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itate THE BATTALION MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1981 Page 7 )n at s up SlilMii® mm Monday [ANNUAL ANTHROPOLOGY LECTURE SERIES: Together with Dept, of Biology and the Graduate College Pre dents Topics in Pleistocene Extinctions “Human Predator/Prey Relationships’ By Dr. D. Gentry Steele (Texas A&M Univ.)at2 p.m. in 204C Sterling C. Evans Library. 1TERNATIONAL MEDITION SOCIETY: TM checking at 6:30 p.m. in 321 of the library. DIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL: Old testament study ip.m. at the University Lutheran Chapel, 315 N. College Main. ford and ts guarded! the as 1G1E ALLEMANDERS: Square dancing from 7 p. m. to 10:30 p.m. in 212 MSC. ILLEGIATE 4-H CLUB: Foods and nutrition program by Marilyn Haggard, an extension food and nutritionalist specialist at7:30 p.m. at 4102 Green Valley Dr. She will be doing food demonstrations. Audience will taste results. [RIBBEAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: Meeting at 7 p.m. in 137A MSC. T-CAMPUS AGGIES: Discussion of semi-formal and end of the semester wrap-up at 6:30 p.m. in 701 Rudder. UHOLIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: Bible study at 7:30p.m. in the student center and night prayer at 10 p.m. in the church. Tuesday SC POLITICAL FORUM: Members to camp overnight, enacting Texas prison system Tuesday at 2 p.m. to Wednesday at 1p.m. by Rudder Fountain. UDENT “Y”: Thanksgiving service with Dean C. H. Ransdell and the Century Singers at 8 p.m. in the All-Faiths Chapel. 1EGA PHI ALPHA NATIONAL SERVICE: Weekly meeting at 6:30 p. m. in 302 Rudder. Pledge meeting following at 7:30 p.m. ONA: General committee meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 301 Rudder. 1RSEMENS ASSOCIATION: General business meeting at 7 p.m. in 115 Klegerg. 11 ALPHA: Former Buddhist Chattra Tamang will be teaching p.m. in 402 Rudder. GIETYOF AUTOMATIVE ENGINEERS: Going to TO s emissions dyno at 7 p.m. in 203 Zachry. CIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS: Pictures fur Aggieland and discussion of Houston Tool Show and next semester’s activities at 7:30 p.m. in 102 A&A Squirrel causes blackout and livi aid cremaa iffered byJ Id family, J "■'4 . j .p■ United Press International He sail DICKINSON — More than 5,000 customers of the Texas-New were S ™B C() P ower Company lost power for several hours when a squirrel led on top of a power substation breaker in this small city 15 miles j i of Galveston, officials said. mil Usrt jwer company spokesman David Ballew said a squirrel caused an rce McB™ r e ear ly Sunday that left thousands without power, crippled traffic ■ PeacecaL , anc i f orcec i { wo or three families to evacuate until the problem iew OsM Lg re p a i rec ] hot by Lit. jg^jj t j ie S q U j rre i somehow shorted the system, causing all traffic ac 'k hu')) L t 0 blink out and a small substation fire, he squirrel apparently died immediately. Appeals expected on decision Blue laws deemed unconstitutional United Press International DALLAS — Texas blue laws prohibiting the sale of 42 desig nated items on consecutive Satur days and Sundays have been de clared unconstitutional by a dis trict judge, but appeals of the rul ing are expected to take years. In issuing his ruling Friday, Judge Dee Brown Walker made it clear people would not be able to walk into stores Sunday and make purchases of prohibited items. He said the Texas Supreme Court would ultimately have to decide the issue, and he directed that his ruling be appealed to the high court. An attorney present at Friday’s hearing said he believed it would be years before Texans see shop ping malls and department stores open on Sundays. Walker declared the blue laws unconstitutional as a result of a suit filed earlier this year by Her bert R. Gibson Jr. of the Gibson Discount Centers against a host of Dallas area drug and grocery stores. Gibson filed the suit seeking in junctions against the stores be cause his stores were under court order to follow the blue laws. “We felt that the law should be enforced equally against every body or thrown out, ” Gibson said Friday. At Friday’s hearing, attorneys for Revco, Eckerd Drugs and Skaggs Co. filed a motion for a summary judgment based on the unconstitutionality of the law. The stores had been issued injunctions to halt the sale of the prohibited items as a result of Gibson’s suit. The lawyers said that while the purpose of the law supposedly was to provide individuals with a day of rest, a study by Dr. Leland M. Wooton of Southern Methodist University showed only 3.9 per cent of the Texas labor