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Monday, March 7, 1983/The Battalion/Page 5 ■\i on Miiflot Sherwin, a junior industrial isirat jdistribution major from Clear Lake, polishes up on his travelling headstand act. Spring fever seems to be catching on campus. send For (u Official predicts cure for all cancer by 1990 ed ;ind; K United Press International HOUSTON —The chairman the President’s Cancer Panel HEdicting “a cure for all can- :rs|l)y the end of this decade,” at [cancer researchers thein- the' CoH#i s are less optimistic. ! Ilr. Armand Hammer, chair- l | .i( )|I ian ol Occidental Petroleum .l>rp.. opened a meeting of the net-member panel Friday ith a speech on progress in the h ;. 1(h 'i tttle against cancer. , ,! | l; Because of the progress adc in die last few years, 1 am the opinion that we already , I ive a cure for some cancers, and (Iji fjl. .. <• ii id I predict a cure for all can- :rs by the end of tfiis decade,” ammer said. Dr. Robert Hickey, executive ' ' s ,, ( ce president of M.I). Ander- n Hospital and Tumor Insti- ite, praised Dr. Hammer’s “en- ittsiasm,” but said “those of us /jfff tie trenches” were not so opti- istic about solving all of 200 Hs of cancer. ■rnillsp* ).m. i" fe “InteimjP on lioKfHrve been from here n i he'viH® 7 / to l 11 rbl of -ise roiitf to there in this galaxy, but I’ve never seen anything like icCon March 24-27, 1983 » *1$ ~ *■ *- • , “I think this is a laudatory ambition,” Hickey said. “I think that we will be able to control other cancers and many cancers, but I don’t think all of them.” Hammer cited the promise shown by monoclonal antibodies in recent tests against cancer. He said he visited the Wistar Insti tute in Philadelphia to see Dr. Kilary Koprowski’s work. “I saw the records of three pa tients who had metastic rectal and colon cancer in an advanced stage,” Hammer said. “All forms of treatment, including che motherapy, had failed to arrest the disease. “After an injection of mouse antibodies, all signs of the cancer had disappeared, and the pa tients have shown no return of the cancer in various periods up to 14 months,” he said. 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BRYAN 823-0551 822-142* m U nemployment reaches high United Press International AUSTIN — Depressed oil prices, Mexico’s economic trou bles and former Gov. Bill Cle ments were blamed Friday for Texas’ record high of 8.8 per cent unemployment in Feb ruary. The Texas Employment Commission said another 39,000 Texans lost their jobs in February. Gov. Mark White accused Glements of failing to react to warning signs in 1982 and refus ing to take action that could have headed off such an increase in 1983. “I regret that these signals that were available last year were ignored by my predecessor as a certain amount of economic momentum in that direction is hard to reverse,” said White. TEC labor market specialist Diane Dobie said the number of jobless workers reached more than 645,000. The 8.8 percent figure com pared to a seasonally adjusted figure of 8.2 percent and an actual Figure of 8.5 percent in January. For the second con secutive month, it was the high est rate since TEC began keep ing records 13 years ago. Dobie said the increase in February could be blamed on Christmas season layoffs, but she said the recession — espe cially in the hardhit oil and gas industry — is responsible for the general high level of unemploy ment in Texas. Union leader blasts Reagan Red Adair buys champion steer United Press International HOUSTON — Oil well fire fighter Red Adair plunked down a record price of $ 140,000 for the Grand Champion Steer of the 1983 Houston Livestock Show 8c Rodeo. Clifton Smith, the 18-year- old owner of the 1,225-pound Chianina steer named Black Velvet, said he had mixed feel ings about selling his prized animal but intended to use the money to pay for his education. Adair said his interest in the bull was strictly economical. “It will not only help the boy, but it will prove to everybody that we’re not as poor as some people think we are down here,” Adair said. Adair said he was prepared to if pay more than the $ 140,000 he had to. “We came to buy. I was will ing to pay whatever it would take to get it,” Adair said. Smith, the son of a Rio Grande Valley cotton and grain farmer, said the steer is out of the herd belonging to David Shane of Fostoria, Ohio. The reserve champion steer — named Desire — also was a Chianina. The 1,260-pound No. 2 steer was exhibited by James Henson, 16, a 4-H member from Abilene. It sold for a re cord price of $83,000. In other events, the Grand Champion pen of broiler chick ens sold for a record price of $61,000 and the Grand Cham pion turkey for $40,000. United Press International DALLAS — The head of a million-member public em ployees union called President Reagan the “Babe Ruth of all deficits” Saturday and vowed to raise labor’s largest political campaign to defeat him. “The public sector workers have sacrificed enough, and we want a decent wage,” said Joe McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Em ployees. “Our candidate will be the one who takes the oath of office in two years, and our candidate will be the one who shakes hands with Ronald Reagan and sends him back on his horse to Califor nia,” said McEntee. “We as an institution have had enough of politicians who look upon government as some thing bad,” he said. “We have a mandate to change the system. Reagan is against public em- COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE The Texas Alpha Chapter of Alpha Zeta, the national honorary agriculture fraternity, announces that applications are now being accepted for six (6) scholarships, worth S300-$500, which will be awarded April 5th at Ag. Convocation. Open to ALL Agriculture majors. Applications are available in ag. buildings and from department heads. Return completed applications to: Room #201 Ag. Bldg. Room #122 Kleberg Deadline: March 10, 1983 For further information, call 846-8941. r ployees whether you are a state or city employee or a former air traffic controller.” McEntee said a single defense department cost overrun on a missile system would provide enough money to completely fund a nutrition program for women and infants. “But Reagan wouldn’t even give up that money. That’s the kind of problem we face,” he said. 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