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THE HOUSTON -POST Section 1, Pa
THURSDAY, JUNE 25. 1970 -
College Station mayor denies
city council favors A &M
Post Texas News Service
COLLEGE STATION —
May or D. A. Anderson de-
nied "emphatically" Wednes-
day a statement that the Col-
lege Station City Council too
often makes decisions favor-
. able to Texas A &M Univer-
sity rather than to the tax -
payers.
The statement was made by
A. P. Boyett Jr, one of 25
plaintiffs in a lawsuit ques-
tioning the right of Anderson
and five city councilmen to
draw pay from the state
while they hold municipal of-
fices.
All six are connected with
Texas A &M.
"As to the university, it
falls within the city and it is
essential that cooperation ex-
ist between the city and the
university and I shall contin-
ue with such cooperation,"
Anderson said.
"There is no basis for the
inference that council mem-
bers are influenced by the
university. There is not one
single shred of evidence to
support such a statement.
"As to the suit this can best
be left to judicial determina-
tion.
"I do know that previous
attorneys general have ruled
on the validity of councilmen
serving in the capacity that I.
now serve," he said.
The suit was filed Friday '
an Austin district court.
The suit seeks to enjo'
State Comptroller Robert Ss
Calvert from paying the sala.
ries of the A &M employees
long as they serve on the,
council.
In addition to Calvert, the
defendants are Mayor D. A.
Anderson, Mayor Pro Tem C.
H. Ransdell and Councilmen
James B. Dozier, Cecil B.
Ryan, Joseph J. McGraw and
Dan R. Davis. -
Boyett said the suit is
based on a state con-
stitutional provision which
- p r o h i b i t s the comptroller
from paying the salary of a
state employee who "holds at
the same time any other of-
fice or position of honor, trust
or profit, under thi
the United States,
prescribed in
stitutiion."
Mayor Anderson
of information and
with the Texas F es er-
vice, a division of A &M. May-
or Pro Tern Ransdell is assis-
tant dean of the College of
Engineering.
Dozier is an assistant pro-
ning.
Bill Cooley, the only city
councilman who does not
work for the university, was
not named in the suit.
s state of fe &sor of management, Ryan
except as an assistant professor of
this con - poultry sciences, Davis an as-
I
s director sistant professor of sociology
education and McGraw the %chairman of
or t S the department o€ -urban plan-