Weather
Partly cloudy with thunderstorms
this afternoon and tonight. High
today in mid-80s, low tonight in
upper 60s, high tomorrow in upper
70s. Precipitation probability 30 per
cent today, 50 per cent tonight and
tomorrow.
Battalion
College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 12, 1976
Staff photo by Kevin Venner
Late-night study sessions
Late night trips to the library are one more sign of (Inals week.
The library, which is open 24 hours a day during finals week, has
reported larger than normal crowds as students continue last-
minute preparations.
Italy, Greece shaken
Tremors hit 2 areas
Associated Press
UDINE, Italy — New earth tremors
shook quake-ravaged northeastern Italy
before and after midnight, frightening sur
vivors oflast week’s disaster, injuring sev
eral people and bringing down more small
buildings.
Earlier in the evening, a severe quake
centered in the Ionian sea jolted Zakinthos
and other Greek islands and parts of south
ern Italy. Thousands on Zakinthos spent
the night in the open, but no casualties or
damage was reported.
Nine tremors were recorded in the
Fruili region of northeast Italy that was
devastated by the killer quake last Thurs
day. A woman was injured in Braulinz di
Trasaghis when a house fell, and injuries
were reported to several other persons.
Many one-story and two-story bindings
Friday, last day
ID photos taken
Student ID card photographs will be
taken through Friday for students who did
not have the photo taken during pre
registration.
The photos will be taken 8-12 a.m. and
1-5 p.m. each day in the Old Exchange
Store. A student whose photo has not been
taken will not receive an ID card when he
pays his fees this summer.
weakened by the big quake and more than
50 aftershocks collapsed in Maiano, Ven-
zone, Osoppo, Moggio Udinese and Peonis
di Trasaghis.
The tremors were also felt in Venice,
Trieste and Padua, but no damage or
casualties were reported in those cities.
In Vicenza, 75 miles southwest of the
destruction area, many of the 100 prisoners
in the local jail climbed to the roof and
demanded to be freed to insure their
safety. Despite warning shots from the
guards, the convicts refused to return to
their cells, and police surrounded the jail.
Many of Udine’s 90,000 residents were
spending the night at home for the first
time in six nights. When they felt a particu
larly strong tremor just before midnight,
they rushed back to cars, tents and other
makeshift shelters.
The toll from Thursday’s quake re
mained at 914 dead, more than 3,000 in
jured and about 80,000 homeless. About
400 persons are not accounted for.
As national leaders of the ruling Chris
tian Democrats and their Communist rivals
bickered over the adequacy of the govern
ment’s relief measures with an eye to the
national election June 20, rival local politi
cal leaders joined hands to create a single
body to coordinate relief work.
But Loris Fortuna, a Socialist member of
Parliament, warned that the parties would
soon be fighting over allocation of the relief
funds.
Ford, Reagan split votes
By DAVE GOLDBERG
Associated Press Writer
Ronald Reagan has scored
another key triumph in his
quest for the Republican presi
dential nomination, but Presi
dent Ford has come up with a
victory of his own. Frank
Church, meanwhile, has scored
an upset in his Democratic pri
mary debut.
Reagan continued his recent
string of successes by capturing
Tuesday’s Nebraska primary,
his second victory outside the
Southern and Southwestern
states that are supposed to be
his strongholds. Ford, how
ever, gained a split on the day
by winning decisively in West
Virginia.
Church, running in his first
primary, upset Jimmy Gai ter in
Nebraska and provided some
hope for Democrats who want
to stop the former Georgia gov
ernor from sweeping to the
nomination. Carter won the
party-run primary in Connec
ticut, but by a narrow margin
over Rep. Morris K. Udall.
In the day’s other Demo
cratic contest. Sen. Robert C.
Byrd, a favorite son, won in
West Virginia with almost 90
per cent of the vote over
Alabama Gov. George C. Wal
lace, the only other candidate
on the ballot.
These were the figures in the
key races:
V In Nebraska, with 97 per
cent of the vote counted, Re
agan had 110,846 votes, or 54
per cent, to 92,833 or 46 per
cent, for Ford. In the separate
race for the state’s 25 nominat
ing delegates, Reagan led for 17
and Ford for eight with 41 per
cent of the vote in.
V In West Virginia, with 80
per cent of the vote counted.
Ford had 67,467, or 56 per cent,
to 52,201, or 44 per cent, for
Reagan. The race for the 28 del
egates was separate and they
are by law nominally uncom
mitted.
V In the Nebraska Demo
cratic race, with 97 per cent of
the vote. Church had 66,693 or
39 per cent of the votes to
64,810 or 38 per cent, for Car
ter. Church led for 15 delegates
to eight for the former Georgia
governor with 63 per cent of tbe
count in. Nebraska has 23
Democratic delegates.
