THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1980 Page 11 state f ! Army Re e ARI am e public! I01 Ruddei ^ripwilbe rship 1* Dallas policeman’s killer appeals to Supreme Court Texans seen for Reagan l United Press International AUSTIN — Gov. Bill Clements said Tuesday former California Gov. Ronald Reagan has strong support in Texas and has an excellent chance of beating President Carter in the state. Clements, however, would not speculate on what impact former Gov. John Connally would have if he chose to endorse Reagan. Connally, who dropped out of the GOP pres idential primary race two weeks ago, was to appear with Reagan in Long view Tuesday. Still Clements said he would not comment until Connally officially endorsed Reagan. “Let’s wait until he does it,” he told reporters at an informal news conference outside his office. ; 30 p.m. ot -‘nt and .. (deskin2l{ United Press International ASHINGTON — Randall Dale ms, convicted and sentenced to Bin Texas for killing a police offic- took his case to the Supreme urt and challenged a statute allow- ag exclusion of certain prospective Brs in his case. Monday a lawyer for Adams jed the high court to overturn his th sentence on grounds potential el members were not allowed on jury in violation of guidelines istaldished in 1968 by the Supreme held througt Auditorium, ng shown at as will be the lom in whid tg boy Oblio, at 7 p.m. ii :t at 7:30 it dg- Attorney Melvyn Carson Bruder said the statute broadens the cir cumstances under which a prospec tive juror may be excluded. It allows the striking of citizens unable to swear their deliberations will not be affected by the death penalty. “I don’t think any self-searching person will say anything but, ‘Of course, this will affect my delibera tions, ”’ Bruder said. Bruder told the high court that prospective jurors were excluded from Adams’ trial based on their re sponse to taking the oath. Adams was convicted and sent enced to die for the murder of a police officer in Dallas on Nov. 28, 1976. While all those disqualified were unable to swear that they would not be affected in their deliberations, those prospective jurors all stated they would not automatically vote against the death penalty regardless of the evidence in the case. In its 1968 ruling known as the Witherspoon doctrine, the Supreme Court said jurors troubled by the death penalty may be excluded if it is established they would automatical ly vote against it. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., which rep resents condemned prisoners, esti mates a ruling in the case would affect about half of the 52 death cases upheld by the Texas courts. In other action Monday, the Sup reme Court agreed to consider whether a Texas man may be sued for an alleged conspiracy even though a named co-conspirator was a state judge immune from^uit for his offi cial actions. ’resident of junior college ays fund increase needed - -1 Sfc nt United Press International JSTIN — The Legislature for past six years has failed to keep ate with inflation in the funding of mibr colleges, and as a result the alleges are heading for serious lajacial problems, the president of and College said Tuesday. [Ve have lost ground in real dol- Bin the last three sessions of the egislature,’ Al G. Langford told a aecial House subcommittee on ilor adrift iree weeks ^ United Press International Galveston — a tanker en ujfe to a Houston refinery picked 11 sailor who had been adrift in a eboat in the Gulf of Mexico for 23 i, the Coast Guard said Tuesday, scribing the survivor as in “fairly shape.” . (- '■ Coast? Gpiard sp.okes'rwan said- leth Enoe, 30, of, Jamaica, was tup for lost after he disappeared >m the Marvina on March 2. oe was seen Monday drifting in gulf 200 miles southwest of New ■feans by the crew of the tanker ive Navigator, a U.S. flag vessel. |bast Guard spokesman Joe Gib- (fcaid noe had drifted 90 miles ifliwest of where he abandoned ip The search for Enoe was sus- hded March 7. junior college funding. “The Legislature gives us an infla tion factor of 5.1 percent, when the inflation rate is 13.3 percent, so you can see we re losing ground fast.” Langford is among three junior college presidents on the special committee which will study the cur rent formula for distributing state aid to junior colleges, and recommend changes to the 1981 Legislature. Langford suggested the state con tinue using its present funding for mula, but increase the inflation fac tor to keep pace with the actual rate of inflation. Trial judge biased, legislator charges United Press International AUSTIN — The chairman of the Mexican-American Legisla tive Caucus demanded Tuesday that Judge Woodrow Seals dis qualify himself from a Houston suit concerning free public edu cation for illegal aliens on grounds he is prejudiced against Mexican- Americans.' Rep. Paul Moreno, D-El Paso, said Seals had stated the Spanish language is not worthy of being taught in Texas schools, and that “nothing of worldwide import ance has ever been written in Spanish.” Moreno said that remark is suf ficient to disqualify Seals from the case. “The chief function of a judge is to administer justice. No judge with such a deep bias that has direct relevance to the case he is to hear should permit himself to sit,” Moreno said in a printed statement. He said Seals should have dis qualified himself from hearing the case before the trial began, or at the time he discovered his“bias. “The judge’s comments cast doubt on his integrity and the in tegrity of the process he is super vising. Furthermore, consider ing the importance of the Spanish language and Spanish speakers to the political and economic life of the state of Texas, the judge’s comments are dangerously ignor ant,” Moreno said. Langford also complained that pay for junior college teachers is falling behind that of other educators, and noted Gov. Bill Clements has said he will recommend a 3.4 percent pay increase in January for state em ployees, including senior college and university instructors. “If you’re going to give senior col lege faculties and state employees a 3.4 percent pay increase in the mid dle of the biennium, why not give it to community college employees?” he said. Rep. 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