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Vol. 68 No. 132
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, August 20, 1975
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Scambray trust established
The Heart-of Texas Skip-Talkers Club, a Public service-
oriented citizen’s-band radio group, has set up a trust fund for
Mrs. Dorothy Scambray.
Mrs. Scambray is the wife ofVince Scambray, who works in
the A&M Printing Center.
She was admitted to the Methodist Hospital in Houston
two weeks ago and underwent a six-hour operation in which a
cancerous cyst behind her left eye was removed. Doctors say she
still might lose her sight in that eye.
Donations for the fund can be made at City National Bank
in her name.
Doctors have not determined when she can be released.
New grad course pays
EDCI 603, a new course entitled “Analysis of College Teach
ing” will offer three hours of credit. In addition, any teaching
graduate assistant who completes the course with a “C” average
or better will be eligible for a $25 stipend to be added to his
monthly salary. This additional $25 would be paid for as long as
the student continues to teach at A&M. The student must be
recommended by his superior to receive the funds. They will be
subject to availability. The course is designed to improve teach
ing skills by studying analysis, synthesis, and probing
techniques.
Book awards await
Deadline is nearing in the annual Phi Alpha Theta (national
history honor organization) book competition open to the Texas
A&M chapter members. To compete, six copies of the book
entered must be in the hands of organization officials by Aug. 31.
The society is presenting awards to the top two books in the
international competition. Since TAMU has an active chapter,
established in 1971, an extra cash prize will be awarded the
History Department if either of the top two winners is from
Texas A&M. A $500 cash prize goes to the best “first” book by a
member and another $500 to the best subsequent book on
history by a member. The books are sent for consideration to
Donald Hoffman, international secretary-treasurer of Phi
Alpha Theta, at 2812 Livingston, Allentown, Pa., 18104.
Prairie View gets $86,690
Prairie View A&M has received two grants totaling $86,690
from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, an
nounced U.S. Rep. J. J. Pickle. He said one, for $51,690, is for
administering and implementing of vocational and job training
projects. The other, for $35,000, is earmarked for a cooperative
education program. Brutus Jackson will direct the co-op prog
ram and Dr. Harold Bonner the vocational-job training project.
“Prairie View A&M has developed an excellent status in these
areas in the past and the grants demonstrate recognition of this
know-how,” said Pickle, 10th District Representative.
Ag engineers place first
Two more unions
join in protest
over ‘practices’
The picketing of the A&M cam
pus has been beefed up as
bricklayers and plumbers have
joined the three-week protest.
The unions claim that Collier
Electric Co., Ed A. Wilson Co. (ex
terior wall builders), and the Hall
Sprinkler Co. are participating in
“unfair labor practices.” They also
accuse A&M of illegally subsidizing
the “practices” with state and fed
eral money.
“The complaints will be heard in
November before the Labor Rela
tions Board,” said Charles Brunt,
manager of construction for the
A&M system. He said that Houston
officials are aware of the trouble and
are sending union representatives
to the area to talk to local unions.
Brunt said it looks like all the dif
ferent craft unions are uniting for
one big stand.
We made legitimate contracts
with the primary contractors,” said
Brunt. “These contractors posted
performance and payment bonds
and pay wages prescribed by the
contracts. The contractors have an
open shop (non-union) and the un
ions aren’t getting their fees. The
compnay sends the state payroll re
cords and these must meet state re
quirements before a contract is is
sued,” said Larry Dewey, a super-
visory with Halls Sprinkler Co.
Dewey said he had not heard any
reports of the picketing before the
Battalion called for comment. He
said he was guessing on probable
causes for the picketing.
“We send weekly statements re
porting what each differently skilled
laborer makes. The state has set
amounts and our wages exceed th
ose. They don’t complain about hir
ing out-of-towners either because
we hire from local Texas Employ
ment Offices,” said Dewey.
“The pickets started Monday af
ternoon and I will be in College Sta
tion Wednesday,” said Jerry
Roberts, a vice-president with Ed
A. Wilson Co.
“It’s illegal to picket a general
contractor, ” he said, “because that’s
a secondary boycott.”
