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to followed by marijuana and am-
itamines. Hard drugs like heroin, how-
have not filtered into rural areas in
t quantities.
Ulcohol is definitely right up there in
the ranking, but we’ve also got a problem
with marijuana,” Brazos County Sheriff
Bobby Yeager said. “They grow a lot of it
around here. We’ve got good soil for it.”
Yeager said both alcohol and marijuana
are available to junior high school and high
school students.
“They can sometimes get alcohol from
their folks at home or older friends,” he
said. “If they want to smoke, they can get it
from older brothers and sisters.”
Brazos County is undergoing an eco
nomic boom and a corresponding popula
tion increase, Yeager said.
“Those oil discoveries a couple of years
ago are attracting a lot of out-of-town
people, but I don’t think that’s directly con
tributed to the drug problem,” he said. “Of
course, a population increase means an in
crease in all kinds of crimes.”
Yeager said pills are less popular among
young people than alcohol or marijuana,
“but I think pills are coming back into use,
especially the amphetamines like speed.”
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United Press International
AIRO — President Anwar Sadat said
sday he is washing his hands of any
otiations with Israel on details of Pales-
an and Syrian issues and will move
ad with the forging of peace between
Jewish state and Egypt alone,
his marked a shift from his earlier posi-
that Egypt would be prepared to dis-
with Israel the questions of autonomy
future status of the Palestinians in the
lan West Bank and the Gaza sector if
lan refuses to join in talks on the basis of
Camp David peace agreements.
In the name of the Egyptian people, I
my duty (at Camp David) in regard to
principles governing the Palestinian
stion and (Syria’s) Golan Heights,”
at told a meeting of the Supreme
Judiciary Council.
“As for the details, they will have to go
and negotiate them for themselves. I would
have like to do it on their behalf, but their
ingratitude and obscenities have gone be
yond all limits.”
This was a reference to strong attacks on
the twin Camp David agreements — laying
down frameworks for an overall settlement
and an Egypt-Israel peace treaty — by
Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion and other Arab hard-liners as a bet
rayal by Sadat of the Arab cause.
“I have had enough,” Sadat said of his
detractors. “Let everyone keep his size and
his place from now on.”
Without naming Syria, whose forces
have been locked in fierce fighting with
Lebanese Christian militias, Sadat said:
“What is happening in Lebanon goes be
yond any imagination. It’s murder for mur
der’s sake. It’s bloodshed for bloodshed’s
sake. The fete of nations is being played
with just as children play with toys on the
streets.”
“I shall never put the destiny of Egypt or
the Arab cause in the hands of those chil
dren, those murderers,” Sadat said to the
applause of dozens of jurists attending the
meeting called to mark the fifth anniversary
of the latest Arablsraeli war.
Sadat spoke hours after an Egyptian del
egation, led by Defense Minister Lt. Gen.
Kamal Hassan Ali, left for Washington for
peace treaty negotiations with Israel open
ing Thursday.
Fax-cutting bills to be merged
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WASHINGTON — It will be up to a
mse-Senate conference committee to
Id the Senate’s $29.3 billion tax-cut bill
the $16.3 House version into a com-
mise President Carter can sign.
Under the combined pressures of a con-
ssional adjournment target date of
rday and the threat of a veto if the tax
are too big, the task will not be easy.
te Tuesday the Senate approved its
sion — nearly twice the size of the
^ bill an d one that includes a tax-free
iak for homeowners who sell their homes
* big profit, plus tuition tax credits rang-
I from $100 in 1978 to $250 in 1980 for
rents of college students.
Tie vote on final passage was 86-4.
The administration feels both bills give
) much to wealthy individuals and corpo-
ons, too little to lower and middle in
roe groups.
Sen. Russell Long, D-La., chairman of
e . ,. ena i e Finance Committee, and Rep.
Ullman, D-Ore., chairman of the House
sysand Means Committee, will get Car
ter’s views at the White House Thursday
morning.
The Senate bill would cut income taxes
across the board; provide a one-time
$100,000 tax break for some home sellers;
reduce the corporate tax rate from 48 per
cent to 44 percent by 1981; increase from
50 percent to 70 percent the amount of
capital gains excluded from regular federal
taxes; provide college tuition tax credits
up from $100 to $250 between 1978
and 1981, and eliminate state and local gas
tax deductions.
A Proposition 13-style amendment by
Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., would provide a
$165 billion cut over the next five years,
tied to restrictions on government spend
ing and a balanced budget, stretching the
bill’s total five-year reduction to $367 bil
lion.
The amendment clearly would lead to a
veto and several senators said they ex
pected it to be dropped by the conference.
But Long told reporters he liked tying the
cuts to lower federal spending.
