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Page 4 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1980 Benedictine monks P preserve document!j ir PERSONALS HELP WANTED WANTED WANTED Flying to San Antonio February 15. Need rid ers. 779-5340. I00t3 SERVICES SPRING BREAK JOBS. Earn up to $7.60/hour in your own home area. Could lead to full time summer jobs with national co. Contact Charles Long, Aggieland Inn, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 12:00, 2:00 pm., or 4:00 pm. only. Wednesday, Feb. 20, 12:00 or 2:00 pm. only. No phone calls. 10U5 i I Chrysler Corp. Cars Body Work — Painting HALSELL MOTOR COMPANY INC. Dodge Sales and Service Since 1922 1411 Texas Ave. . 823-8111 Help wanted. Experience with cars. Good per sonality. Apply at Piper’s Gulf Station by the Ramada Inn at the comer of University and Texas. 102110 COWAN HARDWARE 3602 E. 29th Bryan For Your Plumbing, Painting & Hardware Supplies. Serving you ’til 7:30 p.m. HELP WANTED! Person with great sales personality to work M-F from 4 to 6 and some Saturdays. Apply at Shala’s Shoes between 1 and 5 weekdays. No phone calls please. 9915 Unexpected Pregnancy? Services thru the 20th week Awake or Asleep Women’s Health Services Dallas, Texas (214)349-9533 Call Collect Male Delivery Help Needed Must be able to work weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings. Call MEDICAL SALES AND RENTALS at 822-2704 for appointment for interview. 97tln WANTED ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN: Antique Refinishing Pottery Hand Building Macrame Bike Repair Glazemaking Stained Glass Panels Batik Jewelry Casting Ukrainian Egg Dyeing Basketry Knitting Weaving Calligraphy Lapidary Water Color Crochet Lathe Woodcarving Glass Etching Loom Weaving Still a few openings in these classes! Hurry and sign up now- many classes begin this week. MSC Craft Shop Monday through Friday 10 am til 10 pm Saturday 10 am til 5 pm Sunday 1-5 pm WRITER. Need someone to do research and write non-school related reports. Call 846- 2127. loots LOST Typing. Experienced, fast, accurate. All kinds 822-0544... Ufa BABYSITTERS WANTED Work your own hours. GOOD PAY Full or part time. Must have own transportation and must be 18 or older. 822-5837 9518 Typing. Full time. Symbols. Notary Public. 823-7723... 76tfn Pair of glasses in brown vinyl case. Lost be tween C.E. building and Harrington. Call 845- 1289. lOHS SPECIAL NOTICE NowTaking Applications For Cashiers and Hostesses APPLY IN PERSON ONLY At Ken Martin’s 1803 S. Texas next to Sears PROBLEM PREGNANCY? Free abortion counseling and referrals. Call (713) 779- 2258...62tfh f ^ ■W’ ( CASH FOR OLD GOLD * Class rings, wedding rings, worn ouL > gold jewelry, coins, etc. ► The Diamond Room l Town & Country Shopping Center ^ 3731 E. 29th St., Bryan LOST: Male Irish Setter. If seen or found, please catch and call 822-6877 or 845-7017 ANYTIME. REWARD!! 96t7 In school they are still sometimes called “the Dark Ages’ — the Medieval or Middle Ages between 476 A.D. and 1450, when education was less esteemed than now. And it fell to the monks of various religious orders to preserve the very founda tions of Western culture and civiliza tion. With painstaking efforts and sometimes exquisite beauty, the Medieval monk-copyists sought to ensure that the important docu ments, whether sermons from an early bishop or secular letters and treatises were preserved, circulated and handed down from generation to generation. And now another group of monks, working out of Saint John’s Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, is practic ing that same kind of preservation — this time using high technology. It was the Benedictines who did most of the copying and preservation during the Middle Ages. At the abbey, the largest Benedic tine Abbey in the United States, the Hill Monastic Microfilm Library has been carrying on the task of micro filming of the very manuscripts so painstakingly copied and preserved by the Medieval monastic orders. The idea for the microfilming pro ject, says the Bev. Julian Plante, director of the project, came from Pope Pius XII, who had already be gun the task of microfilming the Vati can manuscript library in 1956. “Why don’t you, in line with your 15th century tradition, go into the hills and valleys, go into the monas- taries and small religious communi ties and do the same thing,” Plante quoted the pope as