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VOLUME 64 Number 80
COLLEGE} STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
I‘Can Do 9 Was Tradmnark 9 l
| Former LBJ Aide Says |
By TONY HUDDLESTON
Battalion Staff Writer
“He was a perfectionist and he
always tried,’' was the descrip
tion given of former President
Lyndon Baines Johnson, by Clif
ton C. Carter, an adviser to John
son for 30 years at Wednesday
night’s political forum.
“History will note the fact that
more legislation was passed dur
ing Johnson’s presidency than
during any other previous admin
istration,” the director of the 1964
Johnson campaign noted.
“He adopted a motto, ‘I can do,’
when he was a freshman Con
gressman in 1937, and established
it as his trademark for getting
legislation passed throughout the
years that he served in Washing
ton,” the Smithville native added.
“FORTY health and education
bills, more than had been passed
in any administration in the his
tory of the United States were
passed during the last four years
of his term — an example of
Johnson’s legislative influence.”
Johnson will be remembered in
history for his creation of the
medicare program,” he added.
“This bill provided for the crea
tion of medical and hospital aid
to the aged at a time when hos
pital and medical costs were ris
ing and the income of these older
citizens remained constant.
The dollar total of aid to col
lege and university students rose
from $500,000 during the Eisen
hower years to $11 billion dollars
in the Johnson administration,”
Carter, the first campaign man
ager for U. S. Rep. Olen Teague
said.
SPEAKING of the success of
the Johnson administration, the
former Bryan bottling company
owner pointed to the fact that
“Americans are enjoying the high
est level income ever.”
Carter said, since his work
takes him across the United
States, he has the opportunity to
meet Americans of just about
every occupation. Nearly every
one he has met was in better
shape economically than any time
previously.
“What has been accomplished
during the Johnson years to im
prove human relations and what
will be accomplished in the future
will mark Lyndon Johnson as one
of our greatest Presidents,” the
former Bryan City Commissioner
added.
Noted over Johnson achieve
ments, Carter cited “the 1964
Civil Rights Act which guaran
teed equal rights for all Ameri
cans; the voting rights act of
1964, which abolished irregulari
ties in voting, and the jury selec
tion act, which established fair
jury selections for all Ameri
cans.”
ON THE question of Johnson’s
drop in popularity, the former
Bryan resident said, “that if any
of the 200 million Americans
could have met him, they wouldn’t
have been so quick to judge him
for the problems this country
faces.”
“The news media, especially
television, was responsibility part
ly for the loss of popularity that
President Johnson suffered after
1965, he added.
Carter also listed the unpopu
larity of the Vietnam War, the
campus disorders, and other prob
lems that Johnson) inherited from
the previous administration.
“Two of the five greatest presi
dents in history, Andrew Jackson
and Abraham Lincoln were criti
cized more for their legislation
than Lyndon Johnson,” he said.
Carter added that both these
men were remembered in history,
and in their times criticized more
than Johnson.
House Balks At Amendments
To Campus Disruption BiH
By JACK KEEVER
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas House
members balked Wednesday at
Senate changes in a bill making
campus riots a crime.
Rep. Joe Shannon of Fort
VioTth said a Senate amendment
to his college disorders bill, in
corporating a recent Supreme
Court decision guaranteeing the
right of peaceful protests on
campus, is “vague, indefinite and
needs cleaning up.”
The amendment was put on
Shannon’s bill Tuesday after sen
ators complained of the way the
bill was written when it came to
the Senate after House passage.
Sen. Oscar Mauzy of Dallas
said the amendment tracked Jus
tice Abe Fortas’ opinion “word-
for-word.”
Shannon, Reps. Temple Dick
son of Sweetwater, Jim Nugent
of Kerrville, Felix McDonald of
Edinburg, and Tom Bass of
Houston were named as House
members of a conference com
mittee, the first of the session,
on the campus bill.
Installment Due
The second installment of
board payment for the spring
semester is now being accepted
at the Fiscal Office in the
Coke Building. Payment of $74
for seven-day plans and $67
for five-day plans must be
made by Tuesday to avoid
penalty.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
The Senate agreed, 24-5, to a
conference committee and Sen.
W. T. Moore of Bryan was named
chairman. He will be joined by
Sens. H. J. Blanchard of Lub
bock, David Ratliff of Stamford,
Mauzy and Don Kennard of Fort
Worth, one of the five senators
voting against a conference com
mittee.
★ ★ ★
System To Lose
Connally Tech In
Bill Before House
AUSTIN (A*) — A House com
mittee approved Wednesday a
bill changing the James Connally
Technical Institute to the State
Technical Institute of Texas and
removing it from the Texas A&M
System.
The bill originally would have
renamed the school “manpower
Resources System,” but even the
sponsors and school officials
weren’t enthusiastic about that.
As the measure came out of a
subcommittee, the name was
“Texas State Technical Insti
tute,” but this was changed after
the resemblance to Texas Tech’s
name was noted.
