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The Battalion
Vol. 81 No. 234 CISPS 075360 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Friday, October 25, 1985
RATION
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Suspect in
stabbing
arrested
By BRIAN PEARSON
Staff Writer
■ University Police arrested Thurs-
jjda\ a man being sought by Bryan
iWice in connection with attempted
murder.
■Grady Deckard, 20, was being
sought oy Bryan Police as a suspect
in the stabbing of Richard Norton,
who is currently at St. Joseph Hospi-
| tal in stable condition. The stabbing
^occurred in Bryan Saturday.
■The arrest ended a 24-hour sta
keout by the University Police De-
■rtment. Decker was apprehended
Ineai the Physical Plant at Texas
4m.
■The stabbing occurred during a
| fight between Deckard and Norton
at Manor East Mall, said Bob Wiatt,
director of security and traffic at the
University Police Department.
■Wiatt said Bryan Police said
Wednesday that Deckard might be
staying with his girlfriend who lives
in Hobby Hall.
■“He had been staying there off
land on for the last several days,”
Piatt said. “Apparently he has no
peimanent address as far as we
llow.”
|jWiatt said he would not release
R girlfriend’s name.
■Wiatt said University Police in
plainclothes began looking for Nor
ton on campus, especially in the
Hobby area.
«)eckard was spotted and arrested
in Parking Annex 33 near the Physi-
cil Plant at about 5:30 p.m. Thurs-
da\
■Jpeckard was carrying a switchb-
lade knife at the time of arrest.
IfHe was transported to Brazos
County Sheriffs Office and will be
charged with attempted murder, ag
gravated assault and possession of
weapons where weapons are prohib
ited.
■fHe’s currently on probation in
Brazos County, having been con-
tvicted of burglary,” Wiatt said.
i|Attemptea murder is a second-de
gree felony, which carries a prison
sentence of two to 20 years. Posses
sion of weapons where weapons are
prohibited and aggravated assault
are third-degree felonies.
Final Touches
Late nights at the Langford Architecture Center
are common for Lee Shaw, who spends time on a
Photo by JOHN COLES
project for Environmental Design 403, Architectu
ral Design. Shaw is a senior from Dallas.
Reagan asks
Soviet Union
for ‘fresh start’
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — President
Reagan committed the United States
on Thursday to “a fresh start” in
U.S.-Soviet relations and the search
for world peace. Reagan proposed
that Moscow join him in trying to
settle conflicts in five war-torn na
tions where he said the Soviets are
contributing to the daily loss of life.
Launching a public relations
counteroffensive from the podium
of the United Nations General As
sembly on its 40th anniversary, Rea
gan shifted his focus for next
month’s summit meeting with Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev from nu
clear arms reduction to local Hash-
points in the Third World.
He said before he goes to Geneva
for the Nov. 19-20 summit he will
present new proposals for ending
what he callea the unjustified divi
sion of Europe between East and
West.
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard
A. Shevardnadze, who drew world
wide attention two months ago with
his proposal from the same lectern
for “star peace” instead of “Star
Wars,” sat impassively in the packed
but silent chamber as Reagan pre
sented what he called the plain and
simple but deep and abiding differ
ences between the United States and
Soviet Union.
The Soviet foreign minister ad
dressed the world body after Rea
gan, reiterating that “the Soviet
Union has countered the concept of
Star Wars with the concept of Star
Peace and of lasting peace on earth.”
He denounced the United States’
recent attempt to redefine the 1972
Antiballistic Missile Treaty to permit
development of Reagan’s strategic
space shield, popularly called Star
Wars.
The president and Shevardnadze
met later in the day for a discussion
on plans for the Geneva summit. Af
ter the meeting, Secretary of State
George Shultz told reporters it was a
“base-touching” session in the
continuing preparations leading to
the Geneva summit.
As part of his preparations for the
summit, Reagan convened a meeting
of allied leaders to advise him on tac
tics he should use in Geneva.
Shevardnadze turned aside re
porters’ questions about Reagan’s
proposal but said, “If there were not
positive seeds we would not have
met at all.”
In an initiative that one senior ad
ministration official acknowledged
had little chance for success in its
present form, Reagan proposed a
three-point plan for ending civil
strife in five countries where he said
the Soviets or their allies are trying
to impose their Communist ideology
by force and subversion.
He outlined a plan for peace talks
between the warring parties within
Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia,
Ethiopia and Nicaragua while warn
ing that U.S. support “for struggling
democratic resistance forces must
not and shall not cease” until nego
tiations “result in definitive pro
gress.”
Nicaraguan President Daniel Or
tega, after listening to Reagan’s ad
dress, said “it’s full of lies” and “a
slap in the face of peace.”
cCaw 'sweeping' B-CS to catch cable thieves
ble cot-
tditional
jsy-care
with but-
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xl.
:ks
styles
By RODNEY RATHER
Reporter
I McCaw Cablevision has electronic
[sweeping equipment that allows ca
ble technicians to determine if resi
dences are receiving cable services il-
|legally, Bob Helmuth, the regional
marketing manager says.
