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at council meeting
by Karen Wallace
Battalion Staff
Student leaders from Texas
A&M were introduced at the
Bryan City Council meeting
Monday night at 6:30.
Battalion editor Hope
Paasch, RHA President Kelli
Riesling, Student Body Presi
dent Joe Jordon, Off Campus
Aggie President Kevin Good
win, Corps Commander Pre
ston Abbott, Executive Vice
President of Student Govern
ment Melissa Cosper, and
Memorial Student Center
President Greg Hawkins were
invited by Bryan Mayor Ron
Blatchley to dinner and to the
meeting afterwards.
Blatchley said the students
were invited as an opportunity
for the members of the coun
cil to get aquainted with the
student leaders and so the
leaders on campus could see
how things work in the city of
Bryan.
“One of the things that is
most important to me is that
we have as good a relationship
as possible with those people
who live on campus and are
part of our community, in the
form of students primarily,”
Blatchley said. “We recognize
the importance of them to our
economy, our community,
and to us as fellow citizens.”
Joe Jordon, student body
president, said on campus stu
dents have never really been
involved with the city of
Bryan.
“This was the first time they
have actually asked us to come
and asked for student in-put
as to what is going on in
Bryan,” said Jordon.
Airline interviews pilots
NRC issues opinion
favoring OSU prof
United Press International
DALLAS — Nuclear Regula-
I tory Commission officials said
I they will issue a formal opinion
j this week dismissing charges of a
I conflict of interest against an en-
| gineering professor who dou-
I bles as a member of the NRC’s
I licensing board overseeing the
I Comanche Peak project near
Glen Rose.
Kenneth McCollom, an 11-
year veteran of the Atomic Safe
ty and Licensing Board, has
come under fire by opponents
of Comanche Peak for his admi-
| nistration of a $20,000 annual
Halliburton Foundation grant
to other faculty members at
Oklahoma State University’s en-
! gineering school.
Although no one is quarrel
ing with the purpose the grant
| money is used for at OSU’s
I school of engineering, architec-
[ ture and technology, a citizens’
group is concerned because one
of Halliburton’s subsidiaries is
Brown & Root — the general
contracter for Texas Utilities
Generating Co.’s Comanche
Peak plant.
The president of Citizens’
Association for Sound Energy
believes the Brown & Root
funds may influence McCol-
lom’s thinking when it comes
time for the board to vote on
licensing Comanche Peak.
CASE has complained to the
NRC board and demanded that
McCollom, who is dean of the
school, give a fuller explanation
of how he administers the Halli
burton funds.
But McCollom and his col
leagues with the NRC scoff at
the suggestion that the relatively
small amount of grant money
presents a conflict of interest.
Peter Bloch, chairman of the
licensing board in Washington
D.C., said the board will issue a
formal opinion Monday or
Tuesday clearing McCollom of
allegations of a conflict of in
terest.
“I don’t think it’s a very se
rious problem,” Bloch said. “Dr.
McCollom receives no direct be
nefits from the money.”
McCollom will not be asked
by the board to excuse himself
from further proceedings in
volving Brown 8c Root projects,
he added.
At issue is Brown 8c Root’s
portion of the Halliburton grant
which, at roughly $1,500, is less
than 1 percent of the total
budget of the engineering
school administered by
McCollom.
“I don’t think that’s a conflict
of interest,” McCollom said. “I
don’t plan to withdraw from the
board.”
Juanita Ellis, president of
CARE, said, however, McCol-
lom’s situation warrants a thor
ough investigation and a closer
look at how companies like
Brown & Root maybe influenc
ing faculty at other public uni
versities.
“We don’t think that there’s
any conscious motivation on his
part or that he’s being deliber
ately influenced by the money
from Brown 8c root,” she said.
“But there are other ques
tions that need to be looked at.
Things like if money has been
received by his department over
a long period of time, if this is
subconsciously coloring his
viewpoint,” Ellis said.
Sebastian Aloot, a senior
attorney with the NRC in
Washington D.C. who investi
gated the charges, said McCol
lom was not obligated to report
the Halliburton grant on his
annual financial disclosure
statement.
Aloot also said similar kinds
of grants are given by the Halli
burton Foundation to other en
gineering schools in the South
west and that department heads
generally have little direct con
trol over the money.
Ellis acknowledged the
amount of money at stake is
small but said administration by
McCollom of the Brown 8c Root
grant points to a more serious
problem.
United Press International
HOUSTON — Continental
Airlines, trying to become a
scaled-down, lower-cost carrier
under bankruptcy supervision,
began interviewing pilots
nationwide Monday for vacan
cies created by a 10-day-old
pilots strike.
The Air Line Pilots Associa
tion struck Continental after the
airline filed for bankruptcy
Sept. 24, cut its payroll from
12,000 to 4,200 and on Sept. 27
started flying to 25 of the 78 U.S.
cities it once served.