Union officials could not be
reached for comment, but an earlier
interview with a union spokesman At the time of the interview two
said the picket started as a result of weeks ago, the spokesman said the
Collier firing two men. One was “length of the picket depends on the
supposedly a union organizer. federal investigation.
March of Dimes board meets
Directors of the Brazos Valley Chapter of the march of Dimes
will hold their quarterly meeting Monday and begin mapping
plans for next year’s activities to reduce birth defects. The 7:30
p.m. meeting will be held at the March of Dimes office at 502
Mobile Avenue in Bryan. Chapter Board Chairman J. Bradley
Smith said the meeting will be the first for several new appoin
tees to the policy group for MOD activities in Brazos, Burleson,
Grimes and Robertson Counties.
Ugandan prof joins staff
A visiting professor from Uganda will teach a graduate course
in distribution management at Texas A&M this fall. Dr. John I.
Reynolds is a Ford Foundation specialist at the Institute of
Public Administration in Kampala, Uganda. Reynolds received
his doctorate and master’s degree from Harvard Graduate
School of Business where he taught from 1966-72. He earned his
undergraduate degree in economics at Princeton. In 1972 he
joined the Ugandan institute where he was responsible for
organizing and conducting nine-month courses for 20 students
each. He had major responsibility for developing Ugandan fa
culty and materials and making the institute self-sustaining.
TAMU’s student branch of the American Society of Agricul
tural Engineers has been named the outstanding ASAE Col
legiate group in the nation. Competition was sponsored by the
Farm and Industrial Equipment Institute (FIEI) to foster
and recognize outstanding leadership and activities of agricul
tural engineering students, said Dr. E. A. Hiler, head of
TAMU’s Agricultural Engineering Department. The TAMU
students received praise from the judges for their leadership in
community service projects, such as blood drive and construct
ing bicycle racks for a local high school. C. G. Coble and W. A.
LePori, faculty advisors, said the agricultural engineering stu
dent organization at TAMU has been growing while branches at
other schools have either stabilized or decreased.
New Mideast settlement reached
By The Associated Press
Egypt and Israel have agreed on a
new disengagement agreement for
Sinai Desert following a pledge
from President Ford to work for a
similar accord between Syria and Is
rael by the end of 1975, a pro-
Egyptian Beirut newspaper re
ported today.
Construction Causes Sidewalk Detours
As Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger prepared to leave
Washington tonight for another
Egyptian-Israeli shuttle, senior Is
raeli politician Yitzhak Navon said
the United States had agreed to
provide Israel about $2 billion in
aid, to resume arms sale and to
guarantee replacement of the oil
supplies that Israel will lose by re
turning the Abu Rudeis and Balain
oil fields to Egypt.
Kissinger told a group of Ameri
can Jewish leaders that an agree
ment for a new Israeli troop with
drawal in the Sinai Desert “will be
very helpful, when and if it is
reached, in doing away with the
Arab campaign to expel Israel from
the United Nations General As
sembly.
But opposition to Kissinger’s new
mediation effort was growing in Is
rael, and security experts were
mobilizing for angrier-than-ever
demonstrations against the secret
ary of state. Veteran observers be
lieved, however, that Premier Yit
zhak Rabin could muster enough
support in the Knesset, the Israeli
parliament, to approve an agree
ment if Kissinger achieved one.
The Beirut newspaper Al Anwar
said Egypt agreed to a proposed
Plane bums
3 die in crash
The freshmen may not be the only people to
have trouble getting to class when September
comes. The many detours resulting from the
widespread construction will cause
turning students to find new ways
campus, too. Photo by Jack Holm
the re-
around
AUSTIN (AP) — Three persons
were killed Tuesday when a twin-
engine private airplane crashed and
burned in the front yard of a North
Austin home.
The dead were identified as Stan
ley J. Shepps, 45, of Dallas, presi
dent of Shepps Grocery Supply Co.;
the pilot, Lamar Masterson, 44; and
his daughter, Cynthia Masterson,
17.
Justice of the Peace Charles
Webb said the plane was approach
ing the municipal airport on a flight
from Dallas when it crashed.
A final determination of the cause
. of the crash will be made by federal
aviation investigators.
The Cessna 401 crashed two
blocks west of Interstate 35, about a
mile from the airport, in the front
yard of Mrs. Ruth Whitehead’s
home.
