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OSCAR E. THEIS RT 1 Che Battalion ^ S! wr H ^ COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 Navy Once Ordered Destroyer To Retake Pueblo, Court Hears THE LINE(S)-UP . Although the shortest distance between two points is still a straight line, the shortest Buffa»Bj me between two points the first day of the spring semester yesterday was often mea- T ® xas t Jured by very crooked, and very long lines—like these leading to the registration desk in Key ’ ( the Coke Building. (Photo by Mike Wright) exas Sj plan, Je] 2ch; Sa: m, deff Ag’s ‘Passenger Containers 9 ay Aid Crowded Airports travel without time-con- car transportation to an enter, S ai port and ticket-buying, lug- Bage-checking delays at the ter- a n Fran minal is envisioned by an A&M snsive aerospace engineering major. ■ His idea places the passenger Atlanti in a seat at a neighborhood ter- jack, ’minal. The traveler need not leave Ken S his seat until the plane reaches ton; DHts destination, nsive f Called “passenger containeriza- Vliami, tion,” the concept involves a back, luggage container transported on Giants’tie ground by one means and in West the air by specially adapted jet airliners. : New ■“IT BYPASSES the problems line! of vehicle traffic to airports, car •veland f|arking and passenger congestion >nd, at the terminal,” explained Lance Barlow of Houston, who gradu- -— ated in January. dPRESi| Even if cities can find a way el _ egislators Moore, resnal Named To ommittee Posts Two state legislators from the Bryan area, Rep. Bill Presnal and Senator William B. (Bill) Moore, have been appointed to legislative Committees in Austin. Presnal has been appointed to f BEpi ve Ending committees of the ■exas House of Representatives: appropriations, agriculture, high er education, congressional and lllfflS legislative districts, and public Vifealth. f The Appropriations Committee "Tp considered one of the most ^ powerful committees in the U House. This committee largely 0 determines how much and where Btate monies are spent. I Presnal was formerly a civilian 1 counselor in the Office of the 53,168 Commandant. . j Moore, an attorney, has served fllOl jL the Senate since 1949 and is ■he third ranking member in ■eniority. He was named to ten ipanj' committees. 846-^| The A&M graduate was ap- ointed chairman of the Senate ommittee on State Affairs and ice-chairman of the Senate Com- ittee on Interstate Cooperation. He also was named to the mmittees on banking; constitu- |ional amendments; finance; in- lurance; jurisprudence; legisla- ive, congressional and judicial districts; privileges and elections; Ind water and conservation. rting V has sffil l IBt&l lnr« for their airports to handle larger number of passengers—predicted by the Federal Aviation Agency to increase 433 per cent by 1980— they have no practical solution for auto traffic congestion, Bar- low says. BOTTLENECKS caused by air craft technology developing fast er than ground facilities will be come more critical, he a4ds. Jumbo-jets will dump an extra burden on over-crowded highway networks and terminals already jammed with people scrambling for phones, luggage, porters and cabs. Barlow proposes detaching the terminal from the airport, sub dividing it and placing segments at downtown and suburban sites. The passenger buys a machine- readable ticket, places his bag gage in a computer-routed and automatically handled container and enters a vehicle through a subway-like concourse. The ve hicle is actually a separate con tainer fitted to a container car rier, like a tin can riding on a roller skate. THE CARRIER, travelling in underground tubes at 500 mph, takes the container to the air port. Due to restriction of jet engine noise over populated areas, it might be 50 miles from the city. There, the container is de tached from the carrier and in serted like a chambered rifle bul let into a waiting plane. Hinged tail section open, the plane was backed up to an inclined loading tube. Computer-controlled junc tion centers automatically sort and load passenger or freight containers according to airline and flight numbers. “Several containers with com mon connecting doors would be loaded per plane,” Barlow de scribed. “When all containers are aboard, passengers shift so that those deplaning at the first stop are riding in the furtherest aft container. Baggage would be scanned by monitor computer at each stop.” CONTAINERS described in the report by Dr. C. A. Rodenberger s senior seminar course could be made standard by all airlines. It would be light, relatively weak, structurally, but contain its own presurization, electrical and emer gency escape systems. After in sertion into the aircraft fuselage, power would be connected. Barlow estimates the system could substitute a maximum of 20 minutes passenger waiting time for an hour or more of auto travel and airport delay. Air ports could realize parking and terminal space savings for more and more runway for super-trans ports. By RICHARD E. MEYER Associated Press Writer CORONADO, Calif. OW—After the capture of the Pueblo, two high ranking Navy officials or dered a destroyer to prepare to go into a North Korean harbor to board it and tow it away if necessary, an admiral has testi fied. Rear Adm. George L. Cassell detailed the order Monday to a Navy court of inquiry into the Pueblo’s