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Austin Amrrirau-S'latfsman Austin, Texas Page 3 Saturday, Jan. 2, 1971 Controversies in Many Fields Highlight 1970 in Austin for bus service. Austin Transit claimed the council had breached the March agreement by granting routes to TEI that Austin Transit also covered and then Austin Transit announced it would discontinue bus service July 31. TEI told the council it would take over the bus system if it could use early 1970, the council and Austin Transit consummated an agreement in March which called for a five-year franchise. But in June, the council granted a 15-year franchise to TEI in which it gave formal council approval to TEI's shuttle bus system at the University of Texas.

TEI contracts with the University 1970, but none has grabbed the headlines continuously like the saga of the buses. The city entered the year with a temporary contract with Austin Transit Co. and is leaving the year with another temporary agreement with Transportation Enterprises. Inc. After several months of negotiations in late 1969 and 2 By ALAN BAILEY Staff Writer The City of Austin found the sailing in choppy waters during 1970 with an almost endless list of controversies buses, Joe Atkison, parade permits, closed city council sessions, Model Cities, a bond issue and ambulances.

Granted, there have been many controversies during Gamp us Cools as Year arrangement which seeme to satisfy most everyone iintil this December when 't tfie ambulances again came uniter fire because of its service, Inflation took its! toll during the year. Water afld sewer rates were increased Taxes in the northeast section, of the city zoomed up in property re-evaluations. city paid the highest interest rate in its history for bond money. Bus fares were increased for school children. Taxicab owners have petitioned for" ad increase in fares.

1 Southern Union Gas asked for a gas rate increase "and waited for council aCU0n which never came, so the gas company appealed to ht Texas Railroad Commission: It is still before the Railroad Commission. The council, after much lobbying, awarded police, firemen and nurses "art additional pay increase above the six per cent hike awarded all city employes. Unrest built up in the public housing units and several "near riot" situations flared. The housing authority and the council have installed additional lights in the area and the authority is proceeding with modernization of the housing units. The council also passed a (See CITY, Page 6) Urban Development authorized the program, which is designed to upgrade an area of East Austin and the city is gearing up to implement the goals of Model Cities.

The year 1970 became known as the year people got on the ecology kick and in Austin it was very pronounced. There were bumper stickers on many cars urging the council to "Save Barton Creek" and the council has taken action by buying land along the creek. The city was hauled before the Texas Water Quality Board to present a plan to improve creeks and streams in the city. The board's action was sparked by an article in the American-Statesman which exposed LaRue for dumping dye into Waller Creek behind his laundry. The mayor stopped the dumping.

Of an ironic note, the first meeting of the council for 1970 and the last council meeting of the year featured ambulances. At. the first of 1970, the council stopped the ambulance subsidy and started a new financial Ends: Some Old Faces parade permit ordinance which was approved last May. The new parade permit ordinance, which requires parading organizations to bear the costs of overtime police supervision, was conjured up in the midst of last spring's anti-war parade permit requests. Throughout the spring, the council, often by a split vote, steadfastly turned thumbs down on anti-war parade permits, while granting permits to other organizations.

Several times potential explosive situations were defused by cooler heads with the most famous being a federal court order that permitted 15,000 persons to march last May without a parade permit from the council. Since the new ordinance passed in May, the parade permit controversy has slowly died because the council has granted all permits since then. But council members are still in federal court for a false arrest charge stemming from an anti-war march on the sidewalks of downtown Austin in April. Certainly in looking over the year, the battle over executive sessions of the council stands out. One questionable session brought a suit that was later dropped by a school teacher.

But the most historic closed meeting was last May in which the council discussed the downgrading of the Human Relations Commission and eliminating the post of executive director. It was that session on HRC which started the famous school-type buses. The council said okay and thus the "Tijuana Trolley" was born. However, TEI claimed "It was losing money to the tune of $20,000 per month, and on Nov. 30 it plunged the city into yet another bus crisis by saying it would not run buses after Jan.

1 unless it received financial help. The eventual outcome of the bus problem looks bleak since about the only permanent alternative left is for the city to enter the bus business. But the council is still waiting for a white knight to save it from the bus business, so in the meantime TEI will receive a subsidy, which could run as much as $800 per day. One white knight the council is looking for is a district judge that is in the case of Joe Atkison's status on city council which is now in district court. Although it was last April when the American-Statesman first reported the possible conflict of interest because of Atkison's dual role as a councilman and a special U.S.

deputy marshal, it was not until December that Mayor Travis LaRue asked for a legal opinion. The opinion by City Attorney Don Butler said Atkison vacated his council position in April by accepting the job of deputy marshal. If the court supports Butler's opinion, then all of Atkison's votes cast since April are no good. That would leave the council in an embarrassing position especially on 4-3 votes in which Atkison sided with the majority. Perhaps the most remembered 4-3 vote was the vote on the new "security leaks" hunt on the council and at one time Mayor Travis LaRue wanted the grand jury to investigate news leaks.

