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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1977
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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.
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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.
This is the reason I was in favor of
going ahead with the expanded
elementary school programs, and, if
we have to, put some extra teachers
into the first and second grades for
those kids who are having a hard
time keeping up. Then that is the
place to focus on and see to it that
(See “Fitch” page 10)
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