The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 16, 1979, Image 1
i Battalion Vol. 73 No. 32 10 Pages Tuesday, October 16, 1979 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 o arrests made n CS knife killing By ROY BRAGG Battalion Staff Texas A&M University student LaShan Muhlinghaus, whose body was found Fri- y night, died of multiple stab wounds, id Dr. J. C. Lee, the pathologist conduct- g the autopsy. Muhlinghaus’ nude body was discov ered by her roommate in the bedroom of [their College Station apartment, according to police reports. ■ The original police report said there was [only one wound, and that it was in the pelvic area. Lee, who said he will have the final au topsy report finished early next week, said there are more than a dozen stab wounds on the body. Muhlinghaus had sexual intercourse be fore the stabbing, Lee said, but he could not tell whether or not she was raped. The investigation into the case is con tinuing, said Detective Ronnie Miller of the College Station Police Department. No motive for the slaying has been deter mined, nor has the weapon been recov ered. Several persons have been questioned. Miller said, but there have been no arrests in the case. Funeral services for Muhlinghaus, a junior from Rowlett, were held in Dallas Monday morning with burial in Restland Cemetery. Muhlinghaus was the third student fatal ity of the academic year and the first stu dent homicide in over a year. Silver Taps for Muhlinghaus will be at 10:30 p.m. today in front of the Academic Building. California earthquake trongest in eight years icnds- layaway ein you. fC-pL United Press International 1115,1 . Bel CENTRO, Calif. — Aftershocks 1 SclSicr |l< lay repeatedly jolted and rolled through tl Imperial Valley, following an ear- tl quake that caused millions of dollars in ■amage Monday, but no deaths and sur prisingly few major injuries. ■ The vibrations of Monday’s quake, at 6.4 on the Richter scale the strongest to hit the U.S. mainland in more than eight wears, were felt in tall buildings through out the southwest corner of the nation, ■om Phoenix to the Pacific. ■ Destruction struck the southern Impe rial Valley, a desert farming region just north of the Mexican border. Walls buckled, ceilings fell in and gas ^nd water lines ruptured in the cities of alexico, Brawley and El Centro. Fires broke out, a highway bridge col- ORE id's Research team discovers antimatter in this galaxy sday, I iday, Octolfr iday, iday, Octolfr ty •day, Octok" lapsed, cracks opened in roads, mobile homes toppled off their foundations and plate glass windows sprayed spears of shat tered glass. An irrigation canal was damaged, raising a fear of flooding. A 500,000-gallon gasoline tank near El Centro rose and dropped with such force the bottom seam split. Gasoline was pour ing out at a rate of 25 to 50 gallons a min ute, but firemen said there was little chance of an explosion as they labored to contain the growing pond of flammable liquid. Two other similar-sized tanks in the same installation also sprang leaks, and it was expected it would take until Wednes day to clean up all the escaped gasoline. The Red Cross said 40 to 100 persons were injured, including about 30 across the Mexican border in Mexicali. Appar ently only three were hospitalized, includ ing a woman who suffered a heart attack. Mexican authorities said about 100 homes, mostly adobe huts, were heavily damaged, along with the airport terminal, and two banks suffered ceiling cave-ins. A classroom at the 20 Noviembre school col lapsed, along with the front wall of the Casa de Periodista, a meeting place for journalists. Thousands of southern California resi dents slept outdoors in the warm desert air as hundreds of aftershocks, large and small, continued through the night and into the morning hours. “We have only been counting those reg istering above 4.0 today,” said a spokes woman at the Caltech seismological labo ratory in Pasadena. United Press International LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Antimatter, a nystery of scientific law that has long xisted in the imaginations of futuristic liters, has been discovered in the galaxy y researchers who believe its detection :ould help them understand how the uni verse began. The symmetrical opposite of matter, an- imatter has eluded scientists’ efforts to f letect it in nature, although for years they lave been able to produce it in a labora- ;ory. But a New Mexico State University esearch team now says antiprotons were letected this summer aboard a research alloon seeking information about cosmic ays. Dr. Robert Golden of the NMSU Physi cal Science Laboratory, the man who headed the research, said Monday the dis covery may have far-reaching implications in research concerning creation of the uni verse. “We believe the discovery has made it possible for a lot more people to be aware there was a problem about trying to de termine how the universe was created,” said Golden. “The observations we made will help us determine a way to go about solving those problems.” The phenomenon of antimatter occurrs when energy is transformed into matter. At the same time matter is produced, symmetrically opposite antimatter is born. sd ay,oct“ k: Ifiss Texas A&M University MSC council approves pageant By ANGIE JONES Battalion Reporter The Memorial Student Center Council londay approved a Miss Texas A&M Jniversity Pageant. The pageant, scheduled for Feb. 15 and 16, will be a preliminary to the Miss America pageant. The MSC Hospitality Committee will [ponsor the event. The winner will repre- "l Q I lent Texas A&M at the state pageant in .