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Page 4 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 29, 1965 Connally Atheist’s Receives Appeal SAN ANTONIO <A>)_ Atheist Madalyn Murray pleaded with Gov. John Connally in a letter Tuesday not to allow her extra dition to Baltimore, the city where she successfully fought compulsory prayers in public schools. “I ask mercy of you, for my self and my minor son, Garth, age ten, who is now with me. Please do not let them take me back to Maryland,” she said in the letter. “I do not want to be murdered.” Mrs. Murray, now free on $500 bond awaiting a full hearing on a writ of habeas corpus, was jailed at the request of Balti more authorities Saturday fol lowing her deportation from Mexico. She spent almost 24 hours in jail before Maury Maverick Jr., a well-known local attorney, stepped into the case at the re quest of the American Civil Lib erties Union and posted the bond. Gov. J. Millard Tawes of Mary land signed papers Tuesday re questing- Mrs. Murray’s extradi tion to his state to face charges of assaulting a policeman. Mrs. Murray, who said she has been an atheist since she was 12 years old, began her letter to Connally: “My name is Madalyn Murray and I am the same Madalyn Mur ray in the case of Murray vs. Curlett, wherein the United States Supreme Court prohibited compulsory prayers in public schools. “After bringing this suit in the state of Maryland, I was subject ed to the worst kind of abuse, as were my children and my fam ily. Financial, psychological and even physical reprisals and sanc tions were directed against us. Our very lives were in constant danger.” “It is strikingly and historical ly unusual that a person would be extradited across America over a mere misdemeanor a sim ply assault.” She claimed that Maryland au thorities were “unscrupulously attempting to involve you (Con nally) in an act of brutal reli gious persecution.” Mrs. Murray’s 19-year-old son, William, is in custody in Balti more charged with assaulting a policeman — the same charge she faces. The son has already been sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court. The woman moved to Honolulu in June, 1964, but fled to Mexico to avoid extradition from that state. She claims Mexican au thorities had promised her po litical asylum, then “just like that, they rushed me out of the country on the first airplane.” Grad Student Here On Rotary Grant Adolfo El-Hage Vincenti of Bolivia, a graduate student in dairy cattle breeding research, is attending Texas A&M on a Ro tary Foundation Fellowship. He is one of 145 outstanding graduate students from 28 coun tries to be awarded one of the fellowships for study abroad dur ing the 1965-66 academic year. The student is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolfo El-Hage Ribera of Santa Cruz. His application for the award was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The young Bolivian is a veteri nary graduate of Gabriel Rene Autonomous University in Santa Cruz, and his past research has dealt with commercial dairy cat tle and certain types of food. Doubles As 007 During European Stay tew ypi Aggie Frank Ray of Conroe had experiences this summer in Europe which would compare favorably with Agent 007. Ray, a senior education student snitched a piece of barbed wire from the Berlin Wall and made good his escape into nearby woods. An East German guard tossed a smoke bomb in his direc tion to add to the adventure. “I was with a friend,” he re called, “and we wanted a souve nir of the wall. Some guards put the field glasses on us and start ed running our way when they saw we were fooling with the wire. We took off. I stopped in the edge of, the woods and snapped a couple of pictures. “When I saw a guy wearing a raincoat and carrying a machine gun coming, I got out of there fast. I later learned he was a West German guard.” Ray spent most of the summer participating in the Experiment in International Living, and had home stays with two Swiss fami lies in Zurich. He visited Berlin on the sug gestion of a Swiss citizen. “We were trying to decide whether to go to Paris or Berlin,” he explained. “A man told us we Brown President Backs Issuing Of Birth Pills WELDED CRUCIFIX This welded steel crucifix will hang in the University Lutheran Chapel and Student Center, at 315 Main N. which will be dedicated at 3:30 p. m. Oct. 10. The crucifix, de signed by Eobert Fowler of Houston, is placed on a cross of raw ash wood. You can date for less in Lee Leens. (With the authority of the Leen-look, you can convince her that going out.. . is out.) Alpha Phi Omega Membership Open Students interested in joining the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity may attend the group’s first or ganizational meeting of the year following yell practice Monday in Room 3B of the Memorial Stu dent Center. Membership is open to all stu dents with an overall grade point ratio of 1.0 or freshman who have a high school average equiv alent to a 1.0. Transfer students belonging to APO chapters at other schools are also eligible for membership. Alpha Phi Omega is a service fraternity which helps serve the needs of the school, community and country. PROVIDENCE, R. I. bP)—The administration at Brown Univer sity backed up Tuesday the health service director who gave two unmarried coeds prescrip tions for contraceptive pills. University President Bamaby C. Keeney said he is satisfied with Dr. Roswell D. Johnson’s “performance and judgment.” Both Keeney and Johnson stressed that the two cases were carefully considered. Dr. Johnson said both women involved were “mature people, already engaged and they both had been referred to me by cler gy.” Keeney said one of the women has since married and both were over 21. Pembroke College is the wom en’s division at Brown Univer sity. Keeney said Dr. Johnson has broad discretion to treat cases as seems best to him” and added, “after careful examination of the circumstances, Dr. Johnson de cided to prescribe contraceptive pills. It is common practice to do so well before marriage.” Johnson said he acted on what he called his own policy and it does not constitute a “blanket prescription.” No Slide into a pair of Lee Leens. Take along your banjo. You’ll have a captive audience when she sees you in those low-riding, hip-hugging Leens. (They really do something for your shoulders.) Those arrow-narrow legs give you dash she never suspected, and those git-along pockets show you’re a stickler for detail. Great way to date; no pain in the wallet. But, you need the authority of Lee Leens to get away with it. Shown, Lee Leens in Lastic Stretch Denim, a blend of 75% cotton and 25% nylon. Sanforized. In Wheat, Faded Blue, Loden and Blue Denim. $6.98. Other Leens from $4.98 to $6.98. iee Leens man is alone I h for long in Paris. 