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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1968
NUMBER 543
Romney Abandons Campaign, I Finalists Announced
Sets Up Roc)|y-Mixon Race
By JACK BELL
AP Political Writor
WASHINGTON <*t—Mkhiran
Got. Gaorga Romney, whoae can
didacy narer caught fir*, pulled
out of the Republican presidential
nomination contest Wednesday to
clear the way for another mod
erate to oppose Rtehard M. Nixon.
Romney told a crowded gath
ering of newsmen that M a critical
moment" had arrired at which
the dominantly progressive GOP
governors should select a candi
date to support their viewpoint
Romney walked away from a
question as to which man he
would support But Republkan
leaders agreed that his action had
projected Gov. Nelson A. Rocke
feller of New York toward a con
test with Nixon, former vice
president and the 1960 nominee.
FROM 16 to 18 of the Republi
can state executives, assembling
her* for a National Governors
Conference meeting beginning
Thursday, have said that if Rom
ney faltered as the banner-carry
ing leader of the moderates they
could support Rockefeller.
Arriving for the governors'
conference, Rockefeller insisted
in an interview his position as a
son-candidate had not been
changed by Romney’s decision.
But he said he plans conferences
Graduate Council
Filing Continues
Through March 13
Deadline for filing for offices
in the 1968-69 Graduate Student
Council 4a March 18, according
to Georg* W. Kunxe, council ad-
with Republican governors. He
noted that the governors “have
stuck together."
WHILE HE said he is not a
candidate, the New York gover
nor said again, as he had Satur
day in Detroit, that he would
accept a draft. He said he had
tried to talk Romney out of with
drawing.
Romney has criticised President
Johnson's Vietnam war polkies,
.eglling for neutralisation of
Southcsst Asia. Nixon has sup
ported Johnson’s bask objective
of fighting Communist aggression
there. Rockefeller has given past
support to the President's course
but has been silent about Vietnam
for months.
AT THE end of a disappoint
ing campaign trail that began
long before his formal announce
ment last Nov. 18, Romney said
it was clear his candidacy “has
not won the wide acceptance with
rank-and-file Republicans that I
had hoped to achieve."
Polls indicated he was the un
derdog in the March 12 New
Hampshire primary where his
name was on the ballot with
, Nixon’s. A write-in drive for
Rockefeller is under way there.
In the April 2 Wisconsin pri
mary, however, Nixon seems to
have a clear field, since Rocke
feller already has sHthdrawn his
name.
ROMNEY TOLD fellow GOP
‘ governors in a letter that they
ought to work for a candidate
and a platform that would offer
“effective alternatives to foreign
and domestic programs dealing
with such major issues at Viet
nam, inflation, crime, indolence,
delinquency, race and power
group politics."
The Michigan governor indi
cated he expects a quick decision
by the GOP state executives. He
scheduled a news conference in
Manchester, N. H. Friday morn
ing to announce his support for
a candidate they may pkk.
IN HIS letter to his colleagues,
Romney pledged “t will support
wholeheartedly the candidate for
president to whom the Republican
governors give their support"
Rockefeller’s continued publk
reluctance to become a candidate
did not keep party leaders from
predicting he will get into the
race.
Sen. Hugh Scott R.-Pa., a
Romney supporter, said the
Michigan’s governor’s decision re
leases Rockefeller from this
pledge to support Romney.
“We who admire Gov. Rocke
feller look forward to his start
ing an active campaign for preei-
dent in the near future,” said
Scott, a former GOP national
chairman.
For ‘Combat Cutie’
Graduate students who are seek
ing a degree, registered for eight . . . , 0
or more hour* and have a satis- ‘Agriculturist Set
fsetory academic record, may file H
for candidacy at the Graduate
Oollege office in the Coke Build-
Nomination forms are available
at all departmental offices, Kunxe
Positions open include represen
tatives to the council from the
colleges of agriculture, engineer
ing, geoecienoae, liberal arts, sci
ences, and veterinary medicine.
Univeraity National Bank
“On the side of Texas AAM”
—Adv.
For Distribution
The Agricahariat, the maga-
sine of the College of Agricul
ture, will be ready for distribu
tion in newly-built racks Monday
morning.
“These new racks which will
be placed in various ajmcultural
buildings are an effort to improve
distribution and circulation,"
Manuel Pina Jr., editor, said. “It
is hoped that in this way all the
people enrolled in agriculture will
receive a magaxine.”
$7 Million Set
For High-Rise
Class Building
A new high-riae oceanography
and meteorology complex and
general academic building are
among several Texaa AAM con
struction projects approved by
the university's board of direc
tors.
t
University officials said the
new oceanography - meteorology
facilities will probably be 11
stories high and coat approxi
mately 87 million, includmg spe
cial equipment and furnishings.
A program of requirements for
the new academk building will
be prepared by the university
for Ister presentation to the
board.
Other new facilities approved
by the board include a services
building for the 12-dormitory
Duncan area and a golf course
clubhouse. The new services build
ing is expected to cost approxi
mately $975,000 and the club
house $117,400.
