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Che Battalion
Vol. 65 No. 11
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, October 1, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
Perimeter Parking
Will Get Lighting
By Pam Troboy
Battalion Staff Writer
Lighting will soon be installed
in perimeter parking lot number
49 in response to a Civilian Stu
dent Council resolution passed
last fall.
The lot, which runs parallel to
Farm to Market Road 2154, was
the scene of several thefts last
year.
The 1967-68 CSC studied the
problem, but was unable to initiate
any action, according to David
Middlebrooke, last year’s CSC
secretary. When the theft situ
ation became critical last fall, he
said, a council resolution urging
installation of lighting was sent
to A&M President Earl Rudder
and received his approval.
A feasibility study by the Texas
Transportation Institute and
negotiations between A&M and
College Station officials concern
ing cost-sharing delayed action on
the lighting, Middlebrooks said.
The light system should be in
stalled before Nov. 1, barring un
foreseen weather problems, ac
cording to Charles Brunt, assist
ant manager of construction for
A&M.
“Last year out of 81 cases of
breaking and entering automo
bile, 24 were in lot 49,” said J. D.
Gossett, Campus Security patrol
man. “The problem should be cut
down tremendously with the new
lights.”
Brunt said that 13 light stand
ards with double lights will be
installed in the parking lot and
five more with single lights will
be installed from the lot to Jersey
Ave.
He explained that the double
light poles will light both the
parking lot and the highway,
while the single-light poles will
light only the highway.
“The project is almost com
plete,” Brunt said. “The holes
have been drilled, the concrete
has been poured, the reinforced
steel is in, and the anchor bolts
are in place. The only things we
lack are the poles and the trans
former. Both are delayed delivery
items and should be here by Oct.
15.”
Brunt also said that the items
would be installed upon arrival,
and gave “a couple of weeks” as
his estimate of when the project
should be completed.
The light standards will be 40
feet tall and provide 400 watts
of lighting power. Cost of the
lights is $26,000.
SULLY GETS HIS FIRST FACE LIFTING
1 Gung-ho residents of Walton Hall were the first this fall to give the spit and polish
treatment to the statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross standing in front of the Academic
(Building. They also polished the base of the flag pole across from Sully and gave the
once-over to the Liberty Bell replica in the Academic Building foyer. James P. Hannigan,
jdean of students, commended the residents for their “initiative in maintaining this
campus tradition.”
Ex-A&M Employee Faces
Charges of Fraud Today
From 81 to 700
Number of Foreign Students Rising at A&M
By Tim Searson
Battalion Staff Writer
A hearing is scheduled to begin
in Houston today involving the
sale to a Houston tool company
of government surplus equipment
given to Texas A&M and a for
mer university employee.
Over 100 tools and machines
jgiven to the university by the
federal government for education
al purposes are reported to have
been offered for sale by Anthony
L. Kramer of Bryan. The FBI
had charged Kramer, former spe
cial projects co-ordinator for the
heavy equipment training school
in the Texas Engineering Exten
sion Service, with fraud in the
base.
The suit, filed in Houston,
names Industrial Machine Tools,
Inc., as the other party in the
sale. A restraining order has been
sought to stop the sale of more
equipment by A&M, along with
the recovery of any money from
previous sales.
Government officials allege that
most of the machinery was never
used for educational purposes as
intended and that some of the
equipment was sold without
authorization.
When asked what kind of
equipment was actually involved,
H. D. Bearden, director of the
Engineering Extension Service,
said, “I know nothing more than
has already been released to the
newspapers.”
Jim Lindsey, director of uni
versity information, stated earlier
in the week that the irregularity
had been discovered and investi
gated by A&M officials who
turned the matter over to the
appropriate state agency.
Kramer, who had served the
university for more than 20 years,
was dismissed after the discrep
ancy was uncovered, and placed
on a $10,000 personal recogni
zance bond in Houston.
Lane Stephenson, associate di
rector of university information,
said that any further develop
ments in the case would evolve
from the hearing in Houston.
By Raul A. Pineda
Battalion Staff Writer
The foreign student population
at A&M has increased more than
eight times over the last 20 years,
with the number of students
growing from 81 in 1948 to more
than 700 this semester.
“This is an all-time record for
the number of foreign students
attending the university,” said
Robert L. Melcher, foreign stu
dent adviser.
According to Melcher, this has
been the result of a constant
quality improvement in the uni
versity programs and the job
done in different countries by
technicians working under the
international programs of A&M.
The new enrollment includes
the registration of more than
150 new foreign students, which
is also an all-time record, accord
ing to Melcher.
