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Monday, October 3, 1988/The Battalion/Page 3
! Local Briefs
Book sale to benefit B—CS libraries
State and Local
Wazobia’s Afro-Caribbean beat
rocks small, enthusiastic crowd
Responsive audience contributes to ‘fun’ show
The Friends of'the Library will
sponsor a used book sale Thurs
day, Oct. 6 until Saturday, Oct. 8
in the Manor East Mall. The sale
will be held Thursday from 10
a.m.-9 p.m., Friday from 9 a.m.-9
p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m.-3
p.m.
On Sunday, books will be half-
price from 9 a.m.- noon, and
“Aspects of British Painting
1550-1800” will be on display in
the Rudder Exhibit Hall from 8
am.-11 p.m. daily through Oct.
31.
The exhibit consists of paint
ings taken from the collection of
the Sarah Campbell Blaffer
Foundation.
Today is the f irst day to request
parking permit refunds from the
University Police Department.
For refunds on red, blue and
motorcycle permits, students
must fill out a request form and
sacks of books will sell for $1 after
noon.
More than 400 boxes of best
sellers, children’s books, cook
books, pictures and records have
been donated for the sale by peo
ple in the community.
Proceeds will be used to im
prove the Bryan and College Sta
tion library systems.
The exhibit will include paint
ings by Thomas Gainsborough
and J.M.W. Turner.
Interested parties can schedule
an appointment for tours of the
exhibit for groups of five or
more.
For more information about
tours or the paintings, call 845-
8501.
present proof of payment.
Request forms can be filled out
at the UPD.
Permits paid for but never is
sued will be refunded in full until
the end of the semester.
By Becky Weisenfels
Managing Editor
Wazobia was greeted by a small
but enthusiastic crowd Friday night
in DeWare Fieldhouse as it showed
Texas A&M why it was voted Hous
ton’s Best Reggae Band.
The five-member band played a
consistent stream of fast-paced,
rhythmic music that kept the audi
ence dancing all night. Besides reg
gae, the band played different styles
of African music, including Soca,
Juju and Makossa.
Wazobia began its performance
with extended versions of UB40’s
Review
“Red Red Wine” and Bobby McFer-
rin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.”
The band then deserted top-40
radio fare, but kept up the pace with
songs with foreign lyrics and a
strong Afro-Caribbean beat.
Periodicallv throughout the per
formance, the lead singer, Kelly,
held the microphone out to the audi
ence, inviting everyone to join in
singing parts of the songs. Great
acoustics, talented musicians and a
responsive audience made the show
fun.
It was disappointing to note that
the band drew only a few hundred
people. Concert sponsor MSC Town
Hall said about 400 tickets were sold,
which Town Hall Chairman Keith
Spera said was about average for a
band without big-name recognition.
With less than 1 percent of A&M’s
students and faculty attending the
concert, the majority of Aggies
missed out on an excellent opportu
nity to hear a top-notch band.
After a 10-minute intermission,
the band returned to the stage,
asking the audience, “Are you ready
to reggae?” The audience re
sponded by yelling “Yeah!” and the
band was on its way.
After technical difficulties forced
a 5-minute delay after the first song
of the second set, Wazobia dedicated
a song to Aggies called “Reggae
Dance.”
During one song, as the band
members danced and strutted on
stage, audience members formed a
dance line that slowly grew as it
circled the floor. Throughout the
evening, people who had been in the
stands at the beginning of the show
slowly emptied out onto the floor to
join the dancing.
Kelly told the audience that Wazo
bia comes together for everyone, re
gardless of race, creed or color. He
said Wazobia plays for “oneness as
children of one father.”
Members of the band are Terry,
vocals and guitar; Coles, synthesizer
and Drumulator; Darryl, drums;
Lee, percussion; and Kofi, bass.
The band was voted Best Reggae
Band in a 1987 poll of Houston mu
sic fans.
British paintings exhibited in Rudder
Parking permit refunds available
Better business officials warn of radon inspection scams
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one in every three homes in America
has excessive levels of radon, a ra
dioactive soil gas that can cause lung
cancer, probably will open the way
for inspection scams, a Better Busi
ness Bureau official said.
