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Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M Physical
Plant cut electrical power to
parts of the campus Wednesday
because of a gas line break, Dire
ctor Joe J. Estill said.
Half the campus was without
electricity from 2:11 p.m. to
3:45 p.m.
Lone Star Gas Co. experi
enced a gas leak in one of its
main transmission lines at a con
struction site near the east
Bypass when a large earth-
moving machine broke the line,
decreasing pressure, a company
representative said. The com
pany had to further decrease
power in the line to try to repair
it.
Lone Star provides gas for
the generators that provide elec
tricity to the campus. When the
off,
gas was turned off, the physical
plant workers had to compen
sate.
“The gas pressure dropped
drastically,” Estill said. “Our
boilers and gas turbines require
high pressure gas to operate, so
we had to cut off some of the
circuits so we wouldn’t lose all
power.
Power was shut off by the
physical plant while they con
verted their equipment from gas
power to oil power.
Affected areas included the
Memorial Student Center, Rud
der Tower, G. Rollie White Col
iseum and East Kyle. Also
affected were the Comrflons, the
Corps dorms and a majority of
the classroom buildings on the
central campus.
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Prison inmates testify
that warden was violent!
United Press International
GALVESTON — Although the state’s top
rison official denies Warden Wallace Pack
ad a violent reputation, inmates testifying in
the trial of a prisoner accused of killing Pack
paint a much different picture.
One former inmate testified Thursday that
Pack ordered the death of an inmate, ordered
inmates to be injected with Thorazine as a dis
ciplinary measure and once attacked him with
a pair of pliers.
During the past week several other inmates
called to testify in defense of inmate Eroy
Brown, 31, of Waco also have portrayed Mack
as a man violent to inmates.
Defense attorneys are trying to prove
Brown feared for his life and acted in self-
defense April 4, when he killed the 54-year-old
Texas Department of Corrections Ellis Unit
warden and Ellis Unit farm manager Billy Max
Moore, 49.
No trial has been set in the death of Moore.
Prosecutors contend the prison officials were
killed in a rage over a denied furlough.
TDC Prison Director WJ. Estelle testified
Thursday he never received a complaint about
Pack.
“He was not absolutely a go-by-the-book-
man,” Estelle said. “He had the reputation for
being an enforcer of rules and regulations. He
would fairly enforce the rules and was consis
tent, but had no reputation for violence."
Tommy Carlisle, 39, now a San Antonioni
salesman, testified Thursday he knew]
when the warden was a major at the Wj
Unit in Huntsville. Carlisle said he servedtinl
at the Wynne Unit between 1960 and 1974[[|
burglary and murder.
Carlisle said Pack threatened "to blo»ti
brains out” if he told federal authoritiesPjd
had ordered him and other inmate-guany
kill inmate Melvin Austin. Carlisle said Aus
died of a heart attack following a beatingbyili
inmate-guards.
Carlisle also said that when he wasap
nurse Pack ordered him to inject Thora
into inmates “as a form of punishment. Item
make an inmate immobile for twoortkj
days.”
He said that in 1971 or 1972 heseveredlj
“heel strings” in desperation. He said whenj
was returned to the prison immediately alii
surgery, he was put in solitary confinemeirJ
“I was handcuffed to the bar,” Carlish
“My hands were above my head, my toeswJ
barely touching the ground and 1
clothes on. Major Pack took a pair of plienail
started to pull hair out from my underart
my pubic hairs. He tore the septum of myinJ
and crushed my penis.”
Carlisle then snowed handcuff scars oi
wrists to jurors, who noticeably reacted.
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Parents call “Ruck” racist
United Press International
HOUSTON — A group of
black parents has demanded a
suburban school district remove
“The Adventures of Huckleber
ry Finn” from the reading list
because it has a character named
“Nigger Jim.”
The parents’ Thursday night
demanded that the book be re
moved from a Spring Indepen
dent School District reading list
and made 11 additional de
mands. The Spring school
board promised to investigate.
Jerry Smith, director of
school system communications,
said all demands except that
concerning Mark Twain’s
famous book were presented for
the first time Thursday night.
Dora Durden, mother of a
student at Westfield
School, said she believesik
trict is insensitive to theneii
blacks.
“The word ‘nigger 1 is
hundreds of times (in
book),” she said.
Smith said eight studeii
asked not to have to reai
book were assigned other)) |
Glories of lunar flag
r eronika M
of the Oak
fading on office shelf
United Press International
GARLAND — The only flag
in Texas that has been to the
moon is now a faded shelf item
in a city office, and it will take
$1,500 to restore its glory.
The lunar souvenir was pre
sented to the city of Garland, a
Dallas suburb, by astronaut
James Irwin during the bicen
tennial. The flag faded almost
beyond recognition during two
years in an outdoor display case.
Garland purchasing agent
Jack McTavish wants to have the
4-inch-by-6- inch flag he keeps
in his office restored, but ex
perts at the Kimball Art
Museum in Fort Worth and
other museums estimate restor
ation will cost about $1,500.
“We’re willing to spend some
money to refurbish it, but not
that much,” City Manager Fred
Greene said.
Irwin took two flags from
each state with him on his 1971
trip to the moon. Fifty of the
flags are in the Smithsonian In
stitution. A member of the Gar
land Bicentennial Con)irii9V* 1
arranged for the renHil|
Texas flag to be donated til
Garland Mayor CharlesJIO (jj
said he didn’t know ho* JL
the city would be wiin
spend on the flag. ■ Un '‘ed Pre
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“Most of these hisicfOests has do
things you can’t put a pw»l' 0 l>c Bish
on them,” he said, “butill 511 to pro
historical flag — the onlyo^PPort and li
Texas that has been totlitJ 6 * nuclear p
— and we’re real
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spitwad battle to court
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United Press International
PLANO — Parents of a Plano
youth claim he lost the sight in
his left eye in a classroom spit-
wad fight and are suing the
school district and his teacher
for $300,000.
The suit by Elmer and Dar
lene Diggs claims the teacher
and school district were negli
gent in failing to prevent the
fight May 7 in which their son,
Paul, was hit in the left eye by
what may have been a spitwad or
paper clip.
The injury left the youth,
now 13, with a scarred retina
and no forward or peripheral
vision.
The suit charges the teacher,
Betty Bales, was talking with
another teacher in an adjoining
open classroom when the fight
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BRAZILIAN MARDI GRASh
Brazilian Carnival
COSTUME PARTY
Feb. 19 8:00 p.m.
at the
Ramada Inn Ballroom
Sponsored by International Student Association