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K Students campaigning for the
Nov. 13 elections should keep the
■niversity Rules and Regulations
handbook on hand for procedures.
■ Persons running for freshman
Hass officers, freshman senators
Br junior class representatives to
He Memorial Student Center
■ouncil should campaign accord-
pig to paragraph 68, section E of
e handbook, said Barry Bowden,
lection Board chairman.
Bowden also listed four places
designated on the campus for
lampaign posters on mounted
ticks.
These areas are the grassy
trip next to parking lot 35
icross from Krueger-Dunn, the
grassy strip on the north side of
)uncan, the area between the
onstruction fence and Houston
3t. across from Sbisa and the
jrass between Bizzell Hall, Hous
ton St., Military Walk and Lamar
3t. along the sidewalk.
Vol. 67 No. 309
College Station, Texas
Thursday, November 1, 1973
Houston Lawyer Selected
Next Special Prosecutor
Students body may vote Nov.
3 with the ID and activity cards
it five locations. These are the
SC, the guard room, the library,
Ibisa newsstand and the Krueger-
tmn Commons.
HOUSTON <A>>—Leon Jaworski
said today he accepted the ap
pointment as special Watergate
prosecutor only after being satis
fied that he will be free to act
wherever necessary.
“The significant phases of the
agreement involve the independ
ence with which I will be able to
operate,” the former president of
the American Bar Association
said at a news conference.
“There are no restraints. I am
not prohibited from taking any
action I might feel should be
taken.”
Jaworski said there had been
serious questions whether an ap
pointment of a successor to Arch
ibald Cox could be made by any
one other than the executive
branch.
He expresed hope that senators
and congressmen who want Con
gress to play a role in the selec
tion will be satisfied by the ar
rangements under which he ac
cepted the appointment.
“I don’t know what the reac
tion by members of Congress will
be, but when they examine the
terms of my acceptance, I feel
they will find the comfort and
reassurrances I found.”
In answer to a question, Ja
worski said he has not talked with
President Nixon about the ap
pointment and has no plans to
do so.
He said he first was contacted
about the possible appointment
Tuesday by acting Atty. Gen.
Robert Bork, who reported that
Jaworski’s name had been men
tioned by several legal authorities
across the country.
The appointment came from
Bork and was approved by Nixon.
Jaworski said he is satisfied
with the arrangement under which
that should an impasse develop
over any phase of the case the
matter will be presented to the
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WASHINGTON — Vice
President - designate Gerald R.
Ford faces questions about his
handling of campaign contribu
tions and his views on executive
privilege as the Senate Rules
Committee starts his confirma
tion hearings.
Chairman Howard W. Cannon,
D.-Nev., said, without referring
specifically to Nixon’s Water
gate woes, “You have to assume
we may be confirming a presi
dent.”
Ford, the House Republican
leader, planned a detailed open
ing statement today as Congress
prepared for the first time to act
on a vice presidential nomination
under the 25th Amendment.
The odds still favor prompt,
overwhelming approval of Ford
to replace Spiro T. Agnew, who
resigned.
However, Cannon said Wednes
day that, in his inspection, of
more than 1,700 pages of raw
FBI data on Ford, “I have seen
things that will certainly raise
questions.”
He said these include “the
question of laundering campaign
funds” and charges of “making
certain political contributions in
exchange for certtain favors.”
However, Sen. Marlow W.
Cook, R.-Ky., said, as he prepared
to resume reading the FBI data,
he has found nothing that will
jeopardize approval of Ford
“under any circumstances.”
Cannon said he hopes the hear
ings won’t take more than six to
eight days. Cook said he doesn’t
expect the Senate to wait for
House hearings before consider
ing the nomination.
House Speaker Carl Albert,
D.-Okla., has said he hopes the
House will act on the nomination
by Thanksgiving.
Chairman Peter W. Rodino
Jr., D.-N.J., said earlier “it is
conceivable” the House Judiciary
Committee will begin its hearings
next week.
Cannon and Cook both said
Ford is probably the most investi
gated nominee in the nation’s
history. He has given the com
mittee copies of income tax
returns and other requested
records.
Cannon, in citing charges of
“laundering campaign funds,”
said the committee will ask Ford
about the $11,000 in 1970 cam
paign contributions that he chan
neled to the Republican Congres
sional Campaign Committee.
Aggie Cinema
Presents
‘Patton’
The Ag-gie Cinema will
salute a rebel when it pre
sents “Patton” in the Uni
versity Center Theater
Friday and Saturday.