After tests in seven states showed
higher levels of radon than pre
viously were thought to exist, the
Environmental Protection Agency
urged all U.S. homeowners last
month to test their residences for ra-.
don.
“We expect radon testing to be-
:ome a big scam,” said Deborah Ve-
ryzer, director of operations for the
Better Business Bureau of Metro
politan Dallas Inc.
“It’s an odorless, colorless, invisi
ble gas. You can’t tell by looking if
you have a radon problem. That’s
bound to invite a lot of con artists
into the trade.”
Concern about radon has mush
roomed in the past two weeks — in
the wake of warnings that the gas is
second only to cigarettes as a cause
of U.S. lung cancer deaths.
The EPA’s call for nationwide res
idential radon tests followed tests in
Arizona, Indiana, Massachutses,
Minnesota, Missouri, North Da and
Pennsylvania showing that one in
three homes had radon levels ex
ceeding the EPA’s safety standard of
four picocuries per liter of air.
A picocurie is a minute measure
of radioactivity, corresponding to
the disintegration of about two at
oms a minute.
Breathing air with a concentration
of four picocuries of radon per liter
poses a lung-cancer risk equivalent
to that of smoking about a half a
pack of cigarettes a day, according to
the EPA.
Previously, the EPA estimated
that radon posed a problem in no
more than one in five homes.
Radon is produced when uranium
decays in soil. Outside, it dissipates
quickly in the atmosphere. But when
it seeps into homes — through
cracks in foundations and walls,
spaces around drains and pipes — it
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dust particles in the air, which are
then inhaled.
Although no comprehensive test
ing program has been undertaken in
Texas, results from private labs indi
cate that high radon levels are rare
in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and in
most parts of the state.
Texas soils generally contain less
uranium, especially near the surface,
than those in many other parts of
the country, according to geologists.
In addition, few Texas homes have
basements, which are especially sus
ceptible to radon permeation.
“But the only way to tell for sure
in any given home is to have it
tested,” said Hank May, a radiation
expert in the Dallas regional office
of the U.S. Environmental Protec
tion Agency.
“There are hot spots in Texas like
everywhere else,” May said. “Radon
can come up through a single crack
in a geologic formation. If you have
a house built over that crack, that
house might have problems. And
one next door might not.”
In Texas, as in most states, there
are no licensing requirements for ra
don testing companies or repair con
tractors.
The tests are relatively simple and
inexpensive, ranging from about
$10 for a do-it-yourself kit to per
haps $100 for testing by a profes
sional.
Testing is done with either char
coal canister filters — the quicker,
less expensive devices that yield
readings after being exposed for a
few days — or with alpha track de
tectors, more costly filters that must
be left in the home up to two or
three months. Both types must be
sent off for analysis.
When high levels of the gas are
found, home repairs, ranging from
Fixing floor and foundation cracks to
improving basement or crawl-space
ventilation can almost always rem
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Officials urge homeowners to get
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Agri. Workers Mutual Auto Insurance Co.
Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp.
Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity
Kraft, Inc,
Amer. Institute of Real Estate Appraisers
Maintain, Inc.
American Cyanamid
Monsanto Agricultural
American Society of Farm Mgrs. and Rural Appraisers
Merck MSD Ag. Vet
Association of Texas Real Estate Economists
NAMA
Barefoot Grasas Lawn Service
North Haven Gardens, Inc.
Burger King
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Cargill Inc.
Northrup King Co.
Chemlawn
Pfizer
City of Dallas-Parks and Recreation Dept.
San Joes Cattle Co.
Clarence Davids & Sons, Inc.
Servi-Tech, Inc.
Deere & Co.
Society of Real Estate Appraisers
Down Chemical USA
Standard Meat Co.
DuPont Ag. Products
Synstex Animal Health
Environmental Care, Inc.
Texas Ag. Extension Service
Excel Corp.
Texas Parks and Wildlife
Farm Credit Bank of Texas
Touch of Green, Inc.
Funk Seeds International
Texas Society of Prof. Land s'
Holly Farms of Texas
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Uncle Bens, Inc.
IBP, Inc.
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