A
Top
of the
News
Campus
SENIOR CLASS RINGS or-
ered during the 1976 fall mid-
tester term will be ready for
elivery today at the Registration
lenter located in the Old Exchange
tore. Rings may be picked up from
a m. to noon and from 1-4:30 p.m.
the Registration Center today
id Monday only. Any rings not
icked up by 4:30 p.m. Monday
/ill be left with the Ring Clerk in
ioke 7.
TUESDAY, FEB. 1, is the last
ly to drop courses with no records.
THE DIRECTOR of Texas A&M
Jniversity News Service, Jim
Tndsey of College Station, was re
placed on the State Banking Board
[ Wednesday — four years after his
Berm expired. Sam Carter of Tem
ple was named by Gov. Dolph Bris-
[oe to replace Lindsey.
WARCON III will be staged
oday through Sunday beginning at
b p.m. in the MSC. Ten select
games, open gaming and an auction
ire featured. Registration fee is two
lollars and dealer’s tables are avail-
ble for the weekend for five dol-
AGGIE PARENTS OF THE
EAR applications are available in
he Student Programs Office, MSC
16, and are being accepted now
hrough March 25.
Local
its OFF-CAMPUS STUDENT AS-
iefo BOCIATION (OCSA) organization
lie plans are underway. Students in
terested in helping may contact
Karen Switzer, YMCA 108 or attend
ImeetingThursdav, Feb. 3at8p.m.
“Jin YMCA 106.
Texas
STATE SENATORS unani-
l^pm/dy approved 104 ofGav. Dolph
Briscoe’s appointees, including his
selections of Garrett Morris of Fort
IVorth, Alan Erwin of Baytown and
fceorge Cowden of Dallas, to be the
|rst members of the Texas Public
Utility Commission. H.C. Bell of
Rustin won reappointment as a
Bexas A&M University regent.
CONGRESS WASTED no time
oday in starting to work on Presi-
lent Carter’s request for emergency
lowers to deal with natural gas
hortages. Debate on the measure
vas scheduled in a House energy
nbcommittee and in the full Sen-
ite. In the House, witnesses were
iummoned to discuss where the gas
s and who needs it.
tN
National
COMMUNICATIONS EXPERTS
re recommending the Postal Service
se space satellites to speed mail de-
iveries. They said most messages car-
ied electronically would probably
ome from business and government
-perhaps one of every three letters,
me of every three letters.
MORE THAN 36 million Ameri-
:ans today are living under a state of
emergency declared by their gover-
hors because of the worsening
mergy crisis. New York, New Jer-
iey and Ohio residents were warned
if worse times to come. The Na-
^Wfonal Weather Service said a mass
^of cold air would bring zero and
subzero temperatures to much of
^ the area during the weekend.
sAi CLAUDINE LONGET’S proba
tion officer has asked that the
French-born singer be sentenced to
no more than 30 nonconsecutive
3™ days in the county jail for the slaying
of her lover, Vladimir “Spider”
Sabich. Longet was convicted Jan.
of negligent homicide, a mis-
emeanor, in the shooting death.
FIVE MEN on Wyoming’s death
:ow will be spared the gas chamber
because the state supreme court has
ruled the state’s death penalty law is
unconstitutional. The court said
3^' yesterday the Wyoming death pen
alty statue failed to meet several re
quirements of the latest U.S. Su
preme Court decision concerning
capital punishment.
weather
ncreasing cloudiness Friday af-
ernoon, turning much colder to-
light and Saturday. Wind gusts
15-25 mph this afternoon and to-
ilght. High today upper-60s, low
onight low-20s, high Saturday
ipper-30s.
J
The Battalion
Vol. 70 No. 66 Friday, January 28, 1977 News Dept 845-2611
6 Pages College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611
City Council aids
housing problem
with ordinance
Ry LAURA BROCKMAN
The College Station City Council
passed an ordinance last night which will
encourage residential development to
satisfy the housing demands of Texas
A&M University.
The proposal will amend the Zoning
Ordinance No. 850 which requires a con
ditional use permit for projects.
This permit is contingent upon certain
points, including parking provisions,
maximum lot coverage and design of inter
ior streets.
The project plan must contain one and
three-tenths off-street parking spaces for
each bedroom included in the proposal or
two spaces per dwelling unit, whichever is
less. “This will encourage one bedroom
apartments,” Councilman James Gardner
said.
Main and accessory buildings must not
cover more than 40 per cent of the lot
area.
