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Page 8 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1980 Politics MSC VID€0 Carter stumps through state) ROBIN WILLIAMS (MORK) Oct. 22 & 23 7 & 8 p.m. Rm. 350 MSC This most famous of the Home Box Office specials features Robin Williams in his wild, furiously speedy improvisational comedy act before a celebrity crowd at Hollywood’s Roxy Club (59 minutes) Our Hours Fit Your Hours. No Hassle Hair and No Hassle Hours. We’re now open until 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. No more rushing from class or work to have your hair done. 696-6933 693-0607 United Press International President Carter Wednesday put on a pair of cowboy boots and stomped through three Texas cities, hoping to add to what his pollsters have said is an even battle against Ronald Reagan with scathing attacks on the Republican and appeals to blue and white collar workers. He opened the trip in Beaumont with a tour of a newly built jack-up drill rig at Bethlehem Shipyard and then appeared at rallies in Waco and Texarkana, appealing to working class crowds, telling them their in terests would be better protected if he is elected. “When you vote, think about your family, think about your future,” he said. “We believe in people and in their welfare. The Republicans talk big, but they talk to big business mostly. “Since I’ve been president, unem ployment has decreased 30 percent in Texas, and the per capita income of people in this state has increased 40 percent.” Carter, however, got the most mileage from a pair of cowboy boots presented to him at the Beaumont airport by Rep. Jack Brooks, D- Texas. 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Carter gave generally friendly crowds stem-winding, anti- Republican speeches and took ob vious pleasure — for the first time in the campaign — in tying Reagan with former President Richard Nixon. LOS ANG At that comment, a score of young Reagan supporters attempted to heckle him. Carter, looking straight at them, said: “Republicans have a habit of spreading a lot of horse manure around. And as you know, it’s getting pretty deep all over the country.” Carter said he is running even with Reagan in Texas polls and appealed to central Texans to stay with him. He emphasized his crea tion of diplomatic relations with Chi na last year as a critical move for Texas, which was opposed by the Re publicans and by Reagan. He said exports to China are now totaling more than $2 billion a year, much of it from Texas. “Did you know that the No. 1 buyer of Texas cotton is the Republic “Former President Richard Nix on, one of the great Republican pres idents, as you know, has been writ ing campaign advisory memos for Ronald Reagan,” Carter said in Waco. “When I saw where Ronald Reagan was getting his advice, I be gan to understand a few of the things he has been saying a little better. management employee, said he lieves Carter’s characterizatii Reagan as a warmonger. “I’m more afraid of Reagan what he would do, ” Kane said.' liable to go into Iran and terrible, terrible mess, get us; ”° something that we couldn’t get of.” A young union painter wearinj Reagan-Bush button said them ? L ‘ more resentment toward Cm pn ^ ut among the workers than was ^ ’ dent. “I could have soldathoi of these buttons,” he said. Dorothy Young, an administnt assistant to the plant general m ger, said “We haven’t heard ah the recession down here yet. iuld be hidi . mia. Boyce, a c cted in 197 ents to the deral prisor ds Angeles. “I wouldn't e KGB or “Yesterday Governor Reagan announced he has a secret plan to get the hostages back. Those of you who remember when Richard Nixon ran against Hubert Humphrey probably find that sounding familiar.” Carter recalled that just before the 1968 election Nixon said he had a secret plan to win the war in Vietnam. At Beaumont, about 900 hardhats watched Carter speak from the deck of Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s “Gulfdrill I” rig. Most of a sample of those workers said they would vote for Carter, but for varied reasons. Draftsman Rocky Kane, 24, a The shipyard, she said, enough orders for oil and natural KL ’ D . ° r drilling rigs to keep the pre, fSf* ' 2,000 employees busy through 1J a i . ur ' Carter touched on the succes sur ^ ei the shipyard as a model for i parts of the nation hard hit by recession. “I want the people all over nation, through the televisonai birrban Ra: as and otherwise, to see whatyat doing because it reassures them’ said. Applause followed Carter’s a ment praising his administrate de-regulating the price of oi natural gas. “The number ofd gas wells to be drilled in 198M the highest ever in the historydi country," he said. Reagan gets money instead TRC candidates lack fund United Press International AUSTIN — Two Republican chal lengers for places on the powerful Texas Railroad Commission have been short-circuited by a lack of cam paign funding, and in one instance personal financial woes have trans formed what had been expected to be heated battles into a lackluster campaign. Gov. Bill Clements promised almost a year ago he would find qual ified and well-financed candidates to challenge the Democratic nominees for the two open Railroad Commis sion seats, but one of the nominees has not campaigned at all and the other says the presidential race has sipho ned away all available financing. Henry Grover, a former GOP nominee for governor who easily won the party’s nomination without campaigning, is opposing Democrat Buddy Temple for a full term on the commission. But once again, Grover has not campaigned and does not re spond to telephone inquiries about his campaign. There is speculation Grover’s own financial problems have forced him to maintain a low profile in the race. He has been sued six times in the last three years for failing to pay $74,000 in loans. He did not file an answer to five of the suits, saying they all were essentially true. “I don’t like it (the debts) and I’m working like hell to get out from under it,” he said. “I could have taken bankruptcy, but that wouldn’t have relieved me of the moral obliga tion of owing money.” Despite his debts, Grover said he spent $30,000 of his own money this year on newspaper advertisements for John Connally’s unsuccessful campaign for the GOP presidential nomination. While his campaign is almost in visible, Temple has been the leading spender among the Railroad Com mission candidates. Reports filed with the secretary of state show Tem ple has spent $954,212 in his cam paign for the $51,000-a-year job. Most of the expenditures were in his primary campaign against incum bent John Poemer. Commissioner Jim Nuge: appointed by former Gov, Dt wn who hi onths, may telligence a At least on e 27-year-c AU.S. Ma rs do not t ported in S learea. Ifh< Boyce, the “The best i ofhim bei: 'sychi United ATLANTA ads to the k «n have pi mse-to-hou vard and a io calls the igels.” Dorothy A police dett erpret her She said si ler’s nam< ©netheless jem on a st Police Chi brought A 'ring this n On an ave: more than nished fr< Briscoe shortly before Briscot office, hais spent $601,079, motf arantee h< that against primary challenge! nhere.’ Hightower. I will con Nugent is opposed by formei IV © seen wl publican H.J. Blanchard, afo# 11 I don’t Democratic state senator, andhjfl ,er him but tauian candidate David HutzekiPns. Blanchaird saiid he was assui adequate campaign funding wk switched parties to enter the but saiid his efforts have been lyzed by a lack of money Blanchaird contends all avaJ campaign contributions have chamneled into Ronald Reagan’s against President Carter and sait] primau-y prospects for an upset would be on the coattails of Rei the GOP nominee should sw Texa^ Nov. 4. “I guess maybe I’m relieved this,” Blanchard saiid. “If there lamdslide situation, it would me something no other railroad missioner has ever had — a slate. I wouldn’t owe anybody thing Hutzelman, who is cam’ on a platform to abolish the coi sion that regulates the petrol# and transportation industries, a I cedes his victory prospects are | tremely slim. “It’s obviously a longshottk would win the race, although Iff only have to get 34 percent oil vote,” he said. “As a realistic objective, Ihofii get more votes than (the nuifl that) separate Blanchard and 5 gent. 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