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Wednesday, November 21, 1984^6 Battalion/Page 5 een tunm Loren;, i never t® o return e ^ly made e to odt tay in % nanentrtt were nut P' ■ eceivedfij ’oles so !i ^eesco®; aarbor. S M d :cl thetnsi Bryan fei on Sund;* 1 Club, ilia tponed i« srerofAettj ts that Re: ith Mete supercedt that wliet ;d to ti®. But ... fe Jl defee s prevtoudi htoiuonat on then? i) be|i'e have tide id, she« m DN per bag i9 perl. )9 perlb )9 perlb 0 per lb 0 per lb 19 per lb on West 5-5651). ;ry prod” iber 30, jay from IG iS "''E 1 'l'..'..■'■ I • 1 1.1. 1.1..■ I.I.. ••mm. MM A* STUDENT MEDIATION SERVICE;, plication;, are avail able for volunteer student mediators in .108 jH" TAU KAPPA: is selling Zii MSC. CANNED FOOD DRIVE: La Tertuba, the Spanish Club, is sponsoring a canned food drive for needy famili*- nation box is in the Modern Language Lab, 126 A< MARANATHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP; is meetint for a Bible study at 7:SO p.m. in the Viking Apartment! Clubhouse. /■ ^ ■ ' y' r: " \ 'Si Sunday MARANATHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: is i 10 a.m. in 301 Rudder. CLASS OF 86: Reload for Elephant Walk at.th . party at the KC Hall from 8 p.m. to midnight PI SICMA EPSILON: will be selling donuts and Blocker Building from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. MSC MADRIGAL DINNERS: is meeting at 7 msc. iiisaam HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT CENTER: Is me p.m, in the MSC main lounge. The picture will the AGGIE GOP: is preside discuss* Items for What's Up should be submitted desi. Team of programmers wins 2nd in contest Safety group tells parents of dangers United Press International WASHINGTON — The Con sumer Product Safety Commission reported Tuesday that most Christmas toys now on the market are safe, but parents still should clo sely supervise their children when they play with toys. The commission, in its annual pre-holiday warning, asked parents to be especially careful of balloons, which are safe when inflated but be come potential choking hazards when deflated. Chairman Nancy Steorts said that of the 16 toy-related deaths reported to the commission last year, five were caused by balloons. She also warned about toys con taining small parts, designed for older children but which toddlers under the age of 3 can take apart, try to eat and choke on. The estimated number of toy-re lated injuries declined from 123,000 in 1982 to 118,000 in 1983, the com mission said, praising manufacturers for taking safety precautions. “The most common type of acci dent occurred not because there was anything wrong with the toy, but be cause the toy was not being used safely,” said Steorts. Taking note of the estimated $4 billion worth of toys sold between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the commission warned parental Santas to beware of toy chests with unsup ported lids that can crash shut, and small squeeze toys and tiny rattles that have the potential of causing choking. “Crib gyms” are fine for tiny in fants but can become hazardous when the child reaches about the age of 6 months, begins to attempt to stand up and becomes entangled, the report said. The commission recalled 39 toys last year, with the cooperation of the manufacturers, and another 11 safety hazards were corrected, Steorts said. If the manufacturers fail to cooperate, the commission can take legal action. Forty-four teams competed in the 1984 ACM South Central Regional Scholastic Programming competi tion held Friday, Nov. 16 in Aus tin.Texas A&M sponsored two teams, a graduate division team, placing first in division I and overall, and an undergraduate team, which placed third in division II. The members of division Ts win ning team are: team captain Scott Boyd, Lily Barkovic, Guylaine Pol lock and Tomas Rokicki. The mem bers of the undergraduate team are: team captain Brian Napp, Tony Overfield, Rick Rohan and Eugene Mazzurana. The competition was one facet of the ACM conference’s activities, which also included workshops, seminars and lectures given by in dustry spokesmen, ACM members and university researchers and pro fessors. The competition, the highlight of the ACM conference, was hosted by Baylor University and sponsored by Texas Instruments and Borland In ternational. Debt collection motive in Dallas bar shooting United Press International DALLAS — A gunman accused of killing one man and wounding five others while blasting away at patrons of a quiet, working-class bar went into the bar to collect a $ 1,500 debt, police said Tuesday night. Police investigator J.J. Coughlin said Charles Walter “Doc” Morrison, 61, of surburban Farmers Branch, went into the Webb Lounge “intend ing to confront several people.” Morrison is accused of squeezing off 10 to 15 rounds that killed one man, Clifford Smith, 54, and wounded Smith’s wife and four oth ers. Coughlin said neither Smith nor any of those wounded were Morri son’s intended targets. Coughlin would not give the names of those who owed Morrison money, but he said Morrison had stuck a gun in their faces and pulled the trigger; but the gun had not fired. The Dallas Times Herald re ported Tuesday that D.C. Collins and Clem Matthews reported Morri son had tried to shoot them, but his gun would not fire. Neither could be reached