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One workshop on fractures of dog
md cat flat bones will run from 9
i.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Another
;overing the diagnosis and treat-
nent of cat diseases will go from 9
i.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
A two-day clinical pathology
vorkshop for veterinary assistants is
iet for 9-5 Saturday and continues at
i a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
Courses in creative writing,
- Texas history, the American novel,
» human aging, the psychology of al-
‘ chol abuse and European people
j and customs will be offered by
w Learner’s Marketplace, a liberal arts
program offered by Texas A&M
University.
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been extended to Jan. 21. Enroll
ment forms are available at the Har-
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Lee Burks, one ot the nation's ris
ing young women engineers, will
speak at the opening ceremonies of
the Conference on Women and
Engineering beginning at 7 p.m.
Friday in the ballroom of the
Memorial Student Center.
The conference, which is open to
Texas high school girls, parents and
counselors, will end Saturday.
Local
“Up the Down Staircase” will be
performed by the Junior Class of
Bryan High School on Friday and
Saturday night at 7:30 in the Civic
Auditorium.
Tickets are $2 for adults and $1
for students.
Texas
A state district judge has ordered
State Attorney General John Hill to
respond within a week to South
western Bell Telephone Co.’s
claims to losing “several hundred
thousand dollars a day.
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Health officials have reported the
24th case of rabies found in Laredo
in the past seven weeks, despite the
innoculation of half of its dogs.
^ ! State Treasurer Jesse James is
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The U.S. aircraft carrier
Franklin D. Roosevelt and a Libe
rian freighter collided Tuesday
night in rough seas off the coast of
Italy. No one was hurt and there
was little damage to either ship, a
spokesman said.
A French court Tuesday freed
Palestinian leader Abu Daoud, 39,
after rejecting arrest warrants from
both France and West Germany.
He was flown to Algiers where he
was given a hero’s welcome by the
Algerial Foreign Ministry.
Daoud is the suspected master
mind of the 1972 Munich Olympics
massacre of 11 Israeli athletes.
weather
> Overcast skies with light, intermit-
* tent rain this afternoon. No
^ downpours are expected. TempeF-
N atures will get cooler with a high (if
0 47 today. Tonight’s low will be
J about 40. This morning's low was
fl! 41. Winds will come from the east
at 8 to 12 m.p.h. There is a 70 per
cent chance of rain.
The Battalion
Vol. 70 No. 58 Wednesday, January 12, 1977 News Dept. 845-2611
10 Pages College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611
One may face Senate opposition
Briscoe appoints three regents
Senator William T. “Bill” Moore,
D-Bryan, said that he will oppose Gover
nor Dolph Briscoe’s appointment of Dr.
John B. Coleman to the Texas A&M Uni
versity Board of Regents if it was made to
fulfill a political agreement.
The appointment of Coleman, the first
black designated to A&M’s governing
board, was one of six made by Briscoe yes
terday to the boards of regents of the
Texas A&M University System and Uni
versity of Texas.
Moore said that he heard a report that
Coleman’s designation to the A&M board
resulted from an agreement Briscoe made
for black support for Calvin Guest,
D-Bryan, who was re-elected as the state
Democratic Party chairman.
“I’m going to check that out and if that’s
true, you can be damn sure that man is
going to run into some opposition,’’ Moore
said.
George G. Lowrance, appointments
secretary to the governor, said, “That
rumor is not factual. It’s an out and out
lie.”
The governor also appointed John
Blocker of Houston and reappointed H. C.
“/Dulie” Bell Jr. of Austin to the board of
the A&M System.
The three new regents appointed for
the University of Texas, one of whom re
placed Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, were
named by Briscoe before the 65th Legisla
ture convened, which enabled them to
begin their terms without Senate ap
proval. The regents named for the Texas
A&M University System will have to wait
for confirmation by the State Senate be
cause their names were not announced
until after the Legislature met at noon yes
terday.
Bell said that he was proud to have been
reappointed by Briscoe and that he will
continue his work within the A&M System
to make the state of Texas No. 1 in agricul
ture.
“I’ve just begun to be effective,’ Bell
said.
Bell is a 1939 graduate of Texas A&M
who majored in history and economics and
was a member of the Aggie Band. He is
president of Central Texas Equipment Co.
and is chairman of the service units of the
Texas Agricultural Extension Service.
Blocker, a 1945 graduate of A&M, is a
vice president of Dresser Industries. He is
a Trustee of the A&M Research Founda
tion, an advisor on a development board
for the university and donated the flag-
Jobless America awaits
Carter s economic plan
By SARA FRITZ
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Unemploy
ment fell to 7.9 per cent at the end of
1976, still slightly higher than when the
year began, the Labor Department re
ported today.
December’s decline from the year’s
highest level of 8.1 per cent in November
brought some relief for Jimmy Carter as
he prepares to assume the presidency. But
the year-end rate was still only 1 per cent
below the 1975 recession peak.
The report also heralded a full year of
virtual stagnation on the American job
market. The December rate was 0.1 per
cent higher than last January.
