The Battalion
Vol. 72 No. 159
OH* 8 Pages
Thursday, June 14, 1979
College Station, Texas
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Weather
Fair skies through Thursday with
mild nights, continued clear
through the weekend. High today
of 87 and a low of 67. Winds will
be Easterly at 5 m.p.h.
hodesian
sanction
under fire
Tetidtroi/ United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate Wed-
sday ordered President Carter to im-
jediately end economic sanctions against
Jmbabwe Rhodesia despite Carter’s claim
Tat the south African nation has not com-
tely ended its apartheid policy.
|The order was tacked onto a $40.1 mili-
weapons bill and sent to the House. If
It is passed there. Carter will face a deci-
Bm on whether to veto it. The amend
ment calling for an immediate end to the
13-year of sanctions was proposed by Sen.
jHan> Byrd, D-Va.
■ Wednesday’s 89-7 vote on the military
■ will came after the Senate voted 52-41
liesday against even considering a com-
'^■omise to delay an end to the sanctions
itintil Dec. 1.
■Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has re-
llBatedly called on Congress to use caution
■ ending the sanctions, despite a new
ujjvernment in which blacks have been
en a stronger voice in ruling the south
rican nation.
But Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
|e Chairman Frank Church, D-Idaho,
^d Tuesday Carter preferred a straight
p or down” vote on ending the sanc-
ins.
Carter s policy is to maintain the sanc-
..Bms until Salisbury’s newly elected black
IvjBajGrity government makes some effort to
j bring opposition black guerrilla groups
^ Wo the democratic process. He has said a
■nate move to end the sanctions im-
■ediately would bring his entire policy
|to question.
If the Byrd amendment survives a
louse-Senate compromise version of the
fcfense bill and the president vetoes the
Iff because of it, two-thirds of both houses
[e required to override.
Ilf the veto were sustained that would
Kve the $80 billion defense authorization
|11 in limbo.
■ “That may be the course we ll have to
Mow,” Church said. “A veto, then the
■ilure to override, and then a considera-
lon of other formulas. ”
■ Vance delivered a blunt warning to both
■e House Foreign Affairs Committee and
jjaie Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Buesday: Lifting the sanctions would
iU$i|ui)dermine the British-U.S. effort to bring
• ^ Himbabwe closer to a broadbased democ-
Ulracy and would remove incentive to
• ■ ■ ^ Wegotiate an end to the war.
11 the panels many black Africans
• H^] Americans believe lifting sanctions
-flhld align the United States with the
Mhite minority and alienate the other Afri-
Li.^Bp n sta tes — to the benefit of the Soviet
Pnion and Cuba.
■q
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Bryan, Lone Star
discuss rate hike
Look, Dad! No hands
Nine-month-old Joe Sanders gives an impish
grin to photographer Clay Cockrill as he per
formed his balancing act at Northgate shop
ping center Tuesday afternoon. Joe can also
perform his act when father, Ray, is walking.
Battalion photo by Clay Cockrill
By LOUIE ARTHUR
Battalion StafT
The city of Bryan and Lone Star Gas
Company continued negotiations Wed
nesday over the proposed gas rate hike.
Bryan City Manager Ernest Clark and
Lone Star Gas local manager A.L. Bartley
met Wednesday afternoon to discuss a
suitable rate plan to present during the
special meeting of the city council Monday
night.
Bartley said that he and Clark prepared
three rate schedules to present to the
council — a six-step plan, a two-step plan
Carter adamant
about winning
1980 nomination
United Press International
DETROIT — President Carter says that
if Sen. Edward M. Kennedy challenges
him for the Democratic presidential
nomination in 1980 he’ll “whip his ass,”
the Detroit Free Press reported Wednes
day.
The newspaper quoted Rep. William
M. Brodhead, D-Mich., who was seated at
the President’s table during a White
House dinner Monday night.
Brodhead said Carter told his dinner
guests: “I’m not worried about 1980. If
Kennedy runs, I’m going to whip his ass.”
Brodhead said he asked Carter: “Excuse
me, Mr. President, would you mind re
peating that?”
The congressman said Carter then re
peated his statement.
Brodhead said that it appeared Carter
was “dead serious” when he made the
comment.
“I think he wanted to get the message
out,” Brodhead said. “I was
dumbfounded. I didn’t know what to say.”
