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Tuesday, November 15,1983/The Battalion/Page 9 e yer- ■‘■mc /St). •ms such I, er resource ;s. | s alone se from I 130 alencia sail, rhe intenij' lerablenon, at it will h Around town OP AS sponsors free noon concert The MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society will pre sent a free concert Wednesday by a local, 15-year-old pianist, Ossie Borosh. The concert, part of OPAS’s High Noon Concert Series, will be held in the main lounge of the Memo rial Student Center at noon. Borosh will play pieces by Bach, Chopin and Mozart among others. Borosh gave her First recital at age 10, and last summer she studied music at the Boston University Tanglewood Music Institute on a $1,000 scholarship. She attends A&M, Consolidated High School and plays piano for the school choir. She studies music with professors at Texas Christian University. Borosh is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Itshak I Borosh of College Station. Dr. Borosh is a professor in the Department of Mathematics. The High Noon presentations are a monthly series of free, open mini-concerts by local artists. They are designed to help make performing arts more available to students, and serve as a medium for the artists to display their talents. tentative« uss intern housing aii nt at Tuts ision of ili "sy come frot a similar li» utional Oti also failed! a similar lat issachuseis action cans its of Alain ed to ren« >reme Conn en to prayi Defensive driving course is offered A defensive driving course, offered by the Brazos Valley Safety Agency, will be held today and Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The course, which can be used to have certain misdemeanor traffic offenses dismissed and to receive a 10 percent discount on automobile insurance, will be held at the Ramada Inn. The fee for the course is $20. Participants can pre-register by calling 693-8178 or at the Ramada Inn at 5 this evening. Visiting lecturer speaks Wednesday and and Vi The Department of Medical Microbiology and Im- twingadi nmnology will present a lecture Wednesday by Professor sawaytogj Harry Smith, F.R.S, from the University of Birmingham in me Couni Birmingham, England. Smith is a President’s Lecturer, a t prayer ii Scholar of the College of Medicine and visiting professor of microbiology. His speech, “The Determinants of Microbial Pathogenicity” will begin < 'athogenicity” Medical Sciences Builc a 2 p.m. in lecture hall one of the ing. It is free and open to the public. Lecture addresses health qare issues The Departments of Political Science, Philosophy, and Humanities in Medicine will present Wednesday a speech on “Financing Primary Health Care: Interests and Incen tives.” The free lecture will be given by Professor Deane Neubauer, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. It will begin a 4 p.m. in 501 Rudder. The public is invited to attend. To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald. alveston family might not )e allowed to rebuild house dge’s n na’s sch« overturntil t court, donday re recessnij cision nment iw a college- Diversity (I s traditiod an all-i :d sexdisoi' iooI’s acadt re i ftStatt United Press International rearing e« AUSTIN — A district-court woman whf idge Monday gave a Galveston after sterl omeowner until Dec. 5 to pre- e case wai are for a civil suit that could bar Tartke, wb tim from rebuilding his hurri- her father tne-damaged house, en. Vanc(| District Judge Harley Clark issued a temporary restrain- order barring Robert State Col Matcha and his wife from re- by twoenbuilding their beach home, sinfiringiBich was heavily damaged by t said ttifpiirricane Alicia, nit was too The injunction was requested i cases tokby Attorney General Jim Mat tox, who claimed Texas’ Open an appeal Maches Act prohibited Matcha e, La., resi from rebuilding the house. , who dial' ' Under state law, everything icketalltht letween the waters of the Gulf rt. of Mexico and the first line of tin avoiding vegetation on the beach is public ntroversy. ids. ng in Cot | In his suit, Mattox claims th3 nstitutionalstorm shifted the vegetation it classroom toe, with the result being that teagan has o allow at' ler version prayer or dco’s legist nute of si dlows local mthorize a t to exceeil iginning of )e used for dilation oi e son was) uces school he practice J.S. District said: “Itis linent pur- a devotion- ssrooms of chools.” xuit Court i re view the hool board ly not to :o resident ourttostep Insurance came before doctors Passengers talk about derailment United Press International A California man said Amtrak officials summoned an insur ance claims adjuster and armed railroad guards before calling medical personnel to the scene of a passenger train derailment near Houston last week. David St.John, a 32-year-old state certified nurse from Santa Cruz, Calif., said he was bound for Tuscon, Ariz., when the car in which he was riding jumped the tracks. “The cabin attendant, or con ductor, named Mr. Fitch, had just called out ’10 minutes to Houston’ and everyone started getting up and getting their stuff,” St. John said in a tele phone interview with UPI. “Af ter that the train made a terrible rumbling sound and people started bumping around like tin soldiers in a little kid’s shoe box. “The coach car I was in was leaning at least at a 20 degree angle, he said. St. John said two elderly women, a young girl, and a young man were slightly in jured. He said the women — one who suffered high blood press ure and the other, a heart condi tion — were taken by ambulance to a Houston hospital. “No one would explain any thing to us,” he said. “We begged for them to explain what was going on. The level of anxiety in that car was incredible. I was testing their pulses and their blood pressure was going to the ceiling.” St. John said R.G. “Rags” Guidry, a conductor on the train and father of New York Yank ees pitcher Ron Guidry, should be commended for “a very heroic act.” “He was in the dining car, which was the furthest one down the line that was unaffected,” St. John said. “When the train started to go off the tracks a young man named Michael was between cars. Rags reached over, grabbed the kid and jerked him into the dining car just as the sleeper twisted. “At the same moment, he (Guidry) reached up and pulled the brake which slowed down the back part of the train and kept the other two cars on the track,” St. John said. “Everyone was really badly bumped around,” he said. “They (railroad employees) walked into the car and passed out little slips of paper and told us to write our names and whether we were injured,” he said. “Then a (insurance) claims man came in and he talked to a couple of people that were hurt. 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Houston City Ambulance Chief Don Bailey said none of the passengers was seriously hurt. St. John said the accident occured less than 200 yards from an elevated freeway tres tle. But he said railroad em ployees refused to let the pas sengers off the train although they were near a street and could have been bused to the station. Cliff Black, an Amtrak spokesman in Washington, D.C., Sunday said train No. 1 of the Sunset Limited was en route from New Orleans to Los Angeles when three of its six cars jumped the tracks 1.2 miles from the Houston station at 10:33 p.m. Wednesday. Black said the train was traveling about 10 mph through the Amtrak yard when the acci dent occurred. “If people were held on the train it is possible that that was because the train was not on a station platform and therefore not at a safe place for people to get off. Particularly in a railroad yard, it would be extremely dan gerous to let people get off and wander on the tracks,” Black said. St. John said an attendant told him a freight train had de railed on the same frog, a cros sover where tracks come from four directions, a few weeks ear lier and that the mechanism was cracked. Black said the cause of the accident was listed as “wide gauge.” “The tracks have a standard gauge,” he said. “For some reason, unknown to me, the gauge of that track was wider than standard. It could be attri- , butable to warpage. It could also be attributable to ties that are in bad condition. I just don’t know in this particular case.” Black said the three derailed cars were moved to New Orleans Saturday for inspection. Mattox’s suit because Matcha’s attorney had not had time to prepare his case. MSC Camera Bonfire Print Sale Pre-sale: Nov. 14-18,21,22 1st floor tables MSC 8x10 - $3.50 Offers A Special Texas A&M University Student Charge Account. 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