THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1979
Page 9
fusing expert says no
Houston seeks end to suit
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United Press International
HOUSTON — Houston Inde-
jndent School District has asked a
|ederal court to end its 23-year-old
lesegregation suit by finding the
System has done all it can to inte
grate. But a witness at a hearing has
bhallenged the claim.
An expert Monday told U.S. Dis
trict Judge Robert O’Conor Jr. in his
opinion, HISD has not tried every
nethod to achieve a fully desegre
gated school system. Dr. Gary Or-
ield cited cross-district busing as an
mtried approach.
Orfield, a University of Illinois
an Antonio
|hippie’ gang
alls cowboy
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A 15-year-old
ophomore high school student,
art of the school’s “kicker” social
lique, was kicked and beaten to
eath by members of rival gang
nown as the “Pot Heads.”
School officials Tuesday called on
[ Jense students at Holmes High
chool to go about business in a
ormal manner as police investi-
ated the gang beating and kicking
eath of a William “Billy” Barnett.
Homicide detective Joe Ooster-
een said the youth was pummeled
:o death by a group of six other
ouths after he got off the school bus
ear his home Monday, apparently
as the victim of a feud between
[ksckaxs,” at tfve school and an ot-
’^awg, Vnown as “ A'oY
i Beads.”
| Barnett was kicked and beaten by
six fellow students who had been on
the bus minutes before tbe attack
occurred about 4:30 p.m., Ooster-
veen said.
| “The only reason we know these
uys wanted to attack him is that he
art of thei |^ ,as a kicker’,” the detective said,
of Veter: -j ^ school official described a
e |Fldcker as any student who was a
by MtnbiM member of the agriculture course of
fered at Holmes, wearing boots and
other western garb.
Police said they were having
problems gathering information
about the case because those who
saw the attackers refused to aid the
investigation.
“I can understand their fear, but
if they don’t help us, we can’t help
them,” Oosterveen said.
Many students appeared shocked
as they strode into classes Tuesday,
and school officials called on the
. system ^ jpublic address system for them to
aersonaiautE 1 ’ put the previous day’s event out of
Tverfeif crf'Ihei'r minds and to go about their
Lfts usedintif normal routine,
jstries,
ss of letters fe
3. and Cerfel
at Fort Smill
the aicoM-f 0V er Post Office
desegregation expert, said the only
way to achieve full desegregation of
urban systems is to require subur
ban districts that ring the center city
to join in one desegregation plan.
“It’s the first step in integration
that reflects the real social composi
tion of an urban area, ” said Orfield,
who stopped short of specifically
recommending a cross-district plan
for HISD which he has not studied.
HISD Superintendent Billy Re
agan has said HISD has done all it
can, in view of a declining white
enrollment, to desegregate its
schools. He warned stronger mea
sures could drive remaining whites
out of public schools.
HISD attorney Joe Jamail
charged the federal government, a
plaintiff in the desegregation case,
has contributed to white departure
from the inner city by subsidizing
housing developments like The
Woodlands, north of Houston.
The community 35 miles north of
the city is a white enclave of persons
who work in Houston and “send
their children to the Conroe Inde
pendent School District,” Jamail
charged.
PUC head
okays Bell
rate hike
United Press International
AUSTIN — The charge for
coin-operated telephone calls
will jump to 25 cents, and resi
dential phone bills will increase
by $1.15 per month if the Public
Utility Commission accepts rec
ommendations of its chief hear
ing examiner.
Phil Ricketts, head of the PUC
hearings division, has recom
mended the commission grant
the phone company a $137.2 mil
lion rate increase. Ricketts pres
ided for more than a month of
testimony on Soutwestern Bell
Telephone Co.’s $145 million
rate increase proposal.
The three-man commission is
scheduled to act on the phone
rate increases Nov. 9.
Ricketts’ recommendations re
jected consumer advocates’
suggestions for holding the line
on rates for measured or so-
called “lifeline” service. He
urged the commission to raise
measured rates and the basic res
idential service charge $1.15 a
month. Southwestern Bell had
asked for a $1.55 a month in
crease.
“To make any fundamental
changes in measured service
while it is still under study would
be inappropriate,” Ricketts said.
Although he recommended
raising the rates for customers
who limit their calls to 25 or
fewer a month, Ricketts said the
measured service charge will
continue to offer a savings for
consumers who do not want to
pay regular residential service
rates.
In addition to the $1.15 per
month increase in basic residen
tial rates, Ricketts recommended
basic business service charges
increase from $3.45 a month,
rather than the $4.65 requested
by the phone company.
Ricketts said he agreed with
the company that rates for many
specialized business services
should not be increased because
of increases in those charges the
commission approved last year.
“To a certain extent they’re
being subsidized by other serv
ices,” the hearings examiner
said.
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WASHINGTON — Letter car
riers still may be at the mercy of
rain, sleet, snow and gloom of night,
but Congress is going to make sure
their indoor working conditions are
safe.
The House approved legislation
Monday to make the U.S. Postal
Service subject to the Occupational
Safety and Health Act, the same as
private businesses are.
The Committee on Post Office
and Civil Service reported the
Postal Service is ridden with job-
related injuries and illnesses. The
committee recommended passage of
the bill in order to persuade the
Postal Service to provide safer and
healthier working conditions for its
employees.
The measure now goes to the Se
nate.
Legal group claims
victory in dispute
of district plan
United Press International
ALICE — The Mexican-
American Legal Defense and Edu
cation Fund claims victory in a fed
eral suit charging Jim Wells County
violated the Voting Rights Act by
failing to submit a 1975 reappor
tionment plan to the Department of
Justice for review.
MALDEF officials in San Antonio
said they would monitor any future
redistricting in the South Texas
county to ensure it is fair to minority
voters.
Soviet scientists
work at NASA
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HOUSTON — A group of space
scientists from the Soviet Union ar
rived at Johnson Space Center
Monday to begin 10 days of meet
ings with their American counter
parts.
A spokesman said the 10th meet
ing of the Joint Working Group on
Space Biology would cover biomed
ical results of recent space flights,
results of ground-based studies and
planning of future experiments.
The groups — the result of the
U.S.-U.S.S.R. Space Cooperation -
Agreement of May 24, 1972 — are
led by Dr. Nikolay N. Gurovsky,
Soviet minister of health, and NA
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