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THE BATTALION Page 7
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1979
After winning cases,
women want abortions
TIA tries
for TWA,
but no go
United Press International
HOUSTON — Ambitious Texas
International Airlines, which turned
a $46.5 million profit on stock
bought in the fight for control of Na
tional Airlines, today tried to open
negotiations for an interest in Trans
World Airlines. Trans World repre
sentatives, however, did not appear
interested in the proposal.
“Trans World has indicated no
desire to explore further TI’s interst
and no additional discussions are
currently planned,” a Texas Interna
tional spokesman said.
Texas International Vice Presi
dent Jim O’Donnell said the
Houston-based regional carrier had
acquired stock or other interest in
TWA’s parent company, Trans
World Corp., but he declined to
disclose the nature of the invest
ment.
The airline serving the Sun Belt
and Mexico in June 1978 started at
14-month-long contest with Pan
American World Airways and East
ern Airlines for control of National
Airlines. Pan Am won the contest
July 28.
Texas International, which ulti
mately acquired 25 percent of Na
tional’s stock, agreed to sell Pan Am
its shares in two installments for
$108 million.
The second installment has not
yet received final approval, but
Texas International expects a $46.5
million profit.
United Press International
HOUSTON — “Jane Doe,” 19
and single, and “Jane Woe,” 22,
married but with no desire to in
crease the size of her femily, will
proceed with abortions delayed by a
guardianship fight for their fetuses,
an ACLU lawyer said Thursday.
“Doe and Woe are now free to
exercise their constitutional rights
to freedom of choice and I assume
they’ll be able to make the judg
ment without fear of intervention by
the state,” said Matthew Horowitz.
“They made firm decisions that
they intended to terminate their
pregnancies and either they have or
they will.”
He said the ACLU also will pro
ceed with its efforts to have the
state’s temporary guardianship law
— written in 1911 and last amended
in 1955 — declared unconstitu
tional.
Horowitz said the efforts of Hous
ton anti-abortionists to block Doe
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State briefs
Houston submits plans for districting
United Press International
HOUSTON — The City Council has approved proposed bound
aries for new council districts, creation of which was forced by the
Justice Department, and the city attorney Friday will present the
plan in Washington for federal approval.
The Council acted Wednesday on a consultant-drafted plan that, if
approved by the Justice Department, would create two black major
ity districts and one Mexican-American majority district among nine
single-member districts.
Five other council members would be elected at large and the
mayor would retain a vote.
White to act soon on SEDCO petition
AUSTIN — Attorney General Mark White, with the encourage
ment of a Texas congressman, says he will have to act quickly to
rectify SEDCO’s “tragic mistake” in filing a petition to limit its liabil
ity from the world’s largest oil spill.
SEDCO, whose founder, Gov. Bill Clements, has placed his com
pany stock in a trust, this week moved in federal court to consolidate
any possible damage suits and limit damage awards to $300,000. The
company owned the $20 million rig leased by a Mexican firm to drill
the Bay of Campeche well that blew out 14 weeks ago and sent oil
washing up on Texas beaches.
White said Wednesday the state would be barred from suing
SEDCO unless it files a claim by Oct. 23 or wins a ruling from a
federal judge to extend the deadline.
White said the SEDCO move was the type of action Clements has
been cautioning against in public.
Dallas-to-New-Orleans air traffic re-routed
DALLAS — The Civil Aeronautics Board Thursday instructed its
stafi to prepare an order allowing Southwest Airlines to fly interstate
routes into Dallas’ Love Field.
Southwest’s Dallas-to-New Orleans traffic currently must go
through Houston and Southwest Board Chairman Herbert D. Kel-
leher said the new route would greatly ease the Houston-New Or
leans traffic.
“Our Houston-New Orleans service has, in a few short months,
doubled the size of that market to over 800,000 passengers per year,”
he said. “Our one-way, unrestricted pleasure class fare, available
evenings and weekends, will be $35 and Dallas residents will save
millions of dollars in airfares and ground transportation by being able
to use Love Field.
Connally bank friends
under investigation
United Press International
DALLAS — Government officials
are probing seven national bank
charters granted friends of Republi
can presidential candidate John
Connally during his service in the
Nixon administration. The Dallas
Morning News reported today.
The newspaper said a source with
the Senate Banking Committee said
several charters were given special
treatment by the comptroller of cur
rency, William B. Camp, between
1970 and 1973 — against advice
from the comptroller staff.
Four of the charters for Texas
banks were granted while Camp’s
office was under the jurisdiction of
Connally when he served as treas
ury secretary from 1971 to 1972.
The other three came out when
Connally was a member of Nixon’s
Advisory Council on Executive Or
ganization.
The committee began investigat
ing to determine if Connally influ
enced the issue of charters when it
was noticed the charters were
granted to Connally associates de
spite negative staff reccomenda-
tions, the News reported.
