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Thursday, March 2, 1972
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Irish terrorists kidnap,
kill north militiaman
The new Health Center will look something like this quite an improvement over the older one. See accompany-
though the surroundings will be quite different. Scheduled ing story.
[tobegin when Mitchell Hall is razed, the center represents
Vo ‘quack shack’
BELFAST (AP>—Terrorists marched a Northern Irish
militiaman from his home Wednesday and shot him to death,
minutes after assuring his sobbing wife he would not be
harmed.
Militiaman Tommy Fletcher was in his farmhouse only
100 yards from the border with the Irish republic when the
terrorists—presumably an assassination squad of the Irish
Republican Army—entered and took him away.
Hours later a giant bomb rocked Londonderry,
wounding at least 15 persons, including two soldiers, and
causing the city center’s worst damage in more than two
years of violence.
The bomb, estimated at up to 100 pounds of gelignite,
exploded in a parked taxi and damaged all 50 shops on
Ferryquay Street.
Persons in the area were evacuated after a warning but
even hundreds of yards away behind army cordons they were
hit by flying glass.
Fletcher, 43, was kissing his wife before leaving for his
regular job. He was bustled into a nearby field where three
bullets were pumped into his head.
His wife, who heard the shots, said the gunmen had
told her Fletcher would not be hurt.
Fletcher, a private in the Ulster Defense Regiment,
was the second militiaman to die in less than 12 hours. Two
hooded gunmen burst into the Lurgan home of Harry Dixon
and shot him dead Tuesday night. His 11-year-old daughter
was struck in the leg by a bullet.
The slayings raised Northern Ireland’s death toll to
253 in 31 months of sectarian violence.
Both deaths were blamed on the Irish Republican
Army—IRA—which is waging a guerilla campaign to wrest the
Protestant-dominated north from British rule and unite it
with the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic republic.
In Belfast, the British army said it captured an IRA
bombmaker high on its wanted list after raiding a house in
the capital’s Catholic Andersontown quarter.
An army spokesman said an army squad which raided
the area after a tip found the man huddled in an attic.
The spokesman did not name the captive but claimed
he was a “provisional” IRA officer who had escaped when
troops raided another house in the same area earlier this year.
He had been holding a bomb instruction class for seven IRA
recruits who were arrested.
Security forces believe Andersonstown, where the IRA
enjoys powerful support, is a virtual explosives factory for
making many of the bombs used in the terrorist assault in
Belfast.
Better health center coming Warrant may be needed
Twenty new, carpeted rooms and a well-equipped out-patient
ic will be included in the new health care center to be built on the
present site of Mitchell Hall.
The two-story structure is due to be completed in the summer of
1973, at a cost of $1,329,650. Construction will begin in March as
soon as Mitchell is removed.
“This will be one of the finest health care facilities in this part of
the country,” said Howard S. Perry, director of civilian student
activities.
The first floor will be an out-patient clinic. It will include a
plaster-fracture room, an orthopedic room, a gastro-intestinal room, a
treatment-injection room, a dental hygiene room, a laboratory and a
pharmacy. There will also be a doctors’ conference room and six
doctors’ offices. Each office will have two adjacent examination rooms.
The second floor will be for in-patients. There will be 20
double-occupancy rooms, each fully carpeted and with a call system.
Every two rooms will share a bathroom-shower facility and oxygen will
be piped into the rooms.
There will also be two isolation rooms, one acute room and an
emergency room. Also on this floor will be a new innovation for
TAMU, a mental health facility. There will be a psychiatrist’s office and
an observation and detention room.
The basement will contain the x-ray equipment, a kitchen and
storage areas.
“Most of the staff will be transferred over from the present
center, with some additions, but most of the equipment will not be.
Almost all of the furnishing in the new center will be brand new,” Perry
said.
“We now have two full-time doctors and 12 cooperating
specialists from the Bryan-College Station area handling about 4,000
patients a month. We anticipate raising this to four full-time doctors in
the new center, with room for six eventually,” said Perry.
There will be no operating facilities in the new building. “In most
cases involving surgery, people have their own doctor and hospital
where they want to go. In emergencies we have ambulances to take
students to the hospital in Bryan,” he said.
The new center is being financed by a bond issue and the
students’ building use fees, which are $3.50 per semester. The facility
will operate and pay the staff out of the student services fees paid by
students.
The need for a bigger, better facility was brought out in 1969. In
January of 1970, a committee including four students, two physicians,
a systems architect and Perry met and worked out a proposal. This was
submitted to then acting President Luedecke who approved it and
passed it on to the Board of Directors. They approved it and signed the
contract.
“This is really about as fast as you can move on a project and still
be thorough,” commented Perry.
“A&M is probably one of the few schools to offer all of these
health services free. The University of Oklahoma students pay a much
higher student services fee and still have to pay $12 per day to stay in
the hospital,” Perry said.
