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Cancer | It seems to be the disease of the 70s. Researchers find ancer-causing poisons in every :part of our lives, from soda pop owork places. And now, treat- ent for the disease in children ay cause more cancer. For de- ails, see page 5. The Bat i alion Singer... Vol. 72 No. 9 16 Pages Wednesday, September 13, 1978 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Folk singer-songwriter Don Sanders will perform at Texas A&M this weekend at the Base ment Coffeehouse. For an in sight into how he plays his music and why, turn to page 6. rueger to report ampaign funding United Press International Anderson lUSTIN — Rep. Bob Krueger, d only nil ffexas, Tuesday accepted a challenge Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, to file ipthly reports of contributions to his paign. arlier in the day, Tower’s state finance paign chairman, Hayden Head of pus Christi, said the Republican had id more than $1.2 million from 65,480 |)o iters. It is impossible to believe their asserta- ied poorly |>P S that they are running anything but a us again fclndering campaign without their re- ijorleagu lining pore guy now a; is managei "I’ve won ' way and iv because III be bac better te; hanci 0 „Riding to this challenge, particularly in wof their having had to move their Dal- ■County headquarters for nonpayment Kent,” Head said. Barry Mauro, Krueger’s campaign man- R, said nonpayment of rent was not the Ron Krueger had moved his campaign Re. BOwnership of the building changed Ids and our rent more than tripled,” lauro said. i A Krueger aide said the new owner had Red the rent from $80.50 to $430 a jonth. iln accepting Tower’s challenge to make monthly reports of campaign contribu tions, Krueger — in a statement released from his Austin office — said Tower should reveal his income tax returns. “I challenge Sen. Tower to be equally open and candid concerning his income tax returns, which so far, he has refused to make public,” Krueger said. Krueger also attacked Tower commer cials for criticizing the two-term con gressman’s absenteeism, saying there is no significant difference in the opponents’ voting attendance records. Krueger said his attendance record until Jan. 1, 1978, was 84.2 percent, while To wer’s was 78.8 percent. The Democrat also said that in 1967, the year after Tower was elected for the seoend time, the senator had the worst attendance record in the Senate. “Even during my schedule of heaving campaigning since Jan. 1, I have main tained an overall attendance record of 74 percent, which is but 4 percentage points behind John Tower’s,” Krueger said. “Ab senteeism is not an issue in this campaign, although his advertising continues to try to make it one.’ Man pleads guilty to fraud in alleged H funds misuse 16 United Press International HOUSTON — The half-brother of a ired University of Houston financial offi- :ial pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal wire jauu charges in connection with alleged kisuse of the school’s short term invest- nent funds. 50 L f Patrick D. Sullivan, 48, of Compton, Rdif, entered the plea before U.S. Dis- Btct Judge Carl O. Bue in connection with mnsfer of UH funds from First City Nationl Bank of Houston to Japan Califor nia Bank of San Jose. ■Sullivan’s half-brother, Samuel A. Har- |?1I, 34, the fired UH official, pleaded ilty to a similar charge last week. Both eed to cooperate with federal inves- ators pending sentencing Oct. 16. he charges arose from investigation of of $2.5 million in UH funds to back a 31,000 Japan California Bank loan to Sullivan. All but $901,000 required to Rver the loan has been returned to UH. The rest is the subject of a pending law suit. ‘■Harwell was fired last November after A/N H’ internal i nves bg a ti on disclosed he had ^ i)iiilt a pyramid of Federal National :tio# nn /Hire Fora endorses i. Dallas oilman c Jbr governor i; United Press International AUSTIN — Former President Ford told w more than 3,000 University of Texas stu dents Tuesday Dallas oilman Bill Clements fwill do a first class job as governor if voters make him the state’s first Republican chief Executive in 100 years. ^Iln Houston earlier, Ford said Texas vot ers should elect the Republican nominee as 4 signal of discontent with President Car- I Ford and former California Gov. Ronald [eagan, in Texas to speak at a $l,000-a- late dinner for Clements Tuesday night in Mias, appeared together at the Houston Jreakfast but split for separate appearances during the day. [ Rain dampened the Austin crowd before Ford arrived on the University of Texas Campus main mall at 12:05 p.m. The Shower and muggy heat drove away few of I the students and campaign workers anxious to catch a glimpse of the former president. I “Isn’t it neat he’s here,” one student asked a bystander. Two members of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade carried a ban ner declaring, “Politicians fight for $ in terests, We must fight for our own,” but there were no disturbances. Ford and Clements drew cheers flashing the hook-em horns sign favored by Lon ghorn football enthusiasts and were inter- arpted by frequent applause during the | 15-minute rally. 