Che Battalion
Vol. 65 No. 93
College Station, Texas
Thursday, April 2, 1970
Telephone 845-2226
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Permit, Fine Boosts
Will Go to Board
MILITARY ‘COUP’—Corps of Cadets battalion and group commanders, with their fish
“troops” behind them, survey the corps before morning chow Wednesday. The Corps
Liberation Junta, as they called themselves, deposed Corps Commander Matt Carroll and
the brigade and wing commanders for the day and encouraged “public ostracization of
the . . . cadets throughout the day.” Carroll and the major commanders were restored
to power at 6:30 that evening. (Photo by Mel Miller)
Sen. Aikin Sees New Era
In State Public Education
By Fran Haugen
Battalion Staff Writer
The student-administration traffic committee’s pro
posals to increase the price of student and faculty-staff
parking permits to $ 15 a year and double each successive
parking fine during a semester are ready to go before the
A&M Board of Directors April 28, Don Stafford, committee
chairman, announced Wednesday.
Stafford said that he had discussed the plan with Dean
of Students James P. Hannigan and Tom Cherry, vice
president for business affairs, and both had approved it with
minor revisions in the wording.
Cherry will inform the university’s executive committee
of the proposals before they are submitted to the board.
If the traffic committee’s recommendations are sanc
tioned by the board, the price of parking permits for vehicles
will increase from $ 10 to $ 15 a year.
In addition, each parking ticket a violator receives will
cost him twice as much as the previous one. The first ticket
will cost him $2, the fee for every ticket now. If he parks
illegally after paying $32 for his fifth ticket, his permit will
be revoked for the remainder of the semester.
“We’re giving out too many tickets,” Stafford said.
“During the fall semester $16,917 was collected from 7,451
tickets issued. These statistics give the appearance that one
out of every two drivers on campus was given a ticket. This
was not the case. Some people have gotten as many as 10
tickets.”
The measure is an attempt to jolt people into reasonable
observation of parking regulations, Stafford said.
“As an example, six students who live off-campus could
pile into a car, come onto campus, park in an unauthorized
place and split the parking fine, Stafford explained. As things
are now, each one wouldn’t have to pay too much.”
The proposed rule would also apply to faculty members,
Stafford said, adding, “Faculty members are just as guilty of
violations as students.”
The traffic committee is presently composed of six
students; two members of the corps, two civilians, one
student senator, and one member of the Graduate Student
Council; and five people from A&M’s faculty and staff;
Campus Security Chief Ed Powell, a representative from the
Texas Transportation Institute, a representative from the
Office of Planning and Analytical Studies, a civilian-corps
adviser and Stafford.
Over 25,000 Expected
Public school education in
Texas has entered an era that
will provide better instruction for
the state’s youth, Sen. A. M.
Aikin Jr. of Paris told a Politi
cal Forum audience Wednesday.
The co-author of the famous
Gilmer-Aikin Bill told the audi
ence that the era began last Sep
tember when the Legislature ap
propriated funds for a scheduled
pay raise for teachers.
“I’m hoping the salary sched
ule will attract and hold to the
teaching profession the best that
we have,” the 64-year-old dean
of the Senate said of the $700-a-
year increase.
“I’m firmly convinced that our
people want their children to
have the best, teachers we can
provide for them,” he added.
“The legislature has been criti
cized for spending entirely too
much,” Aikin said. “But Texas
teachers’ salaries before the Sep
tember raise were ranked 38th
among the states. After the
$700 raise, we are 39th.”
The reason for the rank reduc
tion despite the raise is because
other states are progressing at
the same or higher rates.
Other raises will increase five
per cent annually over the next
eight years, he reported. When
a $1,000 raise goes into effect
next September, Texas should
rank anywhere from 26th to
28th among the states, he said.
Further improvements of pub
lic school education in Texas will
be realized through House Bills
241 and 276, the 32-year senate
veteran said. The first measure
increases by 10 per cent teacher
retirement allowances, an area
he described as critical.
“Those teachers who have just
retired are facing higher costs
of living,” Aikin said. “In effect,
Texas teacher retirement has
been getting cut.”
HB 276 provides for a mini
mum of five days sick leave.
Aikin emphasized that money
for improvements will have to
come from taxes.
“Any time someone votes for
an appropriations bill he should
be willing to vote for revenue
bills to support it. Revenue is
the only way a government has
to get money.”
“You should keep in mind
that the only way funds for
gains of this sort, can be obtained
is to tax something,” he added.
He made one quickly-applaud
ed statement aimed at all teach
ers, from public school through
higher education.
“Any member of any faculty
that is not willing to take the
pledge of allegiance to the flag
of the United States is not fit
to teach my boy,” the senator
stated.
