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AFTER IT’S OVER—Aggie teammates Mike Morrison (left), Tony Munson (center) GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP—Weary Dave Morton of the HIGH POINT MAN—Looking more anxious than happy at
and David Dolton (front) pass the congratu lations around along with other well-wishers. University of Texas greets and congratulates Aggie sprint- the moment, high-pointer Curtis Mills takes a breather.
er Scotty Hendericks. Morton ran second to Aggie sprint- He led the Aggie charge with victories in the 220, 440 and
er Curtis Mills in the 440-yard dash. a decisive leg on the record-breaking 440 relay.
(Photos by Mike Wright)
Election Panel
Votes to Rerun
Jr. BA Race
By Billy Buchanan
Battalion Staff Writer
The election for junior senator
to the College of Business Ad
ministration will be held again
during Thursday’s runoffs, the
Election Commission decided Mon
day.
Thv. commission, led by presi
dent Nokomis (Butch) Jackson,
also decided in a half-hour ses
sion to recount the votes in the
election of the sophomore repre
sentative from the College of
Science, but voted to let a pre
vious vote count stand in the
election of the sophomore senator
from the College of Architecture.
Charles Hoffman, commission
member, spoke for Spike Dayton
who wrote a letter protesting the
race for the junior representative
from the College of Business Ad
ministration. Hoffman told the
commission members that Frank
Richter, a candidate for the race,
had submitted a letter of with-
The Student Senate has pro
claimed Thursday “Gary Beckham
Day” in honor of the sophomore
who was injured while working
on the Bonfire, according to Lee
Crawley, Issues Chairman.
Beckham broke his leg in an
accident in the cutting area last
November and was in a Bryan
hospital until February.
A former member of iSquadron
3, Beckham underwent three
operations and is now taking
physical .7therapy, he said. Doc
tors have not yet decided whether
his leg will have to be amputated,
Crawley said.
Alpha Phi Omega and the Sen-
drawal within the proper time
limits.
Hoffman said that the letter
had been misplaced by the com
mission and that Richter’s name
was not removed from the ballot.
He said that Dayton felt that
this was not fair to him or the
other candidates.
The commission voted unani
mously to rerun the election.
The commission then heard the
letter written by Mike Lindsey,
a candidate for the office of soph
omore representative from the
College of Science.
Lindsey, who attended the
meeting himself, told the com
mission that because there was
such a close vote count between
the three leading candidates the
vote should be recounted.
The only other letter of pro
test that had not been considered
was from Robert Thompson, a
candidate for the sophomore rep
resentative from the College of
Architecture.
ate will collect money to defray
his medical expenses which have
amounted to more than $10,0(>0,
he said.
Donations have been requested
from students, friends of A&M,
Aggie Clubs and the community,
Crawley said. Collections will be
made in the Memorial Student
Center, library, Duncan and Sbisa
dining halls.
Senate President Gerry Geist-
weidt will present Beckham a
certificate of merit in an after
noon ceremony and he will be
guest of honor at the evening
meal in Duncan Crawley said.
Commission members agreed
that the vote was not close
enough to be recounted.
Five of the nine members of
the commission were present at
the meeting. In addition to those
five, George Walton voted as a
proxy for the commission mem
ber Steve Clark and Jackson ap
pointed Tom Condry as a “gen
eral member” of the commission
so that a quorum would be pres
ent to vote.
Also after the meeting was
adjourned, the commission mem
bers proceeded to recount the
race for sophomore representa
tive of the College of Science.
They found that there' was a
three-way tie for the position
between Steve Hook, Michael
Lindsey, and John W. Jermyn. A
runoff for the position, they de
cided, would be included in Thurs
day’s upcoming runoff election.
Other offices to be decided in
the runoff elections Thursday
are:
Class of ’71—concessions man
ager, Steve Clark and Joel Koeh
ler.
Class of ’72—secretary-treas
urer, Laura Sorensen and Rich
ard Tillman.
Class of ’73—president, Nick
Jiga and Mike Milliner; secreta
ry-treasurer, Rush Crocker, Lar
ry M. Moore, and John Rasch.
College of Business Administra
tion; junior representative (two),
David Berend, Spike Dayton, Sam
Roosth, and Gary Singletary.
College of Liberal Arts: senior
representative, Rick Briscoe and
Kent L. Smith.
College of Science: senior rep
resentative, Mike Barrett and
Randy Shephard; sophomore rep
resentative, Steve Hook, John W.
Jermyn, and Michael Lindsey.
