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By TIM SEARSON
Battalion Staff Writer
Americans must move - toward
a single society in which black
and white have an equal oppor
tunity to achieve their objectives,
according to Kerner Commission
member James C. Gorman.
German, congressman from
California’s 24th district, spoke
to 200 in the Memorial Student
Center ballroom Tuesday in the
first of a three-part Black Amer
ica Seminar sponsored by the
Great Issues committee.
“THE PRESIDENT asked 11
citizens from various facets of
life to form a committee to check
into the reasons for the racial
disorders that have broken out
in our major cities,” said Gor
man.
“The Kerner Commission or
National Riot Commission report
was a seven month study of 23
cities where the largest disorders
had appeared. We hired teams
of men to live in t^e ghettos and
talk with the people to piece to-
g’ether what had happened.”
CORMAN TOLD how the re-
of the implications about Ameri
ca. The disorders were found not
to be planned either by local or
national forces, but unforeseen
and unexpected eruptions brought
about by the breeding grounds of
the ghettos.
“The root of the problem was
what the report called ‘white
racism,’ said German. “The insti
tutionalism of the Negro is a re
sult of the actions taken to start
Jim Crowism — one America for
whites, another for blacks.”
CORMAN NAMED the move
by blacks and whites from rural
to urban areas for greater op
portunity as one reason for the
problems facing the cities today.
The people took their prejudices
with them, which became more
pronounced under the poor living
conditions and public services.
“If you go to any major Amer
ican city, the residents can tell
you where the Negroes live, or
are sunposed to live,” said Gor
man. “Despite civil rights legis
lation schools are still segregated
Fish Candidates To Appeal
Four freshman candidates
found guilty of campaign viola-
ions by the election commission
Monday have accepted the guilty
verdict but have appealed the
leverity of the punishment to
Dean of Students James P. Hanni-
gan.
“I think we deserved the guilty
verdict but believe the punish
ment was too severe,” said
Michael A. Tiemann, freshman
vice presidential candidate. “I
Dean Hannigan will
fitting punish-
hope that
assess a more
ment.”
The students involved in the
violations are Lawrence Ffrench,
Peter R. Johnston, Charles J.
Maddox, and Michael A. Tiemann.
The four have three courses
open to them, according to Gerry
Geistweidt, election commission
president. Thy can accept the
ruling, protest the verdict to the
Student Senate, or protest the
punishment to Dean Hannigan.
ulated only by blacks.”
CORMAN TOLD how the com
mission suggested two other
roads for American society, be
sides moving toward a single so
ciety.
“We can continue as we are
and compress the blacks into the
hearts of our deteriorating cities,
while the whites escape to the
suburbs. However, more funds
would have to be dedicated to
keeping civil order by the police.”
“Or we could re-build the
ghettos making it more attrac
tive with better houses, schools
and public services. We would
have a higher degree of order,
but it would be against the basic
philosophy of the American sys
tem.”
AMONG THE many people to
testify before the commission,
Gorman said, was Dr. Martin Lu
ther King, assassinated leader of
the Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference. Questioned as
to what he would change if he
could, he said the attitude of
white to black and black to white
was the most needed change.
“Better social welfare pro
grams are needed if equal oppor
tunity is to become a reality,”
Gorman, said. “Education and
job training must be stressed.”
Corman deplored the condi
tions existing in such ghettos as
Harlem. He told how the entire
nation could live inside Los An
geles if the crowded conditions in
Harlem were employed.
“The answer to racial prob
lems can not come just from gov
ernment expenditures, but from
city hall, our churches, our way
of learning and the way we con
duct ourselves,” said Corman.
By FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (A*)—William P.
Rogers, attorney general for
three years in the Eisenhower
administration, will be named
secretary of state by President
elect Nixon when he announces
his Cabinet appointments to the
nation tonight.
