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I Page 4/The Battalion/Thursday, October 13,1983 O’Conner tells paper that she’s not a man Warped United Press International NEW YORK — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor took exception Wednesday to an item on The New York Times’ editorial page saying the nation’s highest court was made up of nine men. The item at issue was a Sept. 29 “Topics” piece about the growing use of acronyms to identify government agencies as well as laws. The Times said, “Is no Washington name exempt from shorthand? One, maybe. The Chief Magistrate responsible for executing the laws is sometimes called the POTUS. The nine men who interpret them are often the SCOTUS. The people who enact them are still, for bet ter or worse, Congress.” O’Connor, in a letter to the editor published Wednesday in the Times, wrote: “According to the informa tion available to me, and which I assumed was generally available, for over two years now SCOTUS has not consisted of nine men. If you have any contradictory in formation, I would be grateful if you would forward it as I am sure the POTUS, the SCOTUS and the undersigned (the FWOTSC) would be most in terested in seeing it.” MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE presents on Thursday October 13 7:30 and 10:00 Rudder Theatre $1.50 Accused of stealing grain AGRI defense rests case QUITTING BUSINESS wlaoms. Jewelry C, J f&J3ifts Everything is priced to move. Shop now for Christmas. All sales are final, no layaways, major credit cards accepted, dealers welcome. 404 University Drive East College Station United Press International DES MOINES — Defense attorneys rested their case Wednesday in the trial of AGRI Industries and five company ex ecutives charged with conspir ing to steal $500,000 worth of government-owned grain. Prosecutors put a rebuttal witness, AGRI assistant mana ger Kent Kroeger, on the stand Wednesday afternoon. The case could go to the jury for a verdict as early as today, said Bill Kut- mus, a defense attorney. Kroeger was questioned ab out his conversations with Jack Wyard, one of the executives on trial for allegedly conspiring to steal 133,000 bushels of govern ment wheat on May 5-6 to meet a shipment deadline. Kroeger said he followed Wyard’s orders and purchased 60,000 bushels of grain from Bunge Corp. of Fort Worth on May 13 — one week after the Prosecutors contend Wyard should have known there was no common license and that the grain transfer was illegal. shipment deadline. In filling the order, AGRI officials were trying to avoid $6,000 a day penalties. Prosecutors contend Wyard should have known there was no common license and that the grain transfer was illegal. Earlier Wednesday, Wyard, in charge of AGRI’s wheat and sorghum merchandising, testi fied he made an honest mistake in transferring the wheat from one AGRI facility to another. Defense attorneys briefly questioned Wyard, Des Moines attorney Wilbur Bump, AGRI board chairman Howard Elson, AGRI board chairman Russell Frascht and a character witness for Wyard before resting their case at about 1:50 p.m. Wyard told the jury in his own defense Wednesday morn ing that he thought the Houston and Forth Worth warehouses were operating under a com mon license. However, under questioning from prosecutors, -Wyard said he made the mistake after ing a conversation ben some AGRI employees,wb said they thought there si be a common license beti the two facilities. ” Wyard said, referring elevator as a satellite of tb ger operation, "I alwaysai these (two facilities) as one: Wyard said that lit! ordering the wheal transit and other AGRI executiwi sidered and then ruledom eral options on how topi with the 60,000-busliei order. AGRI executives, also dered shipping the Houston from AGRI’s Lufl warehouse, but that would! been a “major undertakint said. Groups want EPA guidelines before it OKs waste burning United Press International WASHINGTON — Twenty environmental groups and Texas’ attorney general asked the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday to draw up federal regulations governing the burning of toxic wastes at sea before granting permits. “It is a matter of common sense that EPA should first set the standards for evaluating permits before they decide whether a permit should be issued,” said Sue Ann Fruge, a spokesman for Gulf Coast Coali tion for Public Health. In a petition filed with the EPA, the groups and Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox asked that regulations be cre ated to define allowable emis sion levels, limit which materials can be incinerated on ocean going vessels and create moni toring standards. At least two firms, Chemical Waste Management, Inc., of Oakbrook, Ill., and At-Sea In cineration, Inc., a division of the Tacoma Boatbuilding Co. of Tacoma, Wash., own or are con structing special ships on which to burn toxic wastes, including PCBs. The wastes would be burned far out in the Gulf of Mexico in initial operations but loading ports are being considered for New Jersey and a Jew Jersey and along the Pacific coast. The EPA has scheduled a public hearing for Nov. 21 in Brownsville for the firms to re ceive public input on whether three permits should be granted to Chemical Waste Management for operation of its two ships, Vulcanus and Vulcanus II. “We believe that it is totally irresponsible that the Environ mental Protection Agei treating something as sei the disposal of toxic wastel purely ad hoc basis," saiw zabeth Otto, a spoke$mai||T Greenpeace, one of the™^? 1 filing the petition.' J 'E “Up until now theyhavtB'" e even required a risk assessiifi be or contingency plan incastp 51 ^ spill,” she said. “We believe the timehasw a . for us to say that we willnoB rc 1 ger tolerate being poisoijg said Jesus Moya of the Ini® tional Union of Industrial# , ^nth f Se Agricultural Workers. PULSE, the 24-hour teller. Located under the stairway between Rudder Tower and the MSC, on the campus of Texas A&M. If you don’t already have an account with us, open one today, and have immediate access to your money. Y/nfoeuilif Bnationalbank/ Bryan-College Station’s “Good Business” Bank 711 University Drive, College Station, Texas 77841 Member FDIC 846-8751 List of unclaimed millions iontin fli released by Braniff airline" United Press International AUSTIN — State Treasurer Ann Richards said Wednesday bankrupt Braniff Airways and the Internal Revenue Service are among; the 20,000 people and organizations listed as the owners of $7 million in un claimed funds. Richards is required by law to attempt to find people who have abandoned property or accounts worth $50 or more. Lists of the owner have been sent to 35 newspapers for publi cation Oct. 16 and also to all of the state’s public libraries. H, Bt if “People need to know that they can get their money back if its’s been turned over to the Treasury — no matter how much time has passed,” Richards said. Texas unclaimed property laws require that accounts or other types of unclaimed prop erty abandoned for seven® [h be turned over to the state.|pp ea The unclaimed moneyt®y a list published this year cowthe re the owners of checking and! fc ings accounts, security dep: corporate dividends, royalties, insurance benefitsij several other types of prope People included on thfi can claim the funds by cal' 1 writing the treasurer’s! Austin. Fall Festival Sale Sportswear J. G. 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