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BdttdliOtl College Station, Texas Cloudy and warm Tuesday, September 28, 1971 Wednesday —■ Partly cloudy to cloudy. Afternoon thundershow ers, southerly winds 15-20 mph. High 89°, low 71°. Thursday — Partly cloudy, southerly winds 10-15 mph. High 91°, low 74°. Kyle Field, Saturday, high 87°, kick off 78°, 75% humidity. Southerly winds 10-15 mph. 845-2226 Board of five told to redraw House districts • write NS 1 "liege SU'j ppr irfij * . 111. JJGH IT LOOKS like group physical therapy, in reality Ifish yell leader tryouts being held Monday evening. Six were selected out of about 60 candidates. See the story at the bottom of this page. (Photo by Mike Rice) US ■es tion i's On rvice Bant j 3TIN (A 1 )—John Osorio said ly the Travis County Grand would not have returned ibber stamp indictment” him in the Texas stock l if Dist. Atty. Bob Smith [lowed through on his in- tion. io posted $10,000 bond at eriff’s office before being raphed and fingerprinted jail floor of the courthouse leased. io was president of Na- Bankers Life Insurance Co. 9 when the firm’s annual al statement filed with the Flavor 11?)" l\ ^ -ies cxas ■ to. r .RE Al IS NT im little investigation sorio protests indictment state insurance board contained what the grand jury calls a false entry. He told newsmen that Don Akin, vice president in charge of investments for National Bank ers Life, made the entry com plained of in the indictment. “He made an error. I think he’ll stipulate to that,” Osorio said. Asked where Akin was, Osorio said: “I don’t know. He’s in Kentucky someplace.” If the district attorney had fol lowed through on his investiga tion he would have discovered itions for Student Senate 1 be decided at referendum fhe Student Senate’s proposed constitutional revisions concern- addition of five more senators will be voted on at a student dum Oct. 5. Itudent polls will be located in the Memorial Student Center, the Room, Sbisa Dining Hall, the Dean’s office at the Veterinary e College and around the Library. he Senate amended the senate constitution dealing with a new d of apportionment of senators during its meeting last week. ^The constitutional revisions, if passed, will affect the number of s apportioned to five colleges. The proposal is asking for one senator to be added to the College of Agriculture, four more to sering, two more to Science and one more to the preveterinary ine portion of the College of Veterinary Medicine. Science, Preveterinary Medicine and Agriculture will each receive e senators. Engineering will receive one senior, one junior, one nore, and one at-large senator. The only college to lose senators would be the College of tion, which would have to drop three of its six senators, tion will maintain its six senators for the remainder of this year. If the constitutional revisions are passed by the majority of the it body, the five new senators will be appointed by John Sharp, president, and approved by two-thirds vote of the Student e this semester. Final approval of the ammendment must come from the student iduia that Akin made the entry, Osorio said. “In an economic-political scan dal like this there are going to be indictments made,” he said, smiling and talking amicably de spite his claim that the scandal has ruined him. “I’m broke. I’m bankrupt,” he said. The indictment says the finan cial statement lists a $250,000 loan to South Atlantic Corp. That actually was a loan to Osorio and his law partner at that time, for mer Texas Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr. “. . . such fact so concealed ul timately resulted in a $550,000 loss to said National Bankers Life Insurance Co., the indict ment says. Osorio and Carr borrowed $550,000 from a Dallas bank in March 1969 to buy South Atlantic stock, according to the district attorney. They borrowed $550,000 from another Dallas bank in Septem ber of that year to pay off the first loan, but part of the ar rangement for the second loan was a “take out” letter they gave to the second bank that guaran teed the loan would be paid by National Bankers Life on de mand, the district attorney says. “The $250,000 entry was ac tually an assumption of part of the first $550,000 loan to Osorio and Carr, not a loan to South Atlantic Corp., according to the district attorney. “I had no knowledge of the entry or anything else,” Osorio said. It was “an entry that went in and out of the company in 20 days,” he said. Osorio said he was “through in New York,” where he had been working, and that he has no live lihood nor any plans along that line at this time. Two Dallas lawyers are repre senting him free, he said, and he hopes to retain an Austin law yer also because it would be ex pensive for the Dallas lawyers to travel back and forth on every development in the case. Asked if he thought he could get an Austin lawyer free, he said: “I hope in my 50 years I’ve developed one friend.” House Speaker Gus Mutscher is under indictment in the case on a charge of accepting a bribe in exchange for supporting two banking bills wanted by Houston promoter Frank Sharp, who con trolled National Bankers Life. Mutscher; his chief aide, Rush McGinty; and Rep. Tommy Shan non of Fort Worth, speaker pro tempore, are under indictment charging them with conspiracy to accept a bribe. All made sub stantial profits from National Bankers Life stock purchased with loans from Sharp’s bank. False swearing in documents filed with a state agency carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of $5,000. AUSTIN (A*)—The Texas Su preme Court ordered the five- m a n Legislative Redistricting Board Monday to draw new dis trict boundaries for House mem bers. The decision eliminates the pos sibility of a special legislative session to write a redistricting plan to replace the one held un constitutional by the Court Sept. 16. Chaired by Atty. Gen. Craw ford Martin, the board has until Oct. 23 to complete a plan re apportioning the House. The board already is at work on a Senate redistricting act. Sen. Oscar Mauzy of