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xht Battalion Cooperation Is Better Than Conflict; It Pays Higher Dividends And Builds Surer Security. defense Vol. 67 No. 185 College Station, Texas Friday, November 17, 1972 SATURDAY — Mostly cloudy. Wind southwesterly 10 to 15. High 68, low 46. SUNDAY — Mostly cloudy. Rainshowers and thundershow ers . Wind southerly to to 20. becoming northerly 15 to 25. High 71, low 52. KICKOFF — 64°. 845-2226 USOn witli (I J for 37 ISen an <l Ci| 5 corners le sa fety n ^forthe'j Jr ceptions Senate Asks Bike Fee Reduction Requests Rack Priority For Dorms ior ss iect The Society of Automotive En- ineers at A&M will host a 1926 onden Steam Wagon on one stop a round-the-world tour Satur- l The steam truck and its three tcupants are due to arrive on A&M campus sometime to- icrrow. Their arrival date and are tentative due to a num- of break-downs and slow id. The Britannia, as the eight ton, ituminous coal powered steam mck is called, left the London lotor Show on Oct. 16, 1969 and covered 17,000 miles. After BUCKY SAMS takes a handoff from Fish quarterback Dale Ammons in route to a 52- ard touchdown scamper. Sams rushed for 218 yards Thursday night as the Fish outlasted ie Texas Shorthorns, 10-8. See story page 5 (Photo by Steve Ovalline) Steam Wagon A&M Bound traveling through 14 European and Asian countries, the Britan nia’s tour is now on its last stage and it will be crossing the U.S. from east to west for the final 6,000 miles. Due to arrive last week for the Texas 500 Auto race, the Britan nia was delayed in Waco with mechanical problems. “We are hoping that it will ar rive sometime Saturday morn ing,’’ said SAE Chairman, Charles Ursell. “We will act as ushers and guides and provide the crew with a place to stay and rest,” said Ursell. “The only trouble is that when they arrive, I’ve got to find them 3,000 pounds of coal.” The crew and truck will be on campus for several days to effect repairs and rest. The Britannia is 25 feet long and has a top speed of 30 miles- per-hour. The two cylinder, 49 horsepower engine requires 12.5 pounds of coal and six gallons of water for every mile it travels Rebuilt in 1968, the 1926 truck was fitted with a box van that houses the crew. It also has four beds, hot and cold water, a re frigerator, a gas cooler and elec tric services. The Student Senate endorsed a $1.50 bicycle registration fee Thursday night with the stipula tion that dormitories have first priority in receiving bicycle racks. This proposal, accepted by sen ators with a vote of 64 to 14 aft er a one and a half hour discus sion, will be presented to the uni versity administration as a basis for lowering the present regis tration fee of $3. “I propose we defeat plan A ($3 registration fee accepted last spring by the administration) in order to propose plan C of $1.50,” said Cathy Schnatterly (at-large, science). She went on to say all bicycle racks purchased under this plan should be placed at the dormitories where they are need ed to lock up bikes at night. Only 890 bicycles have been registered at this time. A Stu dent Government survey showed there may be as many as 2,673 bicycles on campus at one time during the day. “People are not going to reg ister,” said Student Government President Layne Kruse, “when they don’t know what is going to happen concerning the registra tion fee.” “The Student Senate should consider what is going to hap pen on campus in the future,” continued Kruse. “The student population is going to increase and bike numbers will become greater and greater.” “The reason for the rush is to get the decision to the Board of Directors for use next semester,” said Steve Wakefield, chairman of the student services commit tee, in response to a senator’s question. “At this time 890 per sons are registered unfairly in that they don’t know what the final fee will be.” In other business a book ex change program presented by Ron Bento, chairman of the serv ices committee, was accepted by the Senate. This pilot program will be in operation Dec. 6-8, 11, 12 and Jan. 15-19 as a service project of Omega Phi Alpha. The program will be organized in the base ment of the Memorial Student Center with two telephone lines. Students may call in their books they have for sale and look for books at the same time. The business transactions will be handled by the students them selves. Fred Campbell, chairman of the student rules and regulations committee, presented a measure to the Senate concerning the yell leader committee. This proposal provides that the initial screening responsibility of candidates be omitted, student make-up of the committee be in creased from two to four and a yell leader cannot be removed from his position without a two- thirds vote from the Senate. “This provision is to be substi tuted in the existing yell leader provisions under the section en titled ‘Yell Leader Committee’,” said Campbell. In other action, the Senate ac cepted the proposed Day Care Center Board members. One com munity member added to the list presented last week is Rita Ke- neipp, social worker in the Braz os Valley Rehabilitation Center. Allende Supported At ISA Debate Chilean President Allende and his Marxist regime were given support following a debate by the International Student Asso ciation at the Memorial Student Center Ballroom Thursday night. The resolution debated was “Chile’s Marxist experiment is a successful model for develop ment.” It passed by a vote of 15 to 11. Debating for the resolution was Stanley Moore and