The amendment also gives the city
engineer power to alter the proposal
whenever the public health, safety or gen
eral welfare of project residents would be
endangered.
The Council also passed a joint resolu
tion and mutual aid agreement concerning
civil disasters. “This primarily is preparing
disaster contingency plans,” North Bar-
dell, City Manager, said.
Councilman Gary Halter questioned
the resolution’s wording which “assumes
that we can recover from a nuclear attack.”
“Wording in this resolution is general
because of national requirements,” Bar-
dell said. “It is necessary that it be worded
this way for us to receive the funds.” The
resolution was passed by the Council with
Halter opposing.
Pat Baker of the “Years for Profit” pro
gram presented plans for a nutrition pro
gram for elderly people. “The plan is de
signed to prevent isolation,” Baker said.
“We don’t want to take the place of
nursing homes,” she said, “we just want to
keep the elderly out longer.” The program
will be 90 per cent federally funded and 10
per cent locally supported by cash dona
tions.
People 60 years or older will be eligible
to eat the noon meal and enjoy recreation
at Lincoln Center. The program will start
in March. Meals should begin in April.
The Council also passed an ordinance
which will require fire hydrants in single
family and duplex districts to be no more
than 500 feet from any part of the build
ing. Fire hydrants in other districts will be
no more than 300 feet from any part of the
structure.
“This will raise the density of fire hyd
rants in the city,” Bardell said.
A resolution favoring legislation au
thorizing the use of eminent domain for
coal slurry pipeline purposes was also
passed by the Council last night. A copy of
th is will be sent to all members of the
Texas House of Representatives and Texas
Senate.
A study of College Station visitor opin
ions was presented to the Council which
proposed a brochure to inform visitors
about activities in the area. Mayor Larry
Bravenec said he would try to get work
started on the brochure.
Better coordination between Texas
A&M University and the city was also
suggested. Streets and directional signs
were said to need improvement.
College Station gets
$275,000 HUD grant
Speeding by
By LAURA BROCKMAN
Streets will be paved in four areas of
College Station with the aid of a $275,000
grant from the Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD).
The HUD funds were allocated to vari
ous city improvements at the Jan. 13
meeting of the College Station City Coun
cil.
The sites for improvements are predom
inantly low-income minority areas of the
city, said James Callaway, Community
Development planner.
“This program proposal is based on the
community development needs identified
at the beginning of the City’s Community
Development program,” Callaway said.
“The proposed street construction proj
ects for program year 1977 will solve sev
eral drainage problems as well as improve
circulation and access.”
Roads to be improved are Avenue B,
Pearce, Columbus, Preston, Georgia, De
troit, Eleanor, Thompson, and Edward
streets. Also Nevada Street from Detroit
to Georgia will he paved.
“These programs were selected on the
citizen participation program,” Callaway
said. “Other problems of the community
that were brought up were drainage, light
ing and parks and recreation areas.”
The HUD funds will also be used in
clearing the streets to prepare for the re
paving and to insure paving specifications
are met.
“The code enforcement and clearance
proposals are part of an ongoing program
in all four of the Community Develop
ment Neighborhoods,” Callaway said.
HUD has certain specifications as to
Woodkins
granted stay
execution
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Jus
tice Lewis F. Powell has issued a stay of
execution for Calvin Woodkins, 21, the
next man in Texas scheduled to die in the
electric chair.
Woodkins had been scheduled to die at
Huntsville Feb. 10.
Powell’s stay order will remain in force
until Woodkins files a formal appeal and it
is acted upon by the high court.
Woodkins was convicted of killing oil
executive Jimmy Kukendall of Marshall.
In his appeal to the court his attorneys
argued he was not the person who fired
the fatal shot during the Nov. 21, 1973
robbery and abduction.
He said he did not receive a fair trial
because he is black and because jurors
who said they had reservatons about the
death penalty were improperly excused.
He also argued about the introduction of
prejudicial but irrelevant evidence of past
criminal conduct.
Previous requests for a stay of execution
were denied by the Harrison County trial
court and the Texas Court of Criminal Ap
peals.
of
how the money is to be distributed, but
the final decision is made by the City
Council.
Under Title I of the Housing and Com
munity Development Act of 1974, rules
are listed for the eligibility of activities to
be carried out under the program.
Subpart C states that streets, street
lights, traffic signals, signs, street furni
ture, trees and other normal accessories to
streets but excluding expressways and
other limited access ways, may be funded
by the HUD grant.
