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problems in St. Paul is a possibility tributing money to Sun Belt and Frost
that city officials from across the na- Belt cities. See page 6.
tion want to avoid. They say the fed-
Movie may prove
conspiracy theory
Battalion photo by Martha Hollida
If I tmn, can I have your tichets?"
^ j With only about 8000 tickets available for the Texas-
Texas A&M game, students began camping out in
front of G. Rollie White Coliseum immediately
11 after the TCU football game Saturday. Even a
1 ' hand-written sign that read “Vo camping by order of
Administration" did not stop some line-forming
. before the game. Passing the time playing cards are
Kent Sheffield, a sophomore animal science major
from Mexia; Time Henderson, a junior business
management major from Austin; Louis Moore, a
sophomore animal science major from Crowley;
and Mark Andrews, a sophomore accounting major
from Andrews. One industrious student even
brought a television set along.
12 bodies sent
fom Jonestown
Series to show
‘Vegas’ in B-CS
United Press International
iEORGETOWN, Guyana — U.S.
y burial teams Saturday put the last of
east 912 bodies from the Peoples Tem-
in Jonestown on a helicopter and broke
a clapping, hand-slapping celebration
e end of their grim task almost one
k to the hour from one of history’s most
irre suicide rites.
The last of the bodies has been re
ed, the U.S. Embassy announced at
p.m. EST.
One embassy official, asked if more
helicopter searches for possible survivors
would be made over the dense rain forest
surrounding the colony, said only: “I sup
pose we will have to review that now.”
The remark appeared to indicate U.S.
authorities now believe most if not all in
habitants have been accounted for, dead
or alive.
“Wanna bet?”
People ask that question all the
time. But some ask it professionally
— even in Bryan-College Station.
Some local residents wager
money on college football games
and other sports with the aid of pro
fessional bookies. Some play high-
stakes poker or are involved in dice
layouts.
A three-part series beginning
Tuesday in The Battalion will show
that Bryan-College Station is not
immune to the gambling game.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A film technician
Sunday presented a newly uncovered
movie that he said shows “beyond ques
tion” two persons at the generally ac
cepted sniper site minutes before the as
sassination of John F. Kennedy.
But the eight-second film — and
blown-up slides of key frames — appeared
to show only blurred, unconvincing
images at the 6th floor windows of the
Texas School Book Depository Building.
“The fact that there’s movement in two
windows that are separated by a good
eight feet indicates beyond question that
there was more than one person up
there,” Robert J. Groden told a news con
ference.
Groden, an avowed conspiracy believer
who has testified before the House Assas
sinations Committee, said he’s “more con
vinced nowfore that there was a conspi
racy” to kill Kennedy.
The Hope Lawn, N.J., photo technician
said he has advised the House committee
of the film and plans to ask the panel to
arrange for computer enhancement to
bring out more details of the 92 frames.
The 8mm film, taken by amateur photo
grapher Charles L. Bronson six minutes
before the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination,
shows what appears to be movement in
volving vague images at three 6th floor
windows.
The sharpest of the images — and they
were far from clear — were at the window
from which the Warren Commission said
Lee Harvey Oswald gunned down Ken
nedy as the presidential motorcade
crossed Dealey Plaza.
The vaguest — and some reporters
failed to see any at all — were two win
dows over in the sprawling room that takes
up th 6th floor.
The Dallas Morning News, in a
copyrighted story Sunday, published still
photos from the film by Bronson, chief
metallurgist for an Ada, Okla., oil tool
company.
Shot with a wide-angle lens, the film
shows the school book depository and the
sixth-floor window from where, according
to the Warren Commission, the fatal shots
were fired.
The film was viewed in 1963 by an FBI
agent who concluded the pictures were
not clear enough for identification pur
poses. The film never was used in any in
vestigation of the assassination, but its
existence was discovered when it was
listed among 90,000 pages of secret FBI
assassination documents, declassified only
late last year and early this year.
The Dallas newspaper said it recently
located Bronson and the original color
movie film and commissioned Groden to
analyze key portions of it.
Groden is continuing to analyze the film
and said, “And I’m sure, given time and
money, a computer could probably clarify
the images a bit more.”
But he firmly stated, “There is no ques
tion that there is movement” in the por
tion of the film showing the sixth-floor
window.
Groden used an optical system utilizing
a microscope to study the film. The news
paper published a page of nine frames of
the sixth-floor window and said the pic
tures “seemed to indicate more than one
figure in the sixth-floor windows of the
Texas School Book Depository. The later
frames of the film show the windows to be
filled even more by the two figures. The
right window shows the top of a light-
colored box protruding, apparently a
placewhere a sniper might rest a rifle.”
FBI agent Milton L. Newsom, who
viewed the film in 1963, reported then
that it “failed to show the building from
which the shots were fired,” the news
paper said.
Newsom viewed the movie with Bron
son as soon as it was processed in 1963.
