Commission patrols liquor scene in 14 counties
By JACK HODGES
Staff Writer
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage
Commission (ABC) has been assist
ing local police for nearly nine years
watching clubs and bars to prevent
fights or violations of beverages
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“We are not here to harass or ar
rest people but to keep the clubs
safe, Assistant Supervisor James
Bundren said. “We advise club
owners if there is going to be trouble
and often they call us for advice if
trouble arises.”
The ABC has plainclothes men
who regularly attend the Midnight
Yell Practices to catch those who
bring beer into the stadium. “There
has been no occasion when someone
had to be taken to jail but we would
if we had to, Bundren said.
The ABC has a staff of seven men
and they check bars in a 14-county
area about twice a month to make
sure the permits have not expired
and if the liquor specified in the
permit is being sold. If the permits
are violated, or trouble gets out of
hand, the clubs can be closed and
people involved arrested. Often the
owners can stop trouble before it
starts, said Bundren.
The ABC sells permits to the
clubs and each one has specific re
strictions. Some clubs can sell beer
or hard liquor and the alcoholic con
tent is specified on each permit.
Last year the ABC received al
most $120 million from liquor per
mits. These funds went to public
education and schools for the blind
and deaf.
The Commission was a little wor
ried when the 18-year-old drinking
right was established, Bundren
said, but their purchase right has
brought more money into the state.
There has been no added trouble,
he said.
“It has really helped here because
the older people who have been
through World War II feel they can
fight anyone. We have a lot of stu
dents here that do not feel that way
and who are responsible citizens.”
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Vol. 68 No. 30
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, October 23, 1974
Teto-proof Congress
dangerous, says Ford
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.
j(AP)—President Ford, campaign-
| ing through the M idwest to ward off
[predicted major Democratic con-
Ipssional gains, said Tuesday that
[if we get the wrong kind of Con
gress, peace could be in jeopardy.”
It was the first time Ford has
linked the outcome of next month’s
| elections to the nation’s foreign pol-
The new tact in his effort to ward
off what he calls “a veto-proof Con
gress came as an extemporaneous
addition to the prepared text of an
address to a Republican rally at an
Oklahoma City convention center.
Before thp rally, the President
told cattlemen he is leaning toward
curbing dairy imports but sidestep
ped the question of restraints on
beef imports.
Ford voiced “concern about the
breech in the bipartisanship” of the
nation’s foreign policy and called for
the election of congressmen who are
“far-sighted, visionary, imagina
tive, cooperative ... so we can
have peace abroad and so we can
work on our problems at home.”
A private meeting with cattlemen
was sandwiched between a pair of
Oklahoma City speeches to boost
Muskie calls for bargaining
to hold down wages, prices
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speak
ing for congressional Democrats,
Sen. EdmundS. Muskie, D-Maine,
urged President Ford Tuesday
night to use his jawboning powers to
dampen wage and price increases.
If jawboning and other bargaining
j efforts fail, Muskie said, “mandat-
I ory action must be taken. ”
Muskie also said that business
must share the sacrifices required to
fight inflation and boost the
economy.
In a speech prepared for broad
cast on NBC-TV in response to
Fords address to a Future Farmers
; of America convention last week,
Muskie said:
If the President wants Ameri
cans to eat less, drive less and de
mand less, he should he prepared to
ask some of them to charge less. ”
His speech came a few hours after
the government reported that rising
prices for food, clothing and mort
gage rates pushed the cost of living
u p another 1.2 per cent in Sep
tember, making the last 12 months
the worst inflationary surge since
1947. Prices in September were re
ported 12.1 per cent higher than a
year earlier.
Muskie, chairman of the Senate
udget Committee, said Ford
should do some hard bargaining —
to dampen price and wage in
creases that are about to occur.”
The roll-back on automobile
Price increases was a small but
worthy start, he said, referring to
Ford’s criticism that preceded Gen
eral Motors reduction of its 1975
price hikes.
Muskie urged the Federal Re
serve Board to ease its tight-money
policy so as to assure a flow of credit
at reasonable rates to the housing
industry and small business.
