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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.
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Men bound, bung from tree
‘Lone Ranger’ saves woman
A&M
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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
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County Attorney
Brazos
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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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