“He told me the film was of no value
because it didn’t show the book depository
building,” Bronson said. “I didn’t realize
myself that the building was on there until
a couple of weeks ago. ”
Owner: footage
was accident
United Press International
ADA, Okla. — It was entirely by accident that Charles L. Bronson managed to
capture on film a crucial scene of activity on the sixth-floor of the Texas School
Book Depository minutes before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the
Dallas Morning News reported Sunday.
Bronson, a 60-year-old metallurgist, was equipped with a 35mm Leica Model
3-B still camera and an 8 mm Keystone movie camera as he stood across from the
depository during the Nov. 22, 1963, presidential motorcade.
“I thought I was using the telephoto lens on the movie camera. But that camera
had both a wide-angle lens and a telephoto lens,” he told the newspaper. “They
were both long lenses. I hadn’t had the camera very long and I wasn t too familiar
with the two lenses. So I used the wide-angle lens rather then the telephoto lens
I’d intended to use.”
Because he used the wideangle lens, his 6-second footage of an ambulance
picking up an epileptic victim about five minutes before the assassination included
the top of the frame of the depository’s sixthfloor window.
Had he used the telephoto lens, he said, the window would not have appeared
on his film.
Bronson switched from his movie camera to the still camera while he recorded
the motorcade. Only one of his still shots was not crisp and clear — a blurred
frame taken at the time Bronson jumped in reaction to the sound of the first
gunshot.
Bronson’s film also showed the “umbrella man” who has since been identified as
L. Steven Witt. Conspiracy theorists had claimed a man seen holding an umbrella
may have signaled the assassin or assassins to begin firing. However, Witt recently
told the House Assassinations Committee he was holding the umbrella in Dealey
Plaza that day as a political protest.
’lease see related story page 5.
[;S Jfficials at Dover Air Force Base, Del.,
the number for those who died in the
jss suicide at 912. A U.S. Embassy
t ikesman in Georgetown said earlier the
A ‘th count had reached about 900 but
is is not the final figure. ”
The recovery operation took about three
s, exceeding early expectations as the
ial body count more than doubled by
time the graves registration teams
g, shed their task at the Rev. Jim Jones’
commune.
There were still discrepancies in the
ires. Guyanese officials had turned over
1 American passports to the U.S. Em-
sy and reported that 915 members of
California sect had registered with
yanese immigration. Officials said 39 of
cult members survived the mass
Icide.
sraeli
ejected
United Press International
AIRO, Egypt — Egypt Saturday re
ted Israel’s “take it or leave it” ul-
itum on the tentative peace treaty and
pounced the Jewish state’s declared re
al to resume the Washington negotia-
ns as an obstacle to peace.
iPrime Minister Mustafa Khalil also said
Je wording on the future of occupied ter-
ories should be changed if the two sides
:re to “make this work.”
Six U.S. senators met with President
war Sadat, and one of them, Jacob
dts, R-N.Y., later said differences be-
een Egypt and Israel in the peace
Sgotiations are ‘reconcilable and will be
Iconciled.”
[Egypt’s next move in the peace talks
is debated by a high-level committee,
findings will be submitted to Sadat,
io will make the final decision and con-
:y it to President Carter.
Asked about Dayan’s declared intention
t to return to Washington, Khalil said:
Veil, t is up to them. They would be
caking off the negotiations, not us. They
>uld be standing in the way of peace.”
He also expressed unhappiness with the
Drding in the proposed treaty’s preamble
the crucial issue of a link between the
reement and an overall Middle East set-
iment.
Parking space — an unending search at A&M
By BECKY DOBSON
Battalion Reporter
“Three years from now there will prob
ably be only female dormitory residents
and seniors allowed to park on campus,”
said Col. Thomas R. Parsons, director of
security and traffic at Texas A&M Uni
versity.
PARSONS SAID with the growing
enrollment and the lack of sufficient park
ing on the main campus, new restrictions
are inevitable.
He said Texas A&M policy dictates that
women must be able to park near their
dormitories for safety. Seniors will be the
only others allowed the privilege of on-
campus parking.
The unending task of searching for a
parking space on campus is a problem
familiar to both faculty and students. The
problem is compounded by new construc
tion sites, illegal vehicles and controversy
over building additional parking lots ver
sus preserving the beauty of the campus.
spaces to be built after the 17,000 seats are
added to Kyle Field are the approximately
500 spaces created by resurfacing the old
baseball field. Spectators will continue to
park across the tracks in lots 56, 61, and 63,
which provide a total of 2,836 spaces.
Kyle Field workers are not the only
ones taking valuable parking spaces. The
construction of a new Academic and
Agency Building behind the Reed
McDonald Building has already absorbed
132 spaces from lots 7 and 8. An additional
326 spaces will be lost by the beginning of
the spring semester, the traffic director
said.
SUFFICIENT PARKING spaces are
available, but the inconvenient locations of
the spaces make them unappealing. Aerial
photos taken by U niversity Police at times
of peak congestion show 801 vacant spaces
— by the baseball field. Lots on the main
campus are pictured as being over
crowded.
