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Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1975 Strip mining restrictions approved by House WASHINGTON (AP) — The House, Tuesday, overwhelmingly approved a bill to impose stiff federal environmental and reclamation con trols on the strip mining of the nation’s coal. By a 333 to 86 vote, the House approvedabillalmostidentical to the one President Ford vetoed last De cember. The vote was well above the two-thirds needed to override a pos sible new veto. A House-Senate conference committee is expected to iron out differences between the House proposal and a similar one passed last week by the Senate. The bill would ban strip mining wherever the disturbed land could not be completely reclaimed and would impose a reclamation tax of up to 35 cents a ton on coal to finance a program to clean up lands ravaged by strip mining. Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz., the bill’s floor manager called it “a finely tuned compromise” to balance energy andenvironmental concerns. The House action was criticized immediately by the coal industry. National Coal Association President Carl Bagge said the action would further increase the cost of energy. He called the bill “senselessly se vere” and urged another veto. Environmentalists praised the bill,callingitasstrongastheoneFord vetoed and in some areas, they con tend, even stronger. ThefinalvotecameaftertheHouse agreed to an amendment sought by environmentalists thatwouldban the Strip mining of any coal if it could be extracted throughconventionaldeep mining methods. The House rejected, 248-170, a proposal to remove from the bill a provision exempting from its en vironmental standards anthracite or “hard coal.” The exemption was sought by Pennsylvania congress men, the only state where anthracite is strip mined. They said Pennsyl vania law governing anthracite mines was already adequate. Ford pocket-vetoed the 1974 bill last Dec. 31, claiming it would drive up further the already-inflated price of coal and might jeopardize the goal of doubled U. S. coal production by 1985. The coal industry, strongly op posed to the legislation, contends its environmental standards are so stringent they will add up to $2.50 a ton to the price ofcoalandbring 15per cent electric rate increases to con sumers. Proponents of the bill say it will add only a few cents a month to electric bills, if anything. Sponsors contend the price of coal — which has tripled over thepast two years from about $14 a ton to as high as $50 a ton—depends noton the price ofproduction but the price of oil, its chief competitor. Strip mining now accounts for about half of the nation’s 600-million-ton annual output. The percentage is expected to increase markedly as the coal industry con tinues its move westward. Three- fourths of the nation’s stripablecoa! lies west of the Mississippi River Although the House and Senate bills are very similar, thereareso« key differences. In one, the Senate bill would im pose a 25 cents-a-ton reclamationlii on deep-mined coal, the Housebili 10 cents tax. Both would taxstri|e mined coal at up toSScentsatonRie money would finance a fund tore claimanestiinatedl.2millionacresol abandoned strip mine land, mostlyc Appalachian Mountain states. Court removes Hair’ ban BATTALION CLASSIFIED Prior restraint of stage disallowed WASHINGTON (AP) — Stage production won substantially the same constitutional protection from prior censorship as books and movies, under a Supreme Court rul ing, Tuesday. The court struck down a ban against performance of the rock mus ical "Hair” in a Chattanooga, Tenn., municipal theatre. The court did not rule on whether “Hair” is obscene, butsaid the proce dure by which it was banned fell short of constitutional standards. The five justices who signed the majority opinion went on to lay down the same standard they have previ ously prescribedforfilmsandprint— essentially that a court must deter mine obscenity before a work can be suppressed. The decision drew dissents from both wings of the court — liberal Justice William O. Douglas calling the prescribed standards “pro cedural bandaids ’ and conservative William H. Rehnquist denouncing them as “exaggerated and rigid.” However, Douglas agreed with the majority’s finding that banning the play was an unconstitutional prior restraint of free Speech. The majority opinion was written by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, him self one of the court’s more conserva tive members. In other action, the court: H eld that 35 states wh ich refuse to count conceived but unborn chil dren in computing welfare grants may continue to do so. Ruled 6 to 2 that aliens who fail to present themselves for inspection when they enter the United States may be deported