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0 niii t | 2e k s, 1 havej)!’ 1 de: 1 of I f Ar^ * 1 * * * * it of t ! passt, til si , Mi -iple | swcl eads tJ be Battalion Clear and cooler 67 No. 31 College Station, Texas Thursday, October 21, 1971 Friday — Partly cloudy. East erly winds 5-10 mph. High 81°, low 63°. Saturday — Cloudy to partly cloudy. Rainshowers, thunder showers. Southerly winds 5-10 mph. High 82°, low 68°. Kickoff—Temperature 79°. 845-2226 tudent Senate ets other side f ticket debate /me. .A OR*Es| OTAKiDt! \YDEN whitsett Student Senate heard the |c business office’s side of flJtfckBts policy controversy at jJy/Beting Wednesday night. —''"y Groff, athletic business er, explained the policy as hat of following the South- lonference rules regarding sales. ?e must abide by the rules of inference,” Groff said, flijlents are the only people jm|l|d to sit in the prime seat- — ™tion of the stadium without to pay the full ticket price, said. These tickets can only Inded out with the under- /uimlng that they are used by llliLpts and that the students Mtheir IDs with them, he far as date tickets go, “all ooeisBne seats, you must charge imum of $6,” he said. .., r «/ff said, though not volun- njj|that last year the athletic had a cash deficit of 0. “It looks a little worse ,!) Tear.” he added. LjWe know this is for the stu- «/|I’ Groff said in reference '^■letics, “and we want it set p way you want it to be.” 11fP .8 an example of just how nth the ticket office had co- (Jllf iited with helping students, : : | said that the office is open owe eases to the day of the jfi to be sure that all those \g tickets can get them. |cheeks will help cut down fficit, he said. 1967, the year we won the jipionship, we had about a net loss,” Groff said to rised Student Senate. “The ^ear, 1968, we had roughly 000 gain,” he said. Iff detailed for the Student Senate the expenditures and in come of the athletic program for 1970. Of the $1,268,000 spent on ath letics in 1970, $616,000 went to football, $370,000 went for ad ministration, $102,000 went to basketball, $82,000 went to track, $51,000 went to baseball, $24,000 went to swimming, $13,000 went to tennis, and $11,000 went to golf. On the income side of things, football brought in $995,000, bas ketball brought in $28,000, Stu dent Activities fees, $84,000, and gifts, $80,000. Groff admitted that the figures were far from matching. He also detailed how A&M receives money on a 50-50 basis of gate receipts for games it competes in, and how the university receives money for other Southwest Conference activities. “We get 10 per cent of all bowl game receipts, all schools get this,” Groff said. Whether or not the team competes in a bowl game is irrelevant. A&M also receives money from televised conference games that it doesn’t participate in, he said. Groff estimated that A&M would receive about $22,000 from this weekend’s televising of the Texas Tech - Southern Methodist University football game. He also detailed the percentages of date tickets bought by students in the last three years and this year. In 1968 46.6 per cent of the students attending football games bought date tickets. In 1969 the figure was up to 50.1 percent, but in 1970 the figure dropped to 29.9 per cent of date tickets bought, and the trend this year has given a figure of 24.2 per cent. “You can draw all kinds of con clusions from that,” commented one senator. The Student Senate took no action involving the tickets policy other than to listen to Groff. Mark Blakemore (Geosciences) read a resolution recommending that the student activities fee be lowered to $27 and that a non mandatory $15 athletic fee be instituted in addition to the ac tivities fee. After reading his resolution, Blakemore withdrew it to allow the senate to consider the issue further. Bruce Clay, public relations chairman, pointed out that the Board of Directors could raise the activity fee back to $30, the state maximum, if they wanted to. Spike Dayton, treasurer, sug gested that the $30 fee be kept for those who wanted to attend the football games and that a $27 fee be paid by those not wanting to attend the games. With the $27 fee would come a modified activity card that would not al low tickets to be taken out on it. The Student Senate also ap proved eight of the nine new senators appointed by John Sharp, Student Senate president. The new positions came from the recently passed constitutional amendment providing for the re apportionment of representatives in the colleges of Agriculture, Preveterinary Medicine, Science, and Engineering. Appointed to Engineering were Daniel Garner (Sr.), Paul Gugen- heim (Jr.), Salahuddin Yosufzai (Soph.) and Alex Dade (at large). Appointed to Science were Bill Hartsfield and Brent Burford. Appointed to Agriculture was Kenny Kimbrough. The point of disagreement be- (See Senate story, page 2) J -JS8> # r r s M •' .t \ 4. # / * « THE ALMA TRIO presents selections of chamber music for a Memorial Student Center audience