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Vol. 65 No. 90
College Station, Texas Friday, March 20, 1970
Telephone 845-2226
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In Postal Workers Walkout
ANT' MAKES A POINT—The queen ant of a colony attempting to imitate humans
mphasizes her point in a discussion with the scientist ant during Thursday night’s
erformance of “Under the Sycamore Tree.” The Aggie Players production will be
iresented tonight and Saturday night at 8 in Guion Hall. Admission is $1. (Photo by
im Berry)
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‘Rising A&M Skyline ’
Plans for Campus Outlined
Shifting of campus pedestrian
ittems eastward, a higher pro-
ie of A&M’s skyline and further
iterior campus expansion of the
(destrian mall concept going in
tar the library are being con-
iiered for the university’s future.
Dr. Charles Pinnell said during
Brazos County A&M Club slide
resentation on campus planning
lat ideas in the program are
reliminary.
"At this stage, this plan is
mething to base work on,” the
liversity planning office direc-
t said. “In all events, it will
main flexible.”
Development is based on 20,000-
irollment within the next 10
tars. It requires no land pur-
isses. Cars would remain the
eans of transporting students
the campus.
Expanded housing for single
ad married students is central
the Caudill, Rowlett and Scott-
tsigned plan. The planning di-
tor said a 2,000-bed dormitory
mplex between the 12-dorm
tea and Lubbock Street is in
e mill and plans for another
OOO-bed complex are being con-
dered.
Consideration also is being giv-
to expansion of married stu
dent housing, possibly in the area
north of Hensel, and perhaps
eventual removal of most of the
old College View apartments to
make way for a high-rise apart
ment area.
Pinnell said A&M’s interior
traffic is becoming a serious
problem and that “we’re about
at the point of having to remove
some vehicular traffic.”
“Eventually the entire central
campus area will be pedestrian
oriented,” he commented. Park
ing would probably be handled
by 3,000-car lots west of State
Highway 2154 and south of FM
60 in the vicinity of projected
dorms, he said, adding that park
ing accommodations need to be
doubled. The latter lot will prob
ably be in use by September.
Ten and 20-year projections
considerably alter A&M’s appear
ance. Planned oceanography-me
teorology and Memorial Student
Center expansion high-rises would
be only the start of construction
of buildings more than three or
four stories tall.
An academic high-rise is pro
jected for the parking area north
of the Academic Building. The
water tower will likely be re
moved. Also in the later stages
of the plan is a coliesum surround
ed by the proposed parking lot
west of the campus.
Pinnell said all planning em
phasizes retention of open spaces
and a variety of buildings, but
more coordination of form, scale
and style. Wider walkways, un
derground utilities, breaking up
large parking areas with island
plantings and student commons
at walkway intersections are
guidelines.
“Our next step will be to obtain
more concrete enrollment projec
tions, followed by analysis and
detailed planning,” Pinnell said.
Saturday — Cloudy, intermit
tent rain. Winds easterly 10-20
m.p.h. High 58 degrees, low 46
degrees.
Sunday — Cloudy to partly
cloudy. Southerly winds 10-15
m.p.h. High 67 degrees, low 49
degrees.
Thirteen high school drill teams
ill compete Saturday in the sec-
id Texas A&M Invitational
mior Division Drill Meet.
The Milby Muskets of Hous-
ms Milby High School will de-
md the meet championship and
43-inch trophy won last year
t the inauguration of the com-
itition.
Teams from San Antonio, La-
edo, Galveston, Mesquite, Kil-
'en, Bellaire, Austin and Houston
ill be seeking to unseat Milby.
he meet will be held on the
igh School Teams Here
Saturday for Drill Meet
Memorial Student Center parade
ground.
Competition in inspection, basic
and fancy drill will be completed
by each team, with basic and
fancy drills occurring simultan
eously.
The day-long meet will conclude
about 4 p.m. with an exhibition
by the Freshman Drill Team, de
fending national champions, and
awards by A&M Academic Vice
President Dr. Horace R. Byers.
