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Bill Hi ii» Iran, Iraq agree to limited cease-fire See page 4 ^ '' ■ Supreme Court rules 1 GOP to publicize ■ on sobriety testers 1 Governor's promises Seepages 1|| See page 6 Texas A&M ^ ^ « m The Battalion • to trade right deal, lie Los An^ e Leafs, Mi, "g Harifoti B1 ack Haul ' n ?t: Serving the University community generally ( ->f the crop,; not rated u Vol. 79 No. 157 CISPS 045360 10 Pages College Station, Texas Tuesday, June 12, 1984 st sought alii ‘no Hoclt ‘ Muller fr® Shawn Bit uigers andli Olympic teaj likely to beit ilmond fro; m, Al lain! Ils and Syln Remparts. ias refused; iber of lean alien Vadios imager, in a election. Muse named Akron head Texas A&M University System Vice Chancellor William V. Muse has been named president of the University of Akron, effective Sept. 1. The board of trustees for the 27,000-sludenl Ohio university formally selected Muse Monday to succeed Dr. D. J. Guzzetta who has reached mandatory retire ment age. “I have enjoyed being asso ciated with the Texas A&M Uni versity System, and this has been excellent experience for me,” Muse said following announce ment of his selection for the Ohio position, “but the University of Akron presidency offers an excit ing new challenge, and I am looking forward to assuming the responsibility.” System Chancellor Arthur G. Hansen said Muse is “most de serving of the opportunity to head a large university.” “We obviously regret losing someone of Dr. Muse’s ability and character,” Hansen said, “but he is well qualified for the responsibi lities that he will be assuming and all of us here wish him well in deed.” Muse, 45, has served as the Texas A&M University System’s vice chancellor for academic pro grams since Feb. 1, 1983. He pre viously served three years as Texas A&M University’s dean of business administration. Four Generations Photob y DeanSaito ar il >sses Ida Mae Walker (seated), of College Station, celebrated her 90th birthday Saturday afternoon in the Ramada Inn pent house with friends and relatives. Surrounding her (left to right) are: great grandson Jefferey McDonald, of Temple; daughter Evelyn Hewett, of Van Buren, Ark.; and grand daughter Linda McDonald, of Temple. Education topics debated Senate inspects proposals United Press International AUSTIN — After a week of House committee debate on educa tion reform proposals, the Texas Senate took its first official look Monday at the No. 1 issue of the spe cial legislative session. The 31-member Senate split into four subcommittees to examine dif ferent topics of education reform. During one subcommittee hear ing on proposals for an appointed State Board of Education, the super intendent of Dallas schools said the current 27-member elected board often ignored the education policies set by the Legislature. “Because we have a large board, there is a tendency to change the leg islative intent or for it to be watered down,” said DISD superintendent Linus Wright. A member of H. Ross Perot’s edu cation committee, Dr. Emmett Con rad of Dallas, testified the elected board was more concerned with pol itics “than what’s best for our chil dren.” But Austin lawyer Will Davis, a member of the state board, spoke in favor of retaining the elected body. “The schools really belong to the people, they don’t belong to the gov ernor,” Davis said. “I think we ought to keep them in the hands of the people.” The House Public Education Committee, which gathered public testimony on education reforms last week, Monday canceled its first scheduled work session aimed at producing a bill for House floor de bate later this week. Chairman Bill Haley, D-Center, reportedly was late in putting to gether a redrafted version of his ed ucation bill and delayed the meeting until Tuesday. The House Ways and Means Committee discussed the compli cated mechanics of school financing and equalization aid Monday, hear ing from Education Commissioner Raymon Bynum and Texas Re search League President Jared Hazleton, who offered their views of the best ways to finance public edu cation. Hazleton advocated a “Robin Hood theory” that would give much less state funds to school districts with high tax bases. Bynum said at least two-thirds of equalization funding should go to help poor school districts enrich the salaries of teachers currently on the payroll or to hire more teachers. Hart, Jackson testify on platform United Press International ASHINCTON — Cary Hart mildly jabbed at Walter Mondale Monday as the Democratic Platform Committee began its final public hearings, calling on Democrats to re ject the traditional “promise-every- thing-to-everyone” approach. Hart also called on the committee to reject protectionist trade policies such as the domestic content bill, which requires a certain