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Participate
Vol. 65 No. 48 College Station, Texas Tuesday, December 9, 1969 Telephone 845-2226
Of KAMU- TV
Strike Forces
Telecast Delay
on
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ty
ant
KAMU-TV has been forced to
postpone its starting of telecasts
1' 60 days because of a strike-
used delay in delivery of trans
lating equipment.
el Chastain, manager of A&M’s
lew educational television sta
ll, said that broadcasts will
bgin on Feb. 15. The station
ps been scheduled to go on the
|r next Monday.
“The staff and management
o! KAMU-TV regret this 60-day
lay in the starting date, espe-
|ally in view of the enthusiastic
sponse we have received from
roughout the communit y,”
astain emphasized.
He said the delay is the result
the General Electric Company
rike, which began Oct. 27 and
s affected 147,000 employes of
e firm.
“Everything but the transmit-
|ng equipment is ready,” the
i&M station manager pointed
|ut. “Our broadcast studio was
mpleted last week, our antenna
|id transmission line were in-
alled shortly after Thanksgiv-
Zovor
ing holidays and our video tape
recorders were recently converted
to provide color capability.”
The station has even received
all but one of its NET (National
Educational Television) programs
for the first day of operation,
Chastain added.
“Unfortunately, none of that
matters if your transmitter isn’t
completed,” he pointed out, “and
that’s our final hurdle.”
“On the first day of the GE
strike,” Chastain recalled, “com
pany spokesmen in Dallas and
Syracuse assured us that the
strike would not affect the com
pletion, shipment, installation
and testing of our transmitter.”
Chastain noted that key offi
cials at GE have done everything
possible to meet their commit
ment.
The A&M official assured the
“hundreds of area residents who
enthusiastically responded to our
announcement for free program
guides for the first month of
operation” that their requests
will be honored in February.
WEEKEND PERFORMANCE
Jack Abbot, left, and John Jasuta, members of The Mis
sissippi Jug- Band and Philharmonic String Quartet Resi
due, perform at the Memorial Student Center’s “Basement”
coffee house. (Photo by Jim Berry)
By George Scott
Battalion Staff Writer
The 15th Student Conference
on National Affairs will begin
Wednesday afternoon with an ex
pected 220 delegates from 58
schools in the United States,
Mexico, and Africa.
Delegates will register Wed
nesday morning. The conference
will last through Saturday.
“Black Africa: The Challenege
of Development” is the topic of
SCONA XV.
The conference will have three
African students participating as
a result of financial assistance
from International Telephone and
Telegraph.
There will be 130 out-of-town
delegates including 10 students
from Mexico.
Conducted to give student lead
ers a chance to study timely
national and international prob
lems, SCONA allows the students
to grasp the complexity of world
problems.
There will be speeches and
presentations by some 30 inter
national figures including a key
note address by an assistant depu-
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How
Losing the Texas 500
It Happened to
the Fastest
Editor’s note: How does the
fastest car happen to lose the
big race? Battalion reporter
Hans Adam, from the point of
view of a pit crew member, tells
how it happened to race car
driver Buddy Baker, who start
ed Sunday’s Texas 500 at Texas
International Speedway from
the pole position, the first he
had won in his lifetime.
I) Hans Adam
iattalion Staff Writer
No one has had practice time.
Instead of getting Buddy’s
larger in shape Friday and
Saturday, we spent our time
irinking coffee in the snack bar
md cursing the rain.
None of the cars are going to
right. The suspension, still
oose from qualifying runs, is
not going to be as tight as it
Wrapping
Offered Free
YMCA
By
Free Christmas gift wrapping
is available to A&M students and
faculty at the YMCA until Dec.
announced YMCA Cabinet
President Ed Donnell of Jones
Creek.
Students are requested to bring
their gifts in boxes to Room 102
from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. each
Weekday. Donnell noted the
YMCA office wrapped over 900
gifts last year.
The gifts will be wrapped with-
24 hours, Donnell explained,
and a variety of papers and rib
bons are available.
