The Battalion
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Vol. 71 No. 161
6 Pages
Tuesday, June 13, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Inside Tuesday:
KAMU-FM listeners must show
their support - p. 2.
A&M has new administrators —
p. 3.
Woodard red-shirted this fall -
p. 6.
to pay half
KAMU-FM cost
By LEE ROY LESCHPER JR.
Battalion News Editor
0-ii (AMU-FM will live at least one more
Kpir
I Texas A&M University will pay half the
Ht of a slimmed-down 1978-79 budget for
the University public radio station, Uni
versity President Jarvis Miller has an
nounced. The remainder of the station’s
(projected $50,000 budget will have to
llonie from local contributions and dona-
Itions, Miller said.
^Tf private contributions should not
:h this minimum level by Aug. 31,
1979, operation of the radio station will
cease,’ Miller said.
University officials had earlier said the
radio station would probably cease opera
tion Aug. 31 of this year because its pres
ent $80,000 appropriation was being cut
from the LTniversity budget as a low-
priority expense.
Miller made the announcement im
mediately after the University System
Board of Regents’ meeting Friday. During
that meeting the regents approved a Uni
versity budget which did not include Rind
ing for KAMU-FM.
ount
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egents allot money
or dorm planning
»V women on campus, Robert G. Cherry,
tfiretary of the Board, said Monday.
The Texas A&M University Board of
fegents appropriated $25,000 for initial
lanning for the construction of another
brmitorv that would increase liv ing space
nr
the
. ■his action, which was a reversal of a
nvions University stand that no more
onus would be constructed, was brought
bout by the enormous pressures of need
Sexas A&M has for increased women’s
H^Bsing facilities. Cherry said.
“ eW BLess than one out of four women apply-
|| for dorm rooms received them last
. ■r," Cherry said. The University can
PWently house 2,356 women.
nn®»h e appropriation did not come from
( 'Te $400,000 that was given to Texas A&M
;I1 l; fst summer for construction of a women s
1 ‘ ) ' 1 thletic dorm and will not be used for that
:a y%rpose, Cherry said.
, Bressure from parents who want their
or ‘ hi|dren to live on campus brought the
|v °Wcl for more women s housing to the
i( * loard s attention, Cherry said. He cited as
‘Ihi jn Example a case in which a woman who
vanted to attend the University couldn’t
ter freshman year because her parents
gid she had to live on campus and no
| (oifms were available. The woman at-
iraed a junior college in her hometown
at year with hopes of coming to Texas
A&M her sophomore year because
everyone else in her family was an A&M
graduate.
She applied for a dorm room the first
day the University began taking applica
tions and was still denied a room because
they were filled.
"The University gives priority to new
freshmen when assigning dorm rooms.
Cherry said. “Upperclassmen are given
the option of keeping their dorm rooms
first, then the remaining are filled first
with freshmen and then with transfer stu
dents. By the time they got to transfer
students there was no room left. Being a
transfer student she was unable to get a
room again.”
University officials said that Texas A&M
can accommodate 8,223 students on cam
pus, more students than any other school
in the state. However, this is less than half
of the requests they receive.
Cherry said the Physical Plant depart
ment has already begun studies for the
dorm that could house up to 500 students.
He said the dorm most likely will be con
structed for women. However there is a
possibility that the dorm could be for men
and another dorm on campus renovated
for female occupants. However, he added
that the odds of that happening are not
very high.
“We are pleased to offer on a trial basis
this arrangement under which KAMU-FM
can remain in operation without Rinding
from academic or related sources, for
which we remain convinced that higher
priorities exist, Miller said.
Funding for the station beyond Aug. 31,
1979, will be considered in light of
budgetary needs at that time and the
amount of private support KAMU-FM re
ceives during the next year, the president
said.
“The only way that the station will re
main on the air,” he said, “ is through evi
dence of genuine public support under
writing at least half of the expense for its
operation.”
“Needless to say, we re elated, station
manager Don Simons said Monday. Si
mons said he hasn’t seen the new budget
and doesn’t yet know how it will affect the
station.
KAMU-FM can broadcast on the re
duced budget by reducing it’s operating
levels, he said. Miller did not specify the
source from which University’s share of
the station budget would come.
Local fans of KAMU-FM had been
working for several months to raise sup
port and gain approval for some form of
private contribution system to sustain the
jazz and classical music radio station. The
station had previously been banned by
University officials from taking contribu
tions for operating expenses.
“We certainly feel that there is as dis
tinct possibility we will be able to raise the
funds,” Simons said. “We hope our listen
ers understand that if we don’t get sup
port, we ll go off the air Aug. 31, 1979. ”
Student Government representatives
have also expressed an interest in helping
fund KAMU-FM, Miller said. Student
Government now Rinds its own FM radio
station, KANM, which broadcasts strictly
through local television cable.
