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• Columns • Editorials • News Briefs Cbe Battalion Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 5, 1965 Special Report By GENE HANDSAKER Associated Press LOS ANGELES—Life is dreary today in Watts, the ravaged 3.3 square miles of a 46-square mile area of Negro rioting Aug. 11-15. The fires, pillaging and looting virtually destroyed downtown. Downtown was a three-block segment of 103rd St. A reporter walking past the rubble estimated 40 charred or shattered shops in one block alone. Where there were six shoe stores, now there are none. Of two hardware stores, both are gone. Of a dozen or more clothing stores, none remain. Of a half-dozen food markets, one stands. Its manager says its brick front and hired guards saved it. It is doing a booming business. Housewives along the sacked street say pretty much the same thing: “You can’t even buy a pair of socks here now.” “Everything’s in a mess for me.” “I have to walk so far now.” “Now we don’t have a town to shop in.” Shoppers have to drive or take a 30- minute bus ride to unscathed Compton or Huntington Park. The now-missing merchants did more than supply goods. For many residents of an area that is largely on public assistance, they extended credit. Too, there are the personal pangs. “I was raised here,” said Dorothy Banks, 36, sitting in one of the few unwrecked stores. For four days, on television in her apartment, she watched the rioting. Then she ventured forth, and— “I just couldn’t believe what I saw. I felt hurt. I knew so many of the business people, like Cecilia the florist, and Lillian Martin, who owns a drugstore. “I didn’t cry, but it scared me and my children. They wanted to move, but I said, “No, I’ve lived here all my life and we’re stayin’.” ★ ★ ★ By JOSEPH E. MOHBAT WASHINGTON—For hundreds of fed eral prisoners’ who yearn for something better, prison walls are about to become “something you return to at night” when other men are returning to their homes. They will be given a chance to prepare a place for themselves in the nation’s labor force in hopes of easing transition to free dom when their sentences are up—a shock that often leads them back to prison. They will be turned loose from 10 fed eral institutions each morning, to travel to jofos, work fooside 11*00 111011 3.110. 1*0x111*11 vol- untarily to their cells in the evening. For every step of the way they will be on their own—unescorted, unwatched. The “work relief program” for which the Federal Bureau of Prisons is now setting machinery into motion, is a pro vision of the prisoner rehabilitation law signed by President Johnson Sept. 10. It marks another step in the long cam paign to transform U. S. penal institutions from dark holes of confinement and despair to colonies where men who have strayed from the path of lawfulness can make a stab at redirecting their lives. The law also provides for the establish ment of an adult version of “halfway houses” — pre-release guidance centers — that have proved effective with young offenders in easing the transition from prison to private life. Myrl F. Alexander, director of the Bureau of Prisons, said in an interview a surprising number of community organiza tions have indicated a willingness to accept workers from nearby institutions. But he said there would be a gradual approach to the program. “We’re going to start very conserva tively and build up somfe experience so that our mistakes will be held to a minimum,” explained the white-haired veteran of two decades of prison work. During early months of the work release program implementation will be limited to 10 institutions where minimum custody is the rule rather than the exception. Eligible prisoners from the major se curity institutions such as those at Leaven worth, Kan., and Marion, 111., may be trans ferred to prisons taking part in the pro- gram. Tliese are the institutions at Englewood, Colo.; El Reno, Okla.; Chillicothe, Ohio; Terminal Island, Calif.; Ashland, Ky.; Petersburg, Va.; the National Training School in Washington; Seagoville, Tex.; Milan, Mich.; and Danbury, Conn. No notorious convict imprisoned for crimes of violence will be in the program. Only prisoners who can use the experience in advance of their release or who can help support their families by using skills they already have will be considered. The prisons will stand ready to advance the men up to $100 for expenses until their first paycheck is received. They will also outfit them with their first suits of cloth ing until they can afford to buy their own.