Christmas decorations also are
for sale at regular retail prices
Room 102. Donnell pointed
out the decorations can be paid
in cash or charged to an
organization’s account.
However, organizations must
have account forms signed by an
organization officer to charge
the decorations, he said.
ought to be. Final drive gear
ratios, last set in Macon, Ga.,
for a short track, are going to
be too low. Everybody in the
pit is guessing—what a way to
end the season
It’s finally 9 a.m., race day,
and time to get the car on the
starting grid, race-ready with
See related pictures, page 4
the qualifying tires. Have to run
them for at least one lap after
the green (flag).
Now is the bad time. . . The
car sitting out there sealed. Sec
ond thoughts come to mind now.
Did all the lug nuts get tight
ened, is there enough oil in the
crankcase, enough gas in the
tank ? The more you think the
more you convince yourself that
the car will never make it off
the starting grid.
And then there’s Buddy. He’s
getting tight. Walking back and
forth. It’s all up to him now.
The tightness is getting to him,
he chews on piece of gum after
another. Try small talk and he
looks at you like you’re crazy. . .
Almost noon .... driver’s meet
ing in a few minutes. Buddy is
pacing again, maybe the meeting
will relax him. He’s never been
this tight before, that pole must
be getting to him. . . .
The driver’s meeting. For the
millionth time they’re told the
do’s and don’t’s of NASCAR rac
ing, there are many rules but
Buddy knows them backwards,
he’s lived with them these past
11 years. Quiet as a church in
that meeting hall, each driver
has his own thoughts about the
afternoon’s work.
The meeting’s over, time will
pass a little faster now. There
are pictures to pose and celebri
ties to meet, anything to take
his mind off that race. . .
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
BB&L — Adv.
The niceties are done with and
it’s time.
While we tape the windshield
to keep down the glare of the
sun, Cotton Owens, builder and
owner of the sleek red Dodge
marked “6,” helps Buddy with
his driving gear and gives him
last-minute instructions.
We’ll get five warm-up laps,
that may not be too good, all
that low speed driving may foul
all the plugs, but it’ll get the oil
good and warm. It’s too late for
anything now, it’s either right or
we came a long ways for noth
ing
There is the green, looks like
Buddy has got them, going into
the first turn. He’s taking it kind
of easy these first few laps, only
171.428 miles per hour. Here in
the pit we’re still tight because
it’s too early to tell how the cars
are going to run. That suspen
sion still seems awful loose for
race day, that’s going to be
rough on tires, especially with
the soft compound that we are
running. . .
Buddy has stepped up the
pace a little bit, 172.661 miles
per hour now. Cotton just told
him to take it easy. Donnie Alli
son in car 27 just got around and
it looks like Buddy is going to
try to draft him. The way they’re
set up today it could get rough.
Anytime you drive two feet off
a man’s rear bumper at 170-plus
you better be set up right. But
that draft can come in real handy
for saving fuel and helping you
to pass when you get ready to.
Looks like Buddy made the draft,
maybe we’re set up right after
all. . . .
We better get ready, he’s com
ing in for his first pit stop. This
is where all our practice pays
off, maybe. We could lose this
race for him if we aren’t careful.
There he is. Two tires, twenty
gallons of gas, a clean windshield,
a big shove and he’s gone. Only
18.6 seconds, and our average is
21. Maybe we all want to win
this one.
Cotton is happy. The tires are
(See How, page 3)
WINNER
Bobby Isaacs, driving a Dodge, was the winner Sunday of the Texas 500 stock car race
held at Texas International Speedway. The winning driver averaged 144.26 miles per
hour. See related pictures, page 4. (AP Wirephoto)
ty secretary for African affairs
in the state department.
C. Robert Moore, a 1935 gradu
ate of Harvard University, will
give the keynote speech at 2 p.m.
Wednesday in the ballroom of the
Memorial Student Center.
Moore is a career foreign serv
ice officer and received a master
of arts degree from New York
University in 1940. He served as
ambassador to the Republic of
Mali from 1965 until 1968, when
he went to work for the state
department.
