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giese: Vol. 71 No. 151
14 Pages
Friday, May 5, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Inside Friday
• Could I see some ID, please?
p. 7
• Kling to go the way of other
Texas A&M legal advisers p. 6
• Three Aggies drafted p. 12
THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1978
Page 3
v 'W* K *'
Come on. Rev, give me a kiss!
Greg Evetts, from mascott company, E-2, tries in the outfit can take her for a walk or take her
to get a kiss out of Reveille before he takes her to class. Evetts, a sophomore from Dallas, is
into class. Danny Hill is the mascott corporal* and about to take Rev to his history class,
usually takes Care of Reveille, but any Sophomore Battalion photo by Debbie Parsons
Us campaign most expensive
Miller says budget
is top challenge
By LIZ AEYVLIN
Battalion Campus Editor
The biggest single challenge facing
Texas A&M University is the 1978-79
operating budget, University President
Jarvis Miller said in his “State of the Uni
versity” address Thursday afternoon.
Sixteen faculty and staff members also
were honored at the annual faculty meet
ing in Rudder Auditorium. They received
distinguished achievement awards, the
highest honor the University gives for ex
cellence in teaching, research or adminis
tration.
Miller also presented citations to two
faculty members who have been recog
nized by international scholarly societies.
Both Miller and Dr. J.M. Prescott, vice
president for academic affairs, said the
budget is a primary concern.
“This budget is the tightest we have ex
perienced in past years, Miller told the
800-plus audience. The Texas Legislature
provided a net increase of $43,635 out of a
$80 million budget, he said. Besides an
increased enrollment, the University also
must pay for higher staff salaries and infla
tion, he said.
Allocation of budget funds must be ap
proved by the Texas A&M Board of Re
gents, probably at its June meeting. Miller
said his proposed budget, which has not
been made public, includes small in
creases in most departments.
Original research, however, has been
cut by 50 percent. Miller said the Availa
ble Fund will be used to help finance small
increases in faculty salaries, library alloca
tions and departmental operating funds.
The Available Fund is generally used for
new construction or special enrichment
programs.
Miller said he was forced to dip into the
fund to meet his budget demands. Texas
A&M and the University of Texas share
the special fund, which is protected by the
state constitution.
“The state of higher education in gen
eral is one of concern to us. ” Miller said.
Many people doubt the worth of universi
ties, he said, especially taxpayers and
legislators.
Prescott also said in his “State of the Uni
versity” address that the Texas Legislature
suspects that professors are not teaching
enough.
“The public concern is that the vast
majority of us don’t work very hard,” he
told the faculty. Universities should try to
work to dispell this feeling, he said, or “at
least dent it.”
Both men expressed concern over the
image of universities in general, but they
said Texas A&M in particular has an excel
lent reputation.
“We are riding the crest of respect we
have not experienced in recent years,”
Miller said. He added that Texas A&M is
“attracting the very best of students.” Mil
ler said the University has more National
Merit Scholars than any public school in
Texas with 177 enrolled for next fall. By
comparison, Miller said, the University of
Texas has 72 and Texas Tech has 42.
Miller said his priorities for the Univer
sity are increasing faculty size and salary,
departmental operating funds, organized
research funds and securing capital to re
equip the School of Veterinary Medicine.
Both Miller and Prescott said their first
nine months in office were “interesting.
“Fve had much to learn this year,” the
president said, noting that 9 months and 6
days ago he was accepted for the job.
Miller and Prescott presented the
awards along with Harvey Cash, president
of the Association of Former Students, and
Buck Weirus, executive secretary of the as
sociation.
Mike Humphrey, student body presi
dent, introduced other student leaders on
the stage and praised the faculty award
winners. Personal care that teachers give
students, he said, “makes A&M the
unique school it is.
Miller also presented citations to two
faculty members who received “unusually
significant” honors this year.
Ira Scott, distinguished professor of
chemistry, was recently made a fellow of
the Royal Society, an ancient scholarly so
ciety.
Robert Stewart, distinguished professor
in agricultural engineering, was elected to
the National Academy of Engineering. He
is the first Texas A&M faculty member to
be selected for the society.
Fourteen were honored by the alumni
association with distinguished achieve
ment awards. Each received $1,000, a
commemorative watch and a plaque. Two
additional teaching awards of $1,000 were
funded by the Amoco Foundation.
Texas A&M has presented 250 awards
since the program was initiated by the
alumni in 1955.
Awards for teaching went to W. H. Bas-
sichis, associate professor of physics; Man
uel Davenport, professor of philosophy;
Billy Glen Foster, associate professor of
biology; Wulf Koepke, professor of
modern languages; Lee L. Lowery Jr. pro
fessor of civil engineering, and James
Small wood, associate professor of veteri
nary anatomy.
