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Thursday, December 2, 1971
Friday — Cloudy, intermittent
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on ballot
vie for seat
City Council
The name of Bruce Clay, who
u not initially allowed to reg-
iter as a candidate in the Dec.
I College Station City Council
Itction, has now been placed on
t ballot by College Station of-
dals.
Clay, a senior in the Corps,
id filed a suit in Federal Dis-
dct Court in Houston asking
lit his name be placed on the
illot.
He had not been allowed to
id in the election because of a
use in the College Station
charter requiring that all candi
dates have real property. Clay
had been running as a write-in
candidate until this decision.
College Station Mayor J. B.
Hervey, Mrs. Florence Neeley,
city finance officer, and the City
Council had been issued sum
mons Tuesday to appear in the
District Court in answer to the
suit.
A compromise was reached
Wednesday morning between
Clay’s attorney, J. Craig Cow-
gill, Tom Giesenschla, assistant
OCEN
TAMP 8
itudents at Prairie View
wait voter registration
The final decision on which
lairie View A&M students will
! allowed to register to vote in
aller County will rest with the
ainty tax assessor-collector’s of-
ie,
'oter registration applications
il be passed out on the almost
telly black campus by students
id then brought to the tax
wssor’s office.
“The completed applications
il be brought to my office and
will decide on an individual
uis which students are qualified
vote in the county,” L. R.
FDim, the tax-assessor-collector
“If the student qualifies, he will
! sent a voter registration cer-
licate. If the student does not
a % he will be given an ex-
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planation as to why he does not
qualify,” he added.
The announcement comes after
much controversy between stu
dents and the tax assessor-collec
tor over interpretation of Texas
laws regarding residency require
ments in relation to voter quali
fications.
An applicant must be a U. S.
citizen, 18 years or older within
30 days of applying for registra
tion and have lived in Texas for
one year, the county six months
and the city six months.
The tax assessor-collector has
received a letter from the Texas
Secretary of State saying that
the students are only required to
state verbally what their resi
dency intentions are.
‘'My office, however, interprets
the law differently,” Symm said.
city attorney, and Ran Boswell,
city manager.
The agreement states that
Clay’s name will be placed on
the ballot if he agrees not to
contest the outcome of the elec
tion and not delay the election.
The suit, however, is still go
ing to be prosecuted, Clay said.
“We’re going to prove them un
constitutional,” he added.
“Legally the only way my
name can be placed on the bal
lot is by injunction or by a ref
erendum,” he said, “but the com
promise we have now still gets
the job done.”
Clay’s name will appear sec
ond on the ballot. The other
candidates are Robert Knapp,
Homer Adams and Mrs. Clara
Sandstedt.
Clay also agreed to accept four
absentee ballots that had been
cast before his name had been
placed.
The decision was reached by
College Station officials because
they felt that a court injunction
would probably be a result of
the suit. The city also placed
his name on the ballot in order
to avoid a costly delay in the
special election.
The election is for only one
spot on the council and that term
only until next April. The posi
tion came open because James
Dozier, A&M finance professor,
had resigned. Dozier was forced
to resign because of a court rul
ing stating that state-paid em
ployes could not hold public of
fice.
CATCH IT QUICK, is the instinct of Theresa Walston, age
6, as she tries to stop a motorized cigarette lighter, of all
things, at the Host and Fashion $5 And Under gift display
Wednesday night in the Memorial Student Center. Alice
Forbes, a member of Host and Fashion keeps a watchful—
and somewhat amused—eye on Theresa. (Photo by Joe
Matthews)
On campus
Pedestrians drive out vehicles
monetary problem
noves nearer to solution
HOME (A?) .— Finance minis-
* ^ rom the Group of Ten end-
a three-day meeting Wednes-
re Porting progress toward
''ing the international mone-
^ crisis. They agreed to meet
I® Dec. 17-18 in Washington,
inference sources said Treas-
T Secretary John B. Connally
Jed a bombshell at the Wed-
s ay session by asking what
•world’s other rich trading na-
1118 would do if the United
es devalued the dollar by 10
J cent.
Sa ^ Question prb-
a shocked silence and the
u ! ng broke up for more than
° u rs, for private consulta-
Jlthough the sources said Con-
question was not a serious
a l. West Germany’s fi
nance minister, Karl Schiller, said
“one country” from which the
Europeans expected a contribu-'
tion had made an offer that “far
exceeded all our expectations.
It was a clear allution to the
United States.
Karl Klasen, president of West
Germany’s Bundesbank, said
“nonsense” to rumors that the
United States was talking of a
10 per cent devaluation. “This is
much too high,” he added.
Ten per cent was a higher fig
ure than the others expected or
wanted, the conference sources
said, but Connally’s question dur
ing what Schiller termed “hypo
thetical discussions” demonstrated
that Washington was prepared to
consider a wide range of possi
bilities.
