The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 112 Friday, February 29, 1980 DSPS 045 360
10 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
4&M may increase price of traffic fines
By CAROL HANCOCK
Campus Staff
/iolators of Texas A&M University traf-
regulations might pay an additional $5-
) for moving and parking offenses next
lestcr.
fhe University Traffic Panel approved a
tion calling for an increase in fines for
king violations from $5 to $10, and an
rease in moving violation fines from $10
S20 An additional fee for failing to pay
bin 10 days will remain at $5.
Jefore becoming policy, the motion
must be approved by Dr. John Koldus, vice
president for student services. Dan Parker,
assistant to the dean of the College of Li
beral Arts and chairman of the panel, said
Koldus has informally said he will approve
the proposal. The motion may also have to
go through the Board of Regents, Parker
said.
The idea of a penalty fee increase came
up during the 19-member panel’s annual
amendment of the University motor vehi
cle regulations. It was passed with the
approval of all but two of the panel’s mem
ber’s. Those two were student representa
tives. Thomas Parsons, director of security
and traffic for the University Police, ab
stained from the vote.
A new limit of four parking and two mov
ing violations is also included in the new
proposal. After the limit, recipients of
violations face the possiblity of having their
permit revoked and may be prohibited
from driving a vehicle on campus for the
remainder of the year. The current limit is
six offenses for a parking and four for
moving.
Parker said there is still some discussion
over the double-ticketing policy for cars
without permits. The present proposal will
do away with the policy but it could be
amended if the proposal were to be
approved.
Money from the increased fines will
probably go toward parking lot construc
tion and ground maintenance, Parker said.
All money taken in from tickets goes into
the Parking Facilities Reserve Account.
Forty percent of the police department’s
operating budget comes from the account.
A reduction in the number of violators
will probably be the biggest benefit of the
increased penalty fee, Parker said. “The
current fees are obviously not a deterrent, ”
he said.
Parker said he did not understand why
there has been so much debate over the
increased fees. The only people hurt by the
increase will be the violators, he said.
Steve Hawrylak, a representative on the
panel for the Residence Hall Association,
said he looked at the proposal’s long-run
effects. He said he thought it would be to
the benefit of the students he represents,
the on-campus residents.
If the increased revenue from tickets
would go towards street and parking lot
maintenance, Hawrylak said, both stu
dents and faculty will be better off. The
increase could possibly help solve the bicy
cle problem by providing funds for more
bike lanes and by discouraging motorists
from parking in the lanes, he said.
Parker said a similar motion passed the
panel last year but was not approved. There
has not been an increase in traffic violation
fines since 1973.
>i7 reserve system
'an sustain U.S.
H United Press International
WASHINGTON —The Energy Depart-
:n| pumped 300,000 barrels of crude oil
m its much-maligned strategic reserve
ufsclay to prove America can count on
s stockpile in case of a major supply inter-
ition.
Ruth Davis, an assistant energy secret-
', told reporters the oil was pumped from
derground reserve storage at West
ickberry, La., to a terminal 43 miles
ay in Nederland, Texas, at what would
lount to a daily rate of450,000 to 500,000
rrels.
She said the unscheduled test of reserve
fraction was declared a success Thurs-
■ter 15 hours of sustained pumping,
he agency s management of the strate-
; reserve was criticized last spring during
p gasoline shortage when Congress
Bed that pumping capability did not
jsl to recover the imported crude that
dibeen stockpiled in three underground
positories.
‘The significance is that this was an un-
nounced drill — a testing of the with-
awal capacity,” said Jim Griffin, an agen-
i spokesman. “We wanted to make sure
glsystem works and so far it has. No
oblem.”
Fred Appel, the agency official dealing
directly with the reserve, called the test
“surprisingly successful.”
Since last September, the Energy De
partment has had capability to extract a bit
more than 1 million barrels of oil a day from
West Hackberry and the other two reposi
tories at Bayou Choctaw, La., and Bryan
Mound, Texas.
Prior to September, Griffin said, an in
terim pumping system hastily installed in
June 1979 was capable of withdrawing re
serve oil at a rate of 275,000 barrels a day.
Stockpiling of imported crude oil in the
reserve has been stalled for political and
economic reasons at 91.7 million barrels —
although Congress had set a 1 billion barrel
target when it ordered the reserve created
in 1975.
The administration’s fiscal 1981 budget
earmarks money to begin raising reserve
levels to 750 million barrels.
Griffin said two more potential under
ground repositories are being considered
to handle the contemplated expansion.
West Hackberry currently holds 29.5
million barrels of crude oil, with the rest
stored at the other two sites.
The current reserve could meet Amer
ica’s oil needs for about three months in an
emergency, provided oil imports did not
fall by more than 1 million barrels.
prices
10 cents in
to rise
year
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Americans can
•act for a 30-cent jump in the price of
ISoline and a 21-cent hike in home heating
1 prices by this time next year, says a
reliminary forecast prepared by Energy
department economists.