President Ford previously predicted
that unemployment would be cut below 7
per cent in 1976. As a result. Carter has
been cautious to promise no more than a
1.5 per cent decline in 1977.
Unemployment dipped to a 1976 low of
7.3 per cent last May, but those im
provements were wiped out by July. Job
lessness hovered between 7.8 per cent
United Press International
AUSTIN — The Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals today rejected a second appeal
from Jerry Lane Jurek and refused to
block plans to execute the convicted killer
one week from today.
Unless federal courts interevene Jurek
will be electrocuted in the electric chair in
Huntsville Jan. 19.
Chief Justice John F. Onion said the
state’s highest court for criminal matters
considered Jurek’s petition for a stay of
and 7.9 per cent for four months prior to
November.
Combined with this grim news was
another Labor Department report show
ing that wholesale prices rose 0.9 per cent
in December, reflecting a double-digiet
annual rate.
President Ford originally predicted that
unemployment would drop below 7 per
cent in 1976. His goal seemed reasonable
last May when it fell to 7.3 per cent, but it
again began to climb when the economic
recovery stalled.
As a result. Carter has been cautious in
his projections. He has warned Americans
they should not expect more than a 1.5 per
cent reduction in joblessness during 1977.
Labor leaders believe Carter is being
too cautious. AFL-CIO economist Rudy
Oswald thinks unemployment can be cut
to 6 per cent by the end of 1977 with the
right stimulus.
Oswald says that the measures the
Democratic Congress passed over the ob
jections of President Ford “did reduce un
execution but decided to refuse the re
quest.
Jurek’s attorney went to the court for
the second time in as many days today
seeking a delay in the execution plans to
allow time for an appeal to the U.S. Su
preme Court.
The court of criminal appeals yesterday
rejected a habeas corpus petition on
Jurek’s behalf, indicating Jurek will have
to turn to federal courts to save him from
employment from 8.9 per cent to 7.3 per
cent from May of 1975 to May of 1976. We
would hope that a more favorable adminis
tration, with the active support of Con
gress, would pass programs that would be
more effective.”
“Carter and labor already have clashed
over the formula for cuttation, with the
active support of Congress, would pass
programs that would be more effective.
AFL-CIO leaders earlier this week ad
vised Carter to forget about tax cuts, and
concentrate instead on job-creating pro
grams. They estimated an immediate ex
penditure of $30 billion on such programs
would put 2 million people back to work.
Carter estimates his own program
would create fewer than 800,000 new jobs.
But he expects the stimulus of a tax cut to
promote many more jobs indirectly -— a
plan the AFL-CIO deems inefficient.
Some 7.8 million persons were counted
as unemployed in the United States last
November. Many more, who were too
discouraged to look for work, were not
even counted.
execution
the electric chair.
“This court is of the opinion that the writ
of habeas corpus should not be issued, that
the requested stay of execution should be
denied and that all relief requested in said
petition should be denied,” the appeals
judges ruled.
The last U.S. execution was in Colorado
in 1967. Jurek’s scheduled execution date
is two days after the scheduled execution of
Utah murderer Gary Gilmore.
Court refuses to stay
poles at Kyle Field in memory of his
brother who died in Italy while serving his
country.
“I was surprised,” Blocker said of his
appointment.
Blocker said he was anxious to help
make A&M an even better institution of
higher learning.
Dr. Coleman, a physician who has de
grees from Fisk and Lloward universities,
has been active in the improvement of
higher education for blacks. The Houston
resident was unavailable for comment re
garding his appointment.
Jess Hay of Dallas, a fund-raiser for
Briscoe and member of the Democratic
National Committee, replaced A. G.
McNeese Jr. of Houston on the University
of Texas board.
Another member of the DNC, Mrs. Ro
land (Jane) Blumberg of Seguin, will take
over for Mrs. Johnson. Roland is an active
leader in conservative Democratic poli
tics.
Dr. Sterling H. Fly Jr. of Uvalde, who
graduated from Texas A&M and the UT
Medical Branch, will replace Dr. Joe T.
Nelson of Weatherford on the UT govern
ing board.
Although all of the persons appointed to
the UT board are personal friends of Bris
coe’s, Fly’s designation raised some com
ments from the senators gathered in Aus
tin.
“I thought everybody from Uvalde had
been appointed to something already,”
one senator said in reference to tlie fact
that Fly is from Briscoe’s hometown.
“He’s recycling,” another senator said.
These are two starlings that were maimed within the past week by
university police. University officials say that all of these birds are being
gathered up by ground maintenance and then being disposed of. Those
not captured will remain at the mercy of the environment and preda
tors.
Birds’ feces a problem;
killing used as last resort
Bell returned to Texas A&M; put in storage
The State of Texas Liberty Bell, in Aus
tin for the Bicentennial, has been re
turned home to Texas A&M.
It was displayed in the State Capitol
during the United States’ 200th anniver-
sary.
The huge one-ton, copper alloy bell was
trucked Thursday back to College Station
and put in storage until its new display
facilities are ready.
