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Weather >-2( ’ e - Healso^ ,;lt | ed >n wi'H] " K > leading l| ‘ ai ' d 24m^ Partly cloudy and warm today thru Thursday with light and var iable winds. High today in mid 80s, minimum tomorrow morn ing in mid 60’s, high tomorrow upper 80’s. No precipitation is in the forecast. Vol. 68 No. 125 Battalion College Station, Texas Wednesday, June 2, 1976 ts second stni and {014 Her. The I, record offfl anks 12t(, e coaches yoff games wfi VTAW ncommitted slate akes RI primary The uncommited slate of delegates on : Rhode Island Democratic ballot drew lore votes than any of the Democratic rndidates in yesterday s primary voting, lalifornia Gov. Edmund Brown Jr.’s name as not on the ballot, and he had cam- aigned heavily for the uncommitted slate. Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia won in Dakota and Sen. Frank Church of laho won in Montana. Ronald Reagan defeated President Ford liSouth Dakota and Montana, while Ford on in Rhode Island. The 32 per cent uncommitted vote in lode Island gave Brown a psychological ictory over Carter even though the un- ommitted slate is not bound to vote for . Carter received 30 per cent in Rhode sland, and Church, 28 per cent. Rep. Morris Udall of Arizona finished econdbehind Carter in South Dakota, his eighth second place showing in the primaries. Carter received 41 per cent, and Udall 34 per cent. Sen George McGovern of South Dakota had endorsed Udall. After suggestions by Church that Udall should consider withdrawing as a candi date, Udall vowed to go on even though he was disappointed. In Montana, Church handily defeated Carter, gathering 60 per cent of the vote to Carter’s 25 per cent. In the Republican primary returns. Ford won in Rhode Island with 66 per cent of the vote to Reagan’s 31 per cent. Ford won all 19 Rhode Island Republican delegates. Reagan took 50 per cent of the South Dakota Republican vote to Ford’s 45 per cent. Each candidate was ahead for 10 de legates. In the early Montana returns, Reagan was leadi ng Ford 53 per cent to 41 per cent. !ity Council proposes (12 million bonds issue Discussion of a $12.86 million capital mprovements bonds issue overshadowed ill other agenda items at the College Sta- ionCity Council meeting last Thursday. Ordinances calling for the bond issue are ispected to he passed at a special city fluncil meeting tonight at city hall. The neeting begins at 7:30. The proposed bond issue would he pre- lented as nine separate items on a June 29 said Capital Improvements Com- nittee Chairman Gary Halter. If approved by the voters, the bonds rould finance improvements to the city’s itreets, parks, and electrical, water and iewer systems. Also proposed under sepa rate bond items is a police/fire warehouse, anew city hall and the establishment of a rivic center fund. The civic center bonds would be paid off through capitalization of Ik hotel-motel tax collections. During the break. . . The Battalion will provide more informa tion on the proposed bonds issue during the coming weeks. Clifford Ransdell, Asst. Dean of the Col lege of Engineering at Texas A&M, ap proached the council asking it to furnish $1500 out of the hotel-motel tax fund to help defray expenses for bringing 250 to 300 engineering students to College Sta tion for a national convention in October. The council took his request under consid eration. The Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce was also to have presented a request for use of the hotel-motel tax funds, but they postponed their presentation until the meeting tonight. In other action, the council: approved the final plat for Brentwood, Section II; and set a date for public hearing on an ambu lance permit application. Tuesday’s primaries left Ford with 805 total delegates to Reagan’s total of 654. A Republican candidate needs 1,130 votes delegates to constitute a nominating major ity at the convention. Democrat Carter’s delegate total of 903 far outdistances second-place candidate Udall’s total of308.5 delegates. 