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... : - . - Battalion Rainy and windy Vol. 66 No. 101 College Station, Texas Friday, March 26, 1971 SATURDAY — Cloudy in the morning and partly sloudy in the afternoon. Winds easterly at 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 73, low 58. SUNDAY—Partly cloudy with scattered afternoon rainshow- ers. Winds southerly at 10 to 20 m.p.h. High 77, low 62. 845-2226 e ;nic ).. 1.79 — 3.19 — 98c 98c — 77c — 89c — 89c BEER for 99c , r l.## 1. 92c h95c ,2.47 2.19 1.37 2.88 1.48 2.39 20 tapes pular & is rang- iy items e, many ing • • • ie early- terrific garden, Education, work best for prisoners: Beto By STEVE DUNKELBERG Battalion Staff Writer “We are moving into an era of re-integration . . . the main goal of today is the re-integration of the offender into society, wheth er it be by probation, by the re habilitation program of today in the prison, or by parole,” Dr. George H. Beto, director of the Texas Department of Correction, said Thursday night. Speaking at the Great Issues presentation in the MSC Ball room, Beto maintained that edu cation is the most productive course of action which prisons can take to rehabilitate and re integrate the inmates into pro ductive and useful lives. He add ed that in high school and col lege programs in the prisons those convicts that finished a de gree course are the least likely to return. Another course open to prisons is to add discipline to the in mates’ lives that had not been present before. “Most of the inmates in penal institutions have never been sub jected to consistent discipline,” Beto explained. “Prison furnish es those who are products of dis integrated families, those who are early escapees from the reg ular education program and that penal programs have been overlooked in federal funding in past years, in preference to schools and hospitals. The federal funds, Beto main tained, would help develop an ob jective analysis of rehabilitation methods and practices. Now, however, many govern ment and private agencies are underwriting research and am bitious programs to study the care and treatment of convicts, the Department of Corrections director said. He added that the omnibus crime bill passed by the Congress provides “funds in ap preciable amounts” to any area of law enforcement from preven tion to parole. More research in rehabilitation methods is also in the offering, Beto added. This research will give penal institutions a refer ence point to study objectively the methods of other systems, he said. Beto said he favors and advo cates the extended use of the pa role and pre-release programs. He said the paroled convict is the easiest to help back into society because of the “strings” which his parole regulations place on him. He advocated a program where the correction system was made up of an extended parole system, rather than incarcera tion. The pre-release programs are designed to give the inmate an idea of the outside world and a job responsibility by working at a job in a nearby city and re turning to the prison, Beto ex plained. He added that he hoped this program was just the begin ning of an enlarged parole sys tem. He said imprisonment is only necessary in approximately 25 per cent of the prison cases and maintained that tax money and governmental effort could be bet ter spent by finding another al ternative for the remaining 75 per cent. He also advocated a mandatory pre-sentence investigation of a convicted person’s record by state judges to determine wheth er the convicted should be placed in prison, a mental hospital or on parole (federal judges already have this requirement). “Too many judges and local prosecutors feel they are ridding themselves of the psychotic and mentally disturbed by sending them to us and being done with them,” Beto said. Civilian Week packets on sale next Monday while the opportunities to experi ence the benefits of a disciplined life." By CHERLYN PERKINS Battalion Staff Writer The Civilian Student Council (CSC) announced those inexperienced in the disci- Thursday night that Civilian Week-Weekend card fu" 6 packets will go on sale Monday at the Sbisa Dining Hall newsstand. The announcement came at the CSC meeting at the Memorial Student Center. Vi/ork is another aspect of r e- Leon Drozd, Civilian Week-Weekend activities a i itation, t e c irec or sai . chairman, said that Omega Phi Alpha girls would take “Our statistics reveal that 40 charge of the sale. Paul Ammons, CSC treasurer, said per cent of those inmates coming that students must have their dorm activity cards in to us have no sustained employ- order to purchase the card packets, ment record,” Beto commented, Card packets may be purchased for $12 for adding that the inmates program holders of hall spring activity cards. For fall and ! ,e ' mtegratl ° n ° h ? uld lncludt; spring card holders, the cost of the Week-Weekend is $8. Those having only fall activity cards may obtain Memorial markers commemo rating A&M’s