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THE BATTALION Page 9 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1977 Top of the News Campus National (AMU-FM, Texas A&M’s new jo station, will begin operations ay. Sign-on ceremonies are set 2:50p.m. with University Presi- it Jack K. Williams and other WM officials joining in inaugural ■ivities for the noncommercial H outlet featuring classical, semi- Jhisical, jazz and easy listening sic. The frequency, assigned at 3 megahertz, will operate 18 irs daily. Texas AT LEAST 10 VICTIMS of the nary Islands airliner collision will treated at Brooke Army Medical inter in San Antonio, which meered much of the burn treat- ints used in the United States, ire than 50 victims of the crash eflown to the U.S. today, arriv al McGuire Air Force Base in if Jersey before being distrib- d to several burn centers around country. [HE BALLOT STUB signature niirem ent was tentatively dished yesterday in a bill passed the House. The tentative' ap- val of the legislation is hoped to minate machine politics. A CAPSIZED BOAT in the Gulf of Mexico has led to the death of five persons. The owner of the 20-foot craft, Marvin McLeod, tried for hours to keep his six companions cl inging to the boat, but eventually all but one of them slipped into the water like “they’d seen their Maker and was ready to go,” he said. The two were rescued yesterday. SENATORS worried about a limitation on outside income in the proposed new ethics code won a re prieve yesterday with a quick and surprising vote to delay the restric tion a year until the start of 1979. Not a single member objected to postponing the $8,625 annual ceil ing on income from speeches and other “personal services,” easily the most hotly contested provision of the proposed code and a target of bipartisan attacks. WOMEN who use birth control pills and smoke 15 or more ciga rettes a day should switch to another form of contraception—or stop smoking, health authorities recommended yesterday. The warn ing was issued jointly by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and the Population Council on the basis of American and British studies that found that pills and smoking com bined raised the rate of heart attack deaths among women over 30. PRESIDENT CARTER, facing his first major partisan test on the $50 tax rebate, also is preparing some 10 messages to send to Con gress over the next month or so. Press Secretary Jody Powell said the subject matter would include the energy program, welfare reform and a consumer agency. United Press International learned a message on food stamp reform will be forthcom ing within days, establishment of a consumer agency soon, and an environmental program probably during April. FOUND DEAD yesterday in an apparent suicide in Palm Beach, Fla. was a language professor de scribed as “intimately involved” with Lee Harvey Oswald and a “crucial witness” in the Congres sional investigation of the Kennedy assassination. The victim was iden tified as George de Mohrenschildt, 65, a flamboyant Russian-born teacher of French at Dallas’ Bishop College. THE NEWEST MEMBER of a government panel studying how to reduce the amount of a suspected cancer in bacon and other cured meats says she only eats bacon once a year. Ellen Zawel of Harrington Park, N.J. made that admission yes terday, but also raised some ques tions. She asked if any investiga tions had been undertaken on the effects of consumers who eat meats with some vegetables, such as col- lard greens, which have a high con centration of nitrite. NICK CIVELLA, reputed leader of the Kansas City Mafia for the past 20 years, will undergo tests to de termine if his health will allow him to serve a prison sentence for a fed eral gambling conviction. Civella 65, will undergo more than 90 days of physical and psychiatric testing. After the hospital results are re ceived, U.S. District Judge William Collinson said he will either put Civella on probation, reduce the sentence, or affirm the original 42-month sentence. World THE KLM PILOT did not have permission to take off from a foggy runway that ended in the fatal colli sion with a Pan American jetliner, a Dutch investigator said yesterday But KLM questioned the report. F A. Van Rysen, chief of the Dutch team investigating the crash Sun day, says the Dutch captain merely said, “We are taking off, and started the fatal run. School Board Fitch—Position 4 W.D. Fitch, 55, 1712 Glade St., builder and developer. Why do you think you are qual ified to hold a position on the school board? I’ve had one year’s experience on the school board and I’ve also had 30 years experience in College Sta tion. I attended A&M. I understand what it takes in order to be qualified to go to college and also, I under stand very well what it takes to be qualified to hold a job. What do you consider to be the highest priorities of the board? The basic, fundamental needs are, and it may sound a little trite, but it’s reading, writing and arith metic. Everything else is nice, but if they don’t get that, they missed their education. I want this to be priority one in the school board. Should the curriculum be ex panded on both the elementary and secondary levels? What courses should be included? I think the curriculum has been sufficiently expanded. Any addition al expansion would only clutter it up. There’s only so many school hours in the day and there s only so many teachers. Do you approve of corporal punishment? In what cases should corporal punishment be used? I don’t think it does any good for high school students. I think they either laugh at it or resent it to the extent that it does more harm than good. A sharp little whack for some of the ones in the earlier grades might get their attention and cause them to straighten up. I’m not talking about beating them, just slight whacks to let them know the teacher is not joking when she says to be quiet or pay attention. Have you been satisfied \vith the performance of the current school board? If not, why? No, and this includes me. Al though I vote in the minority on some questions that come up before the school board, I think that the school board is not yet in full control of how our school system is run. I think if the elected representa tives of the people have the respon sibility of being in charge then the trustees and not the school adminis tration should set the policies and be in charge. Do you think the present over crowdedness will be alleviated with last year’s bond election, or is more construction needed? I think we do need some additional classroom space because we were told as members of the school board and the community that full-time compulsory kinder garten would be on us next year. #hase. SHOP PIGGIY WIGGLY FOR KINO TO THE BUDGET PRICES FITCH That is not the case, as we found out now. It has not been approved and even if it is, full-time compulsory kindergarten will be approved as an option. The legislature has passed nothing to that affect. So, we are now in the process of building full kindergarten facilities. In addition to that, we are provid ing something I think is important and that is physical education facilities at the elementary schools. I think these little folks need it and I want them to have it. We do not have quite the stu dent/teacher ratio we’d like to have but the other schools are not over crowded and if anybody has por trayed this to be then they are mis taken. Do you support continued de velopment of vocational programs? I’m strongly in favor of proceed ing diligently on with the high school vocational building which I think the voters, as they voted for the bonds, want. I’m in favor of starting immediately. I would have given it priority over the other things because this is the place where we are really over crowded and really have no space. What are your thoughts on fu ture programs for students with learning disabilities and acceler ated students? Concerning accelerated students, I don’t know that you’re doing them any favor, even though they may have exceptional mental capacities, in shoving them into taking college courses before they get out of high school. The people who really need tbe help, and these are the people 1 am dedicated to helping, are the ones with so-called learning disabilities. But I believe most of those kids who have what is called learning dis abilities don’t really have any learn ing disabilities. They got short changed in the first, second and third grades or you’d find that they don’t have any learning disabilities. 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