Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 7, 1979 Page: 1 of 6
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LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 56 years
Good Morning!
Wednesday, November 7,1979
Vol. 56, No. 16
Price 10 cents off campus
Air monitoring shows
no excessive emission
The TACB monitoring station located on campus
Phot* by CINDY DOWIES
Rise in retail food prices
expected for coming year
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Retail food
prices, will be forced up 7 to 11 percent next
year by higher' costs of energy, tran-
sportation and marketing, the Agriculture
Department predicted this week.
The cost of marketing and processing
food alone is expected to rise in the area of
9-12 percent in 1980, the department said.
But during the first half of the year, food
price hikes should be moderate because of
record supplies of pork and poultry. Food
price pressure will begin in the second half
of 1980, the Agriculture Department said,
as pork and poultry producers reduce the
number of animals they slaughter.
Farmers are not expected to share in the
increased food prices. The department
said increased costs for crop production,
fertilizer and fuel will cut into the farmers’
\ net income.
American farmers posted a record year
for net farm income in 1979, totaling $30 to
$32 billion, but net income in 1980 could
decline by as much as 20 percent, the
department said.
Farmland values rose 14 percent during
the 12 months ended February 1979 and are
expected to rise another 16 percent this
year. Prospects for 1980 are less certain,
the Agriculture Department said, but farm
values could slow considerably if farm in-
come declines as sharply as expected.
U.S. agricultural exports are expected to
reach a record $38 billion in fiscal 1980, up
from about $32 billion last year, according
t6 department calculations. Most of the in-
crease is attributed to a forecast ex-
pansion in U.S. grain exports.
Agricultural imports, which are not ex-
pected to rise as quickly, are forecast at
$17.5 billion, leaving a $20.5 billion
agricultural trade surplus.
The department said farm exports could
reach as high as $40 billion in fiscal 1980 if
foreign demand for U.S. farm products
strengthens and if the American tran-
sportation system functions at a con-
sistently high performance level.
World grain production in 1979-80 is
forecast at 1.382 billion tons. While still a
sizable production forecast, the figure is
4.5 percent below last year’s record level,
the largest year-to-year drop in history.
However, global grain use in 1979-80 may
increase slightly over last year with a
corresponding increase in grain prices.
The Agriculture Department predicted
world grain trade in 1979-80 will exceed 190
million tons for the first time, with the
United States accounting for 110 million
tons. The U.S. export projection includes a
38 million ton record for wheat, a 71 million
ton record for feed grains and a 2.6 million
ton record for rice.
By BECKY GEE
of the UP staff
The Texas Air Control Board reports
that there have been no excessive
emissions levels since they began
monitoring air pollution levels at Lamar
last June.
According to Linda Choate, engineering
technician for TACB, air pollution levels
for this area have been fairly standard.
“We did have an air stagnation once
during the summer, but this is not
unusual,’’ Choate said.
“You have an air stagnation advisory
usually because the ozone concentration is
not being dissipated,” she added.
An air stagnation occurs when weather
conditions prevent pollutants from
disseminating normally, according to Tim
Hudson, technical engineer for TACB.
“You have the same emissions, only
these pollutants can’t get out because of
the weather. The weather causes them to
be concentrated,” Hudson said.
The TACB station at Lamar is located on
East Virginia Street next to the tennis
courts.
An incident that occurred Nov. 2,1978, in
which classes were cancelled and
numerous students complained of illness
because of noxious odor, convinced LU of-
ficials and the TACB that a station was
needed at Lamar.
The location of the TACB station at
Lamar was chosen by LU officials and the
TACB. “We had to have a certain amount
of area to put this (station) on,” Hudson
said. He added that the site could have no
obstructions.
“There could be no buildings in the way
of the wind,” Hudson said. “It was either
here or at the other end of the stadium.
Lamar felt this would be more out of the
.way." . . . .. ...
The station uses three machines to
collect data on various pollutants, ac-
cording to Choate. The ozone meter, ozone
generator and an S02 analyzer record the
information which is sent to TACB
headquarters in Austin, Texas, where it is
recorded and filed.
Air quality information is recorded
every five minutes, 24 hours a day, seven
days a week. .
