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.
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National
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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