Wednesday. The ensemble, presented by the Town Hall Artist Showcase, has given performances throughout the United States and several foreign countries, including a well-received engage ment in the USSR. (Photo by Joe Matthews) One dead, 37 injured Houston explosions probed ] rr gets Dem Executive ommittee chairmanship fLAS (A*)—Roy Orr, mayor a ^ a ^ as suburb of DeSoto, elected State Democratic Ex- w 6 Committee chairman 32- lednesday in a dramatic roll- jjVote that was decided only voted. in low tones, near the press table immediately after the voting. Both put their arms around the other. Orr left the governor and then returned to say something. The governor patted him on the shoulder and they parted smiling. “Four years ago, about this time,” the governor told the com mittee members, “I became some thing of a prophet when I fore cast that John Connally would not run for a fourth term. “I don’t want to predict what John Connally is going to do ^““upractor wno resigned now,” he continued amid ap- ifii'e after being implicated plause, “but I am confident in Sharpstown Bank-National saying, freely and fully, that the Democratic party is going to suc ceed.” Smith said the state party no 'uw: mat was d jj/| n last district Preston Smith, who just ! the voting began told The plated Press he could work I ^'ther Orr or Agriculture toissioner John White, em- jpd Orr minutes after the succeeds Dr. Elmer Baum, ■ n chiropractor who resigned jters Life Insurance Co. stock Mai. , Mni and Smith reputedly split smitn sam me I jpOOO profit on the insurance longer could afford to have an f before banking bills passed organization dominated by one ■ e £islature which Frank man or by one faction. Houston financier, backed “We cannot afford it in terms people of Texas,” he added. “. . . The future of our party demands that all Texas Democrats — con servative, liberal, old and young, black and white and brown, male and female, be involved in the work and the fruits of our po litical activity.” Smith drew his heaviest ap plause when he attacked the Re publican party. He said the 12 Republican members of the Texas Legislature passed only nine pieces of legislation during the last session. “In other words,” he said, “they have an effect on state government even less than their numbers might indicate. HOUSTON —Houston May or Louie Welch said Wednesday the fire department is investigat ing the possibility some ties were missing from the track at the site of a derailment and explosions of chemical cars which killed one person and injured 37. Fire Chief C. R. Cook said the U. S. Transportation Department, investigating the accident, con firmed a construction crew was working on the tracks at the time. “There was a construction crew there and at the time were re placing some ties,” Welch told radio station KPRC. “Some ties were actually missing when the train came through. It was an obvious mistake.” The explosions occurred Tues day in a lightly-populated area in southeast Houston after 18 cars of an 83-car Missouri-Pacific freight train derailed at a cross ing. The blasts were 45 minutes apart. The victims, mostly fire men and newsmen, were felled while fighting and reporting the fire from the first explosion. Cook complained that his men did not know what they were fighting. Welch demanded an inquiry in to whether rail safety laws are being enforced. He noted it was the fourth major rail derailment here in six weeks. Killed was Truxton Hathaway Jr., 32, a fire department inspec tor who was making a film for department training classes. “Somebody’s not doing their job,” Cook said, “because it took nearly five hours to find out what chemicals were contained in the tank cars.” l< Not knowing what was in the cars meant we didn’t know how to fight the fire, how close we should get and how we should protect the other cars,” Cook said. “If we definitely knew volatile chemicals were in those other cars, we would have pulled back immediately — before the second blast. We didn’t know what we were fighting. And when we did, we put it right out.” The first two cars that ex ploded were filled with vinyl chlo ride, said Bob Miles, a spokesman for Oyster Creek Division of Dow Chemical Corp. Cook said the third car, which exploded later, was filled with butadiene. Federal rules require that the conductor, or whoever is in charge of a freight train, carry a mani fest or way bill of the cargo. Cook said he understood that no fire official at the scene after the initial blast could find the conductor. Laws require tank cars to be labeled for contents. Cook said identification placards on the burning cars probably were de stroyed. Gerald Holzmann, general man ager for Missouri Pacific, said Wednesday the conductor, Jerome Pinkston, did have the manifest and waybills which list contents of the cars. Pinkston said that when the cars derailed and the first ex plosion occurred, he left the ca boose and ran for cover. Pinks ton said when the flames de creased, he returned to