Continental has been flying
with pilots willing to cross picket
lines, but the strike forced can
cellation of a some flights and,
last Thursday, Continental cut
its schedule an additional 8 per
cent to “improve reliability.”
Continental, which has man
aged to maintain all but two of its
international routes, decided to
go outside for pilots because of
the strike.
Spokesman Bruce Hicks said
100 percent of Continental’s
flights operated Sunday. He
said the percentage full was “in
the 70s.” Continental tempor
arily is wooing passengers and
travel agents with $75 non-stop
U.S. fares.
Interviews for pilot appli
cants were to be conducted in 11
cities on a staggered schedule
this week. Hicks said “hun
dreds” of pilots had contacted
Continental after last week’s
newspaper advertisements.
“In each of the cities, where
we’ve advertised, we will be
holding two days worth of inter
views and they’re all scheduled
interviews based on response to
the ads,” Hicks said.
Three days of talks with
ALPA last week adjourned Fri
day without agreement on en
ding the strike. Continental said
Continental, which
has managed to main
tain all but two of its
international routes,
decided to go outside
for pilots because of
the strike.
it would not go back to the bar
gaining table until ALPA came
up with a new contract proposal.
ALPA spokesmen said the
union considers its existing con
tract, which was not due to ex
pire until 1984, a proposal and
that the company should be
making counterproposals.
ALPA said Continental pilots
gave the airline $100 million in
concessions last fall and offered
to give “whatever it took” to keep
Continental flying before the
airline filed for Chapter 11 reor
ganization.
Joining the pilots in a walkout
Oct. 1 was the Union of Flight
Attendants. The International
Association of Machinists struck
Continental Aug. 13, before the
bankruptcy.
The unions and some legal
experts have questioned about
Continental’s use of the bank
ruptcy laws to void labor con
tracts and unilaterally cut labor
costs.
After the bankruptcy filing,
Continental cut the average top
pay for pilots from $87,000 in
cluding benefits to $43,000 and
raised flying hours from 51 to 85
hours a month. Top flight atten
dants pay went from $28,000 to
$15,000.
Continental, which has lost
$500 million since 1979, says it is
on firm legal ground. Another
hearing on the bankruptcy i
scheduled before U.S. Bank
ruptcy Judge R.F. Wheles
Wednesday. q|
“In each of the cities,
where we’ve adver
tised, we will be hold
ing two days worth of
interviews and they’re
all scheduled inter
views based bn re
sponse to the ads. ”
The cities where Continenta
planned interviews on a stag
gered schedule this week wer
Houston, Dallas, Kansas City
Minneapolis, Denver, Lo
Angeles, San Francisco, Miami
Atlanta, New York and Chicago
ALPA spokesmen said Mon
day the union was preparing t<
oppose Continental’s bankrupt
cy petition in court and ALPA’;
Denver unit Sunday urgec
ALPA national officials to im
pose $ 10,000 fines on pilots wh<
cross Continental picket line.
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Dallas pollution lawsuit
sets national precedent
United Press International
AUSTIN — Attorney Gener
al Jim Mattox said Monday a
proposed settlement between
the state and a Dallas lead smel
ter suspected of polluting the air
and soil in nearby neighbor
hoods has caught the eye of fed
eral officials.
Mattox and a team of his
attorneys presented testimony
Monday on the proposed settle
ment before state district Judge
Nathan Hecht.
Hecht was expected to sign
an agreed interim order be
tween the state and RSR Corp.,
the owner of the lead plant, that
called for a cleanup of con
taminated soil around the
smelter.
In addition, RSR would pay
for a program to monitor the
health of children and pregnant
women living near the smelter
and install more efficient air pol
lution control devices at the
plant.
Mattox said officials with the
Environmental Protection
Agency told him the suit against
RSR had prompted them to de
velop a nationwide program
calling for similar procedures at
as many as 40 other plants.
“This case against RSR Cor
poration is precedent-setting,”
Mattox said. “Upon signing of
the order, the smelter in west
Dallas will come under the most
rigid controls of any lead smel
ter in the state.”
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Two questioned
about murders
United Press International
KILGORE — Police ques
tioned and released two Tyler
men about the abduction and
slayings of five people from a
Kentucky Fried Chicken res
taurant last month, officials said
Monday.
The two had been named last
week in a flyer along with a
friend of theirs, a 22-year-old
man wanted in a Tyler armed
robbery that occurred Sept. 29.
The pair, who were not consi
dered suspects, were picked up
by officers during the weekend,
said Kilgore police spokesman
Jerdy Wolverton.
The third man, Darnell Hart-
sfield, was still at large.
Asked if the pair had been
cleared altogether of involve
ment in the slayings, Wolverton
said, “At this particular time
they have been cleared.”
He also said an information
hotline set up after the killings
had produced some leads, but
he would not elaborate.
The five victims were
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lated road where they were each
shot more than once in the head
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