Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1981)
National THE BATTALION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1981 Paget; 9 Green light in Maryland for three-wheeled vehicle United Press International BALTIMORE — A three wheeled, fuel-efficient vehicle has been ruled a passenger car by the Maryland Motor Vehicle Admi nistration, a move that allows a Finksburg man to sell the car in the state. Mark Burnett, employee of a paper products firm in Dorsey, has been trying to get a license for the cars since last spring. Called the Freeway and manu factured in Minnesota, the car gets about 80 miles per gallon. Po wered by a modified lawn-mower engine, it has two wheels in the front and one in the rear and can go 65 mph. The car is already licensed in 30 states and Burnett wants to open a dealership in Baltimore. MVA Administrator William Bricker said the car didn’t meet Maryland safety standards with its single headlight and no safety glass on the front windshield. The: vehicle also has no reverse gear.*; Burnett said the problems will be overcome with simple modifir cations. While waiting for the Maryland decision, he opened a dealership in Washington, D.C. Last week, Bricker informed; Burnett. The vehicle could bd- licensed as a passenger car with' safety glass and two headlights.] No mention was made of the re-; verse gear. Labor day death toll lower than predicted Dish it out Staff photo by Greg Gammon ig control! Julie Davis, a representative of the Student “Y” Association, dishes up some free ice cream to Lizzi McDevitt (r) and Vivian Sembera. The student “Y”, part of the national association of student YMCA’s, is Unions snub Reagan at Labor Day parade United Press International NEW YORK — Snubbing Pres- m ie$ fas of itsjj who bee die Aug. if the INI of the hi Party. nanding i gle, to wt efiise pris isitsandk ident Reagan and paying homage ententes? to the air traffic controllers he vior, Brill fired, more than 100,000 workers marched up Fifth Avenue Mon day in a Labor Day salute to the .merican union movement’s 100th anniversary. The marchers included 2,500 of d the striking controllers who were t • fired by the president. • I AFL-CIO President Lane ' |Kirkland, the parade’s grand mar shal in honor of the giant union’s 100th anniversary, was at the head of the column of workers as the parade began under heavily over- ,,, cast skies at 10:50 a.m. W J Reagan was not invited to parti- n cipate and Kirkland scoffed at the er y , president’s recent pledge to gen- a i j erate “jobs, jobs and more jobs.” mis oo I M a y 0r Edward Koch, jeered loudly by many in the crowd, said it was “a great error” for the labor leaders not to invite Reagan. Carpenters, electricians, labor ers, plumbers, steamfitters, teachers and others marched amid a sea of buttons, banners, floats, j flags and multi-colored balloons to celebrate the first such parade in New York in 13 years. Snake-dancing garment work ers from Chinatown — members 1 the t® 0 { International Ladies Gar ment Workers Union — per formed in the street. Radio City Rockettes dressed in red, white and blue stage costumes pranced in front of the reviewing stand to the strains of “Stars and Stripes Forever. ” fjr Operating engineers walked next to a yellow crane with a huge American flag hanging from it, and a delegation from the United Farm Workers marched in the dis tinctly nonrural setting. Spectators stood three and four deep along the parade route, and police officials estimated the mar chers at well over 100,000. “His actions speak a lot louder than his words,” Kirkland said of Reagan. He said the federal a student oriented organization sponsoring events from social activities to religious programs. Prospective members were treated to free ice cream during a recruiting program Monday night. Agent cealty trash, the box* ’s garl jd up the depi' rom “so® ^ and thai iy had irtmenti e painl 15:30 budget already was aimed at eli minating 1.25 million jobs. Harry Van Arsdale, president of New York City’s Central Labor Council, played down the fact Reagan was not invited to attend the parade, even though the presi dent was to be in New York to present Mayor Edward Koch with a symbolic $85 million check for the city’s Westway superhighway project. “This is not a political parade,” Van Arsdale insisted. But in a direct reference to Reagan’s firing of 12,000 air con trollers who struck in defiance of federal law, Van Arsdale appealed to the president’s good will in urging him to reinstate the con trollers. “It’s true that if your children make a mistake, you want to pun ish them, you don’t want to des troy them,” the 76-year-old labor leader said. He said Reagan’s ac tion in the strike was “a terrible mistake” and “enough punish ment for those people.” Standing near Van Arsdale when the parade began was Robert Poli, president of the Pro fessional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, who cheered sever al thousand of his union members who made the trip to New York to participate in the Labor Day celebration. The PATCO marchers were de cked out in blue and white caps and blue T-shirts with white let tering that read, “Leading the na tion with striking results.” “It’s a message to everyone in this country, including the admi nistration, of our resolve and soli darity,” Poli