State senators
told sinking tale
By DAN McDonald
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — The many dangers from land subsidence
— ranging from sinking homes to possibly thousands of deaths
during a hurricane — were expressed Wednesday before a Senate
committee.
Sen. A. R. Schwartz, D-Galveston, said the most critical prob
lem caused by sinking land in Harris and Galveston counties is that
highways that were once eight feet above sea level are now only five
feet.
“During a hurricane people may wait too late to go to safety
thinking the water will not cover the highway,’ Schwartz said. “And
it would take only a few stalled cars to leave thousands of people
stranded in the heart of the storm.”
Baytown mayor Tom Gentry said subsidence already is a major
problem because a normal tide of 3 Vi feet puts water in many homes.
The testimony came before the Natural Resources Committee,
which is considering a bill sponsored by Sen. Bob Gammage,
D-Houston, that would set up a local district to control the amount of
water drawn from beneath the earth.
Gammage said subsidence occurs when underground water is
removed for home and industrial use at a rate greater than it is being
replaced — causing the ground to sink.
An almost identical bill received unanimous House approval,
and the Senate version received a boost when Sen. Chet Brooks,
D-Pasadena, said he was willing to work with the House bill.
Brooks is the sponsor of a measure seeking relief from subsi
dence through an existing state agency.
Robert Gabyrsch of the U.S. Geological Survey told the com
mittee that 2,500 square miles of land in the general Galveston-
Harris county area had dropped by one foot or more by 1973.
“The land affected is shaped like an inverted cone with the tip
lying at Pasadena a suburb of Houston,” Gabyrsch said. “In
Pasadena, for example, the land receeded only one foot between
1906 and 1943, but it has dropped 7% feet since then.”
“For all practical purposes, subsidence is irreversible,” he said.
“A recent California study showed that the chance of having the land
rebound is limited to five percent at most.”
The House bill’s sponsor. Rep. Bill Caraway, D-Houston, said
his measure is an attempt to solve a local problem through a local
effort.
Gammage asked the committee to send his bill to subcommittee
to work out the differences between his measure and the House bill.
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Last Marine
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1975
Page 3
Final rescue mission fatal
EL PASO (AP) — The sight of
terrified Vietnamese children run
ning through the streets, crying for
their mothers so disturbed Marine 1
Lt. Michael John Shea that he wrote
his wife to say he was “glad he didn’t
have to live forever.”
Wednesday, the body of the
young Marine lieutenant floated in
the South China sea, possibly the
last serviceman to die in Vietnam.
Shea’s helicopter, which was on a
rescue mission, crashed Tuesday as
it neared the aircraft carrier U.S.S.
Hancock.
“I had been getting letters lately
saying he was discouraged by what
was going on over there,” said his
widow, the former Jenny McCabe,
Shea’s high school sweetheart.
“He couldn’t believe that this
country had let those people down
like we had. He was very concerned
about the children.”
Shea was “a good man, very, very
dedicated to the Marine Corps and
to his country, ” she said. “He knew
he was doing right by being in the
Corps, and he would do whatever
they told him.
“He didn’t say anything about
more fighting in the letters, but I
know he felt that the war should
have been fought to be won, not
with all this messing around. He
said he felt so bad for those children.
He loves children.”
The 25-year-old pilot was a
mother’s dream. He was voted El
Paso’s Parkland High School’s Most
Popular and Most Outstanding Boy
in 1968, and was the captain of the
varsity football team for the last two
of the four years he played. He
played on the basketball and
baseball teams for four years and
was on the track team for two.
“He was a fine young man, really
an all-around person,” said his high
school counselor, Harry Payne. “He
was vice-president of his junior and
senior classes.”
His former coach, Bobby J. Kirt-
ley remembered him as a “natural
leader. ”
In 1973, Shea graduated with
A&M couple
To receive
3 degrees
Before JoAnn and Leonard
Oswald were married, they had
already decided that one degree
between them wasn’t enough.
They decided two wouldn’t
be either. So in a few days the
Oswalds, both cum laude
graduates, will receive three
sheepskins as they walk across
the stage together, members of
the Class of ’75.
The achievement culminates
years of schooling for them, the
past two-and-one-half as hus
band and wife.
Leonard, 24, from Waco, will
be accepting one bachelor’s de
gree in mechanical engineering
and another in industrial en
gineering while JoAnn,
22-year-old Guy native, will re
ceive a bachelor of science de
gree in recreation and parks.
Participating in a cooperative
education program, they
worked in Houston two semes
ters and then attended school
two semesters.
School system
hurts Chicanos?
