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'Uhi ge 12 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1981 iented wheelchair is an improper fit National i’ itr United Press International IRT WORTH, Texas — Dale hg, 28, says the rented wheel- 'kir he is using is too small for his oot-5-inch body, and he hopes ioever found his customized air will return it. (The chair fell out the back of a friend’s pickup truck Friday. “The tailgate wasn’t up, but we didn’t know that,” said King, who has been in a wheelchair since a 1971 shooting. “Somebody (in another car) pointed to the back of the truck and that’s how we knew it was gone,” he said. They circled back over their route two times, but the large, black manually operated chair with air tires could not be found. “I think someone picked it up and is looking for me,” King said. STUDENT Y FISH CAMP ’82 Applications are now available through December 11 for chairman, sub-chairman, and recreation coordinator in Room 216 MSC. Nuclear attack report presented For more information call 845-1626 Sacrifice elderly, study says Daily Specials IWednesday Ginger Cream Chicken Thursday Beef & Brew Friday Shrimp Scampi Backstage United Press International WASHINGTON — Survivors of a nuclear attack should send the old, instead of the young, for food and water to reduce the delayed effect of radiation cancer deaths, a government study recommends. The Energy Department study was presented at a news confer ence Tuesday by the Gray Panth ers, an activist organization for the aged, and the Center for Defense Information, an independent re search group. “One means of reducing the delayed (radiation) effect on the populaton is to reduce the expo sure of the younger people," the study said. “Older people will come to the end of their natural life spans be fore reaching the end of the risk plateau. Thus the same exposure may produce fewer total excess cancers in this group than within a younger segment of the popula tion. The news conference sponsors cited the study, published in the September issue of the periodical Health Physics, as proof the Reagan administration believes a nuclear war can be won and that there will be survivors. Maggie Kuhn, national leader of the Gray Panthers and a dele gate at the current White House Conference on the Aging, said the study shows the old would be sac- 319 University Dr. (Northgate) 846-1861 We’re the Nation’s Number Wellington boots First Presbyterian Church 1100 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan 823-8073 Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor Barbara Ridlen, DCE SUNDAY: Worship at 8:30AM & 11:OOAM| Church School at 9:30 AM College Class at 9:30 AM (Bus from TAMU Krueger Dunn 9:15AM) Youth Meeting at 5:00PM Nursery: All Events couam owvt rificed for the young in ensaririil the survivability of those 4)| lived through a nuclear war. 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