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
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>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