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Cbe Battalion Mild, windy, some clouds Vol. 66 No. 30 College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 21, 1970 Thursday — Cloudy to partly cloudy, lightly scattered after noon rainshowers. Winds souther ly 10-15 mph. Low 66 degrees, high 81 degrees. Friday—Same as above. Saturday — Baylor 845-2226 Republican Senate means peace: Nixon WASHINGTON <A>) _ Presi dent Nixon is seeking election- day support for his policy in Southeast Asia, telling voters, “If you want real peace, the peace that will last,” send more Repub licans to the Senate. “What I am saying to you is that we have a plan which is ending the war, which is reducing our casualties, which is bringing the boys home, but we need sen ators and cangressmen who un derstand the plan and will sup port it,” the President said in Fort Wayne, Ind., Tuesday night. Nixon was back at the White House today after his two-day vote hunt with Southeast Asia high on his agenda, including a meeting with Souvanna Phouma, prime minister of Laos, who is in the United States for the 25th anniversary ceremonies at the Chapman requests bonfire equipment THE INDIAN WHO SINGS freedom song-s calling for an end to the white man’s rule says he’s not sure whether the songs aren’t creating a biger split among the Indians. Floyd Westerman, Sioux, was shaped by boarding schools from the time he was two, and made r it into law school through “the system” he distrusts. Young Indians and middle-age sen ators are listening to his rhetoric. (AP Wirephoto) Plans are complete for the 1970 Texas Aggie bonfire, but more equipment is needed, announced Keith Chapman, head yell leader. Some of the equipment needed includes trucks, boomers, chains, chain saws, tractors, two bull dozers, one 120-foot boom crane, cherry pickers and jeeps. Any kind of truck can be used, Chap man said. Anyone who has equipment to contribute can contact James Jones, dorm 3, room 326, 845- 6295; or Barry Reiter, Walton J-9, 845-6860, who are supply chairmen for this year’s bonfire. People who want to use their own equipment or designate someone else to use it may do so, but only if they are qualified, Chapman said. These people First one in nation Fish medicine program begins Texas A&M has entered a new dimension of veterinary medicine. The Aggies have started the nation’s first fish medicine pro gram, despite disadvantages of being located 150 miles from the sea. Coordinating the effort is Dr. George W. Klontz, the only U.S. veterinarian working full time on fish diseases. A&M’s College of Veterinary Medicine is developing the expert ise and research necessary to com bat fish diseases in much the same way men of science and medicine attack livestock diseases. Klontz noted European veteri- tlar y schools have taught fish medicine for years. The history of aquatic animal medicine in the n ited States however is short— lt: began here in 1968. Next spring a graduate course In bacterial and viral diseases of fish will be offered. Plans are e ' n g made to offer a basic sur- yey course in fish diseases soon m the undergraduate professional P ro ?ram, probably to third year students. Klontz, 41, grew up near the iget Sound oyster beds at Olym- P* a » Wash. He received a B.S. de- SVce in microbiology and M.S. in 'mmunology, both from the Uni- versity of Washington, and the °ctor of Veterinary Medicine e f?ree from Washington State. He has over 10 years experience w 'th the U. S. Department of In- Small turnout cancels forum This week’s Soapbox Forum ^ as not held due to lack of stu- e nt turnout last week, according Havid L. Moore, moderator for a Soapbox Forum. /’ ot enough students knew P^nt the forum or where it was be held, Moore said. He added , a b the publicity problem is be- ln & studied. A crowd of about 150 gathered J" the drill field Oct. 13 from am. until 1 p.m. for the first °fnm sponsored by Great Issues. No time or place has been set ° r the next forum, Moore said. University National Bank On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. terior’s Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Klontz has been associated with the capture and medical care of 14 killer whales, one-half of the total captured. He also holds a patent on an oral vaccine for bacterial diseases in fish. Since joining the A&M faculty Oct. 1, 1969, Klontz has compiled a set of lecture notes on fish dis eases for publication as a text book at a later date. A&M first received funding for the program in 1968 from the National Science Foundation’s Sea Grant Program, headed at A&M by Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., vice president for programs. Research began in January, 1969. Currently research person nel from the veterinary depart ments of microbiology, pathology, parasitology, anatomy and phy siology and pharmacology are in volved in fish disease studies. “Our purpose and aim is basic ally research,” Klontz explained. Sea Grant funds are financing the bulk of the research. Other grants come from the National Research Council, A&M Research Foundation and Office of Naval Research (ONR). ONR is fund ing a study into normal bacterial flora of captured marine mam mals. A member of the National Re search Council’s Subcommittee on Aquatic Animal Medicine, Dr. Klontz reports national concern is increasing over the problems of fish propagation and fish har vesting industries in the United States. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife figures show in 1969 there were more than 20 million pounds of trout and 40 million pounds of catfish raised commer cially in 1,200 hatcheries. “Recently a private grower in North Carolina reported an an nual yield of 240,000 pounds of catfish per acre,” Klontz said. He explained the meteoric rise is a result of idle land farmers who cannot plant because of crop controls or profit margins. “For example, on the acre basis, rice will gross $240, soybeans (See Sea vet, page 6) should contact Jones or Reiter. The cutting area again this year is by the Texas International Speedway. The bonfire will be Nov. 24, but preparation will be gin long before then. Work on getting the core logs will be Nov. 13 and 15, following place ment of the 106-foot center pole on or around Nov. 10. Cutting and stacking will be from noon, Nov. 20 until the afternoon of the bonfire. Group assists veterans with education, jobs Though there are some 700 veterans on campus, at least half don’t even know there is a Veter ans Club, according to the second vice president of the club, John W. Whalen. Whalen said the club has con tacted only about 100 veterans, and the rest don’t know what the club can do for them. The club’s main purpose is to try to keep veterans in school, Whalen explained. “Many leave college for finan cial reasons or poor grades, and this is where we think we can help,” he commented. The club has information on educational benefits and vocation al opportunities for veterans, and is trying to establish a quiz file and files on available tutors and loans, Whalen added. The next meeting will be held Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC Assembly Room, Whalen said. Further information can be ob tained from Whalen at 823-5839 or club president William A. Boyd at 823-0421. United Nations. The President talked of for eign policy, of law and order, of respect for policemen, as he cam paigned before crowds that defied rainstorms to turn out for his rallies and line his motorcade routes at three stops in the South and Midwest. “When people will stand in the rain, that means we’re going to win,” Nixon said as he bid for Indiana support for Rep. Richard L. Roudebush, who is running against Democratic Sen. Vance Hartke. Some 12,000 people cheered him at a rally at the Fort Wayne Coli seum, and thousands more were on the streets and at the airport despite the rain. “In order to have a generation of peace, we need to have backing for the President of the United States, we need it in the Senate, we need it in the House,” Nixon said. Nixon hit a similar note at Johnson City, Tenn., at a rainy rally on the campus of East Ten nessee State University, where the crowd was estimated at 30,000 to 50,000 people. It rained off and on as Nixon urged election of Rep. William E. Brock III to displace Demo cratic Sen. Albert Gore. “We are ending this war,” he said. “We are ending it in a way— and this is the critical difference between Bill Brock and his op ponent—that we can win the peace.” In Asheville, N.C., some 15,000 people stood in a downpour at the Buncombe County Plaza as Nixon declared: “If we were to cut and run, if we were to encourage the enemy by the way we ended the war . . . it would plant the seeds for an other one.” Throngs of people stood in drenching rain along the high ways waving as Nixon paid his first presidential visit to North Carolina to seek votes for Re publican congressional candi dates. There were other Nixon notes, tailored to the audience at each stop. Among them: —His renewed declaration of opposition to busing of school children for the sake of racial balance, which drew the biggest ovation of his Asheville visit. “I am for the neighborhood school,” he said. —His complaint at Johnson City about Gore’s opposition to the two Southern judges he nom inated to the Supreme Court. Both were rejected by the Senate. What we need in the United State Senate is one who will con firm the President of the United States when he sends to the Sen ate a judge who is dedicated to the proposition of enforcing the laws and a strict interpretation of the Consitution . . .,” Nixon said. —His sure-fire issue was the same at every stop: Law and order, campus unrest, and the problem of militant young dis senters. “We’ve had a few problems,” Nixon said in Fort Wayne, re counting his report of rock-throw ing in Burlington, Vt., and chant ing