The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 8, 1973 Page: 6 of 12
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Beyond the hedges
FTC challenges armpit claims; food stamps for students?
by GARY BREWTON
The Federal Trade Commis-
sion has ordered the makers of
underarm deodorants and ac-
ne skin creams, products for
which Americans spend $510,-
000,000 each year, to prove
some of their advertising
claims. Among those being
challenged were "Hour After
Hour," which "keeps the user
dry whether perspiration is due
to tension, heat or exercise;"
"Dial Anti-Perspirant," which
''effectively inhibits the de-
velopment perspiration odor
and effectively limits the
amount of moisture given off
by the skin;" and "Noxema"
which "helps clean away skin
blemishes."
Atheist Jack Cody was fined
■S1O0 for "criminal trespassing"
at First Baptist Church of
!•'. -Has. after he showed up in
r :i" lobby wearing only a bath-
and stockingcap. Cody
protesting the broadcast-
i arm Your Cockles with
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XEROX: Special
student prices for thesis
& dissertations.
Instant Reproduction Co.
3511 Milam 526-1117
ing of their sermons each week
on WRR, the city operated
radio station.
Food stamps for students
Students at Texas Tech may
qualify for county assistance
through Lubbock's first food
stamp program. To qualify a
student must live in Lubbock
and hie adjusted income must
fall below $'183 a month. Ad-
justed income is gross income
minus taxes, medical expenses,
child support, alimony, tuition,
mandatory education fees, and
the cost of child care. Import-
antly, assistance is not de-
pendent on the source of in-
come, but the students must
have facilities for preparing
their own food. Cost of the
stamps is based on income, and
the number of stamps that can
be purchased is based on the
number of people in the fami-
ly.
The first prisoner to break
out of the Elder County Utah,
jail in 25 years left a ■ fibbh d
note promising to return s-non
and came back six hours > ■•
after visiting his nnnror. w':<>
was being hospitalir ri ' r a
blood clot. Deputies dv< ; 'c-d
not to charge the inmate with
escape.
.Man charges sex bins
The Supreme Court v. h-av
the case of a Florida man win
has charged that a stare la v
giving tax advantages to wid-
ows is discriminatory against
males. Lawyers for the mar.
claim that widows and widow-
ers should be equally entitled
to the $500 real estate tax ex-
emption now reserved for wid-
ows.
The president of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, Dr.
Russell B. Roth, has charged
that most doctors are poorly
informed of the costs of 20
commonly-ordered items for
their patients. In a survey of
44 doctors, 80% of the esti-
mates on the cost were either
too high or too low. Moreover,
although half of the group
were surgeons, none knew the
charge for the first hour of
operating room time, and the
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bill fulton
Rice economics prof gets chair
President Norman Hacker-
man has announced that
Charles E. McLure Jr., a mem-
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Phone 225-9177
Monday thru Friday
Hours 6:30am-3:00pm
ber of the faculty since 1965,
has been appointed the Univer-
sity's first Allyn R. Gladys M.
C'line Professor of Economics
and Finance.
The chair was established
following the August 25, 1969,
death of Miss Gladys Cline.
She had left a bequest to Rice
to establish a chair which would
encourage outstanding instruc-
tion in economics and finance,
fields in which she and her
brother were engaged for many
years. Miss Cline had been a
private secretary for 35 years,
and her brother a Houston at-
torney and mortgage banker.
Following his death in 1954,
Miss Cline served as President
and principal stockholder in
the Cline Mortgage & Trust
Company, founded by Allyn
Cline, until it was merged into
the First Mortgage Company.
Di\ McLure, a recognized
specialist in public finance, has
served as adviser or consultant
to the US Treasui'y Depart-
ment, the World Bank, The
UN, and the governments of
Colombia, Malaysia, Panama
and Jamaica. He has also serv-
ed as a senior staff economist
for the Council of Economic
Advisers. He was recently se-
lected from among the 1.2 mil-
lion policyowners of North-
western Mutual Life Insurance
to serve on its six - member
1973 Policyholders Examining
Committee.
