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House to consider
new county court
‘Kill, kill’
THE BATTALION Page 7
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1975
House defeats gasoline price display bill
A bill creating a new County
Court at Law for Brazos County will
be considered by the Texas House
this week. The bill recently passed
the House Committee on Judicial
Affairs.
If approved, the new court at law
would not be created until January
1, 1977, said State Representative
Bill Presnal. He added that Brazos
County by 1977 would have a defi
nite need for a court of this kind. He
said the new court will alleviate
“growing pains” that Brazos County
will experience in the future.
The Constitutional County Court
will still exist, explained Presnal,
and will cope with probate, ad
ministrative, guardianship and
mental illness proceedings. The
proposed court at law will have con
current jurisdiction with the
County Court and the District
Court. They will be dealing with
juvenile and civil cases between
$500 and $10,000.
AUSTIN (AP)— Some represen
tatives jovially shouted “kill, kill,”
Tuesday as the House defeated a bill
to make it easier for motorists to
price shop for gasoline.
The House, which had tenta
tively approved it Friday on a voice
vote, killed the bill, 67-74.
The measure would have re
quired service stations to post signs,
visible from the street or highway,
giving their prices for various grades
of gasoline.
“I think it is time we got a semb
lance of competition in the marketp
lace concerning gasoline. That is all
this bill does,” said Rep. Ronald
Coleman, D-El Paso, the sponsor.
Rep. Camm Lary, D-Burnet, ob
jected that many stations on inters
tate highways were hundreds of feet
from the thoroughfare and, besides,
prices already are posted on gas
pumps.
“The most time a person loses
when he drives in and looks at the
pump is 30 seconds,” Lary said.
“It seems to me the public ought
to have the right to know how much
they would have to pay for gasoline
before they pull in to the pump,”
Coleman replied.
Evidently in a bill-killing mood as
they returned from a four-day Eas
ter break, the House also tabled,
79-61, a bill by Rep. Dave Finney,
D-Fort Worth, making Texas part of
a Southern Growth Policies Board.
The board, consisting of five rep
resentatives from each participating
state, would make studies and re
commendations on projects of inter
state significance.
Rep. Bill Hollowell, D-Grand
Saline, led the opposition, saying
Texas’ contribution would subsidize
other southern member states
which, in turn, could out-vote
Texas’ delegation.
“I don’t know whether this bill
should be named the Little South
ern U.N. bill or the Dave Finney
Confederacy bill,” Hollowell said.
“. . . Texas is going to be the sugar
daddy and pick up most of the bill
and subject ourselves to the domi-
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nation of small rural southern
states.”
Finney replied that Texas’ share
of the annual budget would be
$34,000 — “this is not going to ban
krupt anybody.”
The House passed to the Senate a
bill requiring prosecutors to be
more specific in criminal indict
ments, citing the exact provision of
the Penal Code that allegedly had
been violated.
Representatives tentatively ap
proved bills that would:
— Allow cities to reduce speed
limits on streets under repair with
out the normally required public
hearing.
— Give firemen and policemen
credit for out of state service toward
the five years’ experience required
before they can qualify to be a chief.
— Enable state colleges and uni
versities to permit persons over 65
to audit courses without charge if
space is available.
Guru’s mother
denounces Ji
as a ‘playboy’
NEW DELHI, India (AP) —The
mother of Guru Maharaj Ji, the
17-year-old Indian religious leader
now living in the United States with
an American wife, renounced her
son Tuesday and accused him of
being a playboy instead of a holy
man.
In a signed statement, his mother
declared she was removing her son
as spiritual leader of the Divine
Light Mission and no longer recog
nized him as the “perfect master,”
as he is known to his followers.
Known as Shri Mataji, or holy
mother, she said her son, “under
the instigation of certain bad ele
ments in the United States Divine
Light Mission, has continuously
disrespected my will by adopting a
despicable, nonspiritual way of
life.”
Susan Butcher, a 30-year-old
Canadian devotee of the Divine
Light Movement, said the Guru’s
relatives in India were upset with
the way Maharaj Ji was living in the
United States.
“He has not been practicing what
he has been preaching,” said Miss
Butcher, who became a devotee of
the Guru when he visited Toronto in
1971. Speaking in behalf of the
Guru’s mother, Miss Butcher said,
“He has always preached and re
commended his devotees to live a
life of vegetarianism, celibacy and
abstaining from alcohol and all ex
cessive forms of materialism. Now
he himself is indulging and en
couraging his devotees to eat meat,
to get married and have sexual rela
tions and to drink. He’s not living a
spiritual life. He’s being a playboy. ”
The guru married his American
secretary last May. They had their
first child, a daughter named Prem
Lata, meaning Vine of Love, last
month.
The American Divine Light Mis
sion is headquartered in Denver,
Colorado, hut the Guru and his
26-year-old-wife were last reported
living in a mansion in Malibu,
California.
Jobs open
in England
Students are being sought to help
in archaeological excavations in En
gland this summer. Prehistoric
graves. Iron-age settlements,
Roman villas, and medieval relics
are threatened by city center rede
velopment, road programs and new
land use.
Students with previous experi
ence may join an international team
working at the neolithic flint mines
in Grimes Graves in Norfolk. They
will receive free board and lodging.
Those without experience may
join the British Archaeology Semi
nar at Lincoln College, Oxford and
receive six academic credits. The
program will end with three weeks
on digs in England and Scotland. It
is organized by the Association for
Cultural Exchange.
Applications deadline is May 15.
More information is available from
Ian Lowson, 539 W. 112 St, New
York, N.Y. 10025.
3600 Old College Rd.
At the Triangle
822-4328
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