Research awards were presented to
Choo-Seng Giam, professor of chemistry;
George Carter, distinguished professor of
geography, and Richard Schapery, profes
sor of civil engineering.
Awards for individual student relation
ships went to Garland Bayliss, associate
professor of history, and George Huebner,
professor of meteorology.
Frank W.R. Hubert, dean of education,
was presented the administration-staff
award. Robert I. Berridge, associate pro
fessor of educational administration, and
R. J. Hodges Jr., project leader in crops,
and agronomist for the Texas Agricultural
Extension Service, won the extension and
continuing education awards.
Amoco awards for outstanding teaching
were presented to Jay P. Grimes, assistant
professor of agricultural education, and
Haile Perry, associate professor of mathe
matics.
Recipients of the awards were deter
mined by a selection committee composed
of faculty, students and former students.
Briscoe claims
United Press International
UJSTIN — Gov. Dolph Briscoe, twice
■cted governor of Texas on a platform of
■;al conservatism, is waging the most ex-
|nsive primary campaign in the nation’s
tory against four Democratic challen-
_Js,
Briscoe hopes to extend his tenure in
ice to an unprecedented 10 years.
The South Texas rancher and banker
based his campaign for a third term on a
familiar theme — no new state taxes.
He used similar slogans in 1972 and in
1974, when he won the first four-year term
in Texas history.
Briscoe is challenged by Attorney John
Hill, who has the backing of the 137,000-
4g services office
Sivill not be moved
■’t
'jl
Reagan Brown, Texas Agriculture
bmmissioner, said Thursday that the
;riculture Stabilization and Conserva-
m Services will not be moved from its
resent location in College Station,
own spoke at a reception Wednesday
the Ramada Inn in College Station.
“Unless it’s a direct order from Wash-
gton, it won’t be moved, said Brown,
o move that office with all the laws it
s to administer would be a tragedy.”
lA spokesman for the U.S. Department
■ Agriculture said last week that the of-
■ie may be moved to a new location,
■issibly in Temple, Texas.
■ Brown said three of five ASCS com
mittee members have assured him the
state headquarters will not be moved.
'^^'■owever, the final decision will be made
r^^jin Washington.
Brown said he has contacted U.S. Ag-
■culture Secretary Bob Bergland, who
will make the final decision to move the
Bice. Bjown has also contacted Bobby
■mith, assistant to President Carter, about
|ie proposed move and denied charges
om Joe Hubenak, his Democratic op-
nent in Saturday’s primary, that he has
Jot been an active spokesman for the
■exas farmer.
■ Brown said Texas faces a crucial time
v agriculture.“We re the number three
state in agriculture,” he said. He added
that Washington would not make a deci
sion without first checking with Texas of
ficials.
Brown said Bergland is a “good friend
of mine.” He said he cannot discuss his
conversations with Bergland but stressed
that the ASCS will not be moved.
Brown called Hubenak “the biggest
fraud.” He added that Hubenak has a
poor record as agriculture committee
chairman in the Texas House of Repre J
sentatives. For example, said Brown, dur
ing the 10 years Hubenak has been in the
Legislature, Texas has lost one-third of its
farmers.
Brown also denied charges that he failed
to support a bill to tax agricultural land
on its productivity rather than its market
value. “He (Hubenak) is in the Legisla
ture, I’m not,” he said.
Brown called Hubenak’s charges a
“slam to hundreds of public employees of
the state.” He added that he is proud of
the agriculture department employees
who have aided his campaign on their
own time.
Brown said he expects to win in the
Democratic Primary this Saturday with
70 percent of the vote. Brown is opposed
by Don Sewell and Joe Hubenak.
Kidnap suspects held
United Press International
HUNTINGDON, Tenn. — The three
len accused of kidnapping Jodie
lizabeth Gaines were ordered held with-
ut bond Thursday at a hearing attended
’ the victim’s father and brother.
Two of the three — brothers Harvey
Douglas Dixon, 19, and William Andrew
)ixon, 22 — told General Sessions Judge
J Walton West that they couldn’t afford an
Attorney.
I The other suspect, Daivd Michael Wjl-
^on, 24, said he would try to obtain an
^^pttomey on his own.
West agreed with District
General John L. Williams argument that
it was in the “public interest to deny
them bond.
Ben Gaines, the owner of a furniture
plant here, and his son, Ben Jr., were
among spectators at the hearing. They sat
with heads bowed and the elder Gaines
once appeared to be brushing tears from
his eyes.
“It’s terrible for young kids to get into a
thing like that,” Gaines whispered to his
son at one point.
no new taxes
member Texas State Teachers Association
and most of the state s liberals.
Briscoe’s campaign already has cost
more than $3 million, while Hill reported
he had spent $1.4 million, with a week
remaining before Saturday’s primary.
Former Gov. Preston Smith Also is in the
race, but is given little chance of doing
more than perhaps forcing a runoff be
tween Hill and Briscoe.
