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Vol. 69 No. 37
Copyright (c) 1975, The Battalion
College Station, Texas Tuesday, Nov. 4 1975
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Bond issue called
By PAULA GEYER
Battalion StafT Writer
The A&M Consolidated School Board
Monday night approved the execution of a
egal order calling for a bond issue on Nov.
.8.
The bond issue, if passed by local resi-
lents of the district, will provide funds for a
lew elementary school to be located on the
)ld Middle School site at 1300 Jersey St.
Board member Lambert Wilkes
ibstained from voting for the calling of the
>ond election because of his previous ob-
ections to the bond issue.
On Oct. 20, when the bond issue was
ipproved by the school board, Wilkes said
le abstained from voting because of lack of
nformation concerning how the old Mid
lie School Building would be used in con-
lection with the proposed building plans.
The bond issue woidd call for an increase
in property taxes from $1.77 to approxi
mately $2.10 per $100 for property valua
tion.
Board member Joseph TSJatowitz said the
district would be $7,813,000 in debt, at the
most, if the bonds are approved.
Currently the district has $2.9 million of
outstanding bonds.
The tax rate for the district should de
crease after present bonds are retired,
Board irjember Bill Lancaster said.
“As long as L ve been on the board I have
seen the tax rate decrease,” former board
member O. C. Cooper told the board.
Cooper said it did not seem the board
members had made up their minds on what
to plan for the district s future.
I cannot see how this board can sit in
good faith and call a bond issue,” Cooper
said.
Residents present at the meeting voiced
their desires to know what the possibilities
were of raising the tax base and hiring more
teachers for the proposed school.
School Superintendent Fred A. Hopson
told the visitors that new teachers would be
needed “only as the district grows and not
because a new school is being proposed.”
“Teachers from present schools will be
used to teach in the new School, he said.
College Station City Councilman Jim
Gardner, at the meeting, said he thought
the building plan for the district needed
more scrutiny.
“Fifty per cent of the two-mile diameter
around the proposed new elementary
school is on the Texas A&M University
campus, Gardner said.
Hopson said this would not decrease the
expected enrollment of 432 students at the
proposed new school. •
If the new school is built enrollment at
College Hills Elementary will be approxi
mately 435 and South Knoll Elementary
would have an enrollment of 505 students.
“We re already overcrowded in the Col
lege Station school system,” Natowitz said.
Board member Bruce Robeck said no
bond issue would ever pass in the district if
voters rejected the proposed issue simply
because some disliked one aspect of it.
He said the proposed elementary school
location has elicited opposition from some
residents.
"The proposed elementary site is not
ideal but it is the best, considering the
situation,” Robeck said.
Conservation bills move
Presnal reports progress
By DON ILOFF
Battalion Staff Writer
“The Legislature s attitude toward con-
iervation is actually very good, said Bill
Presnal, to a small, quiet crowd of about 50
)eople.
The first in a series of lectures on politics
and conservation was given last night in the
MSC. Bill Presnal, Chairman for the Texas
Appropriations Committee, spoke on con
servation and the Texas legislature.
Bill Presnal is a graduate of Texas A&M
University. He is presently serving his
fourth term in the state legislature, where
he serves in a variety of committees such as
the Social Services Committee and the
Legislative Budget and Audit Committee.
Presnal mentioned that there was a
great volume of bills before the legislature
involving conservation. He cited some of
these bills. Such a bill was Senate Bill 55,
which was introduced by Senator Sher
man. “This bill,” he said, “Is best known as
the Strip Mining Bill.”
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Presnal then proceeded to name and de
scribe many of the conservation agencies in
the Legislature.
“The Parks and Wildlife Department is
the largest agency dealing with conserva
tion where the majority of income does not
come from the tax dollar,” said Presnal.
Jokingly he remarked, “We have many
state agencies. We find some everyday, it
seems, that we didn’t know existed.
Presnal shunned the subject of the prop
osed new constitution, but did urge that
everyone vote.
“I think that the majority of the people
who don’t vote, will not, because they don’t
understand all of the issues,” he said.
