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Page 6 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1974 FLEA MARKET Sponsored By: THE APARTMENT COUNCIL SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1974 From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. In The Apartment Office Parking Lot STUDENTS! Shuttle Bus needs you! So you can save $100 or more by taking the bus: avoid tick ets and hassle of searching for a place to park— Sign Up For The Bus At Registration WHERE WE GO: Plantation Oaks Travis House Barcelona Tanglewood Monaco I & II University Terrace Parkway Southwest Village West Knoll Townhouses Tymes Apartments French Quarter Casa Del Sol Boyett Street First Street Apartments Norcrest Apartments Casablanca Citadel Fairway Evans Trailer Park Mobiletown Timberlake Triangle Terrace Scandia Holies Married Student Housing ‘Damn, dumb Gray,’ says Nixon Comments in confidence not so confidential WASHINGTON <A>) — In the privacy of his own office, Presi dent Nixon commented on his friends and foes with the confi dence of a man who knows his remarks won’t g-et back to his subject. Now they have. The two men closest to the President, H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, “are good guys,” Nixon told Asst. Atty. Gen. Henry E. Petersen. Petersen was trying to convince the Presi dent that evidence against the pair was mounting and could re sult in their being indicted. If Haldeman were involved, Nixon told Atty. Gen. Richard G. Klendienst, “Bob would tell me. He’s a don't-give-a- expletive kind of a guy anyway, and Ehr lichman would tell me, too.” But two others close to Nixon, Charles W. Colson and John N. Mitchell, became subjects of sus picion and contempt as the Wa tergate scandal exploded into the headlines. The President suspected that Colson, who had been his special counsel, knew more about Water gate than he let on. Nixon barred him from a private strategy ses sion because he was a “name- dropper” who “talks too much.” Mitchell, who had been Nixon’s law partner, attorney general and campaign manager, suddenly be came a target both for Watergate investigators and the White House. MciElroy named top Naval ROTC instructor in nation Nixon, Haldeman and Ehrlich man worked out a scheme that hopefully would result in the in dictment of Mitchell and the end of the Watergate probe. “Look,” Nixon told Haldeman, “if they get a hell of a big fish, that is going to take a lot of the fire out of this thing on the cover-up and all that sort. If they get the President’s former law partner and attorney general, you know.” vestigation of the admitj By TED lion’s Watergate probe. | Assistan 'Oh, he’s dumb,” the PmL The said at one point. And i Jiuads thereafter the director vn| mighty ferred to as “damn, dumb G-Trengulai Vice chairman Howard H.fl Lead er Jr. of the Senate WataMndler committee apparently got 120-yan presidential advice on howtiL-— a congressional investigafel Nixon wasn’t sure he undenT “The point that you oii{:| make to Baker,” Nixon toldjT “I tried to get it throng:j. thick skull. His skull is not'® but tell Kleindienst in talki; Baker . . . the waytohaveJj Maj. James R. McElroy of TAMU’s Naval-Marine detach ment has been named the top Na val ROTC instructor in the U. S. He will be honored May 16 in Washington, D. C. The 1974 Col. Leo A. Codd Memorial Award will be presented to him at the 56th meeting of the American Defense Preparedness Associa tion. Six NROTC instructors each in 54 units across the U. S. are eli gible for the award, noted Col. C. E. Hogan, professor of naval science. The top instructor award is given annually in all three mili tary services. Second and third places in the Navy selection went to instructors at the University of Oklahoma and Vanderbilt Uni versity. The Codd award consists of a plaque and $300 in U. S. savings bonds. Col. Hogan noted the award to Maj. McElroy his unusual signif icance for TAMU. The recently formed NROTC unit is the young est in the U. S. “Maj. McElroy is a fiercely dedicated Marine whose soldierly conduct and professional compe tence are faultless,” the PNS credited. “He holds the genuine respect of all those who know and observe him.” A 36-year-old veteran of two Vietnam tours, Maj. McElroy has nearly 14 years service. H e joined the Naval ROTC unit at TAMU last August when it was formed. The Birmingham, Ala., native serves as senior naval instructor Murder arrests continue SAN FRANCISCO <A>> — Two black men were arrested today in the Zebra street shootings in which 12 whites have been killed and