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22.0. 4. : 2 C an d Do'ij 1- Jeff Ra ndy p aci ; Stcv e Scl^ 4 - T <>ni Bittj Che Battalion The Smallest Good Deed Is Better Than The Greatest Good Intention. WEDNESDAY—Fair with mild afternoon. Cold tonight. High 67, low 35. THURSDAY High of 69. Vol. 67 No. 240 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 4, 1973 Fair and cool. 845-2226 Rice, 64!i ^ Houston, 2J1, J ns e from f(s , Kovar, centi 969; finite ackle fm loc Mac Kiij Mineola, 19i: e DeNiro, 4 Youngster, an auto a«i a trophy pot Boycott Strangles Sales 1 R 'ce (Ml y Finley, li, Dlc ke), 3:13,! . • ACC, 3:l}j f By The Associated Press The meat industry began Tues day to feel the pinch of the nationwide consumer boycott as wholesalers reported layoffs and supermarkets said sales were de clining. “It’s beginning to look like they mean business,” said one store manager. Consumers said they were de- “The two factions . . . leave no room for a company with our operating responsibilities to func tion in a worthwhile economical fashion.” Store spokesmen said meat sales were down. Don Richards, manager of the meat department at Shaw’s Supermarket in Port land, Maine, said meat purchases were off 60 per cent; the opera tor of the Hoekstra Meat Market in Kalamazoo, Mich., had only 10 customers in five hours on Monday. As a result, Mary Hoekstra closed the retail meat counter and said it would remain shut until Friday. djt\l i termined to stick to their guns. | “No meat for my family until after the boycott, however long it may be,” said a shopper in Detroit. An Associated Press survey showed the man in the middle— the wholesaler—was hardest hit by the boycott that started Sun day in an effort to force down rising meat prices. Robert Miller, head of the Union Packing Co. in Los Ange les, said some retailers have stopped all beef orders. J. J. m SK'S Rodriquez, head of Meat Cutters Local 563 of Los Angeles, said 350 union members had been laid off. Union leaders in Philadelphia said about 300 meatcutters had been laid off and several hun dred others were working shorter hours. “We’re afraid this situ ation could worsen,” said Leon B. Schacter, area national vice president of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Work men’s Union. “We feel that meat is too high for our own members, but we don’t feel the remedy is the boycott. We can’t support it. We’d cut our own throat.” Leroy A. Hughes, principal officer of the company, said the firm was caught in the middle between farmers who “are being tough and holding firm to the prices they want” and buyers who “are tough and holding firm to what they will pay in addition to the government’s price ceil ings on these dressed beef prices. McGinty, Reed Fall Short In Council Voting A&M students Sam McGinty and Lynn Reed lost bids for Col lege Station City Council places in Tuesday’s balloting. Incumbent Fred Brison polled 753 votes to challenger Reed’s 227 in the Place 1 race. Place 3 incumbent Don R. Dale polled 615 votes to Sam McGin- ty’s 367. In the Place 5 race, R. D. Rade- leff ran unopposed and polled 820 votes. il’S ES iting 50 cle with- r paint." Forgery Likely On Letter; Students Deny Signatures A controversy has arisen concerning the possible forgery of signatures on a letter in Tuesday’s Battalion endorsing Shariq Yosufzai for Student Government vice president. In addition, The Battalion has found that some of the people listed admitted to signing the letter while others said they had never seen the letter before. The original source of the letter has not been determined, how ever. Fred Campbell, chairman of the Student Government Rules and Regulations Committee, said that he had never signed the letter, seen it or given anyone permission to use his signature in connection with the Yosufzai campaign. William Wade also said he never signed the letter and said that MacRoberts had told him Yosufzai had asked him (MacRoberts) to type the letter. Yosufzai told The Battalion that the copy in the Batt was the first one he had seen of the letter and that he had no idea how Campbell’s name got on it. “I know that most of the people are my supporters,” said Yosufzai, “but don’t know if they signed the letter or where it came from.” Yosufzai said the only explanation he had was that someone had gone “around the campus taking names from signs and had sneaked Campbell’s and Wade’s names on the letter.” He added that he would call this a deliberate attempt to malign him. Several other persons who allegedly signed the lettersaid they had never seen it, but had signed a letter for Yosufzai which he never submitted for print. Blakemore, Ross Express Views Mrs. Hoekstra said the whole sale side of her business—people buying large orders to put in the freezer—was