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Hblicandtlu ou ^ operj| f ls ^mefcrinj, Zen assistan, aore ne^ the could fe, entire jd Weather Partly cloudy and mild through to morrow. High today — 81. Low to night— 63. High tomorrow — 83. Gradual clearing tonight & tomor row, with 20 per cent chance of rain tonight. Fair & mild late tomorrow. Battalion C, Vol. 68 No. 124 Wednesday, May 26, 1976 College Station, Texas of the - extra Jrit ies wkj n a tew udget of $286 million pproved by Regents The Texas A&M University System loard of Regents yesterday approved the •77 operating budgets totaling 688,616. This is an increase of $23.6 nillion over the present year’s budget. Regents attributed most of the increase olarge enrollment gains and expanded re- earch activities. Effective Sept. 1, budgets for the sys- em’s separate units will be: Texas A&M, 1161,834,431; Prairie View A&M, 125,140,899; Tarleton State, $7,851,222; loody College of Marine Sciences and Jaritime Resources, $2,549,381; Texas Igricultural Experiment Station, 26,813,975; Texas Agricultural Extension iervice, $32,790,715; Texas Engineering speriment Station (including TTI), 115,140,513; Texas Engineering Extension iervice, $4,328,312; Texas Forest Service, 16,162,835; Rodent and Predatory Animal lontrol Service, $1,197,952, and system Ices and departments, $2,878,381. Separate state agency budgets adminis- redbytheregents include $l,203,220for lie Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic aboratory and $85,000 for the Texas Pe- foleum Research Committee. The board also approved contracts total- ng $2,127,315 for construction projects at College Station, Stephenville and Conroe. Jones & Williams Construction Co. of Vaco was awarded a $1,019,500 contract to xinvert Milner Hall, an obsolete dormit- iry, into an office and classroom building. )ther Texas A&M awards were $437,380 o Jordan & Woods of College Station to three new greenhouses and a sup- xirting office and laboratory facility near he College of Veterinary Medicine, and ,685 to R. B. Butler Inc. of Bryan to epairafiiel storage tank, all located at the Jniversity Power Plant. Ed A. Wilson Inc. of Fort Worth re ceived a $511,850 contract to renovate Tarleton State’s science building and Trans-Am Construction Co. of Navasota was given a $74,900 contract to build a district headquarters facility at Conroe for the Texas Forest Service. Additionally, the board authorized $42,000 in appropriations for design work for Duncan Dining Hall modifications and additions to parking lots 56 and 61 at Texas A&M, new physical education facilities at the Mitchell Campus in Galveston and a f reenhouse facility for the Texas Forest ervice at Lubbock. A system-wide student accident and health insurance program was authorized through a policy offered by Keystone Life Insurance Co. of Carrollton. The firm was the low bidder on a proposal drawn up by a committee comprised of students from Texas A&M, Prairie View A&M and Tarle ton. Room and board rates at Prairie View A&M were increased a total of $50 per semester to offset higher costs for labor and supplies, and a $15 student health center fee was established to help support opera tion of the school’s new student hospital. The Board also authorized the Texas A&M U niversity administration to conduct studies to determine if any new dor mitories or apartment-type housing need to be built by the state on the A&M cam pus. President Williams reported that the top priority for any new student housing would be a women’s dormitory that would be used in part to house women athletes. The Board also revoted on an addition to an insurance policy for dependents of Uni versity employes. The policy is with Southwestern Life Insurance Company. Regent Richard A. Goodson asked that the issue be revoted, explaining that when the News Briefs Campus Announcements may be ordered Texas A&M students expecting to grad uate this summer may now order gradua- tion announcements. Orders will be taken at the Student Fi nance Center, MSC 217, from 8 a.m. to m. weekdays. Samples and advice are available. The office will continue taking an nouncement orders for the Aug. 13 com mencement through June 4, said Marilyn Abbate. Delivery also will be made at the center on dates to be announced. Registration begins The casual pace of the past few days on the Texas A&M University campus comes to an end this week. Summer students register Monday, May 31; and start classes Tuesday. Texas A&M enrolled 8,610 students for its first summer session last year. Robert Lacey, registrar, announced that the first group of students begin signing up for classes Monday at 7 a.m. Registra tion packets will be issued in the east wing of Duncan Hall. Students whose last names begin with H through O get them first, from 7 to 8:30 a.m. P through Z re ceive packets from 8:30 to 10 a.m. and A through G, 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Course approval and class cards will be given at department stations in the west wing of Duncan. Students also will get schedules approved by their respective deans there. Registration is then completed at G. Rollie White Coliseum. First session classes continue through July 6, with final exams that evening and July 7. Dance in Grove Tommy Allen and the Brazos Sound will open the Grove ’76 schedule with a dance Monday, May 31. The dance will begin at 8:45 p.m. “Barbarella, starring Jane Fonda, will be shown the following night, Tuesday, June 1. Cifi/ Consol has course for preschoolers The Community Education Department of the A&M Consolidated School District is offering a Summer Educational Appraisal program for children ages 3 to 6 who have not yet entered first grade. Registration will be held June 1 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon in the Special Services Building, 1300 Jersey with a registration fee of $5. The program is only open to children in the Consol district. The first seventy to register will be accepted for the program. Phyllis Perkins, Special Services Direc tor, and Charles Greenawalt, Community Education Director, said that the program has been