portion of foreign cars to be manufactured in the United States, and which Mon dale strongly supports. “Avoid a protectionist policy based on the domestic content bill,” Hart said. But Hart generally held to his promise to work for party unity while still not giving up his bid for the Democratic presidential nomi nation. He never attacked Mondale directly. Rival candidate Jesse Jackson, however, renewed his attack on the delegate selection process, which he said disenfranchised two-thirds of those who voted for him. The committee scheduled two days of hearings Monday and Tues day, the last of a series held around the country. A drafting committee begins Sunday writing the main doc ument for presentation to the com mittee. Hart press secretary Kathy Bush- kin said, following his testimony, that the key points of contention be tween Hart and Mondale in drafting the document will be trade and in dustrial policy. Bushkin criticized Mondale for failing to appear at the hearing, say ing, “I think it’s foolish for a leader of the party not to come in and pre sent views on a platform that he might be running on.” Mondale, having claimed he now has enough national convention del egates to win the nomination, is va cationing on New York’s Long Is land. An aide at the hearing said Mondale takes the platform “very se riously” and “We’ll be sure to have our views known.” Hart has repeatedly accused Mon dale of promising everything to ev eryone. “If we simply cling to the policies of our own party’s past, we will only repeat our own failures,” Hart said.“The only way to win is daring to be bold and brave once again.” Jackson, who testified following Hart, continued his criticism of the party’s delegate selection process, saying many of his supporters have been “locked out of the convention,” which will be held in San Francisco in July. Blacks, Hispanics, women and ho mosexuals cannot be brought into the political mainstream if their votes mean less than others, he said. Cable squabble concerns residents By KARI FLUEGEL Staff Writer The Bryan-College Station com munity has been in an uproar since McCaw/Midwest Communications Companies, Inc. announced some of the proposed changes to be enacted after its purchase of Community Ca- blevision and Midwest Video is com pleted. Because of the purchase, resi dents in the area may find themsleves having to adjust to seve ral changes. Apartment residents, who in the past paid only rent and utilities, may soon find themselves paying rent, electricity and cable or higher rent. Area residents can also expect to see a rate increase from the current $6 a month subscription fee. Not only will the takeover affect the pocketbook, cable subscribers will also find a new channel line-up available. Also, residents will find that their “cable ready” televisions will have limited access depending on the cable package purchased. Such changes in the cable system and services have sparked a lot of discussion and interest. “I think it is very easy to under stand why there is a high degree of interest,” Midwest Regional Vice President for McCaw Joseph Di- Bacco said. “People primarily consume cable television during their ‘leisure time.’ That is, time they earn by working 40 plus hours a week. Anytime there is a change to how they can use their leisure time, it creates a lot of inter est among the people.” It is not atypical for such concern to be expressed, DiBacco said. Any change in line-up usually creates a stir, he said. “I think it is a really good oppor tunity for everybody to stop and think what they have been getting in their basic service and to have some imput and say so about it,” DiBacco said. “Up to this point (when McCaw purchased the two companies) they have had no say so, so I think it has been very healthy for the commu nity to be involved in the dialogue on what services will be involves in the basic service.” One method employed by McCaw to gain subscriber imput was run ning an advertisement in the May 27 Bryan-College Station Eagle asking subscribers to pick six channels to be included in the basic package. KBTX (channel 3/CBS in Bryan- College Station), KCEN (channel 6/NBC/ABC in Waco), KAMU (channel 15/PBS in Bryan-College Station), a government access chan nel and an education access channel will automatically be included in the McCaw line-up in addition to the six most popular channels from the bal loting to form a base for the final ca ble line-up. Friday is the deadline for voting. Already, McCaw has received almost 3,000 ballots from area viewers. The most recent tally has the top six listed as channel 13 leading with 2,260 followed by channel 20 with 2,120, channel 39 with 2,046, chan nel 11 with 1,464, channel 2 with 1,362 and channel 36 with 968. Other channels follow Christian Broadcast