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Vandiver said he is concerned that if voters are unaware of what the amendment entails they auto matically will vote against it. Conservative voters, especially A&M former students, tend to be against anything having to do with their “beloved” PUF, he said. “The reaction I’m getting,” he said, “is one of either apathy or ap proval. Enough people don’t know enough about it.” Deputy Chancellor Perry Adkin- son agrees that general voter apathy is a problem. “People feel it’s going to pass with out any opposition,” he said. Another re SO n voters may vote against the p^position, Vandiver said, is that they e afraid it will raise taxes. An informatio pamphlet put out by the EAC says te amendment ac tually would save ax payers money in the case of A&M n d UT: “Twelve units (smller schools in the A&M and UT sys»ms), many of which have had to relyjn legislative appropriations for thi r building needs, would be addeOto the PUF endowment. Some of th se are fast- growth universities, such t s UT-Ar- lington and UT-San Antoio, which will require increased tax dollars in future years if they are noibrought under the endowment.” Over the past eight yea s> the pamphlet says, tax fund expendi tures for new construction an. ma jor repairs and rehabilitation l one have averaged $70 million per y<ti. Judge delays girl’s sentence Slouch By Jim Earle United Press International FORT WORTH — A juvenile court judge, saying he needed more time to study alternative rehabilita tion programs, Wednesday delayed for the second time sentencing of a 12-year-old girl convicted of shoot ing her 11-year-old friend to death. A six-man, six-woman jury Oct. 12 found the Benbrook girl guilty of delinquent conduct-involuntary manslaughter in the Aug. 8 shooting death of Kerry Thomas. “Because of the variety of place ment recommendations, it will be necessary to delay a final decision for a few days,” Judge Scott Moore said. “I should think within a week or 10 days I should be able to com plete the examination of programs and other facilities.” He said the girl will remain at the i Tarrant County Juvenile Detention Center until she is sentenced. Moore must decide whether to ive the girl probation and release er to the custody of her parents, sentence her to a juvenile detention center or place her in the custody of the Texas Youth Council, which could confine her until she is 18. The girl told authorities she acci dentally shot and killed her best friend while showing off her father’s shotgun. Prosecutors claimed the girl Killed Thomas out of jealousy over the victim’s friendship with the suspect’s 18-year-old male cousin. The defendant testified she pan icked after the shooting and hid the body under a pile of wood in her backyard. She said she was silent about the shooting until four days later because she feared she would go to jail. ‘'But we did have a cold front! Didn’t you notice that it dropped into the 70s last night?” Youths struggling with fitness tests UrUed Press International Mattox accuses Bell of keeping rates high United Press International AUSTIN — Attorney General Jim Mattox and four consumer groups Wednesday accused South western Bell Telephone of keeping basic rates as much as 40 percent higher than necessary by forcing ra tepayers to subsidize its unregulated sister companies. “Frankly, we suspect that South western Bell is using the monies from regulated activities to subsidize its non-regulated profit-making businesses, such as telephones, mo bile phones and the Yellow Pages publications,” said Mattox. The consumer groups asked the Public Utility Commission to investi- be- gate the financial relationship tween Bell and the subsidiaries cre ated since the Jan. 1 divestiture of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Carol Barger, director of Con sumers Union, said she believed lo cal telephone rates could be reduced by 20 percent to 40 percent if sub scribers were not forced to subsidize other Bell subsidiaries. By allowing ratepayers to subsi dize its unregulated subsidiaries, she said Southwestern Bell Corp. “will then be in a very favorable market position to sell all their services, gad gets and whistles which have nothing to do with basic phone service.” NEW Y)RK — Only $6 percent of sch(x>l Ids passed fitness tests the Amateur /ihletic Union set up as achievable y average youngsters, a survey repot said Wednesday. The rest, bout two out of