e Battalion
Friday, April 15, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Extension of drinking hours
rejected at city council meeting
By DARRELL LANFORD
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M University students last
night filled the College Station City Coun
cil meeting room. The students from Polit
ical Science 207, a state and local govern
ment course, sat on the floor, lined the
walls and crowded around the doorway.
The students left en masse after the
council rejected a request from the A&M
Student Government to extend drinking
hours to 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
Phil Sutton, vice president of external
affairs, presented the request. He said a
poll taken two years ago revealed 87 per
cent of students were in favor of extending
liquor hours.
Last year the student government asked
the council to extend liquor hours to 2
a.m., but the council decided to extend
hours to 1 a.m.
Sutton said he had talked to the police
chief, who said there had not been a signif
icant increase in alcohol-related arrests or
accidents because of the later hours.
He also said he had talked to several bar
owners, who said they were in favor of
extending hours.
Tom Nolan, owner of a local nightclub
said he didn’t care if hours were extended
or kept the same. He said staying open
another hour put a hardship on employes
in the bar.
He suggested that the council extend
hours on weekdays also so bars could stay
open on certain nights, such as Thursdays,
when night entertainment lasted until 11
or 11:30. He said that he did not think
most bars would always stay open late on
weekday nights, even if given the chance.
Councilman Jim Gardner moved to rec
ommend an ordinance for extension of
liquor hours for two weekdays, instead of
all weekdays.
No one seconded the motion.
Councilman Gary Halter moved for an
ordinance for extension of hours on
weekends. Gardner seconded.
The motion was rejected, 4 to 2 with
Mayor Lorence Bravenec abstaining.
In other action, Mary Bassett, an A&M
Consolidated teacher, complained about
pornographic material openly displayed in
convenience stores.
She carried a brown paper bag which
she said contained pornographic
magazines.
She handed the bag to Mayor Bravenec,
who put the bag under the table. She said
she bought the magazines so the council
members could see what was being sold
on magazine racks in College Station.
She said she has recently seen more
open display of pornographic material at
drive-in stores and other places
“It’s the children I’m worried about,’’
Bassett said.
Bravenec said he would ask the county
attorney what he could do to “lean on’’
stores with open displays.
Bassett said, “I’m not saying to control
what people buy, but put it out of dis
play.”
In a public hearing on a proposed revi
sion to the Comprehensive Plan, a city
chart of zoning and projects, Michael
Murphy, of 305 Pershing, objected to the
zoning of the area south of College Station
as residential. The area is about equal in
size as acreage in College Station.
Murphy claimed the low density
classification would be too costly to the
city, because sewage systems and power
lines would have to be extended over too
large an area.
Halter said if the area is not zoned resi
dential, the area could not be planned and
developed as it should be.
In other action, the council revised res
idential density classifications in the Zon
ing Ordinance.
Williams to consider aid
Funds may be blocked
tips of Cadets units at Texas A&M salute Col. Thomas R. Parsons
kt a Wednesday evening meal formation passby. The commandant and
professor of military science concludes six years in the Trigon and 28
rears military service in June. Friends of the Corps also honored the
([949 Texas A&M graduate. (UNS).
ol. Parsons honored
By RAY DANIELS
Student Services Vice President John J.
Koldus said yesterday he would recom
mend that funds not be allocated for the
proposed Early Childhood Development
Center.
Koldus discussed the project with Dean
of Education Frank W. Hubert after it
passed the Texas A&M Senate last month,
and found that the College of Education
would not support the center with funds
or staff.
Koldus said he would not recommend
allocation of the funds for this reason.
Hubert was not available for comment.
The Senate recommended allocation oi
$41,000 from student service fee reserves
to establish the center. The recommenda
tion was made to University President
Jack K. Williams, who will consider the
proposal along with recommendations
from Koldus before taking the proposal to
the Board of Regents for final approval.
The Senate proposal included stipulations
that legal aspects of the program be inves
tigated and that “the College of Education
investigate manpower and financial assis
tance.”
