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SOUTH COAST
AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
California's largest regional air pollution control agency has entry-level
positions open for:
Chemical Engineer* Metallurgical Engineers Mechanical Engineers
Environmental Engineers Petroleum Engineers
The salary range Is from $30,751 to $38,095 per year.
Excellent Advancement Opportunities
The South Coast Air Quality Management District operates the most
comprehensive air pollution control program in the nation. We have the
primary responsibility for controlling air pollution from more than
17,900 industrial and commercial facilities.
District engineers conduct source test and technical reviews of state-of-
the-art air pollution control projects for virtually every type of industry.
Our jurisdiction includes many of the nation's major petroleum
refineries, power plants, chemical industries, metallurgical industries,
resource recovery plants, and aerospace industries.
The District's headquarters is located east of downtown Los Angeles, and
within an hour's drive of Southern California's world-famous beaches,
mountains, Hollywood, Disneyland, and the Rose Bowl.
For more information, contact the Career Placement Office. We will be
on campus during the week of October 17, 1988.
An Equal Employment Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer
Minorities and females are encouraged to apply.
THEY'RE BACK
BAR-B'Q
All You Can Eat
Dinner Special
Tuesday:
Fajita night!
Beef fajitas with all
the fixin's.
Party Packs for 3 to 30 people,, quick, convenient
and affordable.
Culpepper Plaza 693-4054
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Freshmen and Sophomores
September 12-30
Juniors and Seniors Vets, Meds and Grads
Octobers—28 October 17—21
1989 Aggieland
Yearbook Associates
401C University
Above Campus Photo
846-8856
8:30 a.m. — 5:00 p.m.
Monday through Friday
Contracts for recognized student organizations are available in the club
mail boxes in the Student Finance Center and in 230 Reed McDonald.
Late contracts will be accepted until Friday Sept. 30.
Texas poll
favors Bush
over Dukakis
What’s Up
Monday
FORT WORTH (AP) — Texans
favor Republican George Bush for
president by a 10-point margin,
according a to a poll released Sun
day, which also seems to indicate
that top-of-the-ticket choices are mo
tivating voter preferences.
The vice president leads his Dem
ocratic rival, Massachusett’s Michael
Dukakis, with support from 50.6
percent of 1,443 likely voters sur
veyed for the Fort Worth Star-Tele
gram and WFAA-TV, Dallas.
Dukakis received support from
40.7 percent of the voters surveyed
in the poll, which was taken Sept. 17-
20. About 8.7 percent of the voters
surveyed were undecided.
With a margin of error of 2.6 per
cent, Bush’s nearly 10 percent lead
in Texas was pronounced “very
good news” by his campaign’s Texas
spokesman.
“The message is getting out loud
and clear throughout Texas that
George Bush is a conservative Texan
and Michael Dukakis is a liberal poli
tician from Massachusetts,” spokes
man Reggie Bashur said.
But Dukakis’ Texas campaign
manager, Tom Cosgrove, said he be
lieved the momentum would return
to the Democratic campaign after
the presidential candidates debate in
North Carolina Sunday night.
The poll also indicates Texas vot
ers aren’t letting their presidential
choice be influenced by the vice
presidential candidates, Texas Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen and Indiana Sen.
Dan Quayle.
“It’s the top of the ticket that is
driving the outcome,” Frank New
port, the Houston pollster who con
ducted the survey, said. “Bentsen is
not helping Dukakis . . . and Quayle
is not a significant factor.”
GREEN EARTH SOCIETY: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 704 Rudder.
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT: will have a
for everyone interested in joining external affairs at 8:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN: will meet to organize semester
events and elect officers at 8:30 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
INTRAMURALS: entries open for tennis singles, golf doubles and weightlifting
at 8 a.m. in 159 Read.
DEBATE SOCIETY: will have tryouts for the first semester debate "Should The
Last Temptation of Christ 1 be banned from A&M?” at 7 p.m. in 136 Blocker.
POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 607 Rudder.
UPSILON PI EPSILON: will have a pledge meeting and certificate distributional
8 p.m. in 128 Zachry.
BLACK GRADUATE STUDENT’S ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. in302
Rudder.
TAMU COLLEGIATE 4-H: will have a pizza party at 7 p.m. at Mama's Pizza.
PHI THETA KAPPA ALUMNI: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 604 Rudder.
SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION: will meet at 7:15 p.m. in 103 Soil and
Crop Sciences.
SPEECH COMMUNICATION SOCIETY: will discuss how to use the Placement
Center at 7 p.m. in 120 Blocker.
Tuesday
AGGIES ABROAD CLUB: Frances Munsey will discuss Japanese cultureal?
p.m. in 604 Rudder.
