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Why Settle For Less? Ol’ Lou Rays More For Used Books. loupors BOOKSTORE G IN REAR JOB C Page 12/The Battalion/Tuesday, January 15, 1985 ART-ARCHITECTURE-ENGINEERING 112 N. Nagle College Station, TX 77840 (409) 846-0013 EDG KITS (hard case) $29.95. 'each REFORM TECHNICAL PEN SETS over 50% off 4 Pen Set reg. $41.00 SALE $19.95 8 PEN SET reg. $47.00 SALE $32.95 Portable Drafting Boards W/Parallel Bars 18”x24” reg. $44.50 SALE $35.60 16”x2T’ reg. $39.50 SALE $$31.60 10% off 1 I)eS?GN. Non-Sale Items 8 ART MARKER expires 1/19/65 $1.65 each NASA to boost space industry with merchants United Press International GRAPEVINE — The National Aeronautics and Space Administra tion is more than willing to join busi ness and industry in building space laboratories that will produced highly advanced products, NASA’s administrator said Monday. James Beggs, speaking at the Am- fac Hotel in the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, told about 700 area businessmen that while space technology may be a longshot investment, it can be a bounty “if we follow our dreams.” “I encourage you to stay with us,” Beggs said. “We have come a long way in the past 26 years (since NASA launched its first rockets), and we have a long way to go in the next 26.” The NASA administrator also said he was not concerned about the increased military use of space, such as the scheduled launch later this month of a secret military payload aboard a U.S. space shuttle craft. “We need these miltary cargos to spread our fixed costs over a larger base,” he said. Beggs said that NASA is “very se rious about commercialization” in space, and that space-based labo ratories and factories can offer grav ity-free conditions, enabling workers to easily move large pieces of ma chinery and equipment, and near perfect vacuum conditions. These features will be enhanced in the next 10 years by construction of a U.S. space station and an in crease in the number of space shut tle flights to about 24 a year by the end of the century, he added. Beggs, a former director of Gen eral Dynamics in St. Louis, said space experiments and production require large investments and the willingness to have a delay in return investments for many years. However, the possibilities of ad vanced products produced in space- based factories and labs may make the delay worthwhile, he said. Beggs said his pitch to the Dallas- Fort Worth businessmen was an ef fort to increase American business interest and investment in space ven tures. “We’d like to have more compa nies to come and work with us, you bet,” he said. The first space-produced product to go on sale, Beggs said, is a latex ball-bearing used to calibrate micro scopes and other equipment. WELCOME BACK AGGIES! STUDENT SPECIAL NO DEPOSIT NO RENT until Feb. 1 (student I.D. required) 1 & 2 Bedroom Units starting @ $220 HJilfoiuich apartments 11 Call today! 693-1325 502 S.W. Parkway College Station Vol. 80 House proposals to prevent abuse United Press International AUSTIN — A House study com mittee Monday recommended that Texas school districts and prosecu tors designate members of their staffs as specialists in child abuse and neglect cases. The recommendation was part of 37 formal recommendations for warded to the full House by the House Joint Study Committee on Child Abuse and Pornography, which conducted a 14-month study in Texas. “Not only is prevention the most effective long-term solution, it is also the cheapest,” the report said. “Chil dren, economic stress, ignorance, isolation, crowding are the prime components of child abuse.” The most recent figures — from 1983 — showed the Texas Depart ment of Human Resources investi gated 58,965 reports of child abuse and neglect and validated cases in volving 59,871. The report said child abuse and neglect is on the rise in Texas be cause of the state’s booming popula tion. The committee said testimony in dicated an 8 percent average in crease in reports of child abuse and a 23 percent increase in 1983 of sexual abuse reports. The panel said some of its “strongest” testimony was in of child pornography, in “every town in the area which exists Texas.” The flow of child pornography through the Port of Houston