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Top of the News Campus HE IMPACT OF PUBLICA TIONS on faculty promotion and tanure is the topic of a presentation in Texas A&M’s Educational Ad ministration Department on Tues day, January 25. Jane Armstrong 'will deliver the program at 9:30 a.m. in Harrington, room 616a. 5 1. U 1. .5 ie JNFL FOOTBALL FOLLIES will be shown on color television monitors in the MSC lounges and snack bar during the week of Jan. 24 This professionally produced tape combines NFL footage with commentary and music to create an enjoyable sports comedy. Trhis will be the first in a series of entertaining and informative tapes to be presented each week in the MpC by the MSC Videotape Com mittee. |OLD MASTERS PAINTINGS Bm the Blaffer Collection at the (University of Houston will be on public display in the Rudder Ex hibit Hall today through Feb. 18. A reception will be held this evening from 4-6 p.m. ■STUDENT RADIO, KANM at ■ l on either of the local cables, ■eds disc jockeys for the fall semester. ■Shifts at the station will be four lurs each. KANM operates 24- htjurs a day, seven days a week and has a progressive format. fiiBStudents interested should attend rf I'thi meeting to be held on Friday, l#W Jan 21 at 8 p.m. The meeting will Hat the Ridgecrest Barber Shop at mIws S. Texas Ave. in Bryan. » Oi. uH Bti.r » Oi. Texas SOUTHWESTERN BELL has ■t another attempt to raise its rates by $298.3 million, the loss this time W fflming in a state district court. Bell asked the Texas Public Utility Commission for permission to make Tbe increase last year, but was al- ■ lojved a raise in rates of $57.8 mil- I0l li »" •IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS on both sides of the border at Laredo, announced Wednesday 'that they may have broken up an | (pganization which provided fal- _ sified documents to illegal Mexican ^-aliens. A CARDIOLOGIST from the , University of Texas says two new tests have been developed which help identify chemicals in the blood Biich are present in persons who have had heart attacks. kina ■ ENVIRONMENTAL PRO- ^TECTION AGENCY officials in LU'IIouston yesterday confirmed ear- [/ylier tentative findings by reporting ^^no imminent environmental danger ^^from the manufacturer of the pes ticide Phosvel. Phosvel is suspected . of causing nerve damage to some J production workers in a Houston area chemical plant. National THE ARCTIC WEATHER that has held the eastern half of the country in its grip, threatened to push prices for citrus fruits and juices sky high, by snowing in Florida. The cold that accompanied the snow wiped out citrus crops in 6 0i 1 central Florida and killed its crop of Pks' tropical fish. Miami had snow for UOifffie first time ever. . Cod 5 clt THE DRUG PHENACETIN which was prescribed for Howard Hughes as a pain-killer for the in- juries he suffered in a 1946 plane crash, may have caused the kidney failure that eventually killed the ec centric billionaire. : THE FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION is activating an emergency rule to cut bureaucra tic red tape and help keep homes and hospitals warm in areas faced with widespread potential natural gas shortage. The agency said its ac- ^tion will make it easier for utility companies to get waivers for normal Restrictions on their use of scarce ( propane and butane to augment ^ natural gas supplies. weather Fair today and tonight with a high in mid-50s. Low tonight in low 30s. Increasing cloudiness and mild tomorrow with a high in low (60s. Precipitation probability zero. The Battalion Vol. 70 No. 61 8 Pages Thursday, January 20, 1977 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Local man charged with student’s murder An indictment charging Walter Joe Coleman of College Station with capital murder was returned yesterday by the Brazos County Grand Jury. Coleman was charged with the death of Lawrence T. Baugh, 32, who was killed last Wednesday night, Jan. 12. Coleman, 18, is being held in the Brazos County jail on $20,000 bond. Brazos County Dist. Atty. W.T. McDonald said yesterday that Coleman’s trial will he held in Bryan but that a date has not been set. Also known as Mike Caron, Coleman is being held without bond for violating his 10-year probation for an arson conviction last year. Coleman is accused of shooting Baugh during a robbery. Detective Bobby Yeager of the College Station Police Department has led the homocide investigation. ■ “The Bryan Police Department, Brazos County Sheriffs Office and College Sta tion Police Department have performed most efficiently and professionally in con ducting the invesHgation