Byers will be substituting for
ailing A&M President Earl
ioard of Directors Endorses
‘roposed Airport Authority
The Texas A&M University
System Board of Directors Thurs-
l&y formally endorsed the pro-
losed Brazos County Airport
Authority as the most effective
Heans of solving the community’s
hrport problem.
“If the citizens of Brazos Coun
ty want to continue to use Easter-
*ood Airport as their municipal
*ir facility, the airport authority
•s the most feasible and econom
ical solution to the problem,”
Wd president Clyde H. Wells
said.
Wells said Easterwood has de
teriorated to the point where it
riust have some major repairs.
“The state legislature will not
provide funds for these repairs,”
he said.
Wells said the board of direc
tors has given the local airport
situation close study for the past
six years. The board initially re
quested community help in sup
porting Easterwood in 1964 and
repeated its plea in 1968.
The board president noted the
university has provided an airport
for the community for the past
29 years but declared the univer
sity can no longer carry the fi
nancial load alone.
“We trust that the citizens of
Brazos County will support the
airport authority when they vote
Saturday,” Wells said.
Rudder.
Competition chairman Mel
Hamilton said this years entry
list is longer by three teams than
last years. The 30-member Asso
ciation of Former Fish Drill Team
Members will conduct the meet,
which is cosponsored by the De
partments of Military Science
and Aerospace Studies.
Drill instructors of the FDT,
headed by Richard Gonzalez, will
judge basic and fancy drill, and
inspection will be conducted by
Justo Gonzalez, Company 1-1
commander and former FDT
commander.
Competing for the champion
ship will be the Martin High
Singing Cadets and J. W. Nixon
High Nixon Rifles of Laredo;
the Ball High Clarks Rifles of
Galveston; Mesquite High School
Skeeter Musketeers of Mesquite;
the Killeen High Kangaroo Ka-
dets of Killeen; the John H.
Reagan High Fighting Reagan
Guard of Austin.
Also, the Thomas Jefferson
High Crimson Guard, Robert E.
Lee High Guard, the L. W. Fox
Vocational and Technical High
Fox Tech Twirling Rifles and
Central Catholic High Loyd Rifles
of San Antonio; the Jack Yeates
High Imperial Thunderbolts of
Houston; and the Bellaire High
Red Rifles of Bellaire.
GREAT SAVINGS PLANS made
even better by new legal rates at
FIRST BANK & TRUST. Adv.
End Sought, Rather
Than Help by Army
By William Barton
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — The White
House said Thursday the thrust
of administration efforts to deal
with spreading postal walkouts
is to work with union leaders to
get mail handlers back on the
job rather than turn over mail
delivery to the Army or National
Guard units.
Press secretary Ronald L.
Ziegler said President Nixon was
keeping in close touch with the
situation and acknowleged,
“there’s concern, of course, from
the public welfare standpoint.”
Asked if consideration was be
ing given to mobilizing military
or guard units in the New York-
New Jersey area to speed proc
essing of mail, Ziegler said “the
thrust of the activity” is to co
operate with union leaders in an
effort to end the strikes.
The nation’s first letter carrier
strike continued to spread to wid
er areas of upper state New
York, New Jersey and Connecti
cut as the city’s mailmen defied
a back-to-work court order.
As postmen in many cities
across the nation prepared to
vote on whether to strike, work
halted in post offices throughout
northern New Jersey this morn
ing.
Paterson, Hackensack, Jersey
City and Bayonne were the ma
jor New Jersey cities affected.
All mail deliveries were can
celed at Stamford, Conn., when
carriers there walked out at mid
night, and letter carriers struck
at White Plains, serving a large
area of suburban Westchester
County. A union official said the
walkout at White Plains would
virtually halt work in many out
lying post offices.
A national embargo ordered at
the start of the day-old strike
already had diverted tens of mil
lions of pieces of mail addressed
to New York to storage bins in
post offices around the nation.
Mail chutes and outside boxes in
New York City were sealed.
The impact of the strike was
immediate. It was felt in broker
age houses, banks, businesses and
law offices.
Housewives received no maga
zines, bills or coupons. Relatives
received no word by mail from
servicemen in Vietnam. The bus
iness of the huge Manhattan-
based corporations and govern
ment agencies was disrupted.
