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The Texas A&M Board of Re
gents will hold a five-day meeting
ieginning this afternoon. Among
the items to be considered is the fee
ssessment for the installment pay-
tent of student tuition.
The Board will consider the impo
sition of a $10 fee for students opt
ing to pay their fees in installments.
iUso, a $ 10 late fee for each payment
| (deadline not met will be discussed.
I The installment plan was outlined
K>y the Legislature after it passed the
union increase bill. The plan re
tires universities to allow students
p pay their tuition in one, two or
our payments.
The Board also will consider a
>lan that would make an emergency
und available to students who are
inable to pay their tuition and fees.
budget for 1985-86
of a construction
ontract will be reviewed by the
Board.
The Board will meet today and
Saturday at a Robertson County
Ranch. The remaining meetings will
)e held on campus. Sunday’s dis-
ussions begin at 3:15 p.m., while
Monday and Tuesday’s meetings
onvene at 8:30 a.m.
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Jim Cole practices his field goal kicking skills at Kyle Field Thursday morning. Cole, a transfer stu
dent from the University of Texas, is getting ready for this year’s football walk-on tryouts. Cole is
from Plano and is planning to major in Business Administration.
Unique program aids freshmen
2,600 fish expected to attend camp
By D’ANNA HEIDEMAN
Reporter
Fish Camp isn’t a camp for fish —
it’s a camp for new Aggies.
It began in 1954 when Gordon
Gay, director of YMCA Activities,
took a small group of students camp
ing in Mexia.
Today, Fish Camp is still a Stu
dent Y Association project, but it
now convenes at Lakeview Method
ist Assembly near Palestine.
One Texas A&M tradition that
dates back to the days when the
school was an all-male college, is to
call freshman “fish.”
“At Fish Camp one has the oppor
tunity to not only be infected with
the ‘Spirit’ of Aggieland, but also to
learn about the various services and
agencies of the University that can
help smooth the way to a successful
academic experience,” writes Dr.
Garland E. Bayliss, director of aca
demic services.
Fish Camp is a unique orientation
to help incoming freshman make an
easy transition from high school to
A&M.
Most universities just have a regu
lar freshman orientation program
that encompasses schedule planning
and registration, says Student Y sec
retary Janie Metzer. A&M also has
such a program.
“But Fish Camp is much more,”
she says. “It is a lot of fun.”
The four-day camp begins when
campers meet on campus and head
for East Texas on buses. Camp activ
ities include informal discussion ses
sions with upperclass counselors, in
tramural sports activities, dances
and evening campfires.
Free time also is provided so the
freshmen may enjoy two lakes, two
swimming pools and other recre
ational facilities at Lakeview Meth
odist Assembly.
Approximately 600 volunteer up
perclass counselors help the fresh
men learn about the origin and im
portance of Aggie traditions,
develop study habits, develop lead
ership qualities, share their own col
lege experiences and get a head start
on the fall semester.
The 32nd annual Fish Camp ses
sions are scheduled for Aug. 13-16,
16-20, 21-24 and 25-28 and cost $65.
Close to 2,600 “fish” are expected
to attend this year.
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The cabin of Attor
ney General Jim Mattox’s twin-en-
? ;ine airplane lost air pressure and
illed with smoke while en route to
Austin early Thursday, but the
plane landed safely and no one was
injured.
“It was a frightening experience,”
Mattox said. “In light of the other
airline disasters that have recently
taken place, I must admit I uttered a
little prayer.”
An aide said it was the second
time this year the cabin of the state-
owned, 1967 Beechcraft King Air
had filled with smoke.
The latest incident occurred
shortly after midnight as Mattox, an
aide and the pilot were returning to
Austin from Huntsville. Mattox had
been in Huntsville for the scheduled
execution of Jay Kelly Pinkerton,
who obtained a stay from the U.S.
Supreme Court just before mid
night.
“Five to seven minutes out of
Huntsville, the seal around the
doors that, in effect, maintains the
pressurization of the cabin went
out,” Mattox said.
There was “a loud, whistling, air-
escaping noise around the doors,
plus it makes your ears hurt,” he
said.
Three to four minutes later, Mat-
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tox said, “The cabin within a matter
of just a couple of seconds filled up
with a very dense smoke, smoke that
smelled like it was from an electrical
fire.
“I was sitting about four feet from
the pilot, and it was so dense you
could just barely see him.”
As they readied to make an emer
gency landing at Bryan, Mattox said,
the pilot shut down some electrical
systems. The plane began to descend
and as it neared the ground, the pi
lot opened cabin windows, clearing
out some of the smoke.
The plane was able to continue to
Austin, landing about 12:45 a.m.
“It takes a good while to get an
airplane on the ground, and you
don’t know how long you’re going to
be able to go without oxygen if that’s
what it takes,” Mattox said. “My first
thought was that we were not going
to be able to get the thing on the
ground quick enough. I was afraid
that the plane was on fire.”
Elna Christopher, Mattox’s press
secretary, said the same plane
caught fire this spring while on a
flight to San Antonio.
“As we started to land, smoke
came out from under the control
panel,” said Christopher, who was
aboard the plane with Mattox and
others of his staff. “It turned out to
be a short in the control panel light
ing.”
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5-year sentence for 2 men
convicted of slavery upheld
Associated Press
TYLER — A lawyer for tw r o men
convicted of enslaving Mexican
workers on an East Texas farm says
he will appeal a 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals ruling affirming
their five-year prison sentences.
