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The North Texas Daily
60TH YEAR NO. 30
NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY, DENTON, TEXAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1976
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State Sets Execution
Date for Two Men
DALLAS (AP)—For the first time
since 1964, the State of Texas has told
two men the days they must die in the
electric chair for crimes they committed.
Jerry Lane Jurek and Ernest Benjamin
Smith Jr. are the first of 48 death row in-
mates to have their appointments with
death set officially by the state since the
new death penalty law was established in
I973.
Earlier this year the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled the law was constitutional.
SMITH, 28-YEARS-OLD father of
two, was told by Dallas District Judge
R.T. Scales Wednesday he would die in
the electric chair "anytime before
sunrise" Nov. 22.
Jurek, 25, was taken from his death
row cell in the Texas Department of
Corrections at Huntsville to Cuero
Tuesday where a judge ordered him ex-
ecuted Jan. 19, also "before sunrise."
Smith, an Army veteran who spent 18
months in Vietnam, stood motionless,
hands folded behind his back, while the
judge set his execution date. Aside from
bidding Scales a "good morning, your
honor," the condemned man had
nothing to say.
SHERIFF'S LT. Harry Weatherford
said Smith appeared "real reserved" in
court but added, "Back there in the
holdover cell he was sitting and sipping a
cup of coffee and was just as jolly as he
could be."
Smith was convicted of the September
1973 killing of convenience store clerk
William Moon, 55. An accomplice,
Howie Robinson, was also convicted in
the robbery-slaying and is currently on
death row.
Jurek was convicted Feb. 4, 1974, of
the drowning of 10-year-old Wendy
Adams, daughter of a Cuero police of-
ficer. It was his challenge of the con-
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Ford Denies Rumor of Watergate Pardons
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Ford said Wednesday "there is ab-
solutely no validity" to any rumor that he might pardon Watergate figures in-
cluding former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell and former White House aides
John D. Ehrlichman and H. R. Haldeman.
The President told a nationally broadcast White House news conference no
one had raised such speculation until the question was put to him and "I want
you to know it, I want everybody else to know it: there's no credence to it
whatsoever."
A U.S. Court of Appeals last week rejected bids from Mitchell, Haldeman
and Ehrlichman to overturn convictions for conspiracy and obstruction of
justice in the Watergate affair.
State Bar Files Lawsuit Against Yarbrough
HOUSTON (AP) — The State Bar of Texas filed a lawsuit Wednesday that
could result in the disbarment of Donald B. Yarbrough, the Democratic
nominee for the Texas Supreme Court.
A state district court judge now must decide whether to strip the 35-yeai-old
Houston attorney of his license to practice law or to suspend or reprimand
him.
Yarbrough, a surprise winner in the Democratic primary, has no
Republican opposition in the Nov. 2 election but is being challenged by write-
in candidates State District Court Judge Sam Houston of Denton and Tom
Lorance, a Houston attorney.
Gauze Cutting Ceremony Opens New Clinic
A gauze cutting ceremony will officially open the Texas College of
Osteopathic Medicines (TCOM) clinic in Justin Sunday at 2 p.m.
President C. C. Nolen and TCOM Dean Ralph Willard will attend the
opening. Justin is 25 miles north of Fort Worth.
The clinic is TCOM's third, but its first outside Fort Worth. It serves a 250-
square-mile area which includes 2,500 people, according to Newton Knox,
president of the Justin Clinic Corporation.
Three TCOM seniors and one faculty member work at the clinic, which has
been operating Monday through Friday since Oct. I.
Duo Seeks To Keep
State Out of Case
By J. FLEMING
Daily Reporter
Attorney Robert H. Caldwell Jr. and
Ray V. Hunt have filed a petition in the
21 Ith District Court requesting the State
of Texas not be allowed to intervene in
their lawsuit against the City of Denton,
Mayor Elinor Hughes and Dr. Ray
Stephens.
Caldwell and Hunt claim the state has
no constitutional authority or statutory
right to intervene in the suit. They claim
that state intervention is strategy to
force them to pay bond.
Caldwell and Hunt are suing to enjoin
the City of Denton from turning over to
NTSU the deeds to portions of Avenue
D and Prairie Street.
The council approved an ordinance
stitutionality of the Texas death penalty
that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on
last summer.
Shortly alter the Supreme Court's
decision, several death row inmates
spoke with reporters. Smith and Jurek
were among them.
"WOULDN'T YOU be scared?"
Smith asked reporters. "We're talking
about whether you're going to live or
die."
Jurek said he had not anticipated the
court's decision but was still "going on
faith.
