THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, JAN 30, 1976
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improved. Ed Davis, with the Food
Services Department, said, “The
people who are cooking must be
careful as most of the cooking is done
in view of the customer. Some of the
cooks are students, so there is a cer
tain amount of peer pressure. ”
Two new ovens have been added
which can cook 1,600 pizzas an hour.
Chicken is fried on a new machine
which allows for grease drainage, re
sulting in crispy chicken. Char-
broiled hamburgers and ice cream
are also available.
Fred Dollar, food services direc
tor, said, “Our objective is the
greatest bargain in American din
ing.” He added, “If the students
cooperate, we will give them any
thing they want. Choice, variety
and, we hope, quality will be satis-
factory.”
One of the problems of “faster
foods” is the “adjustment by the new
customer, ” said Dollar. “It takes him
about two weeks to learn where ev
erything is.”
Besides the “faster foods” addi
tion, renovation will provide for a
cafeteria type service in the wing of
Sbisa across from the University
Health Center (Phase II). Davis said
the structure of the cafeteria will be
somewhat like the Krueger-Dunn
Commons.
Dollar said completion of Phase II
is expected by Dec. 1, 1976.
Although Phase I is probably no
faster than the old system. Dollar
and Davis agree it will be more effi
cient in the long run. Sbisa was inef
ficient before the renovation be
cause, “it took more labor, Davis
said. “The new system should actu
ally help keep down board prices un
less everyone eats 12 hamburgers
and 14 pieces of chicken, ” he added.
— Holly Hutchison
Possible site for
8 tennis courts
under review
A proposed complex of eight new
tennis courts, covering an area as
large as Kyle Field, would ruin the
last bit of open land on the campus,
said Dick Gunselman, PhD. student
in Recreation and Parks.
The proposed location, discussed
Thursday night by the Student
Campus Advisory Committee, is
south of the Rudder Center between
the picnic area and Houston Street.
The site extends into the grove of
trees near the picnic area.
The money for the new varsity
courts has been approved by the
state Coordinating Board, which
must review all construction projects
at state universities. However, the
final design has not been presented.
The student committee will research
another possible site for the courts
and will present it before the Board
of Regents at its next meeting.
A statement of purpose was pre
sented and passed by the student
committee, and Randy Hohlaus was
elected chairman for the Spring
semester.
— Susan Brown
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Tex. — Senate Secre
tary Charles Schnabel says he put a
teenage girl on the Senate payroll in
1974 as a political favor to Austin
Rep. Ronnie Earle even though
Schnabel had no work for her to do.
Schnabel told The Associated
Press Thursday he agreed to put
Laurie Breihan on the Senate payroll
during the Constitutional Conven
tion after Earle said he “felt obli
gated” to give her a job.
Earle disputed this version of the
story. “No, that’s not time, ” he said.
“I didn’t feel obligated at all. ”
Miss Breihan worked from Feb. 1
through June 30 at $410 a month.
Schnabel said Earle told him Miss
Breihan was the daughter of a
Methodist minister and that Earle
already had exceeded his payroll
limitation but “felt committed to
keep her on the payroll. ”
“I told Ronnie that I would help
him and give this girl a job, but that I
would be pressed to come up with
active duties to keep her busy.
“Ronnie said, ‘Don’t worry about
that, that T can keep her plenty busy
working out of my office.”
The pay warrants were mailed to
Earle’s office.
“It was just a favor for Ronnie, a
political favor, Schnabel said.
Earle said Miss Breihan worked as
an unpaid intern in his office in 1973
as part of an Austin high school pro
gram for honor students.
She asked Earle for a paying job
during the convention, Earle said,
and he called Schnabel and told him,
“I’ve got somebody you ought to
hire. He told Schnabel he already
had a full payroll but that Miss
Breihan “had been invaluable — she
was real bright,’ he said.
Earle said Schnabel told him he
had no place for her. “Tell you
what, ” Earle quoted Schnabel as say
ing, “you keep her down there and
work her. ”
Earle said he knew Miss Breihan’s
parents well but did not connect
them with her until after she had
worked for him as an intern.
Rev. Bob Breihan is the director of
the Methodist Student Center at
UT.
“She was a deserving person and
needed a job,” Earle said. “She did a
really fine job.
To the statement that some tax
payers might think it was improper
for him to use this circuitous route to
exceed his payroll limit, Earle
said: “The taxpayers benefitted and
profited from what she did. It never
occurred to me for a minute that that
was in the least improper, given the
unique historical situation of both
House and Senate sitting in common
purpose as a constitutional conven
tion. ”
Schnabel said of Earle’s solution to
his problem, “Everybody in the
legislature does it, one way or
another.
Earle’s payroll records show he
paid three employes a total of $1,850
a month for February and March
1974, when his limit was $1,450.
He paid the same amount for May,
when his limit was $1,225, and he
paid $2,150 in June, when his limit
was $1,225.
Representatives could pay at the
rate of $1,450 a month for the first
five days of April and $1,225 for the
remainder of the month.
