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I The Battalion STATE & LOCAL 3 : riday, July 20,1990 Training for tennis Jay Knott, a senior electrical engineering major and an instructor for the Texas A&M Tennis Camp, runs his students through calis- Photo by Eric H. Roalson thenics before they practice volleys. Students have served, vol- lied and scored match points in the camp all summer long. Center helps find Of The Battalion Staff The Child Placement Center, funded by the Texas Department of Human Services, is a non-profit adoption agency which helps place infants to early adolescents in per manent adoptive homes. As part of the center’s responsibil ity, it offers Birth Parent Group Services free of charge to any parent considering placing their child up for adoption. Services include counseling for parents and children, assistance in finding financial aid and medical care, support groups and residential care when appropriate. The center will assist with preg nancy-related medical expenses for birth parents who arrange an adop tion for their newborn. Since adop tion is not always a parent’s first choice, the center can make referrals for other services. If adoption is chosen by birth par ents, the center arranges and pays for ail legal work to terminate paren tal rights and places the child with an adoptive family who has been care fully investigated. Jaqui Freund, director of the E lacement center, said parents can e located no matter what the situa tion. ‘‘Wg cah find gpttd families fot- all kinds of chiidi-en,” she said. The Child Placement Center is a statewide organization with offices also in Killeen, Waco and Dallas. “We also deal with programs set up in other states,” Freund said. “If there’s a situation in which the child needs to be in a different location, we can arrange that too.” Freund said she wants people to understand that these services are offered and available for those who need it. “Many people think they will have to go to a big city to find this kind of help,” she said. “There are lots of people who want these children and are able to give them a good home and family. “We understand that adoption is a hard decision to make and that it’s not for everyone,” she said. “We are careful not to put any pressure on the decision, and we let the parent choose the family and offer free counseling as long as she needs it.” She said the Child Placement Cen ter also is open to women who have already placed their children up for adoption and need counseling. The services are free. The Child Placement Center has operated for 11 years and handles about 240 cases a year. For more in formation concerning the center, call 268-5577. 'aJi Energy company introduces horizontal oil drilling to Soviets Researchers deliver first working pieces for SSC ■tiit 0 thil ken, HOUSTON (AP) — A small local energy company plans to introduce horizontal oil drilling to the Soviet Union when it begins developing two oil fields in western Siberia. Anglo-Suisse, whose 10 employ ees specialize in international oil ex ploration projects, will use horizon tal drilling both on existing wells and on the 400 additional wells the com pany plans to drill throughout the 250,000 acres that compose the Tagrinskoye and West Varyeganskoye fields. The company recently reached a development agreement with a Soviet cooperative. Gilles Labbe, company president, said the 50-50 joint venture will mark the first known Soviet foray into the popular drilling technology, already credited with reviving pre viously dead oil fields in Texas, Ok lahoma and Wyoming, the Houston Chronicle reported Thursday. Horizontally drilled wells begin as conventional, vertical wells. Once deep underground, they are grad ually turned at a 90-degree angle, enabling the drill bit to travel hori zontally across hydrocarbon re serves, rather than simply piercing them from above. The development project is ex pected to produce as much as 800 million barrels of oil over its 25-year life, officials said. “There are a tremendous number of prospects here,” said Bob Bryng- elson, president of MER Engi neering, a Houston firm working as a subcontractor on the Anglo-Suisse venture. “It’s just like the Middle East, but it’s cold.” Anglo-Suisse will split the cost of the $100 million project with the Va- ryegan Oil and Gas Association, a Soviet state oil company. Varyegan is providing the energy infrastructure for the project, in cluding electricity, pipelines and roadway systems. THE WOODLANDS (AP) — The first work ing pieces of the superconducting super collider were on their way from Houston to Dallas Thurs day in what researchers called a “small but signif icant” milestone in the giant atom smasher’s de velopment. The delivery of the two