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IraT L* s SA'he BattalionAVednesday, February 8, 1984 HA to try to raise funds >r A&M freeze victims CHRISTINE MALLON Stun' Writer cause of the number of nls who suffered water ige due to frozen pipes the holidays. Hart Hall, help from the Residence .ing Association, will begin ration: Mop-Up” to raise py to compensate those stu- i who lost personal prop- eliminary plans are under- to start a reimbursement ess. John McMaster will be man of a committee which also have one representa tive from each of the affected dorms (Haas, Hart, Legett, Un derwood and Walton.) Donations will be collected door-to-door later this month and tables will be setup in the MSC, outside of Sbisa and in the Commons. RHA approved this commit tee at Tuesday’s meeting. A controversial bill to pro pose an ammendment to the Student Senate was also passed at the meeting. Currently, the appointed senate representatives of the RHA, Off-Campus Aggies and the Corps of Cadets don’t have JNDERGROUND DELI AND STORE THE DIET PLACE OPEN BREAKFAST -UNCH 7:30am - 10:30am 10:30am - 3:30pm Mon— Friday ‘QUALITY FIRST’ speaking privileges in senate meetings and members of each of these organizations say mat ters arise in these meetings that directly af ect the constituents of these groups and on many occasions these representatives have extra knowledge which could be of benefit to the sen ate. This bill was given special emergency attention because the student government will be ammending the constitution soon. RHA also established guidelines for spring election campaigning. The elections will be March 27-28 and campaigning begins March 18. Door-to-door cam paigning in the dorms will be al lowed during these hours: Sun- day-Thursday 4p.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. The next meeting of the RHA will be Feb. 21 at 7:00 p.m. in 158 Blocker. Oswald’s wife wants tapes United Press International DALLAS — The widow of presidential assassin Lee Har vey Oswald is sueing the son of a Texas congressman to prevent his “private and per sonal” use of videotapes taken of Oswald’s exhuma tion. Court documents filed on behalf of Marina Oswald Por ter and British author Mi chael Eddowes alleged Hampton Hall and another defendant violated the pri vacy of Porter, now married to Texas contractor Kenneth Porter. “The defendants for a fee agreed to private videotaping services of the exhumation and autopsy of one Lee Har vey Oswald,” the suit alleged. But the defendants —John Cullins and Hall, son of Rep. Ralph Moody Hall, D-Texas — refused to return the material, which included photographs and other docu ments of the man who shot President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Instead, the tapes were “converted to their private and personal use,” the suit al leged. The document did not elaborate. In addition to the tapes themselves, Porter demanded “reasonable” legal compensa tion of at least $5,000. “I have no comment what soever at this time,” said Hampton Hall, who did the actual taping. Cullins, who handled the exhumation’s security and contracted with Hall on a free-lance basis, could not be reached for comment Tues day. a Dallas suburb that is also Porter’s home. “Marina evidently is afraid those tapes might fall into the wrong hands,” said a source close to the Russian-born woman. “To some people and some newspapers, they would be worth a fortune.” Porter initially did not want to keep the tapes, which depicted the forensic process, the source said, but she later realized the tapes could be used against her. “She just assumed that the tapes would be locked up in a bank or a vault,” he said. convinced Porter that Oswald might have been replaced by a Russian agent when he de fected to the Soviet Union in 1959. But the pathologists, checking dental and medical records, debunked his the- Both men live in Rockwall, The tapes show the re moval of Oswald’s body from a Fort Worth cemetery in Oc tober 1981 and the four-hour examination by a team of pathologists. Eddowes, a co-plaintiff in the lawsuit filed Monday, ory. “We hope this puts the matter to rest without further questions as to the identity of the body,” said Dr. Linda Norton of the medical exam iner’s office at the time of the exhumation. The pathologists spent most of their lime making careful comparison of the body’s teeth with Oswald’s dental records from the Ma rine Corps in the mid-1950s. “Now I have my answers," said the widow in October 1981, “and from now on I oidy want to be Mrs. Porter.” She could not lie reached for comment Tuesday. W CHECK THE ClASSIFIEDS For All Your Needs TAMU Floriculture - Ornamental Horticulture Club PLANT SALE! SATURDAY, February 11 10am-2pm House and Dorm Plants Plants for Valentine. 