Campus Voter Registration Drive To End 10 A.M. Friday
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Vol. 67 No. 158 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 3, 1972
Beaten Paths
Are For
Beaten Men.
Wednesday — Clear to partly
cloudy. Southerly winds 10-12
mph, becoming northerly 10-15
mph. High 82, low 61.
Thursday — Clear. Northerly
winds 5-10 mph. Hiffh 77, low 56.
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KINGSLEY FINK. Army quarterback in Saturday’s 24-14 Aggie loss to the mule
headed team, received a friendly peck from Fink, Tex., Mayor Mrs. Patricia Albright
after she made him an honorary citizen of Fink. He was also made an admiral in the
Texas Navy by retired Navy Captain G. E. Peddicord. (More Photos page 3)
Proposed Texas Superport
Offshore Deepwater Port To Boost Economy
An offshore deepwater terminal, proposed to be
built off the Texas coast to handle imports of foreign
crude oil carried in huge supertankers, could create
23,200 new jobs in Texas by 1980, with an annual
payroll of $239 million, according to preliminary
figures today by Texas A&M.
James R. Bradley, head of A&M’s Industrial
Economics Research Division, where an economic
impact study of the proposed “superport” has been
underway, stated that “only preliminary results are
available now but a final report of findings will be
released shortly.”
Dan M. Bragg who has been the principal
investigator for the superport studies which have been
ongoing at Texas A&M for two years, said, “Our
studies show that the oil refining industry in Texas is
expected to experience a growth of over 60 percent in
the next eight or ten years. From a present capacity
of 3.5 million barrels per day, Texas refineries should
have a capacity in excess of 5.6 million barrels a day
by 1980.”
“However,” he continued, “new jobs and new
payrolls, to be created by growth in the oil refining
industry, tell only part of the story. There will also be
additional multipliers of growth which will occur in
other areas as a result of expenditures by oil
refiners.”
Other sectors of the economy which will show
growth include petro-chemicals, construction,
shipbuilding and oil refinery services. “The total
economic impact on Texas,” Bradley said, “is
estimated to be $4.5 billion per year.”
According to the A&M study, the area that is
most likely to receive primary benefit from the
deepwater terminal will be the Texas Gulf Coast
because of its huge refining and petrochemical
complex. “However,” Bradley stated, “growth in
coastal areas will spread to all parts of Texas and the
Southwest, and there will be an impact on the
economy in all these areas.”
Other preliminary results of the study show that
in the Gulf Coast area, three centers of refining
activity will have the greatest gains. Beaumont and
Port Arthur are expected to enjoy a $1.4 billion per
year increase in business activity in their surrounding
trade area; the greater Houston-Galveston-Freeport
region should experience annual growth of $2.5
billion in business levels; and. Corpus Christi, along
with the lower Rio Grande Valley, should see an
additional $590 million in economic activity each
year.
“The economic studies going on at Texas A&M,”
Bradley explained, “are being conducted for the
Texas Superport Study Corporation, a Houston firm,
and are part of the University’s continuing
involvement with the offshore port study that was
started by A&M’s earlier Offshore Port Work Plan,
published in 1971.” The economic study is partly
funded by the Texas A&M Sea Grant program. A&M
became one of the nation’s first four Sea Grant
Colleges last year.
A “superport” is an attractive idea because oil
production in Texas and other oil-rich states is drying
up and the state’s refineries must soon begin
importing foreign oil to keep operating, Bradley
noted. He added that no port iri Texas is deep enough
for the modern supertankers that probably will be
used to haul the imported oil, and deepwater facilities
must be provided if Texas is to remain competitive in
world oil markets.
Public Safety Director To Discuss Texas Rangers
Review Week Proposal
Gets Committee OK
Army R0TC
Cadets Cited
Area’s Best
TAMU Army ROTC cadets
were cited Saturday as the best
of the Fifth U. S. Army area.
Lt. Gen. Patrick F. Cassidy
presented the Fifth Army Com
mander’s ROTC trophy to Presi
dent Jack K. Williams.
It was won in competition with
102 universities in the Fifth
Army area. Institutions with
senior division Army ROTC pro
grams are eligible for the award,
on the basis of summer camp
achievement.
