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FOR THE CLASS OF
NEW !
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at Carson Street. Also available for class of '80, '81, '82, and '83.
We have handcrafted A&M Ringcrest products such as Paperweights, Pen Sets,
Double Pen Sets, Doorknockers, Executive Desk Nameplates, Bookends and
bronze castings of Insignia as well as other specialty items.
OrnaMetal Castings will be open Saturday, May 5th from 9:00AM till 3:00PM.
Regular business hours are 8:00AM till 5:00PM Monday thru Friday.
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You can have a METAL DIPLOMA copy of your original made by OrnaMetal
Castings.
If you bring your original diploma by OrnaMetal Castings on Saturday, May 5th
between 9:00AM and 3:00PM we will make a negative of it and return it to you
in minutes.
A beautiful framed bronze or silver colored reproduction will be mailed to you
shortly. METAL DIPLOMAS are available in two colors; bronze or silver and in
various sizes for as little at $27.50 plus tax and postage.
OrnaMetal Castings will be open Saturday May 5th from 9:00AM till 3:00PM.
Regular business hours are 8:00AM till 5:00PM weekdays.
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Classes in suburbs
United Press International
INDIANAPOLIS — A trip to a
shopping center is educational for
students taking college courses at
four suburban malls in Indianapolis.
Most of the 500 students who
signed up for the Indiana Purdue
University at Indianapolis classes
are housewives returning to school
after a long absence.
They like the convenience of the
classes, which are taught by regular
faculty members. They feel safer
and less out-of-place than they
would on the school’s downtown
campus.
“I expected to have a lot of
housewives who were tired of sitting
at home and that’s mostly who
enrolled,” said Wanda Slusher. Her
elementary composition class con
tains 17 women and two men.
“It’s perfect for them. Everyone
seems very enthusiastic about the
learning situation.”
Other subjects in the initial
semester include English grammar
review, speech, algebra, psychol
ogy, American politics, child psy
chology; novel and short story; cul
ture and society; weather, climate
and man; and spatial organization of
the city.
“We re going to increase the of
ferings during a summer session and
may end up adding even more for
the fall semester,” said James R.
East, director of Learn and Shop
and the Weekend College.
East said 503 students enrolled
for the first semester and few drop
ped out.
“They enrolled for a variety of
reasons, but the majority are think
ing about completing or starting de
gree work,” he said. “Some were
just curious.”
He said three-fourths were wo
men, nearly half were 30-50 years
old and 47 percent had been out of
high school more than 15 years.
Thirty percent had never taken col
lege level courses, 61 percent were
married and 40 percent had chil
dren living at home.
Student Maudy Ragsdale said she
had been out of school for 22 years.
She said she decided to return be
cause the courses are convenient,
her employer pays for them and she
was bored with TV soap operas.
Student Ethel Cline, a nurse, said
she intends to use her courses as
stepping stones to a higher degree.
Dale Trammel, one of the two
male students, helps manage a
store. His company also pays for his
class. He sees it as a chance to im
prove himself.
One freshman said he enrolled in
the class at the mall because he
didn’t want to contend with parking
problems at the downtown campus.
Slusher said some students use
the time after class to shop. But for
her, the class is not as convenient as
one on campus.
She lacks office space, filing
cabinets and storage for student
records. “You can’t come in and
work the way you would at the cam
pus,” she said.
But it does offer a more relaxed
atmosphere than a larger class of
regular students, she added. “It’s
enjoyable for me and them.”
Most students making general
comments on East’s questionnaire
about the program praised its con
venience.
“The environment is not so in
timidating for an older student as
regular campus,” one wrote.
“Easy to attend in winter, park
ing, safety. I have been putting
school off and this seemed too good
to pass up,” said another.
“I feel much safer coming to the
shopping center than going to the
university campus,” said a third.
“Chance to remain mentally active.
Desire to learn.”
And Taylor van Gordon, an am
bitious young houswife in Slusher’s
English composition class said:
“I’m a sales clerk. But someday
my husband is going to be president
and I feel it will be an injustice to
him to have an uneducated ‘first
lady.’”
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Stockholders
whip inflation
United Press International
NEW YORK — Somebody is beating inflation in thiscountif-
and that somebody is the stockholder.
Judging by the dividends paid out by companies listed on the fit*
York Stock Exchange, the man or woman with money in
faring much better these days than the wage earner.
