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The dinner had been scheduled for the night of Sept. 16 at Texas A&M Univer sity. Teague s stroke was light, his Bryan of fice reported. Teague was unaware he had suffered a stroke until he was checked by a doctor Tuesday. He worked in his office about an hour after learning he had had a stroke and then returned to his Bethesda, Md., home. The attack was his second stroke, the office said. His first occurred in 1975 and was also mild, the staff member in Bryan said. She added health problems Teague has suffered during his 30 years in Con gress resulted from wounds inflicted dur ing World War II. Teague was wounded several times while in the European theater, most seri ously when much of his ankle was shot away. Those injuries led to the amputation of Teague s left foot in 1977. Though the dinner has been cancelled, the Olin E. Teague National Science Pol icy Symposium will be held as scheduled on Sept. 16. The symposium honors Teague, who is chairman of the House Science and Technology committee. Co-chairmen Dr. Jarvis Miller and Travis B. Bryan, Jr. said, concerning re funds for dinner tickets, “Our committee feels an obligation to return the purchase price to any ticket buyers who request it. We are hopeful, however, that funds will remain after expenses and refunds to create a President’s endowed scholarship at Texas A&M in Teague’s honor. They said they are still interested in finding an appropriate way to honor the congressman, who plans to retire in January. Those who wish to make con tributions to the Teague scholarship fund or obtain a refund should write Box OET, College Station, Texas, prior to December 31. Double vision Connally’s testimony same in JFK killing Stere 3eake Could this be a reflection of students’ study habits? Mark Gidlow, an ocean engineering major at Texas A&M, takes advantage of a quiet spot in the Memorial Student Center to catch up on some reading. Battalion photo by Pat O’Malley ind eore n, Tx.’ 1036 rvsB gfjacd Williams rebuts charge of Prairie View neglect ,)i( * jn a news release issued this morning by i tj University, Texas A&M University Bern Chancellor Jack K. Williams re- ■d an allegation made by State Rep. Bfronia Thompson Wednesday that the piversity system financially neglects rairie View A&M University, pompson, D-Houston, asked the Jus- 1 ,l1 'Ce Department Wednesday to investi- tf funding for Prairie View, and said she iM seek to amend the state constitution pall Of the income Texas A&M receives the Available University Fund (AUF) be dedicated to Prairie View, a pre- hiinantly black school, a Houston Post 3* ,r y sa d today. ^ "She has said that since 1971 Prairie v has received only 8.6 percent of the vailable University Fund, which ?unts to the interest and bond proceeds led by the Permanent University Fund |F), and the funding problem there is a lit of discriminatory practices in the ^ Be, the Post story said. I She and a small delegation of Texans are Jpresent their concerns about Prairie u Tiew to Health, Education and Welfare ' ea,l Bcials today. jWiHiams, who is the head of the tyflfewide teaching, research and public ^^vice system, which includes Prairie PPwA&M, said in a letter to the Houston ^Bislator that the predominately black in- ^fTtution has actually received more than ■fair share of TAM U S -controlled funding Eer the past 20 year ■Thompson specifically claims that Bine View has been treated unfairly in ■tribution of the TAMUS’s one-third Bre of the income from the Permanent |mversity Fund (PUF). This fund is dedi- ed by the state to Texas A&M Univer- [yand University of Texas systems, with latter receiving two-thirds. The Houston legislator has been quoted saying that since 1958 Prairie View has Jceived “only $3.8 million out of a total of Jveral hundreds of millions of dollars pyhich have existed in the fund.” Williams said Prairie View has actually Jceived $8.2 million from the PUF, as ell as other money for construction, re- jair and renovation of facilities, for a total .9 million. He also pointed out that the PUF pro ceeds account for less than 10 percent of total TAMUS funding. Most of the money comes in forms of appropriations and grants and contracts for specific uses. Williams emphasized that Prairie View A&M has received a proportionally higher share of PUF funds on the basis of new students than Texas A&M, and that it has fared considerably better than if it were not part of The Texas A&M University System. Since 1958, when Prairie View became eligible for PUF funding, the A&M Sys tem Board of Regents has allocated ap proximately $54 million to Texas A&M and $8 million to Prairie View, Williams said. “By so doing the board has faced an ob vious responsibility to place the dollars where the students are enrolling,” the chancellor said. “Allocations from the Permanent University Fund to Prairie View A&M University for each new stu dent during the period have been $4,751 while allocations to Texas A&M University for each new student have been $2,518,” Williams said. During the past six years. Prairie View has had an increase of 226 new on-campus students while Texas A&M has gained 14,149 students in the same category, he added. For that time frame, the allocation to Prairie View was $16,805 per. new stu dent while Texas A&M received $2,214, he said. Additionally, the chancellor cited Texas A&M’s obligations and commitments in graduate study and research, both of which require greater funding than for programs conducted at institutions primar ily involved in undergraduate teaching. “One-sixth