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Monday, October 17, 1977
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The Sterling Evans Library is displaying antique
toys from the collection of Eleanor Nance. The
collection, on display until mid-November, con
tains some toys from the early-1800s. The Shirley
Temple doll above is circa 1932.
Battalion photo by Ken Herrera
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Battalion Campus Editor
' n outbreak of hot water shortages hit
rasA&M University last week, causing
* jokes and complaints,
uclnnis Hall, the hardest hit building,
s without hot water from Tuesday until
day of last week. The problem was
1Se d hy a weak diaphragm located be-
;en the power plant and the heat ex-
ln ge system for the building, said Gene
Oates, residence hall safety and mainte
nance supervisor.
The diaphragm protects the heat ex
change system, Oates said. After a pres
sure gauge showed that the part might
break, the hot water was turned off. The
problem was discovered on a daily check
of the gauges.
Schumacher dorm had been without hot
water from the previous Saturday until last
Tuesday. The shortage was not reported
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arter not shaken
>y bomb protests
^ ress International
[WASHINGTON — President Carter
a 6 sympathizes with the goals of the
k, e , Ut [ on Bomb protestors who dis-
■ n urch services he Attended Sun-
_ U ’ me wishes tliey had used a diff'er-
Tb mS v °icing dissent.
l y are B ne young people and I agree
Don 6 *” r? Ury5 ° Se * :o e hminate nuclear
t n a’ ^' arter told reporters on return
ee White House
ABrunt' 11 were mistaken in trying to
fi le(!Hw C ," rch ser viee,” he said. He
r pl a , ^Be situation at tlie First Bap-
i^r wel] 1 ” 0 * Washin g ton was handled
,al ^ t( : re t Service didn’t think I was in
'iv e dn meither did I,” he said.
vvere charged with dis-
re “^ious gathering. Charges
a 8 a inst a sixth protestor,
■ McAlister, a former Roman
■'nun and antiwar activist.
jjjle b> eutr *? n ^ (,m B is designed to kill
cad n* ,a<aiati °n without causing wide-
wh J ( ?P er ty damage. Carter must de-
leb u ( 'j to deploy the weapon. Last
asked NATO allies for their
I sermon d i StU ^ ance Began just before
|e anc i ] k-andon Sheats of Baltimore
, "( L , e ^ an reading a statement that
tar SW() r ; Stiaas threatened by the nu-
I'lie In ] VVI * ^' e By the nuclear sword.
Wh u i. , d VVarn s us.”
c usher rushed to him, grabbed
the statement and firmly clasped his hand
over Sheats’ mouth to stop him from talk
ing.
As he was being pulled from the pew,
Miss McAlister rose in a different section
of the church and continued the state
ment. The scene was repeated each time
ushers tried to quell a demonstrator.
The President and First Lady Rosalynn
Carter sat stiffly and stared straight ahead
from their sixth-row pew, never turning to
look at the demonstrators scattered behind
them.
As the protestors were removed, several
sat down at the front and side exits of the
church and were taken away by police.
One refused to walk and was carried.
Sheats said just before being arrested
that the protestors will “put our bodies in
front of them (the bombs) before they are
built.
Miss McAlister identified the other par
ticipants, besides Sheats, as Jim McNeil
and Rosemary MaGuire of Baltimore; Paul
Hood of Boston, and Mary Lyons of
Simsbury, Conn.
It was the third time the demonstrators
appeared at the church protesting the
neutron bomb, hut the first time Carter
was present and arrests made.
Ironically, on Friday night. Carter
talked about the comfort he found in going
to the church “in lonely times.” He told a
church banquet it “adds a dimension to
our lives that quite often, for a President,
would be missing.
Hijackers kill pilot,
set new deadline
United Press International
Four Arab and German terrorists exe
cuted the pilot of a hijacked West German
airliner and dumped his body onto the
runway at Mogadishu Airport, where he
was forced to land with 86 other hostages,
Somalia’s Sonna news agency said.
