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The Battalion
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76 No. 147 USPS 045360 12 Pages,
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, May 3, 1983
uake devastates California town
United Press International
COALINGA, Calif. — Rescue
B(. ers with bloodhounds searched
u - W ^ or of a severe earth-
icnasinjfcg crumpled brick buildings
’"Maztlecardboard toys, injured at least 60
" are wle and started fires that burned
ake hi, lt 0 f control for hours.
■hequake, which measured 6.5 on
,(Richter scale, shook all of Califor-
l^londay and devastated the small
■i of Coalinga where fires still
raged today under the rubble of what
had been Main Street. Heavy black
smoke hung over the scene and steam
poured from fissures ripped in the
earth.
Roy Manning, emergency services
coordinator for Fresno County, said
early today at least 60 people were
injured.
Mo«>t of the injuries were bruises,
cuts and broken bones, although two
people were seriously hurt. No deaths
staff photo by Guy Hood
Spit and polish
!ary Jay Cross, a junior agricultural economics major from
alias, polishes his senior boots in anticipation of Final
[Review and the Class of ’84 Boot Dance on Saturday.
ross has been shining his boots since his sophomore year,
tmt was prohibited by Corps tradition from bringing them to
his dorm room until spring break of this year.
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could O' i Battalion Staff
tee W I f exas A&M grounds mainte-
. . , re supervisor and a shuttle bus
ticipao r charges of assault
tns foh insteach other after a confronta-
ev wen p at the corner of University Drive
i Agronomy Road.
c loe McEnulty, a Texas A&M stu-
t eanl 1 It, said he was driving an empty
12:11^ Itle bus to the Veterinary Medi-
fRn aw |Complex on Friday afternoon. A
Istruction crew was working at the
her, he said, and a flagman sta-
Lesult' | ec [ [here to direct traffic would
let him turn into the entrance.
dcEnulty said he then made a U-
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turn and entered the complex coming
from the opposite direction, and the
flagman yelled some obscenities at
him. He pulled over and and asked
the supervisor of the construction
crew for the flagman’s name so that
he could report him, he said, but the
supervisor would not cooperate.
McEnulty said he then asked for
the supervisor’s name three times,
and the man began to push him
around. When McEnulty turned to go
back to the bus, he said, the super
visor blocked his way and started to
hit him with his radio.
“I got in one good lick at him, but it
was way too late,” McEnulty said. “I
managed to get him off of me. He had
this fiery look on his face, and I kicked
him across the bus.”
Kenneth L. Rhea, the supervisor,
has also filed assault charges, claiming
that McEnulty hit him first. He re
fused to tell his version of the inci
dent.
“It’s a damn shame a guy can’t work
up here without getting jumped on,”
he said.
McEnulty received a four-inch cut
in his right temple and had to have
ten stitches. He also said that he black
ed out for a few seconds. Rhea said
only his pride was injured.
Eugene Ray, the director of
grounds maintenance, said the police
are having a hard time trying to find
witnesses to the beginning of the con
frontation.
Since two divergent reports were
filed, both men involved need witnes
ses to prove their cases. The construc
tion workers at the scene said that
they didn’t see who was hit first.
McEnulty said that there were
plenty of people around at the time.
“There were lots of people driving
by, but no one stopped,” he said.
Anyone having information about
the incident should contact the Uni
versity Police Department.
were reported.
The quake, the most destructive in
California since 1971, left the town of
6,500 people in the San Joaquin Val
ley with limited power and phone ser
vice and no water.
A 12-block area in the business dis
trict of Coalinga, on the western edge
of the San Joaquin Valley 50 miles
southwest of Fresno, was heaped with
rubble from crumbling plaster and
brick buildings. Entire walls fell from
two-story buildings, leaving the in
teriors exposed.
Rescue workers used earthmoving
equipment to clear the streets and Na
tional Guard units trucked water and
emergency power generators into the
city.
Bob Semple, the public informa
tion officer for the Coalinga Police
Department, said, “There are 2,500
homes in the city and I don’t know of
any that didn’t suffer some kind of
damage. Some of the wooden homes
held up well but they suffered dam
age to the contents inside.
“Fifty percent of the commercial
buildings were damaged with col
lapsed walls and roofs. There’s no
chance any of these buildings will be
able to be restored.”
