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R* SENIOR CLASS RINGS or- red during the 1976 fall mid- [mester term will be ready for de- ery tomorrow at the Registration nter located in the Old Exchange Store Rings may be picked up from 9a.m. to noon and from 1-4:30 p.m. at the Registration Center tomor- and Monday only. Any rings (picked up by 4:30 p.m. Monday 11 be located at the Ring Clerk’s sk in Rm. 7 of the Coke Bldg. AU '** Mo, POETRY, PROSE OR ART ORK for the April issue of ebius should be submitted by Tuesday. Students eligible to con- ■ bute include undergraduates lenmlled for at least 12 hours per semester and graduate students Broiled for at least nine hours per fgmester. Specifics on entry format ailable from editor Susie [Kirner. FISH CONSERVATIONIST bhard H. Stroud, executive vice Jesident of the Sport Fishing Insti- |e, will speak on “Changing Chal- jiges in Recreational Fisheries” at 10 p.m. Monday in Rudder 301. |e internationally recognized Iheries scientist has served on pny state, federal and private con- vation advisory groups, and has much success in starting new bgrams of national significance in |tn freshwater and marine fish bservation. D2. PFF-CAMPUS STUDENT AS- IATION (OCSA) organization ns are underway. Students in- ested in helping may contact ren Switzer, YMCA 108 or attend eetingThursday, Feb. 3at 8p.m. YMCA 106. \GGIE PARENTS OF THE AR applications are available in Student Programs Office, MSC , and are being accepted now l ough March 25. Local THE COLLEGE STATION TY COUNCIL will meet today at p.m. to consider a resolution for formation of a Civil Prepared- ss program. The objectives of the igrarn will be to coordinate all re tirees and provide aid to College ition, Bryan or Brazos County in e of a natural disaster or enemy ack. H Texas JVEBB COUNTY health officials Isterday asked the Department of ealth Resources for permission to p strychnine poison on stray dogs control a rabies epidemic that has "ected 44 animals in the county ce late November. Laredo-Webb unty administrators confirmed ee new cases of animal rabies [sterday. They said 50 dogs had :en killed the first four days of this ek and some 650 since the out- ak of rabies. ItHE STATE SENATE Affairs i pmmittee has approved a proposal r a constitutional amendment to Jgalize bingo. If approved by two- Sirds of the Senate and House, the |op0sal would be submitted to Jters at the November 1978 gen ial election. I ique 8 02 National P' { PRESIDENT CARTER paid iecial tribute to Attorney General Jriffin Bell yesterday by attending ike ceremony at the Justice De- jftment. He used the occasion to en the Great Doors to the de- tment, which had been sealed [ice the anti-War demonstration in f70.I don’t doubt the need for it at je time,” Carter said, “but it was a mbolic separation of both disaf- ted and disadvantaged people tom the core of justice. THE SCREEN ACTORS UILD has called for a reduction of olence in television shows. The lild said viewers who see repeated Wence on television come to ac- !pt it as normal society. TEXAS SENATORS voted 25-3 br a resolution commending televi sion stations that don’t plan to oadcast executions of Texas crim- Bals. World fSi POPE PAUL VI has reaffirmed Re Roman Catholic church’s ban on pci'Women priests in a major document ' Pleased today. Sources said that e 18- page document backs up the atican stand by citing ancient urch tradition, the attitude of Jhrist himself toward the question arid “the practice of the Apostles.” y weather Partly cloudy and mild today and tonight. High today in upper-60s. Low tonight in mid-50s. Increasing ioudiness and cooler tomorrow Mh a high in mid-60s. Precipitation Probability zero. Battalion Thursday, January 27, 1977 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Med school to take applications for fall By DARRELL LANFORD The Texas A&M University College of Medicine is accepting applications for its first 32-member class. The class will start this September, said Dr. Elvin E. Smith during a seminar last night. Dr. Smith, associate dean of the College of Medicine, clarified facts about the new college and explained course guidelines and curriculum to about 100 students. “The College of Medicine is alive and living in College Station,” he said. “There has been at times a little doubt about the prognosis for the final output or failure, but we assure you the outcome is quite positive. The patient is well and we are ready to admit the first 32 students in Sep tember. ” Dr. Smith explained that the college re ceived funds in 1976 from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, a joint committee of the American Medical As sociation and the American Association of Medical Colleges. “It’s the one powerful accreditation committee that medical education has,” he said. He explained that the college re ceived its provisional accreditation desig nation from that group. He added that the word “provisional” has caused some con fusion. > “Quite frankly, lately I’ve heard a few nasty rumors that we were on probation,” he said. “I’m very unequivocally denying it. Our college of medicine is as fully accredited as it could possibly be. We have all the rights and privileges that are granted thereby.” He said the term “provisional” was used until the accreditation committee exam ined the college’s final product. “I would like to say that the committee, in giving the provisional accreditation, pointed out that this program has