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Vol. 70 No. 133
12 Pages
Wednesday, July 13, 1977
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A gift of stock to Texas A&M University worth between $4-500,000 was an
nounced by Chancellor Jack K. Williams yesterday at the Academic Council
meeting. The money received from the sale of the stock is to be used to build a
women’s dorm with at least 100 spaces reserved for women athletes.
The gift is similar to Wofford Cain’s donation of stock worth approximately the
same amount used to build a dorm for athletes.
An Aggie Club committee will head the attempt to raise money to construct a
third seating level on Kyle Field. Total seating for the new level will be about
10,000. The committee will include: Dr. Charles Samson, athletic council head;
L. F. Peterson; Gus Mijalis; Don Morris; Bill Lewie; Keith Langford; and
Travis Bryan Jr.
offices for the physical education department could be built under the proposed
seating on the east side of Kyle Field and coaches offices on the west side.
Williams announced that bids are in on the library construction proposal. He said
the bids are low enough to request a fifth and sixth floor to the facility from the
Board of Regents. The cost will be about $9.6 million. This announcement was
applauded by most of the Academic council members.
Williams said there are four construction projects for the fiscal year beginning in
Sept. 1977. Planned is a new Clinical Sciences department for the Veterinary
Medicine Building and the renovation of the Biological Sciences East Building, the
mechanical engineering shops and the old agronomy building.
Williams said two new parking lots located on Wellborn Road across the railroad
tracks may be ready for use this fall.
He also said there was a possibility A&M could purchase a huge, metallic, yellow
parking garage from Love Field in Dallas that would accomodate 1000 cars. It
would be dismantled and brought here. But “We haven’t found any green space yet
that we want to convert to yellow space,” Williams said.
He said there were plans being considered to build an on-campus dorm that
would house 1000 and cost about $11-14 million.
In 1978, construction on the Medical School’s first building will begin, Williams
said. It will cost approximately $10 million. A library for the Medical and Veteri
nary Medical schools to be located on the west campus is also being considered.
Williams said that a letter naming the Academic Advisory Committee's recom
mendations of nominees from within the system for university president had been
given to the Chairman of the Board of Regents, Clyde H. Wells. Wells is head of a
three-man committee from the Board that will recommend one or two people to the
board for the presidency.
“We’ve met a couple of times and decided on a 100 people we will not elect,”
Williams said.
Williams said he has recommended a system vice-chancellor for programs posi
tion in addition to the vice-chancellor for business position presently filled by W. C.
Freeman. He said, ”Of course we won’t fill it un til we determine whether we need it
or not.” The creation of the position must be approved by the Board of Regents.
Williams discussed the fire that occurred in the Memorial Student Center
basement Friday. “I did not know there were no sprinklers in the basement,” he
said. “There are a number of things that if we knew it (the MSC) was going to burn,
we would have put them there,” he said laughing.
He said a sprinkler system would be installed in the MSC basement. We must
do it and we will do it. ” He urged each member of the council to be aware of the fire
hazard situation in their own buildings and attempt to report and correct the
hazards.
“This one could have been prevented with a sprinkler system. If it had gone on
another hour or two, it could have been a disaster for us,” Williams said.
Williams said he had been informed that the enrollment at Texas A&M this fall
would be 29,500. Dean of Admissions Ed Cooper said this figure was for the main
campus. There are four per cent fewer freshmen and transfer students enrolling
than in the previous year. The decline is primarily in the agriculture and liberal arts
department Williams said. There was an increase in enrollment in business and
engineering.
The Academic Council approved changes in the curriculum for liberal arts
students. The requirement of 12 hours of social science courses was changed to six
hours and the requirement of nine hours of humanities courses was added. The
degree candidates for Aug. 5 and Aug. 13 were also approved.
—Glenna Whitley
Liberals oppose bill
Senate ready to vote
for neutron weapons
Special session of
osts taxpayers $20,000
Texas legislature
per day
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Carter’s
appeal for money to produce tactical neu
tron artillery shells and warheads fell on
fertile ground today in the Senate.
