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e eiglil 1 Ttj. icliiii; 'A «. Cbe Battalion pass. atf at( A4J! reei. bacb, quid Partly cloudy, cooler Vol. 67 No. 36 College Station, Texas Friday, October 29, 1971 Friday — Partly cloudy, north erly winds 10-20 mph. High 67°, low 48°. Kickoff Little Rock — 61°, northwest winds 10 mph. 30% relative humidity. 845-2226 Britain accepts role I in Common Market 1 ■s Bay' bnors 'ards, aver orerc t per juniis i and icker, with loints LONDON —Parliament vot- t d Thursday night to take Britain Into the European Common Mar- let, giving up a thousand years if independent power status for L role in a united Europe. The historic decision, Britain’s nost important foreign policy ihift in this century, came when he House of Commons voted 356 « 244 to accept entry terms in irinciple, a Conservative govern- ient majority of 112. Earlier Thursday the House of xirds, traditionally dominated by Conservatives among the heredi tary and appointed peers, ratified Common Market membership, 451 to 58. Three other applicant nations -Ireland, Norway and Denmark -must still decide whether to ac cept the entry terms offered them. Together with Britain and the six founding members — West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg —they would form the largest free trade market in the world, with a population of some 250 million people, and rival the eco nomic power of the United States or the Soviet Union. In the longer term, enlarge ment of the Common Market could pave the way for creating a political union speaking as a third superpower in world af fairs. The vote approved this motion: “That this House approves Her Majesty’s government’s decision of principle to join the European communities on the basis of the arrangements which have been negotiated.” Prime Minister Edward Heath discarded the idea that the globe girdling British Commonwealth could offer an effective alterna tive to the common market as an economic, military and political grouping. And he discounted the idea that Britain on its own can exercise any realistic influence in the world on issues of economic and fiscal policies. “We are dangerously vulnera ble to protectionist pressures if no satisfactory outcomes to the world’s problems are achieved,” he said. Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson lashed the Heath govern ment’s acceptance of the terms offered by the six-nation conti nental group. “The terms involve an intoler able and disproportionate burden on every family in the land,” he cried. He accused Heath of “grovel ling to his French patrons” and said this had weakened British \&M voter planned to regis tra tion open Monday A&M voter registration drive begins Monday, Senate Issues chairman James McLeroy an nounced, pointing out that all citizens of Texas must re-register to vote in 1972, regardless of any registration prior to Oct. 1, 1971. Student deputy registrars, with tie official capacity to register voters, will be conducting dorm drives in their respective dorms. These and other deputy registrars will be operating booths at the Memorial Student Center, the Li brary and the Academic Building which will be open daily from 8 to 5. “All students should register during the first week,” McLeroy said. “However, the drive will continue.” Students may register in the drive to vote in Brazos County or their home county. Due to a took j • irs in r 121 Bay- mors 349 Rating of Distinguished Cadet is given Air ROTC members ,cker, rcdp- Keel with rds. ount' rards Distinguished Cadet status has been accorded 22 Air Force ROTC cadets at A&M, indicating the recipients have potential for becoming regular officers in the U.S, Air Force. Col. Robert F. Crossland, pro- lessor of aerospace studies, said the Distinguished Cadets are David A. Allen of Irvin; James A. Carey, Carrizo Springs; Wayne C. Edwards, Coilege Sta hl 01 '; Michael M. Essmyer and Stanley A. Friedli, San Antonio. Also, Daniel C. Garner and Da- v >d L. Moore, Dallas; John E. Ml, Warren F. Richter and Wil liam B. Smith, Tyler; James H. J °nes, Michael R. Krenek, John W. Kugler, Wayne A. Lutz, James C. McLeroy, Joseph H. Phillips and Charles S. Williams ‘D> Houston. bn addition, Leonard M. Legge Jr., Fort Worth; John T. Marrs, Monahans; Derron J. Patterson, Navasota; Michael L. Richard son, Angleton, and William M. Theis, Thomdale. “D esignation as a Distin guished Cadet denotes that a cadet has demonstrated, through his performance, the potential of becoming a Distinguished Gradu ate and possesses the qualities and attributes essential for suc cessful performance as a reg ular officer in the U.S. Air Force,” Colonel Crossland said. Selection is based on high moral character, leadership