Final board installments are due
by Tuesday.
Students on the 7-day Board Plan
must pay $127 and students on the
5-day Board Plan owe $114. The
payments may be made either at
the main fiscal office or in the new
branch office in the Rudder Tower.
Battalion
College Station, Texas Thursday, November 7, 1974
Dominik battle
still not settled
Books for these shelves are sometimes ordered months before the class is set to begin. (Photo by Rodger Mallison)
Purchasing lengthy process
By JIM CRAWLEY
Elapsed time between the selec-
i of a textbook and the time it is
ought by the student may be as
mg as four months, said Howard
leHart, manager for the University
lenter Bookstore Book Dept.,
londay.
The process of ordering, receiv-
ig and selling textbooks is a com-
licated system of telephone calls,
)rms, committees and computers.
The instructors of the course
hoose their own texts as a general
ule. The selection process was
ound to be generally consistent
rom one department to another in
in informal Battalion survey.
The English Dept, is fairly rep
resentative of most academic de
partments in the manner in which it
selects textbooks. Each course has a
committee or group of instructors
that teach the course. This group
meets and decides on the books to
be used for the next semester. This
choice has to be approved by the
department head.
Then, a form is distributed to
each department by the bookstore
where the department lists all books
to be used. When returned the
forms include estimates of the
number of students who will enroll
in the course. The bookstore uses
this figure and the previous year’s
Today.
Inside
Injunctions p. 3
Eckhardt p. 4
Haddox’s leg . . . .p. 8
Weather
Mostly cloudy and cool with
intermittent light rain
Thursday. Continued
cloudy and 30% chance of
rain Friday. High today
57°; low tonite 50°; high
Friday 65°.
total for the course, said DeHart.
The bookstore then orders from
80 per cent to 95 per cent of the
expected enrollment for the course.
DeHart said this is because many
students buy from the off-campus
stores.
DeHart orders the books. He
uses the telephone because of the
speed and the near-impossibility of
the order being lost. The store also
uses a computer to keep track of the
orders and the books on hand.
After a period of about eight
weeks, the books arrive at the store
and are processed, DeHart said.
The books have to be checked for
damage and are priced. At this
Liquor?
Can’t buy
at
point, the student buys the book.
Along with the ordering of books,
the store also buys back student
books that are used, DeHart said.
Currently, the store buys back all
used books at half the retail price,
unless the book has been discon
tinued by the publisher or by the
instructor. Discontinued books are
bought back for about 10 per cent of
the original price, he said.
Due to the high turnover rate of
textbooks, the campus store makes
little or no money on its textbook
sales. The store makes a profit on its
gift and supplies they sell on the
second level of the store, said De
Hart.
Correction
The Battalion erroneously re
ported Tuesday the figure of the
proposed county budget as
$3,396,809. That figure represents
the total resources included in the
budget. The actual proposed
budget is $2,429,272 in total expen
ditures which reflects an increase of
$663,330 over this year’s budget.
By GERALD OLIVIER
Staff Writer
The question of rezoning a tract of
land between Dominik Street and
Highway 30 remains unsettled fol
lowing Wednesday night’s City
Council meeting.
The council set up a conference
between city officials, Dominik
Street residents and attorneys for
both to discuss the matter.
City representatives will be City
Attorney Neeley Lewis, Council-
men Larry Bravenec and Jim
Dozier (both attorneys) and Mayor
O. M. Holt.
Tom Kozik, a Dominik resident,
has retained Brooks Gofer to rep
resent him in the case.
The conference will attempt to
define the exact legal questions in
volved.
Action on the request by owner
Harry Seaback, local developer, is
being delayed pending a decision by
the council on the admissability of a
petition signed by Dominik Street
residents and sympathizers.
The city’s zoning ordinance states
that if a petition, signed by 20 per
cent of the property owners within
200 feet of the area in question, is
submitted to the city secretary prior
to the public hearing on the matter,
a three-fourths vote of the council
will be required to change the zon
ing.
Lewis advised the council last
week the petition was not admissa-
ble because it was submitted after
the hearing had begun.
