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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1978 Page 9 Salaries average $25,000 Maritime field ‘wide open’ 'he fifth noon at] irticipatingn . Prizes i rt sponsoredjl o be awarded I >r Maid of C ice, Room 2i| candidate mi f 19 and 23, h or to age?, be postmar xompanied h !M: Oom-i three-day s Sunday, spo ill present li iinunityli n acti\'ities» Lodge, 52(1 )i m. Saturday! gistration fee J in Hellman,| ig Jane Foi vn at 8 p.nu 1 30’s again! ityhereatll J t United Press International 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 /// 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. mm/. 4 !■ : \ 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. 'TAlAWSl Maritime Academy senior Steve Potz-Neilsen is on the helm 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. Battalion photo by Liz Newlin essa dder Theatc will be less Club« .Dollar falls despite anti-inflation plan Table, and 5 _ . •ssa nedgi r Theater. Rudder Ho : available applicant* it-season fo 'AMU Hor* 9 a.m. attl ne,” at 8p logy grad® :M Buikte t-t / United Press International 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. You know what’s wrong with Ame The injustices, even in a land that’s just. Too many poor people. And there’s still much ignorance and hunger. Generations of people running as fast as they can, just to stand still. Everybody’s talked about it for years. Talk is cheap. And the road to Hell, you know what that’s paved with. It’s up to you, do something about it! Something cal led VISTA. Volunteers in Service to America. It’s coming alive again. And it sounds like it just may be the ticket for you. You’ll work in your community or someone else’s. Whether you’re 18 or 80, whe ‘ your income is high or low, we don’t care. 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University Drive College Station, Texas 77840 Telephone: (713) 846-7714 nilii PROTECTIVE LIFE® Ri IIMSURAIMCE GOIVIPAIMY I—I CrnJ HOfVlE OFFICE - BIFirVlllMGMArVI, /XLB/X!V1/X 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.” Bryan-College Station Jaycees HAUNTED HOUSE