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‘ARMS AND THE MAN’ ARDOR
Sergius, played by Marc Fleishman of Dallas, and the
maid Louka, by Candy Yager of Bryan, practice a scene
in the Aggie Players production of “Arms and the Man.”
The George Bernard Shaw play began Monday for a six-
day run. Curtain time is 8 p.m.
For Pollution Control
Luxury Yacht Becomes Research Ship
By DAVE BERRY
Battalion Special Writer
Somewhere down the list of
property owned by Texas A&M
ivould be the following heading—
“The C-Kay-C: a stock model
)5-foot Chris Craft Constellation
wth two 308 horsepower V-eight
mgines.”
THE REFERENCE would be
to what is now A&M’s water pol-
ution research vessel which docks
it the lower end of the Houston
Ship Channel, iMbrgan’s Point.
Until Sept. 1, this vessel was
Houston oilman H. Merlyn Chris-
ti’s luxury yacht.
It was a luxury yacht contain
ing captain’s quarters, an owner’s
cabin and a guest cabin, all with
private baths; a dinette, a main
saloon and a galley, all furnished
and equipped; and various locker
and storage areas.
The vessel was equipped with
central air conditioning, running
water, a refrigerator-freezer unit,
a rotisserie, an intercom, two
television sets and curtains.
It is no wonder that the market
value of the C-Kay-C was ap
praised at $72,000. And it’s no
m
wonder that A&M bought this
vessel when Christi offered to
donate half of this value to the
university.
THE C-KAY-C is part of the
research equipment being used by
the Environmental Engineering
Division of Texas A&M’s Civil
Engineering Department. The re
searchers are conducting two pro
jects under the heading of Es
tuarine Systems Research in the
Houston Ship Channel. Both de
pend upon the sample gathering
of the vessel.
The research was begun in 1966
by Dr. Roy W. Hann Jr., associ
ate professor in civil engineering,
with only an 18-foot dual out
board motor boat and limited
laboratory space.
ACCORDING TO Hann, in
creased financial aid has greatly
aided in making the program one
of the best in the nation. One of
the two program projects is be
ing funded by the Federal Water
Pollution Control Administration
and A&M. More than $450,000
($150,000 from A&M) will be pro
vided in the next four years.
The other is a joint venture
by the National Science Founda
tion, which contributes $20,000,
and A&M, $10,000, on a yearly
basis.
AS A MEMBER of the Gal
veston Bay Study, the Estuarine
Systems Research is making its
data available to all groups with
in the study. These include the
Texas Water Quality Board, the
University of Texas at Austin,
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration and the
Army Corps of Engineers.
The study group is developing
computerized mathematical mod
els to predict the efforts of dump
ing wastes into the channel and
bay under varying circumstances.
“We hope that this will someday
enable us to control and mini
mize the pollution in these wat
ers,” Hann said.
IN ADDITION to performing
research for the Galveston Bay
Study, Hann, six field workers
and seven A&M graduate stu
dents do research for their own
use and for other agencies and
groups.
Richard Withers, a graduate
student, is conducting studies to
determine the flow patterns of
the overlying fresh water and
underlying salt water in the chan
nel as part of his degree require
ments.
The crew is also conducting
studies for the National Science
Foundation to determine the char
acteristics of channel sediments.
THESE RESEARCH activities
keep the C-Kay-C busy gathering
samples and taking readings. The
time needed to gather required
weekly samples on twice weekly
runs is i3% days. The remainder
of the week is spent at Morgan’s
Point where the vessel’s captain,
Ray Davis, services all of the
equipment.
“Davis,” says Hann, “is an un
usually competent captain. He is
an electronics technician and so
can service both the ship and
the electronic equipment which
is being installed.”
A&M, POINTS out Hann, was
fortunate to be able to get not
only a man like Davis but also a
vessel like the C-Kay-C.
“The 18-foot outboarder was too
often inadequate. Many times
we’d be on a run and, because
of the filth of the water, one en
gine would clog up, leaving us
with only one small engine,”
says Hann.
