*lNational truck-strike violence hits Rio Grande Valley
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
I One truck driver was shot and
le coibiJ another fired on late Wednesday
on the
5-13 otj
rence,
as violence from the widespread
trucker strike suddenly hit in
Texas’ Lower Rio Grande Valley.
I The two shootings occurred
about five miles apart on U. S.
81, one at the northern edge of
harr, Tex., and the other a quar-
r mile south of Edinburg.
The first driver, witnesses said,
tumbled into a Pharr service sta-
Department of Public Safety put
out a bulletin for a red-and-white
tractor pulling an aluminum trail
er.
Police said a gun of .38 caliber
or larger was used in both shoot
ings.
Meanwhile, independent truck
ers in East Texas moved to get
West Texas truck stops—some of
which reopened Tuesday—to again
shut down.
“Some of our men left for West
Texas last night to talk to the
truckers and the truck stops out
there,” said Wesley Brooks, a
spokesman for East Texas truck
ers who pulled their rigs off the
roads and parked at truck stops
in the area last Friday.
“The strike is going to flare
up again in West Texas,” he add
ed.
Truck stops in West Texas re
opened when truck drivers re
moved their rigs from several
truck stops in the Abilene and Big
Spring area. They explained that
some of the truck stops had re
fused to go along with the shut
down and “it was unfair to keep
some closed while others did bus
iness.”
Most truckers reacted unfav
orably Wednesday to the an
nouncement by President Nixon
that he was ordering a freeze in
the price of diesel fuel.
Leroy Sells, a truck operator in
San Angelo, said: “If Nixon
would get the freight rates up to
make up for the difference in
price and then freeze diesel pri
ces, he might help something.”
Higher freight rates, faster
highway speeds and lower diesel
prices are the three demands of
truckers. That’s the reason they
pulled their rigs off the road,
pledging to keep them off until
they received some satisfaction
from the government.
Meanwhile, the effects of the
stoppage continued to spread with
poultry farms and meat packing
firms feeling the pinch.
Spokesmen for the industry
said that scarcities of fresh pro
duce and meats will become ap
parent at supermarkets and gro
cery stores in a few days unless
a quick solution is found to the
trucking strike.
Holly Farms closed its poultry
processing plant Wednesday in
tion and told of being shot. The
Center because of the truckers
strike, president Everett Solomon
said.
Holly Farms employs about
700 persons in the plant and has
another 100 field employes.
Solomon said chickens were
available but shipping of process
ed broilers to distant points such
as Chicago has shut down by the
truckers strike.
The plant here is one of the
largest in the state.
second driver reported being shot
it a few minutes later.
Pharr police chief Raul Reyna
identified the wounded driver as
Robert Kobrick who was taken to
IcAllen General Hospital with a
leg wound.
Both drivers told local and state
dice they were shot at by a man
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Vol. 67 No. 344
CoDefC Station, Texas Thursday, February 7, 1974
BERKELEY, Calif. <A>) — The
[FBI circulated photographs Wed-
Jnesday of “possible suspects” in
Ithe kidnapping of newspaper heir
ess Patricia Hearst, while her par-
[ents pleaded again for word from
[the kidnappers.
An FBI spokesman said the
photographs included both men
and women but would not elab
orate.
The San Francisco Examiner, a
Hearst newspaper, reported that
; photos, including women associat
ed with militant organizations,
jjwere being shown by FBI agents
| on the University of California
[campus here and elsewhere.
The FBI, which reported ear-
f lier there had been unspecified
| new developments in the case,
: confirmed the photographs had
been circulated, but it declined
I comment on the specifics carried
in the newspaper report.
The girl’s father, Randolph A.
[Hearst, his wife Catherine at his
[side, told a news conference his
| family was sitting by the tele
phone and “just hoping whoever
j has our daughter will call us.”
Miss Hearst, 19, a sandy-haired
f college sophomore, was kidnaped
Monday night from her apartment
and tossed screaming into the
trunk of a car. Her captors beat
her fiance and a neighbor and
sprayed gunfire at witneses.
There has been no word from
the kidnappers. “We sit by the
i phone and wait,” said Hearst.
[ "They have not killed yet. And
they haven’t yet seriously injured
j anyone. I just hope they don’t
go any further.”
Thomas Druken, assistant spe-
Enrollment
up in spring
student service fee of $17.50 with an athletic
user fee of $1 for home football games Wednes
day night at the Student Senate meeting.
The vote was 41 to 40 with one abstention.
The vote was taken after extensive debate on
See page three for a tally of the roll-call vote.
Spring enrollment is a record
17,756, Registrar Robert A. Lacey
announced Wednesday.
Lacey said registration is up
16.8 per cent over the same per
iod last year.
The spring enrollment includes
3,980 women and approximately
3,700 graduate students.
Lacey explained the figures
represent enrollment as of Tues
day, the 12th class day of the
semester and official reporting
period for the Coordinating Board,
Texas College and University
System.
whether or not to substitute the $17.50 option
for a plan asking for a $19 fee with no user fee
for athletics.