Miller said KAMU-FM had been re
moved from the University budget strictly
on the basis of budgetary priorities^
“We are proud of the entire broadcast
operation and readily recognize the educa
tional benefits generally, and particularly
in relation to the teaching function of our
Department of Communications, ” he said.
t( Quake rocks northern Japan
iy PtM United Press International
ii thf■TOKYO — The strongest earthquake in
hassifS \ears has rocked central and northern
onieigipan, killing at least 19 persons, injuring
re than 80, setting off fires and land-
ii am Slides and knocking out rail service and
Bctricity over a wide area.
1 be ■Hardest hit by the powerful quake was
,500 Miyagi Province on the Pacific coast of
npiw northern Japan where all 19 deaths were
\nn teported. Police said at least 82 persons
Raiilfj'ere injured, most cut by smashed win-
r dinow glass.
uMilBOfficials said the quake toppled 42
houses and caused 11 landslides. A freight
jeingftain was derailed at the Sendai Station of
ie I- the National Railway.
The quake, which was recorded at 5:15
p.m. Monday (4:15 p.m. EDT), registered
a magnitude of 7.5 on the open-ended
Richter Scale, according to the govern
ment’s Meteorological Agency. Its center
was located in the Pacific about 60 miles
off Miyagi Province.
The agency said its force was the
strongest since a major earthquake struck
Niigata on the Japan Sea Coast June 16,
1964.
The Niigata quake, which also regis
tered a magnitude of 7.5, killed 26 persons
and injured about 380 others. About 8,600
houses were destroyed or damaged.
The Meteorological Agency said the
quake was preceded by a weaker tremor
and followed by more than 20 aftershocks.
It, however, discounted the possibility
that another destructive tremor would fol
low.
In Sendai, capital of Miyagi Province,
about 138,000 households were without
gas supply as the tremor damaged
pipelines, creating a danger of gas ex
plosions. Panicky residents fled their
homes, and most of the dead were crushed
under toppled concrete fences and other
structures, police said.
The quake knocked traffic signals out of
order at several places in Sendai, causing
massive traffic jams, they said.
LuckenbacKs Fair: a summer tradition
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By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Sports Editor
The onset of summer in Texas
traditionally signals the begin
ning of a season of festivals, fairs
and fandangos designed with
Texans festive nature in mind.
Texans do not confine their
merriment to the summer
months. Wurstfest and Chilim-
piad attest to that. But summer
seems to be a special time of the
year in the Lone Star State. It is
a time when people will set aside
a weekend to pay homage to any
thing from armadillos to water
melons.
And no community does more
to appease the festive appetite of
Texans than the small, but popu
lar burg of Luckenbach. Nestled
snuggly in the Texas Hill Coun
try, Luckenbach has hosted
more celebrations simply for the
sake of celebration than a city
10,000 times larger could ever
hope to attract. Luckenbach
boasts a population of 3, not
counting chickens and guineas.
From the Return of the Mud
Daubers celebration, with which
the return of the swallows to San
Juan Capistrano coincides, to the
annual women’s chili cook-off
championship, the citizens of
Luckenbach know how to in
crease the population of their
city by several thousand people
on weekends throughout the
year.
Unfortunately, sometimes
these festive occasions get too
large for the confines of Lucken-
bach’s general store and dance
hall. Thus it has been with the
past few Original Sometimes
Annual Luckenbach World’s
Fairs. The attendance has be
come so large that the fairs had to
be moved to nearby Freder
icksburg. Last weekend, the
Original 5th Sometimes Annual
Luckenbach World’s Fair, or
simply the Great World’s Fair as
some prefer to call it, was held at
the Fredericksburg fairgrounds.
Along with Luckenbach “regu
lars” like country singer Tex
Schofield and Carter Country’s
Guich Koock, former co-owner
of Luckenbach, the fair was at
tended by assorted bikers, coun
try music fans, grandmothers,
dogs and even a walking Luc
kenbach Beer bottle.
A planned appearance by Billy
Carter never came to pass, al
though the president’s brother
came to town and checked into
the hotel. He left before attend
ing the festivities, reportedly be
cause no one met him at the
hotel. The missed visit probably
was just as well. There proved to
be enough hot air in the vicinity
to more than accommodate the
balloon races.
Other niceties that graced the
fairgrounds last weekend in
cluded armadillo races, jalapeno
lollipops, chicken flying contests
and plenty of cold beer to
counter the Texas heat.
But, as with almost everything
that bears the Luckenbach name
these days, the Great World’s
Fair tended to be unduly expen
sive. And the crowds were large.
So, one could hardly blame a
person if he chose simply to at
tend the Great World’s Un-Fair
in Luckenbach. There he could
grab a longneck, pull up a shade
tree and be somebody. For as
Luckenbach s late mayor and
imagineer, Hondo Crouch, is
known to have said, ‘ Every
body’s somebody in Lucken
bach . ”
Battalion photo by David Boggan
No, this isn’t what too many trips to the
tavern do to you. It’s a walking advertisement
for a yet-to-be-brewed beer. The lively long-
neck was making the rounds at the Original
5th Sometimes Annual Luckenbach World’s
Fair, held last weekend in Fredericksburg.
