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* t By MARCY BOYCE Battalion Staff Diversity adminstrators and colleagues E. “Tiger” Teague, expressed grief day over the loss of the former U.S. pressman they recalled nationally as a icated pioneer and locally as an avid porter of Texas A&M University, league died Friday morning in the Na- Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., a lingering illness which in recent rsrepeatedly sent him to hospitals. The of death was not reported; however, was a diabetic and was known to extensive kidney problems. He was gue ervices for ‘Tiger’ Teague to be Tuesday Colleagues remember Teague as a 'pioneer' former Texas A&M president Dr. Jarvis ler said he worked closely with Teague legislative matters, particularly those of cem to the U niversity’s welfare. Miller recapped his feelings for the man. remember him as a very kind and itle man who was intensely concerned h people. His first question was always, hat can I do to help you?”’ eague attended Texas A&M College 1928-1932. And during 31 years in hgress as Texas’ 6th District representa- Tiger,” as he was nicknamed for feats high school baseball player, seldom ssedan opportunity to help the Univer- Miller said. Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, Texas A&M liversity System chancellor, said of ague, “He was a strong supporter of (M wherever he was — in Congress or other place.” Healways kept close touch with the Uni versity and was a perennial supporter of its Student Conference on National Affairs, SCON A, by attracting well-known national speakers to the conferences, the chancellor said. Hubert dubbed Teague “a great soldier in WWII with an outstanding record filled with heroism,” a distinguished congress man and champion for the development of the space program. His death is a tremendous loss to the state and the nation which “will be felt for a long time to come,” Hubert said. A memorial service for Teague will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the A&M United Methodist Church following funeral ser vices for the former congressman in Washington D.C. at 1 p.m. Teague’s efforts for the University ha ven’t passed unnoticed. In 1966 the Asso ciation of Former Students awarded him the A&M Distinguished Alumni award, and the following year the Teague Research Center was erected in his honor. Miller pointed to the former congress man’s interest in the sciences and credited him with being instrumental in estab lishing the University’s medical school through his work with the Veterans’ Admi nistration. Teague “became concerned that the VA hospitals are not able to recruit the kind of faculty that they needed,” Miller said. “The idea (for a medical school at Texas A&M) grew to establish medical schools with ties to the VA hospitals,” he said. But even before serving in Congress, the WWII veteran was quite familiar with VA hospitals and sensitive to veterans’ plights. Teague spent two years in army hospit als recovering from wounds he suffered while commanding the First Battalion of the 314th Infantry, 79th Division in front line combat. The injuries continued to pla gue him throughout his life and later forced the amputation of an ankle and foot. His decorations for valor included the Silver Star with two clusters, the Bronze star with two clusters, the Purple Heart with two clusters, the Combat Infantry man’s Badge, the Army Commendation Ribbon and the French Croix de Guerre with Palm. After his discharge as a colonel, in 1947 Teague took a seat in the 79th Congress and' served successive terms until he retired in 1978. During his term in Congress, Tiger chaired the House Veteran’s Affairs Com mittee. Bills he authored include the Korean G.I. Bill, under which about 2.3 million veterans were educated, the War Orphans’ Educational Assistance Act, which pro vided education to children who lost a pa rent as a result of service in the armed forces, and the Veterans Administration Nursing Care Program to assist elderly ex- servicemen in need of hospitalization. Teague later accepted a chairmanship on the then newly-created Science and Astro nautics Commitee and was a champion of the Apollo Space Program, prompting legislation to further the space program. He is one of few congressmen ever to chair more than one committe. Born in Woodward, Okla., on April 6, 1910, he played baseball and football throughout high school and eventually en rolled at Texas A&M College where he was commanding officer of Company G in the Corps of Cadets and a Ross Volunteer. He worked his way through school while employed by the College Station Post Office, the Animal Husbandry Department and the railroad and later married Freddie Dunman of Fort Worth, the mother of his three children. Years later upon delivering the Muster address in 1959, Teague spoke of his alma mater and intangibles — “self reliance, im agination, loyalty, courage, daring, indus try and honor” — which he said “have been the proud characteristics” of its men. is < ii ! -1 i Former U.S. Rep. Olin E. “Tiger” Teague The Battalion ,4 Serving the Texas A&M University community ™ Vol. 74 No. 83 Monday, January 26, 1981 DSPS 045 360 12 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611 The Weather Yesterday Today High 72 High 73 Low 46 Low 48 Rain none Chance of rain . . . . . . 