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(1 is junk items ig Mac uts, shes lit, "ifal a nutriti > oiler pr, es, she lore div™ food” e> •overs a ilad Irani school l nee. •(hieing pi he pli ) eat a * Three legs, but no race This three-legged chicken was shipped from Baylor Medical Center in Houston to Texas A&M University, along with several other chicks. Experts say inbred lines are the rea son for the deformity; it was bred for cancer research. Ceceily Washington, an assistant in the poultry building plans to take the chick home and raise it. Washington says the chick should live, unless a problem such as an infec tion sets in. Battalion photo by Ed Cunnius Fort to get female Marine FORT SILL, Okla. — A 24- ear-old Hurst, Texas woman has ecome the first female Marine as- igned to Fort Sill. Lance Cpl. Sue A. Hanley, who is [ iking the weapons support radar jpairer course at the base, is a re- ruiter s dream come true. Her reflections on becoming a oman Marine sound as if they came straight out of a military com mercial. “I wanted the best, so I chose the Marine Corps,” she said. “I wanted to travel, meet new people and learn new skills, so I decided to en list in the military.” She joined the corps in October 1977, and received initial training at Paris Island, S.C. She later at- US 813 Old College Rd. Something New This Thursday THANK GOD IT’S THURSDAY 846-1100 NIGHT 1c BEER, WINE & COKES BAR DRINKS CALL ICE CREAM DRINKS Vz PRICE $3.50 Guys “Where Everybody Meets’’ $2.50 Girls OPAL RINGS ;a For October 5 20 % off During The Entire Month of October At •The Opal is the Oc tober Birthstone. No other Gemstone has the Flash and Color of the Opal. c 'ojr j©veirv store NORTHGATE One ERA battle won NOW renews crusade THE BATTALION Page 5 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1978 United Press International WASHINGTON — The National Organization for Women has voted to continue for at least a year the “state of emergency” it declared be fore Congress approved additional time to win ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. NOW’s national convention, which began Sunday in Washington, spent little time cele brating last week’s ERA victory and considerable time planning what women leaders agree will be the hard task of winning the remaining three states needed to put the amendment into the Constitution. NOW’s president, Eleanor Smeal, said in a keynote address Sunday night that a coalition of more than 300 groups, including labor unions and religious organiza tions, was behind the drive for the ratification extension. “The same people who put pres sure on the congressional members are now going to put that pressure on the states,” said the ERA advo cate. “We’re more sophisticated. The learning has just been pheno menal.” ERA supporters attributed last week’s Senate victory to political acumen, a new unity in the women’s movement and invaluable help from allies. “It was the first time, since 1970 Rother’s Bookstore Full Line of Custom T-Shirts & Caps 340 Jersey — At the Southgate anyway, that the woman’s move ment has been able to really show its numbers and visibly show them,” Smeal said. The 60-34 vote in the Senate to extend the period of ratification from March 22, 1979, to June 3, 1982, actually was the product of a hard summer of campaigning on Capitol Hill by ERA forces. “We realized we might live to see our own country turn down equal rights for women,” Smeal said. “People couldn’t bear that.” ERA supporters say they’ve de cided to change tactics in their next drive to add the required three more states to the 35 that have al ready ratified the amendment. In the past, the women’s move ment targeted specific states for special lobbying, but ERA support ing say they’ll now launch a nation wide campaign instead. Opponents of the amendment are vowing to go to court to challenge the congressional vote to extend the period of ratification and to fight state by state to stop ERA. “I am confident that the states that have continually rejected the Equal Rights Amendment will con tinue to do so,” said Phyllis Schlafly, the Alton, Ill., housewife who leads the anti-ERA campaign. But Smeal tola a'cheering au dience “the National Organization for Women has stronger allies than it ever has had in its history. The ERA resolution adopted by NOW Sunday extended the state of emergency until Oct. 4, 1979, its next national conference, “or until ratification, whichever occurs soonest. ” (CARROLLS BASKET AND WICKER 707 Complex 846-7847 WICKER BACKGAMMON. WICKER ^TRUNKS $ 99 i JfIHIEAIP CILAJfJf FOR A CLASSY CUT. 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