) Monday, March 31, 1986/The Battalion Page 3 State and Local Authorities recover A&M studenfs body from lake Burleson County police pulled he body of a Texas A&M student but of Lake Somerville Friday morning. Richard P. Beck, 22, a senior wildlife and fisheries sciences ma- or from Houston, was involved n a boating accident at about 4 p.m. Thursday. Burleson County Deputy Sher- ff Joe Covington said Beck was jilting in front of the moving boat nd lost his balance as it began to ircle around to pick up a fallen ikier. Beck fell out of the boat, was ucked underneath and hit in the lead by the outboard motor’s iropeller, Covington said. He said police began searching or the body Thursday afternoon iut stopped at dusk. The search was resumed Fri- iay morning and the body was ecovered near Welch Park at ibout 10:20 a.m. Covington said the death was ruled as an accidental drowning. KLS tells judge Wasson acted beyond authority By Mike Sullivan Staf f Writer An attorney representing KLS Computers in a $4.05 million lawsuit against Bill Wasson, Texas A&M vice chancellor, said at a pre-trial hearing Friday that Wasson acted beyond the scope of his authority when he authorized the creation of A&M's Micro Center. Kelvin Adams, Wasson’s personal attorney, said Wasson was acting within his official capacity at A&M when he and other members of a University committee created the Micro Center. But John Hawtry, the KLS attor ney seeking an injunction to close the Micro Center, said there’s no le gal basis for A&M to operate the Mi cro Center. He said Wasson acted outside A&M’s authority and his own authority when he gave his con sent. He said that because Wasson acted beyond the scope of his posi tion, he acted as an individual and subjected himself to the lawsuit. Hawtry said he would dismiss the lawsuit if Wasson’s attorneys could prove A&M has the legal right to op erate a computer center that com petes directly with local computer retailers. If such a statute existed, Hawtry said, Wasson would be acting within the scope of his authority. “I’ve looked at it (the Education Code) for the better part of a year, and I have yet to find it (a law per mitting A&M to operate the Micro Center),” Hawtry said. At the hearing, Hawtry said the Education Code allows universities to sell books and offer students room and board. But it does not al low universities to open a retail out let for the sale of computers, he said. But Adams said A&M doesn’t need specific legislation allowing them to operate the Micro Center. Adams also said KLS is suing the wrong party because Wasson is em ployed by A&M, and the Micro Cen ter is owned by A&M. “He (Hawtry) is suing Wasson for something A&M is doing,” he said. Wasson was granted a motion for protection at the hearing, which means he won’t have to produce documents belonging to the Univer sity at a deposition Friday. The documents include financial records and minutes from the Micro Center Committee meetings. Hawtry said he thinks the docu ments will show that Wasson and the other committee members were aware of possible legal violations be fore they gave consent to open the Micro Center. Adams said Hawtry will be involv ing A&M if he gets the documents. He said that because KLS is suing Wasson as an individual, Wasson has no right to get the documents from A&M. Adams said Wasson would have to get the documents as a private citi zen but that as a private citizen he has no right to A&M property. Judge W.T. McDonald said he will allow the deposition of Wasson as an individual and then decide if it’s Wasson’s responsibility to produce the documents. A May 6 hearing is scheduled to decide if a temporary injunction to close the Micro Center should be granted. Celebration to honor Texas independence When the state officially years of independence on again, 1(1 AUSTIN (AP) - leant AMmmemorates 150 s hardulpril 21 at the site where it was won — the San ledy a» c i nt0 Battleground — fireworks will explode si- r ijujjJultaneously from the battleground and nine Texas cities. "iB Viewed from the heavens, the exploding fire- a no>^lorks will simulate a huge star across the Lone i hiswifeBar State, according to the Parks and Wildlife •■epartment, which is sponsoring the “Texas 150 Celebration.” ■ It is estimated that more than eight million ■exans will be able to see the fireworks shows anythin ft n the San Jacinto State Historical Park, Aus- L1 icanheift, Corpus Christi, W’aco, Dallas, Lubbock, ather frilso, Longview, Beaumont and Brownsville. |there$l^ ar y Caimano of Pryo-Spectaculars of Rialto, m0 r said the fireworks show “is unquestionably k that it * ar 8 est an ^ niost extensive ever attempted ’ anywhere.” The program is being financed by Anheuser-Busch. More than 12,000 rockets will be set off over Texas skies on April 21. The fireworks will be choreographed to pat ri el be and ■ chair I irmativt. ed himil otic music broadcast on radio stations in each of the cities. The display will last 18 minutes — the length ol time it took the Texas Army to defeat Mexican troops at San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. Although local Sesquicentennial events are be ing held throughout the year, activities at the 756-acre park are scheduled for April 20-21. About 75,000 people are expected each day. Vice President George Bush has been invited to do a “patriotic reading,” and Texas Gov. Mark White will give an account of the Battle of San Ja cinto. There will be seven stages with Texas music and dance; exhibits; ethnic and regional foods; a children’s pavilion; and visits to the 570-foot high San Jacinto Monument, the Battleship Texas, which is berthed adjacent to the park, and the sailing ship Elissa. Special ceremonies include a service to honor black heroes of the Texas Revolution, with a sin gle rose “placed commemorating the contribu tions of each of 20 black men who served Texas’ cause in 1836,” according to the Parks and Wild life Department. More than 50 performers of Texas song, mu sic and dance will appear each day at the festival. Headliner entertainers are Larry Gatlin and The Gatlin Brothers, BJ. Thomas, The Texas Play boys, Asleep at the Wheel and the Houston Sym phony Orchestra featuring Willie Nelson. The Parks and Wildlife Department said the two-day celebration is designed “To honor the memory of the people of 1836 who took a stand for constitutional government, made a declara tion, committed their lives in battle and created a republic where none had existed.” The festival also will “recognize and celebrate our Spanish heritage,” the department said. “Texans broke their formal ties with Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto, but we can never break the cultural ties. “We celebrate the cultural heritage which binds our country and our state to Mexico, recog nizing that Texas is, forever, a bridge between Mexico and the United States.” Scholarship Funds Available for Fall ‘86 through TAMU Association of Professional Women. Call the Financial Aid Office for more information at 845-3996 TAMO Raquetball 1986 c,ub Spring Aggie Open April 4-6 MEM’S OPEM A B C. WOMEN’S A - B ’ C - D. DOUBLES MEM’S A