every three, were rn able to come up to the AAU standards set for their sex and age in ben-knee situps, mod ified pushups, tanding long jumps, pullups and sprats. “In view of tlese test scores, you w'ould have to siv that the levels of fitness of Americn youth are some what below thoe most experts would regard as dsirable," said Dr. Wynn F. Updyke, uthor of the re port. The tests wer taken by more than 4 million kids, t through 17, in more than 17,000 schools in 1983 and 1984. His report, summai/ed in “The Planters-AAU Fitness Profile of American Youth,” was'he second in two days swinging at he nation’s flabby kids. A two-year nationwide study of 8,800 in grades 5 ihroiith 12, re leased Tuesday by Health and Hu man Services Secretary Ma-garet M. Heckler in Washington, D.C, said as many as half of America’s thildren and adolescents may not lie getting enough exercise to develop lealthy cardiorespiratory systems. Updyke, associate dean for grad uate studies at Indiana University’s School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, said the 36 percera who met standards during the pas year marked a drop from the 43 pet cent who achieved them in test! given 1979 through 1982. “I’m not too concerned aboutth decrease," he said, “because it proba bly stems from the fact that soik 7,000 additional schools joined tlit program since 1982. "What does trouble me is thecur rent overall level of fitness, whkl isn't what it could be.” Updyke blamed the regressionot school policies that eliminate cont pulsory physical education after tht eighth grade. He is disturbed by a drop in p formance at the upper age levelsand noted that fitness seems to peaks age 14 and to flatten out or dedim from that point on, especially amonj girls. “Performance should imprott through the teens," he said, “outi doesn't in some areas. What lb means is that Americans are eniei ing their adult years with a declinini fitness profile instead of an improv ing one. “All teachers and others whoait working with youth fitness needtlt support of government, pare® and communities in general if ihc are to provide the kinds of program that can make a real difference it the lives of young people and, evet I fare of America.' MS WF TR a AG F F CL t a MS' r s HO F CA ii OF] z I MS' u ST1 F INI CH FEP F ri Un tually, in the well Salvadoran rebels resume actions after talks United Press International SAN SALVADOR, FI Salvador — Leftist guerrillas cut a main highway and blacked out five eastern prov inces in the first military action since peace talks with the government, military sources said Wednesday. Rebels killed two soldiers and wounded another in a one-hour fire fight north of Santa Rosa del Lima, 89 miles east of San Salvador, mili tary sources in the area said. The clash came as troops moved to break up a nearby rebel roadblock late Tuesday on the Ruta Militar highway that connects San Miguel, the country’s third largest city, to the Honduran border. Troops from the 3rd military de tachment and the commando battal ion of Morazan province patrolled the highway to prevent new rebel in cursions, military sources said. Monday, President Jose Napoleon Duarte traveled to La Palma, a small mountain town north of San Salva dor for historic talks with the Fc^a- bundo Marti National Liberation Front, a rebel coalition. The two sides reached no accord but did agree to meet again. Last week the guerrillas threat ened to mount a nationwide traffic shutdown beginning today. In the past, such actions have halted trans port in the Massachusetts-sized Cen tral American nation. In other attacks, rebel saboteurs blew up three high tension line tow- siou: rlarshal )akota onsiden Vednesc Abdall uthoriti )eer Par cott, 37 lecause 1 Abdall ffice in is wife, arly We ivo gave He sai Sioux to indict petting cape w ed for Scott i Co Uni ers and a transformer that blackfli out five of FI Salvador's 14 inces, leaving more than a people without lights. Military sources said knocked down an undetermib . number of line towers lateTuestk near the destroyed Cuscatlanbridf | 43 miles east of San Salvador. [SAN J( taken fro pm Pf. 1 co railfe | dln g c ' ink a cor of as man “Obvio to the cor sure peoj The attack blacked out the pn" f 0 /'P e irces of La Union, Morazan, San If 1° essioi goel, and Usulutan for three ho® ° lct before the lights were restored. ions. Open Mon.-Sat. 10-6 Thurs. 10-8 693-7956 GOLD CO. 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