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nderson gets League OK for debates
Asked in Perth Amboy, N. J., whether he
would appear in the first debate scheduled
for Sept. 21 in Baltimore, Carter replied:
“We ll decide about that and announce it
later. ”
Campaigning in New Jersey, Anderson
said he is “pleased to accept the invitation. ”
“I eagerly look forward to the opportun
ity to meet my two opponents face-to-face
and discuss the major issues of the election
before the American people,” he said.
At Midway Airport in Chicago, Reagan
said, “The ladies decided Anderson’s a vi-
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able candidate. He certainly should be in
cluded and I’ll be there.”
As for Carter’s refusal to participate in
any debate involving Anderson, Reagan
said: “That’s his problem.”
Ruth Hinerfeld, chief of the League’s
Education Fund which is sponsoring the
debates, said she has invited representa
tives of the three candidates to meet
Wednesday and iron out details.
The White House had said Monday it
must have assurances Carter also will have
a one-on-one debate with Reagan before
agreeing to a three-way confrontation.
Press secretary Jody Powell said, “We re
perfectly willing to participate in multi
candidate debates, involving three, four or
five candidates,” but added, “There’s got to
be assurance there will also be a one-on-
one debate. There is no assurance at this
point.”
Asked whether the League would spon
sor a Reagan-Carter debate if it was the
only way to include the president, Hiner
feld said:
“Having gone through many hours of
establishing fair and reasonable criteria, I
do not see that we can do so.”
She also said that while it is important to
include a president, it is more important to
“maintain the independence of the spon
soring organization. ”
James Baker, Reagan’s senior adviser,
called on Carter to participate. But he said
the Reagan had not decided whether to
debate Anderson alone.
“We will be there if President Carter is.
Whether it is a one-on-one or a multi
candidate debate,” Baker said. “If (Carter)
declines to come, we are leaning in the
direction of being there anyway. We would
want to review the format and network cov
erage.”
Hinerfeld said, “Mr. Anderson has clear
ly demonstrated significant voter interest
and support as indicated in a number of
nationwide public opinion polls examined
by our board of trustees.”
“Our task was relatively easy, ” she said.
“Since the polling data was clear and un
ambiguous, our decision was unanimous. ”
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Dennis Ivey, pictured above,
plays his own brand of “dance music”
at a honky-tonk outside Bryan. Ivey
and his band, the Waymen, are
almost as much a part of Texas A&M
tradition as going to bonfires and kis
sing dates after every touchdown.
An interview with Ivey will be the
cover story for the Focus tabloid in
Thursday’s Battalion.
The new, bigger Focus will con
tain detailed television listings for all
channels receivable in Bryan-
College Station, for both cable com
panies, and include Home Box Of
fice listings.
Other stories in this week’s Focus
will be features on fraternity rush
and luaus, and a review of the movie
“Up in Smoke.”
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By DEBBIE NELSON
Battalion Staff
iscontinuation of local air service may
iart of a broader economic problem buf-
[ng the airline industry,
lamo Commuter Airlines received
as Aeronautics Commission approval
it. 5 to suspend flights to and from Eas-
jvood Airport for one year.
Rio Airlines, the only airline now serving
tSterwood, will discontinue one daily
|nd-trip Houston flight on Oct. 1 be-
se of a slackening demand,
larry Rodgers, director of air carrier
ninistration for the TAG (the state
nch of the federal Civil Aeronautics
lird), said the problem started with air-
|i deregulation in Oct. 1978, which gave
jcli airline the power to set fare charges
air routes.
As a result, the large airlines went
mere the money is” and commuter air-
ps bloomed to fill in the gaps at smaller
worts.
■hen economic pressures set in. “Dereg-
pion was good; the recession is not good
Jrlcommuter airlines,” Hart said.
■ave Hart, general manager of Alamo
(Mines in San Antonio, agreed a failing
pnomy caused discontinuation of the
hts. “The travel market is way, way
jvn all of a sudden, everywhere, ” he said.
Dost of operating an Alamo aircraft is
»ut $170 per hour, including fuel, insur-
se, ground support and other costs. But
h only $80 worth of traffic per hour some
Is, “We weren’t making a profit,” Hart
;■
pynthia Link, Rio station manager at
fterwood, said, “Our (passenger) loads
down, but every airline is -— major and
muter and whatever. A lot of commu-
are going under right now. ”
Link said airline demand has dropped
the late 1979 but added, “It’s really
us lately, in the past four months. ”
io flies to Dallas and Houston; Alamo
to Austin and San Antonio. Since the
ities did not serve the same cities, Rio
see little effect from Alamo’s cancella-
io’s fares went up $5 one-way on July 1,
to rising fuel costs. Link said they are
ng to hold fares down, sometimes by
ing freight rates, although that causes
pie to turn to alternate shipping
[thods.
