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Battalio
Friday, January 19, 1979 News Dept. 845-2611
'College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611
Boston tickets on sale Monday
Tickets for the performance of the
rock group Boston will go on sale
Monday in the Rudder Box Office.
The concert is scheduled for 7:30
p.m. on Feb. 11 in G. Rollie White
Coliseum. Ticket prices are $6,
$7.50 and $8.
Flu field trials
halfway over
By JULIE SMILEY
Battalion Reporter
Russian Flu researchers from Baylor Col
lege of Medicine packed blood samples and
syringes and left Texas A&M University
Wednesday evening, but they will be back
for more blood.
Dr. Robert Couch, director of the In
fluenza Research Center (IRC) in Houston
which is part of Baylor College of
Medicine, and his team of researchers re
turned to Houston after three days of col
lecting blood samples in the Commons.
Participants in the flu vaccine field trial
may continue to give blood at Beutel
Health Center Thursday, Friday and
Saturday morning.
The flu vaccine field trial, which started
in November, is a cooperative experiment
between Texas A&M and the IRC to test
the effectiveness of two types of Russian
Flu vaccine. Dr. John M. Quarles, assistant
professor of medicine at Texas A&M, is
associate investigator with Couch.
In November, 2, 112 volunteers gave
blood samples and had drops of one of two
types of Russian Flu vaccine, or a dummy
vaccine, placed on the back of their throats.
Participants receive $10 for every blood
sample given and $3 for every illness report
card they complete and return to re
searchers.
Bill Bomar, a sophomore petroleum en
gineering major from Denton, said he has
earned $29 so far by giving two blood sam
ples and returning three illness report
cards.
He said he was hesitant at first to take the
vaccine, but also said it was worth the risk
because he hasn t been sick.
Couch said the field trial is not over yet
and participants will have another chance
to earn $10 in March when the researchers
return to TAMU for a third round of blood
samples.
Meanwhile, illness report cards will be
mailed each week to participants during
the flu season, Couch said.
Couch called the field trial a success so
far. He said over 1,200 participants have
given blood in the Commons between
Monday and Wednesday, and also said he
hopes about 550 more will before Saturday
morning.
An estimated $200,000 will be paid to
participants, Couch said. The entire
project is federally funded through the Na
tional Institute of Health at a cost of about
$300,000.
He said use of blood samples from every
participant may make this field trial the
largest and most intensive in the United
States.
The flii field trial is testing the effective
ness of two types of Russian Flu vaccine.
Couch said Texas A&M is a “natural place
to test because of the large number of
healthy young people on campus.
He also said the last serious epidemic of
the Russian Flu in the United State's was in
1952. Since people born after that have' not
been exposed to the Russian Flu. People' 26
years olel and younger are most suscepti
ble.
Twenty-nine case's of the' Russian Flu
have been reported to Beutel Health Cen
ter at Tt*xas A&M, but none of the cases
were participants in the field trial, said Dr.
John Zahradnik, an associate with Couch.
Zahraelnik saiel Russian Flu cases were
reported at Texas A&M in December and
there mav be more soon.
S cruuuuummm!
1th that cry, these members of the Aggie Rugby Team prepare to do
ittle. The team’s first and second squads were practicing “down ’n
dirty” in the drill field mud yesterday for a match this weekend in
Houston. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
Iranian student faces
U.S. deportation
|)avis case judge considers mistrial
United Press International
lOUSTON — State District Judge
llace Moore has started weighing his
Itto produce a verdict or send home a
( now in its fourth day of debating
rder-for-hire charges against Fort
rtf millionaire T. Cullen Davis,
pthe jury proves unable to reach
ifiimity on guilt or innocence, a mistrial
be declared and prosecutors have said
will exercise their option to retry
/is on charges he offered $25,000 to
e bis divorce judge killed,
fhen the jury retired for the night
irsday, after 20 hours and no decision,
ore said his job may soon be the very
icate application of increasing amounts
•ressure.
