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Alt t mionj Ring, ax &S01 846-jj Che Battalion Warming and clear Wednesday — C 1 >udy, int ermit tent rain showers, outherly winds 10-15 mph. High 77°, low 66°. Thursday — Cloudy, rainshow- ers. Northerly winds 5-10 mph. High 74°, low 64°. Saturday — Lincoln, Nebraska, kickoff time—Partly cloudy to cloudy. Northerly winds 10-12 mph. 56°. 40% relative humidity. Vol. 67 No. 12 College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 21, 1971 845-2226 EN| CE “Dixie Mafia” could Loarj ON 6-370i enter South Texas SAN ANTONIO <**> — South Te«as may be the Mafia’s latest target for financial dealings in legitimate business ventures, it was reported here Monday. The San Antonio Express said reputed New Orleans mafia fig ure Carlos Marcello has been spotted on visits to San Antonio, Laredo, Houston, and as far north as Dallas. And as the result of one re puted Mafia associate’s swindling scheme involving a San Antonio firm, local and state authorities have bolstered their guard against a Mafia-type infiltration of South Texas, the newspaper said. A mobster involved with the New Orleans La Cosa Nostra family has been a frequent visitor to Laredo in recent years, the Express said. The unidentified man was said to be in close con tact with at least two Laredo businessmen. Neither was named. New Orleans sources believe the same man also is a major fence for the so-called “Dixie Mafia,” the newspaper said. It said this is not a Cosa Nostra branch as implied by the name, but is a gang of underworld characters that operates through out the south and well into Texas and Oklahoma. Marcello has made several trips to San Antonio over the past 18 months, and there are signs of growing links between the Mar cello organization and business figures in Laredo, the Express reported. The paper said a staff member of the Metropolitan Crime Com mission of New Orleans disclosed that Marcello has been a frequent traveler to Laredo, Houston and Dallas. “He was negotiating with vari ous people in Texas on a number of occasions in connection with his Churchill Farms property,” the staffer said. He referred to a 6,000-acre tract seven miles from downtown New Orleans, which Marcello p§| y ll Freedom of Press seminar brings three top journalists A n. I A “Freedom of the Press” Seminar will bring a TV network executive, a major Texas daily publisher and a state political newspaper editor to A&M this week. The seminar, a Memorial Stu dent Center Great Issues com mittee presentation, will feature CBS-TV news vice president Wil liam A. Leonard Tuesday and a Thursday panel. Leonard will discuss CBS’ doc umentary, “The Selling of the Pentagon,” which has been shown in the MSC for the last week. “The Pentagon Papers” will be the topic for William P. Hobby, Houston Post president and ex ecutive editor, and Molly Iveris, Ofll ce ; y ini am Cadets under scholarships reach new high this year A record 14 per cent of A&M’s Corps of Cadets enrolled this fall under Army and Air Force ROTC scholarship. The Army and Air Force each have 146 cadets on scholarship, which varies individually from $1,200 to $1,350 each, announced Col. Thomas R. Parsons, com mandant. Another 10 seniors are pend ing for Army scholarships. Total funding exceeds a quar ter of a million dollars, Colonel Parsons noted. The awards pay tuition, fees, authorize)! books and supplies and $50 a month tax-free subsistence. The gov ernment presently pays out-of- state tuition. “The military services are helping A&M just by ROTC be ing here,” the commandant point ed out. Subsistence also is paid to jun ior and senior contract cadets. This amount is not included in the scholarship total, Parsons said. Scholarship recipients are se lected from applications filed through A&M, except awards in the four-year program. Forty- eight freshmen, including 27 in the Army program, received awards before enrolling. They use the scholarship at the insti tution of their choice. All awards are transferrable. “The military scholarship is a good way to get an education if a young man is interested in mil itary service,” Colonel Parsons stated. * * 5: • ' '* V;' < v.' , - 1 ’ , !■ ‘ * << V 1 ■ W, ... . . p- ilifttr I 111! Ijfe FRISBEE FOLKS were out al over Monday afternoon when the cool temperatures actually allowed people to run in the sun. The weekend’s surprise, aside from the football g-ame, was a drop from the low 90’s to the low 70’s. (Photo by Joe Matthews) owns. Crime commission staffers told the Express that the land may someday be worth $200 million. Millionaire San Antonio devel oper Morris Jaffe confirmed that he had negotiated for the Church ill Farms land. He said the pos sible transaction fell through when Marcello went to prison last year to serve a six-month sentence for striking an FBI agent. The Express said another local businessman was reported to have met Marcello at the airport when he