University Police department data show
approximately 15,291 parking spaces are
available to faculty, staff and students. Ap
proximately 21,200 permits were issued
this fall, a ratio of 1.4 permits per parking
space. This compares with 31,312 permits
issued in 1975 with 13,473 spaces for a
ratio of 2.3 permits per space. The situa
tion is improving, but the problem is still
very real.
RESIDENTS OF THE new women’s
dormitory now under construction will
also need parking areas. Parsons said lots 9
and 31 behind Law Hall will probably be
come female dormitory parking only. This
will take 145 spaces from day students and
130 spaces from upperclass male dorm
students.
Dr. Charles McCandless, director of the
master planning committee, said, “Park
ing is a perennial problem to all institu
tions. The situation here is bad compared
to what it used to be, but better than most
universities.”
McCandless said there are many factors
to consider before a solution to the prob
lem can be found.
“THERE ARE 6,000 to 7,000 unregis
tered vehicles on campus daily,” said Par
sons. Thirty patrolmen are required to
ticket these cars.
To add to the congested parking prob
lem, construction continues to rob preci
ous spaces.
The construction of the third deck of
seating in Kyle Field stadium will require
an area covering 411 parking spaces. These
spaces will be lost for two years beginning
today.
Day students will lose 269 spaces, up
perclass male dorm students will lose 83
spaces and staff parking will lose 60 spaces.
These spaces should be restored after
completion of the structure, Parsons said.
“WE WANT TO keep the green space
we have on campus,” McCandless said.
He said he feels the students enjoy the
trees and grass. He does not want to sac
rifice the beauty of the campus for parking
space. He is not alone in this considera
tion.
“I don’t like the idea of A&M becoming
a scene out of ‘Star Wars’ with massive
buildings and expansive concrete,” said
Dorothy DuBois. She is a student repre
sentative of the Traffic Appeals Panel.
In addition to hearing complaints about
parking tickets, the panel is responsible
for developing guidelines for the assign
ment and use of parking areas. They are
also responsible for surveying the need for
more parking spaces.
formation of parking lots 7, behind the
Reed McDonald Building, and 60, behind
Rudder Tower, into high rise lots.
“We’d like to get as much parking relief
as we can for the least amount of money,”
McCandless said.
Parsons said high-rise parking lots cost
approimately $3,000 per space. Surface
lots like those existing on campus now cost
about $500 per space.
McCandless said Texas A&M cannot
spend state money for parking facilities.
The costs must be paid by parking permit
fees and possibly by the sale of parking lot
bonds. State funds may not be used. Total
receipts from parking permit fees this
semester excluding motorcycle and night
permit fees was approximately $627,750.
MCCANDLESS SAID he feels it is dif
ficult to economically justify a high-rise lot
around the center of campus where more
people are congested.
“Hopefully the high-rise lots will be in
units of 500. If the lots prove to be a viable
concept we will probably be working on
them in the near future. Many things must
be worked out first.”
Over the next 5 years students are going
to be moved from the center of campus to
the western division of campus to help re
lieve the congestion on the main campus,
said McCandless.
THE ONLY ADDITIONAL parking
THE PANEL SUBMITS their recom
mendations to Dr. John Koldus, vice-
president of student services. Upon his
approval, Koldus passes them on to the
master planning committee who presents
them to the Board of Regents.
Koldus recently approved recom
mendations by the panel. The proposals
were to add 750-1,000 student parking
spaces to lot 50 behind Zachry Engineer
ing Building and up to 300 student spaces
Parking on the main campus is becoming more congested due to the
growing enrollment. Sufficient parking is available, but the inconvenient
locations of the spaces make them unappealing. The problem is com
pounded by new construction sites and illegal vehicles.
OTHER UNIVERSITIES face the
same parking dilemma as Texas A&M.
Traffic Engineering Magazine ran a survey
of cars versus parking spaces at large uni
versities. It showed that at universities
with enrollments of 15,000 or more there
were approximately 14-50 spaces for every
100 cars. Texas A&M has 72 spaces for
every 100 cars.
This is how each parking permit group
at Texas A&M feres:
Day students 3.9 permits/space
Freshmen students ... .3.5 permits/space
Faculty . 1.6 permits/space
Female dorm residents 1.2 permits/space
Upperclassmen male dorm residents 1.1
permits/space
Cain Athletic Hall residents .84 permits/
space.
to parking lot 40 behind Duncan Dining
Hall. The construction of a staff lot with
100-125 spaces on the corner of Ross and
Spence streets was also recommended.
OTHER ALTERNATIVES TO the
parking problem are being considered.
The master planning committee is now
conducting a feasibility study on the trans-
MCCANDLESS SAID the basic idea
behind the plans for Texas A&M is to keep
it a pedestrian campus. Peripheral parking
and studies on intra-campus transportation
are two methods of attaining this goal.
Parsons said, “The campus is growing,
the student body is growing and people
are just going to have to walk, ride bikes or
ride the shuttle bus.”