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By JOHN CURYLO
Rudder’s Rangers, formerly the
A&M Ranger Company, got a
taste of. Army life this weekend
during a visit to the Recondo
School at Ft. Hood.
Twenty-eight cadets, accompa
nied by four members of the
Military Science Department
staff, went through a short
version of the three-week course
in patrolling, reconnaissance, and
if i mountaineering, taught by infan-
itw try officers and non-commissioned
officers.
Capt. Charles Briscoe, Major
Donald Henderson, Capt. Mario
Macaluso, and SFC James Fugate
went along on the trip. Capt.
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Rudder’s Rangers attend weekend recondo school
Briscoe is the advisor of the unit.
During their stay at the base
camp of the Recondo School, the
Aggies were treated like recruits
and expected to perform to per
fection.
Upon arrival at the school, the
cadets received a brief refresher
course in use of the compass.
They then encountered a night
compass course, using skills
learned in Military Science
classes.
Saturday was the big day, be
ginning with breakfast at 6:00
a.m. The first instruction was
in immediate action drills, used
while on patrols. A demonstra
tion was given, and then the
cadets were divided into patrols,
using the techniques employed
when a patrol is attacked.
The quick fire drill was next
for the Aggies. BB guns were
used to avoid injury, as they first
practiced hitting a disc tossed
into the air by another cadet.
Protective equipment was issued,
and the Rangers moved down
quick reaction lanes, returning
the fire of hidden aggressors.
The highlight of the weekend
was the mountaineering phase of
the training. To insure safety, a
knot-tying class was taught, and
cadets learned to tie the knots
they would later use in rapelling
and belaying. These two activi
ties were conducted after lunch
on cliffs of 30, 50, and 120 feet.
The Aggies learned how to lower
one another down a cliff, using
ropes and the knots they were
taught (belaying) and how to
lower themselves in a safe man
ner (rapelling). In addition, free
climbing was employed to return
to the tops of the cliffs.
Further confidence in knots was
obtained in manipulating one,
two, and three rope bridges
stretched across a ravine. The
Rangers were required to hook
themselves to the bridges and
move across the ravine, learning
to put up with “windy” conditions.
Further instruction in night
patrolling and night vision was
learned Saturday evening. The
unit was again broken into recon
naissance patrols, and these
groups went through a booby trap
course. Most of these were set
up by Major Henderson. In this
way, the cadets learned to carry
out an operation under the hard
ship of darkness.
Unexpected training came when
two of the patrols ambushed the
two who started the course last.
Here, everyone put into use a
combination of what they learned
in immediate action, quick fire,
and night vision classes.
Before leaving Sunday, certifi
cates were presented to members
of Rudder’s Rangers, making
them honorary graduates of the
Recondo School.
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AUSTIN UP) — Texas House
members voted overwhelmingly
Monday to create machinery that
could—but might not—result in
an investigation of an alleged
stock scandal involving state offi
cials.
In a long debate session that
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—Voted 143-0 to set up the
House General Investigating
Committee, which House Speak
er Gus Mutscher said he would
appoint before the Easter holi
days.
—Approved, 128-16, a resolution
asking several state agencies and
professional associations to inves
tigate the collapse of the Sharps-
town State Bank of Houston, the
“enjoining of National Bankers
Life Insurance Co.” and “related
matters.”
But they rejected four attempts
at a more specific probe of the
passage of two bank deposit in
surance bills in 1969. The U.S.
Securities and Exchange Com
mission alleged in a suit filed in
Dallas Jan. 18 that quick-profit
stock deals were arranged for sev
eral state officials to induce pas
sage of the bills.
According to the SEC petition,
the bills were designed so that
Sharpstown State Bank could
avoid examination by the Fed
eral Deposit Insurance Corp.
Mutscher, Gov. Preston Smith,
Rep. W. S. Heatly of Paducah,
Rep. Tommy Shannon of Fort
Worth and state Democratic
Chairman Elmer Baum all told
SEC investigators they borrowed
large sums from Sharpstown in
1969 to speculate in National
Bankers Life Insurance Co. stock.