devices — an ion source and a companion ion source vacuum chamber — came the same day the Senate Ap propriations Committee in Washington ap proved $318 million in 1991 money for the super collider. U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, praised the committee’s action. “Today’s strong endorsement of the SSC by the Senate Appropriations Committee and its unambiguous commitment to proceed with this scientific project even without foreign partici pation is really good news as far as the long term prospects are concerned,” he said. Jerry Watson, a collider laboratory physicist, said the devices will be the first pieces of accelera tor equipment used on the SSC. Watson wrapped the devices in plastic bubble wrap and put them into his van for the four-hour drive to Dallas. The super collider is expected to cost $8 billion when finished in 1998. It will include a 54-mile “T I his marks in a way a small but significant milestone that this first foot of the SSC is meeting its specs and is ready to go and is actually delivered to them.” — Peter McIntyre, physicist underground tunnel around Waxahachie in Ellis County, south of Dallas, in which scientists will break atoms apart in hopes of finding more clues to the nature of matter. The two parts delivered to the collider lab in DeSoto Thursday weigh about 100 pounds. Re search and development costs were about $300,000, with actual construction of the small metal pieces put at about $50,000, said Peter Mc Intyre, a Texas A&M physicist involved in the project. In the ion source magnetron, hydrogen ions are charged with electricity in the companion vacuum chamber to pull out protons. The pro tons are then accelerated. Beams of ions will be speeded up through a chain of booster accelera tors and ultimately injected into the tunnel. In the process, voltage on the protons will be increased from 35,000 volts at the start to 40 tril lion in the tunnel. “This first foot, the ion source, is the origin. That is, it’s the generating end of the super col lider itself,” said W. Arthur Porter, president of the Houston Advanced Research Center, where the device was made at the facility’s Texas Acce lerator Center. “This marks in a way a small but significant milestone that this first foot of the SSC is meeting its specs and is ready to go and is actually deliv ered to them,” McIntyre added. Specifications called for machining to be so precise that tolerances of one-half of one-thou sandth of an inch were involved. But among the parts used in the device is a gas valve fuel injector from a Datsun 280-Z, a Japanese sports car, re searchers said. icre ie H ivin llis [lie it tli cal cal the Texas granny goes to Burbank Cow caller makes appearance on Friday’s ‘Tonight Show’ MIAMI, Texas (AP) — Because her voice is moosic to cows’ ears, one Miami granny will appear on Friday’s episode of “The Tonight Show.” Maggie Gill, Miami’s cow-calling grandma, says she is no professional singer, but since cow calling only re quires one to be “loud and long,” it has not hindered her a bit. “You just holler real loud two or three times,” she said. “Tonight Show” talent coordinator Sandy Gillis called Gill about three weeks ago, she said. Apparently Gillis read about Gill and other cow call ers in an article in Newsweek magazine, Gill said. This week’s issue of TV Guide magazine has the cow- “T I here was no learning to it. It was just the way to get them to come eat, but now most people just use the pickup horn.” — Maggie Gill, cow caller 'i fli\ T(> sfo; calling granny’s name in it, but Gill has not let her fame go to her head. “I told my cousin that I was in the TV Guide, and she said she would have to go out and buy one then,” she said. Gill said she started cow calling because her husband was a rancher. “There was no learning to it,” she said. “It was just the way to get them to come eat, but now most people just use the pickup horn.” The entire concept of cow calling began about 49 years ago, Gill said, when Gene Howe, the former edi tor of the Amarillo Globe-News, bet Roberts County Judge Woody Pond $100 that Pond couldn’t find 10 men who could call cows. Gill said she has been in the contest ever since the la dies calling category was added about 35 years ago. “I called on ladies for a while,” she said, “then when they added the grandma’s category, I figured I qual ified for it.” Although she did not place in this year’s calling, Gill, 82, said she thinks Carson wanted her because she was the oldest granny in the contest. “I guess I was the oldest lady calling,” she said. “That’s my claim to distinction.” As to whether a California cow will respond to her Texas call. Gill said she is curious as to whether the bo vine will be of the range or milking