The Battalion
StateLocal
Tuesday, July 28,1992
University flowers Groups sue Racing Commission
A&M has only test garden in Texas
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By Ursula Simms
The Battalion
Since 1967, Texas A&M Uni
versity has been researching the
growth and adaptation of hy
bridized plants in the Floral Test
ing Gardens located near the
Clayton William's Alumni Center.
Ed Hill, foreman for Landscape
Maintenance East, said that it
"started out as a test garden for
testing new and different types of
flowering plants."
The Floral Testing Gardens, the
only test garden in Texas, was es
tablished by Texas A&M Presi
dent Earl Rudder.
The garden which now has
over 200 different varieties is a
display garden as well as a test
garden, said Tom Dew, assistant
director of grounds maintenance.
"We're doing this for the All-
American Selections Association.
It is a non-profit organization and
they conduct trials all over Ameri
ca and Canada," said Dew.
Hybridized plants that are test
ed in the testing gardens are sub
mitted to the AAS from the Unit
ed States, Great Britain and Japan.
Plants are tested and judged on
their ability to resist disease and
insects, their overall flowering
ability, and their uniqueness.
Hybrids that score high in
these areas are given an AAS
stamp, designated by a red, white
and blue emblem, which indicates
a high-quality hybrid plant.
over dog racing license dispute
AUSTIN (AP) — Two groups that failed to
win a coveted pari-mutuel license for a dog
racing track in Galveston County accused the
Texas Racing Commission in court Monday of
breaking the law.
Meanwhile, the winners described their op
ponents as "extremely poor losers."
State District Court Judge Scott McCown
said he will probably decide the case Friday.
"If the plaintiffs are right, most of the Rac
ing Commission should be in the penitentiary.
If the Racing Commission is right they ought
to be given medals by the governor," McCown
said.
The dispute is over the license granted in
1990 by the Racing Commission to Gulf Grey
hound Partners Inc. to build a track in La Mar
que.
The facility is expected to be one of the
most lucrative dog tracks in the nation. It is
about 70 percent complete. Lone Star Grey
hound Park Inc. and Galveston Bay Grey
hound Racing Association are challenging the
Racing Commission's selection of Gulf Grey
hound, a group led by Paul Bryant Jr., the son
of late football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant.
The two losing groups allege that the com
mission violated numerous laws in the process
of awarding the license.
"In numerous instances, those standards
were violated, the parties were not accorded
fairness," said Lone Star's attorney Tim Her
man of Austin.
Lone Star's major complaint is that the Rac
ing Commission voted to award it a license in
November 1989, and then six months later.
without hearing further evidence, emei|
from a closed-door meeting and decided to
open the contest for a license.
Under questioning from Herman, Raci
Commission general counsel Paula Cartersii
a taped recording of that closed session coil
never be found. She said she threw awaj
tape marked with the date of the hearing
that the tape was blank. When asked why
threw out the tape, she said it was to aw
confusion.
Herman also alleged former Racing On
mission member Hilary Doran had impro]
communications with representatives oft
competing track groups.
"The entire character of the these pro®
ings was fraught with denial of due proces
Herman said.
Green cards receive different look
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The U.S Immigration
and Naturalization Service is issuing resident aliens
a new style of "green card" that officials say will be
harder to counterfeit and easier to identify.
The cards, which are not actually green but
salmon-colored, will undergo their 18th incarnation
starting next month. Immigrants who acquired
alien cards before or during June 1979 are asked to
get the new ones.
The new cards are part of an INS effort to reduce
the number of fraudulent claims by undocumented
workers and to provide better identification of resi
dent aliens, said Ray Dudley, an immigration ser
vice spokesman in San Antonio.
Aliens working, living or attending school in the
United States who use the cards risk border-cross
ing delays if their old cards are not replaced by
Aug. 1,1993, authorities said.
' y We're trying to rid ourselves of the old cards
because they are so susceptible to being counterfeit
ed," Dudley said. "Many people who enter the
country illegally now come with counterfeit green
cards, knowing they must have something to show
employers."
