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“dl ! that lie’i t.” for saying} 's him i| nyism of | honest, iiment.' gfoupisi tied by I, irgia ^5^ iOTICE be con4ict;J within a ii seven H uesttoha beconducsj h], by an i party wfoi 'rest in it* a appantwrJ be natitjj Jin the recj| bealfordeil to presam tngingtt* ecordsin a not ■ rise in ghtsofspj" wdes an leletondni or othemsi ainedinlii nto IthesluJfli (the dial! THE BATTALION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1977 Page 5 Campus Names Wells on resources council Clyde H. Wells, chairman of he Texas A&M University Sys- em Board of Regents, has heen ementcaj Planted by Gov. Dolph Bris- to the new Natural Re- iources Council. The 11-memher group, com- losed of representatives of key Itate institutions and agencies, vas authorized earlier this year ance’s an, )y the Legislature to help establ ish procedures for wise utiliza- ion of Texas' natural resources. Wells, a rancher and busi- lessman, has heen a member of the Texas A&M hoard since 1961 and is serving an unpreeen- dented fifth consecutive term as its chairman. He is a graduate of both Tarleton State University and Texas A&M University. Wells was named “outstanding businessman-conservationist by six hanks in the Hood-Parker Counties Soil and Water Con servation District in 1975. In 1974, he received the Knapp- Porter Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Texas Agricul tural Extension Serivce. He was named “Man of the Year in Texas Agriculture” in 1967 by the Texas County Agricultural Agents Association. Wells is a director of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association and is a member of the Texas Sheep and Goat Rais ers Association, the American Society of Range Management, Texas Hereford Association and the Soil Conservation Society of America. Irby named new employe guardian Cynthia Ann Irby, whose prior Texas A&M experiences includes teaching, counseling and personnnel work, has been named affirmative action officer for The Texas A&M University System, announced Chancellor Jack K. Williams. Irby succeeds Kenneth B. Livingston in the position estab lished in 1974 to formulate pro grams insuring equal oppor tunities for all personnel and prospective employes. Livingston has assumed new duties as personnel officer for the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. From 1973 until this year, Irby served in Texas A&M s Per sonnel Department, initially as a personnel representative. She was promoted to wage and salary and classification manager in 1975. Her Personnel Depart ment work included interpreta tion of classification policy, help ing establish operating guidelines, wilting job descrip tions, conducting salary surveys and assisting in preparation of Texas A&M University System’s classified pay plans. These ac tivities involved work at Prairie View A&M University, Tarleton State University and Moody Col lege, as well as on the main Texas A&M campus. Irby received a Master of Education Degree in educational psychology in 1973. Execution delayed United Press International HUNTSVILLE — Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell has delayed the Sept. 13 execution of Edward Lincoln King, convicted of killing a Dallas police officer. The papers were handed down to prison officials late Friday. King, 34, of Dallas has until Nov. 5 to file an appeal. King w as convicted in June, 1974, of murdering patrolman Leslie CL Lane. The Lane shooting occurred March 2, 1974, after a five hour spree in which King beat a policewoman outside her apartment and kidnapped two other women. King had been on parole at the time of the shooting after being sen tenced in 1963 for attempted mur der, robbery and burglary. eat belt tudy esults 'rivers who get a hump on the id or a rap to the knee in an acci- iitshow a higher tendency to use belts thereafter than do drivers red more seriously or those not |rt at all, reveals a Texas A&M iversity study of 405 Brazos unty operators involved in acei- nts during 1975. owever, no driver’s attitude mged in favor of mandatory seat It laws because of his wreck, say t. David Alen Stern and Dr. llirice Dennis. Dennis is director khe Texas A&M Safety Education fl.. rnrpk ■gram. rector such)! heir findings also indicated that rried persons, who made up 62 r cent of the sample, showed a tedpareW 11 ' 1 ' overall penchant for using loffwa it belts following their crash, lieconda fhe 47 drivers in the study W'ho [teived “possible injuries” (no lible wounds, limping, pain, un- innofai nseiousness) showed the most s, wgtt! sitive attitude about wearing seat ams.fci |( s j n th e future. ucafaM ^e study shows that the 46 finer)anir erators who received injuries )gi n g from minor lacerations to jiiationw kt internal injuries, plus the 312 livers not hurt at all, did not dis- ly any marked attitude change aid using belts as a result of ir accident. Stern said 300 of the drivers re- ; type« r t e( l they were not w'earing seat Its at the time, roughly corre- limding to national estimates lich suggest that only one in five ickles up while in the car. What do the findings mean in the ttle to make people aware that could he saved by using seat Its? flbe researchers suggest subject- gall drivers to an accident produc- jig "possible injuries, an approach : n g as undesirable as it is impractical /tode fed costly. rUftJwThe next best thing may be the ’ Beat belt convineer,” a device capa ble of simulating the low-speed BeyoraWnditions in which a driver would office! tj 1 y he humped, rapped or l ’' blocked senseless, on ■ Designed specifically for demon- ion Itations, the “convineer" consists of isiwcmeat which is drawn mechanically pan incline, then allowed to free- 'imiosi ill backwards down a track to rnt** leatc forces occurring in a crash at llOmph. ^ |The study recommends that the enfl' bivincer he used in conjunction ^ nth a multi-media information pro- [am carried out in public schools. DELIVERS FAST DELIVERS HOT DELIVERS FREE We accept checks. 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