THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1977
^TJovernment energy exhibit
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Energy,” a free exhibit that will
at Texas A&M University March
2, will deal with the energy situ-
ion and what is being done to
sure that the nation has adequate
re energy supplies.
*The exhibit comes to A&M from
U. S. Energy Research and De
velopment Administration and is
being sponsored by the Center for
Energy and Mineral Resources
here.
“Energy” will be located im
mediately west of the Kyle Field
stadium in parking lot 62. It will be
open to all interested persons
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3510 EAST 29th ST.
NEAR BRYAN HIGH SCHOOL
779-8685
Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m., and on Saturday from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Two 50-foot trailers will house
animated exhibits, films and
visitor-operated consoles. Two sci
ence instructors will be available to
answer questions.
All types of energy currently in
use will be covered by the exhibit,
along with possible future energy
sources, giving visitors an overall
picture of the nation’s energy prob
lems and their effect on America’s
standard of living.
Several exhibits will depict how
synthetic natural gas can be ob
tained from the nation’s huge coal
reserves. Another exhibit will show
how petroleum may be obtained
from the processing of oil shale. Still
other exhibits will deal with solar
heat collection, geothermal electric
power generation and nuclear
power reactors. Besides exhibits,
there will be several question-and-
answer consoles where visitors can
measure their “energy quotients.”
The exhibit is operated for ERDA
by Oak Ridge Associated Universi
ties, a nonprofit education and re
search organization of colleges and
universities, which includes A&M.
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Campus
THE STUDENT Publications
Board is accepting applications for
summer and fall editorships of The
Battalion and for 1977-78 editor
ships of the Aggieland. Applications
may be obtained at the Student
Publications office, 216 Reed
McDonald Building. Application
deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday, March
22, and forms should be returned to
301 Reed McDonald. Qualifications
for The Battalion and Aggieland
editors are 2.0 overall and major
GPR. The Battalion editor must
have at least one year of experience
in a responsible editorial position on
The Battalion or comparable news
paper, or at least 12 hours of jour
nalism. The Aggieland editor must
have been in a responsible staff pos
ition on the Aggieland or equivalent
yearbook for at least one year.
Texas
WINDS calmed enough last night
to allow firefighters to contain a
range fire which has burned hun
dreds of thousands of acres of ranch
land in the Southwest Texas county
of Schliecher, south of San Angelo.
There were no reports of injuries
and no homes had been destroyed,
said the county’s sheriffs deputy.
High winds pushed the fire across
the northeast part of the county and
into some neighboring counties.
More than 100 persons were fight
ing the blaze.
OFFICIALS in Port Aransas
today are awaiting information
about a Robert Johnson being held
in the Virgin Islands, but held little
hope that the Johnson in custody
was the same one being sought for
grain theft in Texas. The arrest was
learned from a police inspector in
the Latin American country of Be
lize, where Johnson once had busi
ness dealings. Johnson, 43, of Iowa
Park disappeared Jan. 3 during a
fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico.
Since his disappearance, authorities
have investigated Johnson’s grain
businesses and determined at least a
half million bushels of grain were
missing.
THE RIO Grande Valley is being
affected by the nation’s weird
winter, with one section of the area
suffering an overabundance of water
at the same time another part is fac
ing a severe shortage. Because of
inadequate snowpack in the
mountains which feed the Rio
Grande, El Paso has a shortage of
water as the April 1 cotton planting
season approaches. At the same
time in the Brownsville-Harlingen-
McAllen area, farmers have had to
delay cotton planting because of too
much rain.
National
PROJECT Viking scientists are
beginning to think seriously about
sending a roving robot to Mars in
1984, as a result of President Car
ter’s encouraging request for more
money for exploration. The Presi
dent’s amended space agency
budget proposal asked Congress to
add $10 million to the $5 million al
ready in the proposed 1978 spend
ing plan.
AFL-CIO President George
Meany received private assurance
from the President this week that
labor will not be affected by the
anti-inflation program which will
monitor wage increases. However,
administration economist Charles
Schultze yesterday continued to de
fend the need for the program. Car
ter’s anti-inflation program has
changed dramatically since his cam
paign, when he promised to seek
standby authority for wage-price
controls and a mandatory system
requiring advance notice of wage or
price increases.
LESS COFFEE will be drunk by
Americans even if the price goes
down. Ever since 1964, the last
time there was a jump in coffee
prices, consumption has declined in
the United States on a per-person
basis. Young people in particular
are downing more soft drinks,
perhaps even wine and beer, where
their predecessors drank coffee.
These thoughts about the future of
coffee drinking were expressed by
coffee sellers during two days of
congressional hearings into why the
price of coffee has tripled.
BARGE operations carryng farm
commodities down the Mississippi
River system are back to normal fol
lowing a winter freeze, said Jack
Lambert, president of Twin City
Barge and Towing, St. Paul, Minn.
Icing problems which developed in
January “have pretty well dissi
pated” with the return of warmer
weather, he said.
DIPLOMATIC ties between the!
United States and Cuba are contin
gent on at least two things: Cuba
must present “tangible evidence of
the reestablishment of basic human
rights,” and indicate it will not carry
out any more “overseas adventures’’
such as sending troops to Angola,
said President Carter in his news
conference yesterday.
World
TWO SOVIET cosmonauts!
finished their mission in space today
and prepared to return to Earth
after an unusually brief 17-day stay
aboard the Salyet 5 space station.
The cosmonauts were reported to
be feeling well, according to the
Tass news agency.
UGANDA President Idi Amin
says he has put down a military up
rising backed by “Zionists and im
perialists” and foiled a coup plan al
legedly involving U.S., British or
Israeli paratroopers. i'ue United
States called the allegations “ab
surd.” Amin’s comment on Uganda
Radio yesterday was the first gov
ernment acknowledgement of
internal unrest following the mys
terious death last week of the
archbishop and two high-ranking of
ficials. Amin said “some people” had
been killed in the uprising fomented
by rebel officers.
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CIA - WATERGATE - THE SYNDICATE - FBI
MARTIN LUTHER' KING - OSWALD - JFK - RFK
CARL OGLESBY JIM KOSTMAN
MARCH 1,2,3
RUDDER COMPLEX
LECTURES n* SEMINARS
STUDENT: 50< $1 FOR ALL THREE DAYS
NONSTUDENT: 75< $1.50
Tickets are available at the Box Office before each speech.
POLITICAL FORUM PRESENTS:
POLITICS OF CONSPIRACY
TUESDAY, MARCH 1
TOPIC
LOCATION
9:30 - 11:00
CIA and Covert Action
224 MSC
12:30- 2:00
FBI Counterintelligence
Programs
224 MSC
4:00 - 6:00
Recent Record and Current
/
Domestic Intelligence
THEATRE
6:00 - 7:00
Reception
205 MSC
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2
9:00 - 11:00
Lee Harvey Oswald
224 MSC
1:00- 3:00
Garrison Case in
New Orleans
224 MSC
3:00 - 5:00
Robert Kennedy and Martin
Luther King
224 MSC
8:00
Who Killed JFK?
AUDITORIUM
9:00
Reception
205 MSC
THURSDAY, MARCH 3
9:30 - 11:00
Hughes, Rockefeller, and
the Syndicate
701 Tower
12:30- 2:00
Yankee/Cowboy Conflict in
the Kennedy Administration
701 Tower
3:30 - 5:00
James McCord and
Dorothy Hunt
701 Tower
8:00
Yankee/Cowboy Theory of
American Politics
601 Tower
9:00
Reception
205 MSC