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Monday, September 6, 1982
iiXabor Day features parades, speeches
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^/Thousands of workers coast
Cdast enjoyed a respite from their
ily labors today as they bid farewell
summer and celebrated the 100th
ini^ersary of Labor Day with rallies,
jeeches and parades.
Labor federations in Chicago and
dianapolis prepared to stage Labor
Jparades for the first time in 30
JB40 years respectively. More than
§lpj() people were expected to parti-
ate in the Indianapolis extrava-
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The Chicago parade down Michi
gan Avenue was to feature hard-hat
workers scaling 10-foot power towers
and tradesmen plastering walls as
they drifted by crowds on floats.
In Venice, Calif., organizers were
pulling together last-minute details of
the Mr. and Mrs. Muscle Beach physi
que contest.
Some weekend celebrations started
early and got out of hand.
Nine law enforcement officers
injured, eight police vehicles
damaged and 26 people arrested in a
rock-throwing melee in Kansas City,
Mo., that broke out during an “All
Night Blast” at a local drive-in movie
theater early Sunday.
Jackson County reserve officers
separated two fighting patrons dur
ing the midnight-to-dawn show only
to have a larger brawl break out,
E olice said. The crowd began hurling
ricks, rocks and beer bottles and
The blast was cut short when
police turned out the lights.
Thousands of sci-fi fans converged
on Chicago for the 40th World Scien
ce Fiction Convention — dubbed Chi-
con IV — to talk fantasy, watch
movies and listen to their favorite au
thors and view artistic contributions
from more than 200 science fiction
and fantasy artists.
The convention was graced by an
affectionate robot who waddled
through the aisles saying, “Gimme a
squeeze, baby,” his head revolving
whenever anyone touched him.
The Smithsonian Institution’s Na
tional Air and Space Museum played
host to thousands of frisbee fanatics
who filled the air with their discs as an
estimated 23,000 flingers and fans
gathered from across the country for
the annual frisbee festival.
Judy Horowitz of Forest Hills,
N.Y., 21, womens’ two-time overall
frisbee-throwing champion said,
“When a ball has dreams, it dreams
it’s a frisbee.”
However, in a more serious de
monstration, in Homestead, Pa.,
nearly 100 residents turned out to
E rotest the lack of jobs for steelwor-
ers in the area. Eleven steelmaking
furnaces once operated there, but
nearly all of them are idle now and
more than half of the 10,000 steel
workers employed are gone.
A memorial service, held Saturday,
commemorated the 90th anniversary
of the 1892 strike at the Carnegie
Steel plant in Homestead, where 10
steelworkers died in a battle with
Pinkerton security guards.
staff photo by Peter Rocha
The thrill, the celebration and the realization
Sophomores Christi Ottea and Mike Brown cheer the
u |team on and then take part in the traditional touchdown
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celebration. The touchdown, however, was called back
due to a motion penalty on the play. Ottea, from
Bryan, is in general studies. Brown is a management
major from Bay City.
S Festival ends low-key rock music weekend
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.
— A souvenir salesman was robbed ol
$25,000, but police said the rock fans who
attended the three-day US Festival concert-
computer show were generally well-behaved.
■ Officials said it may take a month to clean
up the grounds where about 100,000 people
gathered Sunday under an intense Southern
California sun for the final day, which had the
lowest turnout of the weekend.
The mostly young crowd, who fought 106-
gree heat by dousing and spraying them-
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selves with water, peaked Saturday with
230,000 fans flooding the Glen Helen Re
gional Park, 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
About 130,000 people turned out for the first
day, Friday.
“The crowd has been super,” Sheriffs De
partment Capt. Don Meyers said Sunday. “A
crowd like this could be nasty and give us a lot
of trouble, but they have been super.”
An armed man kidnapped a concessionaire
in a campground and robbed him at gunpoint
of $25,000 in T-shirt sales receipts, sheriffs
officers said.
Mark Miller of Winterland Production told
investigators the gunman climbed into his car
at the campground and forced him to drive 10
miles to Fontana, where, he said, the robber
knocked him unconscious and stole his
money.
Heat, dust, mud from melting ice and litter
were the most troublesome problems. Offi
cials estimated it would take a full month to
clean up the trash in the park.
Concert organizers refused to disclose how
many one-day and three-day tickets were
sold, making it impossible to determine how
many individuals attended or the event’s
gross.
Stephen Wozniak, co-founder of Apple
Computer, who paid $12.5 million to orga
nize the concert-technology fair, refused to
disclose whether he broke even or profited,
but said Sunday, “It’s looks like we’re going to
be successful there, unexpectedly.”
After riding around the dusty grounds in a
limousine, Wozniak, 32, said he was happy
with the event and noted that huge rock con
certs usually are associated with a theme.
“Altamont was death, Woodstock was disas
ter. Fortunately, the US Festival is technology,
a feeling of working together in the ‘80s,” he
said.
Crime
minimal.
and violence at the festival were
The Sheriffs Department reported 36 peo
ple had been arrested since the start of the
concert, mostly for drugs and petty theft. Sev
eral people also were arrested on charges of
assault with a deadly weapon, carrying a con
cealed weapon, and burglary. There was one
reported rape.
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Bike theft major
campus problem
by Kelley Smith
Battalion Reporter
Last year, 294 bicycles were
stolen on the Texas A&M Univer
sity campus, costing the bike own
ers $43,204, University Police De
tective John Phillips said.
