THE RHINO puts quite a threat behind parking regulations.
W. O. Walker of the University Police demonstrates the fine
art of trapping a parking violator with the “Rhino" immobili
zer, a clamp which locks the rear wheel of a car in place. The
clamps will be used on illegal parkers found in spaces for the
handicapped or reserved spaces. (Photos by Alan Killings-
worth)
Che Battalion
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, February 20, 1974
Parking tickets
given new teeth
Beginning next Wednesday, unauthorized cars found in
handicapped parking lots will be paralyzed, by University Police.
They have acquired four “Rhino” immobilizers which will
be placed on any car found illegally parked in lots for
handicapped or reserved spaces. The immobilizer is a device
which is clamped onto the rear wheel of a vehicle and locked in
place. A notice which explains the reason why the car was locked
will be put on the windshield.
When an immobilizer is placed on a car, its owner must
report to the University Police with notice in hand. Upon paying
the parking ticket and all possible delinquent tickets, the
immobilizer will be removed.
The idea for the new program was developed at a meeting
between Dr. John Koldus, vice-president for student services, and
zoning administrators, on January 29.
According to Chief O. L. Luther, “the program is an effort
to halt continual violations, made particularly by unregistered
vehicles. Henceforth, cars will be immobilized instead of being
towed away. Hopefully it will never be necessary to use the
immobilizers.”
The police have a list of over 500 unregistered vehicles
which have collected between six and 13 unpaid tickets apiece.
An immobilizer system used in Washington, D. C. netted
one violator with 300 unpaid tickets. He reportedly abandoned
his car rather than pay the accumulated fines.
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NEW YORK <*»>—Despite their
mewed protest, former Atty.
en. John N. Mitchell and ex-
mmerce Secretary Maurice H.
Stans went on trial Tuesday, ac-
ised of exerting corrupt influ-
in exchange for a secret
00,000 contribution to President
Hixon's re-election campaign.
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publicity in this case has contin-
right up to the present time,”
a Stans attorney, John Diuguid,
rgued, in renewing a motion to
jsraiss the case, move the trial
lit of New York or delay the pro-
ledings indefinitely.
Gagliardi told Duiguid that he
ould handle the motion as he
id its predecessors — putting to
ist whether a fair jury could be
ilected by examining prospective
lembers of the panel.
The first 80 prospective jurors
ibsequently were brought in to
agliardi’s federal courtroom for
uestioning.
Thus the first case of its kind
half a century of American
story came to trial.
Not) since the Teapot Dome
landal of 1923 have any former
abinet officers faced a criminal
idictment.
Vesco, 37, is a defendant in the
ise, but fled the country and
North Galt
College Station
University National Bank
"On the side of Texaa A&M.”
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never answered the indictment.
Attempts to extradite him proved
fruitless.
The trial recessed for the night
before any actual jury selection
got under way. Instead, some
three hours were devoted to elim
inating prospects who said it
would be an undue hardship to
be sequestered for the four to five
weeks the trial is expected to last.
Mozart’s opera
‘Figaro’ set
for Wednesday
A clever, young barber named
Figaro will marry the maid Su
sanna when “The Marriage of
Figaro” is performed here on
February 27 at 8 p.m. in Rudder
Center Auditorium.
The opera, which will be sung
in English, is presented by the
Opera and Performing Arts So
ciety.
Norman Treigle, famous bass-
baritone of the New York City
Opera will sing the title role.
“Figaro” is one of the best
known operas ever written. Mo
zart’s music characterizes a story
that includes mistaken identities
and romantic intrigues.
“Figaro” is a production of the
Symphony Society of San Anto
nio. A grant from the Corbett
Foundation of Cincinnati made
the opera possible for Fort
Worth, San Antonio and Bryan-
College Station. A grant from
the Texas Commission on the
Arts and Humanities will also as
sist the local presentation.
Admission will be by OPAS
season ticket or single admission.
Tickets are on sale at Rudder
Center Box Office, from 9 a.m.
until 4 p.m., Monday through Fri
day. Call 845-2916 for more in
formation.
TAMU hourly employes
contacted by union reps
By LATONYA PERRIN
Staff Writer
Labor organizers are on campus in
an attempt to unionize TAMU hourly
employes.
“W r e have approximately 65 per cent
of the university employes (in the job
categories the union is seeking) signed
up on cards agreeing for us to be their
Battalion Exclusive
collective bargaining agent,” said James
Middleton Jr., industrial organizer and
assistant secretary-treasurer of Local
No. 18, Laborers’ International Union
of North America.
The union is recruiting wage earners
such as electricians, custodians and food
service employes.
The Houston-based local union is
holding meetings for these employes of
TAMU and has sent a letter to TAMU
President Jack Williams by registered
mail explaining the grievances voiced by
some employes. The union has been
working wtih the employes since last
October.
Grievances mentioned in the letter
include prejudice and substandard pay
and working conditions.
Williams says he has not yet re
ceived the letter, and has never had any
correspondence or communications with
labor organizers.
He has heard periodically that or
ganizers are on campus, however.
“It is not a case of racial or sexual
discrimination so much as a discrimi
nation between different people,” said
Middleton. “One person working at a
job has only one week of vacation while
another working at the same job for less
time has two or three—and that is an
actual case.”
Ray Smith, TAMU personnel direc
tor, said “This is impossible.” Under
the current system, he said, all employes
with less than 15 years service receive
the same vacation—seven hours per
month worked.