1 ; The former president praised Clements’ >erformance as deputy secretary of defense during his administration and said, “He was the best general manager of that vast organization in the Pentagon that I knew during my 28 years in the Congress, the vice presidency and the White House. Reagan said the Carter administration policies in foreign affairs, the economy and defense spending are like abstract art. “It doesn’t make any sense no matter ■how you look at it,” Reagan said. Mortgage Association bonds using UH funds. The UH board of regents has ordered an audit of funds handled by Harwell but has not disclosed whether substantial losses occurred, although one official said losses appeared likely. Tender Loving Care Lee Miller, a senior physical education major, shines one-half of his hard-earned pair of senior boots Monday afternoon. With rain expected to con tinue through the week, boot shining could become a daily habit. Battalion photo by J. Wagner Tynes Parent interest, money urged ‘Quality’ education stressed By Doug Graham Battalion staff American education needs money and parent interest to achieve success, said Larry Bateman, president of the Student National Education Association. Bateman spoke at several education classes and the Texas A&M chapter of SNEA, a 50,000 member organization for education majors. To achieve success, American schools must give students “quality” education, he said. He said a quality education “makes sure a student is prepared to function in soci ety . ” He explained that a person needs values and ideas in addition to skills for the job market. Bateman said the two major obstacles to quality education are parent participation and money. Parents need to supply a good study en vironment for their children. “They need to take a part, an interest in their child’s education,” he said. He added that the only time parents seem to get involved is when a teacher recommends a student be held back. “They wouldn’t question the judgment of a doctor, or the prescription, but they won’t listen to the teacher, a different pro fessional,” the University of Arkansas graduate said. Bateman said these same parents de mand more of the school systems but don’t like to put in more money. He annroved of tuition tax credit, a proposal before the U. S. Congress. It would give parents who send their chil dren to private schools a tax break to help pay for tuition. Proponents of the plan say it will help provide alternative schooling; Bateman says it will harm public schooling. Since public schools are alloted money on a per pupil basis, he said, they will lose money as parents withdraw their children and send them to private school. That will cut funds to public schools and will en courage competition between public and private institutions, he said. “I don’t want to encourage that,” he said. Money is the other factor that enables schools to do their jobs, he said. With more money the schools can hire more teachers to lower the student-teacher ratio. “Nothing can replace the one-to-one re lationship of a student and his teacher. But,” he said, “don’t expect the school to be teacher, mother and baby-sitter.” Unless society is willing to pay for more teachers, the system will remain over loaded, he said. Bateman also discussed problems facing schools such as rising violence and falling testing scores. He said violence is a home-related prob lem. He blamed the disintegration of the family for increasing student violence. He also said television might account for some of the violence; however, Dr. Chris Borman from the Texas A&M educational psychology department said studies neither prove nor disprove the threory. Bateman also said achievement test scores are somewhat misleading. He said the declining SAT and ACT scores have been caused by more less-qualified people taking the tests. In the past only upper or middle class youth even tried to take the tests because only they were trying to get into college. A minority student never bothered to take the tests before, Bateman said. Now more minority students are trying to enter college, he said. Bateman skirted the issue of grade infla tion, which makes grades easier to “earn” as time goes by. He said he thinks bachelor’s degrees still mean something. Adults will be more educated in the fu ture, he said. “They will expect more from the schools, and will want to know what and why teachers try certain things with their children. He said