The election will be held in the
basement of the Memorial Stu
dent Center and voters will cast
their votes in seven voting ma
chines, Jackson said.
Thursday Declared
Gary Beckham Day
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Vol. 65 No. Ill College Station, Texas Tuesday, May 5, 1970 Telephone 845-2226
During Parents Weekend
Ags to Name Mother of Year
Presentation of the Aggie
Mother of the Year, individual
cadet and Corps unit awards, a
Ross Volunteer Company special
drill, review and Freshman Drill
Team performance are scheduled
Sunday as part of “Paren ts Week
end” activities here.
.Mothers Day action officially
starts Saturday, but Thursday
and Friday events oriented to
ward the weekend initiates ac
tivities.
The annual Singing Cadets
Concert will be at 8 p.m. Friday
in Bryan Civic Auditorium.
Thursday, Friday and Satur
day stagings of “Barefoot in the
Park” by the Aggie Players go
on at Guion Hall at 8 p.m.
Civilian Student Council, Sing
ing Cadets and Memorial Student
Center Basement Committee ban
quets also prelude the weekend.
Sharing the Saturday spotlight
with the 2:30 p.m. Maroon-White
spring football game will be a
meeting of the Federation of Tex
as A&M Mothers’ Club, the MSC
Camera Committee’s 1970 Inter
collegiate Photo Salon and an
8 p.m. Town Hall Special, the
Preservation Hall Jazz Band of
New Orleans.
Sunday events begin at 7:45
a.m. with flower pinning and
awards ceremonies in the Corps
unit areas.
Parents will be honored in a
Student Senate program begin
ning at 9 a.m. in G. Rollie White
Coliseum. Acting A&M President
ChapmanSelected
Head Yell Leader
A 5-foot-6, 140-pound A&M stu
dent hopes to be out amidst a mob
of 6-foot and 200-plus pound foot
ball players when Aggie drills
start next fall.
Keith Chapman of Haskell will
be there furthering a head yell
leader tradition, if Head Coach
Gene Stallings approves.
The 1970-71 head yell leader
was named Monday following in
terview and selection by a com
mittee appointed by Dean of Stu
dents James P. Hannigan.
Chapman has a 3.0 grade point
ratio in business management
studies, is first sergeant of
Squadron 9 in the Corps of Cadets
and an Air Force pilot contract
cadet. He is a junior yell leader
this year.
Working with Chapman next
year will be senior yell leaders
Barrett Smith of Houston and
Tommy Butler of Tyler and
juniors Rick Perry of Haskell and
Tommy Orr of Vidor.
The students direct precision
yells at athletic events, supervise
bi-weekly yell practices and have
charge of bonfire construction the
week before Thanksgiving.
Chapman was honorable men
tion all-district halfback at Has
kell and considered playing foot
ball at Ranger and Cisco Junior
Colleges before deciding on A&M.
In addition to serving as junior
yell leader this year, Chapman is
a member of the Ross Volunteers,
elite honor military unit, and the
RV firing squad. The 1967 Has
kell High valedictorian started
study at A&M under Opportunity
Award Scholarship and now has
an Air Force Financial Assistance
Grant and the Aztec Oil Scholar
ship for the outstanding business
major of his class.
A. R. Luedecke will extend greet
ings and Corps Chaplain Harry
A. Snowdy of Port Lavaca will
give a tribute to mothers. Student
Life Committee chairman Collier
Watson of Coleman will present
the Honor Mother Award and the
tribute to fathers will be given
by Student Life vice chairman
Marcus Hill of Sulphur Springs.
Corps individual and unit
awards will be presented at the
coliseum, beginning at 9:30 a.m.
The RVs take the Main Drill
Field at 1:15 p.m. for the only
Dr. Howes
Dies, Rites
Here Friday
Memorial services for Dr. J. R.
(Bob) Howes, 46, will be held at
2 p.m. Friday in All-Faiths Chap
el.
Dr. Howes, professor of poul
try science, died from an appar
ent heart attack in his home
Monday evening. He was a phy
siologist and in charge of envi
ronmental waste research in the
Poultry Science Department.
In respect to Dr. Howes’ re
quest, his body will be cremated
and the ashes returned to his
native Norfolk, England.
He joined the Texas A&M fac
ulty in the summer of 1968.
Dr. Howes is survived by his
wife, Grace of 3710 Sunnybrook
Lane, Bryan; two sons, Richard
Ian and Robert Scott of Bryan,
and two sisters in England.
