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Page 8 THE BATTALION MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1979 A&M to help Saudis curb traffic accidents Saudi Arabia is turning to Ameri can methods of traffic control in hopes of making its roads safer. In five years the number of regis tered vehicles has increased 400 percent, while traffic accidents and fatalities have increased 278 per cent. The Texas Engineering Extension Service has contracted with the Saudi Arabian government to con duct a two-year traffic safety prog ram for 50 Arab students at Texas A&M, beginning April 1. Dr. Fred Koestler, head of the Notv you know United Press International The youngest vice-president in U.S. history was John Cabell Brec- kenridge, who was 36 when he took office with President James Bucha nan on March 4, 1857. International Training Division of the extension service, said excessive speed, reckless driving, disregard of road signs and driving on the wrong side of the road account for most of Saudi Arabia’s traffic accidents. “Over 50 percent of Arab traffic accidents are due to excessive speed,” he said, “while on the other hand, alcohol accounts for only 1 percent of accidents, and there are no DWI’s in Saudi Arabia.” In com parison, alcohol is responsible for almost 7 percent of Texas traffic ac cidents, according to the Depart ment of Public Safety. Koestler blamed lack of skill and knowledge for most Saudi Arabian traffic problems. “There are too few safety officers and driver’s education courses there,” he said. Through education, Texas A&M’s program will try to eliminate careless driving habits that lead to traffic accidents. The program will cover 21 sub jects, including traffic safety en gineering, road traffic control, law enforcement and photography, so that the Arabs can start a com prehensive safety program in their own country. To ensure success of the program, the Engineering Extension Sevice has worked with the Saudi Educa tion Mission in Houston. The mis sion supported Texas A&M’s initial bid for the contract with the Saudi Arabian government and has coun seled the Arab students in prepara tion for their stay in College Station. James R. Bradley, director of the extension service, said he is looking forward to the new program. He said endeavors such as this are a growing part of the extension ser vice. “Many of A&M’s training prog rams have been successfully rep resented in other countries,” he said. Applications for the Following MSC Leadership Positions Now Being Accepted. MSC President - deadline January 26 MSC Council officers - deadline February 7 MSC Committee Chairmen - deadline February 21 Applications are available in Room 216 of the Memorial Student Center. MSC TRAVEL LA to 'Frisco MAY 14-23 CRUISE CALIFORNIA $425 INCLUDES: Round trip airfare Hotel accommodations Ground transportation EXTRA FEATURES Disneyland TV/Movie studios Cable cars ‘Human juke box’ SIGN-UP FEB. 5 RM 216 MSC $100 deposit required Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. Each Daily Special Only $1.79 Plus Tax. “Open Daily” Dining: 11 A. M. to 1:30 P.M. --4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Your Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea TUESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Mexican Fiesta Dinner Two Cheese and Onion Enchiladas w/chili Mexican Rice Patio Style Pinto Beans Tostadas Coffee or Tea One Corn Bread and Butter WEDNESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Chicken Fried Steak w/cream Gravy Whipped Potatoes and Choice of one other Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad Choice of Salad Dressing - Hot Garlic Bread Tea or Coffee FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL BREADED FISH FILET w/TARTAR SAUCE Cole Slaw Hush Puppies Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SATURDAY NOON and EVENING SPECIAL Chicken & Dumplings Tossed Salad Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee “Quality First” SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON and EVENING ROAST TURKEY DINNER Served with Cranberry Sauce Cornbread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread - Butter - Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable what’s up Monday BETA ALPHA PSI: James Hamilton will speak on “What is the General Accounting Office?” at 7 p.m. in Room 701, Rudder Tower. All persons interested in pledging should attend. OFF-CAMPUS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: There will be an im portant general meeting at 5:30 p.m. in the MSC Conference Room. JAPAN PRESENTATION: There will be be a slide presentation on the architecture, arts