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By Teri Balog
Reporter
Councilman James Bond led
the discussion on the up-keep
and safety of the public restrooms
during the College Station City
Council meeting Thursday night.
Bond saitl that the parks
should be used and that clean and
safe restrooms need to be avail
able to the public. The Parks and
Recreation Department should
also show some concern, he said.
Steve Beachy, Parks and Recre
ation Department’s director,
agreed.
“7'he restroom issue is a gen
eral headache,” he said. This
seems to be an annual problem.”
Bond, suggested the bath
rooms be left opened for the pa
trons.
Beachy said 1 open restrooms
collect litter and are a cleaning
problem. And a vandalism prob
lem exists also.
Beachy agreed with Bond’s
idea but wanted maintainence
personnel hired to answer ques
tions and to keep the facilities
clean.
Blit “that would cost $72,()()() to
staff the nine facilities," and is not
necessary. Bond said. He insisted
that there must be an answer
somewhere.
The Parks and Recreation De
partment's salaries for mainta-
nence workers in the south dis
trict were brought to the
attention of the council by Sher
rie Knoepfel, south district main-
tanence supervisor.
Knoepfel, said she will be mov
ing to Houston but would like to
help her co-workers by showing
the council that several of her co
workers’ families with three or
fewer children are receiving
emergency food allotments be
cause of their low wages.
Councilman T erri Tango said
that the B'/j to 7percent merit
settle pay raise can not be used to
increase these salaries, it hits to be
evenly distributed throughout
the city or not at all.
In other business, the council:
• A p p r o v e d the 198 5
statement of community devel
opment objectives and projected
use of funds.
• Approved the resubdivision
plat of Chimney Hill retail plaza
subdivision.
• Approved an amendment
allowing the State Department of
Highways to set speed limits for
the East Bypass, SH 6.
• (Canceled the ten-foot utility
easement in the Schick Addition.
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Madonna
Photographer loses suit to get back
nude pictures of singer from magazine
Associated Press
BROWNSVILLE — The wife of a photographer
who sued Penthouse magazine to keep it from pub
lishing nude photos of superstar Madonna said Thurs-
rday she didn’t think the case would get so complicated.
Susan Kulkens and her husband, Herman, who took
the photographs of the singer-actress before she cat-
lapulted to fame, lost the first battle Thursday in an at-
; tempt to get the photos back from Penthouse.
“It’s just more involved,” Susan Kulkens said. “I
thought it would be very easy. Send them some photo
graphs. They decide whether they liked them or not.
They’d say let’s sign a contract.
“We sign a contract and then in another month or
two the pictures would be in a magazine and that would
be all there is to it.”
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Instead, the Kulkenses have waged a legal battle
^against the magazine and its publisher Bob Guccione,
^whom Mrs. Kulkens calls a “very clever businessman.”
The couple argued that they sent the magazine 22
photos taken in 1977 for inspection, but that no price
was discussed. They recently received $25,000 from the
magazine, but contend the photos are worth more than
$100,000.
Meanwhile, Playboy and Penthouse magazines have
een racing to hit the streets first with nude photos of
Madonna, whose song credits include “Like a Virgin,”
“Material Girl,” and “Crazy For You.” She also recently
reared in the movie, “Desperately Seeking Susan.”
lone of Herman Kulkens’ photos are in those publi
cations’ most recent issues, his wife said Thursday.
Also Thursday in New York, U.S. District Judge
John F. Keenan refused to bar Penthouse from pub
lishing the Kulkens’ shots, if it chooses, in a future issue.
But he said the case could still go to trial, and Pent
house might owe the Kulkenses damages if they even
tually prove that it lacked the rights to the pictures.
Herman Kulkens has been on a biking trip since
Monday and his wife said he would return to
Brownsville Friday.
“When my husband comes home, we’ll decide
whether we’re going to go to court with it or whether
we’ll settle,” Mrs. Kulkens said.
Kulkens photographed Madonna in 1977 while she
was still a student at the University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor. Kulkens said she decided to send off the pic
tures because she was proud of her husband’s work.
“He’s not crazy about the publicity,” Mrs. Kulkens
said about her husband.
She said she doesn’t have any regrets about sending
the photos to the magazine.
“I regret that it is taking this long,” she said. “I regret
what happened with Penthouse. I regret that because I
think what happened wasn’t right.
“If my husband’s pictures are published I won’t re
gret any of it. It will be worth it.”
Conwell says
his notoriety
is transient
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Allyn Conwell says
several pounds of letters have piled
up for him at the post office, but he
insists his notoriety as spokesman for
fellow captives of TWA Flight 847 is
fleeting.
“Given a few weeks of me being
out of the country, if you mention
‘Allyn Conwell,’ tne most common
response will be, ‘Who?’” he said
Wednesday.
Conwell, 39, was the controversial
spokesman for fellow American cap
tives during the Beirut crisis.