Capt. Juergen Schumann was shot to
death in front of the other hostages, the
West German news agency DPA reported
from Bonn, because the terrorists appar
ently feared he no longer would obey their
orders.
Schumann, 37, the father of two sons,
joined Lufthansa 1968. Before that, he had
served in the West German Air Force with
his co-pilot on the hijacked aircraft,
Juergen Victor, 35.
Mogadishu radio, monitored in Nairobi,
Kenya, said the hijackers set a new' dead
line of 10 a.m. EDT, vowing to blow up
Boeing 737 with the remaining hostages
unless 13 comrades are freed from West
German and Turkish prisons and a $15.5
million ransom is paid.
The radio quoted Somalia’s information
minister as saying that the hijackers would
negotiate only with the West German
government and no one else, including the
Somalis.
The Somali news agency said a West
German delegation led by a government
minister was expected shortly in the capi
tal of Mogadishu to negotiate with the
hijackers.
In Bonn it was reported that Minister of
State Juergen Wischnewski, West Ger
many’s Arab affairs expert, had left Saudi
Arabia in an attempt to contact the hijack
ers.
The agency said the plane landed at
Mogadishu Monday after a flight from
Aden, southern Yemen, at 6:20 a.m.
(11:20 p.m. EDT Sunday) and "very soon
the dead body of the pilot was slid down
from the plane” and taken to a hospital.
Somalia said the plane arrived unexpect
edly and when it was discovered that it
was the hijacked Lufthansa 737, “Somalia
was faced with the alternative of either
forcing the plane to return where it came
from, with aff the risks this implied to the
safety of passengers, or letting the aircraft
land.”
The government allowed the plane to
land and set up a high-level committee
of the ministers of information and trans
port and the nation’s police chief to nego
tiate with the hijackers.
The hijackers told the West German
government that if the demands were not
met by the deadline they would blow up
the plane.
Power failure leaves
San Antonio in the dark
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A fire in power plant
transmission lines caused a two-hour elec
trical blackout Sunday night in the nation’s
10th largest city.
A few persons were trapped in elevators
by the blackout and several minor traffic
accidents occurred because of the loss of
signal lights.
But no deaths or injuries attributable to
the blackout were reported. No arrests
were made in sporadic outbreaks of looting
in parts of the South Texas city. Police and
firemen quickly manned intersections
when traffic signals went dead, lighting
flares and directing traffic with flashlights.
Most area hospitals used emergency
generators to maintain life support sys
tems.
Tom Berg, chairman of City Public
Service, said the blackout was caused by a
fire in transmission lines of the Calaveras
Power Plant, located on the southern edge
of the city, but cause of the fire was un
known.
Residents in the area of the power plant
reported an explosion and sparks shooting
from the overhead power lines leading
from the plant. CPS officials did not con
firm the reports of an explosion.
The blackout occurred at 7:05 p.m. and
lights dimmed and then went out across
the metropolitan area of 1 million resi
dents.
CPS officials had told the news media
last summer at the time of the New York
power failure that San Antonio did not
have to worry about such outages because
of its regional network arrangements.
They said, after power was restored Sun
day night, the San Antonio blackout was
caused by the transmission line difficulties
and not by an overload such as occurred in
New York.
“The whole thing was black,” CPS gen
eral manager Jack Spruce said of the city.
“There is no evidence of any problems in
side the Calaveras plant.
Berg called for a special committee in
vestigation of the power outage and how to
prevent a future one. He said three of the
affected power lines at the Calaveras plant
wrapped themselves around relay circuits
which could have prevented the power
loss.
“Normally this should have been
cleared by the relays,” Berg said.
CPS restored electricity section by sec
tion, beginning at 8:37 p.m. on the north
side and working through the downtown
area. In some sections, overloads caused
restoration to take longer.
Police chief Emil E. Peters said most
residents responded to requests to stay
home and no major law enforcement prob
lems were encountered.
“We have some looting hut really no
thing serious,” Peters said. “We might get
some calls in the morning.”
Several of the city’s radio stations which
did not have emergency electrical
generators went off the air until power was
restored.
until Monday because most residents were
out of town, said Les Albert, head resident
of Schumacher.
