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Volume 61
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1965
Number 189- <3
Student Insurance Policy
Won’t Pay Freshman’s Bill
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By MIKE REYNOLDS
Day News Editor
An investigation of the insur
ance policy for students was start
ed by the Student Senate Thurs
day night.
Frank Muller, student body
president, showed a letter of re
jection to a student by Albert
Knapp & Associates of Chicago,
111.
The student, Kenneth Taylor, a
freshman from Dallas, chipped a
tooth on the front rail at Yell
Practice on Oct. 1. His dentist,
Charles A. Ernst filed a claim with
the company.
A letter was sent to the student
stating that the claim could not
be paid “. . . due to the fact that
the policy does not provide cover
age for the treatment of dentists.”
The students’ brochure states
that dentistry work is excluded
from the policy only when the
A&M Rifle Team
Wins League Title,
Seeks Army Crown
The A&M Rifle Team has been
presented a trophy as Central Tex
as Conference champions in the
first leg of their bid to be win
ners of the Fourth Army ROTC
Small Bore Rifle Matches.
Coached by Sgt. Harvey H. Day-
ton, the team will compete the
weekend . of Feb. 13 with teams
from the University of Houston
and Louisiana State University as
well as representatives from the
Western Texas and Oklahoma con
ferences of the area.
"William A. Birdsong, a Hous
ton sophomore, had the high ag
gregate score of 366 out of a pos
sible 400,” said Lt. Col. Frank S.
Hertzog, team sponsor.
Carl E. Long, team captain, Rob
ert M. Nalley and James N. Phil
lips are team members from Dal
las. Other members are Marion S.
Thompson and Thomas R. Park of
El Paso, John W. Parker of Cen
ter, Charles F. Weatherbee of Am
arillo, Melvin W. Cockrell of Hous
ton and James B. Vine of Dilley.
work is not the direct result of an
accident.
Muller said that Dr. C. R. Lyons
of the Student Health Service told
him the policy should have been
paid.
Taylor said he had talked to Sys
tems Attorney James Amis about
the claim and that Amis said an
itemized claim should be sent
again. Then pressure should be
brought to bear and if the com
pany still refused to pay, a suit
should be filed.
Muller said he had been told of
several other claims filed by stu
dents that had been rejected by
Albert Knapp & Associates.
He said that either the wording
in the policy was ambiguous or
that the company was attempting
to avoid payment.
“Since the senate approves the
company that handles the insur
ance, I definitely feel we should
investigate both sides of this case,”
said Muller.
Dean of Students James P. Han-
nigan told the senate that he had
been present when company ne
gotiations Were made and that it
was his understanding that if a
Texas Tech President Says
Connally’s i Super Systems’’
Not Best Education Plan
AUSTIN — Texas Tech Presi
dent Dr. Robert C. Goodwin told
legislative budget writers Thurs
day the Legislature should not
regroup state colleges as pro
posed by Gov. John Connally.
“The allocation of the institu
tions of higher learning of the
state among systems of colleges
and universities should be a func
tion of the Commission on Higher
Education or its replacement,”
Goodwin told the House Appro
priations Committee.
However, Goodwin did support
Connally’s recommendation for a
strong college coordinating board.
The committee is hearing 1966-
67 spending needs for state a-
gencies.
Connally told reporters Wed
nesday he felt Tech opposed his
plan, as well as the University
of Houston, but that he believed
a majority of the Legislature and
colleges consider his plan the
best solution.
Connally proposed putting Tech
under a system headed by Texas
A&M. The University of Texas
would head another system, and
a third would be composed most
ly of small colleges.
Goodwin said a distribution of
schools into systems “should be
made only after a careful and
deliberate study of the problems
involved.
“A basic principle of the es
tablishment of these systems
should be that within each com
plex of institutions opportunity
should exist for students to ob
tain instruction under any pro
gram and at all levels.”
Goodwin also said college gov
erning boards should “retain as
much autonomy as possible.”
Under Connally’s proposals, all
but A&M and Texas governing
boards would be abolished.
Asked about Connally’s pro
posal for a strong college co
ordinating board, Goodwin said:
“Closer coordination between
institutions is necessary to at
tain a more economic and effec
tive higher education system.
Although some progress has been
made by the institutions, other
and stronger measures are need
ed.”