“But then I don’t think I ve ever gone to
vote understanding all of the issues my
self,” said Presnal.
KBTX
to show
spirit film
A film segment on ‘Aggie Spirit will be
shown on the six and 10 p. m. editions of the
KBTX news tonight.
The film was shot of the activities sur
rounding the A&M-Baylor football game
two weeks ago. It was originally scheduled
to be aired on the “CBS Evening News
with Dan Rather on Saturday, but was
preempted by a football game.
The CBS news team documented a wet
but spirited “midnight yell practice,” was
on hand for the “spirit line” through which
the players passed Saturday morning en
route from Cain Hall to Kyle Field and then
filmed the “Twelfth Man” in action in the
stands. The newsmen also interviewed
Coach Emory Bellard and yell leaders.
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Anderson speaks
GOP future seen
By ERIC LINDQUIST
Battalion Staff Writer
Consolidation of government be
nefit programs and the renewal of pub
lic faith in the government were em
phasized by Congressman John An
derson Monday night.
Chairman of the House Republican
Conference and leader of a Congres
sional Delegation to the People s Re
public of China, Anderson com
mented on the future of the Republi
can Party in relation to current prob
lems in the nation. He was speaking as
part of the Political Forum program.
The American public, Anderson
claimed, is feeling alienated from the
government. “It is no longer working
for their benefit, said Anderson, but
for the officials themselves or for spe
cial interests.
“He feels they will not put forth a
necessary' effort to change the prob
lem.
Stating figures, he showed that pub
lic faith in government is at an all time
low. Anderson paralleled this to a
decay and merging of the two-party
system. More people are voting inde
pendent and surveying the candidates
as a result of recent political upheaval,
he said.
If the nation were given an honest
choice it would go Republican, he
said. They are ready to follow the road
to decentralization of government and
put the reigns back in the hands of the
people, Anderson said.
He advocated combining govern
ment programs such as welfare and
Medicaid. This would result in re
duced government expenditures. An
derson said that this area “fairly cries
out for reform”. This issue can not be
resolved, he said, with a Republican
president and a dominantly Democra
tic Congress.
In the brief question and answer
session following the talk, he stressed
that the future of America meant a
strengthening of the two-party sys
tem. “Both parties should roll up their
sleeves and get to work on genuine
political reform,” Anderson said.
John B. Anderson
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polls - today to approve or reject the
proposed revision of the state consti
tution. The polls will be open until
7 p.m.
They are located as follows:
Precinct 8 South Knoll Elemen
tary School
Precinct 9 A&M Consolidated
Special Services Bldg.
Precinct 20
Precinct 21
Precinct 24
Station
Texas A&M University
Center
College Station Muni
cipal Bldg.
College Hills Elemen
tary School
Campus
THE GUARNERI String Quartet will
perform tonight at 8 in the Rudder Theater.
Admission for A&M students is $3.50 and
$2.50; non-student $5 and $4. Tickets are
available at the box office, ground floor
Rudder Tower.
•
TICKETS for the Townhall Jim Stafford
and Dave Loggins performance are availa
ble at the box office, ground floor Rudder
Tower. Tickets are free with student ID
and activity' card.
•
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL Chair
man, Robert Strauss, will speak at 8 p.m.
Thursday in the Rudder Theater. The topic
of his speech will be the “Future of the
United States’ Political Parties. ” Admission
is 25 cents for students and $1 for non
students.
•
SIGN-UP for the Wadley Blood Drive
will be Tuesday through Thursday. Regist
ration will be taken at tables in the MSC,
Sbisa mall, and military quad.
THE HOUSE SPONSOR of the Texas
Open Records Act of 1973 has filed an af
fidavit in Dallas, declaring he intended
through the measure to bring Blue Cross
records on Medicaid out in the open.
Representative Lane Denton, D-Waco,
gave the affidavit in a lawsuit filed by a
writer to compel disclosure of Blue Cross’
documents.
