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local/state Battalion 1 March 1 Southern leaders told to study gas proposal United Press International WASHINGTON Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen is urging governors in the South and Southwest to carefully con sider President Reagan’s prop osal to decontrol all natural gas prices within the next three years. “The South has a huge stake in making sure, not just for our residents but also for our indus tries, that natural gas is avail able,” said Treen, who chairs the Southern States Energy Board. “We’ve got to be sure we have a supply at reasonable prices.” Treen, a Republican, told a Sunday meeting of the Southern Governors Association that while he had not had time to fully review Reagan’s plan, he considered it innovative and re sponsive to consumers reeling from high gas prices. “It behooves us all to consider it very carefully,” he said. “This is a very innovative program that could meet major prob lems.” The plan was one of several issues brought before the 17 governors representing South ern and Southwestern states, along with Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, during a region al session at the National Gov ernors Association meeting. The plan was expected to be further dicussed during yester day’s scheduled meeting be tween the governors and Reagan. “I think there’s a consensus now that the 1978 legislation creating the Natural Gas Policy Act has failed to achieve its stated purposes,” Treen said of the current phased-in decontrol plan. “I believe all of us feel that ultimate decontrol is the best route for this country both in terms of our industries and con sumers. Reagan plans to ask Congress to remove controls from natural gas prices to let them react to market conditions while provid ing three years of protection against higher consumer costs. Also during the regional ses sion, Florida Gov. Bob Graham urged the governors to ask their legislatures to consider the real ity of interstate banking and move to ensure Southern banks survive. “Interstate banking is a real ity,” said Graham, chairman of the Southern Group Policies Board. “The question is when it’s going to come.” He said the board supported interstate banking reciprocity among Southern states. “We can build greater strength in the banks of the South so when it comes (inter state banking) there will be some survivors,” Graham said. cFeel the luxury . . . Warm water running through your hair. Cleansing. Massaging. Gentle suds rinsed out, leaving a soft, sweet scent. Now, the cut. Crisp. Precise. Fresh. Perfect. Feel the luxury at . . . 707 Texas Avenue 696-6933 Culpepper Plaza 693-0607 AScM lacks programs, hd for minorities, activist sayi IS by Melissa Adair Battalion Staff Black students at Texas A&M should insist on having more programs and classes geared towards blacks, said black activist Ron Wilkins Monday night. In his lecture, sponsored by the Black Awareness Com mittee in conjunction with Black History Month, Wilkins spoke on several issues that he said were problems facing blacks. The speech was Wil kins’ last in a four-part weekly series held this month. Wilkins cited education as one of the main problems for blacks in the United States today. “In most places, black peo ple are getting the short end of the stick in education,” he said. One of the main problems here, he said, is that Texas A&M falls short in helping Activist Ron Wilkins minorities. He said that the University should offer more courses in black history so that black students can become educated about their back ground. “This campus is very dead in my opinion ... especially compared to other universi ties,” Wilkins said. It doesn’t do anything to help blacks learn more about their ances try, he said. Another main problem for blacks is the oppression they face in the job market. There are few good jobs offered to blacks and even fewer promo tions are offered, Wilkins said. “Black college graduates earn about $ 1,000 less annual ly than white high school gra duates.” Wilkins also said that a ma jor problem for blacks across the world is lack of proper medical care. “For every 1,000 live births among blacks, there are 220 fatalities,” he said. “For the same number of whites, the fatalities equal only 14.” Wilkins said the health problems are extreu m Africa. There is i hospital bed per blacks, one health fa 20,000 blacks and onc| per 50,000 blacks ini Wilkins also saidd with anti-black group the Ku Klux Klanwifi long as blacks let it cog “The KKK is risinggl and it gets away withi things that black would never be alloJ do.” Blacks must siamil this and f ight forchaq said. In addition to standi against anti-black Wilkins said, blacksal 'wo devot stand up for their rigli arly morr turn to Africa. larch 20tl "Blacks who want .