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Corsages becoming 'flashier' HOUSTON (AP) ? Mums is the word, but it's almost an understatement for the flowers adorning homecoming belles these days in Texas high schools. While corsages for football homecoming used to be something simple, now they're apt to be made of a half dozen ? 11 u?ii? ? _i? uv>*Yti3, u-iuui ana, uaiiuuu), ucus, umiiciiuic piasmi goal posts, megaphones, helmets, glitter, lace, feathers ? and may even be lit with battery-operated flashing lights. Florists are delighted. With the homecoming mums ? as traditional in Texas as homecoming queens, pep rallies and high school football ? bigger, flashier and a lot more expensive than ever, some high school officials think "mum mania" has to stop. "Some of these mums go from their shoulders to their waists and cost $60," says Jeanne Henson, assistant principal at South Houston High. In Wichita Falls last year the school district banned corsages after third- and fourth-grade girls started showing up with $50 worth of flowers to school. Some schools in Dallas and Fort Worth, where corsages were selling for as much as $200, also imposed bans. "Sometimes I feel sorry for the little girls who have to wear these things," says Lynn Schweke, owner of Flowers by Lynn in the suburb of Alief. Mike Rich of Simmons Florist says Houston high school homecomings are like "adding six holidays to a year or having three or four weddings in one weekend." Columnist denounces kid's show RADNOR, Fa. (AP) ? Social unrest in the late 1960s and early '70s has been blamed on many factors, but a columnist is now suggesting the greatest "subversive" influence may have been the children's TV show, "Howdy Doody." The 1950s program featuring a smiling, respectful puppet laugiu an enure generation "never to trust anyone over 30," wrote columnist Jeff Greenfield in the current issue of TV Guide. "Howdy Doody represents one of the most authentically subversive TV shows in American history," Greenfield wrote. Although Howdy Doody told children to mind their parents, the characters sent out another message ? grown-ups are bad guys, Greenfield wrote. "The only more-or-less normal adult who was in any way admirable was 'Buffalo Bob,' and he was often the butt of practical inkc^ " "Almost every other memorable grown-up was either a manipulating evil schemer., or an unbelievable, pompous bore," he said. Clarabell the Clown, a character with a penchant for throwing pies and squirting seltzer water at authority figures, was the first Yippie, Greenfield said, recalling the '60s anarchist group. Police arrest nude driver ORMOND BEACH, Fla. (AP) ? Police arrested a woman who allegedly drove nude on Interstate 95 and turned on the light inside her car to give passing truckers a better view. The woman was a traffic hazard, said Volusia County Deputy Larry Humm, who made the arrest early Wednesday near a rest area north of State Road 40. Humm said Toni Hardwick Smith, 33, of Rocky Mount, N.C., was also charged with drunken driving and possession of marijuana. The officer said he was parked at the rest area near Ormond Beach when he overheard five truckers talking on citizens band radio about a car traveling south on the interstate. Radio chatter indicated the truckers were jockeying for position to get a better look at the unclothed woman, he said. Telescooe rewritina historv a u # WASHINGTON (AP) ? An orbiting telescope is rewriting astronomy books with its discovery of new coments, giant rings of dust, interstellar clouds and direct evidence ours is not the only solar system in the universe. Three new findings were revealed Wednesday as astronomers reported on the first 10 months operation of the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, a joint venture of the United States, The Netherlands and Great Britain. "Man has always wanted to learn his place in the universe; IRAS is our first road map," said Nancy Boggness, program scientist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Newly found are three giant rings of dust in the solar system, huge dust shells around the star Betelgeuse and a mysterious object ? possibly an asteroid or a dead coment ? that passes nearer to the sun than any planet or known asteroid. "IRAS is providing us with a steady stream of stunning discoveries; so far, the results have been nothing short of spectacular," NASA administrator James Beggs said. , ? USC today MEN'S TENNIS ? South Carolina Team Championship at (USC, Northwestern, Clemson, Duke, Wake Forest, Florida, Vanderbilt). RH FILM ? "Lords of Discipline" (1982) David Keith, Michael Biehn. Pat Conroy's novel about military school during the early 1960s in South Carolina. 2:30, 7, 9:30 p.m. $1, $1.50. ?:: WirE Unions win < MYRTLE BEACH (AP) ? Organized labor in South Carolina enjoyed some legislative successes in 1983, although unemployment continued to cause concern for the labor movement, state AFL-CIO President Randy Kiser said yesterday. Kiser told about 250 delegates gathered for the opening session of the state labor organization's annual convention that the group has raised close to $3,500 through its political action committee for next year's General Assembly races. "Some of the funds from our PAC have already been used in 1983," Kiser said. HE NOTED Democrat I. DeMnuimon U? Uln^lr ?