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Correction Fruits The photo of Miss U.S.A. winner Kim Tomes in last Wednesday’s Battalion accidently confused Kim and her younger sister Trisha. Kim is the blonde on the right in the photo. The Battalion Weather Vol. 70 No. 120 10 Pages Wednesday, May 25, 1977 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Today partly cloudy and warm. High today 87, low tonight 68. Southeasterly winds 7-10 m.p.h. Probability of precipation 10%. More of the same expected for to morrow through Friday. r Choice! CIAL! IjRegents appoint Williams chancellor ECIAL! New university president to be selected by board !S e Kernel Cm By LEE ROY LESCHPER JR. Battalion Editor Pineapplv Uti >efruit It Dr. Jack K. Williams yesterday became I f third man ever appointed chancellor of It Style COft K Texas A&M University System. The Texas A&M Board of Regents ap- Green Bern minted Williams to the re-created chan- lellor post, abolished in 1965, to reduce he workload he has carried since a November, 1970, as President of Texas Q and of the Texas A&M System. The W/ hange will also better accomodate the Ek pern’s growth, board members said. Cons ® ams w iM serve as acting president of he University until a new president is - rot ■hosen by the board. “This new arrangement brings us in line eith generally accepted organizational irocedures for systems of our type,” loard Chairman Clyde H. Wells said. As chancellor, Williams will direct and versee programs and operations hroughout the A&M System. The new [Diversity president, when he is ap- winted, will direct only the university’s iperations. Williams said the switch to the chancel- or system had been under consideration iince the first of three heart attacks he suf- red last summer. It is the last in a series fadministrative shuffles the regents have made since then. The regents had restored Williams’ full powers as university president in March after a seven-month recuperation period during which W. Clyde Freeman, system executive vice president, served as chief executive officer.” lapple ige . The division of labor under the chancel lor system will lighten Williams’ workload and let him concentrate more on the work he does best, Wells said. “In short, we think the job has become too large for any one person to handle ef fectively and retain his health—even Dr. Williams,” Wells said. Every element of the A&M System has doubled in size in the last five years and made the change necessary, Williams said. “Thank you for your confidence in me,” he told the regents after the meeting yes terday. “We will move as rapidly as possi ble to find a new president.’ “The acting president title means we ll find a new president, ” he told one admin istrator, “but we want time to find the best man for the job. Williams said no candidates for the new president had yet been selected. “We have criteria right now, not names,” he said. The Texas A&M System has had chan cellors for three periods during its exis tence. Chancellors Gibb Gilchrist and then M. T. Harrington directed the system from its formation in 1948 until 1957 when Har rington was appointed University and Sys tem President and the chancellorship abolished. Harrington was re-appointed chancellor in 1959. The chancellor post was again abolished in 1965 when James Earl Rudder became university and system president. Williams has carried on that dual position since his appointment. Expansion plans approved for campuses, Kyle Field By LEE ROY LESCHPER JR. Battalion Editor Expansion. That was the key word to the Texas A&M University Board of Regents meet ing yesterday The Board approved expansion in the administration of the Texas A&M Sys tem,in the buildings and streets of Prairie View A&M and Moody Colleges and in the stands of Texas A&M’s Kyle Field. 13,000 seats. Those seats could by added in a third deck above the present upper deck seating on each side of Kyle Field, a Houston construction firm claims. President Jack K. Williams, left, with Clyde H. Wells, chairman of the Board of Regents. The regents appointed Dr. Jack K. Williams Chancellor of the Texas A&M System. Williams, now president of Texas A&M, will serve as acting university pres ident until a new president is chosen later (see related story, this page). “I appreciate very much the challenge offered me by the board to serve in the new position of chancellor, ” Williams said in a prepared statement. “I will actively work with the board in a search for a pres ident for A&M.” The board approved a $25,000 study to test the feasibility of expanding seating in Texas A&M’s Kyle Field by an additional Lockwood, Andrews & Noonan, the firm which completed Kyle Field’s last ex pansion in 1968, originally suggested the third deck seating idea to Athletic Direc tor Emory Bellard, Bellard told the re gents Monday. That firm received the contract to determine if such an expansion is possible. Any expansion would probably take 18 months to complete, Bellard said. Univer sity officials said no construction would begin before the 1977 football season. Prairie View A&M received over $1.9 million for three construction projects on the Prairie View campus. Ihese were con tracts to renovate and convert two dor mitories to office and classroom buildings and to repair and extend streets as part of a continuing campus improvement program on that campus. Terrorists continue 105 Dutch children to hold hostage Prairie View officials also received au thority from the board to establish a Cen ter for Community Affairs and Rural De velopment. Prairie View has been operat ing such a center under federal funding since 1966, retraining unemployed and young people, and providing family plan ning, health education, veteran’s educa tion and prison rehabilitation programs. EW changes ^.