Dozier said that by accepting the
petition at the meeting the council
in effect waived the requirement of
early submission.
If the petition was presented leg
ally, the question of whether or not
20 percent of the property owners’
names were on it remains unans
wered.
If the adjoining property owned
UT chancellor LeMaistre
will comply with request
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — University
of Texas professors may have to put
in writing any question directed to
Chancellor Charles Le Maistre on
his firing of Stephen Spurr as presi
dent of the school.
LeMaistre has agreed to appear
before a meeting of the General Fa
culty Nov. 20.
The secretary of the General Fa
culty, English professor James Kin-
neavy, Wednesday said LeMaistre
has agreed to follow the regulation
governing questions to school pres
idents at such meetings.
That regulation reads: “Involved
questions, questions of major im
portance and questions the answer
to which may require preparation of
factual material should be submit
ted in writing ot the secretary for
transmittal to the president at least
one week before the date of the
meeting at which the question is to
be considered.”
Landscaping plans
released for bids
By JIM CRAWLEY
Staff Writer
Campus landscaping to the tune
of $500,000 is up for bid.
The landscaping is planned for 13
locations on campus.
Under the plan, by Myrick,
Newman and Dahlberg of Dallas,
Lamar Street (between MSC and
Bizzell Hall) will be landscaped
from Throckmorton (west of the
Military Science Building) to Hous
ton (from Northgate to the MSC)
streets.
The Lamar Street change will in
volve landscaping the area between
Bizzell Hall and the Rudder Center
fountain. This area will be a mall and
lawn area.
Another area of major improve
ments will be on Coke Street which
runs along the east side of the
Biological Sciences Building East
between Lamar and the Campus
Mall area. Plans include the addi
tion of bicycle racks, greenery and
sidewalks.
Because of the present heavy traf
fic at the Lamar Street and Coke
Street sites, most of the area will be
made into a paved mall with inters
persed greenery.
To accomplish this the plans call
for three types of paving material.
Most of sidewalks and mall will be a
type of “exposed aggregate,” said
construction Manager Charles
Brunt. In addition, a special con
crete, which allows moisture and air
to pass through it, will be used
around the trees planned for the
beautification of the campus.
Smooth brown concrete will also be
used.
The half-million dollar beautifica
tion project will involve the planting
of hundreds of trees, shrubs, vines
and other plants. About 52,000
Japanese starjasmine plants will be
placed in the Lamar and Coke
Street malls. Bermuda and St. Au
gustine grasses will be used
throughout the landscaping prog-
This will be the second step to
reduce on-campus car traffic. Pres
ently, Bizzell Street behind the Sys
tems Administration Building is
closed to traffic and is used for park
ing. The closing of Lamar Street al
leviates the possibility of students
getting hit by a car when crossing
over to the MSC.
Brunt said that construction on
the project would begin as soon as
possible after the letting of bid. He
said the area around Hart Hall and
the Biological Sciences Building
would probably be disrupted for
most of the construction period.
Plans also call for the addition of
some small trees at President
Williams’ home.
By JACK HODGES
Staff Writer
Some Skaggs Albertson’s stores
across the state have had their li
quor permits canceled and others
suspended following court battles
winding up Oct. 30, at a state dis
trict court in Austin.
The suspensions will last 60 days
and permits will not be renewed
until the corporate structures are
reorganized, said Joe Darnel, a
lawyer for the Texas Alcoholic Be
verage Commission (ABC).
Skaggs Albertson’s at 301 S. Col
lege Ave. had its permit suspended
effective Monday, having to clear its
shelves of beer and wine by last
Sunday midnight. Last Wednesday
there was a half price sale of all
wine.
The court ruled that Skaggs
Albertson’s corporation was not
operating for the benefit of the per-
mitee, in violation of article 666.18
of the Texas Penal Code.
Under the law, Skaggs (a
nationwide store chain) could not
hold liquor permits in the state be
cause it does not own at least 51
percent of the corporate stock in
Texas. “Since they (Skaggs) couldn’t
obtain the permits, they set up li
quor corporations which could,”
Darnel said.
