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The Battalion
Page 9
Making tracks for the Shack
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
Paul Gorney, a Texas A&M Ground Maintenance worker, mows Recent baseball games have created ruts in the field that the new
Olsen Field Wednesday morning so that it car, be fertilized. grass will replace.
Farmers get new market
Non-smearing soy ink passes ‘rub test’
AUSTIN (AP) — Agriculture Commissioner
Jim Hightower, rubbing a white-gloved hand
across a newspaper page, Wednesday hailed non
smearing soybean-based inks as a new and grow
ing market for Texas farmers.
“What we have here is a product that melts in
the readers’ minds, not in the readers’ hands,”
Hightower said.
Hightower said an expanding number of
newspapers, magazines ana commercial printers
are replacing petroleum-based inks with soy ink,
particularly for color printing. Soy ink also is
gaining favor in state government printing oper
ations, he said.
“What we have here is a product
that melts in the readers’ minds, not
in the readers’ hands.”
— Jim Hightower,
Agriculture Commissioner
“U.S. Printing Ink, a Dallas-based national dis
tributor of news inks, reported that demand for
soy inks is up by nearly one-third over 1989, and
the firm now uses at least some soy formulations
in all of their products,” he said.
He said the increasing use of soy inks is one
reason that soybean production in Texas has ex
ploded in recent years.
In the early 1960s, Texas had little commercial
soybeat) production, only 82,000 acres harvested
in 1965, agriculture department statistics show.
By 1989, Texas soybean output had increased
500 percent, to 415,000 acres. Texas produced
12.45 million bushels, or 740 million pounds, of
soybeans last year in more than 40 counties.
Research began on soy ink following the 1973
OPEC oil embargo as newspaper publishers
sought an alternative 1 to inks based on increas
ingly expensive imported petroleum.
The soy-based ink is one rrtdfket that should
continue growing, Hightower said.
“In the last five years, soy inks have captured
30 percent of the 100 million pound per year
color news-ink market. Approximately 112.5 mil
lion pounds of soybeans are crushed annually to
supply the 30 million pounds of soy ink sold to
printers across the United States,” he said.
Four Texas newspapers so far use soy inks ex
clusively for color printing — the Houston Post,
the Odessa American, the Paris News and the
“D
■ olitical opponents have been
trying to smear me. Now we have
come up with a product that will not
allow me to be smeared in the
newspapers of the state of Texas.”
— Jim Hightower,
agriculture commissioner
McAllen Monitor, he said.
“This product works for publishers” because
of its high reproduction quality, particularly for
color newspaper photos, and because it won’t rub
off on customers^ hands, he said. “Farmers like it
because it is an additional market for these soy
beans and it is a growth market ... Readers like it
because it passes the old ‘rub test.’ ”
Quipping about news coverage of his own po
litical battles, Hightower added, “Political oppo
nents have been trying to smear me. Now we
have come up with a product that will not allow
me to be smeared in tne newspapers of the state
of Texas. So farmers like it, the publishers like it,
consumers like it and Hightower likes it.”
Court denies
appeal for
compensation
AUSTIN (AP) — A woman’s
attempt to recover workers’ com
pensation benefits for an injury
she received while playing
softball at a company picnic was
denied by the Texas Supreme
Court.
The court Wednesday refused
to consider an appeal by Cindy
Annette Mersch of Irving, who
had to undergo three corrective
surgeries for fractures and liga
ment damage she suffered in
1986.
Mersch, who was 24-years-old
at the time of the accident, was in
jured when someone slid into her
at the softball game, according to
court documents.
Mersch said she was entitled to
workers’ comp benefits because
she would not have been at the
North American Mortgage Co.
picnic had she not worked for the
company.
But a state district judge and
appeals court in Fort Worth said
the softball game was voluntary
and refused to allow Mersch to
receive benefits that are awarded
to injured workers.
The Supreme Court, by deny
ing Mersch’s appeal, upheld the
previous court decisions.
Li asserts strong leadership
Chinese government curbs pro-democracy protests
while dodging questions about Tiananmen Square
Associated Press
A confident, smiling Premier Li Peng asserted
Wednesday that China’s leadership is united and strong
and that the public does not want a renewal of the mas
sive pro-democracy protests of last year.
Li’s comments to reporters were his first since the
protests were crushed in June. Also Wednesday, the
Chinese Parliament wrapped up its two-week annual
session with measures calling for freer business prac
tices but tougher law and order policies.
