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Vol. 68 No. 60
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, January 22, 1975
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AUSTIN (AP) — Speaker Bill
Clayton said Tuesday he will use an
unorthodox procedure to speed up
House action on a Senate-passed
bill giving state employes a $93 mill
ion pay raise.
He said he would post the re
quired five days’ notice of a commit
tee hearing over his own signature
while he continues to make up his
mind on committee assignments.
Speed is important because the
bill is supposed to be in effect by
Feb. 1.
While House rules say notices of
committee hearings are to be posted
by the chairmen, Clayton said the
speaker has the authority to post a
hearing notice.
The Senate’s bill, passed 31-0
Monday, would give state workers
making under $10,500 a 14.2 per
cent raise, those between $10,500
and $20,500 a $10.5 per cent in
crease and employes earning over
$20,500 a year a 5.5 per cent raise.
Clayton said he hoped for a
University
removes
directory
Directories of student informa
tion have been removed from the
housing office lobby until their legal
standing has been clarified.
Judge James A. Amis Jr., univer
sity attorney, said Tuesday that they
were removed pending a decision
by a university committee studying
the effects of new amendments to
the Family Rights and Privacy Act.
The act states that the university
must give public notice as to the
information being collected for the
directories and must allow ample
time for the person to decline right
of release.
House hearing next Monday.
Several days may be needed to
complete action, since the House
might reject the Senate’s approach
and try one of its own, which would
require Senate concurrence for the
bill to win final passage.
One problem mentioned by law
makers and state agency officials
was that the different rates of in
crease could produce situations
where an employe suddenly would
be making more than his super
visor.
Clayton said he is “still working
on a Thursday deadline” for making
committee appointments.
Legislative action Tuesday con
sisted mainly of bill introductions.
Sen. Jack Ogg, D-Houston, held
a news conference to discuss his bill
providing fines of up to $200 for
smoking in elevators, theaters, lib
raries, museums, hospitals or
buses, except in specially desig
nated areas.
“Although I am personally con
vinced that smoking is injurious to a
smoker’s health, it is certainly his
prerogative to smoke. However,
non-smokers also have the right not
to inhale the smoke of others that is
also dangerous, offensive and impo
lite to them,” Ogg said.
Sen. Walter Mengden,
R-Houston, introduced a bill per
mitting local school boards to estab
lish periods of silent prayer or medi
tation at the beginning of each
school day.
The stack of bills introduced in
the House neared 200. Included
were these measures:
—HB55, by Rep. Abraham
Ribak, D-San Antonio, permitting
political party state conventions to
be held any time from mid-June to
42 days before the general election.
The current requirement that con
ventions be held the third Tuesday
in September created a conflict for
Jews last year because the Democ
ratic and Republican conventions
were held on Rosh Hashanah, a high
holy day.
Building fee bill
lone Senate topic
A resolution concerning the re
cent building use fee increases will
be the only item presented at a spe
cial meeting of the Student Senate,
Thursday.
The Senate will meet in room 204
of the Harrington Center.
Tim resolution, sponsored by
Don Henson, agriculture graduate
student, will attack the recent fee
increase by the Board of Directors.
Henson said the resolution con
cerns the manner in which the fee
was implemented. The resolution
asks the board to give advance
notice of any increase in fees.
Last September, the board in
creased the building use fee from
two dollars to six dollars. The in
crease was not announced in The
Battalion until December. This in
crease was heavily criticized by stu
dents.
Steve Eberhard, student Gov
ernment president, said he will an
nounce appointments to five Senate
positions at the Thursday meeting.
The appointments will be made for
sophomore from the College of edu
cation, junior from the Corps,
junior from the College of Liberal
Arts, undergraduate from off-
campus and representative from the
university-owned apartments.
The next regular meeting will be
on January 29.
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AUSTIN (AP) — Two of Univer
sity of Texas Chancellor Charles
LeMaistre s children have received
special parking privileges while at
tending the university, the Austin
American-Statesman reported
Tuesday.
LeMaistre’s sons, Bill and Fred,
ave driven cars with parking per-
m 'ts generally limited to UT system
Personnel and UT-Austin adminis
trators, the newspaper said. The
permits allow a car to be parked in
the center of the campus, directly
behind the main building. Most
students have permits that allow
parking at the edge of the campus.
Mike Quinn, LeMaistre’s assis
tant, said the chancellor had re
ceived four of the special “O” per
mits, three for cars that LeMaistre
owns and drives and one for a car
that the university system leases for
his use.
■.. but can they pass?