and crafts, and landscapes of modern Japan, narrated by Inger Garrison, who was a member of the United States Delegation to the 1978 meeting of the World Crafts Council in Kyoto Japan. The presentation will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Ar chitecture Auditorium on the first floor of Building C of the Ar chitecture Complex. The public is welcome. BASKETBALL: The women’s team will play Sam Houston State University in Huntsville at 5:15 p.m. ALPHA ZETA: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 410, Rudder Tower. PLACEMENT OFFICE: Graduating seniors who wish to interview for the following companies may begin signing up today for inter views on Feb. 19. IBM Corporation, Kemper Insurance Co., NASA Johnson Space Center, National Steel Products, Novak & Associates, San Jacinto Girl Scouts, Shell Companies (Busi ness), Stinghouse And Xerox Corporation. Tuesday FRESHMAN BALL: Tickets for the Class of’82 Ball will go on sale at the MSC Box Office and the Commons today and continue through Feb. 15. FLYING CLUB: Will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 350, Rudder Tower. FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: FCA meets every Tuesday in the Letterman’s Lounge of G. Rollie White Col iseum at 8 p.m. A&M WHEELMEN: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 607, Rudder Tower. ASME MEETING: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers will present Raymond Butler of Union Carbide speaking on “MEs in Petrochemicals at 7:30 p.m. in Room 102, Zachry Engineering Center. Refreshments will be served. . PRE-LAW SOCIETY: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 140, MSC. The first place film from the 1978 American Bar Association Con vention, “Young Lawyers of Texas,” will be shown. Davis witness fears retribution u* United Press International DALLAS — Charles David McCrory, the chief prosecution witness in Fort Worth millionaire T. Cullen Davis’s murder-for-hire trial, says a new name, new hometown and federal protection still have not quelled personal fears for his safety. McCrory said he is afraid Davis, free on bond after a mistrial was de- “Z know he’ll (Davis) try to have me killed sooner or later. Somebody with that kind of money can buy information to find where I am. Sooner or later somebody will make a mistake, me or somebody. 1 have to stay hid real well.” — Charles McCrory, chief prosecution witness in Cullen Davis’s Hous ton trial. name’s been ehanged, it’s one of the worst things that happen to a person other death.” McCrory said Davis’s ii tigators have spent $100,00 to find him, a charge Davis attorney Richard "Race! Haynes said is “absoluteh. equivocably wrong.” “We’ve not spent one dime ing for him,” Haynes said. " feel sorry for the folks of the munity in which he is residin| McCrory said his new life the Federal Witness Frol Program was confining but netj ure. Neither he nor his wifeisa to work, nor can he leave tlJ where he has been relocated! said. dared on charges he tried to have his divorce judge killed, is trying to hunt him down. “I’m looking over my shoulder constantly,” he said in a telephone interview published in Sunday’s Dallas Times Herald. “I know he’ll (Davis) try to have me killed sooner or later. Somebody with that kind of money can buy in formation to find where I am. Sooner or later somebody will make a mistake, me or somebody. I have to stay hid real well. “When you fear somebody is try ing to have you killed and you’re worried about your family and your Despite the precaut McCrory said he inspects It! every time he uses it, bass the windows in his new homed and placed holts on his doors. He described as “absurd’al ton jury’s 8-4 deadlock in ttieij 'I can understand thejuroij believing me,” McCrory think he (Haynes) could puta; on the stand in the countnl make the jury believe whatheij them to believe. Their cases thing but a pack of lies, made up by people expectinpl paid by giving false testimony! Davis has been out pending a second trial, sks| mistrial was declared twoi 1 ago. 1 Want to learn and earn at same time? Colleges to explain co-ops Feb. 1' By STANTON RAY Battalion Reporter The Office of Cooperative Educa tion and eight colleges of the Uni versity plan a “Co-op Fair Feb. 14, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The purpose of the fair is to in form students about the cooperative education program at Texas A&M University, which allows students to go to school and get on-the-job ex perience. The colleges of agriculture, ar chitecture and environmental de sign, education, engineering, geos ciences, liberal arts, science and veterinary medicine (biomedical science) will set up booths around the campus. Students can get litera ture and ask questions about the program in the individual colleges at the booths. J. Malon Southerland, director of cooperative education at Texas A&M, said a booth in the main cor ridor of the Memorial Student Center will distribute general in formation about the cooperative education program. Most of the other booths will be in the buildings where the main offices of the indi vidual colleges are located, The cooperative education prog ram is a program that allows stu dents to alternate semesters work ing and going to school. That way, students can see what they learn in the classroom applied to real work situations. Each college has its own program suited to the curriculum of the different courses of studies. Students in the cooperatiitl cation program must haveatif 2.50 grade point ratio minimum of 30 hours, altkl some colleges require They must also be freeoi| scholastic or disciplinary prt Students enrolled in thee tive education program eam^ erage of $850 a month professional contacts whiclj give the students an edge inti market after graduation. Texas MSC Craft Shop Spring Craft Workshops Mondays Wednesdays Drawing Cake Decorating Tuesdays Needlepoint Crochet Batik Baskets A Nomad Furniture Decoupage Sand Terrariums Quilting Pottery Watercolor Embroidery Thursdays Macrame China Painting Registration for spring workshops has begun and al ready half of our classes have closed, but there are still spaces available in the classes listed above. So, if you have a few free hours, why not share them with us. For more information call 845-1631 or better yet come down to the MSC basement and see us. A&M prof Donaldsoj lie n exhibits art in Rudd® §| An art exhibit of Texas A&M Uni versity Professor Joseph Donaldson will begin in Rudder Exhibit Hall and will run through Feb. 28. “A Limited Retrospective” fea tures a sampling of Donaldson’s art from 1940-1979. Among the 80 works in the exhibit will be his latest piece “Three Faces with Vine, ” sub titled “The Hollow Men,” which Donaldson completed Jan. 30, his 65th birthday. Explaining how he titled the work, Donaldson said, “While I was painting, I had three big heads in mind with vines all around, and that made me think ofT.S. Eliot’s poem. The Hollow Men.” The bro\n| black ink painting was wood sticks and fiber stuj Donaldson said. Joe Arredondo, coordinatort(| exhibit, said, “Donaldson’s) are very expressive of him; look at a Joseph Donaldson $ ing, you know Donaldson.’ Donaldson will retire fromfeB^conimr ing Aug. 31 after 23 years af|| )a > saic A& M. He said he plans to con®* t() stre painting and complete a b«B' im * n g 1 poetry after he retires. ; tf*d v A public reception openeiB f° r the exhibit Sunday in Rudder EiW exc '>ted Hall. > capable [rim Ath [announce 31-yeai jlist, has B athletic Jth coach kad footba .3 1 64-count indictment charges 21-car theft I, p said th coach pports. it, who aduated |‘ad strei of On United Press International NEW YORK — A 51-year-old man was indicted on charges he stole 21 cars from a Manhattan car rental firm and used the vehicles to i open a rent-a-car business he ran ijfrom his home. Giuseppe Terranova, of Brook lyn, was named Friday in a 64-count indictment obtained by the Brook lyn district attorney’s office. Ter- ..ranova, who was released on bail, will be arraigned on the charges Feb. 6. The indictment charged Ter ranova stole 21 late-model cars from Olins Rent-A-Car from April to Au gust 1978 and used them to open his own car rental business, run from his Brooklyn home. , jing the He also allegedly stole rent, , 0 t j Jat | tract forms from the Olins coach used them as his own. B ofNeh In addition to the loss oftlie®j s j s a ^ valued at $100,000, Olins o® sa j ( | p|' v said they lost $ 15,000 in rentaT j] ness because of the thefts. Bam tod' l n t was The cars were later recoverfW t ntt ’ ‘ m cause they were abandoned<nB J ta * ei streets when they broke do')!'] abundance of parking tickets is to the vehicles led to the invd tion by the district attorneyso! Terranova faces up to seven! 3 in prison if he is convicted on tt 1 counts of grand larceny, 21 coin 1 p possession of stolen property. 21 counts of unauthorized us« vehicle. MSC TRAVl GUAt SI HEY AGS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS SUMMER? Why not travel or study overseas? For morels formation, contact Rusty Phelps, MSC TRAVEL COMMITTEE in Room 216 MSC or 845-1515 Travel loans for travel or study programs are also available-> Feb. 5-19 In 216 MSC. We thar ithropoli Won, | tc ' at Gu uiy 2 - a 265. Bo, le xican 1 Gu; sumr Al Univen Tuc (602