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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
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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.
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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.
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