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Cut trees for Jesus
People around the world have shown their
devotion to God in many different forms of
worship. And apparently at least one
religious sect feels that instead of praying
one should show his love to Him by chopping
down trees. If this new trend continues,
some lumberjacks may find themselves out
of jobs because people will be volunteering
to cut down trees instead of demanding
money to do it. If Christians worldwide
adopt the new practice, environmentalists
will be spending even more effort to save
our forests.
Student costs going higher
By NEAL KU NIANSKY
Items such as housing, food,
books and alcohol, which
collectively take a bigger bite
out of student expenses than
that heartbreaking tuition
check, will all be more
expensive this fall while tuition
remains the same.
The $15 per quarter increase
in dorm fees voted on by the
Board of Regents last April
will take effect and bring the
cost of a double room to at
least $175. Regent Lamar
Plunkett of the Finance
Committee cited rising power,
utility and labor costs as the
main causes of the nine
percent hike. On the average,
off-campus housing is up 5 to
10 percent over last fall.
The price of eating is also up
this year. Both the fifteen and
twenty meal a week plans
offered by Food Services are
up 2.4 percent over last year.
This brings the prices to $212
and $252 per quarter respec
tively. This is a modest
increase when confronted with
a probable 15 to 25 percent
increase in supplies over the
school year.
An informal survey of local
restaurants revealed a 10
percent rise in prices every
where. The Varsity cited a
tripling in meat costs over the
past five months and Wildwood
noted the aggravated prices of
fresh vegetables. Throw in
higher power and labor costs,
and you have the reasons given
by local restaurants for their
price changes.
Even junk food junkies will
need some extra change this
fall. The machines are more
expensive than they used to
be—5 cents. According to Jim
Roberts of Vend Inc., the
reasons for the increase are
increased prices coming from
the wholesalers.
It has been five years since
the price of milk in the
machines has gone up, but it’s
doubtful it will take that long
for another increase. Almost
all major candy bars are also
more exensive because of
rising cocoa prices.
Texts at the University
bookstore are also more
expensive this year, by about a
dollar a book. The increase
this year is reportedly due in
corresponding increases in ink
and paper costs.
This years transportation fee
is $7.50, a 36 percent gain over
last year. According to C.J.
Malanoski Jr., Manager of
Auxiliary Administrative Ser
vices, the increase is due to
rising fuel and labor costs.
There is the $1.00 for the
Athens Transit Service and the
explosion in the cost of a
replacement bus, currently
$90,000.
Some of the worst news
comes from the partv circuit
where the wholesale price of
liquor has been on a steady
increase for the past few
months and is expected to keep
its three percent per month
pace.
HOLLYWOOD UPI-Is there
a radio listener of the 1940s
who would not recognize the
sinister laugh or anticipate the
inevitable, chilling answer to
the question. ‘Who knows what
evil lurks in the hearts of
men?”
Every Sunday night, actor
Brett Morrison would deliver
the answer that struck fear in
the hearts of radio evildoers,
and not a few of his younger
listeners:
The Shadow knows.”
Morrison, who portrayed
Lamont Cranston-“who years
ago, in the Orient, aquired the
power to cloud men’s minds, to
become invisible”—is dead at
the age of 66
After taping a segment of the
Heartbeat Theater radio series
Monday afternoon, Morrison
was shopping in Hollywood, in
temperatures near 100, when
he suddenly slumped over the
wheel of his car and died.
Morrison voiced his famous
line earlier this month in a
good-natured spoof of his old
show during a live tribute to
radio broadcasting sponsored
by the Southern California
Broadcasters Association.
During the weekly broadcast
of ‘‘The Shadow,” Morrison
portrayed a wealthy man who
played at the job of detective,
solving crimes that policemen
could not, protecting the
innocent and punishing the
guilty by using his power to
become invisible.
He made his last live
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Digital inflation clogs mind
• Editor’s note—The United
States Postal Service an
nounced recently that they will
be switching to a nine-digit zip
code system to replace the
present five-digit zip code
mail-handling efficiency. Un
ited Press International re
porter Dick West files this
report.
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Look
Ma. I’m dialing. First I’m
dialing ”9” to get an outside
line through the Capitol
switchboard. Then I’m dialing
“O” to alert the operator that
I'm making a credit card call.
Then I’m dialing a three
digit area code, followed b\ a
seven-digit local number. Then
I’m giving the operator my
10-digit credit card number
And now I’m getting a busy
signal.
But look at all the fun I’m
having.
By recognizing that people
instinctively enjoy trafficking
with long strings of digits, the
telephone company has man
aged to increase its long
distance business tremend
ously in recent years.
It was inevitable that the
U S. Postal Service, clinging to
a measly five-digit zip code,
would be left far behind,
doomed to a melange of
faltering service, declining
patronage, bigger deficits and
Sandy Creek
seeks funds
Sandy Creek Nature Center
has asked the City Council
Finance Committee for add
itional funds so the center can
continue to provide service to
local school children.