6-ifts 'Flowering Plants Terns l-ubbcvck. I auAD lil lHaiaejrt-fcla. Hall • rst qreenhoase. a. Cross from Helctenfels ricRccrndL* ciue ATVs AGGIE REGISTER YOUR STUDENT ORGANIZATION! Space walking techniques learned in earth water tank United Press International HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — When astronaut Bruce Mc- Candless donned a jetpack Tuesday and walked in space from the space shuttle Chal lenger, he was using techniques learned at the Marshall Space Flight Center. During test flight simula tions, McCandless was sub merged in the center’s 40-foot- deep Neutral Buoyancy Simula tor while wearing a specially de signed underwater version of the jetpack called a Manned Maneuvering Unit. The neutral buoyancy facility is 75 feet in diameter, holds 1,400,000 gallons of water and is constructed of steel plating. The water is maintained at a constant 86 degrees Fahrenheit. Robert Stewart who also walked in space Tuesday, par ticipated in underwater simula tions in a smaller neutral buoy ancy facility at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Stewart’s parents, Lee and Polly Stewart of Tuscumbia, have been at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for two weeks to monitor their son’s shuttle flight. NASA officials said the water January 31 - February 14 213 PAVILION tank simulations and Tuesday’s test walks were necessary prepa rations leading to the planned repair of the disabled Solar Maximum Mission satellite in April. Officials at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Green- belt, Md., asked the Marshall scientists to check out repair procedures Goddard techni cians had developed. Goddard is responsible for managing the satellite repair mission. During simulations at Mar shall last year, McCandless donned a pressurized space suit and was submerged in the tank. “The weightlessness of space was simulated by adding weights to the already buoyant space suits of those training in the tank until they neither float to the surface nor sink,” said Charlie Cooper, lead engineer for the project. Valerie Neal, spokeswoman for Essex Corp. of Huntsville, said the underwater version of the maneuvering unit was pow ered by eight electric trolling motors and duplicated the for ward, reverse, roll, pitch and yaw characteristics expected ol the flight unit. When McCandless tested the special simulator in the tank, he departed from a submerged or- bitor cargo bay on the floor of the tank and practiced ap proaches to a full-scale mockup of the Solar Maximum Mission satellite stationed above him. During the April mission, as tronaut George Nelson will use the maneuvering unit to dock Three children die in blaze; babysitter apparently drunk United Press International TEXARKANA — Police Tuesday were investigating the deaths of three boys in a fire that raced through a home where they were were left in the care of an apparently drunken man and a “severely retarded” woman. The oldest of the youngsters apparently started the blaze by playing with matches or a space heater, said police Capt. Charlie Campbell. DOUGLAS JEWELRY 15% STUDENT DISCOUNT WITH CURRENT A&M ID (REPAIRS HOT inCLUDED) Keepsake Registered Diamond Rings PULSAR SEIKO, BULOVA St CROTON WATCHES AGGIE JEWELRY USE YOUR STUDENT DISCOUNT TO PURCHASE A DIAMOND FOR YOUR CLASS RING (AND LET US SET IT EOR YOU) 212 N. Main Downtown Bryan 822-3119 MC VISA Ano Culpepper Plaza College Station 693-0677 DINNERS CLUB AM EXPRESS LAYAWAYS INVITED The bodies of Glen PowelU and his brothers, Joseph,2,and Christopher, 5 months, weif discovered after firefightersei tinguished the blaze that ik stroyed their wood frame homt Monday. The fire began at thereard the house where the childrtt were playing, but was not ticed by J.D. Brown and Rost Thomas, who were in a fra® room. A passing postman alerted them to the blaze, bu flames made it impossible n reach thechilren. “During the course of the i» vesligation, the lady toldusik little boy was bad aboutplavm! with fire, and we feel like he# it,” Campbell said. “Thebodift were so badly burned it W0I/HI be almost impossible to tell,ta| we fell like they diedofsmoh inhalation.” A spokeswoman forthefiK marshal’s office said an invet gation of the fire was contitt ing. I he adults apparently not notice the fire becausetk had been drinking, Can said. “The woman was severel' mentally retarded and the old boy was drunk,” he said. No charges were filed again? the boys’ mother, Marty Powell, 27, Campbell said, 1 investigators still were tab statements in the deaths. M Powell was away from the hot* I at the time of the fire. with the failed satellite. Kelson I will stabilize it and attach grap I pling devices so the RemoteMa ■ nipulator System arm aboard f the shuttle can latch ontothesa I tellite and maneuver it into tlx I cargo bay for repair. 1 he satellite was launched in ■ February 1980 and operand I successfully for lOmomns. St F s s M; Tl the Ed tin wo mi rot ity