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The bare-chested, bejeweled vis-
ge of 300-pound Ken Hur breaks
calm surface of the swimming
ool, his back to the television
iewers of Madison, Wis. He turns a
bit, smiles — and makes a pitch for
rankruptcy litigation.
The Dallas Morning News, once a
■gineering ymbol of Texas conservatism, car-
Throckmorfetj ies a two-inch black box advertise-
dso createdti; rent reading, “Divorce?? Guaran-
eed or your partner back. $95. ”
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pon — have found only limited in
eases in business and income. The
§jccess stories are few.
Since the Supreme Court s 1976
Huling striking down state laws
Much prohibited attorneys from so-
■citing clients, most established
Barristers have shunned the spot-
Hght, many privately regarding it as
a floor show for the radical fringe of
their profession.
I “By far the majority of attorneys I
clear, dednt lave heard express an opinion about
thing wti it are opposed to it,’ said Harold
ne.” Barrick, general chairman of the
)ks expiain I committee that handles complaints
! mankind I and disbarment cases for the
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brought in enough business to pay
for themselves.
One year ago, the ABA issued
guidelines for state bar associations
to recommend regulations for legal
advertisements. So far, 29 state su
preme courts have acted on the rec
ommendations to permit ads. The
restrictions vary from state to state,
allowing newspaper and solicitations
in most instances and television
spots in a few more. Some permit
price quotations. Generally, rules
only restrict false, misleading or de
ceptive ads.
A University of Miami (Fla.) law
school report submitted to the
ABA’s commission on advertising
Aug. 3 concluded regulations should
not be more stringent for lawyers
than for other professions or prod
ucts and rejected “the proposition
that firms charging lower prices will
necessarily produce lower quality
services.”
A nationwide survey recently in
dicated about 15 percent of lawyers
are interested in advertising their
services.
“On balance, throughout the
country there have been very few
ads or commercials that anyone has
objected to in a responsible way,”
Collins said. “There are only a rela
tively few ads that could be
criticized for being misleading or in
poor taste. The main criticism is
they have not been effective.
Detroit s David Sinclair, 32 and
four years out of law school, became
the first lawyer in Michigan to run
daily ads.
“The results for me have been
disappointing. I’m not as gung-ho as
others who started later. I was hop
ing for a better return,” he said.
“There are problems. For in
stance, people window-shopping,
trying to get free legal advice over
the phone without paying anything.
It’s time consuming and aggravating.
People set up appointments and
they fail to show up. I guess you
have to expect it.
“But I’m sure advertising is bene
fiting the public.”
. . .“We keep hearing that
most of the ads have not been
effective,’’ said Richard Collins,
a spokesman for the American
Bar Association in Chicago.
The outspoken Hur, whose flam
boyance is gaining notoriety among
his colleagues nationwide, views the
public exposure as nothing but a
benefit to the profession. He claims
to be losing money on the ads, but
said the 600 people who have
walked into his clinic next to a bar,
leather shop and grocery store in
the past three months is a “pheno
menal” number.
“A practicing attorney sees 600
people in his lifetime,” Hur said.
“They’re all happy. None have
asked for a refund. Haven’t had
anybody complain.”
Legal clinics catering to poor and
lower income clients, or offering
cheap rates for routine services —
such as wills, divorces and personal
bankruptcies — carry a significant
portion of the advertising.
“The little guy’s in ‘hurt city’
when he walks into one of the big,
established law offices and asks for
help,” said Eric Marn, one of Hon
olulu’s first advertising attorneys.
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Student contributions fund
some CS congregations
By KEITH TAYLOR
Battalion Reporter
it wc y ^ ome ^e churches serving Col-
ln oalvlt Hge Station depend on Texas A&M
University student attendence and
contributions.
I Dr. Malcom Bane, of the First
Baptist Church of College Station,
aid his church serves between 800
and 1,000 students. Bane; said the
church is student oriented and de-
of viewo
pendent on contributions.
However, he said he realizes the
problem of tight student budgets
which do not allow for large con
tributions. “We usually run behind,
but we pay our bills,” Bane said.
Father John Frizelle, a priest at
St. Mary’s Catholic church, said 90
percent of the Sunday morning con
gregation is students. St. Mary’s has
programs for Catholic students and
runs a student center. Due to rising
costs on upkeep and utilities at the
center, Frizelle said students would
be asked to make small, voluntary
contributions to the church.
The Rev. Hugh Beck, of Univer
sity Lutheran Chapel, said his
ministry is not dependent on stu
dent contributions. His chapel is
supported by the three Synods of
the Lutheran Church in Texas. The
Synods contribute to the Lutheran
Campus Ministry of Texas, which
distributes money to the campus
ministries.
Beck said student contributions
go to charities and for the work of
the chapel.
The Rev. Boh E. Waters, of the
A&M United Methodist Church,
said his church is not dependent on
student contributions either.
Waters said about half of the Sunday
congregation is students, but the
majority of contributions come from
other members of the church. A&M
United Methodist works jointly with
the Wesley Foundation Student
Center in its ministry to students.
The student center receives the
majority of its money from the Texas
Annual Conference of United
Methodist Churches.
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Republicans delay
sheriff nomination
THE BATTALION Page 11
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1978
By SCOTT PENDLETON
Battalion Staff
No candidate for the county
sheriff election was nominated
by the Brazos County Republi
can Executive Committee Tues
day night.
