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THE BATTALION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1980 Page 5 eel ver nternadonil ifteen-motf he bodyofi st undergo: month or 9 :hatsoineo! : )m bilian 1 t that attad ally is fala! 2 normal In killing its« ;ular transfc 1 alive unlr i. . DonandPi enverfrom 1 ist January! ; ity of Cot niter, whirl specialists al and othti i the diseas in a natii find liver: s would bei ntensive-c# s whose clia n see then I, in part:“11 nation ill fightingb that youri 'er is very child's de£ to another ' family myr eeling," p of the port! nighdy by ar-old Allisil semi wten ies(h) or State 1 rarters wild ay, with! ’ ort Worth]!; •ut ting cere lujar f making Tij uring a i campaign B| ‘d at 813EK re numbertPl what’s up MONDAY ACG1ELAND PHOTOCRAPHEBS: There will be a mandatory meeting for anyone interested in working as a photographer at 7:30 p.m. in 014 Reed McDonald. ACCOUNTING SOCIETY; Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Rudder Theater. TAMU RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: Will meet at 5 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel. Two representatives from each recognized religious stu dent organization should attend. TEXAS A&M SCUBA CLUB: Will meet at 7:30 p. m. in 308 Rudder to discuss the formation of an underwater hockey team. WOMEN’S LACROSSE CLUB: Will meet at 7 p.m. in the MSC Lounge. TEXAS A&M WATER POLO CLUB: Will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder. TAMU WOMEN’S SOCCER CLUB: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 109 Military Sciences. TEXAS A&M WATER SKI CLUB: Will meet at 7 p. m. in 110 Military Sciences. New members will be accepted. TUESDAY PHI THETA KAPPA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: All junior college members and alumni members are should attend a meeting at 7 p.m. in 201 Physics. Plans will he made for the state leadership conference which will be held in September. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COLLEGE ORGANIZATION: Will meet at 7 p.m. in 138 MSC. OFF CAMPUS AGGIES: Will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 201 MSC. MSC VIDEO TAPE COMMITTEE: Will meet at 7 p.m. in 401 Rudder. RESIDENCE HALL ASSOCIATION: Will meet at 7 p.m. in 204 Harrington. MANAGEMENT SOCIETY: Will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 410 Rudder. AIAA: Frank A. Liberate will speak on “Life Aboard Aircraft Carriers” at 7 p.m. in 203 Zaehry. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS: Richard Braden from Boeing, Corp. will speak at 7:30 p.m. in 100 Helden- fels. ORAL INTERPRETATION PERFORMANCE GROUP: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 203 Academic. DANCE ARTS SOCIETY: Will meet at 7 p.m. in 267 G. Roilie White Coliseum. Ballet, tap, jazz and modern dance classes will be avail able. BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: Will meet to elect offic ers at 7:30 p.m. in 201 Veterinary Medicine Complex. AMERICAN HUMAN1CS: Will hold a student workshop at 6 p.m. in 404 Rudder. CAP & GOWN HONOR SOCIETY: Will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder. PRE-MED/PRE-DENT SOCIETY: Will have their annual fall mixer at 6:30 p.m. in the Grove. TAMU INTERNATIONAL POLKDANGERS: Will meet for recrea tional dancing at 7:45 p.m. in 2.30 MSC. MSC BASEMENT COMMITTEE: Will meet at 7 p.m. in the xMSC Basement Coffeehouse. RECREATION AND PARKS CLUB: Will meet at 8 p.m. in 141 Rudder. Smallpox vaccine said unnecessary United Press International ATLANTA — The national Center for Disease Control, which normally promotes immunization against dis ease, is trying to stop one type of vaccination — the inoculation for smallpox. The last natural case of smallpox occurred in Somalia in October 1977. Since then, the World Health Organization has declared the dis ease eliminated from the world. Still, smallpox vaccinations continue to be given and some countries re quire proof of vaccination from travelers. Dr. Jason Weisfeld, the CDC physician who treated and cured Ali Maow Maalin, a hospital cook in Merka, Somalia, the world’s last case of endemic smallpox, says seven countries insist on smallpox vaccina tion proof, down from 12 in April. They are Benin, Chad, Kampuchea (Cambodia), Djibouti, Lesotho, Madagascar and Mali. “In five of those countries — Be nin, Djibouti, Lesotho, Madagascar and Mali — administrative problems probably are the reason smallpox vaccination requirements have not been lifted,” Weisfeld said. In the other two — Kampuchea and Chad — Weisfeld said civil unrest makes it impossible to predict when the smallpox vaccination will no longer be required. “We really don’t expect any change in policies in those two coun tries,” he said. Although the smallpox vaccine was extremely effective in eradicat ing the disease, the immunization shot can produce adverse side effects. For this reason WHO and CDC are seeking to halt its use in all but laboratory workers at special risk, Weisfield said. “The risk does outweigh the be nefit,” he said, “and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Prac tices will issue a revised statement on smallpox vaccination.” The com mission helps set national policy on immunizations. Weisfeld said the statement will urge physicians to issue a letter of contra-indication (the vaccine should not be given) to