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Page 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1977 ^ ^ ^ » I Vi % (Sbi/nwiff ^ftoowi “TUB— Serving Luncheon Buffet Sunday through Friday 11:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. $3.00 Top Floor of Tower Dining Room Sandwich & Soup Mon. thru Fri. $1.75 plus drink extra Open to the Public: Carter signs wage bill "QUALITY FIRST'' United Press International —WASHINGTON — President Carter today signed legislation rais ing the minimum wage to $3.35 an hour by 1981 —a $1.05 increase rep resenting the biggest pay hike for lowwage workers in history. Government officials estimate the bill, providing an initial raise to $2.65 next Jan. 1, will put an additional $9 billion into the pockets of some 5.3 million American work ers over the next four years. It represented a major victory for organized labor. Never before has Congress approved a minimum wage increase as big as $1.05 an hour. Big business strenously fought the in crease, warning it would contribute to inflation and unemployment. Labor Department analysts pre dicted 4.3 million persons would enjoy increased wages totaling $2.6 billion from the initial 35-cent-an- hour increase provided in the bill next year. Subsequent increases promise $2.90 an hour in 1979, $3.10 in 1980 and $3.35 in 1981 — affecting another 1 million workers at a cost of $6.3 billion over a three year period. The measure also provides a bet ter deal for workers who depend on tips. Hotel and restaurant workers also would get better overtime cov erage. But an estimated 800,000 jobs in small businesses will be removed from minimum wage protection. Tipped employees — including restaurant workers, porters and other service employees — cur rently receive only 50 percent of the minimum wage. The new law provides them with at least 55 per cent by Jan. 1, 1979, and 60 percent by 1980. Some 2.4 million hotel and res taurant workers currently must work 46 hours in one week to get overtime rates. The limit would be reduced to 44 hours next Jan. 1 and 40 hours in 1979. Employers with annual sales under $250,000 currently are not re quired to pay the minimum wage. That exemption will be increased to $275,000 by July 1, 1978, and $325,000 on July 1, 1979, and $362,500 on Dec. 31, 1981. The current minimum wage is $2.30 for non-agricultral workers and $2.20 for farm workers. The new bill provides an identical minimum wage for both farm and non-farm workers. Bryan rence lias the 19- 111 tors of t! Archaeol scientific Texas A 6 Girl, 19, can see again United Press International PHILADELPHIA — A 19-year- old Mexican girl blinded by disease 10 years ago has regained her sight thanks to a fairly new suction in strument used by doctors at Wills Eye Hospital. Marie de Jesus Rodriquez Her nandez, who was flown to Philadel phia with funds raised by residents in her hometown of Guzman, told doctors she can see “lights, shadows and movement for the first fijne since she contacted uveitis and lost her sight at age 9. The surgery performed on the woman was a success, said Dr. Jay Federman of Will's Retina Service. But it is not known how much sight she will regain. Federman said it would take months of care and spe cial training. “If we re lucky, we might be able to get her to the stage where she can walk through a room using her ey es without bumping into things," he said. “The only thing preventing her seeing is the functional state of her own tissue. “I doubt the time will come when she can read, print or anything like that, but for a person who has been blind, just to be able to see someone in front — that represents a whole new world to that person," he said. Federman developed the suction infusion tissue extractor, or SITE instrument, which was used in the surgery to suck the vitreous “de bris” from the delicate retina sur faces. eye disease clouded the Federman said the formed cataracts and colored part of Rodriquez eye. “The disease had caused the vitreous, which is the jelly part of the eye, to become opaque, com pletely white like a frosted win dow, he said. Ph Pi Pfiet. p^Sfra n^es i f ° r an, Ce ew/ /<? - A ' n 4f S* 4^ C n °' ete r e abZl 0 * Ma!P e Ph GrPt c °i-at t’s Or / 0t P ho n yo u e °m °/?e< e Pa/; M\^ Bryan/College Station The b' Kelley of Nixon Gr vice chaii of Dallas year ten oversees Texas George 1 a three-) dent. Al: presiden two ye Catherin INA i quarters temher campus training cheologi Uniti j ST. 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The ligh nore norn its into a vear the > The Department of Philosophy Texas A&M University Hosts The Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Societi at the Rudder Conference Center Thursday, November 3 Papers on Kant, Peirce, Dewey Heidegger Friday, November 4 Papers on Logic, Hume, Plato, L» Saturday, November 5 Papers on Aesthetics and Rationalise The Public is Invited Full Schedule available at the Philosophy Department 219 Academic Building or at Registration Desk, 2nd Floor Rudder Tower ielp suppo andicappe Doctors nodern tei ith a bro; For mar leavv stee he shoe '•her kids A hand >f his look nore nor ealthier I “Cripph ; eptible tc