-pFW welcome
or Concorde
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GRAPEVINE — a british Air-
L Concorde jetliner touched
Join Sunday to the sound of pop-
ling champagne corks and jubiliant
lieers f ro m onlookers and othcials
tthe mammoth Dallas-Fort Worth
Lfonal Airport, where the plane
r 0 n is expected to make flights to
| from Europe.
Motorists lined the highways into
ie airport, which officials say was
esigned for such supersonic trans-
ortjets, as the sleek plane swooped
u t of the sky shortly after 3 p.m. for
S second apperance at DFVV.
More onlookers pressed up
gainst the airport’s windows while
proximately 250 invitees waited
M — | (he Braniff Airways terminal for
ie arrival of the Concorde in the
rst in a series of demonstration
ights before service to Europe can
eg in.
Braniff will become the first
Siom qmestic air carrier to use the Con-
jrde under an interchange agree-
ient with British Airways and Air
ranee, once the necessary gov-
mment approval is granted. Braniff
filcials said they expect the go-
head later this month to begin
loncorde service between DFW
nd Europe.
A Concorde plane landed at
)FW five years ago during dedica-
ion ceremonies for the massive
icility, but Sunday’s appearance
to Mi till drew gasps and comments from
' ^nie onlookers gathered in the
raniff terminal as the plane’s slen-
er fuselage swooped out of the sky
asnul nto the long runway.
“It looks like a hawk diving after
s prey, ’ exclaimed Janice Graham
fDallas. The plane, which one
oung observer said ‘ looked like a
praying mantis, is expected to
begin three flights a week to Lon
don’s Heathrow Airport and two
flights a week to Paris’ Orly Airfield
in January. Braniff currently has one
Boeing 747 flight daily from
Dallas-Fort Worth to Gatwick Air
port in suburban London.
I he airline claims the Concorde
will cut the current flying time from
12 hours to seven. Federal law
limits the plane’s speed over land to
approximately 600 mph—slower
than the speed of sound—but it is
capable of speeds near 1,500 mph
and altitudes of 50-60,000 feet and
flies at these speeds over water.
Under the interchange agree
ment, Braniff crews trained to fly
the supersonic transport will pilot it
from DFW to Dulles International
Airport in Washington, D.C.,
where Air France and British Air
ways crews will take over the plane
and fly it to Paris or London.
One side of each Concorde will
retain the British Airways or Air
France markings, while the other
half will carry the Braniff insignia.
Braniff Board Chairman Harding
Lawrence hailed the beginning of
Concorde service to DFW as the
fulfillment of one of DFW’s main
purposes: to be an “international
gateway.
“We are very proud that Dallas-
Fort Worth is the first city in the
interior of the U.S.A. to have the
advantage of Concorde service,”
Lawrence said. “Concorde is a very
special purpose transport. It is a
time machine, he added.
Jack Downey of the DFW airport
board called the Concorde a “peek
at the future as it came over the
horizon. “DFW was designed with
this type of aircraft in mind, he
said.
Living with the law
The other day I parked in a lot on campus, in a reserved space. I
clictn t have a parking sticker for that space, but I didn’t intend to be
When I got back, my car had been towed away. I don’t
think the University has the right to do that. How about it?
One section of the Texas Education Code lists several things a state
university can do to make and enforce traffic regulations. They in
clude limiting speed, assigning parking spaces and areas and assess
ing parking fees, using a system of vehicle registration, AND remov
ing violating vehicles at the expense of the violator. So campus police
have pretty specific statutory authority from the state for traffic and
parking enforcement.
Editor s note: This column is provided by the students’ legal ad
visers as a service to Battalion readers. Answers are general and
should not replace the personal advice of an attorney. Questions for
this column can be addressed to the students’ legal advisers in Room
306, YMCA Building.
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McCAULLEY — While he
ed friends and relatives Sunday
liried the first of four high school
Indents killed in the tragic crash of
schoolbus and an oil field service
ick, four survivors were clinging
maciously to life in West Texas
ispitals.
emoriiBThe grinding crash Friday near
jusl °V 21 persons, mostly stu-
wartll ™ts, injured.
Funeral services for 17-year-old
olita Perales were held Sunday in
ie Sylvester Baptist Church three
icr aret ^ es south of this West Texas
tswanlt immunity. Services were
.vantedl ^eduled today at different times
ir Bonnie Pippin, 17; Tint Wilker-
; vaetitE m; and Brit Jeffrey, 18.
dry sew A.spokesman for the funeral home
wndedl 'charge of the services said the fu-
athrong erals were being staggered
iroughout the day in consideration
the mourners and families,
issilliie Meanwhile, officials at Methodist
tareiw ospital in Lubbock late Sunday
Idnw ited 15-year-old Tami Jeffery, the
tpossil* hool s football sweetheart, in criti-
Thet tl condition.
;out. Tami’s brother, Darren, 14, was
degrees nong t h e critical at Handrick
n! ! emoral fhtspital in Abilene. The
dandli bilene hospital also listed Doyle
e ll, 30, the school s p incipal, as
rice,® itical and listed Cathy Wilderson,
rmer 6,as very critical.’
/entiues The oil field service truck, loaded
jisturen ith radioactive materials, rammed
lebus broadside late Friday af'ter-
pass® oon on a rural highway road. The
othingH us driven by MeCaulley High
)se« chool Coach Ed Farmer was
acked with members of the
0 gy lw mool s boy and girl basketball
jsanotw rams heading for Harmleigh for a
jgraiaW lurnament.
The impact ripped the body of the
" from the frame, but police said
dangerous radiocactive chemi-
in the truck did not leak out.
chool officials said the accident
mid all but close down the high
“It’s completely wiped us out,
said schoolteacher Irene Kent. “I
don’t guess we ll be having high
school for a while. There’s hardly a
kid there who wasn’t either killed or
put in a cast. ”
Only six of the 33 students in the
high school were not involved in the
accident.
Police said charges would likely
be filed against the driver of the
truck, Bill Dixon, 21, of Snyder. He
was listed in guarded condition
Sunday in a Lubbock hospital.
The accident has shattered the
residents of this small West Texas
community few of which were not
directly affected by the deaths and
injuries.
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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1978
Page 9
Minorities rap Carter
United Press International
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A group of
black and Hispanic delegates feeling
unheeded by the Democrats mid
term convention formed a coalition
Sunday to hold President Carter
politically accountable in 1980 for
his domestic poverty and defense
spending.
“My personal opinion is that the
president of the United States has
totally abdicated the agenda of
1976,” said Rep. Ron Dellums (D-
Calif.).
“The tragic reality is that we may
well leave here without making any
significant challenge to an adminis
tration that has embraced a right-
wing analysis of American economic
problems that I believe will wreak
havoc on blacks and Chicanos.
Dellums and David C. Lizarraga
of Covina, Calif., chairman of the
Hispanic American Democrata, told
reporters the two minorities had a
hard time getting together. Lizar
raga said the two groups of delegates
to the convention would meet
within 30 days to “set an agenda” of
mutual problems confronting blacks
and Hispanics.
Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.)
said the coalition resulted from a se
ries of tentative meetings between
individual black and Hispanic lead-
ers culminating in an agreement to
join forces now and discuss specific
issues later.
The No. 1 issue for blacks and
Hispanics in America is employ
ment, she said. The anti-inflation
policy of this administration seems
to have taken precedence over the
employment which is much more
important to the poor people of this
country.”
Lizzara said the two minorities
felt Carter had not lived up to 1976
promises to the poor and that the
blacks and Hispanic delegates were
not listened to during the midterm
Memphis meeting.
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