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Mild,
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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.
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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.