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Dolph Briscoe will run for a
second term as governor with the
endorsement of the Democratic
Party.
Briscoe received 976,462 votes
vhile his major opponent, Frances
to the] Farenthold, gained 398,408 Satur-
ier °frhe fday. Other contenders were Steve
otFanif Alexander with 26,450 and Wayne
Posey getting 30,956.
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This is the second successive
race that Briscoe and Farenthold
have been opponents for the pri
mary election and the second time
Briscoe has won it.
The Republicans nominated Jim
Cranberry in their primary. Cran
berry, a dentist from Lubbock,
got 46,039 votes to the 13,728 for
his opponent, Odell McBrayer, a
Fort Worth attorney.
Introduction of parimutuel bet-
ing in Texas was also on the bal
lots in both primaries. The resolu
tion failed by a vote of 607,772 to
609,393.
Other Democratic contests on
the state level resulted largely in
the renomination of incumbents.
The notable exception was the
nomination of Bob Bullock, former
Texas secretary of state, over
Hugh Edburg for comptroller.
In the Republican race for
lieutenant governor, no public
campaigning was done by either
candidate. Troy Skates got 12,-
512 votes to Gaylord Marshall’s
10,670.
Incumbent Bill Presnal was re
nominated by the Democratic pri
mary in District 28 for state rep
resentative. In Brazos County
Presnal won with 4,213 votes with
Lloyd Joyce getting 3,198 and
Sparkey Hardee receiving 753.
Presnal got 2,254, Joyce 1,120 and
Hardee 212 in Roberton County.
In county races, Walter Wilcox
and W. A. Stasny were elected
to another term with votes of
598 and 1,262 respectively. Candi
dates running against Stasney
were Anastacio Herrera with 625
and Roy Lee Ellis with 236 votes.
Wilcox’s opponent, George Dunn,
received 581 votes.
Unopposed in various races
were incumbents W. C. Davis for
District 85 judge; William R.
Vance, county judge; W. D. Bur
ley, district clerk; Frank J. Bor-
iskie, county clerk; J. B. Street-
man, county school superinten
dent; B. V. Elkins, county treasur
er; Jess B. McGee, justice of the
peace for Precinct 4; Joe Daniel
Novosad, justice of the peace Pre
cinct 5 and A. P. Boyett Jr.,
justice of the peace for Precinct 7.
Education advisor
says state ignored
wealth inequality
Che Battalion
Vol. 67 No. 391
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, May 7, 1974
All school districts are not
equally capable of budget balanc
ed school systems, says Dr. Rich
ard Hooker.
Hooker, special assistant to the
Governor for Educational Re
search and Planning, spoke be-
was a; j fore approximately 70 persons at
hat year,; I a hmcheon for the American As
sociation for University Women
Saturday.
Hooker said eight per cent of
the revenue for the public school
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remaining 46 per cent was left
up to the local ad valorem taxes.
"I would concur that the state
is not making a large enough ef
fort toward the public school sys
tem,” said Hooker.
Hooker noted the main problem
with the public school system is
a dispersity of property wealth
from one community to another.
“People concerned with public
school finance have been telling
the state its problems since 1956,”
said Hooker. “The state has ig
nored these reports in the past.
We have continued to live with a
1949 system of distributing school
finance.”
Hooker continued to say that
the wealth of the state as a whole
should be used as a basis for pub
lic school finance.
“I hope by Nov. 1, my commit
tee will have a tentative propo
sal to present to the governor for
the total restructuring of the Tex
as public school system,” he said.
Areas of the public school sys
tem which need research before
a proposal can be presented to
the governor include facilities,
transportation and centralization
of a state system at the local
level.
“We happen to be in the pre
dicament of not knowing the mar
ket value of the property,” said
Hooker.
Today
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Candidate Kennedy p. 3
Coach Smith retires p. 5
Weather
Partly cloudy and mild
Tuesday with east-north-
easterly winds 7-12
m.p.h. High today 83°.
