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The birds feed away from the campus during the day, but McKel vey said they return at night because the buildings provide them witli wind shelter and the campus is rela tively free of predators. “They just sack out here,” he said. “They leave at dawn. When it’s light enough to navigate, they boogie.” Porn message cut United Press International HOUSTON — An anti-pornogra phy crusader, who wanted to play a tape of a “dial-a-porn” message at the City Council meeting Wednes day, was cut short by Mayor Kathy Whitmire, who turned the woman’s microphone off. Whitmire said she did not know if turning off the microphone was censorship, but said, “I felt it was the right thing to do.” The tape-recorded message in cluded an explicit description of a homosexual sex act and concluded with an advertisement for a service that provides erotic telephone con versations for a fee. About 85 high school students were at the meeting Wednesday night and Geneva Kirk Brooks asked the mayor to have the students leave before she played the tape. Whit mire refused, saying it was an open meeting and she could not ask any one to leave. • Brooks, a vocal advocate of mea sures to protect children from obscene materials, then announced the “dial-a-porn” telephone number and started to play the tape. But Whitmire turned off Brooks’ microphone and Councilwoman Christin Hartung began talking into her microphone, making it impossi ble for anyone except those closest to Brooks to hear the tape. Hartung has asked City Attorney Jerry Smith to determine whether the council has the right to prohibit comments containing “explicit sex ual language” or other “inappro priate” language during public ses sions. ~ Councilman Jim Greenwood also asked Smith to determine if Brooks’ announcement of the telephone number violated any obscenity or pornography laws. “We ought to see if she crossed the line one time too many,” Green wood said of Brooks, who is a fre quent speaker at council meetings. Brooks, president of Citizens Against Pornography, said that to prove she had distributed pornogra phy, the city would have to demon strate the message is pornographic. White: private prisons money-saving idea United Press International AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Mark White advocated the widely used federal concept of privately owned and operated prisons Thursday as a money-sav ing alternative to building costly state prisons to relieve overcrowding. White said Texas lawmakers, facing a $900 million revenue snortfall next year, will have to consider the private prison idea as an alternative to building new state facilities. He said the private prisons would house minimum-to medium-security inmates in return for a per-day, per-inmate payment from the state. Private prisons are oeing built and run by several national corporations. The federal government spends $21 million a year to house 3,200 inmates in 300 privately-run facilities. “It is a very viable alternative, and with the reality of the budget and (the fact that) we need new prison capacity, this may be the only way we can get it,” White said at his weekly news conference. “The magic of it is you don’t have to put up $40 million for a new prison,” White said. “That’s the big up side to it.” White admitted contracting out to private entities might cost more over a long period of time than building a new state prison, but added, “When you go buy an automobile, do you pay cash now or do you pay for it over a term? When you don’t have the cash and you need the car, it’s the only way you can go.” He said he doubted the state would have problems maintaining control over the treatment of inmates in a private prison. “I’m sure you could find some abuse, but I really think that’s something you’d have to read in old novels,” he said. “I’m sure it wouldn’t be a prob lem.” He also said security would be easily handled by placing only non-vio lent inmates in private facilities. Airline making big profits, asks for labor concessions United Press International ST. LOUIS — Ozark Airlines is spending $48 million on new air planes and tripling profits while asking employees to give it conces sions designed to reduce labor costs. “I guess it’s difficult for employ ees to recognize the necessity of cost control when we’re reporting prof its,” said Edward J. Crane, Ozark’s president and chief executive, in a recent telephone interview. “We have to remain in a profitable posi tion to remain a viable carrier.” The St. Louis-based airline is pay ing $48 million for two new MD-80 jetliners. They go in service this month on Ozark flights from the Midwest to Florida. Crane said the 152-seat planes, the airline’s largest, will strengthen Ozark’s hold on the lucrative winter travel business to the Sunshine State from the frozen Midwest. Flights are being added from Ozark’s hub in St. Louis to-the Florida cities of Tampa and Orlando. “We used to be a seasonal carrier, but now that we’ve gone to the vaca tion routes, we expect to do well with our Florida routes,” Crane said. Eight of the 66 cities served by Ozark are in Florida, and Crane said more Florida cities might be added to the flight schedules. Ozark, which will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 1985, reported a third-quarter profit of just over $4 million. 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