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Vol. 67 No. 9
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, September 14, 1971
845-2226
John Denver, Helen Reddy
delight the crowd at Town Hall
Over $2,000 in goods
stolen from dormitories
Over $2,000 of mostly stereo and camera equip
ment was stolen from two Corps dorms during the
A&M-Wichita State football game Saturday night.
“It seems that the thieves knew what they
wanted and where to get it," said Morris A. Mad
dox, assistant chief of police. “None of the fresh
man or sophomore rooms were touched, this was
no outsider.”
The locks on the doors were unlocked and the
doors were closed when the owners returned to
their rooms. Police believe that the thief had keys
to the rooms.
Also enforcing the view that it was an inside
job is that some rooms were opened but nothing
taken from them. In one instance, a stereo was
boxed and sitting on a desk but left untouched.
Hardest hit was Robert L. Clayton, a senior zoolo
gy major from San Antonio who lost $1,260 in
stereo and camera equipment from his room in
Dorm 11.
Clayton’s roommate, John Dye, a senior in recre
ation and parks, lost only $10.
Clayton’s next door neighbor, Larry Janak, a
senior civil engineering major from Taylor, lost $75
from his room.
Bruce W. Crooker, a physics major from Free
port and Michael D. Graeber, a civil engineering
major from Vienna, Virginia, lost roughly $46 in
radios and other things from their room, located
a short ways from Clayton’s room.
The thief then skipped to
Dorm 9, hitting only one room
and that one on the second floor.
Ray Foley, a sophomore manage
ment major from Dallas and
Steve Dunkleberg, a journalism
sophomore from Fort Worth, had
$758 in tape recorders, cameras,
and lenses stolen from their
room. They were the only sopho
mores whose rooms were touched.
University Police said they had
a suspect who had bragged about
breaking into dorms and had once
before been picked up for gun
theft from Dorm 11.
The police said he had pass
keys for the dormitory the time
he was picked up and that the
suspect had been seen in and
around Dorm 11 recently.
As of Monday evening, how
ever, no arrests had been made.
State troopers storm prison
at Attica, 37 discovered dead
ATTICA, N. Y. <^>—A four-
day riot of mostly black convicts
was put down by massed forces
of the state at Attica prison Mon
day, in a furious attack behind
shotguns, rifles and tear gas.
Thirty-seven persons were found
dead—nine white hostages and
28 prisoners.
A task force of 1,000 gas-
masked, ready - to - shoot state
troopers and sheriff’s deputies,
backed in reserve by 70 truck-
loads of New York National
Guardsmen, liberated 29 other
hostages, 25 of whom were in
jured. The survivors filed shak-
Profs have right to
extended check out
There is a rumor that some professors have
borrowed books from the university library years
ago and still have them in their possession.
According to John Smith, the head librarian,
not only is this a reality but the practice does not
conflict with the present library regulations. Facul
ty members can renew books as often as they wish
and by obtaining a term charge they can check out
books a semester at a time.
Students doing research sometimes need books
that have been checked out for the term by a pro
fessor. If this happens the library puts a “hold”
on the book and the professor cannot renew it. For
more immediate results the student can go directly
to the professor to borrow the book.
Smith admits that there is a problem in getting
faculty members as well as students to return books.
Some books have been chased down from as far
away as Pakistan and South America. Books have
been turned in that were due seven years ago. Even
Earl Rudder, A&M’s past president, received a bill
from the library when his house burned down seven
years ago.
Air ROTC wins
13 of 22 awards
at summer camp
A&M Air Force ROTC cadets won 13 of 22
major awards during summer training at Eglin and
Tyndall Air Force Bases in Florida.
Top awards were taken by Warren F. Richter,
2nd Group commander of Tyler, and Ronald L.
Krnavek, Corps of Cadets sergeant major of Corpus
Christi.
Col. Robert F. Crossland released a summary
of summer camp accomplishments and called it “elo
quent testimony of the truly superior young men
produced by the Corps of Cadets at A&M.”
“TAMU cadets won far more than their share
of the major awards presented,” the professor of
aerospace studies said. He pointed out that Aggies
represented 35 per cent of cadets at the special field
training camps and won 60 per cent of the awards.
Almost all A&M AFROTC cadets trained at
Eglin or Tyndall in an enriched camp for cadets
from the five “military schools,” A&M, The Citadel,
Virginia Military Institute, Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute and Norwich University.
“The competition was very keen at these
camps,” Crossland added. “We are very proud of
these young men.”
Commandant’s Awards, presented to the most
outstanding cadet at each camp, were accorded
Krnavek and Richter. Vice Commandant’s Awards
are presented to the most outstanding cadet in each
flight.
Regular camp vice commandant awards were
won by Glenn B. Burt III of Fort Sam Houston and
Lucian A. Dade of Hopkinsville, Ky. Lonnie C.
Goodson of Splendora won the Air Force Times
Award, presented to the cadet who contributes most
to the morale and espirit de corps of his unit.
Criteria for the other two awards include will
ingness to assume responsibility, demonstrated lead
ership potential, initiative, dependability and mili
tary bearing.
Despite the library’s problems
with the faculty, Smith said that
the situation in the Ivy League
colleges is far worse. “The pro
fessors had the habit of enlarg
ing their private libraries with
borrowed books,” recalled Smith,
who used to be with Columbia
University.
The library has a set limit of
25 books that can be checked out
by one person. More than 25 peo
ple, however, have exceeded the
borrowing limit, some of which
have borrowed several hundred
books.
Smith feels that some research
ers have a definite need for large
numbers of books, so the rule is
not strictly enforced.
ily through the massive prison
gates one by one as the firing
subsided.
