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ISHING THE FISH DRILL TEAM good luck are the upper two floors of Harrell Hall,
own to ROTC members as Dorm 8. The Fish Drill Team has several drill meets in the
ar future and the final National Competition coming up. (Photo by Mike Rice)
ABILENE, Tex. UP) — Dist.
Court Judge J. Neil Daniel can
celled a night session Tuesday
in the bribery conspiracy trial of
House Speaker Gus Mutscher
after another round of surprise
defense subpoenas.
The defense issued a summons
for Houston Mayor Louie Welch
and four others and later called
another figure in the Texas stock
fraud case.
The defense dropped its first
bombshell Monday with sub
poenas aimed at Gov. Preston
Smith and his Democratic pri
mary opponent, Lt. Gov. Ben
Barnes.
Opposing attorneys agreed on
14 prospects during Tuesday's
jury selection. But the total of
30 was still 18 short of the num
ber required under the unusual
process being used in this case.
hilar says
Students control food services
itadents currently have more
lerent power to control board
reases than the Board of Di-
tors, A&M Food Service Direc-
Fred Dollar, said in a recent
erview.
hard students hold two trump
ds, food waste and bussing of
ys. If they play them correct-
a board / increase could de-
itely be delayed for the fore-
able future, Dollar said.
Last year five per cent of all
id prepared in Duncan and
was wasted. Coupled with
0 annual cost of bussing
ys, students have control over
rat $100,000 or almost seven
rcent of the total food budget,”
said. “With that kind of
ney, we could maintain the
current board rate and continue
to make improvements.”
Other factors affecting food
service operations, and in turn
the board rate, are less respon
sive to student actions. Recent
wire service reports put beef
prices at a twenty year high and
latest beef cattle future quota
tions show a 30 per cent increase
over the season low.
“These tend to accelerate the
even tightening noose around our
financial neck,” Dollar said of
the rising prices. “In spite of
rigorous competitive buying, the
cost of several of our principal
beef items has risen 20 per cent in
the last year.”
Competitive buying, a national
ly recognized forte of A&M’s
AMU Russian prof dies;
trvices were held today
Graveside services for Army Lt. Col. (ret.) Albert Richard Moses
re held at 1:30 today at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery,
i Antonio.
Moses, 49, was Russian Language and literature instructor at
iM. He died early Monday at Brook Army General Hospital in San
tonio.
Memorial services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at the All
iths Chapel on campus. Funeral arrangements are under the direction
Southside Funeral Home, 6301 S. Flores, San Antonio.
Colonel Moses is survived by his wife, Mrs. Miriam Moses of 1303
ines St., College Station; three sons, Rick, John and Jim Moses, all of
lege Station; mother, Mrs. Martha Moses of Bryan, and one sister,
is. Yvonne Latham of Fort Worth.
The family has requested remembrances be made to the Heart
utd.
Moses was born Jan. 6, 1923, in Minneapolis, Minn. A member of
e A&M Class of 1943, his education was interrupted by World War II
'ere he served as an enlisted man and officer.
He returned to A&M after the war and completed the bachelor’s
pee in English in 1948. Moses received a master’s in Russian from
iumbia in 1954 and was a candidate for the Ph.D. from A&M at the
neofhis death.
The retired officer was an infantry commander in Korea, where
was decorated with the Silver Star, Bronze Star and two Purple
tarts.
His 23-year Army career included assignments in the infantry,
'ilitary intelligence, counterintelligence instructor, security work and
'iee years as assistant military attache in Finland prior to retirement in
566.
He was a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff
0 llege and the Strategic Intelligence School.
He joined the A&M faculty in 1966.
Food Service Department, has lost
some of its edge in the inflation
ary spiral. “Base prices are so
high, its like buying the bottom
of the Cadillac line; you are
assured of quality but you don’t
get much of a break in price,”
Dollar said. “It is rather dif
ficult for a wholesaler to offer
us a bargain when, for example,
a pound of beef costs him today,
more than it cost us a year ago.”
A&M is not alone in the price
struggle. Another Southwest
Conference school reported a
menu cost increase almost double
A&M’s eleven per cent increase
per meal. With some legislative
observers predicting a minimum
wage increase waiting in the
wings, the cost picture could be
more critical by Fall.
Some schools caught in the
squeeze have taken dhactic mea
sures. A menu recently published
by a prominent eastern public
university showed that beef was
served 18 times in five weeks.