suggesting. The problem was twofold, accord ing to Plante. In the first place, many of the manuscripts that has been preserved in the monastic libraries were disin tegrating and threatenetj to crumble to nothing if handled. And secondly, there was the prob lem of access. While the monastic libraries contain extensive docu ments, scholars do not know what kind of material is in what monas tery. But using the technology of a Xerox Corp. subsidiary, University Microfilm, the monks at the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library have begun filming the rare manuscripts and making them more readily avail able to scholars. Plante said the monks only film “handwritten manuscripts that gen erally predate the invention of B Win printing.’ There are exceptions, L he said and noted that one t more interesting finds the lj | has found are letters from fr:. ? jUj, reformer Martin Lutherj Bishop of Malta. After carrying out filming> en in Austria, Spain, Malta, E| : ^ U nc j England and Germany, the! has amassed the records of 6(),(M)0 Medieval manuscripts; pieces, including the ..... .... 0 p e): copies ot works by Aristotle,U a,...;...,.. ttK-pw bombi The Aquinas, Horace and Ovid, Many of the works, such Luther letters, have been hid; , ^ ve( filed away for centuries andsd are just beginning to rediscovi importance. "It has taken thousands times to do these things,” said. He said the monasticj tions include not only theoloj philosophy but law, science, cine and “extremely importanl ments for social, economic and matic history “In the Middle Agesitwj monks who were the preserv the written word and that me: have to go the monks not only(tj the sacred history but the history of the period as well notes believi entl wind t The gular- yards 1 i\ r Jogg Substantial reward for gold religious medal lost Feb. 5. Of great sentimental value. If found please call 845-8397. 100t3 846-4708 A Black/blonde male Terrier Cross. Red collar. Lost near College and Old College. 846-4185. 9816 JOB 'OPPORTUNITIES OFFICIAL NOTICE Scientist fights against bans on some chemica of rum now b< hew lij the aei Two about I east co Ihrocl |idewa 'side of PREGNANCY TESTING Counselling on all alternatives and birth control methods. Women’s Referral Center, 3910 Old College Road. 846-8437 GENERAL OFFICE HELP WANTED Fulltime. . . Typing 40 wpm. . . Light bookkeeping. . . 8-5 Monday through Friday. Apply Dixie Chicken Office 307 University 1-3 Daily icotfn Stuff envelopes - $75.00 Hundred. Clip News Items $2.00 to $10.00 each. Details send $1.00. Kent Specialties Dept. 1, P. O. Box 1052, Stephenville, TX 76401. 98t5 BICYCLE AUCTION The Wheelman’s Club of Texas A&M University will sponsor an auc tion of abandoned and unclaimed bi cycles recovered on University prop erty. The auction will commence at 2:00 P.M., Saturday, March 1, at THE GROVE. Bikes to be auctioned include 29-10 speed, 4-5 speed, 3-3 speed and 1 -1 speed. Makes include 6 Schwinn, 3 Raleigh, 2 Columbia, 2 Sears, 3 Huffy, 2 Wards, 2 Western Flyer, 2 AMF, and one each K-Mart, Peugeot, Royal, Chiorda, Jeunet, Penney, Hercules, Astra, Atlantica, Western Auto, Vista, and 2 un known. 99t3 CO-OP EDUCATION COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS HAS THE FOLLOWING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE SUMMER & F BROWN & ROOT: Houston, Texas Job Description Personnel Work CORPS OF ENGINEERS: Galveston, Texas Job Description Economic Punning CONTINENTAL TELEPHONE COMPANY: Dallas, Texas ' Job Description: Personnel Work GULF STATES UTILITIES: Beaumont, Texas Job Description Punning, Scheduling. Accounting FOLEY’S: Houston, Texas Job Description: Management Trainee NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Ft Worth, Texas Job Description Personnel Work NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & SPACE ADMINISTRATION: Houston, Texas Job Description: Management Trainee CONTACT: HENRY D. POPE OR SUSANNAH CLARY 107 HARRINGTON PHONE: 845-7814 OVERSEASJOBS' Summer/year round. Europe, South America, Australia, Asia, Etc. All fields, $500-$1200 monthly. Expenses paid. Sightseeing. Free information. Write: IJC/Box 52-TC/ Corona Del Mar, CA 92625. 99ts SHERWOOD HEALTH CARE INC. has full time and part time openings for LVN’s 6-2 and 2-10, RN 2-10. Excellent salary, benefits and work ing conditions. Contact E.P. Sulik, Admin. 