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Page 2 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11, 1976 'tfnt/ulye 'Palestine with flowers & gifts from c 3hiicA Give YOUR sweetheart a box of roses. 114 PLEASANT (Turn at the Farm Patch oll'S. College on Pleasant) Indictments likely today from Duval grand jury 846-2314 Tues. thru Sat. 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. SHARE THE RIDE WITH US THIS WEEKEND AND GET ON TO A GOOD THING. Associated Press SAN DIEGO, Tex. —A Duval County grand jury investigat ing corruption in the South Texas county’s local government was expected to return some indictments here today. The grand jury of nine men and three women was appointed Feb. 2 by District Court Judge Darrell Hester of Brownsville. They have worked for about four days, including a daylong session Monday and indicated they will have something to re port in open court today. The grand jury is being assisted by Texas Attorney General’s office, several Texas Rangers and some Department of Public Safety intelligence officers. Texas Atty. Gen. John Hill, who personally presented some cases to the grand jury Feb. 2, sent a task force here last year at the request of Dist. Atty. Arnulfo Guerra of Roma. Guerra ealier had announced he was inves tigating every local government agency in the county, saying he was going to “clean up Duval County.’ Two previous grand juries working with the attorney general’s task force have been criticized by Atty. Gen. Hill for their failure to act. Local observers attributed this failure to act to the fact the previous grand juries were split along political faction lines. The present grand jury was seated over vigorous objections from the Carrillo faction of Duval County. Richard “Racehorse’’ Haynes of Houston presented a motion in behalf of former State Rep. Oscar Carrillo claiming that members of the Carrillo fac tion were systematically excluded from the grande jury selection process. Judge Hester refused to grant the motion to call a new panel of prospective grand jurors. The Carrillo faction is opposed by what was once the politi cally powerful “Old Party” faction headed at one time by the late George B. Parr and imprisoned former Duval County Judge Archer Parr. Us means Greyhound, and a lot of your fellow students who are already on to a good thing. You leave when you like. Travel comfortably. Arrive refreshed and on time. You'll save money, too, over the increased air fares. Share the ride with us on weekends. Holidays. Anytime. Go Greyhound. Both political factions have virtually been destroyed in the past year as George Parr took his own life while facing a federal prison term for income tax evasion. Archer Parr is serving a 10-year federal prison term for perjury and former District Court Judge O. P. Carrillo has been convicted by the Texas Senate on an impeachment charge and has been removed from office. The conviction is being appealed through a court suit in an effort to get his job back. GREYHOUND SERVICE ONE- ROUND- YOU CAN YOU TO WAY TRIP LEAVE ARRIVE Houston $5.60 $10.65 12:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. v Austin 7.25 13.80 1:20 p.m. 4:40 p.m. Dallas- Ft. Worth 9.55 18.15 12:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Waco 5.25 10.00 3:00 p.m. 5:15 p.m. Ask your agent about additional departures and return trips Sam Enloe ’63 1300 Texas Ave. 823-8071 822-2111 GO GREYHOUND ...and leave the driving to us COMfWV^ in 2:00£M. THURS., FEB. 12 RUDDER THEATER conjunction with S.C.O.N.A. Admission: FREE /tep Into the m/c circle Pizza Hut bandit pulls gun, gets loot A man armed with a pistol robbed the Pizza Hut at 102 University Drive of an undisclosed amount of money about 11:30 last night, police said this morning. Police are looking for a 5’ 8” man, 18-20 years old and weighing 135- 140 pounds. A customer said there were about 18 persons in the restaurant at the time, but he was unaware the rob bery had taken place until after police arrived. Joe Taylor, the cashier, said the man was wearing matching blue bell bottom pants and jacket. He said the gunman’s hands were shaking and he appeared to be very nervous. Taylor said he had noticed the man pacing the sidewalk outside the door before he entered the restaurant at approximately 11:25. Taylor said the man nervously looked about the place upon enter ing. He said the man stepped to the side of the cash register and stuck a gun in his side, keeping it hidden under his coat. Taylor said the man asked in a low voice for all the Taylor said when the otheici had left, he turned to the; and asked him if he was for The gunman then threatei in a low voice) to kill anean ress if he did not give him tk said Tavlor. In yE money. The cashier said he was waiting on another man at the time and did not pay much attention to the gunman. He gathered up the one and ten-dollar bills, the grabbed them and startedta l-prog back door. Taylor said he si; W “T follow when the gunman tun Iterro threatened to shoot ifhedidi j lin( where he was. Taylor said the ipeop fled out the back door 1 Poplar Street on foot. Ol Republicans may move convention to Miami Beach Associated Press WASHINGTON — Kansas City could lose this year’s Republican convention to Miami Beach, in a dis pute over hotel space, party leaders say. Local officials claim they may fall 10 per cent short of the promised 16,000 rooms for the August event. GOP officials say if they can’t have all the rooms pledged, they are pre pared to move the convention. Kansas City Mayor Charles Wheeler summoned hotel represen tatives for a meeting today in an ef fort to find the extra accommoda tions. “Presumably the mayor will exert pressure on the hotel association to come up with the rooms we were promised,” a GOP spokesman in Washington said. The party is hopeful the can lie settled and the room so the convention can stayii City, a GOP spokesi Washington said. “We are certainly not ant [ ^ move it,” he said. But other party officialssi day that a shift in theconveca nu t e; is a real possibility. Texans may receive priority on A&M University admission Future out-of-state and interna tional applicants to A&M may be asked to defer their admission until the following semester if the Univer sity’s facilities cannot hold them. In an interview yesterday, Edwin H. Cooper, dean of admissions and records said, “If there is a tightening of the belt in admissions, we will give a priority to residents of Texas be cause they are the tax payers. “That does not mean we will have a quota for non-residents or that we will raise the admission require ments for them. “Whether we have to tighten our belts remains to be seen.” Cooper said that no student would be denied admission if he met the University’s entrance requirements. “If we turn away students that are qualified, we will defer them to the spring or encourage them to come in the summer,” he said. If an applicant meets the admis sion requirements of the University he is automatically accepted. But should overcrowded conditions be come apparent as the time api- proached, the application deadline, non-residents would become in creasingly borderline and be defer red to a later semester, he said. If they wished, they also could transfer from another school when the vacancies arose later. Cooper said. “So far we have not had to turn away students who are qualified, ” he said. “This year we think we can handle it but will need another laboratory section at seven in the morning.” Cooper said that a letter is sent to non-resident applicants referring to the crowded conditions both on and off campus. “We re not trying to hide any thing,” Cooper said, “and we aren’t trying to be mean, but we have an obligation to those already here. That’s why in the catalog we have a statement saying we reserve the right to defer enrollment. ” you have to study and prqjd Cooper. “We have stndiedtli tion for the last four years: politi Cooper forsees no changes in the admission requirements. “Major changes would not be a simple thing; situation changes daybydji Any changes in the admiss quirements would requireij of Cooper, President Jacli liams, the vice-presidt academic affairs, and the Regents. he f In inter In sues “V covei Lawi nally what of thi sided that' Ba draw simil; sever Ne ideol Simp term “I tion v signif Wi “I’ve been hoping to photograph one of my profs comiij out of an X-rated movie. That ought to be worth a f grade points!” Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are , nose of the editor or of the writer of the article and are not necessarily those of the u niversity administration or the Board of Regents. 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