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Page 12 THE BATTALION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1981 National Underworld figure shot from fleeing van United Press International BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Frank Piccolo, indicted for con spiring to extort money from Las Vegas entertainers, was gunned down Saturday outside a tele phone booth on a downtown street. Piccolo, 58, was admitted to St. Vincent’s Hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest at 2:50 p.m. and pronounced dead 25 minutes later, a hospital spokeswoman said. One Two Fingers 8 Dorm Shirt Yours for $ 6 95 It’ll cover you U P- It’ll keep you warm. Besides, it says you have good taste when it comes to Tequila. Two Fingers. Order one up. . . the Tequila and the Dorm Shirt. Just fill out the coupon below and send along S6.95 for each shirt. The rest is up to you. Send check or money order to : Two Fingers Tequila Merchandise Offer P.O. Box 02609, Detroit, MI 48202 Please send me Dorm Shirt(s). I have enclosed $6.95 for each Dorm Shirt ordered. 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They were indicted June 11 fol lowing federal electronic surveill ance of Piccolo’s home and of the Backstage Restaurant in Bridge port. The indictment was returned by a grand jury probing racketeer ing, cocaine trafficking and illegal gambling. Newton, a singer who popula rized “Danke Schoen” testified last November before the grand jury. The indictment alleged Piccolo and Penosi conspired to “obtain money and other valuable rights and interests” from Newton and Miss Falana by “threats of physical violence” and by using their pow er in the underworld. Piccolo’s body was to be re moved to the chief state medical examiner’s office in Farmington for an autopsy, the hospital spokeswoman said. Phi Eta Sigma 1st organizational meeting for in ducted members. MONDAY, SEPT. 21 301 RUDDER 6:30 P.M. Pictures will be taken for the yearbook. Pinkeye epidemic sweepg through southern Florid it United Press International MIAMI — An epidemic of a vir al form of pinkeye new to the west ern hemisphere is sweeping southern Florida and a doctor says it will soon spread. “It’s just a matter of time before it spreads more profusely. The kids that come in say ‘everybody in my school or everybody in my project has got it,” said Dr. Wil liam Culbertson, assistant profes sor of opthamology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami. He said the institute has tre ated at least 400 cases since last Friday and private doctors have treated many more. People afflicted with the dis ease experience “lid swelling and a red eye with tearing or watering and light sensitivity,” Culbertson said. “If you’ve got it, you’ll defi nitely know it. It doesn’t produce just a little irritation — it produces a lot. 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PH Acute hemorrhagic conjunt! pry tis, which is caused by a m png more severe than baclt [ike induced conjunctivitis. 0m ni The disease first appeard flvat the western hemisphere in ij Ah tral and South America thin Mp mer. Historically, it has beem * ac n« fined to humid coastal areassIP 16 si unusually dense populationaa lows trike, Itv ikes ion r J alive Almanac r S raids ktive in 151 United Press International ^ Today is Monday, Sept. 21, p? 3 264th day of 1981 with Ir’ ^ follow. I n [ 0 The moon is in its last quilT p 31 The morning star is Man I /J; The evening stars are Vt*, and Jupiter. English author and histo! H.G. Wells was born on Sept 1886. On this date in history In 1893, the first sui American-made, operated motor car appeard 1 the streets of Springfield, was designed and builtbyCk 1 and Frank Duryea. In 1938, an estimated uwr pie were killed by a hurricanes battered the coast of New El land. In 1976, former Chilean f( ign Minister Orlando Leteto 1 killed when a bomb explodd his car on a street in Washing DC. In 1977, President & announced the resignation Budget Director Bert Lance at the same time defendedLary honor and integrity. Lance, ter appointee, had been of a series of illegal acts in banfa A thought for the day: Bn* author H. G. Wells said, “Hn" history becomes more and nit* 1 race between education and^ trophe.” cashi with !«•• '’•Ovy