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Vol. 65 No. 75
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, February 24, 1970
Telephone 845-2226
Fitzhugh Elected Head
Of 1970-71 MSC Council
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flGHT SPOT—A&M’s Bobby Threadgill dribbles out of a
roadblock thrown up by SMU’s Bobby Rollings during Sat
urday night’s game in Dallas. The Aggies won, 84-81. See
story page 4. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Panel Wednesday
On U.S.-Yugoslavia
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By David Middlebrooke
Thomas C. Fitzhugh III was
elected President of the Memorial
Student Center Council and Di
rectorate for 1970-71 this morn
ing by the MSC Council.
The council also elected James
W. (Rip) Russell III as chairman
of the Great Issues Committee
for 1970-71 and Dave Mayfield
III as chairman of the 16th Stu
dent Conference on National Af
fairs Committee.
A chairman for the Town Hall
Committee will be decided later
this week.
Fitzhugh, Russell, and Mayfield
will take office following the an
nual MSC banquet April 15.
The council originally met Mon-
A panel composed of a Yugo-
lav foreign diplomat and a po-
itical science professor whose
peciality is Soviet philosophy
(ill discuss “U.S.-Yugoslav Rela-
ions” Wednesday.
Panelists for the Great Issues
resentation in the Memorial Stu-
ent Center Ballroom are Marjan
isolnik and Dr. Lee R. Kerschner.
he presentation will begin at 8
,m., announced Great Issues
(airman Tom Fitzhugh.
For seven years counselor in
ie Secretariat of the General to
he Yugoslav president, Osolnik
tcompanied the country’s presi-
ent on official visits to Europe,
frica, Asia and 1 Latin American,
(eluding President Tito’s visit to
lashington and New York in
)S3.
Since joining the foreign serv-
e and becoming third secretary
1 the Yugoslav Embassy in New
(elhi in 1951, Osolnik has head-
1 Yugoslav delegations to Israel,
ireat Britain, Japan, Indonesia,
eylon, India and the United Arab
epublic.
The 41-year-old official gradu
ated from Diplomatic School at
Belgrade in 1949 after active serv
ice in the Antifascist youth move
ment in 1942 and the National
Liberation Army.
Political science professor at
California State College at Fuller
ton, Dr. Kerschner has wide ex
perience in the Great Issues topic
area. The contributor to “Prob
lems of Communism” and “Stud
ies in Soviet Thought” has trav
eled in Western Ehrope and Yu
goslavia.
His Ph.D. dissertation at
Georgetown University was on
cybernetics in the judgement of
Soviet philosophy. The former
chief in the Harrisburg, Pa., De
partment of International Affairs
took his M.A. at the School of
Advanced International Studies
of Johns Hopkins University aft
er undergraduate study at Rut
gers.
Kerschner is an associate pro
fessor and member of numerous
professional organizations, includ
ing the International Studies As
sociation and Far West Slavic
Association.
BAND SWEETHEART —
Linda Davis was selected
Aggie Band Sweetheart for
1970-71 Saturday night dur
ing the annual band dance.
The 17-year-old miss is a
senior at Odessa High
School. (Photo by Robert
Boyd)
Soard Approves $300,000
k Por A&M’s 4 Nuplex’ Study
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Texas A&M received board of
irectors approval Tuesday to
foceed with its “Nuplex” study
(signed to help meet the state’s
utiire water needs through nu-
W desalination.
The board set a $300,000 annual
udget to support the research
bject.
“Nuplex,” A&M officials ex-
tained, is a coined word describe
'g a large complex consisting of
nuclear power reactor, electri
fy production, water desalina-
®n, chemical processing and
Auction, agriculture and asso
rted activities.
The “Nuplex” concept, they
fyed, represents a new and much
>rger dimension in totally inter-
elated enterprises based on low
est abundant electricity and wa
tt,
“Nuplex” is a long-range study,
typlicable to the 1985-2000 peri-
d, the Texas A&M officials em-
fesized.
Contracts included: a $3,208,125
'fard to Brown-Anthony-Rowan
& Wallace of Lubbock for its low
^ on a major phase in the ex
tension of A&M’s central utili
ses plant; $704,555 to Wilcon
fy. of Bossier City, La., and
1669,642 to the Boswell Co. of
Styan, with both firms provid-
additions to the university’s
Military sewer system. The board
*180 approved a $17,281 contract
to Alice Roofing & Sheet Metal
Vks of Alice for re-roofing
'owns Natatorium and the uni-
'ersity hospital.
Appropriations included $586,-
100 for artificial turf and track
surface for Kyle Field and adja
cent practice area. The board ap
proved a university recommenda
tion to install Monsanto Com
pany’s AstroTurf on the football
field and practice area and Min
nesota Mining and Manufactur
ing Company’s Tartan surface on
the stadium’s track.
The board also appropriated
$169,900 for initiation of various
projects throughout the Texas
A&M University System. Includ
ed were $95,100 for renovation
and modification of the animal
science meat laboratory and
$10,000 for design of new park
ing facilities at Texas A&M.
