Spanish premier asks
country to remain cool
Associated Press
MADRID, Spain - Premier Carlos Arias Navarro bitterly
attacked Western nations Tuesday night for “hypocritical and
intolerable’ interference in Spanish affairs and appealed to
Spaniards to remain cool in the crisis.
The premier spoke on nationwide television amid growing
tension in Spain and continuing protests abroad over the gov
ernment’s execution last weekend of five guerrillas convicted of
killing police.
Arias Navarro urged Spaniards to show Gen. Francisco
Franco, the 82-year-old head of state, “your testimony of un
forgetting gratitude and respect for his work.”
The premier’s rallying cry came on the eve of demonstrations
called across the nation to show support for Franco. Scores of
young Spaniards took to Madrid streets in cars and motorbikes,
honking horns and tossing handbills exhorting people to gather
before the National Palace on Wednesday to “show our indigna
tion at foreign protests.
Earlier in the day, another policeman died of wounds inflicted
by terrorists, bringing to 19 the number of officers killed in
political violence since January 1974. The victim was one of two
policemen wounded Monday in a $600,000 robbery at a gov
ernment office in Barcelona blamed on Basque separatist guer
rillas.
The government was reported continuing with plans to try 15
more Basques under the tough antiterrorist law adopted by
Franco. Three of the Basques were expected to get death sen
tences.
Arias Navarro charged that Western governments, many of
which withdrew ambassadors from Madrid over the executions
Saturday, were violating the European security conference pact
signed in Helsinki last July.
“With the ink of this document barely dry, some of the
signers, with unlimited hypocrisy and intolerable audacity, de
stroy the pact they have signed by placing in question decisions
that come under the exclusive jurisdiction of our sovereignty, ”
he said.
Despite this “ignoble aggression,” the premier appealed to
the Spanish nation “to go on working, to work fervently for
national peace and to show Francisco Franco your testimony of
unforgetting gratitude and respect for his work.”
A high government official said the government, army and the
Spanish people were completely united and added: “The drama
is much more outside than inside.”
He said the government was preparing for possible trouble at
Wednesday’s demonstrations. “The demonstrators might go
and storm a few embassies,” he said. “We hope they won’t, but
the government is worried.”
The official said Spain has taken “a big, big step backwards” in
recent days and “made many mistakes. ” But he denounced what
he called a “holy war” by West European Scoailist leaders and
claimed their fierce criticisms had only united Spain behind
F ranco.
“No one said a single word when the terrorist crimes were
committed,” he said. "Whatever our sins, they are tightening
the screws - and that is not the way to a democratic Spain. The
natural reaction of many Spaniards has been to say: go to hell.
Bryan expected
to pass rate hike
identical to OS’s
Players produce ‘Scratch’
Daniel Webster, played by Phil Hafer, debates the
merits of the fugitive slave laws with Scratch (The
Devil), played by Mitch Hall, in the Aggie Players’
production of the Archibald MacLeish play. See related
story. Page 8- Staff photo by Douglas Winship
By JERRY NEEDHAM
Battalion Staff Writer
The Bryan City Council met at
1:15 this afternoon and was expected
to approve an ordinance establishing
new telephone rates in that city.
Lou Odle, Bryan city manager,
said Tuesday night the ordinance is
almost identical to the one passed by
the College Station City Council
Thursday. He said both ordinances
were prepared by Bill McMorries,
the rate consultant hired by the
cities.
The proposed Bryan ordinance
also offers General Telephone the
$219,000 figure computed by
McMorries and agreed to earlier by
both cities, Odle said.
Odle said that if the rate ordinance
is approved, the rates are scheduled
to go into effect today. He said one of
the council members was not ex
pected to be present at this after
noon’s meeting and, according to the
Bryan charter, all of the votes of the
council are required before an ordi
nance can become effective.
“In all probability, we will have a
second meeting on Thursday to take
final action on the ordinance,” Odle
said. “If it passes by as much as two-
thirds vote on the first and second
readings, then the 30-day waiting
period before enactment that is re
quired by our charter could be
waived.”
County gets ‘modular ambulance’
By JACK HODGES
Battalion Staff Writer
A three-car collision has just
occurred on Highway 6 and two
persons are trapped inside of
one of the vehicles involved,
their conditions unknown.
