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Vol. 68 No. 12
College Station, Texas
Friday, September 20, 1974
District Court grants
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By ROD SPEER
City Editor
A restraining order granted by a
,S. district court in Houston will
low the Adult Library Club at 333
Diversity to resume business until
three-judge federal panel
etermines the constitutionality of
le state’s law on obscenity.
The club has been closed since
ug. 3, 1973, when local law
nforcement agencies raided it and
onfiscated projectors, a cash
register, books, films and
magazines.
Karl A. Maley, a Houston
attorney representing the owners of
the Adult Library Club, said the
federal panel will not deal with the
constitutionality of the obscenity
provision (Article 527 of the Texas
Penal Code) until the Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals clarifies the law’s
meaning in a case to be heard this
fall. He said he doubts if the federal
ruling will be made before the end
Water adequate,
mt plans needed
of the year.
The club’s troubles began on July
20 of last year when it was originally
raided. Suit was filed that day in the
85th District Court of Brazos
County by District Attorney W. T.
(Tom) McDonald, then College
Station City Attorney James Dozier
and County Attorney Roland Searcy
against Burke A. Hargrove and
Robert M. Mancil, club owners.
An immediate restraining order
was placed on the club, but it
continued business peacefully until
the date of the case’s first hearing,
July 30. The club was raided for a
second time that day and Maley said
about 500 books and photographs
and 122 reels of film were taken.
The club received a temporary
restraining order from doing
business but remained open until
the final raid on Aug. 3.
Five days later Hargrove and
Mancil requested in federal district
court in Houston a restraining order
to prevent law enforcement
agencies from making further
arrests and seizures until the
constitutionality of the Texas law
was established. This restraining
order was not granted but a
permanent restraining order against
club activities came soon from the
Brazos court.
Later, the federal court
consolidated the Adult Library
Club case with 14 similar obscenity
cases from around the state, and this
month’s restraining order frees the
business establishments involved
from further action from the state.
REP. BILL CLAYTON discusses some elements of Texas water
quality with Brenda Loudermilk Thursday. (Photo by Douglas
Winship)
Enrollment
shoots up
16 per cent
This year’s enrollment is 21,463,
an increase of 15.9 per cent over last
fall, said R. A. Lacey, registrar.
“I suspect that if we don’t have
the largest increase among major
colleges and universities, we ll be
very close to the top,” Lacey said,
“but the actual information is not
available yet. ”
The 5,437 females is an increase
of 36.3 per cent. Male enrollment is
16,026.
There are 5,987 freshmen, 4,430
sophomores, 3,902 juniors, 2,996
seniors and only 4,100 new
students.
All the colleges in the university
have had increases in enrollment.
The College of Marine Sciences and
Maritime Resources had the largest
increase, 99 per cent.
The College of Architecture and
Environmental Design had the
largest increase of on campus
colleges, 21.6 per cent.
By DEBI HOLLIDAY
StaiT Writer
Gov. Dolph Briscoe stressed
ivelopment and management of
*xas’ water resources Thursday
ght at a banquet.
The banquet was held in
injunction with the Water for
exas Conference.
"Due to the unique
laracteristics of ground water,
lanagement must be framed from
nowledge of those characteristics, ”
lid Briscoe. He has recently
rmed the Water Task Force to
miliarize state legislators with
ater related problems. The
wrdination of all water related
jencies is the means to a more
Scient state effort, Briscoe said.
Through the efforts of the state in
isearch and management, current
ater supplies will fill the present
eeds in Texas, said Briscoe. Yet, “if
edo not properly plan ahead, then
'e will face a crisis situation even
more serious than the one (energy
crisis) we’ve known today.”
As a possible solution, Briscoe
advocated bringing in supplemental
water supplies from outside Texas.
Federal agencies in Washington,
D.C. have thought this infeasible,
but Briscoe said they are not always
right.
Briscoe was concerned about the
economical aspect of the need for
water conservation and
management. He said the only way
to balance governmental spending
“is to export those things we can
produce efficiently.”
In developing water resources,
Briscoe said he opposes federal
intervention if it would upset “the
currently efficient state programs
and research.”
He also emphasized wise
utilization of water resources
“starting conservation where the
rain drops fall. Improved
utilization could decrease top soit
erosion.
iequest denied
Hill asks for stay
SHERMAN (AP) — A motion by
exas Atty. Gen. John Hill asking a
deral judge to stay his order for
iveepirig state juvenile treatment
irreforms was denied Wednesday.
U. S. District Court Judge
William Wayne Justice issued the
enial in federal court here.
Hill had filed the motion for a stay
n behalf of the Texas Youth
Council TYC pending an appeal to
lie 5th U. S. Circuit Court of
ippeals in New Orleans of Justice’s
iug. 30 order.