*0 :1 Fort Worth. Steve Noak, the project’s director, said he pageant is not just a beauty contest but he only *\ dso involves scholarships. The 20 contes creation | tants will pr>mni=‘f-f> lw interview <=> VP nine iy Intrant out equip; ;nt ID or* ion’t lea ve ants will compete by interview, evening Sown, swimsuit and a talent session. Participation in the pageant is open to y female enrolled at Texas A&M as of he 1979-80 school year. The winner and runner-up will receive scholarships to Texas A&M, the amount of which will be termined in by the MSC Executive Com mittee in a meeting Friday. The Hospitality Committee hopes to provide additional support money to the winner while she competes in the state pageant. In order to hold an official preliminary pageant, the Hospitality Committee must purchase a franchise from the state pageant organization in Fort Worth at a cost of $250. Noak said a verbal agreement has been reached but the official franchise is expected on Nov. 1. Other universities that sponsor contes tants in state competition are Prairie View A&M, Sam Houston University, North Texas State University, West Texas State University and Texas Wesleyan Univer sity. The MSC Council also approved speak ers proposed for the Student Conference on National Affairs Committee (SCONA). Among the speakers on the SCONA list were science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov and Dixy Lee Ray, governor of Washing ton. The 1979-80 budget for the Free Uni versity Committee was approved by the council. However, the MSC Camera Committee budget was sent to the coun cil’s Executive Committee because new equipment approved by last year’s budget was carried over to the 1979-80 budget but was not listed in the new budget. The council also heard directorate committee reports from Micky Kennedy, for the MSC Basement Coffeehouse; Larry Pedigo for MSC Cepheid Variable; Christi Patton for the MSC Free University and Dorothy Du Bois of the MSC Recreation Committee. The council’s next meeting is scheduled for Nov. 12. Bryan firemen Elmo Neal Jr. and David Rosier are ambulance service in March, training firemen to finding their work schedule more complicated with double as Emergency Care Attendants and the addition of ambulance operation and upkeep. Emergency Medical Technicians. The Bryan Fire Department took over the city’s Battalion photo b y Sam stroder Firemen get medical training Ambulance service bills unpaid For example, Golden said that when energy becomes matter, a particle is pro duced which is similar in every respect to a proton except that it has a negative charge instead of a positive charge. That particle is an anti-proton. But scientists have been troubled for years about what happened to antimatter in creation of the universe. Under the “big bang” theory of crea tion, all energy in the universe was at one place at one time, Golden said. When it was converted into matter, there should have been have been an equal amount of antimatter produced, he said. Scientists have never been able to de tect that antimatter. By NANCY ANDERSEN Battalion Staff Earlier this year, the Bryan fire depart ment entered the ambulance business. Al though so far the arrangement has been successful, the fire department is having trouble collecting fees for this service. From April 1 through September 30, the ambulances have gone on a total of 746 runs. These runs are broken down into emergency, transfer and county calls. The total billing for the 746 runs is $20,770, said Joe Evans, Bryan director of finance. Of that amount, only $12,634 has been paid -— a collection rate of 60 per cent. Mid-Tex Ambulance Service, which had been providing the service for the city, told the city council in March it could no longer make ends meet and did not want to renew its contract with the city. After much debate, the council voted to give the job to the fire department starting April 1. “An ambulance service doesn’t pay for itself,” Mayor Richard Smith said, “so it’s the city’s obligation to provide this serv ice.” There are many advantages to a fire de partment running the service, Fire Chief Paul Philbin said last week. One is that existing stations and dispatching systems can be used. Also, fire fighting personnel are geared for quick response and know how to handle themselves in an emergency situation. But perhaps the most important advan tage is the better care and handling of pa tients due to required training. When the fire department took over ambulance service, training fire fighters to be Emergency Care Attendants(ECA) and Emergency Medical Technicians(EMT) began immediately. To become a registered EGA, a fire fighter undergoes a minimum of 24 hours training taught by an EMT. Training in cludes learning to take vital signs, give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), bandage and splint and even help in an emergency childbirth. Once the course is completed, fire fighters must pass a state- administered test. By the end of November, hopefully all 64 fire personnel will be registered EGAs, Philbin said. In addition, there is a bonus of $25 a month for any fire fighter who becomes an EMT. The training for EMT is a more ad vanced EGA course, covering the same material in depth. Lectures are given by local doctors, and the lecture