The Battalion
Vol. 71 No. 30
16 Pages
Wednesday, October 12, 1977
College Station, Texas
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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.
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watches the half-time entertainment. The two con-
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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
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Hill m . hone Laboratories in Mur-
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-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
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Wednesday for reporting
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nt trends 1 ^'' W ^ e m * s sing more sig-
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[ 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
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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.