Subject to Williams’ Approval
Batt, Aggieland editors recommended
Jerry Needham, Battalion staff writer,
was appointed Battalion editor for 1976-77
by the Student Publications Board last
night. The board re-appointed Gary Bal-
dasari editor of the Aggieland. These ap
pointments are subject to approval by Pres
ident Jack K. Williams.
The board discussed candidates for the
two positions in executive session for three
hours before voting. Needham received
four votes from the sev n-member board,
and Acting Battalion Editor Roxie Hearn
received the remaining three votes.
Jerry Needham has been a Battalion city
staff writer for the last year. He was city
editor for last year’s summer eidition of the
paper.
Needham is president-elect of the A&M
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, the national
society of professional journalists. He was
elected vice-president of the Southwest
Journalism Congress in Oklahoma last
month.
“I want to emphasize campus coverage,”
Needham said. “I think city coverage has
been adequate.” He said he wanted to con
tinue the present system of cooperation be
tween Battalion and journalism depart
ment classes.
Needham will take over as Battalion
editor April 12.
Gary Baldasari has been working with
the Aggieland for four years. As 1976 Aggie
land editor he is heading production of the
largest university yearbook ever produced
in the United States.
“Next year’s book will be reduced some
what,” Baldasari said. “We’ll make some
changes in coverage of RHA, fraternities
and sororities. We ll also make some small
staff reorganization,” he said.
Baldasari was unanimously re-elected
Aggieland editor. His sole opponent was
Timothy Harrelson.
Needham received votes from the three
students on the board — Tom Dawsey,
Student Body President Jeff Dunn and
Student Government vice-president for
External Affairs Jerri Ward — and political
science professor Gary Halter. The other
three faculty/staff members on the board —
President’s Assistant Roger Miller, profes
sor of recreation & parks J. W. Hanna and
professor of finance C. A. Phillips — voted
for Acting Editor Hearn.
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JERRY NEEDHAM
Corrections
; address given for school board,
lace candidate, Bruce Upham, in
‘Tuesday’s paper was wrong. Upham
■esat 1401 F.M. 2818, Apt. 129.
Cbe Battalion
Vol. 68 No. 98
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, Mar. 31, 1976
onsol to get third
if proposed bond
amp
allop;
|lH million school bond issue will be on the ballot
By when College Station voters go to the polls.
{The Battalion will discuss the section of the
I issue which provides for a new vocational
Old other additions to the A&M Consolidated
ihool. — Ed.
By CAROL MEYER
lore than a third of the money from the
|sed school bond issue is apportioned
relatively new A&M Consolidated
JilSchool.
ft four-year-old high school was not
ill for 1,200 students as originally
led because money ran short, said
ertCaskey, Consolidated principal.
Itead, it was built to serve 800 stu-
its,and the current enrollment is 866.
officials expect this to increase to
Kjby 1980.
lie original funds for the construction of
high school, as well as additional
5|ooms at the Middle School were pro-
iijin 1969 when voters approved a $3
bond issue.
|it November voters narrowly de-
a$5.15 million bond issue, $1.5 mil-
Jlyhich would have gone to improve-
for the high school.
I issue was sent back to a citizen’s
pry committee which has recom-
led the new proposal on Saturday s
ft. It now contains $2.4 million foi
ling the high school,
difference between November’s and
eek’s proposal for improvements to
|igh school is $820,000. The increased
rovides for expansion of the library,
action of additional dressing rooms
Ihysical education classes and other
jective measures.”
ire than $1.5 million has been allotted
ocational building, library extension
rvice drive. The proposed vocational
would release ten classrooms cur-
occupied by vocational classes. They
then be used as regular classrooms,
proposed addition to the library will
t with the new vocational building,
resent library was built to serve 655
mts, said Principal Caskey. It will be
[ed to meet the needs of projected
ent figures,
t school officials and school board
s and candidates consider the vo-
facility the highest priority item in
dget.
rding to district records, nearly 50
nt of Consolidated students do not
in a college or university. Officials
am that the vocational agriculture
is in danger of losing state funding
e of inadequate facilities,
hert Kruse, the high school’s vo-
agriculture teacher, said he’s been
g do with five welding machines for
the 27 students in one class by assigning
group projects.
“You gotta race the horse you got,” said
Kruse. He also said he would like to see the
high school vocational center be one the
citizens of College Station could use.
“The way the economy is today, an indi
vidual has to learn to do the things I teach,”
Kruse said. In his community education
automobile mechanics class, Kruse has
several women students.
“If they need a mechanic at some time
they’ll know if they are being overcharged
or not,” Kruse said.
If the vocational building is constructed,
it will contain building trades, drafting,
woodworking, photography, printing,
welding, home economics, electronics and
journalism.
Kruse maintains that “it is not so much a
vocation but an avocation which will make
the graduating student productive.
Not everybody totally supports the pro
posed vocational center.
