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Wiping the slate clean
Cindi Tackitt, Battalion staff
C.T. Bush, grounds maintenance, smooths
out the wet cement slab in front of Heaton
Hall. The new cement is replacing the epoxy
rock, Prarie Film, around campus because the
Prarie Film wears out within six months in
heavily traveled areas.
United Press International
AUBURN, Calif. — The Un
ited States’ foreign trade prob
lems should be solved by the
administration’s professionals
because Congress would make a
mess of it, the chairman of the
House Agriculture Committee
said Thursday.
Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-
Texas, said that pressure is
growing to save the jobs of
American workers by curbing
imports of foreign manufac
tured goods.
“If you allow it to get to Con
gress, we will mess it up royally,”
de la Garza said.
“We are very constituent-
oriented and constituents are
looking for protection for shoes,
cars, and TV sets. However,
other countries could retaliate
with curbs on buying American
farm exports.”
Talking with reporters be
fore making an address at a
meeting of the state Board of
Food and Agriculture, de la
Garza was commenting on a
House-passed bill that would re
quire imported cars to contain a
high percentage of parts made
in the United States. The mea
sure now is before the Senate.
He said that despite growing
water shortages in some parts of
the country, a $200 billion-a-
year federal deficit will make it
very difficult to get money for
future water projects.
De la Garza said the future
trend will be local government
and water users to put up more
of the money needed for water
development themselves.
“We have areas that are
already out of water,” de la Gar
za said.
He added an example is the
San Diego area which could be
left short of water because of a
U.S. Supreme Court decision
granting Arizona a larger share
of water available in the Colora
do River.
“We are getting behind in
bringing water to the areas of
greatest need. A change may
come when they really run out of
water,” he said.
De la Garza said it is impossi
ble for Congress to pass trade
laws that apply to all countries
because America’s problems dif
fer from country to country.
He said the United States suf
fered an $8 billion deficit in
foreign trade in the third quar
ter of this year and that agricul
ture was the only area where the
U.S. turned a profit.
“The government isn’t sub
sidizing farmers. What we are
really subsidizing are food con
sumers,” the Texas congress
man said.
“I’d rather keep one farmer
on the land then build one more
missile to be ahead of the Soviet
Union,” he said.
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Employers try
for new trial
United Press International
GREENVILLE — The em
ployers of a black engineer sent
enced to life in jail for an armed
robbery said Thursday they
were determined to get a new
trial for the man and were en-
courged by public response to a
fund set up for his defense.
Ed Garrett, director of aero
technology at E-Systems Inc.
where Lenell Geter worked
prior to his conviction in August
1982, termed the entire trial
leading up to Geter’s life sent
ence the result of “overzealous
ness on the part of one police
officer (from Greenville).”
He said Geter was a model
employee whom he was ready to
rehire once he is released from
jail.
Geter’s conviction and the
subsequent sensational trial of
his roommate, Anthony Wil
liams, on a similar robbery
charge, led to allegations of rac
ism on the part of Texas law en
forcement authorities and the
involvment of the NAACP in the
proceedings.
Williams was acquitted of the
charge on Nov. 8 but not before
the two had been accused of be
longing to a gang of sophisti
cated robbers who had moved to
the Dallas area from South
Carolina and were responsible
for a series of armed robberies
and other crimes in the area.
Some of Geter’s colleagues at
E-Systems had testified that Ge
ter was at work at the time he was
accused of committing the rob
bery but ajury accepted the testi
mony of the employess of a fast-
food restaurant who said they
recognized Geter from photo
graph as the man who robbed
them.
“Some $9,000 already has
been spent and about $2,000 is
left,” Geter said. “But we are re
ceiving good contributions.”
Garrett said requests for a
nevy trial have been denied three
times.
“Geter already has taken a
truth serum test but he still can’t
get a new trial,” he said.
Garrett said all employees are
required to get a security clear
ance before being hired by E-
Systems.
Geter’s court-appointed
attorney, Edwin M. Sigel of Dal
las said he had filed a motion for
a new trial with the Texas Court
of Criminal Appeals on Sept. 23,
and was waiting for the state to
file its response.
The FBI, meanwhile, had
obtained the transcripts of Ge
ter’s trial and were investigating
whether Geter’s civil rights were
violated, Sigel said.
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