First, Moore — who emphasized he was
not criticizing the jury for lengthy deliber
ation — said he will start requiring more
jurors’ questions to be more specific, an
unmistakable hint to move along.
The seven-man, five-woman panel has
asked and —- so far without question —
received rereading of testimony or replay
ing of tapes of conversations Davis’ chief
accuser and friend-turned-informant,
David McCrory.
“What we re doing now is just reading
the whole transcript over again, Moore
said. “It doesn’t seem to be producing any
results. I’m going to start requiring them
to tell me if there is a dispute or if they just
don’t remember.
“Ordinarily, we require more formality
with the note-writing. This one has been
so long, they just don’t remember. It’s just
humanly impossible to remember, so the
rules have to be eased, he said.
Next, Moore will ask the jury foreman
how deeply the panel is divided.
“I thought yesterday I might do it today,
but they didn’t give me time, Moore said.
“I missed lunch looking for testimony (to
answer jury questions). I’m thinking today
I might poll them tomorrow (Friday), if I
can get a word in.
“I’d ask the foreman, ‘What combina
tion of 12 are you?
Later, he could ask each juror.
“I go down the row and talk to each
juror personally. ‘What is your thought on
the matter. Do you think you can reach a
^-income housing planned
.S. seeks HUD fund renewal
verdict?’ If all of them say there’s no way,
the time frame becomes very important.”
If the panel after several days reported
itself undecided, Moore might consider
the final step down the road toward possi
ble impasse and mistrial —- a special in
struction reminding the jury of its respon
sibility.
He said that amounts to telling the jury
“Y’all sit down and work this thing out so
we don’t have to do it again,” but he said
he will be hesitant because “it’s a danger
ous thing to do.
In any case, although there are no clear
legal guidelines, Moore said he expects to
keep the jury at least through Sunday.
“If the jury is dismissed too soon, the
defendant will be in jeopardy,” Moore
said. “That means he can’t be tried for this
again. He’s entitled to a not guilty verdict
if that’s the verdict the jury is going to
reach."
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — In possibly, its first
move against Iranian student demon
strations in the United States, the gov
ernment Thursday began proceedings to
deport an Iranian who led a group of
chanting marchers to the Alamo Wednes
day.
Hossein Jahanfar, 29, was arrested by
undercover Immigration and Naturaliza
tion Service undercover agents at the end
of a two-hour march from San Antonio Col
lege Wednesday. The agents said Jahanfar
was suspected of taking part in a violent
demonstration outside the shah’s Beverly
Hills, Calif., mansion earlier this month.
One undercover agent, who kept Jahan
far under surveillance during the march,
said the arrest was part of Attorney Gen
eral Griffin Bell s recent get-tough policy
against Iranian demonstrations in the
United States, and that heretofore the INS
has paid little attention to Iranian student
visas.
Jahanfar, who had not retained an attor
ney by midday Thursday, spent the night
in the Bexar County Jail in lieu of $40,000
bond, pending civil proceedings that
would remove him from the country.
Edward Molina, assistant director of
enforcement for the INS, said grounds for
Jahanfar s deportation would be that his
By DOUG GRAHAM
Battalion Staff
ollege Station city officials are
iraging construction of low-income
using units in order to receive a
30,000 community development grant
1979.
City planner Jim Callaway said he hopes
it action taken in building the housing
jjects will help secure the grant.
The Department of Housing and Urban
Jvelopment dropped the city’s 1978
int “because of their (College Station’s)
Mof performance, and lack in housing,
ack in a viable housing plan,” HUD
o more action
n Tenneco line
United Press International
CONCORD, N.H. — Tenneco an-
unced Thursday it will not appeal a fed-
Kruling turning off the tap on its pro
ved $5 billion liquefied natural gas
peline from Canada to Albany, N. Y.
