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The RHA’s Spring Fling Was Good, Clean(?) Fun For Everyone CAUTIOUS SHOPPERS kept a wary eye on meat prices ?nday at Skaggs-Albertsons as the nationwide meat boy- ttwent into full swing. Store Manager Boyd Hall said the ycott may hurt temporarily but not in the long run, un- $s middle-men lower wholesale prices. eat Sales Down Stores Feel Bite Boycott Monday ! KEVIN COFFEY Grocery stores in the univer se area are feeling the bite of s week’s meat boycott, but yan merchants are not being iected. That was the consensus of re managers Monday as the ycott, sponsored by a house- ves’ group called “Fight Infla- n Together,” entered its second y- People who were supporting ecord Giving Ixpected For g Blood Drive A record Aggie Blood Drive !ems assured today and Wednes- k Students who signed up donors |st week believe the spring drive |ill easily surpass the fall semes- >r 940-unit drive. A&M students, faculty-staff nd others will make donations rom 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday nd Wednesday in the Krueger- lunn Hall commons. An Alpha Phi Omega service raternity member said more nan 400 residence hall students igned up. Corps of Cadets onors have traditionally out- mmbered them. The drive is conducted through he Wadley Institute of Molecular ledicine in Dallas. Since 1957, Lggies have donated 8,395 units, lharity patients received 4,584 inits from the Dallas institute. An A&M instructor conceived he first drive 25 years ago to lelp hemophilia patients. The drive is jointly conducted )y the Student Senate, APO and )mega Phi Alpha, national serv- ce sorority. Che Battalion Vol. 67 No. 239 College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 3, 1973 845-2226 Runoffs Set For Thursday Banking is & pleasure at First Bank & Trust. Adv. the boycott were purchasing more dairy products, cheese and tuna fish in search of substitutes for meat. “I don’t think the boycott will have any long-range effect, but fresh meat sales were definitely off today,” said Boyd Hall, manager of Skaggs-Albertsons. “Frozen fish and canned tuna were really up.” Skaggs-Albertsons was not the only area store to feel the pinch. “Meat sales were down 20 to 30 per cent,” said R. B. Carpen ter, manager of Piggly Wiggly at Highway 6 and Rosemary. He said dairy products were selling much better and “our tuna stock was wiped-out.” Carpenter said that people were spending about the same amount of money but just buying differ ent things. “I think the price ceiling is the answer because prices have to be lowered before the meat gets to us,” Carpenter said. “We make about 19 per cent profit on fresh meat so our prices can’t go down. People can march or protest until doomsday but we can’t lower our prices.” The effect of the boycott less ened as the percentage of student shoppers decreased. “Meat prices have been up slightly,” said Joe Marek, assist ant manager of Weingarten’s in downtown Bryan. “The more student trade you get the more the boycott will effect you,” he continued. “The established eco nomic groups this far from the university are not affected by things like this.” Dane Eimann, a Weingarten meat counter employe, has little faith in the boycott. “As far as I can see this boycott is a lot of talk. It’s not having any effect “On the side of Texas A&M.” University National Bank Adv. By VICKIE ASHWILL Twenty-one positions, including three executive places, will be up for grabs in a runoff election Thursday as a result of the March 29 Spring General Elec tions. On the top of the list in a run off for Student Government pres ident is Randy Ross and T. Mark Blakemore. Neither candidate re ceived a clear 50 per cent of the majority vote as Ross polled 1,414 votes and Blakemore 845 out of 3,847 votes cast for this position. Shariq Yosufzai holding 1,565 votes and Mark Fitte with 744 votes also found themselves con testing again for the Student Government vice presidential seat. Also in a runoff on the execu tive committee is Curt Marsh with 1,256 votes and Bob Welch re ceiving 1,144 votes for the Rules and Regulations committee chair man. Accidentally left off the Spring Election Ballot were Memorial Student Center Senior and Junior class representatives. Contesting for these positions will be Charles Strison and Gerry Stoermer for the senior position and Benny Woods, Latonya Perrin, Michael Perrin, Ed Johnston and Robert Laddusaw for the junior seat. The off-campus graduate and University owned apartments representatives will be voted on again. On the original ballot for the off-campus graduate repre sentative there was a spelling error in Michael Bunch’s name. Other candidates running for the position are Linda Kay Goss, Michael Piersen, Delbert Towell, Herman Todd, Dale Foster, Floyd Bevers and Beryl McKinnerney. Students were unable to find the polling place in the Univer sity-owned apartment area and were therefore unable to vote on their representative. Running for this position are Bill Rankin, Joe Ventura, Michael J. Kelly and Rochelle Lindsey. Other positions to be in the runoff election are Henry Oster- mann and Jim Federici for gradu ate eduncation, Larry Heelscher and David Carpenter for senior class president, Mike Turner and J. Kyle McNeely for senior class vice president, and Nancy Ondro- vik and Gary Anderson for senior class secretary treasurer. In the junior class there are runoffs between Louie Gohmert and Phillip Schraub for presi dent, Dan Anderson and Doug Thorpe for vice president, Ron nie Maddox and Jackie Heyman for secretary-treasurer and Jean- nine Paletta and Susan Carstens for social secretary. Sophomore clas runoffs include Mike Alford and Gregg Knape for president, Bill Fisher and Robin Coppedge for vice presi dent, Vito Ponzio and Bob Leach for secretary-treasurer, and Don na Schroeder and Kathleen Adams for social secretary. Beryl McKinnerney and Henry Ostermann will also compete for the College of Education seat on the Graduate Student Council while Dale Foster