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The Clarksville Natural Grocery is now open at 10th and West Lynn. Stop by and check out our full line of natural local honey, yard eggs and body care products. Plus we have a juice bar offering smoothies and freshly squeezed citrus and vegetable juices. Our aim is to provide a complete range of products in a pleasant setting and competent service. Six years of experience in the natural foods business in this community stand behind our committment to Clarksville Natural Grocery. If you hav -e any suggestions or wish to make any special orders, stop by and talk to Craig or Mark. They’ll be happy to lend an ear. 4 r’ er.. ::131Pr Austin, Texas 22 MAY 25, 1979 Store Hours: MondaySaturday 9:30-7 Sunday 12-6 478-3001 THE BRAZOS BOOK SHOP 803 Red River Austin, Texas Literature and the Fine Arts new and used books Monday through Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Featuring Local Presses and Authors: Including Thorp Springs Press, Prickly Pear Press, Texas Circuit, Encino Press, Shoal Creek Publishers, Jenkins Publishing, Place of Herons Press, and many others KLRN.. . from page 7 sion instruction. On March 2, PBS decided not to accept the show for national broadcastingand no one who had worked on the poorly produced project was surprised by the rejection. That is, they weren’t surprised once they found out about it. Only Herbst and the special projects director knew of the network’s decision until late last month, when Wooten herself called PBS. “Sonrisas” had been plagued by a variety of problems during its brief but costly run, and Herbst-and-company were mildly castigated by the investigative committee for failing to do something to remedy the situation. The entire business was just another foul-up contributing to the recommendation that Herbst be canned. But since the report has been released, the committee has discovered to its chagrin \(and everyone else’s amazefire Herbst, since technically he’s a University of Texas employee. Under a 1961 contract between UT and the council, Herbst holds four distinct positions: general manager of the station, president of KLRN-KRLU, director of the UT Communication Center, and member of the broadcasting council’s executive committee. According to formal procedure, Herbst serves three masters: the dean of the UT communication school, the UT vice president for research, and the broadcasting council. But UT pays his salary, andsurprise, surpriseit turns out he’s not really accountable to the council, which unlike UT is belatedly showing some concern for the station’s operation. A cynic would have a field day with the dilemma the council now finds itself in. Two years ago, council lawyers argued against certifying the production workers union, saying the NLRB had no jurisdiction because the station is a state agency by virtue of the contract that makes the university general manager. Rejecting this theory, the NLRB found that the real responsibility for employment practices lay with the licenseethe broadcasting council, a private nonprofit corporation subject to federal regulation. Now that the council seems to want some of the control the NLRB ruled it had all along, it may be thwarted by UT officials who proposed on May 16 that the council put all KLRN employees on the UT payroll. This would certainly complicate NLRB proceedings still in the works. Besides, since the council would only nominally be in charge of the station’s affairs, it could lose its license. “I would think if a licensee can’t fire the general manager of the station, that would certainly raise a question of complying with FCC regulations,” one Federal Communications Commission official told Gayle Reaves of the Austin