force would be involved in the sale of the pro hibited items. They also said the 42 items were arbitrary and capricious, noting one can buy disposable diapers, but not cloth diapers on consecu tive days; plastic ashtrays, but not glass ashtrays; and a hammer, but not nails. The decision marked the fourth time the state’s blue law has been successfully challenged in the low er courts. On appeal to the Texas Supreme Court, however, the law consistently has been upheld. Space center attempts to fill possible shuttle void toff the cot McBn I I was dangl f| :he cleatiiii United Press International HOUSTON — A study suggest ing Cape Canaveral take launch- to-landing control of operational space shuttle missions has John son Space Center officials looking for a new project, possibly a space station venture. The study, conducted at the request of a top space agency offi cial, concluded that Reagan admi nistration budget cuts have made it imperative that one of the na tion’s four major NASA centers be closed. Officials said there are no plans to close any of the major space centers, but NASA Deputy Admi nistrator Hans Mark said the Ken nedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral might assume launch- to-landing control of the spree shuttle once it becomes opera tional. “What do you do when the shuttle becomes operational?” Mack asked. “One thing we want to do is make it possible to operate out of other places. Kennedy, with the equipment it has — the firing room and all the computers — may be one of them.” Presently, the Kennedy Space Center controls shuttle launches and turns flight contrcl over to JSC. Will the loss of shuttle missions looming, Mark said JSC has prop osed a manned space station mis sion it would control from its Hoaston complex. But it first must pe'suade the government of the spice station’s usefulness in order to obtain funding. The manned space station vould be capable of launching satellites from a low earth orbit to 22,300 miles, repairing satellites, returning them to orbit and ser vicing upper stage rockets, Mark said. Space shuttles would be used to supply the station and to rotate the 8-man crews. Missions would last about 90 days, he said. Mark said JSC has no missions planned when the shuttle becom es operational after its fourth orbital test mission. The third test flight is set for mid-March. The study that prompted disclo sure of the space station proposal was conducted by a former NASA planner, Gene McCoy, at Mark’s request. It identified JSC, Ken nedy, the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., as the agency’s big spenders. “I believe one of them has to be closed, and NASA has not publicly faced up to this yet,” McCoy said. HEY FISH Help make The Class of ’85! Come to the first class MEETING Committee Positions .we Open Date: Tues., IVov. 24 Time: 7:30 Place: Rm. 321 Physics Bldg. tired in IS as never® zing a crel irm recommends easing W • # # jOve noise restrictions United Press International iLLAS — A consulting firm e initial noise recommenda- might have moved South- Airlines’ headquarters from toversial Love Field, the ci- lose-in airport, issued a final 1 softening the proposals. IfTl HI fi rm s proposals still con- L11A J a 95 decibel noise limitation rcraft operations at the field ey over-i $5 but the method used to ure the noise levels would be 0 change* stringent. Inward, Needles, Tammen & Mendoff, a firm hired by the ve wn Hinder mted the tem or inti-Ch? lo study noise levels of aircraft ^rations at Love Field, pre- |ly rejected a citizens’ plan for ed as a M man fh r that ReagJ Id lead to 1 ! unments nnic plf ve that'e doesn’t onomfo' a night curfew on all flights at Love Field. Any limitation on noise levels for aircraft operations would be a first in North Texas history. The new recommendations sug gest runway noise levels be mea sured only at their peak — not constantly and for the duration of the operations. One of the firm’s recommenda tions, submitted Friday, called for a noise monitoring system that Love Field airport director Danny Bruce said would cost $250,000 to purchase and $10,000 annually to maintain. Half of the firm ’s 10 recommen dations would require approval of the Federal Aviation Administra tion, Bruce said, before they could be implemented Bruce said the new report was a slight relaxation and said he be lieves Southwest would be able to continue to operate its mainte nance facility, which usually lands planes at the field during night hours. But the recommendations may prevent some Southwest jets from taking off at night, he said. 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