TAMU HORSEMAN’S ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m. at the Freeman
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 302 Rudder.
PRE MED/PRE DENT SOCIETY: will meet to tour the TAMU Medical School at
7 p.m. in the lobby of the Medical Sciences Building.
TAMU SAILING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in the Military Sciences Building.
TAMU SURF CLUB: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 401 Rudder. For more information
call Hank Townsend at 696-9451.
MSC VARIETY SHOW: will meet at 7 p.m. in 404 Rudder.
TRIATHLON CLUB: Dave Rainey from “Runner and Triathlete News "will speak
about training and racing in Texas at 8 p.m. at the Aerofit health club.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION/ALPHA OMEGA: will meet with slu
dents interested in lay ministry and vocations at 7 p.m. in the student center li
brary.
CATHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION/ON CAMPUS CATHOLICS: will discuss
birth control, the Pill and the rhythm method at 9 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: Ernst and Whmneyrl
offer information on carreers in Data Processing at 7 p.m. at Clayton Williams
Alumni Center.
SPANISH CLUB: will discuss plans for the taco party at 8 p.m. at Mama’s Pizza
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Friends give up search
ror WW if pilot’s body
TEXARKANA (AP) — Forty-Five years after Lt.
Wayland Bennett crashed his plane in a jungle on a
South Pacific island, hometown friends tried but have
given up their effort to recover his body.
An expedition of two women and four men combed
the island of Espiritu Santo, about 1,200 miles north
east of Australia, where Bennett was a pilot in what
later became known as the “Black Sheep” squadron.
After almost two weeks of facing poisonous snakes,
malaria-carrying mosquitoes and spiders the size of sau
cers, the group abandoned the hunt, Robert Bowden,
who organized the search, said.
Natives of the island, the largest in the archipelago
republic of Vanuatu, will continue the project, said
Bowden, who is chairman of the Tri-State chapter of
the American Red Cross and controller for a Texar
kana insurance agency.
“This is like an unfinished book,” Bowden, 65, told
the Dallas Times Herald. “We won’t give up until Way-
land has been buried with his parents in Texarkana.”
Bennett, Bowden, D.A. Carson and Robert Sandlin
grew up as best friends in Texarkana and then went off
to World War II. All returned except for Bennett, who
flew a Corsair fighter in the Marine Corps.
“He was considered a top gunner,” Bowden said.
In 1949, six years after the crash, the militaryoft
dally gave up trying to find Bennett’s body and listedii
“non-recoverable," Bennett said.
But over the years, Bowden said, Bennett’s
hood buddies kept the memory alive.
“Whenever we got together, we felt it was a sham
Wayland’s body was left in the jungle halfway around
the world,” Bowden said.
Bowden got copies of the flight log and accidents
ports, tracking down his squadron commander and
studying the geography and culture of Espiritu Sanii
which measures 70 miles by 35 miles.
Texarkana chiropractor Dan Bookout, a record-set
ting aviator, got involved when Bowden went to!
June for a wrist ailment. During the examination
den mentioned his interest in retrieving Bennett's re
mains.
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Bookout and his wife, Phyllis, were planningasut
mer trip to Australia and offered to detour to Vanuffl
to look for the body, Bowden said.
Bowden established a fund to defray the eslitnitt
$25,000 cost of the expedition.
During a routine training mission on Oct. 22, 1943,
the right wing of Bennett’s plane folded (the wings
were designed to fold up so the planes would take up
less space), and the Corsair plunged with a violent spin
into the jungle of Espiritu Santo.
“The jungle swallowed him as if he had crashed into
the ocean,” Bowden said.
There was no fire or explosion, other pilots said. Al
though they had the coordinates of the crash, the mili
tary was unable to find the wreckage.
The group vised metal detectors and compasses®
their search for the wreckage and turned to Ken Mc&-
wan, a guide and mining exploration engineer on lit
island, for assistance. McGowan employed about30w
lives to help with the search, Bowden said.
Bookout told Bowden by phone Thursday nighttl/
natives led the search party to eight crash sites.
“Three of them had bones and artifacts,” he said
none of the sites involved Bennett’s plane, Bow 1
said.
TAMU BICYCLING CLUB
Tired of struggling to keep up with the pack ? There’s more to cycling than racing!
Tuesday, September 27
8:30 pm 704 Rudder
Recreational riders, tourists, mountainbikers welcome!
For more information call Gordon Powell 696-6599
TECHNICAL PEN SAVINGS PLUS S> SM EDTLER
FREE SCHOOL SUPPLIES
Get this FREE Value Pack of Staedtler school
supplies and reuseable CacheCase worth $12,
when you buy a specially-priced Marsmatic
technical pen set with 7 pens plus ink. Available
now at your college store.
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