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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.
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told to redraw
House districts
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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)
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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
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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)