AUSTIN (AP) — The son of Uni
versity of Texas Chancellor Charles
e Maistre has been given a failing
Ifrade in a biology course at the boy’s
request, assistant dean Jerry
Moseley said.
An instructor accused the chan
cellor last week of pressuring her to
give William LeMaistre a make-up
ln al examination after she had
turned in an “F” for the student.
William got a “C” after taking the
make-up at his convenience.
But Moseley said Monday, “All
appeals for a grade change based on
the make-up final exam have been
withdrawn.”
The teacher, Martha Guentzel,
resigned after giving the make-up.
University regents are investigat
ing the matter.
—HB58, by Rep. Jim Kaster,
D-El Paso, to move the primary
elections from the spring to August
and September.
—HB65 by Kaster, calling a
non-binding referendum for the
November 1976 general election on
whether Texans want a state lottery.
—HB68, by Rep. Jon Newton,
D-Beeville, repealing the sales tax
on natural gas and electric bills of
residential users.
—HB79, by Rep. Dan Kubiak,
D-Rockdale, setting up a presiden
tial preference primary, with dele
gates prorated to candidates accord
ing to the' percentage of the vote
they receive.
U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen,
D-Tex., who might be a candidate,
has expressed support for a Texas
presidential primary.
—HB84 by Kubiak, exempting
Texas from daylight saving time.
—HB97, by Rep. Benny Bock,
D-New Braunfels, requiring $6
two-year licenses for canoes.
—HB107 and 108, by Rep.
Richard Reynolds, R-Richardson,
raising the oil tax from 4.6 per cent
to 6 per cent of market value and the
natural gas tax from 7-Vk per cent to
9 per cent of market value.
—HB136, by Rep. Mickey Le-
land, D-Houston, allowing the crea
tion of Health Maintenance Organi
zations, with regulation by State In
surance Board.
—HB144, by Rep. Chris Miller,
D-Fort Worth, requiring the State
Agriculture Department to issue a
list of poisonous nursery plants.
Nurseries would be required to post
the list near their sales counters.
—HB163, by Rep. John Hoes-
tenbach, D-Odessa, repealing the
Sunday closing law of 1961, which
forbids sale of certain articles on
both Saturday and Sunday.
—HB175, by Kibak, setting up a
Texas Public Utilities Commission,
with three elected and six appointed
full-time members to regulate gas,
electrical, communications and
cable television industries.
Busy beavers buy books
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Photo by David Kimmcl
Cash registers hummed from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
in the MSC Book Store yesterday because
students and employees alike were again
faced with the hassle of buying school books.
If students would buy their books earlier,
this rush could be avoided.
Things you might have missed
Local events grind on over holidays
After four weeks in Hometown,
U.S.A. students lose touch with the
news events in the college commun
ity. Presented herein are short
summaries updating some signific
ant off-campus news stories — City
Ed.
Traffic lights
The burlap has been removed
from the new traffic signals on Texas
Avenue.
The lights, scheduled for comple
tion over a year ago, are operating
independently of one another and
synchronization of the system is due
shortly.
As a result of the new signals, one
of the old lights will be installed at
the intersection of Jersey Street and
Bizzell. All major construction on
the site is complete, City Manager
North Bardell said. All that remains
is the installation of the supporting
arms and controller, he added.
Bardell predicted the signal will
be operational within two weeks.
Drug charges
As of Dec. 18, the day on which
the final Battalion of the semester
was published, 11 persons, includ
ing three A&M students, had just
been charged with the sale and pos
session of various illicit narcotics.
That afternoon District Attorney
Tom McDonald Jr. notified the De
partment of Public Safety Narcotics
Service in Houston that none of
those arrested would be prosecuted
since the grand jury had not yet re
viewed the cases or studied lab re
ports of confiscated drug sub
stances.
Chancellor’s kids
park with VIP’s
W-1 gets uniforms
Photo by Chris Svatek
Disbelief and smiles met Sharon Gibson and other
W-1 Maggies as they appeared in their new sum
mer uniforms.
By BARBARA WEST
Staff Writer
Uniformed women
will soon become part of
the A&M campus. Some
of the uniforms for the
female members of the
corps have arrived and
are being issued.
The uniforms, which
are of the same material
as the men’s summer un
iforms, are a special
order of a design made to
complement the male
cadets’ uniforms. Col.
Thomas R. Parsons,
commandant, says that
the design evolved from
ideas of corps personnel.
Parsons says there is
little difference in the
men’s and women’s un
iforms “except for the
skirt.”
The women’s un
iforms are not belted,
and class will be disting
uished by the uniform
braid. Freshman girls
will wear no braid,
sophomores will have
black braid, juniors will
wear white, and seniors
will have standard, gold
and black senior braid,
says Parsons.
