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The charge, rookie f« f a 98-ya! r ork Jets the Demi • the 30-yat the Denvs By John Hotard Associated Press Writer Editor’s note: John Hotard was a reporter for The Bat talion three years ago; now he writes regularly for the As sociated Press. Here is his story on water pollution in the Hous- ton-Galveston area: HOUSTON <A>> — The polluted waters of the Golden Triangle and Corpus Christi Bay area were to be explored today by the Federal Water Pollution Con trol Advisory Board. The board will tour Beaumont- Port Arthur-Orange triangle area investigating Neches and Sabine rivers to see if pollution has been abated in the past three years. In the afternoon it will fly to Corpus to study the waters of the bay and Corpus Christi har bor. The nine member board, be gan its two-day tour of the in dustrial southeast corner of Tex as Monday by flying over the Houston-Galveston area and tra veled about 25 miles of the heav ily polluted Houston Ship Chan nel. Invitations Go Out to 120 For ‘Jericho’ Invitations have been mailed to 120 Texas A&M students asking them to participate in “Opera tion Jericho” next month. The student conference will at tempt to discuss problems of in terest to the students in hopes they will break down the walls between the administration and students. Otway Denny of the Memorial Student Center Leadership Com mittee reported 70 civilian stu dents and 50 Corps of Cadets members will receive invitations to fill the 90 delegate positions. Ten coeds are included in the civilian invitation list, he noted. Delegates will be selected in the order they accept. Denny pointed out a $2,000 budget has been approved for the conference scheduled Feb. 18-20. Training sessions will be held Peb. 5, 10 and 16 when the stu dents will divide into 15 groups to discuss student problems. Dur ing “Operation Jericho” the stu dents will be given a list of ma jor student problems or com plaints and the delegates will discuss and give recommendations for solutions, Denny indicated. “A man educated to the odors could make this trip blindfolded and still know where he was ev ery minute,” said U.S. Rep. Bob Eckhardt of Houston, who with other state and federal officials accompanied the board. The advisory board appointed by the President, toured Texas in 1967 and at that time said the ship channel was “overwhel mingly polluted.” It was invited back this year by Gov. Preston Smith. David Dominick, commissioner of the federal water pollution control agency, noted that the channel had very little flow and thus the water is almost all in dustrial effluent. “We’ve got to clean up these effluents sufficiently so we don’t continue to destroy Galveston Bay,” he said. Galveston officials earlier in the day told the board that the greatest danger to their sur rounding body of waters was the pollution from the channel which flows into the hay. The overboard discharge from ships visiting both Galveston and Houston ports were also pointed out as a major source of pollu tion. Members of the Texas Water Quality Board and the Water Development Board are making the tours with the federal board. Carl Klein, assistant secretary of the interior for water quality and research and board chair man was to join the hoard this afternoon. He will conduct a public hear ing Wednesday and Thursday on the area’s pollution problems and possible solutions. Smith will outline a plan to combat oil spills in the Texas Gulf during the Wednesday ses sion. Following the hearing, the board may release recommen dations or conclusions drawn in the four-day fact-finding trip, Dominick said. Senator Secret Questions Service WASHINGTON <A>)—Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., has termed “a direct threat to First Amend ment freedoms” a Secret Service request for reports on some Americans. Ervin said the information wa/s asked from other government agencies. He directed his protest to Sec retary of the Treasury David M. Kennedy, who replied that Se cret Service inquiries were limited to those needed for its protection of the President and other top officials. 6 Red-faced’ Over Registration Highway Officials Explain It Again bb&l Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. —Adv. AUSTIN—The Texas Highway Department is sporting a red face. In recent news releases an nouncing the new computerized motor vehicle registration system, Department information special ists wrote: “Easy - to - follow instructions are printed on the three-part form.” That must be a mistake^—be cause a lot of motorists haven’t been following instructions. And mistakes generate confusion. This is the first year that the Department has gone to the new system, which includes an order- by-mail program for obtaining 1970 motor vehicle license plates. But just to make sure that mo torists do understand the “easy- to-follow instructions,” they are: 1. Each motorist whose vehicle was registered last year has or will receive in the mail a long, narrow envelope with a printed message on the front reading: “Important — This is Your Li cense Plate Renewal Applica tion.” 2. The envelope will contain a three-part form. Do not separate the three parts. 