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Now there’s a course
that pays $100 a month
ArnwROTC.
In our Advanced Course the monthly sub
sistence allowance has just been increased. From $50 to $100.
One hundred dollars every month for 10 months of the school
year. To spend on room and board, dates and ball games.
To save for grad school.
But Army ROTC means a lot more than more
money. It means management and leadership experience that
you just can’t get anywhere else. The kind of thing that can
land you a better job, and move you along faster once you
get it. It means a commission as an officer and everything
that goes with it. The prestige, the pay, the chance to travel,
the experience.
Now ROTC looks
even better. For the money
you’ll earn today. For the person
you’ll be tomorrow. See your
Professor of Military Science,
or send the coupon for
information.
Army ROTC.
The more you look at it,
the better it looks.
TWO-YEAR OLD Kristin Schmidt thought she’d try to do
some dribbling with an extra ball at the Catholic Univer-
sity-Randolph-Macon basketball game here Tuesday night.
Her mother decided otherwise. (AP Wirephoto)
Connally ‘involved’ with Nixon
in 1968 election, Harris says
WASHINGTON <A>) _ Sen.
Fred Harris, D-Okla., has testi
fied he thinks former Texas Gov.
John Connally was “involved” in
convincing a group of Texas oil
millionaires they should switch
financial support in 1968 from
Democratic presidential candidate
Hubert Humphrey to Republican
Richard Nixon.
Harris asserted through aides
Tuesday it is not “idle” to spec
ulate that Connally, a Democrat,
may owe his appointment as Sec
retary of the Treasury under
President Nixon to his earlier in
fluence.
Testifying before the congres
sional Joint Economic Commit
tee Monday, Harris, who' served
as co-chairman of Humphrey’s
1968 presidential campaign, said
Humphrey refused and Nixon
agreed to support the oil deple
tion allowance at the urging of
members of the Houston Petro
leum Club.
He said Humphrey contended
the oil depletion allowance was
prime for inclusion in a needed
program of tax reform.
“Some weeks later the Repub
lican candidate endorsed the oil
depletion allowance and subse
quently received large amounts
of cash from Texas oil men,”
Harris said.
Departing from his prepared
text, Harris added:
“And I might say that inter
twined with this issue is the ap
pointment of John Connally to
be Secretary of the Treasury.
“I think he was involved in
getting some of those oil men
to give money to President Nixon
rather than helping on contribu
tions for Vice President Hum
phrey.
“And I think it is no accident
that under Secretary Connally
and President Nixon we are go
ing to see not tax reform, not
an effort to make the tax sys
tem more fair, but probably an
attempt to ask the people to pay
a sales tax now based on ability
to pay.”
Harris said he had no evidence
of his allegation that Connally
was “involved” in helping finance
Nixon’s 1969 presidential cam
paign.
Marijuana penalties need
to be lowered, group says
AUSTIN (A>) — First offense
possession of marijuana should
be a misdemeanor, not a felony,
a special task force studying
problems of youth and children
told Gov. Preston Smith.
“At the state level, the Task
Force agreed that the penalty
for possession of not over a de
termined amount of marijuana
should be reduced from a felony
to a misdemeanor,” said the 70-
page report of the governor’s
steering committee for the White
House Conference on Children.
The report noted that the rec
ommendation to lower the offense
from a felony to a misdemeanor
was in the findings of a subgroup
on drug abuse and also in the
findings of another group on
“Laws, Rights and Responsibil
ities.”
The overall report made a total
of 264 specific recommendations
in 16 categories.
There was no immediate com
ment from the governor on the
report, which resulted from the
33-member committee named by
Smith in March, 1970. Smith per
sonally urged the committee to
recommend action for problems
of youth and children, particular
ly of drug abuse.
The Task Force also recom
mended to the governor that “the
distribution and prescription of
all amphetamines and ampheta
mine-drugs should be forbidden
for any medical use other than
the treatment of hyperkinetic
(children and cetrain forms of
epileptic conditions and specifical
ly that it should be illegal to pre
scribe such drugs for the control
of obesity.”
McRath will be keynote speaker
at A&M’s February student conference
Dr. Earl J. McRath, Temple
University official who has been
in university administration 26
years, will be a keynote speaker
at Texas A&M University’s 17th
Student Conference on National
Affairs.
McRath will discuss student
participation in university gov
ernance in the Feb. 16-19 confer
ence on “Impact of the Univer
sity.”
The former University of Kan
sas City and Eisenhower College
president and chancellor joins
Texas Senator John Tower and
Dr. Lawrence E. Fouraker, Har
vard business school dean, for
SCONA XVII.
College students from through
out the U. S. and Mexico will
make indepth analysis of the
American university’s influence
on society, politics, the economy
and international relations.
McRath, 69, received the Ph.D.
at the University of Chicago in
1936 and has honorary degrees
from 33 institutions. He was a
member of the University of
Buffalo faculty 17 years before
entering administration.
Along with a four-year stint
as U. S. Commissioner of Edu
cation in the following years,
McRath was liberal arts dean at
State University of Iowa, UKC
president and chancellor, higher
education official and professor
at Teachers College, Columbia,
and Eisenhower College chancel-*
lor, the latter from 1966-68.