The 207-page draft study, obtained from
le agency’s Energy Information Adminis-
ation this week, forecasts regular leaded
asoline selling for as much as $1.52 a gal-
m and heating oil going for $ 1.14 a gallon
i the first quarter of 1981.
Current retail prices were estimated at
1.22 maximum for regular gas and 92.3
ents maximum for heating oil.
; Despite record world crude oil stock-
B, a sluggish economy and conserva
tion, the draft “Short-term Energy Out
look” said higher crude oil prices and larger
gross margins for refiners and supply mid
dlemen would continue to lift petroleum
products prices.
The authors said they assumed reces
sionary conditions for 1980 even though the
country’s anticipated economic slump so
far has failed to materialize.
The study projected that residential
natural gas prices could rise to as much as
$4.19 per 1,000 cubic feet by 1981, up from
a current maximum estimate of $3.78.
Residential electric bills were projected
to rise to 6.4 cents per kilowatt hour by
April 1981. The study had estimated the
current maximum price at 5.51 cents.
Sergeant files lawsuit against
Houston police chief Caldwell
United Press International
HOUSTON — A police sergeant has
lid a $40,000 lawsuit accusing the chief of
Bating his rights and depriving him of
!l;000-a-month in income from off-duty
imployment.
Sgt. D.D. Baker said in the federal court
>uit filed Thursday that Chief Harry Cald
well reinstated him after a brief suspension
||the condition that he hold no off-duty
work. Baker said off-duty jobs earned him
ibout $1,000 a month.
^ Bakerwasrelievedofduty April 11, 1978
after the arrest of his friend, then assistant
kr chief Carrol Lynn on extortion, obstruction
of justice and perjury charges. Baker was
returned to duty Jan. 2, 1979.
Baker said a reinstatement letter from
the chief showed Caldwell ordered Baker
to duty in the prisoners’ compound.
Caldwell also ordered Baker to operate
no city vehicles, use no city telephones for
personal business, handle no police files,
spread no rumors, and not to leave his post
for more than a 30 minutes at lunch, Baker
said.
Baker further charged two performance
rating reports by Caldwell unfairly low
rated him and caused him “embarrassment
and humiliation.”
Class of 1980 will dedicate
Twelfth Man statue Saturday
By MICHELLE MORREY
Campus Reporter
The origin of the Twelfth Man tradi-
on at Texas A&M University will be
celebrated Saturday morning when the
lass of 1980 will dedicate its gift to the
illniversity.
I A life-size statue of E. King Gill will
; be unveiled behind the Aggie Club
building north of Kyle Field.
On Jan. 22, 1922, during a post-
eason game, Gill was called from the
lands to help the football team, which
as slowly defeating national champion
entre College. Gill was a football play-
r during the regular season but had
uit to join the basketball team. He nev
er entered the game but when it was
over, he was the only player standing
along the sidelines. Since that time.
Aggies have stood at football games to
symbolize their support for the team.
The Class of ’80 gift committee
wanted to donate a statue or a memorial
symbolic of Aggie spirit. When Gill died
during the summer of 1978, they de
cided a statue in his honor would be
appropriate, said Paul Gulig, commit
tee chairman.
Gulig said the project cost $22,000.
Money has been raised by selling T-
shirts and having class balls, Mark Mur
phy, class president said.
The dedication will be at 9:30 a.m.
Saturday. Clyde H. Wells, chairman of
the Board of Regents, and Texas A&M
President Jarvis Miller will attend.
Gill’s niece, Mrs. C.D. Nichols, his
closest surviving relative, will unveil
the statue.
The Wall’s wall
every Tex a ^ xTvr 1 u c °W ect i on newspaper clippings from
emeritus ; ^7 „ as ^ et l>all game this year. Hensarling, a professor
thoiisandc n r * e 8 e °f Educational Administration, will be one of
° exas A&M fans awaiting the outcome of the Southwest
Conference post-season tournament. The Aggies begin play tonight
against Texas Tech. The winner goes to the finals for an opportunity to
advance to the NCAA national tournament. More sports on pages 13 and
Staff photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
The age of butterfly power
arrives on the SS Pussiewillow
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The age of butterfly
power will arrive at the National Air and
Space Museum in March with the first pub
lic exhibition of a droll new astro-
contraption named SS Pussiewillow II.
The handiwork of British inventor-
sculptor Rowland Emett, the unique
machine has the distinction of not being
billed as the answer to the world’s energy
problems.
It exists simply as a reminder of the time
not too far gone when the entire concept of
space exploration resided in the imagina
tion.
Beyond that it does nothing but whir,
spin, flash, sway, twitch, quiver and play
18th century baroque music — ostensibly
from the thrust of a paddle wheel turned by
large silver magnetic butterflies.