fine. “I think a lot of people are eating meat, but they don’t want to be seen at the market buying it,” she said. Hog prices at the Arkansas National Stockyards Inc. on Tues day were up to $38.50 per hun dredweight, an increase of $2.00 since Monday, but $1.50 below Friday’s level. A record drop to $30.25 was recorded at midweek last week. The Agriculture Department reported that 79,000 head of cattle were slaughtered Monday, down 16,000 from a week earlier. Hog slaughter dropped to 280,000 —down 30,000. Oren Lee Staley, president of the NFO, said the situation looks like it has stabilized at this point. He said his members were stand ing by to decide whether to take further action—withholding live stock from market as they did temporarily last week or pocket ing stores to counter boycott groups. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz has said he opposes the boycott. But he found himself eating filet of sole for lunch. Butz spoke at a luncheon of the National Press Club in Wash ington on Tuesday. A doorman at the club was asked what the menu was. “Fish, of course,” he replied, “You can’t serve the secretary of agriculture meat on a meatless week can you?” There were some indications that prices were down—for the moment at least. Consumers Cooperative, head quartered in Berkeley, Calif., said meat prices in its eight stores would be rolled back 15 per cent. Co-op meat buyer Leonard Erkkili said the cut means that the consumer-owned chain will sell meat at a loss until packers drop their prices. President Nixon has imposed a price ceiling on lamb, beef and pork prices at the wholesale and retail level, but many consumers said the action was not sufficient to lower prices. The ceiling took effect last Thursday. Referendum Vote Placed On Ballot “ONE NEEDLE IS ENOUGH’—Texas A&M students give Layne Kruse extra needling while the TAMU student body president gave in the Aggie Blood Drive. It continues Wednesday in the Krueger-Dunn Hall commons. More than 300 units were taken Tuesday by Wadley Institute person nel. Cubicles Allotted A referendum on the proposed constitutional amendments will be conducted along with the run-off elections tomorrow. The referendum was postponed from Thursday because the print- ISA Quizzes Candidates, Gives Answers For Election The International Student As sociation asked Student Govern ment presidential candidates in Thursday’s runoffs to submit their views on the international student situation at A&M. T. Mark Blakemore replied that his service on the Inter national Student Association as U. S. delegate has given him a better understanding of the prob lems faced by students. He said the recent investigation of Arab A&M students by the FBI follow ing the Munich Arab-Israeli inci dent pointed up the need for a statement of legal rights. He advocates programs such as foster parents and the establish ment of an International House at A&M as possible steps to make the cultural transition of foreign students easier. Blakemore op poses the recently passed recom mendation to increase foreign student tuition to $40 per se mester. This year Blakemore worked on the University International Stu dent Advisory Committee in try ing to establish a means to funnel more Exchange Store funds to international student activities, and worked to gain added flex ibility in housing policies for international students. Randy Ross answered that he has worked with the Office of Admissions and Records and the President’s Office in altering housing policies so that inter national students may live where they want to. He has supported this proposal since his freshman year and the concept of an Inter national Student House. He has been working to get Exchange Store funds for this purpose. He is opposed to the proposed tuition hike for international students to $40. Ross favors eased housing policies that would permit foreign as well as all other students to live off campus if they want to. Ross would like to formulate a policy to allow international students to live on-campus but eat off campus if they have re ligious, cultural or personal rea sons for it. He would also like to create a responsive post of International Student Adviser. In the vice presidential race, the International Student Associ ation has endorsed Shariq Yo sufzai. “We consider him the most qualified candidate and con sider his platform most suitable for all Aggies including interna tionals,” said the organization’s president, Louis Juarez. ers were late in delivering the ballots. The ballot will allow the voters to vote yes on all amendments, no on all amendments or vote on each amendment separately. The amendments are: First Amendment: The Student Body President, Vice President Treasurer and chairmen of the standing: committees of the Student