has in creased fourfold, it said, adding that much of it is made in the United States but processed overseas for shipment back to the U.S. “Pornography of children will never be stopped without putting the heat on those in the porn syndi cate for ‘adult’ porn,” the report said. One of the recommendations on child abuse and neglect was that school districts designate in each school a “child advocate” with special training in child abuse recognition and response to act as a liaison among students, parents, teachers and welfare workers. Another recommendation would require all prosecutors whose juris diction included a population of 300,000 or more to hire at least one investigator to specialize in child abuse. “Many prosecutions for crimes lild against children fail because of inad equate investigation,” the report said. “Such cases require specialized expertise: personal qualities en hanced by experience.” Dallas architect Jarvis dies of heart attack Now Is The Time To Learn To Fly TAKE A $20 DISCOVERY FLIGHT... AND DO IT NOW! That’s how little it costs to find out all about learning to fly with our special Discovery Flight. The Cessna Pilot Center system represents the best way in the world to learn to fly. It provides the perfect combination of ground instruction and actual flying time. Your $20 Discovery Flight will put you in the pilot’s seat, flying an airplane under the guidance of a professional Cessna Pilot Center flight instructor. Your $20 Discovery Right might take you farther than you think! So, find out for yourself! Come out and see us today! BRAZOS AIRCRAFT, INC. EASTERWOOD AIRPORT 846-7749 Cessna w AUSTI reaucracy go on a c Tuesday < “austere” new taxes “We co j in his slat joint sessi ate. “But son in thi — who ini White workfora increasing to deal wi bles. “Frank M Beta Phi United Press International DALLAS — Duane Jarvis, a mem ber of the Dallas school board since 1981 and an architect whose firm designed the new Dallas County jail and the city’s tallest building, died Monday at his home of a heart at tack. He was 53. Jarvis was a principal in JPJ Ar chitects, which designed the Lew Sterrett Justice Center, Southwes tern Bell Telephone Co.’s new Texas headquarters and the 72-story One Texas Center at InterFirst Plaza, which is under construction. The firm also has done work at Texas Tech University, North Texas State University, Texas A&M Uni versity and Tarleton State Univer sity. Jarvis was elected in 1981 to rep resent the Oak Cliff section on the Dallas school board. He was re elected in 1983 to a three-year term, and his seat probably will remain va cant until the April election, school officials said. Services will be Wednesday in Dal las. Survivors include his wife, Ad- ele, and four children. Around town Club Applications Available The TAMU Moo Knyan Do Club beg^n a mem : 205 HoWie Wmtc tmia 7 p. IMiRpRIiHMMi. I IHRn and Friday of this week. F#}mare information call 845-4072 or 840- Driving Course Begins Untontech Inc. is sponsoring a defensive driving course today from 6 p.OT to 10 P.tn. at the College Station Holiday Inn, 1503 Texas Ave. There also will be a class at the Bryan Brazos Centers EdarcreslJDr. on Ftjday from 0 p.m. to 10 j>.m. and Saturday, $20.00 casn. Registration is at the door, 8 a-frt* to noon. The fee is ■Ctdl 093-1322 for more information. TrainlngSession Held The Braatos County Rape Crisis Center will hold its sixth train ing session January 21-26. Anyone interested in becoming a volun teer will need to fill cut an application and return it to <he center bv National Fraternity for Women Coming to TAMU Women students unaffiliated Greek Sororities are invited to sign up: meet and talk with Pi Beta Phi representatives in the lobby of Aggieland Hotel. ,ggies a They < who do," The A printed it Texas Ai Ihandbool | land lives i Wrong | Althou ;were rep [Office of ' 1983-84 ; E rector of | estimates ■ actually o ! “Cheai the indiv “After th the repo with the s “But ported to of the ni occurred handled ulty metr Althoi the nurr ported ] doesn’t tl ofeheati “The our offic said. “It] ginning ageofth Beside report c] has the ing. . The c ‘ n g, or s< on page dons hai 'he actio ai 'e cons est. 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