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The Battalion Vol. 71 No. 30 16 Pages Wednesday, October 12, 1977 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 !:■ I ihysical eil 111 is lisinl spring, of Ky| Kyle Field| s spring. Jay at A&! ! “ l nn, isketbaO, ,i ■> SWCM • on TV team te. . . cross conn-] vitational op ten, t il last Saturl 1 and juniol ly Cockroll ie two-mils I imston 2l{ p Houstoil enting niisI team eomj onal in Del ington Ini oh rs takinil Fifth. .. m hopes fc hen it com-l Denton... ines in thj ■ckend and I 4-0 losstol ouston 2-l.f winning I nt then tie I hit in a I4| TWU 2-1, am takes) on Tonrna- day. A&M the first Lamar, St, junior Col- . Saturday. A 1% ' Council approves street paving bill By MARK POWER Railroad crossing protection, paving bids, and brush chippers were the high priority items occupying College Station City Council in regular session Tuesday. North Bardell, City Manager, con vinced council to authorize a program sponsored by the State Department of Highways to install passive warning de vices at all railroad grade crossings in the city. “I would urge the council to approve this measure as it requires no city funds other than maintainance,” said Bardell. Passive warning devices are signs and warning stripes, and they have no mechan ical barriers or other devices to stop the flow of traffic at a crossing. Under new regulations, several crossings in College Station need upgrading, and approval of the measure will allow the Highway De partment to upgrade the crossings. Council approved a bid from Young Brother’s, Inc., at a cost of $30,745.55, to pave Richards street with a black road base. The road base to be used is similar to the base young trees just planted and the brush chipper is needed to reduce the bulk of dead brush produced by seasonal pruning and trail construction. The Parks Department admitted to not having enough work to justify purchase of the chipper, but argued successfully that the utilities department could use the machime when clearing power line right of way. In other agenda items Monday, the council approved a preliminary plat for Baywood, moved to later agenda an agreement for easement construction near South Knoll and Collge Hills school, and considered bicycle lane eounstruetion in a preliminary plat for Southwest Place. V College Station looking for land to build convention center : : \ ■ iiM NUT- /c i-rnational * United Prt| f Coaches I h week of! m with H cord i Convicts not just clowning around §p*t§i : Battalion photo by Kevin Venner Martin Tuley prepares for second half action in “ie annual Texas Prison Rodeo while Fred Burke watches the half-time entertainment. The two con- Mzes awarded vict clowns are veterans of the rodeo which takes place each Sunday of October in Huntsville, (see related story and photos on page 10 and 11) By JEAN HENKHAUS College Station is looking for land on which to build its proposed convention and civic center. But even though the city is searching for property, no firm decision has been made to build the center. City Manager North Bardell said yesterday. The A&M Consolidated School District may have the land the city needs. The city council is eyeing a piece of the school’s land in the Southwood Valley area. Meanwhile, the school board would like to build an elementary school in either south or east part of town. It all ties into negotiations that have begun between the council and the board. In a letter sent to A&M Consolidated Superintendant Hopson Tuesday, trustees of the city’s Parks and Recreation Founda tion authorized a proposed plan designed to , exchange deeds of several land sites under corisideratiOn. The Foundation makes possible the ex change of land between the two gov ernmental agencies providing that the trade will benefit the taxpayers of the community. Exact location of the land in question is not available due to the “sensitive nature of negotiations. Plans for a civic center were begun al most two years ago when a committee was set up to study the feasibility of the center. After a bond election in June of 1976, a half million dollars in bonds were au thorized for the project. Bardell said that, if revenues are not available, the construction of the center will not be possible. He added that instead of building the entire structure at once, an alternative of building it in phases might work out. Two Americans, one Briton cited for physics achievements n by )p 20 onsid Coack Lt cneaper. me enemis- )r °bi e was given to a Belgian professor vlick? rects a thermnrL/rkomj™, * We# a thermodynamics center at "wersity of Texas. wedish Royal Academy of Sci- the $145,000 physics prize i ]|°T , r ' Philip W. Anderson, 54, of Hill m . hone Laboratories in Mur- r’ ^ Prof. John H. van Vleck, , arvard University, and Sir Ngland^* ^ °f Cambridge Univer- e second award of the day, the Ky awarded the 1977 Nobel Chemis- iHlOltf •jals uby' s ) dth 'I United Press International -Ass#: 3CK HOLM, Sweden — Two 1 !p, ns and a Briton shared the 1977 ^ rh tk S ' CS P r * ze Tuesday for solid state 1 ^ amon g other benefits, could °ar heating cheaper. The chemis- try prize to Prof. Ilya Prigogine of