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I have uh one question this was pointed out to me earlier by one of our news people. Uh It was an article concerning a former governor of Texas who I'm sure you're extremely familiar with uh our milk fund candidate. Um You, oh, can you hear me

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doxy? Sure, I can't think of his name. Yes. Uh He announced today uh that uh he would support Reagan, the format for the April 6th hearing has not yet been set. And as such, we don't know yet what our role in that hearing will be. It's

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a public hearing to be held by City council for the principal reason of gathering information on the proposed proposal for Oil Memorial Park. This Department parks and recreation really doesn't have a position as such yet. We have to very carefully study each, each proposal such as

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this very carefully. Um It's our opinion that the parks in the city of Houston need improving greatly. The whole park system needs upgrading. This is going to cost a lot of funds a lot of money in order to spare the taxpayer as much as possible. We

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have to very seriously look at each of these situations for possible sources. We don't, the, the, the amount of money that could be realized from the oil drilling is unknown. It's been speculated by a number of people. And you, I've heard figures from anywhere from like

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2 to 3 million all the way up to 10 million over say a six year period. Um, it's flat out just simply not. I don't, I don't think anyone really know has a bad answer for that. How much the city could realize? And if the city

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could realize any more of it going a different route, say a different, you know, drilling operation or drilling in itself or whatever. Those are all very much unknown questions at this time. A lot of folks scratching your head about the whole thing. No one, we can

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do it. A workshop for those who care about the events on next year's calendar, we can do. It is the theme of this weekend's workshop that is being sponsored by the R PC. The workshop will start at 9 30 on both Saturday and Sunday the 27th

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and 28th of March. That's, that's coming up weekend. Kari News talked with Ed Pierce, the president of the R PC and asked who all were invited and who should attend. We need the whole campus to come out. It's your chance. Everybody else's chance to get out

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and tell the RPC what they want to see done this year. When asked what the format of the workshop will be and what the discussions will be centered around Pierce had this to say this workshop is built on a uh both a training type session and

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a pulling of ideas from people. So if you aren't even sure if you have an idea, it's a good idea to come out because you can learn what sort of things can be done. And from that, put your own input in, get a little response on

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what is possible to be done. The problem in the past has been that there has been no schedule for things to build around. Well, we need to get some commitments for dates, for events, for activities so that we can work around this schedule. When you come

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up with new ideas, you have to know where you can put them and where you can't something to build around. We're building this framework this weekend. It seems that Ed Pearce is trying to get the rise community to realize that the R PC is an organization

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that is geared toward the needs and desires of the students. But R PC is your program council. Uh I was elected to decide how the money would be spent, but it wouldn't be right for me to spend it in the ways that I that I wanted.

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It's this, it's your money. And if you don't let me know how you want it spent, then it's gonna perhaps not be the direction that you want it to take, we can do it if you have any ideas or want to help the rise students next

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year show up at the R PC workshop this Saturday at 9 30 in se hall three oh one or forever. Hold your right. This is Roy for K two News. I talked to Mike Dunn the night before the elections. I ask you to make sure you

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understand that this was the night before the election. And he said that he was going to have the polls in the office or sorry? Sorry, he was going to have the ballots in the office for me to open up the polls at nine o'clock. And I

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went to the Hanson office at nine o'clock and there were no ballots there and I waited around, but being that I have a class, uh I had to leave me, make myself perfectly clear about that. I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Normally in the

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summer we run two large air conditioning chillers, they chill salt water or chemically treated water which then flows through pipes around campus and one of them is driven by steam a turbine. So we burn natural gas around that one. The other one is electrically driven. And

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right now for the next two years, we can get electricity at bargain rates, but the natural gas is very expensive. It's gone up a factor of five in the last two years. So we want to establish a program that will allow us to shut down the

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steam driven chiller in the summer and operate with only the electrically driven chiller. We can do this if we close down some buildings. So we looked at the occupancy of the colleges and it looks as though we can without, you know, too much inconvenience to very

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many people shut down. Probably seven of the eight colleges leaving one open to handle some groups that come in during the summer and meet some obligations that we have with the reduced load from that. Plus some other changes that are making other buildings, we can operate