The winner of the Democratic nomina
tion will face a challenge in November
from the Republican nominee — either
former Deputy Secretary of Defense Bill
Clements or one-time state GOP Chair
man Ray Hutchison, both of Dallas.
The other race attracting the most atten
tion among the 1.8 million Texans ex
pected to vote Saturday is a Democratic
primary contest between Rep. Bob
Krueger, D-Texas, and former State In-
sumace Board chairman Joe Christie for
the party’s nomination for the U.S. Se
nate.
The winner of that race will face Sen.
John G. Tower, R-Texas, the man who re
placed Lyndon B. Johnson and the first
Texas Republican in the Senate, in
November.
Five of the state’s most influential con
gressmen are retiring this year, creating
scrambles in various sections of Texas for
their successors.
Those retiring include Reps. George H.
Mahon, Olin E. Teague, W.R. Poage,
Omar Burleson and Barbara Jordon.
Mahon, Teague, Poage and Burleson
represent a collective total of 15 years of
seniority Texas will lose in Congress in
1979.
Jordon became a national figure for her
role in the Nixon impeachment hearings,
although she was serving only her third
term in Congress.
Time to crash
It’s definitely “dead week” as this resident of Hughes Hall takes
full advantage of the situation. Caught in the snooze is Margo
Martens, freshman building construction major.
Flood damage
at $30 million
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Thirteen billion
gallons of rain, overtaxing even the city’s
most sophisticated pumps, prevented Jef
ferson Parish children from returning to
school and clean-up crews assessed an es
timated $30 million in property damages
from the city’s worst flood in 51 years.
Six persons died in weather-related ac
cidents. Four persons were believed
drowned, one man died of a heart attack
en route to a hospital in a pirogue, and
another was electrocuted while standing in
knee-deep water when he touched a metal
traffic sign apparently grounded to an ex
posed wire.
Police divers Thursday evening recov
ered the body of a 12-year-old boy who
was sucked beneath rising flood waters
near a busy four-lane drive on the West
Bank of the Mississippi River.
Jefferson Parish officials called off public
and private school until Monday because
several buildings sustained extensive flood
damage. Maintenance personnel was to
report during the weekend to begin the
clean-up.
A total of 10.5 inches of rain fell in the
24-hour period Wednesday, with 6.6
inches of rain accumulating within three
hours, making the downpour the heaviest
in city history for that time period. The
torrents swelled in some spots to 5 feet on
some roads and chased thousands of resi
dents from their homes.
Red Cross officials said there were sev
eral families who spent Thursday night at a
shelter in Marrero, La., because they
could not clean their houses enough to
sleep in them. But water has receded in
most areas, officials said.
“As long ago as 1970 and 1972 we went
to the public, explaining the inadequacy of
the drainage system and seeking funds to
correct the situation,” Stuart H. Brehm,
executive director of the Sewerage and
Water Board, said Thursday.
One pump — installed in 1927 and
never replaced — caught fire and another
broke a blade, hampering drainage efforts.
Brehm said the pump would be out of
service for at least two months.
The city drainage system handled 3 bil
lion gallons of water in an 11-hour period,
nearly twice the amount the system was
designed to handle.
Police tow trucks removed automobiles
stalled in city streets, and motorists cau
tiously restarted wet engines and drove
their cars back home.
Mayor Ernest Morial said the city would
be eligible for low-cost federal disaster
loans.
“I sympathize very much with individu
als who suffered damage and had their
lives disrupted,” Morial said. “I can sym
pathize because I was a victim of Hur
ricane Betsy in 1965.”
Eight race for
‘Jordan’ district
By JAMES L. OVERTON
United Press International
HOUSTON — Barbara Jordan’s sur
prise decision to remove herself— at least
temporarily — from national politics sent
eight candidates scrambling for the con
gressional district seat created especially
for her six years ago.
Seven Democrats and an independent
have filed in the primary race for the 18th
Congressional District, an area populated
ironically with this boom town’s poorest
black wards and the affluent manicured es
tates of posh River Oaks.
Two state representatives, Mickey Le-
land, a 1960s student activist turned
stylish liberal, and Anthony Hall, sup
ported by two black ministers’ associa
tions, declined to seek reelection to run
for the seat. Both are 33.
City Councilman Judson Robinson, 44,
although lacking in major endorsements,
has considerable name recognition and has
been active on the council for seven years.
They are considered the frontrunners in
the race, which has only one white candi
date.
The other candidates are Harrel
Tillman, an attorney and former municipal
court judge; Nathaniel West and Al Vera,
who are both teachers, and Booker T.
Bonner, the independent.
Jack Linville, 32, the lone white candi
date, is an expert in urban renewal with no
previous political experience. He expects
to make a runoff simply because the dis
trict has slightly more more white voters
than black.