About 20 commercial buildings
were leveled and officials said 150
structures were damaged or des
troyed. Buildings that did not col
lapse were hurled off their founda
tions. Roads buckled and split.
“We haven’t received any reports
about people believed to be missing
and I guess we can take that as a bles
sing,” Semple said.
State Assemblyman Jim Costa, D-
Fresno, said the damage would be in
the multimillions, and California
Gov. George Deukmejian declared
Fresno County, in which Coalinga is
located, a disaster area.
Liver transplant boy worse,
doctors say very critical
United Press International
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Thirteen-
month-old Brandon Hall, his two liv
er transplant operations complicated
by persistent lung problems, was in
very critical condition today and doc
tors said he was getting worse.
“His recovery is increasingly in
doubt,” said John Donica, spokesman
for Le Bonheur Children’s Medical
Center.
“The lung function has deterio
rated. And, he should have overcome
the normal post-operative problems.
He hasn’t,” Donica said. “Instead of
getting better, he’s getting worse.”
Brandon became the world’s
Reagan
confident
of tax cut
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan is confident he has enough
Republican congressional backing to
sustain a veto of any attempt to cancel
the 10 percent tax cut scheduled July
1.
He planned a meeting today with
GOP leaders to find out where he
stands on the 1984 budget and re
quests for additional military aid to El
Salvador and funds to build the MX
missile.
Reagan received two letters Mon
day from Congress pledging to fight
any attempt to repeal the third install
ment of the tax cut. One came from
the Senate with 34 Republican signa
tures and the other from the House
with 148 signees.
The president expressed his
appreciation for what he called two
belated “valentines” from Sen. Wil
liam Roth, R-Del. and Rep. Connie
Mack, R-Fla.
The letter presented by Roth said,
“We firmly believe the third year of
the individual tax cuts and the tax
indexing legislation are critically im
portant to the American people and
our economy.
“Should Congress pass any legisla
tion which either modifies or repeals
the third installment of the tax cut or
indexing, we urge you to exercise
your veto authority and we offer our
support and pledge that we will vote
to sustain your action.”
The tax cut scheduled July 1 brings
the three-year reduction in rates to 25
percent. Indexing, to take effect in
1985, provides for automatic adjust
ment of taxes to offset inflation.
Mack told Reagan the Republican
signers “are firmly behind you on any
tax cut.”
“I can’t tell you how much I appre
ciate this,” Reagan responded. “This
may be a little late for Feb. 14, but
they’re both nice valentines.”
After the Oval Office session, Roth
told reporters:
“The importance of this letter is
that it shows we have the strength to
sustain any veto that might become
necessary. I don’t think it’s going to be
necessary, because hopefully we will
be able to reach agreement in the Sen
ate on the budget.”
second youngest liver transplant reci
pient when he received his first trans
plant from a 9-month-old traffic acci
dent victim in a 12-hour operation
that ended April 14.
The liver failed — partially be
cause of two heart failures the child
suffered on the operating table —
and a second transplant was per
formed April 22.
Doctors said the boy’s kidneys and
new liver were functioning at near
normal levels but his lungs were not.
His condition was downgraded Mon
day afternoon from critical but stable
to very critical.
Brandon has suffered respiratory
problems, including pneumonia,
since he received the first transplant.
“It’s not an infection, but more like
the mechanical f unction of the lungs
has not recovered,” Donica said.
“Both his liver and kidneys are
functioning normally. However, at
this point after surgery, he should
have ‘turned the corner.’ And, he has
not,” he said.
The first surgery came just hours
after Brandon’s mother, Billie Hall of
Walnut, Miss., with Brandon in her
arms, testified before a House sub
committee on the problems of trans
plant patients.
Hall made an impassioned plea for
help, urging the lawmakers to find
funding to pay for liver transplants
and to help set up a national organ
donor location system.
Donica said Hall has been with her
son most of the time, leaving him only
to sleep.
She is distraught “but she remains
Billie Hall, tough as a boot,” he said.
Before the first transplant, doctors
said Brandon could only live two
weeks with his own failing liver, which
had hopelessly deteriorated because
it could not filter the blood.
Computers finding their
way into classroom use
Editors note: This is the second of
a three-part series on computer
ization at Texas A&M University.
by Brigid Brockman
Battalion Staff
Each of the colleges at Texas
A&M has become more compute
rized in the past year — mostly on
an administrative level — but some
of the individual departments now
are using computers for teaching
and research.