General Cassidy made the pres
entation at halftime of the Texas
A&M-Army football game attend
ed by a large contingent of mili
tary personnel. More than 12
general officers including West
Point and Fifth Army officials
were present.
At midfield to participate in
the ceremony with Gen. Cassidy
and President Williams were Col.
Thomas R. Parsons, TAMU com
mandant, and cadets Leslie C.
Lyons of Honolulu, Hawaii, and
Edward P. Rumold of Phillips-
burg N. J.
Lyons and Rumold were among
five Aggies ranked first among
cadets in summer camp training.
Lyons was the No. 1 cadet of two
training cycles at Fort Riley,
Kan. Rumold was the Distin
guished Honor Graduate in
Ranger school at Fort Benning,
Ga. A&M cadets also won top
rankings in summer camp com
panies and platoons.
TAMU won the Fifth Army
award in 1969. The university
added Naval ROTC to its tradi
tional Army and Air Force
ROTC programs this fall, and
marked increased participation in
the military programs.
General Cassidy, one of three
three-star generals at the game,
commands the Fifth Army, with
headquarters at Fort Sam Hous
ton. The command and trophy
competition area coincides with
the Fifth Army area, which ex
tends from the Canadian to
Mexican borders of the U.S. and
includes major Army installa
tions and elements in 14 states.
He was reviewing officer for
the pre-game march-in involving
Texas A&M’s 2,600-man Corps of
Cadets and cadet command and
color guard elements of the U.S.
Military Academy.
Apartment Reps
Being Elected
For New Year
Elections are being held for
representative positions on the
University Apartment Council
throughout this week, announced
Council President Mike Ehrlich.
The voting place is located at
the apartment office in the uni
versity married student housing
area and is open 8-5 p.m.
An executive meeting will be
held within two weeks to decide
the time Of the first meeting and
the frequency of the following
ones. Within a week of the elec
tions, notification of the first
council meeting will be announced
to representatives.
Texas Department of Public
Safety director Col. Wilson E.
Speir will speak Wednesday at
A&M on “The Texas Rangers in
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
the 1970s.”
A Political Forum noon series
program, Col. Speir’s talk and
question-answer session will be in
the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom, announced Chairman
Mike Lindsey.
A division of DPS, the Texas
Rangers were formally organized
in 1835 primarily to protect set
tlements against Indian incur
sions. The Rangers were reorga-
(See Public Safety, page 2)
Banking is a pleasure at First
Bank & Trust. —Adv.
The Student Senate resolution
asking for formal recognition of
a scholastic ‘dead week’ received
one more round of approval Mon
day afternoon after the Univer
sity Rules and Regulations Com
mittee voted in its favor.
This does not mean the week
will be in effect yet, as the reso
lution must be approved by the
Academic Council.
The resolution, as written by
the Senate, did not pass the Rules
and Regulations group without
minor changes, however.
The biggest change came after
a recommendation by President
Jack K. Williams’ assistant, Kent
Caperton, asked that the name be
changed to ‘Review Week.’
The resolution authored by the
Senate asked to clear up existing
“uncertainty among faculty mem
bers and students regarding the
status of ‘Review Week’.”
The amended version states
that during the two regular
semesters, Review Week shall be
gin five class days prior to the
first day of final exams.
“No exams (except final exams
in courses carrying one hour of
theory, optional exams and make
up exams) shall be given during
Review Week.”
The new version also states no
papers of any type shall be as
signed or due during Review
Week.
The committee added another
clause to the resolution, asking
that the office of the vice presi
dent for academic affairs be al
lowed to remind the faculty of
this policy each year.
In other discussion at the meet
ing, the topic of the constitution
ality of some of the rules in the
University Rules and Regulations
Handbook (Blue Book) was aired.
On the recommendation of
A&M Systems Attorney J. A.
Amis, the committee approved the
idea of sending the book to State
Attorney General’s Office to as-
King Kong Movie
Slated Tomorrow
King Kong, the grand-daddy of
all monsters movies, will be un
leased upon the viewing public in
two showings Wednesday.
The original and uncut version
of this 1933 horror classic will
be aired at 7 p.m. and again at
9 p.m. The MSC Ballroom will
host the Contemporary Arts
Committee Film Series presenta
tion of this masterpiece of horror
and fantasy.