A spokesman for Kennedy Wednesday
said the Massachusetts Democrat had no
comment.
The dinner was held to gain support for
legislation implementing the Panama
Canal treaties.
Evangelist ordered to license his schools
tation offers
98,000 for
kylab chunk
ji] ■ : United Press International
• • Ik-’''B COLUMBUS, Ohio — Many people
uifear a knot on the noggin from Skylab’s
1,1 "‘Ms-entry into the earth’s atmosphere, but
radio station that “means more music”
bl Jijp central Ohioans says it will make such a
bruise worthwhile.
B WNCI will give $98,000 to the first per-
son in the state who brings a piece of
jv item f>M a b to the studio within 98 hours after
it hits Ohio.
OPEN Hi “Only the first person bringing in a
MIDNlCfftiece of Skylab would win,” said Lee Jor-
j, Ian, “Stereo 98 promotion director. She
IjrKmphasized the portion retrieved must
■ »*T§iave fallen within the boundaries of the
PLEASi state.
NlfNl!! I “We will have the piece brought in ver-
lURgl: ified by NASA,” she said.
United Press International
AUSTIN — A state district judge Wed
nesday ordered Roloff Evanglistic
Enterprises, Inc., a religious organization
run by Rev. Lester Roloff, to apply and
receive state licensing by June 19 for three
South Texas child-care facilities or face
closure of the schools.
District Judge Charles Matthews also
imposed a $22,850 civil penalty against the
organization for violating the state licens
ing state for 457 days.
Roloff, the outspoken evangelist who
has battled the state over licensing laws for
more than three years, was not present at
the contempt of court hearing.
His attorney, David Gibb, declined to
comment on the impact of Matthews’ deci
sion. David Young, the assistant attorney
general who pursued the case for the state,
also refused comment.
Matthews, who in 1976 ruled that Roloff
was in violation of state law by not apply
ing for licensing of the three child-care
facilities, said he would order the homes
closed by next Tuesday unless the organi
zation received the licenses. If forced to
close the homes, the judge said he would
order the Texas Department of Human
Resources to assume control and care of
the children enrolled in the schools.
Gibb argued that three Department of
Human Resources witnesses could not ac
curately tell the ages of children they ob
served while visiting the Rebekah Home
for Girls in Corpus Christi, the Lighthouse
Home for Boys in Kingsville and the An
chor Home for Boys in Zapata County. He
also said there was no testimony as to who
was responsible for keeping the children
in the homes and for what reasons.
“The testimony here today (Wednesday)
absolutely did not support that,” Gibb told
Matthews.
“In October of 1976 this court found
that child-care facilities were being oper
ated,” Matthews responded. “That’s laid
out cold. For you to come here and say
they (the state) didn’t prove a child-care
facility was being operated doesn’t make
good sense to thi& court.”
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld
Matthews’ 1976 decision that Roloff was
operating his child-care facilities without
benefit of state licensing or inspections.
Young said Roloff was clearly in viola
tion of the earlier judgment directing the
evangelist’s organization to comply with
state licensing procedures.
“If the court can’t enforce this judg
ment, then there is no judgment we can go
for that the court can enforce,” Young
said.
George Duran and Joe Cast, Depart
ment of Human Resources employees in
Corpus Christi, testified they were denied
admittance to the Rebekah Homes for
Girls on April 13, 1979. They also said
they later were given a tour of the facility
and observed children there.
Jacinto Rodriquez, a human resources
employee in the Edinburg office, testified
he made three visits to the Zapata home
since April and also observed children at
that facility.
Matthews almost cited Harmon Oxford,
the administrator of the Anchor Home for
Boys, for refusing to answer Young ques
tions.
“Your honor. I’m in hot water. I still
refuse to answer the questions,” Oxford
told the judge after he was ordered to an
swer.
Young, however, withdrew his ques
tions.
Proposed emergency fund would
aid in hazardous chemical situations
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Carter,
trying to end a “legacy of neglect,” Wed
nesday asked Congress to create a $1.6 bil
lion emergency fund that would enable of
ficials to react swiftly to oil spills and other
chemical hazards.
The legislation also would impose stric-.
ter rules designed to avert future acci
dents.
Carter, pointing to the Love Canal case
in Niagara Falls, N.Y., where chemical
dumping caused a health threat, said the
proposal was essential and that the “health
of the public and the environment cannot
afford less.”
