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n April, Texas A&M organizations
^^dged to raise $25,000 for the
ristian Children’s Fund. The cam-
^ i-wide fund drive begins Monday.
Although the CCF plan has been to
pchildren "one at a time” through
lividual sponsorships, the sum
sed by Aggies will be used to spon-
an entire village in Columbia,
ith America.
“So far, the response has been ex-
lent," said Dr. Robert Kellner,
idinator of the fund drive.
“This will be the very first project
Trade
:ones
sought
United Press International
WASHINGTON — An examiners
mmittee of the Foreign-Trade
ties Board will hold a meeting
(ursday in Laredo, Texas to consid-
requests from four Texas border
eas seeking foreign trade zone
itus.
A foreign trade zone is an area
itside U.S. Customs Service terri-
ry where importers or manufactur-
may bring in goods exempt from
stoms duties until they are officially
(ported into the United States. The
lodsalso may be re-exported.
The goods usually are reviewed,
oredor added in a manufacturing
ocess before Customs duty is asses-
don a final product.
Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Laredo and
to Grande City have all filed re-
jests for the zones.
John Da Ponte Jr., executive sec
tary of the board, said after this
eek’s hearing, the record will be
pt open for another 30 days for
uhlic comment and then a report
id recommendations will be pre-
ared for the U.S. Commerce De-
artment, which will make the final
ecision.
“Ordinarily, given the number of
tses that we have pending, it would
: about five months before a deci-
on is made unless there is an issue
aisedon manufacturing operations,"
id Da Ponte.
The four applicants say they cur-
mtly want the foreign trade status
nly for warehousing and distribu-
on purposes. Manufacturing re-
uests would be considered on a case-
y-case basis.
Foreign zone status already is held
lyseven other Texas areas — Brown-
, McAllen, Galveston, El Paso,
is-Fort Worth, San Antonio and
larris County. There are 87 foreign
rade zones nationwide.
lePass wants a general purpose
breign-trade zone in Maverick
iounty, adjacent to the Eagle Pass
aistoms port of entry. The zone
mild include five sites totaling 1,380
icres, including 1,100 acres at the
-lavenck County Airport. It will be
Jperated by the nonprofit Maverick
County Development Corp.
“Local firms have indicated an in
to in using the zone for warehous
ing-distribution and the processing of
construction materials and apparel.
No approval is being requested for
manufacturing at this time,” officials
said.
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Cloudy today with intermittant
rain. High near 90.
in Columbia,” Kellner said.
Kellner hopes to enlist the support
of the Aggie Mothers Club and the
Association of Former Students.
The Catholic Student Association,
the Intrafraternal Council, the Corps
of Cadets, and other organizations
have pledged support for the project.
Kellner has been invited to speak be
fore the Fellowship of Christian
Athletes at 8:30 pm in the Memorial
Student Center.
Founded in 1938 by a Presbyterian
minister from Richmond, Va., CCF
was originally the China Children’s
Fund. The first CCF project was feed
ing several hundred orphans.
Forty-four years later, CCF boasts
of sponsoring over 280,000 children
in 980 projects worldwide.
Kellner, a Texas A&M English pro
fessor, started working with CCF
seven years ago while teaching at Col
umbia College in Columbia, Mo.
He and several concerned students
formed a club, and raised $500 to
sponsor two children.
“When I got here, I wanted to do
the same thing,” Kellner, who was
raised in an orphanage, said. “To use
publicity to galvanize students to
organize, and give a small child — 100
children — a better life.”
Kellner calls his idea the “Village of
Hope.” He said the $25,000 figure
was taken from the idea that if each
student, staff and faculty member
would donate 50 cents, the money
would be raised easily.
Don Murray, public relations man
ager for CCF, said he was skeptical at
first about Kellner’s idea.
“When he first broached it to me
my concern was whether the mechan
ism CCF has for Tunneling money
would permit that kind of thing,” he
said.
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One count dropped
in civil rights trial
United Press International
HOUSTON — One count of civil rights violations
against a former San Jacinto County sheriff, accused
along with three of his former deputies of torturing pris
oners, has been dropped.
The defense planned to open its case in the trial today,
with more than 30 lawyers, judges, law enforcement offic
ers and prosecutors subpoenaed to testify.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Woodward rested his
case Tuesday against former Sheriff James “Humpy”
Parker, 47, and the former deputies, and U.S. District
J udge James DeAnda dropped one of the multiple counts
against Parker due to a lack of evidence.
Also on trial are former deputies Carl Lee, Floyd
Baker and James Glover in the alleged torture of six
prisoners for confessions between 1976 and 1980.
