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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1979
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With normalization of relations
tetween the United States and
f nainland China, American colleges
md professional schools should get
Trxas Ai<\| eady for a deluge of requests to
local traffic rain Chinese students in science
major from md medicine, says a Texas A6cM
“traditional Jniversity researcher just returned
t, instead of roin the Orient,
fother uni- “We will see a flood of Chinese
ef family of tudents who want us to train them
enoic year, n Western science, technology and
nedicine, predicted Texas A&M
iiologist Michael Kemp, a member
if a scientific delegation that spent
5 days in China,
during the He said the People’s Republic of
will include ^hina seems ready to begin
Boone said Vestern-style scientific research,
er. The 62- mt the majority of scientists there
I in Lufldn s re older and few others have been
mes during rained in the years since the Cul-
a t the Texas urtl l Revolution first made its influ-
gin Dallas nee felt.
Now, the Chinese are intimating
||msitors such as the 22-member
unerican research delegation that
here are real lapses in solving prob-
sms because of that training gap.
' “They are hungry' for what we
ajre in the realm of science,
Idicine, computer and petroleum
^search technology,” Kemp said.
The Texas A&M scientist, who
fent to evaluate Chinese abilities to
esearch and combat snail fever
in. selective schistosomiasis), came back im-
ower for the
nplies to the >
n the Dallas [j^
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" unless the
- said its gas By STEVE GERSTEL
weather and United Press International
n Ray Ward WASHINGTON — The last of 20
me boat. All e P art ’ n g senators will be relin-
iblic appeals their $57,500 salaries to-
aL but none of them has to worry
fj&ut joining the unemployment
nes.
As always, the job market is wide
ien for a former senator and almost
y f them can pick and choose from
I valanche of offers.
»w, if any, want to go into full-
§ i retirement.
Yen Sen. John Sparkman — the
st of the group at 79 — disdains
idea and plans to practice law
his son back home in Alabama,
though Congress does not con-
i until Jan. 15, the terms of the
ew senators start Jan. 3, as re-
jd by the Constitution.
number of the outgoing
tors already have resigned,
ing the way for their successors
;t a slight edge in seniority by
^ g office a few weeks ahead of
newcomers.
K jrmer Sen. Paul Hatfield,
j)“[ont., who was defeated in the
ary election, is already hard at
^ at a new job.
atfield was appointed to the
y created post of staff attorney
ae Montana Supreme Court,
ically, Hatfield was chief justice
lat court when he was named
/ this year to fill out the term of
late Sen. Lee Metcalf.
pressed with progress made in that
field.
The Chinese are using varied
methods of control from
chemotherapy to massive snail kills
involving thousands of people.
The rest of the team, half of whom
were physicians, were also im
pressed with conditions in that
country, Kemp added.
Viral infections such as
encephalitis and parasitic problems
from drug-resistant malaria seem to
be supplanting snail fever as the
major item of health concern in
China, he indicated.
The Americans’ tour included a
visit with U.S. Liaison Chief
Leonard Woodcock and American
military and economic advisers at
tached to the liaison office in Pek
ing.
Besides inspecting science and
medical labs and facilities, the dele
gation was guided through schools,
communes and factories and al
lowed almost complete freedom to
wander about and ask questions.
Kemp said the team was able to
see acupuncture surgery and
viewed the “barefoot doctor” system
of health care which puts most cases
in the hands of moderately trained
folk curists and paramedics.
Reports from the group will be
sent to the American Society of
Tropical Medicine and Hygiene for
public dissemination.
x-senators can afford
o pick among jobs
ay
al counties in
;h winds flip-
it the Califor-
ling from the
ally closed at
lers and nine
r gusts along
Department
roughout the
some of the <
itor
sit down and
rmed sources
Rep. Thomas
; made in re
us t President
svan and nor-
the Chinese
s on banking,
siting China,
duled official
any Chinese
l were driven
Communist
Hatfield’s job is expected to be
temporary. He has put in for a va
cancy' on the federal bench and
there also has been speculation he
will become dean of the University
of Montana’s law school.
