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The Battalion
Vol. 72 No. 44
14 Pages
Wednesday, Novermber 1, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Ambulance service may need aid
Is a public or a private ambu
lance service best? Bryan and
College Station have different
systems, each with advocates
and critics. See page 11 for de
tails.
• Cadets are tripping to Dallas
this weekend. See page 5.
• The only woman on death row
in Texas is now off. See page 7.
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TEHRAN, Iran — A general strike
Inst the shah Tuesday completely shut
Iran’s $20 billion-a-year oil industry,
ich supplies both the United States and
Soviet Union with fuel, newspapers
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mainderoftk iiajor oil wells in southern Iranian fields
producing crude and the world’s
gest integrated refinery at Abadan has
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ndar Shahpour and at Bid Boland have
n idled, shutting off natural gas exports
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between the chief executive of the
tional Iranian Oil Company, Houshang
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in the Persian Gulf.
Kayhan said reserves in the tanks at
both terminals would last about a week.
Iran is expected to lose $60 million daily
due to the stoppage. The impact on the
international market and Iran’s major cus
tomers in the United States, Europe and
Japan was not known.
The work stoppage followed widespread
riots and demonstrations against the shah.
Forty-one people were reported killed in
fighting Monday, including 15 fatalities in
a wild West-style horseback raid by 2,000
armed tribesmen on opponents of the shah
in the west Iranian town of Paveh near the
Iraqi border.
Three residents were killed in the attack
that ravaged the town and 12 of the
tribesmen, reportedly led by a govern
ment member of parliament, died in street
battles with rock-throwing women and
children, Iranian newspapers reported.
Another 26 casualties were reported in a
clash in the west Iranian town of Pol-E-
Zahab.
Worst hit by the strikes were the oil
producing centers of Abadan, Ahvaz,
Aghajari, Gachsaran and Masjid-e Sol-
aiman — all in southern Iran.
Natural gas, usually shipped via a
cross-country trunkline to the Soviet bor
der, has been shut off by a five-day strike
at the Bid-Boland refinery in Khuzestan,
reports said Monday.
Iran normally supplies up to 27 million
cubic meters of natural gas each day to
Soviet Union’s central Asian republics, re
ports said.
The anti-shah riots have been led by
hard-line Moslems opposed to the con
tinuing westernization of Iran. They call
for a return to Islamic government and an
end to the harsh police methods used in
curbing demonstrations.
The government also announced
Monday that Prime Minister Jaafar
Sharif-Emami shuffled his 2-month-old
Cabinet a third time.
Hossein Najafi became the new justice
minister, replacing Mohammad Baheri.
Mustafa Paydar was named the new minis
ter of state for executive afairs, after the
resignation by Manouchehr Azmoun.
Stadium punts date
By CLAY WEBER
Battalion Reporter
Texas A&M University’s first home
1 game next fall will not he a home
me at all.
Problems with the deadline for comple-
n of the Kyle Field seating expansion
project have forced moving the Texas
A&M-Brigham Young football game to
Rice Stadium in Houston. Game time on
Sept. 8 has not been set.
Kyle Field is expected to be ready for
the Texas A&M-University of Houston
football game Oct. 13.
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entrances to the campus Monday and
esday, charging Palar Inc. of Houston
ih paying substandard wages. Palar was
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fer to the charge which was written on
li member’s sign. The painters’ union
lent, Jimmie Comer, also would not
mment on what action the union was
eking.
But they were apparently satisfied for
e time being Tuesday afternoon when
Jar was called off the job.
Palar President Paul Crane said his
m’s contract with Spaw Glass was termi-
ited at about noon Tuesday. He said a
ause in Palar’s contract stated that the
ork agreement would be terminated
should any union problems arise. The
clause was included at the insistence of the
contractor. Crane said, because work was
behind on the addition, and Spaw Glass
wanted to avoid any delays that might re
sult from labor disputes.
Crane said his employees were being
paid a dollar an hour more than the $9.27
per hour standard wage set by the Na
tional Labor Relations Board.
He added that the picketers were
operating illegally since they picketed
entrances other than the one designated
specifically for Palar’s use. He said that as
a result, union workers who normally
enter through the other gates refused to
cross the picket lines, resulting in a work
loss to the contractor.
Crane said he would take no action
against the painters’ union for the loss of
the contract. “As far as I’m concerned,” he
said, “that job’s over.”
A spokesman with Spaw Glass said no
decision has been made yet on whether
union or non-union painters would be
hired to finish the work started by Palar
three weeks ago.
According to interim Athletic Director
Marvin Tate, the change was necessary to
accommodate both of the construction
companies that made bids on^the project.
The two were Temple and Associates of
Diboll and H.B. Zachry Co. of San An
tonio.
Tate said the two companies were con
cerned over the short amount of time in
which they would have to complete the
project. Work is scheduled to begin after
the Texas Christian University football
game Nov. 25. The seating expansion
project will add some 16,000 seats to Kyle
Field, bringing the capacity to about
72,000.
Also included in the project is the addi
tion of new physical education facilities
and improvements to G. Rollie White Col
iseum. Tate said that part of the project,
scheduled for completion in January 1979,
would not he affected.
“We are asking a tough job of the con
struction company even with the time ex
tension we gave them,” Tate said. “In talk
ing with the two companies before they
made their bids on the project, they had
each expressed concern with the tight
schedule and decided they needed an
extra 35 days.” The interim athletic direc
tor said he could not foresee any further
delays.
