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Warped
by Scott McCullar
THIS IS ME.RRITT JENNINGS
WITH THE WRPD NEVIS. CHURCH
SERVICES ALL OVER TOW/V WERE
DISRUPTED LAST SUNPAV WHEV
AUDIENCE MEMBERS STARTED
STANDW6 ON PEW BENCHES AND
SHOUTING OUT THEIR OPINIONS
ON A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS.
THE TOPICS RANGED FROM POLITICS
TO FOOTBALL, AND ALTHOUGH
ALL THE SERVICES WERE INTER
RUPTED, SUMMONED POLICE WERE
HELPLESS TO ACT DUE TO FREE
DOM OF SPEECH RIGHTS OF THE
INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED. PAUL?'
THE A^M BOARD OF REGENTS
DECIDED TO POSTPONE THE-
DECI5/0N AS TO WHERE TO
LOCATE THE \30-FOOT MSRIT-
TON BELL Tower UNTIL A
SITE CAN BE FOUND THAT WILL
REPLACE THE MOST CAMPOS
PARKING SPACES...
AND THE REGENTS ANNOUNCED
THEIR EXACT CRITERIA INDIVID
UALS MUST MEET IN ORDER TO
ADDRESS THE BOARD. PUT VERY
SIMPLY, "ENOUGH MONEY-"
Unions demand refusal
of airline’s bankruptcy
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by Paul Dirmeyer
Task force offers solutions
Teachers need incentives
United Press International
HOUSTON — Unions strik
ing Continental Airlines’
payroll-slashing effort to be
come a smaller, lower-cost car
rier asked a bankruptcy judge
Tuesday to dismiss the com
pany’s “bad faith” reorganiza
tion petition.
Meanwhile, Continental —
still flying despite the strike —
continued nationwide inter
views for pilots to replace strik
ers and said nearly half its flight
attendants were hired to replace
strikers.
Australian trade unions im
posed a 72-hour boycott of Con
tinental flights from Sydney to
Honolulu, Auckland and Fiji.
Continental said the boycott
affected six flights a day, and
passengers were being sent to
alternative service.
The pilots, flight attendants
and machinists unions charged
that Continental’s bankruptcy
petitions “were not filed in good
faith, but rather to circumvent
the debtors’ obligations” under
labor law.
“Bankruptcy law is not a
mechanism for a company to
avoid bargaining with its em
ployees,” pilots spokesman Gary
Thomas said. “The petition was
filed in bad faith.”
The company contends its
bankruptcy petition stands on
firm legal ground. The Sup
reme Court is about to consider
similar cases and its ruling could
affect the outcome of this case.
Continental filed for Chapter
The pilots unions
charged that Con
tinental’s bankruptcy
petitions “were not
filed in good faith, but
rather to circumvent
the debtors’ obliga
tions” under labor
law.
11 reorganization on Sept. 24,
listing losses of $471 million in
four years. The airline then cut
its work force from 12,000 to
4,200, and on Sept. 27 started
flying to only 25 of the 78 U.S.
cities it once served.
Pilots and flight attendants
unions struck on Oct. 1, protest
ing the airline’s unilaterally im
posed “emergency work rules”
increasing flying time and halv
ing pay. The machinists had
gone on strike Aug. 13 when
contract talks failed.
Under Continental’s
“emergency” rules, top pilots
pay went from $87,000 to
$43,000. Flight attendants drop
ped from $28,000 to $15,000.
Flying hours for pilots went
from 51 to 85 hours a month.
Continental initially said it
had plenty of pilots willing to
cross picket lines, but admitted
the strike had more effect than
expected, forcing the hiring of
outside help to get the needed
300 pilots and 500 flight atten
dants.
Continental spokesman
Bruce Hicks put the number of
outside flight attendants — dub
bed “scabettes” by the unions —
at “a couple hundred” and re
fused to be more specific.
The company maintained all
but two of its international
routes, and Hicks said after an
additional 8 percent cut in ser
vice last Thursday Continental is
flying its entire schedule with
planes averaging more than 70
percent full.
Travel agent Maria Spiers of
Houston’s Harvey Travel said
agents still try to avoid booking
Continental as unreliable, and
Hicks admitted most passengers
apparently were booking them
selves into Continental’s cut-rate
$75 fares.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A con
gressional task force concluded
Tuesday that across-the-board
pay hikes supplemented by
merit pay, are needed to draw
and keep "the best and the
brightest” instructors in the na
tion’s classrooms.
The Task Force on Merit Fay,
headed by Rep. Paul Simon, D-
111., also suggested three federal
initiatives: teacher scholarships
for top students, one-year fel
lowships for top teat hers, and a
program to provide advance in
struction to up to 200,000
teachers each year.
The group cited a need for
better training and improved
working conditions for teachers
as other key factors in impro
ving public education.
In releasing a report sum
ming up a four-month study,
Simon said polls show that the
public is willing to pay more to
upgrade America’s troubled
schools.
He said the recommended
federal program would cost less
than $200 million. The cost of
the overall plan to states and loc
al school districts would depend
on how much they increase
teacher salaries and how they
meet the recommendation to ex
periment with merit pay for “su
perior” teachers.
The 21-member group of
legislators and educators
offered no specific salary Figure.
It noted, however, that
teaching is among the nation’s
lowest paid professions, with an
average salary of $19,000 — a
fact that has driven many of the
nation’s top students to seek
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about missing accountant
other work.
“Right now, we are not get
ting the best and the brightest to
go into teaching,” said Rep. Ron
Wyden, D-Ore., one of four con
gressmen on the panel.
He described the panel’s re
commendations as a “carefully
defined surgical strike” to re
medy the situation and to help
improve public schools.
Rep. Carl Perkins, D-Ky.,
chairman of the House Educa
tion and Uabor Committee, cre
ated the merit pay task force last
June. President Reagan has
embraced the idea of perform
ance-based salaries as one way to
aid America’s schools, which the
National Commission on Excell
ence in Education last spring
found engulfed “by a rising tide
of mediocrity.”
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CORPUS CHRIST! —
Nueces County officials Tues
day urged an anonymous caller
to contact them again with addi
tional information on a Dallas
accountant who disappeared
front her condominium almost
two weeks ago.
Texas Rangers conducted a
helicopter search of beach areas
Monday hut failed to find Judith
Durst, 45, who was on a tempor
ary job assignment in Corpus
Christi.
The woman has not been
seen since Sept. 29.
An anonymous male caller
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woman last week that had not
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cials said. They declined to re
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Officials urged the caller to
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ised that he would remain
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Durst was on a temporary
assignment from Dallas to set up
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