In other developments:
—Leaders of seven unions; rep
resenting 700,000 postal workers
said they are doing all they can
to get the strikers back to work
and asked Secretary of Labor
George P. Shultz to step in and
mediate the dispute.
—Francis S. Filbey, president
of the AFL-CIO United Federa
tion of Postal Clerks, said “The
CSC to Meet
Monday Night
At 6 in MSC
The Civilian Student Council
will convene at 6:30 p.m. Monday
in Room 3-D of the Memorial
Student Center, according to Paul
Ammons, treasurer.
Ammons said that the meeting
had been scheduled Monday be
cause some of the members were
leaving Tuesday evening for the
Easter holidays.
On the agenda for the meeting
is a report on the National Asso
ciation of College and University
Residence Hall conference, attend
ed by some members of the CSC
earlier in the semester, the go-
cart Grand Prix which is sched
uled for Saturday afternoon of
civilian week, and the annual
CSC awards banquet which is
scheduled for May 7.
Also to be discussed is the
council budget for the remainder
of the semester. Ammons said
that it will primarily be about
the division of funds from the sale
of dorm activity cards.
worst thing that could happen
would be for the Army or any
other group to come in and try
to move this mail.” He said this
might lead to a nationwide postal
strike.
—The executive council of the
National Association of Letter
Carriers hinted at a nationwide
strike unless Congress meets its
demands by mid-April. James H.
Rademacher, president of the
union, summoned 300 branch
leaders to Washington for a
meeting at which he said they
will be urged to support the ex
ecutive council stand.
—Sen. John J. Williams, R-
Del., introduced a resolution call
ing on the administration to en
force laws forbidding strikes by
federal government employes, in
cluding postal workers.
Ziegler was asked about a re
port that Charles Colson, a spe
cial counsel to Nixon, told postal
union leaders several months ago
that the President would veto
postal reform legislation—includ
ing accompanying pay raises —
unless the measure incorporated
his plan to turn the Post Office
Department into a quasipublic
corporation.
“I’m not aware that that took
place,” he replied. “I do know
the President has been totally
committeed to postal reform.”
Postmaster General Winton M.
Blount said he is optimistic that
the strikers will go back to work.
“I don’t think that the Con
gress—that any precipitate action
should be taken at this time,”
he said.
Blount said some of the strik
ers already have returned to work
and that picket lines have come
down at most post offices.
Blount and other top Post Of
fice Department officials held
out hope that friendly persua
sion rather than any drastic gov
ernment action will end the walk
out.
If persuasion fails, they con
ceded little can be done to get
the workers back, even though
the stoppage violates federal law
and is in defiance of court in
junctions.
“You can’t jail thousands of
workers,” one department spokes
man said.
He said that even the arrest of
local union leaders in the affect
ed areas might arouse sympa
thy elsewhere and spread the
work stoppage throughout the
nation.
Postmaster General Winton M.
Blount and his top aides kept in
continuous touch with postal
union leaders, all of whom pledg
ed cooperation in helping to end
the strike.
As walkouts spread to areas
outside New York City, James
H. Rademacher, president of the
National Association of Letter
Carriers, renewed his plea for
postal employes to return to
their jobs.
In Congress, Democrats on the
House Post Office Committee is
sued a statement placing respon
sibility for the burgeoning crisis
on the Nixon administration.
Committee Chairman Thad-
deus J. Dulski, D-N.Y., said the
worker dissatisfaction was main
ly due to the fact that Nixon, in
his fiscal 1971 budget, postponed
from July to next January a
scheduled pay increase for all
federal workers.
Dulski said he is still seeking
a House-Senate conference on
separate pay bills that would
give postal employes an antici
pated 5.7 per cent pay increase
in addition to the 5.4 per cent pay
increase already included in Nix
on’s postal corporation plan.
But even the total 11.1 per
cent pay hike would not nearly
meet the striking postal workers’
demands for a 40 per cent in
crease—to a range of $8,500 to
$11,700 a year from the present
range of $6,100 to $8,442.
Asked if there was any way
Congress could approve a 40 per
cent pay increase, Dulski replied:
“No sir.”