“In that same cycle, we served
beef 42 times, 18 of which were
either steak or roast,” Dollar
said. “We have continued to try
to give the students what they
want. We serve no soybean sub
stitutes, no powdered eggs and
only those processed items that
are approved by the student menu
board.”
The Department of Food Serv
ices has effected programs in an
effort to cope with rising prices.
A personnel training program has
been instituted to increase effic
iency among food service em
ployes. Competitive buying has
been continually intensified and
the feasibility of changing equip
ment and dining styles in accord
ance with modern concepts has
been constantly studied.
Dollar reemphasized that the
student was at the controls in the
fight against board increases. “A
concerted student campaign to
buss trays and avoid waste could
mean a potential saving of $100,-
000 and that would mean $100,000
more service,” he said.
Rumold appointed
to youth council
Ed Rumold, A&M junior mem
ber of the Corps of Cadets, has
been appointed to the Youth Ad
visory Council of the State Se
lective Service by Lt. Col. Mor
ris S. Schwartz, director.
Rumold will serve the one-year
appointment with seven other
student members of the council.
Once 48 prospects are chosen,
each side will strike 18, arriving
at the 12-member panel by the
process of elimination.
Mutscher, his aide Rush Mc-
Ginty, and Rep. Tommy Shannon
of Fort Worth are accused of
conspiring to accept a bribe for
influencing passage through the
legislature of two banking bills
favorable to Houston financier
Frank Sharp.
None of the handful of spec
tators at Tuesday’s session was
more attentive than Mutscher’s
wife, Donna, a former Miss
America.
Sharp, key figure in the Texas
stock fraud scandal, is one of 27
witnesses subpoenaed by the
prosecution. Subpoenaed along
with Welch Tuesday was pro
golfer Doug Sanders, a former
pro at the Sharpstown Country
Club and a recent playing part
ner of Vice President Spiro
Agnew.
The three others, all Houston
residents, were Dr. W. H. Hin
ton, president of Houston Bap
tist College; the Rev. Charles L.
Allen, pastor of the First Meth
odist Church; and auto dealer
George Weston Conrad.
All four have figured in news
reports concerning the Sharps
town State Bank-National Bank
ers Life Insurance Co. scandals.
Welch has said he lost money
in dealing in the insurance com
pany stock. The Securities and
Exchange Commission listed in
surance stock dealings by San
ders and Hinton. Conrad said
Sharp persuaded him to invest
in the insurance company.
Sharp was Welch’s top finan
cial backer in 1963 when Welch
won his first term as mayor.
Welch was recently re-elected to
an unprecedented fifth term.
Welch said Tuesday of the sub
poena, “I am at a loss to explain
why.”
The Rev. Mr. Allen is pastor
of the church which Sharp and
his wife attend and he accom
panied Sharp to Rome in 1969
for a private audience with Pope
Paul VI. Federal records show
he borrowed $25,000 from Sharp’s
bank—purpose not disclosed.
Conrad testified before the
U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission last summer that he
was a small stockholder in Na
tional Bankers Life and that he
lost more than $20,000 on his in
vestment.
Dr. Hinton owned stock in both
the Sharpstown State bank when
it went into receivership and Na
tional Bankers Life when it was
placed in conservatorship.
Conrad said he lost $20,000 by
investing in the insurance stock.
Sanders realized a profit from
his investments and is being sued
for $170,000 by the Federal De
posit Insurance Co. for an out
standing loan from the Sharps
town bank. The deposit insur
ance organization took over the
bank.
Dr. Hinton, says records of the
Securities and Exchange Com
mission, owned 9,900 shares of
the bank’s stock on Nov. 1, 1969,
which he reported he bought for
$231,770 and which then was
valued at $495,000. Dr. Hinton
also listed 2,214 shares of the
insurance company stock which
he bought for $23,354 and which
then was valued at $66,420.
A defense lawyer said the five
were called not as character wit
nesses but that their testimony
would be material to the case.
Funeral services held today
for food department employe
Funeral services for Enrique A. Vivero, 54, were held at 10 this
morning in Santa Teresa Catholic Church, 1212 Lucky, Bryan.
Vivero, an A&M food services employe for the past 35 years, died
at 7:15 a.m. Monday of a heart seizure.