experimentation will continue, as teachers try to find a balance between vocational and college preparatory cur- riculums. The college prep program is much cheaper than the vocational approach,” he said, and that comes down to the ques tion of money again.” A&M checks to be delayed for one week COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M University System employees who are or dinarily paid on a biweekly schedule will not receive paychecks Friday, Sept. 15. Due to the changeover between fiscal years, the first paycheck of the 1978-79 academic year will be issued to such em ployees on Friday, Sept. 22, and every two weeks thereafter. The period between the first paycheck of this fiscal year and the last check of the previous fiscal year will be three weeks, instead of the usual two. The decision to change paydays was made at the beginning of the last fiscal year, said Bill Lancaster, payroll service manager. According to Lancaster, the decision to delay the checks for a week reflects the fact that paychecks issued on Sept. 1 were for a 16-day period, extended to cover the end to the fiscal year. If paychecks were issued Friday, the checks would only cover four working days. By issuing paychecks Sept. 22, the working period will be for nine days in stead of only four. The next paycheck, which will be issued on Friday, Oct. 6, will reflect payment for the standard 10-day working period, Lancaster said. Baker predicts filibuster to kill natural gas bill United Press International WASHINGTON — Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker Tuesday predicted compromise natural gas pricing legislation woidd survive its first test, but probably without enough support to stave off a po tentially crippling filibuster. Democratic Leader Robert Byrd did not dispute the Tennessee Republican’s as sessment as Senate debate on the com promise entered its second day. “We are working,” Byrd told reporters. The bill would phase out federal controls on natural gas production prices by 1985. Baker, angered by President Carter’s handling of breeder reactor research, al ready has vowed to try to kill the controver sial compromise. “I don’t think either side has it won or lost,” Baker told reporters. Not enough firm votes exist today to return the hard- won compromise to a House-Senate con ference committee,” Baker said, “nor do enough votes exist to invoke cloture and shut off a filibuster.” Baker said the “disadvantages are grea ter than the advantages’ of the com promise. “This bill guarantees shortages and high prices,” Baker said. Debate over the compromise has been so divisive it has fractured long standing polit ical alliances. A leadership head count showed 35 votes in favor and 30 votes against, with a number of senators leaning or undecided. 14 states vote in primaries Gerrymandering charged in 7 rural Texas counties United Press International SAN ANTONIO — Several Mexican- American groups Tuesday announced the filing of federal lawsuits charging seven more rural Texas counties were gerryman dered to dilute the effectiveness of the His panic vote. The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund and a private lawyers’ committee filed the suits seeking reappor tionment of Brazos and Jim Wells Counties in South Texas; Terrell and Martin Coun ties in West Texas, and Hale, Bailey and Deaf Smith Counties in the Panhandle. “These seven counties are only the latest effort in a continuing series of court suits against gerrymandered counties,” said Wil liam C. Velasquez, executive director of the Southwest Voter Registration Project which has targeted 29 counties for legal action to enforce the Voting Rights Act and one-man, one-vote concept. Velasquez said the effort, begun in June, 1977, already had resulted in court orders or negotiated settlements in 15 of the 29 counties for reapportionment of commis sioner precincts, that had greatly enhanced the possibilities of Spanish-sumamed can didates being elected for the first time. In addition, Velasquez and MALDEF attorney Joaquin Avila said research into 37 other Texas counties showed “probable evidence of dilution of minority voting strength. Several more counties have been targeted for investigations to determine whether gerrymandering exists.” “As a result of the 1975 reapportionment in Jim Wells County, Chicano impact on the electoral process suffered a retrogres sion,” Avila said, charging Mexican- Americans were overconcentrated in one commissioner precinct and were frag mented or diluted in the other three. The attorney said in Terrell County (Sanderson), 1970 census figures showed the county is comprised of 42.9 percent Mexican-American population, but had no Spanish-surnamed commissioner. He said the four precincts’ registered voters ranged from 191 in Precinct 4 to 323 in Precinct 3 in