Senate shall be elected by a majority vote of the student body. Second Amendment: The Correspond ing Secretary and the chairmen of the standing committees of the Executive Branch shall be appointed by the Student Body President with the approval of two- thirds of the members of the Student Senate present and voting, and he may remove these individuals at his discretion. Third Amendment: The Student Body President or the Student Senate shall designate the organizations to be included in the Advisory Council to the Student Body President. Fourth Amendment: The Standing Committees of the Executive Branch shall Programs Office Finds New Home adhere to such policy guidelines as may be established by the Student Senate. Fifth Amendment: The Campus Pro jects Committee shall replace the Services Committee and shall be responsible for services for the student body as designated by the Student Body President’s Executive Committee. Sixth Amendment: The officers of the Student Senate shall be the Student Body Vice President, Treasurer, and the chair men of the standing committees of the Student Senate. Seventh Amendment: The Student Senate shall approve or remove by a two- thirds vote of its members present and voting at a meeting all students in pointive positions whose ents in ap- ppointments ;udent The Student Body 11 appoint a Recorde of tv ;ive positions whose ap must be confirmed by the Student Senate. Eighth Amendment Vice President shall two-thirds of rder the with the approval membership of the Student Senate present and voting at a meeting and may remove the Recorder at his discretion. The Re corder shall not have a vote, shall not be a Student Senator, and shall not be a member of the Student Senate Executive Committee. Ninth Amendment: De 1 ete the veto power of the Student Body President from Article III of the Constitution. The veto power of the Student Body shall be listed in Article II Sectio President tion IV. Tenth Amendment: By laws for the Constitution must be approved by two- thirds of the membership of the Student Senate. The Student Programs Office has moved into its new office on the second floor of the new Me morial Student Center facilities and has announced which organi zations will be allotted cubicle space. Cubicle space consists of a 6- foot square desk with swivel chair, shelf, cabinet and a file cabinet. The number of desks given were determined by the need of the organization. Since there were more applications than space available, the organizations given space were selected by the Student Programs planning com mittee. The YMCA was given four cubicles. Three cubicles were given to Alpha Phi Omega and the MSC committees given three were Great Issues, Public Relations and SCONA. The MSC committees, Political Forum and Arts and the Student Government were given two desks apiece. CWENS, Omega Phi Alpha, Women’s Awareness, Lincoln Un ion Debating Society and Phi Sigma Beta were given one desk each. Also given one cubicle were the MSC committees of Black Awareness, Camera and Recrea tion, Mexican-American Commit tee, Basement and Aggie Cinema, Town Hall, Host and Fashion, New Tradition Singers and Ra dio, Travel and OPAS. Although cubicles will not be available until late summer, the new office opened April 2 and these organizations will be oper ating in the area. 200 Persons Finish ‘Miles For Mankind’ About 200 persons completed the Student “Y” Association’s 20- mile “Miles For Mankind” Sat urday to net over $5,000. The walk was held to raise funds for the YMCA’s United World Service, Bryan - College Station students and aid in reno vation of Hensel Park. Mayor Dick Hervey led the affair. The oldest people to finish the walk were Dr. and Mrs. Robert Albanese. Joe Walker was the first person to finish by running it in three hours and 15 minutes. Barbara Cowan collected the most money per mile, $15.89 or $317.80 in all. Carol Silverthorne collected $129.80 and Hal Covert amassed $157. Bigfoot—A Mystery Of The Northwest SASQUATCH, OR BIGFOOT as he may be called, left this typical footprint for A&M anthropologist Dr. Vaughn Bryant. The North American version of Asia’s Abominable Snowman is highly sought after and only few have caught glimpses of him. By TED BORISKIE Staff Writer At a time when the eerie tale of the Fouke monster of south western Arkansas is getting na tionwide publicity through the film “The Legend of Boggy Creek,” another equally mys terious series of events remains unexplained in the great forests of the American Northwest-—the legend of “Bigfoot.” Bigfoot, also known as Sas- quatch, Ohma and the Abomin able Snowman of the Northwest, has been the topic of study for over three years for A&M an thropologist Dr. Vaughn M. Bryant. For two years, Bryant worked with Dr. Grover Krantz, physical