“Students who go to games get more good
from football than the students who do not, there
fore, it seems only reasonable that they should
pay more for that extra good,” said John Nash,
(Law-Puryear).
An alternate plan proposed by Senator Ron
Miori (Business) was overwhelmingly defeated
by a voice vote after a short debate.
The plan would have lowered Student Services
Fees by 50 cents and would primarily have cut
funds to the Memorial Student Center and the
Student Government.
After the defeat of the Friesenhahn-Gohmert-
McNeely-Miori Plan, Miori was bombarded by
the other senators with the wadded remnants of
Fees Committee passed the Senate by a large
majority. An amendment proposed by Sen. Randy
Stephens asking that $15,000 be set aside from
athletic funds for women’s athletics under intra
murals failed to pass with the plan.
Debate on the executive branch constitutional
revisions centered around the article concerning
the presidential veto. Two amendments to do
away with the veto power of the president and
to leave the over-riding power of the sehate at
a necessary two-thirds vote were defeated. The
other revisions passed by the Senate will appear
on the referendum ballot this spring.
The Senate also approved a new graduate
senator representing the off-campus living area.
Henry Smahlik was nominated by Randy Ross to
fill that vacated position.
Treasurer David White proposed a resolution
to put the lawn policy of the Memorial Student
Center on the referendum ballot. Vice President
Shariq Yosufzai relinquished the meeting to
Speaker Pro Tern Jan Faber during the debate
on this issue. Yosufzai then spoke for the Senate
to take a firm stand on the issue rather than
sending it to the students.
(See SENATE REJECTS, page 3)
Annual think-tank returns
4 THE MANY FACES of science fiction are explained to
Creed Ford by David Hayes as William Kostura looks on at
the Cepheid Variable Science-Fiction Committee booth at
the Memorial Student Center Open House Wednesday
night. The open house offered a compressed view of the
far-ranging activities of the MSC organizations to the few
who bothered to turn out.
Photo by Alan Killingsworth
Trying to take the major ideas of our
nation’s existence and analyzing them in
order of importance is a mind-stimulating
(or mind-boggling) task. SCONA dele
gates have got quite a job on their hands.
The topic of “Re-ordering American
Priorities” will provide for interaction next
week between a variety of important
speakers and about 200 student delegates to
the 19th Student Conference on National
Affairs.
Ideas on energy, environment, social
spending, national defense, and foreign
policy will be presented and discussed at
the Feb. 13-16 conference. An analysis of
U.S. priorities compiled by the Library of
Congress will be used by the delegates as
a “textbook.”
Chairman Steve Kosub said the topic,
“Reordering American Priorities,” may be
too broad, “but it presents a wealth of
areas for delegates to explore.”
“What these areas will be depends on
delegate interest,” he added. “Their tax
money will be spent in the future in sup
port of what will be discussed at SCONA
XIX.”
Most idea exchange among student dele
gates will take place at roundtables.
At roundtables, delegates will discuss
and elaborate ideas presented by speakers,
from SCONA materials and of their own.
“The roundtable is actually where it
happens,” explained Kosub. “Here, speak
ers’ main points are reviewed, kicked
around, analyzed and from this, other ideas
and better understanding derived.”
“American priorities will not be ordered,
or reordered, to reflect the needs and wants
of the nation without the stimulus of an
informed, broadly reaching national de
bate,” Kosub said.
Speakers who will help focus delegate
thinking are Mrs. Alice Rivlin, senior fellow
at the Brookings Institution in Washing
ton; William D. Ruckelshaus, former EPA
director most people remember as the one
time U.S. Deputy Attorney General; Dr.
Hans Morgenthau, political science profes
sor, City University of New York; The
Honorable William P. Clements Jr., deputy
secretary of defense; Dr. Abba Lerner,
Queens College economics professor, and
Ms. Barbara Williams, executive director,
Coalition for Human Needs and Budget
Priorities.
cial agent in charge of the
FBI’s San Francisco office, re
ported the new developments, but
he refused to disclose any details
and said no ransom note had been
received.
Kunstler arrangements
The girl’s parents maintained
a -vigil at their estate in subur
ban Hillsborough about 15 miles
south of San Francisco. Her fa
ther is president and publisher
of the San Francisco Examiner.
Her mother is a member of the
University of California board of
regents.
In a statement issued earlier,
they pleaded for their daughter’s
safe return and promised that
they would not prosecute her kid
nappers.
made by TAMU ACLU
Tuesday The Battalion printed that William
Kunstler would appear at Texas A&M Univer
sity due to the efforts of the Brazos Valley
chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
This is not entirely correct. The arrange
ments were made by the TAMU chapter of the
ACLU. The Brazos Valley chapter is merely
providing financial assistance.
Kunstler is tentatively scheduled to speak
March 3 in the University Center Auditorium,
according to Marty Hokanson, president TAMU
ACLU.
Today in the Batt
Tenants and rates p. 2
The Seven Ups p. 5
The William Kunstler issue has caught the
attention of much of TAMU.
