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)1) iS 'me to n to the •egalalie: • ’ Stroud V session October, mort THE BATTALION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1979 Page 9 Treaty begins Monday Student wields gun at college United Press International WASHINGTON — The long igressional battle is ended, and 3 and Panamanian officials can jceed freely with ceremonies ,jnday marking the effective date the Panama Canal treaties. The 1977 treaties giving Panama jtrol of the canal in the year 2000 —u „„ re approved by the Senate last returned ir, but the fight over a bill to im- ment them ended only Wednes- tment, o# I, w hen the House fi nall V passed measure. . ■ -j-mnf iespite a last-stand effort by con- — said| natives to block the bill, the ruse approved it, 232-188, and sent it to President Carter for sign ing. The Senate passed it Monday. Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance will fly to Panama Monday for the ceremonies marking the start of the treaty that replaces one signed in 1903. The old treaty granted the United States perpetual sovereignty over the waterway. At midday Wednesday, a report circulated that Panamanian officials planned to invite Cuban Premier Fidel Castro to the event, but the State Department said no Cuban delegation would attend. United Press International KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A busi ness college student armed with a .25-caliber pistol held about 30 people hostage briefly Thursday, then released them and was negotiating with two police officers. The man, identified only as “Lewis”, held the people hostage in ja third floor classroom at Knoxville Business College in the downtown section of the city before freeing them shortly after noon. Mary Kay Miller, a police dis patcher, said the hostages had been freed and were unharmed. She said the gunman was negotiating in the classroom with police Cpl. Lock Miller and Officer Barbara Hopper. Charles Lawson, a student at the college who said he was a friend of the gunman, said the man “feels in ferior because he’s had an accident.” Lawson said the accident had left the man with a limp and “problems .with his right arm.” Had the implementing bill failed, the treaties would still take effect. But the legislation was needed to set up the administrative structure to operate the canal for the next 20 years. The administration predicted chaos in the Canal Zone, possibly including closure of the waterway, if the bill was not passed by Oct. 1. Rep. John Murphy, D-N.Y., House floor manager for the bill, told his colleagues he shared some of the conservatives’ objections to the canal treaty, “but we are not considering the treaty of 1977 today. We are at the point of implementing the treaty regardless of its merits. ” Rep. Robert Bauman, R-Md., who led the successful fight last week against an earlier version of the bill, agreed the legislation was necessary “for the continued opera tion of the canal. ” The House vote was praised by State Department spokesman Tom Reston, who said enactment “will enable the United States to protect its rights and interests in the Panama Canal and to meet our international obligations.” $*! showman even in death ' charge light be, said bei o do will. Corpse sentinel of Eden t from a-, post,] United Press International lag'ttofe huCAS, Kan. — Forty-seven n ^ V f t ars after his death, the eccentric a ^j’ >ator of Kansas’ own “Garden of a d00r .'. len” still watches over his jungle nnE ff ° u cement trees and statuary in this 0 enif vn of 514 residents. ' em con* ] namauso l e um on the grounds, a . hemo1 ar guide delights in introducing SP Dinsmoor, encased in his 1 a ' 11 %s-covered concrete coffin. |By the Civil War veteran’s own jsh, and with the help of a special |ibalming job, Dinsmoor himself is a major attraction of the iwplace he began building in |907 when he was 64. have a will,” Dinsmoor wrote. id) -ly < it needs 1 “that none except my widow, my descendants, their husbands and wives, shall go in to see me for less than $1. That will pay someone to look after the place, and I promise everyone that comes in to see me (they can look through the plate glass and glass in the lid of my coffin and see my face), that if I see them dropping a dollar in the hands of the flunky, and I see the dollar, I will give them a smile.” Beckoned by a faded sign, 10,000 tourists last year ventured 18 miles off the beaten path of Interstate 