Hnneco had until Wednesday to appeal
>t month’s Energy Department ruling
fning down permission for it to import
gerian natural gas for the 498-mile
Bine. A Tenneco spokesman said in a
lephone interview from Houston the
mpany had decided not to ask for a re
aring on the ruling, but would make no
rther comment.
The pipeline was to begin at St. John’s,
ew Brunswick, and enter the United
ates at Calais, Maine. The pipeline was
|tos.s through Maine, New Hampshire
id northern Massachusetts.
The company first applied to build the
Kline in 1976. It wanted to import 1
lllin cubic feet of natural gas per day for
) pars beginning in 1983.
supervisor H.K. Berrey said
“Over the three years they’ve been in
our program, they’ve done nothing to help
lower income families,” he said.
Callaway said the problem was not in
the city’s motivation. For instance, HUD’s
previous rent subsidy program failed be
cause HUD estimates of rent costs in Col
lege Station were too low, Callaway said.
During the three years the program was
administered, he said, not one dwelling
was rented.
Despite the fact that the city doesn’t feel
at fault, it is taking certain steps to secure
this year’s grant, Callaway said.
Two groups are trying to build HUD-
approved low-income rent-assistance
apartment projects.
These units, said Jim Callaway, will be
rented at market prices. But for a low-
income occupant, any rent higher than 25
percent of his income will be paid by
HUD.
One project was proposed by Eddie
Chew, a College Station resident. The
council rezoned Chew’s land to permit
construction of the project.
Callaway said Chew will be competing
regionally in Texas for HUD money to
build the project, so his financing is uncer
tain.
A consortium of New York lawyers, rep
resented by former HUD employee Clyde
Emmons from Arlington, is trying to build
another project in College Station, said
John Emerson of the Brazos Valley De
velopment Council. Its financing scheme
differs with Chew’s and hinges on city
council cooperation.
But tight cooperation may be difficult.
Callaway said the city council voted by a
narrow 4-3 margin to enter into negotia
tions with Emmons’s consortium.
The council was divided, Callaway said,
because the consortium wants the city to
set up a housing association. The associa
tion will be a kind of partnership to finance
construction using tax-free bonds.
Callaway said that the consortium would
retain the ownership and profits of the
project.
Except for those two areas, the housing
association resembles HUD’s preference:
a housing authority.
HUD prefers housing authorities be
cause they are less subject to market con
ditions in rent, Callaway said. But “I don’t
think that’s what the council wants for Col
lege Station,” he added.
“There are not enough people in Col
lege Station to warrant such a program,”
Emerson agreed. “The need for a housing
authority isn’t there.”
Callaway said he hopes that the city
council’s recent resolution supporting
Chew and its vote to enter negotiations
with Emmons will be evidence of good
faith with HUD officials in Dallas.
But HUD supervisor Berrey said that
“just a resolution would be insufficient.
We want to see substantial progress before
we release the block grant.”
He said that substantial progress meant
the projects would have secured firm'
financing to begin construction.
The application process begins on Feb.
28 when College Station has to file a per
formance report, said Berrey. The actual
application is due April 7, he added.
Callaway said that he hopes HUD will
take progress into account all the way up
until June when the decision on the grant
will be made.
College Station would use the funds for
anything from street repair and construc
tion to house rehabilitation.
But the city has not determined exactly
how it will spend the money if it gets the
grant, Callaway said. “We re working on
how we ll use the money right now. ”
UT to fight HEW
ruling of sexism
United Press International
AUSTIN — With $40 million in
federal funds in jeopardy, the Uni
versity of Texas says it will fight a
Health, Education and Welfare rul
ing that the school was guilty of sex
discrimination.
The ruling came more than one
year after a federal court said the
university had not discriminated
against former art instructor Janet
Berry.
UT officials Thursday received a
35-page HEW report on the
9-year-old case, concluding the fed
eral agency had found the university
violated federal guidelines prohibit
ing job discrimination on the basis of
sex.
