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Con vention Haggles Over School Funds AUSTIN, Tex. (AF) A strange alliance of liberals and hard-core conservatives pursues its attack today against a proposed constitutional fund for buildings at state colleges outside the two super-systems. Constitutional convention debate Tuesday afternoon included accusations of and by college presidents and governing boards. The State Higher Education Assistance Fund would be an annual appropriation of tax money for use by the 22 state schools outside the University of Texas and Texas systems. It would be available for buildings, repairs, library books and equipment, as well as to back construction bonds.

The proposal would commit the legislature to provide each year an amount equal to the earnings of the Permanent University Fund. The $31 million annual income from the fund can be used only by UT and Before recessing Tuesday evening, the legislator-delegates voted 143-24 to limit bonds issued against the higher education assistance fund to 50 per cent of the Permanent University Fund, which now totals $680 million. That was a victory for Rep. Ray Hutchison, R-Dallas, and a group of liberals. Republicans and hard-core conservative Democrats who oppose the small college fund as fiscally dangerous.

At one point, Hutchison warned that as the Permanent University Fund and its earnings grow the demands on the state treasury would grow to the point of requiring new taxes. are talking about an income tax and some other tax that I wish we have to talk about Hutchison said. Opponents of the fund repeatedly asserted that the Education Committee sent it to the floor as the price demanded by colleges outside the UT and systems for continuing those two exclusive right to the permanent fund. fact, they cut a asserted Rep. Jim Mattox, D-Dallas, who failed last week in attempts to change the permanent status quo.

Sen. Jack Hightower, EVVernon, said it was only fair that smaller the schools have the same guaranteed income to back their building programs that UT and have. Without such a guarantee, he said, there could be no longrange planning. Rep. Hilary Doran, D-Del Rio, parodying William Jennings famous of speech, said: press down the crown of financial irresponsibility on the brow of the taxpayers of this state crucify them on a cross of educational Legislator-delegates defeated, 94-70, an amendment by conservative Democrat Rep.

Bill Hollowell, Grand Saline, eliminating the authority of the 22 schools to issue bonds against the fund. really is the test vote of whether you are going to be a fiscal conservative in this said Mattox. Balloonist Sighted SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) Several thousand people in the resort town of Puerto de la Cruz reported seeing a balloon today. The Spanish news agency CIFRA said it was the balloon of missing American adventurer Thomas Gatch Jr. Another Spanish news agency, Europa Press, said it could not confirm this.

It first reported that it was balloon, then said only that a blue balloon was sighted about 10,000 feet above the Valley of Orotava. Police in the area said they had seen no trace of the balloon. Coastal Spanish radio stations and air traffic authorities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife reported they knew nothing of whereabouts. The 48-year-old bachelor from Alexandria, left Harrisburg, 10 days ago in a pressurized gondola in his bid to become the first man to cross the Atlantic in a balloon. He has been missing for five days.

Military officials in the Spanish Sahara, where the balloon search had centered over the weekend before it was called off, reported they had no information on the new reports. VOL. 78, NO. 218 WANT ADS 872-3033; OTHER DEPARTMENTS 872-2551 CORSICANA, TEXAS (75110) WEDNESDAY, 197 PRICE 10 CENTS 28 PAGES Kissinger Holds i-iopes for Peace Rocky Llama A body like a what this llama least that's the way it seems. A windy day at Lion Country Safari in Grand Prairie, was too much for the llama who sought shelter behind a nearby pile of rocks and wound up creating this optical illusion.

(AP Wirephoto) Security Given For Nixon Not as Reason Testifying WASHINGTON (AP) lawyers for President Nixon have defended his refusal to appear as a witness at a California state trial on the grounds that no court, state or federal, can order a President to testify in person. If a President was forced to appear in court, his lawyers argued in a brief hied Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court inability to perform the duties as the chief executive would threaten the security of the entire The argument filed by James D. St. Clair, the chief Watergate lawyer, was directed as much to appearances in a federal as a state court.

