The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 01, 1980, Image 7

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 01, 1980, Image 7

Newspaper Page TextTHE BATTALION Page 7 WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1980 >’ill haven memben| >ard, w' he publin oversee bmittej lent pi irld. Photo by George Dolan Senior aggie survives ... Kenneth Meadows finishes one other injuries on the slope, of his first runs on the recently many found that the heat was refinished Mt. Aggie. Although nearly unbearable, few have suffered broken legs or Clements against education control eir GPR i any olil ;on said. I gram shocl es, he sal i a yeartcl ship teca i their sdl e reshail es undert| the Corps! s of posits •nt on n sus foraj those as pusM ire intend United Press International ,vill serve® SAN ANTONIO — Gov. Bill Cle- her thaniments says education in Texas is not a i too farlDemocrat vs. Republican issue, but I probl(|hc and John White, national Demo- ilson sai cratic chairman, have opposing ;)s to the views about the Department of Edu- c been h (cation that are right in line with their Respective parties. . junior,pf Criticizing federal control of edu- n’t thinkjeation, collective bargaining for md yearlljteachers and the recently created :ufif (trainlDepartment of Education, Clements t really “generated enthusiastic response acks alllfrom the 2,000 people attending Monday s State School Administra- ed of doctors and School Board Associations nnores c* joint conference, i McCki In what might be the closest thing csthejuWyet to a Republican-Democrat de- -s underrate, Clements, who is heading GOP presidential candidate Ronald :1 given ^Reagan’s state campaign, addressed II “pan withe conference after a speech by ing some White. of “sitlT Polite silence marked White’s re late with>marks, which included a reminder that President Carter had created onfidentlthe Department of Education, which m will ' the Republican platform calls for eli- in three mination of, to meet the needs of ^education in the country and he saw 0^09^0 need to eliminate the agency. “I don’t think there is a single per- n in this room who would disagree lat we have to reverse this trend ■U i toward centralizing education deci- ^ons in Washington, and that the jpser control is to home, the better we can make education for all of our children,” Clements said. He also said he would veto any legislation submitted to him propos ing collective bargaining for the state’s teachers. White underscored the amount of federal funding for education re ceived by the state, which he said began 15 years ago during a Demo cratic administration. “I know Texas received $677 mil lion in federal funds for education last year.” White said. “And with that money comes some strings, I know, and in some cases with more strings than I like.” White also said he approved of the education of illegal aliens as long as the federal government funded the additional costs. Clements later expressed dis appointment he and White did not conduct an actual debate of educa tion issues. However, he declined a Houston television station’s invita tion for a debate with state leaders of the Carter campaign. Mike Casserly, news director of KPRC-TV, said in a letter to Cle ments his station would provide time for the debate. The invitation was handed to the governor following his speech. Clements rejected the invitation, but added, “If President Carter will come here, why, you can ask me and I’ll be happy to debate him.” Idaho still cranks calls United Press International EDGEMERE, Idaho (UPI) — History cranks on in northern Ida ho’s Hoodoo Valley — to the tune of four short rings and one long. Members of the Hoodoo Valley Telephone Co. have not gathered formally for more than a decade. Nevertheless, the lines are open and four families still use old handcrank- ed phones to communicate with one another. It’s not easy keeping such an oper ation going in this modern world, though. “People steal the phone insulators off the poles because they’re anti ques,” says LaVelle Gomick, secret ary of the telephone cooperative for more than 25 years. “We had to get the sheriff to get them to stop.” And the three dry-cell batteries each phone needs to operate are be coming difficult to obtain, she says. The phone lines also are in poor shape, mostly because fewer people have had to do more work to keep the system operating, since membership in the cooperative has declined. At its peak more than 20 years ago, the cooperative served 27 families in the Idaho Panhandle valley, about three dozen miles northeast of Spo kane, Wash. But it was in the late 1950s that modem technology doomed the ven ture, Gornick says. A major tele phone company updated its equip ment and would not allow the Hoodoo cooperative to hook in, she says. “They cut us off,” Gornick said ab out General Telephone Co. “We even went into some legal hassle over that.” The cooperative was first orga nized with nine members in 1915. The central switchboard was at the general store at Clagstone. The total initial capital expenditure was $413.06. phone and was responsible for its re pair. Members also were expected to maintain lines running across their property. The telephone system bound together the community of Edge- mere in more ways than one. In case of a fire or other emergency, five short rings would summon all mem bers to an early-day conference call. Each member owned his own r -MW - —TXK ■—rxyc— —xk/—— KINKO'S cast: 1 j KINKO’S can COPY those notes 11 KINKO’S can BIND those notes * KINKO’S can COPY that thesis KINKO’S can BIND that thesis I KINKO’S can make FINE copies KINKO’S can make FAST copies KINKO’S can copy that RESUME KINKO’S can REDUCE that copy KINKO’S can COLLATE that copy KINKO’S can do ITVO-SIDED copy KINKO’S can OVERSIZED copy D y KINKO’S can do TRANSPARENCIES ? KINKO’S can do MAILING LABELS KINKO’S can make COPIES CHEAP KINKO’S can make COPIES CHEAP * KINKO’S can NOT make CHEAP COPIES f| D KINKO’S eOPIES College Mull! Open 7 Days A Week S^lC-950S^j| !enemy efficient home?! 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