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Football pays
By DOUG GRAHAM
_ „ _ Battalion Staff
ror all the exposure Texas A&M
University gets out of Kyle Fjeld,
te stadium would be a bargain at
n V Price; however, since the
school got it free, it might be the
teal of the century.
-It isn t that Kyle Field was built
for free, it is just that Texas A&M
»ever had to pay for it; the Ath-
etic Department did. Other sports
tcilities on campus that were built
'ithout state funds include Wof
ford Cain Hall, and C.E. "Pat”
Olsen Field
The athletic budget shows not
>nly the vast amount of money
landled by that department, but
who earns it, and on what it , is
pent.
Wally Groff, assistant director
>r business affairs in the athletic
lepartment, said they were paid
>r through alumni donations and
arnings of the Athletic Depart
ment's teams, he said.
And the one team that carries
he rest is the football team. From
977-78 the football team earned
2,039,000. That * included
170,000 for the Bluebonnet Bowl,
elevision rights and conference
urplus chipped in another
400,000, while the seven women's
ports and the other six men’s
ports contributed $90,000.
The Aggie Club is second to the
ootball team as a source of income
□r sports programs. It is not to be
confused with Alumni Association.
The Aggie Club raised $755,000
i-om 1977-78.
The Athletic Department’s com
bined income, including miscel-
aneous items was $3,479,000.
Expenses, including supplies,
cholarships and wages, totaled
13,017,000. Net profit, after sub-
racting over $300,000 for Cain
4all and Kyle Field osts, was
$128,880. ,
Projected net profit for this year
s $30,876, Groff said, but income
irom the Hall of Fame Bowl is not
yet, nor .are the receipts from
he NIT basketball tournament.
Groff, who is «ow working on
next year’s budget, said he takes
success into account when estimat
ing team income.
"1 feel safe to predict well be on
television twice,” he said. “But we
never budget for bowls. Nothing
past the conference is put in the
budget. We do just enough to get
us through the state competition. ’’
Other sports, as of March 31,
1979, earned anywhere from no
thing, in golf, to over $123,000 for
basketball. Total income from the
women’s program was $2,906. -
Golfs budget is $42,000, and
women’s sports is $424,305.
"This year basketball earned
over 50 percent of its keep because
of the NIT,” he said, which was
more than usual.
"Baseball only makes about 5
percent,” he said.
A high cost for the department,
Groff said, is interest payments on
bonds sold to finance construction.
He said around $500,000 will be
paid each year.
However, the Athletic Depart
ment found ways to share the bur
den of building Olsen Field and
Kyle Field’s third deck. A portion
of the baseball field’s construction
funds came from money Texas
AficM earned from handling its in
vestments.
Money made through handling
investments can be used at the
University’s discretion even though
the money used in the investments
is actually state money.
To help cover the $22 million
bill for the third deck expansion of
Kyle Field some physical educa
tion facilities were included, be
cause of state requirements that
state money go to buildings used
for teaching and not simply for ath
letics.
Groff said his department is pay
ing $9 million and the school is
covering the rest. To help cover
costs, some of the student service
fees are going to reserve student
spaces on the west deck.
Rain is slowing things down and
raising costs, he said.
"I was just with the superinten
dent on the project and they were
cussing the weather. They’re in
dire need of some sunshine.”
Jury investigates
Houston kickbacks
questions about • $6,000 l° an P 1 ”*
chasing agent Jack Key * rran ^|i lnl .
cover January Las Vegas gM* ®
losses by the mayor and some
friends. , .j
Cowart told investigators he paia
Key $4,000 and was to have given
him $2,000 more.
.—, * - - McConn said his loan had no-
Mayor Jim McConn said of thing to do with the money taken
the expanded investigation. “But it from Cowart and that the mayor s
office is free of illegality. McConn
also said he did not know who fa-
nanced the loan but that he will
repay it when he learns the name.
Uafcad Ptm* International
HOUSTON — A federal grand
jury investigating alleged kickbacks
paid the city purchasing agent by a
tire repair firm has expanded its
inquiry to other reports of illegal
payoffs and subpoenaed all city
contracts.
’Overall, it’s certainly not good
would appear to be some vindica
tion of my involvement.”