“The 1976 program has just finished the
engineering work and construction will
begin this spring,” Callaway said. The 1977
engineering work will probably not begin
until November or December. ”
The bright sun and warm weather which have
beset College Station the past couple of days have
brought out bicycle riders who wish to take advan
tage of the spring atmosphere. However, A&M
Meteorologist Charlie Brenton says that a cold
front is expected in this afternoon which will
drop temperatures to the low 20s tomorrow
morning. (Photo by Kevin Venner)
Economic center established
The notion that the United States is be
coming a “nation of economic illiterates”
has prompted a program involving Texas
A&M University to establish a program
involving education and research in the
free enterprise system, according to the
University News Services.
With $300,000 as an initial gift to assist
in the creation of the Center for Education
and Research in Free Enterprise, the pre
college program will be designed to assist
Texas public schools meet the Texas Legis
lature s mandate requiring all public high
schools to “provide instruction in the es
sentials and benefits of the free enterprise
system.”
The center will include a summer insti
tute for high school teachers in their class
presentations, minitraining programs for
teachers unable to participate in the sum
mer institutes, and advisory services for
state agencies and local school districts.
After the system was authorized by the
Board of Regents Wednesday, the univer
sity’s alumni organization, the Association
of Former Students, and the Texas A&M
Texas band)
leaving for
California
By KEVIN VENNER
Battalion Staff
The people in the room could not
help themselves. They were
coerced to break from the norm and
enter into the world of reality. In
hibitions were cast aside, replaced
by a desire for more of the mind-
bending ingredients that put the
otherwise placid crowd into their
frenzied condition.
Who’s to blame for distributing a
medicine that put so many un
tainted persons into a state of
nefarious calamity and made it ex
tremely enjoyable as well?
It’s Balcones Fault!
The Austin based band, plugged
by TEXAS MONTHLY as being the
“Best Show Band in Texas,” verified
this designation last night at the
Black Hat Saloon by seducing
everyone in the bar with its musical
circus act.
Unfortunately, the group is about
to lose its ranking as the best band
in Texas...the musicians are moving
to California.
Barry Davis, one of the road
managers of the group, said that the
musicians will play a concentrated
area on the West Coast and try to do
as well as they have done in Texas.
The eight-member band consists
of two of the original five persons
who started Balcones Fault five
years ago. Jack Jacobs, formerly an
instructor of government at the
University ofTexas, plays guitar and
sings lead and back-up vocals.
The other original is A. Fletcher
Clark III, who is the music co
ordinator for the band and also the
business manager, which earned
him the name “numbers.”
J
University Development Foundation
made the initial contribution.
In presenting the proposal for the new
center to the regents, Texas A&M officials
cited a Joint Council on Economic Educa
tion report which noted that 75 per cent of
the nation’s college students do not take a
single course in economics and that half of
the nation’s 60,000 high school social
studies teachers have no formal training in
economics.
“The danger is that a nation of economic
illiterates may, through the political pro
cess, unwittingly damage the economic
system upon which the material welfare of
the nation depends, and fail to favor mea
sures that woidd enhance the viability of
that system,” university officials noted in
their proposal.
Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., vice president
of academic affairs, said the center will
draw on the resources of various parts of
the university, but will be administra
tively attached to the College of Liberal
Arts and the department of economics will
be its headquarters. It will have an advi
sory board, he said, composed of busi
nessmen, government officials and
educators.
Other center activities will include
sponsorship of public conferences, short
courses and workshops, and initial initia
tion of a newsletter to school districts and
other educational organiazations.
New legislation
concerns state
antitrust suits
United Press International
AUSTIN — Special interests and lobbies
are trying to force-feed consumers with
legislation preventing the state attorney
general from seeking damages in antitrust
suits, a consumer group said today.
Congress last year approved legislation
giving state attorney generals the right to
seek treble damages for consumers in
jured by price fixing. The Texas House
Judicial Affairs Committee this week ap
proved a proposal by Rep. Charles Evans,
D-Hurst, to repeal the federal law for the
state.
“An individual consumer cannot begin
to afford the cost of antitrust litigation,”
said Jim Boyle, executive director of the
Texas Consumer Association.
“The only hope to enforce the antitrust
laws for consumers is with the Texas attor
ney general.”
Boyle said companies that are trying to
fix prices or to gain a major share of a par
ticular market are supporting Evans’ legis
lation.
“Some special interest lobbies and cer
tain legislators want to quickly shove the
Evans bill down the throats ofTexas con
sumers at the beginning of this session,”
Boyle said.