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l\ lead s . , lie Weather Mostly cloudy, warm and humid da> with a high ha the low 80s. l^ow nW>t about 70. High tomorrow in w 80s. Forty per cent chance of thunder- owers this afternoon and evening, creasing tomorrow. Cbe Battalion U N , Vol. 68 No. 107 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 15, 1976 C *>V7-EN^ V CID»lj] "US clapn 1 ‘*1 lasted | 11 ^ broug| lltility talks to continue By STEVE GRAY Contributing Editor Tity contract negotiations between ' and College Station may continue to m for at least another two or three is, a College Station city official said ■day. ; official, who asked not to be iden- commented after College Station H.arry Bravenec received a letter Bryan Mayor Lloyd Joyce. Joyce Bravenec whether College Station antinue purchasing most of its water ectricity from Bryan as it has for more ijjqt-cade. hat Bryan said in the letter is that are in the process of negotiating a erm contract with their natural gas supplier,” Councilman James Dozier said. “And what they are concerned about is whether College Station will continue being their biggest purchaser of utilities.” College Station presently consumes about 25 per cent of the total electricity generated by Bryan’s power plant. Dozier said Bryan wants to know how much gas it will have to contract for in the event College Station decides to buy its utilities from another source. College Sta tion has been conferring with an indepen dent utilities supplier. Gulf States Utilities Corp., but no decision has been made. City Manager North Bardell said. The two cities have been negotiating a proposed 30 per cent utility' rate increase since late last year and had been expected to reach a decision last month. The city’s current contract with Bryan will expire in January 1979. “All we’ve been doing is trying to find out from Gulf States how much it would cost to hook up to their facilities and buy their electricity,” Dozier said. Bryan presently buys its natural gas from Lone Star Gas Corp. which has a request pending before the Texas Railroad Com mission for a rate increase. The gas is used to fuel Bryan’s power plant. Bryan voters recently' approved a $14.7 million bond issue, part of which will go towards expansion of its present electrical generating facilities. The College Station City Council met yesterday afternoon to discuss personnel matters, hut it did not discuss Joyce’s let ter, Bravenec said. “The council may meet this Friday to discuss it but I’m not sure,” he said. “Each councilman has received a copy of his (Joyce’s) letter.” Meanwhile, negotiations are continuing between officials of the two cities over the proposed utilities contract. The old interim contract expired Jan. 1. “We’re still negotiating,” Dozier said. “It’s just that problems and other matters keep cropping up. That’s what is causing the delay in our reaching a decision. “My feeling is that most here would be willing to pay Bryan an increase in order to keep the money within the two com munities. The question is how much they would be willing to pay,” he said. impus parking congested ranel hears recommendations dent parking next year may be di- into only two categories — those ntl with more than 60 hours credit i lose with less than sixty hours, distinctions will he made between anti day student parking if the rec- ■nclation made by the University Traf- Kjl at yesterday’s meeting is ap- dbv Dr. John Koldus, vice-president ident services. Hiotion, which includes two other swas passed after more than an hour Cussion of possible solutions to the |lg problem for next year. There were dissenting votes. Under the recommendation, the faculty-staff parking allocation would re main as it is this year and female dorm students would continue to be required to park in specified areas near their dor mitories. The removal of the dorm-day student distinction is to allow a greater availability of parking spaces to upperclass students who live off-campus. Other alternatives discussed by the panel included the prohibition of cars to students with less than thirty hours and the prohibition of on-campus parking for those students living within the area served by Photo courtesy of Steve Goble As part of Ecofair ’76, students from the College of Architecture erected two geodesic domes in the Rudder Fountain mall Tuesday aftemon. The domes are constructed of 2x2 lumber, dowels, circular joints and machine bolts. state worth $2 billion? [Hughes’ will sought, executors appointed Associated Press 10USTON — Sources here and in Los Seles say they believe an effective will cuted by the late billionaire recluse Ward Hughes exists and a search for it I continue. Meanwhile, the lone surviving aunt of ghes and her son were named tempo- \ administrators of the Hughes estate t had been estimated to he worth $1.5 ion to $2 billion. mlliain T. Miller, a lawyer with the mston firm of Andrews, Kurth, Bipbell & Jones, filed the application idnesday on behalf of Mrs. William R. minis, Hughes aunt, and her son, Biam R. Lummis, both of Houston. Bimmis is a partner in the law firm ich filed the application. Mrs. Lummis isisterof Hughes’ mother, the late Mrs. 