The last of six alleged victims testified against the four
defendants Tuesday.
James Hicks, 33, a construction woker, testified the
defendants draped a towel on his face and poured water
on it until he thought he would drown. Hicks also testified
he was beaten by one deputy who tried to shackle his
hands and feet.
The indictment charged them with placing towels over
the faces of handcuffed prisoners and pouring water into
the towel until they confessed. Unlike the other prisoners,
Hicks said the torture done to him was over a floor drain,
which eliminated any trace of the water poured over his
face and onto the floor.
Challenger’s
condition OK
after mission
United Press International
SPACE CENTER, Houston —
Except for persistent plumbing
problems, the space shuttle Chal
lenger checked out in its best post
flight condition yet following a six-
day, 2.5 million mile mission.
“It’s been coming through bet
ter the last several flights. This one
looks even better,” said Herman K.
Widick, ground manager at Ken
nedy Space Center, after inspect
ing Challenger at its Edwards Air
Force Base, Calif, landing site.
The orbiter came through the
landing cleaner than usual, Widick
said, with only a few nicks and
pockmarks, “all repairable.” He
said experience is easing the fol
low-up work after each mission.
“We don’t really know exactly
what the damage is going to be
(before landing),” Widick said
Tuesday. "When it comes back, we
find out where there was a prob
lem. Then you analyze that parti
cular problem and improve.
“It should continue to get
better.”
Tuesday, Widick said officials
still had not decided what to do
about the repeatedly troublesome
space shuttle toilet.
Also, Widick said 27 heat shield
tiles will have to be repaired or re
placed, a relatively small number.
He said a propellant leak in two
of Challenger’s steering thrusters
was barely detectable, but would
force a 16-hour delay in Challen-
f er’s return to Florida’s Kennedy
pace Center while the thruster
manifolds are drained.
The leak was discovered during
the mission when instruments de
tected a drop in the thrusters’
pressure. He said the propellant
leak amounted to only about one-
tenth of a pound per hour and was
not considered serious.
Widick said one of Challenger’s
brakes, damaged on its previous
mission, would be removed and
shipped to the manufaturer for
testing even though there were no
E roblems during Monday’s
inding.
The five-man crew took the day
off Tuesday in preparation for a
week of debriefings that starts
Wednesday and ends next Tues
day with a postflight news confer-
Widick said his team will shoot
for a four-day turnaround at Ed
wards — it would be the fastest
ever — and hoped to have the
Challenger piggyback aboard its
carrier Boeing 747 for takeoff
Friday.
The previous fastest turnar
ound at Edwards was five days on
the last mission. Challenger will
make a refueling stop en route
from California to Florida either at
Carswell Air Force Base, Texas or
Altus AFB, Okla., Widick said.
Reagan continues pressure,
demands Soviet apology
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan, not satisfied with the latest
Soviet explanation, is keeping the
pressure on the Kremlin to make a
complete apology for shooting down
a South Korean passenger jet.
An administration spokesman
branded as “lies and half truths” the
latest Soviet statement on the missile-
attack of Korean Air Lines flight 007
with 269 aboard.
Reagan made no public appear
ances Tuesday but met with the Na
tional Security Council to assess rami
fications of the plane tragedy and the
volatile situation in Lebanon, where
two more Marines were killed earlier
in the day. That brought to four the
total number of Marines killed in the
past 10 days in Lebanon.
In the past few' days since the plane
was shot down, the president and
Soviet leaders have engaged in some
of the harshest East-West dialogue
since the Cold War with the confron
tation casting a pall on what had been
budding attempts to revive detente.
Reagan described the Soviet action
as “barbaric . uncivilized . savagery.”
Soviet officials, in a Tass news
agency dispatch, described the presi
dent as an “ignoramous” in the con
tinuing war of words.
Undersecretary of State Lawrence
Eagleburger, who delivered the
Reagan response to the latest Soviet
explanation, said the Soviet Union
“continues to lie to the world, but also
raises the most serious questions ab
out the competence of the Soviet air
defense system, with all the danger
that implies.”
The first White House reaction to
the Soviet admission that one of its
fighter jets had downed the plane —
six days after the fact — came from
deputy press secretary Larry Speakes,
who said: “It’s about time they owned
up to it. It’s about time they owned up
to taking 269 lives.”
Texas Attorney General advises
Galveston owners not to rebuild
Silver Taps
staff photo by Mike Davis
Freshmen in the Corps are required to learn the names
of students honored during Silver Taps. Scott Marlow, a
freshman in Squadron 16, copies the names of the
students honored during Tuesday’s ceremony.
