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Nuclear plant
reaches level
of full power
BAY CITY (AP) — The South
Texas Nuclear Project reached
100 percent power level early
Wednesday after months of
steadily increasing the power out
put of the Unit 1 reactor, officials
said.
While at the 100 percent power
level, Unit 1 will undergo numer
ous tests to ensure that it is oper
ating properly, Glen Walker, a
spokesman for Houston Lighting
& Power Co., said. A test Thurs
day will take the plant from the
100 percent power level to the
zero power level, Walker said.
By reaching the 100 percent
power output the Unit 1 reactor
near Bay City, about 90 miles
southwest of Houston, is sending
the maximum amount of electric
ity to consumers all over South
Texas, Walker said.
After results of tests are eval
uated, Unit 1 will be brought back
up to full power for more testing,
Walker said. A final review of the
100 percent testing by the plant
operations review committee will
clear the way for a declaration of
commercial operation by the
Texas Public Utility Commission
sometime next month.
To date, the nuclear plant has
generated more than 600 million
kilowatt hours of electricity —
enough power to meet the needs
of almost 55,000 South Texas
households for one year-
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By Lyn Jenkins
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Texas A&M veterinarian and bi
oengineer Dr. Jon Hunter has de
vised a dog collar that uses high
technology and Pavlovian condition
ing to persuade problem barkers to
shut up.
The $65, battery-operated “Pea-
ceMaker” is activated when a micro
phone in the collar registers the
dog’s bark, releasing an ultrasonic
noise until the barking has stopped.
The collar’s “bark activation” is
seen as a better alternative to other
collars that use a mild shock.
Hunter said by emitting a high-
frequency sound similar to the crack
ing of a bullwhip or the strike of
lightning, “PeaceMaker” discour
ages dogs from unnecessary bark
ing.
However, the device does not pre
vent dogs from instinctively barking
at intruders or defending their terri
tory.
The six-ounce collar trains the
dog within a few days and reinforces
the behavior with periodical follow
ups.
The collar works best on dogs that
weigh more than 10 pounds because
it is too heavy for smaller dogs.
The idea for the collar came when
Ben Brown, president of Momen
tum Technology, began looking for
help in the development of a device
to help dogs that bark excessively.
Brown contacted Dr. Bonnie Bea
ver, an animal behavior specialist,
who contacted Hunter.
Hunter said he was fascinated by
the effects of lightning on animal be
havior and designed the electronic
collar.
Because people can’t hear the ul
tra-high pitch, the collar clicks to let
the owner know it is working.
The collars will be on the market
in the next several weeks.
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Mattox says Richards can’t defeat him l fi&M Steakhouse
AUSTIN (AP) — Attorney General Jim Mat
tox, declining to respond directly to a report that
Treasurer Ann Richards called him crazy and
unscrupulous, Wednesday said Richards is
wrong if she thinks she can defeat him for the
1990 Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
“A lot of people have said that in the past,”
Mattox said. “As a matter of fact, graveyards are
full of their bones. That is politically, figurati
vely.”
Both Mattox and Richards are expected by
many to run for governor in two years. While
neither candidate has formally announced, both
have been raising money and sharp words are be
ing exchanged.
The Dallas Times Herald, in a story from last
week’s Democratic National Convention, re
ported on a conversation Richards had in which
she said she hoped to defeat Mattox.
The newspaper said that while Richards was
greeting well-wishers Thursday night, former
North Carolina Attorney General Rufus Edmis-
ten offered congratulations and said he’d lost the
1984 governor’s race in President Reagan’s re-
election landslide.
“Well, our attorney general’s going to run for
governor in 1990, and I hope I get him,” the
newspaper quoted Richards as saying.
The newspaper went on to report that Edmis-
ten said he thought Mattox was “crazy,” and it
said Richards replied by calling Mattox “certifia
ble” and “unscrupulous.”
Richards’ office said she wouldn’t be back to
the state until Friday. Her press secretary, Bill
Cryer, also was out of the office Wednesday.
Asked about the report, Mattox replied: “I
suspect that was said without using much
thoughtful consideration at the time. I’ve said
things in haste and under pressure that I some
times later regretted. So I don’t really need to get
into a big harangue about that.”
Mattox attributed Richards’ remarks to exhila
ration over her much-praised performance as
the convention’s keynote speaker.
“It kind of reminds me of going to a Baptist re
vival,” he said. “You know, when you’re on the
mountaintop you say and do a lot of things that
you might not do when you get back to the valley.
“And she was on the mountaintop. Sooner or
later, you’ve got to come back to the valley. When
you come back to the valley, you often reflect on
what you’ve done or said.”
The two-term attorney general also discussed
his preliminary plans for the governor’s race, al
though he hasn’t formally announced as a candi
date.
“I’m definitely testing the waters,” he said.
“I’m definitely trying to determine whether or
not I can pay for a race for governor, because it’s
very expensive.
“I have a plan for raising the money. I intend
to be able to show the Democratic Party that I can
carry the burden — not just for a Democratic pri
mary but for a general election should I choose
to get in there.”
Richards’ fund-raising efforts were expected
to gain from her convention speech, and accord
ing to a report Wednesday by the Dallas Morning
News that already may be registering.
Aide Jane Hickie told the newspaper that a
fund-raising drive begun shortly before her se
lection as keynoter had topped expectations,
pulling in $77,000 in one-time gifts and pledges
of nearly $6,000 a month.
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Unusual boots gain attention in Texas store
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FORT WORTH (AP) — They’re
not your basic boots. Not as cowboys
— working or urban — know them.
No simple black, brown or tan.
