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Vol. 71 No. 65
8 Pages
Friday, December 2, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Inside Today:
Ags break Cajun winning streak, p.
8.
From graduation to wedding
chapel, p. 6.
Another side to the UT pre-game
conflict, p. 2.
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in the past. It is one way of trying to keep
up with inflation.
Farmers, according to the strike group
American Agriculture, will not plant
another crop after the December dead
line, nor will they buy any more farm
machinery.
H. T. Walker, spokesman for A.A., said
the group expects 50 to 60 percent partici
pation. He added that most of the support
in Texas is in the Panhandle and Rio
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VASHINGTON — President Carter is
iewing options that could reduce the
rage American family’s income taxes by
ut$300 in 1978, administration sources
today.
fold key members of Congress welcome
shift in emphasis from tax reform to tax
in his news conference Wednesday, the
isident promised substantial income tax
s for individuals and businesses while
itponing much of his massive reform
:kage.
(ey congressmen, who will be dealing
h the proposals next year, agreed he
s wise to drop the idea of asking for
ssive tax reform at the same time.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman
ssell Long, D-La., told UPI any at-
npt by Carter to undertake major tax
anges, such as ending the preferential
treatment of capital gains, “could lead
a prolonged fight.”
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if Carter wants fast action on a tax cut to
mulate the economy, and certainly if he
nts action before next year’s elections,
is taking the right course, Long said.
day and make sure it never happens
again.”
The problem involved the Alpha Phi
Omega service organization from the Uni
versity of Texas attempting to unfurl their
huge Texas flag on Kyle Field. They were
told not to go on the field by yell leader
Joe Reagan. Several fights broke out when
the group went on the field anyway.
Confusion and a lack of communication
caused the incident, Koldus said.
Groff had given APO permission to go
on the field prior to the game, but the yell
leaders were not aware of this, Koldus
said.
Reagan told the UT students, “You might
have permission, but you will cause a con
frontation if you go on the field. ”
Koldus said he went down to the field
Saturday and told the yell leaders they had
no responsibility to enforce rules and regu
lations of the University. Keeping Univer
sity of Texas students off the field but
allowing Corps members to bring an ar
madillo, a chicken and footlockers onto it
appeared to be hypocritical, Koldus said.
Police officers hired by the athletic de
partment are responsible for controlling
the crowd, Koldus said. These officers are
from the Bryan and College Station Police
Departments and the Brazos County
Sheriffs department. University Police
control traffic and crowds on the outside of
the stadium.
Koldus said the officers should be hired
through the University Police department
and should answer to it, not the athletic
department.
“I would like to see it handled through
the University with input from the athletic-
department,” Tate said. But he added, “A
lot of things that happened would have
happened regardless of who was in
charge.”
Tate said the only responsibility of the
yell leaders was to lead yells and instill
spirit, not control the crowds.
Tom Sand, assistant to the Secretary of
Agriculture, said based on past strike at
tempts, this much farmer participation is
doubtful.
He cited for example a strike three years
ago in which 70 percent of a state’s farmers
signed a pledge to withhold their wheat
from the market. When it was time to sell,
however, most of the farmers sold, hoping
to make more money because of the others
holding their wheat.
Regan Brown, Texas Commissioner of
Agriculture, sympathizes with the farmers’
situation, too, but doubts if the strike will
work.
“The citrus growers in the (Rio Grande)
Valley are having one of their best years.
Dairymen are having a good year. Even
beef and poultry producers are doing bet
ter. These people won’t want to strike,”
said Brown.
He added that since the Russians are
buying grain, it has gone up 60 cents per
bushel in the last few days, and the wheat
farmers will not be as ready to strike,
either.
One of the problems with organizing is
the threat of anti-trust violations to na
tional agriculture groups. The Capper-
Volstead Act of 1922 allows individuals to
strike, but organizations cannot because it
might constitute monopolistic action.
“We’re sympathetic to the idea, but it
would be a legal nightmare for us to sup
port the strike,” said Don Zmolek, admin
istrative adviser for the National Farmers
Organization (N.F.O.).
Although most officials believe the
strike will help call attention to the cost-
price squeeze felt by the farmers, they do
not think it is the answer to the problem.
Zmolek said the N.F.O. contracts di
rectly with processors and buyers, holding
meetings for farmers to vote on the prices
they need to cover the costs of production.
Brown said that solution is not as easy as
it seems, either. He feels good marketing
and exporting is the answer.
He suggested that there was not too
much produce in the world to get good
prices, but poor distribution of the existing
produce.
“You don’t conserve yourself into pros
perity, you don’t store yourself into pros
perity, and you don’t strike yourself into
farm prosperity,” said Brown.
Brown said farmers should be working
with government on an effective long-
range farm program.