Burial was in Mount Calvary Cemetery, under the direction of
Hillier Funeral Home.
Vivero was born Aug. 12, 1917 in Bastrop. He was a veteran of
World War II, member of Santa Teresa Catholic Church and resident of
Brazos County the past 45 years.
He was a worker in Duncan Hall at A&M.
U. S. proposals to Chinese
too idealistic, Walker claims
“American proposals made to
the China government were too
full of euphoric idealism,” criti
cized Richard Walker, an expert
on Chinese studies, Tuesday
night.
Walker discussed President
Nixon’s recent visit to China in
front of a small audience in the
Memorial Student Center ball-
The Great Issues lecture had to
compete with the A&M-Texas
basketball game. Walker com
mented, kiddingly, that his audi
ence was made of people who
For Military Day
AF, Army generals here
Air Force Lt. Gen. Jay T. Rob
bins, an A&M graduate, and
Army Maj. Gen. George G. Cant-
lay will review A&M’s Corps of
Cadets Saturday in the center-
piece of Military Day activities.
The 26-unit review will start
at 2 p.m. bn the Memorial Stu
dent Center drill field, announced
Col. Thomas R. Parsons, com
mandant.
The 26th unit, the Fish Drill
Team, will return to the review
ing stand for an exhibition. The
team commanded by Mark Rob
erts of Killeen will defend four
straight national championships
this spring.
Pick of profs and the times
may be part of registration
A resolution calling for a new
V of computer registration
’tat would enable students to
felt specific sections of courses
tas been submitted to the Student
Wte for consideration.
The present system assigns
^tions to the student to fit into
1 workable schedule. The stu-
m does not have a choice of
Elions nor does he know before-
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
hand who will be teaching the
sections.
“The senate sub-committee on
academic excellence has made a
survey of about 60 other colleges
and universities. We found most
do offer these added benefits,”
said senator Stan Friedli.
The resolution lists five recom
mendations for improvements in
the present system. First is that
students be given a choice of
course sections. Second is that
a pre-registration listing of in
structors and which sections they
will teach be published.
Next, if a chosen section is
filled, the student be automat
ically transferred to another sec
tion. Fourth, in case all sections
are filled, an alternate course and
section be listed on the registra
tion form. Fifth, an easier
method of blocking out priority
times on a schedule be used.
“This resolution will probably
be brought up for senate action
in two weeks,” said Friedli. “Be
tween now and then we are going
to talk to Registrar Robert Lacey-
and see what he thinks about it.
Then go from there.”
A special demonstration by the
Golden Knights, famed sky-div
ing organization of the U. S.
Army Parachute Team, will be
gin after the FDT sequence.
Four jump events involving
nine men will require 25 minutes.
The Golden Knights will execute
a two-man baton pass on the
first jump pass; a one-man cut
away on the second pass; two
men in a diamond track while
free fall gliding, third pass, and
the Knights’ unique four-man
formation with “bomb burst” on
the final pass.
Three dances including the in
formal Combat and Air Force
Balls on Friday are included on
the agenda. Golden Knights will
be at the 9 p.m. Combat Ball at
Sbisa Hall to talk with cadets.
The Saturday Military Ball
will be a formal 8:30 p.m. event
in Sbisa Hall. Corps Command
er Tom Stanley said open house
in the east area will be in effect
from 3 to 5 p.m. and 7:30 to
10:30 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 5
p.m. Sunday.
President Jack K. Williams,
Colonel Parsons and Col. Robert
F. Crossland, professor of aero
space studies, will be in the re
viewing line with the generals.
General Robbins, a previous
visitor at A&M, is vice com
mander of the Tactical Air Com
mand (TAG) at Langley AFB,
Va. A 1940 A&M graduate, the
Coolidge native commanded a
fighter squadron and flew the
P-39 and P-38 aircraft in the
Southwest Pacific during World
War II. Robbins had 22 aerial
victories, fourth highest number
of enemy aircraft destroyed by
an Army Air Corps pilot in the
Pacific Theater.
The recent commander of the
12th Air Force at Bergstrom
AFB is a jet-qualified command
pilot with almost 5,000 flying
hours, most of it in fighter type
aircraft. General Robbins’ deco
rations include two Distinguished
Service Crosses, two Silver Stars,
two Legions of Merit and four
Distinguished Flying Crosses.