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with just the electrically driven chiller and that will save about $100,000. And then with the reduced electrical load, not running pumps and fans and blowers and other things, there's about another 60 to $80,000 that's saved. So the total cost is almost $200,000 that we're going to

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save if we do succeed in saving, say $200,000 we might then pay. I mean, I'm not suggesting this, but the $200,000 is enough money that we could do some good things with the savings, like continue programs or enhanced programs that might make it more attractive to

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be a resident. I think we'll have to find other ways of doing things, other ways of enhancing the Resident Associate program to make it attractive enough for people to do it and air conditioning, running an entire college building to keep one room cool. Which is what

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you're doing is just something we can't afford anymore. The B MP coffee house is, well, it's almost complete. Now, uh, we plan to open April the 10th, which is a Saturday night and, uh, right now we have a little work to do on the kitchen, some

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for mic to finish up a few more light fixtures to put in. Uh, we still need to construct about 15 to 20 tables. So people will have something to set their drinks on. Uh, the stage is almost finished is, uh, ah, we believe the B MP

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will be a big improvement over what it used to be when it was located in the attic of the old section. Uh, we think the lighting will be better, the sound system will be much improved due to uh, a large expenditure that was made this year

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by the Hanson cabinet. And, uh, we believe it'll be better insulated so it, uh, won't annoy the students which, you know, live immediately above the coffee house area just like the old one did in the old section. Um, we also believe it will accommodate more people

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and it'll also be easier to, uh, serve drinks and serve prepared food during the shows is the, uh General Bond General Obligation bond election for uh, City of Houston on the ballot will be 11 issues adding up to $193 million of bond authorization over the next

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three years. And these are for capital improvement projects such as street paving and topping. That's 89 million and the biggest, biggest issue, uh, storm sewers and drainage, that's $30 million. The second big biggest issue then goes on down the list. Parks, police fire, public transportation, general

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improvements, health, traffic safety and control, library and solid waste management, which is garbage disposal. These are um, uh what they call nuts and bolts issues affecting everybody in the city of Houston streets and drainage and, and whatnot. So we can keep up with Houston's growth. Public

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parks are not places for commercial ventures, regardless of what the commercial venture is, whether it's a, an, an oil well, in this case or a Jack In the Box or uh, it could be a university campus and I would oppose it just as strongly. Uh, parks

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are people places and uh any kind of a business enterprise should not be allowed in any form. They haven't really proven that it's going to be lucrative at all. Uh There are no geologic tests haven't been run on, on Memorial Park. There has there have been

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no seismic surveys. The only thing that the Brown Co Corporation is using is past geologic information that was accumulated during the time of the Eureka Heights fields, which was back in the thirties and the activities will center around uh Miller Theater and the Miller Theater Hill.

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There will be an information booth at the top of the hill where, uh, everyone can pick up a brochure with the day's events listed in a map of where each event is located. There'll be performance areas, uh, where there'll be a bluegrass concert, strolling musicians, fencing

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exhibitions, uh, clowns, jugglers, magicians. And then we'll have live stage shows and also that will be in our performance areas and then in our activity areas, we'll have an arts and craft exhibition with uh demonstrations of crafts from work at uh 44 city parks and be

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demonstrations of macro, pen and ink drawings, uh oil painting, wood carving, weaving, uh quilting and other crafts. And then in an activity area also, we will have uh earth games, which is uh a new concept in games designed for group participation without competition. And the games

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will be uh we have people games to be building a human pyramid and we'll have uh some games that involve uh an eight ft earth ball. We'll have earth ball volleyball and we'll have a tug of war and um uh various games like that in the

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activity area. They will also be having a puppet show for Children at the children's zoo auditorium at three PM. And uh the library to yourself and the Houston public library will be there showing cartoons for Children and it's just a day for the whole family and

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it's uh it's free and it and what it mainly is is to um initiate our new uh performing arts division who will be throughout the spring and summer presenting various entertainments uh in Houston Parks. Uh Yes, we, we may have it. Uh, every year we decided

