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Friday
FREE MOVTEt “Bambi" wiH be shown at 8 and 10 p m. In Rudder
Thealnr. Advance tickets are available at the MSC Box Office.
WNG DANCE PICTURES: Can be picked up today and tomorrow
«t the Rudder Box Office.
COMMENCEMENTi The colleges of Agriculture, Veterinary
Medicine and all advanced degres at 2 p.m.; the Colleges of Ar
chitecture, Engineering and Science at 7:30 p.m.; both in G.
Roflie White Coliseum
Saturday
COMMENCEMENT: The Colleges of Business, Education, Liberal
Arts and Moody College at 9 am. in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
FINAL REVIEW: Will be at 3:30 p.m. on the Drill Field in front of
the MSC
BASEBALL; Texaa A AM will play University of Texas in a double
header starting at 1 p. m. at Olsen Field. ,
Monday
FINAL EXAMS: Begin at 8 am. and continue through Friday. .
New dean selected
Beer to sponsor
canoe marathon
United Press International
HUTCHINSON, Kan — Andy
Warner may not have yet all the
entrants he expects prior to the
deadline for a 15-day marathon
canoe race from Hutchinson to New
Orleans, but at least he has the re
freshments nailed down.
Only 33 entrants had paid the
$25-per-canoe fee as of Wedneday,
Warner said, but he isn't toy con- ,
cerned because he expects more
than a hundred more entrants be
fore the May 15 entry deadline.
And, he says, it doesn't hurt to say
that a beer distributor has promised
at least 40 cases of beer for every
party scheduled for "The Great Na
tional Canoe Race of 1979,” to begin ,
-(May 26.
“We’ve got a lot of commitments
— we’ve got at least 200 who are
committed to go,” said Warner, a
32-year-old insurance salesman/
"And I’ve been told it^ standard
procedure among canoeists to wait
until the last minute.”
W’amer said the 1,256-mile race
is being sanctioned by the U.S.
Canoe Association, and will be an
elapsed-time race with all stops and
camping sites along the Arkansas
and Mississippi rivers pre-selected.
Canoeists will travel at least 50
miles each day and often as mans as
70 miles. >
Warner said the idea for the rape
began last spring when a radio an
nouncer friend doubted the trip was
possible. The first trial of the route
ended in May 1978 at Wichita for
most canoes, but Warner and a
friend went to Tulsa before they had
to return for a funeral.
Two weeks ago, Warner said he
and two other canoes tested the first
day’s route to Wichita, and found
the river slower than expected.
However, he:said. Army Corps of
Engineers officials have assured him
there will be enough wafer in the
Arkansas to allow the race.
Overnight stops are planned near
the Kansas cities of Wichita and Ar
kansas City, near the Oklahoma
cities of Tulsa and Sallisaw, near the
Arkansas cities of Fort Smith, 'Little
Rock, Pine Bluff and Arkansas City,
and neaftthe Louisiana cities of Lake
Providence, Black Hawk, Baton
Rouge, Donaldsville and New Or
leans.
Sponsors for the'trip include a
boat nAnufractur^r, a sofodrink
maker, a grocery chain, a sporting
goods manufacturer and Budweiser
beer. Warner said Budweiser has
arranged hats, start and finish ban-^
ners, a police escort through New
Orleans and 40 cases of beer for par
ties.
Dr. Robert H. Page, professor of
mechanical and aerospace engineer
ing at Rutgers University, has been
named dean of the College of Engi
neering at Texas A&M University,
effective Aug. 1.
Page was selected for the position
after a nationwide search resulting
in more than 100 nominations, in
cluding candidates from within the
University as well as prominent
leaders- in engineering education
throughout the country.
Page will succeed Fred J. Be
nson, who was promoted to vice
president of engineering and non
renewable resources last year. Dr.
Richard Thomas, associate dean, has
headed the College of Engineering
on an interim basis.
Handbag
linked to
The oil and beef crises are hitting
Americans in the pocketbook — lit
erally.
A market research executive says
the oil crisis is having "enormous
impact on the cost of vinyls,” includ
ing those widely used by American
handbag manufacturers.