V In the party-run Connec
ticut primary. Carter finished
with 35,415 votes or 33 per cent
to 32,959, or 31 per cent, for
Udall. Sen. Henry M. Jackson,
of Washington, who was backed
by Gov. Ella Crasso and many
party leaders, was third with
18,632.
V Connecticut’s 51 nomi-
ating delegates will be chosen
later under a complex system
of apportionment. Tuesday’s
results project out to 17 for
Carter, 15 for Udall, 5 for Jack-
son and the rest uncommitted,
but that could easily change.
V In West Virginia, with 79
per cent of tbe vote counted.
In West Virginia, with 79 pei
cent of the vote counted, Byn
Byrd had 246,601 or 89 per cent
to 31,968 or 11 per cent for Wal
lace.
Reagan, who won ke>
primaries in Texas and Indium
with the help of Democratic
crossovers, noted that sue!
switching is not allowed in Ne
hraska.
“This confirms my support n
not a Wallace vote,’’ he said-
“Nebraska is a legitimate test hr
the Republican party.”
Reagan’s campaign manager.
John Sears, said the Ndlntrski
triumph had given the chal
lenger’s campaign a boost'.
(See Ford, Page 6.)
Tunnel may get federal funds
By LEE ROY LESCHPER JR.
Battalion Staff Writer
Local officials will apply early next
month for federal funds to build a
pedestrian-bicycle tunnel under Univer
sity Drive, a highway department engineer
said yesterday.
D. D. Williamson, local planning en
gineer with the Texas Highway Depart
ment, said the proposed tunnel under Uni
versity Drive (Northgate) is part of the joint
city-university bike path plan that Bryan
and College Station will submit to highway
officials in Washington.
Williamson said the tunnel would be be
tween parking Lot 50, south of University,
and the married student apartments north
of the street. He did not pinpoint an exact
location.
The bike path program that Bryan and
College Station will submit is now being
consolidated from separate plans de
veloped by the two cities and the A&M
Traffic Panel. The plan then faces approval
by a steering committee of both cities’
mayors, the district judge and representa
tives of the university and highway de
partment before it is sent to Washington.
The money for the project is part of $8
million allotted for special bikeway demon
stration projects across the nation.
Williamson said. He didn’t know how
much a tunnel under University Drive
would cost.
The project would be financed by 80 per
cent federal funds, with the remainder
coming from local sources. Both cities and
A&M are spending a lot of money on bike
paths already, Williamson said.
He explained that heavy bicycle and
pedestrian traffic along South College Ave.
and across University Drive is the main
reason for considering the tunnel.
“We hope to offer students the alterna
tive of using Cavitt St. instead of South Col
lege Ave.,” Williamson said. “South Col
lege Ave. is not the best place in the world
to ride a bicycle, with cars driving 45-5(
miles per hour.
“We can’t prohibit bikes on South Col
lege,” he said. “We’d like to.” Not all reac
tion to the tunnel has been favorable.
“We’ve had a lot of apathy because o
problems with lighting the tunnel at night
and there’s always the problem of coed:
using it after dark,” Williamson explained.
He said the tunnel and bike paths arouni
and through Hensel Park would be the firsi
phase in a three or four phase project.
“There’s lots of little elements we car
add in,” he said. “We re going to try t<
make it a balanced project. Tien we have
to sell it on a national basis.”
Gas company says prices to level
Associated Press
AU STIN — Natural gas prices are leveling off as they
approach those of heating oil, the board chairman of a
Houston-based gas distribution company testified Tues
day.
That, said Jackson Hinds, board chairman of Entex,
Inc., is the only solution he can imagine for the rising cost
of natural gas and gas-generated electricity.
Hinds testified at a joint hearing of the House commit
tees on ways and means, state affairs and natural re
sources, which are trying to determine whether there
would be any point in a special legislative session this
summer on utility costs.
Gov. Dolph Briscoe has said he would call a special
session only if the leadership of the two houses can agree
on legislation that could reduce costs by at least 10 per
cent and could pass.
“Do you have any solutions?” Rep. Joe Hanna,
D-Breckenridge, asked Hinds.
“What I think is, gas is worth as much as oil on a BTU
heat (natural) producing basis. I have seen gas prices level
off as they reach the price of oil for the same amount of
BTUs,” Hinds said. He added that a product, such as
natural gas, is worth what it brings on the open market
and “the least interference with that mechanism, the
better.”
Hinds said the high price of natural gas and electricity
in the areas served by Lo-Vaca Gathering Co. result from
the fact that every bit of gas provided by Lo-Vaca is “new
gas” since the company has no reserves acquired in the
past when natural gas was cheap.
