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United Press International
NEW YORK — President Reagan
courted Catholic voters Thursday at
apolitical showcase dinner his Dem
ocratic rival declined to attend, but
he set aside the one-liners of four
years ago for a somber speech refer-
ig to death and the 1981 attempt
inis life.
Taking time out from prepara-
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Sunday night, Reagan steered clear
of partisan rhetoric as the guest of
honor at the Alfred E. Smith $300-
)er-person charity bash sponsored
>y the archdiocese of New York and
attended by some 2,000 people.
The dinner has been a political
howcase since 1960.
Reagan paid tribute to the late
Cardinal Terence Cooke, arch-
dshop of New York who died of
lancer last year.
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tet in a series of opportunities to
hare the limelight with Archbishop
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ermed Walter Mondale’s “big snub”
jju )f the dinner, which has been a tra-
iitional stop on the presidential
;asolmeai lampaign trail for the past 24 years.
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aid to be unhappy with Mondale,
Reagan alluded to politics only once,
lOting the dinner came “at the
reight of a season marked by differ-
nces of opinion.”
Reagan praised the dinner’s
namesake, the first Catholic to run
for president, as well as two others
nstrumental in building the event
T ^^ntoan annual gathering of the pow-
rful and prominent: the late Cardi
nal Francis Spellman, who founded
the dinner, and the late Jewish phi-
anthropist Charles Silver, who
thaired the dinner for years.
Reagan paid special tribute to
Cooke, recalling how the archbishop
isited him at the White House in
1981 “while I was recovering from
young Mr. Hinckley’s unwelcome at-
VlnLi ■ jhg presidential race in New
ork is so close that the event —
here Reagan first met President
arter in 1980 — took on added im
portance.
Efforts to have Ferraro substitute
Bor Mondale were rejected by dinner
pfficials.
Doggeft
& Gramm
at it again
United Press International
DALLAS — Republican Rep. Phil
Gramm Thursday accused his Dem-
cratic opponent, State Sen. Lloyd
loggett, of running a dirty cam
paign for the U.S. Senate, hut Dog-
gett said the only mud he was sling
ing had been made by Gramm.
The two, vying for the seat being
racated by retiring Republican John
T ower, resumed their attacks on
ach other in their second televised
debate as they have done through
put the campaign, filling the race
ith personal accusations.
Gramm accused Doggett of attrib-
ting fabricated quotes to Gramm
|that made him appear callous on is-
| sues of Social Security and aid to the
I handicapped.
In one statement, Gramm is
quoted as saying that educational
programs for the handicapped en-
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1962, Survtf
Photo by SONIA LOPEZ
Mock election results tabulated
A&M students were given a chance Wednesday to participate
in a mock election, sponsored by members of the MSC Politi
cal Forum. See results page 5.
63 claim they have
cholera symptoms
United Press International
HOUSTON — Sixty-three people
called the city Health Department
Thursday complaining of symptoms
of cholera after eating oysters within
the past five days, officials said.
The calls flooded the department
after it announced Wednesday there
was one confirmed case and two sus
pected cases of cholera in people
who ate raw oysters harvested in
American Bay in Louisiana and sold
in Houston restaurants.
Dr. James Haughton, director of
the department, said he expected
that many people did not connect
their stomach illness with eating raw
oysters until they heard news reports
of the cases.
One of the 63 people was a
woman who purchased raw oysters
at a grocery store, soft-fried them at
home Wednesday night, and then
found herself hospitalized after col
lapsing at work Thursday. Another
person also was hospitalized.
The Health Department Wednes
day began “red tagging” oysters dis
tributed by Louisiana Foods Inc. to
27 Houston restaurants. Another
Houston distributor, Dutchman’s
Seafood, told the department
Thursday that it also receives oysters
harvested in American Bay.
Health inspectors Thursday be
gan visiting the 34 restaurants sup
plied by Dutchman’s, Haughton
said.
A reg tag attached to the bags of
oysters prohibits their sale until labo
ratory tests are complete on samples.
However, Haughton said that by the
time the tests are complete, the large
stocks of oysters probably will be too
old to sell.
Cholera is a bacterial disease that
affects the gastrointestinal tract and
often is associated with eating con
taminated shellfish. Symptoms in
clude watery diarrhea, fever, occa
sional vomiting and abdominal
cramps.
