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Vol. 73 No. 93 Monday, February 4, 1980 USPS 045 360
14 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
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ity law curtails
A&M ambulance
By BECKY SWANSON
City Staff
The phone rings at the University ambu
lance squad room in the basement of the
Beutel Health Center.
Q “University ambulance.”
“Hello, this is Cheryl at Treehouse,
number 64,” an urgent voice said, “My
roommate slipped in the shower and hit
her head on the tub — she’s out cold and
1 there’s blood coming from her nose and
r ears.”
“I’m sorry, Cheryl, but were not
allowed to answer calls in College Station, ”
^ the squad leader said, “We ll call the Col
lege Station ambulance for you. Just cover
your roommate with a blanket and don’t try
to move her — the city ambulance will be
there in a few minutes.”
This is typical of the calls received by the
University ambulance service — and of the
response given to off-campus students.
In a classic struggle for power and
money, the city of College Station seems to
have won the first round, leaving off-
campus students caught between the
proverbial rock and hard spot.
A new city ordinance and a policy de
veloped by the College Station Fire De
partment — after the Texas A&M Univer
sity health center bought and staffed its
ambulance to provide free emergency
medical and transportation service to all
students — prohibits the university ambu
lance from servicing off-campus students
who are residents of College Station.
Fire department officials say the Univer
sity is eligible to apply for a permit to oper
ate in the city, but the final “OK” must
come from the city council.
However, the prospect of the health cen
ter receiving a permit doesn’t look good,
judging from comments made by several
city councilmen who are adamant about not
letting “hot rodders” “play EMT” in “our
city.”
A Bryan Fire Department official sum
med up his department’s policy toward the
university ambulance this way: “We re not
haggling over who picks up the patient, . . .
because if we did that then we’d be playing
politics with someone else’s life.”
Bryan officials have welcomed the uni
versity ambulance to serve students in
their city in any capacity, offering full
cooperation and all help necessary to aid
the new service.
Officials of student health services and
the College Station Fire Department have
agreed on a policy which prohibits the uni
versity ambulance from answering
emergency calls to off-campus students.
Dr. Claude Goswick, director of student
health services, said he met with the ambu
lance coordinators from Bryan, College
Station and the Texas A&M Emergency
Care Team (TAMECT) last summer to dis
cuss the purchase of the health center’s
new ambulance.
Steve Borron, TAMECT squad leader
and acting ambulance coordinator for the
university, said the first meeting was held
to discuss the equipment and staffing for
the new ambidance. No problems or pro
tests from College Station officials were
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Andy Schwaller, Martha Chapa and Brian Willis (1-r), emergency medical equipment on the ambulance for emergency service.
technicians for the A.P. Beutel Health Center, prepare emergency Staff photo by Cindy Colvin
Prosecutors prepare evidence for probe
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors
are expected to begin presenting evidence
soon to grand juries in four cities on a still
growing public corruption scandal in whiclr
eight members of Congress and more than
20 other public officials are under investi
gation, well-informed sources say.
The sources said some phases of the two-
year investigation have not been com
pleted and the money involved, nearly
$700,000, is still being traced, suggesting
others may be implicated in the biggest
corruption probe since Watergate.
Indictments are not expected to be
sought during February because of the in
vestigative work still to be done, one
source said. In the meantime, authorities
will begin providing evidence to grand
juries in New York, Washington, Newark
and Philadelphia.
One senator and seven members of the
House of Representatives were identified
as targets of the FBI investigation in which
public officials were observed or photo
graphed accepting bribes, often in $50,000
amounts.
Sources said the congressmen were
“very business like” at meetings where
money changed hands; some put the cash
in their pockets, some in briefcases and
some in paper bags.
But one member of Congress was caught
by a hidden movie camera nervously stuf
fing $50,000 in his pockets.
Turning to FBI undercover agents, pos
ing as representatives of a favor-seeking
Arab sheik, the congressman asked
“whether anybody could see any of the
money” sticking out of his clothes, sources
said.
Among those under investigation are
Sen. Harrison Williams Jr., D-N.J.; and
Reps. John Jenrette Jr., D-S.C., Richard
Kelly, R-Fla., John Murphy, D-N.Y.,
Frank Thompson Jr., D-N.J., and three
Pennsylvania Democrats, Raymond Led-
erer, Michael Myers and John Murtha.
Sources said the cases against Kelly, Jen
rette and possibly other congressmen
Arizona offers aid
to New Mexico
United Press International
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Gov. Bruce
Babbitt says the Arizona State Peniten
tiary could house up to 40 maximum
security prisoners displaced by the
bloody weekend uprising at the New
Mexico State Penitentiary.
Babbitt told reporters late Sunday he
had offered assistance to New Mexico
Gov. Bruce King.
“I told him I thought we could try and
help him, Babbitt said. “We have a
new cellblock coming up. New Mexico
is a good neighbor. When we can help
them and be consistent with our own
needs, we are glad to.”