The machines used to collect this in-
formation are checked every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday by TACB
technicians, Choate said.
The station is responsible for measuring
air pollutants and collecting
meteorological data. The TACB also has
jurisdiction to enforce the Texas Clean Air
Act and TACB rules and regulations.
For the most part, area chemical plants
have complied with TACB and govern-
ment regulations. “Ninety-nine and
nine-tenths of the time, they are com-
plying, said Randy Anderson,
engineering assistant III at the regional
TACB office.
The seven chemical plants in the Lamar
area are Mobil, Pennwalt, Houston
Chemical, Swift Chemical, Du Pont,
Velsicol, and Olin-Mathieson sulfuric acid
plant.
These plants emit a number of pollutan-
ts, according to Dr. Erwin Eads, director
of environmental science. “There are a
few sulfur compounds emitted. Some
petrol ethyl lead, and some hydrocar-
bons,” Dr. Eads said. “And there are also
some materials that we call nitrogen con-
taining compounds that blow in from the
southeast of this area.”
Sulfuric acid mists are of primary con-
cern, Dr. Eads said. Also, hydrocarbons
that contain such things as Benzene and
other materials can cause long-range
damage to the blood stream and blood for-
ming organs, according to Dr. Eads.
“There are none of these plants that
have materials that aren’t toxic in high
concentrations,’’ Dr. . Eads said.
“However, I don’t think there is any cause
for panic anymore. We’re at the stage in
this thing where it’s a nuisance.
“But the long range effects we’re just
beginning to get into. So that leaves a big
question mark in my mind. Are we really
safe?,’’ Dr. Eads said.
“It doesn’t fit into a real fine, medical
situation,” Dr. Eads continued. “Ex-
posure is too high, but the gereral outlook
has improved much over the years. I’ve
watched this since 1946, and it is much bet-
ter.
“The students have been irritated by it,
but I don’t think they have been harmed by
it,” he added.
According to Dr. Eads, anyone who
would like to complain of air pollution or
odors should contact the regional TACB of-
fice on Pine Street in Beaumont.
People contacting the office should ask
for an investigation and leave their name
so the TACB can call back. “They (TABC)
are obligated by law to come back to you
and give you a report,” Dr. Eads said, “if
you leave your name.”
Protest prompts
recommendation
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (UPI)—A city
councilman this week proposed a clamp-
down on demonstrations by Iranian
students.
“If they want to cause trouble and
disruption here, we ought to ship their fan-
ny back to Iran,” said Republican Van
Henry Archer, who said he would ask his
fellow council members to back a proposal
requiring groups seeking parade permits
to pay for police protection.
Archer was upset by a march through
the downtown area last week by Iranian
students seeking the expulsion of the Shah
Allen to head meeting
Jury to decide sentence
Dugas convicted
of capital murder
of Iran from the United States.
The councilman said that Americans
cannot go “ranting and raving” down a
major street in any other country, but that
such behavior is tolerated in the United
States.
“It’s kind of offensive because if any of
us went yelling down Houston Street,
they’d have us in a mental institution,
wouldn’t they,” Archer said.
Archer said the students were not U.S.
citizens, and that he had been told some of
them are receiving food stamps and are
not paying for their schooling.
I Kathy Allen, student director at
Morehead (Minn.) State University, will
head the Leadership Lamar Conference,
Thursday through Saturday, according to
Karen Nichols, Setzer Student Center
Council president and Steering Committee
member.
Approximately 125 students, staff and
faculty members will attend' the con-
ference at the Waterwood National Resort
and Conference Center, Lake Livingston,
Nichols said.
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The purpose of the conference is to
provide Lamar University student leaders
and potential leaders with formal and in-
formal training that will lead to individual
leadership development, according to
Nichols.
“One of my primary goals as the
speaker will be to give the participants
specific skills for more effective leader-
ship,” Allen said. “We will be discussing
I leadership theory and skills.
“Each person has his own decision-
making patterns and the need to recognize
those patterns and to use them ef-
fectively,” Allen added. “The use of those
patterns determines the difference bet-
ween the leaders and the workers.”
Allen has facilitated the SSCC annual
Leadership Retreat two times and said
that these prior trips to Lamar will enable
her to identify with the students and their
particular problems and goals.
