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WASHINGTON (JP) — Presi
dent Nixon proposed Monday
strong new enforcement powers
for the Environmental Protec
tion Agency to combat water
pollution, ocean dumping, exces
sive noise, and the misuse of
pesticides and other poisons.
Enforcement recommendations
were coupled with proposals to
tax air-polluting sulphur in fuels
and lead in gasoline, evidence of
Nixon’s stated goal of making
market forces work against pol
lution.
He also called for a national
land-use policy designed to en
courage the states to set up en
vironment-protecting programs.
The chief executive gave no
over-all cost estimates for his
comprehensive package.
Nixon’s program, outlined in
a special presidential message to
Congress, would require passage
of about 14 pieces of legislation,
said Russell E. Train, chairman
of the President’s Council on En
vironmental Quality.
That would place the Republi
can administrations proposals at
the mercy of a Democratic-con-
trolled Congress; but some key
officials believe the political rival
ry may enhance, rather than harm
chances for significant action, as
both parties seek credit with vot
ers.
Nixon made a point of mention
ing that the Clean Air Act of
1970, sponsored by Democratic
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine
— a potential presidential rival —
incorporated proposals similar to
those of the administration.
Much of Nixon’s new environ
ment message revived other pro
posals on which Congress has not
acted.
Thus, Nixon asked once more
to increase federal grants for con
struction of municipal waste-
treatment facilities, from the
present level of $1 billion in fis
cal 1971 to a three-year program
of $2 billion a year, to be match
ed with $6 billion of state and
local funds.
Recipient communities would
have to provide for meeting their
future needs “on a reasonably
self-sufficient basis’’ including
payment by industries that use
municipal facilities.
Building upon last year’s Clean
Air Act, which requires abate
ment of air pollution from both
moving and stationary sources,
Nixon proposed once more a tax
on lead additives in gasoline and
proposed for the first time a
charge on the sulphur contained
Blacks eking out
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By BRUCE BLACK
Battalion Staff Writer
After World War II, black
Americans saw themselves as one
of the world’s exploited groups,
which had to exert its dignity
and overthrow its bonds as Amer
icans had done in the 1770s, Dr.
Hollis R. Lynch said Monday
night.
Speaking before the third Eth
nic Studies Seminar presented by
Great Issues, the professor of his
tory at Columbia University said
that black Americans viewed
many black nations which were
throwing off their exploitaters
succesfully as an example of their
own plight.
They also saw the rise of Rus
sia, Lynch said—a country which
declared itself to be racially un
biased, even though it may have
been using this as propaganda.
“Blacks secured more jobs and
positions than ever before during
the war years,” he continued, “hut
the trend did not continue after
the war.”
“Shortly after 1940, seven out
73 sweetheart
nominations
due in Friday
An extended deadline for Fresh
man Sweetheart nominations has
been granted, Don Webb, fresh
man vice-president, announced
Monday.
Friday at noon is the new dead
line.
Webb urged any freshman who
wishes to nominate his girl and
enter her in the contest to do so
as soon as possible. Applications
may be picked up at the Student
Program Office at the Memorial
Student Center.
Completed applications must be
accompanied with a 5 x7 photo-
Igraph and if desired, another
photo with a casual pose of the
girl. Finalists will be selected
early next week and announced
in The Battalion.
The winner of the contest is to
be announced during the weekend
of the Freshman Ball, Feb. 19
and 20.
Planned for the weekend is a
sock dance on Feb. 19, a picnic
in the morning of Feb. 20 and
the Freshman Ball that evening.
Tickets for the weekend can be
bought from the outfit and dorm
representatives at $8.00 for the
entire weekend.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
of 10 skilled blacks were employ
ed,” he said. “After 1945, that
dropped to five out of ten.”
Black organizations, however,
had been founded, Lynch said, and
had a beneficial impact on the
psyche of the black population.
“The black man had become in
ternationalized,” he said. “The
active black concern of the occu
pation of Ethiopia, a very special
symbol to blacks as one of the
only black nations to maintain its
culture and dignity, had a great
impact on black Americans.”
Lynch said that blacks took a
special interest in the United Na
tions as a tool to stress equality
in bulk fuels.
The sulphur charge would
chiefly affect factories, large
heating units, and electric pow
er-generating plants using fossil
fuels.
Train told newsmen details had
not been determined: the charge
could be levied either where the
fuel is produced or where it is
consumed, perhaps with rebate to
reward sulphur removal.
Nixon said, without further ex
planation, that “we must experi
ment with other economic incen
tives as a supplement to our reg
ulatory efforts.”
“Our goal,” he added, “must be
to harness the powerful mechan
isms of the marketplace, with
its automatic incentives and re
straints, to encourage improve
ment in the quality of life.”
