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Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 32
10 Pages
Tuesday, October 16, 1979
College Station, Texas
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Phone 845-2611
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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.
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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-
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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-
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Steve Noak, the project’s director, said
he pageant is not just a beauty contest but
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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.
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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.
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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.