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Vol. 65 No. 107
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, April 28, 1970
Telephone 845-2226
Elects Mayor Pro Tent
CS Council Balks
At Panel Ordinance
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RACE WINNERS—Patsy Eby (left) and Jane Scott of University Women were the win
ning drivers in Saturday’s “Grand Prix” go-cart race sponsored by the Civilian Student
Council. Mrs. Eby drove the second half of the race and brought the cart across the
finish line ahead of the rest. Crew members were Nancy Evans, Judy McConnell and
Mina Akins. The two drivers were presented a trophy during the Civilian Weekend
dance that night. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett)
By Dave Mayes
Battalion Editor
College Station City Council-
men elected a mayor pro tern,
appointed more than 100 people
to 15 committees and wrestled
with a controversial ordinance es
tablishing a Planning and Zoning
Commission in a four-and-one-
half hour marathon session Fri
day night.
The seven-man panel elected
Councilman C. H. Ransdell to
serve as mayor pro tern. Rans
dell is an assistant dean in the
A&M College of Engineering.
Ransdell’s election followed a
long list of appointments to city
committees recommended by
Mayor D. A. (Andy) Anderson
and approved with little debate
by the council.
Councilmen balked, however,
Election Protest Filed;
at the mayor’s plan to establish
the city’s Planning and Zoning
Commission by ordinance.
Anderson explained to the
council that since the panel was
Action Set Tonight
appointed in 1939 as a zoning
committee, its membership has
vacillated from the original five
to seven, then to nine, back to
seven and then, in 1969, up to
its present nine.
Two graduate students have
filed a protest with the Election
Commission regarding the use
of “cheat sheets” in last Thurs
day’s election.
Tommy Henderson, Election
Commission executive vice presi
dent, said Monday night that the
two students filed the protest on
the grounds that the use of pre
pared lists of candidates at the
polls was a form of campaigning
and in violation of the election
rules. Henderson said the names
of the students were not avail
able.
Henderson said the commission
will meet tonight at 7:30 in the
Memorial Student Center to act
on the protest. He added that he
believes the commission will allow
the election to stand but that
there is a possibility the entire
election will have to be held over.
The commission ruled last
Wednesday, the day before the
election, that printed lists of can
didates would not be allowed at
the polls but that handwritten
lists could be used. All lists were
Players to Present
Barefoot’ Thursday
Marry an impetuous, leap-be
fore-looking young woman to a
dignified, conservative young law
yer and what happens ?
The Aggie Players supply one
alternative in a two-weekend run
of Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the
Park’’ opening Thursday.
The Players, now in their final
week of rehearsals, will present
"Barefoot” at Guion Hall Thurs
day through Saturday, May 7-9.
Admission is $1.
Kathy Maxwell plays the im
petuous young bride, Corie Brat-
ter. She enjoys life, is impulsive
and has a strong tendency to hit
the gas pedal and release the
clutch at the same time.
Her husband Paul, played by
Pat Catsle, is exactly the oppo
site. He’s fresh out of law school
and the newest member of a New
York law firm.
As Corie puts it, Paul doesn’t
look before he leaps, he stares.
C. K. Esten, “Barefoot” direc
tor, said the play is a story of
how little things plus the right
catalyst can lead into major con
flict. It has been performed suc
cessfully on Broadway and made
into a movie.
The little things Esten referred
to are an apartment six flights
up, backward-working plumbing,
a case in court in the morning
and an hors d’ouvre called
“knichi.”
A 58-year-old flamboyant
“Hungarian Duncan Hines”
known as Victor Velasco (played
by Bob Robinson) is the catalyst.
Corie’s mother, portrayed by
Kay Slowey, is the victim of her
daughter’s plot to match her with
Velasco. She’s extremely sensible,
takes pink pills, sleeps on a board
and has one concern, her daugh
ter.
Situation comedy is added by a
delivery man, played by Robert
Rogers. Confidence that the mar
riage will survive is expressed by
the telephone man, a role in which
Robert Wittlinger appears.
“Simon is the most successful
playwright on Broadway in the
last 10 years,” said Esten, “and
‘Barefoot’ is a cute play that
shows when the practical meets
the impractical, something gives.”
confiscated after the voter had
cast his ballot because the election
commission said, “turning these
lists over to another voter would
be a form of campaigning.
Marcus Hill, Election Commis
sion member and former Fifth
Wheel Committee member, led
the opposition to the lists, calling
them immoral.
“The Election Commission kept
them (the lists) from being pass
ed on to other voters,” Hill said,
“but by that time they had ful
filled their purpose as campaign
literature.”
Kent Caperton, Student Senate
president-elect and head of the
Fifth Wheel, contended that the
lists were legal.
“The Election Commission
changed the rules and we followed
suit,” he said. “So far as I am
concerned, we have done nothing
illegal.”
