THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11, 1976
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es file suit
Uncle Sam
r more money
Drill team not limited to men f System warns of lu
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Associated Press
KINGTON — Forty-four of
tion’s federal judges, comp-
that they’re being cheated by
n, are taking Uncle Sam to
0 get fatter paychecks,
se in the unusual reversal ot
i»s irom judge to plaintiff include
J, Carter, currently presiding
(the trial of Patricia Hearst in
Francisco.
suit was readied for filing
y inthe U.S. Court of Claims. A
|tement by the judges mentions
“10 judge of that court “is in-
i as a plaintiff in the lawsuit”
any decision in favor or the
iffs presumably would favor all
I judges.
judges base their suit, naming
nited States as defendant, on a
tutional provision that pay for
lifetime-appointed judles “shall
|e diminished.
fey say that compensation “in its
tutional context does not mean
but purchasing power.” For
lawyer, the judges chose
Supreme Court Justice Ar-
oldberg.
Even before the suit was filed,
judges in diff erent parts of the
[try distributed a “my dear
’’letter along with the petition
separate statement. The letter
we have been unfairly singled
d discriminated against. ”
suit asks that the government
Inirse the judges for a 34.5 per
nt decrease in the value of their
ollar in the perid from March
|969, to Oct. 1, 1975. During
eriod, federal district judges
d $40,000 a year and appeals
judges $42,500.
;y claim that inflation reduced
spending power to about
H00 a year for district j udges and
||i00 for the appeals
nlike most citizens of the Un-
ed States who are gainfully
nployed, iniluding most
deralemployes, federal judges re-
id no increase in salary to adjust
is decrease,” the petition says,
intiffs are 38 district judges and
|om appeals courts. Eleven are
judges of their district and two
kief judges of their appeals
One plaintiff, Thomas Lam-
fCieveland, said “judges could
jut working as lawyers making
4 or three times their judicial
- .juries.”
He said that “unlike others in gov-
nnient such as senators and rep-
sentatives who can supplement
ieii income through outside ac-
dties, we are totally and com-
ettdy withdrawn from other ac-
Another plaintiff, Judge Thomas
.lacllride of Sacramento, Calif., said
•Judges are seeking a “catch-up.”
ieftaid his “chief law clerk, who is
at of law school just over a year,
es almost one half of my salary,
lothstanding that I’ve been out
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for 36 years and a federal j udge for 14
years. ”
Some federal judges not involved
in the lawsuit said they were against
the idea of judges suing and ques
tioned the ethics of such a step. One
judge said most judges ask to be
named to the bench and if they don’t
like the salary they could resign.
The plaintiffs argue that Congress
and the president “have acted affir
matively” to prevent federal judges
from receiving increases in salary” to
offset the eroded value of the dollar.
By LINDA GILLIAM
For the first time in its 30-year
history, the Fish Drill Team must
now share its role as A&M’s drill
team representative with a newly-
formed Texas A&M Women’s Drill
Team.
As a result, the Women’s Drill
Team is not yet too popular in the
male hierarchy of the Corps of
Cadets.
Mark Banneyer, a junior adviser
to the drill team, asia about per
cent of the Corps is against the new
girls’ drill team, especially because
they carry weapons.
“They think it isn’t ladylike,” said
Banneyer. “But we don’t want them
to carry pom-poms or anything like
that,” he said.
This new unit, composed of 13
girls from outfit W-l, is commanded
by Both Ann Schumacher, a junior
from Gettysburg, Pa.
Schumacher said she was selected
as commanding officer of the team
because she was the commanding of
ficer of her high school drill team and
had some experience.
The idea for the girls’ unit was first
suggested last year by Trigon offi
cials. Since women Corps members
cannot participate in the Ross Volun
teers, Aggie Band, Parson’s
Mounted Cavalry or Fish Drill
Team, it was thought a special wo
men’s performing unit should be ad
ded.
The suggestion finally took shape
at the end of last semester and the
Texas A&M Women’s Drill Team is
already practicing for their only
competition this semester. They will
corqpete in the senior division of the
Texas State Championship Meet
here April 3.
The Women’s Drill Team is also
tentatively scheduled to perform at
the Elephant Bowl and possibly at
the Military Weekend Review.
The Women’s Drill Team outfit is
similar to the girls Corps uniform.
They wear the same blouse, but wear
a khaki culotte instead of the skirt.
Weapons are an integral part of
the team’s drill work. They carry re
plicas of a Springfield 03A3 weighing
about four pounds each.
The Texas A&M Women’s Drill
Team is a volunteer organization
open to any girl in the Corps that can
maintain a 2.0 GPR. There are
freshmen, sojihomores and juniors
now on the team. Of the 29 girls in
W-l, 14 are on the drill team.
This is an organization semester,
said Banneyer. Even though the unit
is recognized and funded by the
University, the team can only afford
the culottes and weapons for now.
If the team performs well in the
meet here, perhaps more money will
be forthcoming for meets next year,
said Banneyer.
The Women’s Drill Team prac
tices daily from 5-6:30 p.m. on the
intramural field between the tennis
courts and Kyle Field.
Associated Press
AUSTIN — A new early warning
system against influenza that in
cludes monitoring by school sys
tems, hospitals and industries has
been put into operation by the State
Department of Health Resources.
“Influenza is being monitored
through 19 school systems, 12 indus
tries and 13 large hospitals,” the de
partment said in its February health
bulletin.
“These monitoring units are dis
tributed in such a way as to detect
illness in any part of the state at any
time.”
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