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Page 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1978 Safety, fences Consol board OKs improvements By STEVE LEE Battalion Reporter The A&M Consolidated Board of Education Monday acted on three measures that will work towards campus improvements. Landscape architect Michael Murphy presented to the board long-range improvement ideas for the five district campuses. The board voted unanimously to ask the City of College Station to close Holik Street to traffic between the old and new middle school cam puses. Murphy suggested that this measure would prevent traffic hazards and allow further improve ments to the middle school area. Accordingly, the board voted to authorize Murphy to work with the city to resolve other traffic problems around the middle school. Murphy presented plans to im prove the fencing around South Knoll Elementary School, which the board also passed. Rumors surround John Paul’s death fu UJ, 3 r.y SENIORS & GRAD STUDENTS? YEARBOOK PICTURES A-J MUST BE TAKEN THIS WEEK (OCT. 9-13) bork pnot ■ogropfty 846-5766 NORTHGATE United Press International VATICAN CITY — Roman Catholic cardinals, upset over rumors of foul play, have ordered the Vatican to publicly clarify the cir cumstances surrounding the unexpected death of Pope John Paul I, an Italian newspaper said Monday. The moderate Turin daily, Stampa Sera, said the cardinals were deeply displeased with the way the Vatican’s secretive bureaucracy, the Curia, handled the pope’s death. The cardinals were particularly angry, Stampa Sera said, about the terse official announcement the Curia released after John Paul s de mise. The fact that no medical certificate was obtained pinpointing the exact causes of death also upset the cardinals. Stampa Sera said the Curia had been ordered to rectify the situation and answer all “questions aroused in public opinion’’ before the secret conclave of cardinals begins Saturday to elect the next pontiff. Father Romeo Panciroli, the official Vatican spokesman, said he was unable to comment on the reports at this time. Pope John Paul died of an apparent heart attack alone in his bed room Sept. 28 — after only 34 days on the papal throne. The cardinals returned to the formality of Vatican Palace meetings Monday after an inconclusive round of informal, but frank weekend discussions about the choice of a successor to the late pope. Modern, Friendly Area 3600’ Vertical Drop (Second Longest in Colorado), 59 Runs. Night life: 35 restaurants, discos, bars. JAN. 2-7 / 7-1 2 o o *150 gets you • 5 night’s lodging at slope • 5 day’s lift tickets • 5 full breakfasts $75 deposit due by October 23 Experienced ski tour operator (Fourth Year) Will be present on both trips. > RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT We have got a fast growing chain of restaurants with excellent opportunities for highly motivated people to achieve both personal and financial success. 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The amp that pushes it has an incredible power rating of 20 watts per channel and a signal- to-noise ratio (80dB) that compares with some very sophisticated home stereo systems. It all means that your car will no longer be just a mode of transportation. It'll be a mobile, private listening room. Trustee Rodney C. Hill, chairman of the Long-Range Planning Com mittee, reported that the high school will most likely face an overcrowd- ing problem in the next few years if no preventative action is taken. 32. The findings were based on a needs assessment that showed op timum enrollment projections and figures for each school in the dis trict. Of the five campuses, the high school. school faces the “most critical pending enrollment,” Hill said Hill had earlier indicated that' building of a new elementary sd, ° 0 would possibly take precedence There will be an open meetim the Long-Range Planning Com, tee Thursday evening at 7 p,^ nge ; mild in (| ns a J the Special Services buildingoni ^°H sey Street. Suggestions will be J bike cussed for expansion of the or Postal strike likelihood less lining ilf ml jve ml He sd iwdedl ;ge rs | Jkers He’s ‘moi tliaj Rep. United Press International WASHINGTON — The nation’s second largest postal union has overwhelmingly ratified a three- year contract imposed by a special arbitrator, sources said Monday, greatly reducing chances of an il legal nationwide mail strike. But rank-and-file members of the 180,000-member National Associa tion of Letter Carriers also voted to oust president J. Joseph Vacca and elect a new, more militant leader — New York branch president Vincent Sombrotto, the sources said. Official results of the contract vote are expected to be made public Tuesday. Union sources said the members voting in the last three weeks over whelmingly approved the contract decision of special mediator James Healy. Healy took on the role of arbit rator when he could not bring about When I a negotiated settlement durin j j 11 "i special 15-day bargaining set up to avert a strike by threeB’ r , ■ ions representing 500,000 poi® ve t , workers. Hou In his “final and binding" i® 65 sion, Healy awarded the pm workers unlimited cost of livini creases, slightly higher salar 311 i lifetime job security for those * 11 rently on the payroll. But ballots for the unions tion of new officers were mailed fore Healy issued his decision, J union members voted to n Healy and two other officers slate. But hel Is' plagif Officials of the union P re( to^uj s that the largest and most miliH . a postal union — the 280,0®* 1 ? 6 ’ member American Postal Wort® i° l ‘ S Union — also would voleton® a the contract. Its balloting is due 1 be completed in about a week. Jobs ensure flo of illegal aliens ■ere sto ■ Even ; Jjmmuti [g the Bur w the non-p ■ Separat U'O-l More than 1,000 Mexicans move into Houston every week, makim it second only to Denver in illegal alien population, says a migratioc expert with the U.S. Catholic Conference in El Paso. Louis Alfonso Valarde, southwest director of Migration and Re fugee Services, made his observation during closing speeches at thf Town and Country Church Conference held at Texas A&M Univer sity. About 100 ministers and lay leaders attended the two-day session held last Thursday and Friday. “I don’t think there is a solution to the undocumented alien prob lem,” Valarde said. “Congress can put patchwork legislation togethei| Slir • • " • ■ Vu to help alleviate it, but there is no permanent solution. We could erect a Berlin Wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to morrow and it wouldn’t stop the flow of illegal alliens,” he stressed “The reason most of them come into the U.S. is jobs. “If our economy wasn’t so much better than their own, they would have little or no reason for being here,” Valarde said. “For eve created in Mexico today, there are four people horn that need it to survive.” Valarde said a conservative estimate of the number of illegal aliens living in America today would be between five and six million. Aliens are also moving farther into the interior of the United States. The farther they live from the border, the less likely thei: chances of beine caught, Valarde said. Valarde also cited studies that showed only a small percentage undocumented aliens were using America’s welfare system illegal!, One of the reasons is that many are in hiding and don’t want to!# caught. I ni BELGI ites anc Ipushin 1 econoi In a way :ure on isurance gosla^ MSC ARTS COMMITTEE presents lividual viet Un rkets so iant or momic penden ssure p Hats say The Un: new it reachin nt venti Trade b showi ase sin' 00 millii i in trac Moreov is balanc goslavii it witl ntries (The Ur F — t A NIGHT OF POETR' WITH DAVE OLIPHANT [est Ger klgrade Irtners. |>d, “it’s iur.” At last THURSDAY OCTOBER 12 / T 8:00 p.m. MSC BASEMENT COFFEEHOUSE ADMISSION: FREE LOUPOT’S QKSTORE Ri Ju IT K NORTHGATE Point Spread Discount on selected Styles of Name Brand T-Shirts After The Game ’til 6 p.m. Wed., Oct. 11 IN H