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Page 4B THE BATTALION Tuition tax credit may pass yet United Press International WASHINGTON — If you’re a college student — or footing the bill for one — you may be eligible for a federal tax credit under bills passed by the House and Senate. The amount will depend on a House-Senate conference, yet to be held, to negotiate differences be tween the measures. That conference also will deter mine whether the final bill includes tuition credits for elementary and secondary education in private and parochial schools. The House says yes. The Senate, by a 56-41 vote after three days of emotional de bate, last week voted no. But whether there are any tax credits for any level of education also will depend on President Car ter, who has threatened to veto them. He prefers to expand the existing college student grant and loan pro gram. The Senate is considering one version of Carter’s proposal -— to make an estimated additional 1.5 million students eligible for college education grants. The margin by which the Senate approved its tuition credits bill, 65-27, was more than the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto. The House margin, 237-158, was under it. WOMEN. YOU’RE EQUAL IN THE AIR FORCE. Women start out on the same footing as men in Air Force ROTC. Women wear the same insignia and hold the same cadet positions in AFROTC, just as they do later on as Air Force officers. And the same AFROTC scholarship can be yours as a woman. If you qualify, you can have your tuition, book costs and lab fees paid by the Air Force, and receive $100 a month for other expenses. It helps free you to concentrate on your education. And that’s important. As an Air Force officer, you’ll be expected to use your train ing and education, and be a leader managing people and complex systems. You’ll be handed executive responsibility starting with your first job. It’s a great way to be equal, and a great way to serve your country. Check into the AFROTC program at your campus. Be sure to ask about AFROTC scholarships — you may be * helping yourself earn an exciting new lifestyle. AFROTC DET 805 Military Science Bldg. TAMU Gateway to a great way of life. - sri ' / c m rf?. Taking aim The antelope that bowhunter Carl Mikel is aiming at isn’t the flesh-and-blood variety. It’s one of 56 life-like animal targets which tested the skill of archers from across Texas last weekend during the State Broadhead Archery Firm to study acoustics on tapes Tournament. Mikel, from Richwood, wasontl of almost 200 bowhunters competing inllit| two-day tournament, held at the Brazos Bo*| men Archery Club range on Hwy. 60. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper] Re-enactment of JFK shooting may show number of guns usd DALLAS — The sharpshooter squinted out over Dealy Plaza from a window in the Texas School Book Depository, took aim and fired. But this time it was an experiment in ae- coustics and not the death of John F. Kennedy. The re-enactment Sunday was for the House Assassinations Commit tee, which wants to compare differ ent gunfire sounds with a tape of a police radio that picked up noises from the plaza during the Nov. 22, 1963, shooting. With a four-block section of downtown Dallas blocked off by 50 officers, three marksmen pumped 54 rounds into sandbags placed along Elm Street, where the presi dential motorcade was traveling when the fatal shots were fired. Two officers fired rifles and a third used a .38-caliber pistol in the 414 hour test. Microphones carefully positioned around the assassination site recorded the sounds. They will be analyzed by acousti cal experts from the Boston firm of Bolt, Beranke and Newman, which investigated the 18V4-minute gap in a key Watergate tape. The firm Doctors extract cure for pains in the wallet United Press International CHICAGO — If you have a pain in the area of your wallet, your load of credit cards may be to blame. ‘Wallectomy’ resulted in fairly immediate and complete relief” for two patients. Dr. Elmar G. Lutz of St. Mary’s Hospital, Passaic, N.J., wrote in Tuesday’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical As sociation. Each patient was a man with an extremely thick wallet — one more than an inch thick, Lutz said. The man with the inch-plus thick wallet suffered pain for 14 months and doctors tentatively diagnosed several serious illnesses. Pain was most pronounced when the man drove long distances, which he had to do for his employer, Lutz said. “Wallectomy” — removal of the hefty wallet from his hip pocket — finally cured him. The other man was in pain for eight years, although his wallet was not quite an inch thick. In his case, too, removal of the wallet from a pocket at the seat of his pants pro duced a cure. Lutz said. won Id nt sa\ when the resuifl be released. Company officials say sounds on the poll co-radio tetlJ indicate four — possibly five j shots might have been RrediJllf area where Kennedy was slain# then-Texas Gov. John ConnajH wounded. The Warren Commissi investigated the slaying, three shots were fired, came from a sixth-floor \ the Texas School Book I and that Lee Harvey 0 the man with the gun. Patrolman Jerry Compton, ing a baseball cap and resting! elbow on a small sandbag, Hid shots from the School Book Da sitory with a rifle similar to# which the Warren Cominissionsi Oswald used. Compton said it was not cliffi to get off a few shots in a shortti “You betcha I could fire tlnees in six seconds, he said. "Itsl necessary to have any special ing to use the rifles.” He was confident the expert would clarify what happendl Dealy Plaza nearly 15 years! “I’m sure it will prove someth 1 ] he said. “They’ve made so j progress over the years will tapes. ” ATTENTION ORP & TSA PARTICIPANTS Security Benefit Life* Is Now Available a TAMU contact Phil Gibson, CLU Jess Burditt III Jerry Birdwell, CLU Tim Birdwell TSA TAX SHELTER ASSOCIATES 3200 S. COLLEGE 822-1559 BRYAN, TX. 'RATED #1 IN INDEPENDENT COMPARISON REPORT