The construction agenda also
includes several expansion, re
modeling and renovation projects.
A major addition is planned
for the Chemiatry Building.
Scheduled for remodeling and
renovation are the YMCA Build
ing, Agricultural Engineering
Building and Agrkultural Infor
mation Building.
The Civil Engineering Building
will be expanded and remodeled
to provide facilities for a pro
posed hydromechanics laboratory.
The board continued discussions
for a previously announced major
addition to the Memorial Student
Center and a new auditorium.
Construction also was approved
for new parking areas near the
Cyclotron Inatitute and east of
Kyle Fkld.
COUNTDOWN FIVE
The Countdown Five, a Galveston-based combo, will play for the Junior Ball March 16 in
Sbisa Hall. The group is probably best known to A&M students as the band at the 1966
SMU Corps Trip Party in Dallas.
Junior Class Sweetheart
t ‘ '■ ^ • 4 j ’ ■ - t* * * | **'♦*' /
Nominations Due March 7
Deadline for turning in nomi
nations for Junior Sweetheart is
noon March 7, in the Student Pro
gram Office of the Memorial Stu
dent Center, Junior Class Presi
dent Danny Ruix announced.
That evening at 7:90, the Jun
ior Council will pkk the finalists
for the title in the Social Room
of the MSC.
Ruit stressed the imporetnee
of civilian representatives coming
to the meeting.
The Ball, planned for March
16 in Sbisa Dining Hall, will run
from 8 to 12 p.m.
Dress for the evening will be
midnights and aacots for Corps
membera. coat and tie for civil
ians and aemiformal for dates.
Originally, the Council had
voted to allow dates to wear
“mod" clothing following the
theme of ”San Franciscan Night,”
as well as the semi-formal, to
the dance.
“The Junior Council changed
it to completely semi-formal af
ter discovering this was what
most of the dates wanted," Ruix
said.
Tickets, on sale in the Program
Office, cost $3 a couple and may
also be bought at the door the
evening of the Ball.
The Count Down 5, composed
of University of Houston stu
dents, will provide the musk for
the Ball. The group, formed four
years ago by five Gahreeton resi
dents. has become popular on
college campuses srouad the
Southwest.
The group has played at Texas
Christian University, Southern
Methodist, Arkansas and Baylor
and at the AAM dance in Dallas
after the 1966 SMU football
game. The five have won numer
ous swards at contests sad con
tribute regularly to Galveston
charities.
Another feature of the week
end will be the Town Hall pre
sentation of the Association Fri
day night. The show will be a
Town Hall “regular presentation"
with Aggies admitted on their
activity cards. Date tickets are
on aale in the Student Program
Office.
TU Juniors Charged In LBJ Scuffle
AUSTIN (At— Two Univeraity
of Texaa juniors were released
on bonds Wednesday after being
charged with taking part in a
scuffle between state police and
anti-war pkkets around Preaident
Johnson’s car.
Department of Publk Safety
spokeamen said the incident oc
curred Tuesday night as the
President was leaving Gregory
Gymnasium at the university
after speaking at a formal party
given in honor of Gov. John
Connally.
Officers and newsmen said a
soft drink bottle was thrown in
the direction of the presidential
car but did not hit the car or any
of the presidential party.
State highway patrolmen filed
charges of aggravated assault
on an offker and uae of abusive
language againat Randall Rupert
Boykin, 20. of Corpus Christi,
before Justice of Peace Frank
McBee.
Boykin told newsmen he "in
advertently yelled an obacenity”
when an officer shoved his com
panion.
Selection Set
For Friday At
Combat Ball
• Finalists for Combat Cutie
have been selected, with the win
ner to be named et the Combat
Ball Friday night in Sbisa Hall,
Robert Gonxales, Combat Cutie
chairman, announced Wednesday.
The Combat Bali will be one of
several activities of the Military
Weekend, including the Military
Ball, Military Day Review, AAM-
SMU basketball game and a base
ball game with Texas.
The Combat and Military Ball,
top student social events, start at
9 p.m. in Sbisa.
Air Force LL Gen. Thomas S.
Moorman, Air Force Academy
superintendent, and Army Maj.
Gen. Francis J. Murdoch, Jr., will
reView troop*. They will also be
guekts of the Saturday night Mili
tary Ball, presidrnt’e dinner and
Corps Commander's luncheon.
General Murdoch is deputy com
manding general for reserve
forces at Fort Sam Houston.
THE CORPS will be on line for
the Saturday review at 2 p.m.
Preaident Earl Rudder, CoL Jim
H. McCoy, commandant, and Col.
Vernon L. Head, professor of
aerospace studies, will be on the
reviewing stand with the guests.
AAM's Fish Drill Team, whkh
has been invited to the national
ROTC drill championships in
Washington, D. C., April 6, will
perform on the main parade
ground immediately after the re
view.
’ j
The 16 finalists indude Irene
Armour, a Baylor freshman biol
ogy major from Libertyville, Ill.;
Sue Roberts, Univeraity of Texas
junior government major of Aus
tin; Pamela Pogue of San An
tonio, freshman education major
at Sam Houston State; Candy
Well* of Fort Worth, Arlington
Heights High senior; Betty Jane
Smith of Tyler, senior education
major at Baylor; Bonnk Browne
of Fort Worth, elementary educa
tion sophomore at TCU.
