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Wednesday, June 18, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local ■RiEaa-aapsaBgWMrannfifiM U.S. Forest Service starts 'Camp Stamp' By Suzie Brawley Reporter ■There’s no place like home, and with the rise in terrorism around the world many Ameri- Hns have decided to spend their vacation time in the United States this year. ■ For those who enjoy camping, the United States Forest Service just the ticket — or rather the stamp. ■ The forest service has devel- dped a program, called Camp Hamp, to provide discounts and other benefits to campers using am national campgrounds. B Hal Classman, public affairs officer for the U.S. Forest Service in Texas, said in a recent inter view that campers buy the stamps before entering the campgrounds and can use them to pay the campground entrance fee. He said there aren’t enough rangers to station one at every campground entrance, so camp ers are on the honor system to pay the entrance fee. Every campground has enve lopes and a drop-safe at each en trance for campers to place their payment, he said. Classman said the stamps also provide safety for campers. Campers don’t have to put cash in the envelopes and they don’t have to carry as much cash, he said. Cash and checks are still ac cepted by the U.S. Forest Service, but the use of the stamps pro vides another major benefit: Classman said campers pay only 15 percent of the face value of each stamp and the stamps are available in denominations of 50 cents, $1, $2, and $3. The program has been used on a trial basis in some western states for almost a year and has proven successful, he said. Jim Morphew, staff officer of recreation services for the U.S. Forest Service in Texas, said the Camp Stamp program was ini tiated in Texas in early June. “We just put the word out last week,” Morphew said, “and there’s an early indication that the public is seeing the media ef forts and we are having people buy the stamps.” Stamps can be purchased in Texas at the U.S. Forest Service District Ranger offices in Lufkin, Crockett, Apple Springs, San Au gustine, Hemphill,Cleveland and New Waverly. Classman said the stamps have no expiration date and can also be used to pay for recreational ac tivities that require a fee. U.S. Court ruling will force closing of two programs Polish student tells of her Chernobyl fallout experience II WORTH (AP) — The mclogged streets of Joanne ny colie V f ORT ^usually ui ^''Sulc’s tiny college town in Poland wen filled with families trying to prlvent radiation side effects shortly after the Chernobyl nuclear acci dent, the woman said. ^fcwic, a student, said she didn’t know it at the time, but learned the next day of the accident at the nu clear power plant and that radioac tive fallout was drifting through the air. ■pome of it was landing in Bi- alystok, Poland, where Swic was stay ing. “I am a Christian, so I started praying,” she said Monday from Fort Worth, where she is visiting friends. The families she had seen in the street were on their way to receive potassium-iodide pills, a safeguard against Iodine 131, which was pre sent in the Chernobyl cloud. The el ement can cause thyroid cancer or abnormal functioning of the thyroid gland. Although Polish officials did not officially recommend that pregnant women get abortions, several doc tors believed it was a good idea, Swic said. “I have a friend who is pregnant . . . and she was very frightened,” she said. “But she was five months preg nant. Doctors were advising women four months along, or less, get the abortions. “My friend decided against it. She’s probably still f rightened.” Swic was in Bialystok to complete a one-week teaching internship, one of the final requirements for her tea ching degree. “I had to stay,” she said. She nor mally lives in Warsaw, which is fur ther west and received less fallout. She stayed and followed all recom mendations made by Polish media, such as avoiding dairy products and carefully scrubbing all vegetables. Swic, who plans to return to War saw on July 13, said she’s not afraid to go back. AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Youth Commission announced Tuesday it will shut down two pro grams for juvenile delinquents be cause of a recent ruling that forces the commission to pay overtime. The Fairfield camp in Freestone County, which can house up to 40 youths in structures they help build, will close Aug. 15. The commission’s Wilderness Challenge program will be abolished Aug. 3 1. “It is most unfortunate that condi tions beyond the agency’s control have resulted in the phase out of the programs,” said Jerry Day, TYC di rector of community services. The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that overtime payments must be made to state employees who work more than 40 hours a week in child care positions. Overtime payments would add about $150,000 more to the cost of the Fairfield camp, according to Joan Timmons, TYC spokeswoman. The camp’s annual budget is now $821,400. The camp has 32 employees and facilities for 40 children, ages 11-14. It has been in operation for about 10 years, serving youths who engaged in minor criminal behavior or had drug or family problems. The aver age length of stay is about eight months, according to Mike Sebas tian, director of support services at the camp, which is on state prison property. Timmons said the agency is confi dent it can find suitable programs for the youths now at Fairfield. “It doesn’t affect us as much as you might think,” she said. “We con tract with more than 100 different programs. We have a lot of options out there.” The youths will be transferred to programs with which the TYC has contracts for similar services, Tim mons said. Wilderness Challenge is a “diver sionary” program in which counsel ors take groups of up to 10 youths on 30-day wilderness trips in the Big Bend area of Texas, and into New Mexico and Colorado. The counselors are with the youths 24 hours a day. The overtime pay would add up to $70,000 a year for a program that now costs $220,000, according to Timmons. ^ Prof will study chemical war fare at Lake Texoma PRESTON PENINSULA (AP) Dr. Ann Thomas, a legal scholar and ^ risking professor at Southern Meth- odft University’s School of Law, has chosen the serenity of Lake Texoma ist So« tojconduct her research into biologi cal and chemical warfare. »1 his project is only the latest in aragui her lifelong search to understand fthe past and to contribute something , . ofk'alue to the future. ld0r ' M At the age of 7, she became an YYN American citizen and settled on the choice of law as a career. ressn ® . "1 was so impressed with thejudge favor thai day that I decided to become a liras.» lawyer,” she recalls. Born in Middle- burg, Holland, Thomas and her par ents moved to New York City when she was 2 years old. She taught herself to read at age 4, enrolled in college at 16, law school at 20 and earned her law de gree at 22. Holding a doctorate in constitu tional and international law, she has written “Semantics of International Law,” which has been published in at least five different languages. As a lawyer, Thomas has been in the Foreign Service with stints South Africa, Holland, England and Spain. In Johannesburg, South Africa, she served as vice consul of labor. Al though times then were untroubled, Thomas says she understands why that nation now suffers so much tur moil. “I enjoyed South Africa,” she re calls, “At that time, before the na tionalists got in, (Prime Minister Christian) Smutz was working to to tally integrate society. After he died, the nationalists took control . . . The nationalists are ultra, ultra conserva tive and that’s why they (the South African nation) are the way they are today. “It’s so very, very hard for these people who are so fanatical . . . old testamentally. They are more dan gerous than the nuclear bomb.” During World War II, Thomas served at The Hague in Holland. It was a “sad job,” she recalls, notifying Dutch families when their relatives were combat casualties. “When I came in, everything was stripped,” she recalls. The Germans had even confiscated wiring, leaving the country without electricity. “Dead children were laying on the street . . . they died of starvation,’ Thomas says. “Americans dropped a lot of food but the Germans said they would kill the people if they took it.” Eventually, Thomas moved back to the U.S. “The Foreign Service is an almost rootless existence,” she said. And, after nine years of separa tion, she and her college sweetheart, A.J. Thomas, married and joined the faculty at SMU. He eventually became dean of the law school, and their happy visits to Lake Texoma convinced her to retire here. During their 34 years of marriage, the couple wrote 13 books together and helped organize an interna tional lawyers program now recog nized as second only to Harvard. Now widowed, she isn’t ready for the rocking chair at age 66. 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