Battalion Friday, September 7, 1979 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 Weather Clear to partly cloudy today. In the low 90s today and low 70s this afternoon. Winds 10 to 15 miles per hour today and 5 to 10 tonight with a 20% chance of rain. A&M game in Houston means business loss here By RICHARD OLIVER Battalion Staff Miami Beach has its Hurricane David, South Padre Island has its oil spill and Texas A&M University has its uncom pleted Kyle Field. For College Station merchants, an un completed Kyle Field means lost business as a football game originally scheduled to be played here this weekend moves to Houston. Managers of several Bryan-College Sta tion business establishments are con cerned about the situation and express hope that the stadium will be completed soon. Gary Ross, manager of Danver s Re staurant, said his business is resorting to selling 25-cent beer on Friday night before and after Midnight Yell Practice to make up for lost sales this weekend. “Last year we did a heckuva business doing this,” he said. “What we’re trying to do is get back a little of the business we are going to lose this weekend.” Despite University assurances that Kyle Field will lx? finished in time for the Uni versity of Houston game on October 13, Ross is skeptical. “I’m not sure it’s going to open until November or December,” he said. “It’s a shame. You always want to have as much business as possible. I’d really rather see the people here in town, and not in other places. “Also, I’m sure the Ags and the football team would rather have the game here, too. I think the town is going to lose all the way around. ” Ralph Deitrich, manager of the Aggie- land Inn, said the situation is unfortunate, and his business will definitely feel the ef fects of an out-of-town home game. “It all adds up to the fact that instead of a full house this weekend, we re going to have a slow time,” he said. “Eighty to 85 percent of our business depends on the University and its activities. Of course, a business doesn’t live on five football games a year, it lives on everything combined. It’s definitely going to hurt us, though. After all, a full house is a full house.” Virginia Arnold, manager of the MSC Hotel, echoed Deitrich s views. “On home football weekends, we re full occupancy,” she said. “Naturally, it will hurt. It will affect us a great deal. Joe Ruiz, manager of Ft. Shiloh Steak House, said his sales would be about 50 percent of what they would have been had the football game been in College Station. “I’m very displeased,” he said. “We count on five games a year, so this does put a big hole in our business. I don’t think it would hurt us as much as it would some other people in this town, but usually a home game doubles our normal business. ” Don Aiken, manager of Ken Martin’s Steak House, feels the situation will signif icantly affect the entire Bryan-College Sta tion economy. “It will definitely put a big dent in the whole economy,” he said. “As for us, it could pull us down somewhere near 20 to 40 percent of our normal home football weekend business.” Aiken pointed out that once the stadium is completed, however, the additional seat capacity might compensate for this weekend’s loss. “I think it will bring in enough added business to offset this,” he said. “It should bring in a certain amount of added traffic. I really don’t expect that one missed game will have any big effect, but it will hurt a little. ” Gary Nolan, manager of the Last Na tional Bank restaurant, said he believes the added seat capacity at Kyle Field will help the Bryan-College Station economy, but that his establishment will not profit too much. “There’s only so much volume a re staurant can do,” he said. “We can only pack so many people in here on football weekends, and once we hit the capacity, that’s it. On home football weekends here, we usually are filled to capacity anyway. “I think it’ll help the economy of the town, but not so much individual restaur ants. But if it helps the economy, it’ll help us, so that’s fine with me. ” Nolan said his business usually makes nearly $4,000 more than usual on home football weekends, so he expects to lose quite a bit. “Our football weekends are usually three to four times our normal business,” he said. “There’s a lot of profit involved, so naturally it hurts.” Nolan, who has operated in College Sta tion for five years, added that because of increased restaurant competition in Bryan-College Station, he believes the businesses will feel the losses more se verely. Governor must consult council Clements to lose ration power el ip 15 ck Delayed construction on Texas A&M’s Kyle Field third deck seats will at least one weekend invasion of football fans whom local merchants welcome with open arms. College Station businessmen fear they’ll lose a great deal of the business they were counting on if the stadium is not ready by the present Oct. 13 deadline. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. United Press International AUSTIN — If Gov. Bill Clements wants to reinstitute an odd-even gasoline ration ing plan during October, he may have to convene a meeting of the Texas Energy and Natural Resources Advisory Council to get pennission. )rug detectives to look nto Kennedy’s mugging That council Thursday balked at a pro- posal that would have given Clements and his top energy adviser, Ed Vetter, author ity to implement emergency gasoline or diesel allocation plans during October if an emergency arose. The proposal by Vetter also would have required the concurrence of Lt. Gov. William Hobby. Vetter said the odd-eveh allocation plan imposed by Clements in June, and ex tended to 17 Texas counties before the end of the summer, was authorized by Presi dent Carter’s delegation to the governor of emergency authority to deal with the fuel shortage. But the president’s power to grant gov ernors such authority runs