The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 31, 1979, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 31, 1979, Image 1

Newspaper Page Text-The Battalion s>l fol. 72 No. 171 Pages Tuesday, July 31, 1979 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 Weather Partly cloudy skies with a high in the mid 90’s and a low in the mid 70’s. Winds will be Southerly at 5-10 m.p.h. UT to share raduate facilities 'exas A&M University and the Uni- sity of Texas now share more than a im men,1^. ■The Texas A&M Board of Regents :as World Spetlp^ Thursday to a resolution with the K)-mile Texas System Board of Re fits to establish a program to have com- n use of graduate education facilities courses within the two universities. Irhe joint resolution states that the qual- J of education may he increased by the Int use of unique graduate educational lilities, such as laboratories and courses. Irhe A&M regents passed a similar reso lution applying to graduate students bin its own system, which includes )om of 6,600 tons, lat it was 15)« le of being 1 ■wer office conditioner is ough on days ;ames, convent pe nature isallmj on outside v lom said, "we to four hours aseball game ring the tern] fore people he temperalurt| up to 78 d, her.” >me is tall building insklf - rises, fans ier than fans si om said there i-to-3 degree campuses at Prairie View, Stephenville, College Station and Galveston. The board additionally approved a pro posal by the Texas Engineering Experi ment Station to establish a research center at Prairie View A&M. Prairie View also received funds of $15,000 for the construc tion of an Industrial Education Building. The regents also authorized Texas A&M President Jarvis Miller to negotiate the purchase of a Corpus Christi waterfront tract developed by the Southwest Re search Institute. The waterfront facilities are valued at $250,000 and will be used by the Texas Engineering Extension Service Oil Spill Control school and by TEES for research. In other business, the board approved a $5.5 million bond for the financing of the proposed modular dorm to be completed by September 1980. To finance other construction, including a horticulture laboratory, greenhouse and furnishings for a new fine arts complex at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, the board issued $10 million worth of Permanent University Fund Bonds. The bonds were sold to Harris Trust & Savings Bank and Associates of Chicago at an effective interest rate of 5.4342 per cent. The board also promised to issue a statement August 1 concerning the progress of construction on Kyle Field. \ineral Wells is new home Refugees arrive in Texas lines, he said, in in the stadii ? disgruntled rstand it." United Press International 11NERAL WELLS, Texas — Some abodian refugees who spent four years holding camp in Thailand arrived in st Texas Monday, despite some local icern they would cause health and edu- ion problems in the community, layor Robert J. Shiflet, who was out of n during Monday’s arrival, said he had leived many calls from people who un- itood the refugees’ problem but didn’t perstand why they were coming to jneral Wells. |Pussell Whatley Jr. said he didn’t see |y the refugees were receiving so much when some Americans needed help. I’m not trying to sound belligerent or jumane, but by the same token I don’t llwe should take on the problems of the Trld,” he said. alias businessman L. Dale Ireland eed to house 72 refugees and hire those :1 he realizedOi ;ible for employment. Ireland is presi- rterback field,! it of Airline Instruments Inc. :s, Kelly Phelp If everything works right, we ll try to ng more people in,” he said. “We can’t enough because we need to run three bills Despite reports that some residents ation quarter ^ unhappy, Ireland said he felt every- Ing would work out. ■ People have been more than coopera- , Barry Switzer e ; he said d begin worki enter the school system this fall. School Superintendent Bill Hall said he under stood most of the children could neither read nor write in their own language, which could make teaching English more difficult. Stiff said the school system was trying to raise funds to initiate pre-training courses, particularly in English, before the school year begins. The town’s leaders were not notified about the Cambodians arrival until late last month. Stiff said he thought that was why some residents had a negative at titude. About 15 Cambodian families will live in renovated apartments at nearby Fort Wol- ters Village, a former U.S. Army base. Ire land pays for their housing until they earn enough to pay him back. 0. he would bei ssing more and He was Consol board OKs funding for irrigation ~ Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. Charles Outlaw groans in pain as emergency