Low tonight 63°. Con
tinued partly cloudy and
mild Wednesday. Tomor
row’s high 87°.
Graduation
admission by
ticket only
Admission to G. Rollie White
Coliseum for Texas A&M Uni
versity’s commencement exercises
Saturday will be by ticket only,
announced Dean Edwin H.
Cooper.
Cooper, chairman of TAMU’s
Convocations Committee, said all
seats in the field house are ex
pected to be taken by the gradu
ating students and their relatives
and friends, along with the offi
cial party, academic department
representatives and other univer
sity personnel directly involved
in the ceremonies.
Degree candidates have been
issued four tickets each.
A student ticket coordination
center has been established in
Room 7 of the Coke Building to
redistribute any tickets which
might be returned, Dean Cooper
noted. Such tickets will be dis
tributed on a first-come, first-
served basis, he added.
The dean said students who
have already left their names in
the dean of men’s office do not
need to contact the coordination
center. Their requests have al
ready been included in an overall
list.
Persons who go to the coliseum
without tickets will be invited to
the Rudder Center where the cer
emonies will be transmitted via
closed-circuit television in two
auditorium, Dean Cooper added.
The commencement exercises
also will be telecast locally by
KAMU-TV—Channel 15 (Chan
nel 12 on the cable).
Brandt resigns post,
recommends Scheel
BONN, West Germany (AP)—Willy
Brandt, plagued by a series of provincial
election setbacks and a damaging spy
scandal, submitted his resignation late
Monday night as chancellor of West
Germany.
In an official announcement, the federal
press office said Brandt asked President
Gustav Heinemann in a letter to name Vice
Chancellor Walter Scheel as head of a care
taker government until parliament can
choose a new chancellor.
A presidential spokesman said
Heinemann, who received Brandt’s letter
during a visit to Hamburg, declared his
acceptance of the resignation.
Scheel also is foreign minister and leader
of the Free Democrats, principal partner in
the coalition government with Brandt’s
Social Democrats. He called off a planned
Tuesday trip to Brussels.
Brandt’s dramatic move followed
behind-the-scenes negotiations all day
Monday among Brandt, his coalition
partners and the opposition parties,
informants said.
Brandt’s popularity has begun to wane
from its high point in 1971 when he won the
Nobel Peace Prize for his Ostpolitik, or
efforts at accommodation with the Com
munist Eastern bloc.
Lately, an increasing number of West
Germans have viewed Ostpolitik with dis
pleasure. The spy scandal involving Guenter
Guillaume, an aide to the chancellor,
emphasized the situation.
In recent months, Brandt’s Social
Democrats already had suffered a series of
state election setbacks. In March they lost
their majority in the important Hamburg
city-state legislature.
The spy case, described by an opposi
tion legislator as West Germany’s worst in a
long series of post-World War II spy affairs,
broke April 24 when Guillaume was arrested
and charged with spying for the East
Germans.
Although Brandt denied before parlia
ment that Guillaume had access to any state
secrets. Interior Minister Hans-Dietrich
Genscher at the time acknowledged that it
was “a case of particularly grave and partic
ularly dangerous espionage.”
After Guillaume was arrested West
German newspapers carried many stories—
though not confirmed officially—that
Guillaume had been regularly feeding
information to East Berlin and that at the
time of his arrest he was preparing to flee
the country.
C. K. Esten
28 years
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retires after
theater arts
By JULIA JONES
C. K. Esten, chairman of The
ater Arts and director of Aggie
Player productions for 28 years,
made his last appearance on stage
Saturday night.
Esten retires in August. In a
surprise ceremony after the last
performance of “Play it Again,
Sam,” his last play, he was pre
sented a gold lifetime ticket to
TAMU theater productions.
He was also presented with a
collection of cards and letters
from former Aggie Players. Don
Last senate
to consider
appointments
Appointments comprise the
agenda for the last Senate
meeting of the year, Wednes
day.
