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Same, only cooler FRIDAY — Clear. Southerly winds 10 to 15 m.pJu High 71, low 42. SATURDAY — Partly cloudy. Southerly winds 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 72, low 44. Vol. 66 No. 43 College Station, Texas Thursday, November 12, 1970 845-2226 AGGIES HONOR VETERANS during noon ceremonies Wednesday as Deputy Corps Camander Thomas C. Bain places a wreath at the base of the West Gate memorial. A similar ceremony was conducted at the memorial Meditation Garden in the Duncan liv ing area. (Photo by David Middlebrooke) Appropriations chairman Taxes hard to reduce m m N >S. House Appropriations Commit tee Chairman W. S. (Bill) Heatly paraphrased King Solomon’s edict to cut the child in two in a Veter ans Day talk on state spending. “Some people say, ‘Why don’t you cut spending’,” the five-term appropriations chairman informed a Political Forum audience at Texas A&M University. “Texas spends 45 cents of each appropriated dollar on public schools, colleges and universities. Welfare gets 19 cents, highways 21 cents, public health and special schools 5.8 cents,” he reported. The other nine percent is spread among the other 138 of the 143 agencies of Texas govern ment. Only .0034 cent of each state dollar goes for the cost of legis lative functions, Heatly added. “I ask these people which one of the items we cut the spending 'oat of,” the eight-term veteran Hpresentative said. Heatly pointed out to the large ly student audience that tuition increases may come about. He said it has been “talked consider- ahly.” Nobody would consider touch- »g expenditures for public schools, which take the largest Percentage of the 45 cents for Weather far Rice mi ST Mostly blue skies and cool leather will continue in the area Ihe remainder of this week and Ihrough the Texas A&M-Rice football weekend. The prediction issued by the Meteorology Department weather station Wednesday included a fast-moving cold front passing through Wednesday night or Thursday morning. "It will continue clear to partly 'loudy with no more weather ( hange than a wind-shift behind the front,” meteorologist Jim hightfoot said. He indicated the wind will shift ifound to the east or southeast hy Saturday. 5 By game time, at 1:30 p. m. on Kyle Field, the wind will be light Hid southerly and the afternoon high temperature will be 68 de- University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. schools, Heatly observed, nor would an elected official cut wel fare, if he wants to return to Austin, he added. Heatly, admitting schools and assistance for retarded and men tal institutions is his “pet,” said public health spending simply could not be reduced. “We’re not going to do any thing but spend more next ses sion,” the Paducah attorney ob served, “and add more to these items.” Texas ranks first among the states in fiscal condition, he said. “We have a constitutional amendment that prohibits deficit spending. There is also enabling legislation substantiating it,” he explained. Heatly indicated that is the main reason he opposed doing away with the Texas constitution, because a few items in it made the pact worthwhile. “We have a few items in there I’m afraid would be done away with, if it had a complete over haul,” he added. “I think there are enough good items to warrant keeping this old document they say is antique.” “If it keeps us in the No. 1 fiscal position, it’s worth preserv ing,” he emphasized. The Decatur Baptist College cooler game grees under clear to partly cloudy skies. Humidity will be low, he added, near 25 to 30 per cent. The Saturday low temperature willl be near 38 degrees. student who has degrees from Baylor commended Texas A&M, its students, the Corps of Cadets and administration. “I know of no other university in Texas or any other state that enjoys a better image than Texas A&M,” he said. Heatly praised the Corps for contributing a ma jor part to the influence, and said it was gratifying to see the American flag display at the cam pus entrance, up for Veterans Day. “Those of us in the state gov ernment appreciate it,” he added. Bonfire, hall discipline CSC topics tonight Bonfire, civilian disciplinary action and entertainment for Ci vilian Student Weekend are among topics on the agenda of tonight’s meeting of the Civilian Student Council. A progress report will be given concerning preparations on the Bonfire, and a schedule and placement sheet will be present ed showing each civilian unit po sition in the project and when they will be working, said Mark Olson, president of the council. Also to be discussed in the meeting will be the organization of dormitory judicial councils, which will have the authority to i-eprimand students and punish them in such a way that the of fense will not appear on the stu dent’s record. A group -will be chosen to play during civilian student weekend. Student will seek permission to collect trash for Bonfire Peter Dunsavage, representing the Brazos County Environmental Action Council (AEC), said Wednesday he will ask Head Yell Leader Keith Chapman this week if the AEC could collect trash to be put on this year’s bonfire. “If we get permission to do this, we will run an ad in The Battalion asking people to donate trash for the Bonfire,” Dunsavage, environmental engineering student, said. The trash would be in addition to logs, he said, but the AEC would not collect these. Dunsavage, who will represent the area at a regional Student Council on Pollution and the Environment (SCOPE) convention in Dallas this weekend said he will aske SCOPE to ask the Department of the Interior to put pressure on the University to cease burning trees. UT-A students file suits against board By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE AUSTIN—University of Texas at Austin students plan to file two suits today against the UT board of regents, charging the board violated the Texas “open meetings” law by holding a tele phone meeting Monday. Andy Yemma, editor of The Daily Texan, said Wednesday night he and a number qf UT-A law students probably would be up all night working on a criminal charge they hope to file with Travis County Attorney Ned Granger. A civil suit will be filed in the 126th District Court either today or Friday, Yemma said. The complaint stems from ac tion taken by the regents con cerning the Chuck Wagon, an on-campus eating establishment. The nine-member, student-faculty Texas Union Board had voted