medical technicians gingerly ease him onto a stretcher. Hitchers heat driver, steal car Charles Outlaw learned the hard way that picking up hitchhikers can be a bad idea. Outlaw, from Lovelady, Texas, was beaten and left on the side of Hwy 30 near Texas Ave. Monday af ternoon by five hitchhikers he had picked up earlier in the day. Four of the men sped away in Outlaw’s 1971 army surplus Ford LTD, leaving the fifth hitchhiker near the intersection of Hwy 30 and Hwy 6. College Sta tion police had the fifth man in cus tody Monday. The other four re main at large. “They were a dirty, ugly-looking bunch, with long hair and all,” a witness said. Outlaw, 29, told police he picked up the five hitchhikers on Interstate 10 between Houston and Beaumont while driving to Lovelady from a job in Louisiana. He told police he didn’t know any of the five hitchhik ers. Witnesses said the men beat Out law repeatedly before leaving him by the roadside. “He just got the shit beat out of him,” one man said. Outlaw was treated and released from St. Joseph’s Hospital emer gency room after X-rays indicated he had suffered no broken bones. Outlaw said the hitchhikers topk about $80 from his wallet before fle eing as bystanders from nearby apartments ran to his aid. d might also!# koff returns ilange hurch groups as well as local em- yers sponsor the refugees, who must v an employer before they arrive. Ire- d said his initial involvement began he contacted the Catholic diocese in rt Worth and offered to help. City Manager Jim Stiff said the refugee ansors, including Ireland, addressed a ty Council meeting earlier this month to y local fears. Otto Velez cratl in the flrsl i: ti drove in three ^ , , r ul a homer Wd “eland told the Council the refugees uld be screened before they entered United Staes to make sure they were (carrying contagious diseases. Stiff said, jj A bilingual teacher will have to be hired teach the Cambodian children who will ng the Toronti! 5 decision ovei IBI single 1-0 lead in thi edo Griffin I on Roy Ho* scored when I 'y*“boozers run ir Velez’s ff the third u i of the seas® ^ o’s lead to 4- raise money or bar manager I. Untifthis time Ail# Auctioneers are W** J by piece or in bis 1 lewriters - (16) mW (11) office desks-(S - cabinets 5rs-(12) gas ranges'; ors - scrap batteries' i & hundreds ofolW' 80 United Press International DENVER — Pot bellies jiggled. Faces reddened. But all the runners in the Smokers, Wheezers, and Boozers Marathon crossed the finish line and then headed into a bar to celebrate. More than 50 runners left one air-conditioned bar to run in the race Saturday and ran all of 10 blocks to Copperfield’s bar. Winner John McNulty, 22, a stu dent at Colorado State University, attributed his victory to the number of beers he drank before the race. McNulty’s winning time wasn’t available, but race observers said his - i973Chev.wion^ i perfect calculation of when stop mfvan^gS 1 ' ^ would turn g reen was the W mtiac station wage"' to his win. sedan -(3) WasW'| The “marathon” raised “several thousand dollars” for Jeff Ferrell, a night manager who was shot in the bead last month at the Tipsy Tiger Lounge in Denver. The money will help pay his medical bills. Ferrell had ordered two men out of the bar June 29. One of the men returned and shot Ferrell in the forehead with a .32-caliber hand gun. Since then, he has been unable to speak. He watched the runners as they left a starting line at The Parlour Bar and Restaurant for the 10-block run to Copperfield’s. More than $1,500 was raised, race sponsors said. By ROY BRAGG Battalion Staff The A&M Consolidated School Board voted Monday night spend $75,000 for the completion of land scaping work at three district cam puses. The $75,000 will be provided from unappropriated construction funds, said Dr. Donald Ney, Assis tant Superintendent for Finance for the district. The unappropriated funds come from interest on invested district bonds, Ney said. The money is to be spent on the South Knoll and College Hills elementary school campuses and the Junior High School campus. The majority of the landscaping work already funded involves ero sion control for the campus grounds. The landscaping work was con tracted through and partially funded by the Soil Conservation Service. Nearly $18,000 of the newly ap propriated funds will be used to re place the irrigation systems that have been installed at the cam puses. There are problems with with the sprinkler systems currently being used at the three schools, Ney told the board during a progress report on the landscaping work. The current system, partially in stalled at the schools, involves the use of removable sprinkler heads. The new system would have sprinkler heads attached to the pipes. Sprinklers have been damaged through