Representatives could use their
$875-a-month contingent expense
money for payroll excesses, but
Earle spent $3,462.54 from that fund
for the five months from February
through June, or an average of
$692.50 a month.
That left him only $182.50 a month
from the contingent expense fund to
pay $375 payroll overages for each of
the months February and March,
the $600 payroll excess for May and
the $950 overflow for June.
Schnabel has been indicted on two
counts of theft and one count of offi
cial misconduct.
A holdover Travis County grand
jury Thursday heard five more wit
nesses, all former or present Senate
employes. The jury resumes its in
vestigation of Schnabel’s office
Monday.
★ ★★
Senate Secretary Charles
Schnabel sent Senate employes to
Arkansas to pick up 31 canoes, ac
cording to a report by KPRC-TV of
Houston.
Reporter Joel Smith said Ed
Flagg, sales manager of the Ouachita
Marine and Industrial Co., says the
canoes cost nearly $5,000 and were
bought between the fall of 1971 and
the summer of 1973.
Flagg reportedly billed 19 of tbe
canoes to the State ofTexas and 12 to
Schnabel. But state warrants appar
ently were not used to pay for any of
the canoes.
Smith said sources close to the in
vestigation of Schnabel’s office said
Schnabel apparently resold the
canoes in Austin at a profit.
The employes picked up the
canoes on five different trips during
weekdays, he said.
Use of stolen vehicles
Police activities probed
Associated Press
FORT WORTH — A five-
member committee winch investi
gated alleged irregularities in the
Fort Worth Police Department’s
auto theft division says that certain
unnamed auto theft detectives and
their supervisors “participated in
acts and conduct which may have
been violations of the law.
In an 88-page report made public
Clubs offering nudity
protested to council
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — The question
of public nudity as entertainment has
been bared before the city council
here at a hearing called by Mayor
Lila Cockrell following charges that
nudity is becoming a common sight
in the clubs along the city’s Paseo
Del Rio.
All but two of the 15 witnesses at
the hearing Thursday said they dis-
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One of those who spoke in favor of
nudity was Miss Barbara Miller who
described herself as a masseuse.
“I am not a prostitute,” she said.
She added that low paid secretaries
who cannot earn enough money to
support themselves “are turning the
tricks and are your city’s prostitute-
s.”
Several religious leaders urged
the city council to regulate nudity
and “outlaw sin. A Baptist preacher
came to the hearing armed with what
he said were 30,000 anti-nudity sig
natures.
Mayor Cockrell had earlier or
dered the city staff to draw up plans
to combat nudity possibly with a spe
cial district for sue)) enterprises.
During the hearing Mayor Coc
krell read a statement from Lt. Gen.
John W. Roberts, commanding gen
eral of the Air Training Command
headquartered here.
“I must protest the uncontrolled
proliferation of totally nude enter
tainment in the river area,” Roberts’
statement said. “I speak not as a
moralist, not as a paternalistic busy
body, but as a commander.”
today, the committee recommended
no action against specific members of
the police department, but urged
City Manager Rodger Line to
tighten policies and procedures of
the entire police department.
Nearly 300 hours of public hear
ings were conducted from July 15 to
Oct. 27, after a Fort Worth Star-
Telegram story accused police of al
leged misconduct in the auto theft
division.
The report concluded that any of
ficer who drives stolen vehicles for
either surveillance or personal use
should be fired. It also recom
mended that any officer who ex
changed recovered or abandoned
auto parts for information from in
formants should be disciplined.
A carefully supervised fund for use
in obtaining “essential information”
form informants was recommended
by the group. Also called for in the
report was a city-supervised auto
pound to store recovered, stolen or
abandoned vehicles.
Committee members also rec
ommended that the statute oflimita-
tioris be extended from six months to
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dnet could be prosecuted.
The report recommended a
police-civilian review board and the
hiring of a police psychologist. The
review board would be a fact-finding
group with no authority. It could,
however, recommend disciplinary
action against any officer.
Committee members also rec
ommended that future police chiefs
have formal law enforcement train
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tration, criminology or police sci-
Members of the committee were
former Mayor Willard Barr, retired
Judge Atwood McDonald, attorney
Milton Mehl, businessman Jud
Cramer and high school counselor
Mrs. Walter Barbour.
Crappy office
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Associated Press
COOPER, Tex. & — The basement
men’s room of the Delta County
Courthouse was open for “regular”
business again Thursday after com
missioners court moved out of the
privy to its regular first floor quar
ters.
Commissioners conducted court
affairs Wednesday in the restroom
where Sheriff Benny Fisher had
moved all of Bolger’s office furniture.
The sudden transfer of offices was
the result of a conflict between the
sheriff and Bolger over allocation of
county operating funds.
“He (Fisher) moved my desk, my
clock, my pictures, everything.
Those chairs were lined up just as
neat as if yon were going to eat in a
dining hall. He really had me set up
for business. Had my name on the
door,” Bolger said.
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