Both his sons, First Lt. Ronald
J. Robbins and Second Lt. Rob
ert L. Robbins, are TAMU grad-
guates, classes of 1968 and 1971.
Commanding general of the
2nd Armored Division at Fort
Hood, General Cantlay was earli
er deputy CG and commander of
the U. S. Army Training Center,
Armor, at Fort Knox, Ky. Since
receiving his first star, the flag
officer has served in the Army
Chief of Staff office, assistant
commander of the 1st Infantry
Division in South Vietnam and
deputy CG of the Delta Military
Assistance Command in Can Tho,
RV.
A National Guard appointee,
General Cantlay graduated from
West Point in 1943. He was a
light tank company commander
and platoon leader of the 13th
Armored Division in WW II.
His decorations include the
Distinguished Service Medal, Sil
ver Star, two Legions of Merit,
two DFCs and two Bronze Star
Medals, one with valor device.
could not get tickets to the game.
Walker said that the Chinese,
in contrast to the euphoristic
Americans, were full of “persis
tent revolutionism.” “The Chi
nese are intent on helping revo
lutionaries,” he added.
Walker called the United States
a “nation of China watchers.” He
feels that too many people be
came China experts overnight.
“There is a grave danger in
oversimplification,” he cautioned.
“Last year I would have said
that a U.S. president would not
visit Peking in this century,”
Walker admitted. He said, though,
that Nixon’s trip to China was
highly necessary and desirable
and that the president would
likely gain world respect from it.
The China expert gave a few
reasons why he felt China’s ap
proach to foreign policy has
radically changed.
“In 1965 communists attempted
a major coup d’etat in Indonesia
and lost by a narrow margin,”
he said. Walker feels that this
event demoralized Chinese im
perialism and helped lead to a
change of attitude.
The Sino-Soviet dispute has
greatly disturbed China, Walker
said. The dispute, according to
him, began the day the People’s
Republic of China was formed.
He added that hostilities between
the two countries were extremely
strong after a couple of border
skirmishes in 1969. China now
keeps over three million troops
near its Russian border.
Walker emphasized the effect
Japan has recently had on Chi
nese foreign policy. According to
him Japan’s interest in Taiwan
and Korea startled China. China
became even more concerned with
her neighbor when J apan de
clared that it intends to double
its defenses by 1975. Walker be
lieves that Chou En-Lai, a devout
Bolshevik, is convinced that capi
talistic Japan is intent upon
militaristic and imperialistic
ventures.
James Gang starts activities
on Military Day with concert
The James Gang of “Walka
way” and “Midnight Man” hit
fame lead off Military Day ac
tivities Friday at A&M with a
Town Hall presentation of its
progressive rock and roll sound.
A 7:30 p.m. event in G. Rollie
White Coliseum, the James
Gang’s performance will precede
the Combat and Air Force Balls
set Friday in Sbisa and Duncan
Halls at 9 p.m., according to
Town Hall Chairman Kirk Haw
kins.
He emphasized the James Gang
show is on the Town Hall series,
contrary to earlier information.
Town Hall and student activity
card holders will be admitted on
these passes, Hawkins added.
Tickets for dates will be $2.50,
other students $3.
A new group on the nation’s
rock band scene, the James Gang
has four albums on ABC/Dun-
hill. “The James Gang Rides
Again” was certified a recording
industries gold record seller.
“Yer Album,” “Thirds,” and
“James Gang Live at Carnegie
Hall” were all successful chart
albums.
The Gang consists of Jim Fox
on drums, piano and vocals; Dale
Peters, bass guitar and vocals;
Don Troiano, lead guitar and vo
cals, and Roy Kenner, lead vo
cals. Fox was one of the found
ing fathers with Peters.
Jim went from classics and
jazz to rock after an early start,
at age eight. He played in bars
at an age when his father drove
him to and from gigs, sometimes
as many as 30 sets a week. He
started putting musicians togeth
er in 1966 that eventually turned
into the James Gang.
Troiano and Kenner are both
from Canada, and have worked
together more than 15 years.
Troiano is described as resem
bling “a benevolent Che Gue
vara.” In ten years playing the
guitar he refined his craft to the
point of becoming a musician’s
musician while maintaining a lis-
tenable sound.
Kenner composes along with
his vocal work. Recognizable by
a pipe and walking sticks which
he collects, he wrote Three Dog
Night’s “I Can Hear You Call
ing,” among others.