In addition to the $30 billion cut in 1979,
that amendment would cut taxes $47 bil
lion in 1980, $72 billion in 1981, $93 billion
in 1982 and $125 billion in 1983.
A family of four earning $17,000 would
get a $285 cut under the Senate bill, $115
under the House plan. The same family
earning $10,000 would get a $220 cut under
the Senate bill, $62 from the House bill.
The Senate would provide individual tax
cuts by increasing the personal exemption
from $750 to $1,000, and reducing the
number of tax brackets from 25 to 15 for
married couples and 16 for individuals,
thereby allowing taxpayers to make more
money before moving into the next tax
bracket.
The House bill would keep the existing
25 brackets but spread its $10.4 billion in
individual tax cuts more evenly. Both bills
would eliminate the $35 general tax credit.
The Senate bill includes about $20.5 bil
lion in personal tax cuts in 1979, instead of
$10.4 billion in the House bill. It also would
reduce the corporate tax rate from the cur
rent 48 percent to 46 percent in 1979, 45
percent in 1980 and 44 percent by 1981.
The House simply would cut it to 46 per
cent in 1979.
Washington County Sheriff Elwood
Goldberg agreed the use of amphetamines
by young people has increased.
“I’d say there’re more amphetamines
evident, but it’s kind of hard to tell
exactly,” he said.
Goldberg said alcohol is the most popu
lar drug because it is accepted by many par
ents and that marijuana is “far behind.”
“You see the drinking at parties and
gatherings,” he said. “I’ve heard from
school administrators that there are some
small problems at school, but they usually
handle those themselves.”
More dangerous drugs are not as preva
lent, Goldberg said.
“I see very, very little evidence of hard
drugs like heroin,” he said. “ThereVe been
a couple of isolated cases, but it’s mostly
marijuana and amphetamines.”
The sheriffs’ analysis of rural drug use is
borne out by a recently completed survey
conducted by two sociologists at Texas
A&M University. The survey showed al
cohol was the most popular drug among
junior high school students, with
marijuana a close second.
“If a family has decided to move to the
country to escape the drug problems of the
city, they’re just kidding themselves,” said
Dr. Kenneth Nyberg. “Any drug a person
wants, from heroin on down to alcohol, can
be gotten in any rural county in Texas.”
Both Nyberg and Dr. Alex McIntosh said
that while their two-year survey of 1,358
students is based on a seven-county area,
including Grimes, Brazos, Madison,
Robertson, Leon, Burleson and Washing
ton counties, the same findings might be
applied to the rest of rural Texas.
Their study indicated more than 75 per
cent of the students surveyed, ages 12 to
20, abused alcohol. Some 23 to 24 percent
said they used marijuana, and in one
county alone, 4 percent said they had tried
heroin.
The study also showed rural children
begin experimenting with drugs such as
chemical solvents and glue at an earlier age
than urban children and that rural young
sters are more likely to sell drugs for a
profit.
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increase in drug use on urban children
moving into the country,” Nyberg said.
“That’s simply not true.
“These kids were using drugs long before
people started moving into the country,”
he said. “In fact, we found that drug abuse
was much higher for lifetime residents of
rural areas.
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"Clowning around’
At the Texas Prison Rodeo in Huntsville there are two types of clowns,
free-world and the convict type. Ralph Fisher has been in the clowning
business outside prison walls for 15 years. He assists fellow rodeo perfor
mers by luring irate bulls away from men downed in the arena. For a
better look at the Texas Prison Rodeo which is held every Sunday in Octo
ber, see Thursday’s Focus. Other features, music and book reviews and
schedules of coming events will also be included in Focus.
Court to decide if veteran preference
law denies job equality to women
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court
Tuesday agreed to hear arguments on the
Massachusetts veterans’ preference law,
under attack on grounds it denies women
an equal chance for state jobs.
After hearing both sides, the justices will
rule by written opinion on the statute.
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Some calves at the Texas A&M
Diversity Dairy think cinnamon-
''ored milk tastes pretty good.
? fry Mussina, an animal science
ra uate student, is using dairy
e s in a research project to deter-
* ne whether animals can be
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food fi' lty , rate when started on solid
milk ^ ^ t ^ e same fl avor as their
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scien!^ 65 Professor of food
smellii? at ^ exas A&M said after
the mJ a . sam ple of the product that
verv 1 n m gr e dient “either is or is
(cinna ° Se x? t ^ le com pound used in
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scieno r,e 1 n< | > professor of animal
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which was struck down by a three-judge
U. S. district court as being unconstitution
ally discriminatory.
Most states provide some sort of prefer
ence for veterans in their civil service. But
the Massachusetts law, unlike any of the
others, puts veterans ahead of all other ap
plicants for state jobs, provided they pass
the civil service exam.