Most Senate observers believed the
members were prepared to vote the
money anyway, unless Carter had decided
to reject outright the weapons which emit
lethal radiation but inflict little blast dam
age.
A secret amount of money for the neut
ron weapons is contained in a $10.4 billion
public works bill although it is so well
camouflaged it went through the House
virtually unnoticed.
In a last-ditch effort, Sen. Mark Hat
field, R-Ore., hoped to rally other liberals
against the “people killer” weapons he be
lieves endanger peace by making it easier
to slide from conventional to nuclear war
fare in Europe.
The Senate voted, 43 to 42, last week
against Hatfield’s effort to block funds for
producing the weapons, which do limited
blast damage while killing enemy troops
by radiation in the surrounding area, but
decided on another vote this week after a
recess.
Most of the 15 senators absent during
last week’s vote were counted as likely
supporters of the new weapon.
In a letter to Chairman John Stennis,
D-Miss., of the Senate Armed Services
Committee, before his news conference
yesterday. Carter said the weapons would
improve NATO’s ability to inflict “signifi
cant military damage” on an aggressor if de
terrence fails, and would minimize dam
age and casualties among civilians and
friendly forces in the area near the target.
At his news conference, he acknowl
edged the use of tactical nuclear weapons
probably would escalate to full-scale nu
clear exchanges in the event of war, but he
denied that the neutron bombs increased
the danger.
In his letter to Stennis, he said a deci
sion to use the new weapons would remain
in his hands and not those of local theater
commanders, and said: “A decision to cross
the nuclear threshold would be the most
agonizing decision to be made by any pres
ident. I can assure you these weapons
would not make that decision any easier.”
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United Press International
AUSTIN — The special legislative ses-
costs taxpayers almost $20,()()() per day
nd Texas lawmakers say it also cost them
ncome and meals.
State budget makers said staff payrolls
lawmakers and committees during the
ipecial session and the added per diem
ixpenses for legislators will cost taxpayers
ibout $19,250 a day.
The legislators, paid $600 a month by the
bte, receive an additional $30 per diem
pay during legislative sessions. They also
receive $3,000 a month for staff and ex
penses.
“We estimated it costs $19,250 a day
when the legislature is fully staffed and
going,” said Homer Scace, senior re
searcher and analyist for the Legislative
Budget Board. “I would assume it would
not be more than that during the special
session.”
“Your extra cost really lies in the staff and
that kind of activity.”
Local lawyers agree
with Court's decision
By SARAH WHITE
Battalion Staff
The United States Supreme Court re
cently decided it is legal for lawyers to ad
vertise their services and local lawyers
generally agree with the decision though
few intend to advertise themselves.
Local attorneys said they had consi
dered the decision, some more seriously
and thoroughly than others.
Bryan Attorney Kent Caperton said he
came out early in favor of the decision and
incurred the wrath of his fellow attorneys.
Caperton said he agrees with the ruling
because not advertising began as a rule of
etiquette and then became a law.
The Texas State Bar has been too re
strictive on the information a lawyer can
give the public, he said. Notices of hiring
new lawyers, offices and similar informa
tion were not for the public’s knowledge,
he said.
The State Bar needs to be very active in
watching the kind of advertising done, he
said. The ads should be done with an air of
professionalism and good taste, Caperton
said.
College Station Attorney Jack Woods
said lawyer’s advertising is split into two
_ groups. The first class is straight forward,
^ he said. This type gives the lawyer’s name,
the type of law he practices and where his
office is, he said. Woods said that this form
of advertising would generally have a good
effect on the legal profession because the
V public would know who is available for
legal services.
If there are no standards set and lawyers
can entice clients by any device, the day of
the legal profession is over, Woods con
tinued. He said undercutting and pricing
tricks are examples of devices to entice
clients.
Attorney Brooks Gofer of Bryan said he
would not give out prices but he would tell
people he is a good lawyer. People would
be more apt to engage a lawyer if they
knew the prices because in not knowing
they automatically think a lawyer’s fees
are out of their price range, Gofer said.
