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Vol 78 No. 113 GSPS 0453110 16 pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, March 19, 1984
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acationers
:eep partying
United Press International
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Au
thorities said Sunday record numbers
of vacationing college students are
hitting Florida beaches in search of
sun, surf and good times on their
annual spring break revel.
While spring doesn’t officially be
gin until 5:25 a.m. Tuesday, Daytona
Beach and Fort Lauderdale, about
250 miles to the south, were full of
students.
Spring break is an eight-week
stretch from the beginning of March
through late April. This year an esti
mated 650,000 students will make the
trek to Florida.
Fort Lauderdale Police Sgt. David
Geyer said Sunday, 60,000 or 70,000
students had come to town since col
lege spring vacations began.
“It is the largest spring break in
about 16 years,’’ Geyer said.
Medical facilities have their hands
full as pale Northeners exposed
themselves to the sun, said Lynn Gon
zalez, director of emergency services
at the Halifax Hospital Medical
Center.
"The Yankees come down and they
turn all red,” she said.
The water poses another hazard.
Daytona Beach lifegaurd David Dick-
Lewis to
take oath
Tuesday
By PATRICE KORANEK
City Editor
Neeley Lewis will be sworn in
Tuesday as the new state represen
tative for the 14th District after a
controversy sparked by Richard
Smith over whether improperly cast
votes should be counted.
Lewis, a Democrat, received only
29 votes more than he needed for
the majority. He received 6,525
votes or 50.2 prcent of the 12,991
cast. Smith, a Republican, received
6,206 votes or 47 percent. John Sea
man, a Democrat, received 260
votes, two percent of the total.
There were 109 improperly cast
votes which Smith thought should
have been counted in the total of the
electorate. If they would have been
counted, Lewis would have gotten
only 49.8 percent of the total. This
would have forced a run-off be
tween Lewis and Smith.
But Secretary of State John Fain-
terruled Friday that the improperly
cast ballots should not have been
counted which made Lewis the offi
cial winner.
Smith called for a recount on
Tuesday so that the Secretary of
State’s office would have to time to
research the wording of the state
Election Code before the official
state canvass was done.
The state Election Code regard
ing special elections for stale repre
sentatives says that a majority of the
electors participating in the election
are necessary for election. Smith
said that he interpreted that to mean
all votes valid and invalid.
Lewis said he spent spring break
at Padre Island and did not worry
about possibility of a recount.
“1 never was concerned about it
simply because as chief election
officer, I’d run a lot of elections and
1 was confident those votes did not
count,” Lewis said Sunday. He was
the Brazos County Democratic
chairman before he resigned to run
for state representative.
Smith said Sunday: “It was a tech
nical question of should they use the
total number of votes cast or should
they use the number of valid votes.”
inson, 28, said he expects to make ab
out 200 rescues during spring break,
of mostly drunken victims.
“Students just come to the beach,
disengage their brain and weird out,”
Dickinson said. “They’re not consci
entious. What kills me is this is our
educated population.”
The young men and women who
take part in the spring break are
drawn by the promise of sunny shore
lines, freely flowing beer and the
opposite sex.
“You can’t ask for anything more,”
said University of New Hampshire
freshman Chris Mastrino, 18. “This is
it. Fort Lauderdale — our home away
from home. It’s the party capital of
the world.”
Brewers, distillers and cigarette
manufacturers promote the party im
age, sponsoring daily concerts and
roadside welcome centers in a mar
keting war for student tastes and
loyalties. At the Playboy College Expo
’84 in Daytona Beach’s Plaza Hotel,
students receive free T-shirts and
play party games.
“Bars and beach. That’s all we do.
And there are a few concerts and par
ties we go to and we throw the frisbees
around,” said Doug Robbins, 19, of
the University of Wisconsin.
Get back
Photo by DEAN SAITO
Texas A&M’s Rob Swain slides safely back into first after
a pick-off attempt Sunday in Olsen field. Swain and the
Aggies swept a doubleheader from the Kansas Jayhawks.
See story on page 11 for more details.
Bright may be Cowboys’ new owner
United Press International
DALLAS — Dallas Cowboys
president and general manager Tex
Schramm is expected to propose to
NFL owners today the sale of the
franchise to a group headed by local
businessman H. R. “Bum” Bright.
The Dallas Morning News re-
orted Sunday Bright’s name would
be submitted to league owners at
their annual meeting in Honolulu.
P
bi
Bright, 63, chairman of the board
of regents at Texas A&M University
and a key factor in that school’s hir
ing of Jackie Sherrill as its football
coach, flew to Hawaii Saturday with
Schramm.
A vote on the Cowboys’ sale could
come as early as Monday afternoon.
The price for the Cowboys will at
least double and could come close to
tripling the publicized cost of the
most recent NFL franchise sale —
that of the Denver Broncos.
The Broncos were sold for what
was then an NFL record $30 million
in 1980. The Cowboys sale, which
includes a huge office and training
complex now under construction
near the Dallas-Fort Wort airport, is
expected to exceed $80 million.
That figure, accorcing to the
Morning News, also includes
Bright’s purchase of the remainder
of the 65-year lease on the Texas
Stadium.
Bright, who has gas and oil hold
ings, is reportedly prepared to put
up only about 15 percent of the
money for the sale with the remain
der coming from a large group of
area businessmen. Schramm is in
cluded in that group.
