The Battalion
Vol. 70 No. 119 Wednesday, May 18, 1977 News Dept. 845-2611
10 Pages College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611
Kim Tomes, left, with younger sister Trisha. Both are students at
Texas A&M University. Photo by Cyndy Fulghum.
A&M coed Kim Tomes
wins Miss U.S.A. title
By JULIE SPEIGHTS
Twenty minutes after the Miss U.S.A.
pageant ended in Charlestown, S.C., Kim
Tomes’ mother was greeted with “Hey
Mama, we won!”
The words didn’t come from Kim
Tomes, the new Miss U.S.A., but from
her sponsors, Guy-Rex Associates.
“Everything was right,” said Richard
Guy of Guy-Rex Associates. “She was the
best-prepared girl to get Miss U.S.A. and
she has a good chance of becoming Miss
Universe,” Guy said, because she’s com
peted in beauty pageants before.
Kim is a senior physical education major
at Texas A&M University and the first
Miss Texas-Universe to become Miss
U.S.A.
Guy said Kim’s combination of a unique
appearance and down-to-earth personality
won her the title.
Guy-Rex Associates designed Kim’s
evening gown and state costume for the
pageant. They also assisted her with
make-up and grooming.
“It was so mind-boggling,” Mrs. Tomes
said yesterday. “We were just over
whelmed.”
“Kim’s first love is A&M,” she said. Kim
is anxious to get her senior ring, but now
they aren’t sure what year to put on it.
As Miss U.S.A. Kim will soon travel to
Acapulco, the Philippines, and possibly to
Thailand, her mother said.
She will compete in the Miss Universe
Pageant in the Dominican Republic July
16.
Kim’s sister Patricia is a sophomore
medical technology major at Texas A&M.
She also has an older sister, Valerie, who
is married.
Kim’s mother said the three girls are
different from each other, but she is proud
of them all.
Kim was a member of the Diamond
Darlings at Texas A&M. Diamond Darl
ings sponsor, Mrs. Tom Chandler said,
“Kim’s just a good old gal.”
“It shows that if a girl is just herself, she
can win,” Chandler said.
“I’ve never seen her look better,” said
Kim’s ex-roommate, Karen Rider.
Rider said Kim is modest and prefers to
be known as Kim Tomes rather than a
beauty contest winner.
Aside from much recognition, Kim’s
title brings with it many rewards. She will
receive $21,000, a new car, a mink coat, a
diamond ring, a $450 puppy and a fur
hished apartment on Fifth Ave. in New
York City.
Her roommate is the current Miss Uni
verse and if Kim doesn’t become Miss
Universe, she will room with the new
Miss Universe during her reign.
Miss U.S.A. has not been chosen Miss
Universe in 12 years.
Guy said the difference between Miss
U.S.A. and Miss America is that Miss
U.S.A. must compete with more girls to
get the national title and the competition
doesn’t stop there.
There will be 81 competing in the Miss
Universe pageant, Guy said.
“I think she will be a very popular Miss
U.S.A. and I expect her to do very well in
the Miss Universe pageant,” Guy said.
may okay more construction
ionstruction and renovations within
Texas A&M University System will
minate discussion at next Tuesday’s
eting of the A&M Board of Regents.
The regents will consider recom-
nded appropriations for additional
r king space and a major storage facility'
Texas A&M and renovation of a number
system buildings.
rairie View A&M University will re
ceive over $1.5 million for renovation of
two of its buildings if those improvements
are approved by the regents. Street re
pairs and expansion totaling $634,000 have
also been recommended for Prairie View
as part of its long-range repair program.
Appropriations for preliminary work on
renovation of Texas A&M’s old hospital
building and Agronomy Building have
been recommended for board approval.
The regents will decide whether to allo
cate $149,000 for construction of a new
parking lot on A&M’s West Campus and
expansion of a present lot’ according to the
meeting agenda. Office furnishings for the
new Soil and Crop Sciences Building may
also be approved by the regents.
A&M students will have a new laundry
service this fall if the regents follow a
business department recommendation to
discontinue the universityoperated laun
dry and contract Fabric Care Service of
Bryan to provide that service. The laundry
fee under the recommended system would
go from $45 to $53.50. The University
would receive a small commission for what
ever laundry business the service received.
University President Jack K. Williams
will recommend five businessmen and
former students to the Consulting Board
of A&M’s newly-established Free
Enterprise research center. They are:
James H. Galloway, ’30; Rex B. Grey, ’41;
Robert B. Little III, ’41; Felix R.
McKnight, ’32, and Norman N. Moser,
’37. The regents must approve those ap
pointments.
A $10 million issue of Permanent Uni
versity Fund bonds will be made for the
A&M system in July if approved by the
regents next week. That sale would be
made in conjunction with one by the Uni
versity of Texas System.
