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mu >110 "'♦4 *» M.J • toms] tl 5 * Top of the News Campus Itexas a&m university sti dents who expect to graduate ■is semester may begin ordering, ■nouncements today. ■ Orders will be accepted at the St ident Finance Center in the ■ emorial Student Center 217 ■rough Feb. 18. I The orders will be taken from 8 a. n. to 4 p.m. Mondays through ■ridays. AUDITIONS FOR the Singing adets. Century Singers and Re- iliers will be conducted at Texas M University through Friday, |n. 21. Students wishing to audi- m should make an appointment at (e vocal music office. Memorial udent Center 003, or call 845- 42. Auditions will be from 2 to iO p.m. TEXAS A&M’S COLLEGE of Jeterinary Medicine will hold a b|eef cow and calf conference for terinarians Jan. 20-22. The con ference is the fourth and final seg- ent in a series of continuing edu- J^Hition workshops to update veteri- j^^Bnians and their assistants on med- ic il practices. §9 conference will be held at the n^Hollege of Veterinary Medicine E^Bmplex. Jill TRANSFER STUDENT orienta- ' ition for Texas A&M University will k held at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Rud- ftr Tower. All new transfer stu- ftnts are urged to attend the ■ree-part program covering Aggie ■aditions, student life and campus organizations. ■ THIS IS the final week of regis- ■ation for Learner’s Marketplace, a SKogram of liberal arts courses of- Ired to the general public by Texas ■&M University. Persons may reg- ■ter through Jan. 21 at the College bf Liberal Arts in Harrington Edu- ’ Rtion Center or call the college for - ■rnis to register by mail. ™ ■ Six evening course topics are of- Iftred, including the psychology of ■nig abuse, aging, European people and customs, the American lovel, Texas history and creative lifting. A $30 fee is charged per jjass, and no degree credit is avail- wile from the classes which begin nL. 24, 25 and 27. OLD MASTERS PAINTINGS lom the Blaffer Collection at the ■ niversity of Houston will be on Jublic display in the Rudder Ex- ibit Hall Thursday 4-6 p.m. Texas I TEXANS will begin registering their motor vehicles February 1 for the 1977 fiscal year. I Vehicle owners may register by i) ail for an additional fee between February 1 and March 1. Motorists who wish to register' their vehicles h person may visit their county tax ffices as soon as possible after F 1 eb bary 1. Deadline for having the tickers affixed is midnight April 1. Beginning in 1978 the State De- jpartment of Highways and Public ransportation will initiate a year- round licensing system with some registrations expiring each month hereafter. This will end the half- entury-old 60-day registration enods and one-date deadlines for cquiring new stickers. TEXAS needs to find alternate ;nergy sources to reduce depen dency on shrinking natural gas ^applies, according to Rep. Dan Cubiak, D-Rockdale. Kubiak said Monday the legisla ture should invest at least $25 mil lion this year in energy source re search and development. He said money from a $3 billion budget surplus could be invested in Research on use of solar, geother- Inal, hydroelectric or coal energy. National MURDERED NEWSMAN Don Bolles, as well as the nationwide earn of investigative reporters who Dame to Arizona after his death, nave won a major victory against :rime and corruption. Arizona Attorney General Bruce Babbitt, also marked for assassina- :ion in the paid conspiracy that police believe is responsible for Bol es’ slaying, disclosed Monday a measure to prevent “laundering” of riminal money in the state. weather Overcast skies with light, intermit- ent rain this afternoon. No downpours are expected. Temper- Jtures will get cooler with a high of 7 today. Tonight’s low will be bout 20. This morning’s low was 1. Winds will come from the east 18 to 12 m.p.h. There is a 70 per ent chance of rain. The Battalion Vol. 70 No. 59 Tuesday, January 18, 1977 News Dept. 845-2611 10 Pages College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611 Battalion photo by Kevin Venner Back into the swing of things Chery l Harrington, a junior in computer science, and Ford Taylor, a sophomore management major, released some of the tension that accompanies the start of a new semester last night at the Lakeview Club. The two A&M students were attending a “Back to School” dance which was sponsored by the senior class. Professor’s body found by A&M scuba divers By MARY HESALROAD Volunteer divers from Texas A&M Uni versity found the body of Lawrence Tipton Baugh at the bottom of the Navasota River Saturday at about 11 a.m. Baugh, a lecturer at A&M’s English Language Institute and a graduate student in the English department, had been mis sing since Thursday. He taught English to foreign students. Baugh’s body was found by Dr. William P. Fife, biology professor and adviser for the Scuba Club at A&M in the Sulphur Springs area south of College Station. He found the body under the roots of a tree in 10 to 15 feet of water and about six feet from the river bank. Baugh had been shot in the back of the head. Fife and the other divers, Wayne Hughes, Dennis Denton and Tracy Treybig, did not find the body in their first search Friday afternoon because of muddy water. College Station police arrested Walter Joe Coleman, 18, 105 Davis St., at his apartment Friday afternoon as a suspect in the slaying. The police said Coleman admitted shooting Baugh. College Station police de tective Bobby Yeager said Friday that Coleman showed police where the body could be found. Coleman was employed at International & Karpen Furniture Co. He worked as a dispatcher