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Paqe 6 THE BATTALION Battalion photo by Anne Vfarsden Out with the old. . .in with the new Workers pulled up bike racks in front of Hughes Hall late last week as part of a land-clearing operation for the construction of a new women’s dormitory. Bodies of victims returned to U.S. United Press International SAN FRANCISCO — An Air Force plane Tuesday carried home the body of Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., and others slain ini Guyanese airport ambush by fanatical cult members. The Air Force C141 jet landed early today at Robins Air Forcebast in Georgia to deliver the body of NBC reporter Don Harris. An Air Force spokesman said Harris’s body was taken from llie plane to an ambulance and driven to a funeral home in Vidalia, Ca, where the newsman’s family lives. The spokesman said the C141 then flew on to San Francisco. Closed-casket services for Ryan, 53, who represented a conerei- sional district on the San Francisco Peninsula, were scheduled foi Wednesday (11 a.m. PST) at the All Souls Catholic Church in Soul] San Francisco. He will be buried at Golden Gate National Cemeten The plane also was to deliver to Los Angeles the bodies of Saa Francisco Examiner photographer Greg Robinson and NBC came man Bob Brown, slain with Ryan in the Saturday attack by memben of the People’s Temple. A large congressional delegation was expected to attend the rial services for Ryan. The congressman, who often personally investigated controversial issues, made his last trip to investigate reports of beatings and otlei mistreatment at a Guyanese religious settlement. He survived a knife attack during a visit to the jungle settlement, only to be gunned down by Temple members as he tried to leaver nearby airstrip with a group of defectors. Jones and nearly 400 of his followers later committed murder-suicide at the settlement. At the time of his death, Ryan was looking forward to an increav ingly active role as a member of the House International Relation! Committee and chairman of the Environment, Energy and Natunl Resources Committee. r .o* 0° / cM^andboLA NOON-SEVEN </ v 75c bar drinks 40c beer % _ * . C± j. *1* U.S. recession predicted ^«ic NORTHGATE (Next to the Dixie Chicken) zhk. atK 30C >oc rxic 3«C MAKE a a TIME Pay Off Help Supply Critically Needed Plasma While You Earn Extra CASH At: Plasma Products, Inc. 313 College Main in College Station Relax or Study in Our Comfortable Beds While You Donate — Great Atmosphere - QOO Per Donation — Earn Extra — Call for more information The United States is heading to ward a recession which is long over due, a European Communities economist believes. Dr. Corrado Pirizio-Biroli, a spe cial adviser for economic affairs at the Washington, D.C., office of European Communities, also called the Common market, made his ob servation in a speech Monday night at Texas A&M University. “I do belive that there is a good chance there will be a recession in the United States,” Biroli said. “There will be a recession, or at the best, a very slow growth in America. “I thought it would come to a head by May or June when I filed my report to the Market.” he con tinued. “But, insofar as the reces sion reflects structural or long-term problems, it should not worry the United States. "Recession though is a normal cy cle, Biroli continues, “we ve never been able to eliminate it.” f The Europena economist placed part of the blame for America’s re cession on the shoulders of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson. "Johnson tried to have it both ways, butter and guns,” he said. "He wanted the Great Society and the Vietnam war at the same time. “Johnson thought the United States would be strong enough to af ford something no country' had ever been able to afford in history,” Biroli emphasized. “His actions meant an increasing inflation in this country and increasing balam payments deficits.” The Europena Commimi economist also said that proc: tivity, or lack of it, was adding siderably to America’s problems. “Unless productivity picksii( this country, America will cotti to have problems,” he said, current economic trend reflet low productivity, which is currti around 0.6 or 0.5 percent in Am can today. Services This Sunday November 26 at A&M Consolidated H.S. Cafeteria Bible Study 9:30 a.m. Worship 10:45 a.m. (enter Welch St. Lot) South College Station Lutheran Mission Stan Sultemeier Mission Pastor Student & other residents in the Southwest Parkway apart ment area will enjoy the friendly atmosphere and conven ience of our new fellowship. Join us this Sunday! Endowment aids American folk ail T I TEXAS MOBILE HOME OUTLET 4 I I New '79 Models! coming in ■ DAILY — New 14 ft. wide