At the same time he urged
stronger regulatory authority for
the new Environmental Protec
tion Agency, created only last
December.
Apollo 13 pilot
March speaker
Apollo 13 lunar module pilot
Fred W. Haise Jr. will be ban
quet speaker for the 41st annual
joint meeting of the Southwest
ern Journalism Congress and
Student Press Club March 19 at
Texas A&M University.
Haise will address approximate
ly 20 journalism students and
faculty members from 15 colleges
in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas
and Louisiana.
The one-day workshop will
study campus press problems,
C. J. Leabo, A&M Journalism
Department head and SJC presi
dent said.
Awards to winners of news
paper and magazine writing con
tests will be made at the banquet,
sponsored by Taylor Publishing
Co. The Student Press Club
Awards are judged by staff mem
bers of the Memphis Commercial
Appeal and Southern Living Mag
azine.
Haise is one of 19 astronauts
selected by NASA in April, 1966.
His first space flight was aborted
when the Apollo 13 service module
cryogenic oxygen system failed
55 hours into the flight,
Haise and fellow crewmen
James A. Lovell and John L. Swi-
gert worked closely with Houston
ground controllers, converting
their lunar module “Aquarius” in
to an effective lifeboat for the
return from space.
He logged 142 hours and 54
minutes of space flight.
The Biloxi, Miss., native grad
uated with honors in aeronautical
engineering from the University
of Oklahoma in 1959.
He has accumulated over 6,200
hours of flying time, including
3,200 in jet aircraft.
Haise began his flying as a
Naval Aviation Cadet in 1952 and
served in the U. S. Marine Corps
to September, 1956. While at
Oklahoma University he was a
member of the Oklahoma Air
National Guard.
Following graduation he was
an Air Force research pilot at
NASA’s Lewis Research Center,
Ohio.
He was at the NASA Flight
Research Center at Edwards,
Calif., before moving to Houston
and the Manned Spacecraft Cen
ter.
Haise’s honors include the
Presidential Medal of Freedom,
awarded by President Nixon in
1970, numerous medals for the
Apollo 13 flight and awards as
a test pilot.
He is married and the father
of four children.
PAMELA SCHIEFELBEIN, hazel-eyed zoology major from Floresville was crowned
sweetheart of the Sophomore Class at the Sophomore Ball Saturday night. Miss Schiefel-
bein the first A&M coed to be a class sweetheart, won over nine other semi-finalists.
She was the only semifinalist from A&M.
’Trotters here Thursday
Fred W. Haise, Jr.
Bryan’s Bill Presnal to speak
at first 1971 Political Forum
A sports spectacular that has
drawn huge audiences four
straight years returns Thursday
to Texas A&M’s G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
It’s the group preceded onto
the roundball court by strains of
“Sweet Georgia Brown” — the
laugh-per-bounce Harlem Globe
trotters.
The Trotters will jog onto G.
Rollie White Coliseum hardwood
as a TAMU Special Attraction,
one of the year’s bonus features
arranged by the Town Hall Com
mittee of the Memorial Student
Center.
Town Hall chairman William S.
Leftwich noted that all patrons
for the game must have separate
admission tickets for this event.
They are . on sale at the Student
Program Office in the MSC.
Meadowlark Lemon and his
zany cronies tip off against the
New Jersey Reds at 8 p.m.
Cage artists working with the
court jester will include Fred
(Curly) Neal, Hubert (Geese)
Ausbie, Bob (Showboat) Hall and
others, including Doug Himes,
former Prairie View A&M player
from Center, and Theodis Lee,
Houston Cougar eager of the El-
vin Hays period.
The “Magicians of Basketball”
came off a 1969-70 season that
surpassed all others. They covered
48 of the 50 states and Canada,
drawing nearly two million fans.
An annual CBS television special
was viewed by 50 million. New at
tendance marks were posted in
14 states—Texas and California
topping the list with over 125,000
each.
Los Angeles claimed the big
gest turnout, 17,695 that packed
The Forum at a “spectacular” for
a charity.
Fifty games were played on
college campuses in 31 states, an
all-time single season high. Un
like A&M where the Trotters
have proved so popular, 17 of the
school fieldhouses were visited
for the first time.
Another recent first was a 1968-
69 performance in Harlem. In
credible as it may sound, the
Globetrotters had never played
in Harlem. The special game was
for the exclusive entertainment
of youngsters in the world’s larg
est ghetto.
So what will they do for an
encore? Says George Cillett, the
Trotters’ president-general man
ager:
“We’ll think of something.”
Dr. Hollis Lynch
as well as to recognize the growth
of a “third world,” which consists
of the world’s exploited popula
tion.
In the fifties, blacks started mi
grating to urban areas, and for
the first time, black votes held
power in the north and west.