“We change the rules every time we
change presidents,” said Brown.
The strike might work, most officials
agree, if perishables, like red meat and
milk, were being withheld, but holding
grain will not affect the consumer enough
because of stockpiles.
Sand also noted that the farm imple
ment business is in bad shape already be
cause farmers have not been able to afford
new machinery in a long time. He doubts
any more pressure can be added there.
Most officials say that all the strike can
do is call attention to a problem they are
already aware of and maybe get some con
sumer awareness.
Make reservations early
Rooms can be difficult to find
By KIM TYSON
If you want to get a room at a local
hotel for Parent’s Day weekend next
April, now is the time to act. Hotel
rooms in the Bryan-College Station
area may be hard to find during
peak periods such as this. However,
these hotel rooms are not always in
big demand.
During home football games,
hotels in the area are generally
booked solid.
Those who want rooms may have
to go as far as Madisonville (45 miles
away) or Caldwell (27 miles away).
“I would say as a rule of thumb
you need reservations at least six
months in advance,” said Bill
Jacobs, manager of the Aggieland
Inn.
Jacobs said he has some reser
vations already for 1980. But he said
for weekends with no big events in
town one week to three days is usu
ally sufficient notice.
Jacobs said his hotel recently
adopted a policy of requesting two
nights’ payment to confirm reser
vations for football weekend rooms.
He said they will not take one-night
reservations for those weekends.
Jacobs said he decided on the pol
icy after the University of Texas -
Texas A&M football game last
weekend because so many people
checked out after the game, leaving
70 vacancies in the 176-room hotel
Saturday night. Some of the va
cancies couldn’t be filled.
The 24-room Surrey Inn in
Caldwell requires one nights’room
rent to confirm reservations on foot
ball weekends. These reservations
can be made as soon as the new
football schedule is announced,
around the first of the year.
But football weekends are com
pletely different from the rest of the
year, sid Betty Young, manager of
the Ramada Inn for 12 years.
“The motel industry has about
1,000 rooms in the Bryan-College
Station area, but we are a feast and
famine community,” said Pat Mann,
executive vice president of the
Bryan-College Station Chamber of
Commerce.
He said some weekends have
overflow crowds, but there are
others that have a low occupancy
rate when no attractions are in the
area.
Mann said some apartment com
plexes turn into hotels when they
have vacancies during football sea
son.
Football season may be profitable
for hotels but business isn’t as de
pendable during other parts of the
year.
The slowest time of the year is
during Christmas break, from
mid-December to mid-January.
“Business is just dead for 30 days
then,” Young said.
Young said business is also lost
when visitors come to the University
and leave the same day.
And personnel problems plague
hotels in the area because of the
boom-bust cycle of business. Young
said. She said it is difficult to find
people to do the periodic work or to
train new people just for big
weekends.
“You feel like a clown in a circus, ”
she said, “You do a lot of juggling
with employees.”
Conventions in the Texas A&M
area are a large part of local hotel
business, said Nancy Deitrich, assis
tant manager of the Holiday Inn in
College Station.
“Seminars at the University are
really big business for us,” she said.
Jacobs said the hotels feed like
“vultures, because they survive on
business created by Texas A&M.”
Ninety-five percent of the
Ramada Inn’s business comes from
something related to the University,
Young said. But she said the con
ventions aren’t always spaced out for
constant business.
“Sometimes we will have two
conventirins at one time and the
next week nothing,” she said.
Smaller hotels may have an easier
time adjusting to the boom-bust
periods because they have fewer
rooms to fill. Young said.
“Maybe in a few years the area
may be ready for this many hotels.
But right now it’s overbuilt,” Young
said.
Approximately 200 to 300 large
conventions come to the University
each year requiring hotel accommo
dations for participants, said John
Richards, Texas A&M scheduling and
services manager. He said that for
the smaller seminars, some 380,000
people come to Texas A&M yearly.
Seminars are increasing because
news of the Texas A&M facilities
is passed on, he said.
The scheduling department helps
chairmen find accommodations for
conferees in the area. Richards said
seminar chairmen are sent lists and
phone numbers of hotels in the
area. The Chamber of Commerce
also publishes a visitor’s directory
listing motels, hotels and eating es
tablishments.
“But we don’t recommend any
body,” Richards said. Convention
chairmen make all reservations.
Richards also said that dorms are
used for some of the larger confer
ences during the summer.
The Department of Continuing
Education also helps coordinate
conventions with rooms. John Edd
Tucker, assistant director, said he
knows of only one time a convention
has had to move somewhere else
because adequate accommodations
(See Hotel, page 6)
iBC television crew gets ready despite confusion
John Alien, technical director for ABC Sports, checks out his con
trol SWltcHer. Photo by Mary Hesalroad
By MARY HESALROAD
Roll, take six,” on technician bellowed
to another.
