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Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, February 27, 1984 i') AFL-CIO grants charter to flight attendant union 'i j United Press International > BAL HARBOUR, Fla. — ) AFL-CIO leaders voted to grant ( a separate charter to the Asso- | elation of Flight Attendants, making the airline union the federation’s first to be headed by a woman. To become the AFL-CIO’s 96th affiliate, the union of 21,000 flight attendants severed its relationship with the Air Line Pilots Association. The flight attendants union has been an autonomous affil iate of the pilots’ union, but There are about 60,000 flight attendants in the nation, with about 40,000-45,000 of them unionized. Puchala said a prime target of new organizing ef forts will be independent unions at several major air carriers, such as Trans World, American and Pan American airlines. The union now represents flight attendants at United, Re public, Western, USAir, Pied mont, Frontier, Aloha, Ozark, Hawaiian, Alaska, Flying Ti gers, TransAmerica, Braniff, and Airlift airlines. “We think this is tremendous. ... We have seen consistent pro gress over the years in terms of women and I think it will serve as a rallying point for organiza tion in terms of women coming into the trade union movement,” said Joyce Miller, an AFL-CIO vice president and member of the executive coun cil that granted the charter. y#» r 2 sr;<« r».” ""arf ric®";,," ar0 you" PRODUCTS) OPEN THURSDAY EVENINGS Till 8 PM Starting Jan. 5 BATTERY l I sir.*™ 1 ■v 0 I TTkPT7 8 to 5 Mon-Frl. Open till 8pm Thursday 48 mo. 24 or 24F With 462 cold crank amps. $49 95 GALLERYDATSUN UtlFlHd 1214 T«xas 775-1500 •COUPONmi DAY ONLY OFFER ENDS FEB 29 24 HOUR GYMS PHONE OF TEXAS 700 UNIVERSITY DR E 764 8544 FACILITIES VARY WITH MEMBERSHP Warped by Scott McCulbf without separate standing in the AFL-CIO. Linda Puchala, 35-year-old president of the flight atten dants, called the decision “really a cause for celebration for ... all flight attendants.” “We feel the fact that AFA now is a chartered organization in the AFL-CIO that our orga nizing campaigns will intensify because we do have recognition from the labor union movement as the national flight attendants union,” Puchala said. A SHAGGY dog story: o^C£ troy A T//AL THE-KE. WERE A COUPLE OF CITIES SWEPT UP iV A BOILDWG 500AI. SOOA/ THERE WERE TOO MAWy APARTHE/TT CCAPLEX SOFFERiyo FROM LE9?' THAA/-TOTAL OCCoPANCy. n i u SOOM APAKTAEA/T COMPLEXES' ALL OVER WERE LOoZEHIl/G UP oy THE/R RESTRICT/0A/^. ..AND ALLOWED TEA/ANT6 TO KEEP PETS, LIKE DOGS... AND THE P0G5 CALAE, AND WE^T A&OOT THEIR SDZIN&S HAPP/LY EVER AFTER... AND EVERYWHERE. AND SOON THERE W^TOIJ OCCOPANCy ASAlV. (ON THE gRooWS.MIM Si /ly\i Vi [T««» A,/ u 11 mi. Ai not [ plan pletc the ( 301 < the ( T1 | dent Depi Bloc David buried on shady hill Do United Press International CONROE — David, the 12- year-old immune deficient “bubble boy” who died after an experimental attempt to cure him failed, was buried Saturday on a shady hillside after his priest exhorted others to live as full a life as the boy “who touched each of us in the heart.” Traffic stopped and pass- ersby stood silently watching along the route from the church to the cemetery, where the small bronze casket was low ered into the ground and a Fire Department dispatcher radioed via a receiver at graveside, “This is the last call for David.” Five hundred friends, rela tives and admirers crowded into Sacred Heart Catholic Church in the town 40 miles north of Houston to hear the Rev. Lau rence Connelly tell them: “To those who measure life by production, this life was a to tal and complete waste. But to those who measure life by giv ing and receiving, David’s life was one of the fullest I’ve ever known. “David was born with a hand icap, but he was one of the few people who didn’t know it be cause he lived life to the fullest. David became what God meant him to he. He developed all his talents. That is the challenge to all of us.” Connelly directly addressed David’s parents, Carol and Da vid, and his sister, Katherine, 15, whose last names have been kept secret to protect their pri vacy. “Certainly there is a loss,” he told the family, “but what a tre mendous gain that he touched each of us in the heart ... and because of David’s life and death, other young men and women will be freed to live a normal life.” Connelly praised the doctors and nurses at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, where the boy died Wednesday. “In this