Let the sun shine in
Battalion photo by Pat O'Malley
The noonday sun did just that Monday in the
Soil and Crop Sciences Building’s glass-
enclosed mall, on Texas A&M University’s
west campus.
Board backs university officials
in Prairie View pipeline dispute
By LEE ROY LESCHPER JR.
Battalion News Editor
Texas A&M’s regents have had their say
on the squabble between officials of Prairie
View A&M University and the city of
Prairie View, but the city’s controversial
mayor of that east-central Texas towns still
wants his way.
The regents publicly backed Prairie
View A&M officials in the dispute over
city sewage lines laid across the Prairie
View campus. That dispute culminated
two weeks ago when Prairie View Mayor
Eristus Sams ordered the arrest of the
University’s vice-president for engineer
ing and, subsequently, its president.
Sams told reporters Friday after the re
gents’ decision was announced that he
would appeal to federal authorities, in
cluding the Environmental Protection
Agency, to overrule the regents.
The mayor had ordered Prairie View
President A. I. Thomas and Vice-
President Decatur B. Rogers arrested by
Prairie View city police for having univer
sity workmen remove sections of pipe
from two city sewage lines on the campus.
The city was preparing to connect those
lines to the university’s sewage treatment
plant. Both men were released on $200
bond.
The dispute centers over where those
lines should be laid in connecting them to
that treatment plant. University and city
officials agreed in 1972 to renovate the
university sewage treatment plant with
federal funding the city had received for
building its own plant. In exchange, the
university would treat all the city’s sewage
whenever the city had completed its sew
age lines to the university plant.
Sams said he will ask the federal agen
cies which funded the project to intercede
for the city.
The city has completed those “collec
tion” lines and saw the lines to the plant
the last step in completing the agreement.
But that 1972 agreement did not include
an easement giving the city permission to
lay those lines across the university cam
pus. University and system officials say
there was never any intention to allow
those lines across the campus. Mayor
Sams disagrees.
“That original agreement was all we
needed,” Sams said. Any easement stipu
lations should have been included in that
agreement, he said.
One line, 1500 feet long, completely
crosses the campus behind the university’s
football field and track. The other line,
about 400 feet long, parallels the main
street entering the campus. Both lines
would interfere with future building ex
pansion plans, university officials say.
Friday the board of regents formally
stated their disapproval of the “recent ac
tion taken by the City of Prairie View in
installing a sewerage line on the property
of Prairie View University without proper
engineering plans and without approval
and authority of the University, the Sys
tem and Board of Regents.”
The board told city officials to “remove
or abandon the recently-installed sewer
age lines, make repairs to manholes and
Supreme Court reverses
newspaper breakup order
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme
Court granted a reprieve today to more
than 70 newspapers across the country
that previously had been told they would
have to give up broadcast stations they
own in the same city where they publish.
The justices, on an 8-0 vote, reversed a
federal appeals court ruling that would
have required the split-up of existing
combinations in some 130 communities.
But they upheld a ban issued in 1975 by
the Federal Communications Commission
against formation of same-city cross
ownerships in the future.
They also upheld the FCC’s decision
requiring divestiture of 16 existing “small
market” combinations where a single
owners had a monopoly in a community.
Justice Thurgood Marshall said a three-
judge panel of the U.S. appeals court in
Washington, D.C., was wrong last year to
decide that all such cross-ownerships, new
and old, must be treated alike and denied
broadcast licenses or license renewals un
less they can show they are “in the public
interest.”
And Marshall said the FCC did not act
arbitrarily in allowing some existing cros
sownerships to remain, while ordering di
vestiture in the 16 cases where the only
newspaper and broadcast station in a city
was owned by the same firm.
restore the surface of the land to its origi
nal state, all without cost to the univer
sity. But the city may have difficulty
doing so.
“We don’t have any money for that,”
Sams said. The city used gU federal funds
for the project in completing the present
lines, without leaving any surplus to move
the lines as the regents now demand, he
said.
The regents also proposed that the city
develop a rate schedule for sewer service,
to be approved by the board before the
city lines are connected to the university
plant.
Former A&M
YMCA staffer
dies in hospital
Services for J. Gordon Gay of 201
Suffolk, College Station, will be
held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the
College Station City Cemetery.
Gay, 77, died early Sunday morn
ing in a Houston hospital from in
juries received in a two-vehicle ac
cident last Thursday east of
Huntsville.
He retired from Texas A&M Uni
versity in 1971 after 42 years with the
YMCA. Gay held the distinction of
having the longest length of service
as a student \ r MCA secretary in the
United States — 44 total years —
two of them at Southern Methodist
University.
A memorial Rineral service will
be held at a later date, after his wife,
Emma, is discharged from the hos
pital. She was seriously injured in
the accident.
Survivors include his wife; four
sons. Dr. David E. R. Gay, profes
sor of economics, the University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville; Dr. Lloyd
W. Gay, professor of forestry, the
University of Arizona, Tucson;
James M. Gay, assistant professor of
landscape architecture, Texas
A&M, and John G. Gay Jr., a pro
fessional photographer in Houston,
and seven grandchildren.
All four sons are former students
of Texas A&M.