“I have heard complaints about students getting hurt in the
evening and coming to the center but not having a doctor there to take
care of them. We do have many doctors on call for emergencies, but
outside of a metro-hospital you just do not find doctors there at all
hours. In our new center we may be able to have interns there after
hours. But our registered nurses are very capable and can handle most
emergencies,” said Perry.
for search of dorm room
Construction moves on schedule
Major construction proj ects
valued at almost $50 million are
on schedule at A&M, construction
manager Charles Brunt reports.
The building program is part
of a five-year, $85 million expan
sion project. Completed in Decem-
kerwas the $10 million Engineer
ing Center scheduled for dedi
cation March 16.
A&M’s Board of Directors
Tuesday awarded two contracts
for a student health center and
office-classroom building, part of
the current series, with several
other major projects still in de
sign phases.
Brunt gave the following sum
mary on current projects:
-15-Floor Oceanography-Mete
orology Building. Structural steel
framework is complete and con
crete floors are in place through
the 12th floor. Masonry, mechani
cal and electrical work is 60 per
cent complete. The $7.6 million
project, scheduled for completion
in late 1972, is overall 65 percent
complete.
—Memorial Student Center.
Construction consists of a base
ment and two-story addition, plus
tenovation of the existing build
ing, Structural concrete work on
the new addition is about 75 per
cent complete. The $8.5 million
project is approximately 35 per
cent complete with construction
scheduled through the summer of
1975.
—Auditorium and Conference
Tower Complex. This project con
sists of a building complex con
taining a 2,500-seat auditorium, a
750-seat theater and a 250-seat
theater, all joined to a 12-floor
conference and continuing edu
cation tower. Total cost is $10
million.
Construction of the tower is 50
percent complete. Twelve floors
of structural steel with concrete
floors have been laid and the elec
trical-mechanical work is 40 per
cent complete.
The theaters and auditorium
are 40 percent complete. Concrete
structure for the large basement
areas together with related
water-proofing, subsurface drain
age and electrical-mechanical lay
outs have been completed. The
first floor concrete columns and
beams are finished. Multi-level
concrete stairs and the large con
crete girders also are completed.
Overall, the project is 40 per
cent completed, with the sched
uled completion in the winter of
1973.
—Chemistry Institute Annex.
The $4 million facility consists of
a basement and five floors of of
fice and laboratory space. Struc
tural concrete frame work has
been completed, with brick work
85 percent complete. Electrical-
mechanical installation also is 85
percent. Scheduled for completion
next winter, the project is 70 per
cent complete.
—Eight-Story Office-Classroom
Building. Construction on the $3.6
million high-rise includes a base
ment and eight floors of offices
and classrooms. Structural con
crete work is 85 percent complete
and brick work is 20 percent.
Electrical-mechanical work is 50
percent complete.
The building is 45 percent over
all with scheduled completion next
winter.
—Dormitory Complex. This $8.5
million project includes two four-
floor dormitories and a one-story
commons building. Structural
concrete and exterior masonry
are finished, with intei’ior finish
at the halfway mark. Currently
it is 80 percent complete and will
be finished this summer.
A proposed revision to the Uni
versity Bluebook asking that a
search warrant be issued before
a student’s room may be searched
has been presented to the Univer
sity Rules and Regulations Com
mittee.
The change, passed by the Stu
dent Senate Thursday, says “per
sonal belongings of students are
subject to inspection only by a
law enforcement official with the
appropriate, signed search war
rant issued only by local, state,
and federal courts of law.”
It goes on to say the “inspec
tion will be made only when a
cadet commander or a resident
advisor accompanies the dormi
tory counselor, commandant’s rep
resentative, or other university
official within the Department of
Student Affairs.”
The proposed revision also
means that resident advisers will
no longer be able to search rooms
by opening drawers, closets, or
moving articles on the students’
desks; only looking will be per
mitted.
“Currently, it is legal to search
a room without a warrant,” said
Mark Blakemore, chairman of the
Student Senate Rules and Regu
lations Committee. “But Dean
Powell has instructed the Univer
sity Police to have a search war
rant before entering rooms.”
According to the present policy
in the Bluebook, “personal belong
ings of students on University
property are subject to inspection
by the Commandant or Director
of the Department of Student Af
fairs of their authorized repre
sentatives at all times.
The rule also says “inspection
will be made only when a cadet
commander, a resident adviser,
or their authorized representative
accompanies the dormitory coun
selor, commandant’s representa
tive, patrolman, or other univer
sity official.”
In another important proposal,
the Student Senate asked that the
Board of Directors, the president,
or their duly authorized repre
sentative be reserved the right
to cancel any speaking event
causing an interruption in the
university’s orderly activities.
The old rule says the university
may cancel any speaking event
it deems as an interruption in or
derly activities as well as being
able to cancel the privilege of in
viting speakers by any group
abusing this privilege.
The Senate also suggested that
candidates be allowed to speak on
campus following the regulations
for other speakers. Campaigning
for other than formal speeches
must have the President’s ap
proval.