McConn appeared before the
grand jury Monday to answer
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March winds, still here
Battalion i
Jana Harris
Results of prevalent local winds could be
:en in front of the Harrington Education
Center Complex Thursday. These bicycles -
were blown over by early May gusts.
Aide first to prove
Solon s secret fund
Evangelist talks
to A&M crowd
By SALLY DREYFUS
Battalion Reporter
1 There’s no such thing as luck in
the world, a national campus lec
turer said Thursday night at Texas
A&M University.
"A heathen thinks, there’s luck,
Jim McCotter said, “but, the Bible
says everything that happens has a
plan.”
McCotter, sponsored by the Or
ganization for Advancement of
.■Spiritual Involvement Among Stu-
xlents (OASIS), spoke to a packed
audience in Rudder Tower. He
'also has been speaking every day
'since Tuesday in front of the Haf-
'rington Education Center during
'class breaks.
’ All things work together for the
Ilove of God, McCotter said.
• “Gdd is working for good.” .
“God wants us to be a sharer
• and a doer in working with him.
tThe one who controls the galaxy
! longs with you to get with him and
'work with him,” he said.
• "If you’re ready to embrace what
- God shows you, he will show you.
! If you’re not ready, he won’t.”
• The Lord doesn't like lukewarm
Christians, he said. The Lord
• wishes you would be either hot or
cold and he would wonder why
you weren’t hot.
People are afraid to turn their
lives over to God, he said. They’re
afraid he’ll take everything away
that you have and send you some
where awful.
"Christians don t need social se
curity if they obey the word of
God," he said.
"There’s nothing one Christian
wouldn t do for another Christian if
they love God," he said.
McCotter will speak again Sun
day at 10 a.m. in Room 601 Rud
der.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Sen, Her
man Talmadge's financial secretary
said Thursday it was Daniel Min
chew who first provided evidence
of the existence of a secret Wash
ington bank account Talmadge
later used as the basis of his charge
that Minchew embezzled $39,000.
Mrs. Allyne Tisdale made the
statement on the (rank account to
the Senate^ Ethics Committee
while being questioned by Special
Counsel Carl Eardley about a
memo written to her by Minchew
on June 14 of last year.
Minchew, Talmadge’s former
aide and chief accuser, maintains
most of the $30,000 in the account
went to Talmadge, D-Ga., and his
fainil)^
Talmadge, who has denied he
knew about the account in his
name until it became controversial,
is facing five charges including
false Senate expense filings and
conversion of campaign contribu
tions to his personal use. He could
be censured or expelled from the*'
Senate if found guilty.
Minchew wrote the June 14
memo to Tisdale after a strategy,
session between Talmadge and his
confidants to decide what to do
about news stories claiming the
senator had received bogus ex
pense money.
The Minchew memo told Tisdale
to check Senate records for 1973-
74 — the years two Senate ex
pense reimbursement checks total
ing $13,000 were deposited in the
secret account.
“They' should be different from
deposits (for expenses in the
senators Georgia office account'.
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Minchew wrote.
Tisdale had earlier testified that
following a June 13 strategy meet
ing on the expense overages, she
had checked only expense check
deposits in Talmadge's Georgia of
fice account against check stubs
recording expense outlays to reach
an initial estimate in the low
$20,000s of Talmadge’s bogus ex
pense reimbursements.
Those records showed no ex
pense reimbursements for the year
1973 although Talmadge had in
curred official expenses, she said.
She said that “struck us as being
unusual but “I did not make any
investigation as to why."
She admitted to Eardley that
“had 1 inquired I would have
learned aixmt the actual expense
reimbursement from the Senate in
1973 of one expense check for
$10,000 — *a check that sub
sequently ended up in the secret
Washington bank account that was
used to “launder" some $39,000 in
expense checks and campaign con
tributions.
Tisdale said she didn’t think
much about Minchew’s note until
later in the day on June 14, 1978,
when Talmadge called her into his
office and showed her a memo
Minchew had written to Talmadge
and delivered to the senator at a $
a.m. meeting in Talmadge’s Wash!
ington apartment.
In that memo, dated June 13j
Minchew told Talmadge. “In sit
ting in your office this morning, f
l>egan to resent very much your
failure to lie totally candid about
your instructions to me regarding
the special account."
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