area — 2 bedrooms — Furnished — Air conditioned — Delivered 13194 monthly i| Sandpoint MOBILE HOMES I I I I Texas) Mobile Home Outlet INC United Press International WASHINGTON — In a culture which sometimes seems bent on making Americans moldcast, but- tondown look-alikes, Bess Lomax Hawes struggles to keep alive their differences. Hawes does that by running the folk arts program of the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency created 10 years ago to sup port the arts in America. A while ago, a delegation of Hungarian-Americans from Cleve land came to see her. They wanted help in putting on a fall festival. They said they wanted to hire some professional folksingers — that sort of thing. Wouldn’t it be nice, she won dered aloud, if instead they revived the old-fashioned Hungarian grape festival that used to be held around Cleveland? The very mention of it brought memories to a priest, and tears to his eyes. The endowment provided $3,630 to rebuild and repaint the carts tra ditionally used in the parade that is part of every Hungarian grape festi val. The festival shook loose another memory. An old woodcarver said every Hungarian village had its own gate, so he set about making one for the Cleveland Hungarian commu nity. And that intrigued some local youngsters. They became his ap prentices, so he is passing along his folk skill to a new generation. That is what Hawes is up to — helping old traditions flourish. All told, her office distributes $1.9 million a year to foster the folk music, dance, poetiy, tales, oratory, crafts and rituals of Iroquis, German-Americans, Louisiana Ca juns, Eskimos, Mennonites, Puerto Ricans and all other ethnic and na tive groups in this large land. To anyone familiar with the field. ATTENTION GRADUATING SENIORS IF YOU HAVE ORDERED A 1979 AGGIELAND, PLEASE STOP BY THE STUDENT PUBLI CATIONS OFFICE, ROOM 216 REED MCDONALD, AND PAY A $2.00 MAILING FEE ALONG WITH YOUR FORWARDING AD DRESS SO YOUR AGGIELAND CAN BE MAILED TO YOU NEXT FALL WHEN THEY ARRIVE. M rs. Hawes maiden namt Lomax — is introduction enou; Her father, John A. Lomax, pioneer in recognizing Amen folk tradition as worth paying tion to. He was the first curate the Archive of American Foil; at the Library of Congress. His Alan, Hawes’s brother, wastkei ond. "It * Bill DeSo B In an interview, she talkedt a niulti-U about them than about hersel was a tale worth telling. Her father was brought in ai ered wagon to a dirt farm in County. As a boy in the early IS he listened at night to cowboy ^ the Chisholm Trail singing co»B He collected their songs. 0 T later, he tried to publish them " indigenous art form, but the i of scholarship scoffed. Wort people couldn’t write songs; co*l songs were no more than d Not until Lomax went to did he get encouragement. fr Ducks ai are ra mmon in However, eluding lice) illega 'id is proh [Spokesmei [tory divisio iffice maint; mu nc get encourage,nenc and ^ from Professor George Lyman tredge, world-famous Chaucflf*] pert. He encouraged Lomax top#® his work: the first cowboy^ ever printed. For the rest of his life, recorded and published the sot? working people. He saw poei^ Britdn'be them. Bgj £7 In the 1930s, with his sonjl^ ’ visited the black prison l arm ' i: lirplanes ant Deep South, where prisoners f « CPS j > c leased out by the state, i°B a l s s worked almost like slaves, gyith th es J .■ He thought their work sontB c 0 ‘ J) 1 blues and “field hollers” wer(*g U j n ^ * a differer last surviving remants of slavt ture. Later, his daughter says, abandoned that hypothesis, 11 eluding that the songs born out of the prisoners’ own and their need “to rise stinking conditions.” Hawes went to Bryn Mawr,^ in a group with Pete Seeger,^ ried, worked on overseas aganda broadcasts for the g ment in World War II, raised^ children, taught guitar andfoM to hu ndreds of students at a M | Santa Monica, Calif., and work] the Smithsonian before I present job. Sometimes she thinks laudable American developmei universal education and ini! communications — are stam| out the differences in Ameri : Other times she is more op# tic, convinced strawberry social firemen’s musters and Hui#i| grape festivals are so much a pa] the American people they cann repressed. Some people are frightened] | the evidence all around thate 1 racial and geographic minorities! march and fight to preserve tf individuality. They see theagi# as evidence that the country is 0 ing apart. Not she. She says some strain stress between the national A* can culture and local culture* inevitable, and welcome. She likes to quote wha 1 brother says will happen if tbe tural greyout” continues: “If]; keep going at this rate, soon will be no place worth visiW no reason to stay home.