He also said that the youth of
today will probably be among
the better teachers the state has
seen.
“When people begin to tell you
about youth of today take it with
a grain of salt,” he said.
“There is nothing wrong with
the youth of this country,” Aikin
said. “We ought to sit down and
talk with them. The only thing
wrong with them is that I’m not
one of them.”
Vanity Fair,
Make-Ups Due
By April io At ‘Asian Yictory’ Rally
Deadline for junior and sopho
more make-up pictures for the
1970 Aggieland is April 10, edi
tor Doug Page has announced.
Page said Vanity Fair entry
deadline is also April 10.
Make-up pictures can be made
at University Studio at North
Gate, Page said. Students must
present fall fee slip 1 * or pay $1.50
to have their picture put in the
yearbook.
Only seniors may nominate
Vanity Fair contestants, Page
said. He added that application
forms may be obtained in room
217 Information Services Build
ing.
Danes Ask TMA to Join
Independence Day Fete
GALVESTON—The Texas Mar
itime Academy has been asked to
participate in Denmark’s Ameri
can Independence Day celebration
July 3-4 during the academy’s
annual summer cruise, announced
Adm. James D. Craik, TMA su
perintendent.
Craik said the invitation was
extended by Ambassador Guilforc(
Dudley Jr., United States envoy
to Denmark.
Participation in the observance
requires slight adjustment in the
cruise itinerary, the admiral said.
He said the TMA training ship
Texas Clipper will now dock ini
tially at Aalboig, rather than Co
penhagen, on the Danish segment
of the two-month cruise.
The Danish celebration of
American independence is now in
its 48th year. Craik said the ob
servance was originally inspired
as a reunion of grateful Ameri
cans of Danish descent with their
folks in the old country, but it
has now grown into a shrine to
freedom and democracy.
More than 40,000 persons, in
cluding the Danish Royal Family,
attend the celebration each year.
Featured U. S. speaker last year
was former Vice Persident Hu
bert H. Humphrey.
Approximately 210 students
will participate in the 1970 cruise,
including 110 TMA midshipmen
studying for four-year degrees in
marine transportation or marine
engineering.
The other students will be
spring high school graduates en
rolled in “Summer School at
Sea,” a summer school program
jointly sponsored by TMA and
Texas A&M University’s College
of Liberal Arts.
“Summer School at Sea,” ex
plained Adm. Craik, offers high
school graduates an opportunity
to earn six hours of college cred
it in English, mathematics or his
tory while getting a taste of life
at sea.
Fees for the summer school
program total $650 for Texas
residents and $800 for non-resi
dents. The charges include room,
board, tuition and insurance.
In adidtion to Denmark, the
1970 itinerary includes Cobh, Ire
land; LeHavre, France; Hamburg,
Germany; Southhampton, Eng
land, and Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Applications for the June 6-
Aug. 2 cruise may be made
through the Texas Maritime
Academy at Galveston. Deadline
is May 1.
By Martha Cole
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Sponsors of
a march for “Victory over the
Communists in Vietnam” estimat
ed today anywhere from 25,000
to 150,000 persons will parade
here Saturday.
They said people are coming
from 43 states for the march
down Pennsylvania Avenue to
the Washington Monument
grounds for a 2 to 5 p.m. rally.
It’s the same route an esti
mated 250,000 antiwar demon
strators, most of them youths,
took last Nov. 15.
Saturday’s march supporting a
military victory is sponsored by
a committee headed by Dr. Carl
Mclntire of Collingswood, N.J.,
a pastor, a radio preacher and
president of the International
Council of Christian Churches.
Listed among the backers are
Gov. Lester Maddox of Georgia;
Sens. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.,
and Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz.;
Rep. Mendel Rivers, D-S.C.,
chairman of the powerful House
Armed Services Committee; and
George C. Wallace, former gov
ernor of Alabama.
Among the speakers will be
Mclntire and Gov. Maddox.
Parade banners will call not
only for victory in Vietnam but
also freedom for prayer and Bi
ble reading in the schools, spon
sors said.
Religious, patriotic, veteran
and refugee groups are coming
from all sections of the country,
they said. Some are bringing
bands for the parade.
“The March for Victory is a
religious and patriotic demon
stration. All are invited to par
ticipate in it,” sponsors said in
full page advertisements in some
newspapers. In addition, Dr. Mc
lntire has talked of the march
on his radio program.
In a flyer, the sponsors said
“the hippies and the radicals,
the liberals and the leftists” have
been to Washington time and time
again.
Saturday’s march, they said,
is an opportunity for “the Chris
tian people who believe that they
must stand and give expression
to their strong opposition to the
enemies of the country, Commu
nism and any compromises with
it” to go to Washington. One
flyer also mentions freedom of
choice on the part of families for
their children’s education.