Chrysler OKs deal
for wage increases
United Press International
GALVESTON — Texas Attorney
General Jim Mattox told Galveston
Island beach-house owners not to re
pair or rebuild their homes, which
were washed away by Hurricane
Alicia.
Mattox said Tuesday the homes
now may be on public land because of
the storm erosion.
State law says no one can own
property between the mean low tide
line and the natural vegetation line on
Texas beaches. Hurricane Alicia
eroded beaches as much as 75 to 100
feet.
City and county officials accompa
nied Mattox as he surveyed the
beaches, but upset property owners
told the attorney general that, given
time, the sand eroded from the
beaches will be driven back to shore,
taking some of the disputed prop
erties out of the area governed by the
open beaches law.
It is estimated that as many as 300
structures might be affected.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
chief William Wooley said the corps
has been been doing studies on ero
sion on the Texas coast for many
years, but said “even if the sand is
replaced on the beaches by nature, it
would be a difficult question as to
where the natural vegetation line will
be re-established.”
Wooley said if the eroded sand stal
led near the damaged beaches, it
could be carried back ashore by nor
mal waves. But if sand was taken far
offshore by waves the hurricane cre
ated, Wooley said “it might be lost
forever.”
United Press International
DETROIT — Chrysler Corp. offi
cials say they cannot afford a $1 bil
lion contract granting wage and be
nefit increases to its workers but
agreed to the settlement to avoid a
strike.
The 170-member Chrysler Coun
cil approved the pact Tuesday — one
day after bargainers reached agree
ment. The contract goes to members
for a vote Sept. 13 and, if approved,
will take effect Sept. 19.
Owen Bieber, president of the Un
ited Auto Workers union, and local
leaders predicted workers would
overwhelmingly ratify the contract,
which Bieber called “a good, honor
able settlement.”
With Chrysler no longer in danger
of bankruptcy, workers had been de
manding they be compensated for
concessions made during the hard
times. The contract grants 85,000 ac
tive and laid-off U.S. workers parity
with wage and benefit levels paid at
the other Big Three automakers.
Chrysler Vice President Thomas
Miner told reporters Chrysler wanted
to avoid a walkout in January just as
key new products are being intro
duced.
Miner said the pact will cost $1 bil
lion over its two-year life. For the
typical U.S. worker making $9.85 an
hour, the contract will mean an in
crease to $12.27 by 1985.
The conti :u r will mean an immedi
ate $1 per hour wage increase re
troactive to Aug. 15, and additional
wage increases of $1.42 an hour along
with cost of living adjustments over
the two vears of the contract, which
expires in 1985.
The total package will mean esti
mated wage and cost-of-living be
nefits averaging $8,625 per worker
over the life of the agreement.
‘Lecturers tend to come and go’
Faculty turnover up slightly
by Christine Mallon
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M made about 200 fa
culty changes this fall, a University
official says.
Dean of Faculties Clinton A.
Phillips said although there have
been many promotions within the
University most of the new faculty
members came to Texas A&M
from other colleges and universi
ties.
“The bulk of the new faculty is
replacements for positions that
were vacated,” Phillips said. “Lec
turers tend to come and go, and
that’s where a lot of our turnover
takes place.”
Phillips estimated that the num
ber of new faculty this semester is
only about 25 more than at the
same time last year.
Phillips said the University
“aggressively recruits” new faculty
members from around the coun
try and the world.
Some new faculty members
have been brought from places as
varying as Italy and Israel.
Dr. Zvi Altshuler, visiting associ
ate professor of mathematics, for
merly was a senior lecturer at Heb
rew University in Jerusalem. Dr.
James Burk, visiting assistant pro
fessor of sociology, held the same
rank at McGill University in
Quebec, Ontario, Canada. Dr.
Helmut Karzel, visiting professor
of mathematics, was formerly at
the University of Brescia in Italy.
Dr. Helmut Shaefer, visiting pro
fessor of mathematics, was re
cruited from the Mathematisches
Institut, Universitat Tubingen in
Germany.
Phillips said to recruit faculty to
Texas A&M, most departments
run ads in technical journals or list
their availabilities with associa
tions. For example, an opening for
an agronomy professor may be
listed in one of the American Soci
ety of Agronomists’ reports.
Phillips said there have been a
few major appointments made
along with other faculty changes.
Mr. Taft Benson is the new Di
rector of Student Financial Aid.
Dr. Brian Blouet is now head of
the geography department. Dr. M.
Charles Gilbert is head of the geol
ogy department. Dr. Grant Vest is
the new head of the horticulture
department and TSgt. Rollen
Lipscomb is head of cadet records.