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Page 6 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1978 the music booth 3202 TEXAS AVE., BRYAN 779-3988 TAKAMINE - GIBSON - YAMAHA - HONDO MUSIC MAN - VENTURA - ASPEN - IIDA APPLAUSE - HOHNER - SHU RE $19.4 billion OK'd in ag fiscal budget STRING INSTRUMENT SPECIALIST GUITARS, BANJOS, MANDOLINS, VIOLINS, DRUMS, AMPS, SHEET MUSIC, LESSONS, REPAIRS, ACCESSORIES WM. M, & BILLY BOOTH - OWNERS IT I HANDY BURGER AGGIE SPECIAL SAVE 50c — Regular $2.25 I double meat/double cheese with french fries or onion I rings I Jumbo Burger & Fries Only 99c | Clip coupon to be h presented with order " 203 University Dr. 846-7466 regular $1.50 Coupon good through June 18, 1978 a WHY SEARCH?? It’s A Free Service A&M Apt. jjsl PLACEMENT SERVICE APTS • HOUSES • DUPLEXES 693-3777 2339 S. Texas, C.S. Next to the Dairy Queen WEEKEND MOVIES MANOR EAST 3 THEATRES MANOR EAST MALL SYLVESTER STALLONE RETURNS FROM “ROCKY" TO STAR IN — F. I. S- T. 1:40 4:15 7:00 9:40 H/5 story will hove you singing, laughing, crying, cheering and stomping your feet. 2:40 THE 3 9:50 BUDDY HOLLY STORY [PG^ IN STEREO Pictures I Skyway Twin! EAST THE GREAT SMOKEY ROADBLOCK PLUS DIXIE DYNAMITE WEST GO TELL THE SPARTANS PLUS KING KONG Campus b 46 - 6512 COLLEGE STATION WALTER MATTHAU s IN HOUSE CALLS FM.-SAT. MIDNIGHT - RDCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW ALL SEATS $1.50 United Press International WASHINGTON — The House Appropriations Committee Tuesday approved a $19.4 billion Agriculture Department budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct.l, rejecting a plea for changes made by Agricul ture Secretary Bob Bergland. By voice vote, the committee ac cepted without amendment a bill approved by the agriculture approp riations subcommittee, increasing spending for several Agriculture Department programs in opposition to administration wishes and restor ing research funds the administra tion sought to cut. Bergland had appeared in open hearing before the comparable Se nate subcommittee and the House subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Jamie Whitten, D-Miss., to argue that the changes hampered his and President Carter’s attempts to run the government. Whitten’s reply was: T think it’s time the people’e branch got back in the saddle.” the bill is $76 million less than the administration proposal, but the administration said it was actually a $19.8 billion budget, inflated by $400 million by a budgetary device. “Our protestations had very little effect,” said James Webster, the Ag riculture Department’s director of governmental and public affairs. The bill calls for a reduction in personnel in the agriculture secre tary’s office and an increase in per sonnel for programs that deal di rectly with farmers. The administration had hoped to contract for agricultural research by competitive bidding, but the com mittee restored administration cuts in Agriculture Department re search. The budget includes $6.8 billion for general agriculture programs, $2 billion for rural development, $7.9 billion for domestic food programs, including food stamps, and miscel laneous allocations. The bill is expected to go to the full House next week. The Senate subcommittee has scheduled its de cisions on the budget next week. The House subcommittee said One controversial restored item was $3.1 million in tobacco produc tion research. The committee also included a provision, spurred by the debate over vitamin-fortified breakfast bars given to school children for break fast, to allow local governments to decide what to serve for breakfast. It was a blow to the Agriculture De partment’s proposed rule to ban the bars, called “super donuts.” Whitten, noting that he had diffi culty telling his children what to eat, said, “A government official cannot make them eat what they don’t want to eat by executive or der.” Record tug-of-war gamcj ends in disaster for studem United Press International HARRISBURG, Pa. — A lighthearted attempt by the Har risburg Middle School to set a world tug of war record began with the drop of a yellow flag. It ended tragically about three minutes later with 70 students injured, four of them with parts of their fingers sliced off. For nearly three minutes, 2,200 students and teachers from the school strained against the 2,000-foot long, 1 Vi-inch, braided nylon cable. Then there was a sound like a rifle shot. The rope, which was supposed to be strong enough to withstand the pull of 13,000 pounds, had snapped. Besides the four students who lost parts of their fingers, another 66 were treated at local hospitals for burned, blistered hands and possible fractures. And 150 to 2001 more were treated by school nurses for hand bums. Marshall Layton, principal of the school, said the students and teachers were trying to set a rec ord for the largest tug-of-war so they could get into the Guinness Book of World Records. “It sounded like an explosion. It really popped and everybody went flying,” said Pete Rekus, a news photographer who witnes sed the accident. “There was some confusion at first until the kids realized what happened and looked at their burned hands. I saw one kid running with his hand held up in the air saying, ‘My finger’s gone. My finger’s gone.’” The rope, loaned to the school district by the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., had a break ing strength of 13,000 pounds. Regina Holmes, 13, who suf fered severe burns and blisters on both hands, said the rope “popped just like a gun going off. It exploded right in my BEIR My hands felt like they wtn P!' 0rlX fire.” |b pes Witnesses said the ropelj J U about one-third of them ^ ‘[' K i from the left side. One; smoke issued from the rote; r i . 