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• THE BATTALION Page 7 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1978 Youth’s balloon travels overseas ‘Hey, Mom, are you sure Shasta started this way?’ United Press International PORT HURON, Mich. — The Double Eagle II got all the head lines, but it wasn’t the only balloon to accomplish a trans-Atlantic flight this summer. A small, helium-filled balloon launched by a 13-year-old Port Huron boy bas turned up in Her- tordshire, England. James Tuschling Jr. got the nine- inch balloon last June while attend ing a 75th anniversary picnic at the Ford Motor Co. tractor plant in Romeo, where his father works. He sent the balloon aloft with a plastic sandwich bag containing a note that said: “If you find this balloon, send it and this letter to James H. Tuschl ing Jr., 3016 Howard St., Port Hu ron, Mich. Send your name and ad dress and we will be pen pals.” Last week, James said he re ceived a letter from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, Eng land, dated Sept 2. It said: “Dear James, Your balloon has really gone a long way. My boy friend and I found it last weekend as we were taking his dog for a walk along the canal. “However, I don’t think I’d make a very good pen pal, as I’m a 19- year-old girl! If you would like to write to someone in England, then drop me a line and tell me your age and interests, and I’ll try to get you fixed up. Regards, Elaine Whit taker. “P.S. Your balloon is a bit bulky to send airmail, but the note we found is enclosed.’’ James, who has amazed his fellow students at Yale Junior High School with the letter, said he has written Miss Whittaker to tell her more about himself and his balloon exper iment. Mutley, a 4-week-old male cougar and his mom, Sheiba, were the re cent visitors to a Bryan automobile dealership. The animals, owned by Cougars Unlimited of Arlington, Texas, were the guests of Beal Ford Sales Inc. Photographer Jeanne Lopez caught the cougars in a pen sive mood as they were resting after a hard day of promotional visits to area elementary schools. The big cats were in town to promote Ford-Lincoln Mercury automobiles. The felines were noncommittal on the upcoming Aggie-Cougar football game Oct. 14 in the Astrodome, where the University of Houston mascot Shasta will be on hand. ditor replaced |for Aggieland Working as cog hurts Society alienates Man 599 llhe Student Publications Board Is appointed Marilou Tenhet “act- Ig editor” of the Texas A&M Uni- Trsity yearbook for the fall semes- jr, replacing editor Pat O’Malley. I O’Malley, who was head photo- apher last year for “The Aggie- nd has reported an insufficient lerall grade point average, forcing « decision by the board. An over- IGPR of 2.0 or better is required for the post. Jlf O’Malley meets the academic itandards by the end of the fall Imester, then he will be desig- Ited co-editor along with Tenhet. Tenhet was to serve as assistant editor under O’Malley for the^79 Aggieland. She is a junior modern language major from Texas City. O’Malley also presented the budget for this year’s Aggieland to the board. The budget reveals a five percent increase over last year, making room for two more staff posi tions and four more photographers. O’Malley says the Aggieland, al ready the largest university year book in the nation, will have about 800 pages for 1978-79. The board also heard reports on The Battalion and the Texas A&M Printing Center. low calorie foods gwen new guidelines /n#i «(rec(ff 1 system Dali® United Press International WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration Thursday •issuednew rules under which foods which promote themselves as “low calorie must contain no more than f 40 calories per serving. "In addition, foods which are billed as “reduced calories” can use that phrase only if they have at least one-third fewer calories than the food to which they are being com pared. The purpose of this new regula tion is to assure that foods labeled ‘low calorie’ or ‘reduced calorie’ genuinely represent a caloric sav- L ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ HATE DOING LAUNDRY? Let Frannie's do it for you Aunt Frannies Laundromat lolleman at Anderson 693-658' ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★-★■A: ings,” FDA Commissioner Donald Kennedy said. All foods introduced into in terstate commerce after July 1 of next year will have to comply with the rules which were originally proposed in 1977. Under the rules, foods which claim low or reduced calories must carry a complete nutrition label de scribing the calories-per-serving as well as vitamin, fat and other con tent. In addition, foods which claim they are reduced in calories in com parison to some other foods must state the percentage of reduction over the other food. By HARVEY LAAS Battalion Reporter The failure of man to assume re sponsibility for his own actions threatens to make private fulfill ment impossible, a professor from Vanderbilt University said Thurs day. Dr. John Lachs, who is also the first president of the American Soci ety of Philosophers, spoke to about 35 people in Rudder Tower about problems created by what he calls the “intermediate man.” He said in society one has many of his actions performed for him. Lachs calls this the “mediation of ac tion.” The person who performs the action is the “intermediate man,” who prevents others from ex periencing their actions directly and learning the consequences. All men have their actions medi ated and all in turn are “intermediate men,” Lachs said. Mediation has three major con sequences, Lachs said. “We tend to view people as tools,” he said, and treat them that way. This results in a readiness to manipulate. The second result is a sense of “pacificity and impotence” that in fects people. Though more of our actions be come mediated and done by others, we may be busier than ever per forming the mediated tasks of others, he said. “We lack self activity, the union in one person of aim, means and accomplishment of motive and execution.” Lachs said the most serious con sequence of mediated action is the “psychic distance” it creates be tween men and their actions. The re sponsibility for actions is not experi enced, he said. “The result is there are many acts no one consciously appropriates,” he said. A person who has others he does not even know perfom his tasks will not claim those tasks as his own; he does not feel he actually did any thing, Lachs said. “The man who actually has done them on the other hand, views them as someone else’s, and himself as the blameless instrument of an alien will,” he said. Lachs cited a scene from “The Grapes of Wrath” as an example. In it the farmers are going to shoot the men that come to take away their farm. The repossessors say it will not do any good since the bankers will send others. The farmers then want to shoot the bankers, but are told that the bankers in town owe the money to other bankers. The farmers thus end up not knowing who to shoot. Lachs said the chain of responsi bility is so diffuse that it robs man of ability to do something about prob lems. Lachs said that mediation is necessary for society. professional hair designers FEATURING SEEKING MON.-SAT. 9-5:30 693-1772 1510 HOLLEMAN (ACROSS FROM THE SEVILLA APTS.) JflHEAlE CILAJlJf Backs the Aggies! French's Care-A-Lot OPEN FOR A&M FOOTBALL LOCATED BEHIND BEEF & BREW OFF HWY. 30. CALL 846-1037 FOR RESERVATIONS! 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