Denton said that when he sponsored the
open records bill he was aware of the state s
Medicaid contract with Blue Cross and that
it was his specific intent that the Blue Cross
records be made available upon request, to
the public.
•
THREE VIRGINIA MEN, accused of a
1972 hijacking of an Eastern Airlines plane,
are to enter pleas before a U. S. District
Court judge in Houston, on Friday.
The three are also charged with murder
in state court for the slaying of a ticket agent
at Houston Intercontinental Airport.
They were recently convicted of murder
in the slaying of two persons during a bank
robbery in Virginia, four days before the
hijacking here.
•
TWO A&M STUDENTS were elected
to the southern region American College
Union-International board of directors.
Mike Hatch, senior, was elected chairman
and Marie Sohner, sophomore, was elected
as a member-at-large.
•
THE A&M LIVESTOCK Judging team
took first place overall in the Grand Na
tional Intercollegiate Livestock Judging
Contest held in San Francisco, Calif., last
weekend. Members of the team are senior
agriculture majors Billy Brown, Geary
Stutts, Terry Phifer, Rodney Roberson and
Dale Berriwinkale. They are coached by
Bob Brown of the Animal Science Depart
ment.
•
THE A&M SOIL Conservation society
last Saturday repaired a drainage ditch to
control water erosion at Lake Somerville.
The group included Joseph Provasek, Kim
Olszewski, Federico Sanchez, Dick Har
man, Stan Peters, Brent Hundley and
Wayne Gabriel. They smoothed and
graded the ditch and lined the bed.
•
CONSTRUCTION of balsa wood cubes
for the Mechanical Engineering contest
will continue through Friday with lumber
available at News Office Supplies Wednes
day' morning. Entry fee is $1 with judging
taking place Saturday at 9 a.m. in Zachry
Engineering Center.
•
SUPER FISH contest will be held at
3:30 Thursday in the Rudder fountain area.
Campusology questions will be asked in
“spelling bee fashion. Enter until time of
contest in the Recreation cubicle room 216
of the MSC.
National
PRESIDENT FORD said at a news con
ference in Washington, D. C., last night
that he neither asked Vice President Nel
son A. Rockefeller to step aside as a poten
tial 1976 running mate nor tried to talk
Rockefeller ouf of his decision. He refused
to speculate on running mates.
Ford said he wants to put his own selec
tions into key national security positions,
and he announced his intention to nomi
nate Donald H. Rumsfield as defense sec
retary, replacing James R. Schlesinger;
George Bush as CIA director, replacing
William Colby; and Lt. Gen Brent Scow-
croft as advisor on national security affairs,
replacing Henry A. Kissinger, who will
continue as secretary of state.
Ford also said Elliott L. Richardson will
be nominated to be commerce secretary
replacing Rogers C. B. Morton.
•
LYNETTE FROMME, charged with at
tempting to assassinate President Ford,
goes to trial in Sacramento with the possi
bility of legal issues yielding center stage to
a courtroom duel between the devotee of
the Charles Manson family and the presid
ing judge.
Jury selection begins today in the trial of
Miss Fromme, 27, who was arrested in a
park near the State Capital Sept. 5 after
Secret Service agents said she pointed a
loaded .45-caliber pistol at Ford from two
feet away. She was found mentally compe
tent to stand trial and has been held under
$350,000 bail in a maximum security cell.
Texas
U. S. DISTRICT COURT Judge Wil
liam Wayne Justice issued a restraining
order in Tyler, yesterday, against the new
Texas law requiring county officials to
begin purging voter registration lists
throughout the state this week. The three
Grayson County residents who filed suit
contend that the law is illegal because it
hasn’t been inspected for compliance with
the federal Voting Rights Act.
World
GENERALISSIMO FRANCISCO
FRANCO’S doctors reported in Madrid
this afternoon that his pulse, heart beat and
temperature were normal after a three-
hour operation during the night which
halted the abdominal bleeding that had
been putting added strain on the dictator’s
damaged heart.
Although Franco’s heart came through
the operation without new damage or
danger signs, his general conditions con
tinued grave, the doctors said.