Mild cases of the disease are com
mon, and the mortality rate is less
than 1 percent with proper treat
ment.
FBI agents, cops thwart
plot to rob Brink’s truck
United Press International
NEW YC)kK — More than 500
FBI agents and police, striking in
coordinated raids Thursday, ar
rested nine suspected black radicals
and thwarted a plot to free two gang
members from jail and rob a Brink’s
armored truck.
The nine members of the New Af-
rika Freedom Fighters were seized
in the early morning hours Thurs
day along with sawed-off machine
guns, a submachine gun, dynamite,
a bullet-proof vest and other weap
ons and tools police said were to be
used in the robbery and jailbreak.
The suspects — five men and four
women — were charged with con
spiracy to commit armed robbery, at
their arraignment in U.S. district
Court in Manhattan.
Authorities said the group was
linked to the bloody 1981 Brink’s
armed robbery in Nyack, N.Y., and
was planning within days the escape
of Black Liberation Army member
Donald Weems, convicted in that
$1.6 million robbery and charged in
a second Brink’s heist.
The group also was planning the
escape of former Black Panther Na
thaniel Burns, also convicted in the
Nyack heist, prosecutors said.
The FBI said it believed the group
was plotting to rob a third Brink’s ar
mored truck in New York.
“What we have here is a highly or
ganized, dedicated cell of armed
bandits,” said Assistant U.S. Attor
ney Kenneth Roth.
Roth claimed the nine w^ere “suc
cessors” to the Nyack radicals and
claimed they were dangerous and
would flee if released on bail. A deci
sion on bail was delayed until later in
the day.
The women were dressed in suits
and the men in sweatshirts and
skicks. All remained silent At the ar
raignment.
Defense attorneys spoke of family
dedication and praised educational
backgrounds in seeking release of
their clients. The attorneys said
three of the defendants are grad
uates of Harvard, Columbia and
Rutgers Colleges, and one writes ap
pellate briefs for the New Jersey
public defender’s office.
The raids netted an Uzi subma
chine gun, three sawed-off machine
guns — one concealed in a violin
case — automatic pistols and two ex
plosive devices composed of five
pounds of dynamite each, accor ding
to Lee Laster, assistant director of
the New York office of the FBI.
Laster said the New Afrika Free
dom Front was a black liberation
group seeking to form a separate na
tion in five southern states. They
were planning the robbery to fi
nance the new nation, officials said.
“We moved now to avoid any pos
sible bloodshed,” said New York City
Police Commisioner Benjamin
Ward. “Not one shot was fired.”
State rep. seeks defeat of Proposition 2
By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Staff Writer
Editor's Note: This is the third ar
ticle in a three part series on Proposi
tion 2.
While officials at universities
across the state are painting pictures
of gloom and destruction about what
happens if Proposition 2 fails in the
Nov. 6 election, at least one Texan
sees the amendment as an unneces
sary burden to taxpayers.
“Proposition 2 is a result of the ri
valry between PUF and non-PUF
schools,” State Rep. Patricia Hill said
Thursday.
What the representative is refer
ring to is a proposed amendment to
the state constitution that would re-
Pat Olsen
By KARI FLUEGEL
Staff Writer
If you grow up in the United
States, names like Ty Cobb, Babe
Ruth and Lou Gehrig seem as mythi
cal as Paul Bunyan, Johnny Apple-
seed and Pecos Bill.
But tales of Cobb, Ruth and Geh
rig aren’t found in storybooks. They
are found in history books. They
also are found in the memory of
C.E. “Pat” Olsen.
Olsen, a 1923 A&M graduate and
the person whose name Olsen Field
bears, could fill a book the size of
“War and Peace” with tales of Ruth,
Gehrig and other baseball greats. He
has known many of the historic play
ers and claims to have seen every
major event in baseball history.
“Fve seen them all,” said Olsen,
82. “At the World series you see the
structure slightly the way the Perma
nent University Fund is handled and
also would set aside a large chunk of
slate tax revenue to fund state-as
sisted universities that do not partici
pate in the PUF.
The PUF is an endowment of 2.1
million acres of oil-rich land in West
Texas that was established in the
state constitution in 1876. The fund
is used as collateral for construction
bonds.