World War I dead have been regrouped on the uni versity’s main drill field near the Memorial Student Center. The center itself is a memorial a constructive work program. This program should instill in the inmate the “dignity and ne- the car i P acket for $9 - 40 - For non-card holders, the events will cost $13.50. The packets will be on sale Monday through Friday from 9 to 4. Civilian Week-Weekend is April 19-24. Mark Olson, CSC president, said that card packet coupons may be redeemed for Town Hall the dini outline of the handwrit- tickets as soon as the packets are purchased. Regular ing on the wall,” Beto said. Town Hall ticket sales begin on April 5, Olson said. The future will bring more “ Three Do 8 tickets are not deluded in the federal aid to correction institu- regular Town Hall series,” Olson explained. He said, tions, Beto declared. He explained however, that Town Hall season ticket holders have cessity of labor,” he said. What is in store for the future in the way of penal system re forms? “I am not a prophet, or the seventh son of one, but I believe I am perceptive enough to see priority on their regular seats. The Three Dog Night will perform on Saturday night of the weekend and tickets will be $7 per couple for non-card packet holders. Leon Drozd said that the Aggies Cinema will show “How the West Was Won” during Civilian Week-Weekend beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Terry Van Dyke, intramurals chairman, an nounced that intramurals would be held Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday of Civilian Week-Weekend beginning at 5 p.m. He also said that different sports to Texas Aggies who lost their would be held simultaneously in an effort to gain lives in World War El more participation. World War memorials consist ^ ^ . , . , ^ of six-inch square, tw’o-foot long Eime Davis, graduate representative, listed the limcstonc obeIisks bearin(? bras * categories used to determine the outstanding resi- pi a te S on which the name of the dence hall. These are based on academic ranking, deceased, his class, site and date intramural athletics, hall social activities, campus and of death appear, community activities, and hall innovations. Olson said Fifteen of the memorials were that the Outstanding Residence Hall Award will be originally located east of Hous- presented at the CSC Awards Banquet on April 29. ® treet and alon ^ L a u* 1 1 r 7 ^ Street next to Bizzell and Hart Lee Downs, General Telephone Company Halls- They were p]aced in 1930 representative, explained a new trial system to be The relocation project was as _ used on campus. The system would provide a S umed by pledges of the A&M representative from the phone company on campus in chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, na- order to help students on a “face to face” basis with tional service fraternity. Twen- such problems as their phone bill. Podges working under rp, , j . , , .. ... Bill Peel, pledge chairman, un- The CSC also agreed to work on a letter writing earthed ^ mo k nolHhs and - reset campaign to get housing for women on campus by them nex t to live oak trees on fall 1971. the Houston Street and West Fifteen of 53 World War I memorial markers were relocated Wednesday and Thurs day to sites around the drill field. Alpha Phi Omega pledges (from left) Michael Haby, Michael Kelley, Bill Peel and Tim Hill remove one of the concrete memorials on Hous ton Street next to Bizzell Hall. APO pledges relocate war memorial markers Main Drive boundaries of the drill field. Robert H. Rucker, university landscape architect, located new marker sites for the APO Xi Del ta chapter workers. Most of the other 38 markers are on the MSC side of the drill field. The chapter also is investigat ing the possibility of new me morials to be mounted on the trees, according to president Bill Cronrath of Hazlett, N. J. He noted that the memorials usually appear uncared for. Ground movement and tree root growth push them off of plumb. Some are missing and plates have been removed from others. A&M archivist Ernest Lang ford said the memorials original ly were placed about 1930, at the time the former Cushing Library was constructed. Langford re calls the cutting of the stones across the street from Cushing. Trees beside which the mark ers are located are themselves memorials, planted during col lege-wide ceremonies in 1919. APO, which also conducts proj ects such as redecorating part of the university hospital, co-spon soring with the Student Senate a campus-wide blood drive and sponsoring a Boy Scout troop, erects American flags by each of the markers on special uni versity occasions. Players reverse Supersonic transport rejection causes large Boeing layoff to show fairy tale * I HilWv Jfj!