Time is of utmost importance
when an ambulance needs to
reach the scene of such a
hypothetical, but often real,
major accident.
Brazos County, through the
cooperation of the city of Col
lege Station and the Brazos
County Development Council
(BVDC), now has a fourth am
bulance serving the area. The
new $16,000 unit, which ar
rived Friday, is called a “modu
lar ambulance” and is strikingly
different from the other three
ambulances now operating in
the community.
The ambulance was jointly
purchased by College Station
and the BVDC through a grant
from Health Education and
Welfare and the Emergency
Medical System (EMS).
The three-quarter-ton ambu
lance, operated by Sherrill Am
bulance Co. of Bryan and
owned by College Station under
an agreement with the BVDC,
is equipped with a 454 cubic-
inch engine. The specially-
equipped cab can be removed
from the truck if front-end dam
age occurs*
It has thermostatically-
controlled air conditioning and
heating, and receives power
from the alternator and twin-
battery system. These batteries
supply power to four 120-volt
outlets, interior lights, marker
lights and sirens on the outside.
There are four outlets for
oxygen, a suction pump, four
stretchers and room for four
persons. It also carries roll cots
for transportation of victims
from the scene of an accident to
the ambulance. It is not equip
ped for victims of cardiac ar
rests, however.
Since Friday, the ambulance
has made two calls and will ans
wer only emergency calls, Ed
Sherrill, owner of Sherrill Am
bulance, said Tuesday. It is not
used for transportation between
hospitals, he added.
When the ambulance is in use
an Emergency Medical Techni
cian (EMT) must be present.
Sherrill said he has a full time
EMT as well as qualified drivers
and attendants who are familiar
with the operation of the new
ambulance, enabling them to
get to the scene as quickly as
possible.
One driver. Butch Lovell,
said getting to the accident is
one of the biggest problems he
faces and said people often slow
down on purpose and “flip us a
finger or some other sign which
is not helpful.
“If people would get out of
the way or stop when they hear
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Bryan Mayor Lloyd Joyce was
asked Tuesday night whether he ex
pected the ordinance to have any
bearing on the court hearing to be
held on Friday, concerning issuance
of a permanent injunction against the
phone company.
“Yes, I think that is basically the
reason for both cities enacting the
ordinances and it shows good faith on
the part of both cities in delivering a
fair rate of return to General Tele
phone,” Joyce said.
The Bryan Council was also
scheduled to consider today a resolu
tion that would retain attorney B. D.
St. Clair of the law firm McGinnis,
Lochridge and Kilgore for the pur
pose of drafting a new utility sales
agreement between the City of
Bryan and the City of College Sta
tion.
According to an interim agree
ment made between the two cities in
July, a new agreement must be
finalized by Jan. 1, or the utility rates
revert back to the prices charged by
Bryan to College Station before the
interim agreement.
“We (Bryan and College Station)
have been talking informally of a 10-
year contract and feel we need some
outside help with the legal work,”
Joyce said. “This firm deals in utility
matters and we believe they can help
us draw up a contract.”
De Gaetano performs Toccata
Robert De Gaetano begins the Town Hall Bach, Chopin and Mendelssohn in his
young artists series with his classical piano Tuesday night program. See related story,
presentation at the Rudder Center Thea- Page 8.
ter. De Gaetano included selections from staff photo by Glen Johnson
Shivers tells students
new president essential
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The University of Texas faculty
will give up the fight against the school’s new
president because they need her too much, re
gents Chairman Allan Shivers predicted Tues
day.
furor dies down, Shivers told a reporter after
addressing UT-Austin law school students.
“Unless they deal with her,” Shivers said,
“they lose their only line of communication to
the administration and regents for faculty legis
lation . ”
Both the General Faculty and the Faculty
Senate have voted overwhelmingly to refuse to
recognize Dr. Lorene Rogers as president and
to decline to serve on committees that meet
with the administration.
Shivers and two other regents, Tom Law and
Ed Clark, participated in a panel discussion with
two professors, James Kinneavy and Charles
Alan Wright, who opposed Dr. Rogers.
Students packed the small law school au
ditorium. Because of a public address system
malfunction they remained unusually hushed to
hear the speakers, except for deafening
applause for the professors and Law, who voted
against Dr. Rogers.
