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If you have any questions about e.p.t., call us toll free 1-800-562-0266. In New Jersey, call collect (201)540-2458. e.p.t. The first and most trusted name in pregnancy testing. Introducing new e.p.t.® stick test. Page 6/The Battalion/Monday, October 26, 1987 Smith to head Bush campaign in local area Bring i State Rep. Richard Smith en dorses Vice President George Bush for the upcoming presidential race and is responsible for directing Bush’s local campaign in a six- county area, primarily southern Texas, Smith said Friday. “I have been appointed to serve on the National Steering Committee for George Bush,” Smith said. “I also have agreed to serve as a regional di rector for Bush in a six-county area, which includes Robertson, Madison, Brazos, Grimes, Leon and Mont gomery Counties.” Smith will appoint chairmen from each of the six counties to help him in his campaign work, he said. Smith said Bush is the most qual ified candiate of all the Republicans running. “Vice President Bush is the only candidate in the race who has expe rience not only in foreign affairs, through his ambassadorships and through his United Nations work, but he also has inside information and experience in the area of na tional security, which is a very im portant Field for a president, as re cent events have shown us,” he said. Smith’s First task is to get enough signatures on a petition to have Bush’s name put on the March 8 Re publican primary ballot, he said. “We are not looking at any Demo cratic opposition at this point," he said. “Our goal is, as Jackie Sherrill said, ‘to win them one at a time.’ Our first goal is to win the primary.” MSC Council to discuss fall activities The MSC Council will discuss planned activities and debate the MSC budget at 7:30 p.m. Mon day in 216-T MSC. Linda Hartman, council presi dent, said she foresees the council asking for an increase in funds in the new budget, which is due Nov. 6. The members of the council also will discuss plans for the fall retreat on Nov. 1, Hartman ail This retreat will include plannim for the MSC. Anyone involwjj with the MSC is welcome to pail Northc 846-9; tiopate. The council also will plan!# MSC Promotion Day, which Nov. 11, she said. The purposei: this event is to notify tne stude: body of committees thatareope for membership. Women get chance to ask men for date in 'Switch off for kickoff For those women at T exas A&M who have their eye on a certain male Aggie but don’t want to break tradi tional sex roles and ask him out, the A&M Traditions Council is offering them the opportunity this week. Sponsoring an event known as “Switch off for kickoff,” the council is urging Aggie women to take the initiative and ask a guy to the Oct. 31 A&M-Louisiana Tech University football game. To enhance the role reversal, the council will sell bouton nieres at the MSC this week for the women to buy for their dates. In its sixth year, the switch-off game could be considered an Aggie tradition. If boutonniere sales in the past are an indication of partici pation in the switch-off event,b A&M women aren’t afraid to give a try, council chairman MikeDnr, cek said. Dvo racek said if couples want carry on the role reversal for dies tire weekend they should feel fret do so. T he council didn't plains other activities to go along with, switch off, though, because thege is to be played on Halloween is there will be many other ewt going on that night, he said. Dvoracek had some advice k women interested in participant; the event. “They better ask quick; theyvtj to pick up their tickets earlv,' said. Inmate dies during attemp to escape down bed sheets TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — A Bowie County prisoner who tried to climb down the Bi-State Justice id Building on bed sheets died after falling to the pavement, authorities said Sunday. A second inmate from Miller County, Ark., broke both legs when he fell during the escape at about 8 p.m. Saturday, said Sgt. Bob Page of the Miller County Sheriffs Depart ment. Don Johnson, a Texarkana, Ark., policeman, said it appeared that the sheets separated, plunging the pris oners to the ground. Page said names of the prisoners would not be released until their rel atives are notified. Sheriff Thomas Hodge said the prisoner who died was being held on a burglary charge and recently had been returned to Bowie County on a warrant. Miller County authorities said the injured prisoner was arrested in Fouke, Ark., on charges of disor derly conduct, hot checks, fleeing a police officer and felony theft. Prisoners from both counties are housed at the jail, which straddles the Arkansas-Texas line. Hodge said the prisoners appar ently had forced open a fourth-floor window to escape. Authorities did not know fallen. how far the men a Gary Owen, chief deputyinBm County said the injured prisoner arrested a short distance from jail and was taken to St. Mick Hospital. Hodge said employees of thti kansas Department of Coneffl which has offices in the jail, ha glass breaking and went outs# where they found the BowieComt prisoner. Owen said the prisoner was non need dead at the hospital i about 9 p.m. Wa leat be \ mal BA, of b vari The the ben mq sibl If yc Plat Dep Police suspend officer for ‘being a dummy,’ not getting job done DALLAS (AP) — A traffic officer was suspended after only four days on the job for being a dummy who didn’t get the job done, police said. Recruited from the Dallas Police Department’s corps of first-aid man nequins, the officer sat quietly in a parked patrol car as a speeding de terrent. Motorists weren’t fooled. “They were slowing down, but as soon as they got past, they figured the danger was over,” Capt. W.R. Patterson of the traffic division said. Dallas City Councilman John Evans suggested the ploy and the de partment used it in three locations last week. “Every time I see a police car, I slow down,” Evans said. Evans figured the dummy officer would be cheaper than the real thing and have the same effect. But Patterson is not so sure. Mo torcycle officers waiting down the street had to issue 91 citations before they convinced the speeders the dummy was serious, he said. The mannequin did catch motor ists’ attention, Patterson said. “One woman circled it three times,” he said. “I expected someone to call in and complain he wouldn’t talk or wave, but that didn’t hap pen.” Police are contemplating a second chance for the dummy, but will wait until its fame dims before putting it back on the streets, Patterson said. Arlington police tried a version of the idea in 1986, but met with little success. The Arlington department parked an empty patrol car along several city streets, and the number of accidents seemed to drop, police Lt. Travis Moore said. But the pro ject wasted valuable time, he said. “It became a headache getting the cars out to the locations, set them up and bring them back in,” Moore said. Group WOlk to lock up occult books! SAN ANTONIO (AP)-il anti-occult group says "how-isj books on becoming a should be locked up in school [ braries and Halloween cui»| should not be in classrooms. Members of Exodus, wlMi sponsored a weekend confemj on occult-related crimes, sajtt Oct. 31 holiday is a pagan t«i| tion with satanic links tot abuse, teen suicide and murdtt | “One of our goals is tot Halloween from the schools 4 cause it is actually Samhainjl highest event in the witchos tilj endar,” Yvonne Peterson, b| dus founder, said. Peterson said her groupvfflfl measures to stop children frill checking out witchcraft bool without parental permission, Gerry Goldstein, the gen counsel of the Texas CivilLibo ties Union, said Exodusisf tough fight if it tries to blockC® stitutional rights. Hold Amigos! Come by for FAJITA RITA’S new Fiesta Night Drink Specials 7-CLOSE MONDAY $T 5 Margaritas Mucho Grande TUESDAY $1 25 All Mexican Beer WEDNESDAY $2° on the rocks Gold Marge# GC TEX/ QU/ Ol Wl FC B> Ar ITI Happy Hour 4 p.m.-7 p.m every night Mon.-Thurs. 11 a.m. midnight Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m.-l am Sun. 11 a.m.-IQ pm S j