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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1977
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Open Mon. 7-9
Thurs. 10-2
Sat. 10-4
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different cords,
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wall hangings, pot
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Top of the News
Campus
A STUDY of a possible Indian
village site and two nearby quar
ries in Williamson County will
begin in two weeks by Texas
A&M University archeologists.
The researchers, awarded
$39,811 by the National Park
Service, will examine locations of
the early campsites and attempt
to trace stone tools back to the
quarries. The sites are on the
grounds of Lake Granger, which
is now being constructed on the
San Gabriel River near Taylor.
Harry Shafer, assistant professor
of sociology and anthropology,
said the village dates back in ex
cess of 2,000 years and its inhabi
tants were probably of the pre
ceramic period.
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the 80 unions he represents
negotiate a new contract within
two or three years. He said only
two other groups in Texas, em
ployes of the State Bar of Texas
and Jackson Manufacturing Co.
of Dallas, both nonunion, have
legal insurance plans.
SOUTHWEST airlines, which
is causing so much trouble for its
larger competitors and the city of
Fort Worth, has picked up some
fairly powerful support from the
legislature. Fort Worth re
peatedly has sued Southwest in
an effort to force it to move out of
Dallas’ Love Field and into the
Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Air
port. Rep. James Kaster, D-El
Paso, said yesterday at least 80
House members were ready to
back his bill to stop the city of
Fort Worth from harassing
Southwest.
UNION WORKERS, for the
first time in the state’s history,
will be covered by legal insurance
similar to hospitalization insur
ance, William N. Wheat, an at
torney for the Iron Workers
Union Local 694 announced yes
terday. The first new contract was
with the Texas Steel & Wire
Corp., and Wheat plans to have
National
THE TRIAL of New Jersey
“Death Row Author’ Edgar Her
bert Smith Jr., 42, has been de
layed one month, as ordered yes
terday at the request of his attor
ney. His attorney said the time is
needed for psychiatric tests.
Smith drew national attention for
a series of books he wrote, includ
ing the bestselling “Brief against
Death . Smith is awaiting trial on
charges of kidnaping, attempted
robbery, murder, and assault for
abduction of a woman at
knifepoint last October.
A MAJOR GAP exists between
the promise of a car emission
standards being met and the ac
tual performance of cars headed
to the consumer. The EPA has
been pulling cars off the assembly
line for testing and in the initial
round of tests last month, produc
tion models of 1977 Ford
Granadas and Mercury Monarchs
produced up to eight times the
legal maximum carbon
monoxide. The assembly lines
were halted, and the EPA de
manded carburetor modifications
and the recall of 54,000 cars.
IF RONALD REAGAN per
sists in keeping alive his dream of
winning a presidential election,
so does former president Gerald
Ford, who never won an election
outside of his Michigan congres
sional district. Ford was told by
reporters that the former Califor
nia governor had not ruled out
another presidential quest in
1980, and the former chief execu
tive snapped: ’’Neither do I.”
World
WITHIN HOURS of the kill
ing of seven Roman Catholic mis
sionaries Sunday, a search began
for the killers in Salisbury,
Rhodesia. Security sources said
torrential downpours were mak
ing the search difficult. Rhode
sian soldiers are combing the
rain-soaked bush country north of
Salisbury for the killers and in
tend to bring them in alive to dis
prove nationalist claims the gun
men were crack Rhodesian com
mandos. The one surviving priest
in the group identified the attac
kers as guerrillas
TWO SOVIET cosmonauts
have moved from their Soyuz 24
spacecraft to the Salyut 5 space
laboratory today, settling in for an
apparently lengthy stay aboard
the orbiting station. The official
Tass News agency said the cos
monauts, who docked their craft
with Salyut last night, transferred
to the larger capsule after a night
of rest and preparation. The cos
monauts, in their orbiting space
laboratory, apparently will de
vote their time to routine studies
and experiments, foregoing any
space spectaculars.
Banker urges friendliness
An Austin bank executive in Col
lege Station yesterday suggested
that perhaps bankers can compete
better for scarce capital by getting
off their “pedestals” and becoming
more approachable to their custom
ers and to the public.
Richard O. Harris, president of
Austin’s American National Bank,
said such a policy change will be
necessary if the larger banks want to
make the individual depositor the
principal focus of banking activity.
Harris spoke to about 200 persons
attending the 25th annual Farm and
Ranch Credit School for Commer
cial Bankers and the annual meeting
of the Texas Bankers Association
Agricultural and Rural Affairs Sec
tion at Texas A&M University.
He said that when his bank began
designing an individual depositor
program, officers and other em
ployes were found suffering from
“the pedestal syndrome.”
“This is an ailment that is quite
common in the banking business,
and once it flares up it is highly con
tagious,” he said. ‘Tn the final
stages, the victim may be allergic to
customers except those who are rich
and dignified.
The cure at the Austin bank has
been simple, Harris said. Pedestals
were scrapped, office doors were
opened, and “we began to talk to
people.’’
“We found that nearly everybody
who came into our bank was looking
for a friend, and our first step was to
see to it that they found one,” he
said.
Harris offered credit school
members a four-point program to
improve the atmosphere between
commercial banks and the public:
More effective, direct, in-the-bank
communication with customers;
personal involvement by bankers in
community civic activites; a public
relations program based on under
standing public attitudes and be
havior rather than on “publicity’
only, and closer cooperation with
the news media.
Extra features of the credit school
this year are agricultural credit
analysis and commodity hedging
workshops scheduled for Feb. 9-11.
The credit school is conducted by
the A&M agricultural economics
department and sponsored by the
Texas Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion, Texas Agricultural Extension
Service and the Texas Bankers As
sociation.
Tuition varies for foreign students
1403 University
846-5764
Tuition rates for foreign students
at Texas A&M University may vary
depending on the country they are
from and their financial need, ac
cording to R.C. Diebel, controller of
accounts at A&M.
Prior to September 1975, fees for
all foreign students were $14 per
semester credit hour with a
minimum of $200 per semester.
A new law passed by Congress
came into effect Sept. 1, 1975 re
quiring foreign students to pay the
standard non-resident tuition fee of
$40 per semester credit hour, Die
bel said.
The law also states, however, that
students from countries that charge
U.S. citizens $200 or less to attend
publicly funded colleges and uni
versities will pay a reduced fee of
$14 per semester credit hour with a
minimum of $200 per semester.
According to Diebel, the Coor
dinating Board of Texas currently
has 49 countries listed in this cate
gory including Mexico, El Salvador
and the Philippines.
Universities in most countries
have low tuition fees, says Corkey
Sandel, international student ad
visor at A&M. Therefore, few
foreign students who have entered
A&M since 1975 have been affected
by this law.
The students who are affected,
said Sandel, are mainly those from
Communist-controlled countries,
such as Vietnam.
This law also makes it possible for
foreign students in financial need to
receive lower tuition rates not less,
than $14 per semester hour, DiebeL
said. However, “our board has;
never exercised that prerogative.
—Ann Richmond
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