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2 • The Red and Black • Wednesday, September 19, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Red Cross revises water safety certificate . The American
Red Cross has revised its water safety instruction program
nationwide. Anyone holding a certificate in water safety instruction
or advanced lifesaving will be required to take a crossover course to
update present certification. Otherwise, WSI certificates will expire
Dec. 31. After that date, those who want to recertify will have to take
a 27-hour retraining course instead of the 16-hour crossover
course.For more information, call the East Georgia Chapter,
American Red Cross at (404) 353-1645.
■ STATE
Georgia cities, counties challenge census count.
ATLANTA (AP) — More than 100 Georgia cities and counties are
formally challenging their new population figures, contending that
the U S. Census Bureau missed thousands of people during its 1990
head count.Among the 113 cities and 21 counties filing challenges as
Wednesday’s deadline approached was Atlanta, which showed
population declines in the Census Bureau’s preliminary 1990 figures.
Atlanta Mayor Maynard H. Jackson said 53,147 residents and 6,852
housing units were not counted in his city, where the Census Bureau
found a population drop from 425,022 to 384,153 over the last decade.
The city contends it has grown to 437,300.“We request that the
Bureau of the Census recanvass the city of Atlanta in order to correct
the serious errors and omissions that are reflected in these counts,”
the mayor wrote in his appeal.
Contaminated milk destroyed. ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta
Dairies destroyed 1,395 gallons of milk after finding it was
contaminated with afiatoxin, a cancer-causing agent sometimes
found in grain.The discovery Friday could be the first indication that
Georgia’s corn crop may have been tainted by the carcinogen, which is
produced by a fungus that thrives under drought conditions,
agriculture officials said Monday. Because of the South’s warm
climate, com grown here is more vulnerable to tainting by
afiatoxin.The safety limit for afiatoxin contamination is .05 parts per
billion in milk and 20 parts per billion in crops.The amount of
afiatoxin discovered in the contaminated milk at Atlanta Dairies was
slightly above the federal limit, Georgia Agriculture Commissioner
Tommy Irvin said Monday.
■ NATION
Southern Babtists facing split, President says.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Southern Baptist Convention could
split and its $138 million budget might not be funded if moderates
funnel their donations around the denomination’s conservative
leadership, the convention president says. Southern Baptists must
learn to speak kindly to each other, but their convictions must be
based on biblical truths, the Rev. Morris Chapman of Wichita Falls,
Texas, told members of the SBC’s Executive Committee.
‘‘Participation in such a funding vehicle is a giant step away from the
spint of cooperation which is dear to this convention,” Chapman told
the 77-member Executive Committee on Monday. The Executive
Committee is meeting through this week amid concerns over a split in
the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. More than 3,000
moderate Baptists met last month in Atlanta to find ways to set up an
alternative funding mechanism for Baptist missions.
Survey finds growing disenchantment with both
political parties. WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are growing
increasingly disenchanted with the two major political parties,
associating Republicans with wealth and greed and Democrats with
incompetence, according to a survey released Tuesday. “Since 1987,
there has been a significant upswing in feelings of mistrust of
political leaders, disillusionment with politics and feelings of
powerlessness,” said the Times Mirror survey titled ‘The People, the
Press & Politics 1990.” The study said the growing cynicism and
economic polarization among all but the wealthiest Americans
“threatens to subvert traditional partisan politics or block the
effective resolution of social and economic issues.”
■ WORLD
Iraq seizes young men among refugees, escapees say.
KHAFJI, Saudi Arabia (APi — Iraqi troops Monday randomly seized
young men among the thousands of refugees fleeing Kuwait but let
their sobbing wives, mothers and other women go, refugees said. “My
boy! My boy!” one woman shrieked, beating her hands on her chest as
she described watching her 17-year-old son disappear. “We were just
sitting in the car and they put a gun to his face. The soldier said if he
didn’t come now we will shoot him,” said the 45-year-old woman
named Fatima, tears streaming down her face. Refugees said
busloads of men between the ages of 17 and 40 were seen being
shipped north, toward Iraq. No explanation was given. Other young
men were allowed to pass through. Many refugees feared the
detained would be killed, and they mentioned the names of cousins or
friends who were shot on suspicion of resisting the Iraqi occupation.
Winnie Mandela facing criminal charges.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — The government said
Tuesday it will charge Winnie Mandela with kidnapping and assault,
a move that could endanger its peace talks with her husband’s
African National Congress. Mrs. Mandela, wife of ANC leader Nelson
Mandela, will be charged in the alleged abduction and beatings of
four young men at her home in December 1988. One of them, 14-year-
old Stompei Seipei, was found dead. Mrs. Mandela’s bodyguard, Jerry
Richardson, was convicted of murdering Seipei and sentenced to
death last month. At his trial, the surviving victims testified that
Mrs. Mandela, 56, beat them with a whip. She has denied
wrongdoing. The announcement came as Mandela, the country’s best-
known black leader, met with other ANC officials to discuss the police
crackdown on black factional fighting in townships around
Johannesburg. Mandela on Monday threatened to suspend the peace
talks if the government fails to halt the carnage that has killed nearly
800 blacks since Aug. 12. Most of the fighting has been between
Xhosa and other black ANC supporters and the Zulu-based
conservative Inkatha movement.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Student Government
Association will meet today in
Room 139 of the Tate Center.