Others have used counterfeit cards to defraud
government agencies in applying for Aid for Fami
lies with Dependent Children, food stamps, subsi
dized housing, medical treatment and other social
services, Dudley said.
Earlier versions of the alien cards lacked the per
son's photograph, fingerprints or signature, Dudley
said. The new card will incorporate all three.
Card holders who have been permanent resi
dents for more than five years can apply for U.S. cit
izenship rather than replace their cards. Resident
aliens older than 55 who have lived in the United
States more than 20 years also can apply for citizen
ship.
The new cards will cost $70, plus the price of two
color photos.
Workers prepare Astrodome
for Republican convention
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HOUSTON (AP) - What does
it take to transform the As
trodome from a sports arena into
the Republican Party's convention
hall? For starters, an acre of ply
wood, nearly five miles of 2-by-4s,
100,000 square feet of carpet and
150,000 bolts and screws to hold it
all together.
The Houston Astros left their
home Sunday on a 28-day road
trip that will cover 9,186 miles in
eight National League cities, and
the GOP immediately got busy
preparing for the Aug. 17-20 con
vention.
Workers on Sunday pulled up
the Astroturf, rearranged the As
trodome's seats and began drop
ping cables from 200-foot-high
rafters.
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AUSTIN (AP) - The Texas
Board of Health has authorized
immediate distribution of a new
AIDS drug by a program that
serves uninsured people with the
disease, or the virus that causes it,
who meet income guidelines.
The drug, zalcitabine, is ap
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AZT, to treat certain adult patients
who are showing signs of deterio
rating on AZT alone.
Zalcitabine also is known by its
chemical name dideoxycytidine,
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tem to make new drugs available
more quickly to people with life-
threatening illnesses.
The drug received accelerated
FDA approval in June. Texas'
board Saturday authorized the
state Health Department's HIV
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The program provides drugs to
people with acquired immune de
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immunodeficiency virus, who are
not insured and whose incomes
do not exceed 200 percent of fed
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year. Some 4,300 people are en
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The Health Department esti
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drug in Texas could be as much as
$1.9 million annually.
64 feet above tl^e Dome floor.
They also lowered an overhead
gondola inside the stadium and
continued working on the sound
system.
Outside the giant stadium, la
borers hung long red, white and
blue banners spangled with ele
phants and stars.
Convention spokesman Joe
Fleming said work was proceed
ing a bit ahead of schedule.
"We're confident everything
will be complete in time," he said
Monday. "No worries whatsoev
er, but we will be working around
the clock, 24 hours a day between
now and the convention."
Convention planners had
sought six weeks to dress the
Dome, but compromised with
baseball officials on three weeks,
Fleming said — the shortest time
the Republicans ever have had for
such an undertaking.
"Rather quickly, it'll begin to
take shape and be recognizable as
a convention floor," he said.
A thousand workers will per
form the metamorphosis using, in
part: 4.7 miles of 2-by-4s; 45,000
square feet of plywood; 100,000
square feet of carpet; 150,000 nuts,
bolts and screws; 576 speakers;
and 8,000 telephones.
When the makeover is finished,
the Dome will feature a massive
podium flanked by rows of press
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drop. Two 15-by-20-foottelevii
screens will be built into
side.
Workers have been assembl
the podium in a warehouse
west Houston and will transpor
to the Astrodome in sectio:
probably Tuesday, Fleming
They also will begin work on
ging and power generators for
7,000-pound curtain measuti
100 feet high by 570 feet wide
be hung behind the podium.
Harris County, which owns
Astrodome, has been conduct
tests on the roof to make sine
can handle the 100 tons
ment to be hung from the rafter.
Near week's end, construct,
of four network anchor booths;
timated to cost some
each, will begin.
Fleming said GOP staffers
excited that work on the conn
tion, which has been going
more than a year, finally is \i
shape at the Dome.
stands and a 50-foot arch back-
"You work for so long to
something together that wtei
finally happens, there's a
feeling of satisfaction," he said.
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