Nixon disclosed Monday night that he had rejected a request from a Watergate grand jury to testify. St. brief was issued in response to a California rior Court order directing Nixon to appear as material and necessary at the trial of former White House aide John D. Ehrlichman. The subpoena, issued by Judge Gordon Ringer in Los Angeles, was forwarded to the District of Columbia court for a decision on whether Nixon must comply.

the 187 years since our Constitution was adopted no court, federal or state, has held that the President of the United States can be compelled to testify in person in compliance with a St. Clair wrote. Attorneys for Ehrlichman have until March 8 to file their argument supporting their request for the appearance. Ehrlichman is charged with conspiracy, burglary and jury in connection with the burglary of the office of Daniel psychiatrist. In related developments.

The Associated Press learned Tuesday that the special Watergate okice has decided that any action on alleged presidential involvement in the Watergate scandal should be up to the House impeachment inquiry rather than a grand jury. JERUSALEM (AP) Secretary of State Henry A. Ki.ssin- ger flew from Syria to Israel today on his fourth Mideast peace mission and said his talks with the Syrian government good progress on some of most crucial But Kissinger did not announce whether he was carrying a list of Israeli prisoners in Syria, which could clear the way for separating hostile French Cabinet Members Quit PARIS (AP) The government of P'rench Premier Pierre Messmer resigned today after months of increasing economic problems and complaints that he was not responding to the needs. A new premier was to be named quickly, perhaps today, according to Information Minister Jean Philippe I.ecat, Finance Minister Valery Giscard was regarded as a possible replacement. Cabinet had been in office since July 1972, when he took over from Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, who had been fired by President Georges Pompidou.

Giscard d'Estaing, 48, is the leader of the Independent Republican party, a partner of the Gaullists in the National Assembly majority. The state radio also mentioned Foreign Minister Michel Jobert and Equipment Minister Olivier Guichard, both loyal Gaullists, as possible replacements. forces on the tense (lolan Heights front. The Israeli government of Premier Gold Meir has refused to negotiate until Syria discloses the names of the approximately 80 prisoners and permits Red Cross officials to visit them. Kissinger told newsmen at Ben-Gurion Airport that he would start talks with Mrs.

Meir this afternoon. aim is to start the bargaining process for a disengagement pact between Syria and Israel, separating the rival armies on the Golan Heights, where shooting flares almost daily across the cease-fire line. Syria, meanwhile, has been insisting on an Israeli commitment to withdraw eventually from all territory captured from Syria. The Israelis are willing to relinquish the territory they captured in the October war, but they have said repeatedly they will not return the Golan Heights territory they took in 1967. Kissinger also was discussing with the Syrians the lishment of a buffer zone manned by United Nations troops between the Israeli and Syrian armies.

A U.N. force now stands between Israeli and Egyptian forces in the Sinai Desert, While Premier Golda Meir and the Israeli cabinet ponder their response to the Syrians, Kissinger will be in Cairo Thursday to see Egyptian President Anwar Sadat about extending the life of the U.N. force in the Sinai. It is due to expire April 24. Kissinger then will return to Jerusalem, where he hopes to collect Israeli disengagement proposals and take them to Damascus on Friday.

He is counting on Israeli concessions to get negotiations rolling, probably in Geneva. Over the weekend, the secretary of state will visit Jordan and Saudi Arabia and then stop at Brussels. Grave Site Tricycle Taken; Appeal Made Here for Return Jaworskl The Full Says He Knows Watergate Story Hijacker Was To Crash Plane into White House Stamp Costs Rising Two Cents a Lick WASHINGTON (AP) The cost of mailing a letter goes up two cents beginning Saturday. The increase is part of a new postal rate schedule that will also gradually drive up the fees paid by book and record club members, as well as the charges to people who buy from mail order houses. Subscription prices for magazines and newspapers by mail are expected to rise.