visited here. The un named businessman was seen dining with Marcello at an ex clusive restaurant here, the paper said, adding that on at least one occasion last year, Marcello stay ed overnight at a posh motel here. Marcello was greeted with re spect by some at Laredo during his trial there on the FBI as sault charge, the Express said. AGGIE QUARTERBACK Lex James (10) finds it hard to complete pass with the LSU defender draped around him. James was dropped for a 10 yard loss on this play. (Photo by Mike Rice) co-editor of the Texas Observer. Ivens and Hobby represent the pro and con viewpoints on mak ing public the contents of the controversial papers made avail able by Daniel Ellsberg. Hobby, 39, has been the top Post executive since 1965. He was managing editor of the newspaper three years and exec utive vice president two years. The former Texas Senate parlia mentarian has been in newspa- pering since undergraduate years at Rice. The 27-year-old Molly Ivens became co-editor with Kaye Northcott of the Observer in August, 1970. The Observer is a bi-weekly independent political newspaper published in Austin since 1906. Ivens received the B.A. degree at Smith College, studied at the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris and was awarded the M.A. in journalism from Colum bia University in 1967. She wrote for the Houston Chronicle, Minneapolis Tribune, Washington Post and Life maga zine and had articles in the New York Times. Sweepstakes and first place for best series were awarded her by the Minnesota Associated Press in 1969. She won a Minnesota Educa tional Association award for ed ucation writing last year. General claims All volunteer force impossible WASHINGTON UP)—The gen eral in charge of the Army’s ef fort to raise an all-volunteer force says the Nixon administra tion’s mid-1973 deadline is im possible to meet under current conditions. defense for public affairs, inter ceded and overrode those officials who wanted forsythe’s statement deleted. “We do have a bureaucracy here that functions from time to time in the best of bureau cratic traditions, and that’s what we have Assistant Secretary Henkin for,” Friedheim said. Privately, many officers have expressed doubt over the Army’s ability to field an all-volunteer force. But this is believed to have been the first time that the man charged with bringing it about expressed for the record such serious reservations. In remarks that the Pentagon acknowledges it first tried to censor, Lt. Gen. George I. For sythe said: “Although we’re going to try and do our level best, we are not going to make it, I do not believe, in the time that has been prescribed for us to do this. That is just too short a time. “We’re going to try to do it, but a lot more support and a lot more help and understanding has to come about before we could ever make that.” The general’s comments were in an interview taped Friday for broadcast to U.S. troops overseas on the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. Forsythe is a special assistant to Chief of Staff Gen. William C. Westmore land. Scientists don’t an abrupt ban support on DDT Forsythe expressed his doubts about ending reliance on the draft when he was asked to state what his real conviction is as to the likelihood completely eliminating the draft. Pentagon officials objected and decided to censor the general’s reply, contending “There might have been a misunderstanding by the troops for whom the pro gram is designed and is contrary to current DOD (Department of Defense) policy.” After what Pentagon spokes man Jerry W. Friedheim de scribed Monday as “some discus sion over the weekend,” Daniel Z. Henkin, assistant secretary of WASHINGTON <A>>—A panel of scientists has told the Envi ronmental Protection Agency the use of DDT poses a “substantial threat” to humans by polluting the environment. But they stop short of asking an abrupt ban on the controversial pesticide. The conclusions were disclosed today in a report to William D. Ruckelshaus, EPA administrator. It was submitted by Dr. James G. Hilton of the University of Texas Medical Branch, chairman of the DDT Advisory Committee. For more than two years, en vironmental groups have pres sured the governments to ban flatly the use of DDT and other long-lived pesticides. Most at tention has been directed at DDT, the most widely used and contro versial of the chemicals. That approach was rejected by the committee report. The chem ical, although reduced in use by farmers, is still a favorite pesti cide for cotton growers. “The present reported annual usage level of DDT—30 million pounds in 1969 compared with 70 million pounds a decade earlier— does not present an imminent hazard to human health in terms of individual bodily functions and safety,” the report said. But, it added, DDT and related chemicals “are serious environ mental pollutants and present substantial threat to the quality of the human