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Vol. 68, No. 54
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, December 10, 1974
Board rules
election valid
By TERESA COSLETT
Staff Writer
The run-off election for freshman
class offices and constitutional
amendment referendum held last
week were made valid by a Judicial
Board decision Monday night.
The board voted 7-0 to uphold an
appeal against an injunction to halt
the voting issued the day before the
elections. Board member Mike Per
rin abstained from discussion and
voting because he had issued the
injunction. Russell Hamley, junior
board member was absent.
The injunction was issued Dec. 4
and the appeal was made by Susan-
Warren, election board commis
sioner.
Perrin had received complaints
from students Douglas Winship and
Jim Crawley that the election board
had not placed the required notice
in The Battalion ten class days be
fore the election.
The decision in the case stated
that the injuncion was overturned
because, according to the board’s
by-laws, it terminated when an ap
peal was requested.
Also the decision stated proper
notification had been given in a
story of the Nov. 15 issue of The
Battalion.
The story said the election would
be held but had not given the exact
date of the election. The board
ruled the University Rules and
Regulations requirement that
notification be given did not specify
that the date must be included.
In the decision, the board upheld
Officials talk
its right to determine how injunc
tions about election procedures
shall be issued.
But the board acknowledged that
its jurisdiction did not extend to
areas the Senate has constitutional
power over.
On the basis of its ruling on the
appeal, the board stated it would
not hear further cases concerning
the election notification procedure.
Winship and Crawley had previ
ously filed appeals against the elec
tion results on the notification issue.
But the board considered the notifi
cation question already answered in
the decision on Warren’s appeal.
Serving as counsel for Warren,
Curt Marsh, student vice president
of finance, said the injunction
should be ruled invalid because it
was not witnessed and issued by the
chairman as specified in the senate’s
newly passed election regulations.
But in the decision, the board
ruled that its own by-laws, merely
requiring the injunction to be writ
ten, took precedence.
Concerning Battalion responsi
bility in printing election notices.
Battalion Editor Greg Moses was
called as witness and said, “It is not
our duty to fulfull student
government’s obligations. We will
cooperate but should not be held
responsible. They should pay for an
official notice.”
Marsh said since The Battalion is
a student newspaper and supported
by student services fees it should
print election notices without
charge.
Congressmen say
confirmation sure.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen.
Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., said
Monday he will vote against Nelson
A. Rockefeller’s nomination as vice
president because he is convinced
the former New York governor used
his personal fortune to buy political
power.
Goldwater’s statement about his
rival for the 1964 Republican presi
dential nomination came as Senate
Republican and Democratic leaders
predicted Rockefeller will be con
firmed overwhelmingly in a vote set
for Tuesday afternoon.
Rockefeller also must be ap
proved by the House before becom
ing vice president.
In a letter addressed to President
Ford, Goldwater said he had in
tended to support the nomination
and that he has forgiven Rockefeller
“for his non support of my candidacy
in 1964.”
“Recent disclosures have forced
me to re-examine that earlier deci
sion,” Goldwater said.
“It is now apparent to me,” he
said, “that Mr. Rockefeller did in
effect use his own personal money
to accomplish the purchase of politi
cal power.”
Goldwater mentioned no specific
disclosures and an aide said he re
ferred only to general disclosures of
large gifts and loans to public offi
cials and the financing of a book crit
ical of former Supreme Court Jus
tice Arthur Goldberg when Gold
berg opposed Rockefeller for the
New York govemorship.
“I am not questioning Mr.
Rockefeller’s motives nor am I sug
gesting that he made any improper
use of the political leverage availa
ble to him as a result of his gifts and
loans to his political associates,”
Goldwater said.
“In my opinion,” he added,
“there exists in this country a strong
suspicion that the tremendous fi
nancial power of the Rockefeller
family might have a corrupting in
fluence on the political process.”
Texans not feeling
economic hurt—yet
Jammed weapon
Photo by Will Anderson
Ration predicted
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top
energy officials in the Ford ad
ministration said Monday they
think the government will have to
adopt mandatory measures to con
serve energy.
Interior Secretary Rogers C. B.