He has drawn criticism for speak
ing sympathetically during his cap
tivity of more than 700 Israeli-held
Shiites. The release of those Shiites
was demanded by the two men who
hijacked the plane and by the Amal
militia that kept the hostages for the
last 15 days of the incident.
When the freed American hos
tages returned to the United States,
it was TWA pilot John Testrake —
not Conwell — who has spoken on
behalf of the group.
Conwell has said the statements
he made during his captivity were
misconstrued.
“I worded my statements very
carefully, because of my awareness
of the feelings” of the other captives,
he said. “I think time will bear out
that the statements I made . . . for
the hostages were very accurate,”
Conwell said.
He said he will fly sometime this
week to Greece, the home of his
wife’s parents, where he and his
family will relax for a week. After
that, the Conwells will return to the
Middle East, where Conwell is work
ing.
Conwell has worked for the past
year in Muscat, Oman, as general
manager for Houston-based Enterra
Oil Field Services. He said he is be
ing transferred to another Middle
East location, which he declined to
divulge.
Conwell was flying from Athens,
the home of his in-laws, to the Mid
dle East when the plane was hi
jacked. He has been visiting with rel
atives in Houston — his native town
— since his release.
Conwell said that letters for him
have been stacking up at the post of
fice and that he intends to answer
every one of them eventually.
Asked about the numerous offers
he has received for magazine arti
cles, books and television appear
ances, he said he is keeping his op
tions open.
“It’d be hard not to consider
them,” he said. I may be open to
something of that nature in the fu
ture.” “Someone has even men
tioned a movie, but I’m not taking
that too seriously.”
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Police beat
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wmed to the University Police
ient through July 10:
EMKANOR THEFT-
• Nine bicycles were stolen
horn different locations.
• Five wallets, two purses and
■ 1 kbook were stolen from dif-
locations.
• A satchel was stolen from
te Engineering Research Build-
■ag.
« A digital watch was stolen
from Milner Hall.
• Two tires were stolen from a
| 1980 Chevrolet truck.
THEFT:
• Six 19-inch color television
. were stolen from the Vcterh
'Administration Building.
.ELONY THEFT:
| • A Rolex watch was stolen
S <lf bug on the Texas
Course.
State Board of Education
temporarily passes ‘exit test’
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The State Board of
Education gave preliminary appro
val Thursday to an “exit test” that
high school students must pass be
fore receiving a diploma.
However, the plan, which must be
formally approved again by the 15-
member board Saturday, was mod
ified to allow students in some
schools to skip some of the 72 ques
tions.
Jon Brumley of Fort Worth said,
“I think we have done everything we
could possibly do to follow the Legis
lature’s instructions. I think we have
balanced equity and quality as well as
we could.’
of Texas As-
inimum Skills tests
The
sessment
11-1 approval
it of Minimui
came after a two-hour closed session
then another hour of debate over
the public vote.
Rebecca Canning, the member
who voted against approval, said the
test should challenge students. Can
ning failed in an attempt to require
all students to answer more of the 72
questions.
The new test is the result of the
major school reform bill passed by a
special session of the Legislature last
summer. It will be given first this Oc
tober to 11th graders. If a student
fails, there will be three more
chances to take the test before fin
ishing the 12th grade.
Board member Carolyn Crawford
of Beaumont suggested that the ap
proved test was too strict and a test
now given at the 9th grade level
should be used at least the first year.
But Kirby said the Texas Education
Agency staff didn’t believe the cur
rent 9th grade test would fulfill the
Legislature’s requirements.
Kirby estimated that about three-
fourths of Texas students would be
able to pass the new test this fall and
that only 25 percent would need
help.
The commissioner said the pro-
posed test will have 72 questions on
mathematics and language arts.
Of that number, he said 20 math
problems and eight language arts
questions may not have been studied
because new school curriculum laws
don’t take effect until this fall.
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DEL RIO — Law enforcement
agents in Texas and California are
searching for the operators of the
first Ecstasy drug lab seized since the
designer drug was banned July 1.
The lab was seized aboard a twin-
engine charter plane Friday at the
Del Rio International Airport, offi-
ialssaid.
‘It’s the first Ecstasy lab seized in
the United States since the new law
making the drug illegal went into ef
fect July 1,” said Bill McDonald,
Drug Enforcement Administration
agent in charge of Eagle Pass, Texas.
The dismantled lab, worth about
$50,000, had been broken into
thirds and was en route from Oak
land, Calif., to Belize. The equip
ment had been under surveillance at
the airport since June 30, McDonald
said.
“We were hoping someone would
come by and pick it up,” he said.
DEA agents waited five days.
Then, with the help of Department
of Public Safety troopers and Del
Rio police, hauled the lab away in
two moving vans to an undisclosed
location.
McDonald said the lab, being
transported in boxes, could be reas
sembled into one large lab or three
smaller ones.
Ecstasy, the common name for
methylene dioxymethyl ampheta
mine, is a synthetic hallucinogen that
produces the same effects as am
phetamines.
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