around the first of the month to open the Chuck Wagon to non students beginning Tuesday. The Chuck Wagon for the past year has been closed to persons not connected with the university, the result of disturbances in the establishment which ended in police being brought onto the campus. Then recently the union board voted to open the Chuck Wagon to non-students for a one-month trial period. The action was based, Yemma said, on results of a stu dent referendum which narrowly gave approval to the trial period. Union Board actions are sub ject to the approval of the board of regents, and Monday the board reversed the decision. The board claimed allowing non-students would permit drug users to re establish headquarters in the Chuck Wagon. Yemma said he and some law students thought the telephone meeting (a conference call), which allowed Regents Chairman Frank C. Erwin Jr. to poll other regents on the matter, was a violation of the open meetings law. Yemma said no public notice of the meeting was given, and the public could not possibly have attended the meeting anyway. Yemma also said the suit he and the others will file will claim the regents violated their own sepcial meetings rule. This, he explained, is a measure passed by the regents which calls for a five-day notice concerning the time, place and purpose of any special meeting. “The reason I’m in the suit,” Yemma said, “is because I’ve seen too many instances of this type of thing.” He said he has been attending regents meetings for about the past six months and was con cerned about the telephone type meeting because it prevented Tex as reporters from covering the meetings. He also said he expects the case to be heard in about 16 days if the county attorney accepts it. Students filed the case orally Tuesday with Granger’s office, and he told them he would con sider it. Wednesday was a legal holiday, but today the students plan to see what action the county attorney will take. Assistant HOUSTON <A>> _ The president of Rice University ruled out the possibility Wednesday of a Rice assistant football coach being se lected to succeed Harold B. (Bo) Hagan. Hagan resigned as head coach and athletic director Tuesday, ef fective at the end of the current The open meetings law makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by a $25-200 fine, for a member of a governing body to call a meet ing illegally closed to the public or to participate in such a meet ing, without causing or attempt ing to cause his dissent to be entered into the minutes of the body. The suit names all nine mem bers of the UT board of regents as defendants. “In a day in which ‘law and order’ is the pet political pass word,” Yemma was quoted in The Houston Post as saying, “lawlessness can no more be toler ated in the executive board room than in the streets and on the campus.” will not Hagan one who is a top assistant but not head coaching material. “We’ll put together a list of names and I’ll get with the com mittee on outdoor sports and other persons, and we’ll go from there.” The choice of a new coach will be made by the Rice president with approval of the board of governors. Hagan, 45, said he was resign ing “because certain goals for our football program have not been reached.” Graduation notices here Friday Graduating seniors who or dered graduation announcements may pick them up beginning Fri day in the Memorial Student Center Game Room, Building Cashier Faye Yeates announced Wednesday. Announcements may be picked up from 8 a.m.-12 noon and from 1-5 p.m., Mrs. Yeates said. She also said seniors who have not ordered announcements or who wish to order extra ones may do so beginning Monday in the Game Room. They will be available on a first-come, first- served basis from 8 a.m.-12 noon and from 1-5 p.m., she said. Five shows set for Town Hall Kenny Rogers and The First Edition’s performance Friday at Texas A&M as a TAMU Special Attraction opens a three-week schedule of banner attractions through the Memorial Student Center Town Hall Committee. All five special attractions to be presented by Dec. 2 are off the top of the talent available, Town Hall Chairman Bill Left- wich said. The program includes three plays, The First Edition and, af ter-the-bonf ire show on Nov. 24, The Fifth Dimension. “George M!”, musical success of Broadway at the end of the 1960s, is scheduled for College Station and Bryan patrons next Thursday at the Bryan Civic Auditorium. Leftwich said the play is the story in music of America’s “Yan kee Doodle Dandy.” Reviewers credit its success to the musical’s appeal as entertain ment, especially to those old enough to have fond memories of the admired George M. Cohan. Also on the Town Hall docket for the immediate future are the National Players in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” Dec. 1. and George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” Dec. 2. Both productions will be at the Bryan Civic Auditorium. “We are indeed fortunate to be able to obtain for students and people of the surrounding area the quality of entertainment represented in these five special attractions,” Leftwich added. He said, as special attractions, the First Edition, Fifth Dimen sion and three plays will require all persons attending to purchase tickets, though they may have Town Hall or Rotary season pass es or student activity cards. Tickets are now on sale at the MSC Student Program Office for all but the National Players pro ductions, which will be available there soon. season. Hagan had been head coach since 1967 and his teams won only nine games, lost 27 and tied three. The team is 2-5 this year. Dr. Norman Hackerman, presi dent, said he will go outside the Rice ranks for a new coach. Speculation began immediately on Hagan’s successor. Some of the names being mentioned are Mike Campbell, defensive coach at Texas; Willie Zapalac, Texas offensive line coach; Mike Pitt man, Tulane coach; Charley Shira, Mississippi State coach; Jerry Claiborne, Virginia Tech coach; Sonny Grandelius, former Colora do coach; Frank Kush, Arizona State coach and Johnny Pont, Indiana coach. However, Hackerman said he had thought of no one. “There are two choices,” he said. “We look for a coach who has established himself or we look for one who is a young, pretty fiesty assistant somewhere. “There are problems in either case. The problem with the first is that you may get a man who is beyond his peak. The problem with the second is you may get replace Bo