THE VESSEL has other im
portant features to complement
its powerful engines.
“Even without laboratory equip
ment there are features which
make the C-Kay-C an excellent
navigational vessel. These i n -
elude radar, ship-to-shore radio,
a power plant and air condition
ing to cool the equipment,” Hann
says. “Add this to $30,000 of
laboratory equipment now being
installed and you have a univer
sity research vessel which is
tops.”
WITH THE ship’s three in
terior laboratories the field team
will be able to eliminate all “deck
projects.” Samples which change
with time will be taken into the
labs and immediately analyzed;
others will be taken to Morgan’s
Point.
Eventually Hann wants to
make the vessel worthy of what
may become its new name—the
RV Excellence. Hann looks for
ward to the day when a small
computer can be installed aboard.
It will then be possible to trans
fer the entire program to Mor
gan’s Point, increasing efficiency
and making A&M’s water pollu
tion research vessel that much
more worthy of its proposed
Before flying to Washington
for a live television - radio ap
pearance to be broadcast by all
major networks at 10 p.m. EST,
Nixon invited Vice President
elect Spiro T. Agnew to his New
York headquarters for an ad
vance peek at the Cabinet roster.
WORD OF some other Cabinet
selections has already gained
public circulation.
—Gov. George Romney of
Michigan, according to informed
Republican party officials in
Washington, will be secretary of
housing and urban development.
—Another Republican gover
nor, Walter J. Hickel of Alaska,
will be secretary of the interior,
according to Alaska’s senator-
elect, Mike Gravel, a Democrat.
—There were strong reports
that Rep. Melvin R. Laird, R-
Wis., would occupy the powerful
position of secretary of defense.
—NIXON told reporters Tues
day that he would be announcing
today a major post for Republi
can Lt. Gov. Robert Finch of Cal
ifornia—but wouldn’t say what.
It was generally believed Finch
would wind up as secretary of
health, education and welfare.
The president-elect mentioned
Finch in announcing a surprise
appointment for sociologist Dan
iel P. Moynihan, a Democrat.
Nixon said Moynihan, an assist
ant secretary of labor in the Ken
nedy and Johnson administra
tions, would be his White House
assistant for urban problems—a
new position which he said would
elevate Moynihan to the same
status as Dr. Henry A. Kissing
er, his assistant on national se
curity affairs.
NIXON ALSO announced
plans to create a council for ur
ban affairs — “a counterpart of
the National Security Council.”
All members of the Nixon cab
inet were expected to be on hand
with their families in a ballroom
at Washington’s Shoreham Ho
tel for tonight’s announcements.
Nixon aides said nominees for
some other high positions might
be disclosed by Nixon at the
same time.
Rogers, 55, has been a New
York and Washington lawyer
since leaving the attorney gen
eralship in 1961. He has had ex
tensive government experience
but his only formal role in for
eign affairs was as a member of
the U.S. delegation to the 20th
General Assembly of the United
Nations in 1965, by appointment
of Johnson.
ROMNEY, 61, and completing
his sixth term as governor of
Michigan, briefly challenged Nix
on for the Republican presiden
tial nomination last winter. Dur
ing his foreshortened campaign,
Romney made a 19 - day urban
tour to acquaint himself with
problems of the cities. He has
been a champion of increased
voluntary and self-help programs
to ease slum problems.
Hickel, 49, a millionaire An
chorage hotelman, was elected
Alaska’s governor in 1966 in his
first bid for public office. He
and Republican Gov. Tim Bab
cock of Montana, defeated in No
vember, were co-chairmen of the
Nixon campaign in 13 western
states. Babcock had been ru
mored as a possible secretary of
the interior but Alaska’s interest
in that department is even great
er than that of Montana in as
much as more than 95 per cent
of its land is under federal juris
diction.
Moynihan, 41, is taking a two-
year leave of absence as director
of the Joint Center for Urban
Studies, operated by Harvard
University and the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, in
order to join the Nixon staff.