They denied any connection be
tween the stock deals and the two
banking bills, and none is a de
fendant in the SEC suit.
“Those of you who feel an in
vestigation should be made, you
have here the vehicle by which
an investigation can be made,”
said Rep. Dewitt Hale of Corpus
Christ!, sponsor of the General
Investigating Committee resolu
tion.
The other resolution, by Rep.
Carl Parker of Port Arthur, in
structs the attorney general,
state banking commissioner, state
securities commissioner, state in
surance commissioner and the
presidents of the State Bar of
Texas, Texas Bankers Association,
and Texas Society of Certified
Public Accountants to make an
investigation.
The agencies and associations
would file with the attorney gen
eral and the House Investigating
Committee “the complete record
of all factual information with
regard to closing of the Sharps
town State Bank, the enjoining
of National Bankers Life Insur
ance Co. and all related mat
ters as soon as practicable.”
Mutscher has stated he thinks
the investigating committee
should conduct its work—what
ever it chooses to investigate—
after the legislature adjourns
May 31.
“The air must be cleared once
and for all. The publicity sur
rounding the current SEC activ
ities must be fully explored. I
want the members of the House
and people of this state to know
the facts. Facts—not rumors, not
innuendos, not distortions. I want
to emphasize that I do not want
the results of these resolutions
you pass to be a whitewash nor
a witch hunt. The facts must be
laid before the public,” Mutscher
told the House before debate be
gan.
Several members said privately
that lobbyists asked them to re
ject any attempt at major changes
in the Hale and Parker resolu
tions.
It became clear early that
Mutscher had the votes to pass
the two measures—which had his
blessing — without significant
amendments.
Representatives tabled, 110-35,
an amendment by Rep. Tom Bass
of Houston to require Mutscher
to appoint the investigating com
mittee in 10 days.
Then they tabled, 108-55, an
amendment by Bass to the Hale
resolution that would have re
quired the investigating commit
tee specifically to probe circum
stances surrounding passage of
the two banking bills.
Rep. Tom Moore of Waco was
defeated, 105-38, in an effort to
compel the investigating commit
tee to see whether state bribery
laws were violated in connection
with the two banking bills.
“This is an allegation of noth
ing less than bribery,” Moore said
of the SEC suit.” ... It is incum
bent upon us to lay the facts
bare and put this dog to rest one
way or another.”
He pointed out that the inves
tigating committee decides what
to probe unless the House in
structs it.
“The committee may investi
gate ... or they may not, and
the public will be on our backs
unless we pass this amendment,
Moore said.
“Is it your motive to investi
gate or accuse ? asked Parker.
“I don’t think that question is
worthy of an answer, and you
ought to be ashamed of your
self,” Moore replied.
Parker later told him that “if
we incorporate those accusations
in writing in your amendment,
we will be giving credence to
those accusations.”
“That baby already has been
born. This merely acknowledges
it,” Moore replied.
Reps. Bill Blythe of Houston
and Bob Vale of San Antonio
were defeated in attempts to sub
stitute for the Parker resolutions
proposals for full investigations
of the passage of the two bank
ing bills.
The hottest exchange of the
day came over an attempt by
Rep. Maurice Angly, Austin Re
publican, to get an investigation
of state deposits in Sharpstown
by state Treasurer Jesse James.
“I think Mr. Jesse James is
doing a wonderful job. He is the
best treasurer we have ever had
and one of the best in the na
tion,” said Rep. Billy William
son, Tyler.
“Shouldn’t you be up here apol
ogizing to the depositors of
Sharpstown State Bank,” Wil
liamson thundered at Angly,
“when it was you who precipi
tated the run on Sharpstown
State Bank by prematurely an
nouncing the withdrawal of state
deposits from Sharpstown Bank.
You, more than any other per
son, are responsible for the col
lapse of Sharpstown State Bank.”
Angly, evidently flustered by
the attack, declared that Wil
liamson’s statement was contrary
to findings of the SEC and the
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