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Page 2 • The Battalion Thursday • April 18,l)| __ news BRIEFS Wasps vs Roadie A&M may have found perfect extermimk By Michelle Lyons The Battalion Services held for A&M student Bonnie Clare Richards, a Texas A&M senior education major, died last week from injuries suffered in a car accident at FM 2818 and Welsh Avenue. Richards, of Wimberley, Texas, was a fourth-generation Aggie. She worked at the Brazos Valley Muse um of Natural History in Bryan. Services were held for Richards Monday in Wimberley. Library 4th floor gets water damaged The fourth floor of Texas A&M's Sterling C. Evans Library was dam aged between the hours of 8 p.m. Tuesday and 6 a.m. Wednesday. The fourth-floor ceiling, light fixtures and some books were dam aged by flooding, the cause of which has not been determined. Library officials said the dam aged area of the fourth floor, which was closed yesterday, should be accessible to students by this afternoon. No indictment for Unabomber yet GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A federal grand jury concluded a one- day session here Wednesday with out indicting the Montana back- woods hermit suspected of being the Unabomber. The panel was not scheduled to meet again until mid-May, accord ing to U.S. Marshal Bill Strizich, who provides security for the grand jury. Researchers in the Texas A&M Urban Entomology Lab are exam ining a possible method of cock roach extermination — wasps. The three species of wasps be ing studied originate in India and are ant-like, measuring 1 mm to 3 mm. They feed on roach eggs, and research has proven that they significantly the wasp larvae feed on tk veloping roach eggs. But because the wasps lower roach p o p u 1 a - tions in lab set tings. The Anastatus t e n i u p e s and the Compe- ria merceti control the Brown-banded cockroach, and the Aprostocetus hagenowii con trol American, Smoky Brown and Oriental cockroaches. The wasps have stingers that they use only when laying their eggs. They do not store poison and do not pose a threat to humans. Dr. Barry M. Pawson, an as sistant research scientist, said there are five species of roaches in Texas. Two species live in doors, and two live outdoors but journey inside in search of food or during bad weather. Roaches retreat to corners and other hiding places, where they lay their eggs in nests called oothecas. The tiny wasps come into play because of their ability to smell and search out the oothe cas, inside of which they lay their own eggs. When the wasp eggs hatch, only the eggs, other means® be found to exterminate road that have progressed toll nymph or adult stage. To test the wasps’ roach) trolling abilities, lab-gener oothecas were hiddenin A&M lab and clusters of were released. The wasps fc 90 percent of the oothecas. Pawson said experiments being done to detemii the number wasps neeii to find 100 p cent of t nests. Dr. Roger Gold, an enta: ogy professor, si a problem willi i mplementat* wasp-control the search will be overcoming pa pie’s perceptions of wasps. Gold said that when re; are mentioned, most peip think of the large, stingingij that fly outdoors. Butthewjsj in the lab are tiny —somei larger than a flea. He said that many people, their haste to be rid of roads use insecticides and pesticides exterminate them. Butsoi people have multiple-che* sensitivities, also knownasen ronmental illness, and cam tolerate chemical pesticids Gold said these people wouldi perience no side effects fromli wasp method of control. The wasp method would beneficial in hospital clinics animal-holding facilities, said, because these areplf where chemicals could do hr Minimum wage hike unveito Two increases of 50 cents an hour WASHINGTON (AP) — Moderate House Re publicans broke ranks and joined Democrats call ing for an election-year increase in the minimum wage, a vote Sen. Bob Dole and other GOP leaders have tried to prevent. House Majority Leader Dick Armey said through an aide that he had no plans to schedule the bill for the floor. But with Democrats also clamoring for a vote on a daily basis, other lawmakers and aides in the GOP leadership said the issue was virtually cer tain to reach the floor of the House, and conceded it may have enough support to pass. “All of us believe that people who work a 40- hour work week ought to earn a wage they can live on,’’ said Rep. Jack Quinn, R-N.Y., as he and 13 fellow Republicans unveiled their bill Wednesday. The proposal would provide for two separate in creases of 50 cents an hour, one to take effect 90 THURS April 1 8, 1 ( Ag< By David Ha The Battalk A ggie rii For ah that n ceive a tokei work they ha tion at Texa high, as the long and hon The tradi Since then, e grown with Swanzy, dire this point, tb alive, and it mous intere: Ring among j Swanzy s sells more r the nation. She said lies partly i upon ring a must meet c qualify for tl at the Unive pie, can buy no restrictio “The ring days after the bill is signed by President Clii and the second boost a year after that. But even as Quinn and other Republicans wi holding their news conference, Speaker NewtG: grich and the GOP leadership were backpedalitg the subject. Gingrich noted during the day thatheti supported a 1989 measure that raised the ni mum wage and included a sub-minimum te ing wage for younger workers. Asked wheli the issue would come to a vote this year,C grich said, “I don’t know.” Dole also sidestepped a question, sayi; don’t know of any” when asked if a possible® promise was in the works. The minimum wage was raised to itsciinef level on April 1, 1991, from $3.80 an hour.St porters of an increase say that when inflatim taken into account, the minimum wage wills 1 be at a 40-year low unless it is raised. 7 ; 6th Annual CHILIFEST featuring David Allan Coe Jason Manning April 20, 1996 • Star Light Ballroom • Snook TX Doors open at 11 A.M. and showtime at 4 P.M. Proceeds Benefit The Brazos County United Way Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door Tickets available at: Cavender’s, Catalena Hatter’s, and MSC Attention Agpcs $ Cash For Your Car$ Local Dealer Will Pay Up to $2500“ For Your Mid-80’s Foreign Car 1412 S. 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