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£ BATTALION Thursday, March 16, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 3 JO 9 say Mutscher verdict > has f his oi ie Coi Christie inking ird Mi is been i i of his orney relation as his feet rpstown; irer’s at ■ been (an opp iustiii, showf] Is bet id I in blow for legislative reform AUSTIN, Tex. MP> — While (Speaker Gus Mutscher’s friends grieved over his bribery-conspi racy conviction Wednesday, “Dir ty 30” members said it was a blow for legislative reform. The conviction of Mutscher and two of his top aides also added steam to opposing movements to replace Mutscher as speaker in the coming special legislative session. "It’s been a sad day. It hurts,” said one female employe in the House. "I am sure all of us are sad- jdened by the verdict personally,” said Rep. R. B. McAlister of Lub bock, who introduced Mutscher to the former Miss America the speaker married in 1969. Mutscher, speaker’s aide Rush HcGinity and Rep. Tommy Shan non were convicted by an Abilene jury of conspiring to exchange their influence for huge profits from stock deals arranged by Houston promoter Frank Sharp. The jury found that Sharp set up the profitable combination of loans and stock purchases to win Mutscher’s efforts on behalf of two bank deposit insurance bills in a 1969 special legislative ses sion. Gov. Preston Smith, who also profited from similar stock deals arranged by Sharp, had little to say about the jury verdict. “The trial in Abilene is over. All of us in state government must now put our shoulders to the wheel and push harder to find solutions to the pressing problems facing our state in the coming special session and the months ahead,” Smith said in a statement. Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, who put Mutscher on the speakership lad der by making him House Redis- ICE ion is lent" fe. TES rill at MSC irtesy c! (azos Cc ! EN p.m. p.m. (hm istratk * of titlf it. I the CLUE ive yiES eek ;ht Price Friend nitted i Cote ;e Ever! lub ling it it juired ipaffi -ecei'i imMMM NOW SHOWING 12:30 - 4:30 - 8:30 ClARkCAKIi. VIVIEN 1 Bill LESLIE HOWARD OIJMVck-ILVMlLViND Skyway Twin EAST SCREEN AT 6:45 P.M. “SUMMER OF , 42” At 8:45 “WAIT UNTIL DARK” WEST SCREEN AT 6:10 P.M. "SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION” with Paul Newman At 8:35 Gregory Peck in “SHOOTOUT” QUEEN TODAY—4:15 - 6:30 - 8:45 “NORTH COUNTRY” AMPJJS) TODAY 1:15 - 3:18 - 5:12 - 7:24 - 9:27 COLOR CIRCLE” L'j I-i I W E -1 W TONITE AT 6:45 James Garner in “SKEIN GAME” At 8:30 P.M. ‘GREAT BANK ROBBERY” with Clint Walker tricting Committee chairman in 1965, refused to comment. “Well, what do you know! All my expert friends told me the prosecution were going to blow it. I am not surprised,” said Rep. Tom Moore of Waco, a leader of the “Dirty 30” house coalition that pushed for an investigation last year of Mutscher’s dealings with Sharp. “As you know, we spent the whole session insisting that all the facts be brought out, and they have been brought out,” Moore said. He said the convictions would “have a salutary effect on the next legislature.” “It will give impetus to those who are now running on the basis of changing the House rules. When you give that much power to one man, you are just asking for corruption, the temptation is so great,” Moore said. Rep. Menton Murray of Har lingen, chairman of the House General Investigating Committee, said the committee would have a report on its probe of Sharp’s banking bills ready when the spe cial legislative session convenes this spring. The committee halted its probe “pending this trial,” he said, and now the committee must decide whether it needs to unearth any more facts before making its re port. “I am satisfied they got a fair and impartial trial, and that is what everybody wanted,” Murray said. Two gubernatorial candidates, Dolph Brisco and Dirty 30 “den mother” Rep. Frances Farenthold used the verdict as a springboard for renewed calls for reform. They are running against Smith and Barnes in the Democratic prima ry. “I think we must remember that those bills could not have been on the special session agenda if the governor had not put them there, and they could not have been rushed to passage through the Senate without the lieutenant governor’s cooperation,” Briscoe said. Mrs. Farenthold said Smith should call an immediate special legislative session to pass ethics ^legislation, give the House a chance to reorganize and to en able the Senate to start an in vestigation of how the Sharp bills were rushed to passage in that chamber. “As a personal matter for the families of the defendants and the defendants themselves as pri vate persons, I have sadness and sympathy. And I think we should be mindful that their convictions will be appealed,” she said. Rep. Dave Allred; of Wichita Falls, another “Dirty 30” member and son of a former governor, said it was “a very sad circum stance that something like this ever happened.” Asked if the conviction would help candidates who are running against incumbents who voted with Mutscher during the 1971 session, Allred said: “It can’t do anything else but help.” Rep. DeWitt Hale of Corpus Christi, a friend of the speaker and an investigating committee member, said he was “very sym pathetic with Mr. Mutscher and with Donna, the speaker’s wife.” Hale is being pushed by a pe culiar coalition of liberals and Mutscher “team” members for in terim speaker during the special session. The move is designed to head off Rep. Rayford Price of Palestine’s attempt to strengthen his campaign for speaker of the 1973 house by winning election as interim speaker. Hale has promised not to seek the 1973 speakership and said he would “minimize politics” during the special session if he is chosen interim speaker. Mutscher’s conviction, he said, “adds a new sense of urgency” to efforts to put a non-candidate in the speaker’s chair during the special session. Rep. Price Daniel Jr., of Lib erty, a 1973 speaker candidate who backs Hale for interim speaker, said he had “full con fidence in his ability to guide the house through the chaotic and turbulent special session.” ' “Indictments and convictions are not the cure to the evils in the Texas House. Permanent and meaningful reform in the way the House operates is the only way to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future,” Daniel said. He called the convictions “a disgrace and humiliation to the people of Texas.” McAlister said he favored hold ing a wide open election for in terim speaker during the special session instead of selecting a caretaker speaker. “It would be much stronger to go ahead and determine who has the votes and elect a speaker than to go into suspended animation, he said 1 . Dr. George Willeford of Aus tin, state Republican Party chair man, said he thought the convic tions “are really an indictment and conviction of the one-party system.” “One-party states end up in corruption, no matter how good or bad the people involved are,” Willeford said. Local students set up theater group University and high school stu dents interested in theater will meet Saturday at A&M to form a student chapter of the U. S. Insti tute for Theater Technology Inc. Covering educational, communi ty and professional theater, the chapter will consist of TAMU, Bryan and College Station high school students. The 10 a.m. Saturday meeting will be in Room 326 of the Aca demic Building, according to Rob ert W. Wenck of the Theater Arts Section of TAMU’s English De partment. He chairs the USITT Texas section and was recently elected to the Institute board of directors. “The new student chapter will put together like-minded students and enable them to develop their own programs and activities re lated to theater,” Wenck said. The chapter will provide stu dents with contact with other WANT AD RATES One day ....... 6^ per word « per word each additional day Minimum charge—76< Classified Display $1.00 per column inch each insertion BATTALION CLASSIFIED FOR SALE Motorcycle trailer, factory built, $100. Iwpex cassette tape deck, wood grain finish, $50. Langlitz motorcycle leathers. Hue, fully padded, lined. Waist 32, jacket K. Like new. Phone 846-06C8 after 6 h m. 93t4 Honda CB—350K2 1970, with trailer, iwo helmets, spare parts. Excellent ma- thine. 100 M.P.H., $760. 846-9046 93t4 1951 Cadillac Hearse. See at Dr., College Station. 846-8684. Hearse. 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