The value of the stolen bikes
accounted for one-third the value
of all thefts reported from the pri
vate sector of the campus, which
makes bicycle theft a major prob
lem on campus, Phillips said.
Although students can’t pre
vent bike theft, Phillips urged
them to register their bicycles at
the campus police station, where
the serial number and description
are recorded.
“While registration is not really
a deterrent to theft, it does help in
recovery,” he said.
Forty bicycles were recovered
last year, 90 percent of which were
registered with the police, Phillips
said.
Phillips said many times people
will report a theft but are unable to
remember the serial number for
positive identification.
Having a registration sticker on
a bike is also an aid to police when
they look for stolen bikes. If a
policeman sees someone who does
not look like a student on a Texas
A&M registered bike, it gives the
officer reason to check the bike, he
said.
If the Bryan or College Station
police find the bicycle and see a
Texas A&M sticker, they can call
the University to find the owner.
Without a sticker, Phillips said, the
bicycle just sits in their warehouse.
Since 1980, 7,263 bikes have
been registered with the campus
police. Phillips estimated this is
only about 60 percent of the bikes
on campus.
With the average cost of a bike at
about $210, Phillips said it is well
worth the effort to protect it. To
help prevent theft, Phillips said
students should lock the bike to
something other than itself
whenever it is left unattended.
He advised students to leave bi
cycles in a well-lit area and never to
attempt to hide a bike without
locking it. A thief can find it any
where, he said.
Although a bicycle may be lock
ed, there still is a chance it may be
stolen, he said. Sometimes locks
are cut to get a bicycle.
Hans Schneider, manager of
Cycles Etc., said in order to pre
vent a lock from being cut, a stu
dent might want to purchase a spe
cial one. The Kryptonite Co. mar
kets a lock they claim cannot be
cut.
The lock has been on the market
for about five years and is guaran
teed against being cut. The com
pany will pay $350 if a person can
prove the lock on their bicycle was
cut. The broken lock must be
shown as proof, Schneider said.
Enrollment drop predicted
Educational costs increasing
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WASHINGTON — School enroll
ment from kindergarten to graduate
school this fall will be down 500,000
students nationwide from last year,
but the cost of education will rise by
$15 billion, federal officials said
Saturday.
Education Department Secretary
Terrel Bell said a department statis
tical profile projects total enrollment
of 57.3 million, down from 57.8 mil
lion in the fall of 1981. Most of the
drop will be at the high school level.
College and university enrollment
is expected to climb by 128,000, Bell
said.
The report also projected total
spending on education, both public
and private, will hit $215 billion dur
ing the school year, up from $200
billion for 1981.
“More than 3.3 million persons will
be employed as classroom teachers,
and an additional 300,000 will be
working as superintendents, princip
als, supervisors and other instruction
al staff members,” Bell said. “Thus
education in the fall of 1982 will be
the primary activity of nearly 61 mil
lion Americans.”
The largest enrollment drop this
fall, about 400,000 to 13.9 million, is
projected in the ranks of high school
students, whose numbers peaked in
the fall of 1976.
Enrollment in grades 9 through 12
is expected to continue to drop
through most of the decade as the size
of the 14-to 17-year-old population
continues to shrink, the study said.
At the elementary school level, kin
dergarten through grade 8, enroll
ment is expected to fall from 31.1 mil
lion to 30.9 million.
Decreases have occurred in
elementary enrollment since 1969,
reflecting declines in the number of
children ages 5 through 13. That
trend is expected to reverse in mid
decade, with modest annual increases
projected over the rest of the decade.
In higher education institutions,
enrollment hit an all-time high of 12.4
million last year and this year is ex
pected to rise to about 12.5 million.
The size of the college-age popula
tion, 18-to 24-year-olds, peaked in
1981 and will be declining through
the 80s, and the study said college
enrollment appears to be nearing its
peak.
Mexican economy worsens
with layoff of thousands
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MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s largest
labor group said recent layoffs by a
large construction firm and a U.S.
automaker have left 10,000 workers
jobless, a sign of Mexico’s worsening
economic situation.
Sunday the government news
agency Notimex reported Confeder
ation of Mexican Workers (CTM)
spokesman Jose Guadalupe Casas
said General Motors plans to shut
down its assembly plant in Ramos
Arizpe, Coahuila for two months,
laying off 1,200 auto workers.
Casas also said the U.S. owned sub
sidiary has laid off 1,500 workers at its
assembly plant in Mexico City and was
considering cutting another 800 em
ployees from the payroll.
The spokesman said ICA, one of
Latin America’s largest construction
firms, has laid off 7,500 construction
workers, executives and engineers,
while cutting personnel involved in
construction projects in Central
America.
The Finance Ministry announced
Sunday that the World Bank gave a
$470 million loan to Mexico to fi
nance the development of the capital
goods sector and two agriculture pro
jects.
The loan agreement was signed at
the International Monetary Fund
meeting in Toronto, Canada, the Fi
nance Ministry said.
Mexicans have seen their econo
mic growth drop from eight percent
in 1981 to a monthly rate of zero in
past months, as the government has
cut its rapid expansion.
Mexico also owes foreign banks an
estimated $80 billion. Unemployed
workers, who receive no steady un
employment insurance, will also face
skyrocketing prices, climbing at an
annual rate of over 70 percent.
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forecast
Today’s Forecast: Same as usual.
Very slight chance of afternoon
showers. High in the high 90s, low
in the mid-70s.