The regents will probably approve 51
recommended appointments and 19 pro
motions within the A&M system. They are
also expected to accept for the system
gifts, grants and loans totaling
$874,440.93, made since the board’s last
meeting March 22.
The meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m.
Tuesday in the Board Meeting Room adja
cent to the Memorial Student Center.
Senate revising
chool finance bill
United Press International
\USTIN — Senators yesterday began
ing apart their recently assembled $776
llion school finance bill but insisted
:y intended to have a plan passed and
idy for the House to consider by Thurs-
Lobbyists for school administrators and
feachers urged the Senate Education
mmittee to increase funds for teacher
aries and revamp formulas for providing
to poor districts.
3rbry Holden of Georgetown, spokes-
n for the Texas Association of School
ards, urged senators to protect local dis-
its from having to increase property
es.
Every time there’s been an increase in
e foundation school program there’s also
en an increase in local taxes,” Holden
|d. “A lot of districts have increased
[es as much as 42 per cent in the past
v years.”
Holden said more than half the 1,089
lool districts in the state will face in-
:ases in their local fund assignment
der the Senate bill — a situation he said
mid compel many of those districts to
se taxes or cut back school programs.
Sen. Oscar Mauzy, D-Dallas, chairman,
d the Education Committee will hear
ditional testimony today and begin con-
dering a number of amendments, includ-
lg several proposals to add $44 million to
Se bill.
“I still hope that we, the Senate, can
vote by Thursday,” Mauzy said. “That’ll
give us 11 days for the House to decide
whether to concur or go to conference.”
Mauzy denied suggestions that Senate
delays in considering the school finance
issue could jeopardize chances for the
House and Senate to agree on a bill before
the legislative session ends at midnight
May 30.
“There is still time,” Mauzy said.
Representatives passed a $696 million
school finance bill April 20 that em
phasizes property tax relief.
The plan, drawn up by Mauzy’s sub
committee, gives more attention to
equalizing state aid to poor districts.
Critics complained the Senate plan
would give equalization aid to many dis
tricts that are not poor, such as Dallas and
Houston.
“Nearly every child in the state is going
to qualify for equalization,” said L. P.
Sturgeon, Texas State Teachers Associa
tion lobbyist. “You can’t equalize if you’re
going to help the rich as well as the poor.
There couldn’t be that many districts that
have a great need for equalization.”
Mauzy said the Senate plan will provide
additional state aid to school districts with
80 per cent of the children in the state
under a formula that takes into account the
wealth of the district and the tax effort of
the local community.
“This is the most mathematically sound
way that I know of to see that the money
goes to those with the need,” he Said.
Motorcycle-car collision kills
\&M chemistry grad student
citation was filed yesterday against
driver in a car-motorcycle accident
Bat killed a Texas A&M University
jaduate student Saturday.
|The driver, Mike Jadlowski of 1911
Hewood in Bryan, was charged with fail
le to yield the right of way. College Sta-
K>n policeman Irvin Todd said yesterday.
ITodd said he expected no further
larges to be filed.
[Joseph Michael Grima, a 24-year-old
lemistry graduate student, was killed
Iturday when his motorcycle collided
Mth Jadlowski’s car on FM 2818.
leutel director
recovers from
heart attack
Dr. Claude Goswick, director of Texas
ScM University’s A.P. Beutel Health
[enter, is “progressing nicely” after suf-
ing a heart attack last week. University
icials said yesterday.
Goswick, 47, was stricken at the health
nter about 1 p.m. last Tuesday. He was
shed to St. Joseph Hospital where he is
w being treated.
Doctors have removed the pacemaker
led at first to keep Goswick’s heart beat-
jg and have moved him to a private room
(here he is still under 24-hour observa-
bn.
Grima died later at St. Joseph Hospital
in Bryan.
Funeral services for Grima were held
this morning at the Corpus Christi
Catholic Church in Queens, N.Y. He is to
be buried in St. Raymond’s Cemetery.
Grima had lived in College Station for
one year. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Grima, live in Woodside, N.Y.
fAd
ministrators
anticipate 10,000
summer students
A larger number of Texas A&M
students than ever is expected to re
turn in two weeks, along with new
students and others, for summer
classes.
Registrar Robert A. Lacey an
nounced first summer term registra
tion will be Tuesday, May 31.
Classes begin Wednesday for the
June 1-July 6 session. Second term
registration July 7 is followed by
classes and exams July 8-Aug. 12.
Summer commencement is
planned Aug. 13.
Texas A&M officials expect about
10,000 students to enroll.
Veterinary medicine students
began the summer trimester April
25. Except for a July 4-5 holiday, it
continues through Aug. 5.
