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It. Col. Marvin P. Norwood, left,
accepts a military citation from
Corps Commandant Donald C.
Burton and Army Sgt. Maj. Gary
Stickles, right. The presentation was
made at Norwood’s retirement
ceremony Thursday afternoon on
the main drill field. Norwood, has
served as Executive Officer and
assistant professor of military
science at Texas A&M since July
1981.
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United Press International
FORT WORTH — The 34-
ember Fort Worth Chamber
rchestra this month will be-
Jome the first American cham-
ier group to tour the Peoples
Republic of China.
The chamber orchestra, a
[elect group of musicians chosen
horn the much larger Fort
Worth Symphony Orchestra,
eaves Fort Worth Wednesday
nd is scheduled to return April
27.
The $250,000 tour includes
oncerts in Beijing (Peking),
Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guang-
hou (Canton) and Hong Kong,
ncluding some joint appear-
musicians we’ll meet,” said Ann
Koonsman, executive director
of the orchestra.
“All the correspondence
we’ve had so far has been ex
tremely warm. I think we’ll be
very well received.”
The orchestra will be taking
the music of Adler, Mendels
sohn, Haydn, Dvorak, Mozart,
Bach“, Tchaikovsky and Beeth
oven to the Chinese. Miss
Koonsman said the program
was chosen by orchestra officials
and indicated the Chinese help
ing arrange the tour made only a
slight recommendation for the
program.
“(The Chinese official) said
some groups that have toured
that country in the past played
‘noisy’ music,” Miss Koonsman
said, saying rock and roll gener
ally fell into that category.
“Heaven knows we don’t want to
be noisy.”
United Press International
AUSTIN — Even though the
three members of the Texas
Public Utility Commission are all
his appointees, Gov. Mark
White says he will not give up his
campaign to convert the PUC
into an elected agency.
White completed a sweep of
the utility regulatory panel
Thursday by naming one of his
aides, Philip F. Ricketts, to suc
ceed H.M. Rollins, who resigned
Thursday.
A bitter Rollins called the
governor unprincipled and dis
honest for making lower utility
rates an issue in his 1982 election
victory over former Gov. Bill
Clements.
While his appointees now
control the PUC, White said he
still plans to try and convince the
Texas Legislature to make the
PUC an elected agency. A Sen
ate committee this week
approved a PUC reform bill, but
it refused to go along with an
elected PUC.
“I’m going to try and gener
ate more sentiment for an
elected commission,” White
said. “I’ve found that as time
goes by toward the end of the
session there is more serious
conversation about those mea
sures we’re supporting.”
Say ‘Sir’
when you’re
in my court
United Press International
HOUSTON — An 18-year-
old burglar has been sent to jail
for 30 days for failing to address
the sentencing judge as “sir.”
State District Judge Mike
McSpadden said Wednesday he
wants Michael A. Washington to
think of him “every day he
spends in the Harris County
jail.”
Washington, 18, pleaded
guilty to burglary, but when
McSpadden asked him the
routine questions at sentencing
time, Washington answered
“Yeah” instead of “Yes, sir.”
McSpadden said he warned the
defendant to answer with re
spect, but Washington answered
“Yeah” again.
“He said ‘Yes’ but he didn’t
say ‘Yes, sir,”’ said prosecutor
Elaine Bratton.
Defense lawyer Walter Gill Jr.
said his client was nervous and
not disrespectful.
Meanwhile, White called Rol
lins’ remarks intemperate and
unfounded.
Rollins’ resignation com
pleted a total turnover of the
PUC since White took office in
January. “We’ve simply won
another round today,” the gov
ernor said.
Ricketts, 37, was White’s
assistant general counsel for
utility matters and is a former
assistant attorney general and
hearing examiner for the PUC.
Rollins accused White during
a news conference of trying to
dodge his promise of lower util
ity rates within 24 hours of his
election last November.
“One of the ways I can assure
Mark White is held personally
accountable for his campaign
statements is to resign from the
commission,” he said.
But White said he never
promised lower rates.
“If we had had these three
people (his appointees) serving
on that commission for the last
four years, we would not be
paying the high bills we’re being
called on to pay today,” he said.
Rollins, who was appointed
by Clements, was serving as PUC
chairman when fellow commis
sioners George Cowden and
Tommie Gene Smith resigned
Feb. 15 in a similar dispute with
White.
White immediately
appointed A1 Erwin and Peggy
Rosson to the commission, and
Erwin became chairman of the
panel March 11.
Rollins said he did not accept
White’s offer to resign earlier
because he wanted to serve in a
period of transition. His term
was to expire Aug. 31, 1985.
“That transition is now com
plete,” said Rollins. “I find it in
teresting and somewhat tragic
that these two inexperienced
commissioners have not used
any of the experienced PUC
specialists as their advisers.”
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