The meeting begins at 9:00 p.m.
with an open forum discussion
period prior to general business.
• Students for Environmental
Awareness will hold an
organizational meeting today at
7:30 p.m. in the Ecology
Auditorium. The public is invited
to attend. Call 354-6602 for more
information.
• The Georgia Amateur
Comedians Club will meet in
Room 144 of the Tate Center at
8:00 p.m. All interested are
invited to attend.
• The Young Democrats of
UGA/Clarke County will meet at
8 p.m. in Room 138 at the Tate
Center. Professor Loch Johnson,
of the UGA political science
department, will discuss the
present and future of the
Democratic Party. The public is
invited.
Colloquim
• Dr, Alex Williams,
Presbyterian Campus Minister
at UGA, will speak on “Freedom
on Lumpkin Street, from Broad
to Milledge,” at the Presbyterian
Center, 1250 S. Lumpkin St. at
7:00 p.m.
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University receives grant to help rural Georgia
By PATRICK FLANIGAN
Staff Writer
The U S. Department of Agricul
ture granted the University $700,-
000 to promote rural economic
development through small busi
ness in Georgia.
The three-year grant will be
used by the state’s Small Business
Development Center (SBDC) and
the Institute for Community and
Area Development (ICAD).
Hank Logan, director of the
! SBDC, said the grant will enable
I the two organizations, headquar-
| tered at the University, to offer
business consulting and training
services to 25 rural counties.
“W’e want to help people help
themselves,” he said.
The grant also will be used for
| research to determine how the
I rural economies can be improved.
University experts will conduct
capital market analyses — inven
tories of the resources and opportu
nities available to local businesses
— of the communities, Logan said.
The 25 counties will be broken
down into five or six districts. Each
will be assigned a business consul
tant who will have access to the
market.
“We have hired some very ded
icated people,” Logan said.
The SBDC and ICAD will be
able to provide local businesses
with consultation and training in
business planning, market re
search, selling techniques, per
sonal management and accounting
and cash flow analysis.
“Expansion of existing smajl
businesses and the creation of new
enterprises can be a catalyst for
economic development in rural
areas,” Logan said when he re
ceived the grant.
Logan credited Sen. Wyche
Fowler, D-Ga., with securing the
federal funding to undertake the
project.
Tlach step we take to revitalize
rural communities is a step in the
right direction for Georgia, Fowler
said in announcing the grant.
“This study will give us a greater
understanding of rural economies,
allowing us to assist more effi
ciently and effectively in the en
hancement of the lives of rural
Georgians,” Fowler said.
Logan said Fowler, a member of
the Senate Appropriations Sub-
commitee on Agriculture and re
lated Agencies approached the
University with this idea, which is
an expanded version of an existing
grant.
That grant, the W.K. Kellog
grant, was awarded to the Univer
sity in 1987 and benefits five rural
communities.
Sen. Wyche Fowler: (D-Ga.) approached the University
with the idea to expand the W.K. Kellog grant
‘Eat-all melon’ may be the fruit of the future
By AL DIXON
Staff Writer
The melon world may never be the same,
thanks to Doyle Smittle of the University Re
search Department and a handful of other re
searchers.
For the past three years Smittle, a re
searcher at the University Agricultural Re
search Station in Tifton, has been leading the
research efforts to develop a better melon.
The four mo6t popular types of melons
today are watermelon, honeydew, canteloupe
and cassava melon, he said. However, due to
certain disadvantageous characteristics, the
sale of melons in recent years has been low.
He said the short time period melons are in
season and the inconvenience of eating large
and messy fruit has not exactly been bringing
customers in droves.
‘The purpose of my research is to develop a
type of melon that has a consistent quality
and is convenient to grow and eat,” he said.
Smittle’s ideal melon will be small, crisp,
have an edible rind and seeds, good disease
Eating large and messy fruit
hasn’t exactly been bringing
customers in droves.
and insect resistance and a dwarf vine to fa
cilitate growing the melon in a confined area.
Smittle has named his fruit the future
the “eat-all melon.”
He eventually hopes to develop several dif
ferent flavors of the melon, each possessing its
own unique taste.
At this point the melon exists in theory
only, though he has already developed a melon
with many of the desired characteristics that
will be used as a basis for developing his
brainchild.
The melon Smittle is currently working
with has an edible rind, firm, crisp fruit and a
small edible seed cavity. It is oblong and about
two inches in length. However, it is extremely
susceptible to disease.
“Our immediate goal is to increase this
melon’s disease resistance and its consistency
in fruit quality, color and flavor,” he said.
The desired changes are brought about by
crossing the melon with other melon types
possessing the desired characteristics.
There are 45 compounds that produce the
flavor of melons, he said, so a wide variety of
flavors can be produced by varying the ratios
of these compounds through repeated cross
ings.
Smittle first got the idea of the eat-all
melon when he was trying to increase the dis
ease resistance in existing melons.
“I approached Perry Nugent of the USD A in
Charleston with the idea for developing a new
melon three years ago, and since then we have
been jointly researching the project,” he said.
Smittle hopes to have the project completed
in five to seven years.
“It may sound crazy,” he said, “but my
dream is that someday people will be able to
pick any flavor of melon they want and get one
right out of a vending machine.”
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