Willy lends a helping hand
Battalion photo by Susie Williams
After watching Joan Moore make pottery and
Mary Anna Davis spin wool, 4-year-old Willy
Wheir decided to pitch in and help Mary Anna
with her spinning. The demonstrations, sponsored
Wednesday by the MSC Crafts and Arts Commit
tee, were held at the MSC fountain. Onlookers
watched as artists demonstrated pottery-making,
spinning, jewelry construction and other crafts on
the sunny afternoon. Willy is the son of Hugh and
Caroline Wheir of Bryan.
Battalion
Vol. 71 No. 120 Thursday, March 23, 1978 News Dept. 845-2611
12 Pages College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611
Senate proposes all-sports pass plan
Inside Thursday:
Local SAT scores above average,
p. 5.
Breaking for spring. . .in Washington,
Big Bend and Tyler, p. 6-7.
Aggies lose doubleheader, p. 11.
V
By LIZ NEWLIN
Battalion Staff
'he cost of attending football, basketball
I baseball games next year may be $15
>|er than expected, thanks to the all-
jorts pass plan recommended by the stu-
ent senate Wednesday night. The senate
s|) gave Wadley Central Blood Bank the
llnsive right to conduct blood drives on
impus.
loe Young, author of the sports bill, said
le Texas A&M University Athletic De-
artment will accept a $25 price tag on the
ass, which would include football
olpons and passes to baseball and bas-
e|ball ticket li nes. The Athletic Depart-
nfnt is considering ticket prices that
would total $40 which would allow stu
dents to see all three sports. The plan
»isfbe ’approved by the Athletic Council.
Beginning next year, students will pay
oiattend basketball and baseball games
etause the Athletic Department will no
oijger receive student service fees. This
lar the allocation was $50,000.
■Season tickets for home baseball or bas-
tetball games would cost $10, according to
ne Athletic Department.
■Under the senate’s proposal, students
By purchase an individual sport season
ks. The cost of football tickets would be
|b same, $20. But basketball and baseball
ftses would cost $7.50. The passes would
It guarantee a ticket to baseball or bas
ketball games, but students with passes
Kaild be given first priority to pick up a
ticket during the business day preceding a
Wnegame. Football game ticket distribu
tion would remain the same.
■Senators moved quickly through the 11
Ition items, spending less time than usual
ou rules fights and details.
■The senate approved a recommendation
jthat Wadley Central Blood Bank be given
exclusive permission to conduct a blood
drive on campus. William Altman, vice
president for student services, said the
Hood drive research committee favored
Radley over the Red Cross for several
gyasons: possible financial savings for stu
dents using blood from the pool, Wadley
serves more hospitals in areas where A&M
students live; Wadley allows Texas A&M
[University to determine who gets charity
blood credits; Wadley uses blood compo
nents more extensively in research; and
students always have the option of donat
ing to the Red Cross.
Altman also said that blood donations
have fallen since 1975 from 2,400 units col
lected from 9 percent of the students in
1977. The University Concessions Com
mittee must approve the recommenda
tion.
Mike Humphrey, student body presi
dent, told senators that. student service
fees must be increased $1 to pay for the
on-campus shuttle bus system. Humphrey
said that he and Dr. John Koldus, vice
president for student services, looked at
funding for the new program and decided
the increase is needed. Memorial Student
Center Bookstore profits will pay about
$50,0Q0 of the cost, but student service
fees must provide the other $30,000
needed, Humphrey said. The senate took
no action on the matter.
Off-campus students had indicated that
polling places at shuttle bus stops would
encourage voting. If four more voting
machines are not available, polls for spring
elections may be moved outdoors.
Senators changed polling locations to
put them in areas of higher student traffic.
In other action, the senate approved a
Campus Chest reform act, which outlined
changes senate made in the organization
earlier in the year. The changes tighten
lending procedures and repayment re
quirements. The maximum amount that
may be loaned is $100, and students have
up to 60 days to repay the emergency,
interest-free loans.
The senate declared the week beginning
April 3 “Agriculture week at Texas A&M
University.” Faculty and students in the
College of Agriculture have planned sev
eral programs during that week, including
a free appearance by folk comedian Jerry
Glower.
Senators also voted to award certificates
of appreciation to Robert Harvey, Vicki
Young, Geri Campbell, Stan Stanfield and
Stuart Kingsberry, who resigned their
posts recently.
They also proposed a change in informa
tion release policy and authorized dele
gates to go to the National Student
Association-National Student Lobby in
Washington, D.C. Senators also asked for
more space in the MSC, revised their by
laws and hear first reading on several bills.
[Council discusses
library expansion
By ANDREA VALLS
The possibility of expanding services of the Bryan Library to College Station
residents was discussed Wednesday at the College Station City Council meeting.
Suggestions were providing additional bookmobile service or building a branch
library in College Station.
College Station provides no funding for the library although more than 14,000
College Station citizens hold library cards, said Councilman Lane Stephenson.
Additional funds are needed to help purchase new books and to provide better
literary services for College Station residents, said Linda Pringle, Bryan librarian.
