Page 12 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1975
No time to act
Junior high teachers Demos admit defeat
to attend workshops
Texas junior high school teachers
will attend institutes in earth and
biological sciences this summer at
TAMU. Under National Science
Foundation support, 58 teachers
will gain expertise in activity-
oriented instruction.
Dr. Melvin C. Schroeder of
TAMU s geology faculty and Drs.
Ronald J. Newton and Ray Quinn
will direct the programs.
This will be Dr. Schroeder’s 14th
summer earth science institute. He
will have 34 teachers in a two month
program. His seven-week institute
will include an eight-day field trip,
for on-site study of rocks and land-
forms. The earth science teachers
will also acquire samples and photo
graphs for classroom use. The trip
will feature stops at Austin, Burnet,
Ozona, Monahans, Carlsbad, N.M.;
McDonald Observatory, Big Bend
National Park and Del Rio.
Dr. Newton, in the Biology
Department s botany section, and
Quinn, wildlife and fisheries sci
ences, will have 24 biological sci
ence teachers. Dr. Newton said the
biological science institute will also
stress implementation. The Biolog
ical Science Curriculum Studies has
been in practice several years, but
the outdoor strategies program is
new.
Three field trips are planned in
connection with the biological sci
ence institute. Two are one-day af
fairs, one to the Big Thicket and the
other to a mining and reclamation
project. A two-day trip will go to the
Fort Worth Nature Center and Re
fuge and to Camp Tyler, where
Quinn has conducted research.
Teachers in each program can
apply nine hours credit toward ad
vanced degrees in Graduate Col
lege, or for public school teacher
certification.
Both institutes feature follow-up
programs. Teachers will attend two
centrally located meetings during
the 1975-76 school year to discuss
activities and problems in using
activity-oriented instruction. Dr.
Schroeder, Prof. C. M. Loyd of the
Physics Department, Dr. Newton
and Quinn will visit participating
teachers’ classrooms, for firsthand
views of how the instruction is work-
ing.
Soldiers of fortune
may be wealthy pair
DALLAS (AP) — Two former
Texans who sought fame and for
tune in the exotic Dutch East Indies
may become millionaires, their
lawyer says, all because of a stay in
prison.
“We ll know something within 24
hours. I expect a settlement of $3
million to $5 million will be made,”
said San Antonio lawyer J. Lawton
Stone.
The two men are Frank C. Starr,
56, and Wesley E. Broce, 38, of
Long Beach, Calif. They formerly
lived in Fredericksburg, Tex.
Starr told The Associated Press
by telephone Tuesday that he and
Broce were held captive without
charges or a trial in an Indonesian
jail from May 4, 1959, to April 25,
1961. Stone said they were jailed
while the pair acted for the In
donesian government in an effort to
settle a rebellion involving forces in
Java and Sumatra. , . .
“There was a lot of intrigue inside
the government. Stone said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House
Democratic leaders admitted Tues
day they cannot act in time to pre
vent President Ford’s proposed oil
import tariff from taking effect on
Saturday.
Ford, meanwhile, rejected a new
appeal from the Democrats for a
90-day delay in the imposition of the
oil tariff, which would begin push
ing gasoline and heating oil prices
upward within a matter of weeks.
have serious adverse reaction
throughout the country.’’
Under Ford’s plan, a tariff of
$l-a-barrel will be imposed on all oil
being imported into this country
beginning Feb. 1; the amount
would rise to $2 on March 1, and $3
on April 1.
the tariff postponement bill to legis
lation to increase the federal debt
ceiling, which the administration
needs, making it more difficult for
Ford to veto the delay.
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Each $1.00 of tariff is expected to
increase the cost of gasoline, heat
ing oil and other petroleum pro
ducts by at least one cent a gallon.
“The President has decided he
will not go for a 90-day delay,” his
“Frank had gone to Indonesia then
the Dutch East Indies right after the
war. I guess you could call the pair
of them soldiers of fortune. They got
mixed up with the government — a
de facto government — at a time
when there was a lot of dissension.
They had gone to Singapore and
when they returned to Jakarta their
adversaries attempted to discredit
them and, in effect, discredit other
government officials, their friends. ”
Starr said following their arrest
the U.S. government refused to in
tervene in the case because, as he
said he learned later, the pair had
upset a plot to overthrow President
Sukarno in Indonesia.
“The country is more or less
emerging as a real democracy now
and I think they have the money and
the desire to improve their inter
national prestige, so I feel they are
prepared to settle the claim against
them for false imprisonment of
these two men,” Stone said.
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press spokesman, Ron Nessen, told
newsmen following a meeting with
congressional leaders of both parties
at the White House.
But Rep. Al Ullman, D-Ore.,
chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee, said he told the
President that if he doesn’t com
promise on the tariff there would
be a direct confrontation between
him and the Congress that “could
Although the Democratic major
ity in Congress is preparing legisla
tion requiring a 90-day postpone
ment in the tariff. House Speaker
Carl Albert admitted to newsmen
that the legislation can’t be passed
before next week at the earliest.
Nessen said Ford was asked by
Senate Democratic whip Robert C.
Byrd of West Virginia whether he
would veto the bill anyway, and that
Ford replied, “I don’t think it’s wise
for the President to make prior
commitments. I hope I don’t have to
do it.”
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However, the legislation to VAoeV
the tariff is being drawn to make it
retroactive, so presumably the tariff
money collected would be refunded
when the legislation is approved.
The Democratic strategy is to tie
Ullman said he hopes the tariff
and debt ceiling bill will be ap
proved by his committee on Friday,
that it will go to the House Rules
Committee on Tuesday and be
ready for a final House vote on
Wednesday.
The Ways and Means Committee
voted 17-16 Tuesday to give the bill
closed rule status, meaning that
amendments not be made on the
House floor.
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