- The prisoners will pay all their own expenses, and their excess earnings other than used for family support will be held for them until they are released from prison. Alexander said he hopes the first batch of prisoners will begin the experiment in the next few weeks. Eventually, he said, not more than 5 per cent—or 1,000 to 1,500 federal prisoners—will take part in the program. The law specifically provides that paid employment of federal prisoners may not result in the displacement of employed workers. Nor may it be used where there is a labor surplus in the area. Mortimer's Notes Automation may even take over politics and sports. The development of a political computer was announced Friday. Its purpose will be to ungarble. redristricting rulings that states face this year. According to the Associated Press, the computer works this way: Data reflecting varying posi tions on reapportionment, the specific alignment of districts and the criteria imposed by the Supreme Court’s “one man, one vote” ruling are compiled and fed into the machine. After digesting this bill-of- fare, the computer is supposed to come up with various alterna tive redistricting plans—^facilita ting the ‘give and take of polit ical negotiations.” Another use of the computer was also released Friday: pro gramming football games. Florida State University said it used the mechanical coach to predict what play a certain team would execute in a given situa tion. The university would not say in which game—last year—the computer was used nor if it was successful. The coaches did say that information was fed into a New York computer from the Florida State bench and only seconds later the brain would give its reply. These two uses for the com puter could possibly revolutionize the areas of political science and athletics. Football coaches would need more than training in physical ed and biology to secure the best jobs. A minor in computer sci ence might also be required. Brains would almost entirely replace brawn in football, and computer science students would overturn p.e. majors as campus heroes. Imagine the typical university coaching staff: an experienced, well-rounded man in football and computer science as head coach; an expert in programming as brain coach; an electrical engi neer as communications advisor; two p. e. majors as assistant coaches in charge of brawn, and an additional force of assistants with varied backgrounds in lan guage, public relations, educa tion, mathematics and, of course, p. e. and computer science. Politicians would no longer consider back-slapping, baby- kissing and long-windedness as political assets. Instead, they would consult their computers, arrive at the best solution to governmental problems and sim ply put them to work. Computer scientists who were not football-minded would enter politics, and the country would be run smoothly and mechan ically. Taxes would be lowered, wars abolished, diplomatic problems handled with ease, and human error forever cast aside. And we would rejoice . . . for a while. But soon the football fans would criticize their alma mater’s computer because the opponent had outcomputered them. And politicians would be ostrasized for not doling out large govern ment contracts, lush political jobs and federal aid. And all would come to a hap py ending. All computer scien tists would enter coaching and politics, and there would be no one left to program the compu ters, and there would be a great depression for which the com puters would be blamed and des troyed, and we would be human again. CADET SLOUCH by Ji m Earle “I’m sorry about your radio, listening: to tlF Tech game!” but I got a litw emotional Mike Reynolds Texas Tech Students Gripe About Red Raider Coach Another coaching shake-up may be near for one of the schools in the Southwest Conference. Students at Texas Tech are yelling for the scalp of J. T. King. Even after Saturday night’s come-from-behind victory over the Aggies, complaints about the Tech mentor’s ability flew thick and fast. “If we had Texas A&M’s coach ing staff or if A&M had Tech’s talent, either team would be ca pable of being No. 1 in the nation,” said one student. He was possibly alluding to the fact that Tech has been undergoing a building period and this year was their year to con tend. Most writers across the state agreed before play ever started that Tech had more than their share of talent. “The student body has a com plex about that Texas game. It has caught the team in the mid dle and they are scared to death when they get on the field with the Longhorns. King just can’t get them over it,” remarked another student. Coach King has recognized the problem and feels one pf the difficulties lies in the scheduling of the game. He has made efforts to have the Tech Longhorn clash moved to late November or early December following the Thanks giving Day battle that has tra ditionally signaled the end of conference play. This writer spent the night Saturday in a Texas Tech