Income from the land is invested
and the profits make up the Avail
able University Fund. The AUF pro
vides about $150 million each year
for A&M and the University of
Texas to finance building and reno
vation as well as certain enrichment
programs such as endowed faculty
has lived
best two teams there are. In the All-
Star game you see the best players
there are and in the Hall of Fame
you see the best of a lifetime.”
Last week, Olsen became a part of
baseball history when he threw out
the first ball of this year’s World Se
ries.
When Baseball Commissioner
Peter Ueberroth wanted to find an
ideal fan to represent the millions of
fans who attended baseball games
during the 1984 season, American
League President Bobby Brown sug
gested Olsen.
Olsen has seen 241 World Series
games — more than half of the 476
games played since the series started
in 1903. Olsen and his wife Elsie
haven’t missed a World Series game
since 1946.
Olsen has seen such World Series
chairs.
The $150 million is split so that
UT receives two-thirds of the money
and A&M receives one-third.
Under the proposed amendment,
other schools in the A&M and UT
systems would be eligible to receive
money from the AUF.
Total bonding capacity on the
PUF would be increased from 20
percent to 30 percent, and the AUF
revenue could be used by the schools
with increased flexibility for more
academic programs and equipment.
Non-PUF schools — such as
North Texas State University and
San Angelo State University —
would receive similar funding from
a special Education Assistance Fund.
The fund would be created from
baseball
highlights as A1 Gionfriddo’s catch
of Joe DiMaggio’s bid for a home
run in 1947; Gil McDougald’s grand
slam in 1951; Willie Mays’ great
catch in 1954; Don Larsen’s perfect
game in 1956; Bill Mazeroski’s series
winning home run in 1960; Bob Gib
son’s 17 strikeouts in 1967; Mickey
Lolich’s three victories in 1968; the
fielding wizardry of Brooks Robin
son in 1970; Carlton Fisk’s game
winning home run in 1975; and
Reggie Jackson’s three home runs in
the final series game in 1977.
He was there when baseball his
tory was being made.
After ending his All-American
pitching career at A&M in 1923, Ol
sen turned down a $50,000 bonus
from the Chicago White Sox to sign
with the minor league club in Des
Moines, Iowa. Two months later the
$ 100 million in state tax revenue au
tomatically set aside each year.
Hill says the proposition is the re
sult of a long-running feud between
PUF and non-PUF schools.
The non-PUF schools feel the rev
enue from the AUF is handled un
fairly since A&M and UT are the
only recipients of that money.
“I have no quarrel with the PUF,”
Hill said. “I think the state was very
wise to set it up the way they did 100
years ago. I don’t think, however,
that the state is now obligated to pro
vide other schools with comparable
funding. And I don’t think there’s
any discrimination in the way the
PUF is handled.
“The money A&M and UT re
ceive from the PUF doesn’t cost tax-
history
New York Yankees bought his con
tract.
Olsen signed with the Yankees the
same year as Gehrig, but never
pitched in a regular season game.
The closest he came was warming
up to start in a game against the
Washington Senators, but rain post
poned the game just before it was
scheduled to begin.
Olsen did, however, become close
friends with many of the baseball
greats. He roomed with Babe Ruth
at one time during his baseball ca
reer.
Even after Olsen quit baseball, he
remained close friends with Gehrig.
In 1939, Gehrig visited the Olsens in
Clifton only a few weeks before Geh-
See OLSEN, page 4
payers anything — that land and its
income are already there. The $100
million they want to set aside straight
off the top of the budget is going to
come from the taxpayers.”
Hill said dedicated funds such as
the one proposed in the amendment
are a bad idea.
“When you just set aside so much
money each year,” she said, “it
makes it harder to tell where that
money is really needed. The schools
should have to prove to the state
each year why they need the money
and what exactly that money will be
used for.”
Hill also said the $100 million is
See PUF, page 12
North Texas
twister kills 1
United Press International
MOUNT PLEASANT — A
tornado touched down in rural
Northeast Texas late Thursday,
killing at least one person and
damaging farm buildings and
power lines in two communities,
officials said.
The Titus County Sheriffs Of
fice said the twister touched down
in the Argo community northeast
of Mount Pleasant, about 130
miles east of Dallas, between 8:30
p.m.and 9 p.m, killing one resi
dent. No identity was available.
The twister also struck the ru
ral Lone Star community, damag
ing houses, barns and storage
buildings, power lines and trees.