Friedrich Mack while their opposition was Shariq Yosufzai and Paulo De- Castro. “Capitalism has been a failure in Chile,” said Moore, a graduate student who has lived 12 of the last 13 years in Chile. “Two per cent of the landowners own 72 per cent of the land,” he said, “and 47 per cent of the population is undernourished.” “The idea of democracy in Chile has been thrown to the wind,” said Yosufzai, a chemical engi neering major from Bangladesh. “Since Allende has gained power Chile has been in a state of chaos, confusion, inflation, unemploy ment and a general reign of terror.” “Allende has faced quite a bit (See ISA Debate, page 2) ‘Friends’ Of A&M Library Provide Funds Noted Houston Lawyer To Speak At Midterm Commencement Houston attorney Leon Jawor- ki, immediate past president of he American Bar Association, be midterm commencement peaker at A&M, announced AMU President Jack K. Wil ms. The ceremonies will be at 9 m, Saturday, Dec. 9, in G. Rol- lle White Coliseum. Jaworski, senior partner in the inn of Fulbright, Crooker & Ja- orski, has headed a variety of associations from the local the national level. In addition the ABA, he is past president fthe State Bar of Texas, Amer- can College of Trial Lawyers, iouston Bar Association and the 'exas Civil Judicial Council. He also is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, trus tee of the National College of District Attorneys and an hon orary member of several other legal groups, including the Cana dian Bar Association. Jaworski has served this year as special counsel to the attor ney general of Texas. He served in a similar capacity from 1962 until 1965, along with service as special assistant to the U. S. at torney general from 1963 until 1965. He was a member of the Pres ident’s Commission on Law En forcement and Administration of Justice from 1965 until 1967 and a member of the President’s Com mission on the Causes and Pre vention of Violence during 1968- 69. In addition to his professional activities, Jaworski has served in key positions for numerous civil, educational and charitable or ganizations. He is president of the Baylor Medical Foundation and trustee of Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Medical Center, M. D. Anderson Foundation and the Houston Symphony Society. He is a past president and direc tor of the Houston Chamber of Commerce. Born in Waco, Jaworski earned his Bachelor of Laws degree at Baylor University and Master of Laws at George Washington Uni versity. He holds honorary doc torates from Baylor, Suffolk and Washburn Universities. Leon Jaworski More than $110,000 support was provided by Friends of the A&M Library in the organiza tion’s first year of operation. Announcement of the funding was made at the second annual Friends meeting featuring Mrs. Walter Prescott Webb of Austin as speaker. Guest and program partici pants at the Thursday meeting included Gus Wortham and John Lindsey of Houston, book col lector Jeff Dykes who has assem bled range cattle and J. Frank Dobie collections for the TAMU library, Chairman Sterling C. Evans of Houston and President Jack K. Williams. More than 100 attended the meeting. “I know of no other library that has received this level of support from such an organiza tion in its first year,” Director of Libraries John B. Smith stat ed. He noted that the $112,490.32 is incomplete, with several pro posals possibly to be acted on be fore the fiscal year closes. Evans was presented a memen to by Smith for his charter chair manship of the organization which provides for development of library programs at TAMU. It was a special facsimile edition of “Prose and Poetry in the Live stock Industry,” one of the “big four” range cattle books in the Dykes collection. J. Harold Dunn, Amarillo busi nessman and also a Texas A&M graduate who served on the uni versity’s Board of Directors, was elected to succeed Evans as chairman. “I have a natural interest in books and knowledge of a writer and book collector,” Mrs. Webb said in her remarks. She referred to her first husband, the late Cong. Maury Maverick Sr. who was. San Antonio mayor, and noted historian Walter Prescott Webb, who was killed in an auto accident. “My first knowledge of Dr. Webb was in 1937, while Maury and I were in Washington,” she related. “He brought home Dr. Webb’s book, ‘Divided We Stand,’ one night. Maury called it ‘the greatest writing I’ve seen. I’m going to steal some of it for a speech on the floor tomorrow’.” Elected to offices in Friends with Dunn were vice chairman C. C. (Polly) Krueger of San An- Antonio and executive commit tee members Jeff Dykes, Dr. George F. Carter of the TAMU faculty and the outgoing chair man. Friends of the Library Keep sake No. 2, “The Pleasure Frank Dobie Took in Grass,” was pre sented to members at the meet ing. It consists of a facsimile reproduction of Mrs. Bertha Do- bie’s speech to the friends at the 1971 meeting with a brief intro duction by Dykes. Gomez Calls For ‘Day One’ Bilingual Language Program The need for a bilingual lan guage program from “school day one” was emphasized by Dr. Se vere Gomez this week. Addressing the Association of Mexican-American students, Go mez said, “We are taught to read English in the first grade as if we knew English and taught Spanish in high schools as if we knew no Spanish. “And usually these Spanish courses are taught by teachers who cannot converse in the lan guage,” noted the Texas Educa tion Agency assistant commis sioner. Mexican-Americans usually get off to a poor start in school, and in 