dormi tory. We found more than a cas ual interest in A&M’s new coach, Gene Stallings. As soon as word spread that an Aggie was in the dorm, people began to drop by to pass the time of day (or night as was the case). The general concensus of opin ion was that Tech should have won the game because of their better talent but that A&M would pass them in the next few years if the new trend in coach ing at Aggieland proved to be the real thing. “Everyone was surprised around here when King got the job in the first place,” another Techsan offered. “We were expecting a big name to get the call but they (the administration) went with King. Opinions on who the new coach would be if King got the boot varied and some rang a few bells in the mind of those around Aggieland just before Stallings got the job. “I think the exes are trying to get Bud Wilkerson,” one said. “What is the name of that guy at Texas ? Willie Zapalac, I think. Anyway I have heard his name mentioned.” Other guesses ranged from un employed National and American Football League coaches to Darrell Royal himself. At about 1:30 a.m. the bull session began to break up and the Raiders began to wander away to savor the victory that they felt their talent deserved and puzzle about the coaching picture. “Why do our winning plays have to be called in the huddle and not from the bench,” a deeply concerned student mut tered. (It was reported that King had sent in the pass play that broke A&M’s back in the fourth quarter, but Anderson had called for the very successful handoff that brought home the victory.) Short Snorts State Savings and Loan Com missioner James O. Gerst ap proved application for a charter for Trinity Valley Savings and Loan Association in Cleveland and heard contested application for Dallas County Savings As sociation in DeSoto. U.S. Department of Agricul ture has authorized emergency loans to farmers in Austin, Camp, Crosby, Donley, Falls, Franklin, Haskell, Reeves, Titus and Yoa kum counties. Gerald Garcia Aggie Queen Revision The method of selecting Aggie Sweethearts needs revising. At the moment only two phases of the selecting method would be accepted by judging experts. One is the judging of the semifinalists in their home base —Texas Woman's University— by a selection committee from here composed of staff members and students. This is good. It gives the selection committee an oppor tunity to meet and analyze the contestants. This is the way to conduct a contest such as this. The other is the part which allows members of the selection committee to personally escort the finalists, which were chosen by the panel in the above phase. Committee members, along with other students, escort each of the finalists for a certain period during the weekend the sweet heart will be announced. The finalists are taken to Town Hall, Midnight Yell Practice and the football game. In between time, the girls are shown the campus and other areas of interest. This phase is also excellent, because each committee member feels like he knows each con testant and is in better position to vote. When the sweetheart is an nounced from the semifinalists group which was picked two weeks prior, she more than likely has to be the very best because she had to be passed by the group that visited TWU and the Aggies that escorted her here. But what about the girls that did not reach the semifinalists? These are the ones that did not receive the right attention. The semifinalists are picked from pictures that are submitted and through a personality sketch that comes along with the picture. This method needs to be dropped. Why? Because the girls are not getting a fair treatment. A picture and a personal sketch does not furnish enough information about a girl. She needs to be seen and talked with before her real personality is displayed. This is why I suggest that judging for the Aggie Sweet heart start with the group that goes to TWU. Miss America, Miss Interna tional Beauty and other famous contests are not started with pictures and personal sketches. Throwing all the pictures and personal sheets into an apple basket would be just as good as the method that is now used. Committee members do not really know what they are keep ing or throwing away. They could be drawing all the sour apples and never know it. Gentlemen, you might ask that the method has worked before. I agree. It has. But consider. Who is going to take the blame when a sour one escapes phase one and slips by the others ? Meredith Unrolls In Law School NEW YORK (CPS)—James Meredith, whose enrollment at the University of Mississippi three years ago set off long, bloody rioting, last week enrolled at the Columbia University Law School. Meredith, 32, registered at Columbia on a $2,000 scholarship he had received from the uni versity. PEANUTS By Charles M. Schuls ABOUT MV Hi \\ PSYOOATR to- M EVERY NI6MT HE SITS IN THE KITCHEN EATIN6 COLD CEREAL AND LOOKIN6 AT THE PICTURES IN HIS OLD HI6H SCHOOL YEAR BOOK N0THINS TO WORRY ABOUT.. HE'S RI6HT ON SCHEDULE i RYE CENTS, PLEASE... 