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Regents expected to confirm
Mosher Defense Institute
By Richard Williams
Siati Writer
■ The Mosher Institute for De
tense Studies at Texas A&M is ex
pected to be approved officially
by the Texas A&M University
Board of Regents during then
meetings Sunda) and Monday in
the Board of Regents Meeting
Room in the Memorial Student
Center.
The tii st meeting will start at 2
p.m. Sunday.
President Frank F. Vandiver
announced early tins vear that he
will resign as president and as
sume the directorship of the insti
tute. His resignation is effective
Sept. 1.
Vandiver’s assumption of the
directorship is subject to the ap
proval of the Mosher Institute by
the regents and Vandiver’s offi
cial appointment as head by A&M
Chancellor Perry Adkisson.
In an interview with The Bat
talion earlier this week, Adkisson
confirmed that he would appoint
Vandiver as head of the institute.
Edward J. Mosher, Class of ’28,
has said he will fund the Mosher
Institute for 10 years at the rate
of $150,000 per year. The contri
bution will be used for operations
rather than endowment, accord
ing to the proposal.
In other action, the Board is
expected to:
• Award the bid for renova
tion of the Corps-style residence
halls Crocker, Moore, Davis-Gary
and Moses.
• Act on bids for dormitory
modules for four new modular
residence halls at A&M.
• Act on appropriation for the
preliminary design for the
$17,500,000 University Center
Expansion.
• Act on appropriation for the
preliminary design for a satellite
utility plant.
• Act on appropriation for the
preliminary design of the Com
mons Dining facility addition and
renovation.
Exotic animals
guard livestock
from predators
AUSTIN (AP) — Surrounded by
dogs, donkeys and llamas, State Ag
riculture Commissioner Jim High
tower announced a program em
phasizing guard animals, including
exotic ones, to solve the centuries-
old problem of protecting livestock
from predators.
“This is a dog and donkey show
that is going to work for Texas,”
Hightower said.
Texas leads the nation in the
number of sheep and goats and in
wool and mohair production, reap
ing annual sales of more lhan $150
million, Hightower said.
“Unfortunately, Texas sheep,
goat and lamb producers also lose
more than 190,000 animals, valued
at over $9 million, every year to
predators — many to coyotes,”
Hightower said.
He said the predator control pro
gram developed by the Agriculture
Department and others “emphasizes
the proven success of guard animals,
such as dogs, donkevs and llamas, to
reduce livestock losses.”
Owners and handlers delivered
testimonials for theii particular
Company’s effort to collect
debt costs it $625,000
(AP) — A company’s efforts to
collect a $b0U debt from the wrong
man will cost the firm more than
1,000 times that amount, thanks to a
jury’s verdict.
Johnny W Russell and his wife,
I Sharon, were awarded $625,000 by a
I state court jui v in their wrongful
garnishment suit against Morgan
Building Systems Ini
Morgan had garnished Russell’s
■ checking account at Texas Com-
J merce Bank for a $600 debt, but the
f money actually was owed by another
Odessan with the same name.
Meanwhile the Russells found
themselves embarrassed by hot
checks, having 'heir gas cut off and
Mrs. Russell being arrested.
Because the company made an at
tachment to the Russells’ checking
account, all checks they wrote for
three weeks last October bounced,
although they had money to cover
them, said their attorney, John
Green.
“As a result, they had eight or
nine hot checks” circulating in the
area and their credit rating was dam
aged, Green said.
The Russells sued Morgan and
the bank for $1.8 million, claiming
the defendants were negligent in
harming their character and reputa
tion. State district Judge Joe Con-
nally dismissed the bank from the
suit
The Russells said they didn’t
know the bank wasn’t honoring their
checks until their gas was shut off
and Mrs. Russell was arrested on a
charge of writing a hot check to a de
partment store, Green said.
Morgan attorney Miles Nelson at
gued that the company made an
honest mistake, but Green con
vinced the jury the company made
more than an honest mistake be
cause it refused to stop garnishing
the account after Russell told the
company’s Dallas office that he owed
no money.
A spokesman for Nelson said
Monday the company planned to ap
peal.
guard animals, which included three
breeds of dogs, a donkey and a
llama
Durwood Kellev ol Lampasas, a
rancher, said predators, mostly coy
otes, put him out of business in the
iate 1970s, when he discovered
Great Pyrenees dogs from France
‘When we got the togs, all at once
our predator problem ceased right
then,” Kelley said He now breeds
the dogs and has over 300 in 11
states “I know the dog works,” he
said
Jean Ebeiing of Marble Falls, a
goat rancher, breeds Anatolian
Shepherds, which come from Tur
key. “We know we have to have dogs
or we can’t raise goats anymore,” she
said.
