|l. 72 No. 54
|16 Pages
Battalion
Wednesday, November 15, 1978 News Dept. 845-2611
College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611
Aggies healthy for Hogs
• After a week off, the Texas
A&M football team is healthy
mid ready to go to Arkansas. The
Aggies, playing in their second
consecutive televised game, will
meet the Razorbacks at 11:50
a.m. Saturday in Little Rock’s
War Memorial Stadium. See re
lated story, p. 14.
• Egyptian monks may have
found the reamains of John the
Baptist. See page 10.
!\min withdraws
rom Tanzania
United Press International
[NAIROBI, Kenya — President Idi
pin Tuesday ordered the Ugandan army
[withdraw from captured Tanzanian ter-
jtory, Radio Uganda said.
fl wish to inform your excellencies I
Ive ordered my army to withdraw to the
fcgnized borders of Uganda and Tan-
Miia,” the broadcast quoted Amin as say-
JAmin’s decision set the stage for a quick
|iu! to the 16-day-old war which at times
eatened to plunge the entire area into a
Ider conflict.
lAmin ordered his army to pull out after
punting pressure from other African na-
The Ungandan leader ordered the
[thdrawal apparently without receiving
/of the guarantees he sought from Tan
ks such the pullout appeared to be a
ilive after 3 days
Worker
United Press Intemutionnl
JOPLIN, Mo. — With his pelvis broken
B three ribs cracked, a dust-covered
fed Summers Tuesday was pulled alive
nan air pocket beneath tons of concrete
steel that collapsed on top of him and
others three days ago in the cave-in of a
year-old hotel being prepared for de-
ilition.
Hell yes," Summers responded to a re-
le worker’s question about whether he
ready to leave the 30-foot air pocket. “I
ready two hours ago.
ummers was taken to St. John’s Medical
ater lor treatment of three broken ribs
his left side and a fractured pelvis. Mis
[d it ion was listed as satisfactory,
lospital spokesman Jim Randall said
[nmers would be transferee! to a regular
later in the evening and was expected
be hospitalized about three weeks.
He seemed very alert and cooperative
en they In ought him in. said Randall,
e had a chalky appearance and looked
Bipale, but it was just dust. Once we got
I face washed off he had good color,
iummers’ wife and mother kept vigil
ingthe rescue operation but refused to
:with reporters. Randall said he under-
— the two women had only three hours
p since Saturday and were near erno-
fll collapse.
ssistant Fire Chief Harry Guinn was
ofthe first to reach Summers when he
pulled from the hole.
He seemed in fairly good spirits,
inn said. “I’m sure he had a mild case of
iektobe down there that long and then
'e somebody find him, but to have to
it to get out.
uinn said Summers had told rescue
rkers he had tried unsuccessfully during
three days of imprisonment to find a
major setback for the embattled military
ruler.
Amin early in the conflict announced
the 700-square-mile territory occupied by
his soldiers had been permanently an
nexed.
He then offered to withdraw if Tanzania
guaranteed it would not try to invade
Uganda or help Ugandan exiles trying to
topple Amin.
Tanzania scorned the offer and all medi
ation efforts and Saturday launched a gen
eral offensive against the Ugandan posi
tions.
Radio Uganda said earlier that Amin had
rushed to the battlefront to direct the war
against Tanzania and found an unexpected
ally in the ferocious jungle ants that popu
late the battle zone.
Amin had left Kampala Sunday night at
the height of Tanzania’s counter-offensive
for the swampy, crocodile-infested area
where the two armies were battling.
survives
way out of the space.
After Summers was taken to St. John’s
Hospital, police resumed the search at the
hotel site for the other two men with the aid
of a specially-trained dog that had helped
them find the survivor.
Two other men are still being sought in
the ruins where Summers, 30, had been all
but given up for dead.
Lt. Ed Ellefsen said Summers, 30, of
Joplin, was dusty but “completely cohe
rent. Even his clothing survived in rela
tively' good shape.
He was first located by emergency crews
about mid-afternoon Tuesday but was not
pulled out until four hours later because
surrounding debris threatened to fall on
him and rescue crews.
Authorities said he was conscious the en
tire time since he was found.
