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Wednesday, April 10, 1985
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By REBECCA ADAIR
Ife: St<i// Writer
Buesdav’s Facult) Senate run-off
I Blion provided the Senate with
I new inemhers, voted in by over
KIku/n inemhers from the can-
jidptes respet u\ e «. olleges.
Ibis )ear s election participation
was around 35 perc ent of the fac
ulty dose to last year's approximate
Rtrient.
Hu the College of Agric ulture’s
raii between Donald E Farris and
(.at > 1' Hai l foi Place I d Han won
witji lb cotes lo F;u i is JO
Blare 14 in the same college is to
Hilled by (>ai y Fb Briers, who won
^■r Edward Funkhouser by 44 to
Htiiles.
') Y'l es'ies wi\\ sev\e vr> PVace 4
foil the College ol (»eoscienees, hav^-
H deleated Dusan Djuric with 26
vuiESto hei 14.
the original race loi Place 4 in
B College ol (.eosc lenc es. three
.candidates split the 32 ballots with
|4. 9 and 9 votes. To determine
cvbich candidate winning nine votes
would go on to the runof f, the elec
Hcommittee used a lot system.
e
h
itaries
MSC
ire?
in Of
lent
AMU
)l the 62 ballots east in the race
Place .3 in the College ojj Science.
|lli,un II ICisMclus received 34
to defeat Dana P. Williams who
Beived 28 votes
■ 1 hc j College ol Veterinary Medi- •
tfie's new Senator for Place 4 will be
live Gloss, who received 38 votes to
ICssell B, Simpson s 34 \otes.
Biltese results are unofficial until
igifilfied h\ the Facultv Seriate in
lit n May meeting
lexas firms
iffected by
lankruptcy
Associated Press
four lexas financial institutions
nuotig more than 60 across the
ilation c:a ight by surprise when a
JCw Jersey government securities
acaler soughi refuge in federal
l. nkruplcy toui i.
■ Of the four lexas firms, Vernon
Havings & Loan Association of Ver-
Bion, about 50 miles northwest of Wi
Bhiia Falls, is the largest creditor
| tMthSlO.5 million at stake.
I Ibe others are (Government Ern-
Blovruent Credit L ruon of San Anto-
tiiH). Hi Plains Savings & Loan Asso-
Biaiion ol Flereford and Mainland
||avings & Loan in Houston.
Pat Malone, president of the Ver-
jton bank’s Dallas division, said his
inn holds $10.5 million in LFS.
FreasUry securities through Bevill
Pursier & Schulman Asset Manage-
nent Corp. and “we are taking legal
feinedies now to gei those securities
returned to us. ' -
“We feel theie will be, if any, a
minimal loss that will occur, he said
there were to be a loss, it
uldn't have a material impact on
the net worth of Vernon Savings &
nan Association."
Japanese will
open markets
to U.S. trade
Associated Press
TOKYO — Japan announced a
three-year plan Tuesday to open its
markets to foreign products. Prime
Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone urged
his people to buy imported goods,
saying a trade war would bring eco
nomic disaster upon them.
No quick results were expected
from the Japanese plan, and initial
reaction from'the United States was
muted. Congress, frustrated by a
$37 billion U.S. trade deficit with Ja
pan in 1984, has demanded the
United States retaliate if Japan does
not ease trade barriers.
The Japanese also stressed the
need to reduce the dollar’s value
against the yen, which contributes to
the trade imbalance by making Japa
nese products cheaper to the con
sumer and U.S. goods more expen
sive.
Japan’s three-year program deals
with telecommunications, electronics
and other major trade areas of most
concern to the United States.
Nakasone urged the Japanese, in
a nationally televised speech and
news conference after the program
was announced, to “please buy for
eign products.”
He said Japan must move rapidly
toward freer trade because “terrible
depression and unemployment”
would result if such trading partners
as the United States took protection
ist measures. Japan has few natural
resources and its economy is built on
industrial exports.
