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•cti2,Ij Vote in Tuesday’s referendum — fee slips required Cbe Battalion Cold and windy Vol. 67 No. 88 College Station, Texas Friday, March 3, 1972 Saturday —- Partly cloudy be coming cloudy late Saturday aft ernoon. Southerly winds 10-15 mph. High 76°, low 44°. Sunday — Cloudy. Southerly winds 10-12 mph. High 74°, low 56°. 845-2226 Pan American basketballers indicted EDINBURG, Tex. W?) — Two Pan American University bas eball players were indicted mreday by a Hidalgo County trend jury on charges of rape. Leo Tolin, 22, of Detroit, Mich., ind Reese Stovall, 21, of San htonio, were arrested by Edin- mrg Police Chief A. C. Gonzalez ud other officers. Stovall was named in one in- iictment for rape and Tolin was idicted on a charge of rape and usault with intent to rape. Tolin was ordered held in the lidalgo County jail pending 113,500 bond. Stovall also was isld in jail pending $10,000 bond. Tolin and Stovall were arrested i an Edinburg street 80 min- ta before Tolin, a 6 feet 3 [sard, was supposed to play bas- [itball in Edinburg for Pan berican against Hardin Sim ms University. Stovall had been a member of k team until late Wednesday light when he was suspended ky basketball coach Sam Wil iams following a fight at the chool cafeteria that resulted in i charge of aggravated assault gainst the 6 feet 6 forward from Ian Antonio Wheatley high chool. Pan American University of- idals announced a news confer- M at 9 a.m. Friday to discuss k matter. Gonzalez told reporters “other rrests are possible.” "This investigation has been icing on since last November then some girls complained to the police department,” Gonzalez sid. “The investigation has been oncemed mainly with rape and assault with intent to rape, but it has gone into other offenses,” he said. Gonzalez said his department is also investigating the use of narcotics by students at Pan American University. “Further charges are pend ing and will probably be pre sented to the next grand jury,” Gonzalez said. The Hidalgo County grand jury returned three sealed indictments late Thursday after two days of closed door testimony. The first indications that Pan American was the object of a grand jury investigation came Wednesday when university pres ident Dr. Ralph Schilling and two other top officials testified. Mrs. Bonnie Powers, dean of women; Lino Garcia, dean of men; five female students, and Edinburg Police Chief A. C. Gon zalez also testified Wednesday. Athletic director Jim Brooks, basketball player Carlos McCul lough of San Antonio, two stu dents, an employe at one of the men’s dormitories and Chief Gon zalez were among those appear ing Thursday. Stovall, a 6 feet 6 forward from San Antonio Wheatley high school, was first suspended from the team Wednesday by basket-* ball coach Sam Williams. A few hours later, Stovall was arrested by Edinburg police on a complaint signed by David Armstrong, a catcher on the Pan American baseball team. Arm strong’s head had been cut in a fight at the school cafeteria and required six stitches. Stovall spent the night in the Edinburg city jail. Justice of the Peace Giro Tre vino arraigned Stovall on a charge of aggravated assault. He first set bond at $500, then re duced it to $300 and then al lowed the athlete to go free on his own recognizane. Leo Tolin, another basketball player, urged the judge to allow Stovall to go free without hav ing to post cash bond. Stovall was the second Bronc basketball player to be sus pended by Williams this season for disciplinary reasons. The other was Booker Gervin, a guard-forward. The Broncs basketball team has a record of 16-6. The final game of the season is set for Monday at Edinburg when the Broncs face Oral Roberts Uni versity of Tulsa, Okla. A university spokesman also disclosed Thursday that Ted Stone, editor of The Pan Ameri can, a student newspaper, had resigned his post. Stone’s resignation was related to the grand jury investigation, according to Pan American in formation director Vernon Da vis. Davis said Stone, a former newsman for the Edinburg Daily Review, had asked him for some “mug shot” type photographs of certain members of the basket ball team. Stone, who was not immedi ately available for comment, was told by Davis he could not have the photographs immediately. Davis said he told him he could have them “if and when true bills are returned.” Davis said Stone apparently would not accept that. “He got pretty hot about it and quit,” Davis said. Prior to her selection Thursday night as one of A&M’s Diamond Darlings, Gwen Flynt visits with Aggie base ball players Tommy Hawthorne, left, and