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i Page 6/The Bat+a I ion/Monday, November 21,1983 United Way reaches 70 percent of goal k., n_ ries in our community, and a increase of 20 pei by Michelle Powe Battalion Staff The Brazos County United Way reached 70 percent of its goal last week, with the help of some record pledges by local businesses. Contributions for the drive reached $294,625. The coun ty’s goal was $420,000. Bob Fleischer, executive director of the Brazos County United Way, said in a pre pared statement Friday that reaching the $420,000 goal is critical. “If we fall substantially short of that goal, it could mean a decrease in allocations to the 17 human service agen cies in our community, and a resultant reduction in services from them,” Fleischer said. The 17 agencies that will receive United Way funds in 1984 include the Boys Club, Red Cross, Rehabilitation Center and Senior Citizens Association. None of the nine divisions of the United Way campaign has complete reports of their pledges yet, but the industrial division headed by oilman Emil Ogden already has ex ceeded its $24,000 by $2,000. Employee pledges re ported last week included $12,221 from the Bryan Inde pendent School District — an increase of 20 percept from last year, $1,238 from Central Texas Hardware — an in crease of 35 percent from last year and $3,875 from St. Joseph Hospital — an increase of 47 percent from last year. Westinghouse employees pledged $8,610 — or about $51 per person. Fleischer said Thursday that Texas A&M pledged more than $80,000. The Uni versity’s goal was $1 11,000. Although the official cam paign ended Friday, Fleischer said he will probably continue to accept pledges — possibly as late as Dec. 31. Mail may be ‘beamed’ United Press International WASHINGTON — Federal Express plans to build a vast, $1.3 billion space age delivery system that will “beam down” letters and documents now car ried by its fleet of planes and land couriers. In an application filed with the Federal Communications Commission, the small-package delivery company revealed de tails of an electronic document relay service it is already build ing and plans to start up in July 1984. bute the information “pack ages.” The Federal Express Satellite Network, which the company says “bears a close analogy to Federal Express aircraft opera tions,” would at first transmit just documents and data, but would likely be enlarged to in clude telephone and video ser vices. The recent filing also reveals that between January 1985 and 1995, the Memphis-based com pany intends to completely bypass many fuel-gobbling de livery trucks and jets. It wants to launch two of its own satellites linked to a nationwide network of 50,000 earth stations to distri- “We’re very excited about the satellites and would like to start building as soon as possible,” said Allen McArtor, vice presi dent of Federal Express satellite systems. kicks in, it expects business to grow 15 percent a year. If the predictions hold true, the system would be a serious challenge to American Tele phone & Telegraph Co.’s data and teleconferencing services, and electronic mail services such as the one launched this year by MCI. An MCI spokesman, howev er, denied the two systems would compete for customers. which would transmit and r f . ceive information fromfour^. gional teleports in Mentplm Colorado Springs, Colo., ais unspecified locations inCalifn. nia and the Northeast. The company, which now de livers 240,000 packages each day, expects the electronic docu ment service to generate $1.3 billion a year in revenues by 1988. In the seven years after the proposed satellite system “We’re an’in formation high way and they’ll still be a docu ment service. There isn’t any thing you can do with a satellite that you can’t do cheaper with fiber optics and microwave,” he said. The teleports would in tm. send and receive from t 50,000 low-cost 1.9-metereani station “dishes” FederalExprp, proposes to build at its cusioukj offices nationwide andj| businesses that frequently y, the service. DISTI] tions and 1 Govt (Ion. RHA< subn POLH tion ACCO is at In the FCC filing, Federal Ex press proposed to build three and launch two medium- powered Ku-band satellites. 'problem pregnancy ' The satellite system wouli cost $ 1.2 billion to build, inclmj.’ ing $900 million forthetdt ports and earth stations Federal Express expects , VT nance the project mainlywidit own capital. The company |j year showed an after-tax proj of $89 million after being® business only 10 years. FlNAi “Boc ftogi DUNC Men UNIV1 bie s PARE avail and lion. 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