Steve Eberhard, Student
Government president, will ap
point students to the Senate,
publications board, athletic
council and the athletic advi
sory committee.
The vacant seat in the Sen
ate is an off-campus under
graduate position. It was va
cated by Mike Squires who is
moving back on campus next
semester.
Seven members will be ap
pointed to the athletic advisory
committee.
The representative to the
athletic council will fill a new
position recently approved by
the TAMU System Board of
Directors.
The publications board posi
tion is the one to which Bill
Davis was nominated last week
and refused. He failed to re
ceive the necessary two-thirds
approval. A new nominee will
come before the Senate this
week.
Powell, former Player and Uni
versity Center facilities manager,
announced a scholarship fund in
Esten’s name to provide assist
ance for students of Theater
Arts.
A reception followed in the
Rudder Center Forum.
Esten joined the faculty in
1946. He became Aggie Player
director and chairman of Theater
Arts in 1950.
Although he is principally
known for his many productions,
Esten has been heavily involved
in athletics. He played football
for Brown University and was
probably the only 135-pound quar
terback in the history of the
school. After receiving a B.A.
from Baylor in 1931, he coached
football and baseball in Central
Texas.
For the last 24 years he has
been the “voice of Kyle Field.”
He has announced longer than
any other announcer in the
Southwest Conference.
His theater career has brought
him most of his honors. He is
past president and on the Board
of Governors of the Texas Edu
cational Theater Association. He
was president of the Texas Sec
ondary School Conference.
For many years he managed
regional University Interscholas
tic League one-act play competi
tions.
Esten has also begun and di
rected summer dramatic pro
grams for area youth.
P&Z approves
rezoning of tract
The College Station Planning
and Zoning Commission approved
one zone change Monday night
but denied another.
The commission rezoned the
two acre tract on Highway 6
occupied by the Shiloh Club from
single family residential to gen
eral commercial. Commissioner
Michael B. Calliham abstained
without explanation.
The Shiloh Club’s owners said
they were hoping to relocate the
club to an area near the west
bypass. They said the club’s
present location prevented them
from holding their annual turkey
shoot.
The commision denied a rezon
ing request for a 4.32 acre tract
and a 17.90 acre tract on FM 60
South of FM 2154. The request
was to rezone from single family
residential to general commercial.
Commissioners Tom Chaney and
James Wallace questioned the
feasibility of the request saying
it would create “island zone”
areas where homes are now
located in the section.
Commissioner George Boyett
dissented and was the only com
missioner to vote favoring the
change.
In other action the commission
approved unanimously the final
plat for the Anderson Ridge sub
division, section two.
Judge will
on Galley’s
rule
bond
RAPIDLY BECOMING part of TAMU’s skyline, the new
watertower hulks above Sbisa Dining Hall. The structure
will resemble a large trash can when completed; it will not,
however, remain burnt orange. The proposed color is light
blue. (Photo by Gary Baldasari)
Court
hopes
postpones tape action,
to avoid possible battle
WASHINGTON <A>) — Court
action on 64 presidential tapes
was postponed Monday, indicat
ing an accommodation may be
in the works to avoid a court
fight between the White House
and the special Watergate prose
cutor.
The five-day postponement was
on a hearing on a White House
motion to quash a subpoena for
the tapes. U.S. District Court
Judge John J. Sirica moved the
hearing from Wednesday to
May 13.
“The continuance was granted
for the purpose of facilitating
discussions leading to possible
compliance with the subpoena,”
the judge said.
Meanwhile the Senate Water-
University National Bank
‘On the side of Texas A&M.”
Adv.
gate committee said the tran
scripts of presidential tapes re
leased by the White House “are
suspect” and “neither complete
nor accurate.”
The committee told the U.S.
Court of Appeals that despite
the release of the transcripts it
still needs the tapes of five con
versations subpoenaed last July
23.
