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Copyright (c) 1975, The Battalion
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 1975
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Ambulance service
in Brazos County
A four-part series
by Rod Speer, Alan
Killingsworth and
Steve Goble.
Hie cities ol Br\ an and College Station
were desperateb l«K)king for someone to
provide ambulance service to tbe area
wlien the Br\an funeral bomes discon
tinued tbe sen ice in Marcb of last \ear.
The funeral bomes were cbarging as
iniicli as S25 for local runs but could not
Plate ends meet.
“0m collections readied a peak of about
1)5 per cent tbe last seat we jmn ided tbe
service, according to Raymond Jones of
Callnwav-Jones Funeral Home.
“Win go up on tbe fees if you re not
fioim! to collect any way " We felt we bad a
lieller cliance of collecting if yy'e kept our
fees low," be said.
"We stayed in (tbe ambulance' business
a couple of months longer (ban we wanted
to, Charles Hillier, another funeral direc
tor, said. “We ran into wage and hour prob
lems — the costs were eating our break
fast.
Tbe funeral directors adv ised tbe cities
that (bey hoped to drop tbe ambulance ser
vice by Jan. 1, but when tbe date arrived,
tbe cities bad no replacement sen ice. Tbe
funeral homes continued tbe service until
Marcb.
In tbe interim, tbe cities considered two
proposals. Transportation Enterprises,
Inc. told tbe local governments it was in
terested — if it could receive a subsidy and
if all billing would be bandied by tbe cities.
(Transportation Enterprises has run tbe
ambulance sen ice in Austin for tbe past 10
years and also operates tbe Texas A&M and
University of Texas campus shuttle-bus
sv stems.'
Ed Sherrill, whose father owns tbe am
bulance sen ice in Waco, offered to handle
tbe Brazos area ambulance needs without
gov ernmental assistance.
Sherrill now runs tbe only ambulance in
tbe county.
I was stunned when they decided to go
with a private firm, Jones said. "We all
thought that they would take our cars and
The College Station City Council Thurs
day will consider a contract that will
regulate the conditions under which
Sherrill Ambulance Co. of Bryan may
operate the city’s new modular ambu
lance. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in
City Hall.
put one at each Tire station and let the fire
men run the calls. Tbe idea scared them
literally to death.
Although tbe cities firemen are better
trained to deal with accident victims than
Sherrill s ambulance crew. College Station
City Manager North Bardell said tbe ser
vice is too expensiv e to be run bv tbe city .
A fireman, Bardell said, cannot be on
duty as both a fireman and an ambulance
attendant. The increased cost to tbe cities
for personnel only, lie argued, would
amount to about SUM),000 annually per
ambulance/fire station.
When complaints concerning tbe service
surfaced in tbe media, a graduate-student
class at Texas A&M did a study of commun
ity feelings toward tbe ambulance service.
Among tbe concerns revealed bv tbe
study were: a slow response time, in
adequate training of personnel, poor
equipment, inadequate communications,
lack of complete records, lack of an
adequate recourse mechanism to deal with
complaints and tbe lack ofov erall coordina
tion in tbe emergency medical system.
Tomorrow: The validity of the com
plaints, Sherrill’s response and the ambu
lance service s physical capabilities.
Weather
Increasing cloudiness and
warmer Tuesday. High today
and tomorrow 85; low tonight
63. Twenty percent chance of
showers Wednesday.
Shades of Saturday’s game. Last and Rick Weaver h ied to remove the
night, the Baylor Bears made their still wet paint but some gasoline and a
presence known on campus by cover- lot of scrubbing were needed to finish
ing Sully with green paint. Andy Pen- the job. The vandals were not caught,
nington (right). Boh Pennington (top) Photo by Alan Killingsworth
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ALL SENIORS are eligible to compete
or the revered title of Ugliest Senior. The
ill-male contest will be held at 12:30 p.m.
ridayby the MSC Fountain. The winner
ill be judged on the basis of (1) a nauseat-
tigappearance, (2) a one-minute speech on
0 the depth of the contestant’s unsavoriness
md(3) a generally lousy attitude. The win-
ter will receive a T-shirt. Contestants need
;oregister in Room 216 of the MSC.
For those less homely, a Pumpkin-
arvingcontest is being sponsored Oct. 30.
The owner-supplied pumpkins must stand
without interior support and be able to be
it. Entries must be brought to Room 216B
oftheMSC between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. on
)ct. 30. They will be displayed Oct. 31 in
he MSC. The winner will receive a
icme-made pumpkin pie.
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DATION is looking for student-originated
)rograins to finance. This course of study
provides financing and $90 a week salary to
infest* iniall(5-10) groups of students interested in
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APPLICATIONS for Free University
Chairman will be taken through Oct. 30.
onus and interview schedules are availa-
ileinthe Student Programs office. Applic-
mtsmust have a 2.4 GPR. Interested per-
ions may call John Nelson at 845-1515.