and George Elliot Zukotyenski will compete for the College of Liberal Arts seat on the same council. An additional $15 may be ex pended by each candidates in volved in a runoff according to the University Rules and Regula tions handbook. Students may vote any time be tween 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday in the Library, Sbisa news stand, Academic Building, Guard Room and the Krueger-Dunn Commons. In order to vote a student must have his fee slip or mid-term grade report and an activity card. Election winners should have given a list of their expenses to any Election Board member by 5 p.m. today. Dollar Withholding Ruled Illegal By Appeals Court ITT Head Admits $1 Million Offer ST. LOUIS (AP) - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that President Nixon’s impoundrnent of federal highway construction funds is illegal. In a 2-1 decision, the federal panel ruled that funds appropriated by Congress “are not to be withheld from obligation for purposes totally unrelated to the highway program.” Nixon had impounded the money on grounds that it would be inflationary to spend it. The President has impounded some $15 billion for federal programs on housing, water pollution control, rural conservation, highways and other areas. The appeals court upheld a ruling by Judge William H. Becker of U.S. District Court in Kansas City in connection with the impoundment of highway funds in Missouri. Becker held last summer that the impoundment “caused great and incalculable injury to Missouri because of continuing inflation of highway costs and interruption of efficient obligation” of its highway money. The ruling was a victory for 20 Democratic senators, led by Sen. Sam J. Ervin, D-N.C., who filed a brief in the case supporting Missouri’s right to receive its highway money on a schedule established by Congress. Judge Donald P. Lay of Omaha, writing for th e majority, said that nothing in the 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Aet “explicitly or impliedly allows the Secretary of Transportation to withhold approval of construction projects for reasons remote and unrelated to the act.” He was joined in the decision by Judge Gerald W. Heaney of Duluth, Minn. WASHINGTON (A 3 ) — Interna tional Telephone and Telegraph board chairman Harold S. Geneen acknowledged Monday that the firm offered $1 million to the U. S. government to try to block the election of Marxist Salvador Allende as president of Chile. Testifying before a special Senate Foreign Relations Sub committee, Geneen said the offer to the White House and the State Department had a dual purpose —to defeat Allende by uniting his political opponents or to in duce Allende to permit American firms to recover their invest ments in nationalized properties. Meanwhile, Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, said Secretary of State William P. Rogers has agreed to appear before the subcommittee. Geneen said the government did not take him up on the offer, which was made while Allende’s 1970 election hung in the balance in the Chilean Congress. “Of course,” the ITT chief executive said, “our thinking was very preliminary and we had no specific plans.” But, he went on, “we did think that some socially constructive joint private industry and gov ernment projects could be part of the overall plan.” This, he said, might include building houses for the Chilean people. Geneen also acknowledged dis cussing with a CIA official the possibility of supporting a plan to block Allende’s election. But Geneen told a special Sen ate Foreign Relations Subcom mittee that while he “accepts” this description of the conversa tion sworn to by William V. Broe, the CIA official, the idea “died right there” in the conversation they held in a Washington hotel room for less than an hour. The corporation official said if (See ITT Chairman, page 2) TWS Offers Special Tickets, Photo Contest RACING’S FINEST will be on hand Saturday for Texas World Speedway s iwin 200s in College Station. Driving greats such as A1 Unser and A. J. Foyt will be tea in the affair. Specially-priced student tickets are on sale in the new u og Office in the MSC. The Texas World Speedway is offering half-price infield tickets to students and sponsoring an amateur photography contest for the Twin 200’s auto race Satur day. A&M students can purchase infield tickets, regularly $6, for only $3 dollars at the Memorial Student Center. An infield ticket holder may take his car into the infield area where coolers, lounge chairs and picnicing are allowed. Amateur photographers may enter the photography contest of black and white pictures taken at either of Saturday’s races. Professional photographers or anyone issued a photographer’s pass are ineligible. Contestants should submit one 8x10 black and white print with name, address and phone num ber on back by April 28. Three experienced photogra phers will judge the prints on the basis of racing subject mat ter and print quality. Winners will be announced May 4. Prizes for the photography contest are: first place, six choice grandstand seats, valued at $90, for the June 10 NASCAR 500 race at the Texas World Speedway; second place, four grandstand seats valued at $60; third place, two grandstand seats valued at $30. Entries should be mailed to: R a ci n g Photography Contest, Texas World Speedway, P. O. Box AO, College Station. Prints will be returned only if a self-addressed, stamped enve lope is enclosed with entry. The first race will feature In dianapolis-type cars at 1 p.m. and the second race for stock cars is slated for 3:30. A. J. Foyt, winner of more national championship races than any other driver in racing his tory will be seeking his first championship victory in his home state in the Indianapolis-type competition Saturday. Foyt, from Houston, has a career total of 43 championships. Qualifying for championship cars starts Thursday at 1 p.m. US AC stock cars are scheduled for qualifying on Friday. Polls Open Until 7 P.M. For City Council Elections