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this year to have a spring festival. We thought about it last year and then we decided to do it this year for the public. And um, like I said, the main, the main emphasis of this one this year is just to introduce this new division that

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will be um we're really expanding our, our uh entertainment uh capabilities in the department to um enable uh more entertainment to go out to various areas of the city, free entertainment for the public. We resume Friday evening at eight o'clock at the media center with King

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Vidor who is a very elderly gentleman, about 80 native of Galveston who began his film career. Oh, about the time Rice University was founded around 1912 and has been making films in private independent films ever since 1918. And these include the biggest money winning silent film

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of all times and some of the world's best films of silence and talkies both. And he's going to be there to talk Friday night in the media center artist room at eight o'clock about his experience in filmmaking in the 19 thirties. And he will follow that

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with the presentation of his film, a classic film of the thirties entitled our daily bread. A Sunday is the last day and we have just one item on the day, namely a panel and open for discussion which will begin at two o'clock Sunday afternoon at Jefferson

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Davis High School. This is located at 1200 Quitman. It's on the near north side in a Chicano neighborhood. Uh It can be reached by simply going north on main street crossing the bayou until you come to Quitman and turn right or east and you'll pass eventually

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Jefferson Davis High School, which is a very interesting handsome building from the 19 twenties, 19 thirties itself. We have a panel there led by Bill, a director of the Museum of Fine Arts and staffed by James Bloom who will represent photography, a professor here on the

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Rice Campus, uh sorry, not photography, but filmmaking. And a doctor Albert Blum who is a professor of history now working at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs and who has been conducting seminars on art and government policy and Richard Hunt, who is a black

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artist from Chicago, who has done some advising and consulting for the government on the National Endowment for the Arts. And Jerry Bywaters, who's an old Texas artist who did W P A murals in various sites in Texas, including one here in Houston. And these men will

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be charged with dealing primarily with the issue of government policy in the arts 19 thirties. And now with an emphasis on the now drawing on the thirties whenever relevant to illuminate conditions that might exist now or issues or problems. And this will be particularly pointed towards

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the audience looking for lots of audience participation and be delighted to have any members of the rice community there who would like to participate, put in a word about what they think about arts, our government policy, the general open forum meeting will be broken down into

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smaller groups so that we can pursue these topics in more detail with people who are qualified to talk about them in detail, who have experience in both the arts and the government policy for the arts. The art department has put together with a grant from the

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Texas Committee for the Humanities and Public Policy and the National Endowment for the Humanities, a program on art in America in the 1930 s and public policy for the arts, both in the 1930 s. And now our idea was to put together a group of people,

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some of whom would have been artists working in the thirties for the government and others. Uh historians who have made their specialty, the exploration of arts in the thirties and government programs for the thirties. And then finally, to complement those people with their counterparts. Today, artists

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are now working today and government people in Washington who are responsible for programs towards the arts with an idea of getting a perspective on the thirties. And using that to see in the examination of the government patronage of the art today. If there are experiences of

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the thirties, which might be relevant to considerations for the present and which might also suggest some future policy. We began this program with a very general charge from the department to do something bicentennial to take our modest little department budget for lectures and special events and

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to do something that would celebrate the bicentennial program. We ponder that without much relish because there are so many bicentennials going on. Our feeling was that people are likely to have become tired of bicentennial programs. And it's so easy to come up with a program that

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duplicates something done in numerous other cities, numerous other institutions even here in this city nauseum. And so what we were, were we going to do with this unwanted charge after we grumbled a while, we began to focus on possibilities of doing something that other people were

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not doing. And we because of the personal interest of a few people in the committee and for other reasons, I've simply forgotten. We somehow began to focus on the 19 thirties. We thought that the art itself was of intrinsic interest. We were interested in the role

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of government patronage in the art. For the first time, we thought that really this was one time in the first time in the history of the arts in America that the issue had been raised about. Namely, what is the role of art in American society. What

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responsibility has the government towards the art? Uh Are there responsibilities best, best left to the private sector or on the other hand, what are the responsibilities of the artist towards the government or the country? We were also interested in the fact that such a federal art

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program resumed during the Lyndon B Johnson administration in the mid late sixties. And it is still very important. It has become more important in our society now. And there's been a great deal of discussion about public patronage of the arts. We also have passed through a

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little recession recently, nothing like the depression in the thirties. But enough to make us think back about the thirties. And we simply began to think along the lines that perhaps it would be useful to focus a bicentennial program on art in the thirties and government patronage,

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the opportunities that offered and the problems that appeared and to use that as a way as a opening into the sixties and seventies. Does it provide any illumination into the situation we face now? And if so how and perhaps not, that would be a conclusion too.