even though they becameparentswhileinthecountry. The ’Hair’decisionwasthecourt’s first ruling on efforts to suppress a stage production. The U. S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati had upheld a federal judge’s decision that group nudity and stimulate sex in the per formance of 'Hair” were not entitled to constitutional freedom of speech protections. The Supreme Court disagreed. “By its nature, theater usually is the acting out — or singing out — of the written word, and frequently mixes speech w ith live action or conduct,” the court said. “But that is no reason to hold theaters subject to a drastically different standard.” The court then reaffirmed the principle it laid down in a 1965 M ary- land movie censorship case. Under that rule, the censor must go to cou rt and prove th at th e m ater ial is not protected by the Constitution. Until this question is decided by a court, the performance can be re strained only for a brief specified period. ERAj Utility control Poetry contest lobbies demonstrate winner s p° ems to be published AUSTIN (AP)—Itwasoneofthose days for Texas legislators. Anti-women libbers on the right. Pro-utilityregulation boosters on the left. And all the regular lobbyists in between. The Committee to Restore Women’s Rights originally scheduled a demonstration on the fron t s teps of th e C api tol at 11:30 a. m. and the Texas Coalition for Utility Regulation set one for noon. As it turned out spme of the utility regulation fans started waving their placards during the anti-ERA rally and the anti-ERA group was asked to soft pedal their singing so the utility regulation speeches could be heard. A sparse crowd of maybe 100 per sons grew rapidly as the noon hour released thousands ofstate employes and legislators appeared to see what caused the commotion. Latermostof both factions retired inside the Capitolforpersonalandgroup lobby ing with their hometown legislators. “Don’t liberate me,” sang the anti-ERA group, inaparaphaseofthe song “Don’t Fence Me In.” “You’re doing a wonderful job, keep it up, ” urged Rep. Tony Dram- berger, D-San Antonio, aco-sponsor of a House measure that would wipe out Texas’ratification in 1973 of the Equal Rights Amendment to the na tional constitution. The resolution is set for a committee hearing in April. “Keepup the pressure, make your legislators take afirm stand,” advised Sen. John Traeger, D-Sequin. “I’m with you and will vote to rescind. ” The anti-IJRA demonstrators marched down the front walk chant ing: “ERA go away. We don’t need you anyway. With the chant still loud in the background, Rep. Charles Wilson, D-Tex., a former Texas senator from Lufkin, took the microphone for statewide utility regulation. “The time tokill as n ake is when you have aTideln ybtir hand and we’ve got the hoe in our hand,” Wilson said. “We have an ideal opportunity this year to pass a s trong u tility regulation bill,” said Rep. Latham Boone, D-Navasota. Ttis timeforthepeople of this state to stand up and say we want some regulation.” Wilson said he tried for eight years to get public interest in statewide utility regulation, particularly of telephone companies, while he was a Texas legislator. “With the help of Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. in current investigations we now have the public attention. Now is the time for us to do the job. . . Local regula tion of utilities is a joke, an absolute joke. And they don’t even pretend to regulate the intrastate telephone rates.” Placards in the crowd indicated utility regulation support from Hous ton, Dallas, San Antonio, Tyler, Johnson Coutn, Burnet County and others — or were they anti-ERA posters? Pamela Palmer of Houston, win ner of the Arts Committee’s first poetry contest, learned this week that three of her poems will be pub lished in a new liberal arts journal at Stephen F. Austin State University. She is an English graduate student and teaching assistant. Dr. Stanley Archer and Dr. Frank Peirce will be published in “English in Texas” and Dr- John Van Domelen will have works in “Intellect” and “American Notes and Queries.” ‘ Deep Throat’ received poorly in San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) — Audiences booed when the con troversial movie “Deep Throat” made a return engagement here Wednesday. It lacked enough exp licit sex. About 175 persons paying $5 each saw a version which had been cut to meet recommendations of vice squad officers. “Quite a few of them were un happy about it,” San Antonio Vice Squad Sgt. Buryi Moore said. “I heard one person call the movie a rip-off,” he added. “Another said it should have been rated R and not X. ” ( MSC A, Cafeteria New and Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. 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