six others wounded in the last six months, police said. More ar rests were expected. Chief of Inspectors Charles Barca said J. C. Simon, 29, and Larry Green, 22, were arrested about 5 a.m. in connection with the random and unprovoked at tacks that have terrified the city. “They’re charged with the so- called Zebra murders and conspir acy to commit murder. We are an ticipating more arrests,” Barca said. He would not give details on the arrests or provide more infor mation about the men. Embrey’s Jewelry We Specialize In A&gie Rings. Diamonds Set— Sizing— Reoxidizing— All types watch/jewelry Repair Aggie Charge Accounts 9-5:30 846-5816 SO'S PARTY ALL NIGHT GAMES — SKATING—$1.50 Movie “Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein” FRIDAY NIGHT MAY 3 SPONSORED BY BAPTIST STUDENT UNION on the teaching staff and Ma rine officer instructor. He also chairs the PNS Naval scholar ship recommendation committee, the Naval Science Institute screening board, academic review board and awards board. Maj. McElroy is primary ad visor to the two-time state cham pion Fish Drill Team, advises and counsels 300 NROTC mid shipmen and serves as military advisor to the Naval battalion in the Cadet Corps. The recipient of two Silver combat “V” and two Purple Hearts, he came here after grad uation from the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk, Va. The officer served his first Vietnam tour with the First Marine Divi sion in 1966-67. Maj. McElroy returned in 1970-71 as advisor to the Vietnam Marine Corps. Other assignments have taken McElroy to Camp LeJeune, N. C., the Naval Ammunition Depot at Charleston, S. C., Quantico, Va., as a company commander and basic instructor and to the De partment of Defense in Wash ington, D. C. McElroy was commissioned through Officer Candidate School at Quantico after graduation in 1960 from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. The officer, his wife Brownley and two sons reside at 1209 King Arthur Circle. Another White House aide, Press Secretary Ronald L. Zieg ler, “is a good man” able to deal with the “damn press,” Nixon said. Some others in the lower levels of the Nixon administration re ceived less generous mention. Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III, was a constant Nixon target as his Senate confirma tion hearings turned into an in- cessful hearing and a fairtJ to run it like a court: no!] say, no innuendo!” In later references, the H dent referred to Baker’s coj tee as a “kangaroo court." Warned by Dean that the ] hand of the Kennedy ; is this whole hearing," the dent observed: “ Yes, I guess the Kir: crowd is just laying in the k waiting to make their move.' Seriousness cause of lost creativity “One small idea that brings joy is just as important as penicillin,” said scientist, inventor and author. Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus during a seminar here. Spilhaus is TAMU’s first Visiting University Professor. He is renowned for his work in oceanography and meteo rology. Among Spilhaus’ inventions are the bathythermo graph and the Spilhaus space clock which tells time, tides, phases of the moon and other planetary data. Spilhaus attributes his innovativeness to not having any formal schooling until he was 10 years old. “That way I got a considerable jump on the rest of the people,” he claimed. “I avoided the deadening effect of school which comes from the mass methods and ingraining of uniform mediocrity.” He advised the students in their occupations to avoid the dreadful kind of sameness that makes it easier for administrations with patterns. Spilhaus noted that school systems destroyed the joy of problem solving by using devices like memorizing the multiplication tables. “Facts are to be looked up when you need them and then forgotten,” he said. “They should teach fundamentals with the joy of the art associated with it.” “What you’ve got to do is not distinguish between play and work because once you start taking yourself and your work seriously you loose your creativity,” he contin ued. Spilhaus related how his space clock evolved out of a tide clock he made just for fun for his wife at their Cape Cod home so she could reorganize her day around the ocean activities of their children. “You have to start early in life,” he said of creativity, “thinking there must be a better way of doing things. You need to develop a way of looking at the world. Ask yourself why can’t we do something more elegantly or beautifully. Use fewer moving parts and less crud. 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