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: 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.
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Energy company introduces
horizontal oil drilling to Soviets
Researchers deliver first working pieces for SSC
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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.
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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-
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the way to get them to come eat, but now
most people just use the pickup horn.”
— Maggie Gill,
cow caller
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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.
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