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Though Tuesday’s rain were needed, it did cause some prob
lems for motorists. This vehicle is seen driving through a
large puddle at the intersection of Church and First Streets in
College Station. Tomorrow might not be clear sailing either
with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms and partly cloudy
skies.
Perot pushes for appointed board
United Press International
AUSTIN — H. Ross Perot took
Jhis pilch for an appointed state
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The Dallas billionaire, chairman
of a blue-ribbon committee whose
recommendations led to the special
legislative session on education re
forms, told House and Senate mem
bers the elected Slate Board of Edu
cation had failed to manage Texas’
$8.3 billion a year public school sys
tem.
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manage our system successfully and
the buck stops there at the state
board,” said Perot, who has stumped
the state during the past several
weeks to drum up support for an ap
pointed board.
“Item No. 1 on our agenda... is to
put in top management that can do
the job,” he said. “We’ve got to go to
the lop to clean this thing up. This
(education) is the biggest business
operation inside the borders of
Texas, with no management.”
Perot’s sharp criticism of the
Board of Education comprised
much of his 50-minute speech to leg
islators, many of whom have ex
pressed strong opposition to his pro
posal to replace the elected board
with a nine-member body appointed
by the governor.
Gov. Mark White, House Speaker
Gib Lewis and Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby
all have endorsed the proposal, but
the chairmen of both legislative edu
cation committees oppose it.
“There’s no management goals,
there’s no management philosophy,
there’s no accountability,” Perot
complained. “Everything you need
to run an $8.3 billion system is miss
ing.
“You bought a ticket to first-rate
education, you just didn’t get to see
the show.”
Perot described the post of state
board member as a “bottom of ^he
ballot ticket” and said more talented,
business-like managers would be
available to serve on an appointed
board.
While Perot praised classroom
teachers as “the best part of Texas
public education,” drawing applause
from a teacher-filled House gallery,
he added: “the dumbest folks in col
lege are studying to be teachers.”
His caustic barbs also were aimed
at “goofy” vocational education
courses, which he described as “a
dumping ground for the poor and
disadvantaged and slow learners.”
He pushed for passage of a more
equitable school financing system, a
pre-kindergarten program for dis
advantaged and non-English-speak
ing 4-year-olds, and an end to extra
curricular activities that take class
time away from academics.
United Press International
Walter Mondale scored big wins
in New Jersey and West Virginia
Tuesday and looked for enough del
egates in California to reach the
1,967 total he needs to defeat Gary
Hart and Jesse Jackson for the Dem
ocratic presidential nomination.
While Mondale declared he would
win enough of the 486 delegates at
stake in the final night of 1984’s pri
maries to clinch the nomination,
Hart and Jackson renewed their
vows not to drop their battle no mat
ter what the numbers showed.
The latest United Press Interna
tional count of delegates, including
projections from fragmentary re
turns in New Jersey, South Dakota
and West Virginia, gave Mondale
1,831, Hart 995 and Jackson 333,
with 242 uncommitted.
The former vice president put to
gether the same coalition of labor,
the elderly and traditional Demo
crats that won him other big north
ern industrial states to sweep New
Jersey and West Virginia with ease.
Hart won South Dakota and New
Mexico as expected. But that good
news might not be enough for the
senator from Colorado who shocked
the Mondale bandwagon with an up
set victory in the season-opening
New Hampshire primary back in
March.
The biggest battleground was Cal
ifornia and its 306 delegates. Net
work polling said the battle would be
close, but NBC projected Mondale
would win enough delegates to go
over the lop, even if Hart won the
stale.
With 66 percent of precincts re
porting in New Jersey, Mondale had
197,657 votes or 46 percent and
Hart 131,045 for 30 percent. Jack-
son had 97,738 for 22 percent.
In West Virginia, Mondale led
with 44,854 votes or 53 percent,
Hart had 31,490 for 37 percent and
Jackson 7 percent.
In South Dakota, with 91 percent
of the precincts reporting, Hart had
24,337 votes for 51 percent and
Mondale 18,644 for 39 percent.
Jackson had 5 percent.
With 68 percent of the vote
counted in New Mexico, Hart led
with 60,635 votes for 47 percent to
Mondale’s 44,941 for 35 percent.
Jackson had 14,988 for 12 percent.
If Mondale does win enough dele
gates to claim a first ballot victory,
party leaders are expected to clamor
for Hart and Jackson to drop out of
the race to allow Democrats to unite
for the uphill battle against Reagan
in the November election.
Appearing before cheering sup
porters in a St. Paul, Minn., hotel.
Mondale spoke like a man who had
the nomination locked up.
“To all Americans that want a
change in Washington, my message
is: the campaign for a better future
starts right now,” he said. “To all
Americans who supported any of
the other seven candidates, my mes
sage is: I want your support and I in
tend to earn it.”
Hart had little to say about New
Jersey without California returns to
look at, but repeated that he is not
quitting.
Jackson also talked like a man not
disposed to quit. “We’re not ending
the regular season,” he said in Los
Angeles. “Now the playoffs will be in
San Francisco and on to the Super
Bowl. It does not yet appear (cer
tain) who will win the playoff nor
what the cost of victory will be.”
Mondale was so confident of vic
tory he told reporters at mid-eve
ning he was looking forward to seve
ral debates with President Reagan in
the fall campaign.