Formerly a fixture of the Academic
Building rotunda, the replica of the fa
mous Liberty Bell in Philadelphia will
next be shown in the new library building
to be constructed.
Thursday’s transport job, under the
supervision of Texas Aggie-ex Lt. Col.
James Starr, marked a sort of historic mo
ment. The bell was reunited with its clap
per, a yard-long piece of cast iron.
It was apparently confiscated as a prac
tical joke in the late 1950s. When photo
graphs of the bell being prepared for
shipment to Austin in May, 1975, ap
peared, a Houston woman called that she
thought she could return the missing
clapper. She asked to remain unidentified.
The clapper had hung in a tree in her
back yard several years.
Col. Starr, manager of construction and
facilities, Adjutant General’s Department
of Texas, and an Army National Guard of
ficer, supervised loading of the bell Wed
nesday in Austin. He and driver Bill
Moczygemba brought it back to Texas
A&M.
The carefully-handled bell was
forklifted off the truck, accepted by Stores
Manager T. E. “Tom” Bennett and
shelved at Purchasing and Stores.
The bell was among 50 cast in France
for presentation by the U.S. Treasury De
partment to each state, the District of Co
lumbia and Puerto Rico.
Gov. Allan Shivers, on July 5, 1950,
presented the Texas Liberty Bell to Texas
A&M for safekeeping in a short ceremony
at The Grove. Dr. M. T. Harrington,
A&M president, accepted. A&M cele
brated its 75th anniversary the following
year.
The bells were conceived in conjunction
with an Independence Bond Drive. Re
quest that Texas A&M be made the Texas
bell’s depository was made for the college
and former students by the late Gibb Gil
christ, chancellor of the Texas A&M Sys
tem.
The one-ton Liberty Bell was returned to Texas A&M last week.
There are mixed emotions concerning
the killing of many birds on the Texas
A&M campus, but university officials said
that they tried every reasonable way to
scare the birds away from the campus be
fore resorting to the shooting of the birds,
which covered trees and sidewalks with up
to IVi inches of fecal matter
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Depart
ment, which okayed the killings, esti
mated the number of the birds which have
roosted on the campus for the past month
to be about 2 million.
A university spokesman says that the
birds, which consist mainly of grackles,
starlings and brown—headed cowbirds,
are attracted by the large trees and the
buildings that absorb heat during the day
and radiate the warmth at night.
Dr. Keith A. Arnold, associate professor
in the Wildlife and Fisheries Science de
partment, said that the trees bn campus
should have been trimmed so they would
not offer the birds adequate shelter before
the shooting began.
Arnold, an ornithologist, inspected
thousands of the dead birds, which were
delivered to him by ground maintenance
crews, to locate any birds that may have
been banded for research purposes.
Officials say the killings, along with
cannon blasts and recordings, seem to be
driving the birds away.
Well,even if the birds are not being
scared away, Arnold said that there are
about 22—25,0(X) fewer birds that persons
on campus have to contend witli.
Legislature convenes;
Speaker is Clayton
United Press International
AUSTIN — In the midst of a squabble
about organizational procedures, Texas
legislators will have something more sub
stantial to think about — Gov. Dolph
Briscoe’s suggestions for solving critical fi
nancial problems without new taxes.
The legislature planned to interrupt or
ganizational debate to hear Briscoe’s rec
ommendations today on how the state
should contend with costly school finance
and highway funding problems.
Briscoe’s address to a joint legislative
session was scheduled for 11 a.m.
The governor earlier had said he would
recommend spending more than half the
$2.9 billion budget surplus on an $800 mil
lion school finance plan, and an $850 mil
lion plan for increasing highway funding.
Briscoe also has announced his plans to
recommend strong law and order legisla
tion.
Neither the House nor Senate had re
solved questions about operating rules for
the 140-day session before Briscoe’s ad
dress. There were more than 30 proposed
amendments to the House rules, and
Speaker Bill Clayton indicated the rules
debate could take most of the day.
Clayton, 48, was easily reelected to a
second term during Tuesday’s opening
ceremonies. He was the only candidate
nominated for speaker by acclamation al
though two members refused to support
him. Rep. Paul Moreno, D-El Paso, regis
tered a vote against Clayton, and Rep.
Paul Ragsdale, D-Dallas, registered as
“present but not voting.”
Clayton cautioned his colleagues they
would be expected to work hard with little
time off during the session, and said he
will base his committee appointments on
their work records.
“I will take a hard look at past perform
ance and work product and personal ac
ceptability by members when making
selections of those who will chair our 24
substantive and four procedural commit
tees,” Clayton said.
“Some people will be pleased, and
others will certainly be unhappy. It will be
a hard chore for me, but the end product
reflected in my appointments must assure
results tlirough dedication and desire to
solve the problems we face.”
Both Clayton and Lt. Gov. William P.
Hobby are expected to announce their
committee assignments by the end of the
week.
Senators Tuesday officially elected Sen.
Betty Andujar, R-Fort Worth, as presi
dent pro tempore for the session, making
her second in the line of succession to the
governor.