in the bor
der city of Reynosa or another city in
the border state of Tamaulipas and
driven to Monterrey where he was
shot.
Guajardo would not elaborate,
but he said the slaying was con
nected to Garcia’s activities in the
drug trade.
A spokesman for the U.S. Em
bassy in Mexico City con Firmed the
identification Tuesday and said Gar
cia is considered “an important nar
cotics trafficker” who had been
sought by authorities on both sides
of the border.
“He apparently was assassinated
by another drug trafficking ring,”
U.S. Embassy spokesman William
Graves said.
“We hope his death will lead Mex
ican authorities to other members of
the gang that he was working with
and will help reduce liie ufl
drugs into the United ^1'
Graves said.
“About half the drugs intro^ l
into the United States crosstlifj|
Mexico border.”
He said Garcia was considllj
“class one violator” by author! I
Texas’ Lower Rio Grande' I
hut was not considered a king 1
the drug trade throughout the 1 !
try.
But, Graves said, “The Lo"W
Grande Valley has become the®
of drug transiting, specific-,
caine. It has become a center*
struggle against narcotics traMi
along the border.”
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Files kept by the Edinburgh
Garcia, who had one con
on a drug smuggling charf'
wanted in Hidalgo County
Edinburg on a 1984 H" 1 "
charge.