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We basically began with thoughts of that and we soon outstripped our little department budget and decided to get a grant to go ahead with it. And as I said, we've been fortunate to get some very fine people to participate in this program. Wednesday night, the Masters

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Committee met to finalize the recommendations to President Hackerman for Masters of Will Rice and Sid Richardson Colleges. Stephen Baker, chairman of the committee and Hansen Master told me that the decision of the Masters had been sent to Doctor Hackerman. Doctor Stephen Kleinberg, Acting Master of Lovett

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informed me that the representatives of the committee will meet with Doctor Hackerman this weekend Saturday to be exact, clarify the committee's reasons for the recommendations. K T R U will keep you informed as information becomes available. I'm Stan Barber Kru News Tom reporting for K News.

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I'm at Ron Paul headquarters right now. They've been posting the results outside on some construction paper that's lined up along the wall that's just outside the headquarters. And so far it looks pretty good for Ron Paul supporters. The doctor is ahead after 60 precincts have reported

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that's 60 out of 152 and he's got 18,649 points to Bob Gam's 14,344 which is about 55% of the total vote. He's doing quite well in Fort Bend County. I might add an interesting precinct there. Precinct 28 where Ron had trouble with in the last election.

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This time, he carried it 969 to 155 which really surprised a lot of people here and of course, overjoyed them. Also, the atmosphere here is one of gaiety and confidence and optimism. I had a conversation with a Doctor Sheehan who has been one of Dr Paul's

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big supporters. He works in the building here where the headquarters are and he said that the results were a lot better than they expected. They expected a win, but they feel now that it could be a landslide. Another interesting aspect of this election is that the

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precincts which damage carried in the last election are splitting fairly evenly. Or at least we're earlier in the evening. Gamage is starting to get some of those precincts, but a little earlier in the evening with about 56 precincts reporting, Paul and Gamage were splitting those precincts

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which Bob Gamage had taken last time and Paul is very strong in the precincts which he did take last time. He's taken all of them that have reported thus far. And in those that were close, he has taken all those that have reported thus far there

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also, like I said, once again, it's pretty, there's a lot of happiness about, I guess you might say there's a pretty good atmosphere as far as and election party goes and it looks like I picked the right 11 interesting thing I might add is that the

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Rice Precinct brought a few groans here because Bob Gamage was winning 211 to 49 but it was pretty much what they expected because Gamage did quite well in the Rice Precinct, which is number 361 by the way, in the previous election. So at about 9 15

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or 9 20 I guess it is. It looks like Dr Paul has got a victory on his hands and at least that's what they think down here at Ron Paul headquarters. This is Tom reporting for K news during this week. Houston will be the host of

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one of the world championship tennis tournaments. The tournament sponsored by River Oaks Country Club will feature players such as Ian as Stasi Jimmy Connors, Stan Smith, Ken Rosal, Vitas Carolinas, Bob Lutz and former R star Harold Solomon. Today Monday, April 5th. The matches scheduled rained out

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these doubles matches, Bob Lutz and Stan Smith versus Jaime Fila and Tom Gorman as well as the match between Vitis Gait and Cliff Ritchie against Eddie Dibbs and his partner Harold Solomon were scheduled for the first day to allow the singles players to have a day

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of practice. These will be played tomorrow at the same time if the courts are dry. Harry Parton, the head pro at River Oaks who the tournament director stated that investigations into indoor facilities have been made in the event that the rain doesn't subside courts would have

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to be flown in from Dallas for indoor play. Mister Parton was concerned about the seating for the 4000 people who have, who have brought tickets for the matches. He did add that the schedule would have to be altered if the matches had to be played indoors

