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Birds take over
UT campus trees
United Press International
AUSTIN — The University of
Texas campus has been converted
into what some say could be a set for
the remake of the movie, “The
Birds.”
An estimated 40,000 migrating
grackles, blackbirds, starlings and
cowbirds have taken up temporary
residence around dormitories, cre
ating havoc with their droppings
and noisy chatter.
“There are 40,000 grackles and
3,000 pigeons going to the bathroom
simultaneously,” said David McKel-
vey, a bird expert hired by UT to get
ria of the birds. “They leave a ton of
manure on campus every night.”
“We have to put our books over
our heads at night when we walk,”
said Annette Whitworth, a freshman
from Houston. “They’re disgust
ing.”
Crews from the university’s
grounds and maintenance depart
ment are using a pistol that propels
firecracker-like explosives over the
trees where the birds roost at night.
“We’re giving them a dose of their
own medicine,” McKelvey said. “We
hope they will relocate on campus
away from the donris.”
UT has ordered a “crow gun,” a
device that makes a popping sound
and has an “AvAlarm ’ that emits
sounds that distress grackles.
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. Earnings per share were 34
cents, more than triple the perfor
mance in the corresponding period
last year.
Crane projected year-end reve
nues to total $480 million. Profits
through the first three quarters were
$12.6 million
The profitable third quarter fol
lowed a record second-quarter
profit. Such financial performances
make shareholders happy, but they
occurred while the airline was nego
tiating with three of its unions in an
attempt to reduce labor costs.
“It’s like a soap opera,” airline
analyst Robert Joedicke said of the
negotiations. “Those labor contracts
go on and on and on. The don’t ex
pire; they become extendable. Both
sides naturally posture.”
Joedicke, an analyst for Shearson
Lehman American Express Inc. in
New York, said he is not surprised
Ozark successfully negotiated con
cessions this year with union pilots
and flight attendants.
“When you’re trying to control
costs, labor understands that if you
don’t, the danger of shutting down is
present,” he said.
Talks are , underway between
Ozark and its clerical workers, me
chanics and dispatchers. A federal
mediator is supervising the negotia
tions with the clerical workers and
the mechanics.
Crane said Ozark is not seeking
across-the-board pay cuts for the air
line’s 4,000 employees, but is asking
workers to accept measures to in
crease productivity. For example,
part of the agreement with flight at
tendants includes a 7 percent reduc
tion in vacation time in 1985.
“It’s a long process, but I think it’s
working,” Crane said of the cost-
control efforts.
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