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‘Dirty 30’ members
want Mutscher out
tion
DISAPPOINTMENT WAS MIRRORED even in the faces of the sweet young things Sat
urday as the Aggies crashed and burned at the hands of Cincinnati by a score of 17-0.
uhe defeat was the low point of the past weekend for most students. (Photo by Joe Mat
thews)
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AUSTIN (A*)—Members of the
“Dirty 30” said Monday they will
ask Gov. Preston Smith to give
them the tools they need to re
move Speaker Gus Mutscher, who
has been indicted on bribery
charges.
A governor’s aide said Smith
would meet Thursday morning
with some of the House dissidents
and hear their request for an
early special session of the legis
lature.
Mutscher could be removed as
speaker whenever the legislature
meets, members of the “Dirty
30” said at a news conference.
If Mutscher doesn’t resign—as
he says he won’t—and Smith re
fuses to call a special session,
some of the “Dirty 30” said they
would consider an effort to con
vene the house to hear impeach
ment charges against Mutscher.
Attending the newsconference
were Reps. Tom Moore and Lane
Denton of Waco, Frances Faren-
Creighton to
speak about
abortion laws
State Sen. Tom Creighton of
Mineral Wells will speak on
liberalizing abortion laws at a
Political Forum presentation
Wednesday at A&M.
The noon series presentation
will be in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom, announced
Chairman Paul Turner of Liv
ingston. Admission is free.
thold of Corpus Christi, and Wal
ter Mengden of Houston.
Mutscher said last week he will
not resign.
Moore said he proposed that if
Smith refused to call a special
session, the House be convened
by a petition of a majority of
its members to consider impeach
ment of Mutscher. He said he
thought the Texas laws on im
peachment were broad enough to
permit impeachment of a speaker.
But Mrs. Farenthold said she
had “serious legal questions”
whether a legislator could be im
peached, as opposed to the consti
tutional power of a House to
remove any of its members.
Moore said Mutscher’s reten
tion of the speakership “is abso
lutely intolerable” and “holds the
state of Texas in disgrace before
the nation, if not the world.”
Denton said telegrams would
be sent to all House members
asking them to back up the
“Dirty 30” in appealing to Smith
for a special session. Similar tele
grams also would be sent to sen
ators and all statewide elected
officials, including Lt. Gov. Ben
Barnes.
Smith aides said he is unlikely
to budge from his opposition to
calling a session before next
summer, when he must call the
legislature back to write a state
budget for 1973. A special ses
sion would immediately subject
everyone whom Smith has ap
pointed to state boards and com
missions to Senate confirmation
proceedings.
Some appointees are contro
versial and might be rejected.
Moore, a defense attorney and
former prosecutor, was asked
whether he felt Mutscher’s resig
nation, removal or impeachment
would hurt his chances for a fair
trial.
“Under these conditions, people
would think more of the speaker
if he voluntarily stepped aside,”
Moore said. As for impeachment,
I think that would be admissible
in court.”
Moore acknowledged that a
special session or impeachment
proceedings would give many
members who stuck with Mut
scher during this year’s session
a chance to publicly vote against,
him, to their possible political
advantage.
But, he said, “it is much more
important that we clear up this
thing for the good of the state
of Texas, as opposed to the po
litical advantage we would have
if Speaker Mutscher remains in
office . . . This is of much graver
importance than the future of
the Dirty 30.”
Skyjacker kills wife, selj
as FBI agents move in
Traditional honor guard
Ross Volunteers name officers
The Ross Volunteers selected
the non-commissioned officers
for 1971-72, Michael Weynand,
commanding officer of the Ross
Volunteers, announced Monday.
The honor military unit is the
traditional honor guard for the
governor of Texas and for King
Rex at the Mardis Gras parade
in New Orleans.
National Science Foundation
accepts graduate applications
The National Science Founda
tion is now accepting applications
for 1972-73 graduate fellowships,
announced A&M Graduate Dean
George W. Kunze.
Approximately 1,500 fellowships
will be awarded in various phases
of science, geosciences, engineer-
' n e, agriculture and liberal arts,
Dr- Kunze noted. About two-
Banking is a pleasure at First
Bank & Trust.
thirds of the awards will be re
newals or continuations of cur
rent NSF fellowships.
The deadline is Nov. 29 for
filing applications with the fel
lowship office of the National
Research Council in Washington,
D. C. Announcement of awards
will be made March 15.
Dean Kunze said his office has
a limited number of cards de
signed for requesting application
material.
Platoon sergeants with the
rank of master segeant include
Stanley Friedli, Pete Gerukos,
and Tony Best, all of San An
tonio.
Tony Rios, San Antonio; Hal
Sharp, Houston, and Terry Row
an, Killeen, were named as drill
assistants with the rank of tech
nical sergeant.
Serving as right guards will be
Wayne Edwards of College Sta
tion, Howard Menke of Hemp
stead, and Jack Carey of Carrizo
Springs. All will have staff-ser
geant rank.
Squad leaders named were
Bruce Lynn of Gilliam, La., Jim
my Brown, Alamo; Len Legge,
Fort Worth; Charles McGuire,
Liberty; Warren F. Richter,
Tyler, and Tommy Hewitt of
Bryan. These positions will carry
the rank of technical sergeant.
