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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 7, 1972 Constitutional Restrictions Are CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle gJ ame( J JTqj. (] 0llr t CHSIS “I thought I’d do next year’s sign now while I’m in spired!” Tryouts Are Slated Thursday For Student-Directed Plays Student-directed one-act plays to be presented Dec. 7 and 8 at A&M will sample comedy, thea ter of the absurd, suspense, dra ma and science fiction. The Theater Arts Section pro ductions for which student try outs will be held Thursday (Nov. 9) were announced by Robert Wenck. Tryouts will be at 7:30 p.m. in Room 205, Building J. Parts are available for 15 men presented Dec. 7 and 8 in Lecture Room 2 of the Zachry Engineer ing Center. C. K. Esten, chairman of the theater arts section of the Eng lish Department, noted students who try out for the one-act plays need not be taking section cours es. Rehearsals of about six hours a week will be arranged to suit the cast and director. By Bill Boykin Texas Press Association AUSTIN—“There were 55,000 criminal trials pending in district courts and 216,000 civil cases pending on dockets in Texas at the beginning of 1972/' former Texas Chief Justice Robert Cal vert told those attending the Gov ernor’s fourth annual Traffic Safety Public Support Conference in Austin. This “crisis in our courts” has been caused by the constitutional restrictions on the Judicial Arti cle, Judge Calvert explained. The “crisis is approaching a judicial scandal” he quoted judge Truman Roberts of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as say ing. Judge Calvert outlined prob lems in the present judicial sys tem in Texas—explaining that they were analyzed by the 1972 Chief Justice’s Task Force for Court Improvement. The major problems are (1) docket congestion and trial delay; (2) proper administration and (3) proper election of judges. Proposals for complete reorga nization of Texas courts will be presented to the 1973 Texas Leg islature,” the former Chief Jus tice continued. “Opposition will come from elected officials who are afraid it will affect their jobs. “Judicial reform is doomed for this generation if public support does not overcome the opposition to these proposed changes in the Judicial Article of the Texas Con stitution,” he concluded. A citizen’s conference to gain support for the proposed judicial reform will be held in Austin on November 17—at which time spe cific legislative proposals will be outlined for the public and press. Council Formed The Texas Department of Com munity Affairs has been desig nated as the agency to provide and eight women. “The Bald Soprano” will be di rected by John Steele; “Where But in America?” Jan Colp; “The Hairy Falsetto,” Mary Hanna; “The Hunger I Got,” Scott Nel- sort; “Winters Night,” Nanette Zeig. Also, “Incident a t Eureka Bumps,” William R. Gilchrist; “Bedtime Story,” Jim M. Dennis; “Suppressed Desires,” Pat Lock- stedt; “One of Those Things,” Carla Wolf, and “Sorry, Wrong Number,” Donald B. Powell. Student directors are members of an advanced directing class, Theater Arts 371, instructed by Wenck. Staging will be simpli fied and emphasis placed on qual ities of the professionally-written plays. Five plays each night will be Stolen ‘Beevo’ Missing In Action A report received by A&M’s University Police Department Monday night from the Travis County Sheriffs Office said that the University of Texas mascot ‘Beevo’ had A>een found missing sometime between Sunday and Monday. Radio reports in the College Station—Bryan area sparked a flurry of rumors, among which were ones saying the 1,500-pound steer was at Kyle Field, the rodeo arena and around various dorm areas. The Department of Public Safety’s advisory on the matter said the longhorn was stolen from the Travis County Sheriff s Possee Arena. It described him as being reddish brown in color with a white forehead and a five-foot horn spread. The Silver Spurs, a spirit organization at the UT—Austin campus, warned anyone harming the animal would be prosecuted. In Waco, authorities reported around-the-clock watches were established at Baylor University to protect the school’s contingent of mascot bears. Baylor plays Texas in a Southwest Conference football battle Saturday in Waco. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only: The Battalion is a non-tax- supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc, New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Collegiate Press LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor must be typed, double-spaced, and no more than 300 words in length. They must be signed, although the writer’s name will be withheld by arrangement with the editor. Address correspondence to Listen Up, The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year; $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 6% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address The Battalion, Room 217, Services Building, College Station, Texas 77843. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Jim Lindsey, chairman; Dr. Tom Adair, Dr. R. A. Albanese, Dr. H. E. Hierth, W. C. Harrison, J. W. Griffith, L. E. Kruse and B. B. Sears The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for reproduction of all news dispatchs credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M, is published in College Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. EDITOR MIKE RICE Managing Editor Larry Marshall News Editor Rod Speer Women’s Editor Janet Landers Sports Editor Bill Henry Assistant Sports Editor Kevin Coffey ONE AND ONLY LAST CHANCE SEE ELTON JOHN In Concert Wed. Nov. 8-8 p.m. G. Rollie White A TAMU SPECIAL ATTRACTION TAMU TOWN HALL information and aid to local gov ernments in federal revenue shar ing implementation. Designation of the agency for liaison between state-federal and local governments was agreed on at a meeting of the new Texas Revenue Sharing Council. Texas is expected to receive about $245 million during 1972 under the new federal revenue sharing program. About $163 million of that will go to local governments, and $81.5 million to state government. The council, said Gov. Preston Smith, is not to interfere with individual decisions of local gov ernments. Its purpose is to assist the local units with legal con straints and federal rules and regulations. Council members directed the Department of Community Af fairs to establish and man an Office of Revenue Sharing As sistance to local governments. The department, Texas Municipal League and Texas Association of Counties will assist the Treasury Department in completing lists of eligible governments and their of ficials. revenue sharing for local offi cials. Courts Speak The Department of Community Affairs was further ordered to plan a statewide workshop on Former State Sen. David Rat liff of Stamford was found guilty by a Travis County district court jury of theft of state paychecks made out to a one-time employee and drew a 10-year probated sen tence. The Texas Supreme Court up held a one-year suspension of li cense for a Dallas lawyer who allegedly embezzled $2,772 of a client’s money. The State Bar of Texas wanted the lawyer dis barred, but lower courts settled on the suspension instead. The Third Court of Civil Ap peals dashed hopes of Texas Fine Arts Association to inherit the Austin home of the late artist Wayman Adams. Plans to pay off depositors of the closed W. L. Moody Co., Bankers, Uninc., Galveston, were delayed by federal district court after the state filed a motion to intervene. The Court of Criminal Appeals scheduled a December 12 hearing on the appeal of former State Rep. Walter Knapp of Amarillo from a four-year prison sentence for theft by false pretext. If you are interested in the Campus Environment this is an important message. Dr. Ch: acclaimed columnist, er at a I pening” ’ Station. The Re' Tonight, Pres. Williams will speak on TAMU 2001. 8 p. m. Tues. Nov. 7th. MSC Assembly Rm, CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION Each Tuesday, 5:30 p. m. 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