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LAMAR
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Serving the Lamar community for 55 years
Good Morning!
Friday, September 29,1973
Vol. 29, No. 8
ERIN ISAAC IN SSC—Singer Erin Isaac “Winter Moon.” The concert was spon-
performed at a concert held in the Setzer sored by the Setzer Student Center Cof-
Student Center Ballroom Wednesday feehouse Committee and was free to
night. Isaac was the winner of the 1976 Lamar students. See related review, page
American Song Festival for her song 3. Photo by Steve waton
George Washington
Louise Heckaman
'Adding Machine ’ scheduled
The Lamar University Theatre
Department will present "The Ad-
ding Machine,” written by Elmer
Rice, on Oct. 12,13 and 14. The show,
which will be directed by Dr. W.
Patrick Harrigan, III, will be
presented in the University Theatre
at 8 p.m. on all three nights.
Admission is free with a Lamar
ID; $1 to all students, high school
and under; and $2 for the general
public. Reservations can be made by
calling 838-7124 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Although “The Adding Machine”
was written in the 1920’s, its relevan-
ce has increased, rather than
decreased with age.
Mr. Zero, the play’s central
character, a man who has worked at
the same desk, at the same job for 25
years, is one day, without warning,
informed that he is to be “replaced”
by an adding machine. The ensuing
conflict becomes complicated when
Mr. Zero murders his boss and is
executed for his crime. This is not,
however, the “end” of Rice’s anti-
hero, who returns to do battle in the
world of machines after his death.
Mr. Zero will be played by Matt?
Carlin, Orange graduate of Lamar.
Joining Carlin, as Mr. Zero’s wife,
Mrs. Zero, will be Beaumont
sophomore, Bridget Kelly, in her fir-
st appearance on the LU stage.
Louise Heckaman, Beaumont
senior, and George Washington,
Port Arthur junior, comprise the
remainder of the leading cast.
This production has been entered
in the American Theatre Association
Festival. The play will be judged by
a representative of the ATA and, if
selected, will be presented in com-
petition against other winners of the
different areas of the United States.
The area winners will be invited to
perform in Washington, D.C.
Bridget Kelly
Matt Carlin
CETA
Jobs extended through December
By MARK KNOWLES
of the UP staff
Persons facing the Sept. 30 termination
of jobs created and funded by the Com-
prehensive Employment and Training Act
have received extensions through Dec. 31.
According to Dr. Charles Turco, director
of research and programs, the Southeast
Regional Planning Commission has in-
formed Lamar that, as of Wednesday, fun-
ding had once again become available for
these jobs.
The individuals classified under the
CETA program as Title VI special are the
persons who would have lost their jobs.
This includes the majority of the Lamar
CETA work force, some 40-50 slots. It in-
cludes jobs in university relations, student
affairs and maintenance.
The proposed termination was the result
of a freeze put on the allocation of funds by
the national administrators.
CETA was founded in 1973 to ap-
propriate federal money to state, county
and local governments to provide unem-
ployed workers with jobs in health,
education, law enforcement, sanitation
and similar jobs.
The Southeast Regional Planning Com-
mission became the local, office of
distribution after the funds were allocated
to regional offices throughout the nation.
From a list of propositions submitted to
the SETRPC by Turco and Jack Woolford,
supervisor of special reports and
programs, special projects were
developed through the funds appropriated
to the university.
In theory, Turco said, the jobs would be
useful to the public in taking people who
want to work off the unemployment rolls,
and to the individual in providing him or
her with temporary work and training for
the future.
The unemployed applicants were
classified according to two categories;
Title II classifications were assigned to
persons who were only recently unem-
ployed, some 10-14 days. Title VI
classifications were assigned to those out
of work for periods up to 16 weeks and
longer.
According to Woolford, Title II
classifications were assigned to in-
dividuals who had for some reason been
cut off from their previous occupation, but
still displayed the need and desire to work.
A recent article by Kinney Bennett in
"Readers’ Digest” revealed the misap-
propriation and abuse of the CETA
program nationwide. His article discussed
incidents in which jobs were being handed
out as political favors, nonexistent
workers were drawing funds and some
workers were receiving more than one
paycheck for different jobs.
According to Woolford, this type of
misappropriation and abuse did not exist
at Lamar. “CETA has been good for
Lamar in that it has provided us with
many good workers that the regular
budget could not afford to hire,” he said.