Albert said the problem with the cir
culating water pump was repaired by the
next day.
Both Mosher and Aston halls were
without hot water last Friday because of
bad circulating water pumps, said Glenn
Ferris, area coordinator for the two dorms.
Repairs were made that Friday.
“We were smelling people we didn’t
even know we had here,” said Bryan
Stuart, head resident of Mclnnis. He said
some residents took showers in Crocker
and Moore halls.
A sign went up at Mclnnis advertising
hot water for sale: $1.63 an eight ounce
cup (undelivered), $2.73 delivered.
Scrawled on the sign was a plea to call
Marvin Zindler, a Houston consumer ad
vocate.
Darrell Langford, a junior journalism
major, blamed his new cold on the hot
water shortage.
“It left us out in the cold,” said Buster
Lastovica, Mclnnis dorm president. He
said the repair look too long, adding, “But
that s the system I guess. ”
Whoops and yells went up at Mclnnis
when the hot water came on Friday after
noon. Stuart posted a sign:
“Well gang, the vigil is over, hot water
is here. Have a happy shower — P.S. and
good shave. You need it.”
Ferris said the dorms have had pumps
go out in the past, but that it is rare for
them to go out at the same time.
However, Oates said none of the break
downs are related or because of new cold
weather in the area.
The Mclnnis part could not be found in
Houston, Dallas or Waco, so a replace
ment is being flown in air freight from
California, Oates said. He said the part
was hard to find since the system is old.
He also ordered parts from Houston to
fix the present diaphragm which are sup
posed to arrive by Tuesday.
A temporary repair was “rigged up” by
A&M physical plant personnel Friday
until the replacement or replacement
parts arrive.
Oates plans to have the new diaphragm
installed and the old one fixed for a spare.
He said there was nothing that could be
done to avoid the breakdown since it was
due to normal wear and tear.
‘Smokey’: all part of the job
By KEVIN PATTERSON
“Hey good Buddy, Smokey’s on
the move, flipping north and taking
your picture.”
With this citizens band warning,
brake lights shine, motorists scan
the highway, and Trooper Richard
Looby does his job.
Looby is “Smokey”, a highway
patrolman, and the term “flipping”
is a method of crossing back and
forth on the highway. This way, a
trooper can direct his radar gun,
“picture taker”, on either lane of
traffic to check speeds.
A member of the Texas Depart
ment of Public Safety’s Highway Pa
trol, Looby is one of 11 officers re
sponsible for 24-hour safety on the
roads in Brazos, Robertson, and
Burleson counties.
“We can’t be everywhere, so we
just have to go where the traffic vol
ume is the heaviest,” said Sgt. Gary
E. Farguson recently. Farguson is
an area supervisor of the Highway
Patrol.
v Very definitely, we have seen an
increase in speed by motorists over
the last couple of years,” he said.
“There are two reasons for this. One
is that people seem to feel there
isn’t an energy crisis and that they
may even have been taken in by talk
of it. The other reason is a false as
surance they may have with a CB or
a radar detector.”
Yet, the officer did admit “we re
spread pretty thin and there are a
lot of people who can and do
speed.”
One Texas A&M University stu
dent said recently, “With my CB, I
can cruise home doing 70 mph and
not really worry.”
Why then hasn’t the Highway Pa
trol sought to limit the use of CB
radios?
“CBs have a dual good and bad
effect. They slow folks down but
only for a short time, and only when
we re around,” Farguson said. “But
we re not in the business of com
munication violations and our offi
cers are already busy.”
On any Friday the traffic in and
around College Station and Bryan is
composed largely of students. Some
are heading off for a football game or
home for the weekend.
Any time you get 30,000 more
people on the highways, you have
more work and more accidents. But
proportionately the students cause
the officers no particular problems,”
said Farguson. “Actually the A&M
students are very well behaved.”
Battalion photo by Susan Webb
Officer Richard Looby of the Department of Public Safety’s Highway
Patrol, monitors the speed of passing cars along Highway 60.