The entire standard
uniform issue for a
woman in the corps, in
cluding summer and
winter dress and acces
sories, will cost in excess
of $450, according to fig
ures supplied by Walter
C. Dandridge, who is in
charge of uniform handl
ing.
The school buys the
uniforms and issues
them to the students In
the corps, who pay a
handling fee. Students
are also responsible for
loss or destruction of
garments.
By the end of the week,
McDonald and the head of the DPS
Narcotics Service, Capt. Jack Cur
tis, had made amends and issued a
joint statement. It said “all past and
future narcotics offenses which have
been indicted by the Brazos County
Grand Jury on the basis of lab re
ports will be prosecuted,” which
means the 11 are back facing their
original charges, although they have
not received indictments.
The grand jury did not meet in
December due to holiday conflicts
but will hold its January session next
week.
Beer is back
Beer is back on the shelf at the
Skaggs-Albertson store in College
Station following the end of a 60-day
suspension of the store’s beer-
and-wine license by a state district
court on Oct. 30.
Some Skaggs-Albertson stores ac
ross the state had their permits can
celed while others received suspen
sions when the state Alcoholic Be
verage Commission accused the
chain of setting up dummy liquor
corporations to circumvent a state
law regarding the holding of liquor
permits.
Boyd Hall, manager of the local
store, said the College Station store
“has no legal problem now” and will
have wine in stock shortly.
United Fund
The College Station United Fund
drive remains $4,000 short of its
1974 goal of $30,000.
The drive has reached 85 per cent
of its goal, drive chairman Bill Land-
iss said Tuesday.
The local campaign, which began
Oct. 1, will distribute funds to 13
charity organizations in College Sta
tion. The 1973 goal was $29,000.
According to Landiss, another
publicity campaign urging persons
and businesses to contribute will be
launched in about another week to
get the $4,000 needed to meet the
goal. Landiss said he expects the
fund drive to be completed near the
end of February.
The Bryan UF drive was com
pleted just before Christmas. The
Bryan drive netted about $660 over
the 1974 goal of $131,690. The 1973
campaign raised just over $93,000.
Discrimination
Nothing further has developed in
the sex discrimination suit filed
against the A&M Consolidated
School District by the U.S. Secret
ary of Labor on Nov. 27.
The district is charged with violat
ing the Fair Labor Standards Act of
1948 since September 1971 by pay
ing male faculty $300 a year more
than their female counterparts.
Male teachers had “many extra
hours of work’’ not required of
female faculty such as policing and
ticket collecting at athletic events,
said Fred Hopson, school superin
tendent.
Jack Woods, legal counsel for the
district, has filed the district’s deci
sion to contest the charges but no
date has been set for the trial.
GTE faces suit
A civil suit filed Aug. 15 by a local
former district judge against the
General Telephone Company of the
Southwest and two Bryan police of
ficers will be tried during the first
week in May in federal district court
in Houston.
John M. Barron, now a local at
torney, of 2522 Willow Bend in
Bryan, charged in the suit that
(See HOLIDAY, p. 3)
Jury duty added
to female rights
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 Tuesday
that women cannot be automatically
excused from jury duty. It was
another victory for the women’s
rights movement.
The court’s decision reversed a
ruling 13 years ago in which it said a
state could require that women vol
unteer in order to serve as jurors.
Since then, two-thirds of the
membership of the court has
changed and the justices have ruled
favorably on a number of women’s
rights cases.
“It is untenable to suggest these
days that it would be a special hard
ship for each and every woman to
perform jury service or that society
cannot spare any women from their
present duties,” Justice Byron W.
White said for the court.
The lone dissenter, Justice Wil
liam H. Rehnquist, said some of the
reasoning relied on by the majority
“smacks more of mysticism than of
law. ”
In its only other decision of the
day, the court held unanimously
that Congress has the power to reg
ulate sales of liquor-on property
owned by white persons on Indian
reservations.
It also held that Congress could
delegate this power to tribal au
thorities. The case involved the
Blue Bull, a bar operated by a non-
Indian on the Wind River Reserva
tion in Wyoming.
The women’s rights case involved
the appeal of Billy J. Taylor, who
was convicted on a kidnapping
charge by an all-male Louisiana
jury. State law at the time required
women to volunteer if they wished
to be jurors. The law has since been
repealed and now no state has such a
requirement.
The court said the requirement
violated Taylor’s right to be tried by
a representative cross section of the
community.
Rehnquist, in his dissent, said the
majority had failed to show that
Taylor was unfairly treated by the
way his jury was selected.