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state /national Battalion/Page 11 October 20, 1982 Page 10 ;h a Meriaul jpo Industral ! million o[tli(| paid alleged'l up Pemexo[E| icy general’srel id Delta “wrail if UnitedSuici he bribes tbl lerprises, lal I’etroleos Mnl s," the report tedly, the tel ;as extractkrl aw ford sold::! ■r priced bvt?J n investigate ith Pemeij to the appara? e — .,, Bizarre calls brought out by Halloween, full moon Wall Street wizard assists Dow’s climb United Press International An El Paso caller named Man- nie feels the tug of' Vatican “witchcraft” when the moon is full while a Fort Worth caller claims microwave antennae are turning him into a human fri cassee. And west Texans report night encounters of the alien kind. These bizarre tales and more fill pages of recent reports re ceived by night-shift police dis patchers in Texas. Complaints seem to swell with a full moon or the advent of Halloween. “You know what the full moon does to the tides, imagine what it can do to weak brains,” said Cecil Beare, a Department of Public Safety dispatcher, manning a midnight-to-dawn switchboard in Midland. “It brings out the crazies, the peo ple who have nobody to talk but us to about their fears. “And then comes Halloween and the practical jokers call in too. “Not long ago we heard from this fellow who swore that a flying saucer was hovering a mile above his car and followed him home like a dog the 20 miles from Odessa,” Beare said. “It turned out the spacecraft was the planet Saturn. We get lots of those kinds of calls these days.” Despite the influx of crank calls, the Halloween season often shows a downturn in vio lent criminal activity, Beare said. “1 guess people are like snakes; they hibernate when they get cold.” In El Paso, a favorite crank named Mannie keeps the switch- n White worker wins bias suit hip n broadcasts! Judge Janies he court. > ^ le United Press International ercent. I NEW YORK — A white man d a govemms. s denied promotions and fired ange prograi -from his hospital guard job — many of the« »although his Hispanic col- ne daily (loss leagues had worse work records trder region as I—will receive more than $6,000 >mic recover)i 'in an unprecedented city discri- Imination ruling. ivethatsomest . The award, announced Mon- ed as soon as pyday by the city’s Commission on mmerce betweu'Human Rights, ended a five- es can continut year court battle and compen- i in a letter, ^ates Anthony Grasso, 26, of IBrooklyn, for his dismissal, i “It was a straight discrimina- X A T t ' on case > sa * c * Al an Aviles, com- f 1 \/y mission attorney. “The impor tant thing was he was not His panic.” T It was the first time the com mission awarded a white worker ho claimed both color and na- ional origin discrimination, afficials said. Officials of Lutheran Medical enter, the target of Grdkso’s clear that complaint, had no immedi- d that the Firt a te comment, ights of puP Grasso was overlooked sever- rs are adequal M times for promotion to full- inder a jpt/l<vne guard, Aviles said. The least licenseelil- >spital said that was because he ning discretiof^s not bilingual hut the com- n obligation ifnission said bilingual ability was : interest." f 101 a posted requirement. The hospital said Grasso — art-time security guard paid 5.40 per hour at the Brooklyn acility from June 1974 to July 977 — was dismissed because e was away from his post twice e a public tele titled to man)' s as its priv tying “the Fii )es not prohil from speaki governmenl within a week. The hospital said in one inst ance, Grasso’s absence in the emergency room constituted a “life-threatening” offense, Aviles said. But after six days of hearings before Administrative Law Judge William Kirchgaessner in January and February, it was found one misconduct com plaint was unfounded. Another charge against Gras so was less serious than com plaints against several Hispanic workers with far worse work re cords, Aviles said. “For example, one of the workers had been written up for being intoxicated on the job. Another had a list of about 20 misconduct violations. Neither was fired,” Aviles said. Commission Chairman Isaiah Robinson Jr. said the ruling “re minds us the protection of the Human Rights Law is available to everyone regardless of race, color or national origin — not simply to minorities as is a com mon misperception.” Grasso will receive $5,735.05 in pay and interest and $500 for mental anguish. Since fired from Lutheran Medical