((financial aid rule rade Lb. Students must be in “good standing” [scholastically to receive federal financial [aid this year. The Department of Health, Eduacation [and Welfare has revised a previous rule [that stated students on financial aid must [simply be making good progress, said R.M. Logan, Director of Student Aid at ‘Texas A&M Universtity. Good standing is now defined to be a B ! average or a 2.0 GPR. “They ran into the situation where some I students were signing up for courses and collecting their money and not going to |class,” Logan said.” He said good standing also meant stu- I dents could not get on good conduct prob ation by violating a university regulation or a state law. Goswick released from hospital; no 4 future surgery Logan said 35 per cent of A&M’s finan cial aid money comes from the federal government, 35 per cent from state funds, and 30 per cent from local resources such as alumni donations. Scholarships, grants, loans, and work study programs that do not rely on federal monies have always had the 2.0 GPR requirement, he said. The only programs that will really be affected are the Basic Educational Oppor tunity Grant (BEOG) and the federal col lege work study program, Logan said. There are 1,970 A&M students receiving aid through the BEOG and 350 students on the federal work study program. He said that 10-15 per cent of these could lose financial aid becuase of low grades. Logan said it would be hard to estimate the amount of money affected by the rule change. “We re just now getting their grades and some students will bring their grades up this summer,” Logan said. He said fi nancial aid is determined by each stu dent’s need and all require different amounts. United Press International ASSEN, The Netherlands — Angry and weeping parents kept a tense vigil early today near the schoolhouse where South Moluccan terrorists holding 105 children had threatened to execute their hostages within hours. The Dutch government said it was not willing to discuss any of the terrorists’ de mands until all the children were released. The children — age 6 to 12 — were being held at gunpoint behind windows plastered with paper in their modern, one story school in Bovensmilde in northern Hol land. Another band of gunmen held more hos tages at gunpoint aboard a hijacked train in nearby farmland. The two bands of terrorists — estimated to number 13 in all —- set a deadline of 2 p.m. (8 a.m. EDT) today for meeting their demands for the release of 21 jailed com rades and a Boeing 747 jumbo jet to fly them, the freed prisoners and hostages, to an unnamed destination. The government said emphatically none of the approximately 160 hostages would be allowed to leave the country. It also reported “a very important South Moluccan,” would be taken to the scene today to try to obtain the release of the children. The gunmen repeatedly have said they will shoot anyone sent to negotiate. The two sieges cast a shadow over the Dutch general elections, being held today. The terrorists are part of an extremist group among the 35,000 South Moluccans living in Holland. They want to force the Dutch government to press Indonesia for independence for their homeland, for merly known as the Spice Islands. The youngsters, who have been given food, drink and blankets, were heard cry ing yesterday when the gunmen unleashed several volleys of shots. Teams of social workers comforted the parents gnd tried to calm their anger, which was directed at the large South Moluccan community in Bovensmilde. The hostages remained invisible behind drawn shades. Officials, who earlier said there might be as many as 80 captives aboard the four-car train, later put the fig ure between 50 and 60. In a note passed from the train yester day, the gunmen demanded two blacked- out buses without seats to take them and the hostages to Groningen Airport north of Assen in northern Holland. From there, they demanded planes to fly them to Amsterdam and a fully fueled Boeing 747 jumbo jet in Amsterdam to fly them out of the country. They also demanded that 21 jailed South Moluccans be released and placed aboard the jet. These included 14 persons con victed in connection with the hijacking of another train and attack on the Indonesian Consulate in Amsterdam 17 months ago. Four persons died in those takeovers. Moody College at Galveston received $547,000 to build recreational and physi cal education facilities including a swim ming pool, tennis courts and an athletic field. Beginning this fall, students who before used the university laundry will now be dealing with Fabric Care Services, Inc. of Bryan. That firm will provide laundry service to A&M students this fall under a contract approved by the regents. The contract includes a price increase for stu dents from the present $45 to $53.50. The University will no longer operate its laun dry facilities or provide laundry service. The laundry service was switched over to the private firm because the university laundry had been losing $50,000 per year, Howard Vestal, assistant vice president for business affairs, told the board. The regents also approved a $10 million issue Permanent University Fund bonds to be made July 29 together with a S20 million bond issue by the University of Texas System. House lowers ranch taxes United Press International AUSTIN — House members tentatively approved yesterday a proposed constitu tional amendment giving a property tax break to farmers and ranchers. Opponents of the measure argued it also could give lower tax rates to giant timber corporations and corporate farming operations. The amendment stayed alive on an 87-53 vote, but fell short of the 100 House votes it needs for final approval. In the Senate, a Houston senator threatened a filibuster in the closing week of the session against a bill permitting the use of oral confessions in criminal cases in Texas. 