3. Motor vehicle license regis tration may be renewed during January and February by mailing the three-part form (intact) and your check to your county tax collector. Add $1 for postage and handling charges for each vehicle. License plates will be mailed Feb. 1 and thereafter. 4. Motor vehicle license regis tration may be renewed during February and March by taking the three-part form (intact) and payment to the county tax collec tor’s office or substation. The North Carolina senator put an account of the case in the Nov. 10 Congressional Record, and re peated it in the December staff report of his subcommittee on constitutional rights. Ervin said the information re quest could lead to “a mass sur veillance unprecedented in Ameri can history.” He said the Secretary Service asked other government workers to send it information on: —People who make threatening, irrational or abusive statements about high government officials. —People who personally con tact high government officials “for the purpose of a redress of imaginary grievances.” —Any plan to harm or Embar rass high government officials. —People who take part in dem onstrations. Ervin said many people “with complete faith in their govern ment, believe that the place to start with a complaint is with the President or Vice President. “Yet some of these people who write a strong letter will never know they have been fed into yet another government data system,” he said. “Similarly, thousands of well- meaning loyal Americans have engaged in some form of dem onstration in connection with the Vietnam war, welfare and civil rights policies of the government, and many other causes,” Ervin said. GOING FOR TWO Pat Kavanagh (20), Aggie guard, moves down the court during Saturday’s contest here against the Baylor Bears. Jeff Watkins (44) blocks for Kavanagh, while the Bears’ Jer ry Hopkins (30) moves to head Kavanagh off. Baylor won the game, 79-71. (Photo by Mike Wright) Senate Meeting Wrap-Up Senate Hears Traffic, Check Policy Reports Sen. Harrington t o Discuss ‘Labor in Texas Politics’ Senator D. Roy Harrington of Port Arthur will discuss “Labor in Texas Politics” Wednesday in a noon Political Forum presenta tion at Texas A&M. The four-term Democratic sen ator’s talk will be in rooms 2C and D of the Memorial Student Center, announced Forum chair man Charles Hoffman of Green- belt, Md. Sack lunches will be available at a nominal charge. Admission is free. The former secretary of the Texas State CIO Council chairs the Senate Intrestate Cooperation Committee, the interim joint House-Senate Committee on fac ulty compensation and interim Senate study committee of state regulation of pipe lines in Texas. Harrington also is a member of the constitutional amendments, county-district-urban affairs, fi nance, nominations, parks and wildlife, public health, transpor tation and water-conservation committees. Before serving in the legisla ture, Harrington was active in Boy Scout work, Youth Council president and State Tuberculosis Association secretary. He is employed by Texaco in Port Arthur and is co-owner of a pharmacy in Bridge City. By Dave Mayes Battalion Editor Proposals for construction of a 1,000-car day student parking and suggestions for improving the traffic situation at Northgate were outlined for the Student Senate Thursday by Bob Hase (grad). Hase was one of several sen ators who gave reports on stud ies they hal'd made during the fall. Other reports were on the status of the salaries of corps commanders and the university’s check-cashing policy. Published in The Battalion Friday was a report on “Oper ation Feedback,” a student ques tionnaire poll taken in Novem ber. Senate President Gerry Geist- weidt admitted that the senate has been primarily concerned with information-gathering this fall but said the research was needed to establish a basis for actions it will take in the spring. Hase, a member of the univer sity Traffic committee, said the panel was assisting with the planning of a 1,000-car lot for faculty and day students to be located in the northeast corner of the campus across from the en gineering complex now under con struction. Plans call for the lot to be finished in time for the fall semester, Hase said. He also noted that the com mittee was looking at ways in which the Northgate congestion at FM 60 at College Main and Houston Streets could be reduc ed. Suggested solutions being considered, Hase said, involved changing the location of the traf fic light and adding more traf fic control signs. Collier