designed to assess the readiness of the child for programs in Child Develop ment, Kindergarten, and first grade. Screening procedures used will include vision and hearing, speech evaluation, lan guage development, and gross and fine motor skills. The program will include games, stories, art activities and refresh ments. Each child will attend for two 2-’/2 hour sessions on either a Monday-Wednesday or Tuesday-Thursday schedule. Appoint ments will be made at the time of registra tion. original vote was taken at the March 23 Regents’ meeting, he was ineligible to vote. Goodson said that at that time he was unaware of a state conflict of interest law that required him to abstain from voting. He declined to vote on the matter yester day even though he is no longer on the Board of Directors of Southwestern Life. The policy addition was approved. The Board appointed Dr. Daniel C. Pfannstiel as director of the Texas Agricul tural Extension Service, subject to con currence of the U.S. Secretary of Agricul ture. The establishment of a Public Works Re source Center to serve as a state clearing house for new urban-related technology was also approved. The new center will draw on the academic programs of Texas A&M Univer sity, the research activities of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station and Texas Transportation Institute and the training programs of the Texas Engineer ing Extension Service, all part of the statewide College Station-headquartered system. James R. Bradley, director of the Texas Engineering Extension Service under which the center will be operated, de scribed the facility as a “focal point where public works technology may be collected and disseminated on an organized basis.” “The availability of technology in a usa ble form would greatly decrease the time lag between the development and the im plementation of new technology, ” Bradley noted. He said the concept for the new center has been discussed with key municipal ad ministrators and with representatives of the Texas Municipal League and the Texas chapter of the American Public Works As sociation. New students begin seminars The first of 18 new student conferences began Monday at Texas A&M University. Designed to prepare entering freshmen and transfer students for starting classes next fall, the two-day conferences are planned through the summer. Fourteen are for freshmen, three are for transfer students and the other is an Aug. 25-26 make-up conference. Texas A&M starts fall classes Aug. 30. Returning stu dents preregistered in April. An expected increase in enrollment, with a corresponding growth in the size of the freshman class, has projected larger summer conferences. S. Auston Kerley ex pects an average 400 students per confer ence. “With these divided among the 10 col leges, we feel we will have new students well within the grasp of personal atten tion,” said the Academic Counseling Cen ter director. He chairs the New Student Committee. Conferences are planned so that a new student can complete all preliminary academic and personal matters toward starting the fall semester. He takes place ment tests the morning of the first day of a conference. Student life orientation is scheduled in the afternoon and placement evaluation in the evening. The student reports to his college the second morning for placement consultation and preregistration. Many students pur chase textbooks and other essentials at con ferences, so that they need only pick up a room key for on-campus housing when they return in August to be ready to start classes. A parents meeting is held the first morn ing. They are encouraged by university of ficials to participate in the rest of the stu dent meetings. New ball park This artist’s rendition of the preliminary plans for a planned new Texas A&M baseball field was presented to the A&M Board of Regents Building Committee Monday. The Regents budgeted $1,365,000 for the ball field stadium, which would seat almost 5,000 people. The Regents anticipate awarding the contract in September with construction taking 10 to 12 months. The ball park will be located on the West Campus across from Kyle Field. Flags are flying Photo by Steve Coble The Corps flags, taken down last year, are once again flying in the Student Lounge of the Memorial Student Center. The flags represent different divisions in the Corps. Index Columnist Broder analyses the presidential candidate situation. Page 2. Inmates say foreign jails are really bad. Page 4. Your TV can serve you as a home tornado detector. Page 5. Federal proposal calls for removal of alligator from endangered species list. Page 6. A&M places third in SWC track meet. Page 7. Aggie baseball team begins NCAA playoffs Friday. Page 8. Council to consider taxes, ambulances The College Station City Council is scheduled to hear two proposals for use of the city’s hotel-motel tax hinds at its regu lar meeting Thursday night. The city has $76,591 in uncommitted funds collected from guests of the city’s hotels and motels during the past According to state law at least 16 per cent of the funds must be used to promote tourism in the area. Proposals for the use of the hinds will be submitted by the B-CS Chamber of Com merce and by Clifford H. Ransdell. The council will also consider two appli cations asking for permission to operate an ambulance service in the city. Applications have been submitted by Sherrill’s Ambu lance Service and by Mid-Tex Fire and Safety. Sherrill’s currently holds the per mit for College Station. The council will also consider for the third time an amendment to the zoning ordinance which would allow fraternity and sorority houses in certain commercial and apartment zones as a conditional use. Other items on the agenda include: con sideration of a final plat of Brentwood Sec tion II, appointment of a Board of Equaliza tion, and appointment of a sign ordinance review committee. The council is also expected on Thursday or Friday to call for a capital improvements bond election for late June or early July. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers at city hall. Ford wins upset victories; increases delegate strength President Ford held off challenger Ronald Reagan and Democrat Jimmy Car ter increased his delegate lead yesterday during the heaviest presidential primary day yet. Ford won in three of the six primaries yesterday, while Reagan captured the other three. In Oregon with 73 per cent of the pre cincts counted. Ford led with 52 per cent to Reagan’s 48 per cent. Ford gathered 50 per cent of the vote in Tennessee and 51 per cent in Kentucky with 99 per cent of the precincts reporting in both states. Reagan got 63 per cent of the Arkansas vote (96 per cent complete), 74 per cent in Idaho (99 per cent complete), and 65 per cent in Nevada (88 per cent reporting). On the Democratic side. Carter took Tennessee with 78 per cent, Kentucky with 59 per cent and Arkansas with 62 per cent. Sen. Frank Church of Idaho won in Ore gon and Idaho with California Gov. Ed mund Brown Jr. capturing Nevada. Reagan gained 20 delegates in the day’s balloting, but President Ford still leads in delegate totals, 779 to 642. With the addition of 28 delegates gained Recovery to last The nation is now firmly entrenched in an economic recovery that should last at least until 1978, an economist from Fort Worth said here. Dr. Stan Reber, vice president and economist with Texas American Bankshares, Inc., told students attending the Texas Real Estate Research Center’s third annual Studies of Advanced Real Es tate Subjects (SOARS) at Texas A&M Uni versity that the current economic upswing is reflected by consumer purchases of single-family dwellings. “People who are sure about the future will buy,” he said. “Consumers are not waiting for inflation to go away before they spend money.” Dr. Reber said an unexpected event, such as another oil embargo or misguided monetary policy, could short-circuit the recovery. Although history indicates the recovery should peak in 1978, Dr. Reber told the real-estate professionals there was “still a lot of time to make hay.” He told the SOARS students the infla tion rate in 1977 should be around 7 per cent with the prime interest rate at 8V4 per cent by this December. Saying he was “struck” by the rebound of the residential construction market, he predicted the current rate of building will continue into next year for single-family homes and increase by mid-1977 for multi family dwellings. Dr. Reber said he believes the homebuilding industry would have been better off if mortgage interest rates had not started to fall in the last few months. He said many potential homebuyers were prepared to purchase homes at the 9 per cent mortgage interest rate. “But now they are deciding to wait another six months or a year to see if the interest rates will come down further,” he said. Dr. Reber told students attending the two-week school that it is not really high inflation and high interest rates which mess up the real estate market. It is the frequent and unexpected changes in these areas that cause problems.” He added that it is not really obviouS how the rational consumer reacts to large surges in interest rates. Some economists and politicians were surprised that there was not a great increase in spending when the interest rates began going up two or three years ago. Dr. Reber said, however, that there are some things the consumer cannot buy at today’s prices as a hedge against inflation. Among these are a college education for younger children, health care or retire ment incomes. Noting that the economy has natural ups and downs, Dr. Reber said the monetary and fiscal policies of the federal govern ment tend to be “counter cyclical. ” That is, because the federal government is slow to react, many times it contributes to an up or down cycle in the market, rather than help ing level it off. The Forth Worth economist said the un employment rate affects the buying habits of the public. If it is coming down, they buy because the average wage earner feels his chances of being unemployed are less. If unemployment is rising, the consumer spends less and saves more in case he should be laid off. “We can stop worrying about another 1929 depression,” he said. “We have learned how to stop the economy from slid ing into one like that.” in district conventions in Missouri and two in an Alabama runoff. Carter leads the Democratic race with 876 delegates. Rep. Morris Udall of Arizona is second with 298 delegates. 1,505 delegates are needed for the Democratic nomination. There are only eight state primaries left with four next Tuesday and four the follow ing Tuesday. Lindsey gives painting, supports art Mr. and Mrs. John H. Lindsey of Hous ton have presented a third painting by E. M. “Buck” Schiwetz to Texas A&M Uni versity. “Sugar Cane Harvest,” painted in 1946, hangs with other works of the Texas A&M artist-in-residence in the Memorial Stu dent Center. It is valued at $5,000. The Lindseys, benefactors of Texas A&M in other ways, also gave Schiwetz’ painting of the old president’s home that burned in 1963 and one of his Spanish mis sions paintings. The latter is the San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, which contains the famous “Rose Window.” It is among Schiwetz’ portfolio for the Texas Hemisfair. Lindsey is a 1944 Texas A&M graduate and Houston insurance executive. He has long been a supporter of fine arts programs at Texas A&M and has made numerous contributions to the Student Conference on National Affairs and MSC leadership trips, among other student ac tivities. The Lindseys commissioned Schiwetz, 1921 A&M graduate, to paint the former home of Texas A&M presidents after it burned in 1963, before its gutted shell was removed. The noted artist used old photo graphs to reconstruct the home’s appear ance. It was the residence of Texas A&M presidents from Lawrence Sullivan Ross to Earl Rudder. Lindsey, a part of an Association of Former Students committee, encouraged Schiwetz in 1972 to do a series of recently released paintings for a Texas A&M cen tennial art collection. Buck Schiwetz Aggieland: A Portfolio of Eight Scenes from Texas A&M Univer sity ($37.50), was issued by the Texas A&M University Press in April.