'Ward Hughes, Sr. Harris County Probate Judge Pat Greg- f set bonds of $200,000 for the adminis- tors. He application filed by Miller said the late had debits and tax matters that need [gtediate attention, hut did not elabo- :e. Miller said a search will continue for a land that the Texas Commerce Bank of mston will be the custodian of certain specified Houston assets of Hughes, la Los Angeles, the Summa Corp., the jcent firm of the widespread Hughes jerests, reported in a formal statement at it is believed Hughes executed a will wough so far none has been found. shuttle buses. Both of these plans were turned down as being unenforceable at this time. One proposal to alleviate the student parking congestion on campus was made by panel member Jim Crawley who compared the A&M campus to a grocery store. Crawley said that in a grocery store park ing lot, there are only two classes of parking — employe and customer. The employe es, he said, are required to park at the outer edges of the lot to allow customer parking near the store. At A&M, he said, the cus tomers are the students and the employ es are the faculty. This proposal was not favorably accepted by the faculty panel members. In other action, the panel recommended that the visibility at parking lots 24 and 52, as well as at the intersection of Bizzell and Lubbock streets be improved. The panel’s next meeting will be May 5 at 3:15 p.m. in Rudder 308. -jfi ■.. • - -V* X ■Hw jyi Staff photo by Jim Hendrickson Index The federal matching funds cutoff has left most presidential can didates in financial difficulties. Page 4. The death toll in Lebanon’s civil war is estimated at 20,000. Page 4. The last in a series about Allen Academy concludes with a look at its people and programs. Page 5. Got One! Harrises charged with kidnapping Doug Branch, chairman of the Recreation Committee, displays his talents during the Balloon Stomp held yesterday near the Rudder Center fountain. Students participating tried to break the balloons floating in the pool using only their feet. Some of the balloons contained small amounts of money. The all-day event was part of Gas Week. New clues uncovered in Hearst case Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — As Patricia Hearst is recuperating from a collapsed lung, new clues emerged about her life as a fugitive and two of her underground escorts have been charged with her kidnaping. Miss Hearst was reported as “mildly im proved” at Sequoia Hospital in nearby Redwood City, yesterday. She had been scheduled to enter a plea on state charges that day in a joint Los Angeles court ap pearance with William and Emily Harris. Miss Hearst was convicted last month of joining the Symhionese Liberation Army in the robbery of a San Francisco bank and faces 90 days of mental examination. She was stricken in her jail cell Tuesday night. The Harrises were charged Wednesday with kidnaping Miss Hearst from her Berkeley apartment on Feb. 4, 1974, beat ing her former fiance and committing other violent crimes. A district attorney in another San Fran cisco Bay area city said that Miss Hearst fiad told FBI agents of witnessing a ter rorist bombing. The developments underscored earlier reports of the 22-year-old newspaper heiress’ willingness to exchange informa tion about revolutionary crimes for immun ity from prosecution. Marin County Dist. Atty. Bruce B. Bales said Wednesday that Miss Hearst had told the FBI that she was with a group which bombed two sherifFs patrol cars in San Rafael last Aug. 20 — less than a month before her arrest in San Francisco. Bales said he learned Tuesday at a meet ing of prosecutors involved in the Hearst case, that she had offered to name three members of the bombing group if she were spared charges against herself. Miss Hearst told investigators she was present at the Chain letter may yield $6,000, may