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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.
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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.
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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-
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•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
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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.
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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