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Wednesday, September 7,1983/The Battalion/Page 9 us for supperat6p,; xsey. There will beanorp only Wed. at7a.i )-4278 for more iceting of the yearn ne book and schedui leetingofthesemei en to all musidanii ? will be a devoti be A&M Presbytei »e interested are n 216T MSC. ETY:Find outai ngat 7:30 p.m.in nan and sophoijj locker (A&A). Freil jortunities willbedi Rudder at 6: ing held formadri} any other spedall all Annette Richarj ling the club are»d at / p.m. V’e are now acceplin ?y are available unii ;c. dties wall be planns e ice cream party FEE:A discussion ill be held at 7 p.m. t is “Being There" $1.50 withaTAMI will be held in tk >r more informatioi dilations for censts hairman and mem- day in 219 Pavilioi committees are :e. n the Drill Fieldatl Fexas A&M. mimal lawyer, wi ibers are welcome. 3lane tint of the Long Ezs 1 aircraft was idem darlin Johnston o( woman was idenli- Johnston, was listed in fait icsday at the Uni' bama-Birmingham iter. The woman for minor injuriet Both appeared to early 30s, official! rt spokesman said gine plane, whicli n a kit, was headed :rn, N.C. to Austin ng into the airport ) refuel. City Fire Depart d the crash call at uring an intense i. A fire depart esman said it id and rain caused These fire hoses create a unique pattern as they dry in the sun Tuesday afternoon. The staff photoby John Makely Snaked hoses fire hoses were stretched over the warm concrete at the College Station Fire Station Ponchartrain Park closes United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Nearly 1,600 fun-lovers and nostalgia braved rainy weather to saygoodbye to a piece of history, the Pontchartrain Beach Amusement Park. The park closed it doors for the last time Monday night after more than four decades of laughter, sceams and rites of passage. The land, when cleared, will be used for con dominiums. “Parks such as ours have seen Mterdays,” said park coownet Harry Batt. “We're an iron park -lot of thrill rides. Now people are into theme parks, like Six Flags and Disney W'orld.” Batt, who was only 12 when Pontchartrain Beach opened in 1939, said the park was driven under by economic realities and well as rising expectations — the cost of providing thrills got higher than the locals were able to pay. “New Orleans is a pretty poor community in per capita in come,” he said. “They can’t afford to pay what we have to charge to get in.” Batt said his mementos will include a scrapbook and trink ets, such as a clown head paper weight and a plexiglass-encased flying horse. The entire park has been sold to a developer named Stephen Capelow, who plans to build 600 condomi niums on the site beside Lake Pontchartrain. New Orleanians attracted to the final bash found few fond memories Police Beat The following incidents were eported to the University Police Department Friday through Sunday. THEFTS: •A gold Sears Free Spirit 10- speed bicycle from the Keatbley Hall bike rack. •A blue Fuji 10-speed bicycle from the Sterling C. Evans Lib rary bike rack. •A blue Huffy 10-speed bicy- de from the west side of Aston II. •A wallet from the third floor of G. Rollie White Coliseum. The student was playing basket- " at the time. Missing items are a Texas driver’s license, $10 in cash and several credit cards. RECOVERY: •A red Montgomery Wards 10-speed bicycle recovered near the Commons. It was reported stolen last week from a staff parking lot west of Sbisa Dining all and north of Haas Hall. OTHER: • Mud and horse manure were found covering the first floor of Moore Hall. • A fire alarm was activated in the basement of Zachry En gineering Center. University police responded to the false alarm. • Three people were stopped from walking on the tops of sev eral cars in the student parking lot south of Mosher Hall. 1 he owner of a 1975 Pontiac was cal led to inspect his walked-on car. 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Theatre Complex is hiring part-time student workers as stagehands for OPAS, Town Hall, and other perform ance events. There will be a meeting for interested persons on Thursday September 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium. V Gulf Nuclear to face possible prosecution United Press International HOUSTON — The Texas Radiation Advisory Board is calling for vigorous prosecution by the state against Gulf Nuclear Inc. for a Feb. 8 accident which exposed nine employees to radiation. The accident and the com pany’s initial failure to report it posed a direct threat to public health as well as the employees, said the board in a resolution adopted last week The State Health Depart ment did not learn of the acci dent until six weeks after it occurred when one of the ex posed workers reported it. That employee was later fired. It accident occured when one of the Gulf Nuclear employees accidentally cut in half a radia tion capsule containing amer- icium-241. Radiation board member William Hendrick of Austin, a health physicist and manager of Texas Nuclear, a radiation ser vices company, said Gulf Nuc lear’s reaction to the accident “My greatest concern is this management decision to call the employees together and say ‘hush this thing up. We’re not going to do anything for the ex posed workers. We’re not going to test them. We’re not going to treat them. We are w illing to run any risk to the employees and the pubic as long as we keep this thing quiet,’” Hendrick said. Hendrick said the lung bur den from americium is well known in the nuclear industry, and if a nasal smear shows posi tive after an accident, it is stan dard procedure to being chelat ing treatments to flush radioac tive particles from the body. Carol Vance, attorney for Gulf Nuclear, said there is no legal requirment for Gulf Nuc lear to report the radiation accideant and said no one wa^ injured. “There was one person who received the most exposure, and according to expert testimony’, his exposure was the equivalent of full dental and upper and lower gastroimetinal X-rays within the same year,” Vance said. LAW SCHOOL? LSAT Weekend Review is an intensive, three-day course developed by graduates of the University of Texas Law School. $175. Success rate: 8 point average improvement on the 10-50 LSAT scale based on a com parison of diagnostic and mock LSAT scores. For free information packet call toll-free: 1 800 252 9146 ext. 770 Austin St*pt 16-18 Houston Sept. 23-25 Sigma Chi We the brothers of Sigma Chi, would like to tell you about our fraternity. Sigma Chi is the second largest, and best known, college fraternal organization in the world. 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