of all students at Texas A&M are seeking advanced degrees, primarily in the agricultural, engineering and physi cal sciences,’’ he said. “Prairie View, on the other hand, is essentially an under graduate university offering mostly bac calaureate and master’s level work in a li mited number of fields. ” Prairie View’s research expenditures amounted to about $1.1 million, which Williams said was better than most univer sities of its size. Williams also said that the public ser vice agencies that Texas A&M administers and the space requirements for headquar tering them at the College Station campus also place an added financial obligation there. “Apart from the fact that Texas A&M is a fast-growing University, specializing in role and scope as a scientific graduate in stitution with heavy research and public service obligations, while Prairie View is a small, slow-growing undergraduate teach ing institution, comparison of space for students still favors Prairie View,” Wil liams said. He noted that educational and general space per student at Prairie View in 1977, as calculated by the Coordinating Board, was 191 square feet, while the correspond ing fingure for Texas A&M was 180 feet. Since 1971, the square-foot increase at Prairie View per student has been 12 per cent compared to 7 percent at Texas A&M. “This difference in educational and gen eral space per student must be calculated and considered in any fair and reasonable discussion of physical plant funding,” the chancellor stressed. He said the board has actually funded Prairie View “far beyond these require ments.” From Sept. 1, 1958, through May 1977, the board allocated $8,248,498 for con struction of new buildings at Prairie View. “Ad valorem tax proceeds for the period Jan. 1, 1958, through Dec. 31, 1977, would have provided approximately $4,200,000; thus the excess to Prairie View from PUF allocations has been approxi mately $4 million,” Williams noted. Williams also said that PUF funds are constitutionally prohibited for repair and renovation at Prairie View, and that Prairie View’s current physical plant prob lem is are “not so much” that of new con struction but rather one of renovation. ie carrying, $22 million th of marijuana crashes United Press International FARMERVILLE, La. UPI) — A four- ngine DC-7 smuggling as much as $22 illion worth of marijuana into the coun- ry crashed and burned Wednesday in the Woodlands of north Louisiana, killing at least one passenger. Three Colombian natives were arrested while hitchhiking near the crash site. All were charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. Coroner J.G. Norris said a search would “esume Thursday in the charred rubble for other victims of the crash. Smoke and flames rising from the marijuana more than 18 hours after the 3 a.m. accident hampered the search Wednesday. The suspects refused to answer ques tions in English or Spanish and asked only to speak to lawyers, Union Parish sheriffs deputies said. “They’ve been well schooled” to keep quiet, said Sgt. Dan Manley, a state police narcotics officer. The suspects were identified as Her nando Mantilla Pinilla, 51, a licensed pri vate pilot; Francisco Camargo, 24, and Carlos Humberto, 29, all of Colombia. Camargo and Humberto also were charged with being illegal aliens. All were held without bond. The coroner said he was unsure whether any more bodies would be found. State police narcotics agents removed 35 burlap-wrapped bales of high-grade Colombian marijuana, weighing 80 pounds each, from the site. More re mained on the ground under tight sec urity. United Press International WASHINGTON — John Connally, the first witness in a series of public hearings on the death of President John F. Ken nedy, told Congress Wednesday the shots Camp David summit opens in idyllic setting, United Press International CAMP DAVID, Md. — President Car ter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, secluded in an idyllic mountain setting, Wednesday began efforts to mediate peace in the Middle East. f Carter met with Sadat early Wednesday following an initial meeting with Begin Tuesday night hours after the Egyptian and Israeli arrived separately by helicop ter. White House officials expected the talks to last 10 days. Carter was mediating a foreign dispute on American soil for the first time since Theodore Roosevelt’s successful efforts to end the Japanese war in the early 1900s. A near total news blackout was clamped on the sessions. The only access by news men to the business of the meeting was through the U.S. spokesman, presidential press secretary Jody Powell. And even Powell was unreachable within the sealed-off compound. Both Sadat and Begin expressed hope and optimism in brief arrival statements, but a tense cloud — Lebanon — cast a shadow over the conference. The danger in Lebanon is that continu ing clashes between right-wing Christian militias and Arab peace-keeping troops may escalate into a direct military confron tation between Syria and Israel — and af fect the summit. Begin ended his brief arrival remarks with a pun in Latin on the traditional Vati can phrase uttered at the successful con clusion of a conclave of the College of Car dinals — “Habemus Papum” (we have a pope). Begin said, “Let us all hope that out of this unique political conclave a day will come when the nations of the world will say, ‘Habemus pacem, we have peace.” that wounded him and killed Kennedy came from behind and to the right — a conclusion supported by the Warren Commission. The former Texas governor and his wife, Nellie, were called to