persons traveling to countries where the smallpox inocu lation is still required. He said there have been wide spread reports of dermatologists and general practitioners using the smallpox vaccine to treat other dis eases, principally skin ailments caused by herpes infections. The CDC is trying to stop this practice. Weisfeld said the vaccine is not licensed for any medical treat ment. The smallpox program of the CDC and WHO will continue for at least the next five years, carrying out a variety of tasks, one of them being investigations of related viral dis eases, such as human monkeypox. Weisfeld said monkeypox is similar to smallpox and 48 cases of the dis ease in humans have been detected in Africa since 1970. But he said monkeypox “does not constitute a threat to the permanence of smallpox eradication. ” Two medical teams are now in Zaire looking for human monkeypox cases and trying to identify its natural reservoir. Weisfeld said that with the con quest of smallpox, it is hoped that the money used in that effort can be di verted to an expanded program to immunize children across the world against the main childhood diseases — diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, measles and tubercu losis. Guarding against a possible new outbreak of smallpox, WHO is stock piling 200 million doses of vaccine, along with a similar number of the two pronged needles needed to give the inoculation. The United States, under a separate program, is stock piling 20 million doses of smallpox vaccine. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Men bound, bung from tree ‘Lone Ranger’ saves woman A&M for McNiffl ) support tip fessor. InttL, Hubert Ci# x Six Flags employees to be quizzed after mishap United Press International BROWNSVILLE — This “Lone Ranger” is short and squat and doesn’t wear a mask, but he knows a lot about frontier-style justice as evi denced by the way he went to the aid of a 100-year-old woman early Friday and strung up the two men who were attempting to rape and rob her. The Lone Ranger — so named by Cameron County sherifFs deputies who didn’t learn his identity — swung into action while he apparent ly was driving in a semi-rural area near the home of Dona Clarita Gar cia and heard her cries for help. Two men, identified as Mexican nationals who had just crossed the Rio Grande nearby and crept through the underbrush to Garcia’s home, had beaten the elderly woman, ransacked her home and were attempting to rape her when the Lone Ranger burst in, the victim told investigators. He wrestled the attackers to the floor, beat them and trussed their hands and feet with rope, the woman said. Then he took them outside and strung them from a tree before going next door to tell a neighbor what had happened and to suggest that the neighbor call the sherifF. The Lone Ranger then drove away. Twenty minutes later, officers ar rived and found the two men hang ing from the tree. “That’s where we found them,” said Deputy Al Rousett, “all neatly tied up by the wrists and ankles and hanging from a tree. “Whoever the Lone Ranger was, he did one hell of a job of rescuing the woman,” the deputy said. “He saved her from getting raped and robbed. I’d like to shake his hand.” The Lone Ranger was described as Hispanic, short and squat and ex tremely good with ropes. An emergency service technician who arrived to take the two men and Gar cia to a hospital said it was the best job of knot-tying he ever had seen. After the two men, one 26 and the other a juvenile, were treated for rope burns on their necks, wrists and ankles, they were jailed on charges of aggravated assault and attempted aggravated robbery. Their elderly victim was in stable condition at a Brownsville hospital Friday. EXPERIEMCED COMPETEMT EFFECTIVE * * * * John M. Barron, Jr.^- * * * * (A&M CLASS OF 71) FOR County Attorney Brazos , United Press International DALLAS — The Consumer Pro- y ebto International . , duct Safety Commission will cjues- in oraia mKj on former employees of Six Blags Over Texas who were fired af- pter admitting they violated safety _ n _ Jilrulcs and rode two rides when the vdl ll park was closed, one of the former workers says. | An accident Sunday in which Jamie Pratt, 17, of Irving, was thrown from the Shock Wave, a dou ble-loop roller coaster, while riding it without a safety bar lowered, brought the investigation. She suf- te pressuri' jp re d a broken arm and jaw in a 25- iptationso[(f^ )ot reds tobanlrft* A spokesman tor Six Flags, Bruce aucial c(J ea1 ' said a commission investigator of plastic !»flr as at ^ lc park Monday to examine te to solves. : ride and photograph it, but the ry the Con- "$' x Flags official said he did not ex- : of Create;3 ec t the investigation to go any ’scissors J ^ rthcr - ing the "pH Another former employee told the ips I Newspaper a ground maintenance ‘(lucationak fjaployee saw him riding the Shock 1 said the®^ ave w >thout safety bars a week be- t’ive - will f re Pratt was injured. Neal said, however, he was aware of the incident and it was reported to a safety supervisor, who cautioned the employees. The 16 former employees were fired after they admitted they had violated park rules by using the rides while the park was closed. Several of them felt they were unjustly fired for being honest. 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