"I guess some of the men took it
hard," he said. "I took it hard."
The prospect of "riding Sparky," a
slang term used by prosecutors meaning
to execute somebody in the electric
chair, loomed closer for Smith Oct. 6
when the Texas Court of Criminal Ap-
peals issued its mandate for him to be
executed. Howard Wilson, one of
Smith's court-appointed attorneys, said
Wednesday he anticipates an attempt
will be made to appeal the case on some
constitutional grounds to the U.S.
Supreme Court.
"For myself, I feel very sad," said
Wilson. "I hope there is some way to
stop the execution expecially in Smith's
case because he was a principal in the
shooting, not the triggerman."
giving the university the streets Tuesday
night. Under Texas law, plaintiffs can be
required to post a bond for the amount
of possible damages or loss to the defen-
dants.
Caldwell and Hunt allege that the
state, by acting as intervener, is claiming
the university is the sovereign of the
State of Texas. This claim was ruled
against in a recent case brought by NT
to the 158th District Court. The case in-
volves the right of eminent domain of
NT over city streets. The case is current-
ly being carried to the Texas Supreme
Court after the Fort Worth Court of
Civil Appeals upheld the district court's
ruling.
A hearing date for the Caldwell-Hunt
lawsuit has not been set.
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Gift of Blood
Photo by TERRY WOOTEN
Sharon Golihar, Dallas senior, relaxes after
donating a pint of blood during the Gift of Life
Blood Drive while Lee Ann Crawford, a nurse
from Wadley Blood Bank in Dallas, removes a
needle from her arm. Wadley technicians col-
lected 386 pints of blood during the two-day
drive. The blood will be used to meet the needs of
university faculty, staff and students.
SGA To Provide xCheap Thrills'
Assembly Approves Semimonthly Publication
Bv VINCE HEPTIG
Daily Reporter
The Student Government Association
(SGA) Assembly Thursday night ap-
proved the publication of an SGA
newspaper, established a temporary
book exchange committee, and ap-
proved the nominations of two com-
mittee chairmen.
The SGA newspaper, named "Cheap
Thrills," was established as the official
voice of SGA. Ken Dorsey, chairman of
the publicity and public relation com-
mittee, said the paper would be
published semimonthly and have a cur-
culation of about 2,000.
Dorsey said that the SGA paper
would do a better job serving students
than the Daily. "But we won't really be
in competition with The Daily," he said.
ASSEMBLYMAN STEPHEN Sale
said, "We (SGA) should have an oppor-
tunity to express our views. The Daily
hasn't done an adequate job of reporting
SGA's views and activities."
The first issue of "Cheap Thrills" will
be published Monday Dorsey said. The
means by which it will be distributed
have not been decided.
The newspaper will be funded through
SGA funds and the sale of advertise-
ments. The assembly voted to request C.
J. Taylor, NTSU legal advisor, to check
each issue of the paper, before publica-
tion, for libel.
Houston junior Dennis O'neal was
approved as chairman of the SGA Ad-
Hoc Book Exchange Committee. The
committee, Raoul Smyth, SGA presi-
dent. said, was established to provide
central leadership for the book exchange
program.
The book exchange program will
basically provide a link between students
buying and selling books through the
use of a computer listing, Smyth said.
The listing will include which books stu-
dents have to sell and those books stu-
dents will need in the coming semester,
he said.
"THE MARK-UP on books at local
book stores is as much as 80 per cent,"
Smyth said Tuesday. "This program will
save the students a lot of money."
Bill Ellis, Beaumont senior, was ap-
proved as chairman of the SGA External
Affairs Committee. "I'm now working
on many surveys, one of which is an
apartment survey, to find out what the
students' wishes are in many areas," El-
lis said.
Jerome Riser, Port Lavaca
sophomore, was approved as chairman
of the SGA Research and Analysis
Committee.
The assembly also finalized
memberships in its eight committees.
Smyth said he looked into the pos-
sibility of extending the hours of the
SGA Food Co-op office so it could serve
as an SGA information service center.
RISER RESEARCHED the project
and reported it would cost approximate-
ly $400 to heat the office six hours a day,
six days a week, for the remainder of the
winter months.
Carter Hampton, chairman of the
SGA Rules and Election Committee,
said applications for Homecoming
queen could be picked up at the SGA of-
fice on the fourth floor of the University
Union. Carter said Homecoming queen
elections will be held Nov 10 and 11 and
the results will be announced Nov.
12.
Miss Joan Arnold Roksandich, jStu-
dent chairman of the library commi.tee,
said the committee was working on a
program that would allow students to
check out a book from the Library for a
semester.