■ back to Africa should! nanced by the govemnB S et back there,” hesuB idn’l ask to come her! were forced to come! Hit 5 perjury charges filed Killer’s wife’s trial begins United Pre: WSTIN — Kol Texai Bs that a p phief facto ■ HOW gCXK t|s health c Mlday. United Press International SHREVEPORT — Jury selec tion began yesterday in the trial of a woman accused of lying to a grand jury about her role in the assassination of a federal judge in Texas. Jo Ann Harrelson, 42, is charged with lying five times when she told a grand jury she did not purchase a rifle allegedly used to gun down U.S. District Judge John Wood Jr. outside his San Antonio, Texas, townhome in 1979. Mrs. Harrelson is the wife of contract killer Charles Harrel son, who was convicted last year in Wood’s slaying. In the same trial, Mrs. Harrelson was found guilty of obstructing justice and Elizabeth Chagra was convicted of conspiring to commit murder. El Paso gambler Jamiel Chag ra, Elizabeth’s husband, was found innocent in a Florida trial of hiring Harrelson to kill Wood, but was convicted on a marijuana distribution charge. Harrelson is serving a 40- year Texas prison term on weapons charges and Chagra is jailed for continued criminal en terprise and cocaine possession. A judge refused Friday to throw out three of the five per jury charges against Mrs. Har relson. He rejected defense attorney Charles Campion’s claim the counts duplicated the two remaining charges. Mrs. Harrelson is accused of lying to the jury twice when she denied purchasing the rifle in Dallas and when she said she never used the alias Fay L. King. She also allegedly lied when she said she had never seen her daughter, Teresa Starr, with more than $1,000 and denied the “Texa knowledge of a trip VBor Survey made to Las Vegas, repfcetermine to pick up $250,000 toB Harrelson for killing WsB Prosecutors had fl (lhagi.i ( ontracted forr death because the judpl sentence him for a dniM tion. Wood was knownil John" for the halt nt imum ences he gave drug deal The perjury trial wail to Shreveport becauseofl publicity the case rect Texas. It was expected! about one week. Five shot in poker game United Press International ODESSA — An apparent penny ante poker game ended in a series of shootings early Sunday which left three men dead and two more wounded, How to have class between classes. *'•' j:' Y-:. y . , .♦ ' . ' " '• / V '*;• , 'V- 'y j ' . • ' ‘ . : ' - ’ '"T '' ' . . . • , . '■ •: ' V . ; • ■ ' • • . ■ . •; v- - - • . ■ -V -:<vr; • : • ' . . • ... . .. ' . - . •’ ■ ' ■ , ' T' • -v OENfRAl Foods IntcrnationaI Coffees -- • ; ''7 .. - ■. -b r:u police said today. Police Lt. Rusty Baker said officers will interview the two wounded men and other people who may have been present to find out what happened. He noted that of the six players, only one emerged alive and un harmed. “It may have been a legal game in a private home,” Baker said, “But it became illegal when the shooting started.” Police found one man fatally wounded in an apartment, and the rest of the victims at loca tions outside the apartment. One victim, Robert M. Not- ley, about 40, was found on the ground outside the rear door of La Cosita Apartments. Justice of the Peace J.P. Williams pro nounced Notley dead of gun shot wounds at 4 a.m. at a hos pital. Another wounded man, Douglas H. Blevins, 42, was found lying on the kitchen floor, but he died during surgery ab out two hours later. Baker said a third man, poss ibly connected with the card game and probably wounded, ran to a house about a block away and kicked in the front door. The sleeping occupant grabbed a .22 caliber gun and shot the intruder, who died shortly after arrival at aho Authorities have not b« to identify him, Bakera “Three guns have found,” he said, “A 380ai tic, .38 revolver and a ,41( revolver. We are still look a .45 automatic.” A fourth unidentified believed to have been apartment is being treatd Midland hospital for aj wound in the abdomen! said. A fifth man was ail Sunday when he soughtail hand wound at a Midlanl pital. 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