accident and a few have been misplaced or stolen, he said. In addition, it requires excessive manpower to move the sprinkler heads when using the system, Ney said. Changing to the new system would alleviate the theft and dam age problems and save the cost of replacing the systems later at a higher expense, Ney concluded. In other business, the board voted to adopt a new system for staff utilization at district schools. In a related move, the district then established a student-adult ratio (SAR) of 18.0 for each campus in the district. The SAR is a number used to rep resent the number of district per sonnel in a school building during a teaching day. It is calculated by a series of figures drawn from actual school enrollment and the number of staff members in each school (excluding custodial and lunchroom personnel). The SAR will be established by the administration of individual schools and subject to approval by the district, said H.R. Burnett, As sistant Superintendent for Instruc tion. The SAR is part of the staff utiliza tion system, he said. The staff utilization system will be used to calcualte budgetary needs and teacher allocations and needs for each school, Burnett said. In addition, the staff utilization plan will allow the district’s staff to begin budget planning at an earlier date because each school’s needs will be based on actual enrollment figures and predetermined criteria, said superintendent Bruce Ander son. In other action, the board: — approved a performance and leadership plan for district staff members. The plan will permit the superintendent and the school board to assign salaries for admistra- tive staff members based on achievement predetermined goals set at the end of a year. — raised the salary for substituue teacheAs in the district salary from $22 to $25. — voted to appoint Ney as the district liaison to the Soil Conserva tion Service. Cave men’ charges lowered United Press International CARLSBAD, N.M. — A state district judge Monday handed back to federal offi cials a case involving four men arrested in the armed takeover at Carlsbad Caverns National Park earlier this month. District Judge John Walker granted a request by defense attorneys for a writ of habeus corpus, a move which allowed the prisoners to be released from state felony charges in the case. U.S. Attorney R.E. Thompson said in Albuquerque the suspects were im mediately rearrested on federal warrants charging them with damage to federal property and aiding and abetting in the damage to federal property. He said the charges are misdemeanors, carrying maximum penalties of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. The judge’s action apparently ended three weeks of indecision about jurisdic tion in the case, which had been bounced back and forth between federal and state officials. The suspects, Dennis James Mark, 39, of Riesel, Texas, Eugene Hiram Meroney, 31, William Charles Lovejoy, 28, and David W. Kuczynski, 28, all of Odessa, Texas, were arrested on federal mis demeanor charges when they surrendered following a 5% hour armed takeover of the underground cafeteria at the national park. During the takeover, the four men held a park employee as a hostage. About 100 tourists were trapped in an adjacent room. The purpose of the takeover was not fully clear, although the gunmen pres ented a rambling list of greivances and at one time demanded $1 million in cash and an airliner to Brazil. In order to secure release of the hostage and to insure the safety of the 100 trapped tourists, FBI agents who negotiated the surrender of the four men promised they would be charged only with mis demeanors. After they surrendered, federal officials later determined there was a jurisdictional problem and decided that the suspects should be arraigned on state misdemeanor charges. But at their arraignment, District Judge Students program expansion cause A&M movie and concert prices will go up for the fall semester By CAROLYN BLOSSER Battalion Staff While it’s gotten more and more expensive to live and have fun in the “real world,” Texas A&M students have taken refuge with low-cost entertainment offered by the University. But no place is immune from inflation, not even Aggie- land, where one-dollar movies and free concerts will soon be a thing of the past. This fall Aggie Cinema, Cepheid Variable and the Arts Committee will charge $1.25 admission to their movies. Town Hall will raise its ticket costs and will no longer have free concerts. Even the Grove, whose free movies are the entertain ment mainstay for many, will charge a 25-cent admission next summer. “It (price increases) was just a matter of time,” said Emen Haby, vice president of finance for the Memorial Student Center Council and Directorate. “It had to hap pen sooner or