20% ‘This is true America ’ Hostages return home f United Press International WEST POINT, N.Y. (UPI) — The American hostages welcomed home by the hugs and tears of their relatives and the joyful shouts of “USA! USA! USA!” from a crowd of 200,000 spent today in seclusion, catching up on what happened during their missing 444 days. Their return Sunday to the United States aboard a modified Boeing 707 dub bed “Freedom One” touched off the kind of spontaneous celebration usually reserved for the end of a war. Throngs waited outside Stewart Airport in Newburgh, N.Y., and lined the 17-mile route the hostage buses took to West Point, singing “God Bless America” and “America the Beautiful” and holding signs reading “Super Sunday: Americans 52, Iran 0. ” Yel low ribbons hung from everything in sight — trees, dogs, people. “This is true America. It made us all feel great,” said former hostage Moorhead Ken nedy. Many of them were eager to catch up on the news of what happened during the time they spent as captives. “They’re just starting to relax,” said the hotel’s bar manager. “They ask us more questions than we ask them. They want to know what they missed. ” For dinner, the hostages were offered their choice of chicken cordon bleu, shrimp, lobster, filet mignon, prime ribs and steaks. One of the freed captives, Army Master Sgt. Regis Ragan, 38, left West Point im mediately with his sister and three brothers to return home to Johnstown, Pa., to visit his ailing mother, Mrs. Anna. Ragan, 70. She was hospitalized with heart trouble Wednesday after talking by telephone with her son in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The hostages will fly to Washington Tuesday, where more relatives and Presi dent Ronald Reagan will be waiting to greet them. “Freedom One” touched down on Amer ican soil at 2:54 p.m. EST. Waiting for the hostages in the chilly sunshine were nearly 200 family members. The scene outside the plane became a sea of kisses, smiles and tears. Some of the returnees threw their arms around wives and children and walked quickly into the privacy of the airport terminal. Others ling ered outside the plane, enveloped in hugs. At the Thayer Hotel in West Point, about 80 of the hostages and their relatives re laxed at a reception in the Thayer’s two cocktail lounges. Many of the returnees still clung to their spouses, parents and children. Other families remained in their rooms, some presumably to watch the Super Bowl. The hostages were told the kickoff time as they arrived at the Thayer, and informed there would be a tribute to them before the kickoff. Some of the families also arrived at the j reunion equipped with special treats for the returning hostages, including favored j- foods, special pipe tobacco and clothing. They were well guarded by Army and National Guard troops who kept the crowds and reporters well away from the airport and sealed off the hotel to protect the fami lies’ privacy. The ex-hostages — some of whom have begun to report grim tales of brutality and isolation during their 444 days in captivity — flew in from West Germany, where they underwent four days of physical and psychiatric tests. A team of Federal Aviation Administra tion air controllers at the Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center in Nashua, N.H., couldn’t wait for the 52 former hostages to touch down on U.S. soil before bidding them a warm welcome home. “You have just entered the United States of America,” the air controllers said, speak ing directly into the cabin of the aircraft 1 bringing the Americans home. “We wish to 1 welcome you home and thank you for a job well done.” The controllers then played a tape re cording of “America the Beautiful. ” At Newburgh airport, the hostage fami lies arrived about two hours early, flying in from Washington where they met with an emotional President Reagan. GTSW requests rate hike three acts of song and dance, showcasing the talents of a troupe of eighteen dancers. For a review of the perform ance, please see page 3. By DEBBIE NELSON Battalion StafT Local telephone service charges will go up for the second time in 12 months if the Public Utility Commission grants General Telephone Company of the Southwest its newly requested $44.6 million in annual revenues. Bill Erwin, GTSW division manager in Bryan, said the rapid growth of the Texas telephone system has caused the rate re quest. F.E. Hightower, GTSW vice president for revenue requirements, said in a press release that high interest rates, the large volume of new construction, inflation and new technology made the rate request necessary. A previous GTE rate increase went into effect in October, when GTSW requested $31 million in annual revenue. In Bryan-College Station, monthly local service charges would be $11.21 (up $3.06) for a one-party residence and $32.44 (up $7.44) for a business. The service rates in an area vary accord ing to the number of exchanges possible without a long-distance charge. Bryan- College Station lies in the middle range service charges, which range from the proposed $8.63 a month (one-party resi dence) for an area with few exchanges to $14.49 in an area with many possible ex changes. Long-distance rates would not be affected by the increase. Charges for telephone instrument use will be up an average of 18 cents, depend ing on the type of phone. Erwin said there will probably be more rate hikes in the future, because of “regula tory lag.” The new request is based or actual expenditures and revenue for the , year ending in Sept. 30, 1980. So alio wances for growth since September or ir the future are not included in the request The new rates could go into effect 35 day after the Jan. 23 filing date, although Erwii said that is unlikely. The PUG can thei suspend the proposed rates for 120 days and then the effective date can be post poned for 30 days more. Erwin said the PUC staff will conside how the increase would effect both the con sumer and the utility consumer. With th< possible PUC delays, it could be fivti months before GTSW customers pay high i er monthly rates, and then only if the PU( grants the new request. tonight on MSCrestructure Third blackout in year darkens A&M campus By KATHY O’CONNELL I: ' Battalion Staff MSC Council members will vote on a Iproposal tonight that will reorganize the 1 Council’s executive structure. The proposal was originally presented at [a meeting last Monday night. Council [members decided that voting should wait 1 more of the Council’s 19 voting mem- [tas were present. A two-thirds majority of all voting mem- )ers is needed to amend the constitution. The proposal calls for expanding the ex- [ecutive structure to include six vice presi dents: Development, Finance, Opera- [tions, Programs, Public Relations and Stu dent Development. President Emen Haby, who favors the plan, said this expansion is necessary to help identify needs within the MSC. “Being able to identify these needs,” Haby said, “will help design work loads for speci fic positions. “If the proposed structure is passed it will help in developing better programs for students,” he said. The main concern among Council mem bers is the increase in personnel. There are nine council officers now; the proposal calls for 24. Keith Shurtleff, vice president of fi nance, said he’s supported the proposal from the beginning. Shurtleff called it a “farsighted plan.” He said the reason the plan was originally drafted was because “it was identified that the officers just had too much to do. “In the area of development,” he said, “all we’ve done is make it a stronger, more formalized structure. It gives the chairman some status.” Under the vice president of develop ment, the plan has added three new direc tors: development finance, fund raising and development public relations. However, Directorate Represenative Kirk Kelly said he opposes the proposal. As it stands now, he said, it’s too large. Kelly proposed eliminating several of the posi tions under the vice presidential areas and letting each area grow as the need arises. His proposal calls for setting up 14 new positions instead of 24. The proposal, based on research that be gan in March, was created by a committee of 15 Council officers, Directorate repre- senatives, staff advisers and faculty. If the amendments and bylaws are pas sed, the proposal will then be subject to approval by Dr. John Koldus, vice presi dent for student services and Dr. Charles Samson, acting president of Texas A&M University. The proposal would be implemented next fall. Council members will meet at 8 p.m. tonight in the conference room of the Stu dent Programs Office (216T MSC). As students on the Texas A&M Uni versity campus awoke Sunday morn ing to find they had no electricity, a panic must have surged through them, for it was Super Bowl Sunday. But by 12:30 p.m. all power on the campus had been restored; students sighed in relief as their TVs, lights, and clocks came to life. Joe Estill Jr., director of the Texas A&M physical plant, said the same buss bar that caused a power failure in November malfunctioned Sunday morning at 4:30. “We put a temporary patch over that buss bar in November,” he said, “and we were waiting for a convenient time to take it down and replace it.” Estill said a new buss bar was to be picked up this morning in Houston. He said he wasn’t sure whether the power would have to be turned off to replace the bar, but if it did, it would be done late tonight to have it taken care of by Tuesday morning. The electricity went out at the pow er plant at 4:30 a. m. and caused a chain reaction that covered the entire cam pus, he said. Power at the plant was restored by 4:50 a.m., the majority of the campus regained power by 10:00 a.m., and the last power was restored at 12:30 p.m., Estill said. He said the power failure didn’t cause much damage except for the damage to the buss bar at the plant. \iCS l nC