The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 24, 1987, Image 4

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AUSTIN (AP) — With a Republi
can about to become chief justice of
the Texas Supreme Court for the
first time in modern history, the
GOP is hoping to expand its pres
ence on the high court in next year’s
elections.
Last week, Gov. Bill Clements ap
pointed a Houston district judge,
Republican Thomas Phillips, as chief
justice to succeed resigning Demo
crat John Hill, who will leave the
court in January halfway through
his six-year term.
Clements said the races for four
seats on the court next year would be
the most important on the ballot af
ter the presidential race. Phillips said
he will seek election next year.
At the same time, Democratic
Party executive director Ed Martin
said he looked forward to sending
Phillips back to Houston after the
November election.
In an interview with the Austin
American-Statesman, Clements said
the problem with the court wasn’t
one of Republicans and Democrats,
but that “under the present system,
we have no alternative.”
“If we’re unhappy with the pre
sent system and its membership, the
only thing we can do is run some-
jay '
lin and C.L. Ray — for a variety of
ethical offenses, mostly involving im
proper contacts with lawyers who
had cases before the court. Both
denied any wrongdoing, and Kilgar-
lin immediately announced for re-
election.
• The television news program
“60 Minutes” is preparing a story
about the Texas judicial system and
the Supreme Court. Several people
have said they expect the program to
jle
bring unfavorable attention to the
court.
body in opposition,” he said.
John Weaver, executive director
of the Texas GOP, outlined the
theme the Republicans will pursue
next year.
“Bringing back integrity to the
court and bringing about some kind
of economic stability to their deci
sions,” he said.
The only sitting justice who might
go unchallenged. Weaver said, is
Justice Raul Gonzalez, regarded by
some as the most conservative of the
court’s Democratic members.
It has been a difficult year for the
Supreme Court:
• The Supreme Court Justice
Committee, a private group that says
it wants to restore integrity to the
court, is trying to hire a firm to in
vestigate some of the justices.
• The state’s judicial system and
the Supreme Court have been
sharply criticized for the handling of
the $11 billion Texaco-Pennzoil
case. Texaco officials said they will
appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Several Texas news organiza
tions have carried stories highlight
ing the large financial contributions
made to Supreme Court election
campaigns by lawyers and others
with cases before the state’s highest
civil court.
• Chief Justice Hill, who cam
paigned for a system of appointing
rather than electing judges, ran into
opposition in the Legislature and
from fellow justices. Justice Franklin
Spears, for example, said Hill “goes
his merry way and says, T am the Su
preme Court.’ ”
• In June, the State Commission
on Judicial Conduct publicly re-
William Kilffar-
buked two justices
Clements also has talked about in
tegrity on the Supreme Court and
the need to drop the partisan elec
tion system by which the justices now
are chosen.
Clements said that during his re
cent trip to New York, business lead
ers there “were terribly concerned
about the decisions and attitudes
and the atmosphere of the Texas Su
preme Court.”
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Sunset Today: 5:24 p.m.
Sunrise Wednesday: 6:59 am.
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southerly at 8 to 15 mph.
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rain. The high temperature will be 69 degrees with westerly winds at 10
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Officials will keep locking Kyle Field
after regular football season closes
By Taborri Bruhl
Reporter
The sign on the gate to Texas
A&M’s Kyle Field ’ says “Stadium
Open 7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Mon. -
Fri. Closed on event days and holi
days.”
T here never used to be a sign.
There never used to be gates with
locks all around Kyle Field keeping
the public out between certain
hours, either.
Wally Groff, associate athletic di
rector for finance, said the stadium
was locked up because of vandalism.
“It’s a huge facility, and we were
losing control of it,” he said.
But all that has changed since a
new track and turf were installed
this spring. Since then the stadium
has been locked up for part of the
time, much to the dismay of many
students who go into the staduim to
use the running track or field area in
the evenings or at night.
Seats were being broken and light
bulbs were being taken out, he said,
and storage rooms, training facilities
and the press box were being broken
into.
“You name it, it was done,” Groff
said, “It was just eating our lunch.”
The upper stands have been kept
locked for the last five or six years,
he said. The gates on the lower
decks were installed before the turf
was, and were locked afterward, he
said.
Billy Pickard, assistant athletic di
rector for training, equipment and
facilities, said the gates have helped,
and the vandalism on the lower
decks virtually has been eliminated.
“It has had a tremendous effect,”
Pickard said.
Pickard said he considers Kyle
Field a facility like DeWare Field
House, a place needing to be super
vised.
“It was something that was a good
thing (keeping the gates unlocked),
but it just didn’t work,” Pickard said.
It wasn’t students who were caus
ing trouble, he said, but non-stu
dents.
University Police Chief Elmer
Schneider said having the stadium
locked up has helped, but the de
partment still gets calls about people
being in the stadium during unau
thorized hours. People climb
the fences, mainly on the weekfl
he said.
“Vandalism is usually
happen anyway, but locking#
has helped,” he said.
Another reason many stud!
dislike the stadium being lock:
that in years past it was somethin
a “lover’s lane.”
Groff said, “We didn’t have
problem with that.”
Schneider agreed. He saidifil
late the police sometimes
cort couples out of the stadium,
there wasn’t a problem.
But now the stadium is lock
3:30 p.m.
Pickard said the stadium will
be kept open later even when!
ball season is over.
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Reagan issues disaster declaration for 5 Texas countie
AUSTIN (AP) — President Reagan has issued
a disaster declaration for five Texas counties that
suffered severe damage from several tornadoes
that raged across the state last week, Gov. Bill
Clements announced Monday.
Counties covered by the declaration are Up
shur, Shelby, Lee, Burleson and Panola, Clem
ents said.
The declaration also covers the community of
Whitehouse in Smith County.
Anderson and Cherokee counties were named
in a disaster declaration last week.
Storm victims in the eight counties can apply
for assistance through several state and fed
programs offering aid.
The Governor’s Office of Emergency Man
ment will open disaster assistance centers in
county, officials said.
The locations will be announced later
week, officials in the governor’s office said.
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