material is reinforced through many hours of re quired observation at St. Joseph Hospital. All new fire fighters hired must have the required EMT training, Philbin said. Laura Olsen, surgical coordinator of in service and orientation at St. Joseph Hos pital, said the program has established a standard method of treatment for emergency care. As a result, patient care has been upgraded, and hospital person nel can do their jobs quicker, Olsen said. “The community has really benefited,’’ she added. The fire fighters are dedicated to doing the job, and the amount of knowledge they have acquired is remarkable, Olsen said. David Rosier, president of the Bryan Fire Fighter Association, said he wanted the fire department to take over the serv ice because he thought the citizens of Bryan deserved the same quality of service College Station residents had. Providing services is the business of the fire department, Philbin said. To coordinate the two services, Philbin said, he rotates his personnel between both jobs. This system is more efficient and avoids any bickering which could re sult from two separate divisions, he said. Another advantage of the rotation sys tem is that everyone is trained to give emergency care. Philbin is pleased with the service. “If you’re going to have a heart attack, have it in Bryan,” he said. The estimated total cost of the service to the city is $97,084. The fees for the service are $30 for Bryan residents, $40 for Brazos County residents picked up in Bryan and $50 for county residents picked up in any where else in the county. Any fees col lected are put back into the service to help cover expenses. Both Councilmen Peyton Waller and Joe Hanover said they were concerned that only three-fifths of the bills for ambu lance service have been paid. Bills are collected as follows: The fire department bills for service and the city finance department collects any payments. If a bill is not paid within 15 days, a second bill is sent. If the bill is not paid after 30 days, the matter is turned over to the legal department. After several months, if the bill remains unpaid, the city will file suit over the bill. No suits have been filed to date, said City Manager Ernest Clark. However, Clark added, the collection rate should improve as soon as some suits go to court. As for public satisfaction with the serv ice, Clark said he has received many let ters from people who have used the serv ice and not one has been negative. Smith said he is satisfied with the serv ice and hopes to staff the new fire station on Briarcrest Drive with additional emergency units. Ambulance calls since Bryan took over service June July Dug Sept Emergency calls j 104 *3 87 107 Transfers to other units 26 20 27 26 County calls (outside Bryan) 8 7 7 7 ts Florida caucus: indication of 1980, or hogwash? ts prise »*} t the » rC IdEngl^ ierv can u archer)'J ban shoo^ I. Jus‘ ( 3 use to United Press International MIAMI —- Somewhere in Miami accountants are bent over a stack of newspaper-sized sheets of paper. Some people think there is a key to 1980 politics in their labor. Others think the yield will be hogwash. The bookkeepers are working on more than 4,000 ballots cast by Dade County Democrats Saturday. The results will de termine whether President Car ter or Sen. Edward Kennedy won a majority of 879 county- delegates elected for the Florida Democratic Party’s Nov. 18 state convention. The convention will cast a presidential preference straw vote, with the elected delegates joined by 838 others — most elected officials and party leaders expected to be heavily pro- Carter. Thus the county voting ap peared to some as a valid test of rank-and-file Democratic senti ment. The campaigning brought politicians from both camps flocking to the state, all seeking an early advantage in the antici pated 1980 Carter-Kennedy struggle. But others noted that the Florida mock election had no thing to do with the selection of the state’s national convention delegates and had no meaning beyond a psychological lift for the winner. Whatever it all meant, both Carter and Kennedy supporters campaigned as if it were the 1980 election already. As the results came in during the weekend, both sides triumphantly claimed victory. White House news secretary Jody Powell predicted Carter would end up with 65 percent of the delegates. Kennedy suppor ters said he was sure to get a popular vote majority whatever the delegate split. The principals were less enthusiastic. Carter told re porters in Washington he felt “very good” about the results, and Kennedy said he was hear tened. But neither camp could really back up their claims with figures. Carter got more delegates out side greater Miami than Ken nedy, but Dade’s bloc of 188 was the difference for either candi date in claiming a majority. And nobody counted the Dade County votes Saturday. A pool of news organizations interviewed the voters after they had cast their ballots, and found that Car ter had beaten Kennedy by about 50. No other tabulation was avail able or expected until the hired firm of certified public account ants finishes its work. That may be Wednesday or Thursday be cause the tabulators must pore over six-page ballots listing more than 800 names to find the win ning 188. On the basis of unofficial votes from around the state, plus media pool results from Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Carter held an apparent majority of 562 delegates or 64 percent.