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Page 8 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1976 Bad switch caused Viking II problem Campaign shapes up Ford to concentrate on few states By PETER J. BOYER Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. — A photo graph received from the Viking II lander on Mars showed today that no pebbles are stuck in the immobile soil-scooping arm. Scientists said a faulty position switch apparently caused the arm to stop and they believe that time commands to override the switch can solve the difficulty. The robot arm stopped as it deli vered soil from the surface to minia ture laboratories aboard the lander. It had not yet reached the organic chemistry experiment, which is con sidered most important to the ques tion of life on Mars. Commands to deliver the sample to the inorganic laboratory by tomor row have been sent to the lander. Scientists said they hoped that by next week the robot arm could dig soil for the organic laboratory. Scientists said that seismograhic instruments aboard the lander have detected the movement of the arm, but have not yet registered any Marsquakes. They ordered the arm extended by more than a foot Tuesday and had it photographed by the lander’s cameras, hoping the problem would be visible. Three biology experiments had received their quotas of soil and were proceeding inside the minia ture laboratory. By DON McLEOD Associated Press WASHINGTON—Despite bold talk from both sides about contest ing every state, the presidential campaign is being ruled by hard numbers that indicate President Ford will be concentrating his ef forts in just a handful of states. Polls show Democrat Jimmy Car ter running ahead almost everywhere. Ford’s strategists con cede that their battle is uphill. The result is that Carter is coming closer to what both candidates are claiming, a 50-state campaign. He plans to run everywhere unless he finds trouble spots where he needs to concentrate. 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News analysis Ford handlers faithfully reflect in public his promise to challenge Car ter in every state, but they have picked their battle grounds. The final duel will be in about 10 key states, says Jim Baker, Ford’s campaign manager. He lists New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Il linois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, California, Texas and Florida. “It’s going to be those 10 swing states, which are swing because of the large amount of electoral votes, and because it’s reasonably close in all of them,” Baker said. Those states account for 256 elec toral votes. It takes 270 to win. Neither side is bold enough to claim all of them this early, but whoever controls the bulk of them is likely to be the next president. Ford campaign treasurer Royston Hughes says: “We are not conced ing any state. I’m mailing out checks to headquarters in 50 states. But obviously the polling and the re finement will go on. We don’t want to misplace our dollars.” Ford starts out, however, with the knowledge that his own polls show him leading only in his home state of Michigan among the 10. “There are not many states in the country we don’t have a chance of winning,” Jordan said, refusing to list priorities. Jordan said, “Carter’s time is the most valuable thing we have and we’re not sending him out West this week just for the hell of it—we re going to win some of those states. ” A Special Mum for that Special Someone l^etal [^ushers 846-6713 707 Texas Across From A&M MIDLAND COMPACT SPECIAL PRICE $ 89 95 Thurs., FrI. & Sat. O CB OUTLET 4 S' 103 WALTON DRIVE COLLEGE STATION OPEN 10-8 MON.-FRI. 10-6 SAT. 846-9751 Quality to challenge The quality-has always come through. SCHAFFHAUSER DISTRIBUTING CO. 101 Luther W. 846-7231 500 yards South of Kyle Field on the Old Wellborn Highway. Math, science see Texas teachers So it was not just because Michi gan is his home state that Ford chose it for his first formal campaign trip yesterday. From whatever base he can build on among the 10 swing states, Ford hopes to turn to what Baker called “our traditional states, the Mid western and the Rocky Mountain states.” The other Ford target is the South, where voters have cast con-, servative and Republican ballots in recent national elections. Ford has hopes of cracking Carter’s native son edge there. But Baker admits that Ford backers are disappointed in surveys from border states, partieulary Ten nessee, and “ less than ecstatic” about results from Ohio and Wis consin, two of the swing states. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Carter manager Hamilton Jordan is looking at private polls which, although in complete, show Carter trailing in only a half dozen states. The greatest demand for Texas teachers is in the math field, dis closed a teacher employment survey released this week. The survey was conducted last summer by Malon Southerland, As sociate Director of Placement at Texas A&M University. Southerland compiled information from school district superintendents and chief personnel officers in 21 major Texas cities. “The demand teaching fields at the secondary level is consistent in math and science,” Southerland said when presenting the survey to the Council on Teacher Education last Tuesday morning. “Elementary teachers need specialization in read ing,” he added. Twenty out of 21 districts listed math as a demand field. Science fol lowed with 14 listings. Other de mand fields were industrial educa tion and special education. The fields that had a surplus of teachers were social studies,Ei lish, elementary education, ho economics, and the fine arts. Employers repeatedly stres*; that students should not use ogy or psychology as their si teaching field. They suggested one of the demand fields as a teaching field to allow (lexibi when applying for a job. Southerland’s survey also cated that getting a teachingjobii as easy as it used to be. “There is a trend towards teacher mobility than in the pi Southerland said. “This causes turnover rate to be consisteoj lower and less new people are hired.” Several employers comment! that teachers are staying put holding on to their jobs more ever. They also commented thattli large number of applications per jt in most fields allow the employenl be very selective. —Susie Turin Pari ;hanc pvenir ,howe odayj onigh probat rent tc Energy panel discusses shortages A two day symposium on energy is being held here to deal with the al ternatives of the diminishing oil and gas supply and the effects of gov ernment regulation on energy and feed supply in the U.S. “The Energy and Feedstocks Challenges for Texas” is an overview of the chemical, oil and power indus tries, and their stand on the energy problems. TThe conference is sponsored by the College of Engineering. The keynote addresses were given yesterday by the chemial, oil and power industries. A panel will re view all questions turned in by the audience. M.E. Pruitt, Vice President, and Director of Research and Develop ment U.S.A., of Dow Chemical Company stated, ”We as the free en terprise system must solve our energy problem.” Pruitt outlined four goals the Dow Chemical Co. has: (1) a high interest on conservation, (2) more efficient procedures for making petroleum, (3) more research on the use of solid fuels for energy and power, and (4) much more research on coal, em phasizing that U.S. rely on its own sources, other than those foreign aid. Following Pruitt’s address, William T. Slick, Jr., Senior Vice President of the Exxon Company spoke on the “Problems and the Opportunities of the Oil Industry. 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