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nsram HRBBBn AM/PM Clinics CLINICS Minor Emergencies Weight Reduction Program Stop Smoking Program 10% Discount With Student ID College Station 845-4756 693-0202 779-4756 Page 10/The Battalion/Monday, September 19, 1988 Grand jury indicts lawyer in theft case Warped by Scott McCi Don’t Worry when an accident or sudden illness occurs CarePlus is open when you need them 7 days a week with affordable medical care. Faculty, Staff and Students receive a 10% discount CarePlus.^ • FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER 1712 Southwest Parkway College Station. Texas 77840 (409) 696-0683 Open until 8 p.m.7 days a week Anderson Bus MSC CAMERA SAN AUGUSTINE (AP) — A Jas per attorney who successfully de fended one of three white Sabine County lawmen charged with violat ing the civil rights of a black jail in mate has been indicted for theft and misapplication of trust property. A San Augustine grand jury in dicted Floyd W. Addington for mis appropriating a $103,000 chec . drawn on Home Life Insurance Co. of Texas while he acted as closing at torney in a 1985 real estate trans action. Addington was indicted Sept. 7 for allegedly failing to use the check to pay off liens against the property and not returning the money to the owners. Home Life Insurance Co. of Texas was the lender in Feb. 22, 1985 real estate deal. A second indictment in connec tion with the same incident alleges Addington received the check with out the effective consent of the own ers and with intent to deprive the owners of the property. Addington has been indicted for theft and misapplication of Fiduciary property in both Jasper and An gelina counties. Addington successfully defended Sabine County Sheriffs Deputy Billy Ray Horton in a federal civil rights violation case in July in Hemphill. A1A... AMI PACING THE RIGHT WAV HERE? Waldo GENERAL4r MEETING Week to stress farm, ranch safe! By Jodi Drake Reporter President Reagan has declared this Sunday through Saturday, Sept. 18-24, National Farm Safety Week, and Gov. Bill Clements has ded icated the same dates as Texas Farm and Ranch Safety W T eek, said Thomas D. Valeo, an extension agri cultural engineer with the Texas Ag ricultural Extension Service. Because farming and ranching are among the most hazardous ma jor industries in the nation, it is nec essary to set aside a saftey awareness week, Valeo said. “Nationally, there have been 1,600 farm-related deaths a year, and that’s compared to mining and construction,” he said. “Their fatal ity rate has reduced over the past four to Five years; we have main tained ours.” In Texas, farm-related accidents are responsible for about 100 fatali ties and an estimated 10,000 disa bling injuries a year, Valeo said. Dis abling injuries include the loss of a Finger, hand or toe, or a broken leg. “We are doing better though, no doubt,” he said. “In 1966 there were 216 fatalities a year, in 1976, there were 169, and in 1986, about 90 were recorded.” Fatalities have been reduced by 50 percent in the last 10 years. Valeo said he attributes 90 percent of the reduction of fatalities to improved machinery design, added to the modern farmer’s use of protective devices and their awareness that safety is important. The increase of female workers in the farming industry has also had an effect on improved safety measures, Valeo said. Women tend to Ik* more safety-conscious and are more inter ested in incorporating safety devices into agricultural programs, he said. The theme of this year’s aware ness week, “Ensure Your Future with Farm Safety,” is oriented pri marily toward children. About 20 children die in farming accidents each year, and nationally, 14 percent of those involved in farming acci dents are less than 10 vean said. Two Texas children—a old and a 6-year-old—died ing accidents in July, Valcos. Most accidents cxcur wh dren are riding on tractorsn parents, he said. "Children Ik* familiar with tractors ar flow to operate them, but ti have one seat,” Valeo said. “Overall, the teal damage disabling damages — loss oil vision, mobility and back that hap|K*n every dayonthi he said. "We need toconcem efforts on reducing those an we do. we will also help to ret fatalities.” 1 ( B; bi hi Q Border Patrolman uses skills against aliens for 27 years jH!;. . ‘ A •• v .7 \ J- £ 4' - Is this you at test time? Cramming won’t help. m Associated Reading Centers can Double your reading rate in one hour. Benefits include: ►improved comprehension ►increased retention ►study & test taking skills ►more leisure time ►higher grades ►reduce mind wandering Wed. Sept. 6orThurs. Sept. 7 4-5 p.m. or 8-9 p.m. (either day) College Station Community Center 1300 Jersey (across from golf course) for info call; 693-3546 (713) 690-5343 V. Whitener, MA The only course taught by reading experts. Company with over 14 yrs experience. O rt hoQ/|edic ssociotes Douglas M. Stauch, M.D., P.A. James B. Giles, M.D., P.A. Mark B. Riley, M.D. Board Certified Are Pleased to Announce the Relocation and Expansion of their Office to Brazos Valley Medical Plaza 1602 Rock Prairie Road, Suite 360 College Station, 693-6339 (Eff. 9/12/88) On active staff at both local hospitals ARTHROSCOPY • ARTHRITIS TOTAL JOINT REPLACEMENT SPORTS MEDICINE