^uttkx^ 111* wiiiau,nrc in aiuiatN elected to the siaie senate since Reconstruction, "not only had our support, but had a contribution from our PAC." The AFL-CIO convention here runs MB jj I^HS t ^ 1 in r-rr__^ Beats waiting in line Dormitory residents camped out for rooms nursing sophomore Deborah Malphrus and c I Salvadoran le WASHINGTON (AP) ? U.S. offi alarmed and exasperated over the course < war, complaining ineffective leadership military commanders is enabling leftist g initiative. One top official, asking not to be iden movement could achieve final victory o present trends continue. "Something has got to be done," sj citing what he described as the stubborn r commanders to confront forcefully th< guerilla activity in the eastern section of The United States is planning to < Salvadoran soldiers, but the official sz whether this effort would make a differs "You can do all the training you want, have an impact unless you re-educate t and the department commanders to get said. Salvador's military operations also a lines of authority, a "can't do" att laziness, the official said, noting many c their posts on the weekends to be with th< S.C. to receive MORGANTON, W.Va. (AP) ? W/nct \/n T Tm! >/>??!?.. ....! 11 ,1 f\r viiguiui *^iiivci^iiy win scuu y3 drums of low level radioactive waste to a South Carolina disposal site next month, WVU officials said. The waste, generated from biomedical research conducted at the university's Basic Sciences Building and its Agricultural and Forestry Col lege, has been stored in a doublewide trailer, said Stephen Slack, WVU's radiation safety officer. "We have an opportunity to ship 95 barrels to South Carolina in December, so we're taking an advantage of good weather today to make sure those barrels are ready to go," some, labor o through Saturday. Later today, national AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland was to address the Labor group. "We had success in another legislative area that we can all be proud of," Riser said. "With the exception of one congressman from Georgia, John Spratt, and Robin Tallon have a labor voting record equal to or better than any other Southern congressman." Tallon, Spratt and fellow U.S. Rep. Butler Derrick are to appear before the convention Friday. All are democrats. KISER ALSO announced that 12 union locals joined the state AFL-CIO during the year. But Kiser said 1983 also had its bad points. "Unemployment continues to be a problem not only in South Carolina but in the countrv as a whole." The labor leader said members of r w-- V *A' if Tuesday night. From left, journalism sophomore riminal justice sophomore Mickey Analerio. <1 laders alarm I cials are becoming tranquil capital-city af El Salvador's civil Unlike the guerri by the Salvadoran week occupation, uerrillas to seize the "peaceful, normal 1 Meanwhile, the ir tified, said the rebel covering wide area ver the long term if frustrating a govern guerrilla-held territt lid another official, mal activity. efusal of Salvadoran Combined with a 2 recent increase in of the rightist death the country. sional support for itep up training of time, the Salvadora lid he was doubtful uneinploymen Dnt t m otn r/\i LIUI ui^ luaui JUi , but it's not going to military leadership he executive officers Salvadoran commai out in the field," he ly if they were to < Guatemalan militar ire plagued by hazy The official chat itude and pervasive Guatemalan practic ommanders abandon camp out by lockin sir families in the still contact with the gu radioactive wai Slack said Wednesday as the drums were removed from the trailer for examination. 11 ' C Kaati 1 1 / 0 re r i nr?n ii a uvvii i i / x- jrvrdia aiuvi' lii^ university has been able to remove any of its radioactive waste to an approved burial site, according to Slack. In 1981 a shipment was sent to a Washington State burial ground, he said. December's shipment will go to the Chem-Nuclear low-level waste dump in Barnwell, Slack said. "Each of the burial sites has an indemnity clause that we haven't been able to sign because we can't obligate a future state legislature," he said. "So we had to obtain insurance to cover 9): ifficial savs f the state organization"will be working our backsides off" to make sure Walter Mondale wins the Democratic presidential nomination. During the three-day convention, delegates are expected to reaffirm the national AFL-CIO's endorsement of Mondale for president, according to Charlie Hughes, a spokesman for the national group. "BUT TO make that effective. Mondale has to get the nomination, which involves the delegate selection process to the national conventin," he idded. Hughes said part of the work at the ivention will be to review plans developed by the national organization to make its members as effective as possible in the primary process. "Politics are the focus of evervthinc." he said, notinp thp lnhnr group's interest in social and legislative issues "really comes back to political action." gT**? ySsSjK^.-:-ay Photo by Jo??pJi Garnatt Don Hill, geology junior Bunky Fowler, U.S. officials area. lias, for whom welfare is a seven-day-asenior officers refuse to disrupt their ' j life on weekends." he added. lsurgents have launched dozens of attacks s of the country since early September, ment plan announced in June to recapture Dry, and make it safe once again for norgloomy battlefield outlook, the activities \ squads have increased, eroding Congresadministration aid requests. At the same in economy continues to deteriorate, with t estimated at 40 percent. jrce of concern here is the refusal of the to take the initiative. One official said the nders could transform the situation quick- 0 idopt the strategy used effectively by the I yacterized as a "resounding success" the :e in recent years of forcing its soldiers to g them out of the barracks, thus ensuring errillas. ste from WVU this. Naturally, with anything new, the insurance company wants to exclude what you want to include, and to includde what you want to exclude. "It took us this long for the State In- j , surance Commission to find an insurance company to meet the requirments." Adding to the paperwork problems, Slack said, was that South Carolina officials wanted West Virginia to pay in advance for a $500 permit needed to transport the wastes. However, West Virginia "doesn't pay anything in advance" so it "takes weeks and weeks" to get the state to issue a check in advance, Slack said, gr