Morton told the opening session of a
three-day public hearing on U.S.
energy policy: “I think we’ve got to
come up with some awful tough tur
key. The administration uses those
words to characterize mandatory
fuel-saving measures.
Energy chief-designate Frank G.
Zarb told a reporter after opening
three days of hearings on increasing
domestic refining capacity: “My
own personal view is that we’re
going to have to take stronger meas
ures” to cut back consumption of
expensive foreign oil.
Morton, chairman of the
Cabinet-level Energy Resources
Council, made his statement at
council hearings in preparation for a
conference of its members at Camp
David, Md., Saturday. The council
will make recommendations to
President Ford for presentation to
Congress in January.
In response to recommendations
by consumer spokesmen for strong
energy conservation measures and
protection against high prices, Mor
ton said that the administration
must come up with ideas that can be
achieved politically. He endorsed
no specific proposals.
“The real policy question we face
is not either conservation or energy
development,” Morton said. “The
major decision is how do we balance
these two strategies . . . How much
conservation can the economy with
stand? What should be the pace of
resource development?”
Zarb, nominated by President
Ford to succeed the ousted John C.
Sawhill as head of the Federal
Energy Administration, called the
FEA hearing into domestic refining
capacity. He said it was “too early to
tell” for sure whether mandatory
energy conservation measures
would be adopted.
But he said some of the measures
being considered include a gasoline
tax and restrictions on oil imports.
President Ford will fly to New
York on Tuesday to seek energy ad
vice from Vice President-designate
Nelson A. Rockefeller and some
members of Rockefeller’s Commis
sion on Critical Choices for
America.
The President is described as
open-minded on all possible op
tions, which could indicate a change
from his previously expressed op
position to mandatory measures
such as a gasoline tax or allocations
of gasoline and heating oil. Ford in
tends to make up his mind on
energy options during the
Christmas-New Year holidays,
when he is expected to be vacation
ing at the ski resort of Vail, Colo.
Lee White, a spokesman for the
Consumer Federation of America,
told the Energy Resources Council
hearing the administration should
support standby authority for
gasoline rationing. White said he
The Ranger field training exercise
last weekend included upperclass
men and “fish aggressors” like John
Dillon, who learned that it’s a lot
easier to be aggressive when your
Plane crash
M-60 machine gun works properly.
The maneuver was held in the
forests near Easterwood Airfield
and lasted two days.
Student’s parents both injured;
weekend almost ends in tragedy
would like
mediately.
to see it used im-
A&M vs. Virginia
Commonwealth
7:30 p.m.
A&M JV vs. Tyler
Junior College
By JIM CRAWLEY
Staff Writer
A weekend visit to their daughter
turned into a near tragedy for Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Goris, Sunday af
ternoon.
Their light plane, in which they
were returning to Euless, crashed
into a drainage ditch next to FM
Road 2818, one-half mile from Eas
terwood Airport in College Station,
causing injuries to both occupants.
A small grass fire was caused
when the plane struck some power
lines and punctured the gas tanks,
spreading gas over the field.
Mrs. Goris, who was partially
trapped in the wreckage for 10 mi
nutes until firemen could release
her, suffered broken legs, knee and
rib injuries. Mr. Goris sustained
minor cuts and bruises. Both were
taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital, in
Bryan.
The plane, which had departed
from Easterwood, was five miles
north when Goris reported the en
gine had failed and he was returning
to the field, said Bobby Clay, FAA
investigator.
Department of Public Safety
(DPS) Officer Maxie Ward said the
plane struck the pavement and
skidded to a stop in the adjacent
drainage ditch.
College Station and TAMU fire
units responded to the wreck site
and prevented further spread of the
grass fire and thwarted the possibil
ity of the plane catching fire. Also
responding were DPS officers and
units of the College Station police
department.
Goris did not file a flight plan be
cause he was flying under Visual
Flight Rules, which do not require
one, said Clay.
AUSTIN (AP)—A top Texas
economy expert warned Monday
that Texans should not “let smug
ness take over” just because the
state’s economy is presently in bet
ter shape than that of the nation.