1.505 dele gates are needed by a Democratic candi date to take the first ballot nomination at the convention. All eyes now turn to next Tuesday’s primaries. California, New Jersey and Ohio hold the big, final primaries then. 331 Republican delegates and 540 Democratic delegates are at stake on that day. Index Columnist Broder gives Carter high odds. Page 2. A&M-designed computer facility controls traffic in Dallas. Page 3. Swine flu danger is only in human- to-human contact says Ag veteri narian. Page 4. Texas World Speedway opens Sun day after two-year shutdown. Page 12. A&M baseball team finishes sea son. Page 13. Texas A&M track squad travels to nationals. Page 14. Shuttle routes not planned for summer Liquor hours extended Probably the main item of interest to students which occurred locally during the break was the extension of the Friday night (Saturday morning) liquor consumption hours from midnight to 1 a.m. by the Col lege Station City Council. Several local taverns have made applica tions to take advantage of the extra hour, but as of yet none of the applications have been processed. The Texas A&M Student Government lad asked the city council to extend the hours to 2 a.m. on both Saturday and Sun day mornings, but the council com promised on the issue after several coun- cilmen received many calls from local resi dents asking them to vote against any ex tension of the drinking hours. Regents OK budget The Texas A&M Board of Regents ap proved the 1976-77 operating budgets totaling $286,688,616. This was an increase of $23.6 million over the present year’s budget. A&M University’s share of the System’s budget was $161,834,431. Ball park planned The preliminary plans for a new Texas A&M baseball field were presented to the Regents Building Committee last week. The Regents have budgeted $365,000 for the ball field stadium, which would seat almost 5,000 people. The Regents antici pate 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. Housing studies OKed The Regents also authorized the Univer sity administration to conduct studies to determine if any new dormitories or apartment-type housing needs to be built by the state on the A&M campus. Shuttle bus services for Texas A&M stu dents will only be offered to a few apart ment complexes in the city this summer. A spokesman for Transportation Enter prises Inc., which operates the shuttle buses during the regular academic year, said yesterday that 1977 will he the first year that TEI shuttle buses will run in the summer under a University contract. The TEI spokesman said two local apartment complexes (Briarwood and Bar celona) have contracted to have TEI shuttle bus service for the summer. He said the on-campus stop for the service is across from the Olin E. Teague Bldg. The spokesman said the bus makes three trips between 7 and 8 a.m. and one every 30 minutes thereafter. He said the last bus leaves the campus at 5:30 p.m. Election judge needed on campus An election judge is needed for the on- campus precinct (20) for the Saturday Democratic runoff elections. The position is a paid one and is open to any voter registered in Brazos County who did not vote in the May 1 Republican prim ary. To apply, contact Mark Snider at College Station city hall, 846-8868, or County Democratic Chairman Neeley Lewis at 822-7477 as soon as possible. Swinging, to the heat A small but enthusiastic crowd took time out Monday night to swing to the music of Tommy Allen and the Brazos Sound. The dance pro vided a final diversion before classes began Tuesday. The dance was held in the MSC rather than the Grove because of the threat of rain. Interest in electric cars renewed A pair of Texas A&M University resear chers are studying the revival of the elec tric car. Dock Burke and Dan Buenger, research analysts with the Texas Transportation In stitute, said that public demand for greater pollution control and the uncertainty of the world petroleum supplies has brought re newed interest to the electric car. They agreed that six time-consuming events must take place before the advanced electric auto will dominate the industry. “First, there has to be completion of re search on high energy, low density bat- Democratic primary run-offs are scheduled this Saturday in the county’s 26 voting precincts. Polling places open at 7 a.m. and will close at 7 p.m. Local candidates for Precinct 3 commis sioner are H.L. “Bud” Cargill and Randy Sims. Dick Munday and Jesse Stanfield face each other in the Precinct 4 race. State contests have Jon Newton and Jerry Sadler running for the Texas Railroad Commission. Carl Dally and W.T. Phillips vie for a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals post. Primary Run-off Polling Places Precinct No. and Polling Place 1 Millican Community Center 2 Wellborn Water Supply Building 4 Carver School 7 Steep Hollow Community Center 8 South Knoll Elementary School teries,” Burke explained. “This has to be followed by the design, building and test ing of pre-prototype models plus the man ufacture of a 1,000-car fleet for public test ing.” A decision by a major manufacturer must be made to produce a line of electric cars, he said. The decision must also be made to omit the manufacture of combustion en gines and there has to he a gradual reduc tion of combustion engine cars through