Center, Grasso has worked as a truck driver and as a boiler “fireman,” Aviles said. The commission did not seek to have him reinstated as a hos pital guard, officials said. ion did presef for the pri istru mental® ensees are vi ion of the F dill wrote. %■ ional proteflj tat govern^ impose res!! 1 , censees whB] ose on Crash victim wins unsafe helmet suit f United Press International ?. NEW YORK — A woman who buffered severe brain damage in a 1977 motorcycle crash won a Fecord-breaking $3 million set- n ,jdlement against the manufactur- i e r of the helmet she was Bvearing. A jury in state Supreme ourt in the Bronx awarded De- a ise Cornier, 28, of the Bronx, he $3 million in damages onday. Bell Helmet Corp. of Nor- alk, Calif., which manufac- ured the helmet Cornier was earing at the time of the crash, ‘yas liable for 75 percent of the 'image suit. Company officials were not ntmediately available for com- nent. The remaining 25 percent of the $3 million award was to be shared by the driver of the motorcycle and the car it hit in the 1977 collision. The operator of the bike, James Spagna, also of the Bronx, was Cornier’s fiance, but Finz said Spagna disappeared shortly after the accident. During the trial, testimony showed the helmet she was wearing, a Bell SuperMagnum, had failed to pass a 1976 federal Department of Transportation test measuring its ability to absorb impact. Cornier was thrown to the ground and struck her head. She was in a coma for 40 days and suffered severe damage, , Finz said. NOTICE TO STUDENTS HAVING TAKEN CHEM101/111 AND/OR CHEM 102/112 DURING THE PERIOD Fall 1973 through Summer 1982 In order to clear our files and storage areas, we will be disposing of all old exams and individual grade records for F73 through SS82. If you have any reason for requesting consideration of a grade change for one of our courses taken during this period, you will need to file such request at Room 413 Heldenfels Hall no later than November 24, 1982. No grade changes will be considered after that date, except by the official University appeal mechanism. Rod O’Connor Director of First Year Chemistry Programs boards sizzling with his weekly worries. “Now Mannie thinks magi cians in the Vatican are casting spells on his house with some sort of witchcraft,” said Val Za rate, night police dispatcher. “And he also thinks Pope John Paul has bewitched Reagan. “That’s not exactly something we can send a patrol car out to check on. We just listen to him. He’s an old man and it gets it out of his system.” San Antonio dispatcher Gra- cie Vann says a full moon always stirs the imagination of the elderly and mentally disturbed. “We have this one old lady who is convinced that somebody is blowing electric shocks through her window,” she said. “Then there’s somebody who thinks a prowler is pumping gasoline into his home.” Night callers get a bit buggy in Fort Worth. “We’ve got this one fellow who tells us he has creepy, crawl ing things all over him and he wants police to come out and pick them off,” says a late night police dispatcher. “Then we have this guy who thinks the Arlington Police De partment’s radio antennae are microwaving his home, slowing frying him to death.” But Zarate admits the lonely job of manning night switch boards gets even lonelier when the cranks stop phoning. “Sometimes we want to call up our regulars when we haven’t heard from them and check to make sure they are all right.” B United Press International NEW YORK — Stocks soared Tuesday with the Dow Jones in dustrial average pushing up from an 18-month high as eco nomist Henry Kaufman kept Wall Street’s rally alive with pre dictions of lower interest rates in the future. The Dow Jones industrial av erage, which soared 26.12 points Monday to an 18-month high of 1,019.22, was ahead 6.35 ATTENTION: All 1st Semester General Studies Freshmen Report to Room 100 Harrington Tower to sign up for mid-term Probationary Meeting. [/J * * * * * * * * * * * * * * + points to 1,025.57 by 10:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday. Advances led declining issues by a 9-2 margin. New York Stock Exchange volume in the first 30 minutes amounted to about 18.68 million shares. Monday’s New York Stock Exchange volume of 83,790,000 shares was up from the 80,290,000 traded last Friday, but trailed last week’s record COMING from Probe Ministries International THE CHRISTIAN UPDATE FORUM of 118 millic Sal daily average shares. 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