Ellis MacDougall, Arizona’s director
of corrections, told Babbitt there would
be room for about 40 prisoners from
New Mexico because of a new 200-cell
block that is opening at the Arizona
State Penitentiary in Florence, about 50
miles south of Phoenix.
The governor said he would know
“within one or two days’ whether the
prisoners would be shipped to Arizona.
The transfer of prisoners between states
“is relatively routine,” he said.
He said New Meixco would pay for
the transfer and maintenance of its pris
oners, who are camped outside their
gutted cellblocks in frigid tempera
tures.
Inmate recalls riot
United Press International
SANTA FE, N.M. — A inmate who
called himself fortunate to have sur
vived one of the nation’s worst prison
uprisings said he was repeatedly raped
and beaten by the ringleaders of the
36-hour ordeal.
“I’m in shock,” said Robert Mosley,
21. “When this thing started, people
just turned into animals. I’m lucky to be
here."
. Mosley, visibly shaken by the inci
dent, said he was awakened early Satur
day morning by the clamor of a group of
inmates who seized two guards during a
routine bed check. A short time later,
he said, the ringleaders came to his floor
and dragged him and his cellmates from
their cell.
“They put hoods over my head and
bound my arms with strips of cloth,” he
said. “They tied me in a fetal position. ”
Mosley said at least 10 inmates sex
ually assaulted him and he also suffered
a sprained knee and cuts during the
attacks by ringleaders of the uprising.
“They picked on us because of our age
and physical build,” he said.
Mosley finally managed to escape by
working loose the cloth around his
arms, then rubbing it against a railing.
when State Police SWAT teams and
National Guardsmen finally mounted
their siege Sunday to regain control of
the institution, Mosley said, he wan
dered around inside the building for
about 15 minutes.
He said when police finally found
him, “one of them almost shot me.”
Hostages who were taken to St. Vin
cent’s hospital in Santa Fe after their
release refused to talk to reporters.
“We re under orders not to talk and as
long as I’m an employee of this prison
system, I’ll obey that order,” said guard
Elton Correy.
The wife of another, Capt. Gregorio
Roybal, hung up on a reporter who
attempted to talk to her husband.
would be considered in Washington, with
prosecutors in New York and Newark
handling evidence against the remaining
members of Congress.
Sources said neither Williams nor
Murtha actually accepted any bribe money
and some of the other congressmen may
have taken bribes indirectly -— through
aides or other intermediaries.
But all eight members under investiga
tion made some agreement to trade their
influence to the bribe-paying undercover
agents, sources said.
At least four of the congressmen were
introduced to the undercover agents by
Howard Criden, a Philadelphia lawyer and
former state prosecutor, the sources said.
Criden, who arranged some of the pay
ments in return for supposed congressional
influence on immigration matters, began
cooperating with federal investigators on
Saturday when confronted with the evi
dence against him.
Most of the payoffs to congressmen
occured in 1979 but one was made as re
cently as January, sources said.
Williams issued a statement Sunday
saying he had retained a lawyer and would
not comment further. Jenrette, Thomp
son, Kelly and Murtha denied taking
bribes; the others could not be reached for
comment.
Republican officials, noting that seven of
the eight congressmen were Democrats,
promptly called for an investigation by con
gressional ethics committees.
‘We laid out the red carpet’
United Press International
BIG SPRING, Texas — Leroy Tillery
didn’t invite a Utah-based movie company
to this west Texas town, but he knew what
to do once it arrived.
“We laid out the red carpet for them,”
said Tillery, recently hired, as executive
vice president of the Big Spring Chamber
of Commerce.
The story began a few weeks back when
Chuck Sellier, executive producer of
SchickSunn Classic Productions Inc. of Salt
Lake City, drove through Big Spring en
route to Harlingen, Texas, on a trip to in
spect abandoned air bases.
The veteran movie and television pro
ducer had virtually narrowed his choice to
Harlingen or Las Cruces, N.M., as sites for
a film tentatively titled “Hangar 18.”
The film, about two American astronauts
whose craft collides with a UFO, requires
an abandoned air base because the script
calls for the UFO to be taken to a hangar for
secret inspection by NASA scientists.
“We came here and it was just a fluke,”
said publicity man Rej Jackson. “One per
son said, T remember my cousin saying
there was an air base at Big Spring, Texas.
We just didn’t want to count it out. ”
What they found was Big Spring Indust
rial Park, which until its closure in Septem
ber 1977 was Webb Air Force Base.
By AMY DAVIS
Campus Reporter
If mother nature permits, the expansion
of G. Rollie White Coliseum should be
ready for use by the beginning of the fall
semester, said Dr. Leonard Ponder, head
of the Health and Physical Education de
partment.
The addition, which will be partly three
and partly four-stories, will connect with
the Kyle Field expansion and will double
the current space used by the department.
Ponder said the addition is “a tremen
dous outlay and more than sorely needed.
As of now, people are stashed in nooks and
crannies.”
For instance, the woman’s locker room
has been lacking in space for a number of
years. The addition will more than double
the existing space and will also add a faculty
dressing area, he said.