scrapping. Technology is now too primitive to pro duce a commercially viable substitute for 9 A&M Consolidated Special Services Building 10 College Station Fire Station 11 Crockett Elementary School 12 Sul Ross Elementary School 13 Henderson Elementary School 14 Ben Milam Elementary School 15 Fannin Elementary School 16 Bowie Elementary School 17 Travis Elementary School 18 Bryan Central Fire Station 19 Bonham Elementary School 20 TAMU University Center 21 College Station Municipal Building 22 Army Reserve Center on Carson Street 23 L.B.J. Elementary School 24 College Hills Elementary School 25 American Legion Hall 26 Bryan High School the gas-powered car. Researchers say this is because the present technology of energy storage (batteries) limits the power source of electric vehicles (EV’s) to lead- acid batteries. “This system has a combination of high weight and low energy density that limits EV performance to short-range and low speed operations, Burke noted. “The shift from a total dependence on petroleum to other fuels will help,” Buenger said. Experts say that electric propulsion is more efficient than gasoline engine propulsion and could reduce the road vehicle consumption of petroleum by 32 percent, which would amount to a 13 percent reduction of all petroleum used, he said. “Many say that controlling air pollution would be easier with EV’s” he said. “The argument runs that emissions from large electrical generating plants are easier to control than emissions from millions of mobile sources such as cars. “Any predictions about future advanced electric cars depend on the development of the high energy density, power density battery by 1980,” Burke said. “Indications are that it would be more energy efficient that a heat engine system but it would not be a significant portion of the automotive sector before 1990.” The two men concluded that EV’s aren’t presently able to do most auto duties as well as standard vehicles, hut the goals of urban pollution control and petroleum conservation seem to shine a favorable light on the near future use of the electric vehi cle. Primary runoffs Saturday Academic Council adds courses discusses foreign grad students The Academic Council of Texas A&M last week approved the addition of 23 new courses to, and the deletion of 5 courses from, the curriculum. New courses will be offered in ag ronomy, educational technology, forest science, horticulture, industrial education, journalism, management, naval science, ocean engineering, physics, range science, safety education, sociology and veterinary medicine. Biochemistry 312 and naval sci ences 201, 202, 401 and 403 have been dropped. A new B.S. degree in marine biology with a license option for Third Mate of steam and motor vessels for the Moody College in Galveston was approved. Graduates of this program would he eligi ble for a commission as ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve (inactive) and as a Third Mate in the Merchant Marine. Implemen tation of the option is subject to approval by the Navy. The communications department re ceived approval to offer a B.S. degree in journalism. The B.S. program will drop the foreign language requirement of the cur rent B.A. and add 12 hours of computing science and statistics. The present B.A. in journalism and B.S. in agricultural jour nalism has been retained. Graduate students applying for admis sion to the School of Business Administra tion will now be permitted to submit GMAT scores unconditionally. Previously, GRE scores were required; a student could submit GMAT scores and, if accepted, woidd work one semester and then be re quired to take the GRE. T.J. Kozik, professor of mechanical en gineering, said that A&M has a policy of restricting foreign graduate students t® 10 per cent of the available research funds in any given department. He requested that the 10 per cent rule be lifted as there is often more money available than needed to support American students. The result, he said, is that some money is being wasted and the research budget would suffer in coming years. The amount of money for research is determined in part by the number of researchers working during the preceding fiscal year. Dr. John C. Calhoun, vice president for academic affairs, replied that there is no hard rule requiring a department to limit its foreign graduate students to 10 per cent. However, he said that he prefers to keep the figure low. Research funds come from tax dollars and taxpayers would not like supporting very many foreign students, Calhoun said. He prefers hiring American students be fore international students, and native Te xans before out-of-state students, he said.