Company first sergeant is Jim
my D. Ferguson of Garland.
Color guard members, all with
rank of sergeant, include Bill
Loveless, College Station; Sid
Hughes, Austin; Ronnie Gafford,
Sherman; Robert Hanson, Wil
mington, Del.; Ken Hill, Hills
boro, and Jimmy McAdams,
Huntsville.
Commissioned officers of the
Ross Volunteers, serving with
Weynand, include Robert Lozano,
executive officer, Guadalahara,
Mex.; Albert L. Haeglin, oper
ations officer, Columbus; Jan
Bertholf, Annandale, Va.; Frank
Hertzog, Huntsville, Ala.; and
Tom Stanley, Mt. Pleasant. All
Ross Volunteers platoon leaders
rank as lieutenants.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (A>) _
Posing as a doctor with a patient,
hulking George Giffe Jr. dragged
his screaming young wife aboard
a private plane in Nashville,
Tenn., Monday. He forced the
pilot to fly to Jacksonville. Then
Giffe killed his wife, the pilot
and himself when cornered by the
FBI.
Police in Nashville said the
couple broke up a week ago. They
had a 21-month-old daughter.
The Tennessee real estate man
leased the plush twin-engine air
craft, saying he was a doctor and
that his wife needed treatment
in Miami.
Asked for medical credentials
when he prepared to board the
plane, the 300-pound Giffe pulled
a 10-shot .45-caliber automatic
and ordered the pilot to take off.
Also aboard were a friend of
Giffe, later identified as Bobby
Wayne Wallace, and the copilot,
Randall Crump.
Once airborne, Giffe ordered
the pilot to head for the Baham
as, but Brant Q. Downs, 29, ap
parently convinced the estranged
husband that a refueling stop was
required.
When the plane landed at Jack
sonville International Airport,
waiting FBI agents shot out two
tires and an engine.
Shots erupted from inside the
cabin, agents said.
Agents rushed the plane and
found Susan Giffe, 25, and Downs
dead from gunshot wounds. Giffe
was fatally wounded from a shot
in the temple, they reported.
Wallace and Crump were un
harmed.
Wallace, 32, was charged with
air piracy and held under $100,-
000 bond. He also faced a federal
kidnap charge.
Giffe, 35, was once an instruc
tor in biology at Peabody College
in Nashville. It was there that
he met Susan who held bachelor’s
and master’s degrees in education
from the college.
Mrs. Giffe, the former Susan
Lakich, once talked of marrying
a rich man who could “give me
the life of a movie starlet,” a
former classmate said.
Friends said Giffe heaped lux
uries on the well-traveled daugh
ter of a career Army man.
The couple was married three
years ago, but friends said she
spent almost as much time with
her parents as with Giffe.
Agents who stormed the plane
in Jacksonville said they found
a small gray box which they said
had been described as containing
a bomb. Newsmen said military
demolition experts who opened
the box found no bomb. Instead,
they found some personal papers
and pictures of pai’tially nude
women, the newsmen said.
Two die as explosions rock
suburb housing development
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS,
Tex. (A 5 )—A father and his 214 -
year-old son were killed and two
other members of the family suf
fered injuries Monday when an
explosion and fire ripped their
home in this Fort Worth suburb.
A second explosion later crit
ically injured another person at
a neighboring home.
Fire officials blamed the sec
ond explosion on an accumulation
of gas, but said they were not
sure about the cause of the first.
Homes within a five-block area
of the blasts were evacuated, and
workers began searching for gas
lines that might still contain gas.
Bert Pitkin and his son, Mi
chael, were killed, and Pitkin’s
wife, Abilene, 45, and their 18-
month-old son, Stephen Eric, were
burned.
Mrs. Pitkin was listed as being
in fair to poor condition and her
son was in critical condition. They
were taken to Parkland Memorial
Hospital in Dallas.
The explosion occurred at about
5 a.m. at the Pitkin’s residence
at 8300 Jerri Joe Drive. Several
hours later Mrs. C. R. Parker,
who lives at 8304 Jerri Joe, was
injured in an explosion that oc
curred when she turned off a
light in her garage.
The inquiring Battman
What do you think should be changed at Texas A&M?
" - . _______
Tom Harrover
senior
w ? u ld like to see an overhaul
nd simplication of the parking
Permit registration system. Why
1 incorporate pre-registration
1 People and cars?
Bill Mulcahey
senior
I would like to see more of
the leadership on campus taken
charge of by the civilian students.
Brian Rains
senior
I would want people to realize
that Texas A&M is trying to be
come a real university and that
there are going to be a lot of
social changes such as more fe
males and freaks and something
can be done to keep more people
on campus instead of going home.
Ralph G. Hopkins
graduate student
I would like a new football
coach.
Jeffrey A. Simmers
sophomore
I’d like to see Dean Hannigan
disappear.
John M. Hefley
senior
I would like to change the male-
female ratio by bringing in more
girls than there are boys.
Tom Jordan
sophomore
1 think the administration’s at
titude towax-d women should be
changed. They think that the
woman population on campus is
increasing too rapidly. That is
pure bunk. Going co-ed is the
best thing that has ever happened
to A&M. (Photos by Patrick
Fontana)
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