The uproar over HRC eventually faded after the post of executive director was retained in the budget and City Manager Lynn Andrews said the 10-month vacant job should be filled in January. Two significant programs were launched during the past year a five year $81.5 million bond issue was approved and Model Cities was funded. On March 28, voters in the largest turnout ever for a bond election gave their endorsement to $81.5 million in general obligation bonds and revenue bonds but they voted down a $14 million proposal to build a convention center. The bond money has been compressed into a three-year capital improvement program which Andrews submitted to the council and planning commission in early December. Although the convention center idea received a setback through bond defeat, the center is not dead.

The council in November approved a bed tax on hotels and motels which will finance planning and design of a future convention center. In April, the council, after much discussion in which at one time it appeared that the Model Cities program might go down the drain, finally sanctioned the $3.5 million per year program for its first of the proposed five years. Later, in September, the Department of Housing and WILLIAM E. BARNES, M.D. ANNOUNCES THE REMOVAL OF HIS OFFICE FOR THE PRACTICE OF PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY TO 1301 WEST 3STH STREET KEOICAL PARK TOWER SUITE 307 AUSTIN, TEXAS 78705 Office Hours Telephoia By Appointment 454.7659 By LESLIE TAYLOR Staff Writer With 1970 now history, the face of the University of Texas looks markedly different from that of a year before.

After a rambunctious spring and summer, the fall semester seemed oddly quiet. Nevertheless, the academic, social, and political atmosphere of the institution has been altered and solidified to a significant degree. Tbe issue of the war in Vietnam is as cold and lifeless as yesterday's morning coffee. The most recent interest was stirred when actress Jane Fonda spoke to approximately 1,500 listeners ia the Union Main Ballroom. But by 4 p.m., everyone had gone.

It was in contrast to the spring, when the issues of Cambodia and Kent State brought thousands to a week-long protest of rallies, sleep-ins, one wild melee on the Capitol grounds and a march downtown. Last fall, an anti-war march attracted only a few hundred on a sunny football Saturday afternoon. Vnder the firm direction of Regents chairman Frank C. Erwin Jr. of Austin, Chancellor-elect Charles IMaistre, and president ad interim Bryce Jordan, the university confront a new year and a new legislature.

"J270 saw many points of combat, including the division of the College of Arts and Sutenees, the firing of Dean John Silber. Erwin's hftltation to disgruntled frulty to leave the university, regental escjrreffatioii IV HANDCRAFTED COlOf tV CLEARANCE AFC Automatic Fine-tuning Control TITAN 80 Handcrafted Chassis Sunshine Color Picture Tube Super Video Range Tuner NOW! Most important, a new permanent president will be named. 1970 produced no active student leadership from the right or left, despite election last spring of radical Jeff Jones as president of the Students' Association. The Student Mobilization Committee, the Young Socialist Alliance and the Young Americans for Freedom have been relatively quiet this fall. The warm spring and summer, plus the mild winter, have brought scores of street people to Guadalupe in the university area, much to the dismay of both the merchants on the drag, before whose establishments the street vendors squat, and the university administration, which can officially do nothing about the non-student community abounding on public property across the street.

Austin police periodically break up the aimless gatherings, but the street people are there most any day the weather is nice. Panhandling is big business on the Drag and in the student union building. Some young people claim they can support themselves on it. Larry Jackson's Community United Front hustles daily around the student union where Jackson feeds up to 40 or 50 black school children from East Side week day mornings. The Regents have so far elected not to exercise their authority to throw Jackson out of the student union.

This year, the Rag, local underground newspaper, is hawked freely on campus. The Regents are appealing to the Supreme Court a lower court decision which held the board's prohibition against commercial solicitation is unconstitutional. Other papers have surfaced. Locally, there's "Second Coming," put out by UT Women's Liberation, and "Lone Star Dispatch," another underground-type paper less UT-onented. The UT Austin administration has found itself continually involved in administrative hearings involving rules and students.

