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At least 14 people have died in Texas storms since the weekend. National Guardsmen had hoped to search by helicopter for a missing 6-year-old boy, and Gov. George W. Bush had scheduled a flight to survey damage in San An tonio. Both flights were canceled because of severe weather. Thousands of animals were set loose by a rain-swollen San Marcos River that washed away pens, bams and hundreds of miles of fences. Caldwell County Extension Agent Lytle Arche estimated as many as 5,000 cattle could be roaming in his county. He ex pects at least 10,000 more to wander from their pastures in neighboring Guadalupe and Gonzales counties. The counties lie along the Guadalupe River, just east of flood-ravaged San Antonio and New Braunfels. The river is usu ally about 150 feet across. On Monday, it was three miles wide in places and spreading. Cattle had been moved to high ground, but the ground just was not high enough. New Braunfels suffered some of the worst damage when the nor mally tranquil Guadalupe River rushed over its banks, flooding neighborhoods and sending 1,400 people to shelters for the night. The local newspaper, the Neu.’ Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, put its Sunday newspaper out on Monday. Thirty miles to the south, San Antonio got up 20 inches of rain over the weekend. "This is unprecedented for the San Antonio area,” Joe Can- delario, the city’s emergency management coordinator, said. “This is a first in our history, to have that much rain in a 24-hour period.” Flooding closed a four-mile sec tion of a highway into San Antonio — two miles on either side of the Olmos Dam, which was nearing its capacity of 48 feet. Fourteen Texans have died in the storms since Saturday — 12 in floods and two in tornadoes. Searchers in Caldwell County searched for an 11-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy who were in a vehicle that was washed off the road. BY BETH MILLER The Battalion “Putting the Pieces Together for a Healthy Lifestyle,” a health fair sponsored by A. P. Beutel Health Center, will be held today in the MSC from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Margaret Griffith, health edu cation coordinator at Beutel, said the fair is an annual event designed to make Texas A&M students, faculty and staff aware of the services available to them throughout the community. Massage therapists, chiro practors and representatives from Gold’s Gym, Phoebe’s Home and Planned Parenthood will provide health care and recreation information. Univer sity Police Department, Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Brazos Valley Rape Crisis Cen ter will offer safety tips at re source tables. Griffith said that organiza tions at the fair will offer free HIV, blood pressure, cholesterol and weight screenings. The Ag gie Wranglers, Aggie Dance Team and Aggie Jump Rope Team will provide entertain ment at the fair, and door prizes will be awarded. Griffith said thatshi the University is a goods the fair because newi may not be aware of tM-Mio. 2! sources available in fc: fe C e ti College Station comic ^ has “(The health fair)ii;Kvo y_ where you can comer: o. 3 in people about differem jj) e 24 Griffith said. joradt Lt. Bert Kretzschrar on University Police Depo 0 14 Crime Prevention Uni:: !n . a nc_ will have a table setupr (Kansaz to educate studentsak: ling 1— drug usage. He saidtk®he lc= ment will have inform-: *Aggif— what drugs look like, be Mopho^ ent drugs affect the te id junicz street terms associatedi>: |L a st ^ tain drugs. Kretzschnc jme an« will inform thestuden:; B (h R.ci rapidly gaining popular:: l 0 ff am Rohypnol, sometimes; |starti “date-rape drug.” this s<= Kretzschmar said Ik is to hkm lieves having a table auk good method of infomre “It's a way to get out to students and to all the questions theyn' dying to ask, but they’ve had the chance to ask,’ zschmar said. New animal science research centtj provides expanded facilities to student BY AMY CURTIS The Battalion The new Animal Science Teach ing, Research and Extension Com plex is a step toward the Animal Science Department’s goal to reach premier status nationwide. The new complex offers facili ties and physical resources in the teaching, research and extension programs offered to students. Dr. Bill Tlirner, chair professor for the Beef Center, said the new complex is comprised of five major buildings. Construction on the new complex started in 1990. The Beef Center has been in use by the de partment since August 1993. The four remaining buildings were completed in March 1997. Since there is no current bus route that services the complex, lo cated on Farm Road 60 past FM 2818, the Kleberg Animal and Food Sciences Building on campus is still used for classes. TUrner said the complex will of fer the Animal Science Department extra research facilities. He said there were three main reasons for the construction of the new facili ties: to provide classroom space that had been sacrificed for re search projects; the need to offer students access to research ani mals; and the need to get hands-on teaching support in the program. ERIC NEWNAMfTr Texas A&M University’s new Animal Science Teaching, Research and Extension Complex, located00 way 60, will offer students expanded research and support facilities. The Beef Center has paddocks and pastures for cattle encompass ing 350 acres. It is the site for beef- improvement programs and the sale of purebred cattle. To support the department’s nu trition physiology research pro grams, the Nutrition and Physiolo gy building was established. It is used in areas of reproduction, en ergy metabolism, nutrient use, and growth and development research. 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