“Ultimately, the Houston consumer is going to find he
is paying the same kind of price as the Central Texas
consumers?” asked Rep. Milton Fox, R-Houston.
“Ultimately, yes,” Hinds said.
Witnesses who advocated that the state limit what pro
ducers can charge for gas quickly ran into hostile ques
tioning from some members of the panel.
Jim Boyle of the Texas Consumer Association was the
first to propose state regulation of natural gas prices.
“Who is making the big profits?” asked Rep. Tom
Schiefter, D-Fort Worth.
“The gas producers are making the lion’s share,” Boyle
replied.
Schiefter said federal price regulation had reduced the
availability of gas. “It’s a commodity that is not there any
more,” he said.
Doyle Hines, manager of the Guadalupe Valley Elec
tric Cooperatives, Inc., also proposed temporary state
price regulation through Sept. 1, 1980.
Hines suggested the average intrastate natural gas
price of December 1975 plus 50 per cent as a standard.
This would yield an average price of about 94 cents,
compared with the current price of nearly $2 per 1,000
cubic feet of gas sold on the intrastate market.
Rep. Joe Wyatt, D-Bloomington, chairman of the
House Ways and Means Committee, suggested that price
regulation would violate a Texas constitutional prohibi
tion against state interference with contracts.
Hines got a big hand from the audience when he re
plied, “What alxnit our contract that was interfered with
by the railroad commission?”
The commission decided more than two years ago to let
Lo-Vaca charge more than its contract rates for natural
gas, passing its gas purchase costs on to consumers.
Harry Whitworth, general counsel for the Texas Chem
ical Council, said price regulation would “sharply curtail”
gas supplies, discourage conservation of gas and delay the
conversion to less expensive fuel sources such as coal.
A&M students with children
Day-care center being organized
A day care center is now being organized
for the benefit of Texas A&M University
students with children.
Details are being discussed with the Col
lege of Education to provide course credit
for students participating in the program.
Educational programs will be under the
direction of specialists in Early Childhood
Education and each group of 10-12 chil
dren will be taught by a fiill time teacher.
A hot lunch program will be adminis
tered with the aid of the Department of
Food Technology. Other participants in
the day care program are Environmental
Design students and the Personal Counsel
ing Service.
Reports indicate that the center may be
housed off-campus initially, but will re
main within walking distance of the Uni
versity. The facilities are expected to be
expanded as additional funds become
available. The center expects to be accept
ing children by the fall semester.
All interested students are asked to fill
out aTAMU Day Care Center survey form.
These can be obtained in the Memorial
Student Center 216 at the Day Care Cen
ter desk or Student Government office.
Forms should be returned to MSC 216,
ATTN: Day Care Center, TAMU 77843.
The forms are only information gathering
devices and there is no obligation attached.
Additional information is available from
Nelda Bravo at 845-3051 (1-5 p.m.), David
Scarfe at 693-9374 or 845-6131, or Janice
Nute at 693-2918.
Index
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Editorial. Page 2.
University Health Center to get new
physician. Page 4.
A&M employe insurance rates to
rise. Page 5.
Retail cuts available at A&M Meat
Laboratory. Page 7.
Coach Bel lard talks football at A&M
Club banquet. Page 8.
A&M’s 1975-76 athletic success re
viewed by Sports Editor Paul
Arnett. Page 9.
Bartenders held responsible
customers. Page 10.
IRS tax credit
worth $1.5 billion
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — First the bad news:
the IRS is looking for a couple of million
Americans. Now the good news: the IRS
wants to give them some money.
The Internal Revenue Service says more
than two million Americans might be eligi
ble for a cash windfall from the govern
ment, but haven’t applied for the money
under a special tax credit available to tax
payers who earned less than $8,000 in
1975.
The IRS had expected up to three mil
lion people to qualify for payments of up to
$400 but the service said its figures show
that only about one-tenth of that number,
or 300,000 individuals, have filed a tax form
to receive the money.
A total of $1.5 billion was set aside to pay
to those claiming the credit.
Personal counseling
numbers clarified
The University Personal Counseling
Service is open from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to
5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Emergency cases only are accepted from 5
p.m. to 8 a.m. Calls for emergency counsel
ing are handled by the University Health
Center (845-1511), the University Police
(845-2345) or dorm resident advisors. Be
tween 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, the service can be reached at 845-
4427.
Staff photo by Roger V. Mesiersmith
Airplane made
with instructions
from a kit
Dr. Charles Powell tries out the cockpit of the single-engine air
plane he is building. When completed, the plane will be capable
of attaining speeds of up to 180 miles per hour and will he able
to seat two persons. The plane is made of wood and foam which
can be sculptured. See story on Page 4.