qual ities demonstrated through achievement on the campus, in the Corps of Cadets and Air Force field training, and high standing in military and aca demic classes. recent court case in Denton, stu dents may choose which county to vote in. The decision in this case makes it easy for a student to transfer his registration to an other county. “Two legal points that need to be emphasized are residence and double registering,” McLeroy said. “One must establish some sort of residence in the new coun ty, depending on the law there. Also, it is a felony to be registered in two places.” A student registering at home must vote absentee in all elec tions, he added. It still is not known if out-of-state students can register in Texas, but this question should be cleared up soon. The requirements for voting are that the applicant must he 18 by April 1, 1972. After January 31, the deadline for registering, new applicants must be 18 within 30 days of the registration date. Applicants are not officially reg istered until 30 days after the date of application. All registrations made prior to Oct. 1, 1971 are invalid for 1972, including national elections. The new registration will be good for three years. McLeroy said that anyone wish ing to help in the drive should contact their dorm president or Gordon Pilmer (845-1515), con cerning on-campus civilians, Greg Holman (823-5637), concerning booths, Tony Best (845-1867) for information on the Corps drive. interests in the present —world monetary crisis. Then, responding to the chal lenges of his opponents, Wilson set out what a future Labor gov ernment’s attitude would he if it took office after Britain had be come a member of an enlarged community. “One Parliament cannot hind its successors,” he said. “We would nevertheless recog nize the signature of a treaty. “We would give notice that we would not accept the terms ne gotiated by the Conservative gov ernment, the burden of the com mon agricultural policies, the blows to the Commonwealth ...” Many of the lawmakers were red-eyed with weariness. The House had sat through the pre ceding night. Altogether more than 220 of the 630 members of the chamber had spoken since the debate began six days ago. About 3,000 people packed the roadway outside the House of Commons, waiting for the vote. The crowd was mostly silent, but at its center was a hard core of anti-Common Market demon strators brandishing Union flags and placards condemning “the bu reaucrats of Brussels.” When the vote came over tran sistor radios among the throng, a great roar went up: “We’re going into Europe.” THE ART OF SHOESHINING in Houston has taken a fantastic stride forward, at least in the eyes of this businessman. For a dollar a shoe, you can now get a shine while you watch instead of wait. Raymond Jones, the owner of the new enterprise, says his girls handle about 70 shines a day. (AP Wirephoto) By CSC Alternative to bonfire defeated A motion that would insure the Civilian Student Council’s sup port of an alternative to this year’s bonfire was defeated at last night’s meeting. The motion was introduced by Brent Burford, Moses Hall presi dent, during a lengthy debate over the CSC’s official stand on the bonfire question. It stated that the CSC would not support the bonfire without having an other spirit-rousing activity for those students disinterested in participating in the bonfire prep arations. The discussion began after Jim Ferguson, the Head Yell leader, described this year’s site for ac quiring wood. The cutting area, he said, will be in a heavily wood ed area north of Bryan where a cooling plant is being built. “The trees are going to be cut and burned anyway,” he said. CSC President Gordon Pilmer remarked that bonfire enthusiasm has been fading and that he would rather go deer hunting than work on the bonfire. He went on to say that the ecologi cal aspect of the issue would be extremely important in the next couple years. He feels that a new, more constructive activity should begin that could possibly replace the bonfire in the future. Pilmer suggested a fund-rais ing march to help raise Aggie spirit for the Texas football game. Bryan-College Station merchants would, he hopes, do nate a small sum of money for each mile walked by each student. The money could be used for scholarships. The committee members agreed that the extra activity would not have to take place on the same weekend as the bonfire. They hoped that students would not consider the activity as the CSC’s attempt to replace the bonfire, but only as another student proj ect. Rev. Hugh Beck of A&M’s Lu theran Church suggested an eco logical project, such as collecting the litter from a certain area. Fernando Giannetti, Schuhmach- er