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
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Vol. 70 No. 120
10 Pages
Wednesday, May 25, 1977
College Station, Texas
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Today partly cloudy and warm.
High today 87, low tonight 68.
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Probability of precipation 10%.
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By LEE ROY LESCHPER JR.
Battalion Editor
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Dr. Jack K. Williams yesterday became
I f third man ever appointed chancellor of
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.