She described the shepherds as
“extremely intelligent, lovable dogs
who are perfectly safe with children.
They will protect and love and try to
nurture a baby of any species,” she
said.
Joyce Reavis, a sheep rancher who
breeds Komondors, said the large
dogs from Hungary are “verv loyal
and devoted, and the)' protect what
ever is entrusted to them — sheep,
goats, cows, turkeys, chickens, chil
dren
David Carson of McDade. a cattle
and donkey rancher, said donkeys
aie inexpensive to maintain and will
keep past ures free of coyotes, wolves
or feral dogs.
The president of the South Cen
tral Llama Association. Ken Craig,
said llamas art naturally curious,
“and because they f ollow that curios
ity with an investigation, n creates an
amount, of pressure that a coyotejust
can’t stand.”
Craig, who also raises goats, said
llamas will paw with their front feet,
can kick with theii hind feet and
“can be provoked to spit” on preda
tors
Highurwe said the \gri< ulture
Department had been notified mat
Texas would hr the thiin state to be
allowed to use toxic collars to protect
sheep and goats, but licensing proce
dures would be very restrictive.
‘Commissioner Hightower is to be
commended foi trying to use ani
mals first, instead of chemicals” in
predator control Carson said. “Ani
mals work Ihev’re effective.”
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Southwest Airlines stops serving free alcohol
DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Air
lines Co. has made its last call on free
alcoholic drinks, ending an era for a
carrier once known as one of the
busiest bartendei s in Texas.
Earlier this year, Southwest
corked the free booze on weekday
flights during peak hours as a belt
tightening move, airline spokesman
Charlotte Goddard said this week.
The Dallas-based company some
time ago had stopped serving free
alcoholic drinks on off-hour and
weekend flights.
Goddard said she expected some
adverse reaction, but not much.
That’s in part because she said offers
will remain to freguent business trav
elers — the original targets of the
free alcohol — for some drinks ei
ther discounted or on the house.
“We think our customers will un
derstand that this was a business de
cision” to maintain competitive rates,
she said. She also said Southwest’s
prices, $2 for cocktails and $1 for
beer and wine, are similar to other
airlines’ menus and a bargain.
Still, it’s a far cry from the past,
when free-flowing alcohol was as
much a part of the Dallas Love Field-
based airlines image with steward
esses clad in hot pants and the sexy
“Love” advertising campaigns.
As a fledgling intrastate com
muter, Southwest had used booze to
battle the big boys, Goddard said.
She said in the early 1970s, Bra-
niff Airways and Texas Interna
tional offered fares between Hous
ton and Dallas for $13. The
corporate attitude at Southwest,
where the same trip cost $26, was.
“No one’s going to shoot Southwest
out of the air foi losing $13. she
said.
So Southwest gave Dallas-to-
Houston passengers a choice — they
could pay $13, or $26 and get a free
premium bottle of liquor.
“Since many of the businessmen
were on expense accounts, they paid
the higher fare and got the liquor,”
she said
The offer became one of the most
popular pi jinotions at Southwest.
In company lore, Goddard said.
Southwest became the largest liquor
distributor in the state.
Wynell Rafkin, a travel consultant
with Travel Arrangements in Dallas,
said she hasn’t heard of any com
plaints from customers.
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McALLEN (AP) — Gasoline prices
have dropped by 10 cents or more at
some stations around town since last
week, and Mayor Othal Brand says
he’s responsible.
For two years, Brand has accused
gas station operators of charging
motorists in his city too much.
Then last week, the mayor, who
heads a huge agribusiness firm,
opened his company’s gas pumps to
the public at about 10 cents per gal
lon below the prevailing prices
around town.
“There was some restraint of
trade that was hindering competi
tion,” Brand said.
So he started selling the fuel for
76.9 cents per gallon for regular and
75.9 cents for unleaded. At the time,
the median price for unleaded in the
city was about 85.9 cents, while regu
lar cost about 81.9.
“I just decided that something
had to be done about it,” Brand said.
“It didn’t matter how cheap it got
elsewhere, it never got cheap here.”
All dealers appeared to be charg
ing the same prices, he said.
Since he opened to the public the
>s previously reserved for the
Griffin and Brand Inc. business ve
hicles and his company employees,
Brand says many gasoline stations in
the city have matched or beaten his
prices.
The mayor’s price war appears
popular with many McAllen resi
dents, but gasoline retailers think
the mayor is wrong, said Malcolm
Welch district director of the Texas
Oil Marketers Association.
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