“They had lined us up and
were proceeding to cut our
throats,” said one of the captive
guards, Frank Wall, who stated
that sharpshooters saved his life.
“They got the man who was going
to cut my throat just as he began
to pull the knife across.”
One state trooper estimated
that most of the action covered
an 8-to-10-minute span, although
the assault continued for an hour
and a half. He said: “Anybody
who resisted was killed—and I
didn’t see anybody get away with
anything.”
“We had a job to do,” said
another trooper.
The assault began at 9:45 a.m.,
shortly after the expiration of
a one-hour ultimatum urging the
1,200 rebellious prisoners to give
up the hostages and surrender.
The riot originally stemmed from
an altercation between a guard
and an inmate and the prisoners
later expanded their grievance
list to include a series of wide-
ranging demands. Authorities
had agreed to all but two de
mands— complete amnesty and
removal of the prison superin
tendent.
It was the highest riot toll
within prison walls in recent
American penal history. In an
incident of revenge rather than
riot convicts started a fire at the
Ohio penitentiary in 1930 which
took the lives of 320 inmates.
“It resembled the aftermath of
a war,” said a medical aide,
Richard Smith, 30, after the
forces of the law shot their way
along tunnels and catwalks into
a single Attica cellblock still in
the hands of rebel convicts.
By late afternoon, the violence
had subsided and authorities had
regained control of the prison. A
roll call showed eight prisoners
missing—either hiding or dead,
officials said.
The violence at Attica spread
an aura of tension to others of
the state’s prisons. Some inmates
were kept locked in their cells.
Precautionary measures were
common against large gatherings
of convicts.
A spokesman for Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller said some of the
hostage guards and civilian em
ployes appeared to have been
killed hours before the all-out
assault. The governor called the
slayings “cold blooded killings”
by revolutionary militants.
Two of the slain prisoners
were found stabbed to death in
their cells after the prison was
secured by the state forces.
President Nixon telephoned
Rockefeller on Monday to express
support for the governor’s ac
tions, the White House said in
Washington.
Deputy press secretary Gerald
L. Warren said that shortly after
armed officers stormed the prison
Rockefeller phoned the White
House and talked to an unnamed
Nixon aide.
Warren said the President
talked to Rockefeller by phone
later, expressing support for the
governor’s handling of the situ
ation.
Barnes speaks in CS
at panel discussion
By STEVE DUNKLEBERG
Staff Writer
Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes reaffirmed
his innocence in the Security Ex
change Commission’s stock fraud
case and spoke for a new Texas
constitution Saturday afternoon
in a panel discussion with A&M
students.
“I have never met Frank
Sharp,” Barnes said, speaking at
the Skaggs-Albertson’s parking
lot,” and never knew what he in
tended to do.”
Barnes asserted he has never
received a loan, a deposit, or any
political contributions from
Sharp.
“The first knowledge we had
of any irregularity,” Barnes con
tinued, “was in January 1971,
when the FEC announced their
investigation.”
Continuing on the stock fraud
case, Barnes said he felt it would
not be a political issue in 1972
because it was a bi-partisan in
jury. According to him, the most
tragic part of the issue was that
it hurt the people’s faith in their
elected officials.
Barnes said he felt the Texas
Constitution was outdated and
needed to be rewritten.
“The present constitution was
written when Custer was killed
at Little Big Horn,” Barnes
quipped. “A lot has changed
since then.”
Barnes said he felt the powers
of the governor need to be
strengthened and that the Legis
lature should have annual ses
sions.
“The present system is anti
quated and out of date,” Barnes
claimed. “The governor has had
to call a special session of the
legislature' every year since
1959.”
On the subject of politics the
Lieutenant Governor, an an
nounced candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor,
said he felt Sen. John Tower
(Rep.-Tex.) “beatable” in 1972.
Barnes was asked about his
feelings on the possibility of
former Sen. Ralph Yarborough
running for governor.
“If Ralph runs,” he answered,
“he stands a good chance to run
second or third ... to me.”
Barnes claimed if elected gov
ernor, he would not be a “figure
head governor.” He said he felt
Gov. Smith has the wrong policy
when he allows the Legislature to
pass legislation without comment,
then veto it. Barnes said he
would try to influence and guide
more legislation, particularly
constitutional revision.
Barnes declined to comment on
Gov. Smith’s stand on the wage-
price freeze ordered by President
Nixon.
Commenting on the sales tax,
Barnes said he felt the legislature
acted wisely in passing a sales
tax rather than a personal in
come tax. He added that the
tax exemptions included in the
tax helped make it a more feas
ible and fair tax.
“Another thing,” he added, “is
that Texas gains $150-175 million
annually from out of state visi
tors that would be unavailable if
a personal income tax replaced
the sales tax.
Open gambling and lotteries
are politically unfeasible, accord
ing to Barnes, and he added that
more thought would have to be
given to paramutual betting.
Barnes touched on his ideas for
welfare reform saying he felt the
elected public officials of the
state had neglected the issue for
a long time.
“A political science class at
A&M could sit down and write a
better policy in a week than the
one we have now,” he claimed.
The Constitution is ailing as
far as welfare goes,” Barnes con
tinued, “the people who need it
don’t get it.”
Barnes would like to provide
more job training for the unem
ployed and provide day care
centers for underprivileged work
ing mothers.
Also on the note of reform,
Barnes said he felt the abortion
laws of Texas should be changed.
“I wouldn’t go as far as Alaska
or Hawaii,” he added, “where all
you have to have is the price of
an airline ticket.”
He said there should be a valid
reason and medical authorization
for an abortion.
Barnes also spoke for mari
juana laws that would give
judges more discretion with first
offenders. He said he felt the
pushers were the people they
were “really after.”
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.