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Peaceniks Foiled
In Manhattan Row
By ARTHUR EVERETT
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (^) — A mass
attempt by antiwar demonstra
tors to close a downtown induc
tion center was foiled for the
second successive day Wednes
day by row upon row of police.
A small band of the frustrated
protesters spun off to surge
chanting through midtown Man
hattan.
Police estimated that 2,000
demonstrators, one waving a Viet
Cong flag, took part for three
hours in a second futile attempt
to close down the Whitehall
Street induction center. About
200 of them later went uptown
with the intention of heckling
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in
town for a speech. Again they
were thwarted.
About 1,000 demonstrators were
turned back at the induction cen
ter Tuesday, and deliberate civil
disobedience led to the arrest of
264, among them baby doctor
Benjamin Spock and beat poet
Allen Ginsberg.
Manufacturers were not inter
rupted. And since he had spent
the night at the Waldorf, it was
not necessary for him to pass
through the ranks of demonstra
tors outside.
Rusk said: “If anyone doubts
that our stand in Vietnam has
been a major contribution to
highly favored developments over
a vast area, let him go there
and talk with responsible govern
ment officials.
“What has been done by the
splendid Americans who are there
has already yielded dividends of
historic significance. Behind the
shield which we have helped to
provide, a new Asia is arising.”
New York’s full 28,000-man po
lice force was on standby alert
in the third day of the national
antidraft week. About 4,000
actually were deployed in the
Whitehall Street area, on foot,
on horseback and in helicopters.
A spokesman at the induction
center said operations were nor
mal Wednesday, as on Tuesday.
The center processes about 250
inductees a day.
SAME SONG—DIFFERENT VERSE
A little variation on the earlier orange and white bumper
stickers are these offered by Alpha Delta Sigma members.
On sale at various spots on campus, the stickers put into
print the word that has been passed around by many Aggie
backers since Turkey Day.
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State Outdoor Developers
Told Of Help Opportunities
Several federal programs that
offer technical and financial help
to developers and operators of
outdoor recreation areas were
outlined here Monday to members
of the 22nd annual Texas Turf-
grass Conference.
Dr. Richard L. Bury of the
Texas A&M University Recrea
tion and Parks Department said
the programs are summarized in
catalogs published almost yearly
by federal government agencies.
But they are useful “only if you
know how to apply for the kind
of assistance you need.”
The turfgrass conference is
held for managers of parks, ceme
teries, golf courses and other
places where turf management is
essential. Sponsors are the A&M
Soil and Crop Sciences Depart
ment, Texas Turfgrass Associa
tion and the U. S. Golf Associa
tion, Green Section.
Bury said the Office of Eco
nomic Opportunity puts out a
publication, “Catalog of Federal
Assistance Programs,” which
should be of interest to persons
in the outdoor recreation field.
A section of the catalog deals
with outdoor recreation assist
ance, outdoor recreation technical
assistance, and Operation Main
stream.
Recreation assistance, he said,
is useful for financing and
planning, and land acquisition
and development. Grants are
made on a 50-50 matching basis
for approved projects.
Such projects. Bury pointed
out, are metropolitan parks, snow
ski areas, urban playground, golf
courses, swimming pools, hiking
and bicycling paths, nature inter
pretation areas, fishing piers,
marinas and boat launching
ramps.
Outdoor recreation technical
assistance can provide technical
advice in all phases of planning,
financing, design, construction
and operation of a recreation site.
Operation Mainstream, the
speaker said, is useful for financ
ing, maintenance and operation.
The program provides federal
funds and technical aid to proj
ects started, developed and spon
sored by local groups.
Bury said another information
source for federal outdoor recrea
tion programs is the Department
of Interior’s “Federal Assistance
in Outdoor Recreation, Available
to: States, Their Subdivisions,
Organizations, Individuals.”
A section in the catalog deals
with federal surplus propoerty,
which Bury said is useful for land
acquisition.
He said the Bureau of Outdoor
Recreation has been given respon
sibility of transferring federal
surplus property, when deemed
desirable, to non-federal agencies
for use for park, recreation and
historical monument purposes.
The protesters seemed less
anxious to provoke arrest Wed
nesday, and appeared to lack any
leaders of note. Only about 40
were arrested by police, who out
numbered the throng by 2 to 1
or better.
Counterdemonstrators waving
American flags appeared in ii
creasing numbers, and in Lower
Manhattan disdainful passersby
scuffled frequently with the Viet
nam protesters. One of the lat
ter was knocked down while try
ing to uproot a small American
flag from a sand pile where a
construction worker had planted
it.
A Waldorf-Astoria hotel lunch
eon speech by Rusk brought pick
ets onto Park Avenue outside the
hotel. They chanted, “Keep New
York clean—keep Rusk out.”
From the Waldorf, without so
much as a glimpse of Rusk, the
group marched to Grand Central
terminal, where they milled about
chanting- “Hey, hey, LBJ, how
many kids did you kill today?”
The next stop was United Na
tion headquarters on the East
River. There police physically
broke up the crowd after an in
spector announced through a
loud-speaker: “This group has
become disorderly and you are
k subject to arrest unless you dis
perse.”
Rusk’s speech to 1,200 members
of the National Association of
Speed Reading
Set For Grads
A speed reading course for
graduate students at Texas A&M
has been proposed for the spring
semester by the Education De
partment.
Dr. Paul Hensarling, Education
Department head, said the ser
vice course also will be available
to faculty members.
A questionaire is being circu
lated throughout campus depart
ments to determine student in
terest.
Current plans call for two
classes of 25 students each to
meet from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday
through Thursday for six weeks.
Hensarling said students would
receive one semester hour credit
for the course.
“The purpose of the course is
to help graduate students read
more efficiently in terms of rate
of comprehension,” Hensarling
explained. “Since we know that
many students read at a rate
of about 280 words per minute,
it is quite obvious that they must
be hard pressed to required assi
gnments in courses, library read
ing associated with research, and
the personal reading one might do
in keeping up with current events
and recreation.”
The department head said stu
dents taking the course may
expect to improve reading rates
without loss of comprehension.
“By reading faster, students
can accomplish the same amount
of reading in less time,” Hensar
ling commented. ‘For example, if
a student now reads at 250 words
per minute, an increase of 125
words per minute will make it
possible for him to read 40 min
utes material which he normally
reads in about an hour. For stu
dents who spend 30 hours a week
reading this saves about 10 hours
a week.”
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Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, chair
man of the board of trustees of
the National Geographic Society
at the time of his death, combined
a half-dozen careers in his active
lifetime. He was a distinguished
editor, geographer, scientist, writ
er and administrator.
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