“What?” a muffled voice asked.
“I said roll...WHAT DO YOU MEAN
WHAT?? ROLL SIX!”
You call this the communications busi
ness?” asked a man who was dragging
yards of cable. “You can’t even get our
intercom to work. ’’
Such good-natured bantering flew back
and forth among the 33-man crew from
ABC as they set up equipment Thursday
afternoon on the west side of Kyle Field
for Saturday’s televised Texas A&M -
Houston game.
The scene was one of organized confu
sion. Men bustled around the three trucks
setting up television cameras and testing
equipment. They moved about with an air
of easy confidence born from years of ex
perience.
John Allen, technical director for ABC
Sports, has been on the job for 17 years.
He is responsible for pushing the right
buttons at the right time. He controls how
the action is televised
“There is a tremendous amount of pres
sure to this job, but it doesn't bother me.
It’s not the kind of pressure to get an ulcer
or a heart attack over,” he said.
He looked thoughtful for a moment and
then smiled. “I guess it doesn’t bother me
because I don’t take this business se
riously.”
The people who hand out Emmy
Awards evidently take Allen’s work se
riously. They awarded him an Emmy for
his technical directing during the 1976
Olympic games in Montreal.
“I did the opening and closing cere
monies and all the track and field events,”
Allen said.
He also won an Emmy for similiar work
during the 1968 summer Olympic games
in Mexico.
“About half of the crew here now has
won Emmys. Some have won two or
three.”
Allen is the technical director for the
regional college football game of the week.
Allen and his crew spent Thanksgiving
Day in Lubbock for the Arkansas - Texas
Bookmart begins
Monday at MSC
A book mart where students decide the
price of their own books is set to begin
Monday in Room 137 Memorial Student
Center, says Tommy Parks, director of the
market.
The Student Government-sponsored
project will offer books on a consignment
basis — owners decide a price, put it in
the book and receive the money for the
book if it sells. Unsold books Parks says,
will be returned to the owner.
Student Government will not buy the
books as it has in the past, because it lost
money each time. Parks says. The mart
will offer to sell any book, he says even
books not being used next semester.
Hours for the book mart are 1 p.m. to
5:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 7
p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. The mar
ket will be open weekdays Dec. 15-16 and
Jan. 16 through Feb. 17. A 25-cent han
dling charge will be collected for each
book, Parks says. The profits will be re
turned to Student Government’s activities
fund.
Tech game. Friday they flew to Philadel
phia for the Army - Navy game and then to
College Station on Wednesday.
“I don’t mind the travel,” Allen said. “I
wouldn’t do it if I didn’t love it. ”
Eight cameras will be used to televise
the game Saturday, including one on a
platform atop a 150-foot crane.
Most of the crew’s duties aren’t as risky.
Sal Folino, a sideline cameraman,
moves along the sidelines following the
teams and coaches.
“Every once in a while I spin it (the
camera) around and get some pretty girls, ”
he said. “And an 8 by 10 glossy of my
self,” he added, smiling.
The Aggies’ last regular season game is
also the last regular season game for the
ABC team. The Hula Bowl will be Allen’s
last televised game until next football sea
son.
“After the Hula Bowl its on to golf,”
Allen said. He said he’ll also do auto rac
ing, and NCAA track and field.
“This goes on until July or August. Then
I take a vacation and its back to college
football in the fall.”
Allen turns away to answer a question.
In the background someone yells, “Kill
tape!”
“No, roll tape!’’ someone else orders.
“It’s rolling now. ”
“You’re rolling WHAT?” a puzzled voice
asks.
Committee recommends
earlier Health Center closing
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If you want to see a doctor at the
Health Center, you may have to go
earlier this semester.
A recommendation has been
made to Texas A&M University
President Jarvis Miller that the Be-
utel Health Center close its doors at
4 p.m. instead of the present closing
time of 5 p.m.
The Student Health Center Advi
sory Committee made the recom
mendation after a discussion with
Dr. Claude Goswick, director of the
Health Center.
“The staff is greatly overworked,”
Goswick said Wednesday. “We’re
here until 6 or 6:30 even though the
doors close at 5.” Any patient who
signs in before closing time is
guaranteed a consultation with a
doctor.
Dr. John Koldus, vice president
for student services, said the center
is understaffed - two of the seven
doctor’s positions are unfilled.
It’s difficult to attract new doctors
to the center because of low pay and
long hours said Dr. Jack Wagner, a
member of the advisory committee,
and a physician himself.
He said Health Center doctors
could probably make three times as
much money in private practice.
Salaries range between $29,000 and
$34,000 according to the University
budget.