Shivers said he made it clear at the first meet
ing of the regents selection committee with a
faculty-student advisory committee that he re
fused to give the advisory committee a veto on
the choice of president.
Kinneavy, English professor, said the advis
ory committee asked for a “reciprocal veto,”
which he now prefers to call “reciprocal accep
tance.”
The regents committee asked for a list of can
didates to interview, Kinneavy said, and he cal
led this “pretty close to reciprocal acceptance, if
one assumes you do not hire a president without
an interview.”
The advisory committee unanimously re
jected Dr. Rogers four times, Kinneavy said.
The students applauded wildly. Shivers looked
at the ceiling.
Wright, law professor and attorney for Presi
dent Richard Nixon during the Watergate inves
tigation, said former regents Chairman Frank
Erwin “is quite wrong when he says Dr. Rogers
never had a chance. Wright said there was no
emotional atmosphere and no pressure from
“faculty and students, with radical’ or ‘liberal
appended,” at the time of her inauguration, as
Erwin claimed. In fact, Wright supported Dr.
Rogers initially, he said.
Blaming faculty and students for the turmoil
is “like saying the Washington Post can be
blamed for Watergate,” Wright said.
the siren we can maneuver
around them,” he said.
The ambulance is painted
orange and white with blue let
tering. Sherrill said it is part of
the national trend and probably
one day all ambulances will be
painted these colors.
The new unit is insured up to
$300,000 per person in case in
jury or death occurs to the vic
tim while being transported. An
additional $25,000 coverage is
provided if there is property
damage when an accident oc
curs.
College Station City Manager
North Bardell said Tuesday
there are no immediate plans
for College Station to buy
another ambulance but Bryan
or Brazos County may.
Presently there is a study
being conducted by a Texas
A&M professor to determine if
there is a need for additional
ambulances in this area.
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New ambulance in service
The City of College Station and the Brazos currently being operated by Sherrill’s Am-
Valley Development Council have used bulance Service, is of a new modern de-
$16,000 in federal funds to purchase a new sign, as is shown in this inside view,
ambulance. The ambulance, which is staff photo by Glen Johnson
City
Campus
THE CLASS OF ’77 will sponsor a 50’s dance Friday, October 3,
at DeWare Fieldhouse from 8 p.m. until midnight. Dress is 50’s style
(or as close as you can remember). Cost is 75c per person, $1 per
couple, and CTs do not have to wear uniforms.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT of Highways and Public Trans
portation has announced that a contract has been let for traffic signals at
the Old College Road (FM 2154) and Jersey Street (FM 2347) intersec
tion. The contract was awarded to Blackburn Electric Service of Fort
Worth withvthe low bid of $27,497. The project will require an esti
mated 60 working days.
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THE NATIONAL COMMANDER of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars (VFW), Thomas C. “Pete” Walker, presented Congressman Olin
E. Teague (D-Tex) the VFW’s National Space Award, Gold Medal and
Citation Thursday in ceremonies in Teague’s Washington office. The
citation for Teague’s award reads as follows: “His dedicated and know
ledgeable service as a Member and as Chairman of the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Science and Technology have contri
buted greatly to the advancement of space technology and exploration.
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TICKETS FOR THE “BILL MOORE DAY” Barbecue are now
available in all banks and savings institutions in Brazos County.
The tickets, priced at $2.50 each, entitle the holder to delicious
barbecue, beverages, and good old-fashioned fellowship, according to
George Beto, General Chairman for the Bill Moore Day. Entertain
ment will be provided by both the Singing Cadets of Texas A&M
University and a band from Prairie View A&M University. The Bill
Moore Day Barbecue will begin with a reception and beverages at 5
p.m. on Tuesday, October 14th, at Washington-on-the-Brazos State
Park, between Brenham and Navasotaon Highway 105. The barbecue
will be served at 6:30 p.m. after a short program.
Texas
A SAFETY REVIEW BOARD has given conditional approval to
the construction of a nuclear power plant near Bay City that will be
operated by four Texas electric utility companies.
•
SOME 1,200 SAUDI ARABIAN enlisted airmen will get their
basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio
during the next two years, the Air Force confirmed Tuesday.
•
FIFTEEN TEXAS MILITARY BASES will benefit if President
Ford signs a military construction bill. Texas is due to receive $185
million, $9.3 million less than requested.
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