Network (CBN), 947; The Nashville Network, 943; American Christian Television (ACTS), 851; The Weather Channel (TWC), 850; Channel 7, 772; channel 24, 725; The Learning Channel, 241; Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN), 159; C- SPAN (the United States House of Representatives), 150; Dow Jones Wire Service, 92; Spanish Interna tional Network (SIN), 77; and Black Entertainment Television (BET), 33. “I am ecstatic about the input, frankly,” DiBacco said, “because the more input obviously the more likely we are to capture the ‘consensus’ opinion.” DiBacco also said he was suprised the voting showed viewers preferred more duplication than diversifica tion. Because of the differences in the programming of Community and Midwest, no matter what McCaw would have to make changes in line up, DiBacco said. The final line-up will depend on the reaction of cities’ staffs, he said. See Cable page 3 S g & short N ALE om ,r Loco! resident celebrates 90 years In Today’s Battalion By SUZANNA YBARRA Reporter Ida Mae Walker remembers 1918 as her best year. It was the year she and her husband Waldo Walker moved from Macon, Mo., to Texas. A lot of time has passed since she and her husband rented their first apartment in Bryan for $15 a month. Mrs. Walker celebrated her 90th birthday Saturday with a party in the Ramada Inn penthouse. She also bought herself a new brick house. Looking more like one of her younger 75 or 80-year-old friends, Walker passed her favorite birthday cards to her 40 friends and family at the party. President Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan sent their best wishes, as did Vice President George Bush. Gov. Mark White, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and Rep. Phil Cramm also sent cards. “I got 36 birthday cards, not counting my political ones,” she said. A graduate of the Chicago School of Nursing-by correspondence, Walker worked at Bryan Hospital (now Creenleaf Hospital) from 1918 to 1923. “Medical science has come a long way,” she said. “There were no anti biotics back then.” She always kept a medical diction ary by her side while she was nursing soldiers in World War I. “Whenever they (the doctors) would say stuff I didn’t understand, I’d look it up,” she said, then laughed. “There’s more than one way of choking a cal.” After leaving nursing in 1923 to raise her son Chester Walker, who died in 1974, Walker and her hus band hired Texas A&M College stu dents to help on the farm in Well born. The farm ran from the end of what is now Southwest Parkway to the presentWelch Street, where they had a dairy pasture. Quite a few students paid for school by working on the farm from 1924 to 1944, she said. A few stu dents worked for their room and board until they could afford to move on campus. “She has always stayed young and has been a mother to a good many Aggies,” said Evelyn Hewett, Walk- er’sdaughler-in-law, from Van Buren, Ark., who came to Bryan for the parly. “Everything she does is special.” Walker said she remembered a picnic she and her husband chaper oned in 1925 at the Brazos River. She was having a contest with cadet B.C. Davisto see who could shoot the most garfish. “I shot four out of the five and he didn’t hit a one,” she said, laughing. “In 1975 B.C. came back for his 50th reunion and I didn’t know him from Adam.” In 1956 — Walker’s worst year — her husband died. Walker returned to nursing at the College Hospital (now A.P. Beutel Health Center) in 1957 as a dieti cian. She retired at 70. “I guess I just eat the right foods,” she said explaining why she is in such good health. Then, resorting to “country talk,” she delivered this advice: “Don’t put nothin’ in your body that don’t be long there.” In addition to eating right. Walker is out-going and fun-loving, and that keeps her going, said her grandaughter Linda McDonald of Temple. “She could out exercise me or most of us,” McDonald said refer ring to “the bear crawl,” an exercise her grandmother did a few years ago. “You walk out on your hands while your legs are straight behind you,” she said. Until last March, Walker still drove the car she bought herself for her 80th birthday. Mrs. Walker has her own incen tive to push on: she wants to reach her biggest goal — 100. Local • The 1984-85 Texas A&M Faculty Senate met for the first time Monday and approved a list of recommended curriculum changes. See story page 3. State • A wandering motorcyclist from Georgia, who trav eled across the desert from Dallas to El Paso, now has a healthier respect for Texas tall tales. See story page 7. World • Heavy artillery and rocket Fire tore through Beirut Monday, killing at least 44 people and wounding at least 227 others in the deadliest fighting since Moslem mili tiamen seized west Beirut in February. See story page 4.