Jury hears murder plot tapes
United Press International
BROWNSVILLE — Prosecutors in a
perjury trial contend the voice discussing a
murder plot on tape recordings reportedly
made by a jail inmate is that of former
Hidalgo County District Attorney Oscar
Mclnnis.
A federal jury heard tapes Monday which
purportedly involved Mclnnis, 64, discus
sing a contract to murder the former hus
band of Patricia Parada.
Mclnnis’ lawyer spent two hours cross-
examining prosecution witness Daniel
Rodriguez, who has testified he made the
tapes with a recorder supplied by the
Hidalgo County sheriff.
Mclnnis and Parada, 24, a former nurse,
are accused of lying to a federal grand jury
about a plot to hire out the killing of Para-
da’s ex-husband.
Mclnnis has pleaded innocent by reason
of insanity and diminished mental capacity
to six counts of perjury. Parada pleaded
innocent to one count. Solicitation of mur
der charges against the two were dropped
because of jurisdictional questions, since
the intended victim was in Mexico.
Prosecutors said Mclnnis visited Rodri
guez when he was in jail awaiting transfer to
federal prison in 1978 and propositioned
him about the murder. Prosecutors said
Rodriguez informed his jailers, who sup
plied a recorder for the inmate to tape other
conversations with Mclnnis.
Prosecutors played one tape, and said
when Rodriguez used the code words “my
lawyer won the case,” it meant Parada’s
ex-husband had been killed.
The taped voice said to be Mclnnis’ also
told Rodriguez to deny any knowledge of
the plot.
“I’m talking as far as this thing, about this
old boy, you don’t know s— from shinola,”
the voice said.
In cross-examination, defense attorney
Frank Maloney of Austin implied that Rod
riguez was a well-known “snitch” who
dodged officials on bpth sides of the U.S.-
Mexico border.
Rodriguez admitted that even though he
was convicted of murder and drug traffick
ing, Sheriff Brig Marmolejo made him a jail
trusty, allowed him to go home without
supervision and permitted him to drink
whiskey with the guards.
Tuesday primaries yield surprises
Hart said Alamo, which .served College
Station for about one year, believes the
area has a demand for air service, and will
reinstate the flights as soon as financially
possible.
“They specifically requested a suspen
sion rather than a discontinuation,” said
Rodgers said.
“They did not wish to pull out of there on
a full-time basis,” Rodgers said.
A TAG interim order granting the sus
pension said Mayor Gary Halter of College
Station was the only one formally object
ing. Halter said Alamo Airlines had not
advertised sufficiently or served the market
for long enough to develop its potential.
Rodgers said Alamo had “exhausted its
experimental money,” and could not afford
College Station service. Most connecting
flights to out-of-state destinations are from
Dallas-Fort Worth or Houston, which also
made the College Station flight less attrac
tive, Rodgers said.
Rodgers said in the TAG decision, “the
financial harm that would be done to Alamo
by continuing service outweighs College
Station’s desire to have the carrier stay and
try to develop the market under present
conditions.”
As for advertising, Rodgers said, “There
has to be a cut-off point somewhere be
tween the advertising and the return you
get out of it.”
Rodgers said some blame should be on
the community for falling air service de
mand, because no amount of advertising
can help an airline if residents are opposed
to flying.
Rodgers said College Station is progres
sive enough to accept Air travel, though.
Halter said Tuesday the only way to
make College Station air service affordable
would be to upgrade Easterwood for larger
aircraft.
Halter suggested a local airport authority
with a taxing authority would be a good way
to speed up proceedings of airport renova
tion. There is no such authority now,
although Bryan, College Station and Bra
zos County have donated money toward
receiving matching federal grants for an
airport, he said.
Hart said if Alamo doesn’t reinstate Eas
terwood service before Sept. 1, 1981, it will
either ask for an extension of the suspen
sion deadline or delete the city from its
schedule altogether.
United Press International
Voters in New York, Florida and 11 other
states cast ballots Tuesday in state primary
elections that included two U.S. senators
and two congressmen indicted in the
Abscam scandal.
Early voting was brisk in New York City,
where veteran Sen. Jacob Javits faced his
toughest election fight. But the turnout was
light in Florida, where freshman Sen.