“The biggest problem of the program at
Lamar was to find people to fill the slots
created by the projects,” Turco said.
“Some people just did not qualify for the
jobs, and some decided that it would be
much easier to collect unemployment
compensation than to work at a temporary
job.”
Turco said that things began to slow
down when the funds first stopped coming
in early September. At that time, he and
Woolford composed and submitted a list of
new requests to SETRPC with the hopes
that future funding would occur.
Also, the Sept. 30 termination of jobs un-
der the Title VI special classification was
imposed. Workers under the Title II and
Title VI regular classifications were at
that time granted an extension to Dec. 31.
The granting of those extensions was
made possible through the accumulation
of funds by “Deobligation.” When people
quit the program, funds were taken away
from that project and held back, rather
than being redistributed. The slight
buildup of these “deobligated” funds was
to be used for the funding of the extended
programs.
Turco said that he had anticipated
something would happen before long, since
the CETA freeze was one of few national
programs to be so totally and quickly ter-
minated.
“Before Wednesday, we did not know
when or if any developments were going to
take place,” Turco said. “Now, all that we
know is that the programs are going to be
extended until Dec. 31. All we can do is
continue waiting for new legislation to be
passed and more funds to be appropriated
while our requests for new projects are
being considered.”
Student election results announced
By FRANK CONDE
of the UP staff
Results from Tuesday’s student elec-
tions have been announced by Student
Government Association vice president
Betty Jacob.
Casting ballots in the election were 408
students on the main campus. Voting
machines, supplied by Jefferson County,
were used in the election, and ballots were
tallied by computer.
Elected chairpersoh for the Setzer
Student Center Governing Board was
Steve Scott, Port Neches senior
psychology major. Scott was also elected a
representative -at-large.
Elected president of the Resident Hall
Association was Hyatte Simmons,
Beaumont sophomore prelaw-government
major.
Eight representatives-at-large to the
Student Government Association from the
campus were elected. These include Scott;
Dale Jordan, Beaumont freshman, un-
declared major; Lynne Freeland,
Beaumont freshman, finance major; Ted
Williams, Belton senior accounting major;
and Susan Hendrix, Beaumont senior nur-
sing major.
Also elected were Joleen Hansen,
Beaumont senior elementary education
major; Gary Rothenberger, Beaumont
freshman accounting major; and Chris
Fernon, Beaumont junior pre-med major.
Two senators to the SGA from each class
in the university were also elected in
Tuesday’s voting.
They are freshman class: Danny Clark,
undeclared major, and Pamela Stringer,
Beaumont business administration major;
sophomore class: Terrilynn Thompson,
Orange elementary educstion major, and
Anthony Terracina III, Port Arthur
general business major; junior class: Lisa
Ferguson, Beaumont accounting major,
and Cheryl Boyd, Beaumont elementary
education major; senior class: Deborah
Bowling, Port Arthur senior management
major, and Terri Neely, Lumberton home
economics major.
Senators to the SGA from eight of the
university’s nine colleges were elected. No
candidate registered for the elections from
the College of Science.
These senators are Dennis Warren,
Lufkin sophomore prelaw major, College
of Business; Carol Wiggins, Beaumont
sophomore elementary education major,
College of Education; Cheryl Shanks, Sour
Lake senior math major, College of
Engineering; Peggy Dow, Beaumont
junior mass communication major,
College of Fine and Applied Arts; and Pat-
ty Duke, Nederland freshman nursing
major, College of Health Sciences.
Other college senators are Byron Balen-
tine, Port Arthur senior government
major, College of Liberal Arts; and David
Stone, Beaumont senior drafting major,
College of Technical Arts.
The Beeson Technical Arts voting
station was the most frequented by voters,
with 138 ballots cast there, according to
Jacob.
The SGA will hold its first meeting Oct.
3, at 3:30 p.m., on the eighth floor of the
Gray Library.
Jacob urges all new senators as well as
representatives of recognized
organizations to attend.
Speedy Trial Act under scrutiny
AUSTIN, Texas (UPI)—Texas
prosecutors are asking the state’s highest
court for criminal cases to strike down a
new law that has freed at least three ac-
cused murderers and offers immunity to
any defendant not tried within a strict
timetable.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a
test case on the validity of the Speedy Trial
Act enacted by the 1977 Legislature and
application of deadlines the statute im-
poses for prosecturos to try a case or drop
charges.
