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THE BATTALION Page 9 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1980 lational # f* Romeo and Juliet story’ an kills himself, wife ’ e 'n inleJ SlijnS United Press International Memphis — The dying wish of an , a tri;;r: '2-Vear-old man was that his family 70th v inaerstand he shot and killed hum an aiK | elfand his crippled wife of 60 years ihirlevj S an act of love” — not of violence, home!" fT was a Romeo and Juliet story, unless djPy just didn’t want to live without he cloddach other,” said Dion Sena, admi- s a ]| 0 f||iistrator of Homestead Manor where Vivian and Charles Ivins were id „ ipnd dead Saturday. /'lljd Mrs. Ivins, 80, had been living in te'nursing home since suffering a g et | |sabling stroke two months ago. She e avj j lould not walk and had arthritis. Her the st W 811 ^ w ho recently learned he i a g lad cancer, visited her daily so they uthat share meals - nulej^^fhey loved each other,” said Mention F Sena. “They were always holding hands, always together.” Police said Sunday Ivins left a note for his son and other relatives, went to the nursing home, shot his wife in the head, then shot himself in the heart. No one heard any shots. A nursing home aide discovered the bodies — Ivins sitting slumped over in a patio chair, his wife beside him in a wheel chair. At their feet was a box and a bag that police believe the retired Army colonel used to carry the gun to the nursing home. “It was evident that she knew what he was going to do,” said Dade County Police Homicide Detective John LeClaire. Ivins’ note, which police disco vered on a desk in the couple’s apart ment located near the nursing home, implored relatives to consider his ac tion “not as an act of violence, but an act of love.” The couple, said LeClaire, had traveled the world together and the “family says they were extremely close and affectionate their entire lives. He was afraid he would die first and she would suffer.” The nursing home administrator described the couple’s deaths as “a pact.” “Who can say it was wrong?” he asked. “They are happy for eternity. That’s the way I want to feel.” armers’ loans extended rain goes into market Nationwide strikes keep schools closed United Press International PHILADELPHIA — Walkouts by at least 35,000 teachers nation wide affected over 600,000 students Monday. Philadelphia school officials vowed to open schools Monday for about half the district’s 220,000 students, but advised parents the students would be sent home early. Negotiations between the city and the 23,000-member American Federation of Teachers collapsed late last week over the issue of teacher layoffs. No new talks were scheduled in the eight-day walkout. School spokesman William Jones said all elementary schools and 15 special education centers, with enrollments totaling about 100,000, would open Monday for half-day sessions ending at noon. Strikes also prevented school openings in Rochester, N. Y., 17 school districts in Pennsylvania, four communities in Rhode Island, seven districts in Illinois and 22 districts in Michigan. Columbus and three other communities in Ohio fell victim to strikes as did eight districts in Puerto Rico. In the West, partial strikes affected Auburn, Wash., and Sierra Vista, Ariz. ‘rsinlliei - one udience ? ntoiily. • lighten, ms of i etoputilsl tkeittasttfc vill if United Press International : WASHINGTON — The Agricul ture Department Monday extended k period to 90 days during which -. Boers must repay price support f )/][oan for grain in the farmer-owned ** iserve if prices rise enough to force I jrain into the market. . I „ previously, the 90-day period ap- I mA plied only to tanners who placed pain into reserve after Jan. 7. Nowit Implies to all farmers and all grain, d chaif ®the r farmers had had only 30 days to settle their accounts with the altntedi government if grain prices rose high makingi eBO ugh, so the government called let radi ijjj, f' rom reserve and thus called in ;st fim Igos f or grain held in reserve, aidthedswjie reserve, created in 1977, riotivata |t ee p S grain off the market when :a s nai |n C es are low so that sufficient grain will be available when prices rise in wer, R-i fc m es of short supply, n on the'jRay Fitzgerald, administrator of •n. John the Agricultural Stabilization and Cretan Conservation Service, said the 90- :nt Cataajjy period will provide more time omprou for markets to stabilize and permit ted State(i CAMPUS THEATRE 210 University Dr. 846-6512 Starting Friday Mad Magazines Up The Academy more orderly marketing if prices in an old reserve rise high enough so the reserve is called. Fitzgerald said it might be wise for farmers who have com in old re serves to enter into a contract to shift their grain into a new reserve be cause the old reserve is close to being called at a lower price. “Com prices are currently near the $3.15-per-bushel call level for Reserve I, making it especially attractive to producers to convert their contracts to Reserve III where release and call prices are higher,” he said. The switch must be made before the old reserve is called, Fitzgerald said. The first reserve includes all grain put into reserve before the Russian grain embargo. 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