The committee postponed the
decision for at least one week to
determine the suitability of W.
R. “Bill” Owens.
The Republicans conducted
“interview after interview” to
find nominees for the job, said
committee chainnan Charles
Squire. Owens, a two-time un
successful candidate for the job,
is the only one under considera
tion.
G. W. Smith and Bobby Riggs
had intended to be Republican
candidates, but were ineligible
because they voted in the Dem
ocratic Party primary. Squire
said. Another candidate. Bob
Wiatt, decided not to run.
Owens was not present at the
committee meeting,convened at
the First Bank and Trust.
“I felt they ought to be able to
talk about me without me being
there listening,” Owens said in a
telephone interview later.
Some of the committee’s dis
cussion centered on Owens’ age
and health. “This is most sensi
tive to the people of Brazos
County,” Squire said. “They
have got to have a law enforce
ment officer capable of doing the
job.”
Owens’ son, who attended the
meeting, stated his father’s age
as 67, while Owens later put it at
65. He referred to himself as “a
little older and more settled”
than in the past, but also as pos
sessing “the enthusiasm of a 50-
year-old man.”
The nine committee members
who were present voted to inter
view Owens to decide if he is a
suitable candidate. They will
meet again after at least one
week to decide who their candi
date will be.
“There is a chance, even a
high probability, that no candi
date will be nominated,” Squire
said. The Republicans aren’t ob
ligated to have a candidate if
none of the nominees are qual
ified.
The Republican headquarters
in Austin, Squire said, gave or
ders to this effect so that qual
ified candidates in other races
would not be embarrassed.
The county sheriff election is
scheduled for Nov. 7. If the Re
publicans are to have a candi
date, they must notify the county
clerk 40 days before that date.
The winner of the November
election will replace the late
Sheriff J.W. Hamilton, who died
last month. Hamilton had been
sherifi of Brazos County for 31
years.
American business
helping open China
Research funds
now available
Applications are now being ac
cepted for the National Research
Center associateship programs for
1979. These programs provide sci
entists and engineers postdoctoral
research opportunities in the follow
ing fields: atmospheric and earth si-
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environmental sciences, life sci
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space studies.
Awardees research problems of
their choice in federal research
laboratories at approximately 65 lo
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programs are open to recent recipi
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cases, to senior investigators. Some
are open to non-U.S. citizens.
Approximately 250 new awards
will lie made on a competitive basis
in 1979. The basic stipend (subject
to income tax) will he $18,000 for
recent recipients of the doctorate;
higher stipends are awarded to
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clude relocation grants and funds for
limited professional travel during
tenure.
Applications must be made to the
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in the spring.
Application materials and de
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portunities for research are available
from the Associateship Office, JH
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United Press International
LOS ANGELES — If someone
had suggested a couple years ago
that Standard Oil, the epitome of
capitalism, might be welcome in
mainland China to help that most
Communist of Communist nations
develop its vast oil resources, they
might have put him in a cage.
A bamboo cage.
Ronald Gale, an Australian who
has made half a dozen trade trips to
China in the past few years, says
that today the idea is far from pre
posterous.
“That’s an extreme example, of
course, and not what you might call
realistic,” Gale said. “But the
Chinese, in my opinion, would give
it consideration and be willing to
have exploratory discussion.
“The fact is there has been an as
tonishing turnaround in China’s pol
icy of isolation and self sufficiency to
a desire to enter into trade with the
nonCommunist world on as large a
scale as can be achieved. Their goal
is to match the United States in
productivity by the turn of the cen
tury.”
From the point of view of
capitalist nations, he said, the over
riding and almost ungraspable factor
is that it means opening up a new
market with 800 million potential
customers.
Gale, president of ParkerKim-
berly Corp. of Sydney, in October
will head a delegation of 20 Austra
lian businessmen and Chamber-
of-Commerce types on a visit to a
number of Chinese cities to talk
about trade.
American businessmen are just
beginning to realize the potential,
Gale said, and he urges them not to
delay — one particular reason being
that the Japanese are moving
rapidly into what is almost a vac
uum.
“At this stage, the Chinese are
not thinking so much of consumer
goods but of discussion of develop
ment of major industrial and capital
projects with assistance from the
west in expertise, equipment and
financial assistance.
“Oil is the biggest and most obvi
ous area. But China also needs assis
tance in developing its entire
energy program, hydro-electric and
all types of power. It is determined
to develop transportation in a giant
country that is almost immobile
compared to the west. It needs ag
ricultural equipment and expertise.
“It needs coal, uranium, iron ore
for steel. It needs sophisticated
electronic equipment. It is ripe for
modern packaging and marketing
techniques.”
Gale, in an interview, said he
knew little about Chinese internal
politics but had been told re
peatedly on the level at which he
dealt that there had been a com
plete change of policy on opening
up China since the fall of the so-
called “Gang of Four” and the
emergence of the new leadership
that replacd Mao Tse-Tung and
Chou En Lai.
“There are so many misconcep
tions about China. We tend to think
of it as a grey, monolithic Marxist
efitity. But actually, for example, an
average Chinese can go to a bank
and borrow money to build a home.
He can put his money in a bank and
draw interest. ”
At this stage, he said, approaches
can be made most effectively on a
low-level, businessman-to-business-
man basis, rather than waiting for
top governmental action.
“And you have to go there in per
son. Not once but two or three or
four times until you have their trust
and confidence. Then they refer to
you as an old friend.”
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