Freshmen elections will be held Wednesday. Vote! ri’v' aiiij liar.: I poir: be Vol. 67 No. 41 % Warmer, partly cloudy College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 9, 1971 Wednesday — Cloudy to partly cloudy. Northerly winds 5-10 mph. High 76°, low 52°. Thursday — Partly cloudy. Easterly winds 5-10 mph. High 77°, low 51°. 846-2226 KBSBSB m #1 & School prayer is ruled illegal by House vote m % ■m. ■fi JOE MAC KING seems to be smiling as he hands the ball to Doug Neill during the game against Southern Methodist University Saturday. He had reason to smile as the Ag- gies racked up their third conference win by defeating the Mustangs 27-10. For more sports see pages five and six. (Photo by Hayden Whitsett) w,000 members Latimer to head student exes J.Robert (Bob) Latimer Jr. of fellas Saturday was elected 1972 president of A&M’s 55,000-mem- kr Association of Former Stu- tats. The 48 - year - old petroleum •Magement consultant will as- 1,11,6 association leadership In. 1. President-elect is Melvin Maltz 'I Houston, vice president and Kretary of Century Papers, Inc. a lfe will automatically succeed “the presidency in 1973. Members of the association’s wnember Council elected the ’■member board during the an- •Ml Fall Board of Directors and until Meeting here Saturday lorning. Program vice presidents are 116 Hiram Moore of Midland, ? lv ’ties; Dan W. Spears of °uston, high school programs; ar les D. Kirkham of Dallas, community affairs; Benjamin J. Lednicky of Houston, member ship; Donald W. Garrett of San Antonio, fund raising, and Mayo J. Thompson of Houston, public relations. Elected regional vice presi dents were J. Lamar Walker of Alice, South Texas; Thomas H. Kennerly of Houston, Southeast Texas; John D. Janak of Dallas, Northeast Texas; C. H. (Mickey) Maguire of Stephenville, Central Texas; Joe H. Nagy of Lubbock, West Texas; Paul K. Walker of Washington, D. C., out-of-state, and Rex B. Grey of London, England, international. Leslie L. (Les) Appelt of Hous ton, 1971 association president, presided at the meeting. He will serve as past president on the board. Richard (Buck) Weirus, association executive director, also is a member of the board. Named Student Loan Fund Trustees were Latimer, Weirus, James L. Sewell of Dallas, A. W. (Head) Davis of Bryan and Ed win H. Cooper of College Station. Robert L. Edgecomb of Bryan was selected for a two-year term on the Memorial Student Center Council. He joins Bob Butler of Bryan on the MSC Council and replaces Emmett Trant Jr. of Bryan. Latimer, 1944 mechanical en gineering graduate of A&M, served as president-elect this year. He previously planned and directed the association’s highly successful high school program three years. His activities for A&M include 1944 class agent, past president of the Wichita Falls A&M Club, member of the A&M Student Senate-Alumni Advisory Com mittee and Diamond Century Club membership. Latimer and his wife, Jane, have three sons. President-elect Maltz, 43, is a 1947 aeronautical engineering graduate. He has served as 1947 class agent and is a Silver Cen tury Club member. Maltz worked on the associa tion board for the past four years; 2 a /2 years as activities vice president and two years as South east Texas regional vice presi dent. He is a past president of the Houston A&M Club and was Houston chairman of the 1961-63 Development Fund program. Maltz and his wife, Phyllis, have two sons and two daughters. WASHINGTON > —A pro posed constitutional amendment to permit official praying in public schools died in the House Monday when backers fell 28 votes short of the two-thirds ma jority needed for approval. The intense and often emo tional debate ended with 240 congressmen favoring and 162 opposing a resolution that would have been the first step toward writing this in the Constitution: “Nothing contained in this Constitution shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assem bled, in any public building which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in voluntary prayer or meditation.” Recommending rejection of the resolution, House Speaker Carl Albert, D.-Okla., shouted to his colleagues that he is “not pre pared to let the meddling hand of government, at any level, to any degree, be placed on any man’s altar.” But Rep. Chalmers P. Wylie, R.-Ohio, chief sponsor of the pro posed constitutional amendment, said a vast majority of the Amer ican people “want this kind of amendment . . . and the people of this House should allow the people to speak.” The amendment’s backers said the measure is needed to restore the practice of prayers that had been widely followed before a Supreme Court ruling halted it in 1962. But opponents, with major church organizations on their side, called, it an attack on the religious freedom guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. The amendment was brought to the floor when Wylie got a ma jority of the House—218 members —to sign a petition taking it out of the hands of the Judiciary Committee where it had been held up. Wylie’s original amendment made reference to “nondenomi- national prayer—a word that had been attacked by the amend ment’s opponents. Prior to final action, the House amended the language to make it read “volun tary prayer or meditation.” But even that was denounced by the amendment’s foes, who argued that the proposed consti tutional change remainded un acceptable to them. The amendment was atttacked by Rep. Robert F. Drinan, D.- Mass., the only Roman Catholic priest in Congress, who contended “it will not enhance the free exer cise of religion '. . . it can be enormously detrimental to the substance and spirit of religion in America.” Rep. K. Gunn McKay, D.-Utah, a Mormon, told the House: “My faith is my private business, it is the history of my people.” He said the Constitution “is an in spired document” and he opposes amending it in this fashion. Rep. Emanuel Celler, D.