be Battalion College Station, Texas Cloudy and mild Thursday, March 9, 1972 Friday — Partly cloudy. South erly winds 10-15 mph. High 7&°, low 56°. Saturday —< Partly cloudy to cloudy. Southerly winds 15-20 mph. High 78°, low 58°. 845-2226 More bombing mars tense Londonderry LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland UP) — While a 60-second time bomb ticked, a father rushed into a garage here Wednesday and rescued his 13-month-old child strapped to a seat in a car. Seconds after he came out with the baby in his arms, the bomb went off, wrecking the garage and two dozen cars. The drama came as guerrillas launched a full-scale bomb assault on Londonderry. Police said both father and child left immediately after the garage blast. A police spokesman said the unidentified man had just driven into the garage when two youths armed with submachine guns burst in and dumped a package beside his car. They shouted: “It’s a time bomb! You have 60 seconds to get out.” Garage workers fled, but the man ignored the ticking bomb and for vital seconds grappled with safety straps holding the baby to the seat. Belfast was like a city under siege. Security forces, alarmed by weekend explosions which claimed nearly 200 casualties including two dead, enforced a big clampdown. In the Northern Ireland’s Parliament, Prime Minister Brian Faulkner interrupted a debate to break the news of the killing of an Agriculture Ministry official on the border with the Irish Republic. Faulkner said three men, two of them carrying guns, crossed over from the republic and shot the man dead near a customs post at Middletown in County Armagh. Faulkner told Parliament the incident showed “A regrettable lack of control” by authorities in the republic. The Northern Irish government has repeatedly accused the re public of allowing outlaws of the Irish Republican Army to operate against the North from bases south of the border. The agriculture official was identified as Joseph Jardine, 44, a Protestant who also was a militiaman. Police said his as sassins fired 42 shots at him from close range. He was the 264th person killed in Northern Ireland’s 31 months of violence. Four bomb explosions rocked Londonderry, Northern Ireland’s second city and a hotbed of Irish nationalism. The blasts caused heavy dam age but no casualties. Black recruitment is slow in first of active attempts Angly claims state treasurer is guilty of mismanagement (aren Elizabeth Holt, chosen Miss Texas A&M Wednesday will represent A&M in the fa Texas Universe Pageant April 10, in San Antonio. The 5’8” brunette, measuring 18-24-36, is an 18-year-old freshman history major from Athens. Runnerup in the pag- ant was Holly Lyn Cannon, a junior elementary education major from College Station ind first runnerup was Charae Roques, a junior biomedicine major from Houston. GARLAND > — State Rep. Maurice Angly Jr. of Austin said here Wednesday that State Treas urer Jesse James mismanaged his office during the Texas stock scandals. Angly is himself a candidate for the treasurer’s post. “The testimony last Friday by Frank Sharp’s former private secretary ... in Speaker Gus Mutscher’s bribery conspiracy By senate VII-rouml handbook planned I? JOHN CURYLO Plans for a student handbook, ponsored by the Student Senate »r distribution to new students t A&M, are nearly complete, ith a final decision on staff tructure to be made tonight. Barb Sears, recording secretary (the senate, heads the project, nd she said the cooperation re- iived from various organizations ivolved has been excellent. “We’ve talked to many people i the administration and individ- ils who are in charge of stu- Mt organizations,” she said, and we’ve had favorable re- ponse. Many clubs have express- i a desire to contribute in spirit, ith some financial help and ma- arial for the book coming from some of them, too.” The handbook, which would take the place of several similar but less extensive student guides, is expected to be ready for dis tribution at summer conferences. Sears emphasized, however, that the book is intended for all stu dents, not just freshmen. “Hopefully, this will help mar ried students, graduate students, transfers, everybody,” she ex plained. “It will be an all-round handbook. It must be different from the present handbooks. “We’ve written other schools for information,” Sears added. “Our intention is to put out a handbook this year.” She pointed out that the fee allocations proposal for the stu dent handbook made two weeks ago by the senate applied to the publication of a book a year from now. As a result, there is no place in the budget for the hand book to be published within the next few months. “We talked with Tom Cherry (vice president for business af fairs), and we think the money for the handbook will come from reserve funds,” Sears said. “Also, Col. (Logan) Weston of the YMCA offered his experience and cooperation on this project. “The city council is in favor of this, too,” she added. “They gave us a publication they put out with information students can use. We want to put a lot about the community in the handbook.” Uate needs more youth m government—Barnes More youth in government wild be a state goal said Lt. ®v, Ben Barnes in a campaign f ess conference Wednesday. Barnes, visiting Bryan as part I his campaign for governor, ‘id he believes students should ave a greater voice in govern- knt actions. “The main objective,” he said, should be to bridge the gap be- sseen the state’s representatives ^ the needs of the youth of