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THE BATTALION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1979 Page 5 the state S'dalm seas aid crude Wl spill cleanup in Gulf Texas s desii institution 'vartzVll reofPt'f ! same 'rtionofil <‘cd fundi ion pnjj; (ions «it| sity Systd mtor app!, msly inj - the T resoutj (H)O-sqiij Iveston it comni ngo, tie n that into the Pi md,” he does $t will be to provii d instilut Welt )al can: itinuedh d positi ate sehtil loodyM i the hi were I VlU-Cahi r\l Ejetj ■ Freera, of the Til sitors. f the sd nmittee,] r, the preside*! United Press International GALVESTON — Calmer seas enabled anti pollution equipment working around a burning oil tanker to pick up 25,000 gallons of spilled crude during the past two days, a Coast Guard spokesman said Wednesday. “Sea conditions have improved. They are esti mated at 2-4 feet today (Wednesday). This has en abled our skimming operation to continue and be much more effective,” a Coast Guard spokesman said. However, a 4-mile-long broken ribbon of oil that spilled from the 772-foot Burmah Agate before cleanup operations began washed ashore Tuesday near Port Mansfield Cut on southern Padre Island, ents Chi 225 miles to the southwest. “The impact was minor. The widest patch was about 10 inches,” Baker said. “Scientists have re commended no cleanup of the area, feeling cleanup would be more damaging than just allowing natural breakdown of the oil. ” It was the farthest reach of pollution since the tanker, carrying 16 million gallons of crude bound for Houston refineries, collided Nov. 1 in clear, pre dawn weather with the outbound 482-foot freighter Mimosa. Thirty-two crewmen died. A spokesman for the Liberian Bureau of Maritime Affairs in Reston, Va., said preparation continued for a formal board of inquiry into the accident 5 miles outside the entrance to Galveston Bay. Liberia is investigating the collision because it occurred outside the 3-mile limit of U. S. jurisdiction and because both ships were Liberian-registered. Liberian Investigations Chief William E. Chad wick said no date, no board and no site had been chosen for the board of inquiry. He said it likely would convene in New York City or Reston. Although the owners of the tanker have filed a $10 million suit blaming the freighter owners and oper ators for negligence in the collision, Chadwick de clined to discuss any preliminary findings. “I obviously am restrained in discussing any of the findings of fact that have developed so far, and ob viously, I would be remiss if I were to offer any opinions,” Chadwick said. Baker said the Coast Guard estimated more than one-third of the tanker’s cargo had burned or been dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. He said an esti mated 120,000 gallons had entered the water as pol lution. Some of the spilled oil had washed ashore along scattered portions of more than 250 miles of Texas beach, but Baker said most of the heavily traveled areas had been cleaned up and some oil had washed back out to sea. Austin desegregation gets Jan. 21 deadline United Press International AUSTIN — The Austin Indepen dent School District was ordered Wednesday to come up with a deseg regation plan by Dec. 17, and to have the plan implemented in city schools by Jan. 21. The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals concurred with arguments presented in Fort Worth Tuesday by the NAACP that black students have a right to immediate relief from seg regation. The court ordered the school dis trict in a longstanding suit to submit its desegregation plan to U.S. Dis trict Judge Jack Roberts and also ordered Roberts to rule on the plan by Jan. 2 and ordered “a plan to re medy constitutional violations im plemented by Jan. 21,” the begin ning of the spring semester. Superintendant Jack Davidson predicted attempting to implement any plan that soon would cause chaos in the public schools. “If a plan is submitted to the court that approaches ethnic balance in all schools, it will require the busing of at least 10,000 to 20,000 students,” Davidson said. “There is no question that there will need to be a rather extensive movement of students.” The school board had voted earlier this week to develop a plan to pre sent to Roberts by Jan. 15 to be im plemented in the fall of 1980. X) oa pool 'd 'Pank Let us babysit for you while you enjoy the gamel $7.00 package for 5 hrs. of FUN 12:30 to 5 p.m. Package includes: lunch, skating, golf, bumper cars, snacks. For information call 693-5737 OPEN 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Across from College Sta. Water Tower LOUPOT’S great bonfire Give- AWAY! Iharged with drunk driving olice chief found innocent United Press International :0RPUS CHRIST!— A jury of Ir women and two men deliber- tedan hour Wednesday to find Sel- poliee chief-city manager Henry Holland innocent of a drunken |ving charge. fielma, listed by syndicated col- nist Jack Anderson as among the [ion’s top 10 speed traps, is known The Valley of the Bears” among izen’s band operators driving |ng 1-35 between San Antonio and Istin. olland, 29, was tried in a Corpus iristi County court on a change of mue after receiving three delays Ice he was arrested on Dec. 7, p8, by police in the neighboring Antonio surburb of Live Oak. His attorney, Jimmy Parks, told the jury in final arguments Wednes day that Holland’s arrest resulted from “a bitter rivalry between the Selma and Live Oak police forces” and Holland was not drunk at the time of his arrest. Assistant District Attorney Ed Coffey argued that Holland’s de fense amounted to “nothing more than a character attack” on Gary Sel- man, the former Live Oak officer who arrested Holland in the Bexar County town. Three weeks before Selman charged Holland with driving while intoxicated, the same officer had issued Holland tickets for driving 85 mph in a 55 mph zone and failing to drive in a single lane in the city of Live Oak. Holland appealed $82 in fines. Coffey told the jurors Holland admitted on the witness stand that he drank beer before his arrest last Dec. 7. Head prosecutor Mike Sawyer asked jurors why the defense did not raise the issue of “jealousy and rival ry” between Selma and Live Oak police during testimony in the trial, which lasted one day. Sawyer said it was “sad and unfor tunate that a police chief with a long distinguished career gets arrested, ” but there was no malice or personal vendetta on the part of Live Oak authorities. 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