Administrative offices will also receive
“This air base was really quite spooky,”
Jackson said. “We were able to walk
through buildings. The furniture was still
in place. Names were still on the chalk
board. Chuck fell in Tove with it.
“We totally scoured the place and it
came up 100 percent. And these people are
just wonderful. They just bent over back
ward.’
The city provided motel and apartment
accommodations, helped with some of the
labor at the air base and rented the facility
to the movie company for $20,000.
Several residents and more than 800
people from as far away as New Mexico
have signed up to be extras. Eventually,
more than 3,000 extras — who will each
receive $25 for a nine-hour day — may be
used in the film.
Like all the movies produced by Schick
Sunn Productions (which grossed nearly
$40 million in 1979), the film will be G-
rated. It is budgeted at just over $3 million,
a small amount as modern productions go,
but Leroy Tiller isn’t complaining.
“That’s $3 million of new money that
somebody else is bringing to town and
dropping off here,” he said. “It’s kinda like
tourist dollars; ids made somewhere else,
brought into your town and dropped off.
Everybody gets a piece of it.”
Although the film script is being rewrit-
some relief from the “crunch,” Ponder
said. There will be new space for the intra
mural office complex and the Required
Physical Education department.
Health Education is a fairly new depart
ment here, he said. It concentrates on
maintaining a healthy body by techniques
learned in the classroom.
“They have had nothing,” he said. “The
classes have been held in hallways and
closets.”
The expansion will give that department
three classrooms, three seminar rooms and
a lecture ampitheater, he said.
“This will allow us to offer more sections
of classes that we desperately need more
of,” he said.
Ponder said the laboratory complex,
housing the human performance, motor
behavior and mechanical analysis labor
atories, will be updated and vastly im
proved, and when finished, will “rival any
ten and the starring roles have not been
cast, film director Henning Schellerup, a
native of Denmark, is expected to begin
shooting in mid to late February.
Schellerup will be backed by a crew of
about 55 people whose average age is 29,
Jackson said, and expects to finish shooting
by May.
An art director already has painted a
large “18” on the side of a hangar and the
paint has been aged to match the structure.
Jackson flew in recently and was captivated
by the work.
“I almost got whiplash when I saw the
‘18’ on the building,” he said. “I didn’t
know it had been done. It fit in beautifully.
For movie people, we’ve died and gone to
heaven.”
First Lady Rosalynn Carter has come out
strongly in favor of registration of women
along with men. White House aides indi
cated that Carter may take the same stand.
A group of 300 Democratic women sup
porters who met with Carter Saturday later
voted overwhelmingly by a show of hands
in favor of registering women. But sam
plings of Republican women indicate they
are opposed to the move.
— Almanac
United Press International
Today is Monday, Feb. 4, the 35th
day of 1980 with 331 to follow.
The moon is moving toward its last
quarter.
The morning stars are Mars, Jupiter
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercury and
Venus.
Those born on this date are under the
sign of Aquarius.
Famed American trans-Atlantic flyer
Charles A. Lindbergh was born Feb. 4,
1902. Actress Ida Lupino was born on
this date in 1918.
On this date in history:
In 1901, Maj. William Gorgas laun
ched a U.S. Army campaign to wipe out
yellow fever in Cuba.
In 1938, Adolf Hitler seized control of
the German army and put Nazi officers
in key posts as part of a plan which was
to cause World War II.
In 1974, Patricia Hearst 19-year-old
daughter of San Francisco publisher
Randolph Hearst was spirited away
from her apartment in Berkeley, Calif.,
by urban guerrillas.
In 1977, 11 people were killed and
nearly 200 injured when an elevated
train jumped the tract and crashed into
a street below in downtown Chicago.
A thought for the day. American au
thor Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens,
said, “Truth is the most valuable thing
we have. Let us economize it.
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G. Rollie expansion
should be ready
Carter to take stand on drafting
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Carter
says he has decided whether women
should be registered along with men for the
military draft, but he has not disclosed his
decision.
Carter was expected to make his views
known early this week, perhaps when he
meets with Democratic congressional lead
ers Tuesday morning. Speaker Thomas
O’Neill already has said the House will not
pass legislation requiring the registration of
women.
The president told reporters he made a
decision on female registration when he
and his wife returned to the White House
Sunday evening from a weekend at Camp
David.
by fall
in the country.”
New recreational facilities will include
14 handball/racquetball courts, two large
multi-purpose rooms for activities such as
fencing, figure control and wrestling, and a
dance studio.
Five more basketball courts will also be
added, some of them will be used for vol
leyball and other games when they are not
being used for basketball, he said.
“I think for the first time we are going to
be able to have facilities open for students
to just walk in and use. Right now, they are
used to the hilt and from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m.
there is hardly a room that is not in use,”
Ponder said.
Ponder said the construction is still on
the most current schedule, and he is anti
cipating a completion by the middle of
July. “We will use the summer to make the
massive move and then begin use in the
fall.”