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Che Battalion Weather gj THURSDAY — Cloudy to partly ijii cloudy, winds southerly 10 to 15 m.p.h. :■> gi High 68. Low 49. §: FRIDAY — Cloudy to partly cloudy, :£ occasional light rain, winds southerly 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 67. Low 52. Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1967 Number 409 AGGIE TIMEOUT Coach Shelby Metcalf talks with Billy Bob Barnett (with towel) and Dick Rector in Tuesday night’s 85-71 loss to Southern Methodist. (Photo by Russell Autrey) ‘Secrecy In Legislature’ To Be Discussed By Senator Optional City Sales Tax Gets Tentative Approval Author Thwarts Change Attempts HOW DO YOU GET IT DOWN? Serenely flying' from the top of the Academ- to place there over the weekend. After two ic Building is a white banner with the num- days, the banner is still there. (Photo by ber 70 on it that someone somehow managed Russell Autrey) Nobel Prize Winner Named Visiting Prof Of Engineering 21-22. Sen. A. R. Schwartz of Gal veston will discuss ‘‘Secrecy in the Legislature here Friday. The fifth speaker of a Political Forum series will appear at an informal lunch in the Memorial Student Center Assembly Room, announced David Gay, chairman of the Great Issues forum pro gram. Board Nixes Course Fees For Auditors Among measures taken by the A&M System Board of Directors Tuesday was the rescinding of fees for audited courses. Wayne C. Hall, Academic Vice- President and Dean of Graduate Studies, recommended the change on the basis of the small number of audited hours registered for last fall and on the small at tendance at audit classes. Hall said 219 students regis tered as auditors during fall 1966, but about half either dropped or did not attend the course during the semester. Actual credit hours involved totaled 400, he added. “As a result, the income from these fees is relatively small and it is more expensive to administer and report by machine the audi tors than the income represents,” he pointed out. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” The program is jointly spon sored by MSC Great Issues and the History and Government De partment. Senator Schwartz is a 1947 graduate of A&M. A controver sial figure in state government, he has been spokesman for state senate liberals. The senator was one of the first members of the Jewish faith elected to a state governing body. Gay said all interested stu dents and faculty members are invited. “An R.S.V.P. list for a light lunch will be posted in the MSC Student Programs Office,” Gay added. “Persons desiring to eat should sign up before 5 p.m. Thursday.” “The 12 p.m. luncheon will pro vide an informal atmosphere for discussion of political processes in contemporary political issues,” the forum chairman went on. Senator Schwartz will jpeak for 20 minutes after which a ques tion-answer session will be held. “We expect standing-room- only attendance,” Gay said. The assembly room will seat 150 at tables. By JERRY GRISHAM Battalion Staff Writer What is probably the only major student organization at Texas A&M that even the people in the University Archives have never heard of? The answer is the University By LEE JONES AUSTIN (A»)—A one per cent local option city sales tax bill, which opponents said would help only big property owners and “strangle” downtown merchants, won tentative House approval Tuesday. Rep. John Traeger of Seguin succeeded in knocking down 30 attempts to amend the bill before steering it to an 84-63 vote. He failed, however, to get the 120 votes needed to bring it up for an immediate final vote. The vote was 107-39. If the measure is reached on Wednesday’s calendar, Traeger said he would try for final pass age. Wednesdays are Senate bill days, and several Senate bills are ahead of the city sales tax on the calendar. “THIS OFFERS the cities of Texas an opportunity to shed the straightjacket they now wear, with their sources of revenue limited to the ad valorem tax,” Traeger said. “A vote for it is not necessarily a vote for the tax, but a vote for local option, a vote for local self-government.” A coalition of small town and big city members voted for the bill. The entire Tarrant County Fort Worth delegation voted against it, as did all but one member—who voted “present”— of the Bexar County San Antonio delegation. Dallas and Houston lawmakers' split. Three of four El Paso members voted for the bill. The Texas Municipal League and many mayors support the bill. They say the property tax has been used to its maximum feasible limit and must be sup plemented by other revenue sources. GOV. JOHN Connally agreed with the municipal league that the sales tax is the best way to raise additional city revenue, and Speaker Ben Barnes has indi cated his support. Rep. Paul Floyd, Houston, said the bill would drive business from cities where the tax is imposed to places without a local sales tax. Apartment Council. Never heard of it? Don’t count yourself a failure in campus- ology. Most students, and that includes many of those most af fected by the council, those living in Universtiy housing, have'never heard the name before. “What we are doing is killing downtown business districts in every city in Texas. And guess where the shoppers are going: To the bedroom cities that don’t have the sales tax. Downtown districts will be strangled,” he said. THE LOCAL sales taxes could be imposed only on items covered by the 2 per cent state sales tax. The state comptroller would col lect the city and state tax to gether, skim off 2 per cent for administration and return the rest to the city. A city sales tax election could be called either by the city coun cil or on petition of 20 per cent of qualified voters. The tax later could be abolished by a similar election. In