'rhe new stamps are available now and must be used on letters postmarked after Friday midnight. The Jefferson Memorial replaces former President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the basic stamp. First-class mail goes from 8 cents to 10 c'ents. Airmail goes from 11 cents to 13.

Post cards, now 6 cents, will cost 8 cents. The increases tor books, records and publications will be gradual. The cost of a one- pound bundle of books and records will rise by 14 cents over five years to 30 cents. The Postal Service estimates the mailing cost of Digest will go from the current 4 cents an issue to 8 cents an issue in three years. The Magazine Publishers Association and oiher bulk mailers are fighting the increases before the Postal Rate Commission, which must approve all rate hikes.

But the lengtliy hearing processes are not likely to delay the increases set for Saturday. the extent magazines can pass along the increases, they said a spokesman for the publishers association. He noted, however, that some publishers may have to eat up the increases to maintain circulation, 'llie publishers estimate their postal costs will Imve gone up by 220 per cent from 1971 to 1977. 'Hie publisliers have contended that the increases could force some magazines out of business. Noting publishing profits are rising, Ralph Nicholson of tlie Postal Service said, are unconvinced by the pleas of poverty we hear out of the publishing The rate increase for firstclass letters is the fourth since a four-cent stamp moved tlie mail In 1963.

WASHINGTON (AP) More than a month before he fell dead in a bloody skyjacking attempt, Samuel Joseph Byck had made up his mind to crash an airliner into the White House, columnist Jack Anderson says. Anderson disclosed Tuesday night that Byck, a one-time tire salesman from Philadelphia, mailed him an hour-long recording of his grievances and intentions shortly before the abortive hijacking at Baltimore-Washington International Airport last Friday. Authorities said Byck, 44, fatally shot a security guard and the co-pilot of a Delta Airlines plane, then killed hiiiiself after being wounded twice by a policeman. He also wounded the pilot, Reese Loftin, who remains in critical condition at University Hospital in Baltimore. Anderson said Byck, in a section of the tape dated Jan.

14, outlined his hijacking plan and called it Pandora said he wanted to combine two dramatic deeds a kamikaze attiick and a hijacking to dramatize the outrage of one man over the Watergate the columnist said in an interview. Anderson said Byck described his intentions with these words: will try to get the plane aloft and fly it towards the target area, which will be Washington, the capital of the most powerful, wealthiest nation of the world. guise, threats or trickery, Ihope to force the i)ilot to buzz the White House I mean, sort of dive towards the White House. When the plane is in this position, I will shoot the pilot and then in the last few minutes try to steer the plane into the target, which is the White President Nixon was at the White House last Friday, Anderson noted. NEW YORK (AP) Special prosecutor Leon Jaworski says he thinks his office now knows the full story of the Watergate affair.

The New York Times said today. Jaworski told The Times in a Washington interview that major indictments of persons involved in the cover-up of the Watergate break-in would come as early as Thursday or Friday. The Times quoted Jaworski as saying that the indictments are being delayed until a jury is in the New York trial of former Atty. Gen. John N.

Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans. They are being tried on charges of conspiracy, perjury and obstructing justice. Jaworski said in the interview that the full Watergate story would be revealed as indictments were handed down and trials begun. But the prosecutor added the case has not and further disclosures are expected.

The Times said that Jaworski chose not to describe the motives of the participants in the Watergate affair but quoted the British historian Acton, tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts Membership Beginning With Recent disclosures of vandalism in Oakwood Cemetery have prompted a family representative to make an appeal to anyone having information about the theft of an antique tricycle, a stolen earlier in the year from the gravesite of Stanley Jester, who died at the age of three. Mrs. James Ruth, a cousin of the youth, said the tricycle, displayed in a small glass- enclosed case in the Jester family plot, had been a familiar sight to local residents for years. HAD been there almost a hundred and once before, about six years ago, vandals broke the glass and family members had a new box made for it, Mrs. Ruth related.

has great sentimental value to the she said, pointing out it would have little or no value to anyone else, unless sold to an antique dealer. She is hopeful that whomever took it may have discarded it in some out of the way place and that publicity about its theft will bring its recovery. Police Chief Don Massey said the theft occurred around the first of the year and was reported at the time by cemetery workers who discovered the vandalism theft. Since it has not turned up yet, and police had received no Harbinger of Spring Heralding the arrival of spring are the Flowering Quince bursting into bloom in profusion throughout the city. This shrub-like plant, with hot pink flowers, is a member of the apple family.

