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y First solo trip to North Pole completed by Japanese man United Press International WASHINGTON — The National Geographic Society says a Japanese explorer named Naomi Uemura reached the North Pole alone by dog sled, despite polar bear attacks, a three-day snowstorm and impass able ice ridges. Uemura, 37, became the first man to make the trek to the pole alone Sunday after spending 54 days crossing more than 500 miles of fro zen Arctic Ocean from Cape Co lumbia on Ellesmere Island in Canada’s remote Northwest Ter ritories. His progress was followed by a space agency satellite that monitored radio signals from a small battery-powered radio transmitter mounted on the sled, and confirmed by an airplane that met him at the pole. As the next leg of his journey Uemura had planned to travel by sled from the pole to northern Greenland and then proceed southward through Greenland’s iso lated interior. Ice breakups between the pole and Greenland forced a change in plans, and instead he and his dogs will be airlifted to the northern tip of Greenland, where he will have to climb an ice mountain nearly 10,000 feet high. Uemura began his expedition March 7 and was attacked two days later by a polar bear. The bear ate most of the food being carried for Uemura’s 17 sled dogs, and de stroyed his tent. The next day, after an airplane replenished the dog food supply, the bear returned and Uemura shot and killed it from 75 yards. Licking the heat While temperatures soared into the 80s last week, Marc and Dougie Macintire kept their cool by taking their own land of heat first aid internally — ice cream. The Macintires are both students at Texas A&M University. Carter tells Democrats: will veto overspending te, Ml United Press International WASHINGTON — Warning that he will veto overspending on such items as highways and education, ! President Carter told Democratic ! congressional leaders Tuesday the fight against inflation is his top prior- ity ' House Speaker Thomas O’Neill said Carter warned them at a White House meeting that “we could an ticipate vetoes on anything that could be budget-busting’’ — includ ing too much spending on such popular items as highways and edu- the top items discussed were tax legislation, a tax treaty with the United Kingdon and energy. White said tax revision and civil service reform were also discussed. GIBSON S “WMOf VM ALWAYS MV TM KST YM IESS**- msoirs DISCOUNT CENTER W-9 MON.-SAT. SUN. 10-6 GOOD THRU SATURDAY TI 1000 CALCULATORS $099 Texas Instruments INCORPORATED ITEC 15 Gael cation. 7, A; Carter discussed a “laundry list of legislative priorities with O’Neill and Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd at the breakfast meet ing, said Democratic National Chairman John White. — O’Neill said Carter also plugged for his airline deregulation bill and for his hospital cost containment legislation as ways to hold down in flation. While the president cannot veto the congressional budget, which reached the House floor Tuesday, he could veto any of the appropria tions bills needed to fund specific progams. Byrd told reporters they dis- j cussed legislative priorities for the I , remainder of the session and among rd. ® UED University Bookstore “At the Northgate” WE BUY ALL BOOKS! (Even paperbacks & out-of-edition books If you bring them In with your good text books) Sell your books before you leave for the summer — they’re worth more now! We also buy used Biology, Chemistry & drawing equipment w 1 University Bookstore “At the Northgate” ’ c '’° < Mif PPU 'H to most checking customers. > If you’re a Bank of A&M checking customer, your service charges are now computed on “average daily balance’’ rather than the “minimum daily balance.’’ The computer schedule is nearly the same. But the net effect of the difference could save you $1.00 or $2.00 a month. Not every customer will benefit (it depends on your account’s balance during the month). In no case, however, will a customer pay more service charges under this new system than was assessed during the standard “minimum daily balance’’ schedule. If you’re a Bank of A&M customer, you may spend less money on banking service than ever before. If you’re not a Bank of A&M customer, here’s another reason to switch. We>e more than a bank because you’re more than a customer. That’s our slogan - and lower service charges is on e way to prove it. Bank of A&M 111 UNIVERSITY DRIVE / MEMBER FDIC rnmm THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1978 Page 5 CUSTOM SOUNDS PRESENTS A End of School Sale! <a Piorueerr STEREO FM/AM RECEIVER REG. $225.00 SALE 15 watts per channel with no more than 0.5% Total Harmonic Distortion *14995 CiDmoiMeeir SX-550 \M/FM STEREO RECEIVER REG. $275.00 SALE *17995 20 WATTS PER CHANNEL WITH NO MORE THAN 0.3% TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION. (H>n»ioi\]eerr AM/FM STEREO RECEIVER REG. $650.00 SALE 85 WATTS PER CHANNEL WITH NO : MORE THAN 0.1 % HARMONIC DIS TORTION. FULL AUTOMATIC TURNTABLE *69 95 BELT-DRIVE TURNTABLE WITH WALNUT BASED DUST COVER CT-F9191 CASSETTE DECK REG. $475.00 SALE FRONT-ACCESS STEREO CASSETTE DECK WITH DOLBY fl&moixieeRT HPIV-40 3-U AY 3-DRIVER SPEAKERS REG. $150.00 *89 95 HANDLES 40 WATTS "The Woofer" says — If you need to add a little spunk in your summer, this is one end-of-school sale you best not skip! CUSTOM SOUNDS 3806-A COLLEGE RD. Next to Triangle Bowling Alley 846-5803 SS Open 10-6 Mon.-Sat.