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Vs kk ' s Spring e s Peal(ei lts °fSiic- 'S^eanin ' n eduta- fonment will be, )w ' n gtlie 16IU fan, died * at Texas 1 agrici 'etiredin ^6 Point d Bryan- ^23 A&M 3ne son, crlingC, Queen Cotton title winner M senior Texas A&M University senior Ibara Ann Tatum of Austin was selected Queen Cotton at the 45th annual Cotton Pageant and Ball here Saturday. Tatum, representing Krueger Hall won the title over 106 other contestants from throughout the state. A biomedical sciences major, Tatum is the daughter of Ruth Dan- nelly of 9713 Cottle in Austin. gw 1 first-in- nd as six 1 national per plate ates Rep, id former i- Robert tier U.$, ue a settle- eamsters rd strife ercial air d taking rg indus- broke o5 jy issues the com- suit an expo- e Karen > federal me Nor- ified the Council iyees off ned the i against ar Gres- avood to ibstance oatroled that de- . A tor- lying 75 ■nsively tx about ing in were 5 009, a Lance’s dealings queried United Press International WASHINGTON — Bert Lance used his influence with the White House last year to aid two frustrated millionaires who paid an Arab offi cial a $1.5 million bribe for oil drilling rights and got little in re turn, federal investigators have learned. Sources said details of Lance s dealings at the White House, months after he left office, were dis closed Monday in a lawsuit to be filed in Miami against the two busi nessmen. The official they allegedly bribed in a futile attempt to salvage a $17 million investment later became secretary general of the Organiza tion of Petroleum Exporting Coun tries. The two multimillionaire defen dants are R. Eugene Holley, 53, a former Georgia state senator and one-time political associate of Presi dent Carter, and Roy J. Carver, 70. The government suit will seek to block them from delivering any more overseas payoffs, sources said. I Lance’s attempts to help Holley and Carver eventually backfired into the year-long probe that carried Justice Department fraud inves- i tigator David Addis to the Middle East for a week. Sources said there is no evidence Lance, the president’s former budget director, benefited from his I actions, or that he ever knew the bribe was paid. i fiance’s main gesture was a tele phone call to an aide to White House adviser Hamilton Jordan, whom he asked to arrange a meeting between Holley and a State De partment official, the sources said. The resulting meeting with a U. S. diplomat allegedly led to efforts by Holley and Carver to deliver more bribe money. inos take flogging in rite for holy week United Press International MANILA, Philippines — Hun dreds of hooded Filipinos are flog ging themselves in a rite of peniten tial torture to mark the observance of holy week in the Philippines. Stripped to the waist and barefoot, the atoning Filipinos can bejseen in sweltering slum streets and small barrios in rural Philip pines with their retinues of tormen- tois and hecklers. : holy week in the Phillipines — the only Roman Catholic nation in Asia — generally is observed with out violence. But in the slums and the tiny wayside villages blood drips inpe gory re-enactment of Christ’s calvary. Self-styled Jesus Christs, in pur ple robes and crown of thorns, drag «eav\ wooden crosses while hired torturers lash them with thonged whips. Their trails are followed by •v .. “ e penitentes,” who pummel their pavidBj? bar, backs with glass-studded clubs. | ,in a dusty town outside the U. S. Clark Air Force Base 60 miles north oflManila, a former hoodlum has been drawing crowds the past 10 years with his crucifixion on Good Hfiday. ■uanito Pering, 38, vowed to im pale himself on the cross every year as|a form of expiation. Most of the fcitentes undergo the bloody holy Jek rituals to atone for real or gined sins. he church officially frowns on i* practice, brought from Mexico by Spanish colonizers in the 16th century. The tradition has m State in . j,, their us da®- was also g Novi, possible „ quake aat9:H j C al Sta- 3 »< re ” .KifflTL '' Liz M s bb ie Steve Pai* 5 1 itv & -II THE BATTALION TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1979 Page 3 Jones, Brown join consol board; playground equipment gets OK By KAREN ROGERS Battalion Staff Herman Brown and Ann Jones were sworn in as A&M Consoli dated School Board trustees at the meeting Monday night while the fu ture superintendent, Dr. Bruce Anderson, looked on. Brown is replacing nine-year vet eran Lambert Wilkes while Jones is replacing two-year veteran Rodney Hill. The board also elected new offi cers: John Reagor, president; Elliott Bray, vice president and Jones, sec retary. After several rounds of applause for the departing board members, the new board got down to business. Playground equipment for South Knoll and College Hills Elementary Schools was a high priority item. The board approved two playg round concepts. The first consists of a jogging track with exercise stations and the second is a “creative play area” with climbing apparatus and tunnels. Trustee Bruce Robeck warned the board that the money for the equipment is not available at the present and that to supply it the 1979 budget would have to be amended. The playground commit tee estimates that the project will require $30,000. The board also agreed to a $78,500 settlement in the Lone Star Gas suit. Lone Star Gas officials dis agreed with the methods that the district used to levy and assess ad valorem taxes for the 1975-78 taxing periods, saying that the $82,629 that the district said it owed was too high. In other business, the board ap proved the “concept” of the high school curriculum changes that in clude additional health courses, English as a second language, pot tery and basic guitar. 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