The largest group of foreign
students ever registered at A&M
comes from 65 countries geo
graphically distributed all over
the world.
Melcher, who has been foreign
adviser during the last 12 years,
talked enthusiastically about the
outstanding position of A&M in
the foreign world, and contrasted
The Life Style of a Mafioso—Part II
Divorce a Danger to the Mafia
By Bernard Gavzer
&) News Features Writer
The danger of divorce was clear
to the Mafioso when Anna Gene-
rese brought suit against Vito
Senovese in 1952. She wanted
1350 a week support for her
laughter and the two children
die had with Vito. He could eas-
ly afford it, her suit said, since
le brought home $30,000 a week
Torn the numbers racket. Until
inna spelled it out, no one close
;o the inside ever publicly said
low much money anyone had.
The late Mike Coppola, better
mown as Trigger Mike, went
nto retirement in Miami Beach
vhere it was generally thought
ic was a dedicated tender of or-
hids. He had running trouble
vith his wife, Ann, who unlike
my other known wife, daughter
mistress of a Mafia man, kept
diary. This diary was discov-
red after her suicide in 1962,
id one of its revelations dealt
|ith the time Mike left a pack-
tge at a restaurant and was
.nxious to recover it. When he
!id, he showed Ann its contents
*-$219,000. From the lottery, he
xplained.
The head of a Mafia family
reats it as though it is his na-
ural family. His paternalistic
■ole makes him responsible to
WEATHER
Thursday — Cloudy to partly
cloudy. Wind Eeasterly 5 to
10 m.p.h. High 87, low 64.
Friday — Partly cloudy. Wind
Southerly 10 to 15 m.p.h. High
84, low 67.
his family members and their
children and relatives, in some
cases. The De Cavalcante tran
scripts concern one situation in
which Sam the* Plumber as he
was also known because of a le
gitimate business he operated be
came distressed because one
Frank Ferrone told his wife he
loved another woman. The wife
was the daughter of an impris
oned DeCavalcante member. Sam
automatically took it as his duty
to oversee her welfare, even
though she was married.
A man discussing this with
Sam promised to see that Fer
rone does not go bad. He adds
that if Ferrone does not see the
light, through normal persuasion,
he will “break his leg or his
head.”
Despite a kind of puritanism,
there apparently is no injunction
against “playing around.” But
even here there is a style.
“It is according to position,”
says a Boston investigator. “The
family boss could have some
cheap little blonde but surpris
ingly you‘11 find that they have
mistresses for whom they ex
press love. Maybe it’s because
almost all of the top people are
in their 60s and 70s.”
“The younger guys, the ones
at the bottom, the ones called
soldiers or button men,” says the
investigator, “can be seen with
what they call broads. These
women are flashily dressed, good
looking and might otherwise be
high-priced hookers.”
One high ranking Mafioso who
was usually described by his
neighbors as a “nice” man, im
pressed one neighbor as “a de
voted husband who came home
late every afternoon to take care
of his sick wife.” Another said
of his comings and goings: “You
could set your clock by them.”
But then, they could not have
known how much time he spent
with his mistress, a woman in
her late 40’s. She lived elsewhere
in the city, and also had a nice
house on a lake shore, and a
Cadillac, and other things.
The wives are not ignored by
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Ticket Pick-up Schedule
Announced for Tech Game
Graduate students and seniors may pick up tickets for
the A&M-Texas Tech game beginning Thursday at the
Athletic Business Office ticket windows at G. Rollie White
Coliseum, announced Sam Torn, head yell leader.
All other students, Torn said, may obtain tickets
beginning at 8 a.m. Friday. Last day for buying tickets,
according to the business office, is 5 p.m. next Wednesday.
The business office also noted that students must have
their activity cards to purchase tickets. Purchases will be
limited to one student and one date ticket per person.
Students may purchase tickets for friends, however, if they
have the other person’s activity card.
any means. At certain functions,
they are fixtures: wakes and fu
nerals, weddings and even some
baptisms.
Ann Coppola wrote in her diary
that wives, mistresses and chil
dren are privately recipients of
all the symbols of great wealth.
Ann Coppola wrote in her diary
that Mike had given her $250,000
in jewelry, furs and fine clothes.
But, she complained, it was not
out of love but because he want
ed to prove to his peers how suc
cessful he was.
Anna Genovese, in her divorce
suit, praised her husband as a
man who lavished things on her,
denying her nothing. But he
could also be violent, she said.
Once, in a fit of temper, he set
her hair on fire. Genovese la
mented then: “What she step on
my heart for?”