Instead of Ford’s proposed
5-per-cent tax surcharge on middle
and upper-middle and upper-
income Americans, Muskie sug
gested increases in the minimum
tax law, to make sure everybody
pays a share of the tax burden.
“There is no economic justification
for taxing the buying power of mid
dle Americans at a time when we are
in a serious national recession,” he
added.
The senator said a temporary cut
in payroll taxes would increase the
buying power of Americans and re
duce the incentive of labor unions to
press for ever-higher wage settle
ments.
And Muskie called on Ford to
spell out before the Nov. 5 election
just what federal budget cuts he has
in mind.
Muskie said his own proposals are
aimed at fighting not only inflation
but recession as well. He added he
is concerned that the Ford program,
spelled out to a joint session of Con
gress and to the FFA convention,
“does not reflect the seriousness of
our economic situation.”
No economic plan can be ade
quate today unless it attacks the
energy shortage, which is responsi
ble for 2‘A percentage points of in
flation, Muskie said.
He repeated Ford’s call for rigid-
energy consrrvation, and added that
unless automobile manufacturers
agree to increase gasoline mileage of
new cars over the next two years,
“mandatory legislation to impose
fuel-economy requirements will be
required. ”
At the same time, Muskie added,
every effort must be made to find
alternative energy sources, to take
the pressure off imported oil.
the re-election campaign of Repub
lican Sen. Henry Bellmon, who
admits he faces “an uphill battle”
against Democratic Ed Edmond
son. /
Bellmon and the state’s other Re
publican senator, Dewey Bartlett,
sat in on the hotel room session be
tween Ford and five representatives
of Oklahoma’s cattle and dairy in
dustry. Bellmon said afterward that
Ford “indicated an inclination to
ward reimposing” quotas on beef
imports.
But the White House gently dis
puted Bellmon’s statement. Press
Secretary Ron Nessen said Ford
told the meeting there was “a high
degree of liklihood he would limit
dairy imports. But Nessen would
not make a similar assertion on beef
imports.
When the newsmen pressed for
the President’s position on beef im
ports, Nessen talked with Ford by
telephone and reported “the Presi
dent will talk to Agriculture Secret
ary Butz about the question of beef
imports next week.”
Dairy imports already are li
mited, but NcsSen’s comment indi
cated Ford was moving toward a
further tightening. Beef import
quotas were suspended by then-
—President Richard M. Nixon
more than a year ago in a move to
bring down high retail prices on
meat.
WOMEN CADETS are required to greet upperclassmen the same as fish in the Corps except for
“whipping out” which is the cadet version of shaking hands. (Photo by Keith Warner)
Drug panel seeks adult education
‘Students know more than educators’
By DEBI HOLLIDAY
Staff Writer
The present attempts to prevent
drug abuse through education are
being laughed at since the students
know more than the educators, said
Nancy Pressler, coordinator of
Youth Work Experience Programs,
Tuesday night at a drug abuse semi
nar. ^
The lack of public awareness and
help services concerned with drug
related problems were brought out
in a seminar sponsored by the
Brazos County Community Coun
cil. Eight people involved in drug
abuse programs spoke on the statis
tical aspects of drug abuse, dealing
with the drug abuser and counsel
ing.
“The biggest problem is in get
ting something started to inform the
adults about what is going on and
what they can do about it, ” Pressler
said.
Education in the schools has not
proved to be an effective prevention
of drug abuse. So, M. B. Flippen
with The Answer, a local counseling
service, stressed the need for
therapy which “shares the concepts
of Christ by putting them in a form
the abuser can use.”
“Anything short of the real power
to care isn’t going to be effective,”
said Flippen.
Dr. Lamar McNew, a local physi
cian, agreed with this type of coun
seling. “No one has pat answers for
solutions because we are people de
aling with people. If we can show
them that we care, then we can
help,” said McNew.
Local citizens can help the prob
lem by “contacting some agency if
they acquire any information in re
lation to drug abuse,” said Jack Wil
liams, of the Brazos Valley Mental
Health Center. “Don’t just sit on
the problem.”