(Sun Staff Photo by AAonte Smith) $11,355 for YMCA memberships has been received toward the goal of $33,000, Gene Bullard, YMCA executive director, told campaign workers at the Annual YMCA Membership Campaign Kick- Ofr held Tuesday at the Rhoads- Optimist Youth Center. Approximately 400 membership cards were distributed to campaign leaders and captains. ABE STROUD is campaign chairman and the division leaders are Mrs. C. David Campbell and Gary Hayden.

Mrs. captains include Dr. James Price, Euin Frank, Dr. Joe Glicksman, and Joe Seale. captains include Mrs.

Charles Hooser, Fred Brannam, June Clark, James Edgar, and Jim Kerley. reported that the campaign includes a total of 63 volunteer workeis. Bullard pointed out that the goal also includes a total of 800 new and renewed members. Campaign workers will report to office at the at 5 p.m. Thursday to report on their membership progress.

THE MEMBERSHIP victory dinner will be held at 7 p.m. March 12. Awards will be presented to the division Campaign 11,000 leaders who sell the most memberships, the high team captain, and the person who sells the most memberships. The types of memberships include youth membership (persons 18-years-old and under), $20; young adult (ages 24 and under), $25; adult (ages 25 and older), $30; family, $60; health club, $120; and friend of youth, $20. The YMCA membership campaign dates are Feb.

27- March 12. subsequent information about it, Massey said he is doubtful that it might surface. KIDS probably took it, and have thrown it he reasoned. Mrs. Ruth requested anyone having information that might lead to its recovery to call her at 874-6240, and Massey said police would welcome any leades on the recovery of the tricycle.

The tricycle was a favorite toy of Mrs. cousin, whose two living brothers are Herbert Jester of Dallas and Ralph Jester of Spain, and it was placed at the grave at the death. Deadline Friday In City Election Deadline for filing as a candidate in April 2 municipal election is Friday, according to City Secretary Nelda Neal. Mrs. Neal explained the legal deadline for filing is Saturday.

She said it is possible, however, that a person who wanted to file might be unable to contact her Saturday and would not be included on the ballot. For this reason, Mrs. Neal said she urges persons planning to file to do so before 5 p.m. Friday. City offices are closed Saturday.

Two city commission spots will be on the ballot. Those two places are now held by Geral Nichols and H. R. Stroube Jr. Both commissioners have announced they will seek reelection.

At least three other persons have indicated they will be candidates for the conrmission. They include Jim Lightfoot, industrial plant manager; August Wendorf, upholstery shop operator; and Ray Bass, welding and sandblasting shop operator. Mrs. Neal said the candidates will draw places on the ballot at 10 a.m. Monday in her office at Hall.

Frost Mayor Named 'Ginner of the J. 0. Williams of Frost has been named Ginner of the by the Texas Association. Williams, who has been in the ginning business in Frost for 33 years, said the award is real considering the large number of deserving ginners in the state. He was presented the Horace Hayden Plaque-named for an outstanding the Texas Convention in the Dallas Convention Hall Monday morning.

Each year the Texas Association selects a ginner of the year, Williams said. A committee comprised of gin machinery and supply company representatives makes the selection, he added. Williams owns the controlling interest of the Frost Gm, which he operates in partnership with his son. Except for 1960 and Williams has been mayor of Frost since 1957. He said he has worked in some facet of the ginnmg business all of his life..