§ The sweep analyzer system may
aid McCaw in identifying and pros
ecuting violators of the state cable
Rvision theft law, which makes
stealing or tampering with a cable
television system a Class B misde
meanor punishable by a maximum
of six months imprisonment and a
fine of $1,000.
Over 4,500 of the 47,000 homes
in McCaw’s service area receive some
level of unauthorized cable service,
Helmuth says, which costs the com
pany over $1 million annually in lost
revenue.
McCaw’s system manager in the
Bryan-College Station area, Steve
Beasely, says the system measures
the amount of signal power sent to a
specific residence by tapping into
the feed, which is located at some
point outside the residence.
When the receiving equipment,
such as a television set or stereo, is
connected illegally to cable, the sig
nal level drops, he says.
“Our cable has a certain amount
of decibels (signal power),” Beasely
says. “When a piece of unauthorized
equipment is added, it drops the sig
nal level.”
The analyzing system determines
if a residence is receiving illegal ca
ble service even if the equipment is
turned off because the signal level
going to that equipment does not
change, Beasely says.
“The signal level still comes in
even though the television, stereo or
whatever is not on,” he says.
Dr. Pierce Cantrell, A&M assistant
professor of electrical engineering,
says the system and its operation, as
described by Beasely, is feasible.
“They can certainly go out into
the neighborhood and measure the
local drop in that field,” he says.
The people who may be con
cerned aoout being caught with ille
gal cable services through the use of
the sweeper include those who have
See McCaw, page 10
Remember
to set those
clocks bock!
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — For most
Americans, it’s nearly time to re
gain that hour of sleep they lost
when they shifted to daylight-sav
ing time last spring.
That extra hour arrives at 2
a.m. Sunday when most of the
country returns to standard time.
Because that hour in the eve
ning during summer’s longer
days provided extra time and
light for recreation, some day
light time boosters say that time
should be used all year to save en
ergy on nighttime lighting.
After all, saving energy was the
idea when daylight time was first
introduced in 1918.
But a brief shift to year-round
daylight time during the energy
crisis of the 1970s produced neg
ligible energy savings and many
complaints from rural residents.
Two football players
charged in burglary
Credit crisis hurting small producers
Farmers prosper by balancing skills
styles of
otton,
button-
19.99.
By BRANDON BERRY
Staff Writer
1 Two Texas A&M football play
pens were arrested by College Sta-
; lion police Wednesday morning
panel charged in the burglary of a
motor vehicle.
I The players have been sus
pended from the team by Athletic
[Director Jackie Sherrill “until we
find out what was really invol
ved.”
|; Matthew Gurley, a freshman
Tedshirt from Arlington, and
Robert Middleton, a member of
Ibe 12th Man Kickoff Team from
Hillsboro, were arrested in the
fiaiking lot of the College Station
■ikon and Conference Center.
I According to police reports, a
Hilton security guard reported
Seeing an unidentified man and
woman in a General Telephone
Co. truck.
■ The security guard summoned
College Station police, who ques-
poned the man and the woman,
See A&M,page 10
Matthew Gurley
By SHERI A. STEBENNE
Reporter
The successful farmer in the fu
ture will have to be business oriented
and strike a balance between mar
keting skills, management of re
sources and production.
This was the consensus in a panel
discussion Thursday night in Kle
berg Animal and Food Science Cen
ter sponsered by the Society of Agri
culture Managers, Appraisers, and
Consultants.
Dr. John Penson, professor of ag
ricultural economics was the moder
ator and provided a background
into the farm credit problem.
Jim Jamison, president of the
Texas Agricultural Credit Corp.,
Tom Engelke of the Farm Credit
Bank of Texas and Dr. Danny Kline
felter, an extension economist-man
agement specialist with the Texas
Agriculture Extension Service were
the panel members.
“The farm sector has become in
creasingly dependent on other sec
tors in our economy,” Penson said.
Rising interest rates and increas
ing interest payments have caused
Jim Jamison, seated, and Dr. John Penson.
farm operating expenditures to rise
drastically, he said. The farm sector
is extremely sensitive to changes in
the interest rates, Penson said.
He said a macroeconomic policy
requiring a lower deficit and a mod
erate monetary supply would guide
the industry out of the current crisis.
Penson said the result would be a
rise in the net income and a slow in
crease in land values by the end of
the decade,
“As a result of the credit crisis we
are presently in,” Jamison said, “we
are going to have larger farms, cor
porate farms, larger ranches, gen-
nerships and its going to take more
innovative financing.”
There are a number of character
istics common in farmers who make
a profit, he said. They are:
• Detailed and accurate records.
Most lending institutions require
complete records from the past
three years.
• Continually improving market
ing abilities.
• A good understanding of cash
flow — the receipt and disbursement
of cash — and the importance of
knowing whether one is over or un
der his projected budget.
Engelke said, in order for the
farm credit system to survive the
current crisis it must merge and
grow.
Through consolidation, the Farm
Credit Bank of Texas can offer
more viable units, better manage
ment and combined capital, he said.
“Agriculture cannot isolate itself
any longer,” Engelke said. “It must
change.”
Klinefelter added that “a major
re-adjustment needs to take place in
the agriculture industry.”