The family requests memorials
to the Heart Fund in lieu of usual
remembrances.
full company public appearance
on campus of the year and Cadet
Col. Matthew R. Carroll of An-
nandale, Va., forms the Corps for
the review at 2:30 p.m.
Top unit awards of the year
will be presented during the pa
rade.
Afterwards, the three-time na
tional champion Fish Drill Team
will show the sequence that won
the National Intercollegiate ROTC
Drill Championship during Wash
ington’s Cherry Blossom Festival
last month.
Open house in Corps residence
halls and a Ross Volunteer pro
gram in the MSC Ballroom begin
at 3:30 p.m.
Parents Weekend traditionally
signals the end of the A&M school
year. The senior ring dance and
banquet are the following week
end, with Commencement, com
missioning and Final Review
scheduled May 23.
Silver Taps
Tonight for
A&M Junior
Silver Taps will be held to
night for a junior industrial tech
nology major killed in a two-car
accident Saturday night in An-
dice.
Jimmy C. Mekolik, 22, of Tay
lor resided at 414 Tauber in Col
lege Station. He was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Mekolik.
Funeral services were to be
conducted at 9:45 a.m. today at
St. Mary’s Catholic Church in
Taylor. Burial was to be in St.
Mary’s Cemetery.
Books Needed
Conflicts Have Silver Lining; Hansen
Conflict within the U. S. today
over life styles, racism, war and
pollution probably has its silver
lining, Cong. Orval Hansen (R.-
Idaho), said here Monday.
“Pollution of our environment
is a national problem,” the Poli
tical Forum speaker stated, in
dicating he is not an alarmist.
“But it is also an international
problem.”
This means that man must look
for the mechanism or institution
of global cooperation to make
the earth a fit place to live, the
freshman solon said.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
“This is the silver lining,” Han
sen appraised. “It may be that
as we face a common threat to
humanity, men may conclude that
far more important than the
things that divide him are the
things that draw him together.”
The veteran Idaho legislator
suggested there is no simple way
to place blame for the rapidly
deteriorating state of the world’s
land, water and air, other than
by faulting every individual hu
man being.
“Some blame technology and
say we must limit its growth to
zero,” Hansen noted. “But if pop
ulation growth suddenly ceased,
people using the products of
technology would continue pol
luting.”
He said extravagance has be
come a way of life. Hansen claim
ed that the U. S. uses 2% billion
tons of material annually, 13 tons
per person per year.
“Another way of looking at it
is through a study made in 1930,”
the solon added. “It indicated that
every U. S. citizen at that time
had, through the benefits of tech
nology, the equivalent services
of 173 slaves. On this basis, every
American today has 500.”
“But if we are to get to the
root of the problem, I believe it
means adapting technology to
solve pollution problems. To stop
technology is a retreat and a
movement in the wrong direc
tion,” the attorney stated.
Hansen noted that technological
development goes hand-in-hand
with economic growth, and that
the economics of pollution are
badly distorted. A true picture of
a manufacturer’s production costs
ought to—but does not include—
an assessment for the costs his
pollution causes someone else,
whether it is paper mill waste
dumped into a river ruining fish
ing industry or the loss of health
due to air pollution from factory
stacks.
Hansen said agriculture has a
vital role to play in solving pol
lution problems, in overuse of
chemicals and uses of dangerous
ones.
“The failure to address our
selves to the needs of rural
America is part of the problem,”
he said. “Because the farmer
can’t make a decent living, he
leaves the farm—with deteriorat
ing buildings and equipment and
untended ground that erodes—to
find work in the city, which helps
create population pressures
there.”
Hansen said young people have
a right to question where the
pollution situation is leading be
cause they have a greater stake
in it.
“It is encouraging and helpful,”
he declared, “to see this type of
leadership coming from the ranks
of the young.”
Editor:
With the end of the semester coming up, I
imagine there are a lot of Ags who are stuck with
books that the bookstores will not buy. Well, I
have a solution: send the books to Vietnam. I am
teaching English at a small school in Da Nang City,
RVN. The school is in bad need of any kind of
books that the kids can use as reference material.
A book of any kind and a small donation to
cover the shipping cost would be a most
appreciated gift by the kids and myself.
I know this is asking a lot, but Aggies are
known for giving a lot. If there are any donations,
please send them to my address and I will be happy
to take them to the school.
Johnny Griffin ’67
1st Lt., USAF
449-72-2995
9th SOS Drawer 75
APO San Francisco, Calif. 96337