Not the now-routine bull, goat or el
ephant hide, or lizard even.
If it’s “weird” you’re seeking, fac
tory-outlet boot stores in Fort
Worth, El Paso and elsewhere pretty
much have a corner on the market.
But it’s a tough corner.
There’s hardly any problem sell
ing “seconds” at these stores, those
boots where a stitch might have been
dropped or a slight blemish mars the
leather.
But then it hits you.
Lined up along with the seconds
are some first-line boots. Yep,
pardner, right there — boots made
of purple ostrich hide, rainbow-
color snake skins, electric-blue alliga
tor and hot-pink lizard skin.
It’s almost as though Ted Turner
had colorized Texas author Larry
McMurtry’s classic “The Last Picture
Show.” Or worse, “Red River.”
The rainbow collection is there
mostly because it hasn’t been sold in
front-line stores, so it’s on to Outlet
City and likely cost markdowns.
Sometimes, way down.
“If you’re looking for weird boots,
this is the place to go,” Bill Edmond
son, director of advertising for Jus
tin Boot Co., said of the factory out
lets. “As far as new skins, colors,
kinds of toes and different kinds of
heels, that’s where they go.”
And just who buys them?
Mostly, people who slip into the
boots that factory managers subtly
call “eccentric” are visitors from the
East and West coasts. Rock stars and
their band members also are pretty
good customers.
For example, boots made from
the hides of pythons or anacondas
have snakeskin going to the hilt, in
stead of just to the ankles. “They’re
made specially for this store, because
they’re flashier,” explained Julian
Chavez, a salesman at Justin’s El
Paso outlet.
Turquoise, mauve, shiny gold or
silver. Gaudy patterns sometimes
adorn the top quarters with rainbow-
color stitching or brightly hued in
lays.
Prices range from $80 well into
the hundreds of dollars, but sales
people say that’s often well below the
cost for basically the same boots, but
in more subdued tones or design.
Even if they were free, one cus
tomer quipped, it would be hard to
imagine wearing the fire-engine-red
lizard skins to one of Fort Worth’s
North Side country-western parlors.
“Where do you intend to wear
those? Antoines?” he asked. Then he
turned and began slipping on a
more conventional pair of ropers.
Wurzbach quickly explained that
even ostriches, lizards and anacon
das are too shy to be caught in the
wild wearing orchid or violet skin.
Even an anteater knows better than
to dress up in “true blue.”
Sales for most experimental boots
usually are “not as good as we ex
pected,” Wurzbach said, and rarely
does one of these designs end up
added to a manufacturer’s regular
line.
Other times, a customer or a re
tailer will special order a boot, then
decide not to pick it up, even though
50 percent of the cost must be paid
up front.
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After 9 p.m. $5.
Saturday: Sneaky Pete and the
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POST OAK MALL:
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Wyatts Cafeteria entrance. An
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nesses will begin at 1 p.m.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK:
Now showing at the Plitt Cin
ema III in the University Square
Shopping Center.
Big Top Peewee:
Peewee Herman’s back, and
he’s got a circus with him. After
rejection by closed-minded
townsfolk, a traveling circus
camps at Peewee Herman’s farm
for a while. Peewee manages to
get in all sorts of situations, and
even falls in love with one of the
circus beauties, much to the dis
may of his fiancee.
Paul Rubens resurrects Pee-
Wee with a comical flair and Kris
Kristofferson adds his own brand
of easygoing humor to make an
entertaining film.
Museum guard faces
job of just saying £ no’
FORT WORTH (AP) — They
serve only those who stand and wait
— and watch over art, and politely
ask you not to touch.
Such is the lot of the museum
guard whose presence in a gallery is
hoped to prevent vandalism and
theft, but whose routine concern is
much more mundane: preventing
the salts, acids and oils on people’s
fingertips from coming into contact
with works of art.
Eight hours a day, five days a
week, Barbara Borowy watches peo
ple look at art. As a guard at the
Kimbell Art Museum, she watches
them walk up to paintings, then take
several steps back. She watches them
get down on the floor and look up,
and walk back and forth, looking
sideways. She watches them duck
and bob and weave around, or stand
very still, gazing intently.
Mostly, she says, “They want to
see the brush strokes. Anybody who
really knows about art wants to see
the brush strokes.”
But sometimes, as she watches,
someone will reach out a finger, just
a finger, for a quick touch. No harm
intended. When that happens Bo
rowy is there to tell them not to
touch. If necessary, she will tell them
why not.
The mere touch of fingertips can
ruin the patina on a bronze or dam-
age-the surface of an oil painting. Es
pecially if the same spot on the same
work keeps getting touched over
and over — like the pipe in Picasso’s
cubist composition “Man with a
Pipe.” When people spot that pipe,
they want to point at it, often to
touch it.
Most people are quite agreeable
and not a little embarrassed when
she tells them politely and firmly, to
cease and desist, she says.
“They say, ‘Oh, I know I shouldn’t
have done that,’ ” she said. “I
couldn’t help myself.” Occasionally
people respond with sarcasm, which
is understandably upsetting, but it’s
all part of the job.
“There are so many strange peo
ple doing things in other museums,”
Borowy, 56, who has worked at the
Kimbell for six years, said. “And
that’s what you have to watch for.
You have to watch what people have
in their hands in their pockets.”
You can’t tell from appearances
how someone will act around the art,
so you have to watch everyone, she
says. And about half the visitors in
the museum get too close.
Borowy watches as a young
woman comes face to face with a tri
bal mask from New Guinea. Too
close? No.
“It’s pretty boring,” she says. “Be
lieve me, you do a lot of thinking out
there. You do your bills over and
over in your head.”
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