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Tuesday, August 7, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 Public utility elects new commissioner United Press International [lip id F unanimously elected Monday by his two fellow commissioners as the new chairman of the Texas Public Utility Commission. The 38-year-old Ricketts, an asso ciate commissioner at the utility reg ulatory agency since March 1983, succeeds Alan Erwin, who resigned in July to resume his career as an au thor and public relations man. Commissioner Peggy Rosson of El Paso nominated Ricketts and newly- appointed Commissioner Dennis Thomas of Austin seconded the nomination. He will serve a 13- month term. Ricketts said he planned to follow the course of regulation that had been established by Erwin during his 17 months on the panel. “I’m confident that ... with our new team we will continue on the course the commission embarked upon several months ago,” he said. Ricketts was Gov. Mark White’s assistant general counsel for utility matters and was a former PUC hear ing examiner. Japanese recall Hiroshima attack The gift of life Photo by PAM WENTWORTH Debra Williams, a biochemistry graduate of Texas A&M, do nates blood Monday afternoon for the Red Cross Blood Drive )mputer$ uuseum c:l “et hadtoif rtable — in fro * Man covered with molasses, feathers Each lot its that | Soon $ne| :reating: rs. Shn' ?racy ski get/' n a compJ ■ay. Whenl fie exclai mputtv.” rised. “ft’s at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church on Tauber Street. The drive will last from 12-6 p.m. today. All donors are needed. Student victim of ‘malicious’ prank a senior stanhmt By SARAH OATES Staff Writer A Texas A&M University student stopped by College Station Police early Monday morning as he walked down Texas Avenue wearing only his underwear and covered with mo lasses and feathers was the victim of an allegedly “malicious attack,” according to a University Police De partment official. “This was no prank. This was ma lice,” said Bob Wiatt, director of se curity and traffic for Texas A&M. The student told College Station Police that he was kidnapped and covered with molasses and feathers by seven men in his dormitory on campus. Police reported that the student said he had been invited to another student’s room in Underwood Hall to share a pizza. When he entered the room, police said, he allegedly was grabbed, stripped to his under wear, and bound and gagged by the men. Police said the assault occurred around 4 a.m. The men carried him outside and put him in the bed of a pickup, where they struck him several times, then poured molasses on him and covered him with feathers, accord ing to the police report. The men drove to the Tinsley’s Restaurant in College Station and tried to chain him to a light post, but i°, pc in fn They left the student in front of the restaurant, where he was discovered by College Station Police who then notified the University Police De partment. Police found a pickup in Parking Annex 24 that matched the descrip tion given by the student. Ajar con taining either honey or molasses and the remains of a feather pillow were in the bed of the truck, police said. United Press International HIROSHIMA, Japan — A crowd of 50,000 people, some sobbing and holding candles, prayed in a down town park Monday as Buddhist temple bells solemnly tolled the ex act minute a U.S. atomic bomb de stroyed Hiroshima 39 years ago. Some members of the somber throng fell to the ground and lay still as the Hiroshima Peace Bell rang out at 8:15 a.m. (6:15 p.m. Sunday), the time the U.S. Army Air Force bomber “Enola Gay” dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of 343,000on Aug. 6, 1945. Hiroshima Mayor Takeshi Araki added to the roll of victims the names of 4,315 people who died during the year of bomb-related causes bringing the total number of victims of the Hiroshima bombing on record to 113,271. The ceremonies started a week of observances to mark the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and of Na- f asaki three days later. About 05,000 people were killed and 95,000 were injured in the two at tacks. The anniversary was also ob served in the West by anti-nuclear activists who staged protests and marches calling for an end to war. Eleven Western peace marchers, who were denied entry to the Soviet Union after a 27-month, 6,000-mile walk across the United States and Western Europe, marked the day in Helsinki, Finland, by delivering mes sages to the Soviet and U.S. Embas- £ Moscow charged that the U.S. nu clear tax on Hiroshima and on Na gasaki sacrificed hundreds of thou sands of Japanese civilians in trial runs for an eventual assault on the Soviet Union. In Hanover, West Germany, a eace group known as “Doctors arn against Atomic Death” began intoning the names of 108,900 iden tified victims of the Hiroshima at tack. The environmental Greens Party used the anniversary to call for West Germany’s withdrawal from NATO aad protesters held fasts and dem onstrations across the nation against the deployment of Pershing-2 mis siles. In London, seven women marked the anniversary with a three-hour protest atop a commercial “Theatre of War” exhibit. The women, from the women’s peace camp outside Greenham Common Airbase where U.S.-built cruise missiles are stored, unfurled banners that said, “No more war” and were arrested immediately after they came down voluntarily. Many people at the Hiroshima ceremony wore rosettes of white, the Japanese color of mourning. Others, mostly middle aged or elderly, lit candles and sticks of incense. Some sobbed as they prayed, Buddhist prayer beads draped around their hands. PARADISE FOUNDl Your search for a new apartment can now end, happily. At Treehouse Village, you’ll discover another world in apart- ment living - one that’s perfect for a student's way of life! 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