And he said the postal unions
must deal with the Post Office
Department, not with Congress.
Senate to Hold
PboneGripe-In
Students will be able to help
decide what will be covered in a
Student Senate opinion poll that
will be given during the general
elections April 23, according to
Marcus Hill, chairman of the
senate grievance and opinion com
mittees.
The most popular views will be
printed by the Student Senate
and handed out at the polls. Stu
dents will mark what they con
sider to be important issues.
Hill said that the opinion com
mittee will be taking calls at
845-5879 from 2-5 p.m. Monday.
All views given will be recorded
and at the end of the session the
25 most popular will be selected
and forwarded to the Student
Senate.
The program was organized to
allow the “grassroots” at A&M a
chance to express their opinion
and let them feel they are taking
an active part in student govern
ment, Hill said.
“A lot of people have accused
the Senate of being unresponsive
to student views,” he continued.
“This program is to show that
the senate is responsive to stu
dent views.”
The committee was first called
the referendum committee, Hill
said, but was changed to the
opinion poll after Dean of Stu
dents James P. Hannigan said
that the term referendum seemed
too final.
Legalized Abortion Needed,
Geneticist Tells UL Group
By Jay F. Goode
Battalion Staff Writer
Legalized abortion and genetic
counseling should be used to pre
vent harmful genetic changes in
the human papulation, a Univer
sity of Wisconsin geneticist told
a University Lecture Series au
dience.
“It is now possible, by testing
embryonic fluids, to determine
if the embryo will be normal,”
Dr. James Grow said speaking on
“Heredity, Evolution and Man’s
Future” at the Memorial Student
Center Thursday night. In sev
eral countries where abortion
laws were liberalized, birth rates
have also decreased, Dr. Crow
said.
“I suspect that legalized abor
tion will become a routine prac
tice,” Dr. Crow said.
Genetic counselors, Dr. Crow
said, can detect possibly unknown
but harmful genes and advise
people of the probabilities of
these genes occurring in their
offspring. This may be necessary
because the human environment
has been changed by modern med
icine in such a way that the ef
fect of natural selection has been
reduced, Dr. Crow said.
“It is clear enough that our
present environment is far safer
than what our ancestors had. We
probably would not survive if we
had to go back to living in caves,”
he said.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
As an example, Dr. Crow cited
the case where modern surgery
has reduced the number of people
who die from pyloric stenosis, a
stomach disorder where food can’t
pass through the stomach due to
narrowing of the pyloric orifice.
It was previously a fatal disease,
Dr. Crow said, and the result of
surgery has been to allow these
genes to be passed on to future
generations.
“Once you have environmental
improvements such as surgeons
you must continue to produce
surgeons to maintain the environ
mental conditions,” Dr. Crow said.
“If you take away the surgeons,
the people who carry fatal genes
will be subject to natural, selec
tion.”
Mental retardation, which oc
curs in about one in 1,"000, is now
capable of being cured, Dr. Crow
cited as another example of en
vironmental change. When these
people pass on these hidden genes
mental retardation will increase
about 2 per cent in the next gen
eration, Dr. Crow said. In 40 gen
erations, the occurrence of men
tal retardation will double, Dr.
Crow added.
Dominant genes, such as py
loric stenosis, if allowed to re
produce, will cause the disease to
occur twice as often in the next
generation, Dr. Crow said. This
means that a iperson with a lethal
dominant gene stands a chance
of having the disease appear in
his own children, he said, adding
that this probably will not occur
with recessive genes such as men
tal retardation.
However, when a person real
izes that bad effects are likely
to occur in an immediate genera
tion, he will not likely reproduce,
Dr. Crow said. This is why ge
netic counseling can be important,
he added.
“Genetic information should be
generally available,” Dr. Crow
maintained.
“We should not let the muta
tion rate get any higher,” he
said. He added that all new chem
icals such as contraceptives and
pesticides should be tested before
getting on the market.
“If I were a dictator,” Dr.
Crow said, “I would decree that
the human mutation rate would
be zero.” We have an enormous
range of variability in humans;
we do not need new mutations,”
he said.
DR. JAMES CROW
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