During Senate discussion of the issue, it
was stated the College of Education might
take over the center after the first two
years of operation, and that education stu
dents would help staff the facility.
Dr. Douglas C. Godwin,, a member of
the committee proposing the center and
also of the education faculty, said there
had been no commitment he knew of on
the part of the college to participate in the
center.
Jerry Bryant, an educational administra
tion graduate student, chaired the day
care proposal committee.
Bryant said a survey and contacts with
other centers indicated the program could
be self-supporting after two years.
The committee was not counting on fi
nancial support from the College of Edu
cation but hoped they could take over the
Center since they had the expertise to run
it properly, he said.
The Senate proposal did not commit the
College of Education, he said. It asked
that research be done into manpower and
financial assistance.
Bryant said he was under the impres
sion the College of Education would help
with manpower and consider taking oyer
the center. He said his only contact with
the college was Godwin.
“We decided to hold oft temporarily,”
Bryant said after meeting with Koldus.
“The idea is not dead, and it is still
needed. ”
or work with Corps Coleman confirmed despite denunciation
Commandant Col. Thomas R.
Parsons was honored Wednesday
for his work with Texas A&M’s
Corps of Cadets.
Corps units saluted the retiring
Army officer in a passby to the eve
ning meal.
Friends of the Corps presented
Col. Parsons a marble etching dur
ing dinner, and the Tom R. Parsons
Scholarship was announced at a re
ception afterwards.
Many University officials, led by
President and Mrs. Jack K.
Williams, Executive Vice President
and Mrs. W. C. Freeman, Dr. John
Koldus, vice president for student
services, and Gen. O.R. Simpson
assistant vice president, witnessed
the presentations.
“Where but Texas A&M would a
military officer be thus honored.
and most of the administration be
present,” remarked one of the
commandant's friends.
Col. Parsons retires in June, end
ing six years as commandant of
cadets and professor of military sci
ence at Texas A&M. He will be
come director of security and traffic
for the University. A 1949 Texas
A&M graduate, the artillery officer
has 28 years military service.
Coras Commander Robert Har
vey of Houston presented the mar
ble etching at Duncan Hall. The
large memento bears the inscripton:
“For Col. Thomas R. Parsons, U. S.
Army; Commandant of Cadets,
1971-77; Texas A&M University;
Presented by the Corps of Cadets
on Behalf of the Friends of the
Corps.”
AUSTIN, — Texas A&M University’s
first black regent — a Houston physician
— won 25-4 Senate approval yesterday
despite a scathing denunication of him as
Texas’ biggest abortionist.
Senators confirmed the appointment of
Dr. John B. Coleman of Houston without
debate after a personal privilege speech by
Sen. Walter Mengden, R-Houston.
“Dr. Coleman is probably the biggest
abortionist in the state,” Mengden said.
“Is this the kind of man we want to sit on
the board of regents of one of our state
universities?”
Mengden noted news reports about
senators’ interrogation of Coleman April 6
when the physician cried at one senator’s
denunciation of his opponents as racist.
“Unfortunately they were not tears for
the 3,683 babies that he has personally
killed in abortions he has performed since
1973, nor were they tears for the 28,408
babies that his abortion clinic has killed
since 1973,” Mengden said.
Mengden compared approval of Cole
man to German acquiesence under Nazis;
to the forced sterilization and extermina
tion of millions of people.
“In the 1930’s it was German doctors —
not Nazi officials — who sterilized millions
who they deemed undesirable and —r it
was legal — quietly killed 275,000 epilep
tics, mental defectives. World War I am
putees and children with physical de
fects,” Mengden said.
“Once a person can rationalize an act of
killing, it is impossible to draw the line at
other types of killing for convenience,” he
said.
Sens. Bill Braecklein, D-Dallas, Frank
Lombardino, D-San Antonio, and Grant
Jones, D-Abilene, joined Mengden in vot
ing against Coleman, but made no com
ment.