other action, Connally’s liquor by the drink bill was for mally introduced in both the House and Senate. It was re ferred to the Senate State Af fairs Committee and the House Revenue and Taxation Commit tee. Flying Cross Is Awarded To Aggie In Vietnam Maj. Frederick H. Mitchell of Austin has been awarded the Sil ver Star and Distinguished Fly ing Cross for successive acts of combat bravery in Vietnam. The 1954 Texas A&M gradu ate was decorated for rallying two First Infantry Division com panies under attack by numeri cally superior Viet Cong forces and for helicopter reconnoitering of heavily fortified VC positions under intense fire, after which he landed in an unsecured area and directed offensive measures. Major Mitchell was cadet col onel of the Corps and is a dis- tingushed military graduate of A&M. He was also a member of the Ross Volunteers and recipi ent of the Caldwell Trophy and Ainsworth Saber. The Apartment Council has been a part of student govern ment for several years—again no one even seems to know how long it has been around, although at least 10 years seems to be a good guess—but the only apparent contributions it has made during its shadowy past have been to place three of its members on the Civilian Student Council and to give Christmas, Easter and Hal loween parties for the children of students living in the apart ments. Aggie To Direct German Play At Texas Convention Steve Thurman, a senior eco nomics major, is director for a German play to be performed at the Texas Association of German Students’ Convention April 7 at San Marcos. “Das Abschiedssouper” has the English meaning of “The Fare well Supper.” The TAGS competition will be staged at Southwest Texas State College. Frances Flynn, secretary of the Aggie Players, said the cast in cludes Chris Schroeder as Annie, Robert Roundtree as Max, and Don Carter as a waiter. Advisors are Martin E. Gott- schalk and Karl Reitermajer of Texas A&M’s Modern Languages Department. Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, British Nobel Prize winner, was named visiting distinguished pro fessor of engineering at Texas A&M Tuesday. The 1951 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics was one of four appointments announced by the university’s board of directors. Dr. R. D. Radeleff, director of the U. S. Department of Agri culture’s Southwestern Veteri nary Toxicology and Livestock Insects Research Laborattory at BUT LAST summer the cur rent officers of the council took steps to bring the organization into the light and make itself felt among the apartment dwell ers. The president of the Apartment Council, Bob Christy, explained that meeting during the summer was in itself a departure from past practice. “This summer was the first time the council has ever met before the school year begins,” Christy said. “During this time we completely rewrote our con stitution, eliminating some parts which had become obsolete.” The council chalked up another first in September when it held elections among the residents of College View, Southside and Hen- sel Apartments to choose the representatives on the council. “PREVIOUSLY,” Christy com mented, “we had just found some one in the apartments who was interested in being on the coun cil and he was in. But since we had rewritten the constitution and included election of the coun cil members we decided to go by it.” In February the council erected ! six sets of swings in the apart ment areas. Two sets were placed at strategic locations in the Hen- sel Apartments, three in College View and one in Southside. “We Obtained the money to buy the swings from the Exchange Store,” Christy explained, “through its program of putting (See UAC, Page 2) College Station, was named ad junct professor of veterinary physiology and pharmacology. A senior member of the scien tific staff in the research labora tories of RCA Victor Company, Ltd., in Montreal, Dr. T. W. Johnston was named visiting pro fessor of physics. Dr. Verne E. Grant, currently professor of botany at Clare mont, Calif., was appointed pro fessor of biology, effective Aug. 1. In addition to the new appoint ments, the board also approved the titles of professor emeritus for retired Geology Professor Horace R. Blank and retired Professor Henry Ross of the Agricultural Education Depart ment. Sir Cockcroft, who built the first high-energy particle accel erator and used it to confirm Einstein’s theory of relativity, will visit Texas A&M next month and present the keynote address at the university’s “Engineering for the 1970’s” convocation March He served as director of Eng land’s Atomic Energy Research Establishment from 1946 to 1958 and has been master of Cam bridge University’s Churchill Col lege since 1959. In his postion as adjunct pro fessor, Dr. Radeleff will present several toxicology lectures here and help investigate means of developing joint research projects between the USDA’s veterinary toxicology laboratory and the university’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Radeleff received his doctor’s degree from Texas A&M in 1941. Dr. Johnston, an authority in the field of plasma physics, re ceived his Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1958 after completing his undergraduate work at McGill University. Dr. Grant, who specializes in the field of genetics, received his AB in 1940 and Ph.D. in 1949 from the University of California at Berkeley. —Adv. MARITIME OFFICERS New officers of the Texas Maritime Acad- Pickavance, Jr., commander; Cecil B. En emy Corps of Cadets (from left) are Thomas banks, Jr., adjutant, and David C. McWil- A. Craig, executive officer; William W. Hams, chief petty officer. A SWINGIN’ TIME Children in College View enjoy new swings erected by Uni versity Apartment Council. UAC’s Importance Underrated