Caperton’s views are shared by
many Fifth Wheel members, some
of whom had stayed up Wednes
day night writing out lists of
Fifth Wheel candidates.
The commission met Monday
night in the MSC to recount the
votes in the races for senate vice
president and treasurer. The re
count showed Roger Miller with
2,568 votes to David Moore’s
2,442 for vice president and Ed
die Duryea with 2,421 to Jimmy
Alexander’s 2,393 for treasurer.
The original count gave Miller
2,476 to Moore’s 2,439 and Duryea
2,497 to Alexander’s 2,304.
Technically, the mayor said,
the city council had no authority
to change the number of positions
on the commission except by or
dinance.
Anderson said he patterned his
ordinance after one proposed sev
eral weeks ago by Jim Gardner,
a member of the Planning and
Zoning Commission. He noted,
however, that no action was tak
en on Gardner’s proposal.
In his ordinance, the mayor
said, final authority for approval
of platts has been taken from the
commission and put back on the
council. Also, the mayor said, “it
has been the consensus that a
commission of nine members has
proven unwieldly,” and so his or
dinance reduces to seven the num
ber of positions on the panel.
Councilman Joe McGraw took
issue with major’s proposal, urg
ing that the measure be tabled
until he had a chance to study
it. He said the item had not been
placed on the agenda.
McGraw also questioned why
the mayor had included in the
proopsed ordinance a “test of
membership” that he had not re
quired in committee appointments
the council had just approved.
He wondered why the members
of the commission had to be
property owners, arguing that
renter pay just as much in taxes
through their rent as property
owners, and, as citizens, are just
as good.
Jazz Band to Play
At May 9 Special
Diane Anderson Will Reign
As’70-’71 Civilian Sweetheart
Diane Anderson of Crosby was
crowned Civilian Sweetheart Sat
urday during the annual Civilian
Weekend Presentation Dance.
The weekend climaxed Civilian
Week, a week of activities plan
ned by the Civilian Student Coun
cil for an estimated 12,000 ci
vilian students.
Miss Anderson, the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. An
derson, is a senior at Southwest
Texas State University in San
Marcos.
The attractive miss, who was
selected from 15 women compet
ing for the title, was escorted
by Tim Harshbarger, freshman
accounting major at A&M.
DIANE ANDERSON
Unirenrity National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Dixieland jazz straight from
the birth place of the all-Ameri
can art form will be heard here
May 9 from “The Preservation
Hall.”
The New Orleans - quartered
jazz band featuring Billie and
Dede Pierce will perform at 8
p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum
as a Town Hall TAMU Special,
announced chairman Rex Stewart.
Tickets for the final Town Hall
presentation of 1969-70 are on
sale at the Memorial Student Cen
ter Student Program Office.
Stewart noted that separate tick
ets—at $2.50 reserved and $1.50
general admission—must be pur
chased for the Preservation Hall
performance.
Town Hall season tickets and
student activity cards will not be
honored, he said.
Created less than half a cen
tury ago, New Orleans jazz (or
jass, as it was known in the
early days) has circled the world.
It is happy music, simple in tech
nical terms, complex in perform
ance, and largely a result of the
attitude of the performers.
Members of the Preservation
Hall band have played it 50 years
in parishes around New Orleans,
know the music best and play it
the way it was created.
It is not straw hats and display
of the “Dixieland” bands. Nor is
it the “Nicksieland” of New York.
Members of the group which
makes 726 St. Peter St., a prior
ity stop for New Orleans visitors
are Dede Pierce, cornet; Billie
Pierce, piano; Will Humphrey,
clarinet; Jim Robinson, trombone;
Cie Frazier, drums, and Allan
Jaffe, tuba.
They were in jazz bands that
marched to and from the ceme
tery for funerals, in wagons that
drove up and down French Quar
ter streets, on river boats, in
saloons, ‘sporting houses’ and
dances when jazz was taking
form and shape and becoming a
separate kind of music.
Feet aren’t often still while
the band is playing. Town Hall
listeners should be prepared for
the youth and vigor that will
leap across the footlights.
The Preservation Hall jazz
band usually leads a march
through the hall at the end of
h concert, and the line that forms
behind it testifies to the happi
ness that fills the hall when the
band is there.
Anderson said he tried to get
the ordinance out to the council
sooner, but was detained by bus
iness out of town.
Developer Don Dale spoke up
from the audience, saying that he
would “hate very much for Joe
McGraw, who has very little in
terest in this community, to tell
me what I should do with my
property.”
“Frankly, I think a lot of bus
inessmen are getting a bellyful
of this,” he continued. “It’s wrong
as it can be. People come in here
from nowhere and tell us what
we should do, and they no noth
ing in the world but stir things
up and leave. Yeah, you’re tem
porary, Joe,” he said to McGraw.
