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Kiss me — Trick or Treat?
Battalion photo by Karen Cornelison
This ghoulish face doesn’t belong to the wear
er, Beau McVay. It is one of the millions of
mass-produced likenesses of Gene Simmons,
the lead singer of the rock group “Kiss.” It’s
another of the disguises many Texas A&M
University students will be wearing tonight
for trick-or-treating or to attend one of the
many activities planned for Halloween.
ower says since he opposed programs
ies on Carter administration s ‘hit list’
By DOUG GRAHAM
Battalion Staff
|en. John Tower said he is on the Carter
inistration’s “hit list’ Monday night in
Ider Tower.
have known for some days that I’m on
administration hit list, which means
now they’ve joined the AFL-CIO in
sing me in this election,” the Repub-
senator from Texas said. “I can only
Iclude that the reason is that I have op
ed the administration on certain of its
ms and policies that I considered
be in the national interest and not in
interest of Texas.”
ower said much of Carter’s disfavor
e from the senator’s opposition to the
Labor Reform bill that was defeated in
1977.
The AFL-CIO supported the bill, which
Tower said circumvented Texas’ right-to-
work laws.
Right-to-work laws ban agreements that
force employees to join unions in order to
work.
The Labor Reform bill would have made
it possible to unionize a shop without a
majority of the workers voting for unioni
zation. Under the law, a unionized busi
ness could deduct union dues from its
workers’ paychecks, whether or not they
were union members.
Tower said the White House has been
sending political help to Texas in an effort
to stifle his campaign. Carter’s son Chip,
First Lady Rosalynn and cabinet officials
Patricia Harris of HUD and Joseph
Califano of HEW recently visited Texas.
“I don’t know who they’ll send next,” he
said.
Tower said that although opinion polls
differ on his chances of winning, he feels
his strength will come from those who are
most likely to vote.
He said that a low voter turnout has
been predicted for Nov. 7. Thus, Tower
said, those who will turn out will be high
probability voters. That will help his
chances, he said. Even so, Tower said the
race will be too close to call.
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flaunting around for some Hallo-
pn fun? Several organizations in
be Bryan-College Station area are
brewing up plans for some bewitch-
Dg events. ' ,
Of corpse, a grave problem for
most students will be deciding witch
event to attend
The Resident Housing Associa
tion is sponsoring a costume contest
at 5:30 p.m. in Shisa and Commons
cafeterias, The contest is open to
anyone on tarnpus
Prizes of free food at several local
restaurants will be given to contes
tants having the most original, most
Outstanding, sexiest, scariest, best
all-around or best group costume.
Last year, winners of the best
group costume came as a six-pack of
beer and another came as a set of
teeth, said Lorri Richards, presi-
* it of Krueger Hall.
The women’s residence halls will
be open for trick-or-treating 7-8
p. m. and the men’s will be open 8-9
p.m.
The Bread for the World organi
zation will sponsor a trick-or-treat
for UNICEF in the College Station
area. Anyone wanting to participate
should meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room
701, Rudder Tower.
The organization will go trick-or-
treating in groups of four and will
have refreshments at 9:30 p.m.
Aggie Cinema is holding a cos
tume contest in Rudder Theater be
fore showing the Alfred Hitchcock
thriller, “Psycho. ”
Winners will be chosen by audi
ence applause and the best three will
receive a gift certificate to Fish
Richard’s, Pelican’s Wharf or
Rosewood Junction.
The First Annual Pumpkin Carv
ing Contest and auction will be in
the Rudder Mall. The contest will
be at noon and the auction will be at
l p.m until the pumpkins are .sold.
Prizes include a dinner for two at
XT’s, two movie tickets, a pumpkin
filled with candy and a pumpkin pie.
Pumpkins will he provided, but
contestants must bring their own
carving tools. Entry fee is 50 cents.
The Bryan-College , Station
Jaycees have a haunted house on
Texas Avenue across from Randy
Simms Barbeque. The house, which
Jaycees president Kenny Mallard
said is “guaranteed to scare you,”
will feature Count Draeula’s
mausoleum, a grave room and a
man-eating monster.
TTie house will be open from 7
p.m. to midnight. The SI admission
will go to the Jaycees’ Toys fox' Tots
fund. „ ,
Another haunted house is located
in the Walton Hall lounge. Admis
sion is 50 cents for a tour that Wal
ton Hall residents promise will real
ly shake you up.