Companies listed on the NYSE in 1978 increased their divideni
payments to shareholders at a rate that outstripped inflation,
increased dividend trend is continuing into 1979, a year alreadyliijl.;
lighted by whopping first quarter profit increases reported by oj
companies.
NYSE reports show the total dividend payout by firms listedontlit
exchange rose 13.5 percent in 1978 to $41.15 billion from SM
billion in 1977. That 13.5 percent compares with an inflation rate tint
ran from 7 to under 9 percent for most of last year
current rate is 13 percent.
The NYSE reports on dividend payments only once a year hi
Standard & Poor’s keeps track all year of dividend changes ofmijoi
companies, although not of the amounts or rates of change.
S&P said there were 903 dividend increases in the first tlret
months of this year, against 844 in the first quarter last year and oik
four dividend cuts against 10 reductions a year earlier. Thirty-foil
companies omitted first quarter dividends compared with
year.
There is one fly in the Big Board’s dividend ointment. Eventboojl
the payout to stockholders rose for the third consecutive year,
market value of the stocks did not keep up with inflation. Themelii
yield, which is figured on market value of stocks as of Dec. 31, m
only about half as much as the inflation of money — 4.8perceali
1978 as against 4.5 percent in 1977.
The NYSE report contained other interesting informational*!
stock ownership. Of the 1,552 companies listed on the Big Board
88.5 percent, or 1,373, paid dividends last year. Twenty-eigblf
these have not missed a dividend for a century or more and 102l»
paid for more than 75 years without a break. More than halfofal
NYSE companies have paid a dividend for more than 20 conseciit
years.
The biggest increase in 1978 dividend payout among Big tail
companies was by the aircraft companies — 42.5 percent for a totilol
$426 million.
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United Press International
MOSCOW — The charge was
plotting to hijack a domestic Soviet
Aeroflot airliner to Sweden and
freedom.
The verdict sent 34 Soviet citi
zens, most of them young Jews who
had dared to apply for permission to
emigrate to Israel, to prison for most
of a decade.
Even now there is a widespread
belief that the Leningrad hijack plot
of 1970 constituted a tangled web of
KGB secret police penetration,
entrapment and persecution aimed
at putting the first wave of activist
Jews in jail.
Two of the accused ringleaders of
the plot — Eduard Kuznetsov and
Mark Dymshits, both of whom were
originally sentenced to die before
firing squads — flew to freedom in
America Friday as part of a swap for
two convicted Soviet espionage
agents.
Five others convicted in the plot
were freed last week and four of
them were aboard a train this
weekend bound for Vienna and, ul
timately, Israel.
Only three of the 34 still languish
behind the bars of Soviet forced-
labor camps. Pressure for the re
lease of losip Mendelevich, Yuri
Fyodorov and Alexei Murzhenko
will grow until the great hijack plot
is only a memory or perhaps, for
some, a nightmare.
It began early on the morning of
June 15, 1970, when police and
KGB agents swooped down on 11
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people waiting for a plane at Leu
grad’s Smolny Airport. Theyrisi
taneously arrested nine other ps
sons elsewhere, including one
who was on vacation in Odessij
miles away.
Within half an hour
police raids were staged on sotl
homes and offices in
Riga and Kishinev.
At their trial in December 191
the first 11 admitted theyli
planned to board the
vert it to Sweden, because they4
spatted of ever being
emigrate to Israel.
On Christmas eve, Kuznel*
and Dymshits were sentencedl
death — the sentence was it
muted to 15 years at hard late la
than a week later — and the as
in their immediate circle drewfe
camp terms ranging from II
years.
The second Leningrad trialb
May 11, 1971. Nine accusedofst
ondary complicity in the
prison terms ranging between a
and 10 years.
The following month KCBapI
staged another series of
swept still more Jews into coiiitl
charges that they had
anti-Soviet propaganda “wiP
criminals who prepared an acldn
piracy.”
Altogether a total of five sb
trials were held, and 34
hind bars.
The harsh sentences electri#
Jewish communities aroundA
world and a ceaseless
free the “prisoners of Zion’»1
launched.
The experience and the inleiS
tional support stiffened the resdl
of other Soviet Jews to
flinching official harassment,
cution, prosecution and jail in
suit of permission to tear up 2|
years of roots in Russia am
plant them to Israel.
In the intervening years
emigration has ranged from alo*
only 1,000 a month in 1973 tod
current record rate of 4,
month.
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