Watson, Student Life committee chairman, announced that a pay hike of $10 per month for the 48 commanders in the Corps of Cadets had been ap proved by the administration and that it became effective Dec. 15. In its Nov. 20 meeting, the sen ate had approved a resolution asking A&M President Earl Rud der to “correct current inequi ties” in student housemaster pay by raising corps commanders’ pay from $10 to $30 per month. Watson had said then that the pay of commanders needed to be brought more closely in line with that of civilian residence hall ad visers who make $60 per month for performing similar duties. One of Watson’s subcommittee chairmen, Joe Nix (soph-Eng), explained to senators why the Fiscal Office could not cash two- party checks for students. He said he had been told that if the check was bad then the university did not have any legal basis to collect money for it. An excep- (See Senate Hears, Page 3) 3 Aggies Arrrested in Bryan For Possession of Marijuana Three A&M students were ar rested by Bryan police Sunday night and charged with posses sion of marijuana. Bond was set at $1,000 each. Arrested were Joe Winnett, freshman marketing major from Houston; Walter Rawley, sopho more zoology major from Dallas; and Terry M. Wilson, freshman pre-veterinary medicine major from Dallas. All three live in Dorm 7. Arresting officer J. D. Harrell of the Bryan police said in his report that Sunday night he ob served three men driving eratical- ly down Texas Avenue. Thinking that they were drunk, he said, he motioned them over to the side of the road. After inspecting them and the vehicle, he found that he couldn’t smell alcohol, he said, and decid ed to search them. It was then, he said, that he discovered the marijuana. After taking them to the Braz os County Jail, he informed Cam pus Security of the arrest. They checked the rooms of three stu dents and said they found mari juana there. Monday afternoon Winnett, Rawley and Wilson were in jail awaiting posting of bond money. a» To Be Organized by Students Next Semester Council Funds Singing Group n socnIW" ll EF® 1 I SjiSi’v ■ MEMBERSHIP CONFERED Cmdr. Grace Murray Hooper, USNR, Naval systems programming director, receives an honorary membership in UPE, the A&M chapter of the computer science national honor society. The presentation was made to the Data Processing Management Association’s “Computer Science Man of the Year” for 1969 during the annual banquet of the A&M unit of the DPMA. Stewart Carpenter, left, president of the A&M DPMA chapter, and Dan Calvin. UPE president, make the award. (Photo by Jim Berry) By David Middlebrooke Battalion Managing Editor The formation of a new singing group on the A&M campus next semester was announced Monday night at a meeting of the Me morial Student Center Council. Membership in the group, Den nis Flannigan, MSC vice presi dent, explained, will be open to any student interested in organ ized singing. Group members will meet “once or twice a week” under the direction of Robert Boone, Singing Cadet director, Flannigan said. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. The vice president said that the idea for a new group came about when some students decided that A&M needed a group that offered more opportunity for participa tion than the Singing Cadets do. Membership in the Singing Cadets is limited, and restricted to male students. Boone was approached about leading the group, Flannigan said, and agreed to, provided that it met in the evening. The council gave the group “trial committee” status and allo cated $50 to it for advertising. Bob Jarvis, freshman nuclear en gineering major, was named as temporary chairman. Harry Snowdy, council execu tive vice president for programs, reported that the council’s build ings studies committee had visited Louisiana State University dur ing the Christmas holidays to see how the LSU student union was designed. The committee members, Snow dy said, were making the study to see what points of the LSU building could be incorporated into plans for a proposed MSC expansion to begin later this year. With the aid of blueprints and miniature models, Snowdy ex plained the proposed new setup. He said that office space and con ference rooms for major campus government organizations was be ing provided, along with meeting rooms for use by any student organization or group. In other council business, Gary E. Reid, junior wildlife science major, was named as chairman of the MSC Directorate’s Base ment Committee, replacing Clif Chamberlain, who was resigning for personal reasons. The council also: —A p p r o v e d supplementary speakers lists for the Contem porary Arts and Political Forum Committees. —Approved a supplementary budget request for the MSC Leadership Committee. —Accepted gifts to the MSC totaling $862. FIRST BANK & TRUST—Home of the Super C D - 5% interest compounded daily.