1 caching ' Travel before it snapped. “There were too manyje L ^ pulling. There was just toon R \ heat, too much resistance, ml’ Janice Hicks, 14, who stfl ["jf 11 . in killii hand hums. . i leh, sc Betty Bogar, spokeswon® pleimai Harrisburg Polyclinic Hosp |, said four persons were Ira |„ e • for amputations. They were Donald Burnett, 16,1 the little finger of his right k John Price, 14, who losttlitsj the little finger ofhisrigl Dale Roberts, 13, who kh Q a j] tips of the third and fourtlBLi e c gers of his right hand, and 111 mor Lewis, 13, who lost part left thumb. tflTl Fords, Fiats under investigatioi for wheel, fuel, steering defect 1 POLITICAL FORUM and Brazos County Bar Association Present: LAW DAY United Press International DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. and Fiat officials have pledged their cooperation in a federal safety inves tigation of suspected fuel line and steering defects in Ford and Mer cury cars and possible wheel bear ing problems in Fiats. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced earlier this week it will study the vehicles to determine if a safety- related recall should be ordered. Spokesmen for the two firms said Tuesday they hope for a speedy res olution of the matter. Included in the investigation are 568,000 1975 and 1976 Ford Granadas and Mercury Monarchs the agency suspects could spring gasoline leaks in a small rubber hose connecting the fuel line to the gasoline filter on the carburetor, re sulting in fire in the engine com partment. Also involved are more than 1.2 <1 l>v, “ ‘ featuring Judge W. C. Davis of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Thursday, June 15 8:00 p.m., Rudder Forum (< Qbc INTERSTATE UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER 846-6714 & 84^-1151 LAST / OAVS: CINEMA 2: 15,4:05 : 5: 55,7:45] ! & 9:35 H StarringTony CUftiS THE BAD NEWS BEARS GO TO JAPAN f$i. i sat. $1.28 M 9 LIVES OF FRITZ THE CAT"] • mLu I'V/lAAOS fSJ\ 2:50 5:10 7:30 9:50 FR|DAY 2:30,4:4 7:15,9:4 CAPRICORN - DIME Technicolor® HELD OVER! - - - Qbc INTERSTATE UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER 846-6714 & 846-11 CINEMA WILLIAM LEE HOLDEN GRANT iopi he ( million 1973-1975 Ford Pi* | tang II and Mercury manual steering the agency could go out of control as a a loosened bolt in the slfention: mechanism. H doc The Fiat investigation®!arte 1973-1977 Fiat 128 and X-l-his Mai cars the agency believes nSouth perience front wheel bear foreign ure, resulting in loss ofcontieside to wheel looseness, lockup Been] aration. lol An agency spokesmansak vestigations began as a n sinner complaints and del ranty claims. Nine accktaj two injuries reported in steering problem were mishaps on record, theager; jjstru John C. Eckhold, Ford'si |ir in of automotive safety, pany has provided thegowl with all information res', defim date and "will cooperate ret,” ] agency to resolve both ia quickly as possible.” He noted Ford volunti called 66,000 1974 Pinto« tang II models earlier that company investigate»ctivit had potential steeringproHprougl result of “assembly processBf (that) were not fully effect!' Ma the As a result, he said, “the* coupling flange bolt adequately tightened oiu ifj'l percentage of vehicles, at# P that could — in use —result i pling flange slippage on the! f WAS shaft.” n P ec arter Frans Donk, vice preside' ents gineering and service forFii ! langi Co. of North America Inc,,' icreta gineers had “conducted - aid W tests and a thorough invest Kiss of the alleged hearing proliNBC-T “We have found no insly^s dangerous hearing failure t® 6 t stantiated complaints of loss™ 6 nai trol, wheel looseness, wheel or wheel separation,’’ Doi “We are confident the vestigation, with which «t| cooperated fully, will not safety-related problems w| hearings.” ( PridaW MONDAYS thru SATURDAYS From Opening To 5 p.m. \(Exiept Sundays and Holidays) MATINEES EVERY DAY MONDAY EVENING TUESDAY EVENING WEDNESDAY SPECIAL SPECIAL EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak Mexican Fiesta Chicken Fried Beei with Dinner Steak w/cream Mushroom Gravy Two Cheese and' Gravy Whipped Potatoes Onion Enchiladas Whipped Potatoes ant Your Choice of w/chili Choice of one other One Vegetable Mexican Rice Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Patio Style Pinto Beans Roll or Corn Bread and Bl' Coffee or Tea Tostadas Coffee or Tea One Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea ADULT $3.00 CHI LD' $1.50 EKMlHN ©MENU The first time was only a warning^ A HARVEY BERNHARD PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH MACE NEUFELD WILLIAM HOLDEN LEE GRANT DAMIEN - OMEN II Produced by HARVEY BERNHARD Co-Produced by CHARLES ORME Directed by DON TAYLOR Screenplay by STANLEY MANN and MICHAEL HODGES Story by HARVEY BERNHARD Musk JERRY GOLDSMITH COtOR BY DELUXE® PANAVIStON® I OMQlNAl motion PtCTUHi SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE ON 2ph CENTURY-FOX RECORDS AND YAKS. | R WK3TWICT1P •»££» UHOER 17 IKQUIRES ACCOMPANYING PARENT OH AOUIT GUARDIAN O 1976 Twentieth Century-Fox I I Mf Now Better Than Ever. 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