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r£w Ug\ 'AS bml vening shuttle Students now have night 6 escort service* By MERIL EDWARDS Battalion Staff lj!i!ies will no longer he left in the dark !the wrong side of the tracks. A night little service began Monday to ferry stu nts from the west side of the campus to Memorial Student Center and the area women’s dorms, le shuttle van is being provided by Office of Student Services and Alpha Omega, a service fraternity. (eibers of OPA will drive the van lays through Thursdays from 7:20 to 12:40 a.m. It will run every 20 minutes continuously. There is no charge for the service. Ed Morris, administrative assistant, said the van belongs to the University and has no special markings to designate it as a shuttle service vehicle. He said it will seat 15 people. Morris said the shuttle van was de signed for after-dark hours since the intra-campus shuttle stops running at 5:30 p.m. The van will stop on the west side of campus between parking areas 56 and 61 to pick up students. It will then cross Wellborn Road at the West Main intersec tion, and make stops at the MSC, Beutel Health Center and the Fowler-Keathly- Hughes dorm complex. (See drawing.) Dr. John Koldus, vice president of Stu dent Services, asked APO to take on this service project. “APO is always looking for new projects,” Koldus said, “so when the night shuttle service came up, I offered it to them first and they decided to take it on.” Koldus said the night shuttle service has been planned for some time now. He said both the university police and residence hall safety staffs have been thinking about such a system. “I think it will be a beneficial service,” Koldus said. “There will be some rough spots to work out in terms of time. They’ll have to play with it a bit to come up with the best situation.” The new night shuttle service does not serve the Commons area, so Police Chief Russ McDonald said the University Police will continue to serve students who call. “We may turn some callers down, though, McDonald said, “if the night shuttle serves their area.” , QuocW ^ 5hack Ii IE Battalion d Pittsk tlwl/o! i ext to period \il intercept oston’s 111 lers’ 36. Pn to Ken I ‘te, howfti t. 73 No. 7 14 Pages Tuesday, September 11, 1979 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 Weather Partly cloudy and warm today, in the low 90s today and low 70s tonight. Winds 5-10 miles per hour with a 20 percent chance of rain today. IS NE’’ an k son. tion a( it pro Middle East envoy reports negotiations ‘stepping up’ United Press International President Carter’s Middle East envoy Robert Strauss and Egyptian Prime Minis ter Mustafa Khalil reported a general ac cord Monday to “step up the tempo” of the negotiations with Israel on Palestinian au tonomy. Strauss, who returned to the Middle East Sunday for his second visit in less than a month, met for three hours in Cairo with Khalil, who leads the Egyptian side at the autonomy negotiations. Strauss, who left today for Israel, said afterward: “I think we leave here with a general accord that will serve us well. “This is the time for our continuing, stepping up the tempo, if you will, for ac tions around the (negotiating) table be- ween now and next May,” he said. Negotiations on autonomy for the 1.1 million Palestinians who inhabit the Jor dan West Bank and Gaza Strip opened last May 25 and have a target duration of one year. As the Strauss-Khalil meeting was under way. Vice President Hosni Mobarak departed for Washington for summit talks wth President Carter and his aides on Middle East peace efforts and American economic aid to Egypt. Indicating the Palestinian question would figure prominently in the Washing ton talks, Mobarak said: “We are paving the way now for the Palestinians” in the autonomy negotiations. “After this stage, they can join the 16% increase proposed Bryan may raise tax By SYLVIA FELLOWS Battalion Reporter The Bryan City Council held a public hearing Monday night to consider a in creasing property taxes 16 percent. The increase would raise the tax rate by 10 cents per $100 valuation. The rate is now 62 cents per $100. The tax rate is applied to 80 percent of the assessed mar ket value of the property. Taxes on a $40,000 home would total $230.40 under the proposed tax rate, a $32 increase over last year’s taxes on the same house. The new tax rate, if approved at the next council meeting, would be the first such increase in three years. Councilman Wayne Gibson was apologetic about the proposed increase. With prices rising during the last few years, Gibson said, the city needs to have some way to pay its workers. Residents demand and deserve city services, Mayor Richard Smith said, and the increase will go for maintaining “minimum services.” With an 84 percent annual turnover rate for city employees, Smith said, there is a need to improve employee satisfaction and loyalty. The tax increase would also im prove efficiency by eliminating the need for excessive training of new employees. The agenda for the meeting also called for a public hearing on the 1979-80 budget. No one spoke during the time allotted for the hearing, so action on the budget will take place at the next meeting on Sept. 24. The council also awarded bids totaling $126,334 for services and equipment such as sewer and pipe fittings, a motor grader and premix asphalt. negotiations. So can (Jordan’s) King Hus sein, Mobarak said. Mobarak s departure came after Sadat said his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin had been “cemented” and predicted others — pos sibly the PLO — may join their peace ef forts by the end of the year. Sadat gave Strauss Sunday an “in-depth report” about his summit conference in Haifa last week with Israeli Prime Minis ter Menachem Begin. Mobarak was expected to brief Carter more fully on the Haifa talks. Mobarak will later visit Austria for talks on the Palestinian