Apparently unforgiving, his
will made public recently cut her
off without a cent, provided $5
for Anna’s daughter, and left 90
per cent to his daughter and the
remainder to his son. Genovese
reportedly was worth $30 million,
but the dollar amount of the es
tate won’t be made public until
next May.
Sometimes the private munifi
cence has an unintended humor.
Last July, it is reported, a teen
age daughter of a Mafioso went
to a summer resort with three
girl friends to spend the day.
While everything had been paid
for in advance, daddy had also
slipped her some spending mon
ey. When she went to pay for
some hamburgers, she found the
(See Mafia, page 3)
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
the figures from the registration
during the last two decades.
“During the fall of 1948 the
number of foreign students at
A&M was 81,” he said. Last se
mester we had a total enrollment
of 611 and now we have gone
over the 700 mark.”
The figures given by Melcher
show that the increase in foreign
students population at A&M has
not been a type of blow-up situ
ation, but the result of a con
stant improvement in the differ
ent curricula and a wide recog
nition throughout the world to
the work done by this university.
According to Melcher, during
the decade 1948-58 the foreign
students’ number more than dou
bled. In this period the enrollment
rose from 81 to 175.
The following decade, 1958-68,
brought an even greater when
the enrollment rose from 175 to
611.
Talking about the outstanding
position held by students from
other countries, Melcher said that
every semester the number of
foreign students receiving de
grees at commencement ceremo
nies is bigger.
“Last May we had 67 students
receiving B.S. or graduate de
grees,” he said.
As an average, Melcher said,
about 49 per cent of the foreign
students are enrolled in agricul
ture; 49 per cent in engineering,
and the other 20 per cent in archi
tecture, business, veterinary med
icine and other major fields of
study.
According to the foreign advi
sor at A&M, there is an equal
proportion betweten foreign stu
dents working in the undergrad
uate and graduate schools.
He remarked that the propor
tion was favorable to the grad
uate students during the fall se
mester 1963, when “the total en
rollment was 356 foreign students,
194 being graduate students.”
Melcher likes to talk about his
work and the difficulties when
the number of new applications
is high.
“The total number of applica
tions every semester is over 1,200,
but we classify them and the
number of approved ones is about
200.
“This is one of the most diffi
cult types of work done by my
office and it requires many hours
of extra work,” he said.
Col. Melcher has received
awards from different countries
and a number of associations and
clubs organized at A&M.
Among the awards presented
to him are certificates, blankets,
sculptures and other items from
the student associations of Mexi
can, Pakistanian, Indian and Chi
nese.
During last semester, the lead
ing country at A&M was the
Dominican Republic with 79 stu
dents, followed by China, 56; In
dia, Pakistan 50; and Mexico, 44.
The representation from the
other 59 countries varies from
one to 20 students.
A&M Profs Invent to Serve
Needs of Community: Briggs
By Frank Griffis
Special to The Battalion
“More and more Texas A&M
University professors are invent
ing things to serve the needs of
the community rather than for
the sake of inventing,” E. Ridley
Briggs, president of the B-CS
Chamber of Commerce, told mem
bers of a community development
seminar held in the Architecture
Auditorium on the A&M campus
Tuesday evening.
Briggs said an example of com
munity-minded university profes
sors is the professor who invented
a new research cage, another who
developed a new type of heel for
shoes which helps children with
foot problems, and the low cost
housing units manufactured by
Hanover Modular Homes.
“They invented because they
saw a need,” Briggs said.
“The key question is what can
my relation to Texas A&M Uni
versity be?” Briggs said.
“We are on the threshold of a
great wave of new technology and
you must seek new challenges to
change the community environ
ment to what you want it to be,”
David B. Smith, planning Dynam
ics Inc. board chairman, and main
speaker at the seminar, said.
Smith said faculty members
must be encouraged to further
cooperation between the univer
sities, the community and indus
tries.
“Faculty members should also
be encouraged to cooperate with
local government in solving civic
problems,” Smith said.
“It is becoming that industrial
companies are taught all new
management techniques. In the
future, education could become a
lifetime deal,” Smith said.
“Do you encourage faculty
members to serve on boards of
directors?” Smith asked. “Do you
encourage them to think about
the world of industry and com
merce?” Smith added.
“There is no way to have in
stant success between universities
and industry,” Smith said. “There
needs to be developed an environ
ment that will attract local inven
tors and industrialists to settle in
the community,” Smith concluded.
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ONE FOR WAITING
A Vietnamese child licks his first ice cream while his parents vote to elect hamlet of
ficials in Thoi Thanh in the Mekong- delta area of South Vietnam. The government’s
Revolutionary Development Team, which supervised the elections, brought in the ice
cream for children of the voters. (AP Wirephoto)