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Vol. 67 No. 12
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, September 21, 1971
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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
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brings three top journalists
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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,
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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.
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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.