* MIAMI MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGE Gerald Tobin views the flag shirt he confiscated from a youth who wore it in his court. Tobin Tuesday sentenced Donovan Lakowta, 18, of Cleveland, Ohio, to 30 days for contempt. Tobin said the shirt was “entirely inap propriate” in court. (AP Wirephoto) By STEPHEN KENT Associated Press Writer SEATTLE (A*) — Thousands of aerospace workers in the next few weeks will open pay enve lopes for the last time at the Boeing Co. here and at other plants across the country as de velopment of an American super sonic transport comes to an end. Boeing, the prime contractor for two SST prototypes, will lay off 7,000 workers following con gressional rejection of further funds. Boeing employes 44,200 workers in the region. In Washington, White House officials repeated their belief that Wednesday’s Senate vote cutting off SST funds meant the project was dead. However, pres idential press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Thursday the gov ernment might try to recover some of its $1 billion investment. And a State Department spokesman said a Japanese firm, Ataka Trading Co., already has asked what procedure it should follow to look into the SST pro gram. The company reportedly has shown an interest in paying 10 cents on the dollar for SST pat ents, blueprints and complete parts although the State Depart ment would not confirm the of fer. Implications of the U.S. deci sion were being debated in Lon- University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. don where development of the A children’s play that turns the witch’s attempt to turn Hansel around the good and bad roles of and Gretel into good children, the witch and kids in “Hansel and Cast in the role of the witch is Gretel” will be presented Saturday, Susan Aufdehaar, special liberal March 27, by the Aggie Players. arts student of Colorado Springs, “The Bad Children” will be Colo. Hansel is played by Edmund British-French SST, the Con- staged for Bryan and College Sta- Arranga, freshman liberal arts corde, also has stirred contro- tion youngsters at the A&M Con- major of Stirling, N. J., and Gretel versy. solidated schools auditorium. is by Jean Linger, modern languag- British Aerospace experts said Curtain for the Texas A&M e s sophomore of College Station, they anticipated development of ^.j iea ^ er ar |- s g roU p production will Alev Horn, chemistry junior of u ^°i n ^ 0r - e ^- ea i vf b e 10 a. m., announced C. K. Sugarland, portrays the Enchanter; , ,, y, ^ • ri i» Esten, Aggie Players director. Ad- Yvonne Schmitz, political science in America influence than mission wiu be 35 cents per person, freshman of Hidalgo, the Mother; John W R Taylor editor of L uc y Gravett, who directs the Pat Castle, education soph of Liber- the authoritative Jane’s All the P lay - said 5t is ba3ically a reversal ty, the Father, and Mary Hanna, World’s Aircraft, predicted in of . the old “ Hans<d and Gretel” education sophomore of College London that the United States fairy tale> Station, the Rabbit, eventually will build the SST “In ‘The Bad Children,’ Hansel Lights will be handled by Steven “once people are accustomed” to and Gretel are bad and the audi- French and Keith Freeman; cos- the Concorde and the Russian nee’s sympathy is with the witch,” tumes, Susan Williams, and sets, TU14. she explained. The plot deals with Darby Tucker and Carol Baker. 5 more cities on jobless list WASHINGTON <A>) _ The Labor Department added five more major cities Thursday to its list of areas having substan tial unemployment—6 per cent or more. This brought the total to 50 cities, highest in nearly nine years. The report also added 27 other labor market areas to the sub stantial jobless list. The newly added major cities— now totaling one-third of the 150 major labor market areas—are New Haven, Conn., with a jobless rate of 6.5 per cent of its work force; Rockford, 111., 6.7 per cent; Terre Haute, Ind.; 7 per cent; Worcester, Mass., 7 per cent, and Binghamton, N. Y., 6.6 per cent. A “major labor area” is one with a central city of 50,000 or more population, plus outlying suburban areas. The national jobless rate in February, latest month for which figures are available, was 6 per cent. All five had previously been in the moderate jobless category of 3 to 5.9 per cent. Two other major labor market areas—Fresno, Calif., and Mus- kegon-Muskegon Heights, Mich.— were added to the list of cities with persistent unemployment, meaning they have suffered for more than a year with a jobless rate of 6 per cent or higher and at least 50 per cent above the national average for several years. The 27 other labor market areas added to the substantial list were Vernon, Ala.; Kingman, Ariz.; Danbury, Meriden, Middletown and Norwich, Conn.; Burkesville and Corbin, Ky.; Dover-Foxcroft, Maine; Marlboro and South- bridge-Webster, Mass.; Fleming- ton and Long Branch, N.J.; Santa Fe, N. M.; Batavia, N. Y.; Wil- limston-PIymouth, N. C.; Elk City, Okla.; and Darlington, Green Bay, Kewaunee, Merrill, Neilsville, Park Falls, Sturgeon Bay, Waupaca, Wausau and Wau- toma, Wis. Three other smaller areas were (See 5 more cities, page 3) Banking is a pleasure at First Bank & Trust.