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Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, April 9, 1984 Woman and baby die in fire, trapped inside burglar bars Warped by Scott McCulla United Press International FORT WORTH — A woman and her baby were trapped by it sealed the the burglar bars that windows of their home and died in a fire, despite neighbors’ attempts to reach them, officials said Sunday. 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Corps' march raises $31,000 alpha ka meeting ft is mandate infbrmattc AMERICAI TION: A vid Moore Shaver’s li Greg Zouz amnesty ing at 8:3( matton, ca IEEE/HKN: annual IF and softba Bee Creel 112 Zachr ISREAL Cl set up in t be for sale By LESLIE MARTIN Reporter The Corps of Cadets began its March to the Brazos Satur day morning in the rain but that didn’t put a dampen the annual fund raiser for the March of Dimes. More than $31,000 has been collected and the Corps will for mally present the donation when all the pledges are turned “We already have more money now than we had at this time last year,” march organizer Philip Leopold said. Tim Stevens, a senior civil en gineering major, collected $511 in pledges and won the individ- il first p tery Band, came in second place with $393 and gets to choose from six prizes such as a di amond for his senior ring, a Texas Instruments home com- putor, a Walkman, or a two man raft. ual rirst prize, a trip to next fall’s Arkansas football game. check to the March of Dimes Steve Shea, a senior in B Bat- The members of B Battery Band collected more than $3,800 to win the outfit award. They received a $100 sporting equipment gift certificate. The march was also a I for friendly competition tween the outfits. They stretcher relay races, tug-of- matches, and threw frisbees The KORA music van | vided the musical enterc ment and Dallas Co»i Cheerleader Melinda Mai 1981 Texas A&M and two other cheerleai were on hand to sign graphs and pose for snapsb: NOTICE: Summer's Just Around THE CORNER — PREPARE YOUR CAR FOR HOT WEATHER NOW! AIR •CHECK CONDITIONER SYSTEM •add freon and •leak test $0 50 Labor Only, Freon Extra •FLUSH RADIATOR COOLING SYSTEM add anti-freeze as needed $0 50 Labor Only - Anti-freeze Extra •ENGINE TUNE LABOR ONLY 4 cyl 6cyl 8cyl S'! 2 00 $ 18 00 $ 22 £ Tune up parts Extra Sale Thru 4-14-84 University Tire & Service Center 3818 S. College Ave • 846-1738 (5 Blocks North of Skaggs) GOODrYEAR Owner Lonny Scasta Challenger to make daring try to capture a runaway satellite United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A free-flying astronaut failed Sunday in a daredevil bid to stop a wobbling satellite so it could be hauled to Challenger for repair. The shuttle backed off for a do-or-die retrieval try today. The astronauts were told to plan on using the shuttle’s 50- foot robot arm in their next at tempt to snag Solar Max, but mission control in Houston also raised the possibility of a second untethered spacewalk to try to capture the satellite. They tried and failed at least twice Sunday to grab the satel lite with the arm but ground controllers were attempting to calm Solar Max’s gentle tumble through space to make Mon day’s try easier. “Tomorrow is our day to suc ceed or not to succeed,” said flight director Jay Greene, ac knowledging that failure could leave the Solar Max satellite dead in space. “We haven’t given up on it yet and I don’t see any reason to.” He said if the arm does not trap the satellite, astronauts Robert Crippen, Dick Scobee, George “Pinky” Nelson, Terry Hart and James van Hoften would be ordered home early — an ignominious end to their much ballyhooed flight to re trieve, repair and redeploy the crippled satellite. “As of right now, we’re worse off than we were before launch,” said Dave Bohlin, pro gram scientist for the Solar Max mission. “Scientifically, the sa tellite is useless to us.” Greene said ground control lers were racing against time to use the satellite’s dwindling bat teries to calm its wiggle so Mon day’s maneuver could succeed, f they cannot get the satellite itabilized and pointed toward the sun and Challenger cannot retrieve it — Solar Max will be useless. The shuttle also had a limited amount of fuel for its forward control jets that will be nec essary for the rendezvous and for' the “rotating grapple” at tempt. That fuel shortage made an other free-flying spacewalk doubtful but mission control, anxious to recover from Sun day’s faijure, told the astronauts that a second free flight over to the satellite was still under con sideration. “I guesS I’d just as soon not do that,” Crippen said. After backing Challenger out to about 30 miles from Solar Max, Crippen will guide the shuttle back toward the satellite and put it in the same rotation so the arm can attempt to snatch it. If the backup jplan works, the satellite will be tucked into its cradle in the cargo bay, days of planned repair w will be compressed imoonei Challenger will put the resit! observatory back in ipi Wednesday. A problem with a fancy iler hitch — known as a u nion pin attachment devkt that was supposed to dodl son with Solar Max turned*! was to have been the sl«£ program’s Finest hour iali large question mark The device’s MSC VARI Box Offic tickets are nauticai ture s: rnulti-mec port cities rington. ( 717b for n ORGAN IZj The first i 402 Rudd welcome! 764-73 1 0. TAMU TEI ment are There wil from 7-8 ] being hel< ing Saturi for more i TRANSFE1 business r Tower. O dents wel< Theresa N UNIVERS1 a Bible ck Chapel. C tion. three spis loaded jaws failed to damps the 2 V-j-'mch mating pin oil satellite and Nelson’s seic frustrated attempts to with the satellite started Sd Max wobbling worsethenw “I hit the thing squareari p.^j^ bounced out and I went bad and hit it again and it snap either time,” sion control. 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RODEO & ENTERTAINER—RESERVED SEATING TICKETS—ADVANCE $6.50 AT GATE $8.00 ★ ENTERTAINERS ★ (During Rodeo Performance) Thursday-John Conlee Friday-Mel McDaniel Saturday-David Wills TICKETS ON SALE AT: RODEO HDQTRS, 3710 E. 29th • BOSSIER DODGE •COURTS WESTERN WEAR • • POST OAK MALL INFORMATION BOOTH • ctfOP VO 5^ STAFF/STUDENT'S CHILDREN'S EASTER PARTY Tuesday, April 10 201 MSC 7 8:30 p.m. MSC HOSPITALITY Fram (mister Charle junday that Fra lull its troops o use of the deal Idiers in what I dental mine ex] "It was an acci |ur soldiers, tl ten by men After two days of relenl - pursuit, Challenger cauy with Solar Max Sunday mi ing and parked 200 feet away “Holy mackerel, there il said Nelson from the cargoli| ernu m a where he was getting re; 1 don his manned maneuver unit to fly to Solar Max. He lifted lazily off of f shuttle on his 10-minute trifl the satellite. He ducked am the solar wings and began attempts to link up. rview. He said later jrance would no ut of Chad ove ^ng in a refei hould we let £ v ade Chad anc Ration of Africa Police Beal The following incidents reported to the University! lice Department through day. MISDEMEANOR THEFI • A red Columbia ten-f bicycle was stolen from Cyocker Hall bike rack. • A Midwest Video &> employee reported the a television channel chan converter box from the floor utility room in Aston Hi CRIMINAL MISCHIEF • The right rear window 1972 Chrysler parked Agronomy Road was broken • Two students in ~ lory 12 reported being a* 1 ened by sound of firework^ had been placed in their rA by someone who entered iU* they were asleep. 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