The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1980 Page: 1 of 12
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Tarleton State University
Stephenville, Texas
6 1st Year No. 3 January 31, 1980
Autry announces his early
retirement, effective Aug. 31
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Students receive less than minimum
Student employees will be
earning less than the national
minimum wage until July 1.
In September, 1978, TSU
started paying less than tho
minimum wage to student
employees because of
inadequate funds and the need
for more workers, said Julie
McDanel, director of university
personnel. Federal regulations
previously allowed TSU to pay
not less than 85 percent of the
minimum wage to student
workers, she said.
TSU has received a waivier
from the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare allowing
the school to pay less than the
minimum wage through June 30,
for college work study students.
Impeachment
proceedings fail
A motion to impeach Sanford
Heard, Junior Class president,
failed meeting the required
two-thirds majority by one vote
during Monday night's Student
Senate meeting.
The student handbook states
that senators are allowed three
unexcused absences per
semester. The fourth unexcused
absence makes the senator
subject to expulsion.
Heard had met with Senate
Rules Committee jfter receiving
a letter informingthim that his
nine absences violated senate
attendance rules. Heard cited
family problems as the reason
for his absences.
After meeting with Heard,
the committee recommended
that the Senate begin
impeachment proceedings. The
committee (claimed! Heard's
absences were affecting his work
on the senate and on the new
Tarleton Center fee committee.
In other business, the senate
will sponsor a Valentine's dance.
The dance will be Friday, Feb.
15, in the Tarleton Center. The
band. Sapphire, will play.
The Finance Committee
reported a balance of $4,000 for
the senate at the beginning of
the semester.
said Mrs. McDanel. Beginning
July 1, TSU will begin paying
students minimum wage, said
Mrs. McDanel.
On Sept. 1, TSU will pay all
student workers $3.35, which
will be the minimum wage on
January 1, 1981, said Mrs.
McDanel.
'This is four months sooner
than we have to - because we
are setting up our budget right
now for the next fiscal year and
won't have to make a change at
mid-year."
The number of student
employees will be reduced
because of the increased wages,
Dr. Joe W. Autry, vice
president of TSU has announced
he will take early retirement
effective Aug. 31.
Autry came to TSU in 1947
and at retirement will have the
longest tenure of any current
member of the faculty and staff.
He is a native of Blanket and
a graduate of Stephenville High
School and TSU. He received a
B.S. degree from Texas A&M
University and a M.S. degree
from Oklahoma State University
in agricultural engineering. He
was awarded the Ph.D. from
Texas A&M University in
educational administration.
Autry served as an officer in
the U.S. Navy during World War
II and upon separation from the
service entered the farm
equipment business in
Stephenville. He was appointed
Associate Professor of
Agricultural Engineering at
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Cloudy skies, a coating of ice and two filters over the camera lens combine to give this
Texas rock and cacuts an other-worldly appearance. With this week's low temperatures
and rainy skies, such a scene may not be far off.
Students face possible draft
by Renea Brumfield
J-TAC reporter
Whenever TSU students
register for a possible draft, they
may face a communications
problem at the post office.
"They haven't told me a
blame thing," said Glenn
Williams, Stephenville
postmaster, in reference to the
government's registration
process.
"You'll probably hear before
me. I've just heard the post
office will probably be the
scapegoat to do all the work."
Under President Carter's draft
plan, the post office will be the
site of registration.
Required to register will be
men from 18 to 26 years old.
Young women might be
included if Congress approves.
The actual drafting of woemn
into the military is not now
planned, but Carter said that is a
possibility.
The official reasoning was
that by starting registration
Tarleton in 1974. He was a
Graduate Fellow at Oklahoma
State University in 1949-50 and
in 1951 was named Head of the
Department of Agriculture at
TSU.
In 1' 94 1 , Autry was
appointed to the newly-created
office of Vice President and
Dean of Instruction.
He is a registered professional
engineer and is a member of
Alpha Zeta,. Gamma Sigma, Tau
Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Delta
Kappa, American Society of
Agricultural Engineers,
Professional Agricultural
Workers of Texas, and Texas
Association of College Teachers.
Highly active in civic affairs
in Stephenville, Autry is past
president of the Chamber of
Commerce and the Lions Club,
and is a member of the: Erath
County Livestock Association,
and Erath A&M Club.
He is a deacon and Sunday
school teacher at the First
Baptist Church and has recently
been appointed to the board of
trustees of The University of
Mary Hardin-Baylor.
Autry is a director of
Stephenville Savings & Loan
Association. He has served as
president of the Stephenville
Girl Scout Association and
director of the Heart of Texas
Council of Girl Scouts.
He is also a member of the
board of directors of the
Tarleton Alumni Association
and serves as an ex-officio board
member of the Tarleton
Development Foundation.
In 1978 he received the TSU
Agricultural Appreciation Award
presented by the Department of
Agriculture and Department of
Agricultural Education.
Autry and his wife, Jessie
Glyn, have two daughters, Mrs.
Melinda Fenner, of Conroe, and
Julie, a student at Baylor, and
two grandchildren.
In commenting on his
decision to retire the TSU vice
president said, "I want to devote
more time to business interests
and to my grandchildren,"
soon, the government would be
ready to move if events made a
draft necessary. But, in addition,
the registration also was
interpreted as a means of driving
home the seriousness of the U.S.
-Soviet confrontation to
Americans and the Kremlin.
Secretary of the Army
Clifford L. Alexander Jr. said
Sunday he favors registering
women for the draft, although
he stressed he was against
resuming the draft itself at this
point.
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