The 3,000-seat National People’s Congress, which
largely rubber-stamps decisions by top Communist
Party and government officials, also gave final approval
to the basic law under which Hong Kong will be gov
erned after Britain returns it to China in 1997.
Legislators in Hong Kong immediately said the law
was not democratic enough and asked that it be
amended.
Li was among top leaders on the rostrum at the con
gress’ final meeting in the Great Hall of the People. Af
terward, he told the annual post-congress news confer
ence that the session was “inspiring and heartening.”
The army killed hundreds and possibly thousands of
people in June while crushing the pro-democracy
movement.
While other officials have lost their tempers while an
swering foreign reporters’ questions about the killings,
Li merely smiled and refused to answer.
“Isn’t this question out of date?” he said when asked
who gave the army the order to shoot at protesters.
Li predicted that Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, at the
center of the protests, will remain peaceful Thursday.
That is when Chinese celebrate the Qing Ming Festival,
a day to honor the dead.
Exiled Chinese dissidents have urged Beijing resi
dents to mourn those killed in June by strolling in the
square Thursday. They urged similar action last Sun
day, but Chinese authorities closed the square to the
public all day and held an official rally there.
“We do not hope to see a repeat of (last year’s) chaos,
nor do the Chinese people hope to see a repeat of it,” Li
said. “We believe Tiananmen Square will pass the day in
an orderly way.”
Some Beijing work units have barred employees
from wearing black armbands or white flowers of
mourning Thursday. The city has limited the number
of people who can visit crematoriums, where the ashes
of the dead are stored.
Li, asked about his chances of being re-elected in
1993, said he did not consider himself “extremely capa
ble” but said rumors in Hong Kong that he was in politi
cal trouble were bad guesses.
“The core of leadership in China with (party) Gen
eral Secretary Jiang Zemin as its nucleus is united and
strong, and I believe it commands the support of the
Chinese people,” he said.
He rejected a political comeback for Zhao Ziyang,
who was ousted as general secretary in June for alleg
edly supporting the pro-democracy protests. He said
Zhao was still being investigated by the party but had
not been stripped of his membership. Zhao is living at
home in “very good conditions” Li said.
Zhao, who favored negotiations with the protesters,
was last seen publicly on May 19, when he visited the
demonstrators in the square.
NASA: Tests should not put off launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
— NASA said Wednesday testing of
the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Tele
scope is taking longer than expected,
but that should not delay next week’s
launch aboard space shuttle Discov
ery.
The space agency had said testing
of the telescope would have to be
completed by midnight Wednesday
for Discovery to lift off as planned
Tuesday. That deadline was ex
tended to Thursday morning.
“Tests are going fine,” George
Diller, a spokesman for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administra
tion, said. “There are no problems.
But it’s going slower than we ex
pected.”
A 52-hour check of the telescope’s
scientific instruments was inter
rupted Monday by a power outage
that knocked out air conditioning
and forced the shutdown of heat-
sensitive computers. Testing re
sumed Tuesday evening after tech
nicians switched over to a newer
backup power system capable of
withstanding an electric failure.
To accommodate the extra testing
time, NASA has rearranged launch
preparations, moving up certain
things that normally would not have
been done until later, Diller said.
Charging of the telescope’s nickel-
hydrogen batteries, temporarily in
terrupted by the power outage, also
continued Wednesday. The batteries
will be charged until two days before
launch, when the shuttle’s payload
bay doors are closed.
Technicians planned to close out
the shuttle’s rear engine compart
ment this week. That involves mak
ing final inspections, removing pro
tective covers for flight, installing
last-minute items and cleaning the
area.
No extra time to solve problems is
left, and any further complications
will delay the mission, Diller said.
NASA on Saturday moved the
launch from April 12 to April 10 be
cause preparations were ahead of
schedule.
Discovery is scheduled to lift off at
8:47 a.m. Tuesday with five astro
nauts who will put the telescope into
orbit on the second day of the five-
day mission.
Once deployed, the Hubble will
orbit 380 miles above Earth for 15
years, free of atmospheric distor
tion. It will be capable of detecting
objects 50 times fainter and with 10
times greater clarity than the best
ground-based observatory.
Astronomers will be able to study
stars and galaxies so distant that
their light has been traveling to
Earth for 14 billion years.
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