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College, Bryan or 107 Dominik, College Station Clip Coupon, Researchers, industry discuss solar energy AUSTIN (AP) — Solar cars, cow manure-driven power plants and sun-fueled space capsules are just a few of the ideas slated for discussion this week in Austin at the National Solar Energy Conference. The four-day event, which orga nizers say is the largest solar confer ence in the world this year and the biggest ever in the United States, combines the nation’s two major re newable energy organizations. The conference is expected to draw 700 to 900 participants and link 3,600 professionals in the American Solar Energy Society with 260 companies of the Solar Energy Industries Association. “I think it will stimulate some more cooperative efforts between researchers, engineers — that type of people — and industry,” said Larry Sherwood, executive director of the ASES. He said that after years of neglect under the Reagan administration, solar energy is taking its place in the sun as the new Department of En ergy and Environmental Protection Agency encourages research and marketing. Bruce Hunn, chair of ASES’s an nual conference, said the gathering will show manufacturers and distrib utors the latest research, which fore shadows products of the future. “At the same time, when (they) can talk to the manufacturers, re searchers then are able to gear their research in more practical ways,” said Hunn, who is with the Univer sity of Texas at Austin’s Center for Energy Studies. The conference, which runs March 19-22, will feature general sessions, technical workshops and fa cility tours. Educational exhibits will be at Palmer Auditorium, while in dustry and commercial presenta tions will be at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Hunn said he hopes to spark in terest in solar products, like home water heaters. He said curiosity about solar power is on the rise be^ cause of concern about global warm ing and pollution. “People realize that global warm ing is exacerbated by the use of fossil fuels, and they start to think, ‘What can I do about that?’ ” he said. Linda Ladas, director of pro grams for the Solar Energy Indus tries Association, said there is “a re newed interest on Capitol Hill and a renewed interest in the United States from consumers” in solar en- er gy- She said a creeping rise in energy costs combined with environmental concerns surrounding the use of nu clear energy and fossil fuels should help the $30 million-a-year renewa ble energy industry grow steadily. WiRRD Board suspends license of doctor after wife dies from liposuction OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision has suspended the medical license of an Oklahoma City doctor whose wife died after he performed liposuction on her. The body of Sharon Reynolds, after the fat-suction- ing procedure, appeared “unusual and different from anything I had ever seen in 24 years of practice,” chief state medical examiner Dr. Fred B. Jordon said Satur day. The state medical board met in emergency session Saturday to review the liposuction Mrs. Reynolds re ceived from her husband. Dr. foe Bill Reynolds on Sept. 7. Mrs. Reynolds died at an Oklahoma City emergency room after the liposuction at her husband’s south Okla homa City clinic, authorities said. An autopsy report said the liposuction caused fatal respiratory arrest. Jordan said Saturday the death was the first he It: seen from liposuction. Officials from the State Board of Medical Licensui: and Supervision said public health and safety concer:| were the factors that justified calling the emergercl hearing. A full board review of the complaint against Rel nolds is set for June 8. In a session before the emergency hearing Saturdatj the medical board restricted a Guymon doctor’s; to prescribe controlled drugs. Dr. Manuel Joseph Ramirez may prescribe or admit ister controlled, dangerous drugs only to hospital pi tients, the medical board said. The restriction is a new stipulation in a three-ya probation the board set for Ramirez earlier. 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In the 76 years since, the company has changed own ers several times and evolved into the only nationwide bus company, blessed with widespread recognition but troubled by high costs, low profitability and labor un rest. Its current owner says the latest strike, the second walkout in seven years, may delay but won’t stop the company’s rebound. “We were rebuilding what had become a very weak resource,” Chairman Fred Currey said. “We were right on track and this is an interruption of that rebuilding process, there’s no doubt about that.” The drivers union struck March 2 and Greyhound has been operating at reduced levels since, using per manent replacements and nonstrikers. Currey led the investor group that bought the bus company from Phoenix-based Greyhound Corp. for $270 million in 1987. Four months later, he bought Trailways Lines Inc. for $80 million and merged the two under the Greyhound