The center, which offers the
opportunit> of seeing nature
first hand, is funded through
the Clarke County Board of
Education, the county and
city. Don Scott, president of
the center, toid the committee
Sandy Creek had hoped to be
self-supporting, but the opera
tional expenses—light bills,
and salaries—were too over
whelming
* “The mayor has suggested
contingency money be used for
this, since all other funds have
been spoken for,” Scott said.
•fTl.t center can make it to the
beginning of the year with that
help
\ The committee made a
motion to consider the nature
center in next year’s budget
and also to review the
recui'imendation to purchase
land adjacent to the center.
Mayor Upshaw Bently en-
cotn ged this move since most
of the land at the center is
SWaiap. The additional pur
char - would also straighten out
the boundary line which is
currently u*shaped.
higher rates
Thank God. our portal
officials finally have seen the
error of their ways.
I am confident that conver
sion to a nine-digit zip code,
which the Postal Service
adopted recently, will go a long
way toward revitalizing the
mails.
The only danger is that in
allowing only 2's years for
phasing in the longer zip. they
may be moving too fast.
Wisely, they decided to
append the four new digits to
our present zips, rather than
assign us all-new nine-digiters.
Their mistake was in electing
to dump the extra digits on us
en masse rather than tacking
them on one at a time at six
month intervals.
Tests show the human brain
is near the digital saturation
point. The only way we can
absorb and retain new digits is
toughing off some of the
digits already embedded in the
brain.
Through the normal process
of attrition, we forget about
two digits per year - some
body’s birthday, a wedding
anniversary, or something of
the sort. If the zip code
expansion took place at that
rate, most of us would be able
to master our new nine-digit
numbers within the alloted 30
month time span.
Conforted with sudden, four
digit dilation, however, the
average person will require at
least five years to memorize
his new zip code.
Eventually there will be
demands for zip code with 19
digits, thus matching the
number in long distance
dialing. That would make
possible a single, all-purpose
digital sequence that could
serve both for letters and
phone calls.
Such demands will get
nowhere
The postal service and
telephone company essentially
are competitors Expect no
cooperation from them.
About the only help we can
look forward to is a Dial-a Zip
service - a phone number one
can call when one can't
remember one’s postal ad
dress.
Gasohol expected
to enter market
ATLANTA (UPI) - The executive director of the Georgia
Association of Petroleum Retailers said today plans for the legal
manufacture of alcohol to mix with gasoline to run motor
vehicles would probably not hurt the petroleum industry.
Wo don’t see that it would affect us in any way other than it
could require additional storage facilities,” Jack Houston said of
plans by the Americus-based Gasohol Inc. to produce 70,000
gallons of alcohol daily that would be mixed with gasoline to
make “gasohol.”
Until the product is available in large capacities, it wouldn’t
affect us.” said Houston. But he said if the product is mass
produced the big problem would be “lack of storage facilities at
local service stations.”
Marion Daniels, president of Gasohol Inc., had said he intends
to have a multi-million dollar factory in operation distilling
alcohol from surplus grain crops in rural Sumter County within
seven months.
The firm's secretary-treasurer, Giff Maleske of Tucker, said
Tuesday plans are also in the making for similar facilities near
Atlanta. Augusta and Savannah.
Maleske said his company expects to market the mixture
between 10 percent and 20 percent alcohol for about the price of
unleaded gas He would not disclose the source of his funding but
said that it was “totally private and taken care of.”
The finalizing of a plant site sould take place within 10 days.
The Sumter facility the state’s first such commercial plant -
will initially employ about 25 persons, Maleske said.
Houston said he doesn’t view prospects of the “gasohol”
product as a threat to the petroleum industry.
Anything that would improve our ability to provide products
for Georgia consumers is something we are in favor ofj” said
Houston.'
He warned, however, that consumers, expecting the price of
the gasoline-alcohol product to be lower than gasoline are
“probably in for a surprise.” “The handling of the ‘gasohol’
would likely push the cost up," said Houston.
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Shadow actor dies
after taping show
cZentfiafk
appearances Sept. 16 in a spoof
satirizing “The shadow" a
promotional salute to radio at
the Knotts Berry Farm amuse
ment park in Orange County.
A native of Chicago, Morri
son began his radio career in
1937 as Mr First Nighter while
still attending Chicago High
School.
Plane crash
kills eight
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
UPI—A twin-engine Beechcraft
plane ripped through a scries
of high-tension wires and went
screeching in flames into a
densely populated suburb
Tuesday, killing all six persons
aboard and two more in a car
it hit.
Another six persons were
injured One was reported in
critical condition with burns
suffered when the chartered
plane exploded
Some witnesses in the
working-class Barrio Obrero
neighborhood near the Isla
Verde International Airport
said the plane was on fire
before it hit the power lines
and crashed into the car on the
street.
Airline sources said the
plane may have been caught in
a wind-tunnel effect caused by
a jetliner landing at the
airport.