Friday, February 17, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7
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Spirit award applications available
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the Student Government Office. Deadline for applications
is Feb. 29.
Orienteering meet to be Saturday
The Outdoor Education Institute and the Office of
Continuing Education is sponsoring the Second Annual
Orienteering Meet Saturday beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the
Texas A&M Range Science Area, approximately four miles
from campus. Orienteering is a sport in which competitors
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 over age 50.
The courses will be divided into novice, intermediate and
expert.
Instruction will be available before the meet at 8:30 a.m.
Cost for entering is $3 for adults and $2 for junior high and
high school students. For mdre information contact the
meet director, Rick Beelby at 845-7258.
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By ERIN K. PYLE
Reporter
Jumping rope can help your
heart in two ways Saturday at
the Jump Rope for Heart event
to be sponsored by the Aggie
Alliance for Health and Physi
cal Education.
First, there’s the exercise,
and second there’s your pledge
to the American Heart Associa
tion based on the number of
minutes you jump..
Jump Rope for Heart is part,
of the Heart Association’s fund
raising activities for February —
Heart Month.
More people die from heart
disease than from any other
cause, but researchers say it
does not have to be that way be
cause most heart disease is pre
ventable.
Dr. Thomas Peterson, presi
dent of the Brazos County
Heart Association, says the na
tional association is conducting
research which, he hopes, win
lead to a reduction in heart dis
eases.
“A residential door-to-door
fund raising campaign will be
held Feb. 19-25,” says Peterson,
an assistant professor in Medi
cal Physiology at the Texas
A&M College of Medicine. “Vo
lunteers will also pass out litera
ture on heart attacks and how to
prevent them.”
Heart Association activities
are by no means limited to Feb
ruary. Peterson says this year’s
activities also include: a dance, a
pool tournament and a swima-
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money for research and educa
tional programs, he says.
“Our fund-raising goal for
Brazos County this year is
$40,000,” Peterson says. “Last
year we brought in approxi
mately $32,000.”
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Juvenile admits
setting trash fire
United Press International
GALVESTON — A 12-year-
old boy admitted to fire officials
that he was responsible for one
trash fire in the city, but the fire
marshal said Thursday the
youth is suspected of setting 14
blazes.
The fires, which destroyed
home houses, caused about
$400,000 worth of damage, said
Fire Marshal Willie Wisko. The
child is suspected in the other
fires because “of the location
and the manner they were set,”
Wisko said.
A judge has ordered psychi
atric evaluation of the boy be
fore any decision in the case is
made. A hearing is scheduled
for Feb. 24 in the case.
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Mattox re-indicted after correction
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United Press International
AUSTIN — Moving to cor
rect a flaw in an earlier charge,
a Travis County grand jury
Thursday re-indicted Attorney
General Jim Mattox on a felony
charge of commercial bribery.
Mattox is accused of threat
ening to ruin the lucrative pub
lic bond business of the Ful-
bright & Jaworski law firm
unless an attorney in the firm
backed down from attempts to
question Mattox’s sister in con
nection with a civil trial.
Although the original indict
ment alleged the same crime as
the latest charge, it did not spec
ify how Mattox conveyed the al
leged threat.
The new indictment, which
was issued by a different grand
jury than the one that issued the
first charge, specified the threat
allegedly was made in the
course of a telephone conversa
tion on June 17, 1983, between
Mattox and Fulbright &
Jaworski senior partner J. Wiley
Caldwell.
No additional testimony was
presented to the new grand jury
and the only change in the orig
inal indictment was the inser
tion of a clause specifying the
conversation took place on the
phone.
previous grand jury and to hear
the evidence in the case.
“I don’t think that is the way
to run a grand jury,” Minton
said. “This hasn’t taken care of
the most serious problem. The
basic defect is they are unable to
allege a crime.”
A pre-trial hearing set for
Friday in the case was cancelled
and a new hearing was set for
March 22.
Prior to the grand jury’s ac
tion, Mattox said he wanted to
present his case to the panel.
“As I said before, I was quite
willing to participate in the
process and I’m still willing to
do so,” he said.
After the grand jury action,
Mattox blasted District Attor
ney Ronnie Earle for not letting
him testify.
“I would have like for Ronnie
Earle to give me the courtesy
and fairness to allow a presenta
tion of new information and Ev
idence to the grand jury,” tie i
said. “Mr. Earle knows that I
have not violated any law.
Therefore, I wonder what is
motivating him,” Mattox said.,.
Mattox said his case is “even
stronger than ever” because pj
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Mattox’s attorney, Austin
lawyer Roy Minton, said after
the indictment was issued that
he had urged the grand jury in
a letter to avoid simply “rubber
stamp” the indictment of the
ciation spends approximately
$400,000 to support eight re
searchers at Texas A&M in
their studies on heart disease.
Their primary resean-h in
volves checking high blood
pressure levels, causes of heart
attacks, and the effects of high
sodium levels. Researchers also
give speeches to area clubs on
heart attack prevention.
Other funds go to support
community educational pro
grams. Anti-smoking classes are
taught at all grade levels includ
ing pre-school. The heart asso
ciation hopes that early teach
ing will mean early prevention,
Peterson says.
A blood pressure screening
in March at the Health Fair at
Post Oak Mall will give people
the opportunity to check their
blood pressure level. Training
in CPR is open to the public
free at the Bryan Women’s
Club, Peterson says.
The heart association has tips
on heart attach prevention. It
cannot guarantee a person will
never have one, but steps can be
taken to reduce the chances.
Hints to help prevent heart at
tacks are:
• Have your blood pressure
taken regularly. High blood
pressure has no symptoms,but
it can be controlled effectively
with treatment if it is found in
the earlystage.
• Stay at a healthy weight
and eat sensibly, avoiding fatty
and fried foods.
• Stop smoking. The heart
association says the sooner a
person quits, the better, because
within a year of stopping, the
risk of death from heart disease
will be almost the same as if he
never smoked.
• Exercise and see a doctor
for a physical.
• Learn to live. The Heart
Association says enjoy life and
learn to cope with stress, a lead
ing factor in heart disease.
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