Some of the administrative uses
include figuring and recording
grades, computing budgets and
typing and producing manu
scripts. The computer reduces
many such tedious paperwork
jobs.
Carol Jean Rhodes, staff assis
tant in the Soil and Crop Sciences
Department, said many secretaries
are using computers.
“Most of our secretaries have
pushed their typewriters aside.
They love the computers. In fact,
we have reduced our secretarial
load by five secretaries,” she said.
But many departments lack the
funds to obtain computers for sec
retarial use even though they
would like to expand in that direc
tion.
Instead, most departments are
expanding their use of computers
on an instructional basis.
Terry Larson, an associate pro
fessor for the Department of En
vironmental Design, said students
are enthusiastic about courses that
integrate computers within the
context of the subject matter.
Students in the architecture and
environmental design depart
ments have used computers in
some of their classes, Larson said,
but it wasn’t until last year that the
Department of Urban and Region
al Planning and the Department of
Landscape Architecture inte
grated computers into their
classes.
Larson said 90 percent of their
computer use is for teaching pur
poses. He estimated that there are
160 students using the system each
semester for class assignments and
projects.
One of the major research pro
jects on their computer is a hurri-
staff photo by Mike Davis
David Olson, assistant professor in the department of
business analysis, demonstrates the use of a computer
terminal in his office. Office use of computers at Texas
A&M is increasing along with instructional use.
cane vulnerability study in the
Houston-Galveston area. “We are
using computer graphics to make
maps, and computer analysis to
depict the amount of destruction
that could occur shbuld a hurri
cane strike,” Larson said.
Dr. John J. Dinkel, interim asso
ciate dean of the College of Busi
ness Administration, said about 80
percent of their computer use is
for instruction, and about 20 per
cent is for research.
The most significant change has
been the addition of 45 microcom
puters in the academic computer
center to meet the needs of stu
dents taking a business analysis
course in which they learn the lan
guage BASIC, he said.
The college of business adminis
tration also has its own computer
which is used for research. It also is
used to teach FORTRAN,
COBOL, and PL-1, which is a com
bination of FORTRAN and
COBOL.
“Computers are absolutely
essential to our departments. We
cannot graduate students into the
business world without their hav
ing some knowledge of computer
languages,” Dinkel said.
Francis E. Clark, director of the
educational technology program,
said there is a trend in education to
become more computerized.
The college of education has ac-
See COMPUTE page 12
Coupon entrepreneur at it again
Dallas housewife starts club for shoppers
United Press International
GARLAND — Max Bryan is still
trying to be the Exxon of coupons.
The former airline attendant and
busy mother of two had a flourishing
cottage industry last summer out of
her suburban Dallas home with her
newsletter of coupon-collecting tips.
Her savvy and enthusiastic self
promotion got her on several national
television programs. At one point, she
said, her newsletter was teaching
more than 10,000 people the complex
art of buying groceries and house
hold goods for virtually nothing, if
you have the time and patience to clip
hundreds of coupons a month.
She and her partner, Jeani Law-
son, sold the business in March be
cause it was taking up too much of
their time. So what did the enterpris
ing Bryan do next? Get involved in
another coupon business, of course.
This “club” is promoted through
multi-level marketing. If Bryan per
suades you to sign up, she gets $5. If
you persuade another person to join,
you get $5 and Bryan gets $1. If that
person gets another to join, he or she
gets $5, you get $ 1 and Bryan gets $ 1.
It may sound like a pyramid
scheme or chain letter, but she’s ready
for that question.
“A lot of people say it’s illegal, and
it’s not. Most of the time the con
troversy is the lack of knowledge ab
out multi-level, period,” Bryan said
Monday.
“A pyramid is when you give your
money in the hope that you’ll get
something back, but with this you get
a product and a service.”
For an initial $15 fee, the subscri
ber gets a year’s worth of a New York
newsletter, “The Cents-able Coupon-
er,” that has been published for more
than eight years but only recently ex
panded into the multi-marketing
Along with the newsletter comes a
book on smart shopping, instructions
for $200 worth of refund offers and
$15 worth of coupons the subscriber
chooses from a selection of more than
1,600, Bryan said.