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Diagnosed $100 strep throat welcome. $100 incentive for those chosen to participate. $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 CALL PAULL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 776-0400 Chemical engineering students will be able to explore computer automation techniques next semester with the help of a $90,000 grant from Texas Instruments. Texas A&M was one of eight univer sities selected to receive grants from Texas Instruments worth more than $600,000, senior chemical engineering lecturer Dr. Dan Taylor said. Grants will come in the form of indus trial automation software, hardware and “This way, students not only learn how to do distillation, but they also learn how to operate a computer, using it to control the distillation column the way they’ll do in the real world,” he said. Bryan Jim Arents, DDS Karen Arents, DDS 1103 E. Villa Marla 268-1407 CassieOvaiei! 1712 SIP*! 696-9571 training. “We hope to have the computer sys tem installed by th Hr;t of the year,” Taylor said. “We have three sections al ready planned to accommodate about 50 seniors, who will get a chance to learn real-world techniques.” The grant is part of a $100,000 cost- share program, of which A&M pays $10,000. Some of the experiments students study include the operation of a distilla tion column that purifies methanol and water and an evaporator that separates drinking water from sea water. Texas In ruments will provide the de sign softw; e system, the programmable logic coni >ller equipment and the train ing needea to use the system. The high-tech corporation will train several members of the chemical-engi neering department for two weeks in Tennessee. Those members will train the rest of the department. The system from Texas Instruments is a distributive control computer, which will enable engineers to automate control of the distillation column. Previously, students controlled the system by opening the distillation valve by hand. “For years we operated this equipment by hand,” Taylor said. “The way to go is with the computer, so all of the equip ment is operated by the computer.” Jodie Ray, Texas Instruments’ senior vice president of industrial automation, said the system will allow students to en ter the engineering field with more appli cable experience. A&M’s selection for the grant resulted from Taylor’s inquiries about the sys tem. “I just called them up and started asking questions about the system,” he said. “They then saw the existing depart ment and liked the way the laboratory was run and they offered to put us in the program.” Other universities receiving grants are Case Western Reserve University, Pur due University, the University of Minne sota, the University of Tennessee, the University of Washington, the Univer sity of Wisconsin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Virginia State University. Former lawmen allege scheme in inmate’s trial HEMPHILL (AP) — A lawsuit filed by two former Sabine County lawmen who were acquitted of civil rights viola tions in the death of a black jail inmate accuses two attorneys and two trial wit nesses of scheming to concoct a case against the deputies. The malicious-prosecution lawsuit, filed by former sheriff’s deputies James “Bo” Hyden and William Horton, seeks $2 million in actual damages and $1 mil lion punitive damages for each man. Named in the lawsuit filed late last month are attorneys Morris Dees and J. Richard Cohen of the Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Cen ter. Both are accused of embarking on a scheme to prosecute Hyden and Horton for the purpose of gathering a larger for tune by destroying (the men’s) lives and reputation. The lawsuit stems from the Dec. 27 death of Loyal Gamer Jr., a truck driver from Florien, La. The suit also alleges that Lloyd Armstrong and Angus Boze man, both former Sabine County Jail in mates who testified at Hyden’s and Hor ton’s trial last summer, joined in the alleged scheme. The law center will represent Garner’s family in a federal civil lawsuit sched uled to go to trial next April, Dees said, who denied the accusations in the dep uties’ action. “It’s a frivolous suit,” Dees said Wednesday. “It’s the craziest suit I’ve ever seen.” Hyden, Horton and Thomas Ladner, former Hemphill police chief, were ac quitted of civil rights violations charges last July in connection with Gamer’s death. During the trial in Hemphill, Ladner, 41, admitted to striking Gamer, who had been jailed Christmas night on suspicion of drunken driving, on the head with a slapstick. An autopsy had showed that Gamer died of three severe blows to the head from a smooth, flat object. Testimony at the trial indicated that Hyden, 35, was with Ladner when Gar ner was arrested and was struck on the head and that Horton was aware of Gar ner’s injuries but he, like the other two, did not seek medical care until the next morning. Hyden’s and Horton’s suit said, “(Dees and Cohen) wrested control from the lawfully elected district attorney of Sabine County and appointed their own agent and servant, John Hannah, to not only prosecute the Sabine County crimi nal action but to use his position to pub licly destroy the plaintiffs.” Hannah is a former U.S. attorney from Tyler who was appointed special pros ecutor for the trial. Dees said the law center had nothing to do with the criminal prosecution. It was Gamer’s family who wanted Han nah, and his appointment was approved by the presiding judge, he said. Gamer died in a hospital in Smith County. Computer virus hits UH, poses no major threat HOUSTON (AP) — A computer virus that infected software used by University of Houston business students has eaten up some data, but officials said it poses no real danger. The university’s “bug” appears to be a version of the so-called “Brain” com puter vims, which was traced to a com puter store in Lahore, Pakistan. Michael Walters, director of research and instructional computing services at the university’s main campus, said the vims is more a nusiance than a threat. He added that he could not accurately esti mate the resulting damage. “It probably hasn’t cost us much ex cept a few days of people-time to clean up these disks, but it probably cost the students a good bit of frustration,” Wal ter said. Some students have reported losing data, but he said he knows of no one who has lost an entire term paper or other large quantity of work. Reports of the vi ms still came in from students late Tues day. The vims first announced itself at the university early last week on the screen of one of the 150 IBM type personal computers the business department keeps for students and faculty to use, Walters said. The vims has not spread to larger computers at the school, he said. A computer vims is a string of coded commands hidden in useful software. It replicates itself into other programs used on the same computer or on computers to which it is connected. Because the af fected university computers were iso lated from each other and the outside world, the vims’ spread was limited, Walters said. A vims can do damage by clogging the computer with commands so that its operation becomes sluggish, as hap pened with a vims that affected U.S. De partment of Defense computers last week, or by erasing data. Walters said the vims at UH flashed this message to students who tried to use the infected programs: “Welcome to the dungeon. Copyright 1968 Brain & Am- jads, PVT, LTD. Virus shoe record V9.0. Dedicated to the dynamic memory of millions of vims who are no longer with us today — Thank Goodness. BE WARE OF THE VIRUS. This program is catching. Program follows after these messeges (sic).” Walters said the UH version of the vi ms says nothing about any vaccine, and the V9.0 in its message suggests that this may be a modified version. 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