Hall president, jokingly men tioned a Woodstock-like festival to supplement the bonfire. Paul Ammons, the CSC parliamentar ian who thoroughly exercised his power during the meeting, mo tioned that a study of bonfire alternatives should be made and presented at the next meeting. The motion passed easily. Earlier in the meeting it was decided that a residence hall newspaper be established to give better coverage to dormitory ac tivities and “give the CSC better PR.” Each hall would have its own reporter. Advertising would hopefully pay the expense of pub lication. First guilty plea entered Texas stock scandal in THE NEWEST ISOLATIONIST POLICY appears to be "nd.er study. Actually Walt Maur, a member of an archae- lo gical team from the University of Iowa, is searching for remains of an ancient Indian community in southwest Iowa. No lack of enthusiasm here. (AP Wirephoto) DALLAS <-#’)—The first guilty plea was entered to a charge aris ing out of the Texas stock scan dal Thursday, when Sam Stock, a former president of National Bankers Life Insurance Co., said he would not contest one of the four counts on which he was in dicted. Stock appeared for arraign ment along with John Osorio, former law partner of onetime Texas Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr and another ex-president of NBL, and Donald E. Alins, once execu tive vice president of NBL. Stock, Osorio and Akins plead ed innocent to felony charges of conspiracy to embezzle assets of the NBL employes pension fund. Osorio and Stock also pleaded not guilty to charges of embez zlement and misapplying funds of the Dallas Bank & Trust Co. The count on which Stock did plead guilty involved his failure to make full disclosure about NBL pension fund investment transactions in an annual finan cial report. U. S. District Court Judge Wil liam M. Taylor Jr. accepted Stock’s guilty plea, but delayed sentence until the whole case against him has been heard. Pe nalty on the county which he did not contest could cost Stock a $1,000 fine or six months in pris on, or both. Asst. U. S. Atty. Frank Mc Gowan said that, if convicted, the maximum penalty that could be inflicted on Osorio would be a $30,000 fine and-or 15 years in prison. Stock could be fined up to $31,000 and might have to serve up to 15% years in prison, while Akins could be fined $10,- 000 with five years in the peni tentiary. Taylor, who has charge of as signment of cases in the local federal courts this month, said the trial would be before Judge Joe Estes and might not start until after the first of the year. Brian Hussaker, for Osorio, pointed out that his client had “some business in Austin” set for Jan. 24 and he hoped the Dallas trial could be set for a later date. He was referring to the criminal indictment against Osorio alleg ing that he made false statements to the State Insurance Depart ment. U. S. Atty. Eldon Mahon said Osorio, Stock and Akins would be tried together on a date to be set by Judge Estes. The pension fund charge in volves the $641,250 which was to have been paid for 22,500 shares of NBL stock by five of the as tronauts. The astronauts backed out of the proposed deal, which had been masterminded by Hous ton financier Frank W. Sharp, and pension fund money was used to buy in the stock. Two A&M students to attend 23rd U. S. affairs conference A&M delegates to the 23rd Stu dent Conference on United States Affairs (SCUSA) at West Point in November will be Roberto J. Lozano of Guadalajara, Mexico, and Lucian A. Dade III of Hop kinsville, Ky., announced Presi dent Jack Williams. SCUSA, similar to A&M’s Stu dent Conference on National Af fairs (SCONA), will deal with the topic “U. S. Role in World Affairs: Changing Patterns of Power.” Lozano, Dade and alternate delegates James A. Lawson of Fort Worth and Fidel Rodriguez Jr. of Bishop are working on SCONA XVII and are members of the Corps of Cadets. Major discussion areas will in- University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. elude Latin America, the USSR and Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, the United Nations, arms control, East Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, the North Atlantic and international eco nomics and development. Lozano, chairman of SCONA XVII’s steering committee, is an environmental design senior and on the 1st Wing Staff. Dade chairs SCONA arrangements, commands Squadron 4 and is a senior in industrial technology. Lawson is a junior in electrical engineering, arrangements vice chairman and Squadron 4 mem ber. Corps scholastic sergeant, Rodriguez works on the arrange ments committee and majors in civil engineering. They will attend the Nov. 17-20 SCUSA should either Lozano or Dade be unable to go.