Justice has given the TYC until
let. 1 to work out plans for carrying
)ut reforms in state juvenile
letention centers.
His ruling called for the closing of
lie Gatesville and Mountain View
eform schools for boys and ordered
he TYC to begin
lommunity-centered juvenile
nstitutions to replace large central
mnplexes.
TYC spokesman say they already
ie taking steps to comply with
ustice’s order. But the appeal to
he higher federal court was made
lecause the TYC wants the changes
o be those of the state rather than
lirected by a federal official.
In an earlier 204-page ruling,
ustiee said evidence on the two
Ticket
mix-up
cleared
Football tickets bought by
Upperclassmen for their
nderclassmen dates will be
lonored whether the
upperclassman is male or female,
said Student Government Vice
President of Student Services Barry
Brooks.
The misunderstanding in ticket
sales for the Clemson game arose
because Athletic Business Manager
Wallace Groff misunderstood the
ticket sale policy to mean the
upperclassmen had to be male, said
brooks.
The misunderstanding resulted
n upperclassmen women dating
Underclassmen men not getting
tickets on their earlier day.
schools for boys shows they are
“places where effective
rehabilitative treatment is
impossible.”
The judge said he would permit
“no foot dragging’’ in planning
sessions in which the youth council
is supposed to draw up a program.
“The defendants are apparently
of the impression that the planning
sessions will consume many months
and employ scores of TYC staff, ” he
said.
“Nothing could be further from
the court’s intentions.”
He also said that “should the
court grant a stay pending appeal,
the planning for the
implementation of a constitutional
system of youth services will be
delayed perhaps for many months
or even years. ”*
In his Aug. 30 ruling, he also
ordered the youth council to hire
more qualified staff members,
maintain a higher staff-pupil ratio,
observe strict procedures in the use
of solitary confinement, and to stop
indiscriminate use of major
tranquilizers.
Hobby says regional plans
give best water management
LT. GOV. BILL HOBBY (Photo by Douglas Winship )
Economic adviser booed
By ROXIE HEARN
Staff Writer
“It is written, ‘In the beginning
God created the heaven and the
earth and God said, “Let the water
under the heaven be gathered into
one place and let the dry land
appear” and it was so.’ This, of
course, was the beginning of water
management,” said State Rep. Bill
Clayton.
Gov. Dolph Briscoe, Lt. Gov.
Bill Hobby and Clayton were here
to discuss “Ground Water
Management — Current Issues” at
the 1974 Water for Texas
Conference.
“In the next 50 years, the state’s
water demands will more than
double,” said Hobby.
“If adequate water is available,
our population will triple to more
than 30 million. Within 30 years
three out of four Texans will live in
28 metrolpolitan areas, fewer than
half of which have assured water
supplies,” said Hobby. “Unless
bold action is begun at once, Texas
will be faced with a water shortage
between 1990 and the year 2000.”
Hobby’s answer is a program of
regional solutions. Stressing that
the control should lie within local
units. “We must not rely on a large
bureaucratic mechanism in Austin
or Washington to magically solve all
our water problems. We must
emphasize regional solutions
carried out by regional authorities. ”
A draft revision of the Texas
Water Code was also presented by
Hobby. Underground water
representatives were asked to offer
comment on the proposal which
would encourage local solutions to
local problems.
Clayton, House Speaker
apparent and chairman of the House
Interim Committee on Water,
emphasized working within the
perimeter of legislation to achieve
water conservation goals.
Necessity has risen to the list of
priorities in determining water
resource management, replacing
economics, said Clayton.
In a press conference, Clayton
reported the three main areas of
concern for the January session of
state legislators will be public school
financing, distribution of the $1.5
billion surplus in the state treasury
and the resumption of attempts to
rewrite the Texas Constitution.
Concerning the constitution’s
fate, he said legislators will consider
in January establishing a conference
of citizens to aid in its rewriting.
Also addressing the morning
session were Bill J. Waddell,
general manager of the Texas Water
Conservation Association, who
spoke on “Approaches to Ground
Water Management” and Frank R.
Booth, an Austin attorney, who
discussed “Alternative Ground
Water Laws for Texas.”
The afternoon session featured
Harry P. Burleigh of Austin,
executive director, Texas Water
Quality Board; Don Owen, an
engineer from Newport Beach,
Calif.; William F. Guyton of Austin,
with Guyton and Associates; Mrs.
Jean Williams of the Division of
Planning Coordination, Office of
the Governor.
Also, Robert Van Dyke, general
manager, San Antonio City Water
Board; J. W. Buchanan of Dumas,
general manager. North Plains
Ground Water District; and Frank
A. Rayner of Lubbock, general
manager. High Plains Underground
Water District.