Summers did not appear emotional as he
was pulled from the area, but became more
somber as he headed toward the ambu
lance, Ellefsen said.
“Initialy, he looked semi-relaxed, but
when the reality (of the situation) ap
peared, he realized what a predicament he
had been in.’’
Ellefsen said rescue crews would begin
working once again to find the other two
men, who along with Summers were pre
paring the demolition of the 70-year-old
Connor Hotel when it caved in.
There were gasps of relief from the
crowd, which had waited in hushed an-
ticipiation for Summers’ release from the
air pocket he had crawled around in for
three days. It was a crowd, as one observer
said, that was more shocked to learn that
Summers was alive than that the building
had collapsed three days before.
“People were just stunned. To believe it,
you just have to see the tonnage.”
Blowin in the wind
Just off the west bypass, south of College Station, is a Texas version of a
weathered windmill and dead live oak trees. The “weathered” for today:
an 80 percent chance of rain with a high of 60 degrees and a low tonight
of 48 degrees.
Kidnap victim lives
to tell about incident
United Press International
EL RENO, Okla. — Beaten with a club,
threatened with a knife, hit with an axe
handle and almost injured in a car wreck,
Joe Perez says he was lucky to survive his
kidnapping by an El Reno federal refor
matory inmate and he’s angry the escape
was allowed to happen.
Perez, 31, Tuesday said drug offender
Efram Rodriquez, 28, put him through
“the longest four hours of my life.”
“There’s something wrong, real wrong.
Sign stealing
not ‘good bull,’
detective says
By CARL KEY
Battalion Reporter
A sign reading, “THIEVES AND
VANDALS WILL BE PROSE
CUTED” is among stolen signs re
covered by College Station Police.
“Stealing signs is no longer good
bull when it costs so much money,”
said Jon Kelley, detective for Col
lege Station Police.
“During a three-week period in
August and September, College Sta
tion lost $20,000 worth of signs,”
Kelley said. “That’s also during the
same time period the university stu
dents started coming back to school
and furnishing their apartments.
“One man arrested had 20 signs in
his possession,” he said.
Theft or possession of most traffic
signs is a Class A misdemeanor
under the Texas Penal Codes, which
is punishable by a $50-200 fine.
“What is really dangerous is the
removal of stop, yield and other traf
fic signs,” Kelly said. “That could
cause an accident.
“We encourage people to return
stolen signs to us before we hear
about them and get a warrant to
come out and get the sign,” Kelley
said.
Russell McDonald, chief of the
University Police, said, “We have a
sign stolen every now and then, but
it’s not a safety problem.”
A Bryan Police spokesman said
Bryan has a lot of signs missing, but
no one working on their return.
Bare poles demonstrate the ap
peal of novelty signs like
“DON’T EVEN THINK OF
PARKING HERE.” University
Police Chief Russell McDonald
said the signs were “real cher
ries.” This naked pole is in front
of the Reed McDonald building.
Battalion photo by Ed Cunnius
when they can get out of prison that eas
ily,” Perez said. “They told me this guy
just climbed over a fence and he was gone.
What kind of security is that?
“I still can’t believe I lived through it. I
just knew I would die from a car wreck or a
stray police bullet or that guy would do me
in.”
Perez, who lives only a few miles from a
federal reformatory, said his ordeal began
at 8:30 p.m. Sunday when his son, 10-
year-old Pepe, answered their front door
to a man wanting a ride to nearby In
terstate 40.
Perez said he told the man he could not
give him a ride. Rodriquez then pulled
him through the door and began beating
him with a wooden club until Mrs. Perez
agreed to surrender the keys.
Rodriquez then forced Perez to drive
him toward Oklahoma City.
“We stopped in the city for gas, then he
told me he didn’t care if we went north or
south, he just wanted to get out of the
state,” Perez said.
The escapee then found a knife in the
glove compartment and began threatening
Perez. Perez said he drove north to a truck
stop near Tonkawa where he stopped for
gas-
“While he (Rodriquez) was putting gas
in the car, ” Perez said, “I just sort of casu
ally walked over to the attendant in the
office and told him what was happening
and to call the police.”