Coleman’s supporters also were silent
during the Senate session.
“I felt if anything needed to be said the
Harvey wins top post;
small percentage voted
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lobert Harvey defeated Stan Stanfield
yesterday’s runoff election by 1,141
is to become the 1977-78 student body
sident.
Approximately 3,907 persons, 14 per
t of the Texas A&M University student
ly, turned out in cloudy, rainy weather
ast votes.
n other executive office run-offs, Alli-
King, with 1,783 votes, won vice pres-
|nt of rules and regulations by defeating
Connor, who had 1,593 votes. Vicki
ng won vice president for student
ices by defeating Jeb Hensarling,
89 to 1,693 votes.
he 3,907 votes cast in this year’s elec-
runoff are almost a 100 per cent in-
lase over last year’s runoff in which ap-
proximatly 2,000 persons voted. Only
5,500 votes were cast in last year’s primary
election.
Susan Price, outgoing executive direc
tor of Student Government, said one rea
son for the increase in votes was concern
over a story in The Battalion in which the
Corps was suspected of bloc voting. She
said Texas A&M students were finally tak
ing an interest in events in general.
John Oeffxnger, former president of the
Memorial Student Center, said another
reason for the increase was accessibility of
polling places. He said polling places at
shuttle bus stops were a big help.
“The more you provide ballot accessi-
blity to the people, the more they’re going
to vote ” Oeffinger said.
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Results listed
Tim Crockett
Vice-president
544
John Channing
604
Executive Officers:
Jane Eike
525
udent Body President
Treasurer
Robert Harvey
2496
John Trosdair
571
Stan Stanfield
1355
Vicki Benton
550
P. Rules and Regulations
«
Class ’80 President
Allison King
1783
Jeff Mason
664
Jim Connor
1593
Ken Lewis
494
IP. Student Services
Vice-president
Vicki Young
1789
Cathy Cox
591
Jeb Hensarling
1693
Bill Hyatt
515
Class Officers:
OSCA:
iss ’78
V.P. Programs
ssident
Randy Carsch
494
\ndy Duffie
726
Jeff Mason
288
Richard “Toke” Tocquiny
488
V.P. Tenant Relations
:e-president
John Kelly
380
Fred Pfeiffer
684
Keith Klatt
282
Mary Spivey
429
Graduate Student Council
iss ’79 President
College of Education
[ohnny Lane
627
Donnie Albrecht
5
Harvey
Kathy Simmon 3
College of Liberal Arts
Cathy Agrella 3
Lew Fadele 0
Joe Rickel 0 i
Jackie Walters 2
Robert Perryman 2
College of Geosciences
Larry E. Sullivan 1
Robin Radlein 0
College of Science
J.R. Kenedy 4
Debbie Sheffy 4
T. Ham ' 3
T. Lackadoo 1
David Breeden 2
Chris Bracken 0
Tina Lee Curlson 1
Senators:
Veterinary Medicine
Ken Diestler 5
J. B. Brown 0
Engineering
Joe Young 15
Ron Smith 1
Barry Mannefield 2
Richard Scruggs 8
Mike Cook 7
Agriculture
Ronnie Howard 6
David Fain 9
Bill Sutton 0
Mike Outlaw 5
Rod Bowling 1
Jay Clary 1
Rue Wilkinson 3
Bill Little 1
J.P. Telford 2
Dennis Cremwelge 3
Dan Burow 1
Science
J.R. Kennedy 7
David Breeden 5
John Cupp 3
Off-Campus Graduate Senators:
Mary Beth Borst 12
J. Lackadoo 2
Richard Ortero 0
C. D. Jrom 0
Jesus Rodriequez 0
Thomas Sewall 6
John Franklin 1
Robert Wagoner 4
Karen Tawkeheim 1
R. Scheusslerlaux 3
Tom Gillman 5
Ron Dickson 1
Charles Snyder 8
Cathy Agrella 1
Darrel Cuhn 1
Ed Morgan 4
Jay Wellman 3
Joe Kiel 3
Beatrice Egle 1
Cletus Bayer 3
vote would say it,” Sen. Chet Brooks,
D-Dallas, said afterwards. “I’m sorry he
was subjected to an attack of that sort. It
was completely unfair to his medical prac
tice and to him as a human being.”
