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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 11, 1972 CADET SLOUCH GOT AM IDEA « FOR A CARTOOM f by Jim Earle i Change Called ‘Far-Reaching* 10-2 Civil Jury Verdicts Now Legal SEND IT TO SLOUCH BOX, 9292 COL-LEjSS STATION 64KL5 -7 g. By BILL BOYKIN Texas Press Association AUSTIN—Ten members of a 12-member jury can decide civil cases under new rules of civil litigation procedure adopted last week by the State Supreme Court. Unanimous verdicts are now re quired of juries, and the change is regarded as one of the most far-reaching in many years. An effort in the last Legisla ture to authorize 10-2 jury ver dicts fell under weight of defense attorney opposition. Retiring Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert W. Calvert called the revised rules “the greatest reform measure during my term (22 years) on the court.” Rules deal with appeal motions, depositions, evidence discovery motions, and other matters. Calvert said changes would do away with some elements of the adversary system and open up ev idence. Rules will take effect Feb. 1, 1973. Unanimous verdicts still will be required in criminal cases, but in civil litigation 10 or more ju rors can decide a case. Five-to-one verdicts will be permitted in mu nicipal, justice of the peace and county courts at law where six- man juries now decide cases. Some attorneys said the key rules change would eliminate hung juries in civil cases, speed up trials and ease the backlog of civil cases jamming metropolitan courts. Others said the changes in discovery of evidence will re duce the number of actual trials. The latter change will allow all parties to a case to see what both sides have as evidence. Another change would allow the State Supreme Court to reverse or modify a lower court finding or enter a new decision without awaiting formal arguments of contesting parties. trol to make purchases for politi cal subdivisions and defining “child” under juvenile court pro cedures as one over 10 and under 17 years of age. Key legislators began to ques tion whether the variety of sub jects permitted the focus of leg islative and public attention on insurance reform which Smith claimed he wanted. Big Port Coming? Agenda Grows Batt News Summary By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GALVESTON, Tex. — Human volunteers who smoked marijuana under laboratory conditions suf fered sleep problems and impair ment of decision-making, a pre liminary study here shows. Dr. Ernest Barratt of the Uni versity of Texas Medical Branch stressed the conclusions drawn from the study were still prelim inary. “We still have a lot more to learn.” The drug caused a decrease in heavy sleep of the users, Barratt said, about mid-way through the 10-day period. The decrease con tinued for several days after they quit. Marijuana was smoked regu larly by 14 young male adults— all prior users and some holding responsible professional positions —for 10 days at a time. WASHINGTON — Sweeping power for President Nixon to cut appropriated funds and hold spending within $250 billion was approved by the House Tuesday night and sent to the Senate. The 221-163 vote was a major victory for the Nixon administration and a defeat for the House Demo cratic leadership. day after the arrival in the Chi nese capital of the West German foreign minister, Walter Scheel. German sources had said ear lier that the two nations would try to increase trade between their nations; facilitate industrial, scientific and technological coop eration, and start cultural and other exchanges as part of the normalization of their relations. Gov. Preston Smith continued to open the special session call to new subject matter before any final action was taken on compet itive insurance rates or guberna torial fiscal powers. Last Tuesday he dropped 16 more bill proposals on lawmakers for attention in a session due to wind up October 17. Among them were the following: An $8 million appropriation for a Fort Worth school for the men tally retarded, changing hunting and fishing license fees, allowing bond financing of voting ma chines in counties over one mil lion population, allowing subdivi sions to issue bonds for air con trol facilities and lease the facil ities to private interests, amend ing retirement statutes to allow credit for certain military, state employment and judicial services, allowing the State Board of Con- Texas may be getting a new offloading terminal for super tankers whether the Legislature approves a state commission to plan and construct one or not. Oil company spokesmen told a joint House-Senate committee they propose to have their own facility (known as “seadock”) op erative by 1975 or 1976 and feel there is no need for a state ex penditure. A bill submitted by Governor Smith to create a state authority to formulate plans for the off shore terminal won support of many witnesses who claimed vital segment of the Texas econ omy depends on a superport’s be ing constructed along the coast. cations the total number of Tex ans eligible may reach a record 4.8 million. At that, however, the total per centage of eligible voting age Texans may be less than 1968 and 1970. There are now about 7.5 mil lion Texans of voting age. The expected 4.5 million to 4.8 million signup would represent a 60 per cent showing. A 4 million regis tration in 1968 and a 4.1 million figure in 1970 amounted to about 64 per cent of the eligible popu lation. An estimated 660,000 voters have been added to rolls since the voting age was lowered. There are an estimated 1.5 million now eligible to vote who were not eligible in the 1968 presidential election. pawn loans:' Ms. Money Loaned On Anythitj Of Value. Quick Cash For Any Emergency. 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WASHINGTON — The chair man of the House Banking Com mittee Tuesday blamed President Nixon for what he called a Re publican attempt to “assassinate an entire political party through espionage.” His remarka, came in response to rtports.jn the;Washjngto.n Post that thff Committee fdr the Re- election oi the President ^used secret espionage fund in efforts to sabotage the campaigns of ev ery major candidate for the Dem ocratic presidential nomination. PRICES GOOD OCTOBER 12- Aggieland football rr TOKYO — West Geimany and China signed an agreement in Peking Wednesday to establish diplomatic relations, Peking’s of ficial Hsinhua news agency re ported. The signing ceremony came a KOPJE, Yugoslavia — Hungary and the Soviet Union are tied for first place at 35 points mid way through the 13th round of the Olympic chess finals. The U.S. team is tied with East Germany for eighth place with 23% points. Che Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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