The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 05, 1979, Image 8

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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.
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Dining: 11 A. M. to 1:30 P.M. --4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M.
MONDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
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Whipped Potatoes
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TUESDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
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EVENING SPECIAL
Chicken Fried Steak
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Whipped Potatoes and
Choice of one other
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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
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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.
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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
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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'
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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.
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