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1 > •’, i .’V'i ■* i . , Battalion Cloudy, some rain WEDNESDAY—Cloudy, after noon rainshowers. Winds south erly at 15 to 20 m.p.h. High 86, low 68. THURSDAY — Partly cloudy. Winds westerly 15 to 20 m.p.h. High 88, low 57. Vol. 66 No. 120 College Station, Texas Wednesday, May 5, 1971 845-2226 House bill allows bans on disrupters AUSTIN <A>) — Texas House members passed, 123-17, and sent to the senate Tuesday a bill authorizing state colleges to ban potential disrupters from their campuses. No one spoke against Dumas Rep. Dean Cobb’s bill, which was tentatively approved without de bate Monday. If the Senate approves the bill and it is signed into law, college officials could demand identifi cation of anyone on campus “dur ing periods of disruption.” Per sons suspected of disrupting a campus could be kicked off the grounds for up to 14 days. Such a person would have the right to appeal. Cobb’s bill also would make it a crime to refuse to leave a state-owned building when it is regularly closed to the public. It also would be a crime for a person expelled for disruption to go on a state col lege campus for up to a year. Also passed to the Senate were bills that would: —Create a campus of Texas A&I at Corpus Christi. —Put commercial business and vocational schools under regula tion by the state education com missioner. —Authorize the University of Tuition increase held by Senate AUSTIN <A>> — The Senate Finance Committee delayed — and almost killed today — a House-passed bill which would more than double public college tuition for Texas residents. The measure, by Rep. Grant Jones of Abilene, was sent to a subcommittee on an 8-7 vote, and the minority wanted to kill it out right. The bill also would raise out- of-state tuition at Texas colleges to $47 a semester hour, or more than three times the current rate of $200 a semester. An aver age 15-hour semester would cost $705 for non-residents and $105 for residents, whom now pay $50. Sen. Tom Creighton of Mineral Wells, Senate sponsor of the bill, said the revenue raised by the bill could take care of any other tax needs that might arise when the legislature meets in special session next year to raise money for public welfare. The current appropriations bill only provides for one year of welfare. Jones said the bill would raise $80 million a year. Texas at Dallas to teach fresh men, sophomores, juniors and seniors beginning in 1975. Pres ent law authorizes only graduate courses now and only junior, sen ior and graduate instruction in 1975. Most of the House’s time was spent on a permanent voter reg istration bill for use in case the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a federal court decision nullifying Texas’ annual registration re quirement. The bill, by Dallas Rep. Jim Stroud, was tentatively approved, 113-29. Another vote is needed before the measure can advance to the Senate. Stroud’s bill would provide for re-registration by voting every two years after an initial regis tration. The measure originally required each voter to register in person, but the House ap proved an amendment by Rep. Jack Hawkins of Groesbeck al lowing mail registration. Also approved, 80-59, was an amendment by Rep. Gerhardt Schulle of San Marcos requiring college students who get half their support from their parents to vote in their home towns. A similar amendment, support ed by Schulle, was added to the 18-year-old state constitutional amendment approved by the House last week. Rep. Sam Coats of Dallas warned that the amendment was discriminatory and was “going to be struck down, sure as the world.” Senators adopted two proposed constitutional amendments, in cluding one which would allow persons holding state jobs to serve with pay on city councils, school boards and other local positions. Another would give the legis lature power to authorize cities and counties to issue revenue bonds for industrial and rural de velopment. Both measures would be sub mitted to the voters in Novem- .ber 1972 if approved by the House. The Senate rejected an at tempt by Sen. Jim Wallace of Houston to bring up a proposed constitutional amendment prohib iting paid lobbyists from serving on state boards and commissions. Wallace needed 21 votes to bring it up, but got only 13. “Our research showed that there are, at the present time, at least nine registered lobbyists serving on state boards and agencies,” Wallace said. “I cannot believe that the Sen ate cannot see the obvious pos sibility of conflicts of interest.” Senators also passed to the House bills which would: —Set up procedures, including a hearing, for bringing obscene movies before a court. —Establish tuition scholarships for nursing students in the Uni versity of Texas system, Texas Woman’s University, Prairie View A&M and West Texas State University. 