out Sept. 30 and may not be extended, Vetter said. He asked the new Energy and Natural Re sources Advisory Council, which was created by the 1979 Legislature and given authority to handle gasoline allocations, to delegate the authority to the governor, lieutenant governor and himself until the panel can meet again in October. Sen. Peyton McKnight, D-Tyler, led the opposition to the move, contending the allocation authority was given by the Legislature to the Energy and Natural Re sources Advisory Council and should not be delegated to other officials. “This council was charged with the re sponsibility of giving its advice on any par ticular energy plan. As a public official, I don’t think I should delegate any authority to anyone else,” McKnight said. “This is absolutely no lack of confidence in the governor, the lieutenant governor or Mr. Vetter. I don’t want to give any body a blank check. I think it is the duty of the council to look at the plan before it gives its approval.” Both McKnight and Sen. Bill Meier, D-Euless, suggested the council could be convened in emergency session on short notice in the unlikely event of a gasoline shortage in October. ap 19 "Oriiletl Press International NEW YORK — Narcotics detectives lursday were ordered to investigate the iigging of David Kennedy, 24-year-old n of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in seedy hotel in Harlem where police con- rated 25 bags of heroin. Deputy Inspector Peter Prezioso said enarcotics officers are investigating “the ili':y of a drug sale involving this Report new ahone number To help avoid confusion and make sure numbers are listed correctly, stu- ents should notify Centrex of any changes their phone numbers. Changes need to be reported so that the diversity information operator’s direc- irycan be updated. Forms for making the changes can be Jttenfrom Dorothy Heine, chief Centrex perator. She can be reached at 845-5171. A police spokesman said Kennedy, who was not hurt in the incident, reported he was driving his BMW car in the vicinity of 116th Street and Eighth Avenue about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday when two pedest rians signaled him from the sidewalk. Police said Kennedy told them he pul led the car over and approached the two, who lured him into the lobby of the Shel ton Plaza Hotel at 300 West 116th St. Police said Kennedy told them that once inside the hotel, a third man joined them and “using physical force” stole $30 from him. Prezioso stopped short of linking Ken nedy to a drug transaction. “There were definitely drugs found on the premises,” Prezioso said. “About 25 glassine envelopes (of heroin) were on the landing. But you have to remember that Kennedy is a victim in this case, and how ever much exploring reporters want to do, we don’t investigate victims.” The New York Post reported that Ken nedy admitted to police at the scene that he was in the area to purchase drugs. Police declined to comment on the report. A police spokesman said “right now, as far as we re concerned, he (Kennedy) is just a victim of a crime, a complainant.” A high police official said “all of the im plications (for the incident being related to a drug sale) are there, but I don’t know that this took place. It’s a bad-rep hotel. You can get any kind of stuff you want up there.” During the attack on Kennedy, a call was placed from the hotel to the emergency 911 number, and police ar rived on the scene and arrested Sam As- kins, 25, who they said appeared suspici ous. But when asked to identify the suspect at the Eighth Avenue stationhouse, Ken nedy could not and Askins was not charged. Askins was wanted on charges of grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. The police spokesman said he did not know why Kennedy followed the men into the hotel lobby. He said Kennedy told police he was “passing through” the area. The three-story hotel has 41 rooms. A single room rents for $7.50 for 12 hours and a double for $15. Muhammad Ali to speak here on world peace Sept. 25 By TODD HEDGEPETH Battalion Reporter Former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali will speak at G. Rollie White Coliseum Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. The MSC Great Issues and Black Awareness Committees are co-sponsoring Ali’s visit, and tickets will go on sale Tues day at Rudder Box Office, Great Issues chairman Dan Ayre said. Prices are $2 for Texas A&M University students and $2.50 for non-students. Ali, who is the only boxer to win the heavyweight title three times, will speak on “Future World Peace. ” Ali, formerly Cassius Clay, won the light-heavyweight gold medal at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome and in 1964, at age 22, he captured the heavyweight championship by stopping champion Sonny Liston on a seventh-round TKO. Immediately after the fight, he changed his name to Muhammad Ali and an nounced that he was a member of the then-feared Black Muslims. Ali was stripped of his title in 1967 when he refused to be inducted into the Army, claiming his religious beliefs prohibited him from going to war. In late 1970, after 3V2 years of inactivity. Ali was allowed to fight again. He won two bouts before dropping a 15-round decision to new champion Joe Frazier on March 7, 1971. Ali started the comeback trail and finally regained the title in October 1974 when he knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round in Kinshasa, Zaire. , In March 1978, at age 36, Ali was upset by young Leon Spinks in a 15-round split decision. In a rematch later that year, Ali became the only man in boxing history to win the crown three times by winning a 15-round decision over Spinks. Artifacts sold to ‘right people United Press International LA COSTA, Calif. — Just because you five the $70,000 asking price for one of three original, signed copies of the iBianeipation Proclamation doesn’t mean