Others speaking included Doug
Ridge, regional drug abuse coor
dinator; Tony Nowlin, with Out
reach; Roland Searcy, county attor
ney of Brazos County; and John
Godfrey, Brazos County Probation
Officer.
Toad
torn
down
In the tradition of
Marat/Sade” and “Pink
Flamingos,” the A&M
community has once
a gain been saved from
exposure to the morally
offensive.
The most recent inci
dent occurred Saturday
the Krueger-Dunn
dining hall before the
A&M-TCU football
game. At that time Pres
ident Jack K. Williams
was holding a banquet
for local dignitaries and
guests.
When walking down
the steps leading to the
dining hall, Williams
noticed a large spirit sign
placed so prominently it
eould not be unnoticed.
The sign read, “Lay
one on the Homy Toads”
and pictured a frog lay-
! n g Provocatively with
le gs spread apart.
Williams told his spe
cial assistant, Roger Mil-
er » to have the sign re
moved, which he did
Personally.
There was TCU brass
attending the banquet,”
Miller said.
Immigration agents unable
to stop flood of wet-backs
BRAIN WAVES are measured by a device which plugs into the outlet set in this rabbit’s head.
Experiments are going on that inject alcohol into the rabbit’s stomach so the experimenters can watch
the change in the brain wave patterns. (Photo by Chris Svatek)
LOS FRESNOS (AP) —The Un
ited States is being swamped by a
flood of illegal Mexican aliens and
the U.S. government doesn’t have
the money or manpower to stop
them, thecommissioner ofthe U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization
Service said Tuesday.
Commissioner Leonard Chap
man Jr. said the flood of
wetbacks—estimated at 4 million
last year—is displacing American
jobholders by grabbing up jobs,
some paying $4.50 to $6 an hour.
“We are being overrun by illegal
aliens. They are coming in by the
millions and without legislation and
additional money and manpower
there is little we can do to halt the
flood,” Chapman told a news con
ference. The executive was here to
address graduates of the U.S. Bor
der Patrol Academy.
Chapman said six to seven million
Mexican aliens are now in this coun
try and hold down jobs which right
fully belong to American citizens.
Chapman said because of a shor
tage of funds the government is
forced to permit aliens in many in
stances to go free in this country
until they become involved in other
criminal activity.
“We are seeing just the beginning
of the problem. Nearly 90 percent of
the illegals we apprehend come
from Mexico.
He said 82 new Border Patrol ag
ents graduated recently from the
academy here is but a drop in the
bucket. The 1,610 agents now in the
field, he said, are “far short of what
is needed to do the job.”
Chapman said it is “very possi
ble” that wetbacks arrested by city
or state police, for example, in Il
linois, would not be deported be
cause of the costs of transporting the
alien back to Mexico.
“He probably would be turned
loose on his own recognizance and
told to return to Mexico,” he exp
lained.
Several officials in the audience
chuckled.
He noted that 4,200 wetbacks
were arrested in the last three
months in Los Angeles. Many of
them, he said, were employed in
heavy industry.
Retail price increase
sharpest since 1947
WASHINGTON (AP) — Infla
tion surged ahead in September as
retail prices rose another 1.2 per
cent, the Labor Department re
ported Tuesday.
The increase pushed consumer
prices 12.1 percent higher than a
year earlier, the sharpest increase in
any 12-month period since 1947.
Retail prices increased across
most of the economy last month
with food, clothing and mortgage in
terest rates leading the way. A few
items declined, notably gasoline
and fresh fruits and vegetables.
President Ford’s economic advis
ers have predicted that retail prices
will continue rising at a rate of about
1 percent a month through the end
of the year, and that there would be
no significant easing of inflation
until sometime next year.
The year already is destined to go
down as the worst peacetime in
flationary year on record. Retail
prices have climbed 9.7 percent so
far this year, surpassing last year’s
rise of 8.8 percent, which was the
worst since 1947.
The Labor Department began
the Consumer Price Index in 1913
and government analysts said the
current inflationary rate was ex
ceeded only during war time
economies.
The 1.2 percent rise in prices last
month, adjusted to account for sea
sonal influences, is equivalent to an
annual rate of 14.4 percent if pro
jected over the full year.