800 arrested More D. C. protesters arrested WASHINGTON <A>) — Police broke up an antiwar rally out side the Justice Department Tues day, arresting about 800 pro testers who refused to comply quickly with orders to leave. The exact figure was not known immediately, but 90 min utes after the arrests began 15 to 20 busloads with 40 to 50 people each had been taken to the U.S. District Court lockup. It brought the day’s arrests to nearly 1,500 and sent the two-day total well past 8,000. The protestors generally went without resistance, singing to guitars and flutes and holding up two fingers in the peace sign. The rally had lasted nearly two hours when a police sound truck announced: “A police line has been established. Leave this area immediately or be subject to arrest.” Policemen closed off both ends of 10th Street between Pennsyl vania and Constitution avenues so quickly that many who wanted to leave had no chance to do so. Some of the estimated 1,000 people in the block asked Deputy Chief O. W. Davis about leaving and were told “go up to the line and the men will put you on one of those buses. That’s the only way you can leave.” A block away, at 11th and Pennsylvania some policemen drove their motorscooters into the crowd, knocking several down. Later at least one cannister of tear gas was fired at that loca tion. Police blocked off busy Penn sylvania Avenue, often called the Avenue of Presidents, from 8th to 13th street, accomplishing what mass traffic-stalling tactics Mon day failed to do: raise hob with traffic. Some demonstrators attempted to disrupt traffic again this morning and again without suc cess. Police arrested 685. The police action at the Justice Department broke up what had been a quiet rally, watched occa sionally by Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell from his fifth floor window. Mitchell was seen on a balcony observing the mass ar rests later. The crowd on 10th Street had been as large as 5,000 but a poor speaker system made it difficult to hear and many of the people drifted away. Police advanced on them from both ends of the street packing people into a smaller area. The arrests began a minute later. At one point reporters saw several policemen beat five dem onstrators with clubs. A sergeant stopped them. Police buses arrived to carry off prisoners. Among those arrested was John Froines, sought on a warrant charging him with conspiring with antiwar leader Rennie Davis in Monday’s disruptive tactics. Davis was arrested Monday and his bond was set at $25,000. The two men were among the Chicago 7 conspiracy defendants. Some 1,500 of the 7,000 ar rested in Monday’s futile try at government disruption still were in city jails as the crowd of up to 5,000 marched through down town streets to the Justice De partment. Earlier in the day, during an abortive attempt by protestors to continue the attempt to play hob with workbound traffic, po lice arrested 685 more on vary ing charges. As the demonstrators marched toward the Justice Department they even stopped for red lights, causing one marcher to mutter: “Some revolutionaries!” In front of the squat, block- square building they began to chant “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, the NLF is gonna win.” But a march leader scolded the crowd and told it to say something “the people in Justice can understand.” The cry subsided. Later, someone played the Na tional Anthem on a trumpet. The bulk of the crowd stood and some sang along — putting emphasis on the line “gave proof through Please see page 2 Rogers meeting with Egyptians CAIRO, Egypt hP)—Secretary of State William P. Rogers ar rived Tuesday on the first of two key stops of his Mideast peace mission. He said he was prepared to talk about reopening the Suez Canal. Flying in from Beirut, Rogers presented a personal letter of friendship from President Nixon to President Anwar Sadat and referred to Egypt’s famed pyra mids in saying: “We will be discussing how we can build a new monument — a permanent monument which will not erode with the passage of time — a monument of peace for the people of the Middle East.” In Jerusalem, a top Israeli poli cymaker promised Rogers a warm welcome there Thursday and said Israel was willing to consider “a certain pullback” from the Canal — but would require “absolute assurance” that no Egyptian or Soviet troops would cross into the vacated territory. After his arrival in Egypt, Rogers outlined his views initially /to Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad in an