day. T am not for the legalization luarijuana but would support fislation making first offenders % of misdemeanors. After “it, repeat offenses should be •it to the courts,” Barnes went L The lieutenant governor said ^supports legislation letting 18- ,6 ar-olds buy liquor but he can- support having liquor on campuses. Barnes expressed total dissatis faction with Gov. Preston Smith’s way of running the government for the status quo. “Gov. Smith has been in differ ent offices for the last 22 years,” he said. “His current philosophy of waiting for court orders be fore taking action on critical mat ters is a serious problem. “We can’t solve today’s prob lems with yesterday’s politician in office. We need to change the constitution to give the governor more power and the legislature ability to cope with today’s prob lems.” Barnes cited the welfare pro gram as one of the major prob lem areas in Texas government. He said parents should be re quired to take children to some form of day care center while the mother and/or father take training for a job-training that could take place at the day care center if need be. This would give the children a fair chance to Refrigerators still available Refrigerators will be leased for ^ remainder of the semester, Wording to Student Senate Vice Resident Mike Essmyer. Units can be obtained for $20, BO of which is a deposit. For ‘Bled incentive leasers receive a free poster. The refrigerators are available from the leasing office in the basement of the hospital next to the laundry sub-station. For more information call 845-6342 or 845- 1108. compete with other children in later years, he added. “In New York,” Barnes said, “all people on welfare are able to pick up a welfare check only if there are no jobs available for them. If there are jobs, they don’t get a welfare check. This should be Texas’ system of run ning the welfare payroll.” The recent Edgewood decision by the Supreme Court was hailed by Barnes as a step in the right direction for better education. “Although this decision in volves finding a new system of financing our public schools, it does not hurt the prospects of quality education,” he said. “The new tax form will provide money on a per-student basis and will not lower the quality of schools that have a lower enrollment.” Barnes also said that state em ployes should be able to hold elec tive offices such as city council posts. Barnes, taking note of the recent controversy involving A&M faculty members holding elective offices, said the state is losing a wealth of talent with state em ployes being cut out of govern ment. University National Bank "On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. The meeting tonight will deter mine the composition of the staff for the handbook. The decision to be made involves the hiring of staff members as opposed to us ing all volunteers. “The question concerns our hav ing to put money into paying a staff,” Sears explained. “We might have a staff with one or two people in editor-type posi tions. Or, we might have ten or twelve people to work off and on—that would be great. “One factor in favor of this is that the people on the hand book committee are there with the idea to contribute for no salary,” she said. “If it were entirely on a non-salary basis, I really can’t see us turning any body away who really wants to work.” With plans that are yet to be finalized, it is anticipated that about 5,000 copies will be printed the first year. Sears added that this number might be higher in coming years. With a salaried staff, the book would cost ap proximately $7,600. Specifications for the handbook call for a brochure of about 80 pages, five by seven inches or eight by ten inches. Included would be various sections, with photographs. “This handbook will not be a place for rules and regulations,” Sears explained, “but for infor mation about the university. It will answer questions, give in formation about organizations and help solve problems—any thing involving student life.” Farenthold to be here on Monday Democratic gubernatorial can didate Francis “Sissy” Farent hold will meet with interested students on Monday, March 13. The open house at 7:90 p.m. in the Unitarian Fellowship will give students an opportunity to exchange views with Farenthold. A luncheon will be given earlier at the Ramada Inn Ballroom. Students interested in attending should contact Sheila Wilson at 846-4517. trial that State Treasurer James and Frank Sharp conferred as ‘friends’ through frequent tele phone calls during the stock fraud scandal merely highlights how corruptly our state treasurer has mismanaged his office,” Angly told a Republican woman’s tea. Sharp, a Houston promoter, is the central figure in the stock scandals. He owned the now- defunct Sharpstown State Bank which loaned money to top Texas politicians who used the loans to buy stock >n Sharp-controlled enterprises and reap big profits. “By transferring additional millions in state deposits to the now defunct Sharpstown State Bank of Houston, James provided the compensating balances for the large loans made by Sharp’s bank to those involved in the stock fraud scandal,” Angly said. “James,” he said, “deposited $6 million in a 5 per cent savings account at the Sharpstown bank but the balance, $4,034,875, was left parked for over two years, sitting around in an inactive checking account, earning no in terest whatsoever.” “As state treasurer, I intend to put an end to this practice of politically parked interest free state deposits,” he