question with Chancel lor Bruno Kreisky. Kreisky has been at tempting to make the Palestine Liberation Organization moderate its stand to allow for fts participation in peace efforts. Israel’s Defense Minister Ezer Weiz- man was also en route to Washington for a series of meetings with Secretary of De fense Harold Brown and other administra tion leaders. He reportedly is set to ask for nearly double the $1 billion in military aid from United States for next year. Cleveland busing draws quiet protest laptainj 13. ' Tower Vioruk}- 0 pm coord' 1 ® 1 ’ have ms spot 6 ! even! jy is ; per w# [M 0® ( arter isk his e con- today ■mber chere ol H-tfor. aqua- olo > s •ingd close In memory of... Silver Taps for all those students who have died since Muster ’79 will be tonight at 10:30 p.m. in front of the Academic Building, where the flag stands at half mast. Those who will be remembered are Charla Gwin, Stuart Brent Walker, Alan Dale Peacock, Tamara Lynn Bates, Henry Barbee Bishop, Luke Dennis Bell, Edward Thomas Ulbricht and Wood- row Keith Ratliff. Battalion photo by Clay Cockrill United Press International CLEVELAND — School buses rolled across Cleveland without incident Monday in compliance with a court-order for racial balance in Ohio’s largest school system. “No news is good news,’’ declared Board of Education President John Gal lagher. School Superintendent Peter Carlin said the morning pupil transporation oper ation was carried out with only “minor confusion,” concerning bus routes and pupil pickup locations. Monitoring of two-way radio communi cations between bus drivers and school system headquarters supported Carlin’s assessment of the situation. says Kennedy didn’t withdrawal from race United Press International WASHINGTON — President Carter sirply denies Sen. Edward M. Kennedy 'led him to pull out of the 1980 race — Carter’s wife and aides leave little 'ulit the president will seek re-election. Xo, that’s silly, Carter replied Sunday lien asked if the Atlanta Journal and institution report was true. I’m not a candidate — yet,” Carter dded, ver his shoulder, as he walked »ay from reporters at a gospel music by-in on the White House South Lawn. Ihc Atlanta Journal and Constitution "fried a page-one story Sunday with the miner, "Kennedy suggests Carter with- aw from '80 race. The request sup- “iscdly was made at a private White Iniise lunch of the two men Friday. Democratic National Chairman John White also told reporters at the sing-in any hint Carter would withdraw was “pure horse manure.” Carter, meanwhile, planned the first meeting with his newly constituted Cabinet Monday. During the first two years of his presidency, Carter had regular and frequent Cabinet meetings, but Monday’s session was the first since the Camp David “domestic summit” and the mass resignations of Cabinet secretaries. There was as much politicking going on as gospel singing on the South Lawn Sun day. First lady Rosalynn Carter gave several interviews in which she repeated the theme of a speech she gave in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Saturday. “This is obviously no time to divide our party and our nation, she said in Cedar Rapids. “This is a time for Democrats to unite behind and support an incumbent Democratic president.” She joined her husband in denying Kennedy had asked Carter to pull out. “I just can’t believe that happened,” Mrs. Carter told reporters. “It was not in our conversation.” Mrs. Carter said she spent about half an ' hour at the meeting and asked Kennedy about mark-up of the mental health bill for which she is a strong advocate. Asked whether new indications that Kennedy would seek the presidency in 1980 were causing any changes in Carter’s own campaign timetable, press secretary Jody Powell replied, “I haven’t noticed that it has.” Powell said only the two men took part in the lunch Friday. Cleveland’s limited desegregation pro gram this fall calls for busing of nearly 10,000 students in the 91,000-pupil dis trict. A more extensive desegration plan will take effect in February, and desegre gation of the entire city school system is slated to start in September 1980. This fall’s racial balancing program is being implemented over a four-day period this week, with about 3,000 students to begin busing Monday. Gallagher, Carlin and school board vice president George Dobrea acknowledged that the turnout for the first day of classes at desegregated schools was light, but ex pressed optimism that if desegregation continues to proceed peacefully, atten dance will gradually increase through the next two weeks. “We understand the apprehension par ents may have on the first or second day. The safety of youngsters is uppermost in the mind of most parents,” Dobrea said. “We are not going to be punitive with anybody.” Antibusing leaders organized a “yellow flu” sickout, urging parents to keep their children out of school. They also urged parents to attend a rally at a park on the city’s West Side. “I think the march yesterday (Sunday) set the tone for the opening of schools to day,” Gallagher said Monday, referring to a demonstration urging peaceful desegre gation attended by about 2,000 people. At the rally, religious and community leaders and about 1,000 people from the predominantly black East Side and 1,000 from the predominantly white West Side met on a downtown bridge linking both sides of town. Also on the downtown bridge Sunday were 75 anti-busing protesters. Cleveland is the third school district in Ohio to bus students for desegregation this fall. Busing began without incident in both the Columbus and Dayton school districts last week. MJ'-: m ' > % ■ . f, , fgr* . .v \ ;4 i* / i -.ii ISSlii®! 1 11 /V m Contrast Aggie fans come in all shapes and sizes and these Texas A&M backers watching the Texas A&M-Brigham Young football game Saturday repre sent a good variety. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.