The show will begin at
8 p. m. and will cost 75
cents.
General George Patton’s
armies were credited with
liberating over 12,000 cit
ies and inflicting about IVz
million German casualties.
Patton rebelled against
the accepted concepts of
warfare and spoke out
against political inefficien
cy. He claimed he would
have reached Berlin a
week before the Soviets if
he had not been ordered to
halt his advance.
This wartime record of
a strongly religious war
rior is based on writings
by men who served with
and knew him.
two senior majority and minority
members of both the House and
Senate Judiciary Committees.
Jaworski, 68, appeared tired as
he talked to newsmen and his tele
phone rang constantly.
At one point, his wife said Gen.
Alexander Haig, the Presidential
aide, was calling. The contents of
the late evening call were not
known.
Jaworski, a senior partner in
the law firm of Fullbright, Crook-
er & Jaworski, served as presi
dent of the American Bar Asso
ciation in 1971-72.
He represented the late Lyndon
Johnson, then a senator and vice
presidential nominee, in a suit
filed by several Republicans to
bar Johnson from running for
both offices in 1960.
He served as a special counsel
to the attorney general of Texas
in conducting a Court of inquiry
to establish facts surrounding the
assassination of President John
F. Kennedy.
The court’s efforts later merged
with those of the Warren Com
mission, and Jaworski served as
counsel to the Commission.
Johnson appointed Jaworski to
serve as a member of the Presi
dent’s Commission on Law En
forcement and Administration of
Justice.
House
Mashes
Auto
A 1973 Pontiac Catalina park
ed in front of G. Rollie White Col
iseum received substantial dam
age Wednesday afternoon when a
passing building fell on it.
The building was one of the
portable storage sheds construc
tion teams have been using an
campus. Two of them were being
transported down Joe Routt Blvd.
on the back of a truck.
As the truck, driven by Harold
Oden of Houston, passed under
the trees in front of the gym, a
branch snagged the back shed.
It was tipped over onto the
hood of the car owned by C.R.C.
Crose, also of Houston.
Police arrived and hastily made
arrangements for removal of the
wreckage before the 5 p.m. rush.
Workers moved the shed off the
car and onto the curb in less
than 20 minutes, but not without
completely destroying it.
Amendment
Seawall Vote
Reduces
Margin
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth
in a series of articles examining
the arguments both for and
against each of the proposed
amendments to be voted in the
upcoming special election.
By RICK BROWN
In 1961, hurricane Carla swept
through Texas and Louisiana
killing 40 persons and injuring
hundreds more. Tragedies like
this have stimulated concern
among Texas coastal counties
over the possibility of more
deaths. This year their concern
manifests itself in the form of
amendment 5 on the ballot. It
reads, “For or Against: The con
stitutional amendment authoriz
ing counties and cities bordering
on the Gulf of Mexico to issue
bonds for the construction of sea
walls and breakwaters upon a
vote of the resident property tax
payers.” Except for those per
sons living on or near the coast
the amendment will have little
impact.
The wording of the proposed
amendment tends to be mislead
ing. The amendment reads in
part “. . . authorizing counties
... to issue bonds.” Technically
one would expect that, should the
amendment fail, those counties
would then not have authoriza
tion to issue bonds. However, the
counties in question already have
that power. The only change this
amendment would make would be
to reduce the required vote from
a two thirds to a simple majority.
Those favoring amendment 5
feel that presently, needed sea
walls and breakwaters don’t exist
due to resistance by persons liv
ing on the island side of coastal
counties to the increased taxes
bonds. Those favoring the amend
ment say lowering requirements
would encourage passage of bond
elections and subsequent con
struction of badly needed sea
walls and breakwaters. Also they
point out that since “. . . a ma
jority vote is all that is required
for some other types of bond elec
tions, amendment 5 is only bring
ing this type of bond election in
to conformity with the others,”
according to the League of Wom
en Voters’ Voters Guide.
Those opposing amendment 5
say such a reduction in require
ments would facilitate passage of
such bond elections. They further
state that this move would make
bonds too easy to be passed; that
since voter turnout in such elec
tions is invariably light, a small
group of citizens could easily run
up a heavy tax burden on citizens
who neither profit by, nor wish
to pay for, the existence of a sea
wall.
Board’s Input Absent on Birth Control
Whether or not TAMU will
have family planning facilities
has not been considered by the
TAMU Board of Directors.