said of the parade. “This nation’s air system can’t op erate without 12,000 air traffic controllers.” t t t u Call us BEFORE you need us. Free consulta tion or buying and sel ling. 846-8179 Christa Pandey, Broker 4015 Tex. Ave., Bryan next to Taco Bell t t t t J We Gots What Ya Likes In The Way Of Bikes! Takara - Ross - Campagnolo Cinelli - Shimano and much more Cycles, Etc. Plus the Best Repairs & Prices Around — Call Us! 403 University — 846-BIKE Northgato (Across from Post Offlcs) United Press International More than 350 people were kil led in traffic accidents nationwide during the SG-day Labor Day holiday but the death count was well below the 580 fatalities pre dicted by the National Safety Council. A United Press International count showed 352 people were kil led in traffic accidents nationwide from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. Last year, 531 people died in traffic accidents during the weekend and 21,300 were serious ly injured. California reported 48 deaths, followed by Texas with 38, Florida with 24, Ohio and Illinois with 17 each. New York with 15, Wiscon sin and Tennessee with 14 apiece, Alabama, Mississippi and North Carolina with 13 each, and Louisiana and Missouri with 12 each. Six people were killed in a blaz ing head-on collision between two trucks Monday on a winding stretch of Idaho state highway, state police said. An Idaho State Police spokes man said a pickup truck carrying five people collided with a large van-style truck on a highway link ing Boise with northern Idaho. The crash sparked a fiery explo sion that touched off a small range fire, officers said. A family of six was killed when their car hurtled off a concrete ramp Sunday night into the dark waters of Lake Sardis in Missis sippi. The accident was not disco vered until Monday morning when a fisherman found one of the bodies. The submerged car and five other bodies — none of them inside the car — were recovered later. All six reportedly drowned. A speeding car ran a stop sign in north Louisiana Sunday, knocking a motor home into a pickup truck, killing one person. In one of the worst traffic acci dents of the weekend, five people died about 7 miles south of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., when two cars collided head-on early Saturday. Two New York City residents were killed and five others were injured Monday in a one-car crash on the New York Thruway near Catskill. State police said the driv- lo^-V PRICE er apparently fell asleep at th^ wheel. -<*' Michael Shea and Karen Sugarr man, both 16, died in a one-ca£ crash in their hometown of Noi^. wood, Mass., early Sunday. Polic.» said Shea apparently was speeding- when the car hit a stone wall and an oak tree on Route 1A. A fake license plate on the car said: “Drive like hell, you’ll get there. ” In Chicago, Antonio Colon, was killed early Monday when his motorcycle slammed into a fire truck that was headed to the scene of a fire. Colon was the third Illi nois traffic death of the weekend involving a motorcycle. At least 11 people were killed in four separate plane crashes. I > Five were killed in the fi<^ crash of a small plane Monday near the Rattlesnake Range in central Wyoming. The only dis cernible remains were an adul£* hand, a child’s hand and smaller pieces of human flesh. Four others were killed Friday in Kansas City, Kan. when tlje plane they were riding in apptu rently stalled and crashed while they were en route to their holiday vacation. ^ % vs* awiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii C78x15 *37 13 Full 4-ply poly + F.E.T. and Sales Tax All Tires Sold thru S«pt. 15 Mounted & Balanced $2.50 Owners: Billy Winters George Emery E&W | Tire Distributors | 2706 Pinfeather • Bryan =s M.C. 775-9009 VISA 1 imiiiiimiiiiiiimimumimiimiimiiiimifl PIZZA SALE! s !LD trM All Pizzas Purchased on Premises Mon., Tues., Wed., or Thurs. Will Be Sold For One-Half of Regular Price! No Limit! irvETI PIZZA SUBS A Student’s Dream! Your Favorite Food — Great Pizza — For V2 Price! STAGE HANDS FOR SHOWS Meeting to sign up to work back- stage for the Theatre Complex during shows will be held Wed. night September 9, 1981 at 7:00 PM in the Auditorium. Dine in or Pickup Only (No Delivery With This Special) (No Coupons Valid on Special 846-3768 301 Patricia CALL AHEAD & PLACE ORDER FOR FAST SERVICE! EEK! UK LAST CHANCE TO RENT A REFRIGERATOR FOR DORM OR OFFICE TIME: TUESDAY 4 p.m.-7 p.m. PLACE: SBISA or COMMONS or CALL 845-3051 FREE DELIVERY 846-3768 OR CARRY OUT PIZZA SUBS DELUXE SICILIAN PIZZA “Thick Crust, Extra Cheese” — 10”,14”,17”,20 REGULAR PIZZA “Dough Made Fresh Daily”—10”, 14”, 17”,20’’ SUBMARINE SANDWICHES 301 Patricia Coupons Not Valid During Any Other Special OPEN: Sun. 11 a.m.-12 a.m. Mon.-Thurs. 4 p.m.-1 a. Frl. 4 p.m.-1 a.m. Sat. 11 a.m.-2 a.m. I $2°o OFF Any TEXAS SIZE 20” Pizza (1 item or more) f PIZZA & SUBS ) BUY ANY 14”, j Cflrt 17” or 20” Pizza I And Get The ! OFF Next Smaller | Size i ANY 10” PIZZA FREE! ! ^ PIZZA 4k SUBS QpiZZA 4k SUBS J | FREE $100 OFF Any 10” Pizza (1 item or more) ( PIZZA * SUBS J 1 Coupon per Pizza (expires 1281 DELIVERY! 1 Coupon Per | i Coupon Per Pizza 1 Pizza (expires 1281) j (expires 1281 1 Coupon Per Pizza (expires 1281) 1- 50 c! OFF i Any Long Submarine Sandwich i.-. v: PIZZA 4k SUBS 1 Coupon Per Pizza (expires 1281)