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but he hoped that the weather would clear up in event that the sun appears from behind the clouds. Tomorrow. This WCT tournament will continue on schedule with possible doubling up of matches. Kru will continue coverage of the River Oaks tennis tournament throughout this week with some

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interviews with the players bar receiver news. After waiting the appearance of bright sunshine, the River Oaks mid American Oil Company tennis tournament finally got underway this morning at 11 30. Tom Gorman was defeated by Bob Lutz in two sets, 62 and 61. While Stan Smith was

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defeated by Phil Dent in three long sets. Smith seemed to be suffering from the humidity as well as from the slippery, difficult to maneuver clay court 16246 and 75 while Dent was chopping away at Smith. Vitis Geis defeated his doubles partner Cliff Ritchie in two sets.

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Carlita won the first set 76 in the tiebreaker and 6 to 1 in the second set. A few controversial line calls were made and the ball boys just weren't paying attention. Ritchie was disturbed by the inconsistent service line calls in all the matches I saw today,

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players were constantly complaining about the linesman and their calls particularly services and lets admittedly, some calls were not correctly made, but all in all the linesmen were doing their best. These discrepancies in line calls almost caused Eddie Dibbs to walk off the court during his and

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Harold Solomon's doubles match against Geis and Ritchie. The final score of the match was 7675 in favor of Geli and Ritchie with the tiebreaker one at 76. II satisfied the crowd with his clowning during the match. Not only did he slide all over the court, but

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he also asked the court's keepers to brush off his shoes. Jaime Phil was defeated by Nastasi 6276 with a tiebreaker won by Nastasi at 75. When I left the tournament a little bit after six. This evening, the doubles match between Stan Smith and his partner Bob

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Lutz against Tom Gorman and Jaime Philon was in the third set. The first two sets were split between the two teams with Phil and Gorman winning the first at 64 and Smith and Lutz winning the second at 63. Gorman and Phil were ahead 3 to 2

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in the third set. When I left tomorrow, the WCT tournament will continue at 11 30 AM with Dibbs playing Stone in the stadium court followed by LA versus Rose Wall at one PM. Also at one o'clock, Rose Paro will play Solomon at the grandstand court at

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2 30. Number one seed, Jimmy Connors will play John Alexander in the stadium. Two doubles matches will be played at 4 30. Den and Alexander versus later and Rosal in the grandstand as well as Connors and Nastasi versus Paro and Stone at the stadium court. KT

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will continue covering these matches the rest of the week. Bar receiver K News. Our leading hitter hitting 3 70 is Jerry Williford. He's a senior. He's a catcher outfielder, probably be playing right field in the Rice Series and he's a big strong left handed hitter. He

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bats clean up for us and has been doing a great job all year. Um, our other two players that are just doing outstanding this year are, are shortstop Rocket Wheeler and that Rocket is his nickname. It's Ralph Wheeler. He's from Houston Wheatley high school here and

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he's been doing a great job in the field and at the bat, I can't remember what I think Ralph batting 3 45 and uh our center fielder to Altman who stole 25 bases and he's hitting around 3 30 also in conference play, our second baseman Doug

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Phillips is hitting 3 40 he's doing a great job. So those, our offense has been basically around there. Our, our great strengths are our defense and our control pitching. Our defense, we're field in 9 81 in the conference, which is about 6% points higher than the,

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than the Southwest conference record right now. Of course, we have three seriess to go and hopefully we'll be pretty close to that mark the names of both of the people, Dr Martin, who was appointed to the master's position at Richardson and Dr who was appointed to

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the same position at Will Rice came to me and a very short list of names from the students in both of those places. Ah, they also came to me in the list which the masters presented. I also discussed them with Dean Brown and with Doctor Carrington

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and a few others, uh, different places on the campus and they were all, if it was unanimously agreed that he come to do a first rate job. So they were fine. I think that most of the speakers in opposition yesterday and today opposed the project primarily

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on philosophic grounds. I would like to suggest to the Man City Council that this is not the time to decide this issue on philosophic grounds. This issue should be decided on practical grounds.