West German sources said the
European countries had proposed
a 5 per cent devaluation of the
dollar combined with a 6 per cent
upward revaluation of the Ger
man mark, 3 per cent for the Bel
gian franc and Dutch guilder and
no change for the French franc,
British pound and Italian lira.
Connally, speaking as chair
man of the meeting, told news
men Wednesday night: “I think
some progress was made today.
We did not reach a decision. We
did not solve the problem.”
By ROD SPEER
Staff Writer
Within the next 10 years A&M
will move closer and closer to a
pedestrian oriented campus.
This movement will create
new parking problems, start a
new era for bicycling and involve
landscape changes.
Enrollment at A&M is esti
mated to increase to 20,000 by
1980. As many as 15,000 new
parking spaces will be needed to
meet the requirements of staff,
faculty, administration, and stu
dents.
The first attempt to deal with
future mass parking problems
was the construction of the 1,000
car lot across from the new en
gineering building. According to
Ron Perry, physical planning
analyst, two more lots could be
built in that area which would
add 1,700 more spaces. “A
major parking complex is being
considered across the railroad
tracks from Kyle Field,” he said.
The possibility of having park
ing structures by the new Con
ference Center and the Chemis
try Building is being studied, ac
cording to Perry. The argument
against structured parking, he
feels, is the price. Structured
lots cost about $2,000 per park
ing space while surface level lots
cost $300 to $400 per space. Rev
enue for the building and main
tenance of lots is acquired solely
from car registration fees and
the money paid from campus
traffic violations.
Enough parking spaces pres
ently exist for every dormitory
student registered with a car,”
Perry said. “Even at the peak
parking time of the day,” he
added, “there are adequate spac
es available for day students,
even though the spaces may be
far away.”
There are, however, 25 per
cent more cars assigned to facul
ty lots than spaces. After a re
cent car count made by Univer
sity Police it was determined
that, so long as there is no il
legal parking, an empty space
can always be found in the facul
ty lots. “It may not be where
you want it, but there is always
a parking space available,” Per
ry emphasized.
In a few years bicycles as well
as cars will be excluded from the
interior of the campus. An in
ter campus bicycle loop will ex
ist. Bicycle stands will be placed
around the center of campus in
stead of in it. Some bicycle paths
will run in the streets, some on
present sidewalks and new ones
will be made, according to Rob
ert Rucker, landscape architect
for A&M. The final bicycle plan
will be finished over the holi
days, he added.
Plans for the future include
enclosing the entire perimeter of
the A&M campus with oak trees.
This will require 375 new trees,
of which 250 have already been
planted.
“A&M was a treeless plain at
first,” according to Rucker.
Rucker thanks H. W. Hensel,
A&M’s first landscape artist, for
giving the campus its greatest
assets, its oak trees.
Sound and sight baffles are
being constructed to isolate the
golf course from passing motor
ists. The baffles are mounds of
earth which are covered with
grass and trees.
“We are trying to make the
most pleasant academic environ
ment for the students,” Rucker
said.
Only eight first-class trees,
five oaks and three pecans, are
having to be torn down due to
the large amount of construction
taking place.
“We’d rather trim or trans
plant a tree before losing it,”
Rucker said. “We don’t give one
up easily,” he added.
“We want to put in more and
more better trees but they’re ex
pensive,” Rucker said.
Last Christmas 13 trees were
transplanted at a cost of $5,100.
Three of them died.
“A 10-inch circumference weep
ing-willow is worth about $4,-
000,” he mentioned.
Draft halted in Los Angeles area
until district court plugs a loophole
WASHINGTON 0P>—Supreme
Court Justice William O. Doug
las halted Wednesday the draft
ing of men in the Los Angeles
area until a federal district court
Senate approves
Wage, price control extended
tadent tutors now available
m* certain semester finals
■AV S ^ c ^°^ as ^ c Service
now jointly sponsored
' e Student Senate, is provid-
a limited number of student
r s for semester finals.
J e tut <>ring service is a special
M of Phi Eta Sigma’s class
iiu Tutors are selected
landing
and 10G; Engineering 101; and
limited number of physics
a
courses.
academic
on
achieve-
Sefj ° P 2 ^° of Eta Sigma,
a tional Freshman Academic
r Society, will be available
freshman student needing
ln P re Paring for this semes-
■^mb' 11318 ’ began
lJf 0rS be available for
ft,* 01 ’ 10 2, 103, 104, 209, 210,
J 121, 122, and 130; Chem-
2 iOl, 102, 103, and 104; En-
: h iOS and 104; History 105
16 side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Students wishing to register for
tutoring should call one of the
following: Lewis Zingery at 845-
5378 for the Corps and Ron John
son at 845-5596 for day students.