San Antonio courts in three months have
freed three accused murderers and
dismissed serious charges against three
others on grounds prosecutors failed to
meet the 120-day time limit for felony
cases.
Lawyers for the first woman sentenced
to death row in Texas contend she should
be declared immune from prosecution on
charges of the murder-for-hire slaying of
Hill rules
on state
legislators
AUSTIN, Texas (UPI)—A state legislator
may not hold a position at a state univer-
sity even if he takes unpaid leave of ab-
sence during his service in the Legislature,
Attorney General John Hill ruled today.
E.D. Walker, president of the University
of Texas System, asked Hill for the legal
opinion. Walker said the director of
minority affairs at a state university had
won the Democratic nomination for a seat
in the Texas House, and is unopposed in
the general electioiw
Walker asked if the man could be given
an unpaid leave of absence that would
assure he could return to the job at the
same salary when his service in the
Legislature ended.
“We believe a person's occupation of a
position which assures him of a salaried
status at a definite future date constitutes
a position of profit,” Hill said in his ruling.
“Accordingly, it is our opinion that an in-
dividual employed by a state university is
precluded from taking an unpaid leave of
absence during the time for which he was
elected to serve in the Legislature.”
A provision of the state constitution
prohibits legislators from holding any
other office or state or federal position of
profit.
her father because prosecutors were too
slow to ac*.
The test case—centering on the issue of
whether time limits began running on July
1 or earlier—involves a more mundane of-
fense.
Attorneys for Linzy Wade of Austin are
asking the appeals court to dismiss the
felony indictment against him because he
was not tried within 120 days of his arrest
Feb. 5 on drunk-driving charges.
District Attorney Ronald Earle is urging
the court to rule the time limits do not ap-
ply to cases pending before the new law
went into effect July 1.
The Texas District and County At-
torneys Association contends the court
should declare the new statute invalid as
an unconstitutional infringement by
legislators upon the judicial branch of
government. Wade’s case is the first the
high court has agreed to consider in detail.
The court refused to take up earlier ap-
peals on behalf of Mary Lou Anderson of
Richmond, the first woman sentenced to
death row in Texas, and James E. Wright
Sr. of Eastland, who faces a murder
charge for shooting his wife to death in an
East Texas courthouse.
Presiding Judge John F. Onion said the
defendants in those cases failed to bring
themselves within the terms of the act.
“Undoubtedly we will be getting a num-
ber of questions about the statute,” Onion
said. “There’s still a state of confusion
about the terms of the act. We're going to
have to deal with those questions.”
The new law orders courts to dismiss
charges against defendants in cases where
the state is not ready for trial within 120
days on Class A misdemeanors, 60 days on
Class B misdemeanors or 30 days on minor
infractions such as speeding. The act does
not apply if the defendant agrees to a delay
or is not available to stand trial or if there
are exceptional circumstances requiring
more time for prosecutors to prepare their
case.
“Prosecutors are like lawyers
anywhere, they have to have time to
prepart a case,” Onion said. “These time
limitations are sometimes rather harsh.”
Mike McCormick, executive director of
the prosecutors association, said Texas
would need four times the current number
of courts and attorneys to eliminate court
backlogs and handle cases as quickly as
the new statute requires.
“There’s not enough courts, there is not
enough money to hire decent prosectors,”
McCormick said.
McCormick said the Legislature has no
business setting time limits for trial of ac-
cused criminals.
“To allow the Legislature to define what
acts are crimes and then to dictate to the
courts the time within which the cause of
action must be determined amounts to an
unconstitutional infringement on the ad-
ministration of the judicial system,” Mc-
Cormick argued in a brief for prosecutors
in the Wade case.
LEADERSHIP LAMAR—The co- Menefee of Blue Key, make final theme is “Going Places.” Delegates
chairpersons of the seventh annual preparation for the leadership Lamar con- depart journeys of leadership in the
Leadership Lamar Conference, Leslie ference to be held at Waterwood Resort on Lamar community.
Landry of Cap and Gown, and Dale Lake Livingston, Oct. 5, 6, and 7. The ph*M ty stav* wumb
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