'EQUIVALENT sets.... 'non-equivalent sets.’!.. 'Sets of one:.:sets of tujo:. renamins tljo:..''subsets::. ‘'joining sets::.: number SENTENCES’iCPLACEHOLDERS::. ALL I WANT TO KNOU) If HOW MUCH 15 TWO AND TOW? • Opinions • Cartoons • § Features HI j I | — | State Capitol ■ tra Roundup ■ • • V. ins By VERN SANFORD Texas Press Association < - : -‘ AUSTIN — A governor’s committee a will embark on the most-ambitious effort yet; dertaken in Texas to find what’s wrong with: public schools and to make them better. Governor John Connally rapidly is complet appointments to his 15-member committee public school education which was authorized the 59th Legislature. It is expected to be in opt tion within the next month. Activities, to a large extent, parallel those the earlier Governor’s Committee on Educat Beyond the High School which probed needs higher education. However, this new assign® necessarily is more massive. A three-year study of the public school syst and formulation of a long-range plan to mi Texas “a national leader in educational aspirat commitment and achievement” was directed by: Legislature. Connally insisted the study reqi ment be made a part of the school teacher; act of 1965. State financing to the tune of $100,000: : year and $150,000 next year is provided for-r additional funds expected from federal source Every state agency and institution and: state and local school officials are directed by: Legislature to cooperate with the committees “pervasive inquiry into every facet of Texas pt: elementary and secondary education.” Meanwhile, the Coordinating Board for Te Colleges and Universities — a product of the ear. higher education study — has set Oct. 18 for next meeting here. Session will be the power board’s first real chance to get down to plant: for higher education needs since its organizatk meeting Sept. 20. ea T de of S] ta te in el tc tl a n ti S S' 1 > C ( I Attorney General Rules A person placed on probation for first-offei driving while intoxicated is not subject to autom: suspension of driver’s license, Atty. Gen. Waggo: Carr has ruled. In an opinion requested by Fort Bend Com Atty. R. A. Stallings of Richmond, Carr conclia that since a probated sentence is not a finale; viction, there is no automatic license suspensl If probation is revoked and judgment becoit: final, the license would be suspended at thattir Carr said. Opinion settled widespread speculation on ter. of the new Misdemeanor Probation Law. In separate opinion, Carr held a newspa; printed by contract and mailed in one countyi distribution in another county legally is eligiS to publish Constitutional Amendment advertisi: Secretary of State Crawford C. Martin reques: the opinion, referring specifically to the Gaffi Tribune, circulated in Jackson County, but pri» and mailed in Lavaca County. Soldiering Draft quotas have doubled and local boards: longer are as liberal in deferment policies for s'- dents. Col. Morris S. Schwartz, state Selective Ser director, still is recommending deferment of unc: graduate students enrolled for 12 or more semes: hours. A student is recommended for deferment f. if there is evidence to prove he is making progR toward his bachelor’s degree in four years, or five if the degree requires additional stfi Schwartz said. A student may take even less than a full 1« if he is able to complete his college training in if or five years. Colonel Schwartz said draft headquarters wot not recommend deferment of students taking If than nine hours. Those who drop out of school, carry less ti the full academic load, or are placed on schols» probation, can expect termination of defermef About 450 Texas doctors have been ordered take required physical examinations by Texas drt' boards as part of anticipated calls for doctf dentists and veterinarians to enter active art forces duty in January. At the present time, only those born in 193! later will be affected. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battati are those of the student writers only. 1 Battalion is a non tax-supported m profit, self-supporting educational m prise edited and operated by students a university and community new spa-pet Members of the Student Publications Board are: Joe Be chairman; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal Arts; Robert A. Clark, College of Geosciences; Dr. Prank A. 1 Donald, College of Science; Dr. J. G. McGuire, ColleP Engineering; Dr. Robert S. Titus, College of Veteric Medicine; and Dr. A. B. 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