1 ! I I 1 Ml Not in a Paris Club Stripe belt, anyway. The colors catch the chicks’ eyes. The masculine cowhide trim does the rest. They’re bold belts—like the women who admire them. $3.50 takes one home. Send the belt tag with just $2 to Paris for a regulation-size (22"x3 Vi "xVi " ) hard (ouch!) maple fraternity paddle with a leather thong. Beautifully grained and finished. Decorate it, hang it up or keep classmates in line with it! Shipped postpaid. Write: Paris Belts, PO. Box 3836, Chicago, Illinois 60654. Please indicate your college or university. IMIUS* KELTS AVAILABLE AT THESE CAMPUS STORES: H.D. Lee Company, Inc., Kansas City 41, Mo. CLITJ. COatcbiop &G>. MSKIS CLOTHING •INCE 189* *RYAN - TEXAS ought to go to Berlin and see what we are going to die for... his comments influenced our de cision.” Ray and his friends stayed in a DRK (German Red Cross) fa cility three blocks from Check point Charlie and made frequent trips into East Berlin. “We visited as far away from the wall as possible,” he recol lected. “The people are taught to think of Americans as cruel peo ple. We visited with several school children who were sur prised that we were nice to them. Their mothers watched us warily as we talked and gave them can dy. “Another time we talked with a little boy playing with a rub ber set of cowboys and Indians. He had been told that cowboys and Indians lived in Africa. “Children are taught to hate Americans,” Ray continued. “They play games in which they are Communists who kill Ameri- kept on walking. “I was excited, yet depressed by the wall,” Ray said. “You catch a mood looking down tilt deserted streets in the area. And it’s a sobering thought to see guards who would cut you don in a second. “The wall dominates the city, As I was putting sugar in m; coffee one morning, I noticed something on the wrapper, It By MAR ® News Sonny and mbols of y d personal » the Ne^ iere they hi ich and ha< iwith the i seated th< the ma an tomer. Sometimes, jet voice, 1 n’t enter be* said: ‘By day and by night, tie ? a ^ e ‘ is that C ess. Cher, who c wall remains'.” Tourists often exchange ot- scenities with the East Germat guards on the wall, Ray com. s wearing mented. He used a novel ap- fon blouse proach to harrass a guard “I got close to the wall and waved for him to come on over,” Ray chuckled. “He sort of wilt ed and turned away.” Because Ray is a staff ser geant in the Air Force ROTC Corps of Cadets, he had to get special permission for two trips into East Germany. Apparently, he was spied on a-la-James Bond style. “I was walking along a street when a headlight from a Volks wagen truck flashed at me,” he said. “The light was kiltered toward the sidewalk. I noticed it had a hole with a camera lens sticking out. Two men were in the truck. One tried to look in conspicuous, the other was writ ing at a desk in the rear. I just FRANK RAY Young Vietnamese War Victim Tugs At World’s Heartstrings cks. Sonny ig, had on and whit< irt and a The couple, it act in tl very inti ey have the io stitches e a lemon cks outfit t elet lact th ibon around ;le. She irt for Sonr ; vests and th. The couple s, Sonny B d their w< de and silve er, hers rei Sonny’s son, ich he wro ! result of haircut an the song is F people nigh not to NEW YORK (A 5 )—The face of the young Vietnamese girl in the photograph, its haunting pain and shock mirroring the anguish of all war’s innocent victims, is learning to smile again. Her name is Gian Thi Yen. She’s 11 years old. Americans wanted to help and they did. When Horst Faas, Associated Press Pulitzer Prize-winning pho tographer, saw her last June, she was stumbling across a battle- littered field at Dong Xoai. Yen was supporting herself with a stick, her left shoulder and hand bandaged, a wound on her cheek uncovered. A cruci fix dangled against her bare chest. Shelling had just killed her father, Gian Van Doan, a refu gee from North Viet Nam who had become a corporal in the South Vietnamese civil guard; her 7-year-old brother, and her 4-year-old sister. Their home lay in ruins. She was on her way to a heli copter for medical evacuation. Yen, her mother, and two brothers, one 5 and one an in fant, survived the shelling. Faas’ photograph of the girl, and a subsequent news story,; touched off an outpouring of of fers to help. A spokesman for the Foster Parents Plan, Inc., a voluntary agency with international heai quarters in New York City, sail it received “a great response, many applications from generous people.” The agency conducts a world wide program of caring for m children, allowing donors te adopt a child by proxy for $15 a month. The agency's field representa tive in Saigon, A. Elizabeti Brown, located the child in a hos pital in Saigon. “Yen spent 22 days there, hail her head shaved for necessary treatment, and still bears a scar on her cheek,” the spokesman said. The agency enrolled Yen im mediately, giving her mother an $8 cash monthly benefit, clothing for the family, supplies and spe cial medical care, and is arrang ing for a house for the family and employment for the mother. 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