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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1980
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udge says country uniting
By AMY DAVIS
City Reporter
The United States is ehanging a
divided nation into a more unified
one, Judge Leon Douglas of the
State Court of Criminals Appeals
said Wednesday.
Douglas spoke to the County
Judges and Commissioners Confer
ence at the College Station Ramada
Inn.
Douglas said the country is facing
political, economic and energy prob
lems, yet support for the president is
growing.
He said Congress’ support of Car
ter’s request to boycott the Moscow
Olympics is a prime example of how
the nation supports the president in
times of trouble.
The American people are more
determined to enforce the law than
ever before, Douglas said.
Judges and juries are assessing
high penalties and the death sent
ence more than before, he said.
“I believe they are sick and tired of
the high crime rate,’’ he added.
The country has had problems be
fore, and it will have them again, he
said. There is another scandal brew
ing in Washington involving bribery,
but the people will overcome that,
he said.
“We have had higher officials kick
ed out of office in the past, ” he said.
During Watergate, some people
thought the country would fall apart,
but it survived, he said.
Douglas said judges and commis
sioners can help improve govern
ment.
“People of the United States ex
pect and should have honest people
in the legislative, judicial and execu
tive branches of the government, he
said.
Douglas said he realizes many of
the county budgets are low on funds,
but the officials should not skimp on
hiring well-qualified personnel.
“You can help to wipe out the
crime rate by doing whatever possi
ble to get educated law enforcement
officers,” he said.
Douglas said by getting involved
in homes and fair government the
officials can help better the country.
Everyone should be treated fairly
and granted their rights, the victims
as well as the accused, he said.
“We must place priorities on the
rules of life over the rules of the
games,” he said.
United Press International
Today is Thursday, Feb. 7, the
36th day of 1980 with 328 to
follow.
The moon is moving toward its
last quarter.
The morning stars are Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn. The evening
stars are Mercury and Venus.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Aquarius.
American novelist Sinclair
Lewis was born Feb.7, 1885.
On this date in history:
In 1926, the average pay for
common labor in the United
States was 54 cents per hour.
In 1948, Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower resigned as Army
Chief of Staff and was succeeded
by Gen. Omar Bradley.
In 1956, Autherin Lucy, the
first black admitted to the Uni
versity of Alabama, was expelled
on grounds she accused school
officials of conspiring in riots that
accompained her court-ordered
enrollment.
In 1973, the U.S. Senate voted
to set up a seven-member com
mittee to investigate the Water
gate break-in of Democratic Na
tional Headquarters.
A thought for the day: English
novelist Charles Dickens wrote in
“David Copperfield,” “Let sleep
ing dogs lie; who wants to rouse
’em?”
Judge Leon Douglas of State Court of Criminal Appeals
Red Cross makes bid
(or campus blood drive
By SUSAN HOPKINS
Campus Reporter
fT | A hearing to debate whether the
DU IJi V jfanerican Red Cross of the Central
' Texas Region should be allowed to
have blood drives on the Texas A&M
an attempt to*® n j vers jty campus was held
turc. The poord Wednesday night in Rudder Tower,
along with the to*Hadley Institute of Molecular
lake a buck be' Medicine has had the only drive at
nity. I hesecoiif w exas a&m since the first Aggie
-s will be nothij |]ood Drive in 1959.
> the “run down i® jj owever) R e( J Cross representa-
:signers have don Wygjgajd no t vvant to inter
hut I think then ^ re w jth Wadley blood drives in
>y buildersanddi way, biit wanted to come on
ronment inthep p m pus at other times during the
Because I would!» mes ter. Red Cross is currently
tion match He jprohibited by the Texas A&M blood
1 as its overcrow %-i ve committee to come on campus,
itions. After all V Dr. Norwood Hill, president of
their school, vljWadley, said since 1976 the Aggie
Pood drives have given 4,097 units
to help hemophilia, leuke
mia and other patients,
f Under the present system, donor
■edits to the Texas A&M blood club
provide replacement coverage for
•students, faculty and staff members,
t cartoonist ^Bvimni and their families throughout
unwarranted an state an( j nat j on jf they need
President Urteri*j ooc i Aggie needing blood con-
mplied that ^^Hjotsthe student government secret-
— a harmless om ^ Qr Association of Former Sto
le aggressive SP' .jents, which contacts Wadley.
c boycott. Mr. ^ Phyllis Swanton, director of Cen-
vcott would hurt
other weapons av»B
tlso?
unfair
tral Texas Red Cross, said more peo
ple can benefit from an additional
blood drive each semester at Texas
A&M.
She said students who give blood
to Red Cross are automatically co
vered to receive blood for them
selves and their families until the
students graduate.
Any resident of Bryan-College
Station, Swanton said, receives free
blood no matter where they are at
the time of need, providing the hos
pital where the patient is will accept
the blood. However, she said a $25
processing fee is charged to cover
Red Cross costs.
Hill said Aggies in the Bryan-
College Station area are never
charged a fee by Wadley, but may be
charged a processing fee, at a hospit
al outside this area.
He said Wadley is a member of the
American Association of Blood
Banks, which gives it the ability to
replace all blood requested at other
hospitals in the United States at
whatever rate of replacement the
hospital may have.
Swanton said Texas A&M owes it
to the community to give blood to
the Brazos County area. She said
Red Cross usually uses the Ramada
In to hold drives, but that they feel
the student turn-out would be much
greater if the drive was on campus.
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