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Vol. 68 No. 107
College Station, Texas
Thursday, April 15, 1976
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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.
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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