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HALLOWEEN CANDY for mentally-
etarded children at the Austin State
School is being bought through donations,
’ersons or groups interested in partieipat-
ng in this project should contact Mary
iobinette at 845-1227 before 5 p.m.
Electing data. The projects last for 10-12
sveeks. Interested persons should call
Gerard O Donovan (845-4943) or James
Wiki (845-3131).
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LOCAL STATE-REGISTERED
emergency medical technicians will meet
onight in room 139 of the MSC at 8. Any-
>ne unable to attend should call Gerry
Greager, 845-2063, or Scott Mitchell,
145-1961.
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THE SEVEN BEST student book col
lections could earn their owners $100 cash
prizes in the Third Annual Student Book
Collectors Contest. The deadline is Oct.
Members of the A&M Library staff will
announce
the winners on Nov. 14.
For further information contact libra
rians Charles Smith, Irene Hoadley, Tam
ara Frost, Bonnie Hughes or Evely n King.
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ted KENNY KIRK, AN A&M FOOTBALL
of eJt player, reported to University Police that
his car was stolen from the Cain Hall park
ing lot. It was later found wrecked and
abandoned at Lake Somerville after appa
rently having been pushed over the spill
way.
In other police news, a citizens band
radio antenna was stolen from a car parked
inlot50, across Bizzel Street. Also, awallet
was reportedly pilfered from a window
ledge outside the handball courts late Fri
day night.
“THE WOMEN,” a satire of the
Fifth Avenue women of every American
Town, will be shown Oct. 21, 22, 23, at 6:30
p.m. in the MSC Ballroom. A&M students
and date tickets are $4.50; general public,
$7,00. Reservations close 24 hours before
performance. MSC Box Office, 845-2916.
Consol changes amount
of authorized bond issue
ERNMENT candidates meeting will be
held Wednesday at 5 p.m. in Room 105 in
the Harrington Center. Candidates who at
tended Sunday’s meeting need not attend.
If neither meeting is attended the candi
date s name will he removed from the bal
lot.
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HOWARD PHILLIPS, National Direc
tor of the Conservative Caucus, will speak
on “A Conservative View of Politics Oct.
22 at 8 p.m. in Room 201 in the MSC.
Admission is 25 cents for students, $1 for
non-students.
Death of O. D. Walker at 8 p.m. Wednes
day in the Forum. Admission is free for
students and 75 cents for the general pub
lic.
Texas
GOVERNOR DOLPH BRISCOE S
first public speech on the proposed con
stitution since he advised Texans to vote
against it was in Rocksprings this morning.
He told a Capital news conference last
Tuesday that he though all eight proposi
tions concerning the new constitutions
should be defeated.
MARK WHITE, TEXAS SECRETARY
OF STATE, said in Houston Monday that
he was in the process ofappointinga Voting
Protection Task Force for the Nov. 4 Con
stitutional election.
“We want to be sure every registered
voter in Texas is able to vote freely in this
important election, he said.
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A MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONER
and two jail trustees escaped from the
Brown County Jail in Brownwood, Sunday
after cutting through two steel bars and
climbing down a rope made of blankets.
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AN AMERICAN EXPERT AND A
DUTCH SCIENTIST told delegates to an
international conference on the future of
man in Woodlands, Monday, that many
nations face massive and continuing hunger
unless there are changes in basic agricul
tural policies.
They said that without new and bold
measures world food prices could double
within 35 years and the numbers of starving
people could quadruple.
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GALVESTON COUNTY HEALTH
DIRECTOR Dr. W. W. Kemmerer Jr.
said in Texas City, Friday, that two cases of
typhoid have been confirmed in nearby
LaMarque along with one suspected case
and two other cases are suspected in Texas
City.
He said that the disease was contracted
at a restaurant and there is no fear of the
disease spreading.
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FIVE NEW SUSPECTED CASES OF
ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS have been
found in Houston, health officials said Fri
day.
The new cases bring to 41 the number of
suspected victims of the mosquito-borne
disease, including five who have died.
There are 18 confirmed cases, including
one death.
PRESIDENT FORD HAS curtailed his
schedule because he is suffering from a
sinus cold and a slight fever White House
press secretary Ron Nessen said yesterday.
He said that Ford has been suffering
from the sinus cold for about a week, al
though Ford first complained about it Oct.
9 after a news conference.
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SENATOR BIRCH E. BAYH, D-Ind.,
announced his candidacy for the presi
dency today.
Bayh, 47, hopes to put together a coali
tion of backers from organized labor, wo
men’s groups, blacks and liberals based on
A CABINET AT PRESIDENT FORD S
CAMPAIGN headquarters — containing
cash and financial records — was the target
of an unsuccessful burglary attempt over
the vveekend, officials said Monday.
General counsel Robert Visser of the
President Ford Committee discounted any
resemblance to the Watergate break-in
against the Democratic National Commit
tee headquarters three years ago.