Many others have settled into
their new jobs.
After being a part-time overseer
of his Mississippi plantation for 35
years. Sen. James Eastland,
D-Miss., is going to watch the cot
ton grow and cattle graze full time.
Sens. James Ahourezk, D-S.D.,
Wendell Anderson, D-S.D., Carl
Curtis, R-Neb., Keneaster Hodges,
D-Ark., William Scott, R-Va., and
probably Floyd Haskell, D-Colo.,
plan to practice law — most of them
in their home states and in Wash
ington.
Haskell i.s going! to. get ..married
Feb. 3 to reporter Nina Tottenherg.
Others have not decided what
they will do.
Sen. Dick Clark, D-Iowa, is mul
ling a dozen offers; Sen. Thomas
McIntyre, D-N.H., wants to stay in
public life; Sen. William Hathaway,
DMaine, has made no announce
ment; Sen. Edward Brooke,
R-Mass., has not announced future
plans but will chair the National
Low Income Housing Coalition
without pay; Sen. Hewey Bartlett,
R-Okla., is battling cancer.
Hathaway, Clark, and McIntyre
may well join the administration.
>old weather freezes
lood bank’s reserve
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VN ANTONIO — Freezing
leratures have prompted the
Region Blood Bank to ask
-ed the 11105 Bzens to give up something warm
- some of their blood — to restore
. I mergency supplies that had to he
TCll estroyed.
Director Dr. James Langley
modem-da) uesday said the facility’s entire re-
■e sometimes e rve of about 120 units had to be
zment. Polte.irown out because a circuit switch
arrested hinh the facility’s electrical unit froze
to his aparl- i record low temperatures, and
their blood-pekup generators failed to operate
“inal arraign - he refrigeration unit,
na and other The temperature in San Antonio
dried blood-juesday plunged to 15, lowest on
ecord for a Jan. 2.
Langley said each of the 55 hospi-
als in a 35-county region relying on
he blood bank should have a supply
f blood on hand, “hut when that’s
* ill the mid one there will he a serious problem
D% chance -ecause their backup — that’s us —
toes not have a supply of blood.”
He said local military blood banks
""^tere expected to donate some blood
a help build up the civilian bank’s
eserves and the hank asked for
mergency donations. He said the
iank would stay open from 8 a.m. to
m. throughout the week to ac
cept donations.
“We’ve asked other blood banks
to help us, hut they have the same
holiday shortage problem we antici
pated,” Langley said. “We might be
able to get one or two units from
them, but not nearly enough to
build up the reserves we need.”
He said the blood bank needed to
collect at least 300 units of blood to
build up backup reserves before
hospital supplies reached the critical
level.
Tuesday s 15-degree reading
broke the previous Jan. 2 record of
17 established in 1928. A slow
warming trend was expected today.
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AUSTIN —Agriculture Commis
sioner Reagan Brown is out to
streamline his agency to save money
and rid it of wasteful, “playboy” type
employees.
At a news conference Tuesday
Brown said his reorganizations and
cutbacks had saved $1,046,211 in
the past two years. He also claimed
to have purged the Agriculture De
partment of workers who did not
meet his specifications.
“We don’t play a lot of golf,”
Brown said. “We wear white shirts
and everybody over there works. If
a person wants to wear shower shoes
he can, hut he can’t do it and work
for me.
“We’ve cut out six high level ad
ministrators who were wandering
up and down the halls doing no
thing,” he said. “The people we
have now are working. It’s a differ
ent ball game; people are working
over there now.
Brown also said he had fired three
employees for illegal or unethical
actions.
One worker was dismissed fin-
keeping a $10 licensing fee from a
nursery, another whom Brown de
scribed as a playboy ior running up a
$158 hill for hotels, m cals and liquor
and charging it on a state credit
card, and a third fin - writing letters
to legislators critical of his super
visor.