822-7521 95118 “SPRING AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS” Deadline-March 1, 1980 Application forms for Spring Awards Program may be obtained from the Student Financial Aid Office, Room 310, YMCA Building. All applications must be filed with the Student Financial Aid Office not later than 5:00 PM, March 1,1980. Late applications will not be accepted. FOR RENT WAITRESSES NEEDED Call for appointment after 2. APPLY IN PERSON. 693-2818 1401 FM 2818 BASKIN-ROBBINS 31 2500 Texas Ave. Part-time student employment needed. Apply in person. 11-4. EFFICIENCY: Glade East Apts. Bedroom loft, pets, off Holleman. $150 + electricity. 696-3031. 10U5 Two bedroom furnished duplex. Air: Frostfree refrigerator. Attached garage. No children - no pets. Married couples only. 822-5195. 98t5 PART-TIME/NOW FULL-TIME/SUMMER National Marketing Co. will appoint six local representatives to contact A&M students. Above average pay, flexible hours, car necessary. For local interview call 800-821-5838 Jim Beasley. 101t3 NEW EFFICIENCIES $159 month. One bedroom from $180 month. All bills paid except electricity. No pets. Villa West Apartments, south of Villa Maria. Lorraine Peterson, manager. 822- 7772. 177tfn United Press International Elizabeth M. Whelan didn’t blink when she said saccharin isn’t bad. In moderate amounts. A couple of cans of diet soda a day, for example. But when she says such a thing others blink. In disbelief. Especially regulators in federal agencies — super health sleuths charged with seeing that consumers do not poison themselves with poss ibly harmful food additives, artificial sweeteners, cigarettes, rotten air, medicines linked to cancer. High oh the list of agencies doing double takes when Dr. Whelan goes to bat for saccharin are insiders at the Food and Drug Administration — which has been trying to bury the artificial sweetener for years. Thedajest governmpnt .report on saccharin, •TLJr’ WHel&n said, mis takenly left the' impression sacchar in, in general, was a cancer-causer in humans. m i WANTED FAST FOOD PERSONNEL 3.15/hr. TREE FOOD ‘PAID VACATIONS ‘ROOM FOR ADVANCEMENT ‘GOOD WORKING ENVIRONMENT ‘NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY FULL OR PART TIME 11 a.m.-2p.m. 7p.m.-2a.m. 5p.m.-2a.m. APPLY IN PERSON BETWEEN 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. 501 S. TEXAS AVE. AVAILABLE NOW 2-bdrm, 1 -bath duplex -stove and refrigerator -fenced backyard Off Texas Ave. across from Bryan Pizza Hut. Under $250.00 CALL JACOBBEAL REAL ESTATE at 822-4518 M-F only. ^ 01110 AUTO INSURANCE FOR AGGIES: Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. College 823-80511 AVAILABLE NOW 2-bdrm 1 -bath Upstairs Duplex off Broadmoor $230.00/month gas paid. Call Jacob Beal Real Estate at 822-4518 M-F only. 1 ALLEN Oldsmobile Cadillac Honda SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is standard equipment’ 2401 Texas Ave. 779-3516 But on closer inspection, Dr. Whelan and an independent scien tific panel found the report showed moderate amounts won t give users bladder cancer. Some other scientists also drag their feet when it comes to giving saccharin a bad bill of health — used in moderation. Others push for a ban. Saccharin, like everything else Dr. Whelan takes aim at, is controv ersial. Dr. Whelan, a research associate at the Harvard University School of Public Health, bills herself as the new breed consumer advocate. Her credentials come from Connecticut College for Women, Yale and Har vard. The new breed consumer advo cate said jshe represents the new tifeed consumer — one fed up with the “ban everything” mentality. Like all consumer advocates, she stirs trouble. She isn’t what Hollywood would call a “type.” Dr. Whalen, soft- spoken, sports long blonde hair and a baby face. Thirty-five now, the mother of a toddler, wife of a Wall Street lawyer, daughter of an insur ance company executive she does not, on first appearances, fit the im age of a two-fisted consumer advo cate. “Environmental chemicals — whether in food, water, or air — have become a highly emotional issue,” she said. Dr. Whelan is executive director of The American Council on Science and Health — an educational asso ciation she founded in 1977 to prom ote scientifically balanced evalua tions of chemicals, the environment and human health. It is based in New York. Irainaj laced wa: public! ly’s exj die “A iredib dietb Some critics claim the gi front for industry — like, n chemicals or manufacturers