The board also allocated $6,000
for design of staging facilities
for oceanographic research ves
sels at Texas A&M’s new Mitchell
Campus at Galveston.
The TMA semester and sum
mer cruise board fee was increas
ed $20, to $260. The monthly rent
al rate for Hensel Apartments
was raised to $85, up $10. All
rates are effective Sept. 1.
The board also authorized
A&M to seek Coordinating Board
approval to offer master’s de
grees in industrial safety and in
dustrial hygiene.
Additionally, board members
approved an A&M request to pro
vide $30,000 for expanded re
search activity this year in the
institution’s new biomedical en
gineering program.
Rudder Could Recover Fully.
Board of Directors Told
A full recovery by A&M Pres
ident Earl Rudder is expected, the
university’s board of directors
was told this morning.
H. C. Heldenfels, board mem
ber from Corpus Christi, said
that he had been to Houston over
the weekend to see Rudder, and
had been assured by doctors at
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
that no brain damage was present
and that a “rapid recovery” was
expected.
The board member did say,
however, that doctors thought
that the vision in Rudder’s left
eye may be impaired and that
he may lose some use of his left
arm.
Heldenfels, who was accom
panied on the visit by board pres
ident Clyde Wells and board mem
ber Ford Albritton, reported that
doctors had said that barring set
backs, Rudder should be home in
30 days to six weeks.
Doctors said that they would
like to see him participate in part
of the decision making for the
university in the spring.
The A&M president has been
hospitalized since Jan. 29 and has
undergone surgery to remove a
blood clot following- a cerebral
hemorrhage and two more opera
tions to relieve a bleeding ulcer.
day night to decide the posts, but
adjourned after almost two hours
of discussion without arriving at
a decision. Councilmen met again
at 6:30 this morning in order to
reach a decision.
Fitzhugh, junior geophysics
major from Waco, is chairman of
this year’s Great Issues Commit
tee and is Student Senate repre-
setnative to the MSC Council.
For the past two years he has
served as a student senator, first
as sophomore geophysics repre
sentative, and this year under
the new senate structure passed
last year, as the geophysics rep
resentative.
He worked on Great Issues as
a freshman and last year xvas
chairman of the Great Issues
Urban Crisis seminar.
A junior zoology student from
Annandale, Va., Russell served as
a vice chairman of Great Issues
last year. He has been a student
senator for two years, serving as
sophomore and, currently, junior
representative from the College
of Science. He is sergeant major
of the 4th Group in the Corps of
Cadets.
Mayfield is a fifth-year archi
tecture design major from Waco.
He was chairman of the Ski the
Alps—70 committee which this
year arranged for a semester
break ski trip to France. He has
worked on both SCONA XIV and
XV in public relations capacities.
CS City Council Sets April 7
Election Day, OK’s Gas Hike
By Dave Mayes
Battalion Editor
The College Station City Coun
cil designated April 7 as the day
city residents are to elect a mayor
and three councilmen.
The council also approved a
17.36 per cent hike in rates
charged by the Lone Star Gas
Co. and authorized Mayor D. A.
“Andy” Anderson to work with
the city of Bryan and Texas
A&M to set up a joint city utility
committee to handle citizen com
plaints about telephone, gas,
electric and other services.
At stake in the April election
are the offices of mayor and
council posts occupied by Jim
Dozier (place 2) Mayor Pro Tern
O. M. Holt (Place 4), and C. H.
Ransdell (Place 6).
According to Anderson, filing
for offices opens today and
closes (March 6. Absentee voting
begins March 17 and closes April
4.
On election day, Anderson said,
polling places will be at A&M
Consolidated High School, the
new fire station and the old city
hall.
Concerning the gas rate hikes,
Ransdell told the council that he,
Dozier and City Manager Ran
Boswell had worked with the gas
company for three months and,
“after prolonged negotiations,”
managed to get Lone Star to low
er its original increase request
from 21.68 per cent to 17.36.
Ransdell said that under the
present proposal, Lone Star
would still be making more than
seven per cent overall gross prof
it. He said that he thought the
increase was “fair and equitable,”
in that Lone Star had not had a
raise since 1953.
Councilman Holt questioned
whether the “little user” (gas
consumer) was being charged at
a rate higher than the “big user.”
Ransdell said this was true but
that the revised proposal brought
the percentage differences be
tween the two closer together.
At Washington-on-the Brazos
Band Performs Sunday
For Museum Dedication
The Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band
will participate in the dedication
and opening Sunday of a new
museum and auditorium at Wash-
ington-on-the-Brazos, site of the
signing of Texas’ declaration of
independence from Mexico.
Governor Preston Smith, House
Speaker Gus Mutscher Attorney
General Martin Dies Jr. and other
state dignitaries will participate
in the day-long activities.
The band will provide a proces
sional escort for Gov. Smith.
Aggie Bandmen directed by Lt.
Col. E. V. Adams will appear at
the 1836 state constitutional con
vention site at 11:30 a. m. for
four hours of activities.