He said the man dismissed for
running up the $158 bill during an
unauthorized trip from Austin to
Dallas had been with tin. depart
ment only about six months.
“He was a playboy and we re get
ting rid of the playboys in this
agency. All agencies should do
that,” Brown said.
Brown, who took office in March
1977, refused to criticize his pre
decessor, John O. White, hut said
he and White had different
philosophies on how the depart
ment should he operated.
Oldest known printing
Rare volumes donated
The majesty of times past
Marble columns form a pathway to discover
part of Texas A&M’s architectural past. The
Administration Building, at the front entrance
to the campus, is one of the oldest buildings on
campus, and its ornate columns and balconies
contrast the cubic style of some of the more
recently built buildings.
Battalion photo by Karen Cornelison
Texas A&M University got a spe
cial holiday gift recently when a rare
book collector from Salt Lake City
presented the university with a set
of volumes that includes two of the
oldest examples of printing known
to be in existence.
The 85-volume donation to Texas
A&M’s library includes the world’s
only volume of “Jun Mun Gyo,” a
1439 Korean book that proves
moveable metal type was in use at
least 16 years before the famed
Gutenberg Bible was printed.
The rare book collector, Loran L.
Laughlin, also presented library of
ficials with a -1,200-year-old slip of
paper that is the world’s earliest
known piece of printing. Described
as a Chinese translation of Buddhist
Sanskrit, the diminutive roll of
paper is stored in a miniature
wooden pagoda and was printed in
770 A.D., he said.
Laughlin, a 1926 Texas A&M
graduate and Salt Lake City busi
nessman for the past 22 years, do
nated a page from a Gutenberg
Bible and scores of books printed
before the 1500s.
The Lauren L. Laughlin Collec
tion of Rare Antiquarian Rooks, as
the gift will he known, will be
housed in the Special Collections
Division of the Sterling C. Evans
Library, said Dr. Irene Hoadley,
the university s dire ctor of libraries.
A special di.spla> will he arranged
for the rarest of the gifts when (hes
top floors of the new library addition
open next semester.
“This is perhaps the most signi ( i
cant gift ever to come to the Texas
A&M Universities libraries, said
the director of the million volume
library system.
Laughlin said he obtained the col
lection of rare Ixooks over a period of
four decades and that he thought of
his alma mater when trying to de
cide where to store it permanently.
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Women playing bigger role in defense
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WASHINGTON — Women are
playing an increasingly important
role in the government’s effort to fill
slots in the all-volunteer Army, and
their ranks are expected to double
by 1984, the Pentagon says.
A recent Defense Department
report said women are now getting
better military jobs, but it also
showed that many still wind up with
traditional work as secretaries,
clerks and medical assistants.
It said the number of women in
the military has increased three-fold
since the draft ended, rising from
less than 2 percent of the total in the
1973 fiscal year to nearly 6 percent
in 1977.
The study said the number of
women is expected to double to
nearly 12 percent of all U.S. military
personnel by the 1984 fiscal year
and to reach almost 20 percent in
the Air Force.
“As the number of women in the
military increases, women are be
ginning to enter, in greater num
bers, job fields that have been tra
ditionally held only by men,” the
report said. “Many of these are in
the combat environment.”
It said the Army does not assign
women to close combat jobs on a
regular basis, but allows them to
serve in combat-related posts such
as operating Hawk missiles, flying
Blackhawk helicopters and jumping
with airborne units.
The study called for repealing
legal restrictions that prevent
women from serving in combat-
related jobs in the Air Force and
Navy. It said Army women have
shown “they are capable of playing
an even larger part in national de
fense.
But the report showed that 46
percent of the enlisted women on
active duty in the armed forces
served in traditional administrative,
clerical, medical and dental jobs in
1977.
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