The veterans’ preference issue came up
at the federal level this year when Congress
was acting on President Carter’s civil-
service reform program. The president lost
out on his proposal to limit the preference
so that women and minorities would have a
better chance for federal employment.
In other actions today, the high court:
—Agreed to hear arguments on an
Arizona law aimed at regulating labor rela
tions between growers and farm workers. It
was struck down by a lower court on
grounds it restricted laborers’ rights.
—Agreed to consider whether prices
charged for food in company-operated
cafeterias and vending machines should be
subject to collective bargaining.
—Rejected challenges to the federal
regulation requiring that ingredients be
listed on the label of all packaged cosme
tics.
—Agreed to hear arguments on a chal
lenge by utility companies to a New Mexico
tax on power generated in the state.
The challenge to Massachusetts’ prefer
ence for veterans was mounted by Helen
Feeney, who worked for the state from
1963 until she was laid off in 1975. She took
tests on three occasions and applied for
supervisory jobs, but each time was passed
over in favor of veterans who scored lower
than she did.
Her appeal said that although women
veterans were given the same preference as
males, the law actually served as a bar to
females because far more men served in the
armed forces.
Woman creates unique college
from Houston ‘class factory’
Kathy Mussina, graduate student in animal science,
tries to interest these two calves in a new taste sensation
being used in nutrition research,
interested in each other.
The calves look more
Battalion photo by Liz Bailey
starter ration, the piglets should rec
ognize the cinnamon flavor and
adapt from their mother’s milk to the
new feed.
Numerous successful experiments
done with rats have proved that taste
preferences of young rats can be al
tered by feeding their nursing
mother a specific flavor. Friend said.
Mussina said even though SMI-24
was developed for swine, it should
have the same effects on other ani
mals.
: At the dairy center, the calves are
itaken from their mothers as soon as
they are born and not allowed to
nurse, said Mussina.
The first milk the calves receive is
cow’s milk with SMI-24 dissolved in
it.
Some behaviorists think flavor
may be altered during passage
through the mother. Friend said,
but said this will not be a fector here
since the milk is flavored after it is
taken from the cow.
Friend said if at the end of the
trial the calves in both the test and
control group weigh about the same,
they will not necessarily prove that
the concept of flavor preference
does not extend to cattle. It could
merely mean the cattle don’t like
the taste of the chemical that gives
iSMI-24 its characteristic flavor and
odor.
If at least one group that has eaten
flavored food during the trial weighs
considerably more than the others,
Mussina said this will prove that
taste preference of cattle can be
manipulated.
| She said the concept of altering
taste preference in cattle could be a
|boon to both the beef and dairy
cattle industries because cattlemen
need a way to decrease the number
I 'of calves which die during weaning.
United Press International
HOUSTON — Donna Gerdin decided
to start her own “college” last January.
It was especially difficult because:
—She was a newcomer to the city;
—She had no campus;
—She had no faculty;
—She had no students.
So, after incorporating as Class Factory
Inc., Gerdin, 29, began looking for the
necessary ingredients.
“It didn’t go too well at first,” she said.
On her first faculty were her lawyer,
Terry Wiseman; her accountant, Ken Gal-
lendar; her catalog printer. Gene
Baiamonte; her husband, computer sales
man Bruce Gerdin and herself, fledgling
college founder.
“I taught a couple of cooking classes,”
she said.
Her campus was to be the homes, offices
and places of business of her teachers.
Having decided who would teach what
and where, she printed and distributed a
small eight-page catalog listing 24 courses
and placed small ads in the newspapers.
One-hundred and forty seekers of knowl
edge responded.
With the spreading of the word, the help
•■>f new acquaintances and more advertise
ments, Gerdin attracted more students and
more teachers so that this fall 500 students
are taking 53 classes.
The classes listed in the fifth Class Fac
tory catalog range from ikebana, a type of
Japanese flower arranging, to automotive
repair, taught by a professional mechanic.
The prices range from $5 to $45. The
lengths and time of meetings vary, al
though Gerdin said the most common is
two hours once a week for four weeks.
The Class Factory does not fit the
standard concept of a college. Gerdin
works out of a two-room office and her only
full-time help is an answering service.
There is no payroll, although she eventu
ally expects to make a profit.
“We kind of act as a broker,” she said.
“The teachers are independent contrac
tors. It’s meant to be informal.”
The idea was not original with Gerdin.
She worked with a friend on Open Univer
sity Inc. in Washington and has gathered
information from other open colleges in
other cities.
“I have been a nervous wreck since it
started,” Gerdin said. “I still am. But deep
down I feel really good because we’re fill
ing a need, obviously. We’re getting stu
dents.”