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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?”
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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.
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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.