The new corporations holding the
permits are required to control the
sale of liquor in each store. An in
vestigation by the ABC revealed the
liquor corporations were pawns of
Skaggs Albertson’s and were con
trolled by them. Darnel said.
Skaggs was in trouble over the
summer when some of its permits
were up for renewal and the ABC
was informed of irregularities. ABC
auditors found that Skaggs was
operating a “paper front” for liquor
corporations, Darnel said. “Paper
fronts” act as false entities of another
corporation.
The dummy liquor corporations
established were Super Save Liquor
Corporation, Bacchus Enterprise
Inc. and Romulus Enterprise Inc..
“These corporations were being
managed by the Skaggs corporation
and did not act separately as they
are supposed to,” Darnel said.
A local Skaggs spokesman said,
the College Avenue store will lose
about $7,000 each week in beer and
wine sales, out of approximately
$200,000 in weekly gross sales.
“Those who have their beer per
mits under suspension will probably
keep them but there is no indication
that the ones that were canceled will
be renewed,” Darnel said.
Changing the muffler
A crane came in handy when Tommy Hamilton
decided to change foreman Jim Glover’s muffler.
The crane is part of the equipment being used
to work on the landscape project underway on
Houston near the YMCA Building. (Photo by
Rodger Mallison)
by Seaback is included in the total,
the signers constitute only 10 per
cent of the owners. Without Sea
back, the total represented by the
petition is well above the required
20 percent.
“The conflict between the letter
of the law and its intent is at ques
tion,” said Bravenec.
Tom Kozik said the Dominik re
sidents are interested in determin
ing whether the city attorney’s rul
ing on the petition was fair.
Kozik said the specific wording of
the law is superfluous; what is being
questioned is intent.
Lane Stephenson, another
Dominik resident, said he knew of
only one of the group who did not
stand fully behind Kozik.
“We owe it to the citizens in
volved on both sides to throw this to
some impartial authority for an
opinion,” Bravenec said.
The impartial authority selected
was the Attorney General of Texas,
John Hill. Dozier suggested the
conference between interested par
ties and their attorneys as a means
for deciding the exact legal question
involved. He emphasized the need
for an exact question before an At
torney General’s opinion could be
obtained.
PolrZ joins
in Council
committee
By GERALD OLIVIER
Staff Writer
The College Station Planning and
Zoning Commission (P&Z) agreed
at a joint meeting of the two bodies
Wednesday night to participate on a
committee set up by the City Coun
cil to review city developmental
controls.
The P&Z had declined to appoint
representatives to the committee at
its last meeting and requested a
meeting with the council to answer
questions about the new body.
John Longley, P&Z chairman,
said, “Everything proposed for the
committee is covered by existing
committees. ”
“We don’t need another commit
tee breathing down the necks of the
present ones,” Tom Chaney, P&Z
member said.
Questions regarding the scope of
topics to be considered by the task
force were raised by P&Z members.
Councilman Jim Gardner, author
of the resolution creating the com
mittee, said the committee needs
latitude to discuss whatever comes
up. Specific examples of items to be
considered were included in the re
solution to give the committee di
rection, Gardner said.
“The present committees have
done nothing to my knowledge,
along these lines,” Gardner said.
The committee will review the
city’s developmental controls and
make recommendations to the
council for improvements.
Chaney said the committee
should identify problems, not at
tempt solutions.
After much discussion, commis
sion members George Boyett and
Chaney agreed to serve on the
committee to “protect our own in
terests, if nothing else.”
“If the council thinks this com
mittee will be helpful, we will coop
erate,” Longley said.
The council directed City Man
ager North Bardell to examine types
of community facilities built by
cities with a hotel-motel tax revenue
equivalent to College Station's.
City Attorney Neeley Lewis said
the building of a community center
was within the guidelines for spend
ing the funds.
In other action, the council ac
cepted the bid of Ward and Jeter
Service and Supply of Madisonville
for the fencing of a baseball field at
the new Bee Creek Park. “The fenc
ing will cost $8,250 and will make
the facility first class,” Parks and
Recreation department head Paul
Wojciechowski said.