Under the disciplinary code of
the handbook the Student Senate
wants to remove the policy that
says defacing another college
campus by paint or other means
will result in the minimum penal
ty of suspension for the semester
in which the act occurs.
The new policy says suspension
would be recommended for the
defacement of another college by
any means of depredation.
Other changes are proposed in
the House Rules section of the
book.
It is recommended that mat
tress covers be kept on mattresses
at aR times instead of requiring
that beds be fully assembled.
The delineation of the rule re
quiring trash and other sweepings
to be placed in trash receptacles
rather than being swept into hall
ways is recommended. The phrase,
“excluding normal wear,” has
been asked to be added to the
policy of charging room damages
to students.
The Senate also proposes that
cooking still be prohibited in the
dorms and at the same time asks
that food, and refrigerator's meet
ing the dean of students specifi
cations, be permitted.
The dress code is suggested by
the Senate to be stricken entirely
from the handbook while cable
television in dormitories cleared
for such purposes be allowed as
recommended by the dean of stu
dents.
Constitution
referendum
next Tuesday
Students will decide the future
of the new student government
constitution in a referendum next
Tuesday.
The constitution, passed by the
Student Senate in its last meet
ing, will apply to the senate only.
All students are eligible to vote
with fee slip.
Angley hammers Smith at Forum
Vanity fair applications
now available to seniors
Applications for Vanity Fair
^ now available at the Student
Programs office and the Student
Publications office.
Individuals must be sponsored
a senior.
From the applications submit
ted, 12 girls will be selected to
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
attend the Student Publications
banquet April 28, at which six
finalists will be chosen. These six
will represent the senior class as
their sweethearts and will be for
mally presented at the Ring
Dance on April 29.
Applications are also available
from Jerry McGowen, Senior
Class President (Dorm 9-301) and
Henry Ostermann, Aggieland ed
itor (Dorm 8-224).
“Mr. Clean,” otherwise known
as Gov. Preston Smith of Texas,
was one focal point of Austin Rep.
Maurice Angley, Jr.’s speech
Wednesday for the Noon Political
Forum meeting.
The Republican House member,
while criticizing the governor’s
recent involvement in the Frank
Sharp stock fraud case, said he
could not find a reason for “what
makes Smith tick.”
“I just have not been able to
reason why Gov. Smith found
himself able to get political loans
up to $275,000,” the irate Angley
said. “In addition, he helped spon
sor or push legislation that was
favorable for him and his ‘team’
and then turned right around and
vetoed the bill. It’s just not un
derstandable.”
The UT graduate expressed his
indignation at the recent “closed
door” meeting of the House In
vestigations Committee because
of its desire to do “its best to
help Speaker Gus Mutscher and
his cronies” in their court battles.
The representative said the only
new investigative action lately
has been the Investigation Com
mittee’s probe into how the press
found out about the recent indict
ments before they were released.
“This fraud case,” Angley said,
“has really hurt Texas as far as
increasing the number of indus
tries that would come into the
state. The higher echelon of com
pany officers have seen Austin
become the laughing stock of the
state and decided not to build be
cause of the Texas banker that
bought politicians.”
Rep. Angley cited that most
Texans don’t know what is going
on with the scandal and suggested
that interested persons read the
December issue of “Fortune”
magazine for the “most unbiased
and comprehensive story on how
sick our state government really
is.”
The legislator also pointed out
a statement made by Mutscher
as he was leaving jail after being
arrested for the felony.
“Mutscher’s statement: ‘While
the big fish are still swimming
free’ doesn’t point to the ordinary
man on the street,” said Angley.
“It insinuated two or more state
wide-elected officials.”
Angley said that with the
House speaker, the speaker pro
tern, the governor and the lieu
tenant governor involved in the
case, people are entitled to a
meaningful, in-depth investigation
“not by a committee formed by
these men to investigate them
selves, but a committee that will
get down to business.”
“I am concerned with the money
Texans have lost through the
years under State Treasurer Jesse
James,” the representative said.
James, who has been in office
since 1941, is Angley’s opponent
in the upcoming elections this
year.
Angley said it was James who
“got the ball rolling” for the
governor by balancing the gov
ernor’s loans with state money
in Sharp’s three banks, while
other state banks were “crying
out for state deposits.”
“Under James, Texas has been
losing roughly 10 million dollars
in interest per year,” he said.
“With the current interest rates,
state money should be earning
$700,000 a year, but we have only
been getting $300,000 a year be
cause of a special two-and-one-
half percent rate on the six-million
that was placed in Sharp’s banks.
“In addition, four million were
placed in a checking account in
which only one transaction was
ever carried out. This will have
to go down in history as the
world’s largest service charge.”
In a short question and answer
period, Angley said Bryan Rep.
Bill Presnal was definitely a
“Mutscher Man” because he has
voted for some of Mutscher’s
“notorious” bills.
Angley does not want the state
constitution rewritten per se, but
would like a constitution that
would provide for cleaning up
state government.
Rep. Maurice Angley, Jr.