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 *
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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. ”
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