William Fitch, a candidate for Place 4 on
the school board said the $1.5 million facil
ity could be built for about half the price.
He also said the student needs to be learn
ing the basic elementary courses in school.
“Photography is no more instructional
for the rest of the life of the student as
making model airplanes,” Fitch opined.
“What percentage of students are going to
make their living from photography?”
The bond issue also allocates $180,000
for physical education classes and athletics,
caused by increased participation and in-
(See School, page 10)
Trucking strike poses
economic disruption
Associated Press
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. — The
auto industry, farmers, small businessmen
and the U.S. Postal Service would suffer
major economic disruption in the event of a
nationwide truckers’ strike.
In fact, nearly every element of the na
tion’s economy would be affected, and one
result could be higher food prices.
Teamsters union and trucking industry
officials continued negotiations today seek
ing an agreement before the union’s con
tract expires at midnight, but federal
mediators said the two sides remained “far
apart” on crucial money issues.
About 60 per cent of the nation’s total
output of manufactured goods is moved by
the 400,000 truckers who have approved a
strike at midnight tonight if there is no new
contract.
Auto industry spokesmen said a walkout
would be devastating because the car man
ufacturers are not equipped to switch to rail
service.
A General Motors Corp. spokesman said
GM would begin feeling the impact in
some operations within a few hours.
“At the end of the working week . . . the
shutdown would be complete,” he said.
A Ford Motor Co. spokesman said his
firm would face the same fate.
Creston Foster, a spokesman for the
American Farm Bureau Federation, said
few crop farmers would be affected because
of fall harvests. He said, though, that dairy
and produce farmers “no doubt . . . would
be hurt” because of an inability to move
their goods to market.
Either a hefty settlement or a strike is
likely to increase food prices to the con
sumer, he said.
The financially ailing U.S. Postal Service
could be further crippled by a strike. One
postal spokesman said mail deliveries
within cities would not be affected, but
transport between cities would. For exam
ple, he said, a strike would affect about 80
per cent of 3,500 routes that Teamsters
cover in the 13-state Central Region.
The Ford administration could seek a
court injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act
if a strike is called, forcing an 80-day
cooling-off period during which trucks pre
sumably would stay on the nation’s high
ways.
But some of the more militant Teamsters
have spoken of a wildcat strike action
should the administration resort to that.
The U.S. Transportation Department
has begun analyzing the over-all economic
impact of a strike to provide the Ford ad
ministration with data that would be
needed to obtain a court injunction.
The department refused to elaborate on
its analysis, but Robert Binder, assistant
director for policy in Washington, said, “If
a complete strike would last any length of
time it would have a very serious effect on
the economy.”
Train wrecks outside Calvert
Photo courtesy of Kevin Vernier
Staff photo by Douglas Winship
Spring on the prairie
Plants can be seen growing through the prairie film sidewalks at
many places on the A&M campus. These plants are growing beside
parking area 60 near the MSC. Will they start mowing the side
walks?
Index
Memorial Student Center Council
and Directorate to hold Silver An
niversary celebration. Page 3.
US government spokesman an
nounced that there are no plans to
evacuate Americans from Lebanon.
Page 4.
A panel discussed ways for women
to avoid sex discrimination. Page 5.
Tampa and Seattle choose 78
players in the NFL expansion draft.
Page 11.
The Aggie baseball team gets
knocked again by Baylor. Page 12.
★ ★★
Election
The registration deadline for the
May 1 primary and county elections
is tomorrow at 4 p.m.
Persons may register by filling out
a registration form which can be ob
tained at the Student Program Office
in the MSC or at the Brazos County
Courthouse in Bryan.
Soviet press officer
, i
Detente is only way to avoid nuclear war
By RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN
“Detente is the proper way to build up
communism,” Gennady Serebryakov said
at Texas A&M University Tuesday night.
Serebryakov, a second secretary and
press officer of the Soviet Mission to the
United Nations, spoke on “Detente as the
U.S.S.R. Sees It” before a small audience
in the Rudder Center Auditorium.
Using detente to strengthen com
munism is not a method of taking advantage
of Western good will, Serebryakov said.
The only way a nuclear war can be
avoided is through detente; any ideology,
whether capitalist or communist would
benefit from peace. Western powers, too,
have used detente as a means of achieving
their goals, he said.
Serebryakov said that the ideological
struggle will not end. Two diametrically
opposed systems such as capitalism and
communism will always be at odds. How
the struggle will be carried out is up to the
superpowers.
“If you see some alternative (to detente),
tell me. What is there? Cold war? Hot war?
Tell me,” said Serebryakov, drawing loud
applause from the audience.
The policy of the Soviet Union, Sereb
ryakov said, is to “fight for peace, don’t
fight peace.”
Asked about Soviet actions in Czechos
lovakia and Angola, in light of that state
ment, Serebryakov said that events in
those countries did not constitute interven
tion.
