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Page 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1975 AIL CAJPONE’S f EiKf <ai L : - AL CAPONE S PENTHOUSE Located at 1201 Hwy. 30 in Briarwood Apts. Open for Business Monday-Saturday Gameroom at 3 p.m. Club at 7 p.m. Weekly Specials for All People f| pent house 1 Saving burlesque Showman deplores smut WORLD S LARGEST UNCUT DIAMOND This 620 carat diamond is now on display at the Diamond Room along with our exclusive collection of ideally proportioned cut diamonds. This one of a kind treasure will be available for your viewing through Wed nesday September 11. Carl Bussells Room IAM0ND MKMBUK AMERICAN CJEM SOCIETY ( ) 3731 E. 29 Town & Country Center 846-4708 Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Show business entrepreneur David Han son says he’s trying to save pure bur lesque from the traffickers in lewd ness and dirty shows. Helping Hanson in his battle are his attractive wife who dances as Sandy O’Hara, a 57-year-old fast- talking pitch man named Bill Thompson and a 75-year-old come dian, Claude Mathis. T’ve cried many a night when I see what they’ve done to our busi ness, lamented Hanson in his air- conditioned trailer at the Iowa State F ai r. “What happened to burlesque is that pseudo-producers over the years have tried to - not refine bur lesque - but they’ve tried to jazz it up. They’ve tried to outdo each other with the nudity and the lewd ness of shows, said Hanson. “And consequently, they’ve changed it into nothing that resembles burles que.” What the “pseudo-producers’ have wrought, said Hanson, is “strip-o-ramas and smut-factories. lesque. “Young people will go in, and they’ll see 10 generally bad strip pers. They come out and rip their clothes off and commit some lewd, lascivious act or just get naked. And the young people say: This is bur lesque? Thompson, of Eau Claire, Wis., veteran of 38 years with “thrill shows, minstrel shows, girl shows, freak shows, said it’s hard to get customers to pay to see just sexy women. “Before you used to go to the catalogue ads to see sex, ” said Thompson. “Now even the regular movies have it. ’ What sells today, agreed Hanson and Thompson, is entertainment. Apparently they are right, be cause Hanson said his dinner thea ter act has completed arrangements to perform for 52 weeks into 1977 at various clubs around the nation. Hanson s show for dinner theat ers - about the same as the midway presentation - carries a company of 33 people: “10 showgirls, the 1950s recording group The Hilltoppers, four comedians, three stripteasers, a magic act. Dallas schools have new integration plan Associated Press “Ten girls coming out and taking off their clothes doesn’t make a bur lesque show. The kind of burlesque Hanson produces is family fare, be said. His shows, which play to fair, carnival and dinner theater audiences, con centrate on dancing, music and comedy. A lot of American young people, said Hanson, “have never seen bur- DALLAS - The Dallas school board reportedly will ask U. S. Dis trict Court Judge William Taylor to approve a school desegregation plan which will leave several schools predominantly black. The school board announced Monday it had reached a concensus on a proposal to Judge Taylor re garding desegregation. The board said it had asked its staff to develop a pupil assignment plan for the dis trict. The proposal is to be formally ap proved and presented to Judge Taylor on Wednesday. The Dallas Morning News said the plan includes retaining several schools with predominantly black enrollment and closing several other schools. The school board said some additional busing of students will be necessary to meet court rul ings. Taylor must order a desegrega tion plan for implementation by the middle of the 1975-76 school year, according to a ruling by the U. S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans. The Dallas Independent School District has an enrollment of 142,034 pupils, of which 46.28 per cent are white, 41.39 percent black and 11.53 per cent Mexican- American. McGovern suit dismissed due to lack of jurisdiction Associated Press HOUSTON — A state civil dis trict court judge dismissed a suit Monday filed in behalf of Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., against seven corporations that al legedly made illegal contributions lUUIClCOmi MI<SII€/!! •TV .. The SILVER FAWN Gift TURQUOISE & STERLING SILVER FROM $5.50 UP. FED MART SHOPPING CENTER SUITE 404 COLLEGE STATION 846-7877 to the re-election campaign of Pres ident Richard M. Nixon. State Civil District Court Judge John Snell granted motions of the corporations that called for a sum mary judgment or dismissal of the suit. Quinnan H. Hodges and Arthur Gochman, lawyers representing McGovern, Immediately an nounced they would appeal the rul ing to the Texas Court of Civil Ap peals. Named in the suit were American “Consequently the laws of Texas would have no application. Carrigan said both Goodyear and American Airways made the con tributions by hand delivering cash to then Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans in Washington. Stans later became finance chairman of Nixon s re-election campaign. Hodges said the state statutes did apply because they were designed to protect the voters “so a big corpo ration can t tilt the election one wax or the other. Airlines, Ashland Oil, Braniff Air ways, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Gulf Oil, Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing and Phillips Pet roleum. The corporations allegedly con tributed a total of $545,000 to Ni xon’s 1972 campaign for reelection. McGovern was his democratic op ponent. The suit alleged that under the Texas Election Code the companies were civilly liable to McGovern for twice the amount of the illegal con tributions, or $1.09 million. In arguments before Judge Snell, Ralph Carrigan, an attornex for American Airlines and for Goodyear, said that “the Texas legislature has gone to considerable lengths to make certain the presi dential campaigns were excluded from state statutes on campaign con tributions. Carrigan said the legislative his tory of the applicable statutes clearly showed that the laws were intended to apply to elective offi cials representing only the people of Texas. B. J. Bradshaw, representing Ashland Oil, said the statutes cited in the law suit “simply have no ap plication to the office for which Mr. McGovern was candidate. “Those contributions didn’t occur within the state of Texas, he said. 1 in asking that voters should have the right to choose without corporations cheating bx putting money into the hands of the other guv ,” he said. Gochman said the state election laws were designed “to protect the public from the overwhelming power of corporations. He said the $100,()()() contribu tion by Gulf Oil to Nixon s campaign meant as much to that giant oil com pany as a 1.5 cent contribution would to a man making $35,000 a year Gochman said the suit should be heard in Texas because “the effect of those contributions were felt in Texas and the trial should be where the damage was done. McGovern was overwhelmingly defeated in Texas by Nixon. The state suit was identical to one filed in federal court in 1974. That suit, too, was thrown out and the dismissal was upheld on April 18 by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Ap peals. Gochman refiled the suit in state court on June 25. The suit lists these alleged amounts of the contributions: American Airlines, $75,()()(): Ash land Oil, $100,000; Braniff Airways, $40,000; Goodyear, $1(X),()()(); Gulf Oil, $100,000; Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing, $30,000; and Phil lips, $100,000. VICTORS OF COLLEGE STATION ANNOUNCING TO THE JUNIOR CLASS SAM BROWN BELTS, SABERS, SPURS, SHOULDER CORDS, JUNIOR BUCKLES, SENIOR BUCKLES, JUNIOR & SENIOR STACKS. WIDE VARIETY OF SPURS. AND THE VERY, VERY INEXPENSIVE SENIOR BOOTS FOR THE FIRST TIME INTRODUCING ARMY OFFICERS CAPS (ACE BRAND) PACKAGE DEAL $189.95 (TAX INCLUDED) BOOTS ORDERED IN OR BEFORE SEPTEMBER WILL BE READY BY NOVEMBER OR THE FIRST PART OF DECEMBER 201 COLLEGE MAIN - N0RTHGATE Talk with a Professional to be sure. gitfl i • MICKEY E. LEA 822-1559 The word “professional” is reserved for those men whose actions are wholly devoted to the best interests of their clients. This builds the bridge so vital to any financial relationship: trust. If you are considering lif^insurance call a professional,. Mickey Lea . . . and be sure. .lelfRPSon siannara 3200 So. College Ave. P. O. Box 3667 Bryan, Texas 77801 Malpractice pool offers higher rates Associated Press AUSTIN — Doctors who are forced to buy their malpractice in surance from the new risk-sharing pool will pay 18 to 20 per cent more than the highest rates charged by companies that write such coverage voluntarily. But the Joint Underwriting As sociation rates approved Monday by the State Insurance Board are 40 per cent less than the insurance executives who run the JUA wanted to charge. Final action on the rates was the last major step required to put the JUA into full operation. The usual malpractice policy pro vides up to $1(X),000 per claim, with a maximum of $300,000 per year. Approved rates for such coverage include $1,800 a year for non- surgical physicians in Harris County and $1,200 for those in other coun ties. The highest rates prov ided are $14,400 for neurosurgeons, or thopedic surgeons and chest sur geons in Harris County. Those same specialists elsewhere in the state would pay $9,6(X). Anesthesiologists, who have complained the loudest about high malpractice rates and lack of cover- 1 Tony exas [School Pistricl -ears. His s oth tl Doug Barnert, assistant deput insurance commissioner, said tk approved rates are 18 to 20 percei greater than the highest approve by the board this summer for coni panics voluntarily writing malprat Igam tice insurance. The rates approved for hospitals are $420 per bed plus $42 for even 1(X) outpatient visits. In a related dev elopment, deputy commissioner Tom McFarlingtool testimony on a proposal In physi cians to start their own "reciprocal exchange" insurancecompanysimi- lar to that planned by the levs Ilospital Association. Dr. Jack Chandler of San An tonio, vice-president of the prop osed American Physicians Insur ance Exchange, said the firm would seek to keep rates low hy screeuin-; out inept doctors and taking a hard line on questionable claims. He blamed insurance companies for settling claims too readily. "This penalizes the doctor," lie] said, adding that settling “injures the reputation of the doctor even though he may not have committed any wrong. 00"' mj/ornr* jgpTi age, would pay $9,0(H) in Harris „ , ^ ^. « , County and $6,000 elsewhere. Battalion ClaSSllied The rates are 40 per cent lower than those originally proposed by the JUA hoard of directors and are identical to a counterproposal pre pared by the State Insurance Board staff. 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