“Blacks in these areas began
exercising a certain amount of
political muscle,” Lynch said. “By
the sixties, all the laws were on
the statute books, and the blacks
had all the tools they needed for
the black revolt of the seventies.”
“On the face of it,” he contin
ued, “there seemed to be substan
tial gains in the black man’s
plight, but when compared with
the rest of the third world, the
gains were actually very small.”
“The goal was to be totally free
by ’63,” he said; “to at least en
joy the rights of other ethnic
groups.”
“And yet,” he said, “practically
no changes were made. The power
of equality lies in other hands,
and no real change will come
without a revolution in the think
ing of other Americans.”
State Rep. Bill Presnail of Bry
an will speak on “The First 30
Days” Wednesday in the leadoff
Political Forum presentation of
the spring semester.
Presnal’s talk will be from 12
noon to 1 p.m. in Rooms 2C and
D of the Memorial Student Cen
ter, announced Forum chairman
Charles Hoffman of Greenbelt,
Md. He said admission is free
and nominally-priced lunch will
be available.
A previous Political Forum
speaker as a freshman legislator
in 1969, Presnal, 36, represents
the 18th District comprised of
Brazos, Grimes and Madison
Counties.
The former Texas A&M staff
member serves on the House Ap
propriations, Agriculture, Con
gressional and Legislative Dis
tricts, High Education and Pub
lic Health Committees.
While at A&M, Presnal was
tactical officer, civilian counselor
and assistant commandant in the
Commandant’s Office. The 1953
A&M graduate was Ross Volun
teer company sponsor and chaired
bonfire and yell leader commit
tees.
The Brazos County dairy farm
er was first runner-up for the
outstanding Young Farmer of
Texas in 1966.
Presnal was elected uncontest
ed to his second term last year.
Globetrotters will warm up
with team from Legett Hall
The Harlem Globetrotters will face an informal
basketball team from Legett Hall in a preliminary
10-minute warmup before their match here with the
New Jersey Reds.
The Leapin’ Legett Losers will go out against
the Trotters for the Special Attraction.
Legett Hall’s basketball team led by 144.7
centimeter Will Way will be seeking revenge for last
year’s 6-2 defeat at the hands of the Globetrotters.
Game time at G. Rollie White Coliseum is 8
p.m.
Legett team captain John Vernor, whose club
was introduced last year as having athletic scholar
ships in javelin catching, said, “We just don’t know
when to quit.”
Going against Meadowlark Lemon, Curly Neal
and others with Vernor (5-11) will be Bob McMaster
(6-1), Ken Rienbolt (5-1 ij, Tucker Smith (6-0),
Russell Sheaffer (6-5), Michael O’Toole (6-2) and
Way.
“Come out and squeeze for us,” Vernor
appealed to the Aggies. “We’re gonna need it.”
Benefit auditions begin
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The man who wrote the words
to “The Spirit of Aggieland,”
Marvin H. Mimms of Banquete,
was buried Saturday in Marlin.
Mimms, who was 66, was
found dead, apparently of natural
causes, in his Banquete home
Thursday. The retired teacher
and coach who wrote the Texas
A&M alma mater lived alone.
He formerly taught science at
Aransas Pass and was a teacher
and coach in several public
schools. Mimms graduated from
A&M in 1926 and also received
a master’s degree in agriculture
from the university.
Mimms wrote the words to
“The Spirit of Aggieland” during
summer vacation of his junior
year. They were submitted to Col.
Richard J. Dunn, then the Aggie
Band director, who set them to
music.
He was honored at the 1969
meeting of the Texas Aggie Band
Association.
Mimms is survived by a sister,
Mrs. Walter Fischer of Marlin.
Auditions for the “Paint the Town Pink”
Follies, St. Joseph’s Hospital benefit to be staged
Feb. 26 and 27, began today and will continue until
the show is cast, talent chairman Mrs. Bill Banks said.
Rehearsals are open to all who would like to
participate. No invitation is necessary.
Auditions and rehearsals will be at the Knights
of Columbus Hall on Leonard Road in Bryan. The
two-a-day auditions and rehearsals will be at 9:30
a.m. and 7:30 p.m., the talent chairman added.
Mrs. Banks pointed out that “Paint the Town
Pink” participation provides opportunity to work
with a professional director of New York, Chris
Carter.
“We need singers, dancers, soloists, performers
with groups, skit artists .. . you name it,” she said.
“For those with children, baby sitting will be
furnished at no cost.”
“Paint the Town Pink” opens at 7:30 p.m. Feb.
26 at the Bryan Civic Auditorium. Sponsored by the
St. Joseph’s Hospital Auxihary of Pink Ladies, the
follies will put all proceeds into the cardiac care ward
of the new hospital. Miss Bonnie Cox is auxiliary
president; Mrs. Marion Pugh is follies chairman.
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