Starring Fay Wray, Bruce Ca-
bott and of course King Kong, the
movie lasts 103 minutes and is
black and white. The movie was
directed by Merion Cooper and
Ernest Schoedsack.
Scott Smith, CAC Film Series
Chairman, urged all season ticket
holders to arrive early. “We will
let the holders of these tickets go
through any line,” Smith said.
Admission is $1 for students
with activity card and $1.50 for
non-students.
certain the constitutionality of
any rules questioned by the Stu
dent Rules and Regulations Com
mittee of the Student Govern
ment.
Layne Kruse, Student Govern
ment president and member of
the university committee, said
many students question the con
stitutionality of parts of the
handbook which require living on
campus, no possession and con
sumption of alcoholic beverages
and no allowance of political
By VICKIE ASH WILL
“Mahatma Gandhi’s major goal
in life was to help people lead
active lives and put these results
iu the hands of God,” said Dr.
Richard Stadelman Monday
night.
Standelman, the keynote speak
er at the 103rd anniversary
memorial of Gandhi’s birth held
in the Zachry Engineering Cen
ter, spoke on “Gandhi: The Man
and the Masses.”
Gandhi particularly wanted to
help the lower caste of people in
the Hindu system, Standelman
continued. He called these people
the “children of God.”
Gandhi viewed the caste system
as something which had worked
in the past but was no longer
needed today. Officially the caste
system is outlawed in India, said
Standelman, though it still exists
in small outlying villages.
Although the majority of people
in India consider Gandhi a great
political figure some people look
upon him as a god.
“I don’t think Gandhi would
have liked to be called a god,” he
said, “but I do believe the day is
coming when all Hindus will call
him ‘God’.”
The Indian masses gave Gandhi
the title of “Mahatma” which
means he was filled with an
eternal amount of spirit from
God. Gandhi drew his beliefs
speakers on campus.
He said this review will allow
the committee to determine the
validity of any arguments on
constitutionality.
Kruse noted he was especially
pleased with the eagerness for
working with students shown by
administrators on the committee.
Also on the committee are Dr.
Haskell Monroe, chairman; Ran
dy Ross, Fred Campbell, Dean
John Beckham, Dr. Tsutsui and
Dean Ed Cooper.
from a variety of religions, but
retained the Hindu faith for his
life.
Gandhi was convinced there
were many great religious lead
ers with tremendous insight in
the world but retained the belief
that men should stay with the
religion of their father.
“The Bhagavad-Gita, a Hindu
holy book, and the four gospels
from the Christian doctrine were
always with Gandhi,” said Stadel
man. “He had a lot of respect
for Jesus but did not believe he
was the only son of God.”
Gandhi drew many of his basic
beliefs from the Christian re
ligion. Jesus taught man should
“turn the other cheek” while
Gandhi believed in a similar prin
ciple that man should love all
creatures, said Stadelman.
“Progressive Revolution,” the
idea that man is learning more
about God all the time, was an
other of Gandhi’s basic prin
ciples,” continued Stadelman.
“Gandhi also believed people,
especially the lower caste, should
become involved in all spheres of
public life—a belief which com
pletely disagreed with the laws
of the caste system.
“Gandhi was assassinated in
1948, leaving behind him an out
standing political history. More
important, he made changes in the
Hindu religion that will never be
forgotten,” concluded Stadelman.
Silver Taps To Be Held Tonight
Silver taps is slated to be held tonight for Patrick R. Waddell,
an A&M freshman from Houston who was one of two persons
killed in a head-on collision about 7 p.m. Sunday three miles east
of Waller on U.S. 290.
The Aggie memorial service will begin at 10:20 with lights
being turned out in dorm areas at that time.
Funeral services for the 18-year-old chemistry major will be
held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the chapel of the George H.
Lewis and Sons Funeral Home on Sage Road in Houston, with
burial in Houston’s Glenwood Cemetery.
The youth was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford Waddell
of 5010 Braesvalley in Houston.
Also killed in the accident was Thomas Eugene Smith, 57, of
„ Houston. His nine-year-old grandson, Tommy, was injured but
was listed in “good condition” Monday at Waller County Hospital
in Hempstead.
Waddell, who was traveling alone, was apparently returning
to school when his car collided with the pickup truck driven by
Smith.
Mahatma Gandhi’s Goal To
Help Lower Class People
A Real Nitty Gritty Concert