"Leather is going up very fast,
too,” says Edward S. Levy, execu
tive director of the National Hand
bag Association. “Leather is a by
product of the beef industry, so
when beef prices rise, so do leather
prices. Leather is an international
commodity. There is a shortage of
leather the world over.
“Since the vinyls we use to make
handbags use petrochemicals, if
those prices go up, ours do, too.”
Levy said supply and demand will
also help determine how much price
tags increase on fall handbags.
This and the sporting look were
newsmakers at the handbag indus-
trv’s semiannual show in New York
Texas A&M has the nation’s
largest engineering enrollment,
which includes 8,070 students.
*T am looking forward to the chal
lenge of providing leadership for the
future development of the College
of Engineering," said Page. He also
said that he was extremely im
pressed with the attitude and qual
ity of the students and faculty at
Texas A&M.
Page has held teaching and ad
ministrative positions at Rutgers
University, in New Brunswick,
N.J., specifically as chairman of the
Department of Mechanical, Indus
trial and Aerospace Enginaering.
He said he will continue both teach
ing and research at Texas A&M.
prices
oil, cattle
City for fashion accessories re
porters and editors.
Many bags have detachable
shoulder straps, converting daytime
styles for dressier occasions.
Some consumers appear ready —
or perhaps, resigned — to the.
projected price increases.
Women questioned in the first
segment of a three-part survey for
the handbag industry said they do
not consider up to $50 an unreason
able price to pay for a purse these
days.
In an interview, marketing con
sultant Marshall Dickman discussed
the preliminary' results of the study.
It is part of an industry-wide recov
ery program funded by a grant from
the Department of Commerce.
The researchers found women
perdeive imported handbags as bet
ter in quality, design and workman
ship than American-made bags, and
leather as superior to vinyl and fab-
Page’s work at Rutgers, included
the reorientation of the under
graduate curriculum to emphasize
laboratory and classroom studies.
Page said he felt that improving the
relationship between lab and class
room work would be beneficial to
students in helping them to use
their time more efficiently.
Page. 51, is a Pennsylvania native
and a 1949 graduate of Ohio Univer
sity. He earned his master’s in 1951
and doctorat? in 1955 at the Univer
sity of Illinois. That institution des
ignated him a distinquished alum
nus in 1973.
A large part of Page’s teaching
and research experience came from
Stevens Institute of Technology and
the University of Illinois. He di
rected the Fluid Mechanics Labora
tory at Stevens in the mid-1950s and
served as a research engineer with
the Esso Research and Engineering
Co. in Linden, N.J.
He has held numerous posts in
the American Society for Engineer
ing Education, the American Soci
ety of Mechanical Engineers and
the Engineers Council for Profes
sional Development. He also is a
member of the National Society of
Professional Engineers, a senior
member of the American Astronaut-
ical Society and an associate fellow
of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Page holds a patent for an
electro-fluidic signal converter,
which is a device that uses electric
ity for a switching function inside a
gas flow system. He has also served
on National Science Foundation re
view panels for eight years and has
more than 150 professional publica- #
tions, dealing mainly with gas
dynamics and fluid flow problems,
j "I feel that Texas A&M has a su
perb reputation along with a strong
base in the Engineering college,
and it is my goal to attempt to
enhance the excellence of the pro
gram, Page said.
THE BATTALION P*®}
FRIDAY. MAY «.
‘Script’ followed
in inmate testimony
United Press International
HOUSTON - An fnmate who testified Texas prison conditions are
substandard has told state lawyers he lied or exaggerated some o 1S
testimony to conform with an inmate “script,’ an assistant attormv
general said Thursday. ’ B. nft< d '
David Roberson, who is serving a sentence for burglary, testine
several weeks ago for plaintiff inmates demanding major prison re
forms, but will recant some of his statements. Assistant Attorney
General Harry Walsh said.
"Every witness that came in was given a script. They conducted a
mock court in the evening, made changes in the script. Walsh said.
"The lawyers didn’t do this. The inmates were doing this. They were
getting their stories straight.”
Walsh said Roberson, expected to testify- late Thursday for the
state, is a diabetic who has “honest complaints" about the food and
he’s not going to change that.”