capture by North Korea. But a further question, asking whether any actual attempt to rescue the Pueblo was ever car ried out, was left unanswered. THERE was no known actual attempt to remove the Pueblo from North Korean custody. When the Pueblo was seized a little over a year ago, Cassell was assistant chief of staff for operations for the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, based in Honolulu. He agreed with earlier witnesses that neither U.S. ships nor planes were close enough to help imme diately but said recovery action was possible the next day. “Adm. John Hyland, myself and the Operational Control Center directed the Seventh Fleet to dis patch a destroyer and position this destroyer off Wonsan Harbor in international waters,” Cassell said. Hyland was fleet com mander. “WE further directed Com mander Seventh Fleet to provide air cover for this particular de stroyer and be prepared to re cover the Pueblo either by going into the harbor and manning the ship and getting under way or towing as necessary. I forget the precise words, but she was to be prepared to recover or tow the Pueblo.” He said naval officials dis cussed other possibilities, such as sending aircraft to destroy the ship “to prevent classified ma terial from falling into the hands of the Koreans.” Executive officer Lt. Edward R. Murphy Jr. was called to the stand today as the first of the Pueblo’s crew, other than skipper Lloyd Bucher, to testify in open court. LT. STEPHEN HARRIS, in charge of the Pueblo’s intelligence detachment, testified for more than five hours Thursday and Monday. The Navy said his tes timony was classified in the in terest of national defense, but Late Registration Deadline Is Friday, Registrar Warns Senate Will Poll Students Tonight A polling of student opinions concerning automated registra tion will be conducted today during the evening meal at both university dining halls, accord ing to Al Reinert, chairman of the Student Senate subcommit tee on computer registration. Reinert said that results of the poll will be included in a subcommittee report at Thurs day’s 7:30 p.m. Senate meeting in the library. Applications Due For Army ROTC Applications to enter the Army’s two-year ROTC program next September should be made by March 1, announced Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant. Available to undergraduate and graduate students, the program substitutes six weeks camp next summer for the first two years of the regular four-year program and enables the two-year cadet to be commissioned upon graduation. “Except for the substitution,” McCoy noted, “the two and four- year programs are identical.” Applicants must have two years of undergraduate or graduate study remaining, a minimum of 60 semester hours college credit, passing grades and be at least 17 on application and not more than 28 years of age by graduate date. McCoy indicated early applica tion is necessary for the indi vidual to be processed for sum mer camp this year. Successful completion of camp and recom mendation by a camp board of officers will enable the student to enroll in the two-year program at A&M next September as an ad vanced ROTC cadet. Information and applications may be obtained from Maj. E. S. Solymosy in the commandant’s office, Military Science Building. Students will have until 5 p.m. Friday to register late for the spring semester according to Registrar Robert Lacey. A fee of $4 will be assessed late registrants. Deadline for registering without penalty was last Friday. Lacey said this Friday’s dead line also applies to students wish ing to add courses to their sched ules. “All course additions will be honored if there is space avail able in the class section and if the course hours do not conflict with those already listed in the student’s schedule,” he explained. Students will have until Feb. 18 to drop a course with no grade. “The add-drop procedure will be no different than that at pre registration in November and De cember,” Lacey advised. A student wishing to add or drop a course first must go to his academic adviser and have him fill out an add-drop form. He must then turn the form in to room 212, Richard Coke Build ing, for processing and return the next day for his revised schedule. “Any change in registration WEATHER Wednesday — Cloudy. Light rain. Wind Southerly 10 to 15 mph. High 66, low 48. Thursday — Cloudy to partly cloudy, afternoon rain showers. Wind Southerly 10 to 20 mph. High 71, low 52. that Harris would give unclassi fied testimony in open court later this week. Cassell said he was in the home of Admiral Hyland when the Pueblo was seized. Cassell said he and Hyland went to the Operational Control Center four or five minutes from the house. Cassell then described the orders to the Seventh Fleet, and Capt. William Newsome, counsel for the court, asked: “You were positioning your ships then with a view toward retaliation?” “Yes,” Cassell said, “retaliation and what we could have done the next morning as far as recover ing the ship was concerned. Let me say we began positioning our forces to carry out whatever higher authority ordered. Whether that would have been in retalia tion I couldn’t say . . . “I WANT to make it clear that there could be no launch of air craft, no reprisal, or retaliatory attack with CINCPAC Command er in Chief of Pacific forces au thority,” Cassell