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Page 8/The Battalion/Friday, May 4, 1984 Kids get high off marker Warped by Scott McOI United Press International AUSTIN — The Sakura Ouiliner, a marker pen man ufactured in Japan, is being re called in Texas because school children are breathing the va pors to get high. chemical xylene to require warning and first aid statements under state law. The hazards include combus tibility, explosive potential, breathing the vapors and inges- children who cup their hands to concentrate these vapors.” Unite**. ALR16HT WOW, Wfc.(•'.■aUSTL X Dan Sowards, chief of the Texas Health Department’s Product Safety Program, said the pen contains enough of the A statement from the Health Department said teachers and parents should be “alert to the possible abuse of these pens by Sowards advised parents to check their children’s school supplies for the markers, which come in eight colors. The pen is manufactured by the Sakura Color Products Corp. of Japan and is distrib uted by the Ogawa Company, Inc., of Gardena, Calif. HOUR AND A HALF TO tnenaspir-: THfSE. 57)0 FILL-|fH» Senate f\ND 50 ELSSA! QUESi U.S. Hou s< pirated crc > . jay’s party JJ's PACKAGE STORES 10% OFF ALL CHAMPAGNES And Sparkling Wines. Browse through our large selection of Foreign and Domestics. Congratulations to all Graduates of Class '84! JJ. Ruffino Class '73 1600 Tx. Ave. South 693-2627 Repu C» 1 Gramm a Democrat i< *11 have leJ jress up f< lie race GOP Sen. ] The Dei ©seize Gn he GOP, f; , ieat when ( ye; Tornado hits Montgomery •lection as ; leaves 5 dead, 30 injured fThe thr ■ ibr the seat ■>. Dan K jusinessma o Gramm; United Press International MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A tornado roared across a high way Thursday, hurling 30 cars into trees and a roadside swamp, and then crashed into a residential area. At least five people were killed and 30 in jured. A task force of about 40 offi cers probed the swampy area off the four-lane Northern By pass highway with sticks, trying to determine if bodies were thrown into the morass. Mark Miller of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency said that “confusion on the reports from the scene” had led him to announce earlier that seven were dead. He said “we’ve settled on known deaths as five” — four on the highway and one in a mobile home in the resi dential area. Spokesmen said 17 people were taken to Baptist Medical Genter and 13 to Jackson Hos pital. “The injuries range from lac erations and bumps and bruises to very serious injuries,” said Baptist spokesman Gene Han nah. “We’ve got three patients in surgery. We’ve got one pa tient who had a coronary.” The tornado struck the high way about 7 a.m. Thursday, shortly before rush hour. Police estimated 30 cars were thrown off the road, some of them into the swamp on either side of the interstate. Dozens of trees on either side of the road were snapped. Pieces of a steel girder that held a highway sign were strewn across the open area. Tes ditch and picked u:rT dropped again." j "I was m i(Mining TaST 1 ( stop!’” he said. HesaidsM * ^ cars in trees and inditcbcH the tornado passed. United I Ronald Jackson, 21, , said he was driving down Northern By pass when “the wind picked up and things started blowing around. Just before we pulled over I saw it coming from the southwest. I was scared as hell.” Jackson, who suffered contu- over sions and lacerations, said his car was “turned over in the "It got real dark. aKmfiROWN liced everybody pulling ;ral jury w; road, and it looked lik jay to try ; going to get real bad": ictivist on frey Holland of (.itrone ported twe who was driving a tankf aliens aroi “I pulled right off ill checkpoint: The next thing I knev ffstacey L turned me over, too pleaded in 1 le said his tanker was »he was fol then blown in tliei||? lvlcUons direction up a hill. and pushed dorans wet Alliance vows to picket ‘fat cats but instead fcees from America. The case watched by called Sat United Press International LITTLE ROGK, Ark. — A dozen members of Alliance for Progress ’84 vowed to picket to day outside a $l,000-a-plate breakfast for Vice President George Bush, saying “fat cats” ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ H H m m H H N H H H H oV' 'SV c'3'/ C o 0 , should spend the money to help the poor. “We see something wrong with an administration that with one hand has $ 1,000 breakfasts for the fat cats while with the other hand it denies school lunches to three million chil dren cut from the school lunch program since 1981,” said John Mass, county chairman of Ar kansas Community Organiza tions for Reform Now. The Alliance members —out numbered by reporters and photograhers at a downtown rally Thursday — said they would be at the Old State House at 6:45 a.m. so Bush would see their protest. “Poor people could never at tend this breakfast,” said Mary Bolden of the International La dies Garment Workers Union. “They don’t see $1,000 in a month — in many cases in two months.” tor Ed , , , , , ilhal has be I lie breakfasi isataj CeiUral Republtcan Co«« itical a; Bethune, who is l vernmei against incumbent Seii.f yg Pryor, D-Ark.. 11 ! whatpa&a Sch e dl to be the states hottest in lod , About 25 tickets have defense 7 al , sold to the oreakl;isi,aK|| n w j 10 r aide said. lly of Karei Bush later will dedicaieiKLj ^ w Veterans AdministrationKj. a ]j tv G f tal named for the late Seisin, McClellan, D-Ark. /r \ 1HE c. AT ^ WaJ^/aJ * Play the Game at vno" «,*> Dallas' most Exciting STUDENT BOOK EXCHANGE "More Money For Your Books" Leave Books Now to be Sold Next Fall 25<t per book May 2,3,4 10-3 May 7-10 10-5 May 11 10-2 214 Pavilion Co-sponsored by Business Student Council and Student Services Central Air .... . ... , A mem I he hospital is ,i gi^| ouse reli ject, the Alliance Iliem t )fri Miorado ! but it never would havepf funded if Reagan hadltfB office when it was plannwl “We do not belttftfI gan-Bush adimnisfr® should attempt to take® for a new VA hospital M Little Rock — yearsinlkfi ing — when their acli®« Washington are design® harm the veterans this 110® is intended to help," Mass>-' T he group also crjlifl Reagan for cutting edifl funds and practicing whst| called “massive socialis®j| weapons merchants.” fi The Alliance’s stated put is to “register, educate and bili/.e low-income voters. 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