LUMBAR DISC SURGERY ' HAND SURGERY & FOOT DISORDERS Effective September 12, 1988 PECOS (AP) — Bill Peiser proba bly knows the area “above the rim” between the Rio Grande and the Da vis Mountains as well as any man al ive. He’s driven a truck, ridden a mo torcycle, or walked over most of it, his eyes plastered to the ground, looking for some telltale sign of the targets he was tracking. Small marks in the sand which most people wouldn’t notice, or would pass off as unimportant, Peiser reads like the pages of a book. The 54-year-old senior U.S. Bor der Patrol agent has chased illegal aliens and drug smugglers for 27 years, all but three in the Marfa sec tor. Peiser’s tracking skills aren’t used as often as they once were, partly be cause the number of illegal aliens passing through the area has dropped. Border agents working the Marfa sector caught about 24,000 illegal aliens in 1986, the last year before Congress revamped the nation’s im migration law. With Fiscal year 1988 nearly over, agents in the sector have intercepted only 5,000 illegals. The Marfa sector covers 92,000 square miles, over 77 counties in Texas and 18 in Oklahoma. “It’s probably just as good I don’t have to track as much as I did,” Peiser said, adjusting the glasses he has had to wear the past few years. “My eyes were about as good as any body’s, but I’m convinced cuttin’ sign all of the time has got me to where I have to wear glasses. Riding along a track, hanging my head out a window and straining my eyes to spot something that’ll give me a clue “It’s probably just ns good I don’t have to track as much as I did. My eyes were about as good as any body’s, but I’m convinced cuttin’ sign all ol the time has got me to where I have to wear glasses. Riding along a track, hanging my head out a window and straining my eyes to spot something that 'll give me a clue is bound to he had for my eyes. ” — Bill Peiser, Border Patrol Agent is bound to be bad for my eyes,” he said. A proven method for spotting people trying to sneak across the border to jobs further north has long been “cutting for sign” on a “track.” The “track” is a dirt road scraped parallel to U.S. 90 west of Marfa. Peiser explained how the aliens come into Texas, and how the Bor der Patrol catches them. He pointed to the south, to a dark expanse of low mountains. “They cross the river and then lay up on the rim and rest about a day,” he said, indicating the peaks. The rim is an area along the Rio Grande, where the land rises from the river bed. South, or below the rim, the land is rough and cut by nu merous small gullies. North, or above the rim, the land becomes flat and canyons and ravines give way to open cattle country. “You can’t tell it from here, but that’s some bad country there,” Peiser said, stretching out an arm made bronze by nearly three de cades tracking men under the desert sun. He points to a range of mountains to the south. “Some places along there, it’s 1,000 feet straight up and down. There’s places where you can cross, but we have sensors on most of them, so they’ve got to where they go somewhere else,” he said. On the Texas side, the country be low the rim has the advantage of providing numerous hiding places for illegal aliens headed north, Peiser said. “They’re afraid of this Hat,” he said, indicating the stretch of about 40 miles between the rim and the foothills of the Davis Mountains. “There’s no cover out here, so they try to cross it in a day using some remarkable hiding places,” he said. “They’ll wrap around a clump of bear grass and pull up grass and cover themselves, and you can walk right past them.” “We drag this track every evening and cut sign (look for footprints or other marks in the dirt) every morn ing,” he said. Oilman keep drilling; hopi for blackgol te to ex st; tic 21 B; A VALLEY VIEW (AP)-Ij times have been made and k the oil industry in CookeCaa The hopes and dreams of ia have been fulfilled. Otherst failed and never gave up. I Iw \ ii Millri nl Valle' 'a has never given up hopefw Anne Miller No. 1. Miller’s father, W.C. died at the early age of 32 grandfather, John SwadlenalJ urged the widowed AnnieW to purchase 117 acres of ii] with dividends from a lifeinsj ant e policy. “Grandfather saw what thought was oil in the waterofj little brook, and told moth# buy the farm, there was oil derneath,” Miller said. Years passed. The mo™ was paid, and in 1957 theCd nental and Sohio Oil Cow drilled a well nearly ]0,000fj deep, the Anne Miller No. 1.; The No. 1, at first, gavethd pression of a good well will accumulating in the tank bam Drilling deeper into otheroil: mations proved futile, and tempts to make the well Oj again failed. Finally it was! dared a dry hole. In recent years, twoattetnm re-entry into Anne MillerVl were made. Again oil wasp] duced for a short time, butdj lers were Finally forced to at] don the hole. Miller still believes thereN under the 117 acres and] maybe, someday, somehoM will (low from the Anne 311) No. 1. 1 —" Did You Forget tr sf ti To pick up your 1987 (Fall ’86, Spring ’87) Aggieland? You can still pick up your copy by coming to the English Annex between 8:30 b and 4:30. Bring your I.D. SI The 1988 (Fall ’87, Spring ’88) Aggieland will be available in Octo J;, ber. Look for announcements in The Battalion. >