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Vol. 70 No. 126
14 Pages
Wednesday, June 15, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
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By SARAH E. WHITE
Battalion Staff
Plans are underway for computerizing
e ballot for student elections at Texas
&M University, said Mike Barry, elec-
on commissioner.
This new voting method may be tested
it this fall in the freshman elections, and it
ill definitely be used in the spring elec-
ons next year, he said.
Student Government has the portable
ird punch machines that will be used in
voting, he said. These are the same
machines that are used in the county elec
tions. The IBM computer program which is
used in all national elections will be used,
Barry said.
The program is flexible and can be
adapted to the campus elections. He ex
plained that voters will see where they can
vote, who their choices are and then punch
in their vote.
This system can be programmed to show
how and what percentages of people voted.
For example, he said, you can tell what
percentage of the senior class voted or how
the percentage of juniors in the corps
voted. He said he plans to program in some
similar data and would be willing to enter
other data if people request it.
“Some of the votes are won by per
centages, like in the executive councils,”
he said. “About 50 per cent of votes are
required. It would be interesting to know
what types of people get out and vote.”
Barry estimated that in its first year the
program will cost $1,200 maximum. After
the first year it will cost about $600 to $800
a year. The last elections cost around $500.
Barry said his $1,200 estimate includes
$750 to $500 for equipment and $450 to
$500 for the computer program and time.
The main significance of computerizing
the ballot is that it will save time and be a
lot more accurate, Barry said.
It took three days and three nights to
count votes after this year’s elections,
which prompted him to look for a time
saving voting method. The computerized
balloting will not only make the voting a
little easier, but it will also make it much
more interesting to vote, he said.
“The old way you had to take the ballot
and it took a lot of time, but this way it
would be kind of interesting,” he said.
“People might go vote just because it is a
neat thing to do.”
There are mistakes in voting in the pres
ent system that can be eliminated by this
new method, Barry said. Voting in the
wrong races is a frequent problem which
will be prevented because students must
vote at the polling places and cannot take
the forms away Barry said.
He said that he must collect figures and
have the complete program ready before
July 22 when funds for next year will be set.
Barry is now taking names of people who
would like to be on his election commission
which he will form in July.
“It’s a good way to get involved in gov
ernment,” he said. “You don’t have to run
for an office. You can start at the bottom
and work your way to the top.”
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next to the West Campus off Wellborn Road.
Battalion photo by Steve Goble
Ways and Means Committee
adopts modified form of oil tax
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The White House
was euphoric and President Carter
beaming: “We won.”
Rep. Al Ullman, D-Ore., on Capitol
ill, was expansive: “What we have done
aday is ensure to the country that we will
ave a meaningful energy program. ”
The source of their pleasure was a series
f votes yesterday in Ullman’s Ways and
leans Committee rejecting a new reward
or oil exploration and adopting, in
odified form, Carter’s idea of a tax on oil
0 encourage conservation.
The tax would bring domestic oil to the
orld oil price by 1981 in three phases,
he new tax would be assessed on the
first purchaser,” meaning usually the re-
iner who buys oil from producers. He
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would pass the tax on down the line to the
ultimate consumer.
Oil and petroleum products would in
crease in price, and Carter believes that
would persuade Americans to spend less
of their money on such things. But he
proposed also to return the oil tax to
Americans in income tax rebates, higher
welfare payments and lower heating oil
prices.
The committee set consideration of the
rebates for today.
It was win some, lose some, for Carter’s
energy policy yesterday.
The House Science and Technology
Committee kept the Clinch River
“breeder” nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge,
Tenn., alive by turning down, 19-11, an
attempt to cut it from $150 million to $33
million. Carter wants the project stopped.
‘breed’’
used to
Executions have no place
on television. Hill says
United Press International
HOUSTON — For Attorney General
ohn Hill the matter was born in law and
bred in good taste: Executions have no
ilace in commercial television.
He stood yesterday before a three-judge
federal panel to ask that a television re
porter be prohibited from filming any of
the state’s next scheduled execution.
“Executions should not be made public
spectacles,” Hill argued. We permit
members of the news media to be present.
We simply say you cannot bring a televi
sion camera into the death chamber.
Hill sought to overturn a Dallas federal
udge’s order requiring the Texas De
partment of Corrections to permit televis-
ng of executions. The order by U.S. Dis
trict Judge William Taylor Jr., last year
arose from a suit by freelance writer Tony
Garrett, then a reporter for a Dallas tele
vision station.
We do not question to this court the
right of free speech, free press or the right
to assembly,” Hill said. “This case deals
only with how it (the death) may be re
corded. ”
Hill said neither state law nor the Con
stitution guaranteed reporters access to
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execution which the public would not be
allowed to attend.