variety. “They just said they had a cow. I didn’t tell them what kind to get,” she said. “I doubt she will respond if she’s not from the range land, she won’t know she is be ing called. “It would be kind of funny if that old cow just took off when I called her.” Sporting her Miami Cow-Calling T-shirt, Gill said she is not sure if she will wear the shirt during her na tional debut with Carson, but she has an official T-shirt to give to him. Gill said she has no nervous stomach when it comes to being on television with famous faces. “I guess he (Carson) will probably have a joke or two to tell, and I have a couple to tell him.” Gwen Campbell, Gill’s granddaughter who is accom panying her to California, said that someone named Tom Wilson is going to be on the show. She said she wishes his last name was Cruise instead. Gill said she has been to California before but never to Burbank. During her stay in Burbank, Gill will re ceive star treatment. A limousine will meet her and Campbell at the airport, transport them to the Sheraton Plaza Universal, and Gillis will treat them to dinner on the town. In Advance Messina Hof Wine Cellars of Bryan harvest more of its 1990 vintage Messina Hof Wine Cellars of Bryan will harvest more of its 1990 vintage Saturday. The day begins at 6:30 a.m. with a discussion of harvest and chemistry parameters. Grapes can be picked from the vineyard from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. after winemaker process participants can stomp grapes alter wu Paul Bonarrigo discusses the wine-making from 11:30 a.m. to noon. The day will end with Bonarrigo discussing pair ing certain wines with food. Restaurant Report The restaurants listed below were inspected by the Brazos County Health Department between July 9 and July 13. Information is from a food service es tablishment inspection report. SCORED BETWEEN 95 AND 100: Mario & Sons Pizzeria at 405 University Drive. Score — 96 Points were deducted for inadequate food protection during storage, unsatisfactory re pair of walls and ceilings, and inadequate storage of single-service articles. It was a regularly scheduled inspection. Chinese Fast Food at 805B Wellborn Road. Score —95 Points were deducted because of presence of vermin and unclean non-food contact surfaces. It was a regularly scheduled inspection. SCORED BETWEEN 90 AND 94: Fort Shiloh Grille at 2528 Texas Ave. Score — 93 Points were deducted for unsatisfactory food protec tion during storage, inadequate floor drainage, un satisfactory thermometers, unsatisfactory design of food contact surfaces, and unclean non-food contact surfaces. It was a regularly scheduled inspection. Baskin-Robbins at 603 E. Villa Maria. Score — 92 Points were deducted for inadequate food protection during storage, inadequate handwashing facilities, unclean floors, unclean walls and ceiling, inadequate hand-drying devices, and unclean non-food contact surfaces. It was a regularly scheduled inspection. Bennigans at 1505A Texas Ave. Score — 91 Points were deducted for unprotected outer open ings, unclean food contact surfaces, unsatisfactory maintenance of non-food contact surfaces, unshielded light fixtures, and unsatisfactory storage of in-use utensils. SCORED BET wEEN 75 AND 80: Wendy’s at 202 Southwest Parkway. Score — 78 Points were deducted for unhygienic practices by employees (major violation), improperly stored toxic items (major violation), unprotected outer openings, unsatisfactory repair of walls and ceiling, unsatisfac tory plumbing maintenance, unsatisfactory ther mometers, unclean non-food contact surfaces, inad equate hand-drying devices, unclean floors, walls and ceiling, and unnecessary articles on premises. David Jefferson, a registered sanitarian at the de partment, said restaurants with scores of 95 or above generally have excellent operations and facilities. He said restaurants w r ith scores in the 70s or low 80s usually have serious violations in the health report. Scores can be misleading, Jefferson said, because restaurants can get the same score by having several minor violations or a few major violations. He said the minor violations can be corrected during the in spection. Point deductions or violations in the report range from one point (minor violations) to five points (major violations). Jefferson said the department might close a res taurant if the score is below 60, the personnel have infectious diseases, the restaurant lacks adequate re frigeration, there is a sewage backup in the building or the restaurant has a complete lack of sanitization for the food equipment. ft AM/PM Clinics • Minor Emergencies cunics • General Meaical Care • Weight Reduction Program 10% Student Discount with I.D. 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