Stick ’em up!
Page 6 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1975
Bandits hit Dallas police
Tower speaks up
Rationing hurts
DALLAS (AP) — Ski-masked
bandits who robbed the police
property room here of several-
thousand dollars also may have en
dangered the prosecution of some
criminal cases, an assistant district
attorney said Tuesday.
“There is the possibility that
some cases might be affected and
the recovery of that money could be
vital, especially in certain cases
where it was the evidence,” said
Lem Brotherton.
The property room’s records
were under audit Tuesday to de
termine how much cash was taken
by the two ski-masked, western clad
bandits who robbed the room’s
vault after a pseudo-cop dispatched
one of two night attendants on a
phony call Monday night.
The loss reportedly was more
than $21,000.
Capt. Jack Davis of the Crimes
Against Persons Division said offi
cials are investigating the robbery
“as if it could be an inside deal, as
well as all other angles. This is just
one of the possibilities.”
Several persons already have
taken polygraph tests, Davis said,
but he declined to identify them.
Brotherton and police attorney
Rae Fichtner said the most en
dangered cases involve narcotics in
which the money had been used by
officers to purchase drugs during
undercover investigations.
Brotherton said prosecutors are
awaiting a police report indicating
Researchers
eliminate oil
guesswork
A research team at A&M has good
news for petroleum consumers.
The team, headed by Dr. Ken
neth Hall, has found a way to meas
ure petroleum products that elimi
nates an error of tens of millions of
dollars yearly.
Inaccuracy in measuring the pro
ducts for sale is directly related to
the energy crisis. The uncertainty is
passed to the consumer as increased
retail prices.
“Exact knowledge of the densities
is important because this is one of
the ways of measuring the products
for sale,” said Dr. Hall.
The process developed by Dr.
Hall’s team allows them to accu
rately predict the densities of sev
eral petroleum distillates/
“Hydrocarbons, or rather fossil
fuels, are so valuable to us as chemi
cal building blocks it is literally in
sane to waste them the way we do, ”
he concluded.
ERA claims
nuclear plant
disturbs gators
the amount of money and its value
as evidence in pending criminal
cases.
The robbery occurred about 7:15
p.m. Monday when a woman iden
tifying herself as an officer told a
supervisor she needed a property
van to pick up a stereo and compo
nents she had confiscated in a case
on which she was working.
Shortly after the supervisor left,
police officials said, two men wear
ing ski masks, cowboy hats, jeans,
boots and tan jackets burst through
an unlocked rear door with guns
drawn.
Charles Levy, the only attendant
left in the property room, said the
two men threatened to kill him and
ordered him to direct them to a
vault where police kept the cash.
Unlocking a padlock on the closet
door in which the vault was con
tained, Levy said he led the men
into an unlocked vault. The men
grabbed a cardboard box and filled it
with envelopes containing money,
Levy said.
The men left after locking him in
the closet. Levy said.
There’s a great deal to say about
gasoline rationing and none of it is
good, said Senator John Tower of
Texas in a recent press release.
Tower credits the consideration
of a gas rationing system in America
to liberal members of Congress who
are “unwilling to support the
President’s energy program and are
unable to cDme up with one of their
nearly $13 billion and would put
several hundred thousand Ameri
cans on the unemployment rolls,
Tower said.
“Almost every conceivable ra
tioning scheme would hurt the poor
more than the well-to-do,” Tower
■ said.
A rationing system that could cut
foreign oil consumption by one mill
ion barrels per day would also re
duce the gross national product by
With all the disadvantage of ra
tioning, which would cost the fed
eral government $2 billion to ad
minister, total petroleum consump
tion would be reduced only 40 per
cent, Tower said.
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
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by ARTHUR MILLER
RUDDER CENTER
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MARCH U-U
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TICKETS ON SALE AT RUDDER CENTER BOX OFFICE
STUDENTS
OTHERS
$1.50-$1.75-$2.00
$2.00-$2.25-$2.50
HOUSTON (AP) — The En
vironmental Protection Agency says
the proposed site for a nuclear
power plant near Bay City poses a
threat to alligators.
The EPA suggests further study
be given to alternate sites for the
plant Houston Power & Light Co.,
Central Power & Light Co., and the
cities of San Antonio and Austin
propose to build on the west banjc of
the Colorado River 15 miles south
west of Bay City.
“We have serious environmental
reservations about the acceptability
of the chosen site, ” the EPA report
states.
The EPA views were outlined in
comments made on an environmen
tal draft prepared by the Atomic
Energy Commission. The AEC
concluded the benefits of the plant
would outweigh numerous adverse
environmental impacts.
The EPA said the 12,352-acre
project would remove about 27 per
cent of the Little Robins Slough
watershed and cause a reduced de
sirability of the habitat as a nursery
for organisms.
“Destruction of this habitat will
result in diminished animal and
plant populations and a shift in biota
to a brackish water community, thus
affecting animals such as the Ameri
can alligator, an endangered
species,” the EPA said.
“Numerous wading birds, water-
fowl and other wetland inhabitants
will be adversely affected.”
The EPA said about seven miles
of the slough, described as a “slug
gish creek, run through the plan
ned site.
“The proposed project will result
in a significant impact upon Little
Robins Slouth and tidal marshlands
within the site boundary, the EPA
said.
The EPA said the AEC draft
statement included only brief dis
cussion of features of several alter
native sites.
“Although we believe location at
an alternative site may well prove
necessary for this plant, it is impor
tant that the final environmental
statement address mitigative meas
ures that could be adopted if the
plant were to be sited as proposed, ”
the EPA said.
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