Tate said Rice Stadium was chosen as
the site for the game because it is near to
Texas A&M and also because Rice Univer
sity will be playing in Dallas and the Uni
versity of Houston will be playing on the
West Coast — making the Texas A&M-
Brigham Young game the only major col
lege contest in the area that weekend. He
noted that Texas A&M has many suppor
ters in the Houston area and will have no
trouble drawing a large crowd.
The Winning Bee?
Battalion photos by Lynn Blanco and
Michelle Scudder
Shelley Cox went to the Pumpkin Carving Contest
in front of Rudder Complex with an idea in mind.
She was dressed as a bumble-bee and carved a
pumpkin to match. And Cox won the event with her
creation — a bumble-bee pumpkin, which was auc
tioned off for $6.25. The event was on Halloween.
AFL-CIO wants wage control
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The AFL-CIO
Tuesday urged President Carter to call a
special session of Congress to enact man
datory wage and price controls instead of
the voluntary guidelines the president has
introduced.
AFL-CIO President George Meany an
nounced the decision at a news briefing
following a morning session of the federa
tion’s 35-member Executive Council. The
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Mari Ward, a senior applied math major from
Bryan, helps Brad Pruden of Fort Worth with
his Halloween make-up. The two are mem
bers of Bread for the World, a student organ-
Battalion photo by Steve Lee
ization that supports the United Nations
Childrens Education Fund (UNICEF) with
donations. The group went trick-or-treating
for UNICEF Tuesday night.
At least one student organization
went trick-or-treating Tuesday night
without the intent to gather Her-
shey bars.
Bread for the World, an organiza
tion that supports the United Na
tions Children’s Fund (UNICEF),
donned Halloween costumes and
sought donations in area neighbor
hoods to help feed the world’s
needy.
Lynne Kennedy, publicity direc
tor for the group, said the organiza
tion attempts a major project locally
about once a month and sends dona
tions directly to UNICEF. Bread for
the World is a national organization
that serves mainly as a lobbying
group, Kennedy said.
“We are a political activist
group,” she said. “We constantly
nag our congressman on matters of
world hunger, as well as hunger in
our country.”
Kennedy said the group is
Christian-oriented, but intra-
denominational in nature.
Edgar Anderson, organization
president, said the major goal of the
group is to work toward Congress’
rewriting the United States’ foreign
aid policy.
“Last year the U.S. had an excess
of grain and sold it to the Soviet
Union,” he said. “At the same time
there was a large famine in India.
We feel that the U.S. needs to build
up a grain reserve.”
Anderson said the United States
has the technolqgy to help needy
countries feed themselves, but that
current policy restricts this role.
council waited for more than a week after
Carter had unveiled his program to render
its opinion.
“We do not like controls,” said Meany.
“We do not welcome government opera
tion of the market place. But recession is
worse; runaway inflation is worse.”
The Executive Council, considered the
most influential panel in organized labor,
said such a mandatory control program
should be across the board.
“It is our belief that this matter is of
such urgency that the president should
call a special session of the Congress for
the development of a full and fair controls
program,” Meany added.
In a background paper released after the
council session, the AFL-CIO said Car
ter’s program to hold down wage increases
“does not take appropriate account of the
rate of inflation and requires workers to
forgo any share in productivity gains.”
It said the 7 percent wage cap per year
was “arbitrary” and quoted a White House
representative as telling labor leaders the
figure was “pulled out of the air.
“In spite of all its shortcomings, the
1971 Nixon control program dealt more
fairly with wage and fringe benefit adjust
ments,” the statement said in reference to
the mandatory controls instituted by Pres
ident Richard Nixon.
In the past, Meany criticized both vol
untary and mandatory wage-price con
trols, but made it clear he prefers the lat
ter after learning the administration
planned merely guidelines.
Other labor leaders, including Teamster
President Frank Fitzsimmons, have taken
a “wait aYid see” attitude toward the plan,
although expressing doubt it can succeed.
The council session comes one day after
Jack Carlson, chief economist for the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, assailed Carter’s
plan to have industry voluntarily hold
down prices and unions adhere to a 7 per
cent annual wage hike.
“The imposition of wage and price
guideline controls have created the most
negative response of any government pol
icy announcement in recent history,’
Carlson said, noting that the dollar abroad
has reached new lows and domestic stocks
have declined.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics Monday
reported idleness due to strikes during the
first nine months of this year reached 32.6
million work days, the highest level since
1974.
It said the average of 2 days idle per
thousand working days was attributed
mainly to the soft coal strike at the begin
ning of the year and the recent nationwide
railroad walkout.
Also on Monday, the Commerce De
partment reported its index of leading in
dicators rose 0.9 percent last month — the
largest gain since April and the second
healthy monthly advance in a row.
The increase appeared to offer
additional evidence to support predictions
the economy should maintain its moderate
growth in coming months.
The 12 components in the index — such
as stock prices, building permits and
money supply — are used to measure
changes in general economic activity and
to anticipate future trends.
Absentee vote ends Friday;
mail ballots available here
Absentee voting for the November state
and local elections ends Friday.
Persons living in Brazos County desir
ing to vote absentee in another county
should take their voter registration cards
to the county clerk’s office located at the
Brazos County Courthouse by 5 p.m. Fri
day.
Mail ballots must be returned by 1 p.m.
Nov. 7 to be valid.
Since absentee voting opened on Oct.
18, 380 persons have voted in Brazos
County. This return is average, says John
J. Stasney, absentee judge. He adds that
the county clerk’s office is predicting 1,100
persons will have voted by Friday’s dead
line.