The measure also sets up a
nine-member board of regents,
authorizes acquisition for techni
cal schools in the Amarillo and
Harlingen areas and requires
state Board of Vocational Edu
cation approval of all new pro
grams in order to prevent undue
competition with junior colleges.
Carter cited the fact that every
student should be proud of the
opportunity where everyone can
get an education. He said that
students should be proud of the
sacrifices that their parents gave
so that they could attend college.
“President Johnson’s rise from
a two-roomed cabin to the White
House is an example that every
one can climb the ladder of suc
cess, if he wants to.”
CARTER commented that he
was as surprised as everybody
else last March 31, when Presi
dent Johnson announced that he
would not seek reelection.
He said that he expects Presi
dent Johnson to branch out in
other fields of business, as well
as teaching at the new Lyndon
B. Johnson school, at University
of Texas at Austin. He said he
didn’t believe that President John
son would seek any other politi
cal offices, because he had already
accomplished the highest honor
that he desired.
’69 License Tags
On Sale At MSC
Automobile license plates are
being sold again this year at the
Memorial Student Center, Direc
tor J. Wayne Stark announced
Monday.
The 1969 tags may be pur
chased until March 28 in the
MSC post office area. A certifi
cate of title and copy of 1968
registration papers will be re
quired.
A clerk will be on duty week
days from 8:30 to 11:30 a. m.
and 12:30 to 4:30 p. m. The serv
ice is provided by the MSC for
A&M students, faculty-staff and
College Station residents.
YC Defends Civilian Shelling,
CondemnsNixonAs 4 Aggressor’
W* 1 1 II;
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lonely vigil
Since last Friday Louis A. Cheek has been on patrol with
his sign at the College of Veterinary Medicine west of the
main campus. A spokeswoman for the Associated General
Contractors in Waco said Wednesday the association’s con
tract with the Common Laborers’s Union has expired and a
new one has not been negotiated. Jones and Williams Con
struction Co., in Waco, is constructing a state diagnostic
laboratory on Texas A&M property. (Photo by Tom Curl)
Tech’s World Affairs Confab
Draws Issues, SCONA Delegates
Memorial Student Center Great
Issues and SCONA members are
representing A&M this week for
a World Affairs Conference at
Texas Tech.
Attending sessions on “Latin
America, Past, Present and Fu
ture,” today, Thursday and Fri
day are Ron Tefteller, Issues
Series chairman; Tom Fitzhugh,
Seminar Series chairman; Bill
Leftwich of the Great Issues staff
and Mark Haggard, Student Con
ference on National Affairs dele
gate.
Tefteller, senior agricultural
economics major of Midland, said
the conference will provide a
learning experience on political,
economic, social and agricultural
outlooks of Latin America.
Presentations by Latin Ameri
can ambassadors and Smithson
ian Institution experts will be
followed by student discussion.
WEATHER
Friday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy. Wind Easterly 5 to 10
mph. Becoming Northerly late
afternoon 10 to 20 mph. High
64, low 41.
Saturday—Partly cloudy. Wind
Northerly 10 to 20. High 61,
low 39.
About 100 students representing
all Southwest Conference schools,
U. S. and Central American in
stitutions will attend.
The conference is sponsored by
the Tech student union and In
ternational Center for Arid and
Semi-Arid Land Studies.
Sophomores with Tefteller at
the three-day meeting will hold
key MSC student posts next fall.
Fitzhugh is a geophysics major
of Waco; Leftwich, accounting,
Dallas, and Haggard, pre-law,
Houston.
Personnel Drive
Tuesday For MSC
The Memorial Student Center
Council and Directorate is plan
ning its annual personnel drive
from 6:30-10 p.m. Tuesday, on
the second floor of the MSC, ac
cording to Greg Weaves, direc
torate assistant.
All 13 committees that compose
the Directorate will have booths
and displays of committee ac
tivities.
Each committee is open to new
members, but four committees —
SCONA, Town Hall, Great Issues
and Political Forum—will conduct
interviews for membership.
PARIS <JP> _ The Viet Cong
defended its shelling of civilian
centers in South Vietnam today
and made a new attack on Presi
dent Nixon.
The shelling dominated the
seventh session of the enlarged
Vietnam peace talks at the In
ternational Conference Center.
President Nixon had threatened
“some response that will be ap-
propiate” if the shellings con
tinued, but the Viet Cong killed
25 civilians and wounded more
than 70 in a rocket attack on
Saigon today.
TRAN BUU KIEM, the “for
eign minister” of the Viet Cong’s
National Liberation Front, told
the American and South Vietna
mese delegations: “We reaffirm
once again the sacred and inalien
able right to self defense of the
armed forces and population of
South Vietnam.”
He said the U. S. and Saigon
governments were making a lot
of noise about events in Saigon
because they had suffered “stun
ning defeats.”