Seriously grieved with the growing -s problem" surrounding the campus, Erwin handed Jordan a rule to ban non-students from campus organization meetings. But he neglected to give Jordan a AuBlin Atnrrira.t-0tatrB.nati alliiaW af ui llia-llw II'MK. aaltia. Itui )'(. rrtlM iMk Sataraav, tvtH R-Ufi; 'aar." 'HfH laty.

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Naw Yaar'a Oay, Fauffh al July, la.ar Day. Day and CHmtmaa Day ta- auaa AwitM Amaran.tataamaa. (Aftamaaw and Sunday tmtudmf, Hatuaay tatvaa) Gone reasonable way to enforce it. Students formed an Ad Hoc Committee Against the Regents' Ruling to test the non-student ban. Ad Hoc and the Young Socialist Alliance were called to defend themselves in lengthy hearings on their alleged violations of the rule.

The Regents found there were serious problems with the rule and its enforceability, but nobody has come up with a better one. Then all-American swimmer Frank Salzhandler let his hair grow enough that Coach Pat Patterson told him to cut it. Salzhandler complained publicly about UT's "professional" a ma athletic program. The coach kicked him off the team. Salzhandler appealed and lost.

The coach and the student settled up, and the all -American started swimming again. Then Gay Liberation, refused status as a registered student organization twice by the dean of students, appealed to the Committee on Student Organizations for registration. CSO said "Yes." Bryce Jordan said, "No." Chancellor Charles Le Maistre has it under consideration now, but administration sources say he will turn Gay Lib down. All these hearings have meant a busy year for Jack Robert Musslewhite, UT attorney. He represented the dean of student's office against Ad Hoc, YSA, and Gay Lib, and the coach against the swimmer.

UT students' attorney Jim Boyle defended Gay Lib at the CSO hearing, and the Regents passed a rule prohibiting him from representing any student or group in any administrative hearing. Boyle, the first full time attorney hired to represent students at any university in the country, spends most of his time handling landlord-tenant prblems and consumer protection cases. He has sued Student Travel. Inc. for failing to deliver the goods on some of last summer's student fiasco flights to Europe.

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A Certificate of of investment in THE BANK SALE BRADLEY CHPOMMLCt $529 95 (fgS-P it3 1, B298I The FARLEY Limited Quantities Fervor overriding of faculty votes to suspend classes in response to the deaths at Kent State, the decision to include random selection in controlling enrollments (a move opposed by some faculty), and keeping the Chuck Wagon off limits to non-students. Law students tried to bring the regents to trial for an alleged violation of the Texas open meetings statute. They claimed regental action to keep the Chuck Wagon closed, which was taken over the telephone, was an illegal closed meeting. County attorney Ned Granger called the case a "waste" of his time and suggested the regents might sue the students for "malicious prosecution." The administra'ion seems ready to prove to the legislature and the public that the university is for "all the people" equally, not the intellectually elite, that it is willing to discipline big name faculty who are getting large salaries but aren't "pulling their share of the load," and that it will not tolerate non-student in the university area. Some faculty feel a growing anti-intellectualism taking over at the university, especially when administrators talk of the need for professional management specialists to run campuses and Regents describe IT as a "manufacturing outfit." Before the spring semester is out.

there will be more changes. AiS will dissolve into three new colleges. There will be a new provost for AIS as well as three new deans for the nc now to be filed in court March 1 for implementation in the coming school year. In March, Irby Carruth retired after 20 years as school district head and the board began a search for a new superintendent which ended in mid-September with the announcement that Davidson would take over here Nov. 1.

The young, former chief of Manatee County, schools stepped into Austin amid the desegregation dilemma and student discontent with some school regulations, among other district problems. Not long after taking over, Davidson changed the dress code to allow women students, faculty and staff to wear pantsuits and announced that new attire regulations would be drawn up soon. For Austin's teachers, 1970 brought a 10 per cent pay hike over state minimum foundation scale for this school year and direct salary negotiations with the school board before the district budget was figured. A new directive also came from the board requiring a racial balance in school faculties comparable to the racial makeup of the community, thus, the so-called "crossover" teacher now is school policy. Finally, the makeup of Austin's seven-member school board changed with an election in April and the resignation of board president Roy Butler in December.

Ten persons ran for two open seats on the board with trustee Will Davis and the board's newest member Franlc Denius winning the posts. Butler's resignation leaves the board at year's end with the task of appointing a new member and electing new board officers. I JM B45IS-The SEGOVIA B4S0? The A Mediterranean Top School Issue Contemporary i. 4 vfi3r Free ash trays to first SO customers during our Zenith Clearance Sale. BASOUETTE'S MI US' Austin TV Appliance Co.

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