violation of federal one-man, one-vote guidelines. Asked whether he considered the al leged gerrymandering was intentional or accidental, Velasquez replied: “I think it’s beyond the realm of statistical probability. We’ve looked at 66 counties and they were all gerrymandered against Mexican- Americans.” \ United Press International The heaviest political campaigning since the 1976 presidential election ended Tuesday with primary voting in 14 states for a dozen governorships, six Senate seats and 100 House seats. Colorado, New Hampshire, Wyoming and Minnesota voted in both governor and Senate primaries, with Minnesota select ing candidates for both of the state’s Se nate seats. Rhode Island’s only statewide contest is for the Senate; New York, Connecticut, Florida, Arizona, Maryland, Nevada, Vermont and Wisconsin have gubernato rial primaries at the top of the ballot. Utah has House primaries only. The hottest contests were for governor, with the focus on neighbors New York and Connecticut, where first-term Democratic governors were challenged by the lieuten ant governors they ran with four years ago. Both governors are favored, although the challenges are strong. Hugh Carey is given the edge over Lt. Gov. Mary Anne Krupsak and state Sen. Jeremiah Bloom in New York; Ella Grasso over Lt. Gov. Robert Killian in Connecticut. New York Assembly GOP leader Perry Duryea has the Republican nomination sewed up, while Rep. Ronald Sarasin will be the GOP candidate in Connecticut. The Florida governor’s race was more like a gold rush than a campaign. Seven Democrats, led by Atty. Gen. Robert Shevin and state Sen. Robert Graham, and two Republicans, led by drugstore magnate Jack Eckerd, have spent more than $6 million pursuing nomination for the post held for the last eight years by Gov. Reubin Askew, who could not seek re-election. Minnesota voters had the biggest job and several of the hardest-fought races. Sen. Wendell Anderson, the former Democratic governor who had himself ap pointed to succeed Vice President Walter Mondale, has primary opposition, but his biggest worry is the November race against Rudy Boschwitz, who is expected to squelch another comeback attempt by Harold Stassen in the GOP primary Tues day. There was a mean battle for the Democ ratic nomination to seek the Senate seat won two years ago by Hubert Humphrey and occupied since his death by his widow Muriel. Liberal Rep. Donald Fraser, the organization candidate, was under heavy ideological fire from conservative businessman Robert Short, once a Hum phrey ally. GOP attorney Dave Duren- berger is favored on the Republican side. Gov. Rudy Perpich had opposition, but his real challenge was expected from Rep. Albert Quie, the favored GOP choice. In other contested primaries: Arizona — Gov. Bruce Babbitt, who succeeded to the office when the governor resigned and the lieutenant governor died, had Democratic opposition from broker Dave Moss. The three-way GOP race was led by auto dealer Evan Mecham and insurance man Jack Londen. Nevada — Another big candidate turn out. Lt. Gov. Bob Rose was expected to lead the seven Democrats; Attorney Gen- ’ eral Robert List the four Republicans in the races to replace retiring Gov. Mike O’Callaghan, a Democrat. Colorado — Two Republican state senators, Ted Strickland and Richard Plock, battled for the nomination to face Gov. Richard Lamm, who is unopposed. Rep. William Armstrong and former as tronaut Jack Swigert seek the GOP nomi nation to run against Sen. Floyd Haskell, who has no Democratic opposition. New Hampshire — GOP Gov. Meldrim Thomson was challenged by former Gov. Wesley Powell and housewife Lucille Lapinskas. State party leader Hugh Gallen and state Senate Democratic leader De lbert Downing sought the nomination for governor. Democratic Sen. Thomas McIn tyre favored to win re-nomination; four Republicans vying to oppose him. Maryland — Blair Lee, acting governor since the conviction of Marvin Mandel, has strong opposition but is favored over three other Democrats. Former senator J. Glenn Beall is favored for the GOP nomi nation in a field of three. Wisconsin — Gov. Martin Schreiber, who stepped up when Patrick Lucey took an ambassadorship, is in a hot Democratic primary with businessman David Carley. Rep. Robert Kasten has the GOP edge over college administrator Lee Dreyfus. Wyoming — Democratic Gov. Ed Herschler is opposed by Margaret McKinstry; former state legislators John Ostlund and Gus Fleischli lead in the GOP primary. Alan Simpson, former Speaker pro tern of state House, leads two other GOP candidates for the post held by Republican Clifford Hansen. Three Democrats are seeking the nomination. Vermont — Publisher Bernard O’Shea and state Rep. Edwin Granai competed for the Democratic nomination to oppose GOP Gov. Richard Snelling, who was un opposed.