the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. Prigogine, 60, is also Director of the Cen ter for Statistical Mechanics and Ther modynamics at the University of Texas. In announcing the award, also worth $145,000, the academy cited Prigogine “for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures. It said the great contribution of Prigogine to ther modynamic theory is his successful exten sion of it to systems which are far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Academy member Prof. Bo G. Malmstrom said Prigogine s work contrib uted to the understanding of how living beings use energy. “With Prof. Prigogine’s theory we can understand why we exist,’’ Malmstrom said. A spokesman at the University of Texas said Prigogine, born in Moscow, has been on the University of Brussels stalfif since 1947 and on the Texas staff since Sept. 1, 1967, commuting between the two. He currently is in Brussels. In announcing the physics award, the Swedish academy said: “The three prize winners are theoreticians within the field of solid state physics — the branch of physics which lies behind essential parts of the current technical development, par ticularly in electronics,” the Academy said. In New Vernon, N.J., Dr. Anderson in terrupted his gardening to say he was “de lighted” to share the prize with van Vleck atin American expert says o much drama in reporting )RAr> lInited ^ reSS ^ nterna t>°nal jij S f r „5*’ f Ue rto Rico — The Carter ga Ve A <)n s . to P American ex- ? ,e.k.r merican newspaper editors a Wednesday for reporting es and ' ln ^ meidcan events like bur nt trends 1 ^'' W ^ e m * s sing more sig- '"'Orfk^ P ro fession tends to judge [ me-ss in terms of dramatic tone ” ^ . e cr isis, a coup d’etat, a •Ami ssista nt Secretary of State for- nean Affairs Terence Todman rica, e v n f tel /’ w hen it comes to Latin ly r en ,, < l n i se eve nts are frequently e () fthe p 0< * Un elerlying signifi- ten.” anai na story is missed almost His comments came in remarks pre pared for delivery at a luncheon attended by about 400 delegates to the 18th annual United Press International Editors and Publishers Conference at the Cerromar Beach Hotel about 30 miles west of San Juan. “The tragedy is that it should not even be necessary to wait for special events to focus our news media s attention on Latin America and the Caribbean, Todman, a native of the U.S. Virgin Islands, said. “The really important stories are already there, waiting to be told. Todman lamented the fact that so little is in U. S. newspapers about a major world power like Brazil, that few people even begin to grasp the social struggle in Argen tina and that the differences among coun tries like Venezuela, Paraguay and Peru are not understood. Todman also defended the Carter ad ministration’s efforts to negotiate a new canal treaty with Panama and to normalize relations with Communist Cuba. “These two issues relate,” he said. “Let us look behind the headlines to the real story: our successful pursuit of security and progress through practical relation ships that respect the individuality and sovereignty of all peoples. “This administration intends to come to grips with the issues that top the agendas of the nations in this hemisphere — and thereby to seize the opportunity to help shape global events with them as sover eign and independent, but cooperative partners. ” By exchanging land with the Founda tion, the school district may soon begin plans for another elementary school. “If we grow like we’ve been growing, we will need a new elementary school.by 1980 or 1981, Hopson said. fhe best location for the school would be either in South or East College Station due to the rapid growth of these areas, Hopson said. Reform would allow control by commission United Press International WASHINGTON — House members spent taxpayer’s money for such things as an office Christmas party, entertaining constituents, political club dues and on one occasion for a bar bill to entertain President-elect Jimmy Carter. These items were among hundreds of detailed expenses in the House Clerk s semiannual report, swollen to double its usual size because of reforms voted earlier this year when unofficial office accounts — sometimes called “slush funds” —. were abolished. The reforms were part of the recom mendations of the Commission on Admin istrative Review. The panel s final round of improvements came to the floor Wednes day under fire because of what the clerk s report showed. The reform measure, managed by Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., chairman of the commission, would create a House admin istrator to handle all the housekeeping chores of the 11,000-employe House, with the help of an auditor and a comptroller. It also would set up a grievance panel of three House members to hear employe complaints of discrimination because of sex, color, age or creed. The bill would do away with free plants, picture framing service and foot lockers for members. Rep. Robert Bauman, R-Md.. the clerk s report in his hand, recommended in a speech Tuesday that all members read it before voting on the latest commission recommendations. He cited several in stances of