Three other principal speakers
for the conference include Dr.
Gwendolen M. Carter, Dr. Im
manuel Wallerstein, and His Ex
cellency Ebenezer Mose Debrah.
Carter is the director of Afri
can Studies Program at North
western University. She is the
author of several books on poli
tics and government in Africa.
She will speak at 8 p.m. Wednes
day in the ballroom of the MSC.
Wallerstein, an associate pro
fessor of sociology at Columbia
University ,will address delegates
to SCONA Thursday. He has also
written several books on African
politics.
Debrah, Ghana’s ambassador to
the United States, will deliver the
round-up speech of the conference
Saturday.
Debrah is a career diplomat and
was instrumental in establishing
the Organization of African Uni
ty. He is a proponent of African
unity.
A graduate of the University
of Ghana, Debrah has published
works on politics, social science
and African nationalism in Amer
ican journals.
He is a proponent of foreign
investment in the area formerly
known as the Gold Coast.
Before the delegates listen to
Dr. Carter’s speech Wednesday
night, they will hear A&M’s
(See SCONA, page 3)
Fish,
Vote
Junior BA’s
Wednesday
Elections for freshmen class
executive and senate positions
and a junior business administra
tion senate post will be held
Wednesday.
Freshmen and third year B.A.
majors may vote between 7:30
a.m. and 8 p.m. Polling places
for the freshmen will be at the
newsstand in front of Sbisa Din
ing Hall, the guard room of dorm
2, and the basement of the Mem
orial Student Center. Polling
place for the Junior B.A. sena
tor will be the typing room of
Francis Hall.
Freshmen who wish to vote
must have their identification
and activity cards. Those wish
ing to vote in the junior B.A.
senator elections must be third-
year B.A. majors and must have
their name on a list put out by
the dean’s office or have a let
ter from the dean’s office stat
ing that they may vote.
To be eligible to run for the
position of freshman class sena
tor the freshman must have a
Grade Point Ratio of 2.5, for the
class officer positions they must
(See Fish, page 3)
^Tobacco Road’ Set
To Open Tonight
The Aggie Players open tonight
with their second major produc
tion this year, Jack Kirkland’s
adaptation of Erskine Caldwell’s
best-selling novel, “Tobacco
Road.”
Jeeter Lester, played by Cliff
Purcell, comes to life again aft
er becoming famous when the
play ran for seven years on
Broadway in the 1930s. The Les
ter family, including his wife,
Ada, played by Barbara VerSoy,
mother Lester,, played by Lucy
Gravett, his daughters Ellie May
and Pearl, played by Joanne
Witte and Virginia Link, and his
son Dude, played by Roger Ritch
ey, are Southern sharecroppers
near Augusta, Ga., during the
depression years.
Ada insists that Jeeter is lazy
and no good, but Jeeter insists
that he is only waiting for the
owner of the land. Captain Tim,
played by Larry Ludewig, to re-
(See Tobacco, page 2)
Miller Elected Region 12 Head
For 1970 at ACU-I Convention
Roger Miller, sophomore jour-
alism major from Hamilton,
was elected Region 12 chairman
of the Association of College
Unions-International (ACU-I) at
its convention last week in El
Paso, announced Dennis Flanni-
gan, vice-president of the Mem
orial Student Center Council and
Directorate.
Miller was nominated after the
convention failed to approve the
only other person nominated for
the post, Flannigan said.
Sixteen delegates represented
at the meeting, held on the cam
pus of the University of Texas
at El Paso.
They were Miller; Flannigan;
Joe M. (Mac) Spears, MSC pres
ident; Tom Fitzhugh, Great Is
sues chairman; Greg Weaver,
MSC vice-president for pro
grams; Caren Conlee, director
ate secretary; Charles Hoffman,
Political Forum chairman; A1
Bradley; Gary Rosin; Emil Pela;
Rip Russell; Mike Vaughn;
Otway Denny; Bob Lozano; Cliff
Chambers; and Gary Tankonin.
Faculty adviser for the group
was Sanders Ledbetter, assistant
director of the MSC.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.