“Some deterioration can be ex
pected in the months ahead because
the impact of the nation’s troubles
hasn’t really reached here,” Dr.
Stanley Arbingast, director of the
University of Texas Bureau of Busi
ness Research, told the opening ses
sion of the university’s 16th Insti
tute for Tax Assessors.
Arbingast said the major strength
of the Texas economy is that “we
have a better balance among the
sources of personal income than do
the majority of states. ”
And, he said, during past reces
sions “the Texas economy has gen
erally held up well in comparison
with the rest of the nation and with
most of the other states.”
Arbingast said only 3.9 per cent of
the Texas labor force was out of work
in October, compared with the 6.5
per cent national unemployment
figure in November. He said the
state’s November rate may be
somewhat higher because of layoffs
at several Texas manufacturing
plants but the total working in Texas
factories in November should be
above the number in November last
year. ”
He said Texarkana was the only
area where the rate of unemploy
ment exceeded that of the national
average. He said Austin probably
had the most stable economy of the
state and “Dallas and Fort Worth
are doing very well with the lowest
percentage of the labor force seek
ing jobs of any major city in the na
tion with the possible exception of
Denver. ”
For San Antonio, he said the new
education complexes created there
by the University of Texas system
have already had “a tremendous
impact on the economy and this im
pact will be greater.”
He said real estate prices are ris
ing higher than other prices and
taxes are likely to represent a larger
share of the homeowner’s budget.
“As real estate costs soar, the public
may decide to spend its money for
furniture, clothes, jewelry, travel
and automobiles rather than to
spend for houses, buildings and
land,” he said.
New cafeteria almost ready
MSC lounge to open
By JIM PETERS
Staff Writer
The new lounge and cafeteria
areas in the Memorial Student
Center are scheduled to open “early
next semester” according to Uni
versity Center officials.
The high-ceilinged, well lighted
student lounge is more than double
jthe size of the old MSC lounge, said
J. Wayne Stark, director of the
MSC.
The new snack bar and cafeteria,
located “inside” the etched glass
panels on the first floor, will provide
space for about 800 patrons.
A color scheme of avocado, blue
and yellow is carried on throughout
the dining area. Sunbursts and
linear designs of those colors are in
evidence on the tiled walls and 187
tables.
The existing snack bar area in the
basement of the MSC will serve as
the Brown Bag Area for persons who
bring their lunch.
As is the rest of the University
Center, the lounge and cafeteria are
being furnished by the interior de
sign firm of William Pahlmann As
sociates Inc.
Expensive antiques have found
their appointed place in the decora
tion in the lounge area.
Louis XIII, English Country,
William and Mary and Spanish-
style chairs (all costing more than
$400 apiece) will grace the lounge.
A dozen leather chairs and other
less expensive armchairs are also in
cluded.
Dutch walnut tables with scroll
shaped legs ($480 ea.), $1,800 anti
que English mahoghany desks with
maroon and gold tooled leather
tops, a $1,650 English pine reflec
tory table and a large 19th century
English oak center table ($1,500)
will complement the seating.
Nearly all of the furnishings were
purchased in New York City where
the Pahlmann firm is based, Uni
versity purchase vouchers indicate.
The “Southwestern plains” motif
that Pahlmann selected is carried on
in the steerhide benches in sur
rounding hallways and light fixtures
on the lounge walls.
Fabric colors will range from the
“Homeric” Teakwood blue on the
sofas to the “Rogue” Buckskin
Naugahyde covering the tables.
Five bronze and glass vitrines
(display cases) will be situated
throughout the lounge. They cost
between $1,100 and $1,800 apiece.
Other decoration will include two
five-foot in diameter wood globes of
the heavens ($1,500 ea.), redwood
planter units, flag stands, chan
deliers and wall light fixtures and
blinds for the two-story windows
looking out on the University
Center Mall.
The remainder of the MSC is ex
pected to open by early summer.
Stark said. Other areas include: an
art gallery, arts and crafts room, the
main lobby the ballroom and sur
rounding meeting rooms.
Geneva Goris helped out of wrecked plane.
Photo by Dougins Winship