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features Battalion/Page 6B February 3,1S r i m Sg t . ;: '- ' - ■- . • ...■■■.: : - W.- ...i Is this January? staff photo by Octavio Garcia Kirk Baird takes advantage of the unsea- Baird, an accounting senior from Sher- sonably warm weather during the man, was on what he called a “short” weekend and gets some running in. nine-mile run. Newport ship sales up United Press International NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — For the second year in a row, Newport News Shipbuilding Co. said il had more than Si billion in sales. The yard’s 1982 sales reached Si.3 billion, up 19 per cent f rom 1981 sales of S 1.1 bil lion, shipyard officials said. Operating income increased 35 percent to $1 1 1 million from $82 million in $981, the fourth year of higher operating in come. Including the December Navy contract of $3.1 billion for two Nimitz-class nuclear- powered aircraft carriers, the shipyard had a year-end backlog of $8.5 billion. The Navy contract is the largest the service ever had awarded. “We are pleased with our 1982 financial performance,” said Edward Campbell, com pany president and chief execu tive officer. “Much of the credit goes to our employees, salaries and hourly paid, who have re sponded to the challenge of working smarter and increasing productivity.” The shipyard delivered three Navy ships and launched two submarines to the service in 1982, officials said. The Nimitz- class carrier Carl Vinson and the Los Angeles-class nuclear- powered submarines Atlanta and Houston joined the fleet from the Newport News yard. The Los Angeles-class sub marines Buffalo and Salt Lake City were launched, and the yard worked on the Nimitz-class : carrier Theodore Roosevelt and nine nuclear-powered sub marines. • day that net income for 1982 and for the year’s fourth quarter were up. Tenneco chairman and chief executive officer James Ketelsen said 1982 income from con tinuing operations was $840 mil lion, up 5 percent from $798 million in 1981. Ketelsen called the increase “a commendable achievement in a tough year.” Tenneco sales and operating revenues in 1982 were $15 bil lion, about the same as in 1981. In the fourth quarter of 1982. income from continuing opera tions was $278 million, up 9 per cent from the 1981 figure of $254 million. Relax, Have Fun, Enjoy Enter a new wonderful world of excitement. The atmosphere is different — the perfect setting for your favorite cocktails! And what food! The menu offers a variety that all the family will enjoy. Popular prices, too. Newport News Shipbuilding is a subsidiary of Tenneco Inc., a Houston-based conglomerate. Tenneco also announced Tues- Discover Julie’s Place soon it’s the kind of restaurant that makes you want to come back again and again. 607 Texas Ave. College Station Phone: 696-1427 Open every day — Lunch, Dinner, Cocktails SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY ANNOUNCES TONIGHT SATURDAY NIGHT 8 p.m. 8 p.m. Whiskey & Suds Final Rush Party ALL INTERESTED MEN ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND — ALL GIRLS WELCOME Tamu Easterwood Airport SIGMA CHI / c | I 3 cr For More Information Contact: Sigma Chi House- 693-8265 or Chris Cuny- 846-4144 HOUSE Tight budget brings ideas NASA to try new probes United Press International WASHINGTON — Faced with a tight budget for the fore seeable future, the space agency is designing an economy class of solar system probes that will be able to go to a variety of places and do one job at a time. The new spacecraft, planned to fly in the 1990’s, will be called Mariner Mark II, after the high ly successful Mariner series that explored Mars, Venus and Mer cury in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. The plan is to build these new interplanetary cruisers with ex isting technology and use any advances that come along to re duce costs rather than expand capabilities as has been the prac tice for past spacecraft going to the planets. Marcia Neugebauer, acting manager of the development project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., said the goal is keep mission costs between $150 million and $300 million in 1982 dollars. This compares with costs rang ing up to $2 billion in today’s dollars for the four-spacecraft Viking 1 and 2 missions in 1975. In previous National Aero nautics and Space Administra tion planetary missions, the emphasis was always on im proved performance with each mission returning greater amounts of more sophisticated information than its predeces sors. “Today, because of severe economic restraints, the outlook is different,” Ms. Neugebauer said in the Feb. 4 issue of Science magazine. The missions being consi dered for the economy space probe range include Mars and Saturn orbiting flights, encoun ters with comets and asteroids, flights to send probes into the atmospheres of Saturn’s moon Titan and the planets Uranus and Neptune, and even an attempt to return cometary sam ples to Earth orbit. The space shuttle will be used to launch the Mariner Mart!! spacecraft. A rocket a the probe will give it the< push needed to go from f orbit to its far-off target. The spacecraf t will be 2 bled in modules around; tral nerve center modules will he easy to rig the basici sign for a variety of differ jobs. Many of the missions i consideration require duration flights, lasting up years so reliability will beiniBi tant in spacecraft design. Neugebauer said the prti would have to l>e able tocarej itself for many days at without commands from I Willie gets tribute for benefit concert Get Your Xerox Copies United Press International DENVER — Willie Nelson got a big thank you Tuesday from Pueblo area lawmakers who said they could easily understand why the country and Western singer with a “straggly beard” and “well-worn jeans” was so well-received by people across the nation. The lawmakers introduced a tribute in the Colorado Legisla ture to praise Nelson for the be nefit concert he performed at McNichols Arena in Denver Monday night. It drew 16,000 fans and netted the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo an estimated $55,000 to $60,000. Nelson, a Texan who owns a home near Evergreen, Colo., f ave up his standard fee of 50,000 in order to perform the benefit after he learned of financial problems the State Fair was suffering. A tribute honoring Nelson was introduced by Sens. John Beno and Harvey Phelps and Reps. Bob Leon Kirscht, Stan Johnson, Leo Lucero and Larrv Trujillo Sr., all of Pueblo. “We wanted to thank him and felt this was a good way to do it,” Beno explained. The tribute begins by describ ing Willie Nelson as “what can be said that hasn’t already been said — musical impresario, lyricist, musician, actor, writer, mega award winner — a legend in his own time.” The tribute states that no other entertainer in recent his tory has probably exerted more influence in the field of country- pop music. “From his straggly beard to his well-worn jeans (not forget ting his famous headband and diamond earing), he has been emulated, imitated, adored and idolized by every strata of society and every age group,” the tri bute claims. “Recognizing the quality of life within the state of Colorado, Willie Nelson is a bona fide land- owner and citizen of our state. 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