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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, February 1, 1968
Registration Trips
The Surest Foot
Panel Blames Astronaut
Deaths On Complacency
Campus Salesmen Must Get Permits
The patter of little feet can be heard once more through
the hallowed halls of Hart, Leggett, Milner, and Dorm 2.
Shod in everything from shower shoes to military shoes
to cowboy boots to tenny hoppers, the patter can be detected
in every office from architecture to zoology.
They are the feet of a mighty army. Some feet will
pull hundreds of pounds of clothes, books, cabinets, and
bedding to the fourth floor of this semester’s “home” only
to be told two days later that it’s the fourth floor of another
dorm where they’re supposed to be.
Some feet are new. Most feet are very, very old; in
fact on their third heel and sole.
At the South gate, the feet are assembling six across
in marching formation. At the North gate, the motley clad
feet are mobbing together.
But both have one destination, one path to follow, one
course of action to tread — an all-out assault on floors of
tacks at Sbisa Dining Hall for registration.
Only a week ago those same feet walked across coals
set in their path by a cynical group of already callous-poded
professors.
Those coals burned many. Some will barely walk again.
Some will recover after many semesters of physical therapy.
And as the cadence goes, those feet “grabbed their ball
and grabbed their chain and ran like H— to the nearest
train.”
Propping feet up on soft footrests and soaking them
in warm water helped to heal the many blisters of the fall
semester.
While the student Body was away, the staff, like a
centipede, ran in all directions trying to prepare for the
Desenex-protected onslaught to begin Friday.
But that mighty army of footwork will in the end be
outwitted by the fancy footwork of Sbisa Army Regulars.
Their obstacle course could trip a cat. After standing
and shuffling for hours, the hundreds of feet will enter
upon the red hot floors of another semester, will exit some
time later and something poorer from registration, some
what hopeful and relieved but already flatfooted.
Ky EDWIN B. HAAKINSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (A 5 ) — A year
long Senate inquiry into the fiery
death of three astronauts brought
a conclusion Wednesday that “no
single person bears all the re
sponsibility for the Apollo 204 ac
cident.”
“Over-confidence and compla
cency” resulted from a prior suc
cessful series of manned flights
in the earlier Mercury and Gemi
ni projects, the Senate Space
Committee said.
BUT THE usually unanimous
panel, which supervises the multi
billion dollar space program, dif
fered sharply in the degree of
reprimands for top officials of the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, and the prime
contractor for the lunar landing
project, North American Aviation,
Inc.
Thirteen members, led by
Chairman Clinton P. Anderson,
D-N.M., and Sen. Margaret Chase
Smith of Maine, ranking Repub
lican, urged that Administrator
James E. Webb and other top
NASA officials keep Congress
fully informed on all its prob
lems, including deficiencies of
contractors.
BUT THREE committeemen,
Sens. Walter F. Mondale, D-
Minn., Edward W. Brooke, R-
Mass., and Charles H. Percy, R-
lli., charged both the space agen
cy and its prime contractor with
failing to keep Congress and the
public properly informed prior to
the tragedy at Cape Kennedy,
Fla., on Jan. 27 of last year.
Mondale said the lunar pro
ject “was in deep and peripous
trouble” before the accident and
Congress was unaware of that
fact.
WHEN CONGRESS learned
about a critical NASA report on
North American through outside
sources, Mondale said, there were
“deliberate efforts to mislead
committee members and evade
legitimate congressional inquiries
during an investigation of this-
nation’s worst space tragedy.”
“NASA’s performance — the
evasiveness, the lack of candor,
the patronizing attitude exhibit
ed toward the Congress, the re
fusal to respond fully and forth
rightly to legitimate congres
sional inquiries, and the solicit
ous concern for corporate sensi
tiveness at a time of national
tragedy—can only produce a loss
of congressional and public confi
dence in NASA programs,” Mon
dale wrote.
PEEtCY AND Brooke, in a sep
arate statement, said: “We are
disturbed at the possibility that,
had there been no disaster, im
portant shortcomings in man
agement, scheduling, design, pro
duction arid quality control might
never have come to light.”
There was no immediate com
ment from NASA on the report.
North American spokesmen said
they wanted to study the report
before commenting.
Door-to-door salesmen solicit
ing on campus must possess a
university-issued permit as well
as a City of College Station per
mit, Texas A&M Security Chief
Ed Powell warned this week.
Chief Powell said a magazine
salesman was apprehended Mon
day in the College View-Hensel
Apartment area for failure to
possess a university permit.