said. Newsome asked: “After the forces were positioned was any action taken ... to either attempt to effect recovery or to assist her?” Before Cassell could reply, Newsome was called to the bench for a whispered conference with Vice Adm. Harold G. Bowen Jr., president of the court. Newsome then asked a differ ent question: “Admiral, were any other actions taken by you at Commander Pacific Fleet head quarters ? ” “No,” Cassell said. UNDER questioning from E. Miles Harvey, attorney for Cmdr. Bucher, Cassell said there were plans for the Seventh Fleet to send a reconnaissance plane over the Pueblo in the North Korean harbor. “CINCPAC did not authorize it,” Cassell said. Q. Harvey: Did the Navy dis cuss torpedoing or sinking the Pueblo ? A. Cassell: “We discussed a lot of proposals. One was send ing aircraft in there and destroy ing the ship to prevent classified material from falling into the hands of the Koreans.” At another point, Harvey asked whether Cassell felt the Pueblo’s two .50-caliber machine guns add ed to her ability to defend her self. “Yes, I do,” Cassell replied. Bucher has said he was hope lessly outgunned by the North Koreans, and had wanted the Navy to install two 20mm can nons before he set sail. HARVEY asked whether Cas sell thought the commander of naval forces in Japan complied with instructions to provide the Pueblo with adequate devices to destroy classified material. After a pause, Cassell an swered, “No,” adding, “My an swer is just an opinion.” Bucher has testified that his only way to destroy classified electronic equipment was with sledge hammers and fire axes. Because the risk of attack against the Pueblo was consid ered minimal, Cassell said, Air Force planes weren’t ready to provide quick help “and simply could not have gotten there in time.” Cassell said: “The Fifth Air Force would have had to change the armanent configuration and that would have taken an hour and a half, and then launched, and then taking into consideration the flight time ... it would have taken an hour and 45 minutes or perhaps two hours to reach the Pueblo.” Cassell said he went on board the Pueblo before it left Hawaii on its mission adding his initial reaction was to her small size and that “her vintage impressed me.” The Pueblo was an Army coast al freighter during World War II and was used by the South Ko reans during the Korean War be fore she was converted into an intelligence ship. Civilian Councilmen To Attend Residence Halls Conference Texas A&M will be represented for the first time at the National Association of College and Uni versity Residence Halls conference, Feb. 6-8, in Long Beach, Calif. The four-member student dele gation will be headed by David Wilks of Pampa, president of the Civilian Student Council. Other delegates include Andy Scott, Childress, president of Walton Hall; Earl Roddy, Lancaster, president of Davis-Gary Hall, and Mike Glasgow, San Antonio, representing Leggett Hall. Ed Cooper, Civilian Student director, will accompany the stu dents. Sessions to be held at the Cali fornia State College are expected to attract 600 students from about 100 universities. The three halls represented have been involved in special pilot programs since September. The halls are operating as “clubs” with their own elected officers including disciplinary committees. Similar programs are expected to start soon in additional halls. Resident Hall Adviser Howard Perry said the A&M delegates are expected to gain “insight into resident hall operations and pro grams and get ideas on hall gov ernment.” Upon their return, delegates will recommend or reject member ship in the national association, Perry added. A&M was represented by 14 delegates at last month’s state residence hall delegates’ meeting at Texas Tech. BB&L Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. fees resulting from the add-drop process will be billed or refunded to the student at a later date,” Lacey said. Most students, returned from a week-long mid-term break, be gan classes Monday, having taken advantage of A&M’s new auto mated registration system, first of its type in the state. More than 10,500 were pro cessed for spring classes during the fall pre-registration period, Lacey noted. ★ ★ ★ ‘FewDays 'Remain To Register Cars Security Chief Ed Powell said Monday a “few days of grace” will prevail for students who have not registered their vehicles for the spring semester. Powell added no action “will be taken within the next two or three days,” but cautioned stu dents not to let the time limit for registering their cars elapse. He emphasized, however, that cars must be parked in the stu dent’s assigned area. Powell disclosed that all ve hicles displaying an “F” decal on their car window are required to be re-registered. He identified these vehicles as those belonging to students who paid a $5 registration fee last fall rather than the $9 or $10 fee. The security office is located in the basement of the YMCA building. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv. NOTHING TO IT Ronnie Peret slithers through the Texas defense for an easy layup above in second half action as the Aggies won their fifth straight conference game going away 65-57. With Peret leading the way the Aggies dominated the backboards 39-26, as they warmed up for their showdown with second-place Baylor tonight at 8 in Waco. (Photo by Mike Wright)