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AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION Louisiana Tech Game Kick Off Balloons On sale at Rudder Fountain 10am until game time Houston Police said they were looking for two suspects believed to be from a nearby high school who had gone to Al bert Thomas to vis*.- a airl. The two high school students appar ently were mistaken for youths from a ri val junior high school and got involved in a fight with the shooting victims. Um... Allyn... iJiir have any monty tip, so i lift YOU my sweater, floret The shootings occurred at about 3:15 p.m. in a parking lot of a convenience store across the street from the school, Yawn said. Both victims were shot with a small- caliber gun, he said. UNITED CAf IPresbyterian ILATTER-DA lirector at L during the si ADVENTIST ney “Pilgrim's CYCLING TE Members she ECUADOR!/! p.m. in 027 M NATIONAL elect Candida ASSOCIATE I at Central Pa STUDENT A have a caree Sign upthrou |tamu spof ! parking lot. INTERVARS 8:30 p.m. in ^ ELECT Justice Bob Thomas Chief Justice OF THE 10th COURT OF APPEALS 86.7% of the lawyers in a recent poll by the State Bar of Texas voted Justice Bob Thomas "Best Qualified" for Chief Justice. Here is why--- Bob Thomas Opponent Experience on the 10th Court of Appeals 6 years None Number of appellate opinions written Ultrasound helps cattle industry supply consumers with lean beet By Denise Thompson Staff Writer If the steaks in grocery stores are looking leaner, it could be the result of ultra sound technology being used on cattle at the new Livestock and Carcass Evalua tion Service. Sponsored by Texas Agricultural Ex tension Service, the service is aimed at helping farmers and ranchers produce leaner, meatier animals. Dr. Dan Hale, meat specialist at Texas A&M, said the service was started after consumers began demanding leaner meat products. “Consumers sent a message that they really wanted a leaner product,” he said. “Slowly, the pressure is going from the consumer to the retailer to the packer and finally to the producer to take the fat off of meat before it reaches the stores.” size and amounts of fatty material. While ultrasound has been used to identify heart problems and pregnancies in humans, Hale said ultrasound has be come an effective tool in the livestock in dustry. “Being able to look at the size of a muscle and the amount of fat surround ing it, we are able to take two cows or pigs and say, ‘This animal is leaner than that animal is,’ ” he said. Probably the biggest problem with ul trasound is that the accuracy of the read out depends on who is using the ma chine, Hale said. of that she has become very accurate in using the machine. “However, the science behind the ma chine is very precise, and it is usually the person using the machine that creates an error if there are errors.” In order to learn how to use the ma chine correctly, the extension service of fers instructional seminars. Hale said. “One of our technicians goes out to the farms and ranches and actually collects the data,” he said. “She has probably done 10,000 heads of cattle, and because “In the last seminar we held, wc had about 39 participants,” he said. “We have many people from different univer sities around the country, and we have producers looking to break into the cattle industry.” While ultrasound is extremely effec tive, Hale said, the expense of testing an animal deters some producers. “It's not cheap to do the test! said. “It runs about $10 per cattle. But you have to rememte we’re using a $15,000 machinetoi testing.” Hale and other researchers are testing a new machine they determine amounts of fat marblimri imals. “One-half of the value of ananii dependent on the marbling factoi whether that animal will grade he said. “The new machine willht determine the Ilex of fat on a live However, it’s probably a yeardi road before that’s finalized.” CHINESE S' lin 230 MSC. B CATHOLIC ■ St. Mary’s St I HIGH SCHO Idatory trainir |MSC SCON p.m. in 308 F I AGGIE BLO day at Ruddt [ NATIONAL der. ALCOHOLK tion at 845-0 HIGH SCHC datory trainir AGGIE GOF a final push f I MINORITY i I 302 Rudder. NATIONAL i der. PSI CHI/PS' ALPHA ZE1 berg. AGGIE DER/ ARLINGTOI TCU tailgate Items for Wi no later thai the name ai a Battalion i on a first-co have questii Hale said the most important asptJ all research is to provide better meii consumers. 300+ None ...experience is the difference. Because experience previously was the only means to determine good cattle, ultrasound offers a more reliable alterna tive, Hale said. “We are trying to take the guesswork out of choosing cattle by using these ul trasound instruments,” he said. Researchers have been using ultra sound equipment for about five years to identify leaner cattle. I DEA foils elderly man’s drug stin Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 By moving a hand-held ultrasonic probe across muscular areas of livestock, muscles and fat are reproduced on a screen attached to the probe. This en ables researchers to determine muscle DALLAS (AP) — A 71-year-old man whose attempt to sting drug dealers was foiled by real drug agents faces up to 10 years in prison for setting up the phony deal, a Drug Enforcement Agency offi cial said Thursday. ‘‘He’s lucky he was dealing with law enforcement rather than a vicious crimi nal drug element," Phil Jordan, special agent in charge of the DEA in Dallas, said. “The underworld doesn’t take kindly to fraud.” Jordan said agents were seeking state charges against Marshall Powell, who was arrested Wednesday after he tried to sell to agents 220 pounds of a white pow dery substance he claimed was cocaine. Powell had a severe anxiety attack af ter his arrest and was hospitalized in se rious condition at St. Paul Medical Cen ter Thursday. A state charge accusing Powell of sim ulating a controlled substance is punisha ble by a fine and up to 10 years in jail, Jordan said. It is a felony under Texas law to attempt to sell any substance rep resented to be illegal drugs. Agents arrested Powell in an ai parking lot at Love Field, where transaction was scheduled to take pi: ; A quick field test of the white subsla ii revealed that it was sugar and flour, f * U “If he’d been dealing with the! | Three or bans, the Jamaicans or the Colomfe I will attend he wouldn’t have lived to tell hissla] I an organ ti the judge," he said. ■ The man had offered to sell thel# drugs at $18,000 per kilo, makini entire buy worth $1.8 million, he ai Dance The Bras will hold £ Appalachia from 1-5 | demy of 1 1313C Bri; performed ! NO MATTER WHAT YOUR PARTY... 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