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THE BATTALION Page 9 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 19T9 er action of tl( darkest dap ion after d the an ani los for $10,i ly certifai oces a monl| ax deadlint e years, n twoy in July 191 ing him tit m a total i k taxes 3 I pn ion. Thisi 1 and it real' toingtolos National briefs NEW YORK — Only 21 percent of1,493 Americans surveyed in the latest ABC News-Harris poll give President Carter any chance of winning re-election next year, and 56 percent doubt he even can win the Democratic nomination. The poll, in which 70 percent foresaw no victory for Carter, brought his popularity to its lowest ebb since he entered the White House. Thirty-five percent predicted his renomination, and only 9 percent expressed no opinion in the survey, released Monday. Carter’s ability to inspire confidence as a leader sank even lower, with a 76-20 percent negative response. CHEROKEE, Iowa — What is billed as the second largest circus in the world seems to be missing. The Circus Genoa failed to show up Monday for two scheduled performances, disappointing many youngsters and adults. TMtrucks were due to arrive early in the day in Cherokee and set up big top with animal acts. They never showed. City officials contacted the circus’ home office in Oklahoma and a spokesman said he had not been in touch with the circus trucks since last week. The caravan was due in Flandreau, S.D., last Saturday, but didn’t show up there either. LITTLE ROCK — The rock group Black Oak Arkansas is suing the promoters of a Labor Day music festival, saying the concert was poorly organized and the promoters are basing the group’s pay on an artifi- ally low number of tickets. The suit filed Monday in circuit court says Wizard Productions of Little Rock is trying to pay Black Oak Arkansas on the basis of 12,000 tickets when the "best estimate” of the crowd at the concert was 27,000. The group was to be paid 30 percent of the gate at the concert on a farm west of Little Rock. The suit says the difference in the number of tickets sold and the number of people at the concert has resulted because Wizard Produc tions let people in free or by “inadequate and incompetent” sales and admissions procedures. d, haslet WASHINGTON — If Louisiana gubernatorial candidate L. D. Knox tal hospital I® his way, voters will really have a choice after all. Knox, a farmer from Winnsboro, La., says he wants to amend the S. Constitution to allow voters to cast a vote for “none of the above. What would happen if “none of the above” ran away with the elec- If years, an ;n treated th clinics. ic does m ^ did not pa is mixed it times, dead, o»i Well, that’s exactly what you’d do, Knox said before a news conference Sunday at the National Press Club Building. “You’d have to call another election and call up more candidates and eventually we d be drawing from abetter group of public servants than what were used sure wt she said CHICAGO —A federal judge has l)een asked to order the Food and 'rug Administration to reinstate the use of cyclamates, the artificial sweetener banned six years ago as a possible cancer-causing agent. Abbott Laboratories of suburban North Chicago filed suit Monday in U S. District Court, seeking an order allowing cyclamates to be rein troduced to the market for use as a table sweetener and in dietetic foods and beverages. eatl said it* al rescaii e two-* 1 ! , director au, saidt ig of an break wo intervenf i-viral dip rvention, take al WK’s son lees from ompound Lawmaker denies favoritism United Press Internationa] CONCORD, N. H.— New Hampshire statesman Norris Cot ton, 79, says just because his name is on former Texas Gov. John Connal- ly ’s national campaign committee list doesn’t mean he is committed to any Republican presidential candidate. “I don’t want to say I’ve re pudiated Connally’s statement, but on the other hand, I haven’t entirely identified myself with anyone, ” Cot ton said in an interview. Connally, who has done little or ganizing so far in the first state with a GOP presidential primary, plans a two-day campaign swing through New Hampshire later this month. His campaign recently released a list of politicians it said would serve on his national campaign committee. Cotton, a New Hampshire senator for 21 years, was the second name on the list. Despite Cotton’s statement, Con nally press secretary James Brady said Monday that on June 6, Cotton spoke with Connally campaign man ager Winton “Red” Blount and agreed to serve on the committee. •But Brady added, “I can’t disagree with what he’s said to you.” Cotton said he is an “old friend” of Connally’s and has talked presiden tial politics on the telephone with him several times. But Cotton said he hasn’t endorsed anyone in the GOP race because so many of his old friends are running. “I don t enjoy it much because many of the candidates are old friends of mine,” he said. “I served with (Tennessee Sen. Howard) Baker and (Kansas Sen. Robert) Dole. I was close friends with (former CIA director George) Bush’s father, and I know him very well.” Cotton, 79, said Connally is a “hel luva speaker with special talents. In five minutes he can bring an issue right down to the man on the street. ” But he feels Connally has a hard road ahead in New Hampshire. Campus names Charles E. Estes has been named head of the Department of Architec ture in Texas A&M University’s Col lege of Architecture and Environmental Design. Estes holds bachelor and master degrees in architecture from Texas A&M, and is a member of the Hous ton Chapter of the American Insti tute of Architects. The Board of Regents formally designated the $9 million entomology center, the Henry J. Reinhard-Van A. Little Entomology Center and approved