demonstrators at some other rallies. He saw none Tuesday. Cinema head position open Applications are being accepted for chairman of the Memorial Student Center Directorate’s Ag gie Cinema Committee through Friday, public relations officer Paul Scopel announced Tuesday. Scopel said applications may be obtained at the Student Program Office in the MSC, and must be returned by 5 p.m. Friday. Inter views will be conducted Tuesday, Scopel said. Applicants must have a 2.400 overall grade point ratio, and a 2.400 g.p.r. for last semester. Also, they must not be on any kind of probation. The former committee chair man resigned for academic reasons. Moses Hall residents, coeds plan Thursday night mixer A mixer will be held for the university’s women and Moses Hall residents Thursday from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. in Moses’ lounge, Lounge A2. Music and refreshments will be provided. Dress will be informal. Girls who wish to may meet in the lobby of the Memorial Student Center at 7:40 p.m. and walk to Moses Hall together. A&M POW’s kin Christmas release Mrs. Sandy Daughtrey hasn’t seen her husband for more than five years, but she has hopes their reunion will come this Christmas. Maj. R. Norlan Daughtrey has been a captive of North Viet nam since Aug. 2, 1965. Mrs. Daughtrey, the couple’s three children and his family have spent anxious years working and pray ing for his return. This past weekend she was the guest of Texas A&M’s 1955 class, the same class her husband en rolled with in 1951. “I have a lot of hope Norland will be released this Christmas,” she said during the reunion. “1 don’t have any doubt they (the North Vietnamese) will release all POWs as a group.” Mrs. Daughtrey has been active in the National League of Fami lies of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. She believes there has been consider able progress in the past year and expect North Vietnam to re lease the POWs because of inter national pressure. “Five years ago we were told not to talk,” she said. “We were told it would jeopardize our hus bands. We thought it would pro tect ourselves and our husbands, she added. But in 1969 the families were told they could stand up and make their cause heard. During the past year, through various means, the families have financed and built a campaign to free the POWs. “In the last year we have been allowed to send twice as many packages and I have received three letters acknowledging re ceipt,” Mrs. Daugherty said. She noted packages can be sent every two months and two letters every month. The POWs are al lowed to send one letter every two months. Packages contain clothing and medications. Mrs. Daughtrey also sends games, but does not think her husband receives the games. She thinks games are important to take up idle time. One of the nine returned prisoners revealed he used a string and piece of cloth to tame and train a rat in his cell, she pointed out. Each letter is limited to six lines, both going to and coming from North Vietnam. She uses a typewriter and writes from border to border. Mrs. Daughtrey has received 12 letters from her husband in five years. The last came in June. Asked if her letters are pre- read. she answered no. However, she thinks they are screened after they get to North Vietnam. Mrs. Daughtrey said most of the national leaders are doing all they can to gain release. How ever, she admitted the State De partment feels the letter-writing campaigns are a waste of time. She thinks they are fruitful. Mrs. Daughtrey contends the North Vietnamese are using the prisoners for psychological rea sons. “To the Oriental it is a disgrace to be a prisoner. We have to con- vience them we want our men back,” Mrs. Daughtrey declared. They think most Americans are not concerned about the POWs,” she continued. Mrs. Daughtrey was one of 58 wives who spent last Christmas in Paris attempting to see the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris Peace Talks. She explained the trip, financed by H. Ross Perot of Dallas, led to the release of five names of men who died in captivity. But Mrs. Daughtrey observed that the quiet letter writing by millions of concerned Americans has opened several doors and brought politicians into the POW problem. Letter campaigns at the local and national level, she predicted, will do much to bring a swift re lease of the prisoners. Almost all of the expense have been borne by the serviceman’s family, but organizations have be gun aid in the form of postage money, publicity and letter writ ing. mm MRS. ALTON B. MEYER, left, is coordinating efforts to work for the release of Amer ican prisoners in Indochina. Helping her are Mrs. John Hanna, standing left, wife of A&M graduate student and A&M student Mrs. Stanley Cass, standing right. Seated right is Mrs. R. Norlan Daughtrey of Colorado Springs, Colo. Mrs. Daughtrey’s and Mrs. Meyer’s hus bands, former students, are prisoners in North Vietnam.