Steve Janda. Twelve girls, nine regulars and three alternates, were chosen to be batgirls for four non-conference doublehead ers. See accompanying story. (Photo by Mike Rice) Baseball batgirls Diamond Darlings chosen here Pioneer rocket launched on historic space voyage By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) — Bearing a message for alien civilizations, America’s Pioneer 10 rocketed away from earth Thursday night to start the longest space flight ever at tempted — a 21-month odyssey to giant, baffling Jupiter and eventual escape to travel for mer through distant galaxies. A 13-story tall, Atlas-Centaur rocket flashed brilliantly in the night sky as it burst away from its launch pad at 8:49 p.m. EST to thrust the payload away from its home planet. The shot had ken postponed three times this week by strong high altitude winds. The three-stage rocket was to accelerate the spacecraft to more than 31,000 miles an hour, nearly 7,000 miles faster than any pre vious space vehicle. “All systems look good. We’re Proceeding on the normal pro- pram,” the launch control center reported as the rocket rose to ward space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it ex pected to know about an hour after liftoff whether Pioneer 10 Was on the proper course to Jupiter, largest planet in the so lar system. If all goes as planned, Pioneer 10 will set many space records. It will be the fastest man- ttade object in space. It will be 'Be first to penetrate the aste roid belt, the first to explore Jupiter and the first to leave our solar system. It will relay radio data from a record dis- University National Bank "On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. tance. Unless it crashes into a space body or is captured by outer space beings, scientists say it will wander for eternity through other star systems, streaking even farther from Earth. On the remote chance it might one day be intercepted by intel ligent creatures of another civili zation, it bears a gold plaque that tells in drawings and scien tific symbols when and from where it was launched and by what kind of people. Included are the figures of a nude man and woman, the man’s right hand raised in a friendly gesture. Four months into the flight, the 565-pound payload, which is powered by four nuclear bat teries, is to fly into the aste roid belt which is composed of billions of pieces of debris that orbit the Sun at distances from 170 million to 345 million miles. They range from dust-size to a 480-mile-diameter rock named Ceres. The probe is to reach the vi cinity of Jupiter on Dec. 2, 1973. As it skims to within 87,000 miles during a four-day pass, 13 instruments are to probe many secrets of this massive body, most of which are concealed be neath dense, swirling clouds which form pink and blue bands to give it the appearance of a brightly-colored beach ball. Scientists aren’t even sure Jup iter has a surface. Some feel that because of its high gravity, it may go from a thick, gaseous atmosphere down to oceans of liquid hydrogen, to a slushy layer and then to a solid hydrogen core. It has more than twice the mass of all the other planets combined, and it has violent, dynamic internal processes. Pio neer 10’s chemical analysis might shed some light on a theory that Jupiter may be in a stage paral leling an early phase of Earth’s — the stage when life began to appear. In 11 or 12 years after launch the craft would become the first manmade device to escape the solar system after it passes be yond the orbit of Pluto. NASA hopes it will continue sending radio data on interstellar space for five or six years after it leaves Jupiter. .1 By MICHAEL RICE Battalion Sports Writer The Diamond Darlings of the A&M baseball team, including nine regulars and three alternates, were selected Thursday night from 25 finalists named last week. The A&M coeds are sponsored by Mrs. Willadene Chandler, wife of baseball coach Tom Chandler, and will make their first appear ance March 13 when the Aggies play St. Mary’s of San Antonio. Next week the girls are slated for training and will appear on Fern Hammond’s “Town Talk” Westerner’s view of Indian yoga Jack Ungar will present a west erner’s viewpoint on yoga Sunday night in Lecture Room 3 of the Engineering Center at 7:30. Ungar has spent ten years in India studying the eastern art. The TAMU India Association presentation is free and open to all. Indian sweets will be served. television show on KBTX Tues day at 3:30 p.m. Maroon hot pants with an A&M shirt will be the batgirls’ attire, while their duties will be to help in pre-game workouts and keep bats and other