“Western troops were waiting to enter
Czechoslovakia. Friends asked us to come.
We came.”
Serebryakov said that the U.S.S.R. had
been supporting the National Liberation
Movement (MPLA) in Angola for more
than 15 years, and that most people in the
United States were not even aware of the
nation’s existence until only recently.
The current mistrust of the Soviet
Union by the American people is the fault
of the Western press, said Serebryakov.
The media, he charged, is waging an anti-
Soviet campaign.
Serebryakov said it is unfortunate that
many politicians feel it necessary to dis
avow detente. This will change after the
election, he said.
Serebryakov denied that detente is a
one-way street that gives more to the
Soviet Union and takes more from the
United States. For instance, the U.S.S.R.
has sold twice as many patents to the
United States as the United States has sold
to the U.S.S.R., he said.
The Anglo-French Concord aircraft was
built using Soviet steel technology, and his
nation has devised a method of producing
wine which reduces the time required from
three years to four weeks.
The Soviet Union is not the closed soci
ety that the capitalist countries say it is,
Serebryakov said.
Last year, the U.S.S.R. published 3,000
American books while the United States
published only 500 Soviet books.
Serebryakov said that, according to a re
port by the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UN
ESCO), the Soviet Union airs three times
as much Western television as capitalist
countries do Soviet television.
Serebryakov charged that the United
States has not adhered to the 1975 Helsinki
agreement which made permanent the
boundaries of the nations of Eastern
Europe. One of the provisions of the
agreement was that the full text of the
treaty be published in newspapers in all
participating nations. The Soviet bloc has
done this, he said, while the Western na
tions have not.
Anwar Sadat, the president of Egypt, has
contributed to increasing world tensions by
his recent break with the U.S.S.R., Sereb
ryakov said.
He said that Sadat has started playing a
double game. The Soviet Union came to
Egypt’s aid when it needed it. Now that
Egypt feels it can support itself, it has re
jected Soviet help and advice.
When one of the audience pointed out
that the fissure between the two nations
began after it was discovered that many of
the Soviet advisers and technicians were
actually KGB agents, Serebryakov replied
that he never read or heard anything about
that. He said that he does not believe that is
true.
Hecklers charade as Bremer
A Southern Pacific train derailed early Tuesday
morning killing one man, engineer S. A. Alford,
and injuring fireman J. D. Dietseld and head
brakeman Raymond Eskabar, all of Ennis. The
derailment happened when the train ran into a
burning bridge.
Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. — “They will grow
up,” said George C. Wallace after hecklers
wearing Arthur Bremer masks and pushing
wheelchairs tried to disrupt a campaign ap
pearance here.
Washington Sen. Henry M. Jackson, like
Wallace a candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination, was the target of
similar abuse later Tuesday. “What hap
pened to me, that doesn’t matter,” Jackson
told reporters. “Bringing in Bremer on
Wallace, that was sick.”
Bremer was convicted and sentenced to
63 years in prison after attempting to assas
sinate Wallace during the 1972 presidential
campaign. Wallace was paralyzed from the
waist down and now uses a wheelchair.
In Washington, meanwhile. President
Ford announced the appointment of Ro
gers C.B. Morton as manager of his cam
paign.
And former California Gov. Ronald Re
agan, who is challenging Ford for the GOP
nomination, prepared in Los Angeles for a
30-minute speech to be televised nationally
this evening.
Morton, 61, is a former Republican na
tional chairman and commerce secretary
and was most recently a White House
counselor. He replaces Howard H. “Bo
Callaway, who resigned from the
$42,500-a-year job amid controversy.
As he quit, Callaway declared he had
done nothing wrong and would be exoner
ated in government probes of his role in
seeking expansion on federal land of a Col
orado ski resort in which he owns control
ling interest.
Ford said Morton would officially take
over the campaign post on Friday.
Reagan taped the speech, which aides
said the candidate wrote himself, in Hol
lywood on Tuesday. After the taping ses
sion, he chatted briefly with reporters but
wouldn’t talk about the speech.
The former motion picture and televi
sion actor, who won his first primary elec
tion in North Carolina last week, canceled a
week of campaign appearances to prepare
for the program.
“I just have been frustrated that I am not
getting the message to enough people,”
Reagan said of his decision to go on national
television. The Reagan campaign paid
$86,000 for 30 minutes of air time on nearly
200 NBC stations at 10:30 p.m. on the East
and West coasts and 9:30 p.m. in Central
and Mountain time zones.
Neither Wallace nor Jackson was harmed
by the hecklers. It was in Madison a week
ago that former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Car
ter, another Democratic candidate in Wis
consin’s April 6 primary election, was
sprinkled with peanuts. Carter is a peanut
farmer.
Wallace appeared to ignore demon
strators, who shouted, “Wallace go home”
as he arrived at a Madison restaurant for a
speech. They carried placards which read:
“George stand up and be counted” and
(See Wallace, page 5)