later.” The expansion of the Student Programs Office (SPO) staff along with the growing programs and goals of the committees necessitated the price increases, Haby said. “If you want to improve you’ve got to find more money,” he said. “In the past student service fees were enough because the programs were small enough. This year we’re getting larger and we need more money. “We’ve gotten increased student service fees, but not comparable to the increase in programming,” he said. “Because of what students wanted to do, we asked the committees to find additional revenue to support those expenses.” The student government decides how to allocate stu dent service fees. All twenty student program committees receive some portion of these fees except for Aggie Cinema, Cepheid Variable, Free University and Scona, Haby said. Committees like Aggie Cinema and Town Hall “which have the potential to be self sufficient,” can best raise the additional money needed for the SPO budget, he said. Members of Aggie Cinema, Cepheid Variable and the Arts Committee met early last May to consider raising their prices, said Henry Harlos, chairman of Aggie Cinema. He said either all three committees would go up to $1.25, or all three would stay the same. “We felt it was for the best interest to go up,” Harloe ea d. “I don’t think $1.25 is asking too much. It’s a heck of a lot cheaper than anything in town. “I think we’re comparable with other universities,” he added. The last price increase came in 1973, when the Arts Committee and Aggie Cinema went from 50 cents to a dollar. Aggie Cinema will still charge only one dollar for its classic/Intemational series, which features classic Bogart films and others on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. In the past Aggie Cinema has not paid anything to help with overall student programming expenses, but it has been asked to give $10,000 to the SPO budget this next year, Harlos said. Town Hall is the only committee whose tentative 1979- 80 budget has been cut, Haby said. Town Hall requested $65,000, its same budget as last year, but student govern ment cut it to $44,500. Student government felt that Town Hall could increase its revenue and compensate the budget cut by raising ticket sales, Haby said. The student government’s budget recommendations must be approved by Texas A&M President Jarvis Miller and the Board of Regents. Harvey W. Fort of Carlsbad refused to ac cept the misdemeanor charges in the case. The Eddy County District Attorney’s of fice then filed state felony charges of kid napping and aggravated assault against the suspects. Defense attorneys for the suspects then challenged the state action, filing the mo tion for a writ of habeus corpus so the men could again face federal misdemeanor charges as they had originally been prom ised. The suspects were to have faced a pre liminary hearing Tuesday in Carlsbad on the state charges. That hearing has been, canceled because the state charges were dropped. Leaded gas legal for all in crisis United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Environmental Protection Agency Tues day issued rules clarifying situations where it would be legal, for a gasoline station to put leaded fuel in a car designed for un leaded. Leaded fuel in sufficient quantity can destroy the air pollution control devices on later model cars. Retailers who put leaded gas into such cars are usually liable to fines of up to $10,000 per violation. But, the agency said, there can be a “bona fide emergency” where the retailer would not be liable. “The retailer who introduces the leaded fuel must have no unleaded fuel at his sta tion. The gasoline tank of the vehicle must be almost empty and there must be no other station within a several-mile radius that is available to dispense unleaded gasoline,” the agency said in a notice in Monday’s Federal Register. “The retailer can introduce only enough leaded fuel to enable the motorist to reach the closest open station with unleaded gasoline, or the motorist’s destination, whichever is closer,” it added. The EPA also said a general shortage of unleaded gasoline does not constitute an emergency. “In a situation where one retail outlet is out of unleadeed gasoline but there are other stations with unleaded gasoline nearby, no bona fide emergency exists,” the notice said. “We beleive it is reason able to expect that retailers will assess the unleaded gasoline availability in their im mediate areas just as they assess the pric ing by competitive stations. The EPA has been worried that tight supplies of gasoline will cause more switching to leaded gasoline, and result in increased air pollution.

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 31, 1979, Image 1

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