Perez and the attendant locked them
selves inside the glassed-in service station
office, but Rodriquez broke the glass with
an axe handle and hit Perez in the head.
The escapee and his captive continued
on the highway, but the attendant’s call
brought Tonkawa police and highway pa
trol units which soon caught up with them.
Then began a high speed chase in which
Perez said he made every effort to elude
law enforcement officers. He made a
U-turn on the interstate, ran a police road
block, crashed into a Ponca City police of
ficer’s car and eventually hit a bridge
abutment and landed in a steep creek bed.
Rodriquez, who was serving 10 years,
faces several charges in the abduction.
Campus directories
to be ready Monday
The 1979 Campus Directory will
be available beginning Monday.
Copies may be picked up Monday
through Friday between 8 a.m. and
5 p.m. in the Student Publications
Office, room 216 Reed McDonald
Building.
Cost will be $3.68 including tax to
those who have not preordered. For
those who have prepaid, they
should bring their student ID and
their fee slip. Departments may also
pick up their directories.
Carter pleads
for compromise
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Carter
says technicalities with “absolutely no his
torical significance” are the only thing
holding up a Middle East peace treaty.
In an emotional plea for compromise.
Carter said Monday it would be “horrible”
if the two countries fail to reach a peace
agreement.
“We have asked both sides to please be
constructive, to please not freeze your pos
ition, to please continue to negotiate, to
please yield on this proposal, to adopt this
compromise,” he said in an hour-long Pub
lic Broadcasting Service television inter
view.
Carter told interviewer Bill Moyers the
United States has been appealing to Israel
and Egypt “on a constant basis” for com
promise in their Washington peace talks
and said only technicalities with "abso
lutely no historical signficance” are pre
venting a treaty.
“I think it would be horrible if we failed
to reach a peaceful agreement between Is
rael and Egypt,” he said.
An administration official described
Carter as “raising the specter of failure.”
But he said the president has no plans for
now to call another summit meeting.
The Egyptian and Israeli delegations to
the peace talks, meanwhile, continued
their informal contacts while awaiting
some crucial decisions by their govern
ments in Cairo and Jerusalem.
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan
and Egyptian Acting Foreign Minister
Butros Ghali flew back to their capitals
Monday while the two governments con
sidered an American compromise proposal
that would sidestep a major problem that
has bogged down the treaty negotiations.
That idea — putting the link between
the treaty and the future negotiations into
a separate, binding document — was put
forward over the weekend. The Israeli
cabinet was to consider it formally Thurs
day and the Egyptian government was
scheduled to discuss it Tuesday.
The original announcement by the Is
raeli government Monday said Defense
Minister Ezer Weizman would also be re
turning with Dayan, but a conference
spokesman said later Weizman would re
main in Washington “to continue the
negotiations. ”
His counterpart, Egyptian Defense
Minister Kamal Hassan Ali, also remained
in Washington and conference sources
said there were several contacts between
the two men Monday.
A report by the semi-official Egyptian
Middle East News Agency quoted in
formed sources as saying there would be
an important announcement concerning
the negotiations Tuesday. Egyptian
sources said they could not confirm the
speculation Egypt planned to upgrade its
delegation by sending Vice President Maj.
Gen. Mohammed Husni Mubarak to
Washington.
Rocky Horror
‘Adolescent orgy’ excuse
United Press International
LUBBOCK, Texas — “The Rocky Hor
ror Picture Show” has created a nationwide
cult of movie-goers who turn out week-
after-week to see the film, dressing in the
bizarre costumes of the characters and sp
outing lines of dialogue.
But it’s not the only horror show Robert
Hurley, manager of the South Plains
Cinema, sees each week.
Hurley’s own horror flick stars a violent
minority of 430 movie-goers who plop
down $2 each to see the midnight film each
Friday and Saturday. That number was re
duced from 850 when Hurley decreed the
film would be shown in only one theater
instead of two.
No longer is “The Rocky Horror Picture
Show” an oldtime “audience participation”
film about transvestites, a fun movie for
South Plains Cinema employees. Now,
they say, it is an excuse for an adolescent
orgy of violence and mayhem.
