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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
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WELDED CRUCIFIX
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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
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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.”
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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,
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coffee one morning, I noticed
something on the wrapper, It
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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
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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.
This help will continue until the
family is self-supporting or Yen
has completed school.
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