At the April 6 hearing before the Senate
Nominations Committee one critic-
charged Coleman’s abortion clinic per
forms illegal abortions on women pregnant
longer than seven months,
preme Court grants legality to something
make it also moral.” he asked.
Prosecutor blames
Texas law for mistrial
United Press International
FORT WORTH — A prosecutor in the
aborted murder trail of millionaire T. Cul
len Davis blames its abrupt ending as much
on Texas law as on the juror who forced the
mistrial.
“This is the kind of horror story that
could provide legislation for alternate
jurors, a system which Texas doesn’t have, ”
Tarrant County District Attorney Tim
Curry said yesterday.
Texas District Court Judge Tom Cave
terminated the trial Wednesday — eight
weeks into jury selection — because an
already selected juror visiting a sick rela
tive in Chicago made unauthorized phone
calls in which the trial was discussed.
“The judge did what he had to do. Itwas
not our fault, not the judge’s fault and not
the defendant’s fault The system is good,
but sometimes it breaks down. ”
Curry said under an alternate juror sys
tem a single juror could be dismissed while
the rest of the panel could be retained.
Cave said he thought he could avoid de
claring the mistrial until he studies case
law on the subject.
“I thought it may be a discretionary mat
ter,” he said. But he said his investigation
into theclandestinecalls by juror Elizabeth
Lynn Panke did not leave him a broad
course of action.
“Article 36.22 of theTexas Code of Crim
inal Procedure reads in part: No persons
shall be permitted to converse with a juror
about the case on trial except in the pres
ence and by the permission of the court, ’
Cave said in his mistrial announcement.
“New trials, in the case of felony, shall be
granted for the following causes, and none
other . . . ‘Where a juror has conversed
with any persons in regard to the case. ”
Cave’s investigation substantiated that
Mrs. Panke made calls, discussed the case
and expressed a “derogatory” opinion as to
Davis’ guilt or innocence.
Agricultural leader honored
By MARY HESALROAD
Battalion Stall
Reagan V. Brown, newly appointed
Texas Agriculture Commissioner, was
awarded a certificate of appreciation yes
terday by the Association of Former Stu
dents.
Brown, class of ’43, appeared at Texas
A&M University as a Political Forum
speaker.
In his speech. Brown said the Commis
sioner of Agriculture does not decide what
is good or bad for agriculture in Texas.
“Our agency is basically regulatory,” he
said.
He stressed that the department would
work in complete cooperation with differ
ent groups-commodity groups, farm or
ganizations and agribusiness firms.
“Through these we’ll gather informa
tion, put it together and then they’ll make
the decisions. We believe in freedom,”
Brown emphasized.
Brown said he thought people would
benefit more from the American way of
doing business, relying on competition.
“Under this system, all of us do better.
We have more bathtubs, more paved
roads and ship channels.”
Then Karl Marx came along with a dif
ferent idea “and I think he got hit in the
head with a wet cob,” Brown commented.
He said that under Marx’s system, the
government decides who lives where and
how much they get.
“Under that system there’s one great
fallacy,” he said.
Brown also voiced concern over
whether there will be wheat on the market
in 2001 and good relations with the Euro
pean Common Market in 1995.
“Whether we like it or not, we’ve got to
‘be an exporting nation, he added.
Throughout his speech. Brown em
phasized his love and respect for Texas
A&M.
“When I come back to this hallowed
ground, knowing that every good thing I
have accomplished in my life has been the
result of Texas A&M, I can stand here
with a great deal of appreciation for this
great school.”
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