“We just about have to be forced to work
each weekend,” says Dianna Beasley, a tic
ket taker and Texas Tech sophomore.
A young entertainment columnist, who
hurled rice during a first-showing wedding
scene (something regarded as fun and ac
ceptable by the management), now has
publicly suggested that the management
cancel its remaining eight showings.
Since the show opened at least 100 pat
rons have been ejected from the movie
house. Hurley says. The ejections came
after seats were ripped from the concrete, a
$1,200 screen was pocked with water marks
and splattered with tomatoes and alcohol, a
youth was cut by flying glass and restrooms
were vandalized. Some patrons lighted hair
spray cans and left “a cloud of flame” in the
theater, Beasley said.
Some patrons used to yell lines with the
actors. Hurley says, but that practice has
been replaced by wanton displays of pro
fanity.
Hurley says the primary hooligans are
high school students. He says a recent
Texas Tech homecoming weekend, when
only about 10 percent of the crowd was of
college age, was the worst exhibition yet by
“Horror” freaks.
“Lots and lots of beer has been confis
cated, Hurley says, and some still gets past
the scan of employees.
Have the raucous crowds turned Hurley
sour on the show?
“Yes, I regret it (the movie). I think it’s
hurt our theater in the eyes of the commun
ity. There’s some people we may never get
back in the theater because of this movie,”
he says.
Movie not a ‘horror’
for CS theater owner
By DOUG GRAHAM
Battalion Staff
“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” has
struck College Station and Aggies have
been affected by the Horror phenomenon.
They dress up for the show, have
memorized many of the lines, sing along
with the music and throw rice at the
screen. During a certain scene of the, uh,
unusual film, candles light up all over the
theater. Owner Bill Schulman says his
Campus Theater hosts many Horror show
fans. “It’s worth a trip,” he said, “just to
see the fans.
“It’s kind of like a sing-a-long. ”
Schulman says his theaters have never
suffered the ravages others across the state
have suffered from Rocky Horror
aficionados. In fact, most of the trans
vestiges of the slightly rowdy crowds are
just extra trash thrown all over the theater,
he said.
“They throw anything they can lay their
hands on.”
But Schulman emphasized that students
have never tom his theater up.
He said he and the students have an
unwritten agreement that he’ll let the stu
dents have a good time if they’ll leave his
theater in good shape.
Thus the midnight madness goes on and
Texas A&M University student-filled au
diences participate over and over. The
film has been running nine months,
Schulman said.
Radio stations in College Station still
play various Rocky Horror songs such as
“Time Warp,” “Hot Patootie Bless My
Soul,” and “Science Fiction, Double Fea
ture.”
WTAW disc jockey David Resch, an
English major at Texas A&M, said he
enjoyed the film better before it became
popular and inane behavior became the
rule.
All of which probably does not faze
Richard O’Brien who wrote the lyrics,
music and script that were used in both
the original English play and the movie.
O’Brien even acted in the movie, Resch
said, filling the role of Riff-Raff.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show has
brought smiles in College Station to thea
ter owners as well as the producers of the
movie, and all the Rocky Horror addicts
are happy...
That is, until a week or so has passed
and they need another dose.
Then it is time to don the outfits, grab
the rice and candles and head down the
street to see “The Rocky Horror Picture
Show. ”
A&M students
killed in crash
Two Texas A&M University stu
dents were killed Monday when
their car collided with a stalled
flatbed truck on Northwest Freeway
in Houston.
Paul Harvey Krenzke, 22, a
senior mathematics major from
Lake Jackson, and Geina Rena Wall,
19, a freshman agricultural jour
nalism major from Weaver, died in
the crash.
Their vehicle struck a truck at the
14700 block of the freeway at 6:40
p.m. The truck had been stalled
since 2 p.m. because of a broken
fuel line.
No citations were issued.
Krenzke is survived by his par
ents. Funeral services will be at 2
p.m. Thursday in St. Mark’s Luthe
ran Church in Lake Jackson.
Wall is survived by her parents.
Funeral services will be held today
at 2 p.m. in the Weaver Baptist
Church.
Silver Taps will be held for the
two students Tuesday.