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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOV. 4, 1975
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Last of series
Headlines
Some mislead, confuse
By ROXIE HEARN
Assistant Editor
The Ombudsman is a reader service that;
fields questions, complaints or comments
about The Battalion. This column is a discus
sion of calls and letters received throughout
the week.
The Battalion’s weakest points
this week were headlines. The titles
appearing above news stories
should be well-written and informa
tive, not complicated and confus
ing.
This week’s beauties started with
“At Arlington . . . Purists get way. ’
If you didn’t know what a purist was,
or what it was doing in Arlington,
you weren’t alone. The rather loose
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General proposition: a catch all
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The last substantive
article of the new constitution is s
covered-dish supper at which Te
xans must eat a little of everything,
whether it tastes like peach cobbler
or rancid butter.
Or reject it all.
Under one lid, for example, en
vironmentalists find fresh seafood.
State beaches and submerged
Special News
Analysis Series
lands are held in perpetual trust by
the state^for the people.
But under the coffee pot lid they
find bitter water. The voter-
rejected Texas Water Plan, which
calls for importation of Mississippi
water at a cost in the billions, could
be approved by the legislature.
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For this reason, the Texas Com
mittee on Natural Resources,
whose board is made up of 32 en
vironmentalists “from Athens to El
Paso and Denton to Sin ton,” op
poses Article X, the General Provi
sions Article.
Ned Fritz of Dallas, committee
chairman, says the legislature al
ready has done what the proposed
beach provision would do, so it is
unnecessary.
But this is not quite true. The
constitutional provision would
prevent subsequent legislatures
from making exceptions and selling
portions of the public beaches.
Also, the new constitution in
structs the legislature to provide
access to the beaches. There are
stretches of up to 40 miles of public
beach today that have no roads
leading to them.
WeSt Texans, of course, love the
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dish that Fritz hates. Their agricul
tural economy depends heavily on
irrigation with water from under
ground acquifers that are drying up
and will never be recharged.
Under the new constitution,
water could be taken from the
Sabine River in East Texas, for
example, and transferred to the
Panhandle, so long as it was re
placed by water from out of state.
The legislature could spend money
to do this, something it is prohi
bited from doing under the present
constitution.
Also, the legislature could take
water from the Sabine or other riv
ers on a “temporary, interim
basis. ” But the new charter fails to
define those terms, and courts con
ceivably could hold that “tempor
ary” is whatever the legislature
says it is.
Fritz’ group also objects to the
new policy of the state “to promote
the conservation and development
of the natural resources of the
state.”
“Remember that and’ means to
do both, so that conservation and
development,’ means they must
develop,” Fritz said.
The legislature is commanded to
provide by law for: “1. the control,
storage, preservation and distribu
tion for useful purposes of storm,
flood, river and stream waters; 2.
the reclamation, irrigation and
drainage of land; 3. the abatement
of subsidence; 4. the conservation
of the atmosphere; 5. the collection
and disposal or recycling of wastes;
6. the conservation and develop
ment of the energy resources and
forests; and 7. the navigability of
the waters.
This includes development of
forests. And it orders the legisla
ture to provide for irrigation of
land.
There tire 24 sections in the
General Provisions Article, and
they deal with all ot the odd-sized
subjects that fit nowhere else in the
constitution.
One of these says a handicapped
person may not be denied a right,
benefit or opportunity because of a
physical or mental handicap as de
fined by law.” An exception to this
is where the handicap prevents
performance of the job sought.
Conservative state Republican
Sen. Betty Andujar of Fort Worth
opposes this provision.
“We are having numerous suits
filed now which allege discrimina
tion based on race or sex, ” she said.
“I am very concerned that, if our
voters approve this provision,
numerous businessmen would find
themselves forced to hire lawyers
to defend suits alleging discrimina
tion based on handicaps.”
Some new provisions in Article
X:
— Make it state policy to protect
the environment.
— Allow Texans to borrow
money on urban homesteads that
also are used as businesses. For
200-acre rural homesteads, money
could be borrowed on as much as
150 acres that does not include the
house. The legislature is au
thorized to increase the $10,000
limit on the value of the land of an
urban homestead at the time of
purchase.
— Require the legislature to
regulate bank holding companies.
— Allow church or charity, to
hold bingo games or raffles where
the money raised is spent in Texas
for the purposes of the church or
charity.
— Make it state policy to provide
access to adequate health care for
all Texans.
connection didn t appear until the
end of the fourth paragraph.
“A touchy subject . . . Feeling
out the situation” was definitely
“cute” since the story was about
breast-petting research, but it told
the reader absolutely nothing about
the story’s content.
How about “All eight passage to
surprise prof ? If you ran across that
one in Friday’s paper you probably
read the story just to see what the
headline meant.
To make sense out of any of those
headlines, readers had to read the
stories first, then decipher the ti
tles.
Recently, The Battalion has been
running serials on various subjects:
the County’s ambulance service,
the campus police department and,
now, A&M’s bureaucratic system.
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ministration articles haven’t been
favorable. The idea is good, but the
stories are dull, superficial and
poorly written. The preface to the
series announces it will “analyze”
the administrative bureaucracy; it
merely skims the surface. Many de
partments are simply listed along
with the person who heads them —
no further information given.
One of the more poorly written
sentences pointed out stated, “The
value of these articles is, if you have
a problem at Texas A&M, there is
someone whose job it is to help
solve that problem. Not too clear
there.
Another problem the series has is
getting the caricatures and the
names matched correctly. Friday’s
story about Clyde Freeman was
printed with the caricature of Tom
Cherry, whose story will appear
tomorrow.
Both drawings are printed below,
correctly identified.
Wednesday’s paper didn’t hit the
news stands until almost 7 p.m. last
week, causing many people to miss
it completely. The press equipment
broke down and type was set
three different machines before
was finally acceptable. That mej
three separate settings for e*
story and typographic errors
abundant. As a result the firstsa
tenee of the leading story dii
even make sense.
A few rather minor errors oft
week: UT’s coach is Darrell Rot
not “Darrel Royal. The quo)
“What we have here is a failure
com mm licate came from them#
“Cool Hand Luke’andnot"Catoi
Hot Tin Roof. ”
Clyde Freeman, Execu
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