environment.” “Although the committee has agreed that DDT represents an imminent hazard to human wel fare because of the quantities of this substance currently present in the environment,” the report said, “it believes that either sus pension or rapid and continuous decrease in the use of DDT will achieve essentially the same re sults.” A spokesman for the Environ mental Defense Fund, Inc., which has initiated law suits asking for bans on DDT, said the report was ambiguous and left the ques tion of whether DDT was an “imminent hazard to humans” still up in the air. Club funding open through application Former Wallace associate is indicted for tax evasion WASHINGTON OP)—A federal grand jury has returned two more tax indictments against former political associates of Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace. Former State Docks director Houston H. Feaster has been charged with evading taxes on nearly $86,000 in income from bribes and kickbacks while a Wal lace appointee, the Justice De partment announced Monday. Two other Wallace political aides were charged in another indictment with tax fraud con spiracy to write off gubernatorial campaign contributions for Wal lace’s late wife, Lurleen, as busi ness expenses. Indicted were former state Fin ance Director Seymore Trammell, former Democratic National Com- mitteman, Earl Goodwin and two top officials of IBSCO, a Birm ingham textbook firm. The latest charges came as the wrapup to a one-and-a-half year Justice Department investigation of alleged corruption in Alabama. Feaster, 51, of Mobile, was named in an eight-count indict ment that accused him of failing to pay taxes on $85,959 in the four years from 1965 through 1968. In each of those years he was also charged with falsifying his returns “in that he failed to in clude as taxable income bribes and kickbacks” paid to him while he was director of the Alabama State Docks at Mobile. Feaster was appointed to the docks post in early 1963 when Wallace was first elected gover nor. Feaster was fired in July 1970 by then Gov. Albert Brewer after reports he had refused to testify before a State Grand Jury investigating docks operations. The state government owns and operates the pier facilities at Mobile, one of the largest ports on the Gulf of Mexico. The federal indictments were returned in Mobile Friday. By ROD SPEER Staff Writer “Forms for Club Aid Funds are now available in the Student Finance Center in the Memorial Student Center until Sept. 30,” according to Dean James P. Han- nigan. A financial statement and budg et, an application and an item ized request sheet are required from each club requesting aid. The forms must be turned into the Student Finance Center by Oct. 12, Hannigan said. Last year $30,000 was given to campus clubs from profits made by the Exchange Store. The clubs, however, made requests which totaled over $65,000. Once again this year student organizations will compete for Club Aid Funds. Representatives from Depart mental and Professional clubs eligible for Club Aid Funds are invited to attend a meeting at 5:15 p.m., Oct. 5, in rooms 2A and 2B of the MSC. At the same time a meeting for representatives from Non-Departmental and Pro fessional Clubs will be held in rooms 2C and 2D. The purposes of the Exchange Store allocations, eligibility for allocations and the details of requesting it will be discussed at the meeting. Departmental clubs, which are official clubs sponsored by de partments of the university, may receive support to help pay for speakers, films and travel ex penses to official meetings and judging contests. In addition to these non-departmental clubs can receive funds for equipment pur chases and other expenses. Only clubs which are officially recognized by the Student Fi nance Department are eligible for allocations. Every club must re new its recognition each year by reporting officers and or advisor changes to the Student Finance Center. Only one club from each de partment will be considered for support. The clubs must agree to pay at least one half of the total guest speaker, film and travel expenses. In addition the clubs must collect at least one dollar from its cur rent members and deposit the amount at the Student Finance Center. Club requests will be condensed and sent to the Exchange Store Advisory Committee which will meet in late October or early No vember. The advisory committee will then make recommendations to the Board of Directors who al locate funds late in November. Rental loans are available to marrieds Married students who need loans to pay the new rent in creases in the university-owned apartments can now apply for them at the Student Financial Aid Office, according to Robert M. Logan, director of financial aid. The interest-and-service-charge -free loans can be applied for in room 303 of the YMCA. Banking is a pleasure at First Bank & Trust. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv.