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Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, June 23, 1971 THE BATTALION Campus viewpoint by Herman Gutierrez Listen up Aeroclub story questioned Editor: I would like to comment on the A&M Aeroclub article appearing in the June 16 Battalion. The article stated that the Aeroclub was the only flying organization in the B-CS area. You skiped (sic) over Bryan Aero Inc. at Coulter Field aftd Texas Airmo- tive at Easterwood Airport. a few hours later telling the stu dent to take him home.” At first it sounded like the Aeroclub had invented a takeoff on pin the tail on the donkey using an air plane, but after some thought I came to the conclusion that Mr Oxley had either been misquot ed or your reporter did not take the time to clarify the statement. Mr. Oxley was quoted as saying “An instructor may blindfold a student and give him the controls ALLEN OLDS. - CAD. INCORPORATED SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is standard equipment” 2400 Texas Ave. In another part of the article Mr. Weseli was quoted as saying that under Federal Aviation Agency Regulations (they have no rules) ground school is not required. This may be true under part 61 of the requlations that the Aeroclub operates under, but under part 141 of the same reg ulations that Texas Airmotive op erates under ground school is re quired. 160 hours respectively. The final blow came after read ing the caption under the pic ture. The caption said something about seeing much of the B-CS area. The writer has a good imagination because, had the pic ture been clear all you could have seen was College Station. Because there is sa much- haze you can’t even see the campus. Next time you go to press why don’t you spend a little time writ ing the articles; after all, quality says a lot more than quantity. Cliff Young ’67 Flight Instructor The difference is it takes a per son 40 hours to get a private and 200 hours for a commercial certi- cate with the Aeroclub, while with a certified school such as Texas Airmotive it takes 35 and BUSIER - JONES AGENCY REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE • F.H.A.—Veterans and Conventional Loans ARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 3523 Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 NOTICE Student - Faculty - Staff Your MSC BARBER SHOP Is Open 8 a. m. - 5:30 p. m. Monday - Friday Your Patronage Is Appreciated Your first point is correct—we should have said private flying organization. However, we had no trouble understanding the rest of the article. To show how easy it is to be incorrect, there was no caption associated with the pic ture you mention—but there were some cutlines. It took a great deal of time to research and write the story. And the quality of your letter would have been better if your vested interest were not so ap parent.—Ed. NEED CASH? We loan money on any item of value. No credit record required. DON’T MOVE IT, SELL IT WE WANT TO BUY YOUR 8 TRACK TAPES AND ANY OTHER ITEM OF VALUE. TEXAS STATE CREDIT CO. 1014 Texas Ave. — Bryan Weingarten Center Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer's name will be withheld by arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press yea: sale Th Mail subscriptiqr ir; J6.c* les tax. ie Battalio Texas 77843. era _ Lindsey, chairman; H. F. Filers, College of F. S. White, College of Engineering; Dr. Asa B. Childers, Jr., > Student Publications H. F. Filers, College ering oard are Liberal Jim Arts : liege ol veterinary Medicine; Herbert H. Brevard, College of Agriculture; and Roger Miller, student. use for or not paper and local news of spontaneous 'igin published herein. Rights of republication of all other atter herein are also reserved. Servii Franc: Represented nationally by National Fduc 'ices, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Loi i cisco. tierwise cred origin published herein, erein Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. ational Advertising s Angeles and San A&M, Baylor develop infant CF test One child in 2,500 is born with cystic fibrosis, a disabling and eventually fatal disease for which there is no known cure. Now an IBM computer and a group of Texas A&M scientists have teamed up to spot the illness in newborn babies through analy sis of their fingernails. Early de tection can add many years to A&M is performing the analy ses for a project headed by Dr. Guyon Harrison of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Dr. Har rison hopes to develop a mass screening capability that eventu ally would allow every newborn child to be tested for cystic fi brosis. Batt to carry cartoons by Corpus man The testing is done in the Ac tivation Analysis Research Lab oratory, headed by Dr. R. E. Wai- nerdi, under the direction of Dr. L. E. Fite. “In general, children with cystic fibrosis have a life expectancy of five to 15 years,” Wainerdi said. “Early detection and proper treat ment can allow them to live three or four times that long.” Beginning today, The Battalion will carry three cartoons, one a week, by Herman Gutierrez, Cor pus Christi cartoonist here for a vocational educators workshop. Gutierrez teaches commercial art at Del Mar Junior College and draws for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. He is attending the workshop to obtain certification as a vocational instructor, their lives. Researchers found that the fin gernails from many patients with cystic fibrosis contained several times the normal amounts of cop per, sodium chloride and phospho rus. The A&M team chose copper as the measurement least likely to be distorted by contamination. with cystic fibrosis demonstrate copper concentrations of from 50 to 200 ppm.” The research group then worked out a precise test procedure using neutron activation analysis. “Fingernail clippings are re ceived from cystic fibrosis centers across the country,” Fite said. “The samples and a copper stan dard are then irradiated, making the various trace elements radio active.” Then the IBM System 360/ Model 65 compares the fingernail radioactivity readings against the reading from the copper sample and reports the parts-per-million copper content of the nail clip ping. The entire procedure takes only a few minutes. “Medication and treatment can allow the cystic fibrosis victim to lead a reasonably comfortable life,” Harrison explained, “but his life expectancy at best is only half the normal span. Medical science has found no way to treat the disease—only the symptoms, 1 Cystic fibrosis is essentia^ hereditary and limited to Cam sians. Its victims invariably art ica , M • children of exceptional Intel gence. The disease creates pancreati enzyme deficiencies and keeps 1 exocrin glands from functioniii properly. As a result, the ckiH with cystic fibrosis often has persistent infection of his respi ratory system that produces pm gressive damage and is the dij ease’s major life-threatening con plication. A&M’s neutron activation ana! ysis laboratory generally is coi sidered the largest and bej equipped in the free world. Unit Wainerdi’S direction it hastadk such other projects as the asses ment of structural strength of h fuel tank metal in NASA’s lu« landing vehicles and the studyi the composition of chunks of 11 earth’s mantle taken from this miles beneath the ocean floor. “The fingernails of normal new borns contain from two to thirty parts per million of copper,” Wai nerdi said. “The nails of children Finance senior offers lay-away plan for Aggie ring diamonds A senior finance major seeking an early start in his business is offering Texas A&M students the opportunity to purchase a senior ring diamond at a reduced price on a lay-away plan. M. Farland Guinn III has oper ated Guinn and Co. Diamond Brokers since January, using the upstairs portion of the vacant Iva Starns store for an office. His plan allows an Aggie to place a one-fifth carat, eye-per fect diamond—with a retail value of around $100—in lay-away for $5. By Dec. 31, 1971 the student must pay an additional $38, and the diamond is his. He has paid $43 for the diamond, what Guinn calls retailer’s cost. For any successful lead a per son on the lay-away plan provides, he receives $4 credit on his re served diamond. “This is being done to help my firm through market exposure,” he explained. “Hopefully, it also will lead to future sales.” He said his plan has worked well enough that some of his senior ring diamond customers have reserved engagement ring diamonds. He explained he specializes in diamonds, although he can pro vide mounts. SARAH WATTS Teacher of Piano (Graduate, Baylor* University — Piano Major) Summer . Lessons June 1 thru August Intermediate and Advanced Preferred Studio 601 East 24th Bryan 822-6856 Beverly Braley Tour*, Travel FOR ALL AIRLINE TICKETS AND RESERVATIONS MSC University Campus 846-3773 Downtown 312 E. 25th. 823-0961 EDITOR DAVID S. 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