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CALL 693-9393 Strikers at nuclear site defend tests, want ratal o> cco jjjk row MERCURY, Nev. (AP) — The striker paced a road leading to the entrance of the nation’s nuclear test ing grounds, tugged a jacket around her to ward off the crisp morning air and bristled at the idea that her cause was anti-nuclear. “We don’t want their support,” Loraine Faulkner said, referring to anti-nuclear protesters who have tried for a decade to halt testing at the sprawling Nevada Test Site. “We’re not here to cut off nuclear testing,” he said. Test site workers had become vo cal counter-demonstrators at anti nuclear protests here in recent months, singing “God Bless Amer ica,” jeering peace activists and car rying signs reading “Keep Testing” and “Remember Pearl Harbor.” But, on this recent morning, the strikers were jeering those who en tered the site to continue work on the testing program. Striking Culinary Union workers and bus drivers say they’ve been able to achieve what the protesters have failed to do — sidetrack the testing program. Energy Department offi cials, charged with conducting that program, disagree. They plan to prove that point this morning with tne detonation of a nuclear weapon with up to 12 times the explosive punch of the Hiro shima bomb. Such tests are scheduled months in advance. The strikers believe their efforts have met with some success. John Pernice, a line captain for the Culinary Union, says there were two tests scheduled for September. There are reports one of them, a tunnel shot code-named Mission Cyber, was postponed this week be cause of the strike. Tunnel tests often are carried out for the Defense Nuclear Agency and often are related to research for President Reagan’s Strategic De fense Initiative program. Energy Department spokesman Chris West has refused to confirm whether a test was postponed, saying only that “We've had some schedule changes" because of the strike. Only major events, such as today’s shot, are announced in advance. Striking bus drivers who transport workers to the desert site set up picket lines in mid-August. The 61 > Culinary workers who provide fotnl services at the site followed Sept. 15. Some 2,800 union workers have honored Culinary picket lines since the union, Nevada’s largest, walked a? 12 m E | 5 out alter failing to negoteS contrac t with the site's largs tractor, Reynolds Electrical si gineering Co. Contracts cxpn nine other unions Oct. 1. r 0) g(/J The strikers are losing day in pay, the DOE repons The union workers art 8,300 Southern Nevadans* at the site. They include steelworiei workers, Teamsters andot volved in preparing venic and mines in which nudean tests are conducted. Culinary workers are set an hour raise this year and cent increase each of thee years. Steve I^on, a spokei: REECo, said Culinary wort rently earn $8 to $11 an hour Talks between REECo i nary workers resumeSunri; ro t ro ro £ h No RE EC sit Wo The offer The nanen talks are scheduled > and the Amalgarra kers in the busstnkt 121 bus drivers rt: to cut their work • ala lies from $560;: company has sincei. t replacement driven 3 brothers exposed to AIDl welcome in new tom SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Three brothers whose exposure to AIDS made them pariahs in their rural hometown enrolled in a new school Wednesday without incident and with a hesitant welcome from school mates and parents. Deputies patrolled the grounds at Gocio Elementary School. And offi cials reported that 120 of the 615 pupils stayed home. Up to a dozen pupils were withdrawn. The usual absentee rate is about 3 percent. But the day had encouraging mo ments for the Rays — 10-year-old Ricky, Robert, 9, and Randy, 8. Ricky found welcome cards on his desk, said Clifford Ray, the boys’ fa ther. After school, acting Principal Lee Goose said: “We had a super day, A- OK across the board.” The boys’ mother, Louise said, “Everything was positive. One of (the boys) said they had to assign seats in the lunchroom because ev eryone wanted to sit next to them.” The boys attended school in Arca dia for a week under federal court order. A boycott that emptied classes and telephone threats were made against tne school and family. They left Arcadia after an Aug. 28 fire gutted their home. The DeSoto County sheriffs department said Tuesday that the fire was arson but said it was “definitely not related" to the community furor. The Ray family moved to Sarasota because school hoard policy allows children exposed to AIDS to attend school if they pose no threat to chil dren and are undergoing medical treatment. Charles Fowler, Sarasota County Schools superintendent, said he has asked the state Legislature for a statewide policy, “so you don’t end up with parents being shuttled from county to county, looking for a pol icy.” The Ray boys are “still a little gun shy of school because of what’s hap pened," and will receivecottsi Ray said. T he boys gave a shy w: 1 porters outside the school day hut waved off questions | ScIkkiI officials had b«:| cerned about reaction froiui in Sarasota, but the enrollrel place without incident, i school, some parents protffi Rays’ move to Sarasota sdioot- "The Rays are holta their civil rights," said Til worth, who didn’t let hiset go to school. “But they are violatingo rights by shoving their tl down our throats," he said will turn violent. Thev’llend; another Arcadia if they’rew ful.” Others disagreed. Rosa Lampnier said,“life any problem with itatall.MfS eczema and asthma and f could also be afraid of him. Town residents protest move of post office from historical square HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — For the first time since the civil rights era, there is social upheaval in this northern Mississippi commu nity, and sign-toting residents are again demonstrating angrily in the historical town square. Officials, it seems, want to move the post office. Many of the protesters, from the ranks of the Garden Club and the Bells and Books Club, say they’ve never participated in such activities before. But the proposal to build a new post office on a two-lane high way on the outskirts of this farming community “needs a drastic re sponse,” said Nadine Callicutt, 80. “We’re not going to give up,” said Callicutt, who helped gather 2,000 signatures on a petition against the move and formed a placard-carrying picket line outside the office Sept 11. Others, however, complain of tra ffic problems near the 51-year-old white postal building, which is on the Register of National Historic Places, and say it needs more space. Alderman Bart Tomlinson, whose mother-in-law owns a 3-acre site be ing considered by the postal service, said he has collected 500 signatures in favor of the move. Junior Mitchell, who owns a laun dromat, video rental shop and pack age liquor store near the new site and supports the move, said, “Pro gress is something people have been trying to fight here ever since there was a Holly Springs.” Bryan Pease of the U.S. Postal Service’s real estate division in Mem phis, Tenn., said the service needs a building about twice as large as the present one, which is about 250 square feet, and a site about six times as large for postal trucks and on-site parking. He said the present building could not be renovated without damaging its original architecture. But postal officials are consid ering keeping “some postal func tion” on the square, Pease said. The town square was also the scene of civil rights demonstrations in 1964 and 1965, local officials said. Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 Prices rise 0.5 percert in August WASHINGTON! sumer prices rose Dipt 1 August, their biggest inf eight months, as stilkel) energy costs and higher j| expenses swamped a tin) ^ in grocery prices, thego'Tj-i Jv reported Wednesday. w i The increase in the L tsef partment’s consumer pn li lK — equivalent to an an/inim ( inflation of 5.8 percen 1 ' Al lowed a modest 0.2 pert (I J ul y- , Many economists if I- 1 that the August jump rary and overstated thf !l c[_ flation rate. IS • Analysts generally W pi < earlier predictions of inffiK J the 4 percent to 4.5 P er(t pi for the year. E , The August inert 1 ** J sharpest since a 0.7 pertf*m t in December, was pactf 1 § - ther increases in energ)^Ir ^ eluding a 3.1 percent* p?' gasoline prices, percent rise the monthWj •< -fe Jo AGGIE SCRAMBLE GOLF TOURNAMENT At Texas A&M Golf Course Sponsored by WHAT: 4 person scramble 20 team maximum limit $100 per team WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 26 7:00 - Registration 8:00 - Play Begins PRIZES: 1st $300 gift certificate 2nd $200 gift certificate 3rd $ 100 gift certificate Applications available at Golf Course or 223