ALSO, Martha Jones of Ham
ilton, freshman elementary edu-
cstion major at Baylor; Sherri
Tyler of Killeen, freshman speech
therapy major at Central Texas
College; Wynne Elisabeth Jones
of Priceville, Ala., junior art ma- j
jor at Birmingham Southern Col
lege; Harriet Young, Decatur
High senior; Nancy James of
Weslaco, UT freshman elemen
tary education major; Susan Mc-
Clurg of Orange, Pan American
stewardess; Rhonda Mattox, Sam
Rayburn High senior who -is a
Pasadena fashion model; Jody
Alex, Providence High senior of
San Antonio, and Kaye Ward,
sophomore marketing major at
Texaa.
Of Compulsory Board Ruling
Area Restauranteurs Note Effects
UNDAUNTED GOLFER
Although warm and sunny weather disappeared after the
first of the week, several students took to the golf course
Wednesday to practice for brighter days. Above, Richard
Doucet braves dark skies and damp weather to sink a putt
Those bright spots in thAbackground, by the way, are water
hasards—the temporary kind. (Photo by Mike Wright) .
By DAVE MAYES
Battalion Staff Writer
Four campus • area restaurant
owners are feeling the effects of
the Board of Directors’ decision
last April requiring *11 AAM
dormitory students to pay board.
Since it went into effect in
September, the board ruling has
hurt all the restaurant businesses
in the Bryan-Colkg* Station area,
according to Lew Fair, owner of
Lew-Ann’s, 817 Univeraity Dr,
one of the oldest eating places in
College Station.
“When an industry suddenly
loses 2,000 customers who spend
two to three dollar* a day on
meals, it’s got to hurt," he ex
plained.
Fair said that he used to aver
age 260 to 300 customers for both
lunch and supper.
"NOW I do my business when
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■isties. Your Sav-
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-Adv.
the mess halls cilnas." he said,
“and stay open 24 hours a day."
Because he had to cut his labor
force. Fair said his customers now
give their order* at the counter
instead of being waited on.
‘*TV»e change in board policy
bee forced more students to move
off campus, hurting business even
more," Fair said.
“STUDENTS are going home
on the weekends and bringing
back food to cook all week in
their apartments," ha explained.
Fair said he never would have
had the interior of his restaurant
remodeled if he had known pres
ent conditions were going to ex
ist.
He doubted whether any other
eating places that have been es
tablished since 1960 really would
have opened, had they foree^pn
the change.
“My main objection is that the
university lad the restaurant own.
ese Into making investments by
not enforcing compulsory on-cam.
pus dining from the start," Fair
concluded
NEWEST of the North Gate
restaurants is Carroll's Comer
opened by Carroll Enloe in 1966.
Bnloe said when he decided to
locate in the North Gate area, he
had counted on a 20 per cant in
crease in business per year to
make a reasonable profit while
paying off his investment loan.
"The board's change in. policy
has taken away that 20 per cent
so now I’m depending on my other
eating place in Bryan to make
moat at my profit,” Enloe said.
“I’ve had to cut my staff from
five to two, stay open a half hour
later and throw much of my ad
vertising in the direction of the
AAM faculty end ataff," he ex
plained.
"I USED to serve meals to 100
to 160 people a day; now I serve
coffee to about half that many."
“If the univeraity continues to
grow et Ha present rate, I may
be able to realise my expansion
in three yean," Enloe said.
According to Enloe, before the
board decision wee made public,
many of the restaurant owner*
believed that the AAM studenta
would not allow such a ruling to
be enforced.
"Even so, chargee that the res
taurant owners were behind the
student demonstrations that oc
curred after the board decision
was announced ere not true," he
said.
"I THINK the AAM atudente
are old enough and intelligent
enough to decide where to eat
and how much to pay," Enloe de
clared.
“The College Station communi
ty is now large enough to offer
student* a choice in products and
service*.”
“A* H is now, however, the
atate ie competing with private
enterprise on too great a scale.
I feel like I’m fighting a losing
battle," Enloe said.
L.B. Moon, owner of the Handy-
Burger, 203 University Dr., had
finished completely rebuilding his
restaurant four months before the
change in board policy was an
nounced.
“Sure, it hurt me,” he said, "but
not as much as it probably hurt
th* other restaurants.”
"WE OPERATE on a ehort-
order basis, sp we don’t offer
complete meals. W* sell less food
now, but we’ve made up for H
by offering more variety in
drinks, sandwiches and novelty
Hems", Moon said.
"North Gate, ns far ns the res
taurant business is concerned, will
b* a ghost town in a year or two,”
predicted C. H. (Bob) Godfrey,
18-year owner of Godfrey’s Res
taurant, 819 University Av*.
“The administration seems to
(See Restaeraats, Png* 2)
First Bank A Trnat now pays
6% per aamua on savings certif
icates. —Adv.