anthropologist at Washington State University, trying to piece together solid evidence of Big- foot’s existence. There have been no bones found and no live specimen captured, so for evidence science must re ly on sightings, 750 in the past 100 years, and footprints found in the snow and mud. “The footprints suggest an av erage weight of 500-600 pounds and his height, based on sightings and photos, would appear to be about 7-9 feet,” said Bryant. “The foot seems to have a fundamental arch, a human characteristic, and a large toe which is bigger than any of the others, another human characteristic. Around the out side edge of the heel there is a thick callous layer typical of man kind that live in open areas and never wear shoes.” Another piece of evidence ex ists in the form of a shaky seven feet of film of a shaggy, appar ently female sasquatch running off into the thick brush of the Cascade mountain range. The film was taken by an ex-rodeo rider named Roger Patterson who, as he told it, was thrown from his mount when his horse suddenly reared. Seeing the sas quatch, Patterson grabbed his movie camera and gave chase. Hollywood technicians said the film could only have been faked at considerable expense. The legend of Bigfoot dates back several centuries. The word “sasquatch” was the name given him early in time by the Salish Indians of the Northwest coast. Figures symbolizing him are found on ancient Indian totem poles. Lewis and Clark learned of him, though they didn’t see “On the side of Texas A&M.” University National Bank Adv. him on their expeditions in the early 1800’s. In 1840, a railroad crew claim ed to have seen a sasquatch when one wandered down out of the forests and onto the railroad bed. The crew chased him with spike hammers and drove him back into the woods. In 1882, a Victoria, British Co lumbia, newspaper reported a railroad crew snared “a creature which may truly be called half man and half beast.” The crea ture was named Jacko and noth ing more was ever written about him. A sasquatch whose right foot was mauled badly, apparently from a bear trap, became so well known to the inhabitants of the small Washington town of Bos- burg that they gave him the name “Cripple Foot.” “He had been wondering around Bosburg for years,” said Bryant. “The Bosburgians said his hair was gray and he ap peared to be arthritic. He was probably killed when a Canadian motorist, who had been drinking, nailed him late one night with the front bumper of his car. “That was Jan. 1, 1971. Nobody has seen him or his prints since.” Zoologists who work with ani mal population densities feel that in order for the sasquatch to form a breeding population, there must be 1,000-1,500 scattered thinly throughout the Cascade mountain range. “If he exists,” said Bryant, “he seems to be frightened of man. This fear may have been learned from bad experiences with man in the past.” Many argue that Bigfoot is a hoax, someone trying to resur rect an old Indian legend. In de fense of this, they point out that no bones have been found and that the few photos which do exist are what one might expect if someone were faking them, out of focus, taken at great dis tances and taken in poor light level. “It’s feasible that no bones have been found,” said Bryant, “because the area is so remote. The forest is very dense and bones do not preserve well in it. There is also a thick, mossy growth that covers eevrything. Something could die, the forest would grow over it and a few months later someone could stand on top of it, not knowing it’s there. “If this has been a hoax,” he continued, “it has been carried out for over 130 years. It seems strange that no one has exposed the hoax over that period of time. “Also, the footprints are too weel made. If they were faked, the faker took great pains to make sure that the tips of the toes would leave a deeper im print as would be found in normal bipedal walking. They would have to be made by someone who knows quite a lot about the mor phology of the foot.” Bryant feels that if the sas quatch do exist, they are probably descendants of a manlike ape called Gigantopithecus whose re mains have been found in China. He says they may have migrated through Siberia into Alaska and finally down to the Cascades. “Still, we can never really be sure these creatures do exist,” he said, “until we find one. Until then we can only speculate.” There are some people who strongly believe in Bigfoot’s ex istence. Among this group are people who claim to have sighted a sasquatch. “There was a hunter that stumbled across a sasquatch and held him in his sights for a few seconds, more than enough time to fire,” said Bryant. “But he couldn’t bring himself to fire. He said it looked too human.” Banking is a pleasure at First Bank & Trust. Adv.