The report said UT gave higher
pay and quicker promotions to four
males with qualifications equal to
Berry’s.
“The decision of the (HEW) Re
viewing Authority is in direct con
flict with the decision of the federal
court which, using the same factual
evidence, found on all counts that
the university did not discriminate
against Ms. Berry,” university pres
ident Lorenb Rogers said.
HEW ruled UT is ineligible for
any award, contract or subcontract
funded in whole or in part with fed
eral funds from any agency of the
United States or for extensions on
existing contracts and subcontracts
until the school changes personnel
and employment policies to end sex
discrimination.
Rogers said school officials re
ceived the final HEW decision more
than a year after a federal district
court’s Aug. 24, 1977, ruling against
Berry’s lawsuit for damages.
“Apparently the HEW Adminis
trative Reviewing Authority has de
cided to ignore the decision of the
federal court and to rely instead on
their interpretation of the facts,”
Rogers said. “The university does
not accept HEW’s conclusion that
the university is in non-compliance
and intends to continue to pursue
this matter to its just conclusion.
“In the interim, the university
will take all necessary steps to
ensure its continued eligibility for
federal grants and contracts.”
UT officials said Berry resigned
her job as an assistant professor of
art on Monday. She had been on
leave of, absence during the fall
semester and is living in Missouri.
Berry was hired by UT in 1964
and granted tenure in 1970. In 1971
she filed a sex discrimination com
plaint with HEW. She filed a law
suit in federal court three years
later.
UT currently receives $40 million
a year in federal funds.
visa expired on Dec. 31 and that he did not
re-enroll as a student at San Antonio Col
lege for the current semester.
Molina said agents in Los Angeles and
San Antonio also were attempting to iden
tify Jahanfar as a mustachioed man shown
in a news photograph as he kicked down a
fence during the Beverly Hills rioting.
“We have already served him with an
order to show cause and an order of ar
rest,” Molina said. “Bond was established.
Now we start into the regular administra
tive court procedures to deport him.
Jahanfar led a march of about 25 Iranian
students who ignored angry objections
from several townspeople and American
students on the march to the Alamo Wed
nesday afternoon. He shouted through a
bullhorn, asking for American support to
ban the shah from the United States.
Jahanfar, who had identified himself as
“Hossein Ehia in interviews prior to the
march, told UPI Wednesday, “Eve been a
student a year.” But Molina said he no
longer was a student at the junior college.
Molina indicated Jahanfar s alleged par
ticipation in the Beverly Hills demonstra
tion would be an integral part of deporta
tion proceedings.
“The only thing we have that is concrete
is he was on a television program on Jan.
5, at which time he was asked if he partici
pated in the Los Angeles deal and he ac
knowledged he’d been there, but refused
to comment on whether he had partici-,
pated,” Molina said.
“We re working on it and we re trying to
identify him as the one and the same that
appears in this United Press International
photograph that we got out of the Wash
ington Post. One of the agents in Los
Angeles is working on it.
Arrested
for biting
an officer
United Press International
AUSTIN — A Department of
Public Safety officer told a 23-year-old
man that Gov. Bill Clements was not
home. The man and his dog then began
biting the officer, authorities said.
Douglas Maler Gomillion Thursday was
charged with assault and suspicion of lu
nacy.
Gomillion and his dog reportedly went
to the Governor’s Mansion Thursday and
told DPS officer Nolan Crow, 63, he
wanted to see Clements. Crow said Cle
ments was not home and when he tried to
direct the visitor to the Capitol, Gomillion
and his Collie allegedly attacked. It took
three more officers to restrain the in
truder.
A Clements’ spokesman said said Crow
was treated at a local hospital for a cut
hand and chest and leg injuries.
The governor and his wife have not
moved into the mansion, preferring to stay
at a downtown hotel until their furniture is
shipped from Dallas.