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GALVESTON — Christopher
Ket Mantooth graduated from
the Texas Maritime Academy last
spring and immediately found a
job as one of the best-paid mem
bers of the Class of’78.
His base pay for the first year
will be in the $30,000 range and
with a little overtime, he could
gross as much as $4,000 per
month.
Mantooth is not an engineer,
petroleum geologist, physician,
attorney or computer expert. He
signed on as third mate aboard
the Cove Trader, a large tanker.
Almost every day Mantooth
was at the Academy, a part of
Moody College, he walked past a
clipboard with a 3-inch thick
stack of job offers from all over
th^ world.
“The maritime fields are wide
open,’’ said Adm. Kenneth G.
Haynes, superintendent of the
Maritime Academy. “Starting
salaries for new graduates are
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often in the $25,000 bracket an
nually, and we are very pleased
with the career opportunities
open to our graduates.”
The greatest demand is for
graduates who are licensed to go
to sea, he said. However, the
opportunities are not limited to
deepwater shipping. Other
openings are available as a result
of the burgeoning offshore oil
drilling industry along the Gulf
of Mexico.
Haynes said there will be a
growing demand for maritime
graduates because of the increas
ing need to license people who
operate commercial vessels at
sea.
“There is a training demand,
an education demand, a people
demand,” Haynes said. “Right
now 3,000 people could be
added to the Gulf Coast offshore
shipping industry from deck-
ihands to captains.”
Haynes joined the Academy in
June after 35 years in the Navy.
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He said the Academy is full,
“limited only by living space.”
More than 140 cadets live
aboard the training ship Texas
Clipper, which serves as a dor
mitory while in port. Another 70
live in Moody College dorms.
Twenty-five of the cadets are
women.
“The TMA size is fixed by the
number of living accommoda
tions on campus,” Haynes said.
“Still, I feel we are in a dynamic
situation. The college, which is
part of the Texas A&M Univer
sity System, and the academy are
growing just as fast as we can
build dormitories for new stu
dents.”
Cadets must reside on campus
because individuals who go to
sea must function in close quar
ters situations and often under
pressure. If they are not trained
under those conditions, Haynes
said, they may not be happy in
their career.
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Red™ ! u *di n 8 th® Texas A&M University training ship T.S. Texas
Clipper. Joan Stahl, along with other seniors, shares the re-
, iponsibility for running the ship during the summer cruise.
The view at right is out toward the bow (front) of the ship.
The annual cruise gives cadets practical experience in the
nerchant marines.
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The once-mighty dollar Thursday
immeted below the psychological
tier of 180 Japanese yen — less
half its value at the end of
cationsfob \Var II — and traders pre-
:ted new runs against the green-
my interta 4 j n Europe as well
A&Manda jjie dollar's latest slide was
ie for apple irked by dissatisfaction with Pres-
nt Carter’s anti-inflation program
d reflected the widespread belief
lat selects!) he was incapable of putting the
S. economic house in order.
The U.S. currency opened the
y’strading in Tokyo at 178.80 l>e-
Rd. Formu alighting back to 179.50 yen. By
Belinatffi inging through the 180 mark, it
mped to less than one-half what it
worth when the old rate of
3-per dollar was set shortly after
war.
Carter’s multi-point economic
je contained no decisive cures
get the dollar back to a fair level. ’
bank official said. “What we
now is immediate and con-
te action that can reduce balance
payment deficits and
ed
increase
economic growth of the United
States.”
Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda
said: “President Carter’s anti
inflation measures have no strong
punching power. It’s like catching
two rabbits (inflation and economic
growth) with a stone throw.”
The dollar also sagged to postwar
lows Wednesday in Frankfurt,
Brussels and Amsterdam in appar
ent response to Carter’s program.
The London Daily Telegraph
said: “The currency markets of the
world have reacted with a deafening
raspberry. ”
The price of gold, which often
rises when the dollar declines,
jumped to new highs of $230,675 an
ounce in Zurich and $230,375 in
London.
A West German dealer said of the
latest decline in the dollar: “That’s
not the end yet — not by a long
way.”
“We all expected something
new,” a dealer in Paris said. “But in
his (Carter’s) speech there was noth
ing particularly done to support
the dollar. There was not one posi
tive point.”
“The real weakness of the pro
gram is that it fails to take proper
account of the present psychological
climate in which the world is react
ing to the continuing crisis of the
dollar. The Times of London said
in an editorial.
Traders in both Japan and Europe
disputed U.S. Treasury Secretary
Michael Blumenthal’s statement
Wednesday that the dollar would
strengthen in value.
