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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.”
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Tuesday, September 11, 1979
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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
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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.
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Aggie fans come in all shapes and sizes and these Texas A&M backers
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