upon which the indictment is based,” McDonald said yes terday. McDonald also praised Dr. William P. Fife, Wayne Hughes, Tracy Treybig and Dennis Denton for their efforts in recover ing Baugh’s body from the Navasota River last Saturday morning. All officers involved in the investigation have been asked to not make any public comments about the case in order to pro tect the defendant’s constitutional rights. Baugh was a lecturer for the English Language Institute at Texas A&M Univer sity and a graduate student in the English department. He died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head. 39th president takes oath Carter inaugurated today United Press International WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter today intoned the solemn oath of the presidency and asked the American people to go forth with him into the nation’s third century with “a new beginning. . . a new dedi cation. . . a new spirit.” In a simple ceremony almost as old as the Republic, the Georgia dirt farmer, echoing the populist theme that swept him to victory over an incumbent, ac knowledged the awesome burdens he faces as the nation’s 39th president. “You have given me a great responsibil ity, to stay close to you, to be worthy of you, and to exemplify what you are,” he said. “Let us learn together and laugh to gether and work together and pray to gether, confident that in the end we will triumph together.” Carter, his righthand on a Bible given him a few months ago by his mother, “Miss Lillian,” intoned the same 35-word oath of every president since George Washington in 1789, swearing to “pre serve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The oath was administered by Chief Justice Warren Burger moments after Vice President Walter Mondale was sworn in by Speaker Thomas O’Neill. Carter’s address broke no new ground. It was a philosophical speech, gentle in tone but firm in its commitment to human dignity and the American dream. He urged moderation in striving for that dream, lest the natural resources of a great nation be drained. “More is not necessarily better,” he de clared. He rattled no sabers, but said U.S. mili tary strength must be “so sufficient that it need never be proven in combat.” He pledged that America will be “ever vigilant and never vulnerable, and we will fight our wars against poverty, ignorance and injustice, for those are the enemies against which our forces can be honorably marshalled.” Carter, as is his habit, awakened early on his big day. With President Ford at his side, Carter rode in a black limousine up Pennsylvania Avenue, “The Avenue of Presidents,” to the U.S. Capitol for the inauguration ceremony. Yet to come before the rigorous day culminated at last in the White House were the 2%-hour parade back down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, and the seven gala parties expected to draw 60,000 celebrants. Ironically, it was two years ago today that Carter launched his million-to-one presidential bid with a speech in Baton Rouge, La. Then he was “Jimmy Who?” Now he is “Mr. President.” Signs confusing If anyone ever tells you that they live on Welch St. in College Sta tion, don’t believe them. The paved roadway that runs south from Angus St., one block south of Jersey and east of Fairview Ave., is listed on the Bryan-College Station city map as Welch Ave. But according to Elrey Ash, city engineer, the road should be listed as Welsh Ave. Then where are Welch Blvd. and Welch St. lo cated? . . . Apparently, they are all one and the same roadway. Ash said that the road that runs from FM 2818 to Holleman Drive is Welch Blvd. but two of the eight blocks are marked as an avenue. Ash said the road from Holleman to Angus St. should be marked as Welsh Ave. and for the most part, this is correct, but one block is marked as Welch Ave. and another as Welsh St. There are even two 600 num bered blocks within two blocks, one is the 600 block of Welsh Ave. and the next block is Welsh St., which is also marked 600 on the sign. So if you are trying to locate a friend on Welch St., Welsh Blvd. or whatever the name of the road is, you may want to locate a guide. Battalion photos by Kevin Venner - ■?r ? ••• New prisons facilities for Texas, legislators needed say Texas needs two new prisons and the Texas Legislature will probably appropri ate funds for the facilities this session, two state legislators said yesterday. Speaker of the House Bill Clayton, D-Springlake, and Rep. Bill Presnal, D-Bryan, both former students of Texas A&M University, cited overcrowding in Texas’ prisons as the primary reason for the new facilities. The