equipment in or der. More specifically, each girl will assume one of the nine positions on the field before the start of the game, and then give each player his glove and a kiss. The batgirls also will chase foul balls and help out in the press box. The batgirls for the team in clude Mina Akins, senior English major from Portland; Penny Ball, sophomore biology major from San Antonio; Holly Cannon, soph omore education major from Col lege Station; and Susan Cum mings, sophomore education ma jor from Bryan. Other Diamond Darlings are Gwen Flynt, freshman political science major from Bryan; Mer rill Mitchell, freshman accounting major from Bryan; Pam Schiefel- bein, junior zoology major from Floresville; Maureen Turk, senior GETTING READY FOR SPRING TRAINING are these football players, who work out daily at Kyle Field. The Aggie gridders begin practice March 21, with the spring game scheduled for April 22. Intrasquad scrimmages will be conducted each Saturday during spring training. (Photo by Mike Rice) physical education major from Terre Haute, Indiana; and Linda Todd, freshman liberal arts ma jor from Bryan. Alternates for the Darlings will be Beth Cunningham, freshman biology education major from Dallas; Becky Upham, sophomore pre^vet major from College Sta tion and Kathy Wolfe, freshman zoology major from Richardson. A&M will be one of four col leges in the nation to have bat girls and will be the first in Southwest Conference history to New building to be named after Zachry A distinctive honor was be stowed Wednesday on a distin guished alumnus with the an nouncement that A&M has named its newest building the Zachry Engineering Center. This most modern of univer sity-owned structures, costing more than $9,000,000, was named for H. B. Zachry, chairman of the board of the $100,000,000 construction firm bearing his name in San Antonio. The new building will be form ally dedicated March 16 with Dr. Philip G. Hoffman, president of the University of Houston, as featured speaker. About 400 dis tinguished guests from industry, government, and education are expected. The structure occupies a site larger than a football field and houses Chemical, Electrical, In dustrial, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Departments, the Texas Engineering Experiment Station and the A&M Research Foundation. The ground floor consists mostly of research lab oratories, including a laboratory nuclear reactor. The first, sec ond and third floors include pri marily classrooms and under graduate student laboratories. Dean Fred J. Benson of the College of Engineering said, “Mr. Zachry possesses those charac teristics most admired by profes sional engineers and lay people alike. This new center, named after him, will be a constant in spiration to our students.” have batgirls participate in the games. Baylor will also have bat girls for its non-conference games later this season. In addition to the doublehead er against St. Mary’s, the bat girls will be appearing at the doubleheaders against Lamar March 14, Minnesota March 20, and Houston April 11. The girls will not travel to out-of-town games and will only work non conference matches. The batgirl finalists’ interview was coordinated by Joe Hughes, Fish yell leader. Judges making the final decision were Travis Bryan, Jr., Jim Butler, assistant sports information director; Jer ry Waggoner, sports editor for The Eagle and baseball players Bruce Katt and Charles Kelley. ‘Y’ election set; camp announced for August 28-31 The Student Y Association will hold elections for cabinet positions April 13 in Area II of Hensel Park. The cabinet consists of 12 stu dents and the General Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. All but one of the student positions are elec tive, the other is appointed. The cabinet handles all Y activities. The offices are president, ex ecutive vice-president, and vice- presidents for plans, operations and public relations. Other posts include secretary, treasurer and five committee chairmen. There are also 25 other appointive po sitions available. Applications are available in Room 102 of the Y.M.C.A. They should be completed and re turned before 5 p.m., March 17. The elections will be held at 5:30 p.m. and afterwards a steak-fry. All Y members and TAMU students are invited. The 19th Annual “Fish” Camp will be held by the Student Y Association on Monday, August 28 thru the 31st. Any TAMU students interested in being counselors should apply at Room 102 in the Y.M.C.A. The camp is offered as an orientation for all entering fresh men. The camp will be held at Lakeview Methodist Encamp ment near Palestine, Texas.