Nixon expressed hope Moynihan
would remain in Washington
longer than two years.
YMCA To Wrap
Christmas Gifts
Aggies striving for time to
select, purchase and wrap gifts
this year may forget one of their
problems.
Students are getting their
Christmas packages wrapped—
free of charge—as a courtesy of
the YMCA, Col. Logan Weston
reminded Tuesday.
Weston, general secretary and
religious life coordinator, said
free Christmas gift wrapping is
available at the YMCA informa
tion desk between 8 a.m. and 5
p.m.
Gift wrapping will continue “as
long as the paper and ribbon hold
out,” Weston added.
Visiting Lecturer Learns
Aggie ‘Rule Of Thumb 9
A University of Nebraska plant scientist has learned
through personal experience about the old Aggie tradition
of hitch-hiking.
Dr. John L. Wiehing began his unplanned adventures
when he boarded a plane in Nebraska. His destination
was Texas A&M, where he was to speak at the recently-
held Texas Turfgrass Conference.
He landed in Dallas but was unable to get a seat on
the College Station-bound plane because of the Thanks
giving holiday rush. The scientist then taxied to a bus
station and caught a bus that was running a delayed
schedule.
The next stop was Hearne, about 20 miles north of
College Station, where his delayed bus caused him to
miss connections for the last leg of the journey.
Weihing sauntered along the town’s main street,
wondering what to do. He noticed a group of Texas A&M
students standing along the edge of the highway, their
thumbs artfully pointed southward toward their alma
mater.
The PhD grabbed his suitcase, hurried over to the
Aggies, introduced himself and was quickly invited to
participate. He reached the A&M campus within an hour.
Thespians’ Xmas Tour Set
srate, keep asking.
SAILING UP HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL
The C-Kay-C, A&M’s recently-acquired research vessel, of the Civil Engineering Department. The $72,000 vessel
is based at Morgan’s Point where it performs pollution was formerly owned by Houston oilman H. Merlyn Christi.
research used by the Environmental Engineering Division
“The Shepherds Brought A
Song,” Aggie Players 1968 Christ
mas tour production, will start
Sunday a schedule of appearances
in Bryan, College Station and
Caldwell churches and clubs.
Hosting the play will be the
First Presbyterian Church of
Bryan, 7 p.m., Sunday; the Cop
peras Hollow Country Club, Cald
well, 7 p.m., Monday; First Bap
tist Church, College Station, 7
p.m., Tuesday; First Baptist
Church, Bryan, 7:30 p.m., Wed
nesday, and Crestview Nursing
Home, Bryan, 6:30 p.m., Thurs
day, announced Director C. K.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
B B & L —Adv.
Esten.
The annual Christmas tour pro
duction is the Aggie Players’
contribution to the communities,
he noted.
Written by Lenore Morgan,
wife of the former A&M presi
dent, Dr. David A. Morgan, “The
Shepherds Brought a Song” re
veals how the star portending the
birth of Christ wrought change
in those who saw it.
WEATHER
Thursday — Cloudy. Intermitten
rain. Southerly winds 15 to 20
mph. High 67. Low 58.
Friday—Cloudy. Rain in morning.
Southerly winds 10 to 20 mph be
coming northerly 15 to 25 mph in
late afternoon. High 70. Low 56.
The four-member cast includes
William Andrew of Bryan as
Lucilius, Roman governor in Gali
lee; Ruth Reeves of Comfort as
his wife Kedra; Virginia Parker
of College Station, dancing girl
Nitida, and Robert Graham of
Houston, a guard.
Set and lights will be handled
by James Dennis of Houston and
William Dinger of Rockport;
sound, James Weyhenmeyer, Liv
ingston, N. J.
The play was performed on the
A&M campus as part of a 1954
pageant. In the presentation,
Mrs. Morgan played the lead as
Kedra.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.