“The Commission on Higher
Education or its replacement
should have the duties outlined,
by the governor’s study commit
tee.”
dentist bill was a direct result of
an accident, the company would
honor it.
“I feel this is a good thing that
you are doing,” said Hannigan.
Muller requested that all stu
dents who had filed claims and had
them turned down should leave
their names and addresses at the
Student Programs Office in the
Memorial Student Center.
Indians Announce
Contest Winners
In Prep Painting
Winners of a junior and senior
high school painting competition
sponsored by the Indian Students
Association of A&M have been an
nounced by Pramod D. Desai, con
test chairman.
First prize winner in the senior
high division is Donna Streetman
of Bryan. Second and third prize
awards go to Patty Herzog, Bry
an, and Beth Paterson, College
Station, respectively.
Special prizewinners are Pat
Snyder and Nan Hanover of Bryan
and Jamie Dollahite of College
Station. These prizes were donat
ed by Jagat Singh, Mr. and Mrs.
Arvind Kudchadker and Dilip V.
Shah.
All winners in this division at
tend Stephen F. Austin High
School.
Joel Salmons of Bryan is the
top prize winner in the junior high
division. Lynda Neshbya of Col
lege Station finished second and
Addie Sue Dysen of Bryan took
third.
A special prize donated by C. B.
Sharma will be awarded to David
Drew of Bryan. All are students
at Lamar Junior High School.
All winners have been asked to
be present when the prizes are pre
sented at the Republic Day Cele
bration of India to be held in the
Memorial Student Center Ballroom
at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12.
Eighty paintings depicting India
and her people were entered from
three schools.
Man On Moon
Seen By 1970
CHAMPIONSHIP RIFLEMEN
. . team makes bid for Fourth Army title.
Amerson Indicted
For Wills Murder
By Angleton Jury
ANGLETON (A*) — The Brazoria
Couny Grand Jury indicted Hen
ry Amerson, Houston for the first
degree murder in the rape-murder
of Mrs. Marjorie Wills.
The nude body of Mrs. Wills,
26, an insurance counter clerk at
the Houston International Airport,
was found in an ice coated ditch
six miles from Angleton.
Amerson, 38, was arrested at
his Houston home last week and
has repeatedly denied the charge
filed against him.
The arrest was made after A&M
nuclear scientists and chemical ex
perts made tests involving hairs,
stands of fabric, and bloodstains.
Astronaut
Foresees
Lunar Shot
By TOMMY DeFRANK
Staff Writer
Astronaut Clifton C. Williams
told a capacity crowd at Space
Fiesta ’65 Thursday that if the
present space timetable is main
tained the United States will place
a man on the moon by 1970.
Williams reviewed his experi
ences in the manned space flight
program and summarized the Gem
ini and Apollo projects in his pres
entation. He also discussed recent
lunar exploration, carried on by
the Ranger space series.
Williams revealed that the first
flight of the Saturn I-B, which
will carry the Apollo space team
to the moon, is scheduled for 1966,
and that the first manned Apollo
flight will be launched in 1967.
The first earth-orbital manned
flight will be made in 1968, and if
these early flights are successful
the Apollo moon shot will be
launched by 1970.
“If these major accomplishments
are met, our goal of a manned lu
nar landing in this decade can be
accomplished,” Williams asserted.
The Apollo project is designed
to orbit a three-man team around
the moon and land two of them on
the lunar surface for up to 48
hours. A mid-air rendezvous with
the parent spacecraft will then be
accomplished and the crew will
return to earth after a three-day
journey.
The Marine captain also warned
that Americans must realize that
the aerospace program is not a re
sult of the Russian space surge,
but is the culmination of advanced
technology which will yield bene
fits in national security, interna
tional prestige, economic benefits
and scientific advancement for
years to come.
“The greatest challenge for us
all is to fully understand the im
plications of the space program—
to come to consider it not simply
as a reaction to the Soviet space
program, but as a major research
and development program entirely
capable of standing on its own
merits,” he said.
In a press conference prior to
his speech Williams emphasized
that the United States was not
engaged in a “race for space” with
Russia and that such a term was
a product of journalistic sensa
tionalism.
Williams also revealed that sev
eral women have applied for the
astronaut program, but that they
have been rejected because “there
are very few who have 1,000 hours
flying time,” one of the require
ments for an astronaut.