questionable spending that members certified as being for “official business. Bauman did not cite names but listed a $200.77 expenditure for a staff Christmas party. The report showed this was claimed by Rep. Charles Wiggins, R-Calif. Another was a $1,291 payment for a "con stituent reception Jan. 4, when members were sworn into the new Congress, claimed by Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, D-N.Y. “There are hundreds of pages of such items that were made possible under the last round of the so-called Obey reforms, said Bauman. Obey said, T wonder if Bob Bauman is saying he would prefer things the old way where no one had to report such expedi- tures. What we did was get rid of the office slush funds and made such spending re portable. Negotiators to bypass national union leaders and Mott, with whom he has worked for years. “My major reaction was that I was de lighted to win the prize with the two people I admire most in the world,” An derson said. “One is my old professor van Vleck and the other is a man who I worked with for a decade, Mott.” Academy member Prof. Stig Lundqvist said Mott and Anderson’s knowledge of the behavior of crystallic materials meant, for practical application, that “solar heat ing cells may become cheaper in the fu ture. It now takes about seven or eight years to gain enough energy to pay for the energy you have invested to build a solar heating system.” The Swedish academy said van Vleck has been called “the father of modern magnetism,” and his ideas have played a key role in development of the laser. Anderson was van Vleck’s student at Harvard, and Mott “brought to the atten tion of researchers and popularized” An derson’s major written work, “Absence of Diffusion in Certain Random Lattices,” published in 1958, Lundqvist said. In Cambridge, van Vleck said Tuesday his winning a share of the physics prize was unexpected. “This thing is a complete surprise to me,” he said. Van Vleck retired from teaching in 1969 but still maintains an office at Harvard University. Van Vleck said that although Anderson studied for his doctorate under him at Harvard, the three winners “never really worked together.” He said their research was separate but related. After gaining his bachelor’s degree at the University of Wisconsin and his doc torate at Harvard, Van Vleck began his re search “in 1927 and I’ve been publishing papers on it for almost 50 years. The ear lier work tends to be the most important.” Van Vleck and his wife, Abigail, cele brated their 50th wedding anniversary in June. They have no children. United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Negotiators for dockworkers arid shippers plan to bypass national leaders in hopes of arranging a local settlement for a strike which has closed the nation’s second largest port. Members of the International Longshoreman’s Association scheduled meetings Wednesday with representatives of the New Orleans Steamship Association in hopes of working out an agreement lo cally. “They will definitely be talking contract when they get together, ” Paul Guillory, vice president of Local 1419, said Tues day. The 11-day strike is costing the city an estimated $2 million per day. ILA contracts usually are negotiated in New York, but Guillory said local dockworkers want to negotiate directly — rather than wait for a national agreement. The only cargo handled in the port Tuesday was a military shipment. Harvey Tilton, secretary of ILA Local 1419, said a Panamanian sbip transporting military goods and the personal belongings of servicemen was unloaded Tuesday at a military terminal. He said the exemption for military cargo was union policy during all strikes. The Panamanian vessel was the first ship unloaded since ILA members took a strike vote Saturday. The New Orleans dockworkers, however, voted against the recommendations of their national leaders and made the walkout applicable to con ventional freighters as well as container ships. ILA national leaders in New York want to limit the protest to container vessels which reduce the number of waterfront jobs. New Orleans is the only port on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts which has in cluded other ships, in defiance of ILA President Thomas Gleason. Tilton said ILA officials also expected to meet with shippers today to resume negotiations on local issues. “There are a number of issues outstand ing, but there is nothing that we couldn’t resolve in a short time if we got down to negotiating and everybody put forth their best effort, Tilton said. Talks were to be held in the offices of the New Orleans Steamship Association. Tilton said he did not know whether fed eral mediators would attend. “I think the prospects for a settlement in New Orleans are great because everybody wants to get back to work, that s for sure,” Tilton said. He said shippers also indicated willing ness to break the deadlock. “I get the impression that they are being hurt and I also get the impression that these people want to negotiate, he said. Inside Today: Academic Building mosaic nears completion, p. 7. It’s rodeo time again at Huntsville, pgs. 10, 11. Baylor QB joins SWC sideline squad, p. 14.