A banquet for the participants
took place Thursday night at
Aggieland Inn and featured
entertainment by the Singing
Cadets.
Six speakers were included on
Friday’s program: Lewis B. Seward,
director of the Hydrology Division,
Texas Water Development Board;
Dick Whittington, Deputy
Director, Texas Water Quality
Board; and James E. Osborn,
agricultural economics professor at
Texas Tech University.
Also, Jim Valliant, director of
research. High Plains Research
Foundation, Plainview; Robert K.
Gabrysch of the U. S. Geological
Survey; and Lonnie L. Jones,
associate professor of Agricultural
Economics, Texas A&M
University.
The conference was concluded at
noon on Friday.
Brokers said harder hit than poor
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
new chairman of President Ford’s
Council of Economic Advisers
suggested Thursday that inflation
was hurting Wall Street brokers
proportionately more than the
nation’s poor.
The statement by Alan
Greenspan drew jeers and boos
from many of the 180 delegates to a
government - sponsored mini -
summit conference on h ealth,
education and welfare inflation.
There were few positive solutions
to inflation offered at the
conference.
JIM ROBINSON on trombone and Percy Humphrey on trumpet perform with the Preseryation Hall
Jazz Band Thursday night in the Rudder Center Auditorium. (Photo by Jack Holm)
Greenspan was asked by trade
unionists in the audience whether
the Ford administration wasn’t
making the poor suffer “a bit more”
to make life easier for manufacturers
and the upper class.
“Everybody is hurt by inflation,”
Greenspan declared.
“If you really want to examine
who, percentage-wise, is really hurt
the most these incomes, it’s Wall
Street brokers,” he said. “I mean,
their incomes have gone down the
most.”
Many of the delegates jumped to
their feet in the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
auditorium, voicing catcalls, boos,
jeers and hisses.
“That’s the whole trouble with
this administration-Wall Street
brokers,” shouted an unidentified
man in the back of the audience.
At the conclusion of his address,
Greenspan was applauded. But
after the delegates broke up into
smaller sessions, Greenspan’s
remarks were criticized again.
“This incredible man who heads
the CEA equates that some Wall
Street finaiciers eat less steak and
drink less champagne with poor
people who have to eat dog food and
finally the dog,” said Joseph E.
Lowery of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.
“When stockbrokers’ income
drops from $60,000 to $25,000, they
don’t go hungry,” added Rhoda
Karpatkin of the Consumers Union.
Greenspan painted a dreary
picture of the state of the nation’s
economy, saying that he knows no
one ‘who looks on the outlook over
the next six or nine months with any
degree of optimism.”
Virtually all of the delegates,
representing about 60 major
national organizations, said they
opposed federal budget cuts to fight
inflation, and some spoke of support
for increased federal spending.
Only general solutions to inflation
were put forth. Instead, there were
suggestions on how to cope with
depression. The AFL-CIO, for
example, suggested expanded
unemployment insurance.
A coalition of organizations
including the NAACP
recommended tax reform to plug
loopholes in special tax shelters to
help raise the necessary revenue.
Wilbur Cohen, former HEW
secretary under the late President
Lyndon B. Johnson and
president-elect of the American
Public Welfare Association,
suggested raising federal
supplemental security income
payments to more than three
jnillion aged, blind and disabled
persons to above the poverty level,
a 10 per cent tax rebate to those
earning less than $4,000 a year and
no deferral of automatic cost of
living raises for social security
recipients.
At another anti-inflation
conference Thursday in Detroit,
Carl Gerstacker, chairman of the
Dow Chemical Co., called for
voluntary wage-price controls
which would enable government to
ask companies and labor leaders to
pledge voluntarily not to raise their
prices or wage demands “by more
than a reasonable level.”
Henry Ford II, chairman of Ford
Motor Co., warned that inflation
“will destroy our economy if not
checked. ”
Ford called for the creation of a
presidential commission to study
raw material supplies and demands.
Ford agreed with General Motors
Chairman Richard Gerstenberg
that government-required safety
and pollution standards for the auto
industry be delayed because they
place added demands on the capital
markets.
There were these other economic
developments:
—The nation’s savings and loan
associations sustained another big
loss of savings in August, the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
announced.
A net savings loss of $1.24 billion
was described as substantial but not
surprising in view of the high
interest rates offered in other
sectors of the economy. The outflow
would not cause financial difficulty
for savings and loans because their
income from existing mortgages was
not affected, officials said.
—President Ford later this week
will propose $20 billion in budget
reductions and an additional $4
billion within the near future, Roy
Ash, director of the Office of
Management and Budget, told the
new House Budge Committee. Ash
declined to identify budget areas
where cuts will be proposed!