Current NFL bylaws stipulate
that in all franchise sales, the new
ownership must have at least one
purchaser in control of 51 percent
of the club.
That bylaw can be waived, howev
er, and Schramm expects it to be
waived in this case because
Schramm — under the terms of the
sale — would be given power to act
on the Cowboys’ behalf in any
league business.
Schramm has had that same
arrangement with the team’s owner
and founder, Clint Murchison.
Murchison told Schramm last
summer that he wanted ot sell the
team to settle the estate of his late
brother, who owned 35 percent of
the team.
Murchison, who paid $500,000 to
the NFL for the expansion team in
1960, has also been in poor health
and his family has expressed no de
sire to retain ownership of the fran
chise.
Three groups have been wooing
Murchison had Schramm since last
autumn.
The most visible of the groups
was that headed by local business
men Vance Miller'and W.O. Bank
ston. Miller and Bankston accompa
nied Schramm to the Super Bowl in
TAmpa, Fla., increasing speculation
at the time that a deal was near.
Land developer George Barber
from Boca Raton. Fla. also made a
concerted hid to buy the club, appa
rently offering more money that
either of the other two groups.
But Murchison told Barber he
preferred local ownership.
Although Schramm’s top priority
in selecting a new owner was to find
one who would not meddle with the
club’s successful heirarchy, Bright
has a recent history of being in the
spotlight.
Bright was intrumental in Texas
A&M’s coaching change in 1982, at
which time Tom Wilson was fired
and Jackie Sherrill was lured away
from the University of Pittsburg.
Before Sherrill was hired by the
Aggies, Bright tried to persuade
Michigan coach Bo Schembechler to
come to T exas A&M.
Irish fugitive questioned
by police at secret site
In Today’s Battalion
United Press International
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
- Police interrogated Ireland’s
most wanted fugitive, Dominic
“Mad Dog” McGlinchey, at a sec
ret location Sunday after a mid
night extradition guarded by
more than 200 Irish security
troops.
The handing-over of
McGlinchey, self-styled leader
of the outlawed Irish National
Liberation Army, marked the
first time the Dublin govern
ment has turned a suspected
terorist over to Ulster author
ities.
The Irish republic has tradi
tionally been seen as a haven for
Irish nationalist guerrillas fight
ing to end British rule of North
ern Ireland and reunite Ulster
with the republic.
McGlinchey, 30, who has
admitted involvement in 30 kill
ings and 200 bombings, stared
straight ahead as he was mar
ched to one of two armored
police vehicles less than 24 hours
after his capture in a pre-dawn
shootout in a small town in west
ern Ireland.
Some 200 Irish police and
troops guarded the exchange,
which was carried out at mid
night to minimize the possibility
of a rescue mission.
Police, acting on a tip, cap
tured McGlinchey and three
companions Saturday at an iso
lated cottage near the sleepy vil
lage of Newmarket-on-Fergus,
100 miles southwest of Dublin.
A policeman was wounded in
the shootout that erupted when
McGlinchey initially refused to
surrender.
Irish Prime Minister Garret
Fitzgerald said in a radio inter
view Sunday the Irish Supreme
Court, which issued the extradi
tion order after a 2-hour
emergency meeting Saturday,
had decided “there were some
offenses like murder ... which
are so frave as to fall outside the
“context of a political offense.”
He said he assumed McGIin-
chey’s extradition would pave
the way for further extraditions
of similar gravity.
McClinchey’s extradition
warrant said he was wanted for
the murder of a 77-year-old
widow, Mrs. McMullan, who was
slain in 1977 when gunmen
raked her home with bullets.
The I NLA leader said in a
Dublin newspaper interview
while on the run last November
he had killed “around 30” peo
ple in anti-British attacks while
he was INLA “operations offic
er” in Northern Ireland.
He said he did not count the
number of bombings he was in
volved in “but I suppose I took
part in over 200 operations,” in
cluding the bombing of the
Drop Inn Bar in Ballykelly in
December 1982 in which 17 peo
ple were killed.
“There are a lot of questions
we want to put to him before he
is charged,” a senior police offic
er said about the questioning
Sunday.
Police would not immediately
say where McGlinchey, dubbed
“Mad Dog” and the “Green Pim
pernel” by the Irish press, was
being held. They would only say
he was being questioned at a sec
ret location.
McClinchey’s arrest ended a
16-month manhunt for the sus
pect, who jumped bail in Dublin
in November 1982 while unsuc
cessfully fighting against extra
dition to Northern Ireland.
Local
• A committee has been formed to consider the
possibility of moving bonfire from its present location
on Duncan field. See story page 3.
• T he MSC Bookstore is planning rennovatkms for
the fall semester. These include the building of a
“trade center.” See story page 4.
• The local continuing education program is pro
viding local businessmen with a way to learn from
university professors. See story, page 4.
• The campus minister at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church leads anything but a calm, serene life. See
story page 5.
• There’s a glass blowing shop in the basement of
the Chemistry Building that provides the University's
labs with required test tubes and such. See story page
6.
National
• A pet rat saved its owner from a house fire by licking
her feet until she awoke. See story page 6.
• House Democratic leader Jim Wright claims he
did not call President Reagan a liar. See story page 3.