The charters being studied were
issued to Love Field National Bank
of Dallas in 1972, Chevy Chase Na
tional Bank in Austin in 1971,
Guaranty National Bank in Houston
in 1970, Metropolitan National
Bank in Houston in 1972, Peoples
National Bank in Houston in 1970,
First National Bank of Round Rock
in 1972 and Meadowbrook National
Bank in Fort Worth in 1973.
An aide traveling with Connally
in Ohio denied the one-time Demo
cratic Texas governor influenced the
charter decisions.
and Woe from the surgical proce
dure reflected genuine philosophi
cal concerns, but resulted in an
abuse of the judicial system and a
threat to the physical and emotional
health of the women, 10 and 12
weeks pregnant, respectively.
A Probate Court judge Wednes
day dissolved the temporary guard
ianship he had granted anti
abortionist Eileen Brady to the fetus
of Jane Doe and hours later a Dis
trict Court judge said Brady had no
standing to block the abortion as she
had sought in a separate suit.
Horowitz and the local director of
the Planned Parenthood office said
the referraf to anti-abortionists of
Jane Doe’s request for information
about where she might obtain a safe
abortion constituted a breach of the
confidentiality to which she was
entitled and expected.
“The issue was not whether abor
tion is morally right or morally
wrong,” Horowitz said. “The issue
all along was whether women,
under the Constitution, are entitled
to freedom of choice in reproductive
matters and the final decision in
matters concerning their own
bodies and we reaftirmed the 1973
Supreme Court ruling yesterday.”
Amarillo chief
seeks curb
on prostitution
United Press International
AMARILLO — This Panhandle
city’s police chief has asked city
commissioners for help in curbing
prostitution along a neon-lighted
stretch where streetwalkers earn up
to an estimated $50,000 tax-free
each year.
Chief Lee Spradlin said the pros
titutes, who work a five-to-six block
area, near the central business dis
trict, are treated “like racehorses”
by crime syndicate members.
Spradlin made the comments
Tuesday during a pre-session meet
ing with city commissioners.
In recent weeks^; Spradlin re-'"'
ported, Amarillo police officers have
slowed the prostitution that usually
flourishes along Amarillo
Boulevard. But Spradlin said the
success has been at the expense of
other police functions.
“It’s up to the city manager and
the commission. If they want more
enforcement than they are getting,
then they will have to provide the
funds,” Spradlin said.
The chief said he had requested
four additional men, but apparently
would be given only one by com
missioners eager to please a tax/
weary community.
Spradlin said prostitutes from
“Los Angeles and Lubbock and you
name it” flock to Amarillo to earn
$10 to $100 a trick.
Mayor Jerry Hodge said he has
noticed streetwalkers on the
“boulevard” at all hours of the day,
adding the problem “is so bad that
they come out while you drive down
the boulevard in the daytime and so
licit business.”
Rate hike hinted
for mortgages
United Press International
AUSTIN — There are reports
Gov. Bill Clements may ask a spe
cial session of the Legislature to
raise the state’s interest ceiling on
home mortgage loans again because
the lift to 12 percent has not helped
home financing, a House committee
chairman says.
“He (Clements) hasn’t said it pub
licly, but I talked to some people he
has talked to, and they said he was
saying that,” Rep. Jerry Donaldson,
D-Gatesville, chairman of the
House Financial Institutions Com
mittee and House sponsor of legisla
tion abolishing the old 10 percent
ceiling, told reporters Wednesday.
Donaldson’s legislation allowing
the old ceiling to float up to 12 per
cent is not sufficient to enable Texas
lenders to acquire money on the na
tional market to finance home con
struction in the state, the lawmaker
said.
He said that as a result Clements
may ask the Legislature during a
proposed special session to raise the
ceiling higher, and that “... if the
money market certificates are still
over 10 percent and the prime rate
is at 13 or 13.5 percent, it might be
something we would want to look
at.”
“What it boils down to is, with the
law we passed we re still out of the
secondary money market,’
Donaldson said.
Rep. Stan Schleuter, D-Salado,
suggested to a meeting of the Fi
nancial Institutions Committee that
the interest ceiling on home mortg
age loans be abolished or allowed to
float with no upper limits.
“I think that’s the only way we re
ever going to solve this problem,”
Schleuter said.
Donaldson said he believes the
state constitution forbids abolishing
the ceiling without the approval of
voters.
He asked the committee staff to
immediately begin preparing infor
mation on mortgage loan rates and
the status of the money market in
Texas.
Donaldson said he does not look
forward to another legislative battle
concerning the interest rate issue.
The law passed this year sets the
interest ceiling at 2 percent higher
than the interest rate on 10-year
Treasury Bonds, up to a maximum
of 12 percent. And legislators
provided that the state will revert to
the 10 percent limit in 1981 unless
the Legislature again votes for a
higher ceiling.
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