for comment Tuesday evening. After that initial confrontation, Matthews and Collins fled toward the back of the bar, and Morrison left. The Times Herald reported Morrison then returned with a rifle and opened fire on other patrons. Coughlin said the shooting “was over money... It was supposed to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,500. “He didn’t go berzerk. He had in tended to confront several people,” Coughlin said. “All the ones that are injured, he wasn’t trying to confront really.” Morrison was being held in lieu of $250,000 bond Tuesday night on a murder charge. Coughlin said at tempted murder charges were being prepared. Police reported Morrison had a record of violent behavior^ Police Lt. Ron Waldrop said Mor rison was convicted in 1959 of as sault to murder for firing shots at his estranged wife. His five-year sus pended sentence was voided because of a legal technicality. In 1961, he was convicted of ille gal possession of a machine gun and served 10 months in the Texas De partment of Corrections, Coughlin said. He also was arrested on a worthless check charge in in 1961, Waldrop said. “He has a history of doing violent things with weapons,” said police spokesman Bob Shaw. “This is the second time he has used a weapon. Certainly you can say he has a his tory of violent behavior.” Morrison, who owns a garage and used car lot in Dallas, had two beers at the lounge about 6 p.m., then walked out and returned moments later with a high-powered automatic rifle, said Lt. David Bonicard. He stopped about two feet inside the door and began firing without say ing a word, the officer said. Of the wounded, Michelle Smith, 55, the dead man’s wife, was shot in the right arm and was reported in good condition at St. Paul Hospital Tuesday. Listed in serious condition at Parkland Memorial Hospital were T.L. long, 65, of Irving; Bernice Crossley, 62, of Irving; and George J. baumlier, 56, of Lewisville. Dewitt Johnson, 47, a bartender at the club, was treated and released from St. Paul with a gunshot wound to the right side, officials said. Administration considering cutting veterans’programs United Press International SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The Reagan administration is con sidering restrictions on such popular programs as veterans’ health bene fits and farm supports, officials said Tuesday. As President Reagan tended to chores at his mountaintop ranch, of ficials acknowledged the drive to cut federal spending could touch on programs with powerful constitu encies. Deputy White House press secre tary Marlin Fitzwater said a special White House working group asked the Veterans Administration in July for information that could be used to seek changes in health-care pro grams that cost $8.5 billion last year. VA spokeswoman Donna St. John said the request focused on the possi ble restriction of benefits to care for service-related injuries only. While the type of changes consid ered could result in cost-savings, Fitzwater stressed the review was not motivated by deficit worries. “This is part of a general process,” Fitzwater said. “It was not one designed to come up with money.” Officials said the options under review included ending blanket eli gibility for free health care by apply ing a financial need test for benefits, charging veterans a nominal amount for services or curbing benefits for treatment of conditions that are not service-related. Health-care costs represent a siz able portion of the federal outlays targeted for possible cuts as Reagan and his advisers bear down on a defi cit estimated to balloon to $200 bil lion this year. Veterans’ programs were one of several areas identified by adminis tration officials as ripe for cutbacks. Among the others were farm price and income supports — a favorite target of budget director David Stockman — and other middle-class ~ benefit programs. Fitzwater emphasized no final de cisions on tens of billions of dollars in budget cuts will be made until Reagan winds up an eight-day Thanksgiving vacation and returns to Washington next weekend. Fitzwater said the White House, as - part of an across-the-board review overseen by presidential counselor _ Edwin Meese, asked the VA and other departments in July to take a new look at health-care programs under their jurisdiction. Although cost-savings were not the primary motivation, administra tion officials acknowledged they could be a major byproduct of any revision of those programs. Fitzwater, in differentiating be tween this ongoing study and shorter-term deliberations over the fiscal 1986 budget Reagan will sub mit to Congress early next year, said the Meese review “will continue into the next year.” Among the other health program proposals being considered by the working group are taxing employer- paid health insurance above a cer tain ceiling; giving vouchers to Medicare recipients so they can buy private coverage and drop out of the federal program; and having Medi care cover the costs of “catastrophic illness” — the expensive stroke, for example, that can bankrupt a family — in exchange for having recipients pay higher premiums or routine hospital charges. Mattress Set $79.95 This mattress & foundation set offers true firmness at an affordable price. Bed frames $15.00. 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