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AUSTIN (AP) — The State Board of
ucation tentatively adopted $128 mil
lion in school textbooks Thursday, de
spite criticism that the books were
‘trash” and contained enough factual
rrors to fill a 50-foot-long list.
The board adopted the books during a
workshop session after making minor
changes and directing Texas Education
Agency staff to make sure mistakes men
tioned during a public hearing were cor
rected.
In other action, the education board
recommended state lawmakers enact leg
islation to allow public school teachers
and employees to retire earlier.
Both actions will be considered for fi
nal approval when the board meets Sat
urday.
Although several people criticired the
books, Michael Hudson, Texas director
of People for the American Way, praised
the proposed texts in geography, litera
ture, sociology, psychology and science.
“The trend is clear,” Hudson said.
“These selections are objectionable be
cause they are inconsistent with the crit
ics’ personal belief systems.”
But others testified that the books pre
sented a dismal view of life and could
hurt impressionable young people.
Eleanor Hutcheson, textbook chairwo
man for the Daughters of the American
Revolution, said the high school litera
ture books were filled with stories that
give no hope.
She said nearly every form of trash
was being forced on the students.
Carol Warren, of Waco, said many of
the stories dealt with violence and death.
“There is too much concentration on
death education,” she said, adding,
“Today, a humanist can walk into and
out of a classroom with their values in
tact, but a Christian can’t. ’ ’
In written testimony, opponents of the
books criticized inclusion of works by
Edgar Allan Poe, John Steinbeck and
William Shakespeare.
Norma Gabler, a longtime crusader to
change textbooks, referred to a 50-foot
long computer printout that had been un
rolled across the floor of the meeting
room.
She said the printout listed mistakes in
the books. The board directed the staff to
analyze whether corrections had been
made.
Members of a textbook advisory com
mittee, however, praised the books.
Committee member Katherine Lewis,
a teacher, said the books offered differ
ent levels of literature. “For the first
time in the last 10 years, I can go to a lit
erature book and chose selections for my
honor students.”
Also Thursday, the board agreed to a
proposal that would lower from 95 to 85
the combination of age and years of serv
ice required to earn full retirement bene
fits.
In 1987, lawmakers approved a simi
lar lowering of the retirement qualifica
tions for other state employees.
If put into law, teachers and public
school employees would have to pay
about a fifth of 1 percent more in contri
butions to the Teacher Retirement Sys
tem.
The change would not cost the state
any additional funds, according to Lynn
Moak, deputy commissioner of the Edu
cation Agency.
Local Briefs
SAA marches against African holdings
By Richard Tijerina
Staff Writer
To emphasize its goals of divest
ment of financial holdings in South
Africa by the University System,
members of Students Against Apart
heid will make a demonstration
march today at 4 p.m. The march will
begin in front of Rudder Fountain.
The march, which will progress to
the Bryan Municipal Courthouse and
return to Rudder Tower, is the first
such march held by SAA this semes
ter.
SAA President Jeff Dyess said
three or four speeches will be given at
various points along the march.
Speeches will be given by Dyess,
University of Houston faculty mem
ber Arthur Shaw, the head of the lo
cal National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People and
possibly, U.S. Congressman Mickey
Leland.
“We’re basically having it (the
march) to promote some student
awareness into the problems in South
Africa,” Dyess said. “Also, we’ll
move ourselves a step closer to get
ting the school to divest their funds in
South Africa.”
A&M has $3.7 million invested in
South Africa, of which $3.5 million
is invested in American corporations
and banks operating there, Dyess
said.
SAA member David Luckenbach
said it would be economically benefi
cial to Texas for A&M to divest its
holdings in South Africa and re-in-
vest in American holdings.
“If we really wanted to support the
Texas economy right now, other than
investing in companies that are ex
ploiting South African labor, it would
be a lot easier to invest in other stocks
that we have already invested in,” he
said.
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MAYPEARL (AP) — Eighty-one-
year-old Olive May Wilburn sat on the
edge of the bed and cried at the thought
of becoming a millionaire. But it wasn’t
a tear of joy that streaked down her
cheek and plopped onto her powder blue
housedress.
