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I be Battalion Warm and cloudy Vol. 66 No. 117 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 29, 1971 Friday —■ Cloudy to partly cloudy. Winds southerly at 10-15 mph. High 86°, low 69°. 845-2226 Commission delays results of election Results of Wednesday’s gen eral elections have been delayed because the Election Commission did not give the ballots to the Data Processing Center in time to have the results printed out, according to Charles T. Haynes, manager of the DPC. “Two o’clock today would be a very optimistic estimate of when we will have the results,” Haynes said. By two, The Battalion presses had already started so we were unable to print the results. “If they had started bringing them over yesterday as they (the Election Commission) said they would this problem would have never arisen,” Haynes said. “We would have gotten them out by 10 Wednesday night easy,” he added. The reason it takes so long for the results to come in is that each of the ballot cards must be key punched individually and then run through the sorter, he said. The Election Commission was to have taken the ballots to the DPC while the elections were still being held, Haynes said, and be tabulated throughout the day. After the polls closed at 8 p.m. the final ballots would be key punched, run through the sorter and the results printed out. The delay in getting the ballots was the reason for the delayed results. George Walton, president of the Election Commission said there may be a protest of the elections due to the senior yell leaders ballot. “The ballot said vote for two yell leaders when it should have said three. The commissioners were supposed to inform the stu dents to vote for three but some of them may not have. If they didn’t there may be a valid rea son for protest.” Later, Walton was unavailable for comment on the delay in get ting results. “It’s just screwed up like it is every year,” said Kent Caperton, president of the Student Senate. “It’s been this way for the past four years. It just symbolizes gross inefficiency on the part of the election Commission,” he said. “As a whole, the Election Com mission has messed up,” said Rog er Miller, vice-president of the Student Senate and presidential candidate. “Their first mistake was in not allowing enough polling places,” he said, “this just compounds the problems.” John Sharp, the other presiden tial candidate, was unavailable for comment. DSC awarded to prof here Capt. Charles H. Briscoe of the Military Science Department has received the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation’s second highest military honor, for extraordinary heroism in South Vietnam. The 27-year-old career infantry officer was presented the award by Lt. Gen. George V. Undei*- wood Jr., new 4th U. S. Army commander, in a ceremony at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio. Second in importance only to the Medal of Honor, the DSC was earned by Captain Briscoe while leading a company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade against a forti fied enemy base camp in South Vietnam on June 7, 1968. Casting ballots was the thing Wednesday for the students voting in the general elec tions. The turnout was light for most of the day with the tempo picking up around lunch and dinner times. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett) Court ruling upheld Profs, staff must forgo pay AUSTIN </Pi — Six Texas A&M employes cannot draw salaries from the state while serving on the College Station City Council, the 3rd Court of Civil Appeals ruled today. The court upheld a decision by Austin Dist. Judge Herman Jones, forbidding State Comptroller Rob ert S. Calvert to pay the employes salaries as long as they remained on the council. The employes clearly fall with in a provision of the state Con stitution prohibiting payment of state salaries to “agents, officers or appointees” who hold “any other office or position of honor, trust or profit under this state,” the court said. “A member of the faculty or staff of Texas A&M University is an ‘agent or appointee’ of this state. The faculty or staff of A&M are agents of the board of directors of the university who in turn are officers of the state exercising certain functions of state government,” the court de clared. The court also overruled the employes’ contention that the state constitutional provision on dual employment violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. They contend ed the provision deprives voters of the right to full representa tion, denies the right to run for public office and arbitrarily dis criminates against certain state employes. “It is a reasonable conclusion that campaigning for and hold ing an elective state office would interfere with the employe’s time, energy and devotion of his offi cial duties,” the court said. The appeals court also noted that Judge Jones found a poten tial conflict existed between serv ices of the employes to the Texas A&M system and as councilmen. The high court altered Jones’ decision in one respect. Jones held that councilman D. A. An derson was not covered by the decision since he was paid from funds granted to the Texas Forf est Service by the federal gov ernment and appropriated to the service by the legislature. But the appeals court said An derson’s salary passed through the state treasury, so he also should be included in the ban on dual employment. Section 33 of Article XVI of the state Constitution prohibits the payment from the treasury of salaries to such officials. “We hold that Section 33 pro hibits the payment of Anderson’s salary from ‘local funds’ when he is serving concurrently as a coun cilman of College Station . . . We construe Section 33 to apply to all funds belonging to the State of Texas, not just to those funds held in the immediate possession of the state treasurer,” the opin ion said. Moosical symbols their game “Maybe I shouldn’t have brought up the subject,” said Rea gan Brown, Extension rural so ciologist with the Agricultural Extension Service. He was refer ring to a subject mentioned in a speech in which he advocated re placing the eagle as a national symbol with the cow, sow, or hen. “I pointed out that the cow, sow, and hen have made a great con tribution to our progress. They pushed across our frontiers with our ancestors and have fed our people, and have been sources of great income since America’s birth,” he said. A Texas journalist, Milt Hart- sell, in analyzing Brown’s re marks had this to say. “Brown says he believes ‘Old Bossy’ should replace the eagle’s place of honor in our society. In support of his opinion, he COW-culates that the milk-producers have long been overworked and underpaid and certainly haven’t shared any great amount of limelight, in this coun try, down through the years. “In case we are steering you down the wrong trail, we had bet ter stipulate that Reagan’s pa triotism is not in question here, it is only a matter of his paying University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. personal tribute to the bovine kingdom . . . probably for serv ices rendered in his early youth. “As a matter of mirth, I won der if he ever thought of some of the consequences that might occur if his idea ever caught fire and the change were to be made. “A point open for discussion would concern our songs of heri tage. It is most likely that such a dramatic switch would produce new national theme songs. “Such hit-parade possibilities as, ‘The Star Spangled Brahma,’ ‘Under the Double Angus,’ ‘Amer ica, the Butterful,’ and ‘My Cow- town Tis of Thee’ would probably emerge and pop groups such as ‘Three Cow Nights’ would sing such songs as the ‘Jersey Bounce.’ “After dedicating due consider ation to the idea, we offer an al ternate means to pay homage to our beloved bovine. “Instead of erasing ‘Old Baldy’ from the Great Seal we could kill one bird with two cows, so to speak, by proclaiming a national holiday to honor the cudchewers. “An ‘Armed Dairy Day’ might be in order. Consideration could be given to celebrating ‘The Fourth of Guernsey’ or perhaps just opening the wooden barn doors and staging an old-fash ioned Holstein Hoe-down. “Another idea for cow-lovers would be the institution of making Moo Year’s Day resolutions. There are udder ideas to numerous to mention. “Yes, Reagan, your idea cer tainly has its merits but if car ried to the extreme it could re sult in opposition groups forming a coalition, thus keeping the cow from receiving a national nod. “Some irate bird-lover could Texas Sen. Bill Moore here Friday noon for PF State Sen. Bill Moore of Bryan will speak here Friday on “Where’s the Money Coming From ?” Moore’s Political Forum noon series presentation refers to recently-approved Senate and House appropriations measures for the next biennium. Forum chairman Paul Turner of Livingston said the presenta tion will be in the Memorial Stu dent Center Ballroom and public- free to all interested persons. A 1940 A&M graduate in eco nomics, Moore received his law degree from the University of Texas and ran for the Senate. He was elected as the youngest mem ber of the body in 1948. Senator Moore has chaired or The citation reported Briscoe learned several of his men were wounded and trapped in a field raked by enemy fire. “He rushed to the forefront and led an assault to recover the wounded personnel,” the citation read. “As he and his headquarters el ement came in sight of the wound ed they began drawing fire from two bunkers armed with heavy machine guns. He crawled toward his senior medic who was lying wounded in a clearing, firing his submachine gun at the bunkers in an effort to pin the enemy gun ner down. “Unmindful of the intense small arms fire from two bunkers, Cap tain Briscoe, with complete dis regard for his own life, single- handedly assaulted the bunkers with hand grenades destroying both of them, killing their occu pants. “As he dragged the wounded aidman toward cover, an intense volley of heavy machinegun fire killed the aidman, narrowly miss ing Captain Briscoe. In spite of continued heavy enemy fire, he returned, located and dragged his wounded forward observer out of the line of enemy fire and was wounded himself. “Overcoming his own pain, he continued to pull his wounded comrad toward cover. When an other burst of enemy fire killed the forward observer, Captain Briscoe began crawling back to ward his unit. “As he attempted to evade the enemy fire, he fell into a con cealed well. In spite of his wounds and awkward predicament, he kept command of his company...” Captain Briscoe relayed direc tion to his radioman and directed a defense that repulsed two ene my counter-attacks. After his rescue from the well, he directed air strikes into the enemy base camp. Briscoe refused to be evacuated throughout the seven-hour battle until all his personnel had been aided. His wounds in the arm and leg resulted in evacuation to Nha Trang, Camp Drake Japan and Womack Army Hospital, Fort Bragg. He spent five months recovering from the wounds. The assistant professor of mil tary science teaches junior cours es, is a sponsor for the national champion Fish Drill Team and advisor to the Ranger Company at A&M, a 40-man unit composed of sophomore through senior Army ROTC cadets interested in the Army Ranger program. Captain Briscoe is a 1965 grad uate of The Citadel with a degree in political science. He also has a B.A. degree in history from North Carolina State University, awarded in 1969, and currently is working on a master’s degree in history at Texas A&M. He was commissioned through the ROTC program at The Citadel and has been on active duty since graduation. Accreditation given program The Landscape Architecture De partment has received accredita tion from The American Society of Landscape Architects. Architecture Dean E. J. Rom- ieniec said it completes individual accreditation of the college’s pro fessional programs. ASLA President Campbell E. Miller said A&M received the nor mal two-year provisional accredi tation accorded after an initial visit to a newly developed pro gram. A team from the Committee on Education visited the A&M cam pus in October. Their recommen dations were approved by the en tire committee and the Executive Committee of the society. Texas A&M offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees in landscape architecture. Lost articles can be claimed University Police have quite a collection of jewelry, Chief Ed Powell said Monday. Powell said watches, rings and glasses have been turned in by people who found them around the campus. Other items also have been turned in, the chief said. He said students who have lost items may go by the University Police Office in the YMCA Build ing and by identifying them, claim any returned items which are theirs. organize the STATE (Society To Aid The Eagle) or a determined cow-hater would form the GRAB (Group Rally Against Bovines) and stall your efforts. “Our plan of arbitration, the American way, is more likely to be effective, we believe. “So what do you say, shall we poll the Herefords and see what they think is best?” ' vvUv/»V.V l *v'.V,V • • .-• ; /• been a member of every major Senate committee. He also has served on the Legislative Budget Board, the vital legislative group that researches and recommends finances to fulfill state needs. Since serving on the Senate Finance Committee, Moore has been responsible for appropria tion of millions of dollars for higher education. He is now serv ing as the Texas legislative rep resentative on the Southern Re gional Education Board made up of representatives from 15 South ern states. He is chairman of the Senate’s powerful State Affairs Committee. The senator is engaged in pri vate law practive in Bryan be tween legislative sessions. • * ‘ . . . SPRING IS HERE, HOT PANTS THE FASHION and it is great for all the girl watchers in the world. Too, it is especially great for the camera-equipped ones such as Steven Oualline, who scoped-out this at the Post Oak Galleria in Houston.