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Andan Catalog Showrooms We sell what others sell. We just charge less. New low prices on Texas Instruments 99/4A computer cartridges. Our special buy means savings for you! Texas Instruments Prices good through February 22,1984. Sorry, no rain checks. While quantities last. Subject to prior sale. m WE REDEEM GOLD BOND STAMPS Not applicable m Kansas t 10 am-9 pm Mon - Sat 1673 Briarcrest Andoit Catalog Showrooms Wo sol I what others sell. We just charge less. Page 6/The Battalion/Thursday, February 16Ji Around tom Industry reps to visit with engineer To recognize Engineering Week several industries k be available to answer engineering students’ questionsatxi job descriptions and availability. The industry represent lives will have information booths in 224 MSC today fra 9:30 to 11:30 a.in. and 1:30 to 5 p.m. Alcohol topic of noon seminars The Alcohol Awareness Program will present a seriesd noon-lime seminars concerning topics such as “responsi drinking," “teens and alcohol,” “parly planning” and lem drinking.” The first program will be today in 12t Rollie White. Students, faculty and staff are invited toil' tend. For more information call Dennis Reardon at 8i> 0596 or 845-3019. Science students must take exam Any juniors or seniors in the College of Science who hut not previously taken the English Proficiency Examinatiot should plan to take the test this semester unless they hue completed English 301 with a minimum grade of C. Slit dents in the College of Science are required to passeithn English 301 or the test in order to qualify as a degree ani date in the College of Science. The English Proficiency Exam will be administered b; the English Department. Students in the Biology, Chemit try, Mathematics and Physics Departments should regisiei for the exam in 151 or 152 Blocker before March 2. Spirit award applications available Spirit award applications are now available in the Forma idt Students Lobby; 110 YMCA; Student Activities; andtht Student Government Office. Deadline for applications Feb. 29. Si P Unite DAL hows n .’exas [ nigh qu they wo salaries parent;! more c a survt day. The statewk sented Mark V tee on blue-ril reform: The ering p in a cot be pres recon of the altende mg. The ment I ducted Tenneco official to visit class Kenneth L. Otto, senior vice president of Human Re sources for Tenneco, Inc., will speak to Management48U students Friday as a part of the “Visiting Executives” pro gram. Otto will tour the campus witfi Univerisity adminis trators, as well as attend an informal luncheon with stu dents in the Rudder Tower Dining Room. Orienteering meet to be Saturday The Outdoor Education Institute and the Office Continuing Education is sponsoring the Second Annual Orienteering Meet Saturday beginning at 9:30 a.m. attltt Texas A&M Range Science Area, approximately four milet from campus.Orienteering is a sport in which competitor! find their way around the backcountry with a map and compass. Awards will be presented in five catagories:junior high, high school, ages 18-35, ages 36-50 and overageSO The courses will he divided into novice, intermediate and You on tl theii Tod. can mor $1 e expert. Instruction will be available before the meet at 8:30 am Cost for entering is $3 for adults and $2 forjunior high and high school students. For more information contact the meet director, Rick Beelby at 845-7258. To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald. Thousands attend wrestler von Erich’s funeral in Denton United Press International DENTON — They took off work and skipped school — almost Wednesday — almost 2,000 of them — to say good-bye to their “Yellow Rose of Texas,” wres tler David von Erich, dead at 25 of an inflamed intestine. It seemed impossible to be lieve, especially for the adoles cent girls who were his biggest fans, that a minor illness could cut down their modern gladia tor. David was the blond giant who, of all his wrestling broth ers, most resembled their father Fritz von Erich, the legendary “Iron Claw.” Von Erich, whose real name was David Adkisson, was found dead last Friday in his hotel room in Tokyo after he failed to show up for a wrestling match. An autopsy showed his heart had been weakened by an intes tinal inflammation his family thought was just a bout with the flu. The most loyal followers of the von Erich clan assembled in a Baptist church about 40 miles nortn of Dallas Wednesday morning to mourn David. Mack Hilliard, 69, and his wife Naomi, 65, a retired couple who live in Denton said they had followed wrestling since the heyday of Fritz, whose real name is Jack Adkisson. “We like all of them (von Erichs) but I believe David came the closest to his father’s ‘Iron Claw,”’ Hilliard said. About 1,000 people fit inside the sanctuary. The others en circled the church waiting for a glimpse or sign of what was happening inside. Plans to broadcast the services on loud speakers outside were canceled at the last minute. Banks of flowers — most of them yellow — surrounded the dosed casket. Weeping teenage lC O] 60 Watt with quart reduction TX-61 L girls, who only two weeks* would have been shrieking' love you, David,” as theirN entered wrestling’s “squared® cle,” clutched still more yell 81 buds. David and his brothers-1 vin, 26, Kerry, 23, and Mike. — represent goodness, Ch tianity and patriotism to fans. Another brother, Christ only 13. The eldest boy, J* 1 Jr., died many years ago at 6. Mourners sobbed and sitf fled as three ministers scribed von Erich’s “bornagai faith. A comment from a I ing-voiced, white-haired acher that David had lived n> o:l in 25 years than most do in; lifetime brought a heartfd “that’s right” and “amen”ff (!3 one middle-aged woman. Women and girls leaned ovj the balcony wailing unconP lably as the casket was wheel® up the aisle of the church. 0® cried out: ”god be withy’all,l' i vin.” “I just hate that he died in* other country,” said Sally C* vin, a 30-year-old nurse W Rhome, Texas. “That’s f f! hard on the family. “When I was little, Daddy used to take me to ^ wrestling in Wichita Falls wb { ; Fritz was wrestling,” she s* “Then I didn’t go for a wW until the boys started wr® ding.” Deluxe is loaded speed po control, t VK-747 $< CasseU with Dolt DE-1 L i She said she was amazed tl^ such a seemingly healthy ^ man died of something “tl"' usually not that terrible a i ease. I was surprised he wai'l in the hospital” if he was sosi^l A block from the churd someone had scrawled on trash dumpster the ultinU 1 teenage accolade: “David fine.”