-N.Y., chairman of the Judiciary Com mittee, walked to the rostrum carrying a pile of books that he said were records of hearings held in 1964 on 35 different forms of prayer resolutions that gen erated 2,774 pages of testimony. He said witnesses came from more than 38 religious denomi nations, and included 343 legal experts, and 30 heads of semi naries and divinity schools. “These hearings convinced me and other members of the com mittee that appropriate language could not be devised that would preserve the First Amendment and freedom of religion,” Celler said. Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes, D.- Fla., supporter of the amend ment, said: “If you’re one of those who plan to vote against prayer, I want to be around to hear you explain to your con stituents your vote against prayer to God.” Rep. John B. Anderson, R.- 111., chairman of the Republican Conference, said passage of the amendment “would engender an almost endless strife.” Majority Leader Hale Boggs, D.-La., said: “Tinkering with the Bill of Rights, after all that our forbears went through to get it, is something we should think a long time about.” TAMU Corps of Cadets to be in Houston Saturday A&M’s Corps of Cadets will make Houston its base of opera tions this weekend. An Aggie Corps Trip in con nection with the 2 p.m. Rice-A&M football game sends the 2,500- member corps into Houston action. Activities will center on a 9:45 a.m. downtown Houston parade and the game. Friday and Sat- American Indian’s role i society to be GI topic Dw American Indian in con- wnporary society will be dis used Thursday at A&M by ° a M. Hayden, executive direc- of Americans for Indian Op- Wunity (AIO) Inc. r8, Hayden will speak H 16 Great Issues series tf >e Memorial Student Center, j he 8 P.m. talk in the MSC ^ roo m is public-free to all in- gJ^t Persons, announced Sai, 3 * SSUes chairman Sam Dru- gVolved in programs and ac- >es to better American In- uj ! 0 PP°rtunities since gradu- *H°m Oklahoma State Uni- , Slt y in 1956, Mrs. Hayden has "with AIO since 1970. It is a «onal Indian organization, jji . has developed youth projn ^ Western New York state, urban center in Dallas and sy lne Material for fourth level ents , among others. ttaj 8 ** ay< * en i® a former Bu- jIjo , 0 ^ ^dian Affairs employe Oil SS < * one extension work in (A 0 **’* Comanche and Cot- °unties, and helped organize L T Wa ® director of Oklahomans ndian Opportunity (OIO). u 3 director, the Fort Sill an School-educated humani tarian developed and implemented the Peace Corps pilot project, “Project Peace Pipe,” through which Indians were recruited and pre-trained for Peace Corps serv ice. Mrs. Hayden served on the Oklahoma advisory committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights. She was active in Law- ton in an informal multi-racial group for minority civil rights promotion. The A&M speaker had other board memberships and activities that suited her for directorship of the Washington-headquartered AIO. With graduate work at Oklahoma State and the Univer sity of Oklahoma, Mrs. Hayden has completed course work for a master’s degree in public admin istration. The Hayden family, including three children, resides in McLean, Va. Most severe My Lai charge against Henderson is dropped v ersity National Bank n side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. FT. MEADE, Md. (A 5 ) —Col. Oran K. Henderson won a major legal victory Monday when a military judge dismissed the most serious charge brought against him in the aftermath of the My Lai massacre. The judge, Col. Peter S. Won- dolowski, denied, however, three defense motions seeking dismissal of the remaining three charges against the much-decorated com bat veteran accused of covering up the-massacre. The dismissed charge contend ed that Henderson knowingly lied on Feb. 17, 1970, when he told a Pentagon inquiry headed by Lt. Gen. William R. Peers he was positive that he did not dis cuss the My Lai operation with two aviators who participated in the ill-starred mission. Henderson, 51, is accused of intentionally failing to properly investigate atrocity reports from the March 16, 1968, My Lai operations and of not reporting actual or suspected war crimes. The veteran of three wars also is charged with lying on another occasion to the Pentagon inquiry into why news of the massacre did not become public for more than a year. COMPOSER AND SONG WRITER Kris Kristoffersen performed to a rather unapprecia tive audience at Town Hall Friday night. Kristoffersen’s pointless cursing and lack of enthusiasm caused a large portion of the crowd to leave before the performance was over. (Photo by Joe Matthews) urday night events and parties also are on tap. Corps Commander Thomas M. Stanley of Mt. Pleasant and the corps staff will lead the parade north on Main Street past the reviewing stand between Capitol and Rusk. The 36-unit parade will turn on Texas and return to the assembly area via Fannin St. Commandant Col. Thomas R. Parsons said corps units will assemble on Clay and Bell Streets at 9:15 a.m. Bangla Desk UN delegates speak tonight Two members of the Bangla Desh delegation to the United Nations will explain the Pakistan separatist movement tonight. The speakers are Dr. A. R. Mallick, former chairman of the Council of University Presidents in Pakistan, and Dr. Ashahul Hague, chairman of the Bangla Desh Red Cross Society. Phi Alpha Theta, international history honor society, is sponsor ing the 7:30 p.m. program in Chemistry Room 100. Society president Capt. Charles H. Briscoe said both men have been leaders in the educational development of Pakistan. The Bangla Desh movement is an attempt by East Pakistan to become a separate country from West Pakistan. Dr. Mallich has the Ph.D. in modern history from the Uni versity of London. He has been a history professor at Dacca Uni versity, visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and president of Chittagang Univers ity until March 25, 1971. He is the author of many pub lications in Southeast Asia his tory. Dr. Hague is a medical doctor and founding member of the Awami League, the provincial assembly. Both men will arrive at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. A question-answer session follows the lecture.