Japan had an overall trade sur
plus of $44.2 billion last year, $36.8
billion of it with the United States.
Congress has called for sanctions un
less Japan makes it easier for Ameri
can goods to enter its markets and
redress the balance.
The report on “external economic
measures” issued Tuesday includes
the plan to open markets and says an
outline of the program will he com
pleted by J uly
In the package are pledges
pt foreign clinical test dat
to ac
cept foreign cluneal test data for
medical equipment, eventually to
lower tariffs on plywood products,
to simplify technical standards for
computer equipment and to ease the
wav for the purchase of American
communications satellites.
It also promises greater freedom
for foreign lawyers to practice in Ja
pan, another U S. demand; more
Japanese aid to developing natrons,
and attention to tire interests of
Southeast Asia and Europe in future
tariff cuts.
The United Stales sees telecom
munications, electronics, medical
See JAPAN, page 11
Skull Crusher
Photo by ANTHONY S. CASPER
Democrats bill
Stroke for votes
High-flying Kevin Von Erich lets loose on
Texas State Wrestling Champ, the Hand
some Half-breed, Gino Hernandez, Tuesday
night at the Brazos County Rodeo Arena.
Von Erich won the contest which was spon
sored by the Bryan Jaycees in cooperation
with the Paris, Texas, Jaycees, KTAW,
McCaw Cablevision and Miller High Life.
The Bryan Jaycees are looking into the pos
sibility of offering professional wrestling to
the area -on a semi-annual basis with the
money made going to local charities.
Battleship Texas
Gift shop closing down to upgrade image
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Would you like to
own a toothpick holder inscribed
Battleshii
with the
Texas? Flow
snip
about 18,451 matchbooks, or a set of
cufflinks featuring the famous ves
sel? Now’s your chance the state is
getting out of the memorabila busi
ness.
I he Battleship Texas, veteran of
two Wars, is docked at the San Ja
cinto Battleground near Houston
and: is open to tourists.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife De
partment, which operates and main
tains the floating tourist attraction,
decided in 1983 to close a gift shop
on the vessel, and officials said the
state has no plans to get back into the
tourist trinket business.
As a result, about 1,600 different
items are now offered for sale by
sealed hid.
There is a catch, though; the suc
cessful bidder has to buy all of the
trinkets.
The memorabilia include 18,451
matchbooks featuring a picture of
the battleship and 2,168 key rings in
scribed with the ship name.
There also are 151 salt and pep
per shakers, 720 toothpick holders,
and 27 bronze ashtrays.
Those items make sense for a bat
tleship souvenir store, say officials,
but what they can’t explain is the 19
clam-shaped piggy banks or the col
lection of costume jewelry.
“I don’t know what the hell that
has to do with the Battleship Texas,
but we have it,” said Dan Flarrison,
superintendent of the docked
warship.
Texas is attempting to renovate
the battleship and it was decided to
remove the gift shop.
“We are trying to bring the ship
up to the standards it. was at in 1944
and the interpretive people felt a gift
shop was not appropriate,” said Har
rison.
By MEG CADIGAN
Reporter
A $260,000 bill from the Brazos
Valley Democratic Party to the
Texas Republican Party was un
veiled at a press conference Tues
day.
In October 1984, l exas Republi
can Party Chairman George Strake
said he would pay $1,000 for each il
legal vote cast in Brazos County, said
Ron Gay, chairman of the Brazos
County Democratic party.
Gay pointed out that in a recent
Brazos Valley Court decision 260
votes were found to be cast illegally
in the November 1984 election. Stu
dent votes were said to account for
80 percent to 90 percent of the ille
gal votes.
“Mr. Strake, it's time to pay up,”
Gay said. “We will accept cash,
checks, and major credit cards.”
The number of illegal votes af
fected the outcome of the November
race for Brazos County Sheriff be
tween Republican candidate Ron
Miller and Democratic candidate
Howard Hill. The results were de
clared void April 2 by State District
Judge Arth .tr Lesher of Houston.