Construction and renovation on
the site of the former state capi
tal has been funded through in
dividual gifts, a $500,000 state
appropriation, a $200,000 endow
ment by Jesse H. Jones of Hous
ton and other sources.
Located in Washington County
five miles west of Navasota,
Washington-on-the-Brazos also is
the site of the home of Anson
Jones, last’president of the Re
public of Texas. Stephen F. Aus
tin established one of the first
Texas settlements there under
Mexican grant in the early 1820’s.
Following a barbecue lunch, the
Aggie Band will take part in the
processional from the west en
trance of the historic settlement
to the museum. Bands of Nava
sota and Brenham schools and
Blinn Junior College at Brenham
also will participate.
At the star-shaped museum,
Col. Adams will direct the band
in the state song, “Texas, Our
Texas,” and the governor will
speak and cut the ribbon to the
museum.
A sound system covering the
entire grounds will carry address
es and remarks from the 1,000-
seat auditorium.
The band will then play a brief
concert of march music.
Band activities at the occasion
were coordinated by Adams with
Charles Machemehl, 1944 A&M
graduate of Brenham, and Dr.
James H. Atkinson, Blinn Junior
College president.
“The band has a little more
activities scheduled this spring
than normal, which is good,”
Adams said. “It will keep us on
our toes.”
Executive Committee approval
is pending for the band’s partici
pation in the April 24 Battle of
Flowers Parade in San Antonio.
The Aggie Band has provided the
official escort for King Antonio
in the spring event six straight
years.
During the discussion, a lady
in the audience asked a represen
tative of Lone Star why her gas
bill was estimated rather than
copiputed from readings from her
meter. The representative replied
that if the meter in a particular
place is inaccessable then it is
often estimated.
The woman maintained that
her meter was very easy to read,
and that she knew that Lone Star
had not checked it in the last four
months.
. Several councilmen expressed
concern that Lone Star be more
diligent in its future meter read
ings.
In the vote on the rate hike,
Holt and Joe McGraw voted
against it, and Dozier, Ransdell,
Dan Davis and Jim Cooley, in
favor.
Anderson said the new rates
would go into effect March 27.
Introducing the joint utility
committee proposal, Anderson
said that the Bryan City Com
mission had already expressed fa
vorable interest in establishing
the panel.
Anderson said the committee
would be made up of citizens
from Bryan, College Station and
A&M who are “well versed in
matters concerning all utilities.”
The panel would act as an ad
visory committee, informing the
council of citizen complaints and
recommending actions the coun
cil could take.
McGraw suggested that the
panel should not only contain
utilities experts but consumers of
utilities as well. The council ac
cepted his suggestion and unani
mously approved the organization
of the committee.
Nixon’s Policy One
Of Unity: Foreman
CONGRESSMAN SPEAKS—Cong. Edgar G. Foreman dis
cusses Nixon administration strategy in the coming elec
tions during a Monday night Political Forum presentation.
(Photo by Jim Berry)
By Hayden Whitsett
The Nixon Administration’s
policy in the remaining three
years will be one of national
unity, a United States Congress
man told a Political Forum audi
ence Wednesday night.
Edgar G. Foreman of New
Mexico replaced the scheduled
speaker, Senator Edward Gurney
of Florida, in the Political Forum
presentation. Gurney had been
called back to Washington to be
on hand for some important legis
lation that was to be introduced.
A member of the House Armed
Forces Committee, Foreman listed
inflation and yietnam as Nixon’s
most pressing problems.
On the war in Vietnam he said
that the President, believes that
South Vietnam should bear the
responsibility for its defense and
not the United States. He added
that he believed that when the
administration changed here that
there were related changes in the
South Vietnamese government and
attitudes.
“Recognizing differences be
tween needs and desires” is one
of Nixon’s methods of halting
inflation Foreman said. Accord
ing to him, Nixon has recognized
that wasteful government spend
ing is only going to bring on
inflation. It is because of this,
he said, that last year the gov
ernment had a $3 billion surplus
rather than the $25 billion deficit
of the year before.
To help facilitate the cut in
spending, Nixon has emphasized
helping people to help themselves
rather than expanding welfare
programs Foreman said, adding
that by making jobs available to
people and teaching them to be
come independent the government
hopes to hold down welfare spend
ing.
Two out of three people in the
United States agree with Pres
ident Nixon, and his programs,
Foreman said. Foreman said the
reason only two of 32 reform bills
submitted to Congress have
passed was a “lethargic” con
gress. Foreman said that con
gress has yet to react to the “vig
orous new administration” and
pass the desired legislation.
Foreman also spoke of what
Nixon will have to face in the
future.
Answering to a question on the
possibility of a draft and volun
teer army reform, as proposed
by the President’s special council,
Foreman said that he “seriously
doubted if he will see an all
volunteer army.” He said that
first the government would have
to make the military more attrac
tive to men before they would
be able to go all volunteer. How
ever, he did forsee the possibility
of a partial volunteer force.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
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