Aggie football team
elects tri-captains
Seniors David Hoot, Joe Mac
King and Van Odom were elected
tri-captains of the 1971 Texas
A&M football team Tuesday.
Hoot, from Houston Reagan,
was a three-year starter at safe
ty. King, from Mineola, was the
quarterback who sparked the Ag
gies’ four-game winning streak
this year and Odom, from Corsi
cana, was a three-year starter in
the defensive line.
WASHINGTON (A>)_The Sen
ate passed the bill Wednesday ex
tending until April 30, 1973, Presi
dent Nixon’s power to control
wages and prices, and also grant
ing retroactively most of the
raises halted by the pay freeze.
The vote sent the legislation
to the House where the Banking
Committee is working on a sim
ilar measure.
The result of three days of
Senate debate was a mixed bag
for Nixon.
The final Senate bill contain
ed practically all of the author
ity he asked to carry out Phase
2 of his economic controls pro
gram.
But it also included a pay ret
roactivity provision originally
opposed by the administration and
finally accepted with some re
luctance by the executive branch.
The vote on final passage was
86 to 4.
The votes against the bill were
cast by Sens. J. W. Fulbright,
D-Ark., Barry M. Goldwater, R-
Ariz., Fred R. Harris, D-Okla.,
and William Proxmire, D-Wis.
The key action of the bill will
permit the President to control
wages, prices and rents through
April 30, 1973, and give him
standby power over interest and
dividends.
Both Republicans and Demo
crats said they were voting the
continuance of sweeping new
powers to the President with some
reluctance.
“I frankly am willing to grant
this authority because the Presi
dent will say we fouled him up
if we do not give him what he
needs to deal with inflation and
the economy,” said Sen. Hubert
H. Humphrey, D-Minn.
Sen. John G. Tower, R-Tex.,
said “what we are doing here is
harsh. It is an application of
government power I dislike. But
we have a situation that we must
deal with.”
The President suffered one set
back in the debate with the adop
tion of an amendment to pay a
5.5 per cent wage increase to
I. 5 million federal employes and
2.6 million military personnel
Jan. 1 instead of six months later
as he wanted.
This will add more than $1 bil
lion to his budget for the last
half of the current fiscal year.
Final Senate action on the
measure was delayed by another
lengthy battle over an amendment
of Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif.,
to exempt the press, broadcasters
and book publishers from wage
and price controls.
It finally was adopted 50 to
36. Tuesday night a similar pro
posal, which also covered motion
pictures and theater enterprises,
was defeated 44 to 42.
Cranston deleted the entertain
ment industries and brought his
proposal back for another try
Wednesday.
Backers of the amendment said
the exemption was required by
the press-freedom clause of the
Constitution. They said the pow
ers in the bill could be used to
reward the administration’s sup
porters or to punish its critics.
Opponents of the proposal,
chiefly Republicans, said there
was no reason to single out any
group for special treatment, that
such action could lead to cynicism
about the entire stabilization ef
fort.
The retroactive pay provision
in the bill would allow raises
negotiated before the Aug. 15
freeze so long as these were not
“unreasonably inconsistent” with
the 5.5-per-cent guideline estab
lished by the Pay Board for
Phase 2,
Sen. John Sparkman, D-Ala.,
floor manager of the bill said
this was designed to make sure
that the great bulk of the retro
active raises were received.
rules on an alleged loophole in
the recently revised draft law.
Shortly after Douglas issued
his order, the Selective Service
said it had already barred mili
tary inductions at the Los An
geles induction center and ad
vised the Army not to induct
men from Central and Southern
California anywhere in the na
tion, until further notice.
The U.S. District Court in Los
Angeles is scheduled to hear,
next Jan. 6, the claim by law
yers of the American Civil Lib
erties Union ACLU, representing
seven men. Their suits alleged
that a draft law clause bars all
inductions for 90 days after last
Sept. 28, when the most recent
revisions to the draft law took
effect.
Selective Service says the 90-
day-delay clause applied only to
the original 1948 law.
Refrigerator rental project
seeks university approval
Compact refrigerators may be
available to students in Dorms
14-22 this semester if the Sen
ate’s project is approved by the
administration and a Senate
forum tonight.
The Student Senate is cur
rently negotiating with the Uni
versity Products Corporation on
a refrigerator rental agreement.
If it does go through, the Senate
will rent the compact refriger
ators to students on a semester
basis.
The refrigerators will be com
pact Norcold units, which will
cost students $20 per semester.
A deposit of $10 will be required,
refundable when the refrigerator
is returned clean and undamaged
in the spring.
If the project is approved,
orders will be taken next week.
The first 60 people to order re
frigerators for next semester will
receive theirs during the week
of Dec. 8-12.
Interested persons living in
dorms 14-22 should contact their
dorm president or the Senate
Office.