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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1979
Lawyer faces
sentencing in
heroin conviction
United Press International
EL PASO — An attorney con
victed on four counts of heroin pos
session will be sentenced this week
in federal court.
A jury deliberated four hours on
Oct. 19 before convicting lawyer
Joseph Ray Sr. of the narcotics
charge. The conviction could carry a
maximum 19-year prison sentence
and $25,000 fine.
U.S. District Judge William Ses
sions is scheduled to pronounce the
punishment at a court session
Friday.
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shop quartet from the Singing Cadets, and the All-Class Quar
tet. First place in the sorority category went to Kappa Alpha
Theta, Sigma Phi Epilson won first in the fraternity competi
tion and first in the mixed competition went to Sigma Chi and
their little sisters. Battalion photo by Lynn Blanco
extbooks approved
United Press International
AUSTIN — The State Board of
education has approved new tex-
pooks for Texas public school stu
dents at a cost of $6.8 million, but
equested that a paragraph dealing
vith homosexuality be deleted from
i health book.
State school officials adopted the
lew textbooks in six subject areas
Saturday, voting to delete from
tfii “Health and Safety for You” a para
graph asserting homosexuality is not
mental disorder.
Mary Ann Leveridge, chairman of
the textbook committee, said the
committee thought sufficient evi
dence was unavailable to prove
whether homosexuality was a mental
lisorder.
“We have no objections to the
subject of the book, just that para
graph,” she said.
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uality is not a mental disorder but is
another, less common kind of sex
uality.”
The board also recommended five
civil government textbooks that
Leveridge said might make the sub
ject more stimulating for high school
students.
“Most students learn about gov
ernment through television. We
want to make government less dry
that it has been, and more interest
ing for the students,” she said.
The board also named a special
committee to help the Texas Educa
tion Agency identify and evaluate
challenges faced by urban area
school districts.
The committee and TEA will con
duct a five-month study on the impli
cations of federal court orders deal
ing with the education of minority
students.
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Ship owners sued over
Galveston collision
United Press International
GALVESTON — The owners of the crude oil leaking from a burning
tanker in the Gulf of Mexico have filed a $10 million suit against the
owners of the tanker and the freighter with which it collided, claiming
both vessels were unseaworthy.
Crowncen International N.V. filed the suit in Houston against the
owners and operators of the tanker Burmah Agate and the freighter
Mimosa, which collided before dawn Nov. 1, killing 32 crewmen.
Named in the suit, filed Friday, were Allseas Maritime S.A., Con
solidated Maritime and New Energy Shipping Ltd. for the Burmah
Agate and Juniper Shipping Ltd. and World-wide Shipping Agency
Ltd. for the Mimosa.
Coast Guard spokesman Richard Griggs said a firefighting tug, aided
by subsiding winds and seas, managed to pull alongside the crippled
tanker early Saturday and spray water over the burning ship to begin
cooling it enough to allow chemical firefighting attempts later.
“There was another explosion last night, so there is still the possibil
ity of more damage (to the ship) and more oil spilling. It’s like what we
learned from the Mexican oil spill (Ixtoc I) — conditions change each
day,” Griggs said.
Griggs, who expects more oil leakage, said officials were planning to
install more oil containment booms near the ship. Two booms already
were installed on one side of the vessel, and additional booms were to
be placed on the opposite side, to help catch some of the oil before it
washed onto the Texas shore.
The owners and operators of the tanker filed a $10 million damage
suit Thursday against the owners and operators of the freighter, blam
ing the Mimosa for the accident because of “negligence in navigation.
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ALPHA ZETA SMOKED
TURKEY SALES
AZ, the National Agricultural Honor and Service Society, is selling Smoked
Turkeys to raise money for student scholarships and community service
projects.
To order your Thanksgiving or Christmas Turkey call:
845-7616 7-10 p.m. Mon.-Thurs. 8-14 lb. range.
$1.50 per lb. Delivered to you!
We re giving "
away a book
that's truly
inspirational.
Need a decorating idea? We have a good book
to recommend. Accents for Living. It's packed
with ideas for sprucing up the house. And with every
room we show you how a phone fits in.
You'll read about tricks with fabric, storage ideas,
making space, mixing and matching patterns and
even stenciling the floor to match the wallpaper.
What's more, for every room from the sewing to the
living room to the library, you can pick out a phone
to pick up the scheme.
But the best thing about this book is that
mmmmm*. it's not for sale. You can pick it up for ab
solutely nothing at your GTE Phone Mart.
ut a new Phone in your life.
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