“The committee should not have
to perform its legislative missions
on the basis of transcripts that
are suspect,” the committee told
the court.
White House counsel James
D. St. Clair said he had asked
for the extra five days “to permit
the special prosecutor and myself
to see whether we can come to
some accommodation.”
In his motion last week to halt
the subpoena St. Clair had indi
cated that the fight might be
carried to the Supreme Court.
And he maintained in television
interviews Sunday that President
Nixon had handed out all the
“relevant” tapes and transcripts
he is going to.
The judge’s announcement indi
cated there is a possibility an
agreement can be worked out to
avoid a fight similar to last year
when the White House went to
the U.S. Court of Appeals to
avoid yielding other subpoenaed
tapes.
St. Clair and Jaworski met
with Sirica Monday to work out
the delay. The meeting was at
just about the time when Ja
worski was to have delivered his
response to the White House
motion.
The deadline for filing that
response was put off until Fri
day.
Twenty of the 64 conversations
subpoenaed were made public
last week in the edited transcripts
distributed by the White House.
But where those transcripts
covers mainly presidential con
versations that tool^ place in
February, March and April last
year, the Jaworski subpoena
asked for tapes of Nixon’s talks
with his aides as early as June
20, 1972, and as late as June 4,
1973.
It asks for a number of meet
ings and telephone conversations
the President had with Special
Counsel Charles W. Colson—none
of which were included in the
mass of transcripts released by
the White House.
Jaworski said the tapes are
needed for the Sept. 9 trial of
Colson, John N. Mitchell, H. R.
Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman,
Robert C. Mardian, Kenneth W.
Parkinson and Gordon Strachan.
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP)_A fed
eral judge took under advisement
Monday a ruling on whether Wil
liam L. Galley Jr., now a civilian,
should remain free on bond.
However, Judge J. Robert El
liott indicated strongly that he
would continue Galley’s bond when
he told government attorneys who
sought to revoke Galley’s bail
that he found ample legal prece
dence for continuing it.
Elliott also named June 24 as
a date for the hearing on the
merits of Galley’s petition which
challenges his conviction for mur
ders at My Lai.
Galley, 30, was given a dishon
orable discharge from the Army
Saturday, soon after President
Nixon decided to uphold his twice-
reduced sentence to 10 years im
prisonment.
The former Army lieutenant,
clad in an off-white suit and ap
pearing tanned and trimmer than
he did Feb. 27 when the same
judge freed him on bond, did not
testify at the hearing in U.S.
District Court.
Despite the fact that he is now
a civilian, Galley is still subject
to his court-martial conviction of
March, 1971 for the massacre of
22 Vietnamese civilians.
If Elliott denies Galley’s peti
tion seeking a reversal of his
conviction. Galley would be re
turned to Army confinement. But
he also would be eligible for pa
role after less than six months
of additional imprisonment.
He had been under house ar
rest at his bachelor apartment at
nearby Ft. Benning for nearly
three years.
Eberhard gets
list of ‘nets’
Non-students can not serve in
student activities, the Publica
tions Board will not change and
the editor of The Battalion will
not be elected.
These decisions were outlined
in a letter to Student Government
President Steve Eberhard.
The letter from Williams was
in answer to a letter from Eber
hard accompanying a resolution
passed by the Senate earlier. The
resolution took strong exception
to the removal of Steve Goble as
managing editor of The Battalion
on the basis of his being a non
student.
“In my opinion, the Student
Publications Board acted in the
only reasonable way it could con
cerning Mr. Goble,” Williams said
in the letter.
He further remarked that he
thought most students would have
dropped from the job without the
board removing them.
Correction
The Battalion erroneously re
ported last week that Board mem
ber Joe Reynolds voted against
allowing an option for TAMU sys
tem presidents to select a student
to serve on the Athletic Council.
The dissenting vote was actually
cast by H. C. Bell Jr.