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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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elected to the siaie senate since
Reconstruction, "not only had our
support, but had a contribution from
our PAC."
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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) ?
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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
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were removed from the trailer for
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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
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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."
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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