Since neither Miller, who won the
November race by 162 votes, nor
Hill was the incumbent sheriff, the
office of Brazos County Sheriff is
open and an interim sheriff should
be appointed, Cay said.
“Mr. Miller shouldn’t be allowed
to serve an office until this matter is
resolved,” said Gay.
Lesher ordered a special election
to be held on the earliest possible
date allowed by Texas law, which is
August 10, 1985. Miller will serve as
sheriff until the special election is
held.
Miller has appealed the case and
the appeals court could postpone the
election until it reviews the case.
Classes do not begin at Texas
A&M until Sept. 2; therefore, many
students will not be present to vote
in the election. Gay said he feels it is
impossible to choose a day when ev
eryone would be able to vote.
“No matter what day is chosen for
the election, it won’t be convienient
for the entire voting public,” Gay
said.
Fie said the decision to have the
election in August was a nonpartisan
decision made by the court.
Students will be able to vote ab
sentee if the August election takes
place.
ut-of-state students fighting tuition hike
By JEFF L. BRADY
Stuff Writer
Out-of-state students at lexas
I A&M are battling to keep the Texas
[legislature from boosting their tu
I “If sou were
m our posit ion, how
■ would sou Ice
1?” asks
Maty Ellen
■Cull, president
of the Out-ol-State
at 8:30 P'" 1
■Student Assoc i;
nion.
[ “Right nosv
ii seems
like every-
<e(
■ one’s hands are
tied and
nobody can
■ do amthing.’
she savs.
“But there
\
■ has to be someone svho t
an step out.
1 help us and tell
us we r e
not freeioa-
Society ^ J.
■ ders.
A bill sponsoi
ed b\ state Rep. Wil-
Iheimina Delco
svil! hike
in-state tu-
ition to $8 per semester hour and
out-ol-state tuition to $ 120 per hour,
if approved without change.
In addition, many out-of-state tu
ition exemptions will be struck down
completely, Cuff says.
The result could be a jump in tu
ition from $4 per semester hour (for
an out-of-state student paying in
state tuition) to $120 per semester
hour (for the proposed out-of-state
tuition), or an increase of 3,000 per
cent.
(George Torrez, a staff member of
the legislature’s Higher Education
Committee, points out that the cur
rent form of Delco’s bill includes
many measures added on the House
Hoot that Delco does not favor.
The result could be a jump in tuition from $4 per se
mester hour (for tin out-of-state student paying instate
tuition) to $120 per semester hour (for the proposed
out-of-state tuition), or an increase of3,000 percent.
Torrez, special assistant to Rep
resentative Delco, sa\s he agrees
with congressional attempts to gen
erate emergency funds. But savs
“the legislature is not going about it
in a responsible way.”
He savs the legislature’s intent was
to generate more money to cover the
state budget after a sudden drop in
expected oil revenue.
He also points out that 25 percent
of all tuition revenues would circu
late back into financial aid under
Delco’s original plan.
“To come up with that kind of
money in three months is practically
impossible,” Cuff says.
“I don’t have that much further to
go,” She adds. “I can make it — take
18 hours and graduate. But some
people are much worse off.”
Cuff points out, however, that her
organization is not against all forms
of a tuition increase.
“There’s no question about it,” she
says. “It needs to go up.”
What concerns her organization.
Cuff says, is the dramatic increase
students already attending the Uni
versity will experience.
Non-resident students at most
other state universities pay twice as
much as residents, she says. But at
Texas A&M, non-residents would be
paying more than 10 times the in
state tuition.
She admits, however, that many
students may still find Texas A&M
to be the best bargain for a quality
education.
' It’s still cheaper for some out-of-
state people to come here than to go
to their own state schools,” she says.
Cuff has collected 393 signatures
in the last two weeks on a petition
advocating a reduced percentage in
crease for non-resident student tu
ition.
Another option, she suggests,
would be to work a grandfather
clause into the Delco Bill, so that
those students already enrolled
would not be affected.
See TUITION, page 11