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V\ ACO — Black leaders bitter
'/‘‘I' they call blatant racial
01 iBrimination in local govern-
M.iiud jvp Ilt sa y they have suffered
long enough and are preparing
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11811 les feli^q'his town is racist, tied up
the
ind tied down,” said the Rev.
uu 1 ‘^ileo baRue, pastor of the Toliv
| j'inploytts.j.Jhapel Baptist Church. “ The
'he contpjjMij j us ti ce black folks get in
t >unitlve (bpuo is through the courts.”
1(, tal aKat jA 10-year-old school desegre-
Stinn case is already back in
‘aid it couiwd , ■ r , ,
his clienthaiH Austin tederal court
m-/tftnrif „ Bded down a desegregation
>se louraiB?' n * )lU because Waco’s
hateni !tll(lenl population has dropped
tom 18,000 to 13,000 since
hen, the school board wants to
four (1^ lose some schools to economize,
ot orderedBThat plan to consolidate
ere 0tvenv|lB )O * s has angered the black
Jersey; I'iu immunity.
() f PennsiB'My real feeling is that the
Vorfd Indm Sonsolidation plan is a way to get
lid Nicoleiijitt from under the desegrega-
ion plan,” said LaRue.
After a year and a half of
negotiations over a consolida
tion plan, the school board with
drew its proposal in April, a
month before a hearing sche
duled before U.S. District Judge
James Nowlin of Austin.
Board President Mary Ruth
Duncan said the plan was with
drawn because of the time press
ures of the approaching 1983-
84 school year.
“We did not feel we could
wait,” she said.
But LaRue explained the
withdrawal differently.
“They knew we had a legal leg
to stand on,” he said.
One of the centerpieces of the
dispute is the placement of
elementary schools. The dis
trict’s final plan called for the
placement of two elementary
schools in east Waco, the pre
dominantly black section of
town. But plaintiffs insist they
are entitled to three elementary
schools.
“What they’re trying to do is
literally close down black
schools, schools in the black
community,” LaRue said.
The Rev. John Mayshack, one
of two black members on the
Waco school boaVd, offially sup
ported the plan, but he admitted
it was racially biased.
“Certainly there’s some discri
mination,” he said, but he also
defended the plan, saying it was
the best the board put forward.
Duncan stands by the plan.
“There was criteria set up for
the closing of the schools due to
costs and enrollments and va
rious and sundry other criteria,”
she said.
Relations between LaRue and
his group, the Interdenomina
tional Ministerial Alliance, and
local government grew ugly af
ter a black City Council member
received what LaRue called a
slap in the face.
Customarily the City Council
elects the council member who is
mayor pro tern to the mayor-
ship, a ceremonial position, but
that was not the case last month.
Dr. Marilyn Jones, mayor pro
tern last year and the only black
on the seven-member council,
was not given the mayor’s job.
The reason she gives?
“Racism. Waco is basically un
touched by civil rights,” she said.
Jones, a professor at Prairie
View A&M, said some council
members believe minorities are
inferior.
But the man who was elected
mayor, insurance underwriter
Jim Mathis, said it was because
Jones had indicated she would
not serve her full term.
That’s the same reason given
by Malcolm Duncan, another
council member who is the for
mer president of the Waco
school board and husband of the
board’s current president, Mary
Ruth Duncan.
“Marilyn told me twice before
the meeting that she would not
be here next year,” Duncan said.
But Jones disputes that.
“I never told them exactly
what I was going to do. My
understanding was that it
should not have had any bear
ing. I never gave a public or pri
vate commitment.”
The week after the council
passed over Jones, 200 protes
ters packed the City Council
meeting room in protest.
The Rev. Patrick Williams, a
prime mover in LaRue’s group,
blasted the council’s failure to
elect Jones mayor.
“We see an apparent double
standard being applied to
minority council persons,” he
said.
Mayshack agreed the pass
over was unjustified, and he said
council members voted against
Jones because of her race.
“I think it was a factor,” he
said. “Marilyn certainly de
served to be mayor of Waco.”
LaRue and Williams said the
black-white battle has become
more than a social issue.
“It’s become an economic-
issue,” Williams said.
“The white business com
munity wants us to shut up.
They want us, a sunbelt com
munity, to look like a place
where industry would come,”
LaRue said.
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Moody named visiting professor
Global geologist John Moody, former senior vice president
for Mobil Oil and past president of the American Association
of Petroleum Geologists, has been named a visiting profes
sor of geology.
An internationally known consultant in energy and eco
nomic geology, Moody has supervised petroleum explora
tion in more than 50 countries and the United States.
Dr. Mel Friedman, interim dean of Texas A&M’s College
of Geosciences, credited Michel T. Halbouty as being in
strumental in attracting Moody to Texas A&M. Halbouty is a
1930 graduate of Texas A&M and recipient of the Universi
ty’s Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Moody, whose Texas A&M appointment is effective Sept.
1, served as executive and then senior vice president for
exploration and production at Mobil until 1974, and pre
viously had 20 years experience with the Gulf Oil Co.
SWAMP to hold summer meeting
Students Working Against Many Problems, SWAMP, will
meet at 6:30 p.m. Friday at 1018 Milner St. Old and new
members are invited to attend.
The agenda for Friday’s meeting includes discussion of
the upcoming projects for the fall semester, including the
Student Government in Exile elections. All persons wishing
to submit nominations should attend, especially if they wish
to nominate themselves.
Engineering dean elected fellow
Dr. Leroy S. “Skip” Fletcher, associate dean of engineering,
has been elected “fellow” of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
A fellow, according to the association, is a member whose
efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its appli-
caiton are scientifically or socially distinguished.
A Halliburton Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Fletcher came to Texas A&M in 1980 as a faculty member.
He graduated with the Class of ’58.
Chaplain to be ordained Friday
The Right Reverend Maurice M. Benitez, D.D., Bishop of
the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, will elevate to the priesthood
the Rev. James Mark Wilburn, Friday at 8 p.m.
The ordination of Wilburn, who is the Episcopal Chaplain
to the students here, will take place at St. Thomas Episcopal
Church.
Wilburn has been chaplain at Canterbury House, the
Episcopal Student Center, since September and was
ordained to the Diaconate last December. Prior to his duties
at College Station, he served Presbyterian pastorates in
Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia. A graduate of Belhaven
College in Jackson, Miss., Wilburn received his Master’s of
Divinity degree from Columbia Theology Seminary in De
catur, Ga. He is currently a doctoral student there.
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Arkansas officials
make cocaine bust
United Press International
LITTLE ROCK — The sei
zure of a kilogram of pure
cocaine at a local hotel led to the
arrest of three people, said city
police chief Walter E. “Sonny”
Simpson, who called the seizure
the largest cocaine haul ever by
his department.
Litte Rock police, federal
Drug Enforcement Agency
officers, Arkansas state police
and the FBI arrested Nelson
Garcia Valencia, 32, of Long
view, and Carolyn Pettit, 20, of
Newport, Ark., at the Little
Rock Hilton Inn Monday even
ing, Simpson said.
Valencia and Pettit were
charged with possession of
cocaine with intent to deliver.
Simpson said the seized cocaine
carried a street value of about $ 1
million.
A third suspect, Arnulfo
Guinchia, 25, who listed addres
ses in Longview and Batesville,
Ark., was arrested later at Jack
sonville as an illegal alien,
according to Simpson.
Simpson said Guinchia, who ;
also has used the name Guinchia ;
Guillermo, was subject to depor- <
tation. The chief said an ounce ‘
and a gram of cocaine was found j
on Guinchia.
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