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THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1977 Page 7 th& 0 idosutj' ~j]b©p GIFTS • LAMPS GOURMET Culpepper Plaza College Station NOW OPEN JIM’S PAWN SHOP Bryan, Tx. “We buy & sell” Open 8 a.m.-6 p.m. 319 N. Bryan Networks claim bias charges untrue ClflED Call 845-2611 United Press Internationa! WASHINGTON — Television networks, reacting to a report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, challenged suggestions of industry-wide discrimination against women and minorities. None of the three major televi sion networks said it had seen the commission s 181-page report re leased Monday. NBC and ABC is sued statements. CBS spokesmen said they would not comment until the network had seen the report. The report, titled “Window Dressing on the Set: Women and Minorities in Television,” criticised network hiring practices and the portrayal of women and minorities in programs. NBC said “some of the commis sion’s . . . charges appear to be based on out-of-date data, and are not in accord with the facts, at least as they might concern NBC.” ABC said it was “confident that ABC’s policy and practice of nondis crimination in employment” were in compliance with the law. Among the report’s recommen dations was a suggestion that Con gress empower the Federal Com munications Commission to regulate equal employment practices at the networks. Currently, the FCC regulates local stations, but has no jurisdiction to licence or regulate networks. The report said requiring net works to prepare employment re ports and equal opportunity pro grams for all employes would “encourage the infusion of min orities and women into the network program and news decision making process.” Portrayal minorities problem” that needs an “industry wide solution,” the report said. 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Smith ★ 4300 Texas Ays. ★ 3516 Texas Ave. ★ 200 East 24th St. ★ 9 Redmond Terrace COLLEGE STATION and BRYAN, TEXAS we welcome FOOD STAMP SHOPPERS of minorities and women in com mercial and public television drama. ” White males dominated the screen while white females held a minor share of all roles, many of which were comic, the report said. Minorities continued to appear primarily in ethnic settings or as to kens in all white shows with 8.6 per cent of the roles being played by nonwhite females, the report said. Network news fared little better in the report, with neither women nor minorities receiving adequate attention during news programs, the report said. Scandal possible in gas transport, newspaper says United Press International NEW ORLEANS — A news paper reported yesterday that two Jefferson Parish officials and a former aide to Gov. Edwin Edwards could reap millions of dollars through a company they formed to obtain exclusive rights to transport state-owned natural gas from the Lake Pontchartrain area. In a copyrighted story, the New Orleans States-Item said Jefferson Parish President Douglas Allen, District Attorney John Mamoulides and businessman H. Clint Pray have obtained a “moral committ ment” from the Louisiana Mineral Board to use the proposed pipeline to transport gas from the state- owned lake bottom. “It’s a personal transaction, Mamoulides said. “It has nothing to do with my office.” Allen was unavailable for comment. The newspaper said Mamoulides, Allen and Pray formed a partnership — Lakes Intrastate Pipeline Co. — and became a subsidiary to Houston-based United Gas Pipe Line Co., one of the largest firms in the field. The Houston company said it would give the local firm 49 per cent of the profits if the pipeline project to service potentially productive wells in Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne became reality. The Jefferson Parish men were not required to invest any cash in the project. “All they had was basically a good idea,” said William B. Cassin, executive vice president of United Gas. “Some people might have said ‘thanks for the idea’ and gone off with the idea. We don’t do business' ’ that way and never have. ” Several months ago, Edwards said he was imposing a moratorium on the production of oil and gas on state -owned land to conserve Louisiana gas resources until intra state pipelines could be built to sell the gas within Lousisana or until conditions for the sale of gas outside the state improves. In response to the States-Item story, the governor said he dis cussed the proposed Pontehartrain- Borgne pipeline with Mamoulides, but he was unaware that the district attorney’s company was seeking ex clusive rights to transport the gas. I “I certainly am going to support them,” Edwards said of the gas line proposal. “It didn’t matter to me who the principals were. ” Girl injured on Astro world roller coaster United Press International HOUSTON — Investigators checked yesterday for malfunction of the Astroworld roller coaster from which a 15-year-old girl fell and was seriously injured. Loraine Winkle remained in crit ical condition at Ben Taub Hospital after falling from the second drop of the Texas Cyclone Monday. She had surgery for a skull fracture. She also incurred heel injuries. The ride remained closed pend ing determination of the cause. An Astroworld spokesman said a team from Six Flags Inc., which op erates the park, and Philadelphia Toboggan Co., which built the ro ller coaster, were investigating. “Our preliminary investigation of the accident reveals that two girls were riding together and one came out of the seat while the other did not,” the spokesman said. “At this time, we don’t know why.” “We really won’t know what hap pened until we’ve received a state ment from the girl or an eyewitness indicating how the girl was riding in the seat. Our investigation is in complete.” One question was whether a lap bar on the 24-passenger train loosened during the trip, but a spokesman said the coaster is de signed to operate safely without it. The Cyclone’s maximum height is 92 feet and it reaches top speeds of 60 miles per hour. The second drop is 88 feet high and at an angle of 53 degrees and starts just after a climb and a curve.