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Scared silly in ’38
Millions of Americans listened
to the “War of the Worlds” 40
years ago this Halloween on
radio and believed it. For details
on one of the better tricks of the
time, see page 7.
» A folklorist says that if a cater
pillar has a little yellow on his
nose, the winter will be cold in
the early part of the winter on
page 8.
State comptroller says
former aide resentful
United Press International
AUSTIN — State Comptroller Bob Bul
lock said a former aide scheduled to testify
about alleged improprieties in the agency
is acting out of resentment toward another
staffer and a desire to please the media.
“Bill’s a little warped,” Bullock told UPI
on Monday, discussing Bill Collier, one of
three top Bullock aides who resigned
earlier this month complaining the comp
troller abused his staff and position.
Collier was scheduled to testify Monday
to the Travis County grand jury about his
allegations.
“From the time Bill came over here
members of the press really needled him
and said, ‘Well you sold out.’ To reconcile
himself with the press this was his way of
getting back into the fold. How you (repor
ters) all thought about him meant every
thing to him,” Bullock said.
Bullock said Collier, a former reporter
for the Houston Chronicle, sought infor
mation by searching desks and private re
cords to supply the media with stories.
Bullock said Collier, a former director of
tax information, had a grudge against De
puty Comptroller Ralph Wayne.
“Bill Collier had the worst hate on for
Ralph Wayne that I’ve ever seen,” Bullock
said. “Collier was jealous of Ralph. It be
came an obsession with him.”
Bullock said he spent a lot of time with
Collier before Wayne joined the staff in
February 1977.
“We ran around together. We drank
beer together. After Ralph came that
dropped off. It just so happened that I quit
going very much,” Bullock said.
Bullock said he talked to Wayne about
Collier’s criticism but, “I never did be
lieve all that. I trust Ralph Wayne. He’s
done me a cracker jack job. I kind of
watched his secretary a little bit when I
had time. Occasionally I’d see her writing
a check. Hell, Leslie (Bullock’s secretary)
writes my checks. If they’re going to send
me to jail for my secretary writing my
check, bell let’s just get on with it, get the
paddy wagon over here and we’re on our
way,” he said.
Bullock said he had regarded Collier as
Texans to vote
on 9 amendments
United Press International
AUSTIN — A capsule of nine proposed
constitutional amendments being submit
ted to Texas voters Nov. 7:
—“The Tax Relief Amendment” pro
viding tax breaks for homeowners, farmers
and ranchers and the elderly from local
school taxes, with the option for the state
to reimburse school districts for the re
venue lost because of the new exemptions.
—No. 1: Permits the state to purchase
products manufactured by non-profit shel
tered workshops for the handicapped
without taking competitive bids.
—No. 2: Permits local governments to
issue revenue bonds to finance construc
tion of industrial facilities, which then
could be leased to private industry.
—No. 3: Authorizes cities to issue tax
increment bonds for re-development of
blighted areas, with the bonds paid for
from higher taxes collected on the rede
veloped property.
—No. 4: Exempts solar and wind pow
ered energy devices from property taxes.
—No. 5: Expands jurisdiction of the jus
tice of the peace courts in civil cases up to
$500.
—No. 6: Permits the Legislature to ex
pand membership on the courts of civil
appeals and allows the courts to hear cases
in sections.
—No. 7: Abolishes the State Building
Commission.
—No. 8: Permits water districts to issue
bonds and use tax revenues for firefighting
purposes.
a good, rather close friend — “I treated
him almost like a son” and was shocked
that Collier would go through office files
and remove material.
“Bill Collier sneaked around for a good
period of time — some period of months
— principally at night in other people’s
offices picking up one or two memos along
with my medical records,” Bullock said.
“They took my medical records out of (my
secretary’s) desk. I don’t really think that’s
any of Bill Collier’s business.”
Collier acknowledged he took a copy of
a medical record indicating doctors pre
scribed lithium for Bullock to combat a
manic depression condition. Collier said
he took other documents to substantiate
allegations Bullock used the comptroller’s
office for political purposes.
“I guess I could be characterized as a
sneak thief but, hell it doesn’t bother my
conscience one bit,” Collier said. “I have a
pass key to the whole building. I didn’t
break into anything. It wasn’t like I was
anywhere I wasn’t supposed to be.”
Collier said he quit when Bullock failed
to act on His complaint that Deputy Comp
troller Ralph Wayne used state sec
retaries and aide Jay Brummett to handle
his personal business deals while on the
state payroll.