McGraw’s motion to table died
for lack of a second. After further
debate and some suggestions of
minor wording changes, however,
Councilman Jim Dozier suggested
that the council table the meas
ure again.
“I have no basic objections,”
Dozier said, “but I would like
some more time to read this.”
The council agreed to table the
motion with the idea that it would
consider the ordinance again at
a special meeting later this week.
Councilmen also tabled appoint
ing members to a newly-formed
Business Development Commit
tee, a panel proposed by Mayor
Anderson to keep the city inform
ed concerning the interests of
business.
Anderson recommended a list
of businessmen to be appointed
to the committee, but some coun
cilmen wanted some time to add
names to the list.
McGraw said he had not been
consulted on any of the mayor’s
recommendations.
Anderson replied that he had
informed the city through the
news media that anyone who
wanted to be a member of this or
any other committee could be
appointed by contacting him.
Some council members said they
had missed the messages.
He added that he had spent
much time consulting with a
large number of people in the
city as he was compiling his
recommendations.
In other business, the council
rescinded its decision to authorize
the city maanger to purchase
land in the Oak Hills subdivision
for use as the city’s sanitary land
fill.
City Manager Ran Boswell said
he was investigating two other
possible sites but could not dis
close their location or owner at
this time.
The mayor also appointed, with
the council’s approval, citizens to
various city boards, including the
Board of Equalization, the Hous
ing Board of Adjustment and Ap
peals, the Building Code Board
of Adjustment and Appeals, the
Plumbing Appeals and Adjust
ment Board, Electrical Examin
ing Board, Easterwood Joint Air
port Zoning Board and Easter
wood Joint Board of Adjustment.
People were also named to a
number of committees, including
Parks and Recreation, Health,
Annual Report, Cemetery, and
Beautification.
Preregistration for Fall
Will Begin Next Week
Preregistration for the Fall Semester will
be held May 6 to May 15, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
according to Don Carter, director of registra
tion.
Preregistering students should secure
their registration card packets at their major
department where they will register for their
courses. They should then report to the
Housing Office representatives to secure a fee
data card.
Women should report to the Housing
Office in the first floor of the YMCA, cadets
to the Duncan area to Lounge B between
Dorms 2 and 4, civilian students to Hart Hall
lounge and all day students to the Legett Hall
lounge.
After securing their fee data cards they
should report to registration headquarters,
Room 001 YMCA to complete preregistration
and turn in his card packet.
No fees for the fall semester will be
collected this semester. Fee statements will be
mailed to students at their permanent mailing
addresses on or about June 15. Fees must be
paid to the Fiscal Department by August 1.
Class schedules, fee receipts, and identifi
cation cards will be mailed to students at their
permanent mailing addresses, Carter said.
Pollution, Food Production
ChaUenge A&M, Wells Says
Texas A&M University is chal
lenged by its responsibility to
meet the needs of society, Clyde
H. Wells, president of the A&M
Board of Directors, said Monday
at a faculty-staff dinner.
Wells said the challenges in
clude pollution and other prob
lems of the environment, as well
The A&M Board of Directors
was scheduled to meet this
morning to consider operations
budgets for each part of the
A&M University System. Also
on the agenda was the possible
awarding of construction con
tracts.
of this country can’t face up to
these fundamental problems of
mankind, who can? Who will?”
“With this faculty and the fa
cilities and equipment at Texas
A&M today, few institutions in
the nation are more competent to
make contributions,” he added.
Wells assured approximately
650 faculty-staff members the
board of directors is challenged
and pledges to do everything
within its power to provide the
necessary facilities, equipment
and other resources, as well as
the proper environment.
The board president noted
A&M “ended an era” last month
with the death of Gen. Earl Rud
der. He said it was a period of
unprecedented growth and
change.
“I think we all know and ap
preciate the debt we owe to this
great leader who gave so much
(See Wells, page 2)
as stepped-up production of food
and fiber to meet world demands.
“These are real problems —
complex problems,” Wells point
ed out. “If the great universities
Senior Charged
With Mail Theft
A 23-year-old A&M senior ac
counting major has been charged
in Houston federal court with
felony theft of mail.
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan said Drew McCulloch
of Maryville, Tenn., has been sus
pended indefinitely from the uni
versity.
McCulloch was arrested April 3
by Postal Inspector C. A. Schaf
fer of Houston and University
Police patrolman Jerry Hutchin
son at the College Station Post
Office.
A second A&M student was
arrested Thursday night, police
said, who may also be involved
in opening mail boxes and mail.
They said the two cases do not
appear to be related. No formal
action has been taken against
the second student, police said.
WORLD RECORD SETTER—A«&M's Curtis Mills breaks
the tape to set a world record in the 880-yard relay during
the Drake Relays Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa. See story,
page 5. (AP Wirephoto)
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