Attorney Michael Hoelscher of College
Station said defining terms and making
rules in advertising is left to local and state
bars at this time. He said eventually the
state bars will make regulations.
Bryan Attorney lola Wilcox said she is
opposed to the Supreme Court’s decision.
If lawyers advertise they will make their
clients pay for the advertising, she said. It
will not benefit anyone, she said, and par
ticularly not the consumer.
A lawyer cannot advertise exactly what
fee she will charge because she doen’t
know until she knows the facts of the case,
Wilcox said. The fee will vary depending
on if the case is contested or on how many
children are involved, she explained. It
also takes away from the dignity of the
legal profession, she said.
Although voters in 1975 boosted per
diem pay from $12, many lawmakers say
they are finding it difficult to live on $30 a
day, particularly when they have, to rent
motel rooms instead of apartments for the
short session.
“During the regular session $30 a day
per diem is quite adequate,” said Rep.
Buck Florence, D-Hughes Spring.
“But when you come down for a few
days, it’s going to cost $30 a day.”
“You’re hurt noticeably on short stays —
you can’t go out and rent an apartment.
There’s no question you’re losing money on
a special session.”
Rep. Clay Smothers, D-Dallas, adminis
trator of a children’s home, stays at a hotel
on a day-to-day basis. He said the special
session is hurting his position.
“I don’t have to be there, but I need to be
there,” Smothers said. “The truth of the
matter is that the pay needs to be raised
and everybody is scared to introduce a
bill.”
Rep. Fred Agnich, R-Dallas, was not a-
vailable for comment on his accommoda
tions in a plush downtown hotel which
offered lawmakers “Special rates for the
special session” — $29 a day.
“I don’t see how I could eat on a $1,” said
Rep. Doyle Willis, D-Fort Worth, who cal
led the $29 a day offer confiscatory. “I’d
have to stay in bed all day to get anything
out of that. ”
Willis, who said he plans to move into an
inexpensive, but clean motel away from the
downtown area, suggested the state build a
dormitory for lawmakers.
“We could pay reasonable rates,” Willis
said. “I come here on the average of two
trips a month and this is a problem. By the
time you pay your incidentals, it’s rough
making it on $30.”
Sen. Glen Kothmann, D-San Antonio,
contends some lawmakers are spending too
much money for room and board.
“I can get a room for $13 a day and sleep
just as good,” he said. “Some of these
people are complaining it is costing them
$50 a day. I could spend that much.”
“Tm not mad at my money. I haven't got
much, but I’m not mad at what I got.”
Sen. Don Adams, D-Jasper, said he can
not live on $30 a day in Austin. Adams, who
shares a motel room with is wife and three
children, said many meals are limited to
hamburgers if he can find a place where
they are cheap.”
“That’s okay — the kids think it’s great,”
Adams said. “If it lasts longer than a week,
I’m going to have to move them home and
try to find a roommate.”
Contending he can “come pretty close to
making it” on $30 a day, Sen. Gene Jones,
D-Houston, said missing breakfast helps.
Jones, a practicing attorney, said he is con
cerned about the clients he loses by not
working.
International conference
begins on nuclear test ban
United Press International
GENEVA, Switzerland — The United
States, the Soviet Union and Britain are
beginning their first negotiations on a total
ban on nuclear test explosions since 1963.
Observers said long-standing problems
such as the refusal by Franee and China to
participate in the talks and Soviet opposi
tion to on-site inspections of nuclear tests
were bound to crop up.
The current negotiations are the first on
the issue since a 1963 treaty banned all but
underground blasts.
Officials warned in advance of today’s
conference at the Soviet diplomatic mis
sion that the discussion will be conducted
in strict privacy.
But they said each session probably
would be followed by a brief announce
ment on its length and the date and site of
the next meeting, which will be rotated
among the diplomatic missions of the
three nations.
Ranking Western negotiators said the
initial round of talks probably would run
until the end of July, with a second round
being held shortly afterward if all goes
well.
The 1963 treaty prohibits all nuclear
test blasts in the air, underwater and in
outer space, but does not ban under
ground explosions. Such blasts have been
set off regularly by the United States and
the Soviet Union.