testify before the House Assassinations Committee as it began its 16 planned public hearings on the Nov. 22, 1963, shooting in Dallas. Their testimony was substantially the same as it has been since the slaying. Looking from behind as the presidential limousine wound its way through Dealey Plaza that day, Connally sat in a right hand jump seat in front of the president. Con nally’s wife was in the left hand jump seat in front of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. After viewing a color movie of the presi dential motorcade, Connally, who had to dab at his eyes repeatedly as he recounted the events, said as the motorcade passed by the Texas School Book Despository, “I heard what I thought was a rifle shot. I immediatly had fear of an assassination. ” He looked over his shoulder, but did not see Kennedy. “Then I was hit (by the second shot),” Connally said, but could not remember ac tually hearing it. “I was knocked over. The force of the bullet drove my body over. I was drenched with blood so I knew I was badly hit.” United Press International WASHINGTON — The House Armed Services Committee, in non-binding ac tion, Wednesday voted 24-6 to override President Carter’s veto of the defense au thorization bill that included a $2 billion nuclear supercarrier the White House does not want. Supporters of the nuclear carrier threatened to tie up other legislation or include the huge ship in new legislation in an effort to win backing for the project. The committee vote had no direct effect He said his wife pulled him down over her lap “when another shot was fired.” “I only heard two shots,” he said, in re ference to the first and third shots. He said the third shot “hit with a very pronounced impact” — and he slapped his hand shar ply to simulate the sound. “Immediately I could see blood and brain tissue all over the interior of the car,” he said. He said he was certain the shots he heard “came from back over my right shoulder — from behind us. I don’t think any shots came from any other direction.” The Warren Commission investigation into the Kennedy assassination concluded the shots which killed the president were fired by a lone assassin, perched on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book De pository — a location to the right and rear of the motorcade. To resolve the question of how many bullets were fired at the motorcade, chairman Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, was at tempting to secure enough funding from Congress to keep his committee probe alive. Stokes told reporters the investigation funds would run out on Sept. 15 unless the extra money is approved. on consideration of the veto by the full House, which must decide whether or not to accept Carter’s rejection of the bill. It puts the committee formally on record to override the veto, which Carter made on grounds the carrier takes money away from high-priority readiness programs. House Chairman Melvin Price, D-Ill., said if the veto is not overidden, the panel would be “forced to reconsider the bill as a whole, joining other members who ear lier indicated the process could take months and result in the carrier again being written into a new bill. House overrides defense veto Strike negotiations fail; pay raise offer lowered United Press International NEW ORLEANS — An attempt by the state education superintendent to revive negotiations in the week-long teachers strike failed Wednesday and the school board instead slashed its offer of a 4 per cent raise. Superintendent Gene Geisert said the board would revert to an earlier offer of a $1 million pay raise package —or 1.6 per cent — because a drop in enrollment ex pected due to the strike would reduce state aid to the district. “As a result of the teachers strike stu dents may be fleeing, either into paroc hial, private (schools) or other options,” Geisert said. “If we have fewer students, we will have fewer state dollars to pay teachers.” Nat LaCour, president of the United denounced the board’s move as a “scare tactic” and charged Geisert with wasting time rather than trying to settle the strike. “The superintendent has fooled no one, not even the public, LaCour said. “We reject $1 million, we reject 4 percent and we re going to continue the strike until we negotiate an increase acceptable to the teachers. We re not worried about what’s acceptable to Dr. Geisert.” The union is seeking an 8 percent raise and improved fringe benefits. About 90,000 students are affected by the walkout, which drastically curtailed in struction at most schools. Thursday will be the sixth day of the strike. Before Geisert’s move, state education superintendent J. Kelly Nix met sepa rately with both sides in the walkout and said he was optimistic talks would resume. He said he was not trying to twist arms but merely attempting to inform both sides about a possible drastic cut in state aid to the school district if the walkout con tinues. “I’m asking both sides to go back to the bargaining table and see if they can resolve it before they reach that point in state law,” Nix said. LaCour said the problem was not the union’s responsibity. “If there’s a loss of funds, it’s obviously a result of the strike. The fact that the strike is not resolved, I believe, is the fault of the board and that the board refuses to return to the bargaining table, LaCour said. Nix said the walkout could damage chances of students, particularly high school seniors, for promotion or gradua tion. If it does not end soon, Nix said, weekend make-up classes or an extension into summer vacation might be needed.