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.
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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.
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