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President Nixon, John Mitchell
testified Wednesday.
Mitchell, U. S. attorney gen
eral at the time, appeared as
witness called by two former
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Former Texas Atty. Gen. Wag
goner Carr and former Texas In
surance Commissioner John Oso
rio are seeking to have the
charges against them dismissed
instead of facing trial as sched
uled Oct. 23.
Mitchell described the increas
ing concern in 1971 over the dis
closure that Will Wilson, who
then headed the criminal division
of the Justice Department, had
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At least 50 instructors are ex
pected at the “Newspaper in the
Classroom Workshop” to be held
day morning.
The program is sponsored by
TAMU’s College of Education and
'The Houston Post Educational
Services Department, said Dr. Jo
seph Ilika, associate professor of
educational curriculum and in
struction and director of the TA-
MU Reading and Language Lab
oratory.
The workshop will instruct
teachers in methods of utilizing
newspapers in the classroom for
teaching every subject and every
grade level, Ilika explained.
The program will include lec
tures, demonstrations and ses
sions in which the participants
may develop their own ideas.
Instructors at the elementary,
secondary and college levels are
invited to attend the workshop,
the professor pointed out.
Workshop leaders feel that
newspapers can be especially ef
fective in rural schools, Ilika not
ed, but as yet no teachers from
small towns have registered.
Participants will be instructed
in guidelines to develop “newspa
per behavioral reading objectives”
and encouraged to share their
findings and generate feedback,
Ilika said.
Emma Gene Schroeder, chair
man of the Reading Department
at Wharton County Junior Col
lege, and Margaret Mobley, The
Houston Post Educational Consul
tant, will direct the workshop.
Rosemary Wohlfort of The Hous
ton Post Educational Services
Staff will serve as coordinator.
Dr. Ilika will also take part in
the program.
The TAMU professor attended
the “Newspaper in the Classroom
Workshop” held at the University
of Houston recently and said he
was impressed “by the creativity
exemplified by the participants
in using newspapers to help rein
force reading skills.”
The workshop is set for Satur
day from 9 a.m. to 12 noon in
rooms 228 and 229 of the TAMU
Memorial Student Center. Regis
tration begins about 8:30 a.m.,
Ilika reminded.
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Frank Sharp, leading figure in
the scandal. Sharp, who headed
the Sharpstown State Bank, was
accused of trying to bribe state
officials to pass hanking bills by
selling them stock on shaky col
lateral and then manipulating
the stock value upward.
Sharp was granted immunity
from further prosecution after
pleading guilty on two counts of
banking and securities violations
and receiving a three-year pro
bated sentence.
Describing a first meeting with
the President, Mitchell said: “I
can’t recall the exact conversa
tion, but I believe the discussion
was about the public posture
which Mr. Wilson found himself
in at that time.”
At a second White House meet
ing which Mitchell said was prob
ably in October 1971, Wilson’s
problem again was discussed.
“The concern was not so much
about what Mr. Wilson might or
might not have done,” Mitchell
said, “but more about what the
public might think . . The De
partment of Justice might be kept
free from any essence of scan
dal.”
Mitchell added that he still had
admiration for Wilson and be
lieves in his integrity. But, after
Grand Jury
Dismisses
Pot Cases
HOUSTON <AP) — A Harris
County grand jury threw out
Wednesday all 70 cases of felony
possession of marijuana.
Another grand jury threw out
100 of 120 similar cases last
week. The cases all were be
tween Jan. 1 and Aug. 28.
Asst. Dist. Atty. Allen Stilley
said three grand juries empan
eled on Aug. 1 have been reject
ing most marijuana cases involv
ing less than four ounces of the
narcotic.
Possession of marijuana was
a felony under Texas law until
Aug. 28. On that date a new
law went into effect reducing
possession of less than four
ounces to a misdemeanor.
“We have not been recom
mending a no-bill in most of
these cases,” Stilley said. “It’s
mostly been a matter of the at
titude of the grand juries.”
The grand juries have been
considering a backlog of about
2,000 cases of marijuana posses
sion dating since Jan. 1.
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the second White House meet
ing, Wilson resigned.
Mitchell said that, as the
Sharpstown affair unfolded, it
was brought to his attention that
possibly public officials and for
mer public officials in Texas
might be involved.
Pressed for names, he said:
“It seems there was a mention of
Gov. Preston Smith, a gentle
man by the name of Mutschler
— Mitchell apparently referred
to former House Speaker Gus
Mutscher — former Atty. Gen.
Waggoner Carr and Lt. Gov. Ben
Barnes, those I recall as of now.”
He agreed all were prominent
Democrats.
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Not everyone would be thrilled
to have two exotic strings of
chinch bugs named after him, but
it’s a high honor for an entomol
ogist.
Such distinction was bestowed
on Dr. Merrill H. Sweet, TAMU
biology professor, at the Interna
tional Congress of Systematics
and Evolutionary Biology.
Sweet has studied members of
the chinch bug family (Lygaei-
dae) extensively, including a
year’s field trip in South Africa.
In recognition of his contribu
tions, a taxonomic group at the
University of Connecticut at
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name scientifically embellished.
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THE BATTALION Thursday, October 4, 1973 College Station, Texas Page 3
Singing Cadets Add Buffos
Thirty-three new members are
being inducted into the Singing
Cadets at Texas A&M University.
Known as “buffos” to return
ing members, they give the all
male glee club 63 voices for the
1973-74 school year.
Director Robert L. Boone also
announced 8 of the 33 buffos are
upperclassmen. The group in
cludes two seniors, a junior, five
sophomores and 25 freshmen.
New members were selected
during auditions in the first two
weeks of fall semester classes.
They comprise one of the largest
group of buffos in recent years.
Addition of the buffos gives
the Singing Cadets a distinct new
talent flavor. Only six have been
with Boone and Pianist-Accom
panist Mrs. June Biering more
than four semesters. Tim J.
Webb of Houston is the veteran,
wtih 18 semesters experience. He
is a graduate student in veteri
nary physiology and pharma
cology.
The Singing Cadets represent
TAMU in numerous concert and
performance appearances during
the year. They normally appear
on 40 to 60 occasions, providing
entertainment for conferences,
short courses and conventions
A new research project at TA
MU Chemistry Department may
result in a better understanding
of proteins, enzymes and the met
abolic process in the human body.
Dr. Edward E. Hazen Jr., asso
ciate professor of chemistry and
member of the research team,
said X-ray crystallography will
be used to determine the three-di
mensional structure of enzymes.
“We will try to define the loca
tion of each atom in the enzyme
structure,” Dr. Hazen noted, “and
will use the information to deter-
here, on tours and in out-of-town
concerts.
Boone explained the term
“buffo” as a male singer of comic
opera. The term is applied to
new Singing Cadets until they
learn how the organization oper
ates.
mine what makes a protein fold
up in a certain orientation to per
form its specific jobs.”
The researcher added that the
information might be applied in
the long run to determine how a
given drug reacts with a protein
molecule, and to define how the
metabolic process is carried out.
The $83,236 grant, provided by
the National Institutes of Health,
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare, is being administer
ed by the Texas A&M Research
Foundation.
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