said. “Blacks are turned off by A&M,” according to Wayne De- vaughn, recruitment chairman for the Black Awareness Committee. “Blacks come to the A&M cam pus, see all the whites and ask— ‘like where am I?' ” he said. Devaughn feels the Former Stu dents Association recruitment program, though not discrimina tory, is not oriented enough to the black. He said that represen tatives in predominantly black districts are sometimes not active enough and often students re main ignorant of A&M. He point ed out the association’s slide pre sentation does not show enough blacks. Devaughn’s committee has made its own slide presentation for use in its recruitment pro gram. The committee concen trates its efforts on four schools in Houston and Beaumont. Mem bers talk with individual stu dents about A&M’s programs and participate in Career Day activi ties. “Black recruitment has not been successful,” Devaughn said, “but, then, this is the first time it has been actively attempted.” Buck Weirus, executive director of the Former Students Associa tion, said his organization has no policy of discrimination. “We have volunteers in over 500 high schools and junior col leges in the state, including every metropolitan high school, he cited. Davis-Gary Hall planning special activities weekend Davis-Gary Hall residents un cork a special weekend of activi ties tonight, including dances, athletic events and socials. Designated Davis-Gary Week end, the Hall Council-sponsored program will culminate Saturday in a rock dance at the Shiloh Hall. The hall sweetheart will be presented. Davis-Gary President James Gleason said hall association members will be admitted free to all activities. Others may par ticipate at stipulated prices. A Thursday night movie in the D-G lounge starts the weekend off. On Friday, an 8 p.m. coun try and western dance at the Shiloh Hall will feature the Nash ville Revells. Saturday events include a 10-mile bicycle race, fish fry ($1 for non-hall participants) and horseshoe tournament at Shiloh, bridge tournament, inter floor football tournament and the Saturday evening dance at Shiloh with music by “Sweet Smoke.” Abstracts aren’t interesting to student, educator claims Students lose interest in learn ing when their subjects are taught in abstract terms which the student does not relate to, commented Robert Swartz in a Contemporary Arts presentation Wednesday. Swartz, a professor at Brown University, conducted a group discussion to bring out the prob lems and inadequacies that face the present educational system. One of the major problems is getting the curriculum more rele vant to the interests of the stu dents. We want to create a de sire in the student to want to learn more, he said. “Kids want to do things, and are really interested in pursuing these things, but can not. They are held back by a curriculum that does not interest them,” Swartz said. Sewing and car pentry that are applications of academic courses like reading and math do interest them. “And many times, the teachers are kind of handcuffed. They are given a program and have to stick to it. They may have their own ideas to try, but can not,” he said. Another bottleneck to improv ing education is in the general decision-making process. “Most of what goes on is decided by a small group of people. Some do not have any kids or even any contact with them. Yet they have power of the people who deal with them every day and have a better understanding of them,” stressed Swartz. One attempt to further educa tion is the development of alter native schools. Swartz has been in direct contact with two of these, the Providence Free School and an alternative high school in Rhode Island. The schools have been in existence for about a year and a half and are prospering. There are no required courses. “We started the free school to make available to the students many of the resources and other things that were not available to them in public schools,” noted Swartz. “This school has shown that kids are really interested in learning about a lot of things, and if given the chance, will,” he said. “We have had many people who came to the school not at all interested in algebra classes, but got interested in something like carpentry and learned a fantastic amount about angles and ratios. Then many become interested in math and go from there,” Swartz said. The main point to this type of school is to create an environ ment where subjects are inte grated with a point of interest of the child. This way the two work together to educate the child, commented Swartz. APO members set to work Saturday on A&M’s hospital Alpha Phi Omega members will combine work and fun Saturday at the A&M hospital. Xi Delta chapter of the national service fraternity will paint another part of the facility to be replaced with the new health center for which the Board of Directors recently awarded the contract. Eight rooms and a ward on the second floor of the old building will be scraped Friday and painted Saturday, according to APO president Dale Foster. Projects chairman Tom Weaver expects 25 to 30 members to pitch in on the project. Members of Omega Phi Alpha, national service sorority, will be on hand with refreshments and to boost morale, according to Mike Ballew. APO prepared and painted another part of the university hospital last year. University funds are not available for the work since the building will be phased out. APO, which also contributes to the university and community in other projects, is providing labor and paint.