Dallas filed the suit asking the court to force the board to redistrict the House. Texas’ Constitution says the board must redistrict any house of the legislature which was not reapportioned during the first regular session after a U.S. cen sus. The overriding issue in Mau- zy’s case was whether the legis lature, in passing an unconstitu tional bill, had actually redistrict ed the House. The court ruled that it had not. “An invalid apportionment, for whatever reason, is no appor tionment; and the board’s duty to proceed with apportioning the state into representative districts accrued when the regular session adjourned on May 31, 1971, with out having enacted a valid ap portionment statute,” said the court’s opinion, by Chief Justice Robert W. Calvert. The high court denied Mauzy’s request that it allow the board to divide the State into single member House districts. This, the court said, is a matter for the board’s discretion. “In exercising its discretion as to whether to create multi-mem ber districts within a single coun ty, we must assume that the board will give careful considera tion to the question of whether or not the creation of any par ticular multi-member district would result in discrimination by minimizing the voting strength of any political or racial elements of the voting population,” the court said. The court overruled a conten tion by Rep. Fred Head of Hen derson, an intervenor in Mauzy’s suit, that redistricting is not re quired this year since the legis lature did not receive detailed census data until February. “We are convinced that the overriding intent of the people in adopting the constitutional amendment setting up the board was to permit apportionment of the State into legislative districts at the regular session of the leg islature which is convened in Jan uary following the taking of the census, if publication is either be fore convening or during the ses sion,” Calvert wrote. The redistricting board voted 4-1 for a resolution saying it felt it lacked jurisdiction over House districts. Associate Justice Price Daniel, who has a son in the House, did not take part in Monday’s deci sion. Gov. Preston Smith, who had said all along the board was re sponsible for writing a new House redistricting plan, said he was pleased with the decision. “We are most gratified that the court has acted in this fash ion, sparing us all the great in convenience and expense of a spe cial session to accomplish redis tricting,” Smith said. Sweetheart applications are available Applications for Aggie Sweet heart are now available at the Student Programs office and at the office of the Dean of Women, according to David Moore, sweet heart selection committee chair man. The forms are to be used only for girls attending A&M, he said. Mansfield furthers effort to pull back U.S. forces WASHINGTON (A>)_S e n a t e Democratic Leader Mike Mans field introduced Monday another amendment seeking withdrawal of U. S. forces from Indochina within six months, and said he will press the issue “again and again and again” until American involvement ends. “I want no more blood on my hands,” the Montana senator said. The amendment would declare as U.S. policy a withdrawal of American forces within six months if U.S. prisoners of war are released. Mansfield’s original amend- ment was approved earlier by the Senate, rejected by the House, and compromised in the final version of the draft exten sion bill. The new amendment, like the first one, will be added to a bill handled by the Armed Services committees of the House and Senate, it could again run into House resistance and a deadlock between the branches. Mansfield said if that happens, he will propose his withdrawal plan again, as an amendment to the foreign aid bill. “. . . If we are stymied, we will try it again and again,” Mans field said. Sen. John C. Stennis, D-Miss., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said the withdrawal amendment should be dealt with as a separate measure, not tacked onto the big weapons-buying bill. “. . . This amendment has al ready had its day in court,” Sten nis said. But the House wouldn’t even have to consider a separate end- the-war measure, and even if one were passed in that fashion, it would be subject to a Nixon veto. Mansfield said as far as he is concerned, the fate of prisoners of war and missing Americans “at this late date is the only sig nificant basis for this nation to remain any longer in Vietnam.” x appointed by head yells for committee freshmen freshmen yell leaders for !ear were selected Monday by the Yell Leader Selec- mmittee. were Hunter Allen, fc’ell leader, Tony Pelletier, piderson, Mike Trahan, Joe ies' k and John Aronson. of the six are members e Corps. iter is a Preveterinary from Madisonville. He is , ber of Co. A-2. letier is a Mechanical En- ing major from San An- ig is a pleasure & Trust. at First tonio. He is a member of Squad ron 10 and a President’s Scholar. Anderson is a member of Squadron 7. He is a history maj or from San Antonio. Trahan is a history major from San Francisco, Calif. He is from Co. E-l. Joe Hughes, the only civilian, is a Liberal Arts major from Dal las. He lives in Fowler Hall. Aronson is a Building Con struction major from Dallas. He is in Co. E-l. Head yell leader Jimmy Fergu son said that about 50 members of the Corps and 10 civilians tried out. Out of this they narrowed it down to 11 semi-finalists and then to the final six. “We had five sad people left,” Ferguson said, “but we had to do it. They all deserved to be yell leaders.” Usually five are chosen rather than six. Ferguson said that they tried to do the same this year -but that six was as small a num ber as they could narrow it down to. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. NEBRASKA’S JOHNNY RODGERS (20) gets past Lee Hitt (29) Saturday, as the Cornhusker return ace ran the second half kickoff back 98 yards for a touchdown. The defending national champions went on to beat the Aggies, 34-7, in Lincoln. For game story and picture, see page 6. (Photo by Joe Matthews)