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TWO MEN WERE INDICTED
MONDAY on federal charges of plotting to
ussassinate President Ford in Sacramento
by shooting him and bombing a sewer line.
On the day of the attempt. Sept. 5, the
men were in jail in Santa Barbara, Calif.,
after being arrested by the Santa Barbara
County Sheriff’s Office on Aug. 26 on state
theft charges.
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THE UNITED STATES has agreed to
sell the Soviet Union at least 30 million
metric tons of wheat and corn ov'er fiv e
years, U.S. officials said in Washington yes
terday. The Soviets, meanwhile, promised
to let this country purchase some of its oil.
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KAREN ANN QUINLAN’S doctor tes
tified Monday that the comatose young
woman “reacts to light, sound and pain,
and he would refuse to disconnect a re
spirator that has kept her breathing for the
past six months.
Dr. Robert J. Morse was the first witness
in a trial to decide whether Quinlan s pa
rents can remove the respirator and allow
their 21-year-old daughter to “die with
dignity. The Quinlans have said there is
no hope for recovery.
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ALABAMA GOVERNOR GEORGE C.
WALLACE said yesterday in Bonn that he
is 95 per cent sure he will declare himself a
U. S. presidential candidate.
Wallace arrived in West Berlin today for
a two day visit.
World
THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT has
decided to expell Andrei Sakharov, the
nuclear scientist and civil-rights fighter,
the conservative newspaper Berlingske
Tidende reported in Copenhagen yester
day.
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A COMMUTER-PACKED SUBWAY
TRAIN slammed into the rear of another
train in Mexico City Monday, and Mayor
Octavio Senties said at least 22 persons
were killed.
The lead train had stopped when some
one pulled an emergency cord because a
man had been injured by the closing doors.
By PAULA GEYER
Battalion Staff Writer
The A&M Consolidated School Board
Monday night voted to change the amount
of the bond issue authorized bv the hoard
on Sept. 23 from S5,5()6,<)()0 to’$5,150,00.
I he hoard, which also set (lie date of the
bond election for Nov . 18, altered the
amount because of a building plan change.
Board members Charles Hensarling,
Bruce Robeck and Joseph Natowitz voted
for the change in the amount.
School board President Nancy
Donaldson and member Jon Botsford voted
against it in support of the original propos
al.
Board members Bill Lancaster and
Lambert Wilkes abstained on the v ote be
cause of lack of information concerning use
of the old Middle School building at 1300
Jersey St. for the school proposed in the
bond issue.
The bond issue will, if passed by the
voters provide for an elementary school to
be built on the site of the old Middle
School.
The building plans for the bond issue also
include lour classrooms at College Hills
Elementary School, a sixth grade classroom
unit at the middle school and a new voca
tional building for the high school.
Also planned are physical education
buildings for both elementary schools, site
work at the middle school and additional
food service facilities at the high school.
Remodeling or new construction of ad
ministrative facilities are also in the bond
issue.
The board was div ided on whether to
tear down the old Middle School and re
build it or whether to iise the present build
ing.
School Superintendent Fred A. Hopson
said the cost of remodeling the building to
meet the College Station building codes
Would cost as much as constructing a new
building.
Natowitz figured the cost of renovating
the building at $1,900,000 while building a
new school would cost 81,800,000
Wilkes said he saw no reason in not using
die buildingas it now stands for classrooms.
If the bonds are passed In the voters the
grade div isions of the present schools in the
district will remain the same except for the
addition of kindergarten at the elementary
schools.
'I he elementary school to be built on tbe
old Middle School site will include kinder
garten through fifth grades.
In other business the hoard voted to
order two new school buses for next year at
a cost of $12,918 each
The two buses will hav e a seating capac
ity of 72 persons each.
One of the buses will replace an existing
bus and the other will he used as a spare.
Currently the district has six buses in
"medium condition and fiv e buses in fair
shape, Hopson said.
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A 23-year-old Texas A&M University
student suffered minor injuries Monday af
ternoon when the bicycle she was riding
was struck bv a car.
Robin Ann Couch was hit bv a car driv en
by Bernard E. Forrester, 25, a KAMU-TY
employe, police said.
She was treated and released from St.
Joseph s Hospital
According to College Station Police Of
ficer Richard D. Gulledge s report, Forres
ter was driving east on tbe inside lane of
Jersey Street when his car jumped on ter the
median. The car clipped two trees at Jersey
and Pershing Streets and then veered off
down Pershing Street.
The report stated that Couch was headed
west on the bicycle lane on Jersey Street,
against the traffic, and wasJurning left onto
Pershing Street when Forrester s car hit
her.
She was knocked into the yard, and the
car continued and flipped on its hack in the
yard, the report stated.
Forrester also suffered minor cuts. He
was treated and released from St. Joseph s
Hospital.
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SUDAN ART, a group of actors who his Senate record and a contention that he
work out of Houston, will present “The R both liberal and electable.