With support from College Station, she said, the library could improve its selection
of reference books, county historical books, and children’s selections, in addition to
making more bookmobile stops in College Station.
Stephenson said that more than 25 percent of the book circulation is from College
Station card holders. More than 200 books are checked out from the bookmobile at
Redmond Terrace in a two-hour period, said Pringle, and this accounts for a third of
the library’s daily book circulation.
Stephenson suggested that $15,000 to $20,000 be considered by the council as an
appropriation to the library’s book budget. The federal government gives public
libraries 30 cents for every dollar in the library’s book budget, thus funding from
College Station would increase federal funding, said Pringle.
Pringle said a bookmobile would be an effective way of gauging College
Station interest and need for a branch library. She suggested that College Station
consider providing additional bookmobile services.
City Manager North Bardell said the council will research suggestions for possi
ble action in the next fiscal year.
In other action, the council accepted bids for five new pickup trucks for the
Electrical, Water and Sewer Department. An $11,855.25 bid was approved for
Twin City International Inc., which will purchase a new industrial tractor for the
waste water plant.
In other business, the council approved the preliminany plat of Emerald Forest
Phasfe I. Final plats were approved for Raintree Phase III, Sandstone Addition,
White Creek Subdivision and Carter Creek Cloisters.
Once again student elections near as campaign signs on the Texas
A&M University campus urge students to vote. The filing deadline
is Tuesday and elections will be held April 5 and 6. At this time 60
candidates have filed. The large signs may also be placed across
from the Commons, Sbisa Dining Hall and on the side of Bizzell
Hall. Battalion photo by Marianita Paddock
‘Show will go on
Eldest Wallenda dies from fall
United Press International
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — After 50
years of death-defying acts on the tight
rope, 73-year-old Karl Wallenda is dead.
But within hours of his fatal plunge, his
family resumed their daredevil walks
through the skys.
The fearless Wallenda, senior member
of the Flying Wallendas family and subject
of the movie “The Great Wallendas, ” died
at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday when a gust of
wind swept him off a high-wire strung be
tween two 10-story hotels in the heart of
San Juan’s tourist district.
Wallenda teetered for a moment, failed
in a last attempt to grab the wire and
plunged to his death on a paved parking
lot, clutching his balancing bar until his
skull hit the back of a parked taxi.
He was dead on arrival at nearby Pre
sbyterian Hosptial of “multiple fractures
and traumas. ” Witnesses said his head and
upper body were crushed and mutilated.
His family, some of whom were watch
ing, were stunnned, but they vowed to
continue.
“The show definitely will go on, in the
finest of circus tradition,” his nephew,
Gunther, said from the Wallenda home in
Sarasota, Fla. “That’s how Karl would
have wanted it.
In San Juan, 17-year-old Rietta Wal
lenda performed her own tightrope act at
the Pan-American Circus only hours after
watching her grandfather die.
In Concord, Calif, Steve Wallenda,
another nephew, walked a high-wire over
the Oakland Zoo’s animal cages in what he
called a “memorial” to his uncle.
“My uncle taught me from the age of 3
to go on with the show,” he said, after his
75-foot-high walk. “There’s no way I’d
quit. I will do the same as my uncle Karl
did. I will probably die on the wire.”
Wallenda, a naturalized U.S. citizen
who was born in Kaiser Wilhelm’s German
empire, went ahead with his stunt Wed
nesday despite a stiff 12 mph wind gusting
considerably higher.
“There was no way to tell him what to
do,” one of his grief-stricken co-workers
said. “He was his own boss. He had done
the same thing many, many times before.
He never used a net.”
Briscoe vows
no corporate,
personal taxes
By ANDREA VALLS
The fog rolled in Wednesday morning at
Easterwood Airport and so did Governor
Dolph Briscoe.
Brazos County was just one the stops in
Briscoe’s 16-city campaign swing. He
spoke Wednesday at an early morning
breakfast at the Aggieland Inn in College
Station.
Briscoe delivered campaign promises
and plans for his next term in office, al
though he offered few means of imple
menting these plans.
He emphasized his past record of fiscal
responsibility without raising taxes by say
ing, “There have been 101 major tax in
creases in other states across the nation.
There have been none in Texas and I’m
proud of that fact. ”
He said that Texas remains the only
Sunbelt state without a corporate or
personal income tax. “I pledge not to
increase taxes in my next term of office
he said. He added that Texans need
neither corporate nor personal income
taxes, and said that as long as he remains
in the Governor’s office, Texas will have
neither.
Briscoe spoke of his past achievements
in office: better health care, construction
of Texas A&M Medical School, and in
creased in funding and facilities for mental
health and mental retardation. He also
spoke of the $35 billion dollar investment
in highway systems, which created 38,000
new jobs for Texans.
(See Briscoe, page 9)
Canadian Tapestries on exhibit
Battalion photo by Susan Webb
This tapestry of clowns by Maxwell Bates is one of
the many contemporary works of modern art that
will be on display in Canadian Tapestries in Rud
der Exhibit hall this week.