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Wednesday, April 24, 1985/The Battalion/Page 3 ctatf anh i nr* a i ing is? tore imitatioii e thelimitsol 'ts indicating d; why s have any in hes per load ng repairman t'es and ” I asked. Ht and wandered j posed to use othes fit in die ssuniptionsol re sure to end e involved. i all aspects ol on can cure a imore jouro columnist k sat reedom is at is list is someone uncertain. Op r, and not just inerica, is irra' hs after a ^resident, Con' he name of removed tk policy: support is. mnist for Tbt Billboards House OKs bill requiring cities to compensate for sign removal Associated Press AUSTIN — The House voted 82- 61 Tuesday to require cities to com pensate owners of billboards that are ordered removed as a result of city ordinances aimed at controlling such signs. “This is a bill that protects the in dividual's right to own and maintain property against overreaching gov ernment,” said bill sponsor Bill Mes ser, D-Belton. Also Tuesday, the House gave fi nal approval to Brownfield Rep. Jim Rudd’s fee hike bill, which would bring the state $106 million over the next two years and help balance the appropriations bill scheduled for House debate Wednesday. The fee bill, on its way to the Sen ate, would raise the cost of a four- year drivers’ license from $ 10 to $ 12, increase the cost of personalized li cense plates from $25 to $40 and raise a variety of other state fees. The billboard measure, which faces another House vote, also gives the state the power to regulate bill boards in unincorporated areas. Messer complained that city ordi nances against billboards amount to unfair confiscation of existing bill boards. In lieu of compensation, some cities allow illegal billboards to remain up for several years so the owner can continue to make money. That does not go far enough, said Messer, who wants compensation in the form of cash payments, tax abatements or other benefits. In 1983, Gov. Mark White vetoed a similar bill approved by the House and Senate. Messer told the House that White told him he “will make his decision when it gets there” this year. The lengthy floor debate included a series of amendments, most of which were killed. The debate on state regulation in unregulated areas boiled down to a discussion of the relative merits of billboards. “1 don’t like driving along looking at billboards,” said Messer. “I’d rather look at wildflowers. But it is property.” ' lllii SB Js Court split on rights of mentally retarded Associated Press WASHINGTON — For the sec ond time in five weeks, an appar ently divided Supreme Court grap- plea publicly Tuesday with a dispute over a Texas community’s exclusion of a group home for the mentally re tarded. The court must decide whether the rights of 13 prospective residents of a group home for mentally re tarded people were violated when Cleburne, Texas, officials banned the home from a neighborhood where boarding houses, apartment houses and nursing homes could lo cate. The court’s decision, expected by July, could alter significantly the le gal rights of the nation’s mentally^re- tarded, reaching beyond the “home movement” aimed at removing such people from large institutions. A second round of arguments was ordered by the court after Justice Lewis F. Powell missed the March 18 argument session while recuperating from surgery. Speculation has centered on the possibility that the court’s eight other justices were so closely divided in the case that they scheduled Tues day’s argument session to assure Powell’s participation. Powell shed his usual courtroom reserve to pose several questions to both lawyers. He quizzed Earl Luna of Dallas, Cleburne’s lawyer, about the wisdom of a city ordinance that lumps the mentally retarded in the same cat egory as “alcoholics, drug addicts and the insane.” And he pointedly asked Renea Hicks of Austin, the lawyer rep resenting the corporation seeking to locate the group home in Cleburne, about potential “overcrowding” there. Association of Former Students to get award The Graduate Student Council will present the George W. Kunze Award to the Association of Former Students today because of the asso ciation’s service to graduate stu dents. Graduate Student Council mem ber Martha Miller said the Former Students’ Association was chosen for the award because of the financial assistance it has provided many graduate students. The George W. Kunze award was created by the 1983-84 Graduate Student Council to honor those or ganizations or indiduals who have given outstanding help to graduate students. Kunze, a La Grange native, was Dean of the Graduate College of Texas A&M from September 1968 to August 1984, a longer than usual term for a graduate dean, said Jane Thompson, Kunze’s secretary dur ing his administration. The Giad- uate College really began to grow in large numbers under Kunze’s ad ministration, Thompson said. During his tern as dean, Kunze created an automated gradute stu dent record system. Thompson said A&M operated with this type of sys tem before most other graduate col leges. The award was presented for the first time in May 1984 to Janet C. 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