r Pregnant? i ° ° I We can help. Pregnancy Counseling and testing 846-3199 Battalion Classifieds Call anv time Call 845-2611 Page 4/The Battalion/Thursday, July 12 LaRouche on state ballot Warped by Scott McCulla United Press International GOOD E.VEA/IA/6, I'M WRPD'S" WEATHER CRITIC, PAUL STORM, WITH A WEATHER BULLETlV. WE HAVE SOME INTERESTING AMP PAW6ER0US WEATHER OW THE WAY. LET'S LOOK AT THE RADAR MAP. First Presbyterian Church 1100 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan 823-8073 Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor Rev. John McGarey, Associate Pastor SUNDAY: Worship at 8:30AM & 11:00AM Church Schoo/ at 9:30AM College Class at 9:30AM (Bus from TAMU Krueger/Dunn 9:10AM Northgate 9:15AM Youth Meeting at 5:00PM Nursery: All Events \ SPECIAL NOTICE 2nd SUMMER SESSION OPTIONAL BOARD PLAN Students, on campus, off campus, and graduate, may dine on a meal plan during the 2nd Summer Session at TAMU. Students selecting the 7-day plan may dine three meals each day, except Sunday evening: Those selecting the 5-day plan may dine three meals each day, Monday through Friday. Meals will be served in Commons. Fees are payable to the Controller of Accounts, Fiscal Office, Coke Building. Notice dates: Commons will be open for cash business on Registration day, July 12. Meal plans will begin on the first day of class, July 13. 7 Day 5 day Fees for each plan are as follows: $215.00 $188 00 J uly 13 throu g h Au g ust 17 AUSTIN — Independent presi dential candidate Lyndon LaRouche has apparently qualified to appear on Texas’ Nov. 6 general election ballot, but the Libertarian Party failed to qualify its candidate, the secretary of state’s office said Wednesday. Spokeswoman Melinda Nickless said LaRouche, founder of the Na tional Democratic Policy Committee, turned in 45,416 petitions, but they have not been verified. LaRouche has submitted the name of Billy Davis of Laurel, Miss., as his running mate. To qualify for the statewide ballot, a minor party had to submit 31,909 signatures collected between the May 5 primary and July 9. The fig ure is 1 percent of the number of ballots cast for governor in 1982. The Libertarian Party failed to obtain enough signatures to place its presidential nominee, Costa Mesa, Calif., lawyer David Bergland, and running mate Jim Lewis of Old Say- brook, Conn., on the Texas ballot. But Honey Lanham, national di rector for the Houston-based party, said the party will file suit Friday in Houston to challenge its exclusion from the ballot. Each signatured filed with the sec retary of state was required to be ac companied by a voter registration number, and the signer must not have voted in the Democratic or Re publican primaries. She said similar challenges have succeeded recendy in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Ohio. HERE THE RADAR SHOWS A WAR/1 FRONT ON IT'S WAY AND A HIGH PRESSURE AREA UP HERE, WHICH I THINK. IS LOUSY! THE SATTE' LLITES PICKING UP SOME ENEMY SUBMARINES /N NEW ME* ICO FIXING TO ATTACK THE PAA/' ..AND HERE YOU CAN SEE THIS HUGE, SCREAMIN6 METEOR FROM OUTER SPACE THATIS GOING TO SINK THE ENTIRE STATE OF PA HO... Parents don't want to testify ‘Sacred relationship’ defendei NOW, NOW. NOT TO WORM YOU CAN'T DO ANYTH!* AD.J IT, AND NOBODY W IDAlW [ WATCH l WG THIS, RAIN TOMORROW. MCU}| OUR MOVIE. Tin Coarse certain counu p.m. M call 84! En during schetli low ei presse Guinn room. United Press International AUSTIN — An attorney for a Houston couple who refused to tes tify against their son in a murder case Wednesday asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to decide whether a parent and child’s “sacred relationship” protects them from be ing forced to testify against each other. Bernard and Odette Port each were fined $500 and jailed for six hours last month after they refused to testify before a grand jury against their 17-year-old son David, who has pleaded innocent to murder charges in the June 7 shooting death of postal carrier Debora Sue Schatz, 23. Harris County prosecutor Jim Lavine indicated Wednesday new charges of capital murder could be filed against David Port because of evidence Schatz allegedly was kid napped from her mail route before she was killed. The Ports, who reportedly failed to report to police blood stains and bullet holes found in their home the day Schatz was killed, appealed the contempt charges to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which was not expected to rule on the case for at least one week. “It is against the natural order of things and against the Constitution... to compel parents and children to turn on each other,” the Ports’ law yer, Randy Schaffer, told the state’s highest criminal appeal court. Schaffer said the same basic tenets that allow spouses to refuse to testify against each other should also apply to parents and children. He urged the court to decide the issue once and for all instead of citing legal technicalities in ruling in the Ports’ case. “All of us are someone else’s sons or daughters and a decision in this case is one we all must live with,” he said. “The relationship ofaparem child is the most sacred relai of all and no one should be foi sacrifice the other. A childisati tension or product of a parem to compel a parent to testify a child is to compel him to against a part of himself or his spouse." He said Harris County tors had overstepped the scopti grand jury investigations in for the Ports' testimony. “These people aren’t suspets some drug investigation," Sdui said. “They’re just ordinary swept into the eye of a hurra they never saw coming.’’ Lavine argued the Ports' mony was crucial to the grand investigation of Schatz’s slaying cause they were the only people could testify about evidenced in their home. R< El Paso industries oppose rate hike Th ing a 1 Festiva paved ceive a fmishe lenbur 78956 PC A Park v party bump for tm Re United Press International Sell it in Battalion Classified 845-2611 EL PASO — Representatives of 100 major industries are banding to gether to oppose a proposed $36.3 million increase in electricity rates and will join consumer groups in an effort to keep rates down, business leaders said Wednesday. Kathy Jorgensen, a spokesperson for the industial leaders, said a panel of businessmen will present a pre pared statement of their views at a news conference Friday morning. “There will be seven or eight lead ers who will form a panel to present the views of the business commu nity,” she said. “They represent 100 of the major industries of El Paso.” Jorgensen did not disclose the names of the businesses who would be participating in the criticism of El Paso Electric Co.’s rates, highest in Texas. The business leaders are not pre pared to comment on Border Steel Rolling Mills, a steel manufacturing industry owned, in part by El Paso Electric, she said. The El Paso Electric Co., through its subsidiary, Franklin Land and Resources Inc., invested $11.6 mil lion in Border Steel, including $5 million in preferred stock and $6.6 million in equipment, which was then leased back to the firm. An employee of Border Steel, who asked not to be identified, said the company would go bankrupt if the electric rates were increased. The firm’s electricity bill now amounts to $6 million a year. El Paso Electric rates are highest in Texas. Critics blame the high rates on the company’s $1 billion in vestment in the Palo Verde nuclear power plant outside of Phoenix, Ariz. Company officials, however, said nuclear power is a necessary long-term investment as traditional energy sources diminish. The statewide average for electri city bills in Texas, the businf said, is $39.57 per month for killowatls of electricity. El Paso tomers pay an average of $52.69j| month. the board, Evern Wall, defended utility’s involvement withotherffli panics. Franklin Land is basically shelter organization, permitting^ firm to defer paying taxes, he» Investments of deferred taxes | community projects will ultin) benefit the utilities’ customers, said. 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