many significant strengths,” said Dr. Smith. He added that the committee said the A&M College of Medicine had “every opportu nity and the potential to be one of the finest in the nation.” Aided by a slide presentation compiled by the biocommunication group of the College of Medicine, Dr. Smith outlined the course of study. He said during the first two or three years of study, premedical students will begin their curriculum with no interfer ence from the college. This is to be fol lowed by two years of basic medical sci ences at the A&M facilities in Temple. Bachelor of science degrees will then be awarded, he said. The two following years medical stu dents will be stationed in Temple, Hous ton and regional cities where they will work with established physicians. An M.D. degree from A&M will then be awarded, followed by postgraduate educa tion in a primary field. Dr. Smith said that college officials are especially interested in students willing to work in rural or non-urban areas. Evaluations are based on grade averages and medical college entrance exam scores, he said. There are usually five times as many people that want to get in as there are openings, said Dr. Smith. “We’re looking for the best possible 32 students. Better meat supplies expected Winter’s effect on food bills may not have quite the bite Battalion photo by Kevin Venner Tracksters run 15-miles daily JVorking-ouf af sunrise and sunset prepares the A&M track team for their second meet in Monroe, La. this Saturday. Running 15 miles every morning at 6:30 are (L-R) sophomore Joel Vogt, biochemistry major, and junior Manfred Kohrs, finance-economics major. United Press International WASHINGTON—Prices for fresh to matoes and other tender winter vegeta bles destroyed by the Florida freeze could double through February and March, but overall consumer food bills through the first half of 1977 may not be affected* much, Agriculture Department experts say. One report from vegetable specialist Charles Porter Wednesday said prices for tomatoes, green peppers, snap beans and cucumbers could reach double their early Reserve spaces for staff only By DAVE TEWES For a $15 fee, Texas A&M University students can get a quick lesson on how not to park in a reserve space on campus. Many students think they can park in reserve staff parking spaces after business hours. They are wrong, a University Police Department spokesman said Tuesday. “It’s illegal to park in these spaces all the time, Sgt. A. W. Onstott, University Police, said. “We issue tickets 24 hours a day for this violation.” There are some staff parking lots stu dents may park in from 7:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends. “Students can park in any staff parking area after 7:30 p.m., except lots 13, 26, 27, 58, spaces reserved for females, spaces for the handicapped and individual reserve spaces,” Onstott said. Those who do not obey regulations may be forced to pay the price. They may get a ticket or have their vehicle towed away. “We tow the vehicle oft if the owner of the reserve space requests it,” Onstott said. Violators often cannot be contacted to move their vehicles because they are usu ally in class. University Police try to keep costs down for the violator by calling A-l Wrecker Service. “We charge $15 if the University Police Watergate burglar Hunt granted February parole United Press International WASHINGTON — In less than a month Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt is ex pected to leave a federal prison, the result of a decision by the U.S. Parole Commis sion. Hunt was granted a parole Wednesday effective Feb. 25, provided he pays the College Station considers new police station The College Station City Council met in special session last night to accept bids on construction projects approved in last summer’s bond election. Council members emphasized the need for architects and consultants to work to gether during the planning of long-range projects. The council accepted proposals from six architecture firms for the renovation of the present central fire station and construc tion of a new police station. Also included in municipal im provements are a general warehouse, maintenance building and storage yard. Emmett Trant & Associates; Architex, Inc.; Tim Keneipp & Associates, Inc.; M.O. Lawrence; and Wood, Wallis & Kel- lett of the Bryan-College Station area submitted their proposals for the construc tion. Henningson, Durham and Richardson of Dallas also presented bids. Funds for these proposals total $1,330,000. The City Hall addition is ex pected to cost $360,000. Council members will study community problems, engineering, future expansion and suitability before hiring a firm. $10,000 fine included in his sentence. His lawyer said that would be no problem. In another decision, the commission re fused to release convicted swindler Billie Sol Estes from parole status. Instead it re ferred Estes’ case for hearing before a parole examiner in his native Texas, at a time and place yet to be determined. Estes, 51, was convicted of mail fraud in 1963 in a widely publicized case in which he built a $150 million fortune by mortgag ing nonexistent fertilizer storage tanks. He was imprisoned in the Leaven worth, Kan., federal penitentiary from 1965 until his parole in 1971, and claimed as he entered the prison gates he had be come a born-again Christian. The Hunt decision means former White House aide John Ehrlichman and Gordon Liddy, who