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I ! FILL OUT fl SPRCE RESERURTI ON FORM IN R M 216 MSC COST $15 DEADLINE : NOV. 17 Page 4 i M Board nominates Walker again for Battalion editor By Holly Becka Of The Battalion Staff Junior journalism major Scot Walker was nominated Tuesday by the Student Publications Board for a sec ond consecutive semester as The Battalion editor. Walker’s nomination awaits approval from Provost Donald McDonald before he can take office for the sec ond time as editor on Dec. 3. He will serve as editor during the Spring 1990 semester. Walker, a 2Tyear-old from Longview, was unani mously nominated for the position. Randy Hines, student publications adviser, said he is happy with the choice. “The board recognized The Battalion has made a lot of progress this semester and they feel like Scot can continue improving it and making it well respected within the campus community,” he said. Walker said he believes the newspaper has a higher regard this semester, and he is looking forward tokt ing up the good rapport with the campus. “The Battalion is better received by all the membr , of the community — students, faculty, administrate j staff— than it has been in quite a while,” he said « think there used to be the impression that we used tow j careless, sensationalistic and that we were really fe i wing. They thought we had no concern for the rest the community. People respect The Battalion mol | now, and the different groups on campus are mol , eager to work with us now. T hey give us story ideasn, , and some of them are easier to talk to for sources.” . Dean Sueltenfuss, lifestyles editor, said he’s glad Sc; . got the job. “I think Scot has done a good job as editor this sem^ , ter,” he said. ‘Tm sure he’ll continue to do so intt, , spring.” Applications for managing editor are due by not; ( Nov. 20. Editorial board applications are due by5pt- Nov. 21 and staff applications are due by 5 p.m. M . State lawmakers battle Hobbi 1 * ! over reform of workers * com|! i AUSTIN (AP) — State lawmakers Tuesday battled over workers’ com pensation reform with Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby placing his business-backed proposal on the legislative fast track after a confrontation with Senate op ponents. Gov. Bill Clements, encouraged by the developments on the first day of the special session, said, “I do be lieve that there’s a good chance that it will be a short session.” Hobby, presiding officer of the Senate, assigned his comp measure to the Economic Development Com mittee. The bill is expected to waltz through committee and then be rushed to the full Senate for consid eration, probably Friday. Sens. Kent Caperton and Carl Parker, authors of an alternate re form plan which is supported by la bor and trial lawyers who represent injured workers in court, said Hobby was ramrodding his bill through. “The fix is in,” Caperton, D- Bryan, said. Lawmakers have failed all year to TYLER (AP) — An innovative communications system has a grow ing number of East Texas counties cashing in on automated collect-call- only telephones designed specifically for jails. Depending upon inmate popula tions, some counties are receiving as much as 20 percent in commissions from local and long distance calls, but jail administrators are praising the system because it shifts monitor ing responsibilities from a jailer to a computer. In the past four months, six East Texas counties have contracted with the same Bryan company to install the telephones inside jail cells. Smith County has operated under a differ ent system through Southwestern Bell since 1986. Of the two counties without the service, Henderson and Wood coun ties, the latter is negotiating a con tract and expects telephones to be installed by December. “We found this niche in telephone service about a year ago,” Maurice Mascorro, sales director for TE- LINK, said. “No other company of fers the same type service and it’s a good business for us because initially it pays for itself.” The company installs, operates and maintains the system without charge. Profits from collect call charges are divided by varied percentages between a county, TELINK and the telephone company that serves a given area and collects the fees. Wall unit telephones are installed inside the cells and allow inmates to make collect calls only, which range from about $1.35 for local calls to about 30 cents a minute for long dis tance calls, Mascorro said. Counties with the TELINK serv ice receive between 5 percent and 20 percent commission on each call as contracted, he said. “Before we install the system we analyze each county jail for popula tion and type of inmate,” Mascorro said. “Generally we like to have our system in county jails where inmates are more likely to need the service. They are usually the ones who need immediate contact with lawyers, for example, as opposed to inmates in state prisons, who have already been convicted.” The higher the daily average pop ulation in the county jail, the higher overhaul the insurance system de signed to compensate workers in jured on-the-job. On Tuesday, Parker, D-Port Ar thur, dueled with Hobby on parlia mentary rules, trying to delay the bill’s arrival in committee. Hobby, presiding officer of the Senate, over ruled Parker. “He can run over me,” Parker, D- Port Arthur said. “He can’t run over a majority of the Senate.” What is in doubt is whether Hobby will try to circumvent the tra ditional two-thirds vote needed to consider a bill in the Senate. Hobby fanned the fires by saying an actuarial analysis of the Caper- ton-Parker plan shows it will in crease comp costs from 120 percent to 205 percent. Caperton and Parker said the analysis didn’t take into account the majority of the bill, such as cost-sav ings through insurance reform and job-safety. Major differences between the Hobby plan and the Caperton-Par- ker proposal are over how benefits percentage of commissions.” So far this year Smith County has received $23,352 (from Southwes tern Bell), according to county trea surer’s office records, making it a clear leader in commission receipts among those East Texas counties surveyed. “Of course we don’t have as many inmates as Smith County, but if the first month of operating here is any indication of what it will be like the first year, we’ll have a good revenue source,” Van Zandt County Sheriff Pat Jordan said. GALVESTON (AP) — An $8 mil lion slush fund designed to attract the U.S. Navy Homeport project could bring new roads and engi neering studies for the area that lost the bid. Galveston area officials Monday came up with $18 million worth of ways to spend the excess money — including reducing the county’s bonded indebtedness. “I think we’re going to have to leave a large part of it for debt re duction,” Galveston County Judge Ray Holbrook said. “Whether it’s a quarter or a half or all of it. I’m not sure.” “I think that’s the fairest thing to do because at least half of it goes back to benefit all the taxpayers,” Commissioner Eddie Barr said. County Auditor Phil Lohec said if the money is used to repay bonds, it could save taxpayers $13.8 million and ease pressures for ad valorem tax increases. But mayors and other officials from Galveston, Hitchcock, Texas City, La Marque, Santa Fe, Kemah, Dickinson, League City and Friendswood came up with a variety of other wish-list items. County commissioners made no commitments to the city’s proposals, and it was not immediately known when a decision would be made on fund dispersal. Galveston, which led efforts to at tract the Navy’s surface action group are calculated and how disp. s claims are resolved. i Hobby’s proposal would setas&s ciflc award for certain injurifi j ]| gardless of how that injury wouldflj feet different workers, anditwl l limit jury trials in disputed claims j a The Caperton-Parker mei>i would tie benefits to lost wage-cs* ing capacity and not restrictjun* als to the extent that Hobby’s* would. The Caperton-Parkerprcl sal also calls for a 15 percent rolhf; in workers’ comp insurance prf:p urns and stil ler penalties againsi.fjj safe employers. Death of friend will send Bushti Houston for Mas HOUSTON (AP) — C. FrfJ Chambers, longtime friend ami| fundraiser for President George Bush, died here Monday. He wail 71. Bush and Secretary of State James A. Baker III will behonorl ary pallbearers at Chambers' fu ' neral Mass af'EO a.m. ThursdayaiS St. Michael’s Catholic Church I Burial will be in Rosario Ceme tery in Santa Fe, N.M. Chambers, who was in theoi:| exploration business, started tel career in Dallas and Midland anfi|i became an early supporter if j Bush’s political career. Chambers and his family hadl visited the Bushes at the While House in June. First Lady Bar bara Bush had named her latfl dog, C. Fred, after Chambers. Co-founder of C&K Fetroleuit in 1953, Chambers left the firr in 1981, but he remained activeinl his political fundraising efforts. Chambers is survived by te‘| wife, Marion, eight children ar: : 18 grandchildren. in 1985, bid for $2.5 million of^ fund to aid engineering studiesi the New Bay Crossing project, a® seway that would link west Galvesfl Island to the mainland. Galveston officials said a secoj bay crossing has been needed! more than 20 years, arguing it woi»| enhance tourism on the island's^ end and provide safer evacuate! during hurricane threats. The $65 million project calls two-lane bridge that would brai' l | off 1-45 near the north end of” existing causeway and hit the isb' at 8 Mile Road. Project backers plan to seekS million in federal funds, $30 m® in state highway funds withthef 1 !' posed $2.5 million from the Ho®§ E ort monies to represent thecitf 2 ' )cal share. Holbrook said the project shot be a priority, but road projectste already have won approval M county and state highway o0i also should remain high on thel® Texas City Mayor D.D. Hate proposed a,. 10-item, $10 m® shopping list of road projects for- city. Another project would incite' major improvements on FM Hi from Texas 6 to Interstate ' through Santa Fe and La Marf Holbrook said the road will served greyhound racetrack planned for* Marque. Jail administrators praise use of phones installed inside cells Galveston officials devise plan to speni $8 million slush fund