Various employes have verified that
they are not always paid by the work
that they do but rather the work they
were hired to do. These employes have
asked to remain nameless. One employe
said he was doing work another man
was hired and paid to do, but he himself
gets no extra pay.
“When you have 70, 80, 90 people in
a hall saying the same things, you don’t
believe it’s a lie,” said Keith McDaniel,
local organizer for the union.
If Williams does not recognize the
union as the employes’ collective bar
gaining agent within two weeks, the
union will appeal to the National Labor
Relations Board. The NLRB will then
have 30 days to call a referendum to see
if the employes want the union as their
bargaining agent.
“I don’t think that the union can win
an election now,” said Olemuel Davis,
employe relations coordinator. “It just
isn’t the time for that right now.”
Davis went on to explain he felt the
administration is taking the necessary
steps to remedy the situation which
exists.
“There are inequities and I regret it,
but the situation is getting better,” said
Davis.
Davis said that next year a 3.4 per
cent salary boost is scheduled to take
effect and that the administration is
asking for more input from the employes
as evidenced by his new job.
If the hourly employes do designate
a collective bargaining agent, they
would not be able to go on strike. Ver
non’s Annotated Civil Statutes, 5154c,
says employes of state agencies are for
bidden to strike, but they do have all
other collective bargaining rights avail
able to anyone else.
“We wouldn’t be trying to organize,
if it were at all illegal,” said McDaniel.
Today Watergate committee votes
to end public investigations
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WASHINGTON <A»)—The Senate Watergate
committee has voted to end public hearings un
less it uncovers extraordinary new evidence.
Chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., said
the move reflects the panel’s awareness that the
focus of Watergate has shifted to the courts and
to the impeachment inquiry in the House of
Representatives.
The 6-1 vote cancels two sets of hearings for
which witnesses already had been announced.
They are an inquiry into the circumstances of
a $100,000 payment made by billionaire Howard
Hughes to C. G. “Bebe” Rebozo, a close friend
of the President, and alleged links between cam
paign payments made by the milk industry and
a Nixon administration decision increasing dairy
price supports.
Ervin told newsmen those and other unfinished
investigations will be included in the panel’s final
report.
The dissenting vote to end public hearings
was cast by Sen. Edward J. Gurney, R-Fla.
The committee’s official position leaves the
door open to taking some further testimony in
executive sessions. Ervin said Gurney wanted
all hearings ended and the final report written
immediately.
Following Ervin’s announcement, the Senate
approved by a voice vote a resolution extending
the panel’s life three months until May 28.
Ervin said the extension is needed to allow
the committee time to complete its report.
Publication of that report was delayed at the
request of special Watergate prosecutor Leon
Jaworski who said its release now might interfere
with indictments expected by the end of the
month.
Two Free University
schedule corrections
Two errors were made in yesterday’s Bat
talion concerning the Memorial Student Center
Free University schedule.
“Biology and Social Problems” with Dr. van
Overbeek meets at 7 p.m. Mondays in Room 504,
not 101, of the Rudder Tower.
Also, “Death and Dying” was incorrectly re
ported as meeting on Thursday. It meets Wednes
day at 7 p.m. in Room 204 of the Academic
Building.
WASHINGTON (A*)—A divided Supreme
Court today held that evidence gathered
through a court-ordered wiretap can be
used against persons not specifically under
surveillance.
The 6 to 3 decision said that the Federal
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1970 does not require law enforce
ment agencies to investigate every possible
person a wiretap might incriminate before
asking for a warrant.
The wiretap issue arose from a tap
placed on the telephone of Irving Kahn in
search of evidence of illegal gambling.
After the wiretap was installed, the
government sought to use evidence gather
ed against Kahn’s wife, Minnie.
The U. S. Circuit Court at Chicago sup
pressed the evidence against Mrs. Kahn,
saying that the government should have
investigated Mrs. Kahn to determine if
she might be involved in illegal activities
fore asking for a warrant naming only
her husband.
Writing for the majority. Justice Potter
Sewart said it was sufficient that the
warrant specified a search for evidence of
illegal gambling and that it included a re
quest to gather evidence on “others as yet
unknown.”
The majority found that neither the ap
plicable sections of the Crime Control Act
nor the wording of the specific court order
for the Kahn wiretap required suppressing
evidence of legally intercepted conversa
tions of persons other thaan Irving Kahn.
Stewart said the Appeals Court decision
could have had a substantial impact on law
enforcement.
“A requirement that the government
fully investigate the possibility that any
likely user of a telephone was engaging in
criminal activities before applying for an
interception order would greatly subvert
the effectiveness of the law enforcement
mechanism that Congress constructed,”
Stewart said.
Stewart maintained that the ruling would
not give federal agents unfettered discre
tion to wiretap.
The court concluded that the act “requires
the naming of a person in the application
or interception order only when the law en
forcement authorities have probable cause
to believe that the individual is ‘committing
the offense’ for which the wiretap is
sought.”
At the same time, the court continued,
the clear implication of the act is that no
person need be named when there is prob
able cause that a particular telephone is
being used to commit an offense.
Justice Thurgood Marshall, William O.
Douglas and William J. Brennan Jr. dis
sented.
“Under today’s decision a wiretap war
rant apparently need specify but one name
and a national dragnet becomes operative,”
said Douglas.
IT’S LIKE FLYING a lecturn to try to use the controls in the auditorium classroom of the
Phase II of the Harrington Educational Center. The control board for audio-visual aids even
has an ignition switch and a cassette tape recorder. Classes began in the building Monday.
(Photo by Rodger Mallison)