two units, a prison to be located somewhere in West Texas and a prison hospital in Sugarland, will cost $210 million if commercial labor is used or $136 million if convict labor is used. Texas prisons have a capacity of 20,785 inmates and the population, growing at a rate of 200 inmates per day, is already 21,000, Clayton said. The West Texas unit would hold 4,875 convicts and the Sugar- land hospital would have 375 beds. “Present and future overcrowding of TDC facilities seriously endangers the lives of security personnel and inmates alike,” Clayton said in a prepared state ment. “I am committed to the idea of single-cell confinement.” “We’ve definitely got to have one,” Pre snal said. “Population growth has already caught up with us. If we don’t build one now, we ll need it next time.” Another Aggie alumni. Sen. Bill Moore, D-Bryan, refused comment, saying, “I do not know the status of these (prisons) at this time. That is a matter for the (Legisla tive) Budget Board. Do not return Students check out library's discards Battalion photo by Mike Willy Iced Over Water pouring from the downspout drain on Harrington Center froze into a curious ice formation when the temperature dropped to 19 degrees early yesterday morning. Several Texas A&M University students were seen digging through the trash bins outside the University library yesterday. No, things aren’t that desperate although expenses this week have caused a shortage of pocket money. The students were shuffling through boxes of discarded books, magazines and pamphlets from the library and treating themselves to free literature. The jumbled pile contained a wide vari ety of topics and interests, including such titles as “Printer s Ink Directory of House Organs, “Reviews of Modern Physics, “Environmental Satellite Imagery, and dozens of copies of “Daily World” news paper. “I think this is atrocious,” an instructor in the biology department said as he ob served a dozen students rummaging through the dump cans. He said he felt the books should be recycled. Recycling unwanted books was tried in the past but the people that were picking up the books were unreliable or could not handle the large amount to be disposed, Puckett said. “Just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s going to be valuable,” he said. “It costs money just to store those books.” Briscoe’s proposal will slow college spending increase United Press International AUSTIN, — Gov. Dolph Briscoe re peatedly has warned runaway spending on higher education would bankrupt Texas unless it was stopped. His budget proposal would not stop the spending increase on colleges and univer sities, but it would slow it considerably. Briscoe’s $16.1 billion budget recom mends increases totaling $226.3 million for senior colleges and universities, junior colleges and medical education. That is less than half the $553 million increse rec ommended by the Legislative Budget Board for the same institutions. The executive budget, quietly delivered to legislators’ offices yesterday while senators were out of town and House members met only briefly, recommends large spending increases for highways and public schools, but is lower than the boards spending proposals in most other areas. “Looking at the general appropriations, it looks like he might have squeezed down a little tighter than we did in most areas,” said Rep. Bill Presnal, D-Bryan, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. “It looks like he might have been a little harder on higher education than we were, and I thought we were pretty tough on them.” University officials have complained about a provision in the bill requiring full time college instructors to teach a class room minimum of nine hours a week. Briscoe’s budget raises the minimum to 12 hours weekly. The $15.3 billion legislative budget bill does not include any funds for a revision of public school financing, or the massive new highway funding the governor re- commeded. Briscoe’s proposal includes $893 million in additional state aid to local school dis tricts, and an $825 million increase in highway funding. The governor said his proposals could be funded from available revenue and leave a $400 million balance. The governor’s budget is $3.6 million lower than the legislative proposal for judiciary funding and $176 million lower for funding of health, welfare and rehabili tation agencies. Briscoe recommended a 3.4 per cent pay raise for state employes, but asked for no salary increase for himself, maintaining his $66,800-a-year pay through the next biennium. Battalion photo by Kevin Venner Glenna Dean thumbs through manual