Commissioned at a cost of $58,000, the
funds for which were privately raised, Pus
siewillow II marks the first venture of the
space museum, heretofore a rather down-
to earth establishment, into the realm of
fantasy.
Once the exhibit has been formally
opened early in March, it will be a perma
nent part of the collection of relics, arti
facts, vehicles, mementoes and parapher
nalia of flight.
At a preview, Emett, a slight, tweedy,
dignified Enlishman with wispy white hair,
undertook to explain how it works.
“This space ship is based on the flying
carpet principle, only instead of soaring off
at random, it is firmly suspended within a
CS City Council approves
outdoor concert for June
By TIM JASEK
City Reporter
The College Station City Council Thurs
day approved an outdoor concert by the
Houston Pops.
The event, scheduled for June 1, will be
co-sponsored by the city and the Brazos
Valley Arts Council, (BVAC).
Because the city has agreed to pay $250
for advertising along with one-third of the
$8,500 total cost, BVAC will allow the
council to decide on the concert site.
The BVAC suggested the concert be
held at either Bee Creek or Oaks parks.
The site will be decided at a later date.
The Houston Pops perform arrange
ments ranging from early 20th century
American composers to current move
ments.
The Pops requested the event be non
profit and wished to encourage neighbor
ing cities to patronize outdoor summer con
certs by performing here.
The concert will be the first in a series to
be presented every third week throughout
the summer, according to the BVAC.
The council also agreed to install coin-
operated timers for tennis court lights at
Bee Creek and Oaks parks. The installation
of a chain-link fence around the Thomas
Park Pool was also passed unanimously.
A wrecker ordinance was passed requir
ing the posting of a sign or signs at parking
facilities displaying the wrecker company’s
phone number.
The standard towing fee will be set by
the city council following a public hearing
to be held at a later date, the ordinance
said.
In other action, the city council agreed to
cancel 52 unpaid property tax accounts tot
aling $943.
Tax Assessor-Collector Glenn Schroeder
said the probability of collecting these taxes
would be very slim for various reasons.
large translucent Jupiter-ring,” he said in
well modulated tones.
“The Jupiter-ring, poised gracefully on
three especially slowed down high-speed
bicycle wheels, undulates in every known
direction, at the same time spinning gently
in a clockwise manner. This, of course,
establishes false gravity.
The pilot’s space suit has “helium-filled
knee caps.” A fireplace provides warm air
updraft, “thus helping considerably to
maintain altitude.” And so on.
Emett, who began his career as a car
toonist for the British magazine Punch, was
a good friend of the late Rube Goldberg,
the American genius whose fanciful
pseudo-mechanical drawings added the
term “goldbergian” to the language.
It is impossible for a mere layman to tell
who influenced whom, if at all, but Gold
berg’s legions of admirers would feel right
at home gazing glassyeyed at Pussiewillow
II.
And so would movie-goers who admired
“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” Emett de
signed all eight of the puckish thingamajigs
seen in that 1968 film.
Altogether, it is 9 feet high, 18 feet long
and 12 feet wide, including the oscillating
vanity mirrors that “convert the sun’s rays
into puny but positive impulses.”
Emett said museum officials became
absorbed with his work several years ago
when he designed a “revolutionary moon-
probe lunacycle” named Maud.
“They borrowed it for six months, kept it
two years and still didn’t want to return it, ”
he said. “When I insisted on having it back,
nothing would do but have something simi
lar of their own. ”
Pussiewillow II, for better or worse, is
the end result.
Denver suggested as site
for international games
United Press International
DENVER — The city of Colorado
Springs, which serves as the training
center for the U.S. Olympic Commit
tee, would be the perfect site for alter
native games to the Moscow summer
Olympics, state officials said.
In a proclamation sent Thursday to
President Carter and Congress, Gov.
Richard Lamm and Secretary of State
Mary Estill Buchanan urged that the
city be considered as a possible host for
international competition this summer
or fall.
The city has been used for a U.S.
Sports Festival during non-Olympic
years and the two officials said facilities
for sporting events were readily avail
able.
The proclamation urged that an alter
native event be planned for American
athletes who wiU not be competing in
the summer Olympic Games because of
the president’s decision to boycott the
event to protest the Russian invasion of
Afghanistan.
The proclamation noted many out
standing young athletes had sacrificed
their educational, financial and social
goals for many years in order to compete
as representatives of the United States
at the Olympic games.
The proclamation said these Amer
ican athletes “now will never know
which among them are the world’s
best.”
Because of the situation, it urged Car
ter and Congress “to create an alternate
summer world athletic competition,
perhaps in Colorado Springs in the sha
dow of Cheyenne Mountain, where the
excellence of our spirit may be tested
and proven once again in international
competition.