May exodus
Heavy traffic jammed streets on campus Friday (left) as friends and empty as this one (right) was yesterday until students return in two
relatives swarmed in to help dorm students move out on the last weeks for summer school.
day of the spring semester. Campus sidewalks will probably be as Battalion photo by Mike willy
Texas Republicans oppose
presidential primaries bill
United Press International
AUSTIN — Most House Republicans
refused yesterday to support legislation
establishing a permanent presidential
primary in Texas. They contended
provisions of the bill could permit Demo
cratic officials to control Republican pri
mary results.
The House approved the bill 117-7 and
sent it to the Senate. The proposal guaran
tees a proportional division of the state’s
United Press International
NEW YORK — Federal investigators
have recommended inspection of all
Sikorsky S-61 helicopters because they
suspect the failure of a small landing gear
attachment caused the Manhattan skys
craper helicopter accident that claimed
five lives on Monday.
Such a wide inspection program could
include even the helicopter used to shut
tle President Carter about. The Presiden
tial craft is the same model as the one that
toppled over on the roof of the 59-story
Pan Am Building in midtown Manhattan.
There was no immediate indication
from the White House of whether an in
spection of the President’s helicopter was
planned.
“Our preliminary findings are that there
was metal fatigue or failure” in the coupl
ing — a part the size of a fist which at
taches the landing gear structure to the
body of the craft, Philip A. Hogue, a
member of the National Transportation
Safety Board (NTSB), said yesterday.
Hogue said his unit would make an
emergency recommendation to the Fed-
delegates to national political conventions.
It gives the secretary of state the power to
place on the ballot the names of any “na
tionally recognized” candidates.
Rep. Brad Wright, R-Houston, a
member of the subcommittee which
drafted the original primary bill, said a se
ries of amendments adopted during House
debate made the bill a disaster.
“Republicans as a party support the
concept of a presidential primary,” he
eral Aviation Administration that the cou
plings in all Sikorsky S-61 helicopters —
there are 60 to 80 in the world now flying
— be inspected immediately.
But he said the NTSB was not recom
mending that the crafts be grounded
pending the coupling inspections.
The NTSB also recommended that a
change be made in the 9,900-hour service
life of the coupling.
Five persons died Monday — either
hacked by the helicopter rotor blades or
hit on midtown streets by falling debris
from the craft. Eight others were injured.
New York City suspended flights bet
ween the New York metropolitan area’s
three major airports and the Pan Am
Building, pending a final NTSB report.
But the helicopter service hoped to re
sume service between the airports them
selves in a few days with new couplings if
necessary.
“When an airline — for instance. Pan
Am — has a crash, they don’t stop their
operations,” a spokesman for New York
Airways said. “When you have an auto
crash, you don’t pull all the Buicks off the
road.”
said. “But I think this bill as amended dic
tates to political parties certain conditions
that the legislature should not dictate.
“The secretary of state picking the can
didates that will be on the ballot is a disas
ter. He is usually a Democratic appointee,
and if he wants to fragment the conserva
tives all he has to do is pick 10 or 12 con
servative candidates and one liberal, and
the liberal will come out the leader,”
Wright said.
The House revised the bill during de
bate to permit the secretary of state rather
than political party executive committees
to select candidates for the ballot. The re
vision also guarantees proportional divi
sion of the delegates to national conven
tions.
The bill drafted by the Elections Com
mittee permitted each party to opt for a
United Press International
AUSTIN — The Senate voted 28-3 yes
terday to give judges power to dismiss a
juror without declaring a mistrial before
prosecutors begin presenting evidence.
Sen. Betty Andujar, R-Forth Worth,
said the legislation is aimed at preventing
a recurrence of situations such as occured
in the T. Cullen Davis trial.
A mistrial had to be declared in the
murder trial of the Fort Worth millionaire
because one of the eight jurors selected in
winner-take-all provision by senatorial or
congressional districts.
Wright said the House amendments
made the bill almost identical to one
which is apparently dead in a Senate sub
committee. “It has no chance of passage
now,” he said.
“The House acted hastily by sending
the Senate the same bill they turned down
earlier. They’re not even going to look at
this bill.”
Earlier yesterday, the House postponed
until Friday a vote on a proposal permit
ting creation of water import authorities to
bring water from other states to arid areas
of Texas.
Two amendments quickly compounded
the difficulty of creating such an import
authority. Backers of the bill asked for the
delay.
eight weeks of court proceedings partici
pated in clandestine telephone calls and
made prejudicial statements about Davis.
“The county had spent nearly two
months and $100,000 to $200,000 trying to
find a jury,” Mrs. Andujar said.
Under her bill the trial judge could re
place an offending juror and proceed with
the trial unless prosecutors had already
begun presenting evidence.
The bill now goes to the House.
Federal agency suggests
inspection of helicopters
Dismissal of jury
without mistrial
wins approval