70 in central Kansas to visit Dinsmoor’s Garden of Eden, situated 22 miles from — of all places — Paradise, Kan. Dinsmoor’s garden actually is a concrete and limestone monstrosity, as out of place on a block of neatly trimmed, wooden homes as a bowl ing trophy in a china cabinet. Surrounding a limestone cabin and the mausoleum is a bewildering assortment of lifesize concrete statues clinging to concrete trees as high as 30 feet off the ground. After Dinsmoor started his cabin of native limestone in 1907, he spent the next quarter-century on scaffolds patting homemade con crete, wire mesh and philosophy into statues. Dinsmoor earned his living giving guided tours of his showplace for a quarter a head until his death in 1932 at 89. Soon after his death, the property changed hands, became obscured with brush and weeds and eventu ally ended up as an apartment house. In 1967, a Lucas plumber who was 9 years old when Dinsmoor died, decided to revive the old man’s tradition. Wayne Naegele and his wife bought the garden for about $8,000. They restored the eyesore of an apartment house and its overgrown yard to its former glory and reopened it to tourists. ^iiiiiii lCOUPON4 ||||i||||i||||il||i|iiiliill,,1111111 1 COMBINATION | PLATE JUMBO BURGER FRIES & SALAD o Q_ ID O o f (Reg. $2.64) with this coupon $009 Offer Expires Sat., Sept. 29 CALL IN YOUR ORDER — 846-7466 University Drive at Welborn Overpass Mon.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Store Hours: Fri.-Sat. 10 a.m.-ll p.m. Sun. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. een hopes to rebound from hand loss ndingittl ndidatefl ;s that o as I m Sffift United Press International id. iDETROIT — Surgeons report ladmenli Recess in reattaching Todd ealminai ffideau's severed right hand, and ledy’s “d ke suburban teenager says he’ll adership, l v e it my best shot” in trying to shouldniBume his interrupted basketball ack on nwcer. iNadeau, 17, a basketball standout te “wasr; 1 hN°i'thville’s Catholic Central t. If son ®gh School, lost the hand Aug. 8 dership,l^hile cutting aluminum with a rship.’ P ower saw ' The hand was reat- (ached in a 13-hour operation at De- # foit’s Harper Hospital, where doc- Itlfl *° rs ^ e ^ nes day said the 6-foot, |Mnch teen-ager has been making Kellent progress. i|Nadeau’s doctors said the youth, a StOI rdai starting guard on the Shamrocks basketball team, would be released from the hospital today. Nadeau said he hopes he will be able to play basketball again this year. “All I’ve got to do is move it (the hand) a little bit,” Nadeau said. “I’m a lefthander. If it doesn’t hurt, I’ll be out there. I’ll give it my best shot.” Dr. Robert Larsen, who headed the surgical team that reattached the hand, said Nadeau still faces “a minimum of four pretty good opera tions.” In addition to the original surgery to reattach his hand, Nadeau has had five skin grafts. Larsen said he believes Nadeau will be able to play sports again, but was unable to predict how much use the boy will get out of the restored hand. “His youth is in his favor,” Larsen said. “The severity of the injury is not.” The hand itself was cleanly cut but Larsen said it appeared Nadeau then pulled his arm back across the saw because his forearm was “badly mutilated.” Nadeau’s boss, Jim Belanger, grabbed the severed hand and packed it in ice before rushing him to a hospital in suburban Livonia. He immediately was transferred to Harper. With vessels taken from his right leg, doctors grafted one artery and three veins in Nadeau s hand and national - A WO! milton J« 177 cedes sb 3 top Wl iowdfp®| dtty. sser saiil| t, Lana) i WednfS 1 back oi ne-shot gifts sparkle Xmas catalogue United Press International ATLANTA — As its annual ristmas gift for those who have st about everything, Neiman- jarcus offers a remote-controlled jtellite antenna to pull in television Jogramming from across the coun- “y Cost: $36,500. The Dallas-based chain, introduc- i ^ orr i V ts annual catalog in Atlanta a e n lid away from headquarters for the Ijst time, also unveiled a variety of j er A suc ^ one-time gifts, ranging n 1 rliTli | m f^,000 capes of natural Rus- Beverl aa n lynx bellies to His and Hers ach air dirigibles P riced at $50,000 The most expensive gift listed in e catalog, however, a $125,000 set of pendant necklace, ear drops and bracelet made of diamonds, amethyst and turquoise. T.G.I.T! T.G.I. Tecate! 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