lute air or water. Dr. Whelan denies that, funds come from grants via and corporate foundations, ment agencies and individual butions. “The council does not aiiH direct contributions from coifl tions or organizations which 1 commercial interest in theissi are investigating,” she said. The first money — $100,( came from the Sarah ScaifeF: tion in Pittsburgh. "That was after we were 1S 0V> down by almost 200 founds! including the Rockefeller foundations. Dr. Whelan sail "Most told us‘your areaofii is not in our area of interest ’ There are 64 sources ol listed on the form the Councl last year with th Internal Rev: Service but it cannot be public. Dr. Whelan said councilsciea are taking a searching second 1« government and other report! cancer causing agents in partiei “The new breed consumer 1 ' lieves we can have benefits ofti nology and health,” said Dr lan. “Americans areconcernedti about the relationship of che* the environment and humanhti “And understandably so. Fori cade we’ve seen banningsorp osed bannings of many comm used chemicals — cyclamates, Dye No. 2, THIS, aldrin, and recently — saccharin, hair dyes, feine, the pesticide 2,4,1 estrogens, and antibiotics animal feeds.” Kell an ar mplic ribe iccept "BI aj gatio Own. Rep aois a laroli an 1 urginj of Ke" ty an' mann ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ * -K * * NOTICE TO BIDDERS ★ * * * * * * * -K * * * * * * FOR SALE FOR SALE Bid forms will be available at the Texas A&M Cyclotron, Building 434, Spence Street, Texas A&M University Campus, and sealed bids will be received in the office of the Inventory Supervisor, Purchasing and Stores, Agronomy Road, Texas A&M University; until 10:00 a.m. February 22,1980 for Surplus Property consisting of an IBM 7094/1401 Computer System. This property may be inspected between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, by contacting Foress Johnson at the above address. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids and to waive any and all technicali ties, For information call Foress Johnson at 713/845-1411. ioiu * * X- * * X- X- * X- X- X- FOR SALE: IBM Selectric typewriter. $225.00. Call 846-2127. ' loots 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass-S. 4-Drive. Low Mileage, excellent condition. $2850. 845-1942 or 693-9181. 98t5 FOR SALE: Economical comfortable 35 x 8 Travel Trailer, Call Yolanda 845-1715 8:00 to 5:00. 779-8267 after 7:00. 10015 1976 TR-7 Excellent condition; $3,700. Call after 6:00 p.m. 693-2635. 98t5 RMI Electric Piano with organ and Yamaha Leslie amp. Excellent condition. $1500. 696- 0321. 98t5 1977 Monte Carlo — V8-305. Excellent Condi tion. First owner: 29,000 miles. 846-1230.6112 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Music Man 130RMS Bass amp - 2 115 cabinets. $650. Call 693-7195 after 5:00. Also natural fin ish Fender Precision bass - $500. 98t5 Stereo 15 watt Rotel receiver, BSR turntable, 4 speakers. 779-6390. 100t3 A//_ fuptnamha (save your energy Eddie Dominguez 66 Joe Arciniega ’74 7'1\ YOUR CHILDREN MAY NEED IT/ 7^ IjJ MMTil Buy one. Cordoba ’75 $2750.00. Catalina 75 $2250.00. 779-9678. i02t7 1978 Mercury Cougar XR-7. All power, first owner, 20,000 miles. $5500. Call Jeff at 693- 8520. I02t5 1972 Toyota Celica. $1600. 846-5275. 99t5 1979 Triumph Spitfire-Convertible. High mpg-first owner-3,700 miles-AM/FM Cassette. $5300.00. Call Jeff at 693-8520. 101t5 Last Day !| TAMU HILLELCLUB is taking prepaid orders for 1978JEEP CJ5 RENEGADE- 20,000 miles. 845-5033-DAY 696-8420-AFTER 6 Ask for MIKE MORDELL BAGELS thru Feb. 15 tooti 696-7313 846-1492 M/W/F 11 -2 WKNDSpm. mMi If you want the real thing, not frozen or canned . . . We call It ‘‘Mexican Food Supreme.” Dallas location-. 3071 Northwest Hwy 352-8570 SAVE $$ WITH SPERRY-OWENS’ TMT® DuPONT TEFLON® MOTOR TREATMENT FOUND (1) Permanent!! One treatment lasts for years (2) Satisfaction guaranteed — even years from now! (3) Save on Gas (or Diesel) and oil use. (4) Reduces friction and friction related maintenance (5) Easier starting and smoother running (6) Low initial cost. $14.95 (6-8 cyls.) $7.50 (4 cyls) (7) Generous volume discounts Found lady’s rings in MSC. Call 693-6471 to describe. 102t2 Barcelona Your place in the sun, Spacious Apartments with New Carpeting Security guard, well lighted parking areas, close to cam pus and shopping areas, on the shuttle bus route. 700 Dominik, College Station 693-0261