City gets new vehicles
CS to study
“I think it is clear that it is the
fundamental factors that will deter
mine the trend of the dollar in the
coming weeks and months,” Blu-
menthal said in Washington. “The
fundamentals are moving, in my
judgment, strongly in our direction
and strongly in the direction of the
strengthening of the dollar.”
screens
By DANNA RICHEY
Battalion Reporter
Local apartment owners told Col
lege Station city council members
that the requirement for windows in
all dwellings to be covered by
screens will probably be reflected in
rent increases.
The council decided to study the
issue more before perhaps modify
ing the ordinance.
The council opened discussion on
the newly established structural
standards code Thursday night •
Shut your mouth
nd roll up your sleeves,
Charles Harty, a member of the
Bryan-College Statipn Apartment
Owner s Association, questioned
council members on their reasons
for this requirement. Council mem
bers said the screen requirements
were created for several reasons;
however, the primary reason is to
allow air circulation, without bugs,
that would decrease utility bills.
Harty told council members that
rough estimates indicate the cost of
purchasing the screens and instal-
laiton would be reflected in an ap
proximate 1-3 percent monthly rent
increase.
Hart also told council members
that local merchants said they could
not supply all the screens needed
and have them installed by the
Sept. 1, 1979, deadline.
Council members decided to ap
point a committee to discuss the
economics of the screen require
ment.
In other business, the council ac
cepted a bid of approximately
$31,000, by Twin City Interna
tional, for the purchase of two gar
bage trucks. According to City
Manager North Bardell, these
trucks were included in the budget
and are replacements. The old
trucks will be sold for scrap or auc
tioned off for use.
The council also accepted a bid of
$34,464 from Beal Ford for the pur
chase of six new police patrol cars.
These vehicles are also included
in the current budget and are
needed to update the patrol force,
Bardell said. The old cars will be
used in the detective division.
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Too many poor people. And there’s still
much ignorance and hunger. Generations
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years. Talk is cheap. And the road to Hell,
you know what that’s paved with. It’s up to
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Airlines squabble
over new routes
UniteB Press International
WASHINGTON — The great
rush for newly available airline
routes is on — marred by bickering
over first-come, first-served lineup
procedures — and it could go on for
60 days as federal officials sort
through a new law.
The Civil Aeronautics Board
opened its doors Wednesday morn
ing to officials of airlines that had
stationed people in line outside the
CAB night and day, rain and shine,
for a week in hopes of protecting
their own unused non-stop routes or
taking over those of competitors.
No sooner had the first line
started in than a second formed.
CAB and airline officials acknowl
edged the possibility there could be
a queue on the sidewalk for weeks,
despite the approach of winter, be
cause procedures are not worked
out for administering the route
selection procedures of the airline
deregulation bill President Carter
signed Tuesday.
Representatives of 20 carriers,
who had waited outside the CAB
since Thursday, were replaced
Wednesday by airline lawyers.
some pushing handcarts containing
several boxes of material.
United Airlines, the nation’s;
largest and the first in line, sought
two new routes and authority to re
tain four Florida routes that the car-1
rier now serves only during the;
winter vacation season.
As the first line was processed,;
the second line formed. One carrier
spokesman said the line was there
just in case a carrier winning author
ity for a lucrative route failed to
begin serving it in the 45 days allot
ted by the law.
The CAB, which planned to begin
the certifications immediately, must
grant them within 15 days, so it was
possible the second line could re
main for as long as 60 days unless
the CAB ordered otherwise, the
spokesman said.
But it was doubtful the second
line would last long, because airline
officials say only a few hundred of
the dormant routes are eco
nomically attractive enough to
interest them.
Most airlines expressed unhappi
ness with the first-come, first-
served procedure.
Lifestyles may cause
drop in heart failures
United Press International
WASHINGTON — There may never be clear-cut answers, but a
noted specialist says changing lifestyles and better treatment for high
blood pressure may be the best explanations for a decline in the heart
disease death rate in the United States.
A National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute conference Wednes
day was told that comparative studies suggest some Americans are
consuming less cholesterol-rich foods, smoking less, exercising more
and are more aware of the need to check and treat high blood pres
sure.
Numerous studies have indicated that each of those factors affects a
person’s heart attack risk.
“While nobody can prove that this series of parallel developments
has produced the downturn, it’s reasonable that one may be related
to the other,” said Dr. Jeremiah Stamler of Northwestern University,
chairman of a panel reviewing population data on risk factors.
Stamler said Americans seem to be following the advice of doctors
who suggested as early as 1958 that dietary habits might influence the
development of heart disease. That advice was followed by state
ments that smoking seemed to be linked to the problem.
It cannot be proved that lifestyle affects heart disease, he said,
because “no decisive experiment yielding a black and white answer to
this question is ever going to be available.”
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