the ca boose, got the manifest and way bills and left to telephone his chief railroad dispatcher. After the second explosion, Pinkston said he returned to the area and was told by a police officer he shouldn’t get near the blaze. In addition to the 27 firemen, six newsmen and four bystanders were treated at hospitals. Almost 200 firemen went to the scene. The area was emptied after the first blast. The fire destroyed a $45,000 fire truck and several other ve hicles. It spread to lumber in a nearby field and set several evac uated houses afire. A foam truck arrived and had the tank fires out at about 7 p. m. Tuesday. Brandt is awarded Nobel peace prize Smith vetoed. P*’th and Orr talked earnestly of time, money, political success or governmental service to the issinger confers ith Red Chinese F Y ° <#>—Dr. Henry A. Kis- r with Premier Chou r 1 ln Peking Wednesday, the L ^ ew China News Agency Fed. report agency said a four-paragraph Peking, the ager.^^ “ Was assisted by Yeh Chien- l’ Vl ce chairman of the Chinese pient’s military commis- L and acting Foreign Minister Pe lg-fei. N dispatch did not say what '^cussed. However, it added ’ e h and Chi gave a ban- ersity National ' n th e side of Bank Texas A&M.” —Adv. quet honoring the Americans, who arrived earlier in the day in a U.S. presidential jet to finalize details on President Nixon’s forth coming visit to Red China. Earlier the Peking agency said that Yeh was among the Chinese government officials who went to Peking’s airport to meet the in coming Americans. The trip was the second for Kissinger, presidential adviser on national security, who paid a se cret visit to Peking where he met and discussed with Chou in July. This time, Kissinger and his party planned to remain in the Chinese capital for four days before returning to Washington via Anchorage, Alaska. OSLO, Norway (A*)—The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Wednesday to Willy Brandt for achieving “eminent results in cre ating preconditions for peace in Europe.” Brandt, West Germany’s first Socialist chancellor, receives $88,- 000 through the decision of the Nobel committee of the Norwe gian parliament. The prize has been awarded for 70 years under terms of Alfred Nobel’s will. Mrs. Aase Lionaes, chairman of the committee, said: “During the whole postwar period the politically unsolved German problem has constituted a latent danger to the peace . . . As leader of the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and on behalf of the German people, Willy Brandt has stretch ed his hand to reconciliation be tween countries that have long been enemies. “In the spirit of good will he has achieved eminentf results in creating preconditions for peace in Europe. Preconditions for a peaceful development are a po litical and military relaxation of tension between East and West Europe. “The committee attaches im portance to the fact that Willy Brandt both as foreign secretary of the Federal Republic of Ger many in 1966 and as federal chan cellor since 1969 has taken con crete initiatives leading to such relaxation of tension.” Brandt, 57, joins a long list of Peace Prize winners including Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. Wendler scheduled to talk for Great Issues program HARD AT WORK are two industrious fellows (John Steele at left and Janies Dennis) rushing to complete the set for “Blithe Spirit,” the second Aggie Players production of the season. The play will present a satirical look at the manners of high society. (Photo by Joe Matthews) Ed Wendler, executive director of the Texas Intercollegiate Stu dent Association, will speak Tuesday at A&M in a Great Is sues presentation. “Student Rights in Texas” will be the topic of Wendler’s 8 p.m. talk in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom, announced Great Issues chairman Sam Dru- gan. Admission is free. Legislative representative for TISA, Wendler has been with the statewide student group eight years. He was in private practice as an attorney eight years. Wendler, 39, received the LL.B. degree at UT-Austin in 1959, served as an attorney with the Texas Legislative Council and director of research for the Texas Municipal League. The Great Issues speaker, a lobbyist in Austin, was state headquarters manager for cam paigns of Attorney General Crawford Martin and Waggoner Carr in 1966 and held the same post in support of John Hill dur ing the 1968 primaries. Klemm is given iffma Xi award Sig Dr. William R. Klemm, profes sor of Biology at A&M, has re ceived the Sigma Xi Distin guished Member Award for Re search Achievement in 1971. This award is given annually to a research scientist at the A&M University chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi which has over 600 members. As the recipient of the award Klemm will give a lecture in room 110 of the Architecture Building at 4:00 p.m. on Oct. 20. His lecture is entitled “Behav ioral Physiology of the Brain stem” and is a report of his re search in neurophysiology.