"The student would be allowed to
keep the book as long as the Library
doesn't receive a request for the book."
she said. "The student would have 48
hours to return the book if a request is
received or pay a S5 fine for each day the
book is kept out."
Homecoming Entertainment
Bursar Suggests No Show
If Contracts Miss Deadline
By SCOTT DANIELS
Staff Writer
University Bursar George Lindley
said Wednesday he will recommend
eliminating the entertainment portion of
this year's Homecoming unless the un-
iversity receives a signed contract from a
performer before today's 3 p.m. meeting
of the Homecoming Committee.
"We've done everything we can to get
Homecoming entertainment, and we've
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failed. I'll propose we forget the whole
thing," Lindley said.
The Homecoming Committee is
negotiating a contract with singer
Natalie Cole and rock group Graham
Central Station to perform at the
Coliseum Nov. 13. The university is
restricted from promoting a concert un-
til they receive a contract from the per-
formers.
Mary Yates, director of the student
activities, said she had expected to
receive the contract in the mail either
Monday or Tuesday of this week, but no
contract had arrived as of late Wednes-
day.
LINDLEY SAID it is too late to
secure another entertainer for
Homecoming if Natalie Cole and
Graham Central Station decide not to
sign.
"We can't get anybody in that short of
time," he said. "We can't get contracts
signed, promotional materials dis-
tributed or tickets printed in that short
of time."
Lindley said this is the first time an
entertainer has not been signed this close
to Homecoming. Lindley has worked as
a member of the Homecoming Commit-
tee for 27 years.
He said several dozen entertainers
have been contacted since April for
Homecoming, but none signed con-
tracts.
Last year's entertainers, the Pointer
Sisters, were signed in May, he said.
"We like to have a contract with the per-
formers at least several months in ad-
vance."
HE SAID one reason performers are
reluctant to sign contracts for Denton
appearances is a fear of low attendance.
Doc Severinsen appeared at
Homecoming in 1974, and less than 500
people bought tickets. The Pointer
Sisters, however, filled the Coliseum last
year with advance tickets sold at $2 a
piece.
"We could get Elvis Presley to per-
form but we would have to guarantee
S 100,000," Lindley said "We'd have to
price student tickets so high that we
couldn't sell any He would sell out in
Fort Worth or Dallas, but we can't get
townspeople to pay high ticket prices.
Towing 'Service' Proves Profitable
By JAMES TERENCE BRENNAN, Daily Reporter
As of September, students had paid $5,000 in traffic fines and towing
charges to the University Police and B&O Gulf Service Station, Bursar
George Lindley, who handles university police funds, said Tuesday.
B&O Gulf has a 24-hour wrecker service and does the towing for the un-
iversity police. After a car has been towed, a minimum $28 fee is charged to
reclaim the vehicle from police. Of that amount, B&O Gulf receives a $7
wrecker fee, and the police collect the rest, Asst. Police Chief Doyle
Fletcher said.
LAST YEAR the University Parking Committee raised towing charges
from $7 plus the parking violation fine to $25 plus another $3 fine, Fletcher
said.
Since September, approximately 50 cars have been impounded by univer-
sity police, Fletcher said.
Last year B&O Gulf collected $25,000 in revenue from its towing service.
A mechanic at the station said as many as 20 cars have been towed from the
NT campus in one day.
B&O SIGNED a contract with the NT police three years ago giving the
station exclusive claim to wrecker services rendered to NT. The contract
has not been renewed because local competitors have not been able to beat
the $7 cost per car that B&O charges, Fletcher said.
The Conoco station at the corner of Welch and West Hickory once
handled the campus towing duties, Fletcher said. However, campus police
terminated the station's services when its owner was arrested for income tax
evasion, he said.
The money from towing charges and traffic fines is deposited in the
University Restricted Parking Fund, Fletcher said. There is currently
$46,155 in the fund, which also receives revenue from reserved parking
decal fees, he added.
Regents To Review
Institute Proposal
The Board of Regents will
review a proposal to establish an
Institute of Applied Economics
and a request for new degree
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programs at its meeting today at
9 30 a.m. in the Board Room of
the Administration Building
The regents will consider
recommended personnel changes
for NT and the Texas College of
Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM).
However, a proposal calling for
the sale of beer and wine in the
University Union is not on the
agenda. The proposal, which was
backed 2,337 for and 405 against
by students in a referendum last
month, was voted down 5-3 by
regents in their session last June.
Today's meeting will be the first
lor Albert E. Gates of Laredo,
who was appointed regent to fill
Dallasitc James Law son s expired
term.
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