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{ PHOTO SYSTEMS INCORPORATED % -AND- PARTY PICS * * * * * * | You're in our Parly} o Pics! * Look for us this fall at all Rush and dorm parties. Call early to schedule your events. Re-orders available from Jan. 1984 * * jf 3f * Jf * Page lOrThe Battalion/Tuesday September 3,1985 Sh/p s/te under 13,120 feet Titanic’s wreckage found Associated Press PARIS — A U.S.-French expedi tion has located the wreck of the Ti tanic about 560 miles off Newfound land, a French government institute announced Monday. The British luxury liner struck an iceberg and sank in 1912 with the loss of 1,513 lives. The Institute for Research and Exploitation of the Sea said the wreckage, found in 13,120 feet of water, was identified by the French- made SAR submarine sonar system and American-made ARGO under water cameras. The Titanic, which its owners billed as unsinkable, was bound for New York on its maiden voyage when it went down on the night of April 13-14, 1912. In its announcement, the agency said the French and American insti tutes sponsoring the expedition agreed in advance not to make pub lic statements on the results of the search “unless they were absolutely certain of the facts.” Sunday night, Canada’s commer cial television network CTV broad cast what it said was a ship-to-shore interview with Dr. Robert Ballard, “We came on it (the Ti tanic) early this morning. It was just bang, there it was right on top of it. ,, — Dr. Robert Ballard, an American memhenof the expedition for the Titanic. an American member of the expedi tion, in which he said the team found pieces of the wreck early Sunday about 360 miles south of Newfoundland. According to the conversation broadcast by CTV, Ballard said from the U.S. Navy research ship Knorr: “We came on it early this morning. It was just bang, there it was right on top of it. Our initial reaction was ex citement, then a coming down off that to realize that we had found the ship where 1,500 people had died.” Ballard is associated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu tion in Cape Cod, Mass. Shelley Lau- zon, information manager for the institution, said Monday she was try ing to reach the Knorr to confirm the report. The French agency’s announce ment said it and the Wcxids Hole in stitute would hold simultaneous news conferences about the discov ery, in Paris and Washington, on Sept. 13, with the members of the expedition participating. It did not give the precise location of the wreck, apparently for security reasons. At the time of the disaster, the Ti tanic was the largest and most luxu rious ocean liner ever built. 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In addition to power generation, the lake, on the Oklahoma-Texas border, is used for flood control and municipal water supplies. It is also a source of recreation, with an estimated 12 million people visiting Lake Texoma in 1984. McClain’s group wants congres sional acknowledgment that recre ation is a prime function of the 89,000-acre reservoir and an adjust ment in the way water in the lake is allocated. Recreational boats worth more than $30 million are moored at ma rinas along the shoreline, but the federal law authorizing Lake Texo- ma’s construction nearly 50 years ago does not mention recreation. Because of its many uses, the lake is “up and down like a yo-yo,” Mc Clain said. She said data is being gathered to demonstrate the fortunes of busi nesses around the lake rise and fall with wdter levels. Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 Lake levels rise when the gates are closed to contain its waters from rain-swollen tributaries. The level drops during the hot summer months, when evaporation is cou pled with a peak demand for power and municipal water. While business operators around the lake acknowledge nothing can be done about the rising water levels, they think something could and should be done about the drop. Doyle Davis, president of the Lake Texoma Association, believes what he calls the “senseless drain-off’of the lake for power generation canbt curtailed. He wants Congress to establish 612 feet as the bottom line for pown generation. Under the current st tup, the lake may be drawn down to 590 feet above sea level for power generation and water supply. Steve Cone of the Corps of Engv neers’ office in Tulsa said previous Corps studies have failed to sho* that fluctuations of the lake level ad versely affect lake attendance. Ex-wife writes of life with Presley in book ■ - :. Associated Press NEW YORK — Priscilla Pres ley has broken a long silence on her 14 years with Elvis Presley, saying he “molded me into his woman” after they met. Miss Presley was a 14-year-old ninth-grader when she met Pres ley, already a teen-age heartth- rob, in Wiesbaden, West Ger many, in 1959. Presley was a 24- year-old Army recruit. “Something in his Southern upbringing had taught him that the ‘right’ girl was to be saved for marriage,” Miss Presley writes in. this week’s issue of People mag azine. “I was that girl." “At the same time, he was molding me into his woman," Miss Presley, who plays Jenna Wade on TV’s “Dallas" said. “I wore the clothes, hairstyle and makeup of his careful choosing." The singer, who died in Au gust 1977, was already taking the amphetamine Dexenrine, Miss Presley writes in excerpts from her soon-to-be-published mem oirs, “Elvis and Me.” “He told me he’d begun taking sleeping pills shortly before he'd been drafted. 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