Douglas Costle, head of the
Environmental Protection Agency, told
reporters the plan would allow state and
federal governments “to move swiftly and
forcefully to prevent, minimize and con
tain the dangers.”
He said the proposal would end a “le
gacy of neglect. For decades, thousands
upon thousands of tons of hazardous chem
icals bearing wastes have been deposited
on the landscape.”
“Hazardous wastes, if not properly dis
posed of, are capable of causing death,
acute poisoning, cancer, miscarriages, and
birth defects,” Costle said.
The proposal would:
—Authorize the federal government to
and a one-step plan.
“What the six-step plan amounts to is
basically the more you use the less it
costs,” Bartley said. “There is a base cus
tomer charge and then a descending rate
schedule for extra consumption.”
Bartley outlined the two-step plan as es
sentially the same as the six-step plan, but
with a less complicated descent schedule.
The one-step plan has a base customer
charge and then a fixed cost for each
additional 1000 cubic feet.
“What we are working on right now is
not the total dollars (of the rate increase)
but an equitable distribution,” Clark said.
“I am confident that we will reach an
agreement.”
Lone Star Gas originally asked for a
$716,000 rate increase. Bryan and College
Station have until July 6, the end of the
120-day limit allowed by law, to settle with
them. If no agreement is reached by then.
Lone Star Gas has the option to take their
case to the Texas Railroad Commission.
The proposed rate hike would go into ef
fect until the TRC reached a decision.
“If we have to go before the railroad
commission it will cost us (Lone Star Gas)
about $12,000 in consultant and legal
fees,” Bartley said. “There is no way of
telling how long the whole process would
take.”
College Station offered Lone Star Gas a
$381,519 increase at the May 24 city coun
cil meeting but Bartley said that no deci
sion will be made by his company until the
council members vote on the offer twice
and then officially submit their proposal.
Then Lone Star Gas has 30 days to make
their decision to accept or reject the offer.
The College Station City Council will
vote on this issue at their meeting Thurs
day night. No one was available for com
ment at City Hall.
Bryan and College Station have the
same base rate presently because they
share distribution systems. If only one of
the two reach an agreement with Lone
Star Gas, Bartley said he is not sure what
his company can do legally to settle the
dispute.
“Our legal office is looking into that
right now, ” he said. “I’m not sure if we can
charge the fwo cities different rates or take
one to the TRC and not the other.”
act to clean up pollution in cases where
those responsible cannot be immediately
identified or when they do not respond
adequately.
—Impose stiffer standards for the han
dling of oil, and hazardous waste and sub
stances.
—To a limited degree, provide compen
sation for the economic damages sustained
by innocent victims. The compensation
would involve primarily fishermen.
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More parking space
made by restriping
By DEBBIE REEVES
Battalion Reporter
Forty more cars can now park in P.A. 50 which is primarily a day-student lot,
thanks to some rearranging of parking spaces by the University Police.
The first two rows of the parking lot, which is across the street from the Zachry
Engineering Center, are staff parking spaces. Now, due to changes made during the
break between sessions, the four rows behind the staff parking are limited to small
cars.
University Police Director Thomas R. Parsons said this was done to create more
parking space. He said the spaces in the four rows were made smaller, so that for
every five spaces, one space was gained. Instead of 200 spaces in these rows, there
are now 240. This leaves 976 spaces for the larger cars.
To limit entrance to the smaller spaces to small cars, concrete barriers were placed
on the sides of the entrances. Parsons said.
“To some I’m sure it looks impossible to get through that space, but it really is very
simple. We’ve watched some zip right in, while others had to manuever for awhile.
Most seem to like the new arrangement.”
It cost $2,000 to pick up the extra spaces in the existing lot, but if forty new spaces
had been built they would have cost $800 each. Parsons said.
“Hopefully this is a step forward. We re doing something with what we have.
We re also taking a serious look at other lots on campus, and thinking of doing
something similar with them,” Parsons said.
“By making the parking convenient for smaller cars, they park in these designated
lots and leave the rest of the lot for larger cars.”
Parsons also said day students should be aware that during the summer they can
park in any student lot if they have a valid day student parking sticker. This
includes the dorm parking areas.
This concrete barrier prevents large cars from parking in a ( Center. The arrangement has increased the number of park-
new compact car lot across from the Zachry Engineering ing spaces in the parking lot.