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Austin American-Statesman UT tenure denial 'Dirty words' allowed The Board of Texas Student Publications overturns a ruling that UTs Daily Texan could not use so-called 'dirty words' in its editions. Page E20. CI Associate professor Armando Gutierrez, who was denied tenure at the University of Texas, takes his case to the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund. Page B2. Wednesday, April 25, 1979 B1 station sears mike kelley tystate New' 'TV for action "We have every reason to believe we should" receive the license, he said.

Initially, KLRN and KLRU will offer the same programming. The new transmitter, however, will allow much clearer reception for persons in parts of Austin and north of the city. Eventually, the broadcasting council hopes to exchange the current KLRN transmitter near New Braunfels for one in San Antonio, to improve service to viewers there, also. annual TV auction. Both public stations are to be operated by the Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council.

However, before that can happen, the Federal Communication Commission has to grant the broadcasting council license for the new channel. Despite KLRN's serious troubles in recent months, including a complaint of fraud filed with the FCC, Willett said the station's Washington attorneys don't anticipate any prolems getting the license. KLRU-Channel 18, the new sister station to KLRN, went on the air Tuesday night and the station's chief engineer said everything seems to be working fine. Of course, the programming wasn't too exciting. It was just a test pattern, put on to demonstrate how the system works and what the reception is like.

N.L. Willett, chief engineer for KLRN and KLRU, said station officials hope to put the new channel on the air "for real" May 4, in time to kick off the broadcasting council's TV steals show from Capitol 3 more cases of hepatitis are reported It Sun Prxxot ay Zadi Ryal Sit: 4 7 tM j- -t 'Just a scrimmage' Jesus Moya, above, one of the leaders of the recent onion field workers' strike in Raymondville, told University of Texas students at a campus rally Tuesday that the strike was 'just a scrimmage' in the farmworkers' fight for better wages and working conditions. The rally was called by the Mexican-American Youth Organization (MAYO), which will also sponsor a march today from the campus to the Capitol in support of House Bill 227. That bill would give farmworkers collective bargainingand unionization rights. About 50 people attended the rally.

By TRACY CORTESE American-Statesman Stall School health officials have reported three more cases of infectious hepatitis at Becker Elementary School, bringing to 51 the number of reported cases in Austin schools since last September. Seven of those cases occurred in a first grade class at Becker, and health officials say they are expecting more cases to be reported before the school year ends, just over a month away. "It would seem that there probably will be some more," predicted Herma Dawson, director of health services for the" Austin Independent School District. The school district has sent letters to parents informing that one of their child's classmates has the disease, but Dawson said another letter will be sent to parents of children in the classroom where Friday's cases occured. The letter will urge families to receive gamma globulin shots from a private physician or from the Austin-Travis County Health Department.

The health department has been investigating the Becker cases, trying to find a link that would identify the source of the disease, said Betty Vick-ers, coordinator of communicable diseases. But, she said, "Sometimes you never find the source." Health officials mostly are concerned that children, who usually exhibit only light hepatitis symptoms, will infect adults. Vickers said the disease is more serious in adults, especially young adults. "That's the biggest problem right there children are real good disseminators because of their hygiene or lack of it. They're just not real good at things like washing their hands," Vickers said.

"The virus is found in the stool and that means that adequate hygiene will take care of it washing your hands after you go to the bathroom," she said. Early hepatitis symptoms are similiar to the flu headache, rundown feeling, fatigue and fever. Later symptoms include nausea and vomiting, ab- dominal discomfort or pain, dark-colored urine and yellowed skin. The health department has answered many calls from individuals concerned they will contract the disease because they shared a cigarette or a drink, Vickers said, adding that such casual contacts or the use of common toilet facilities is not enough to become infected. Austin's only ice rink to stay open It is only remotely possible that someone really has gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

It is certain that that someone was not an oil company or a television network. While you and I are lining up to pay for 72-cent gasoline on Sundays, Exxon is reporting first-quarter profits up 37 percent over last year. But, I am not about to walk three blocks when I can drive it any sooner than you are, so see you at the pumps. THE TRULY AMAZING thing is not what we'll pay for gas, but what we will accept coming out of that glowing, cathode ray tube in the living room. That we will sit there, benumbed by the incomprehensible puerility of "The Incredible Hulk" or the infinite inanity of "Laverne and Shirley" or (he said, his breathing growing heavy now and his eyes glowing coal-like) the insulting degradation of "The Gong Show" is testimony to the sad news that McLuhan's "electronic global village" is peopled largely by village idiots.

But maybe there is hope. Maybe this time they have gone too far. Maybe what they've got in store for us is going to be so finally, absolutely, screamingly repugnant that, with one great primeval howl, we are going to seize the nearest pick-ax or pop-up toaster and destroy the beast in Us living-room lair. (Now, okay, that may have been a little purple, but how often do you get to use Ladies and gentlemen, from ABC, the same network that brought you "Battle of i the Super Non-Entities" come two brand-new, prime-time turkeys calculated to fry the brain of Buckminster Fuller. ARE THE ABC Monday Night Double Feature for the coming week.

J' First, having the raw temerity to glop Wjp the innards of your multithousand-dol-lar, color console, is "Beach Patrol." Set your mind to "breathless," which is how the press releases on these felo-" niously nitwit shows are written. 'Beach policewoman Jan Plunimer, an ex-narcotics officer, is a newly assigned member of a special police team patrolling the coastline in dune buggies. How did they get the whole coastline in those little, tiny dune buggies?) When her partner is shot (oh, damn) and seriously wounded (whew!) the officers are puzzled about the unprovoked attack (hmmm) until Jan (hey. hey, hey) spots a fugitive drug kingpin (Aha!) and realizes she is targeted for murder (oh, damn)." YOU WILL WANT to watch that one if only to see Panchito Gomez starring as "the wild boy." Lucan was reared by wolves, so Panchito was probably brought up by sand dollars trying to cope with inflation. Anyway, stick around, folks, for "Samurai." "When a land-grabbing tycoon threatens San' Francisco with a machine that causes earthquakes, Lee Cantrell, a young' assistant district attorney, calls upon his skills in the martial arts in "Lee is the son of wealthy socialite Hana Mitsubishi Cantrell and the late General Cantrell.

