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Battalion/Page 5 October 20, 1982 vs Airlines’ merger may save Braniff family who brings r and parks it t ed campground i the park ovens is an individual v tcks into the wood lies can find the ad wilderness exji te wants. Since visitors use the ir areas, a majoriti i consider the pi ed.” s also said that I use of state pi mes can lead to an ors. don't have thepn i Texas that they la ornia with parksla ily used ihaiairpd d traffic problemi Nevertheless, we have trouble*! being intoxicated problems andatia n with people stoi ir souvenirs." use of the p state parks,Carlsa m ployed parkranj nd their jobs diffett ey expected, ■mimes, rangers ) expecting tobeati nistandatour id. "What reallyh that they are ing lots and main ork. This will hap id more as pari s, and could posi ige many emplo ying with the senit United Press International DALLAS — Braniff Inter national Airways capped weeks of secret negotiations by signing a tentative pact with the nation’s 14th largest airline in a joint venture the bankrupt Braniff hopes will return it to the skies. Braniff President Howard Putnam said Braniff and Paci fic Southwest Airlines must resolve knotty labor and financial problems before Braniff planes are relaun ched. PSA chairman William Shimp said it probably will be next spring when the venture takes off. The two airlines announced Monday they signed a letter of intent dur ing the weekend to begin a new airline using 25 to 30 of Braniffs 727-200s and em ploying about 1,500 idled Braniff workers. Putnam said Braniff s pre sent unions must be willing to give a little if the deal with PSA is to become a reality. PSA plans to hire flight crew members, administrative per sonnel and maintenance workers. No agreement has been reached on whether Bra niff executives will be hired by the new airline. One former Braniff pilot said Monday he is excited ab out the possibilities. ‘‘I was ecstatic when I heard it,” Merlin Hauan, 43, said af ter his wife, in tears, tele phoned him from the news conference. “I’ve got all the faith in the world and I don’t think it was misplaced either.” Putnam said the new airline would operate under the San Diego-based PSA name, but would be a separate venture. Braniff will fly under the PSA logo, but the West Coast air line will not assume any of Braniffs almost $1 billion Vdebt. Braniff officials said the proposed joint venture was the first step of a reorganiza tion, but “not a reorganization itself.” “You should think of this as two separate operations mar keting the same product,” Shimp said. The announcement came five months and five days af ter Braniff, stumbling under a $1 billion debt and dwindling revenues, filed for reorgani zation under Chapter XI of the federal bankruptcy code and left 5,000 people out of work. Under the proposed ven ture, Braniff will sell all itsjets to its creditors on condition they lease 25 to 30 of them back to Braniff for eight years and Braniff then will lease the jets to the newly created air line for the same period. “The rest they (creditors) can park in the desert or sell,” Putnam said. Shimp said he expects the joint venture to become pro fitable in one year “or else we’ve made a mistake.” PSA has an option to merge with the newly created carrier but Shimp said no such union would occur before the plane leases expired. Officials with PSA declined to say how much they were spending to get the venture off the ground, but acknow ledged much of the cost will be in advertising. Child aid increase backed United Press International SAN ANTONIO — A coali tion of women’s groups Tuesday endorsed approval of a prop osed amendment to the Texas Constitution that would double the ceiling on state aid to welfare children. “The issue is not welfare Cadillacs, but the survival of many Texas families,” the wife of San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros said. Mrs. Cisneros, coordinator Clements predicts 3 wins for GOP lion eek said there are the birth defect.li H L idta, the birthdefi | that most peoplt they have it. ‘ ype of spina bifidij minor backacheigj iroblems. her form of spinal L en are born withafl track. The sack by surgery, t ■ experience weafi a of the bodyaffl posed portion of! d. i bifida cistica, the! usually forms on :k — contains ts of the spinal las little or noskin' dug infection a ery is neccessarfL child could diejl ion. In addition, ;s are paralyzedB eeling. ' P said spina bifidal* ise a person’s al problems ss hydrocephalu! which sometimes children with spi s present, sphalus occurs»'? :ts in the brain.Ilj “d by placing a™ e skull to drainl said spina bifidaH d at about the li pregnancy ] esis, a test on i uid. The only pre'j ina bifida isaborti( United Press International MIDLAND — Gov. Bill Cle ments predicted Tuesday that three Republican candidates for statewide office, including him self, had good chances of win ning while the others had tough races ahead. He made the remarks to the Midland-Odessa area Petroplex Press Club. He said in addition to him self, GOP Attorney General can didate Bill Meier and T reasurer candidate Allen Clark should win their races. “I will predict to you that Bill Meier will win,” and “Allen Clark has an excellent chance of winning that race.” Meier is running against Jim Mattox and Clark is running against Ann Richards. 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