Wednesday’s Battalion quoted
W® ^ r - Tom Adair, assistant to Pres
ident Jack K. Williams, as say
ing, “My feeling is that it (the
policy of no family planning) was
a decision of the president, who
was supported by the Board.”
A spot poll of Board members
shows the Board has never been
confronted with the issue either
formally or informally.
“Policy on this matter has been
left up to the campus administra
tion,” said Mrs. Wilmer Smith,
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board member from Wilson, Tex.
The administration is defined
as the university president and
his staff who administer the poli
cies and procedures as decided up
on by the Board, said Mrs. Smith.
“The Board has not discussed
the matter,” she said, “but it
sounds like such a service may
be very helpful and that there
could be a need for some change.
“I’m not well enough informed
on the facilties available in the
new health center on the campus.
Neither am I sure exactly what
avenues one would take to pursue
the matter.”
Presently there is a Family
Planning Center in Bryan which
is funded by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
This center will not accept stu
dents as patients regardless of in
come level.
In a letter to D-HEW, External
Affairs Chairperson Barb Sears
stated that the justification pre
sented by the Center’s staff was
“They claimed that they could not
handle the tremendous demand
when students were allowed to
use the center.”
The second reason the Center
claimed was that “if students
could afford to attend school, they
could afford to pay for visits to
a doctor and contraceptives.”
“What I’ve asked for is a less
ening of the ‘no’ restriction,” said
Patricia Self, women’s counselor.
“In dealing with some students,
I know they need such a service.
I think we ought to review a
number of ways in which more
persons, including students, can
benefit from such a clinic.”
The Brazos ..Valley Family
Planning Program has received a
$75,000 federal grant which must
pay for the entire operation. Six
doctors in the Brazos Valley area
give their time to the clinic, each
receiving $25 per night for their
service.
“These doctors re-donate this
money back into the clinic to help
support it,” said Self.
The center serves seven coun
ties and is funded as less than
half of its original proposal. The
Battalion has learned that there
are plans for a proposal which
will increase funds to the center.
“I hope that you can under
stand our frustration in being
presented with these arguments,”
the letter continued. “In refer
ence to the first excuse, a large
demand from individuals who are
students shows that there is truly
a great need for this service.”
“Secondly, TAMU is a state
school and has relatively low tui
tion rates. Many students work
(See Ford, page 5)
$100 Cash Prize Awards
In Library Book Contest
WALT MEISSNER AND DANA HERELL rehearse
for the Aggie Players presentation of “The Devil’s Disciple.”
The play will run Nov. 6-10 at 8 p. m. in the new Forum
Theater. (Photo by Kathy Curtis)
Awards will be presented to the
five winners of the Friends of the
Library’s student book collector’s
contest Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. in the
University Library conference
suite.
The awards are cash prizes of
$100. There are 21 entries under
consideration and the judges will
examine 25 books in each collec
tion.
“The contest was started as a
way to encourage young book col
lectors. Entries must belong to
a student currently enrolled at
A&M and have some unifying
theme,” said Evelyn King,
Friend’s member and librarian in
the special collections division of
the library.
With a proliferation of books
today, the fact that all the books
in one collection are on the same
subject adds to the groupings
worth, King said. “Recently, the
Dobey collection was revalued a
$1,000 more, simply because the
books were all together.”
Jeff Dikes, class of ’21, started
a collection on his field of inter
est, range livestock. It is now
considered one of the most valued
in the A&M library.
Currently Dikes is searching for
a volume considered one of the
“Big Four” in range livestock.
The last known copy of this vol
ume was bought by a Yale fresh
man for $2,800. Dikes, who says
he believes book collecting keeps
one young, hopes to find another
less expensive copy.
Many libraries have had their
beginnings due to private collec-
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
tion. The Bancroft collections led
to the founding of the University
of California at Berkley's library,
and the Huntington collection was
the basis of the Harvard library.
“Collecting isn’t limited to just
rich old men anymore. Although
books can prove to be a good in
vestment and collectors have been
known not to read their acquisi
tions, generally people like books
and like to read them, if they col
lect them,” King said.
Dr. Luther Evans, a native
Texan who has served as the Li
brarian of Congress, will be the
principal speaker for the award
presentation. Beside the five cash
prizes two honorable mentions will
be awarded.
“If the public receives this well
and there have been offers of cash
prizes for next year, we hope to
continue the contest on an annual
basis,” said King.
RHA Halloween Night:
Free-for-all
In the Girls 9 Quad