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TEXAS' 3,350-mile tidal shoreline is dotted with oil refineries and chemical plants. So bad is industrial pollution along the Houston Ship Channel-a 50-mile-long passage from Houston to the Gulf-and in Galveston Bay that the Environmental Protection Agency openly attacked the Texas Water Quality Board last June. In a 200-page report, the EPA charged that oil and hydrocarbon residues, fecal matter and toxic metals in those waters are all grossly in excess of natural background levels...
KENNETH G. DAVIS Galveston, Texas...
...schools are Arkansas, Baylor, Bowman Gray (Winston-Salem, N. C.), Dartmouth, Georgia (Augusta), Hahnemann (Philadelphia), Louisiana State, Louisville, Marquette, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas (Dallas). Texas (Galveston). and West Virginia...
...Some of the worst aftereffects of burns-scars and crippling skin contracture-have been minimized or eliminated by techniques now in use at the Burns Institute of the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Galveston, Texas. There, doctors have found that prompt application of lightweight plastic casts keeps burned flesh from contracting as it heals; pressure bandages kept in place 24 hours a day control the buildup of scar tissue and prevent the formation of disfiguring welts. As a result, burn patients who might once have had to undergo a long series of corrective and cosmetic operations can now avoid...
...nearly enough to reverse cotton's decline, which has all but wiped out the once bustling exchanges of the South. The exchange in New Orleans, from which clipper ships braved Northern blockades during the Civil War, closed in 1964 and is now a dusty, rotting building. The Galveston and Charleston exchanges shut down last year. Next to go, most likely, will be Houston's, which sold only 100,000 bales in 1968. There is little left for its score of traders to speculate upon -except the question of how long the exchange will hold...