to the upholstery line. A spokesman for the company said, “As far as working is concerned, he was a very hard worker. He did his job. Baugh was a graduate from West Co lumbia High School in West Columbia, Tex. He graduated from A&M in 1967 with a bachelor of arts in English. In 1968 Baugh became a VISTA volun teer and worked with community resi dents and the Neighborhood Service Cen ter staff in Atlanta, Ga. He helped develop and supervise various types of programs, including child care, teen and senior citi zen recreation. During the last part of 1968 and part of 1969 Baugh was a VISTA applicant pro cessor. He screened applications to de termine eligibility. Baugh spent the rest of 1969 in the Army as an intelligence analyst. He spent two years in Da Nang, Vietnam, in the XXIV Corps Artillery headquarters. In 1973 Baugh became a graduate stu dent at A&M and was working on his mas ter’s degree in English-Applied Linguis tics. He taught freshman English. Baugh started as a lecturer for the English Language Institute in 1975. “Larry was a marvelous instructor,” Dr. Anne M. Elmquist, head of the modern languages department, said. He was al ways very helpful.” Brazos County Dist. Atty. W. T. McDonald, Jr., said yesterday that no fur ther information would be released pend ing further investigation by College Sta tion police. A motive for the killing is still not known. Funeral services were held yesterday for Baugh at the Columbia United Method it Church in West Columbia, Tex. Silver Taps for Baugh and other Aggies who have died recently will be held to night at 10:30 p.m. Lawrence T. Baugh Library’s periodicals isolated When you first try to find the new Cur rent Periodicals Division (CPD) of the Texas A&M Library, you’ll probably won der why it was stuck in such an isolated corner of the building. To reach it, one must go to the second floor of the library, locate a series of bright yellow arrows and follow them through a confusing maze of bookshelves, halls and stairways, finally arriving in a quiet spa cious room on the third floor of the Gushing Archives. But there are reasons for this isolation. For the first time, all of the 7,000 different periodicals that the library subscribes to are located in the same place. Previously, they were scattered throughout the various departments. In addition, Sharon Smith, serials libra rian, said that before moving the magazines, the average shelf life of News week magazine was two hours. The new CPD will have “closed access , meaning that all purses, bookbags, brief cases, etc. will be inspected at the exit of the room. Smith said this hopefully will reduce the theft of periodicals. Current issues of all unbound periodical titles that were located in Humanities, So cial Science and Science-Technology have been moved to the CPD. Exceptions in clude reference materials, abstracts, indi ces and looseleaf services. Periodicals will be kept in the CPD until they are replaced by microfilm. A reading area and copy machine are available and the CPD will be open during all library hours. Handicapped patrons should ask at any reference desk for assistance in obtaining materials in the CPD. The phone number for the CPD is 845-4833. —John W. Tynes Gilmore lived 2 minutes after shooting United Press International SALT LAKE CITY — Gary Gilmore, who asked to “be allowed to die with dig nity,’ lived two full minutes yesterday after a firing squad shot four rifle slugs through his heart. Dr. Serge Moore, Utah state medical examiner, said the slugs passed through the condemned man’s heart in a pattern “within an inch or two inches away from each other.” The doctor, who pinned a target on Gilmore s chest lor the marksmen, con- Presnal files budget bill United Press International AUSTIN — House and Senate leaders usually wait until the final weeks of the session to express their disagreements concerning state spending plans. But only one week into the 1977 ses sion, the financial discord already has be gun. Rep. Bill Presnal, D-Bryan, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Monday filed a budget bill that trims $125 million from the $15.3 billion Senate ver sion, and said the House hopes to main tain the lower spending rates. The Senate Finance Committee, meanwhile, opened hearing on its bill, and the chairman indicated it will increase rather than reduce the size of its budget proposal. Sen A.M. Aikin Jr., D-Paris, said the bill prepared by the Legislative Budget Board provided no pay raises for top agency administrators because speaker Bill Clayton had insisted the salaries re main unchanged. Presnal s proposed budget reduces funding for state employee pay raises $40 million below the Senate hill, cuts $60 mil lion from allocations for off-campus college courses and spending on special education programs in public schools, and requires magazines published by state agencies to he self supporting. “It doesn’t sound like much in a $15 bil lion budget, hut $125 million could be come critical before the session is over,’ Presnal said. The House scheduled the first hearings on its spending plan at the close of today’s session. Gov. Dolph Briscoe will give the legis lators a third version of the spending bill to consider. In his address to a joint ses sion of the legislature, Briscoe said he would present his spending recom mendations this week. ducted an autopsy just a few hours after the execution — first in the United States in 10 years. Moore also supervised the removal of body parts for medical research and transplant purposes. “I couldn’t tell you if he was sensing pain,” Moore said. “All I know is that he was