But Walsh said a summary of Roberson’s expected recantation,
filed with U.S. District judge William Wayne Justice, reverses of
tones down earlier testimony about official use of inmate enforcers,
beatings, toleration of homosexual abuse, harassment and denial of
gccess to the courts.
Walsh said the state has filed no peijury complaints with the U.S.
attorney’s office, which would handle such cases arising in the non-
jury federal court trial, but said the state's lawyers reserved that
possibility.
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Jury hears confession
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Oil prices canceling
improving food costs
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Sharply
higher prices for gasoline and heat
ing oil canceled a dramatic im
provement in food costs during
April as wholesale prices climbed
0.9 percent — the fifth straight
month of double-digit inflation, the '
government reported Thursday.
Food ready for sale to groceries
declined by 0.3 percent last month,
by far the best performance since
last August. Food prices had
climbed by at least 1.2 percent dur
ing each of the previous four
months.
But fuel prices remained at dis-
couragingly high levels, the Labor
Department said in its monthly
analysis of inflation at the wholesale
level. •
Gasoline prices shot up 4.4 per
cent, the largest rise since August
1975, and have now surged 9.8 per
cent during the past three months
alone.
Furthermore, home heating oil
jnmped 6.7 percent to. raise the
three-month increase to almost iT
percent, a particularly gloomy
statistic for northeastern states.
The heating oil jump was the
biggest since an 8.1 percent in
crease registered in June 1974.
In fact, the cost of all products at
the wholesale level other, than food
climbed by 1.3 percent, the biggest
increase in that category since Oc
tober, 1974 —a sure sign that infla
tion will remain a big concern for
the next several months.
The overall 0.9 percent increase
in the cost of goods ready for sale to
retail outlets was the lowest since
November’s 0.7 percent rise.
But that was small consolation to
inflation-weary Americans because
if wholesale prices rose over the
year at the same rate as in April it
would mean an 11.4 percent infla
tion rate.
United Prtss International
SAN FRANCISCO — Dan
White, tears pouring down his
cheeks, stared straight ahead with
out attempting to wipe the tears
away Thursday as the prosecution in
his murder trial played a 25-minute
taped confession White made the
day Mayor George Moscone and
Supervisor Harvev Milk were
killed
The tape recording was made a
little more than an hour after
Moscone and Milk were shot to
death in City Hall and White turned
himself in last Nov. 27.
Homicide Inspector Frank Fal-
zone on the tape questioned White
about the slayings, asking him why
he did it.
T’ve been under an awful lot of
pressure — financial pressure, the
job, family pressure," White said on
the tape. T have not been able to
have any time for my family.
"When the pressure got too great
I decided to leave, but after 1 left,
my family and friends offered me
help to allow me to go back to of
fice," he said. "Since I felt responsi
ble to the people who elected me, I
went to Mayor Moscone He told
me I did an outstanding job as a
supervisor and that he would reap
point me, so I tried to set my per
sonal affairs in order.
“THEN IT CAME out that
Supervisor Milk and others were
working against me. I was in the
mayor’s office when Harvey Milk
called. I heard the conversation. I
heard that he would try to prevent
me from getting my office back.”
White said Moscone told him his
decision to appoint someone else.
After he left Moscone’s office, he
continued on the tape, he con
fronted Milk.
Feinstein, who becime acting
mayor after Moscone’s slaying and
later was elected to the office by the
supervisors, told the jury she first
thought White had taken his own
life
BUT WHEN she heard more
shots follow the first, she realized
White could not have killed himself
She said White had written a let
ter threatening to seize his seat
physically at the Board of Super
visors’ meeting.
“I knew Dan wanted to get his
seat back,” Feinstein said. “I
wanted to find Dan to persuade him
not to try to take his seat.”
She told prosecutor Thomas
Norman on the morning of the
shootings, she saw While in a City-
Hall corridor, stopped him and
asked him into her office to talk, but
he rushed past her, called Milk into
his old office and she heard the
shots.
A FEW MINUTES later, Feins
tein announced in tears that
Moscone and Milk had been shot to
death
Omholt. police officer and co
worker to White, said 10 spent car
tridges and six live bullets were
found in White s pocket.
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