2 Colleges Set
‘Career Days’
This Weekend
“Career Day” programs for
prospective high school students
will be conducted Friday and
Saturday by the Colleges of En
gineering and Agriculture.
Approximately 3,000 students,
teachers, counselors and parents
will tour campus facilities, uni
versity officials estimate.
Many of the students will be
participants in the annual state
Junior Engineering Technical So
ciety (JETS) conference here
Friday and a practice judging ses
sion Saturday for 4-H and FFA
members.
Texas A&M normally hosts an
all-university Career Day in the
spring, but the event has been
changed to fall this year.
The College of Veterinary Med
icine, however, tentatively plans a
“Parents Day” and open house in
May. Specific date will be deter
mined by completion of facilities
in the veterinary medicine com
plex.
Assistant Engineering Dean J.
G. McGuire said each engineering
department will have displays and
representatives available to ex
plain programs. Tours of engi
neering facilities will be con
ducted Friday afternoon and Sat
urday morning.
The College of Agriculture will
have exhibits in the Plant Scien
ces Building, noted Dr. R. C.
Potts, associate dean of agricul
ture.
Judging events cover livestock,
dairy cattle, dairy products, poul
try, meats, pasture and range,
land and land evaluation.
“The present situation in
South Vietnam shows clearly that
no maneuvers, no tricks and no
threats of the United States and
their lackeys can save them
from defeat,” Kiem said.
“IT IS TRULY an illusion to
want to achieve a position of
strength on the battlefield and at
the conference table when one
has failed, as the United States
has failed, in Vietnam.”
Kiem accused Nixon of threat
ening to “make the Vietnamese
people suffer the consequences
of their struggle against aggres
sion.”
He said that as long as the
United States continued its war
effort, “the South Vietnamese
population will continue to com
bat aggression in accordance
with its perfect right to punish
the aggressors wherever they
may be and at whatever mo
ment.”
Kiem charged that President
Nixon is intensifying the war
“while pouring out honey words
of peace.” He said the U. S.
president’s threat of a response
to the shellings represented “the
words of an aggressor who does
not wish to be punished.”
Houston Lawmen
Catch 2 Escapees
From Brazos Jail
The Houston Sheriff’s Depart
ment Wednesday captured two of
the four escapees from the Brazos
County Jail after a three-week
statewide search, according to
Brazos County Sheriff J. W. Ham
ilton.
A third was captured in Omaha,
Neb., Feb. 22.
David Wayne McEndorffer, held
on charges of murder, and Del
Monte Whitehurst, jailed in May
on charges of accessory to mur
der and accessory to forgery, were
captured by police on the Hemp
stead Highway.
Omaha police identified their
prisoner as Gene Bryan, charged
with Burglary, Hamilton said.
Michael Chafa, the fourth es
capee, is the only prisoner still
at large. He was arrested Jan. 29
and charged with burglary.
The quartet escaped in the
morning hours of Feb. 11 by cut
ting a hole in the roof of the
fourth floor jail with a hacksaw
blade. After crawling onto the
roof, they lowered themselves to
the ground with a rope made of
bedsheets and mattress covers
taken from their cells.
Hamilton added that an 18-
year-old youth was suspected to
have aided the four prisoners’
escape.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
B B L —Adr.
The Inquiring Battman
Legislature Considers Lowering Voting Age: What’s Your Opinion?
KEM DONAHO
Houston Senior
No—I don’t feel younger people
ar e yet able to handle the
responsibility entailed in voting.
Their viewpoints haven't had the
benefit of time to mature, and
younger people are limited in
their understanding of social
problems.”
LARRY BEREND
Wundt ho rst Senior
“When I was 18, I don’t think I
was ready to vote. On the other
hand, I feel that the kids today
are more informed, and if an
amendment comes before the
people I will vote in favor of it.”
RON CHACERE
Victoria Junior
“Despite minority groups which
receive the bad publicity at col
lege campuses, today’s youth are
more informed in general and
capable of helping to decide the
future of this country. The vot
ing age should be lowered.”
LINDA CLENDENNEN
Houston Freshman
“The communication media have
made it possible for the younger
people to keep up with events
that directly concern them more
than ever before. Young people
are qualified enough today to
have a voice in their govern
ment.”
mike Mclennan
Andrews Senior
“In many cases people 18 years
old are as conscientious about na
tional affairs as older people.
Some younger people will abuse
the privileges, just as some older
people do, but the added respon
sibility will result in a more ma
ture younger generation.”
DOUGLAS GIBBS
Ft. Howard, Md., Freshman
“To me, it seems that today’s
younger generation is now ready
to take a more active interest
in the political aspect of the
nation. The voting age definite
ly should be lowered to 18.”
MIKE HARDIN
Ft. Stockton Sophomore
“Yes, I used to feel that the
voting age should be lowered
to 18. However, after seeing
the actions going on at a lot of
college campuses, I’m beginning
to feel the other way." (Photos
by Monty Stanley)
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