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INTERPRETIVE PERFORMANCES: A free program of interpre
tive performances will be given at 8p.m. in Room 100, HECC. The
program will consist of three literature-dramatizations arranged,
adapted and performed by students in the Department of English.
Presentations will include “I Am A&M,” “Turn South at the Second
Bridge,” and “In A Guitar’s Eye: A Tour Through Texas."
TAMU WATER SKI CLUB: Will have officer elections and a meeting
at 7 p.m. in Room 308, Rudder Tower.
GRADUATING SENIORS: Today is the last day for meeting all
requirements for graduation.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: Will meet at 7 p.m. in Room
510, Rudder Tower.
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS: Will discuss new
orders of business at 7:30 p.m. in Room 404, Rudder Tower.
ALPHA ZETA TURKEY SALE: Alpha Zeta members will deliver
Christmas turkeys today and Friday in the Animal Industries Build
ing parking lot. For those who forgot to order a turkey, extra
turkeys will be on sale. For more information, call 845-3341.
MOVIE: “Comedy of Terrors,” starring Boris Karloff, Vincent Price
and Peter Lorre will be shown at 8 and 10 p.m. in Room 601,
Rudder Tower. Admission for this slapstick horror film is 50 cents.
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NEED A ROOMMATE?: Anyone needing a roommate for spring
semester may attend a roommate session today at 3 p.m. Men will
meet in Room 137, MSC and women will meet in Room 137A,
MSC.
TAMU RACQUETBALL CLUB: Will have a pre-finals party at 308,
Sulphur Springs Road. All club members and guests are invited.
For more information, call Mike Hare at 822-5851.
FREE MOVIE: Walt Disney’s animated cartoon film, “Dumbo,” will
be shown at 8 and 10 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
Saturday
BREAD FOR THE WORLD: “I Want to Live,” produced and nar
rated by John Denver, will be shown at 1 p.m. in Room 402,
Rudder Tower.
FLORICULTURE CLUB: Will have a plant sale from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. in the Floriculture Greenhouse.
FREE MOVIE: Walt Disney s animated cartoon film, “Dumbo, will
be shown at 8 and 10 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
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By SUSAN SHILLINGS
Battalion Reporter
Twenty-one Texas A&M University students have a chance to sail
on the Unicorn, during Spring Break. The sailing vessel was used in
the television movie “Roots.”
The Memorial Student Center Travel Committee is sponsoring the
Florida Keys cruise, said Jeff Finks, director of projects for the group.
The Vessel will hold 33 persons, including the crew, which will be
composed of 12 men,- and the first 21 students who sign up.
The seven-day cruise will begin March 9 in Tampa, Fla. Those
participating will leave from Houston earlier that day and return
March 16. The trip will cost approximately $420, which will include
sleeping quarters and three meals each day.
The Unicorn is a hand-crafted, 136-foot wooden sailing vessel. She
was built in Finland in 1948 and originally engaged in trade as a cargo
vessel. The Unicorn was used in several other films beside “Roots.”
The Unicorn is owned by the non-profit organization Unicorn
Maritime Institute, Inc., whose purpose is to provide sea experience
and a maritime heritage for both young people and adults.
The students will he exposed to such areas of sea experience as
basic seamanship, anchoring, rules of the waters, chartering compass
points, electronics, navigation and weather detection. They will be
directly involved in the ship’s rigging and working the decks.
All interested students are asked to sign up after the Christmas
holidays at the MSC Travel Committee booth.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1978
Good year, then bad one
predicted for Post Office
United Press International
HOUSTON — Postmaster Gen
eral William F. Bolger expects 1979
to be a good year for his department
with the introduction of two ex
peditious services and financial fac
tors that result in a profit.
But Bolger expects 1980 to be like
1978 — another year of financial loss.
Bolger held a news conference
Tuesday after the Postal Service
Board of Governors approved an
immediate 15-month experiment
with a new computer-originated mail
service and tentatively accepted
plans for a same-day intra-city
courier service.
He said the service lost $379.4 mil
lion in 1978 but that he hopes it will
have a $180 million surplus next year
before suffering another deficit of
$488 million in 1980.
Bolger cited higher postal rates,
holding down the payroll and in
creased efficiency as elements that
will lead to surplus, which will in
clude its government subsidy.
The $379.4 million deficit was less
than the originally projected $1.2 bil
lion for the year ended Sept. 30, and
45 percent less than last year’s $688
million deficit, Bolger said.
Bolger was enthusiastic about the
Postal Service’s innovations, which
must be approved by the Postal Rate
Commission, but predicted strong
opposition from other mail-carrying
groups.
The experiment with the
Electronic-Computer Originated
Mail service, abbreviated E-COM,
will begin Dec. 18 and initially will
involve five companies in the oil, fi
nancial, insurance, manufacturing
and utility industries.
It promises two-day delivery of
computer-originated mail — much
of which is expected to be hills — by
transmitting from computer to com
puter at rapid rate with the docu
ments entering the local mail stream
at the receiving end.
Rates would vary from 30 cents
each for 50,000 messages monthly to
55 cents per message for the
minimum 5,000 messages monthly.
Express Mail Metro Service, one
step behind E-COM in the approval
process, is an expansion of the exist
ing Express Mail Service, which
promises overnight delivery be
tween cities.
It would allow customers to bring
letters or packages to post offices
around 10a.m. for delivery by 5 p.m.
the same day. Rates would range
from $9 for items up to 1 pound to
$15 for the maximum 70-pound bulk.
Cost of pickup will be $5.25.
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