also yield trouble with law The statement was released through Arelo Sederberg of the public relations firm of Carl Byoir & Associates Inc. in Los Angeles. Sederberg said the order was entered by Gregory, acting on an application filed at the request of Hughes’ interests. The statement also said the temporary court-supervised administration was sought to insure continued operation of all Hughes enterprises until the will is found. “The search efforts since the April 5 death of Mr. Hughes have not revealed where the will is located,” Sederberg said. “The continuing search will be assisted as the result of the Houston court action. Sederberg said he could not elaborate on the prepared statement. The will, if found, must be filed for pro bate in the state that Hughes called his official residence. That may be Houston, but there has been no evidence presented to that effect yet. As expected, the Lummises designated representatives in Nevada and California to oversee Hughes holdings in those states. In state court at Las Vegas, Mrs. Lum mis nominated the First National Bank of Nevada as special administrator for Hughes’ Nevada interests. In Los Angeles, Richard C. Gano, Jr., a first cousin of Hughes, was appointed spe cial administrator for Hughes’ California interests. Houston on an emergency plane flight from Acapulco, Mexico. An autopsy performed the next day attributed death to kidney failure. How would you like a return of $6,000 on a $12 investment? Sound ridiculous? It is. It is also illegal. A chain letter being distributed in this area offers the unwitting the chance to strike it rich within two weeks. The scheme works this way: Someone hands you the letter (it is not being mailed) and you give him $6. He then gives you a $3 money order made out to the first person on a mailing list. You mail that money order to him and make two more lists, dropping the first person’s name and adding your own to the bottom. You then purchase two more $3 money orders and make them out to the person that is now first on the list. Attach a copy of the letter and the list to each money order and sell them for $6 ajpiece. Now go home ana wait. Within two weeks, supposedly, you will get $6,000. Talk about a fool’s paradise. It is not really impossible for the scheme to work. If no one ever broke the chain, eventually everyone in the United States would score $6,000. However, not everyone wants to risk even as small a sum as $12 on such a venture. Not everyone wants to risk six months in jail and a $1,000 fine on it either. Section 32.48 of the Texas Penal Code prohibits “any scheme for the disposal or distribution of property whereby a participant pays a valuable consideration for the chance to receive compensation for introducing one or more additional persons into participa tion in the scheme or for the chance to receive compensation when a person in troduced by the participant introduces a new participant.” An offense under this section, titled “Endless Chain Scheme,” is a Class B mis demeanor. bombings but didn’t actually throw the bombs, Bales said. Two sheriffs cars were destroyed, but there were no injuries. As Miss Hearst lay in a heavily guarded hospital room Wednesday, a Los Angeles judge postponed the pretrial hearing she had been scheduled to attend. Judge Mark Brandler also urged attorneys for Miss Hearst’s codefendants, the Harrises, to consider starting the trial without her. Miss Hearst and the Harrises face kid naping and other state charges in connec tion with an alleged crime spree in Los Angeles a month after the April 15, 1974, San Francisco bank robbery for which Miss Hearst was convicted last month. The heiress’ attorneys have sought to separate her Los Angeles trial from that of the Harrises, whom she denounced and identified during her trial as part of the terrorist SLA band that kidnaped her. The Harrises’ lawyers have opposed such a move. They said the radical couple would plead innocent to the Berkeley charges. Polls open until 6 Polls for the Student Government run-off election will be open until 6 p.m. in the MSC, the Commons, and the Old Exchange Store. Voters must present a student ID and ac tin'tv card to vote. Easy as falling off . . . Tim Jurek, right, of A&M, competes against Gail Johnson of Virginia Polytechnical In stitute in the log birling event at the 19th Annual Association of Southern Forestry Clubs Conclave in Athens, Georgia. Jurek lost to Johnson to fin ish 12th in the competition. A&M fin ished 13th overall. Photo by Mike Walker