hour-long meeting. An Egyptian spokesman ducked ques tions about what Riad thought of Rogers’ ideas. He said Riad welcomed Rogers’ trip and that Riad thought it would contribute to the cause of University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. peace. In his arrival statement, Rog ers said he was prepared “to ex plore with Egypt and Israel in a concrete way the possibility of an interim agreement of opening the Suez Canal, which we hope would contribute to a final settle ment. “But President Nixon has asked me to take this trip in the conviction that after 23 years of conflict, so costly to the nations of their area in terms of human sacrifice and wasted resources, and so dangerous to the world, no effort must be spared to bring about a just and lasting peace.” Rogers is the first American secretary of state to visit Egypt in 18 years. His arrival marked perhaps the first time in Ameri can history that a secretary of state officially visited a country with which the United States has no diplomatic relations. The late President Gamal Abdel Nasser broke relations in June 1967, and Spain has represented American interests in Egypt since. U.S. officials said Rogers is preparing to discuss with Egyp tian leaders Israel’s terms for a reopening of the Suez Canal. The Israeli reopening proposal has not been officially relayed to Cairo, though its general out line has become known. Israel Galili, Israeli cabinet miinster without portfolio said in Jerusalem that points in his country’s position in talks with Rogers would include: —Readiness “to discuss a sep arate agreement on the Suez Canal and even to consider a certain pullback of Israeli forces” from the canal, but only under cover of a permanent cease-fire and an end to the state of bel ligerency. —A demand for “absolute as surance” that no Egyptian or So viet troops would cross the canal and take over territory vacated by Israel. And for effective and agreed means of supervising” any arrangement involving Israeli withdrawal. —Willingness, after a partial arrangement, to continue “free and meaningful peace talks” with Egypt under U.N. peace envoy Gunnar Jarring but refusal to accept “dictates.” The Middle East rivals are still far apart on an accord, though both in principle favor the re opening of the canal, closed since the 1967 war. So far during Rogers’ trip, which began nine days ago, U.S. officials say they have seen no public changes in either the Egyptian or the Israeli position. Rogers does not have a sched uled meeting with the Egyptian president until shortly before his departure Thursday. Rogers took a little side trip of his own through Beirut Tues day afternoon despite Monday’s 10,000-strong demonstration there against his visit. And he found the citizens friendly. IT’S A TYPICAL SIGHT if you live in a dormitory, only the scale is not so big. The crea ture is really an ant, enlarged by a new high-resolution scanning electron microscope. (AP Wirephoto) Run - off winners decided The last of the class officers and Student Senate positions were decided Tuesday in the run-off elections. Elected were: Class of ’71: president, Jerry McGowen — 226„ Bill Scherle — 48; vice-president, Rob Ivey — 170, Ronny Gafford — 132; con cessions chairman, Rene Ffrench — 176, Wofford Camp — 136; MSC representative, Gary Single tary — 224, Andy Beck — 81. Yell leader (first three) Rick Perry — 277, Jimmy Ferguson — 250, Tommy Orr — 283, Dave Gorcya — 47, Daryl Barrett — 39, Mike Buckley — 33. Class of ’73: vice president, Gerald Betty — 93, Paul Work man — 20; secretary-treasurer, Ricky Zick — 61, Larry McCon- athy — 101; MSC representative, Jimmy Craig — 136, Julie Mc Call — 27. Class of ’74: president, Larry Hoelscher — 200, Randy Maness — 276; vice president, Barry Bo gart — 240, Don Webb — 229; secretary-treasurer, John Rosen baum — 331, Colleen Bourland — 134; MSC representative, Mike Harris — 239, John Pledger — 213. Sophomore representative, Col lege of Agriculture, Mike Fields — 34, Chuck Friesenhahn — 25. One year after Kent State remembers 4 KENT, Ohio (A 1 ) _ Kent State University closed a building hous ing ROTC offices when several hundred students sat down in front of it Tuesday, the final day of a memorial service for four students shot to death by Na tional Guardsmen a year ago. The 300 May Day Coalition participants blocked entrances to Rockwell Hall while helmeted campus security guards watched from inside the locked building. Five blocks away, Yale Uni versity President Kingman General Brewster Jr., told 450 students in Memorial Gym: “We will best serve the mem ory of those who died here if we can convince our fellow citizens of two truths about our country: violence is the enemy of construc tive change and the only way to prevent violence is to keep the door to change open.” Brewster was the concluding speaker in the four-day memo rial program. A block from the gymnasium a small band of students main tained a candlelight vigil on the knoll where the shooting occurred during an antiwar demonstration. The vigil was to end at mid night. Coalition speakers, who vio lated campus rules by their pres ence, included Mark Lane, an attorney active in the civil rights movement; folk singer Barbara Dane; George Lakey, a member of the Friends of Peace Commit tee, and former Kent State stu dent Tim Butz, a national com mitteeman for the Veterans Against the War. Lane used a loudspeaker to talk at the fringe of an estimated 4,000 students who gathered out side Rockwell Hall. Most listened quietly to him, and turned occa sionally to watch the students at Rockwell Hall. reviews cadets Conscientious objectors can get discharges, judge rules Saturday activities in conjunc tion with spring commencement will conclude 1970-71 military programs at Texas A&M Uni versity. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John D. Ryan will witness activi ties in addition to speaking at the 1:30 p.m. commissioning ex ercises in G. Rollie White Coli seum. Final Review, a Cadet Corps briefing for General Ryan and the new seniors’ Boot Dance are also on the agenda, according to Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant. The Army, Air Force and Ma rine Corps will gain 238 new officers at commissioning. Gold bars of second lieutenant will be pinned on by 164 Army, 71 Air Force and five Marine Corps cadets. General Ryan will be briefed on corps operation and programs at 11 a.m. in the Memorial Stu dent Center Assembly Room by the 1971-72 commander, Thomas M. Stanley of Mount Pleasant, and his staff. General Ryan will be reviewing officer of the 3:30 p.m. Final Review. He will take saultes of the 34 companies and squadrons and the Aggie Band on the first go-around of the unique review. Graduating seniors will line up in front of the reviewing stand for the second circuit, for which the 1971-72 commanders will be in front of their units. SAN ANTONIO, Tex. OP) — A federal judge has ordered an Ohio soldier released from the Army as a conscientious objector, saying it now appears that no request for discharge on similar grounds can be denied. Ordered discharged from the Army Medical Training Center at Ft. Sam Houston was Pvt. Paul G. Hackett of Toledo, Ohio. Hackett was inducted into the Army last July as a conscien tious objector and was assigned to medic training. He applied for a discharge as a conscientious ob jector last November. The Army denied his request last January on grounds that he “lacks the depth of conviction required to qualify for discharge as a conscientious objector.” U. S. Dist. Judge John H. Wood Jr. based much of his opin ion on a Feb. 16 ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on a similar case. Judge Wood said the Appeals court indicated that with certain limited exceptions, “There may very well not be such a criterion as ‘depth of conviction’.” He said he was aware of the government’s argument that his interpretation of the 5th court’s ruling “Would make it impossi ble for the military to refute and thus deny the application of any alleged conscientious objector.” He noted the appeals court found that there must be some facts in the discharge applica tion, “hard provable, reliable facts” which “provide a basis for disbelieving the claimant.” Judge Wood argued, “How can a review board ever have avail able from the serviceman’s ap plication ‘hard, provable, reliable facts . . .?” He said he felt that under his interpretation of the 5th court case, “There will be no cases in the future where the sincerity of the petitioner could be legally challenged.” 9 L.A. seniors given awards Nine graduating seniors in the College of Liberal Arts received Distinguished Honor Awards from Dean W. David Maxwell. The awards recognize “out standing scholarship and leader ship in the College of Liberal Arts.” Recipients include David E. Elmendorf, economics major of Houston; Dale P. Gravett, politi cal science, Corpus Christi; Mi chael R. Hardin, history, Fort Stockton; Della A. Porter, eco nomics, College Station; David H. Reynolds, sociology, Dallas. Also, Joel B. Sheffield, history, Sulphur Springs; Johnny P. Smith, sociology, Corsicana; George E. Snow, history, Bryan, and Edward L. Vogelpohl, politi cal science, Bellaire. Associate dean Dr. Charles E. McCandless said that outstanding academic records and participa tion in student activities are the basis for the recognition.