The elderly woman shuffled outside
with her walker and looked at a sur
rounding wheatfield, plowed only the
day before. The land her husband had
worked from 1944 until he died 10 years
ago, the land where her 3-year-old great-
granddaughter now plays, may soon be
lost to progress.
| The Wilburn homestead is mapped out
i to become the research campus of the
$4.4 billion super collider, midway be-
I tween Waxahachie and Maypearl.
| The future is threatening to take away
Olive May Wilburn’s past, and she’s not
| sure what to do about it.
“I just kept thinking that maybe it
| wouldn’t come, maybe it wouldn’t hap-
i'pen . . .” Wilburn said.
But granddaughter Betty Hopgood de-
H livered the news Thursday morning after
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for 20 years to pay off their 200 acres.
After Texas bid for the super collider,
state and federal officials notified the
Wilburns their acreage would be needed
for the project if the state won it.
“I hate to see farmers who have
worked all their lives for their land have
everything taken away,” Hopgood said.
Grandson Dale Wilburn, a 38-year-old
machinist who lives with Wilburn, said
he checked local land values and has
found some selling for up to $6,000 an
acre.
“I don’t know if that would be enough
to buy something comparable,” Wilburn
said.
But Hopgood doubted they will be
able to buy enough adjacent land to keep
the family together. As it stands now,
several relatives are within walking dis
tance of the farm.
“We’ll never be together again, pretty
soon,” Hopgood said.
Yet another construction project hits;
steps toward drainage ditches begin
By Fiona Soltes
Staff Writer
And construction begat construc
tion.
A project laying storm drainage
ditches has been made necessary by
the number of new buildings on cam
pus.
Keith Chapman, A&M manager of
construction, said the fence on Ross
Street running from the driveway be
tween the old and new Chemistry
buildings to Ireland Street is part of
this project.
“The drainage ditch will run from
the System Administrations Building
to the English Annex,” Chapman
said. “We’re doing it in three steps so
that traffic can still get through in the
area.”
Chapman said the first segment,
which runs from the Systems building
to the Chemistry building driveway,
was designed so that construction de
liveries could still be received for the
new building. The second segment —
now under construction — ends at
Ireland Street to allow access to
Blocker Building. The last segment.
which will be built as soon as the sec
ond segment is complete, will close
off the area between Ireland Street
and the English Annex, he said.
“We are trying to work it out so
there is access to Ireland Street at all
times,” Chapman said. “But even as I
say that, I’m not sure what the tele
phone company working in that area
will do. I can’t say whether they will
want to close it off or not.”
Chapman said the fence probably
will be up until January.
“We need to excavate the area, lay
the pipe, then re-pave the road,” he
said. “It’s a long-term project.”
The five-by-seven foot pipe will
carry rainwater to storm sewers on
campus.
“Wherever concrete replaces dirt,
more water runs off,” Chapman said.
“With all of the new buildings on
campus, there is increased runoff.
The older system just couldn’t handle
it all.”
Chapman said problems have been
caused recently by water standing in
the streets and backing up in base
ments.
Church’s sued
over takeover
refusal attempt
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A share
holder of Church’s Fried Chicken has
filed a class-action suit against the com
pany’s board of directors, claiming un
specified damages from Church’s efforts
to avert a hostile takeover by Popeyes
Famous Fried Chicken and Biscuits.
San Antonio-based Church’s recently
recommended to shareholders to reject as
inadequate a $290 million takeover offer
by Popeyes, owned by A. Copeland En
terprises Inc. of New Orleans.
Robert J. Piro and the Three Bridges
Investment Group filed the suit in state
district court Tuesday, a day after the
Church’s board recommended refusal of
the offer, which will expire Nov. 22.
“Individual defendants have con
spired in a manipulative scheme to freeze
out attempts to acquire Church’s without
any valid, justifiable or compelling cor
porate purpose and to protect and pre
serve for certain of themselves signifi
cant benefits in which Church’s
shareholders do not share,” the lawsuit
states.
The suit alleges that the defendants
schemed to deprive the 4,500 sharehold
ers of the true value of their equity inter
ests.
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