Many students see the conflict as a basic one
of academic freedom.
Tim Clader, Town Hall chairperson, saw it
as an opportunity for a joke.
He put a sign reading “Brazos Valley ACLU
Headquarters — Donations for Kunstler speech
accepted inside” on his door.
Clader lives two doors down the hall from
SCONA Chairperson Steve Kosub in the Band
dorm.
“The sign was a joke,” said Clader, “but I
would like to see Kunstler speak here and I will
support whatever group wishes to sponsor him.
“The sign gets ripped off daily,” he added.
The final joke may be on Clader, however.
He has already collected over $20 for the Kunstler
speech.
Clader plans to give the ACLU a check for
the donations sometime before Kunstler’s sched
uled appearance.
Nixon blocks Ervin committee
Claims ‘national interest’ at stake
WASHINGTON 0T>—President Nixon
wrote a federal judge Wednesday that dis
closing conversations that are contained on
five White House tape recordings requested
by the Senate Watergate committee “would
not be in the national interest.”
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Ger
hard A. Gesell, the President reasserted his
position that the Senate committee should
not get the five recordings. All of them
contain conversations he had with ousted
White House counsel John W. Dean III.
“The Senate Select Committee has made
known its intention to make these materials
public,” the President said in a letter that
he signed personally.
“Unlike the secret use of four out of
five of these conversations before the grand
jury the publication of all these tapes to
the world at large would seriously infringe
upon the principle of confidentiality, which
is vital to the performance of my constitu
tional responsibilities as president.”
The judge said that the President’s
claim of executive privilege was too gen
eralized and vague and that it was not up-
to-date. Since the committee subpoenaed
the tapes another district judge ordered
other tapes—including four of those re
quested by the committee—to be turned
over to special prosecutor Leon Jaworski.
The President also raised the possibility
of adverse effects on criminal proceedings
“should the contents of these subpoenaed
conversations be made public at an inappro
priate time.”
The next step in the case is up to Gesell,
who must decide whether to give court
backing to the committee’s subpoena.
In other Watergate-related developments
Wednesday:
• Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., R.-Conn.,
asked President Nixon in a series of ques
tions how his responsibility differs from
that of John W. Dean III, who has pleaded
guilty to obstructing justice. Weicker asked
why Nixon did not turn over to a judge or
prosecutor, as required by law, the evidence
of Watergate crimes Dean says he gave
him last March 21. The White House had
no immediate comment.
• A three-judge panel in Alexandria,
Va., disbarred Dean from law practice in
Virginia for what it called unethical, un
professional and unwarranted conduct in
the Watergate case.
• Special Watergate prosecutor Leon
Jaworski asked a federal judge to consider
limiting the Sehate Watergate Committee’s
use of presidential tapes it receives from
the White House.
• The House, by a vote of 410 to 4,
armed its Judiciary Committee Wednesday
with broad subpoena power to help deter
mine whether President Nixon should be
impeached.
Taking solemn note that only once be
fore in the nation’s history has such a reso
lution been acted on, the House adopted it
as a necessary step to meet its constitutional
duty in impeachment cases.
“Whatever we learn,” said Rep. Peter
W. Rodino, D.-N.J., chairman of the Judici
ary Committee, “whatever we conclude, the
manner in which we proceed is of historic
importance—to the country, to the presi
dency, to the House, to our constitutional
system and to future generations.”
Classic play
‘Brigadoon’
here Monday
THE UPWARD-THRUSTING, sparkling waters of the
University Center fountain were turned on Wednesday
night for the first time in weeks as the Memorial Student
Center held its Spring Open House.
The magic of “Brigadoon,” with
“a kind of sweetness like the
smell of heather in the rain,” will
be recreated Monday at the Bry
an Civic Auditorium.
The Lerner and Loewe musical
plays in the Rotary Community-
Series, in cooperation with Town
Hall.
Don Grilley and Lesley Stewart
star in the popular Broadway
show with the entrancing music
“Almost Like Being in Love,”
“Come to Me, Bend to Me” and
“Heather on the Hill.”
Brigadoon, a Scotland village
that reappears only once each 100
years, comes to life again at 8.
Two American tourists stumble
on the village on a day when a
wedding is being celebrated. They
are caught up in the beauty, joy
and tragedy of the people.
One of the Americans falls in
love with a Brigadoon lass. As
the day draws to a close, he is
confronted with the choice of los
ing her or giving up the modem
world.
Many critics acclaim the show
as one of the best blends of danc
ing and music with text. Chore
ography, originally by Agnes de-
Mille, captures the Scottish feel
through Highland flings, sword
dances and reels. It also enriches
dramatic moments with moving
ballets.
“Brigadoon” is one of the most
frequently-produced plays to come
out of Broadway. It is a new
York Critics Circle Award winner
and considered a classic with
“Show Boat,” “Carousel,” “South
Pacific” and “Oklahoma.”
Admission is by Rotary season
ticket. Tickets are also on sale at
the Rudder Center box office.
Photo by Alan Killingsworth
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M.”
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