Specific skills listed by Allen to be ad-
dressed at the conference include: to iden-
tify the responsibilities of leadership; to
distinguish between motivation and
recruitment; to better manage personal
and organizational workloads; and to bet-
ter set reasonable priorities.
The conference is sponsored by the
following Lamar organizations: Cap and
Gown, Blue Key, Interfraternity Council,
Lamar Panhellenic Association, Residen-
ce Hall Association, University Press, Set-
zer Student Center Council and Student
Government Association, according to
Nichols.
Weather Word
Skies will be partly
cloudy, with tem-
peratures getting
cooler through
Friday. Daytime
highs may reach the
70s and nighttime
lows will range from
48 to 53.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (UPI) — A
jury Tuesday convicted Ovide Joseph
Dugas, 33, called a “butcher” by the lead
prosecutor, of capital murder in the kid-
nap-slayings of five of his former in-laws
last year at Winnie, Texas.
As the emotionless Dugas watched from
the defense table, the jurors ruled after
one hour and 17 minutes of deliberation
that Dugas was guilty of killing Jason
Phillips, 3, nephew of his former wife.
District Judge Larry Gist of Beaumont
recessed the trial until 10 a.m. today, at
which time the punishment phase will
begin. One of the state witnesses will be
Dugas’ ex-wife, Mary, who testified in a
previous trial that he threatened her with a
blow torch.
The jury will decide whether to assess
Dugas the death penalty or sentence him
to life imprisonment.
‘He’s a butcher and an undertaker. He
gave them no chance,” said Jefferson
County prosecutor James McGrath, who
broke into tears at one point in his final
argument.
McGrath, in an emotional appeal for
conviction, told the jurors that it was not
law enforcement techniques that solved
the case, but officers instead relied on
Dugas’ alleged bragging about the killings
to make the arrest.
“It took planning, premeditation,
deliberate premeditation, to carry out the
diabolical thing this man did,” McGrath
said, pointing his finger at Dugas, a for-
mer Port Arthur refinery worker. "Old
macho here just couldn’t keep his mouth
shut. This was such a heinous crime that
not even his own brother could live with
it.”
Court-appointed defense attorney Bruce
Smith, who rested his case without calling
any witnesses or presenting any evidence,
gave a low-key summation, asking the
jurors to stick to their convictions on the
verdict regardless of what the majority
did.
“I know this thing was a horrible ex-
perience, but don’t be swayed by your
emotions,” Smith said.
Nederland pathologist Dr. Stanley M.
Leber appeared as the state's final witness
in testimony that lasted less than U/2 days.
Leber described how 3-year-old Jason
Phillips was shot twice in the head from a
distance of less than a foot.
“The destruction was such that it was
almost explosive,” the pathologist said.
Leber said the child, his grandparents,
Bishop Phillips, 64, and Esther Phillips, 66,
and the boy’s mother, Martha, 34, all were
shot twice in the head at close range, and
that the’child’s father, Elmer Phillips, 31,
of Woodward, Okla., was shot once
through the brain.
The principal witness against Dugas,
being tried specifically for the death of the
boy on a change of venue from Beaumont,
was his younger brother, Richard Dugas,
30, who told the jury that Dugas tried to get
him to kill the Phillipses.
Richard Dugas testified that he never
took seriously his older brother’s threats to
kill the family of his ex-wife, Mary Phillips
Dugas, but that on July 4, 1978, Joe Dugas
bragged that he had committed “the per-
fect murder."
Richard Dugas also gave the jury a
detailed description of the killings, which
he said his brother told him after the
slayings.
According to the brother’s testimony,
Dugas and his lover — Nederland
housewife Linda May Burnett, 31, broke in
on the Phillips as they were watching
television, abducted them at gunpoint,
drove them to a pre-dug common grave 10
miles away and shot them in the head.
Mrs. Burnett was convicted by a
Beaumont jury earlier this year and was
sentenced to death for her part in the
killings.
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Time stands still The Education Building, which has been without a clock for some
time, finally got a replacement with the help of Dr. Betty Coody, professor of elemen-
tary education. She made this clock from a paper plate and set the hands at 4:30 p m
because “that’s quitting time.”
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