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College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 28, 1973
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Newsmen’s Shield Law Passes Committee
AUSTIN <A>) — The Senate
Jurisprudence Committee voted
10-1 Tuesday for a bill that
would allow reporters to keep
confidential sources secret unless
the Texas Supreme Court forced
their disclosure.
The bill now goes to the Sen
ate floor for debate.
Sen. Walter Mengden, R-Hous-
ton, voted against the bill on the
ground it would lead ultimately
to censorship of the press by the
federal government.
“This is going to end up as the
opening wedge that is going to
bring in the next few years cen
sorship of the press,” Mengden
said. “It is my feeling that no
law at all is better ... It will
lead to a controlled press by the
federal government in our life
time.”
Mengden echoed the argument
that has been advanced by some
that reporters should rely on the
First Amendment in a case by
case test of its guarantee of free
dom of the press. Supporters of
this view stress the narrowness
of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4
decision last year that said re
porters could be forced to reveal
Biochemistry Team Searches
For Iron Deficiency Test
By ROD SPEER
News Editor
A research team in A&M’s
Biochemistry Department is try
ing to find a practical test to
diagnose iron loss in the body
before the condition becomes
overtly anemic.
The team’s research is centered
around the iron transport of the
protein transferrin through the
circulatory system. Dr. George
Bates, head of the research
study, said that transferrin is
being studied from its molecular
standpoint through its nutrition
al aspects with the hope of be
ing able to diagnose latent iron
deficiencies.
Although no one has ever died
from lack of iron, Bates said, it
is a major problem today as about
a billion people have some sort
x)f iron deficiency. Women are
especially susceptible since they
lose blood in their menstrual cy
cle and, if pregnant, give iron
to their babies.
“Loss of iron results in anemia,
characterized by fatigue and a
lack of vitality,” Bates said. “Un
der this condition the hemoglobin
(the respiratory pigment in red
corpuscles) level drops by 20 per
cent.”
Bates has a technique of deter
mining the iron content of the
blood in his lab but it is too ex
pensive for hospital use. “This
method is 93 per cent efficient
and superior to anything on the
market,” he said. Bates hopes to
have his method 98 per cent effi
cient in the next month.
Currently hospital labs can de
termine iron content of anemic
patients only. But even this is
not totally effective, according to
Bates, since “most of the iron
reagents they use don’t react
with transferrin all the time.”
“They can’t determine accur
ately the saturation of the trans
ferrin binding sites,” he ex
plained.
The researchers formerly used
large New Zealand rabbits to get
blood for experimentation but
have now switched to human
blood. Most of it comes from a
distributor although the re
searchers do donate some them
selves.
Bates received his Ph.D. from
the University of Southern Cali
fornia where he worked with Dr.
Paul Saltman on iron in food
additives. Together they found
that ferric fructose, a molecule
of sugar and iron, is three times
more efficient in assimilating
into the body than currently used
iron complexes. Saltman was at
A&M in February as a SCONA
XVIII speaker.
Bates did post-doctoral studies
on iron at the University of
Rome for a year and a half be
fore working with the National
Cancer Institute on iron in white
blood cells.
The assistant professor has
two graduate and four under
graduate students aiding him in
his research. One of the under
graduates, Michael Schlabach, a
senior biochemistry major, has
had three articles and four ab
stracts published in major scien
tific publications, including one
in the Journal of Biological
Chemistry.
Ag Honored
Glenn Whitley of Big Spring,
an A&M doctoral student, has won
top honors in graduate student
paper competition sponsored by
the Southwestern Division of the
Association of American Geog
raphers.
Whitley’s award-winning pa
per, judged best in a four-state
region, is entitled “Domestic Tree
Ducks.” The history of this duck,
said to have the strangest dis
tribution of any bird in the world,
is considered important in geog
raphical studies, particularly as
they pertain to the movement of
man.
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sources in certain limited cases.
Those who take this position
say the court may overturn that
decision at a later time, or in
any event it will not permit “fish
ing expeditions” by grand juries.
But if Congress and legislatures
start passing shield laws for re
porters, they might later adopt
guidelines for accreditation or for
reporting, this argument goes.