He is deeply versed in Oriental philosophy (Great. More "gras-shoppah" lines.) and daily practices the martial arts with Takeo Chisato, the family's majordomo. Lee discovers that Amory Bryson, one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, is systematically destroying neighborhoods for a private land-renovation project. When the courts prove ineffective in stopping Bryson (Suit up-the the young attorney dons Samurai garb (feeling foolish as hell), straps on his sword and does battle with the tycoon's goon squads." This is the only one-two punch I can imagine that will require watching the Texas Legislature for a couple of hours to snap back into reality. By DAVID FRINK American-Statesman Staff Austin area ice skaters can stop worrying.

Northcross Mall officials have decided not to shut down the only ice skating rink in town. "We didn't think anyone cared. When we found out what a difference it (the ice rink) made, we decided to keep it open," said Rick Evans, vice president of the Rouse owner of Northcross Mall. Company officials had been considering closing the rink since the Northcross management took over its operation from Ice Capades Co. in January.

Early last month, it appeared the rink, known as the Ice Age, would be closed permanently April 30, when its contract with the Northcross Figure Skating Club for ice time terminated. Mall officials at that time said the square feet of area the rink occupied in the mall could be more profitably used as additional retail space. They also said the rink was not, and had never been, a profitable operation. Since then, however, various groups have circulated petitions asking the mall to keep the rink open, and an unsigned, but heavily circulated flyer called for picketing of the mall. The picketing never materialized.

In the meantime, Evans said, mall offi cials noted a "turnaround financially" in the rink's operation. "As long as we can keep it a successful retail venture, we'll keep it," he said. That news is bound to keep Austin's several hundred serious ice skaters quite happy since the Ice Age is the only ice rink in Central Texas. In fact, the nearest rink is in the Galleria Shopping Center in Houston. The rink will still be closed down Monday, but only for a week and a half, Evans said, to give it some "typical maintenance.

If we're going to have an ice rink, going to keep it first class," he said. Study suggests lignite burning could pose future radiation risk Af Lillian Ward, 95, right, and left in photo taken at height of her career Tie girl without fear recalls stuntwoman days By BRUCE HIGHT American-Statesman Staff The amount of radioactivity produced by the burning of South Texas lignite may be twice as much as previously estimated and pose a long-term health problem if not dealt with, according to a University of Texas study. "We have a problem: not immediate, but long term," said Dr. Hal Cooper, an associate professor of civil engineering and the environmental studies coordinator of the UT Center for Energy Studies. "It is my opinion that while these levels (of radiation) are below acceptable levels, we are not safe for all time," Cooper said.

Much of the research was carried out by his assistant, PrabhatBarghava. The two researchers, using the federal standard for allowable radiation levels near nuclear power plants, estimated the radiation that would be produced by the San Miguel lignite power plant (about 50 miles south of San Antonio) and the J.T. Dealy coal plant at the Alamo City. While the federal standard for nuclear power plants permits an individual to receive a maximum of 5 millirems a year, the San Miguel plant may give the same person about 8.9 millirems a year, the researchers said. The coal plant figure would be about 4.1 millirems.

Previous studies indicated a South Texas lignite plant would cause an individual to receive about 5.1 millirems over the entire body In a year's time. A person taking a chest X-ray will absorb about 10 millirems, and Cooper said radiation levels at these amounts are not an immediate hazard to public health. The long-term danger, Cooper said, is that radioactive material released by the smokestacks of the lignite and coal power plants will eventually enter the body and lodge in certain organs, particularly the bone marrow. For example, he said, the maximum allo-wage dosage in the bone marrow for a person living near the nuclear power plant is 15 millirems a year. But his study indicates someone living near a lignite power plant would absorb 83.9 millirems a year.

Over a period of years, he said, that amount of accumulating dosages can lead to serious health problems, such as leukemia. Cooper said the data was based on work by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and on figures available from the San Miguel lignite plant. Actual measurement of radioactivity from lignite and coal power plants is not available, Cooper said. But, he added, figures were gleaned from reports of how much uranium is contained in the lignite and coal that is being burned. Much more research is needed to determine the extent of the problem, Cooper said.

With the cost of uranium continuing to climb, he said, it may not only be good for the public health to remove the radioactive particles from burning lignite and coal, but to separate and process it for sale. say to myself, 'Lillian, don't be an old fool and fall all over So I just don't try it anymore. I let the nurses help me when I try to walk," said Ward. Sixty years ago, Ward was one of the most sought-after stuntwomen in the movie industry. One major producer of the era called her, "the best stuntwoman of the East." She doubled for virtually all of the big stars, including a few men, and commanded $150 a day, not a bad wage in the pre-inflation days.

"We made big money at the time. We thought it was big money, anyway," See Ward, B5 By GREG THOMPSON Associated Press SAN ANTONIO They called her "The Girl Without Fear." In the days of the silent movies, it was nothing for her to tumble down stairs, crash locomotives, ride a horse over a cliff But now she doesn't even dare challenge the few slippery feet of linoleum between her nursing home bed and bathroom. After all, Lillian Ward "The Girl Without Fear" -Is 95 years old and rarely leaves her wheelchair. "Sometimes I step down on the slick floor around here and I slip. I hk4 Grill time With outdoor cooking making its spring comeback, you may be In need of something new to try.

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