age of science and technology, which is very dehu manized, these were people who led from the heart,” Con nelly said. “David had every excuse to quit. He didn’t do it. ... David took life by the horns. He was the type of young man who came out guns blazing, throttle open.” John McCarthy, auxiliary bishop of the Galveston-Hous ton Diocese, and David’s great- uncle, a deacon from Baton Rouge, La., assisted Connelly in the service. The organist sang “Ave Maria" in Latin during tlie serv ice, then played “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee," as pallbearers took the casket out of the sanct- brother, also named David!) died of severe Combined!; mune Deficiency Syndroirij year earlier at age 7 mi T1 Sprir fall ii Hou; uary. All along the 3-mile route from the church to Conroe Me morial Cemetery, traffic stopped, cars pulled to the side of the road, and people stood si lently watching as the mile-long procession passed. The graveside ceremony — under blue skies on a tree- shaded hillside plot — ended with a radio call from Conroe Fire Department dispatcher Chuck Clark that was shared with mourners through a re ceiver at the grave site. “Attention all Department Six personnel: This is the last call for Honorary Member Da vid. David was born Sept. 21, 1971. He died Feb. 22, 1984. Repeating, this is the last call for David.” David was born into a sterile isolator prepared for him at Texas Children’s because a After doctors ailment, they moved David-j permanent isolation, that as he matured his t would develop the faj fighting mechanisms bti born without. Al havir Fresl |3.5 c David never did. Wham intended to be at mostwn of living in isolation to f him from common gemn| could kill him, turned i years, -1 months and 17dul plastic bubbles enlarged sf grew. ! grou speal 1 the te t< floor Pi An intelligent and hands child, David traveled M isolators in the hospital home in a special van. Ef tiling he touched wassteiile even his communion wafen He had as near-normalid Tl ation cond statei the T p.m. prese also s mitte as mi tgenuity and govert grants could give, ind telephone hook-ups to s At age 6, NASA gavehij space suit, which hequidd' - grew. Th fered at the This Sunday! We will beat any advertised stereo price in the state of Texas! The Store Worth Lookin’ For... Universities face freshman deluge tratic Th CUSTOM SOUNDS United Press International I Old College Road Next To The Triangle Bowl Two years after being rattled by a drop in the number of in- fre cussii and ] The ; Ocea DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSE % Feb. 28 & 29 RAMADAINN Pre-register by phone: 693-8178/846-1904 FEE $20 Ticket Deferral and 10% Insurance Discount Sell it in Battalion Classified coming freshmen, many private colleges — particularly the most prestigious ones — are being deluged by a record rush of ap plications. Bolstered recruiting, re duced fear of student aid being cut and an increased desire for a good education are among the reasons offered for this wel comed surge. But the boom is also some what puzzling. It comes when there is a decline in the number of students graduating from high school and a rise in the an nual cost of an education at pri vate schools to up to $15,000 a year. A survey by United Press In ternational of three dozen top private schools — from Stan ford in California to Amherst in Massachusetts — found all but a few with an increase in applica- Cc HARD ROCK lions. The average rise about 10 percent. Seven of the eight hy schools have received m plications this year th year, including Columbia^ versity in New York City a 12 percent jump has ai sions director James Md min smiling. “Part of the reason is' due to the economy, takes away part oftheptf 1 ' anxiety as to wheter mt possible,” McMenamin “But there are otherdyna® “For one thing, coileg® recruiting much more sively than at any time past,” he said. “And st are applying to more c( now than they used to,” up to a half dozen or more At Stanford Univeitfl Palo Alto, Calif., admission rector Fred HargadonseeJL percent increase in appl® j) ee A. and shakes his head. ind'" “It’s our second laflL ' crease in a row,” Harff mmak ' said. “Last year we we t( j The c 1,000 applications. This am we’re up 1,100. Everd Awards c guessing as to why. If 1 San Fran had a good idea, I woul' vation of But I don’t." Also h A spot check by UPld were cations at public schools W Unite* i w % w 1 I . ' : ' '• ■'•••-, ' •• . ••• TO; - "' P : :..%•. 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