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•tate THE BATTALION FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1981 Page 7 k id quality pi Mein comli uaching, ytohavei : 8e, he sai 'is. asset . said the I establish cive tol eh in ordt There is whodi ing, buti ob in resei ue a year : doing a j appreciati aid, research 3 nore dffi >er or noth have pent ngs todis evaluated These m -evaluatiai ibers, ident ewl 1 detemi individul Prison serves cheeseburgers to lure convicts to mess hall United Press International TEXARKANA — Federal pris on officials said Thursday they hoped to end a four-day mess hall boycott by coaxing the convicts back to the table with cheesebur gers. Officials also received an anonymous list of demands — most dealing with the chow — but prison spokesman Ray Farrow said no action could be taken on them until the demands were made through proper channels. Farrow said 58 inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution ate breakfast at the dining hall Thursday, while the balance of the prison’s 534 inmates continued their boycott, subsisting on junk food from the prison commissary. “We have cheeseburgers out on the line for lunch,” Farrow said. “We re crossing our fingers. ” “We had an anonymous list of demands laid on a supervisor’s desk,” he said. “They were speak ing to the preparation and quality and variety of food. Some of them were kind of silly — they wanted more pastries during the week, more bacon, more eggs.” He said nothing could be done until the inmates made their de mands through proper channels. “We can’t deal with it since we don’t know if this is what all the inmates want or it’s just one man, or what,” he said. An inmate who contacted UPI said the foodstrike was “a peaceful way of getting in touch with the staff, which we feel is far out of touch with the inmates.” The inmate, who declined to allow his name be used for fear of retaliation, said the basic com plaint was with food preparation, and with “generally being treated like children.” “So far nothing seems to have changed,” the inmate said. “Rumor has it that a work strike is imminent.” The inmate said the prisoners’ demands had not been formally presented because of fear of re taliation by prison officials. “Here’s how they do: if some one were fool enough to put them selves in that position, he would be moved from institution to insti tution every two weeks, and no one would catch up with him for months, because he’d never touch down long enough to collect mail and pick up personal belongings.” Inmates began the protest Monday, when only 34 prisoners showed up for breakfast. Farrow said protestors were buying potato chips, candy bars and other small food items at the prison’s commissary. He said prison officials have been able to provide nutritious meals, but were limited by an allo cation of $1.30 per man per day, so they weren’t able to provide the kind of food the inmates apparent ly want. FCI-Texarkana is a medium security prison with inmates serv ing an average sentence of 8 years. Air Force will not retaliate for dismissed sex bias suit Photo by Tommy Keith The face of finals week 1 $470lot:j | Rawhide, a 7-week-old bulldog puppy own- 1 Fortfcjj ed by Andrew Pawelek, doesn’t seem too iii north* happy about spending his summer fenced in. His appearance could reflect the mood of Texas A&M University students who be gin a week of final examinations Monday. /ear policy j 'verageona rhomewol ales undeil On-the-job death rate United Press International FORT WORTH — The Air Force has agreed not to retaliate against an officer who sued, claim ing she was the target of sex discri mination for complaining about an Air Force-sponsored “rent-a-girl” program in the Philippines. U.S. District Judge Eldon Mahon dismissed the suit by Capt. Phoebe Spinrad Wednes day, after the Air Force pledged not to retaliate. Air Force officials did not admit to sponsoring the program that permitted airmen to buy the companionship of Filipino women. Capt. Spinrad said she was assigned in 1974 as equal oppor tunity officer at Clark AFB in the Philippines, where she said she found the airmen’s dining hall sponsored a program that allowed them to contract for Filipino women to act as “receptionists.” She said she complained about the program, which resulted in humiliating remarks by male offic ers, pressure to seek reassign ment, and low efficiency ratings she said hurt her career. Texas leads country •thwest [j|r| ir rates diP-l-*- Rates w H 1 South H#* United Press International 208 a yen I DALLAS — Government neg lect and industry’s concern for "roductivity have combined to ise Texas’ on-the-job death rate j 1 C I to three times the national aver- YJ J [age, state safety officials say. 1 Statistics compiled by the state ||liealth department indicate Texas ¥70 f led the country with 1,034 deaths V Cii ['estimated to have occurred on the ■bin 1980. Only 813 on-the-job jleaths were reported in California died thes juring the period and 671 in New : to disqui# York. ;d incident: The state’s industrial accident Charles!* rate is an estimate, since the state nese if Ik [Stopped keeping records on occu- >y Klansn)|pational accidents in 1975. to deposit ; “Lack of statistics has helped to pisguise the extent of tragedies re- , Suiting from occupational injuries 1 y° u N't and diseases in Texas,” says for- Beamsi mer state AFL-CIO chief Roy :1 see ify Evans. I had no: State safety officials blame motion ® Texas’ high worker death rate both > prejud® : pn the lack of effective safety prog- . . n l tarns and the state’s booming busi- gnmg Igss c lj ma te. iprope, r ) j “We don’t have effective safety -"ft!! nil N rams * n Texas,” said Bill 0 e . j Tracey, executive director of the ‘™'L Texas Industrial Accident Board. 0 s 1 ’ ‘We’ve tried to get some funds but haven’t been able to. What eduled makes it so hard is knowing that a death could have been avoided if there had been a (safety) program. With no effective government controls, the burden of industrial safety falls on industry, which has , | a mixed record, ninfl “We re in the middle of a con- obstruction boom in Dallas, Hous- 1 Ston, Fort Worth,” Tracey said. P(1 |“Because of that, the skilled labor force is very busy and that leaves the unskilled labor to fulfill the rest of the construction. “There are a lot of subcontrac tors out there using unsafe equip ment and following unsafe prac tices. They’re trying to compete and safety takes money.” Texas ceded occupational safety effort — which was costing about $1.2 million a year — in 1975 to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and quit monitoring health hazards in the workplace. 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