The salesman had obtained
College Station permit, but sue
a document is insufficient form
campus activities, the chit
stressed.
Application for university ptt
mits must be submitted to tli
office of the dean of student^
Powell added.
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Nixon May Get
GOP Nomination
Church Suspends
Stubborn Pair
By JOHN MORGANTHALER
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK <7P) _ Everything
points to it: Richard M. Nixon
will announce Thursday his can
didacy for the Republican presi
dential nomination, and leave im
mediately on a campaign swing
through New Hempshire, Wiscon
sin and Oklahoma.
The three states afford the first
tests of the strength of the form
er vice president, leader in all the
polls of GOP voters. He car
ried all three states in his nar
row 1960 loss to John-F. Kennedy
for the presidency.
NEW HAMPSHIRE’S first-in-
the-nation primary is March 12.
The Wisconsin primary follows on
April 2. Oklahoma holds the first
GOP state convention on Feb. 24,
to elect delegates to the August
Miami Beach convention.
A spokesman in Nixon’s New
York headquarters said only that
he will have a statement on his
candidacy, but the campaign
schedule left no doubt about its
State Pre-Med
Group To Meet
The Texas A&M Pre-Medical,
Pre-Dental Society will holds its
annual banquet March 23 at Ag-
gieland.
Dr. Howard L. Gravett, chair
man of the Pre-Medical, Pre-
Dental Committee, said a speaker
probably will be named within
three weeks.
Guests of the 130-member so
ciety will include representatives
from Baylor Medical School, the
University of Texas Medical
School at Gailveston, and South
western Medical School at Dallas.
Gravett said a representative
also is expected from the new
medical college due to open next
year in San Antonio.
nature.
Nixon holds a news conference
in Manchester, N. H., on Friday,
and on Saturday attends a Man
chester reception with his wife
and daughters and addresses a
Nixon for President dinner in
Concord.
Nixon’s New Hampshire man
ager, State Rep. David Sterling
had said he would file the papers
in Concord to put Nixon’s name
on the ballot.
THE ONLY other major candi
date on the ballot will be Gov.
George Romney of Michigan,
who retdrns to New Hampshire
Sunday for a third campaign
swing. There may be write-in
campaigns for Gov. Ronald Rea
gan of California and Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller of New York, both
noncandidates.
Nixon has chartered a jet to fly
him from New Hampshire to Wis
consin on Monday, where he has
set up a news conference, televi
sion interview and dinner speech
in Green Bay. On Tuesday he
will breakfast in Appleton, speak
to Wisconsin State University
students in Stevens Point, and
address a Lincoln Day dinner at
St. Mary’s School in Fond du
Lac.
ON WEDNESDAY he will fly
to Oklahoma City, where he will
appear on a program with for
mer Gov. Henry Bellmon, chair
man of the Nixon for President
Committee based in Washington.
Bellmon is expected to announce
soon as a candidate for the Okla
homa Senate seat held by Demo
crat A. S. Mike Monroney, and
step down as Nixon chairman.
His replacement hasn’t been de
cided. Sen. John G. Tower, R-
Tex., has been considered, and
might be cochairman along with
the more liberal former Rep. Rob
ert C. Ellsworth, 41, of Kansas,
new executive director of the
Nixon for President Committee.
IOWA CITY, tff*) — A church
court found a professor and his
wife guilty of “disrupting the
peace and unity” of Iowa City’s
century-old First Presbyterian
Church Wednesday and suspended
them indefinitely from member
ship.
The four clergymen and three
laymen, of a special commission
sitting as judge and jury con
victed Prof. Joseph E. Baker, 62,
and his wife, Matilda, of charges
that they disrupted the congrega
tion with their campaign to pre
vent the 112-year-old brick church
from being torn down to make
way for a new one.
Baker immediately served no
tice of appeal to the Iowa Pres
byterian Synod.
The judgment of the commis
sion bars the Bakers from hold
ing membership, church office or
receiving communion. It specifies
that they may be reconsidered
for membership after a sufficient
showing of “repentance.”
Baker, an English professor at
the University of Iowa, said it
was strange to him to be judged
by “a court that does not allow
the defendant time to offer his
defense, nor to be tried by a jury
of his peers, nor to have an
impartial judge.”
An imaginary line connecting
Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico
encompasses about 440,000 square
miles of open sea called the Ber
muda Triangle. Though many
ships and planes travel the tri
angle each day without mishap, an
unusual number have vanished
there without a trace.
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