label. He has made the combined company a personal cam paign, traveling the country appealing directly to em ployees to help restore Greyhound. In some meetings, he emphasizes teamwork by having employees stand arm-in-arm. “Middle income and lower income people in this country don’t have any other intercity transportation, and I can take great satisfaction in being part of an or ganization that fulfills that need,” Currey said in an in terview. The strike has not altered Currey’s personal ap proach. The first day, he left his Dallas skyscraper of fice and walked to the bus terminal nearby where a few drivers were picketing, some carrying “Drop Dead Fred” signs. “They’re good people,” Currey said, “although few of them understood our contract proposal, and I must say I’m fearful they do not understand what a perma nent replacement means.” He has returned to the Dallas picket line at least once and last Monday rushed to Jacksonville, Fla., where eight people were injured in a sniper attack on a bus. Currey worked the terminal crowd, thanking people for traveling Greyhound and hopping a bus himself for a ride to Orlando. “I took the trip because I thought it was important for Greyhound people not to be intim idated,” he said. What is now Greyhound Lines Inc. traces its ancestry to Carl Eric Wickman, a Swedish immigrant who in 1913 bought the Hibbing, Minn., Hupmobile dealer ship. After he couldn’t sell a particularly well-appointed, eight-passenger Hupmobile — complete with copper- clad headlights and brass radiator cap and crank handle — he bought it himself for $600 and began charging iron ore miners 15 cents for a one-way, 10-mile trip be tween the Hibbing firehouse and a saloon in Alice. A round trip cost a quarter. Wickman sold and then repurchased the company, eventually moving it to Duluth and later Chicago as a network of regional bus companies came under the Greyhound umbrella. For a time in the ’50 and ’60s, the company’s mascot was a purebred greyhound, wearing a jeWeled tiara and named “Lady Greyhound.” By the time it moved from Chicago to Phoenix in 1971, the company had been condensed into one sys tem as Greyhound Corp., a manufacturing and finan cial conglomerate. “T I he company’s recent contract offers have demonstrated once again that the reward Greyhound had in mind for its employees amounted to millions for management and pennies for the people who drive and maintain the buses and for the office workers who ensure the efficient operation of the Greyhound system.” — James La Sala, president, Amalgamated Transit Union Greyhound officials point to 1983 as the beginning of the bus system’s decline because the bus industry was deregulated and the company went through a bitter, 47-day drivers’ strike. Four years later, when Currey and others bought the company, he won an agreement from the union for a 22 percent wage cut. Now, things have changed. “The company’s recent contract offers have demon strated once again that the reward Greyhound had in mind for its employees amounted to millions for man agement and pennies for the people who drive and maintain the buses and for the office workers who en sure the efficient operation of the Greyhound system,” James La Sala, international president of the Amalga mated Transit Union, said. Lawmakers ponder fate of Fort Hood WACO (AP) — Uncertain!' about the future of Fort Hood 1 2nd Armored Division ste® partly from lack of coordination U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm says. The lawmaker said Saturda 1 that he and U.S. Rep. Marvin Leath, D-Waco, would try to met' this week with the secretary of the Army and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency to daril 1 the situation. “We are going to naii down where we are and agree on a joint strategy with one objective — tn to protect Centra] Texas from the impact that would clearly occur, costing us thousands of job and f enerating a fallout of millions of ollars in negative economic im pact, if we deactivated the 2nd Armored Division and did not have troops to replace them with on any kind of timely basis. Gramm said. He said confusion about tbeis sue is not intentional. “It is a question of the ri# hand not knowing what the left is doing,” he said. Defense Secretary Dick Che ney has recommended that the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood he dismantled under i larger base-closing proposal an nounced in January. During a briefing on a ne" semiconductor program at Texas State Technical Institute Gramm, R-Texas, said he is con cerned about reports that troop withdrawn from Europe won't be reassigned to Fort Hood. Maj. Gen. John Greenway, the Army’s assistant deputy chief of staff, gave written testimony on Wednesday to a House commit tee that “contained a presump tion or a policy” that the Conven tional Forces in Europe treat would deactivate troops as the' came home instead of reassigning them, Gramm said. Gramm said he and Leath have an alternative plan if troops re turning from Europe can’t be re assigned.