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Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, April 29, 1983
‘Silver Mile’
to raise funds
by Wanda Winkler
Battalion Reporter
The Brazos Valley Chapter
of the American Diabetes
Association will sponsor its
First fund-raiser — “Silver
Mile of Quarters” — Saturday
at Post Oak Mall to aid re
search and treatment of
diabetes.
The 30-member chapter
hopes to collect 63,000 quar
ters. Coins will be placed on
tape and wrapped around a
3-foot telephone company
cable spool. Advanced dona
tions of $1,000 from local
businesses will be converted
into quarters to begin the sil
ver mile, said Liz Batson, pres
ident of the Brazos Valley
diabetes chapter.
The silver mile will be built
from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. inside
the mall near Casual Corner
clothing store. The group is
enthusiastic about the project
because the Midland diabetes
chapter previously completed
the silver mile, Batson said.
Zeta Tau Alpha sorority
will assist in the fund-raiser.
The chapter encourages the
public to bring quarters to fin
ish the mile, which will be
worth $ 16,000 if it reaches the
goaf
Activities will include per
formances by local aerobic
and dance groups to promote
physical fitness. The chapter
also will distribute free
coupons, and a radio station
will broadcast from the area
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Batson
said.
In 1977, dietician Frances
Henry founded the Brazos
Valley chapter to teach diabe
tics how to live with their dis
ease. Diabetes, the third lead
ing cause of death by disease,
afflicts 11 million Americans.
Of this number, 6 million
diabetics are unaware they
have the disease. About 300
Bryan-College Station resi
dents are diagnosed diabetics.
“We hope to make the pub
lic more aware of the symp
toms of diabetes, so it can be
detected early,” Batson said.
AScM geology students plan
6 week summer field study
by Craig Harris
Battalion Reporter
Ninety-two Texas A&M geol
ogy students will spend six
weeks on a field trip in West
Texas, New Mexico, Colorado
and Utah this summer.
Karl Koenig, assistant geosci
ences department head, said the
trip — known as the summer
geology Field camp — is a re
quired six-hour Field study for
students seeking a bachelor’s de
gree in geology.
Koenig said the purpose of
the trip is to see a regional pic
ture of geology in the western
United States. While the trip is
not a camp in the traditional
sense, he said, the students will
sleep in tents a portion of the
time and study in remote areas.
Students will be divided into
two groups with one leaving
from College Station May 16
and the rest May 29, Koenig
said.
The two groups will take dif
ferent routes to Colorado, stay a
week, then trace each other’s
routes back to East Texas, he
said. The groups were divided
because so many students are
going.
“The students will do a
tremendous amount of work,"
Koenig said, “but will have time
to enjoy themselves also.”
House and Senate’s raise
requests disappoint TPEA
by Angel Stokes
Battalion Staff
The Texas Public Employees
Association is waiting for the
Texas Legislature to decide the
status of state employee pay
raises for the 1984-85 Fiscal year.
The TPEA is concerned with
two budget'committee recom
mendations that do not contain
more money for salaries and be
nefits for state employees.
ployees in state higher.educa
tion institutions and state em
ployees for the 1984 fiscal year
but voted for no employee raises
in the 1985 fiscal year.
A 4 percent increase for both
years has been recommended by
the Senate committee.
The House committee voted
for a 4.5 percent raise for em-
TPEA has asked for a 12 per
cent increase for the two year
period — 6 percent each year.
At the last Legislative session,
TPEA was successful in receiv
ing an approximate 24 percent
increase over the two-year
period, said Billye W. Tate,
president of the local TPEA
chapter.
Representatives from TPEA
met with members of both
budget committees, as well as
other state officials, to discuss
the Legislative Budget Board re
commendations.
Top priority has been given to
state employees for this budget,
but the money is not available at
this time, said TPEA executive
director Gary D. Hughes.
MSC TOWN HALL
OPTION PASSES
GO ON SALE
MONDAY
MAY 2
Around tow
Football season tickets now on sale
Orders for the 1983 football season tickets are
accepted in the Athletic Ticket Office, HOG. RollieWe
Coliseum.
New employees and first time purchasers may call
2311 to receive an application and information sheet»t
the stadium diagram indicating seating areas available ^
son bench seats are $84 which includes seven home gam
for $12 each.
Deadline for priority is May 1.
Car Club to hold championshipsk
The Texas A&M Sports Car Club is having a Champi
ship Car and Truck Show in Post Oak Mall from lOamu
p.m. on Saturday.
This show will feature a 1984 Chevrolet Corvette,
than 50 custom cars and trucks and many valuable d«
prizes.
MSC TOWN • HALL
Aggie entrepreneur to speak
Clayton Williams, an Aggie entrepreneur, will speil
Management 470 classes about entrepreneurship. Tin ?
classes are open to the public and everyone is invitee
come.
The classes are held at 1 1 a.m. and 12 p.m. in 457Aat
mic and Agency Building
For more information contact Dr. Van Fleetat845‘
or Marc Brown at 260-6566.
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The Dance Arts Society will close out National DanceW
with its annual spring performance at 7:30 p.m.to
The show, “Gotta Dance,” will feature dancesperfons
by the society’s dance classes and by individuals. Aerdi
ballet, jazz and tap dances will be performed.
The performance is in Rudder Theater and admissiot
free.
If you have an announcement or item to submit forlk
column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed
nald or contact Cheryl Burke at 845-2611.
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PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo. —
A tractor-trailer rig from Texas
went off 10,850-foot Wolf Creek
Pass in southern Colorado,
plummeting 1,000 feet to the
valley floor and killing a couple
and their young son, the
Archuleta County Sheriff said
Thursday.
A daughter, 3, was thrown
out of the truck and survived.
Identifications of the victims
were not immediately released.
Officials said the family might
have been from Texas.
Deputy Gary Parsons said the
truck, a commercial vehicle car
rying rabbit feed, was driving
down the pass on the west side
on U.S. 160 when the
happened Wednesday:
“The truck was pr<
torn up,” Parsons said.
The parents’ bodify
found near the truck,td
body of a son, 15 monot
not found until 7:30a,®
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and suffered only a I
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taken to the Paj
medical clinic.
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indication yet of what car®
accident.
60-year sentence
imposed on killer
United Press International
HOUSTON — A jury im
posed a 60-year prison sentence
Wednesday on a petroleum sup
plier who claimed he opened
fire on a car because he thought
a woman inside was being
abducted.
Norman Carrio, 38, was con
victed of murder and attempted
murder in the May 21, 1982,
attack on a carload of people at
an intersection. Michael Terry,
22, died in the shooting. Steve
Zawacki, 24, was wounded.
Prosecutor Doug Durham
said Terry and Zawacki had just
left a bar with some friends
when they were stopped at an
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