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\ igpipcs, S iTs, noise Tlllp the EPA counselors afl United Press International ional inform ASHINGTON — America is >e coming oX lancl of contrast and con - :e and then.Jons. r problems »he one hand, New York au- iti< s refuse to permit the Con corde supersonic transport (SST) to land at John F. Kennedy Airport because of the noise factor. In this area, on the other hand, federal authorities have authorized a downtown bagpipe concert. According to a Smithsonian In stitution press release, “An Evening of Scottish Piping’ will be held at the Museum of History and Technology next Friday. It will feature the Great Highland Bagpipe (GHB) in a program of tra ditional Scottish music, which pre sumably will include “Who Threw the Kilts in Mrs. MacTavish’s Hag gis?” I asked the Environmental Pro tection Agency how the government could square allowing the Scottish GHB to be played in one section of the country while the Anglo-Franco SST was barred from landing in another. The GHB, I pointed out, is capa ble of producing a decibel count roughly 17 per cent above the noise level recorded during Concorde test landings at Washington’s Dules Airport. A spokesman for the agency said there were a number of consid erations involved in the decision. “Kennedy Airport is in the midst of a densely populated residential area. The Smithsonian museums. by contrast, are more or less iso lated along the Mall. “We believe that granting playing rights to the GHB on Friday eve ning after most downtown workers have gone home will cause only minimal complaints.” The main consideration, how ever, is political. Scotland has spent a fortune to develop the Great Highland Bagpipe and has exerted strong diplomatic pressure to obtain playing rights for it in the United States. Earlier proposals to restrict GHB playing rights to the Mojave Desert were unsatisfactory to the Scots. They contend that for a bagpipe concert to be fully effective, it must be held where someone can hear it. THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1977 Page It THREAT ISSUES PRESENTS This Week At Wyatt’s Cafeteria ■ , Mexican Dinner ....$1.49/ |Wednesday Two enchiladas with chili, fried 1 dR. Off EXAS AVENUEl ilELAND II 346-0223 4/6 [Thursday 4/1 rice, beans, tortilla and hot sauce. Chicken and Dumplings .$1.59 Served with two vegetables. Vatt's Cajeteila 804 Texas Ave. Child’s Plate .84 , TkuRsdAy, Apnil 7 RuddER tNeater 8pivi STudENTS 50COThERS $l / 'ThE SEARch For _ •,}') extraterrestriaI lire /U Advance Tickets Available at Rudder Box Office Beginning April 4. LAKEVIEW CLUB 3 Miles N. on Tabor Road Saturday Night: Norville Felts From 9 p.m,-1 a.m. - ST - A| yj Pf p E DANCE Every Tuesday and Thursday Nights Ladies $1.00 Men $2.00 All Brands, Cold Beer 40 Cents 8-12 i i/. 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CAULIFLOWER Club tlb.can Arizona , head Limit 1 please witti, or more irchase.i WE ACCEPT U.S.DA FOOD STAMPS THE FRIENDLIEST ★ 2700 Texas Ave. Sovtb ★ 4300 Texas Ave. ★ 3516 Texas 'Ave. ★ 200 East 24th St. ★ 9 Redmond Terrace COLLEGE STATION and BRYAN, TEXAS Consol High hires new principal Rodney E. LeBoeuf was hired as principal of the A&M Consolidated High School during the regular meeting of the board of trustees Monday night. LeBoeuf, who will start work July 1, replaces Jim Foreman, acting principal, and Vernon Files, direc tor of administrative services. Ver non Files will return to the class room teaching Distributive Educa tion, and Foreman will resume his duties as assistant principal. For the past year, LeBoeuf has been superintendent of Kountze Independent School District. The new principal received his B.A. degree in English and History from Lamar University, completed a Masters of Education degree in Education and Administration at Texas A&M University and is cur rently enrolled in that doctoral pro gram here. LeBoeuf says he will work with the administration to keep the community informed about high School academic programs and extra-curricular phases. He and his wife have three daughters aged 14, 12 and 6. The family is excited about getting in volved in the community. “We were interested in the geo graphic area, but especially in terested in getting our children back into a community that wants a good school program, and we feel that College Station is that commun- nity. We want to get involved in a quality education program,” he said. His classroom experience in cludes one year at Woodlawn Jr. High School, four years at Port Neches Jr. High School and three years at Port Neches-Groves High School. In 1969, LeBoeuf was named As sistant Principal at Port Neches- Groves High School and two years later gained the position of princi pal, which he held for five years. . Doctor says birth control is safe, sure _ . . United Press International LOS. ANGELES —.. An ( '’"'obstetricia'mgyneeologist says there is a sure and safe method of birth control that does not require con traceptive devices or the pill. Dr. Victoria Georges Hufnagel of Cedars-Sinai Hospital said the method relies on the body’s natural safeguards against pregnancy. She said the technique is totally unrelated to the so-called rhythm method but instead is based on the fact that conception is possible only during a few days each month. Dur ing the rest of the time natural bar riers make impregnation impossi- hle. “Further, the few days during which a woman is fertile can easily be recognized by certain clearcut external changes.” The changes show up in bodily secretions, specifically cervical mucus. The secretion, which a woman can test for daily, changes slowly during the month, becoming thin during the period of ovulation and thick during infertile periods. “Under an electron microscope,” she said, “it can be seen to form a natural barrier. It actually prevents fertilization.” “We’ve known about it for some time,” she said, “But many doctors, including gynecologists, don t know enough about it.” One big problem, however, is that the method requires a period of abstinence of six to eight days, said Dr. Gabriel Bialy, head of the con traceptive branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Washing ton . He said there is a paucity of statis tics, but the data that are available suggest the natural family planning method is 95 to 98 per cent effective if followed accurately by couples. The method, known since 1970, is being taught to 154 couples‘at the Cedars-Sinai’s Natural Family Planning Center in a project that got underway last year. The program, funded by the De partment of Health, Education and Welfare’s child health institute, is the only one in the country. The only other program, also adminis tered by Cedars-Sinai, is being con ducted in Bogata, Colombia. The effort is aimed at gathering the data necessary to confirm its ef fectiveness and to determine how attractive the technique is to the public. Bialy said the method has its opponents as well as proponents. “Quite plainly, HEW wanted a method which did not rely on drugs or implanted devices,” Dr. Huf nagel said, “but rather upon one’s own physiological dynamics. “At about the same time, the United Nation’s World Health Or ganization also recognized the ur gent need for safer birth control methods that would not meet cul tural resistance, and it made a simi lar commitment.” “There is a certain cultural stigma about learning to be in touch with your body,” she said. WE UI1IE WE GIVE