THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1979
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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.
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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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United Press International
HOUSTON — White and
black assistants to a federal judge
have filed suit accusing a dis
cotheque of racial discrimination
in refusing to admit them.
Charles K. Barber and Arthur
H. Bryant, both 25, who work for
U.S. District Judge Gabrielle
McDonald, charge The Ritz disco
violated their rights Nov. 2 by
turning them away for failure to
have membership cards.
“The real reason was that plain
tiff Barber is black,” Bryant said.
According to the lawsuit, a
doorman told them they could
not be admitted on Friday or
Saturday nights without a mem
bership card, but the lawsuit said
other persons who arrived with
out cards were admitted.
“The entire incident angered
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TRILOGY: PART I
THE EIGHT
First of Three Art Exhibitions
From the collection of J. W. Runyon, Jr. '35
Public Opening and Reception
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First Floor, Sterling C. Evans Library
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rate in celebration of the dedication of the Sterling C. Evans Library.
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