The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 22, 1984, Image 1

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The Battalion
Serving the University community
Voi 78 No. 188 (JSPS 043360 16 pages
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College Station. T<
Wednesday. August 22. 1984
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Health center working
on thwarting meningitis
By D AIN AH BUULARD
Staff Wmri
More than 350 students who may
have been exposed to memgocuncal
meningitis at Fnh C
medKai tre.
A received
ent at A.P. BeutH
Health Center Tuesday morning,
tatri Dr Claude Coawkk. health cen
ter director
Efforts currentlv are underway to
contact about 350 remaining partici
pants of Kwh Camp A. which met
Aug 11-14 at Lakeyiew Methodist
Assembly near Palestine Parti* i-
pants of later Fish Camps, including
Fish Camp B. A jg. 15-lh. were not
exposed to the disease. (Wmwk k said.
InformatKMi provided by the me
dia has made many students aware
of the danger he said.
“If are had 350 students on the
doorstep of the medstal center this
momma. I believe that s a good re
sponse. Goswick said
Students who report to the * enter
me treated with Rifampin, an anti
biotic which will prevent the infec-
tmcv. Coswsck said. Students will re-
cetke bOO multgrtv of RiAunpai
every dav for four day*. He said
Students and counselors may have
been exposed to meningitis by an in
coming freshman who attended the
camp Stephen Hodsden. ar IB-
C ar-old from Dsboll. was diagnosed
e Monday as having menigo*octal
mevitngitis
Hodsden. who attended Fish
(^amp from Aug 11-14. Friday waw
admitted to Memorial Hospital in
latfkm He later lapsed into a coma
and was listed in poor «ondMion in
intensive care
(kwwick said he wm contacted
Monday evening by Hodsden s fa
ther. alter the ntemngtfi* was cun-
firmed
Dr (airofyn Adair director of
Student Activsbrs. said she w pri
marily concerned with contacting
the I z to 15 students who shared a
tabm with Hodsden and the 12 to 15
students who participated in
Hodsden's discussion group. .About
half of those students have been con
tacted. she said Letters are hemg
mailed to all camp A participants
The Mk*hh ronfgious meningitis
may be contracted by direct ex
sure (contact with someone who
meftangms) or indirect exposure
(cotMact with someone who has had
contact with an infected person),
(ioswick said In rare cases, menin
gitis may hr contracted from a ear
ner who shows no symptoms of the
disease he said The incubation pe
riod of the disease w four to five
days.
(ioswtrk said symptoms of memn-
gitis are ncmtprrinr. but include
sore throat, sun neck, malaise, nau
sea. skin rash and headache. The
disease may be spread through
sneering or other respiratory ex
changes. he said
Goswick said no new cases of men
mgMis have been discovered. If no
other cases arise within the next 10
dag^^te danger period will be over. .
We know of no other cases,’* Gos-
WM k said “If we did. we d have an
ep*<*mi( i>n HU hands We re trying
to prevent an epidemic
Ford ridicules Democrats in speech
DALLAS — Gerald Ford, whose
hears-breakina kiss to Jimmy fas net
was avenged by Ronald Reagan in
19B0. lashed the Democrats Tuesday
as the party that would give the fu
ture to v the wasters, the watsters. the
whmers and the sveak **
Scoring Democratic candidate
Waher khmdale for “four years of
rnonng mflaOon. skyrocketing inter
est rates and so-called malasae' dur
ing the Carter adnuniM ration. Ford
summoned delegates to the Republi
can National Convention to work for
Reagan s re-election “to keep our
land bra A and free, to make our
country stronger, better and hap-
pter “
Ford, who has appeared countless
times on pod to ms of Repubfuan
conventions over the pest three de
cades. delivered Km speech in tele
vision prime ume on the eve of the
renocmnation of Reagan and Vice
Resident George Bush — “a tried
iand test president. a tried and tested
backup partner, both of whom have
proved their fitness (or four more
years"
The longtime Michigan congress
man. who served as president for
less than 18 months after Richard
Nixon’s resignation m disgrace 10
years ago. ridic uled Mondale as too
liberai and stressed Km connection
with Carter
He chided Mondale’s "new rea
lism.’* declaring. “There’s on^ one
kind of realism You don't get u by
cruasang Jimmy Chrser’s innocence
' Tr-
wnh Cieorge Mct-ovem s pre in the
sky."
In an appeal to disaffected Demo
crats. Ford scoffed at the Dr HKn rats
for too many promises and Mon
dale's c all to make the lall decOon a
'referendum on the future *} ^
“I can’t blame him for wanting to
tor get the past." Ford said "The
Democrats in San Franc mo talked a
lot about the future.
‘Their theme seemed to be that
America’s future belongs to the
wishers, the wasters, the wanters. the
whiners and the wreak “
Ford opened his remarks with an
expression of thanks, saying he and
his wife, Betty, “are everlastingly
grateful to the American oeoph* and
to this party for all the honors any
two people could ever imagine "
Ford. 71, had given up his primary
political ambition — winning the
post of House speaker — and de
cided to seek a final two-year term in
1974 when political lightning struck:
The resignation of Vice President
Spiro Agnew in October 1973.