He argued the privacy of executions had
been in Texas law since the early 1920s
and it was socially and legally accepted.
He said death should not be made a spec
tacle on television screens.
“The line is drawn at the courthouse
door. . . The line is drawn at the death
chamber door,” Hill said.
Tom McCorkle of Dallas, an attorney
for Garrett, said the state was attempting
to control the gathering of news by exclud
ing the electronic media while allowing
members of the writing press.
“There is no evidence there is a clear
and present danger to the public. The
state wants to do something that is con
trary to the First Amendment. The State
of Texas wants to gather and publish the
news the way they want to publish.
“The press is the only bulwark we have
against government oppression. The
people have a right to know what the gov
ernment is doing in their name, McCorkle
said.
Hill said the TDC went beyond the law
by making special arrangements for a rep
resentative of the United Press Interna
tional and the Associated Press to be pres
ent in the execution chamber — when and
if an execution takes place.
Since the issue was raised the state has
passed a law providing for death by injec
tion. Hill said it made no difference
whether death came from injection or in
the electric chair. The principle remained
the same.
“Speaking of death in any form is a chill
ing prospect to me. But that is not the
issue here. At what point will it end?” he
said.
because the reactor would
plutonium, which also can be
make nuclear boms.
Carter’s oil tax would hit in phases that
by 1981 would raise the now-controlled
prices of domestic oil to approximately the
world price. Oil set now at $5.25, for
example, would increase by something
more than $33 a year until it reached
about $13.50.
The committee complicated the plan by
setting a different tax for each different
grade, type, and location of crude oil. But
generally, the result would be to largely
erase, through taxes, the difference be
tween domestic and foreign oil prices.
Whenever the President felt the taxes
were going to hurt the economy, he could
suspend them, subject to congressional
veto of the suspension.
What pleased the President almost as
much as approval of his tax was that the
committee turned down attempts to give
oil producers a new reward for explora
tion.
Rep. Joe Waggonner, D-La., backed by
Republicans and some oil-state Demo
crats, had a series of amendments: offering
billions of dollars of special payments to
producers or investing in exploration. The
series was voted down, 21-16, then 17-11,
then 19-11.
By GLENNA WHITLEY
Battalion Campus Editor
The response to the new ordinance
passed by the College Station City Council
last week prohibiting the sale of “adult
magazines” to minors has been varied.
Some stores immediately removed the
magazines like Playboy, Penthouse and
Hustler from their shelves. Other stores’
personnel were not even aware the ordi
nance existed as of yesterday.
The magazines at the Texas A&M
Bookstore in the Memorial Student Center
were moved yesterday after a reporter
questioned the manager, Howard DeHart,
about the ordinance on Monday.
“They’ll be at the register and people
will have to ask for them,” DeHart said
yesterday. He said he expected sales of the
magazines to go down because customers
will have to request them at the register.
“If it wasn’t for the many requests we
have, we wouldn’t carry them anyway,”
DeHart said.
The bookstore sells Playboy, Penthouse,
Play Girl and Oui. DeHart said they once
received Hustler by mistake, but it was
pulled off the shelf almost immediately.
“Hustler is definitely pornography,” he
said. He mentioned a magazine study done
about two years ago before he became
manager. The study approved the four
magazines now sold as “soft eore”. DeHart
did not remember who performed the
study and made that decision.
Dehart said that he wished the bookstore
didn’t have to carry any magazines, adult or
otherwise. He said more people read the
material in the store than bought it and the
lack of magazine sales kept the bookstore
inventory too high.
The U-Tote ‘M convenience stores in
College Station still display the magazines.
Laura Jamac, who works at the U-Tote
‘M at 301 Patricia, said her supervisors
were still discussing what could be done
about the new ordinance. Those super
visors were unavailable for comment.
Skaggs-Albertsons on South College Av
enue has not displayed adult magazines for
at least two years, said Oliver Bishop, store
director.
“It is our policy not to have any
magazines of this nature out before the
public,” he said. He said as far as he knows,
this has always been their policy.
Joan Littlejohn, manager of B&B drive-
in convenience store on Nagle St., was un
aware of the new ordinance until she spoke
to a reporter yesterday. She added that
both she and the store’s owner had been
out of town for four weeks. Littlejohn said
they would probably just put a piece of
wood across the shelves so that only the
titles showed.
Overruled lower court
SST ban continued
by appellate court
United Press International
NEW YORK — A federal appeals court
has overturned a lower court decision and
continued the 13 month Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey ban on Con
corde SST operations and Kennedy Air
port pending a final ruling on landing
rights.
The three-judge U.S. 2nd Circuit Court
of Appeals, in maintaining that ban yes
terday, sent the controversial issue back to
U.S. District Judge Milton Pollack for fur
ther proceedings to determine if the Port
Authority, which operates the airport, was
justified and reasonable in the ban.