“But I’m for them,” he grinned.
CATCHING UP ON THE NEWS
.. . Astronaut Williams checks The Battalion before speech.
Senate Committee
Favors Amendment
On VP Continuity
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate
Judiciary Committee approved un
animously Thursday a constitu
tional amendment to establish pro
cedures for dealing with presi
dential disability and keeping the
office of vice president filled.
Only minor changes were made
in the proposal authored by Sen.
Birch Bayh, D-Ind., who called
them clarifying and said the basic
provisions of his original version
were preserved.
Chairman Emanuel Celler, D-
N. Y., of the House Judiciary
Committee plans to have his group
work on a similar proposal next
Tuesday.
The Senate passed substantially
the same proposal last year 65 to
9, but the House did not act on it.
President Johnson has asked
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
PARIS—President Charles de Gaulle, indirectly
striking out at U. S. efforts on several fronts,
Thursday urged revision of the U.N. charter by a
five-power conference, including Red China, to “save
the peace of the world.”
★ ★ ★
LONDON—A newly issued record—“The Voice
of Sir Winston Churchill’—has jumped into the
British top 10, the New Musical Express reported
Thursday. It listed the record at No. 9, just below
the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night.”
The record includes excerpts from Churchill’s
most famous speeches and also part of a speech by
the late President John F. Kennedy.
National
WASHINGTON—President Johnson, with direct
allusion to Negro efforts to register in Alabama,
urged all Americans Thursday to join with him in
expressing concern over the loss of any citizen’s
right to vote.
In a hurriedly announced news conference, the
President said it is essential to the freedom of the
nation that voting rights are secured for all citizens.
★ ★ ★
PHILADELPHIA, Miss.—The Neshoba County
grand jury says it can’t investigate the case of the
three slain civil rights workers until the FBI turns
over its evidence.
In its report to Circuit Court Judge O. H.
Barnett, the jury said: “We submit that it is
impossible for us to complete our inquiry into this
matter.”
Texas
HOUSTON—The 1st Court of Civil Appeals dis
missed Thursday a plea seeking reversal of a district
court decision to permit Rice University to enroll
Negro students and charge tuition.
The unanimous opinion dismissing the appeal by
John Coffee and Val Billups, former Rice students,
said the two had no legal right to intervene in
the case.
★ ★ ★
DALLAS—An FBI agent in charge of domestic
intelligence said Thursday the Communist espionage
against America is at an all-time high.
Said William C. Sullivan in an interview:
“Espionage directed against this country today
by Russia, the Soviet bloc nations and Communist
China is one of the most difficult and serious in
vestigative problems facing the FBI.”
★ ★ ★
DALLAS—An experimental transport plane
which its builder says could open the entire world
to aerial transportation made its first public flight
Thursday.
Two of Ling-Temco-Vought’s XC142A’s aircraft
capable of taking off and landing vertically and
flying at more than 430 miles an hour, lifted off
under overcast skies and flew for 45 minutes.
Congress to approve the proposal
quickly and send it to the states
for ratification.
One change made by the com
mittee is in the procedure under
which Congress would decide
whether a disabled president should
resume office if he and the vice
president disagree on the ques
tion.
As written originally, the sec
tion said Congress should “im
mediately” settle the issue. Some
senators said this would raise
doubts about the right of Congress
to have brief hearings to ques
tion doctors and other witnesses.
The wording was changed to read
that Congress should “immediate
ly proceed to decide.”
The committee changed the word
ing in several places to substi
tute “president of the Senate and
speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives” for the word “Con
gress.” This, it was explained,
is designed to make clear that
sections on congressional action
would be operative when Congress
is not in session.
Also substituted were the words
“principal officers of the execu
tive departments” instead of
“heads of the executive depart
ments.” The senators decided this
is more appropriate constitutional
language.
The proposed constitutional
change specifies that the vice
president could become acting
president either after a declara
tion by the chief executive that
he was unable to perform his
duties, or by majority action of
the Cabinet if no such declaration
was forthcoming.
Congress would step in when
there was a dispute over whether
a president should resume his of
fice. A two-thirds majority of
both the Senate and House would
be required to keep the presi
dent from regaining his office.
If the vice presidency became
vacant, as has occurred 16 times,
the president would nominate a
successor for confirmation by a
majority of both houses of Con
gress.