Richard Stone is also in a tight battle.
In other races, an arch conservative for
mer governor of New Hampshire wants
another crack at the man who beat him two
years ago, and a young man known as the
“A-Bomb Kid” is seeking to enter politics in
Connecticut.
Reps. Richard Kelly, R-Fla., and John
Murphy, D-N.Y., both indicted but claim
ing they are innocent of taking bribes in the
FBI’s Abscam investigation, will find out if
the voters believe their stories.
Former Sen. James Buckley, who was
given the label carpetbagger when he rep
resented New York State in the Senate, has
gone back home to Connecticut. Buckley
was considered the front-runner in the Re
publican Senate race there, but polls
showed State Senate Republican leader
Richard Bozzuto closing what was once a
wide gap.
Connecticut is somewhat of a family
affair. Rep. Christopher Dodd, son of the
late Sen. Thomas Dodd, already has the
Democratic nomination for the seat being
given up by Sen. Abraham Ribicoff.
And the leading Democratic contender
for Dodd’s House seat is John Dempsey Jr.,
son of former Gov. John Dempsey.
In another Democratic House race, ser
vice station owner Q. Wayne Konitshek
faces John Aristotle Phillips, the “A-Bomb
Kid,” who designed an atomic bomb in
1976 as a Princeton University undergra
duate. The winner will oppose Republican
Rep. Stewart McKinney.
Javits, first elected to the House in 1947
and the man who beat Franklin D.
Roosevelt Jr., for New York attorney gen
eral in 1954, is facing his toughest election
contest and his first primary in 33 years.
The ranking Republican on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee faces conser
vative Hempstead Town Supervisor
Alfonse D’Amato, who has made a major
campaign issue out of Javit s age — 76 —
and his failing health.
The Democrats are engaged in a lively
four-way contest for their Senate nomina
tion. The Post poll showed Rep. Elizabeth
Holtzman held a fivepoint lead over Bess
Myerson, a former Miss America who had
led earlier.
Former New York City Mayor John
Lindsay and Queens District Attorney
John Santucci were trailing the two
women.
In Florida, Stone’s freshman record is
considered so vulnerable five Democrats
have challenged him for renomination and
six Republicans are fighting for the right to
oppose the winner. There will likely be an
Oct. 7 runoff to determine the winner.
Either unopposed or facing only margin
al opposition Tuesday are Sens. Gary Hart,
DColo., PaulLaxalt, R-Nev., John Durkin,
D-N.H., Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., Patrick
Leahy, D-Vt., Barry Goldwater, RAriz.,
and Jake Garn, R-Utah.
In Minnesota, Rhode Island and Wyom
ing, House races are the most important
contests on the primary ballot.
Traffic appeals slowed
waiting on signature
By JENNIFER AFFLERBACH
Battalion Staff
University traffic ticket recipients who
wish to appeal their cases are up a creek
without a panel.
The Traffic Appeals Panel, a student-
faculty board that hears and tries appeals on
traffic and parking violations, is not yet
functioning this semester.
The panel members have all been
chosen, said Thomas Parsons, director of
security and traffic, and it is “just a matter
of getting the mechanism under way.”
The snag in “the mechanism” is the writ
ten approval from Texas A&M University
Acting President Charles Samson.
Samson must sign a document confirm
ing the committee appointments.
“The committee will be functional as
soon as his (Samson’s) signature appears on
that document,” said Dr. John Koldus, vice
president for student services.
Tuesday morning, Dr. Thomas Adair,
secretary of the Academic Council, which
appoints the panel, had not received that
signature
Once Samson’s approval is received, it
still may be awhile before the panel is ready
to start hearing cases.
“We re trying to find out some things
before we get started so we’ll do it right,”
said Dena Todd, who will serve as a chair
man on the panel. It also takes a while to get
in touch with students who will serve on
the panel, she said.
Anyone receiving a ticket believed to be
unwarranted has 10 calendar days from the
date of violation notice to file an appeal.
Until the panel is set up. Parsons said, the
date a person comes to the Police Depart
ment to appeal will be recorded on the
ticket so it can be appealed later without
penalty.
The Ross Volunteer firing squad, commanded by Doug Walterscheid of
Hereford, presents arms at Tuesday’s Silver Taps in this time exposure.
A final tribute
Photo by Dillard Stone
The ceremony was held to honor eleven Texas A&M students who died
between Muster on April 21 and the start of school.