“Should the Port Authority’s action be
found arbitrary and capricious,” the court
Ugandan president Amin
deranged, refugees say
United Press Internationa]
LONDON — Two men who fled the
country have described Ugandan Presi
dent Idi Amin as a deranged leader who
believes he can talk with God and spends
long hours in his empty office firing a re
volver into a wall.
The report yesterday by Michael
Nicholson, a correspondent in Nairobi for
Britain’s Independent Television News,
was based on statements made to him by
two self-exiled Ugandans. The two men
were shown in silhouette and refused to
be identified.
Nicholson said, “the most startling evi
dence I have heard from these men is the
state of Amin’s mind. He admits openly
now of having long conversations with
God. For some time he has been broad
casting on Uganda Radio saying God has
told him the exact time and place that he
will die. ”
Security guards also have seen Amin fir
ing his revolver and shouting abuse in his
empty office, Nicholson said.
The two men also described Uganda as a
nation whose people live in fear and whose
social services are in total disarray.
Nicholson said the two men told him of
piles of bodies in forests, swamps and riv
ers.
“According to these men there is not a
family which has not lost somebody.”
A number of hospitals in the country are
without doctors or drugs, even aspirin, ac
cording to the two men.
There is no ambulance service and
those who manage to get to a hospital find
there are no doctors or drugs to treat
them, the two men said.
said, “a serious question would be raised
concerning its compatability with Ameri
can treaty arrangements.”
In its 23 page decision the appellate
court asserted: “We are not deciding
whether the SST may land at Kennedy
Airport. . . . But we urge the Port Author
ity to conclude its study and fix reasonable
noise standards with dispatch.”
The ruling ordering a new round of
court proceedings appeared likely to ex
tend for at least a month or two any hopes
Britain and France, who have poured $3
billion into SST development, had in start
ing Concorde operations at JFK.
Pollack ruled last month the Port Au
thority ban was illegal because it con
flicted with federal supremacy. The ap
peals court ruled this judgment was “sim
ply untenable and erroneous.”
Although the court dismissed the fed
eral supremacy issue, it did maintain that
the dispute still rests within the jurisdic
tion of the federal courts to decide.
The decision suggested special attention
will be paid to whether the Port Author
ity, which has long delayed its decision,
will not act with reasonable speed.
Sources said the appeals court decision
means that Gov. Hugh L. Carey, who had
threatened to veto Concorde operations if
the Port Authority approves New York
landings, would be barred from doing so
because the issue is now a federal question
involving interstate commerce.
The bi-state agency imposed the ban to
allow studies at other airports of the noisy
SST. Concorde operations began at Dulles
Airport in Washington 13 months ago,
after former U.S. Transportation Secre
tary William Coleman ordered a 16-month
trial period for the SST.
Athletes warned to ‘take it easy’
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By MARY C. BECKER
Battalion Staff
When the temperature is over 90 degrees and the humidity is over 80 per
cent, the red flag goes up on the bulletin board next to the Required Health
and Physical Education office.
The message “Take it easy”, according to Laura Kitzmiller, instructor in
the health and physical education deaprtment, is to warn joggers, tennis
players and other athletes that the conditions outdoors are favorable for
heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
The signs of heat exhaustion are high body temperature with excessive
sweating. Dehydration of the body brings on weakness and dizziness. A
person suffering from heat exhaustion could faint. Head injury may result
from the fall or the victim could choke on his own tongue or vomit.
Heat stroke is more serious. A chemical imbalance, Kitzmiller said,
causes a malfunction of the sweating mechanism. As the body begins build
ing up heat because of low perspiration, the skin becomes flushed and hot.
The possibility of brain damage increases as the body temperature rises.
When a person collapses, Kitzmiller suggests getti ig the person in the
shade and checking for breathing and heart beat before administering first
aid.
In the case of heat stroke, excessive clothing should be removed and the
victim sponged with water. First aid manuals suggest using alcohol because
it evaporates quicker making the skin cooler. Kitzmiller agreeded that it
does evaporate quicker but it drys too fast. She prefers water.
Kitzmiller warned against using stimulants because it could bring on
medical complications such as increased blood pressure.
The American Red Cross first aid manual suggests giving the victim salt
water to help replace fluids. Kitzmiller suggested plain water because the
salt could make the victim sick.
No fluids should be given to an unconscious victim.
Preventions for heat exhaustion and heat stroke include drinking liquids
two hours before a workout and also during it. Clothing such as a cotton
T-shirt that will retain perspiration, will help keep the body cool.
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The bulletin board next to the Required Health and P.E.
office displays sign warning athletes of hot weather.
Battalion photo by Steve Goble