the naming of the soil and crop sciences center lo cated in the same building for R. D. Lewis. The board also named the newly- constructed 500-student modular dormitories for women, M. J. Neely Hall and the Ella McFadden Hall. Dr. John T. Demel and Alan D. Kent of Texas A&M University’s en gineering design graphics faculty are co-winners of the Oppenheimer Award given at the recent American Society for Engineering Education conference. They received the Oppenheimer Award as authors of the best paper given in the engineering design graphics division. Texas A&M University’s vice pres ident for agriculture and renewable resources, Dr. Perry L. Adkisson was honored for his innovative work in the field of plant protection, at the 9th International Congress of Plant Protection held recently in Washing ton, D.C. Adkisson was also recently hon ored for his April election to the Na tional Academy of Sciences. Dr. Morris E. Bloodworth and Dr. P. Wayne Gosnell have been named directors of international programs and international services respectively for Texas A&M Univer sity’s expanded effort to share its ag ricultural and technological exper tise abroad. Professor Page Morgan of Texas A&M University’s plant science de partment was named president-elect of the American Society of Plant Physiologists in August and will as sume his duties as president in Oct. 1980. Eighteen Texas A&M University students will receive the first Certifi cates of Outstanding Achievement in the University Honors Program. The award recognizes outstanding academic performance in honors courses and will be bestowed each year on all University Honors Pro grams participants who earn at least 12 credit hours of “A” grade in hon ors courses during a given academic year. Initial recipients of the awards are Krystal K. Moses, sophomore biochemistry major; Andrew S. Khouw, sophomore, premed; Sha ron A. McMillin, sophomore, mi crobiology; Terry L. Quirk, sopho more, biology, and Steven N. Roper, junior, biology. All are from Dallas. Others include Lance J. Wright, sophomore, biology; Michael R. Be rman, sophomore, mechanical engi neering; and Elizabeth A. Myhill, sophomore, general studies, all of Houston, along with Lauren A. Snyder, sophomore, wildlife and fisheries sciences, and James M. Giltner, sophomore, aerospace en gineering, both of Corpus Christi. Also to receive the citations are David J. Bizzak, sophomore, mechanical engineering, from Crane; John W. Bradbury, sopho more, electrical engineering, from Lufkin; William D. Quonn Jr., sophomore, mechanical engineer ing, from Irving; Keri J. Wilkes, sophomore, bioengineering, from Hurst; Christopher J. Landry, sophomore, economics, from Port land; Victoria L. Luquette, sopho more, history, from Alvin; David T. Witzel, sophomore, political science from Bryan, and Angel K. Fulgham, sophomore, premed, from Big Spring. person’s! iere l )a gs of hero i were found, has uld bens! based mortal s epideii weeks ; system, uld beii if flu mean tin the way. United Press International NEW YORK — David Kennedy, 10 told police last week he was into a a seedy Harlem hotel n away from the Kennedy com- of reporli ' un( lin Hyannis Port, Mass., pub- 3 led reports said Tuesday. The 24-year-old Harvard dropout 1 son of the late Robert F. Ken- iy was brought to the compound his uncle, Stephen Smith, a day er the incident in the Shelton otel in Harlem, the New York lily News reported. Police said L :nne dy told them he had been ‘ . ,7!8(]fl ; ^ W in the hotel. L sa j The hotel is known as a narcotics mgout. Following the hotel incident there -re reports that young Kennedy da hard drug problem. The News loted a family source as saying the mily “had been watching over ivid very carefully and he was tak- medication to overcome his fork Post quoted an ac- uintance of Kennedy as saying: pe’s gambling with his life. He nt be thinking straight. It’s not dy he can beat this thing on his rn. The last time I saw him he was out of sight. ” Police in New York and Hyannis said the Kennedy family had not itacted them for help in locating nnedy. iCLU wants to ban carols from schools United Press Internationa] ST. LOUIS — The American Civil irties Union, with support from •veral religious groups, asked the S. Court of Appeals Tuesday to religious Christmas carols from lie schools. The ACLU has petitioned the 8th S. Circuit Court of Appeals to [erturn a lower court ruling that owed religious Christmas music to used in Christmas assemblies at mx Falls, S.D., public schools. Roger Florey, of Sioux Falls, filed |it against the city’s school district T an assembly in which his son tin, 6, a kindergarten student, depart. He was joined in the suit the ACLU and several Jewish and iristian groups. The suit sought an injunction to ir such carols as “Silent Night” “oi public schools on the grounds feir use violated constitutional ^visions guaranteeing separation bhurch and state. But on Jan. 14, U.S. District Hge Andrew Bogue in Rapid City, 0. refused to grant a permanent 'junction in the Case. The judge said the songs neither Kneed nor inhibited sacred be- Nx and did not entangle the gov- piment with excess religion. CAP & GOWN/MORTAR BOARD The Senior Honor Society invites you to a seminar on TIME MANAGEMENT by Dr. Michael J. Sexton of the Educational Administration Dept. This Wed., Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m., rm. 206 MSC. This is the first of three seminars in our Personal Develop ment series. Decision-making and Assertiveness Training will be covered on Sept. 19 and 26, both at 7:30 p.m. in 206 MSC. All three seminars will be geared towards life after college and should be of special interest to seniors. Everyone is welcome. 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