4 lb. . c ! t,i| Sib. . Can $ 7 J Dr. Claude Goswick, director of Texas A&M University’s A.P. Beutel Health Center, was released from St. Joseph’s hospital yesterday after suffering a heart attack May 10. Dr. John Koldus, vice president for stu dent services, said that Goswick “was in real good spirits and had re ceived a good report from his doctor. He said there is no prognosis at present for future surgery for Goswick. Goswick, 47, had suffered a previous heart attack nine years ago. n 9? ulUi "“UUI % 80i.< ..Pkg.C 2 Oz. Pb 9 : $ Ui C.S. wins ruling to buy electricity from Gulf States vim CEB :eoni!' College Station won a temporary ruling by the Texas Public Utilities Commission Monday allowing the city to begin buying electric power from Gulf States Utilities Co. The city will begin buying from Gulf States by June 1. Bryan had asked the commission to block College Station, which has been purchasing power from Bryan, from buy ing from Gulf States. A full hearing on the matter will be held July 13. S3 Changes in the College Station zoning laws may be approved by the City Council in a meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. in City Hall. A public hearing on the proposed changes will be held before the council votes. The council will also consider revisions to the city’s comprehensive Plan and a re quest from the Parks and Recreation board to install electrical services near Anderson Street Park. A resolution requesting funding for planning and management projects under the “701” program will also be considered. Sen. Gene Jones, D-Houston, said House changes in the bill left too few re strictions on the use of oral confessions, and threatened to attempt to talk the proposal to death. “Oral confessions have always been ad missible in this state as long as they are corroborated,” Jones said. “This bill would do away with the necessity for that corrob oration. VVe don’t need to give anyone the opportunity for additional abuse. Sen. Ron Glower, D-Garland, also ob jected, saying, “The reason we don’t have oral confessions in this state is because people will tamper with it if they can. We’ve seen it happen in this country in the very highest office. If you think a constable or a deputy won’t do it, you’re wrong. ” The proposed constitutional amendment debated in the House would require the legislature to establish a system under which farm and ranch land and timber forests would be taxed on their productive value rather than their market value. Rep. Bill Sullivant, D-Gainesville, suc cessfully amended the proposal to permit the tax exemption to extend to farm, ranch and timber land regardless of its owner ship. A House committee had limited the exemption to family farms and ranches and timber farms. The only corporate property which could have been granted the agricul tural tax break would be that owned by corporations involving fewer than 10 per- Rep. John Bryant, D-Dallas, said timber lobbyists had persuaded House members to revise the measure to permit tax breaks for huge corporations. “I think it is an outrage and an embar rassment to this legislature and to the people of Texas that six or seven timber lobbyists can spend three weeks and turn this legislature around, Bryant said. “Leave the timber companies out of it. Don’t let them get in on this and foul it up. Bryant said voters in urban areas will defeat the amendment if it gives tax breaks to timber companies, but would approve such a break for family farmers and ranch- Shade on the way This partially-finished pagoda near the MSC is one of two pagoda-style busstop shelters under construction on campus. They’re designed to pro tect shuttle-bus riders from sun and showers in the coming months. Photo by Mike Willy “This amendment scares the whey out of me in East Texas, where we have counties like Newton County where 60 per cent of the taxes are paid by timber companies,” said Rep. Wayne Peveto, D-Orange. “If this amendment passes, it would put an impossible burden on the other taxpayers. ” Registration site changed to Field House Registration next Tuesday for summer school classes has been moved from Duncan Dining Hall to DeWare Field House. The summer schedule incorrectly lists Duncan as the location for registration. Renovations within the hall forced the move. Associate Director of Registration Willis Ritchey Said. The renovations were approved by the Board of Regents and started after the summer school bulletin had been printed, he said. Students will pick up registration card packets in DeWare House on the following time schedule: A—D . .7-8:15 a.m. E—K .......... .8:15-9:30 a.m. L—R 9:30-10:45 a.m. S—Z 10:45-12:00 noon Representatives of each academic department will register students for classes within those departments on the main floor of G. Rollie White Coliseum. Students then report their summer address to university housing officials and turn in their registration cards on the second floor of the Memorial Student Cen ter. A late registration fee will be charged students registering after 12 noon Tuesday. The House gave final approval to pro posed constitutional amendments au thorizing expansion of Courts of Civil Ap peals to accommodate heavy case loads in some areas, and permitting agricultural commodity boards to assess mandatory fees for the research, promotion and develop ment of agricultural products. The representatives also approved and returned to the Senate a bill requiring the state to pay social security for its employes. Sponsors of the bill said it will give em ployes more take home pay than a pro posed 6.8 per cent salary increase.