Nixon nominated Ford to fill the
vice presidency, the first use of the
25ch Amendment, and when Water
gate disclosures drove Nixon from
office Aug 9. 1974, Ford became
the 38th president and first chief ex
ecutive not elected by the people.
Reagan challenged Ford for the
party’s 197b nomination and Ford
considered seeking the party's bsd in
IBBD. but decided against it He
since has settled into a low-profile
rede as a Republican elder statesman
Good Bull
Freshman Corps of Cadets members learn the
story of Sullivan Ross, and what being a good
Aggie is all about.
Ferraro releases more
financial information
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Boftohon Editor in critkxH condition
Three Aggies involved in one-car accident
One of three Texas AJrM stu
dents involved m a one-car rod over
on Monday mght wm still m crstacal
condflBon Tuesday ntghi at 10 p m
B«B Robinson, a senior journal—m
nugor and eduot of The Bat taboo is
luted m very critical condition at St
Joseph Hospital in Brvan
Today would have been Robin
son’s first day as Fall 1984 editor of
The Battalion
Dr Carl Schmidt, a neurosstrgeon
at the hospital, said Robinson still u
in the intensive care unit with severe
head and beam mfurtes Robinson
has been in s deep coma since the A-
cident occurred at about 10 40 p.m
on Monday.
“If he’s going so bve or not —
we’re still not sure.* S* hmsdt said
Apparently, the car rotted on top
of Robinson's chest and he stopped
for “tjuite a long while."
ding
PM
under a
1969 Fiat sports car convertible
when a flipped on Dowling Rond.
Hopes Creek Rond. Pawl I
Rand is nsar the intersection nf
2818 and WeMbom Road m south
west CnBege Station
TRe driver. Darnel Alan Rogers.
21. a civil engmeenng major from
Austin, was admitted to St Joseph
Hospital immediately After the acci
dent but wm sdensan at S am. Tuev
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student BtBy’ Lynn
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NEW YORK — (ieraldine Fer
raro acknowledged Tuesday that
some of her and her husband’s fi
nancial dealings are ’sloppy’’ but
said she has divulged more than any
other candidate in U S history and it
shows she did nothing wrong.
The Democratic vice presidential
nominee also revealed at a lengthy
news conference that she has de
cided to give up her position as an
officer in her husband John Zacca-
ro’s real estate company — a point of
intense controversy since she
claimed she had no knowledge of
her husband's finances
She acknowledged mistakes tyi her
handling of the financial contro
versy that has snowballed since her
triumphant nomination last month,
but she said the reams of financial
documents she released Monday
proved she has nothing to hide She
also defended her decision to keep
her husband's income secret while
she was m Ciongress
"It’s sloppy. T grant you that." Fer
raro said, adding. “At no lime did 1
violate any trust placed in me by my
constituents.*
Democratic presidential nominee
Walter Mondale said, “I believe the
Ferraro performance is a demon
Stratton of strength, nut weakness. A
demonstration of a ticket (hat be
lieves in candor and openness.*
Ferraro and her husband, who.
are in the 40 percent tax bracket,
made public tax returns hack to
1978 and a net worth statement
showed them to be multimillionaires
— worth $3 78 million as compared
w«ti $2 I million for Vice PresaAmt
Georer Rush
She defended her ciaun that she
had neither knowledge nor benefit
trout P. Zaccaro Co., even if she was
an officer with a share worth one-
third of the business. , ,
Ferraro sam *ne only became in
volved m the business after her hus
band’s brother and father died of
cancer and the couple began to
nnriy about what would happen in
the event of Zaccaro’s death
In Today’s Battalion
Drum, 21. a computer science major
from Caddo Mdh and Robinson s
roommate, refused treatment the
Drum said the car. when round
ing a corner, hit gravel and Rogers
lost control of the vehicle
“The car flipped and all three of
us gut trapped under X," Drum said
"Dan picked his door open and got
out. Then he went to a house and
catted for help I hen he pulled me
out and we both tried to get Bill out
He wasn’t breathing I tried to give
him CPR —- what 1 could remember
of* — and then the ambulance am-
Rogers had a large cut over his
left eye but otherwise he had only
mtnof cuts and bruises, Drum said.
Robert Marline/, a trooper with
the Texas Department of Public
Safety, said there n no evidence that
Rogers was speeding when the acci
dent o* cured
Robinson served as editorial page
editor for The Battalion this sum
mer Fie was the assistant sports edi
tor m the spring and wars sports re
porter for the newspaper in the
» k acijT faN of I9R2 He also
worked at KAMU-TV as a reporter
• The Corps of ( odeta won't he the only
rigues this fall. See story page 4.
• Gofttegr Stack*) asks for voluntary
rrietty See story page 3
World
• Angry Filipm ra aiaerfi
See story page 7.
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