25 years, 50 per cent of the Texas school population will be Mexican-American. The goal of bilingual education is successful achievement by the student of the goals of the edu cational processes using two lan guages, developing proficiency in both, he said. “In effect, teaching begins with refusal or inability to realize dif ferences in our students,” Gomez stressed. “It (teaching) would be more effectual if on day one, a child who could not speak English was brought into a comfortable school environment. “One where he was not forced to abandon the only language in which he can communicate, thus making the English-language learning experience a painful one.” Gomez summed up his talk with the thought, “Remember, because we are different does not imply that we are inferior.” Symbolizes 6 Burning Desire’ IG Aggie Bonfire Builds Toward Tuesday Climax Vlon. One of A&M’s oldest traditions p taking shape on the south side if the campus. It’s the beginnings of an 85- pot log bonfire, an emotional en- {ineering feat involving thou- »nds of students and fueling ^notions for the annual Thans- tiving Day football game be tween the Aggies and Texas Longhorns. When the giant structure is tamed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, ies say it represents their We for TAMU and the burning desire to beat the Longhorns. Head Yell Leader Hank Paine, tanfire coordinator, said work on tile second stack began Thurs- morning. The centerpole was set Nov. 9. Paine estimated 3,500 students ill be working on the structure Saturday through Monday, with ffer 5,000 individual students in volved at one time or another. Another tradition associated with bonfire is dismissal of undergraduate classes Monday to allow students to work. This year’s cutting area is on Sandy Point Road 13 miles north of the campus. The road is being bulldozed for highway right-of- way, Paine noted, and all logs for the bonfire will be collected from trees already knocked down. Unofficially, the cutting will begin Saturday morning, with a break for attendance at the A&M-Rice football game Satur day afternoon. Activities begin Sunday and Monday with break fast at 5:30 a.m. and work in the cutting area from dawn to dusk. The stacking area is a 24-hour operation, Paine pointed out. The head yell leader said ap proximately 300 coeds will serve in first aid tents and serve cof fee and cookies. The coffee and cookies are provided free by the Student Y Association, coordi nated by Corky Honchard and Coleen Bourland. Paine said the bonfire has re ceived a lot of support from con struction companies working on campus, and area contractors. Logs used on the bonfire will range from two inches to two feet in diameter, Paine reported, with the center pole actually two 60-foot poles donated by the In ternational Paper Co. in Nava- sota. Company C-l splied and set the pole. Trucks to haul the logs were donated by Dean Word Con struction Co. of New Braunfels and Don Richardson of Bryan. Hard hats and rope for the stack pullies were donated by H. B. Zachry Co. of San Antonio. W. R. McCullough of Bryan told the students about the high way project north of Bryan. Tex as Highway Department District Engineer Joe Hanover arranged with the contractor, R. B. But ler and Co. of Bryan, for the stu dents to use the downed trees. Paine said communications will be provided by the local amateur radio club. Security for the project is very tight, Paine added. The bonfire tradition started in 1909 when two Aggies gath ered some trash into a pile and burned it as a joke to create in terest in the upcoming Aggie- UT grid battle. Over the years the size of the trash pile spread, with people University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. saving old boxes and paper for erected in 1949 and the first all months. Some trash was even brought in from across the state on railroad cars marked for the College Station bonfire. The first center pole was log bonfire was built in 1952. Only one time has the bonfire been cancelled — in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Campus Briefs Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Homer S. Hill will review Texas A&M’s Corps of Cadets at the Saturday march-in to the Aggie-Rice foot ball game. Gen. Hill, President Jack K. Williams and Marine Corps Col. C. E. Hogan, professor of naval science, will take the Kyle Field reviewing stand for the 12:20 p.m. march-in to the 1:30 p.m. game. ★ ★ ★ Texas A&M cadets Leslie C. Lyons of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Edward P. Rumold of Phillips- burg, N. J., will receive 1972 Army ROTC Leadership Awards in Nov. 27 presentations at the Pentagon. Lyons and Rumold will be among five Army cadets honored. Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, Army Chief of Staff, will present the awards. The citations, in recognition of excellence in leadership, are given each outstanding graduate of the Army’s four Advanced Camps and the Ranger Camp at Fort Benn- ing. ★ ★ ★ Leaders of A&M’s Association of Former Students will elect of ficers and set goals and budgets for 1973 during the annual Fall Council Meeting here Saturday. Activities began with a social- dinner Friday at the Holiday Inn. Saturday morning there will be a program-business meeting in Zachry Engineering Center Room 102. CORNELIUS BROTHERS and Sister Rose will spotlight the stage with ‘looking Glass’ at tonight’s 8 p. m. perform ance in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The latter is the tailor of the hit song “Brandy.”