The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 17, 1985, Image 4

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 17, 1985, Image 4

Newspaper Page TextWe’re Getting Bigger cSirf^i^r-miirer cpa ■review Cable service Cable companies warning people about piracy Associated Press review (a Subsidiary of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) Because We’re Better. Classes begin second week in August. 0 Free Introductory Classes 0 Concise, Bound Study Volumes 0 Continual Review Sessions 0 Exam Technique Clinics Call (713) 789-2208 or 1-800-392-5441 course locations BEAUMONT, COLLEGE STATION, DALLAS, HOUSTON, LUBBOCK, SAN ANTONIO ONE Donation Can FIVE Lives! Aggie Summer Blood Drive July 17th & 18th 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Bloodmobile at MSC Commons Lounge THE BLOOD CENTER at Wadley 9000 Harry Hines Blvd. • Dallas, Texas 75235 MSC GROVE ^rr _ At - A-Glance July 17-23 Showtime.... Gate Opens. .8:45pm .8:00pm A&M Students with I.D 1.00 Non-Students 1.50 Children (7-12) 1.25 Children (6 and under)....FREE SESSION PASS 12.00 SUMMER PASS 20.00 AUSTIN — Texas cable television companies Tuesday began warning C eople who pirate cable service that eginning Sept. 1, such thefts are a crime that could bringjail sentences. “If they are receiving cable TV programming and not paying for it, the show’s over,” said Bill Arnold, executive secretary of the Texas Ca ble TV Association. theft of our product by educating the public.” The Legislature this year enacted the law making cable TV theft a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. For the next 45 days, cable com panies will conduct an advertising campaign to alert Texans of the new law and urge them to comply, Ar nold said. Arnold said the law won’t apply to people who receive signals via satel lite dishes but will include those who tap cable lines or tamper with chan nel selector equipment. with the loss in state sales tax reve nue estimated at more than $5 mil lion, Arnold said. Arnold said cable operators hope to convince Texans to come forward and pay up before Sept. 1. and un derstand tnat they are committing a crime. hopef ully will decide to begin sen; as a paying customer.” Arnold said cable operators h» many ways of determining whetke a household is illegally taking calj service. “Our goal is not to put people in it i jail,” he said. “Our goal is to stop the He said cable operators estimate that one of every eight people in Texas receiving cable service obtains some level of it without paying. Revenue losses are estimated at more than $50 million annually. “You’re not going to convert ev ery illegal customer to service out there,” he said. “But you’re going to make known to those folks that in deed you’re serious about the theft of cable service now.” “Those nor it’s a little cocktail ‘Those people . . . who have ig- ed the legality of it and feel like chic to be message and party doing this will get the m e peon something for nothing, and tluf been compounded by the fact up until now it was very difficulii point out to anyone that there was specific law that covered the theft cable services,” he said. Arnold said many cable operaicrj intend to allow people to pay upon; “no-questions-asked basis” if tfej come forward before the law tal effect Dallas pays $1 million in discrimination suit Associated Press DALLAS — A federal judge has approved a settlement under which the city of Dallas will distribute $1 million to about 300 current and for mer black city employees. The workers, who are due the payments by July 25, contended they were underpaid or denied promo tions because of racial discrimina tion. Assistant City Attorney Gary Keane said the suit probably was cn settlem The city of Dallas employs about 14,000 workers. The settlement, which was ap proved Monday, is among the larg est paid by the city in a discrimina tion suit, an attorney for the workers said. The class-action suit was filed in 1981 by six employees of the city’s Equipment Services Department, ' ' ch i ’ which maintains city vehicles. among the largest such settlements the city has made, but he did not have exact figures to compare it with. The suit claimed that workers were victims of institutionalized dis crimination against blacks. U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders approved a plan to distrib ute the $1 million, a figure agreed upon late last year. Some of the indi vidual awards will be as high as $20,000, Albright said. The city also pledged in the set tlement to discontinue the use of written tests and education require ments for determining promotions in several jobs and to end pay dis crimination. The city also agreed to promote 29 blacks within the Equipment Services Department by 1987. What’s up Wednesday CHRISTAINS ON CAMPUS: is meeting at noon in 305 Rud der to have fellowship and Bible study, concerning the as cension of Christ. ART FILM SOCIETY; is having an organizational meetingai 7:45 p.m. in the MSC lounge to discuss the fall program. CREENPEACE: is meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder. MSC GROVE 85: presents “Hanky Panky” at 8:30 p.m. in The Grove. Admission is $1 with a student ID and $1.50 for non-students. HOU Coach 1 ready sa ter-of-fa “Larr tant to c bell dea< But ( Al Robe pre-traii ence Ire though needed. “Hug as exciu Flailii head, 1 done a ■we n: TY!”’ With away f Footbal second Oiler c< concerr riarty. The season, Roberta Thursday MSC GROVE 85: pres* :ms “Footloose” at 8:30 p.m. at The Grove. Admission is $1 with a student ID and $1.50for non-students. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three days prior to de sired publication date. Doctors assess Reagan’s chance of recovery Associated Press NEW YORK — The estimate that President Reagan has a better than 50 percent chance of being cured of his colon cancer was based partly on standard medical rankings of the tu mor’s invasion and the appearance of its cells says a medical official. Dr. Steven Rosenberg of the Na tional Cancer Institute says outside experts were conservative in making that assessment on the president’s condition. Rosenberg, chief of surgery at the institute and one of the president’s doctors, said the cancerous polyp was a “Dukes B” growth that was “moderately well differentiated.” Differentiation is the extent to which a tumor’s cells, under a micro scope, resemble normal cells from wherever the tumor was found. The greater the resemblance, the less chance some cancerous cells had es caped to other parts of the body be fore the growth was removed. The Dukes rating refers to a clas sification system established in 1932 by English pathologist Cuthbert E. Dukes. It measures the extent of invasion by a cancer in the colon or rectum. Authorities give these general de scriptions to the different categories. An “A” lesion means the cancer is in the colon’s innermost layers. The inside lining of the colon is called the mucosa where colon cells secrete and absorb fluids. Some authorities con sider a cancer that has barely in vaded the surrounding muscle to be in this category. In a “B” lesion, like Reagan’s, the cancer has invaded the muscles across and along the colon that con tract to keep its contents moving. It may include invasion of the serosa, the tough, fibrous covering of the colon. In a “C” lesion, the cancer has broken through the serosa and es caped to lymph nodes. The cure rate falls as the extent of invasion climbs because of increas ing chance for spread of the cancel About 95 percent of patieisl whose cancers were removed whilfl confined to the thin inside liningtij main cured for five years, whilea cers that have gone deeper but t broken through the outer surfaced the colon have about a 65 toSOpei idru cent rate, says Dr. Thomas Hendrii chief of gastroenterology at Job Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Cancers that have broken freeo: the colon and spread to lymph node have only about a 20 percent to percent cure rate, he says. Ifthecan cer has spread to the liver, few pa tients live five years, Hendrix says. “Chi! by C Stock prices respond to president's health Associated Press NEW YORK — Stock prices swept ahead to new highs in active trading Tuesday after the market responded calmly to the latest news on Presi dent Reagan’s health. The Dow Jones average of 30 in dustrials climbed 12.43 to 1,347.89, topping the record closing high of 1,338.60 it set last Friday. Several other, broader market measures also rose to new peaks. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange stepped up to 132.50 mil lion shares from 103.92 million Monday. Wall Street passed a bull-market landmark when Wilshire Associates’ index of 5,000 stocks reached $2 tril lion for the first time, rising $19.5 billion to $2,015 trillion. Just after the market closed on Monday, doctors reported that a polyp they had removed from the President’s colon was cancerous. But they also said they found no evidence that the malignancy had spread. They estimated the chances of no recurrence of the cancer to be better than 50 percent. On Tuesday, Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said, “There are no complications on the President’s road to recovery.” Finan cial analysts said investors were heartened by reports of Reagan’s rapid recovery f rom his surgery. However, they also observed that the situation raised some uncertainty about prospects for legislative action on measures being pushed by the President to narrow the federal bud get deficit and overhaul the tax sys tem. earnings, but the company h h those c given advance warning of cumstances, and analysts said inve tors generally were relieved than' news wasn’t worse. At the same time, Wall Streeters were looking ahead to congressional testimony today and Thursday by Chairman Paul Volcker of the Fed eral Reserve, for possible signs of the future course of the Fed’s credit pol icy and interest rates. International Business Machines climbed 3 to 128'A. On Monday IBM reported lower second-quarter As they studied IBM’s quarter! report in detail, some analysts ot eluded that the company’s outlool for the second half of the yearanJ beyond was improving. Point-plus gains were cornmoi among other computer and techno! ogy stocks. Digital Equipment rost 3% to 99 3 /8; Texas Instruments! 99Vi; Hewlett-Packard VA to Wk Data General IV4 to S8V2, and roughs 1% to 59%. MW hi m i & oot PREPARE FOR: GRE PSYCH Call 696-3196 for Details 707 Texas Ave. 301-C In Dallas: 11617 N. Central Expwy. BEST MOVE IN TOWN! FREE Rent in Aug.! 2 br $415 Bills paid FREE partial furniture The comfort of soft contacts, at a very Soft contacts comfortable price, f of the doctor’s prescription.Their flexible design makes them comfortable almost from the moment you slip them on. And the price fits right into your budget, too. 3S& SI Texas State Optical: Bry.n 214 N. 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