The implications of education
may have an adverse effect on
Chicanos, a Colorado university
professor said Wednesday night.
Moises Venegas, director of the
Teacher Corps at Southern Col
orado State College, said Texas
A&M is a good example of what
Mexican-Americans experience be
cause of the small number of
Chicano students at A&M. Venegas’
speech was presented by the Com
mittee for Awareness Mexican-
American Culture. . T
Venegas said Mexican-American
students could either assimilate into
the Anglo school system or reject it.
“Chicanos become what the edu
cational system says is appropriate,”
Venegas said. “Those of us who re
sist drop out. ” He said the present
educational system begins to de
stroy Chicano identity on the first
day of school.
Venegas said the educational sys
tem philosophy is to help students
enhance what they already are but
said that this is not the ideal cur
rently being practiced. He said the
Chicano becomes the victim of cul
tural decomposition.
“People conform; if they don’t,
they become the outcast, the radi
cal, the militant,” Venegas said.
Most Chicanos have dropped out
of the educational system before
they reach the college level, he said.
The discrepancy between Anglo
achievement and Chicano achieve
ment is the result of the language
barrier. “Everything in our educa
tional system is'based on reading,”
Venegas said. He added that 70-75
percent of Chicanos in the eighth
grade were reading at two or more
grade levels below the average.
He said the loss of identity re
vealed in the educational system
often begins in the home.
“It starts at home but schools
should never be separate from the
home,” Venegas said.
A&M gets
$1000 to aid
researchers
Texas A&M University has re
ceived $1,000 earmarked to help its
archaeologists continue research in
West Texas near Comstock.
The Winship Foundation of Cor
pus Christi has donated the amount
to aid completion of research this
summer along the Pecos River.
Working at the site last summer,
the researchers uncovered artifacts
as old as 3,000 years, among the
oldest findings in Texas.
THE DAY
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THURSDAY
MIDLAND HOMETOWN CLUB will hold elections
for officers at 8 p.m. in room 502 of the Rudder
Tower.
ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTS FROM MEXICO
will hold an election of officers and present a slide
show of the year’s activities at 8 p. m. in Room 504
of the Rudder Tower.
COMMUNITY SINGERS OF B-CS will present
their spring concert at 8 p.m. in the A&M Con
solidated High School Auditorium.
FRIDAY
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ipou
River with all food and drinks free.
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honor from the University of
Texas-El Paso with a bachelor of sci
ence in mathematics. There, he
played back-up quarterback for the
Miners.
“He was terrific, clean-cut, a very
good student,” remembers Betty
Putnam. She and her husband,
Judd, lived below the Sheas in stu
dent housing at UTEP. “We were
all good friends. I gave Jenny a
shower for her first baby. ”
The Sheas have two sons,
Matthew, 3, and Mark, 11 months.
Now, Mrs. Shea’s main concern is
“picking up our lives, getting them
in order.”
She said Matthew is still “too
young to really understand death,
but I’ve told him his father is with
Jesus. He prays for him. ”
Tuesday, Shea and three other
Marines were flying a rescue mis
sion in a Marine CH46 helicopter
when the chopper went down in the
South China sea. Missing and pre
sumed dead with him was Capt.
William C. Nystul. Two Marine en
listed men on board the helicopter
were rescued. Shea’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Shea, also live in
El Paso.
Bigamist
sought
by police
Houston (AP) — A night watch
man was indicted on charges of
bigamy Wednesday after four
women claimed him as their hus
band.
County records show he has been
married and divorced three other
times also.
The much-wed man, Danny
Nolan Kizer, 27, is being sought.
The indictment said Kizer mar
ried Rose Linda Kizer in 1971;
Linda Joy Kizer on Feb. 3, 1973;
Marlene G. Kizer on June 22, 1974
and Cynthia R. Kizer on Aug. 26,
1974.
County records show Kizer also
applied for four other marriage
licenses. He applied to marry Patsy
McDonald on Dec. 22, 1967 and
was divorced June 10, 1971. On
June 30, 1970, it was Doreen S.
Ford, followed by a May 9, 1974
divorce. He applied to marry Nelda
J. Williamson on June 23, 1972 and
they were divorced on May 22,.
1973.
He applied for a license on Feb.
4, 1965, but there is no record that
marriage took place.
Two of the wives, Marlene and
Cynthia, went to authorities after
they met on a visit to a sick friend.
“I asked her who she was and she
said she was Danny’s wife,” said
Cynthia. “I said so am I.”
The other two wives were disco
vered shortly afterward. All of the
seven wives were between 18 and
24 years old.
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