helped Hunt plan the Watergate burglary, soon will be the only Watergate convicts behind bars. Hunt, a former CIA agent and Nixon White House security consultant, has served about 30 months of a 2% to 8-year Watergate conspiracy sentence. He pleaded guilty in January 1973, to six counts of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the June 1972, break-in at Democratic National Headquarters in Washington’s Watergate complex. He tried unsuccessfully to withdraw the guilty plea and has been imprisoned in a minimum security federal facility at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. His lawyer, John Schneider, said he told the parole commission the sentence “equals or exceeds any other Watergate figure.” And, he said. Hunt has cooper ated in federal investigations of the CIA and Watergate. Schneider also said Hunt’s family situa tion is “devastating.” His wife was killed in 'h plane crash during the Watergate inves tigation and their 12-year-old son lives with friends. Schneider said Hunt probably will use some of the insurance money from his wife’s death to help pay his fine. request a wrecker, ” William Wright of A-l Wrecker Service said. Other wrecker services charge $45 or $50, Onstott said. If a student gets a parking ticket, the fine is $5. If he gets six or more tickets during the school year, the parking permit is re voked and campus driving privileges are suspended for the rest of the year. There is also a chance the vehicle will be damaged if towed. “We have about one or two vehicles get ting damaged a year,” said Wright. “This is normal, depending on the driver. It should be obvious which spaces are reserved, said Eugene Ray, director of the department of grounds maintenance. This department marks the spaces. “It says ‘reserved and has a number written on the cement curb at the end of the parking space,” he said. “If a person is paying attention, he should see it is re served. ” Ray said upright signs could be used to mark the reserve spaces, but this would cost more and add to sign pollution. “We hope to start using larger letters on the cement curbs,” he said. “This should make it easier to see the spaces are re served. January levels and remain high through March. Another official, however, added that higher vegetable costs for the next couple of months could be offset in total grocery bills because meat and poultry supplies might be bigger than expected, bringing down predicted prices. The official said it was too early to make any firm forecasts, but he thought overall average food prices for the first half of 1977 may still turn out close to earlier predic tions of a moderate 2 to 4 per cent increase over the first six months of 1976. The full potential impact of the freeze on citrus prices is still uncertain, the offi cial said, because officials still don’t know how much of the damaged crop will be salvaged for use in frozen concentrate in operations currently under way in Florida. Porter, meanwhile, said that in addition to the “tender” vegetables like tomatoes which suffered a near wipe-out in south Florida, there was lesser damage to har dier crops including lettuce, sweet corn, cabbage and celery. But there will be price increases of perhaps 20 per cent for them, too, he said. Porter said Mexico, a regular supplier of fresh winter tomatoes in addition to Florida, may ship a few more if restric tions on sizes and quality of imports are relaxed. But the increase wouldn’t be enough to keep domestic prices from ris ing sharply, he said. Porter said that even before the freeze, experts were forecasting a 5 per cent drop in winter vegetable fonnage because of cuts in carrot and cabbage acreage in Texas. The analyst said it would be “reasonable to expect” an Agriculture Department index of farm prices for all fresh winter vegetables including those not affected by the freeze to show an overall advance of 35 to 45 per cent in February over December levels. But by April, he said, new supplies from other Florida areas and replanted crops could ease the situation. Congressional reaction mixed on energy proposal United Press International WASHINGTON—President Carter’s request for temporary emergency author ity to allocate natural gas supplies has wide support in Congress but many members doubt it will do much to ease this winter’s crisis. “It is like saying to someone who has smoked for 30 years and who has a spot on his lungs, stop smoking,’ said Rep. Robert Krueger, D-Tex. “He can stop smoking, but that doesn’t mean his health is re stored.” Congressional leaders said there might be action on the Carter proposal by next week. Rep. William Hughes, D-N.J., who represents much of the southern New Jer sey glass industry hard hit by natural gas shortages for several winters, said he was “delighted” with the emergency proposal. “I don’t think it will trigger a sufficient amount of new gas to really rectify the problem,” Hughes said. “The shortfall is too great, but it will help.” Hughes said he will introduce a bill for the federal goverment to regulate all gas, both interstate and intrastate; place alloca tions under the control of the federal power commission, and require conserva tion by industries. Thinking of brighter days Unimpressed by the A&M-TCU basketball game last night in which A&M won 79-60, Reveille IV seems to be thinking of brighter days ahead. Last night’s win gives the Aggies a 4-4 conference record. Battalion photo by Kevin Venner