Collier said typewriter ribbons he re
moved from the machine used by Wayne’s
secretary showed “she did almost no state
work.” He denied his complaints to Bul
lock about Wayne or to Austin prosecutors
about the comptroller’s office were moti
vated by jealousy of Wayne or concern for
reporters’ opinions. "Bullock would like to
think that because that would make it
easier to understand,” Collier said. “Bul
lock doesn’t understand when things
bother someone’s conscience.
“Most of the time over there I felt like
we were really doing some good. That
agency is a hell of a lot better for Bullock
being over there,” Collier said. “I agree
that he did a good job. I just don’t think
that he does anymore. Bullock’s personal
tragedies — his health, his son, his mar
riage, his drinking problems — have con
tributed to a situation where control of the
office has just slipped and he can’t get it
back.”
Who’s not coming to dinner
Cronkite upset over name use
United Press International
HOUSTON — A department store
catalogue invited nearly a million people
to have dinner with Walter Cronkite. The
problem was, however, no one mentioned
it to the CBS anchorman.
The $94,125 item in the Sakowitz
Christmas catalogue was supposed to be
humorous — giving an opportunity to “be
somebody” — but Cronkite apparently
didn’t see it that way.
Describing Cronkite as “furious,” a
spokesman for CBS has demanded
Sakowitz “cease and desist sending out the
catalogues, destroy all catalogues still in
the store’s possession and notify all those
who have already received them that Wal
ter Cronkite’s name was included without
his authorization or knowledge and that
the store cannot possibly deliver Walter
Cronkite for the dinner party as adver
tised.”
Store President Robert T. Sakowitz said
the item offered the $94,125 chance to
dine with Cronkite, Bruce Jenner, Dr.
Joyce Brothers, Minnesota Fats and the
like. He says the flap is a misunderstand-
ing-
“We didn’t mean to upset Mr. Cronkite
and we’re sorry,” he said. “It is simply a
tongue-in-cheek ‘Ultimate Gift’ to ‘Be
Somebody.’ Our attorneys are discussing
the matter with their attorneys now.”
He said all the catalogues — which trad
itionally include high-priced thrill gifts —
have been mailed out. He declined to say
how many there were, other than that it
was “less than a million.”
As of Friday, Bruce Jenner, Olympic
decathlon winner, was the only other
celebrity to question the offer, and “he
called to find out what it was all about and
then called back to apologize and say he
thought it was fine,” Sakowitz said.
“It was never intended to guarantee that
all those people would be there. That’s
why we used the word ‘like’ in the item.
We have not been in this business 76 years
to misrepresent things to our public. ”
Sakowitz said the names came from
Program Corporation of America, a
speaker and celebrity bureau, “and we
were working in good faith that they rep
resent these people.”
The CBS spokesman said he had “never
heard of Program Corporation of America”
and Harriett Turner, national sales direc
tor of the Hartsdale, N.Y., firm said she
was not surprised he would say that.
She said Sakowitz asked the firm for
names and prices and that publication was
never discussed.
Off the presses, but hot
United Press International
BATON ROUGE, La. — Publishers of
Gris Gris, a south Louisiana weekly news
paper, have learned a new meaning for
“hot off the press. ”
A run of 12,000 newspapers, almost the
entire weekly output, was stolen from the
Gris Gris offices before it could be distri
buted.
“We’ve been threatened, and we’ve
been hauled into court and we’ve had
people mockingly bum newspapers on our
doorsteps,” editor Sandy Branch said
Monday. “We’ve just never had someone
cart off 12,000 of them before.”
Branch said a disgruntled former route
person who was dismissed last week may
have taken the papers. She said police
were investigating.
“You know I’ve gotten mad at people,
really mad,” she said, “but never mad
enough to go to the trouble of hauling off a
ton of newspapers.
“I think it’s a scream,” said Branch.
“What else can you do but laugh?”
She said a new run was being readied
and should be on the stands late today or
Wednesday.
For shaking of a different kind,
students can attend a Halloween
Disco Dance at the MSC Basement
Coffeehouse from 9p.m. to mid
night. Admission is free to anyone
wearing a costume.
A Halloween dance for Commons
residents only will be in the Com
mons at 9 p.m.
The Agriculture Economics Club
will sponsor a Halloween party from
8-12 midnight at Qnonset Hut B.
There will be costume and dance
contests and free beer for anyone in
terested.
Upperclassmen in the Corps can
trick-or-treat the freshmen at 10
p.m.
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