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The MSC Hospitality Committee is taking applications
for new members. Applications are due Friday. Interviews
will be conducted from Jan. 30 to Feb.l.
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Troupe searching for male dancers
Male dancers are currently needed for in the Texas A&M
Dance Troupe. Experience is helpful. Male dancers with
experience in ballet, jazz or modern dance can contact Lynn
Berry, 268 East Kyle from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. by Friday.
Order graduation announcements
May and DVM Graduates must order their graduation
announcements before Feb. 8. Announcements can be
ordered in the MSC Student Finance Center, room 217,
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Law scholarship applications avail
able
Applications for the Joseph Milton Nance Tuition Free
Scholarships in Law are now available. The scholarships are
awarded to Texas A&M students planning to attend Baylor
University School of Law.
This year the number of scholarships awarded has been
increased from two to three. Deadline for applications is Feb.
8. Students interested should contact Hilary Jessup, Acade
mic Counseling Office; or Dr. J.M. Nance, Department of
History.
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accepting applications for the W.C. Mills Fellowship in Hyd
rology for the Spring semester. Deadline for application is
Jan. 27.
The Fellowships provide fmacial support to tour or more
highly qualified graduate students in hydrology. Appropri
ate areas of study include engineering hydrology, stochastic
hydrology, hydrometeorology, geohydrology, watershed
management and hydrologic techniques in water resources
planning.
To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion
office in 216 Reed McDonald.
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criticized by Stroke
United Press International
AUSTIN — Cov. Mark
White’s new jet aircraft is a “gas-
guzzling Cadillac” complete
with $55,000 in non-essential
luxury items such as a $4,500
toilet, Republican Party Chair
man George Strake said
Tuesday.
Strake said the Mitsubishi Di
amond 1-A jet being purchased
for White was loaded with acces
sories, including the “optional
custom toilet” and $100,000
worth of equipment normally
used only for long-distance or
international flights.
Other accessories considered
by Strake to be luxuries were a
$4,125 swivel seal, a $5,135 food
and drink galley, a $8,195
mobile radio telephone, dual
temperature controls and two
digital clocks for $1,800.
“I’m sure Texans can sleep
better at night knowing that
their governor is flying a luxury
jet Filled with $55,000 worth of
luxury items plus $100,000
worth of optional equipment
usually associated with interna
tional flights,” Strake said.
White’s press secretary, Ann
Arnold, said equipment on the
new jet is “comparable” to the
equipment on the old plane.
“The toilet option is one that
flushes,” she said. “It’s got a
mobile telephone because we
think it would be helpful to be
able to contact the governor
while he’s on the plane.”
Arnold said the equipment
for long-distance flights is stan
dard on most larger planes,
adding it makes the aircraft “saf
er and more fuel efficient.”
“The plane is built in San
Angelo by a Texas corporation
with a payroll in excess of $13
million,” she added. “In addi
tion to the San Angelo produc
tion facility, it has corporate
headquarters in Dallas and a
maintenance and sales office in
Houston.
“If you calculated the labor
and parts, only 30 percent of the
plane is Japanese,” she said.
“Even the metal is from Alcoa.”
Arnold also disputed Strake’s
contention that it was not a good
economic move to buy the jet.
“Mr. Strake’s idea of what’s
economical is off base,” she said.
“It may cost $430,000 during
the new two years for a new
plane, but the point is that tax
payers would have to pay
$750,000 to $900,000 to con
tinue to operate the old one.”
Arnold said White had taken
the state plane out of Texas only
four times during his first year
in office and has not made any
international flights on it.
In contrast, she said former
Republican Gov. William P. Cle
ments flew to Mexico on the
state plane six times during his
administration.
White had no immediate
reaction to Strake’s comments.
The state Aircraft Pooling
Board approved the purchase of
the jet last month because the
governor’s old plane, a 1964
Grumman twin-engine, was ex
pensive to maintain and also was
considered too slow.
The price of the new jet was
set at $3.1 million, but the com
pany allowed a $1.2 million
trade on the old plane to make
the net cost $1.9 million.
White’s office plans to lease
the jet at a rate of $24,000 a
month until September of 1985,
when the Legislature will be
asked to pay the remainder of
the purchase price.
“If Cov. White had the tax
payers’ best interest at heart, he
should have considered some of
the twin-engine propellor-
driven planes manufactured as
well as assembled by American
companies which sell for less
than $2 million,” Strake said.
Strake said the twin-engine
Beechcraft King-Air would have
been a more economical choice
in the long-run because of lower
operating costs.
Dogs locate body
lost in landslide
United Press International
DEL RIO — Police track
ing dogs Tuesday located the
body of a man buried in a
landslide, but extricating the
victim from the loose slope
will be dangerous and expen
sive, a national park official
said.
Don Goldman, assistant su
perintendent at the Amistad
Recreation Area, said track
ing dogs from the Midland
Police Department located the
body of Edgar Joe Dorroh, 45,
who was buried in the land
slide Saturday.
Because of loose rock on
the slope, officials may have to
consider leaving the body
buried in the debris, Goldman
said.
“I don’t know where we’ll
go from here. We’ll have to set
down and talk about it,” Gold
man said.
“It (extricating body) could
not be done without great,
great expense. It could be
done, but it would be like put
ting people on the moon. It
may take a little bit of very
judicious blasting.
“It’s a very dangerous kind
of situation,” he said. “Even if
he’s only a few feet (down),
they (rescuers) are in a place
where the rock keeps falling
in.”
Dorroh, an employee of
Kelly Air Base in San Antonio,
disappeared beneath a mass
of rock that tumbled down a
slope in a remote are of the
national park about 50 miles
northwest of Del Rio.
A woman who was climbing
with Dorroh was not injured
and summoned park rangers
for help.
Officials said Dorroh was
tryng to climb to a railroad
bed constructed above the riv
er about 100 years ago. Rocks
blasted from the hillside to
build a tunnel were dumped
near the river, forming the
loose slope that Dorroh was
trying to climb.
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