McLure holds M.A. (1964)
and Ph.D. (1966) degrees from
Princeton, find has visited at
Harvard under a post doctoral
grant from the Ford Founda-
tion. At Rice, he has taught
undergraduate o r graduate
courses on the principles of
economics, public finance, in-
dustrial organization, urban
economics and monetary and
fiscal policy. Within the field
of public finance, his special
research interests are incidence
analysis, value added taxation,
fiscal fed$alism, fiscal policy
and tax reform—areas in which
he has published numerous ar-
ticals and reports. In addition,
he serves in an editorial ad-
visory capacity for several
journals on economics, finance
and public policy.
average estimates were almost
50% too low.
UT demonstrators arrested
Four students and one in-
structor at the University of
Texas were arrested last week
during a demonstration pro-
testing the presentation of the
Distinguished Alumnus Award
to George R. Brown (of Brown
and Root fame), whose firm
had participated in the build-
ing of "tiger cages" in Viet-
nam. Approximately 400 stu-
dents gathered outside the audi-
torium where the award was
being presented, shouting "the
rich live high while the Viet-
namese die." One student was
arrested w hen he "bolted
through police lines to get in-
to the building;" two others
inside the building .were led
outside after they interrupted
the proceedings to give Brown
an award "from the University
students": a picture of a tiger
cage and of a contract between
Brown and Root and the Navy.
Woman preserved 2000 years
Chinese scientists recently
performed an autopsy on the
remarkably well-preserved body
of a noblewoman who died 2000
years ago. The body had been
sealed within six airtight cof-
fins and buried 60 feet below
ground. Tests indicated that
the woman was about 50 years
old, bad type-A blood, and that
the woman had died of a sudden'
heart attack (due to the absence
of bedsores). The scientists
found 138 musk-melon seeds in
the woman's esophagus, indi-
cating that she had eaten the
fruit shortly before she died.
Apparently the body had sur-
vived this long because air-
tight coffins were used, and
because the body was immersed
in embalming fluid containing
organic acids and mercurial
compounds.
Here's a world record that
looks easy to beat. In a con-
test in California, John Lom-
bino ate 2.2 pounds of spaghet-
ti, topping the previous record
of 2.1 pounds given by Guin-
ness' Book. The other contes-
tant, Louise Plourde, confessed
that she was "getting loaded"
and that she really didn't like
spaghetti very much after 1.3
pounds. Lombino seemed to
agree, saying, "It got-* so
it tasted like shredded news-
papers." Funny, he must have
been taking about the spaghet-
ti here at Rice.
EPA seeks student advisors
The Environmental Protec-
tion Agency is seeking people,
18-25, to serve on its Youth
Advisory Board ,YAB). Now in
its third year, the purpose of
the YAB is to obtain the stu-
dent perspective on environ-
mental issues. Presently, the
year-round activities are divided
into school year and summer
segments.
Summer activity conscits of
an internship in which the per-
son is actively employed by the
Agency. This summer position
will complement the Board
member's academic and extra-
curricular interests, as well as
familiarize the person with the
functions of the EPA and the
FREE GARAGE APT (2 blocks from campus) plus
small salary in exchange for babysitting two school
age children. Available now or beginning second
semester. Apply 529-6526
mechanics of its role in achiev-
ing a better environment.
The school year's activities
consist of acting as a liaison
for the EPA. This provides an
agent for a two-way flow of
information between the Agen-
cy and its region. Board mem-
bers are encouraged to use
creativity and initiative in con-
structing and carrying out
worthwhile projects in their
respective schools.
Qualifications for the YAB
are based upon academic and
environmental achievement, as
well as willingness to work.
The Agency encourages all in-
terested persons, regardless of
academic major or career goals
to apply for this program as
the environmental field is in-
terdisciplinary. For more infor-
mation, write: The Youth Ad-
visory Board, EPA, Region VI,
1600 Patterson St., Suite 1100,
Dallas, Texas 75201.
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