She said she was “lying across the
bed” in the front bedroom, just a
few feet from where the plane hit.
“I could feel the heat and ran out
the back door,” Mrs. Whitehead
said.
No one was injured in the house,
which was heavily damaged by
flames.
The plane skidded only a few feet
before coming to rest against a tree
growing against the front of the
house. The front rooms were heav
ily charred and there was fire dam
age in the kitchen and back yard.
Two witnesses, said they saw the
plane explode in the air before it
crashed. But Allen Doss, 28, said he
watched the plane all the way down
and there was no aerial explosion.
“The right wing tipped down,
then the plane went into a spin ... It
looked like it was just a desperate
attempt to get back to the runway,”
Doss said.
Crude oil costs
may up air fare
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Ford administration has asked the
Civil Aeronautics Board to let the
nation’s airlines automatically pass
on increased fuel costs to their cus
tomers.
Controls on domestic crude oil
prices are scheduled to expire Aug.
31, thus raising fuel costs.
The administration, in a petition
signed by the Department ofTrans-
portation, the Federal Energy Ad
ministration, and the Council on
Wage and Price Stability, said de
control of domestic crude will raise
airline jet fuel prices by not more
than 3 cents per gallon.
The agencies predicted the
maximum increase in air fares as a
result of such decontrol would be no
more than 3 percent. However, the
petition did not state the airlines
should be limited to 3 per cent.
17-point pact with Israel after Pres
ident Ford wrote President Anwar
Sadat: “The United States govern
ment and myself promise to make
every possible effort to work out a
new disengagement in the Golan
Heights before the end of 1975.”
The paper said Ford also told
Sadat that the United States “rec
ognizes the interests of the Palesti
nians and asserts it is taking interest
in them.”
Al Anwar’s stress on this point
appeared aimed at calming the op
position of the Palestinian guerrillas
to another Sinai agreement.
The newspaper said the major
points of the proposed agreement
were:
V Israel will withdraw from the
strategic Mitla and Gidi mountain
passes but will maintain a military
presence on the eastern slopes of
both passes.
from Israel will be allowed to pass
through the Suez Canal on ships of
other countries.
V Observation posts of an early
warning system on the new disen
gagement lines will be increased
from two to six and will be manned
by 100 American civilian electronic
experts.
V The Abu Rudeis and Balain oil
fields will be returned to Egypt,
along with a 7.4-mile road connect
ing them.
The new agreement will run
for three years. Neither party can
cancel it unless a new accord is
worked out. The agreement may be
renewed af ter the three-year period
by agreement.
V While the agreement is in ef
fect, both governments will refrain
from using military force to settle
their disputes as well as any dispute
Jjetween Israel and another Arab
party unless Israel is proven the ag-
ressor.
V The mandate of the United Na
tions buffer force in the Sinai will be
renewed annually, and not for lesser
periods, throughout the duration of
the agreement.
V Non-strategic cargo to and
Council passes
new animal laws
An ordinance passed by the Col
lege Station City Council at its Aug.
14 session will require all cats and
dogs within the city limits to be re
gistered.
The ordinance is a consolidation
of several existing ordinances with
revisions.
Previous animal ordinances did
not require the registration of cats
with the city.
The ordinance, which will go into
effect Sept. 1 also provides
guidelines for the control of all wild
and domestic animals within the
city.
Larry Fitzgerald, College Station
humane officer, said, “The way the
ordinance reads is anything that
walks, crawls or flies has to be put on
a leash.
“If that’s the way the ordinance
reads, I will enforce it. It’s going to
be more complicated than it was be
fore,” Fitzgerald said.
He said there have been many
complaints and problems concern
ing animals roaming loose in the
city. He said, “I would say that at
least 80 per cent of the animals I
pick up do not have a license on
them.”
Pets other than cats and dogs are
not required to have a license but
are required to be under the physi
cal restraint of the owner.
Only 18 dogs have been regis
tered in the city so far this year.
The wording of the ordinance
does not require an animal to wear a
registration tag.
Licenses can be purchased for a
$1.00 fee at the College Station
Police Dept, between the hours of
eight and five Monday through Fri
day.