Agreement on a more comprehensive
test ban has been blocked by a dispute
over how to enforce the ban, with
Washington insisting on on-site inspec
tions to prevent cheating.
Moscow argues that land and satellite
seismographic stations are sophisticated
enough to detect any clandestine under
ground blast.
Other major problems facing the
negotiators include:
_The refusal by Franee and China to ob
serve the 1963 pact and Soviet demands
that China must take part in any com
prehensive ban.
_The Anglo-American demand that a
total ban include explosions for peaceful
purposes, which Moscow wants excluded
from the treaty.
Western officials believe “arrange
ments” can be worked out on both issues.
The China dispute could be resolved by
allowing any signatory nation to renounce
the treaty unless Peking joins later on.
Senior citizens keep busy at new center
By GLENNA WHITLEY
Battalion Campus Editor
Faces beaming, the old people
slowly leave the “Project Indepen
dence” van and enter the new
metallic building. They smile, hug
friends and head for areas in the
large, cheerful room set up for their
individual interests.
These senior citizens are par
ticipating in the Years for Profit
program, part of the Brazos Valley
Community Action Agency.
“In addition to the nutritionally
balanced meals we serve five days a
week (lunch), there are arts and
crafts, exercises, quilting, macrame,
guest speakers, educational films,
anything the senior citizens want,”
said LaRay Kerbow, the Years for
Profit project supervisor.
On a Friday at the new Bryan
center, everyone is occupied.
A quilt is a joint project. “She
makes the blocks and I sew them,”
said Tennie McDonald, pointing to
Arlia Hines. McDonald said she has
arthritis, so she can only sew on the
machine.
“I live by myself, so I really enjoy
it (the center),” McDonald said
shyly.
Arlia Hines doesn’t say much, in
stead concentrating on putting
blocks cut from fabric scraps in their
proper pattern.
Georgia Jackson is an effusive,
cheerful black woman whose cur
rent project is sewing a huge blue
apron by hand. She is all smiles
when asked her feelings about the
Years For Profit program.
“Oh. I do like it. I love to be
amongst the people,” she said.
Jackson also lives alone, as most of
the group does.
Others are playing dominoes,
making potholders or paper flowers,
playing records and sewing cheerful
faces on fly swatters. Whatever
their hands are doing, their faces
are usually smiling and conversation
is brisk.
The program is designed to fur
nish low cost, nutritionally balanced
meals to persons over age 60 who:
_cannot afford to eat adequately;
Jack the skills and/or knowledge
to select and prepare nourishing
and well-balanced meals;
_have limited mobility which may
impair their capacity to shop and
cook for themselves;
_have feelings of rejection and
loneliness which obliterate the in
centive necessary to prepare and eat
a meal alone.
Supportive services involved are
transportation of individuals to and
from the congregate meal sites, in
formation and referral services,
health and counseling services, nu
trition education, shopping assis
tance and recreation activities.
Kerbow said the only require
ment is that the person “be at least
60 years old and willing to admit it.
We ask that they either contribute
time or money, but we do not turn
anyone away who cannot contri
bute,” Kerbow said. “Just be there.
Show up. ”
Usually the members contribute
by making arts and crafts that can be
sold at the center, or by assisting in
setting up tables or cleanup after
the day’s meal and activities.
Outside activities are also ar
ranged for the senior citizens. An
overnite chartered bus tour to San
Antonio is planned for October.
Kerbow said the group recently
went to Austin. “They’re great
travelers,” she said.
Annie Lee Thomas is the site
manager for the Bryan center, lo
cated at 30th St. and Bryan. She is
enthusiastic about her job and said
it is a joy to work with the senior
citizens.
“I wanted to go back to work, to
be helpful, supplement my income
and contribute something to the
human race,” she said.
Years for Profit also has a “Meals
on Wheels” program. “There are a
great many residents who cannot at-
itend these sites and they’re eligible
|to receive meals in their home,”
Kerbow said.
A senior citizen who participates in the Years for Profit program of the
Brazos Valley Community Action Agency. Battalion photo by Glenna Whitley