Steven Crawford, 22, and Randall
Waggoner, 23, both of Nacog
doches, were convicted in 1983 on
21 counts of slavery, conspiracy and
transporting illegal aliens.
Tyler lawyer Weldon Holcomb
said Wednesday he will ask the U.S.
Supreme Court to review the circuit
court decision.
“We feel the defendants were
placed in a position of double jeop
ardy,” he said.
Crawford and Waggoner were
first given five-year probated sen
tences by U.S. District Judge William
Steger, who called the Mexican
workers “wetbacks” during the trial
and accused the U.S. Department of
Immigration and Naturalization of
flooding the Southwest with illegal
aliens.
“I don’t want to hear anything you
have to say,” Steger told Assistant
U.S. Attorney Chriselda Ortiz when
she tried to reply. “I don’t care what
the rules of courtroom procedure
are.”
The Justice Department appealed
Steger’s sentence, claiming he vio
lated court rules by refusing to let
Ortiz speak.
The case was transferred to the
court of U.S. District Judge William
Wayne Justice, who ordered the de
fendants to serve five-year prison
terms.
This week, the appeals court
upheld Justice’s sentence and ruled
that Steger’s sentencing was illegal.
Aliens testified at the trial that
they were starved and threatened at
gunpoint while planting pine trees
on Crawford’s farm near Center.
According to testimony, Wag
goner, acting under orders from
Crawford, packed 19 workers into a
U-Haul truck and drove them 400
miles from the border to Crawford’s
farm near Center.
Federal investigators said the
workers were forced to sleep in a 10-
by-17-foot shack without beds, run
ning water or a toilet.
Associated Press
NEW YORK — A series of major
aircraft crashes this year is bringing
heavy losses to the international avi
ation insurance business and proba
bly higher premiums for airlines, in
dustry officials said Thursday.
“They’re in big trouble writing
airline insurance,” said Sean Moo
ney, senior vice president and econ
omist at the Insurance Information
Institute.
The Japan Air Lines Boeing 747
that crashed in Japan on Monday
was the third jumbo jet to go down
with heavy loss of life in less than two
months.
The JAL accident killed 520 peo
ple, while 133 died 10 days earlier
when a Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-
1011 crashed in Dallas, and 329 died
when an Air-India 747 crashed into
the Atlantic on June 23.
At least 376 people died in other
commercial aircraft accidents this
year, not including one in China and
two in the Soviet Union.
In 1984, 224 people were killed in
15 accidents involving airplanes be
longing to the International Civil
Aviation Organization. The Mon
treal-based United Nations agency,
which has 155 members, said that
was the best year in four decades.
The impact on insurers of this
year’s fatalities, injuries and damage
to aircraft is difficult to pin down
with accuracy, said Peter O’Grady,
president of the Aviation Office of
America, an insurance consortium
based in Dallas.
But in terms of increased premi
ums, he said, “I would think that at
least 20 percent would be required”
by the end of the year.
O’Grady estimated that airlines
paid $800 million for insurances
coverage for planes and injury liabil
ity this year.
Mooney and O’Grady estimated
that coverage of aircraft and equip
ment and liability payouts for the
three latest major accidents alone
would total about $450 million.
An estimated $300 million may be
needed to pay for the earlier
crashes.
Thus, O’Grady said, “what we’re
looking at is $750 million in just ma
jor losses and $800 million in premi
ums. So you don’t have any money
left to pay for partials.”
“Partials” are smaller losses, in
cluding such things as lost baggage
and partial damage to an aircraft.
Also putting pressure on the air
lines’ insurance premiums is the
state of the large insurance consorti
ums.
General Accounting Office critical of Navy’s Gulf Coast homeport plan
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The General
Accounting Office has questioned
the Navy’s decision to station dozens
of battleships along the Gulf Coast,
saying $1 billion could have been
saved by locating them in existing
ports along the east and west coasts.
But Assistant Navy Secretary-
Chase Untermeyer said a GAO
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briefing paper “does not make any
sense at all.”
The GAO, which is conducting a
full audit of the Navy’s decision, cir-
culated a preliminary report to the
House and Senate committees on
armed services and appropriations.
The agency questioned the Navy’s
reasoning that the dispersal ot its
fleet would make the ships less vul-_
nerable to attack than leaving them
clustered in older ports.
Navy Secretary John F. Jehman
Jr. and Defense Secretary Caspar W.
Weinberger announced last month
that 29 warships will be scattered-
among nine Gulf Coast areas, in--
cluding a battleship, training aircraft
carrier, cruiser and destroyer and
guided-missile frigates and mine
sweepers.
‘T he dispensing of the ships to
these ports may not improve survi
vability of the 600-ship Navy or pro
vide a quicker response time of po
tential conflict area,” the briefing,
paper stated.
The briefing paper also stated iL
may cost $ 1 billion to build and out
fit new port facilities to take care of
the ships to be dispersed in the Gulf.
“Existing naval home ports on the
East and West coasts have the capac
ity to accommodate the 30 ships that
are to be assigned to the new ports,
without any major expansion or port
facilities,” the paper stated.
But Untermeyer said, “That is the
strangest part of all this. They know
that to accommodate a 600-ship
Navy, we have to build piers some
where. They are not built out of sillv
putty.”
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