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Applications Due Friday April 12th by 5:00 p.m. at Secretaries Island at back of 216 MSC Sell it in Battalion Classified 845-2611 Page 14/The Battalion/Thursday, April 4, 1985 Discerning joke from real thing hard in Britain Associated Press LONDON — This April Fools’ Day the Foreign Office had the boss. Sir Geoff rey Howe, attending a fish hanging ceremony, while the De partment of Energy unveiled a ther mal necktie to keep you warm. Some laughed, some har rumphed, and a few were taken in. After all, in Britain one can’t always readily distinguish the real thing from the spoof. Would a thermal necktie really stand out in a land where judges still wear shoulder-length wigs? If foreigners think Britons are an eccentric lot, it is partly because the British cherish their traditions long after they have outlived their useful ness. Thus in the age of the atomic clock, the ball still comes down the pole every day at Greenwich Obser vatory signaling the stroke of noon to non-existent ships’ captains on the Thames. And every night at the Tower of London, Beefeater guards in red coats and frilly collars enact the fol lowing tableau: Sentry: “Halt, who comes there?” Chief Yeoman Warder: “The Keys.” Sentry: “Whose keys?” Chief Yeoman Warder: “Queen Elizabeth’s keys.” Sentry: “Pass Elizabeth’s keys and all’s well.” The Tower hasn’t held a prisoner since the Nazi defector Rudolf Hess was locked up there in 1941. Cynics might suspect the rituals are kept up to attract tourists. Cer tainly not, retorts Jonathan Hawk ins, manager of the Eccentric Club, where London’s upper-crust odd balls hang out. “If they did it only for tourists, they wouldn’t do it every night including dreary winter nights when there’s not a tourist in sight,” he said in an interview. And Brig. Kenneth Mears, deputy governor of the Tower, argued that whether it still housed prisoners was immaterial. “The only reason it hasn’t held a risoner since 1941 is that we aven’t had a war since,” he said. “If we did, the tower might be used as a prison again.” Meanwhile, he said, “We have for mal ceremonies that just have to be done. It’s a question of 700 years of English history.” And since legend has it that if the ravens ever desert the Tower, disas ter will befall Britain, six ravens are kept on the premises, their wings clipped to keep them from flying away. Jilly Cooper, who writes about En glish society, believes that English ec centricity springs from the aristoc racy. Mainly because it alone feels secure enough to parade its idiosyn crasies without being held up to pub lic ridicule. To her, the finest example of this was the father of the late prime min ister Sir Anthony Eden hurling his barometer out of the window one rainy day shouting: “See for your self, you bloody thing!” April Fools’ Day sometimes seems like a parody of a parody, and this year even the government joined in. Foreign Secretary Howe’s official diary for April 1 included attending “a fish-hanging ceremony at Billingsgate Market” — which no longer exists. The Energy Department showed reporters what officials described, with barely a quiver of the upper lip, as “a thermal tie.” Its purpose, bur ied in a five-page statement in dense official jargon: to keep the neck warm. Extension of benefits voted down in Senate Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday rejected, 58-34, legis lation that would have extended fed eral jobless benefits for six months as it prepared to consider a bill to phase out the program for 339,000 unemployed Americans. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., said he was “fairly cer tain” President Reagan would sign the $160 million phase-out bill as long as it contained no amendments to extend the program. The phase-out bill, approved in the House on Tuesday, was to go im mediately to the White House for Reagan’s signature pending Senate approval. The defeated legislation was in the form of an amendment pro posed by Sen. Aden Specter, R-Pa. He said the bill was necessary to “protect unemployed workers throughout the country who through no fault of their own cannot find jobs.” But Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Packwood, R- Ore., urged defeat of the amend ment, saying it would only “ensure that the president would veto the phase-out plan.” Before taking up the phase-out bill, the Senate was to consider an other amendment that would make it easier for states with high unem ployment to offer jobless benefits for longer than 26 weeks. The Federal Supplemental Com pensation Program provides up to 14 weeks of payments to jobless workers who have exhausted their 26 weeks of state benefits. T he presi dent wanted to let the three-year-old program die when it expires Satur day. T he House approved the phase out plan Tuesday on a voice vote hours after its Ways and Means Committee endorsed it. The rush tactics were necessary so that the bill could be sent to Reagan before the Easter-Passover recess begins Thurs day. Under the phase-out plan, unem ployed workers already receiving benefits as of this week would con tinue to get their checks after the program expires. If Reagan vetoes the bill, no checks can be written af ter Saturday. But Packwood said the phase-out, estimated to cost $160 million to $180 million, is the costliest proposal Reagan and Republicans in Con gress would accept. Deadline approache for Ohio bank bids Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio bankers facing a deadline for match ing an out-of-state offer to buy the closed Home State Savings Bank met privately with state banking officials Wednesday, hinting afterward that an Ohio institution might make a counter-offer. Ralph Bolen, executive vice presi dent of the Ohio Bankers Associa tion, said the bankers were briefed in general terms about an offer from an out-of-state institution — report edly Chemical Bank of New York — and that the Ohio bankers “are now on their own.” Gov. Richard Celeste said on Tuesday that an out-of-state offer had been received for Home State, of Cincinnati, whose closing March 9 triggered a panic among some Ohio savings and loan customers and prompted the governor to close 69 privately insured thrifts March 15. Celeste, however, gave Ohio banks until Wednesday afternoon to meet or beat the out-of-state offer. Bolen said early Wednesday af ternoon that “it’s a possibility” that an Ohio bank or group of banks would come forward with an offer. Another bank spokesman, who spoke on condition he not be identi- fied by name, said he expected one or more offers from Ohio banks. Twenty-eight bankers — most of them from Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland — met for 90 minutes with Raymond Sawyer, Celeste’s chief of staff; Savings and Loan Su perintendent Robert B. McAlister; and Commerce Director Kenneth R. Cox. Celeste was in Washington to tes tily about Ohio’s savings and loan crisis before a U.S. House subcom mittee. Although Celeste refused to iden tify the out-of-state firm, Sawyer did not correct reporters who asked him whether Ohio bankers were given the terms of a Chemical Bank offer. Chemical Bank, with $52.2 billion in assets, said in a statement that there had been “no agreement re garding purchase of Home State by Chemical. 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