breathing and that the automatic functions were going on for two minutes.” Moore added that the two-minute life span was normal for persons shot the way Gilmore was, and that pain is usually im peded by shock. Gilmore, convicted of killing a motel clerk, left his corneas to an unnamed eye doctor and his pituitary gland to physi cians treating people with hormone disor ders. The killer s violent death left his kidneys useless for transplant purposes. They were donated along with his liver for research. Doctors at the University Medical Cen ter also had hoped to obtain part of his skin, nerve tissue and thigh bones for transplanting. But Gilmore made no men tion of it in a document delivered with his body. Moore released Gilmore’s remains to the killer’s uncle. Vei n Damico of Provo, Utah — who made plans for a small pri vate funeral and cremation. Gilmore asked to be cremated. “Gary, rny nephew, died like he wanted to die, in dignity,” said Damico, a shoe repairman who witnessed the execution. “It was very upsetting to me. But he got his wish. He did die, and he died in dig nity. ” “Let’s do it,” Gary Gilmore calmly told Warden Sam Smith just before his head was covered by a hood. He was strapped to a wooden chair 25 feet away from the riflemen in a gray cinderblock building once used as the prison cannery. The firing squad stood behind a canvas screen with rectangular holes. At Smith’s signal, the volunteer marksmen fired a volley. After the execution foes of the death penalty used every avenue in the criminal justice system to block the shooting and failed. There are 358 inmates on Death Rows across the United States, and opponents of the death penalty fear Gilmore s execution could lead rapidly to others. Just a few hours after the Utah shooting, the Su preme Court stayed the Wednesday elec trocution of Texas prison inmate Jerry Lane Jurek pending further appeals. Court gives Jurek stay oi execution United Press International HUNTSVILLE, Tex. — Unlike Gary Gilmore, Jerry Lane Jurek has never asked that his execution be carried out, and the Supreme Court has provided him with at least a few more weeks of life. Jurek, a 25-year-old loner with an IQ of about 70, had been sentenced to die in the electric chair early Wednesday for the murder of a 10-year-old girl. But the Su preme Court Monday blocked the execu tion to allow Jurek’s attorneys time to file a complete petition for formal review of his case. The court’s brief order said Jurek s attor neys must file a complete petition for a Supreme Court hearing by Feb. 16 for the stay of execution to remain in effect. Texas must tile its formal response by March 3. If the petition for formal review is denied, the stay of execution is automatically lifted under the court’s order. Jurek, a borderline retard who spent 11 years reaching the seventh grade and has trouble making change for a dollar, has shown little interest in his case, according to his attorneys. But he did recently tell reporters he did not expect to ever be exe cuted. Texas attorney John Hill, in a written brief filed by assistant attorney general Walter Prentice, had asked the court not to delay the execution of Jurek, convicted of strangling Wendy Adams in August 1973. New album prices to increase ThoUestor TEXAS IIAYUOYS TON THE LV^r I1ML Record prices up again By CAROL MEYER Staff Writer The price of record albums, like every thing else these days, is rising sharply, with at least four major record companies listing their new albums at a retail price of $7.98, according to Zodiac News Service. “To tell you the truth. I’ve expected it for the past year,” said Buck James, man ager of Northgate Budget Tapes & Rec ords. “Just like everything else, the cost of manufacturing records is going up. ” The last price hike occurred three years ago, James said, when albums sold at a discount price of $3.99, rather than $4.99, as now. In the past, records retailed for $6.98. The four companies which have an nounced the $1 increase are Warner Bros., Elektra-Asylum, R.C.A. and C.B.S. The all-time high price of $7.98 will be first test-marketed on Queen’s “A Day at the Races,” which a few stores in the Bryan/College Station area have already- received. Budget Tapes & Records normally sells single albums retailing at $6.98 for $4.99. With the price hike, the store is taking a loss by selling the newly-released Queen album for $4.99. The two other albums selling at the higher price have not yet been received in this area. David Bowie’s “Low" and Pink Floyd’s “Animal will also be listed at the $7.98 price. K-Mart, Fedmart, Skaggs Albertsons and Musicland have not yet received the new releases, although Musicland expects their arrival within two weeks. K-Mart sells albums at an average of $4.64. The sales manager said when they do get the higher priced albums, the store will probably sell them for $5.47. Fedmart, selling their albums for a $4.99 average, hasn’t heard about the price hike, and the sales clerk said the highest price for a single allium at present is $5.49. Skaggs Albertsons, which sells most of their albums for $4.99, has not received the new albums or price lists either. Upon arrival of the new albums, the Musicland manager said the store will probably sell the $7.98 album for $6.99. Sale price will he either $5.87 or $5.67. However, the all-time high $7.98 price does not mean that most customers will he paying that much for their favorite al bums, Zodiac reported. According to a survey by Cashbox magazine, typical album prices will rise, and records listed at $7.98 will generally sell at the discount price of about $5 at most stores.