NBC said Mondale was faring well
among Hispanic voters in California
and was doing well in the key Los
Angeles districts where the Jewish
vote was critical.
More than 12,000 registered for summer school
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By KARI FLUEGEL
Reporter
Despite rain and lines that some-
limes reached around Wofford Cain
Pool, 12,996 students registered for
summer school Monday.
The Registrar’s office estimates
lhat with the students who will enroll
late, or students who take classes off
campus for resident credit or co-op
students, the total registration for
the first summer session will be be
tween 13,500 and 14,000, Associate
Registrar Don Carter said Tuesday.
Students who did register Mon
day may have noticed a change in
registration compaired with pre
vious years. This year, students were
alphabetically divided into six
groups instead of the five groups
used before, a system that pleased
the Registrar’s office.
“We were able to get a smoother
student flow,” Carter said.
After the initial influx of students
was over, the student flow leveled
off and remained constant for the
rest of the day, he said.
“I think from a logistical stand
point — in other words moving stu
dents from point A to point B to
point C — it worked very well,” Car
ter said.
The number of card packets pre
pared for registration is based on the
number of students enrolled during
the Spring or have indicated that
they will be attending the summer
session. Students then are divided al
phabetically into six essentially equal
groups.
“We didn’t notice any skewing of
the alphabet,” Carter said.
The groups are rotated each sum
mer session each year so that each
group is first once every seventh reg
istration. Students with last names
beginning with A through C went
first this session and students with D
through G will go first next session.
One snag in the procedure for
many students was being blocked
from registration by finacial obliga
tions, a problem that Carter said is of
the students’ own making.
About 99 percent of the students
blocked had been notified of their
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debts, Carter said. Students are
blocked from registration for finan
cial reasons in the Fall and Spring,
and Summer is no exception, he
said.
One difference in summer regis
tration is that there is no preregistra
tion. Carter said this is because of
the lack of time the Registrar’s office
has before summer school and be
cause of student unknowns.
During the Spring semester, the
registrar’s office must organize pre-
m
registration, commencement and fi
nal grade reports.
Because many students do not
know until after they receive their fi
nal grades whether they will attend
summer school, they could not pre
register.
Preregistration would also be im
possible for students not registered
during the spring semester. Many
students who attend summer school
are entering freshmen or graduate
students, Cater said.
D-Day 40th anniversary remembered
United Press International
UTAH BEACH, France — The
4()th anniversary of D-Day grew
Tuesday into an event nearly half as
big as the 1944 invasion, with thou
sands on hand for ceremonies hon
oring those who died on the battle
fields of Normandy.
The solemn commemorations and
re-enactment of battles were at
tended by crowds of an estimated
80,000 war veterans and tourists vis
iting the French province for the
June 6 anniversary.
Seven heads of state, including
President Reagan, were to gather at
Utah Beach Wednesday for the
main ceremony to remember the
largest amphibious landing in his
tory, when 6,939 ships and 1,682 air
craft crossed the English Channel
with 135,000 men.
The landing turned the tide in fa-
wor of the Allies.
Normandy villagers festooned
their houses, shops and town halls
with Canadian, British, American
and French flags.
Thousands on Normandy’s now
peaceful shoreline watched a dozen
members of the U.S. 2nd Ranger
Batallion scramble up white cliffs at
Pointe du Hoc, repeating a feat their
predecessors performed 40 years
ago under machine-gun and mortar
fire from concrete bunkers.
Morris Webb of Miami, Fla., said
only 89 of 244 of his comrades made
the beaches alive. A pistol on his hip
deflected a piece of shrapnel, saving
him from injury.
“I lost three or four of my closest
buddies on those boats,” he recalled.
“There were 5-foot waves that
swamped a few of the landing craft.
They never had a chance to make it
in and give it a go.”
French and American officals laid
a wreath before a monument atop
the cliffs. The monument was the
first in France to slain World War II
American servicemen.
At St. Mere L’Eglise, 150 mem
bers of the U.S. Airborne 82nd Divi
sion and 30 British paratroopers
planned to reenact an ill-fated par
achute drop. In 1944, Americans
parachuting behind Nazi lines
landed in the fog-shrouded village
and were slain by German snipers.
Many visited the American me
morial graveyard, where 9,386 sim
ple white crosses and Stars of David
line green fields on the bluffs over
Omaha Beach.
In West Germany, Chancellor
Helmut Kohl told the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung that he had no
desire to attend the D-Day events,
denying reports he had requested an
invitation.
Alois Merles, minister of state,
warned the United States, Britain
and France against turning the anni
versary of the Allied landing into a
“day of estrangement” that would
make West Germans feel like “the
nation of the guilty.”
Germans from the 6th Par
atrooper Regiment laid a wreath
Monday at an American memorial
service and then chatted and shook
hands with Americans they battled
on the beaches during the invasion.
In Moscow, the Soviet press Tues
day dismissed the D-Day invasion as
a minor operation that had no deci
sive effect on the war.
In Today’s Battalion
local
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Texas history written by Texas A&M University history
professor Walter Buenger, , Ty- 'rT^Tf 'xl
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State
♦ Dallas school officials are investigating to determine
if teachers helped some third-grade stodems cheat on their
achievement tests.
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National
♦ President Reagan lunches with the Queen Elizabeth
at Buckingham Palace, then meets with Prime Minister
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