The decision to hold the march
was made last Nov. 11, sponsors
said.
Wallace said from his office a
speaking engagement in his cam
paign for governor prevents his
being at the march, but he sup
ports it fully.
Rivers and Thurmond have said
they support the march but prior
commitments at the Charleston,
S.C., tricentennial celebration
April 4 prevent them from at
tending the demonstration. Gold-
water also will be unable to at
tend.
Before the parade, sponsors
plan a prayer meeting Friday
night on the sidewalk in front of
the National Cathedral in north
west Washington.
Last Nov. 14, some 10,000 gath
ered at the Episcopal cathedral
for a religious service as part of
the antiwar demonstration and
march the next day.
The Rev. Clifford Peterson of
Phoenix, Ariz., coordinator of the
Washington office for Saturday’s
march, said in an interview cath
edral authorities denied their re
quest to use the church so the
march sponsors obtained a police
permit for the sidewalk service.
“Wherever the hippies and pro-
Hanoi people go, we’re going to
go,” Peterson said.
Mclntire was escorted from
the cathedral last Nov. 14 when
he refused to promise not to
speak at the activities there.
Mclntire, 64, has been pastor
of the 1,800 member Bible Pres
byterian Church of Collingswood
since 1933.
He also is director of the 20th
Century Reformation Hour Broad
cast, a religious program carried
on some 600 radio stations. He
is editor of a weekly religious
newspaper, The Christian Beacon.
WEATHER
Friday—Clear to partly cloudy.
Southerly winds 10-15 m.p.h. High
76 degrees, low 43 degrees. Sat
urday—Partly cloudy. Southerly
winds 10-15 m.p.h. Hi 78, low 48.
A&M Latin American Students
To Begin Pan-Am Week April 12
Jokes, Pranks Abound
On April Fool’s Day
Beer flowed from the milk
machine at the University of
Nevada, identical twins swapped
classes in Oklahoma and senators
mysteriously were called to the
governor’s office in California.
Yup! Yesterday was April
Pool’s Day.
The biggest joke was the
weather. April served up left
over March lion with cold weath
er in many areas.
New spring outfits purchased
for Easter stayed in the closet
as heavy snow warnings were
from New Mexico to Indiana.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adr.
Human pranksters also were
at work.
Beer flowed from the milk dis
penser at the University of Neva
da dining commons at lunch
time.
State senators showed up in
Gov. Ronald Reagan’s office, al
legedly to answer a call from
the governor, only to find Rea
gan was just as confused as they
were.
In Tulsa, Okla., Donnie and
Ennis Patton, identical twins in
the sixth grade, swapped class
es. The principal admitted the
switch wasn’t discovered until
the boys ’fessed up at the end of
the day.
Latin American students at
A&M step to center stage April
12-18 for the university’s annual
Pan American Week.
A Latin American smorgasbord,
a soccer game, a donkey race, a
dance, displays and a film featur
ing Pan American countries are
activities planned during the
week.
International Student adviser
Robert L. Melcher said A&M has
135 Latin American students en
rolled for the spring semester.
They come from the Dominican
Republic, Mexico, Panama, Costa
Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and
Honduras.
Pan American Week activities
begin April 12 with a Sunday so
cial gathering in the Memorial
Student Center that will include
refreshments, courtesy of the As
sociation of Students from Mex
ico.
Color movies April 13-15 will
be shown in the Architecture
Auditorium. Similar presenta
tions will take place April 16 in
Room 2C MSC. Admission is
free.
A culture display will be ex
hibited at the university library
the entire week.
The April 17 smorgasbord will
offer Latin dishes prepared by
wives of Pan American students,
staff members and others. Only
150 tickets, at $1.75 each, will be
sold. Tickets are available at
Room 108 YMCA. Entertainment
will follow the meal.
Concluding activities April 18
include a soccer game between
A&M and St. Edwards University
and a wild donkey race. Both ad
mission-free events will be on the
MSC parade ground.
The Pan American Week dance
will be April 18 at the Knights of
Columbus Ballroom in Bryan. The
Association of Students from
Mexico will give away a portable
tv set. Tickets are 50 cents and
the proceeds will be used to de
fray the cost of the week.
GREAT SAVINGS PLANS made
even better by new legal rates at
FIRST BANK & TRUST. Adv.
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LEGS AND MORE LEGS—A group of mini-skirted women demonstrated last weekend
in New York, protesting the lowering of hemlines. Calling itself GAMS (Girls Against
More Skirt), the group said the new longer skirts are uncomfortable—and unflattering.
(AP Wirephoto)