The bill passed by the Senate
committee already has passed
the House, but without the
amendment that would allow the
Texas Supreme Court to force
disclosure.
Rep. David Allred, D-Wichita
Falls, said Monday: “I will not
accept this version when it comes
back to the House and will move
for the appointment of a confer
ence committee to adjust the dif
ferences in the two bills.”
Also added by the Senate com
mittee is a section shielding any
“ordained minister, priest, rabbi
or duly accredited Christian Sci
ence practitioner of established
church or religious organization”
from having to testify on any
thing told to him in conference
in his professional capacity. A
judge could compel disclosure by
clerics, however, if he feels it “is
necessary to a proper adminis
tration of justice.”
The Texas Supreme Court
could order a reporter to dis
close his source “if it is proven
Quartet Gets
$1,000 Grant
Quartet, a magazine of the arts
published at A&M, has received
a $1,000 award from the Texas
Commission on the Arts and
Humanities.
This award is the first such
honor given by the Commission
to a literary publication.
Quartet is published four times
a year, and its current issue is
devoted to humor.
It accepts assistance and con
tributions from A&M faculty
members and students. “Ollie, the
Glass Harmonica, and the Five-
Hundred Horsepower Pelvis,” the
work of John Mackey, an A&M
junior, is one of the first under
graduate works of fiction ever
published by Quartet.
The magazine originated at
Purdue in 1962 and was estab
lished at A&M in 1970 by the
editor-publisher, Prof. Richard H.
Costa.
Assistance is provided by Prof.
W. G. Horsley, Prof. Karl Elm-
quist and Dr. Elizabeth Turpin.
A special issue is planned for
the fall devoted to the creative
work of prison inmates.
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by a preponderance of the evi
dence that the information can
not be obtained by any alterna
tive means and that the with
holding of such information
would cause or threaten substan
tial harm or injury, endanger
public health and welfare or
cause substantial injustice.”
Mengden asked the Senate
sponsor of the bill, Sen. Chet
Brooks, D-Pasadena, if the bill
would allow the shield to be
pierced in the case of a news
report last Sunday that the CIA
plotted the My Lai massacre in
Vietnam in 1968.
The reporter, Jack Taylor of
the Daily Oklahoman, said his
source for the story agreed to
talk only if they were guaran
teed anonymity.
Mengden said there was no
way of determining if the story
was made up. And if it was
true, he said, “I would thin!
certainly endangers the
welfare.”
Brooks said any citizen
petition the Texas Sif
Court to force disclosure,
would be up to the courts
it. In the case Mengden
the Texas court would not
jurisdiction over an Ok
reporter.
Sen. Jack Ogg, D-Hr
asked what guarantee then
that the shield would nolle
by an underground newj
Mengden suggested the
could start a newspaper
claim the shield.
Brooks said one of the
definitions of a newspaper
publication “entered at a I
States post office as second
matter.” He said the postil
thorities are careful in cl
who gets second-class permit!
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TONIGHT
A&M Tennis Club will meet in
Rooms 2A and 2B of the MSC at
7:30 p.m.
San Antonio Hometown Club
will hold elections and discuss its
party at 7:30 p.m. in Room 304
of the Physics Building.
A&M Sports Car Club will dis
cuss its April Fools Rallye in the
Mimosa Room of the Old College
Station City Hall, 101 Church
Avenue, at 7:30 p.m.
Great Issues Committee will
give students a chance to ques
tion candidates for Thm-sday’s
elections from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00
p.m. in front of the Academic
Building.
Junior Class will meet in Room
302 of the Physics Building at
7:30.
Rio Grande Valley Horn
Club will plan a beerbustinfe
2D of the MSC at 7:30.
Weightlifting Club will unit
7 in the G. Rollie White We#
room to arrange transpomti
for the weekend meet
THURSDAY
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its picture taken at 6 p.n
the fountain at the Zachryh
neering Center and holdairat
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3Bof!
MSC.
Association of Students Fn
Mexico will meet in theMSCi
Room at 7:30.
A&M Collegiate Horsemiis!
sociation will have its pkt;
taken in the Animal Intel
Building Lecture Room Mil
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