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Vol. 68 No. 18
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, October 2, 1974
T faculty wants
nick resignation
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AUSTIN, Tex. (AP)—In a rare
ow of defiance and unity, the gen-
ral faculty of the University of
^exas at Austin has called on UT
ystem Chancellor Charles
.eMaistre to resign.
“I have no intention of resign-
g,” replied LeMaistre, who has
een under constant attack since he
red Dr. Stephen Spurr as presi-
lent of UT-Austin Sept. 24.
About 50 of the 500 faculty mem-
>ers at the Tuesday meeting raised
heir hands to vote “no” on the no-
onfidence resolution. There was no
ct count of the tally on either
ide.
Some said the action was without
irecedent in UT-Austin history.
LeMaistre was criticized chiefly |
yi or failing to explain why he fired Dallas and Jenkins Garrett of Fort
ipurr and for acting without con- Worth expire Jan. 10. Briscoe is
ulting the faculty.
The way in which Spurr was fired
bowed “the chancellor’s complete
xmtempt for the academic com-
., nunity and the people of Texas,"
ims ove^r^a Huskii he resolution said. “The general fa
ulty of the University of Texas at
\ustin therefore expresses its lack of
unfidence in Chancellor A.
LeMaistre and calls for his im-
)’s in A&M’s 28-1;
the Texas Aggie
nt
Dr. Lorene Rogers, acting UT-
Austin president, sought to allay
fears that a permanent president
would be named by LeMaistre
without consulting the faculty.
LeMaistre has given his word that
both faculty and students would
serve as voting members of the
committee to select a new presi
dent, and there also will be a sepa
rate campus advisory committee,
she told the general faculty.
Besides demanding LeMaistre’s
resignation, the general faculty cal
led on Gov. Dolph Briscoe to con
sult "all segments of the university
community” before naming three
new regents next year.
The terms of regents Frank
Erwin of Austin, Dan Williams of
nediate resignation. ”
LeMaistre issued his response
even before the faculty meeting,
which he did not attend, had con-
iluded.
He said he had given his reasons
for firing Spurr at the board of re
gents’ Sept. 25 meeting, at which
LeMaistre read a statement saying
only that he had lost confidence in
Spurr’s decisions.
"Legal counsel advises I go no
further in discussing the issues in
volved,” he said.
Regent Ed Clark told a reporter
Tuesday he still did not know pre
cisely why Spurr was fired but
wanted to hear LeMaistre’s reasons
and would ask for them at the next
regents’ meeting.
NIVERSITY APPEALS were discussed by Dr. Harry Kroitor of the English department. His
mentation Tuesday night was sponsored jointly by Great Issues Committee’s “Quality of Life” series
md University Lecture Series. About 20 people were in attendance. See story. Page 3. (Photo by Chris
ivatek)
{President's pleas ignored;
expire Jan.
considered unlikely to reappoint
Erwin, who worked hard to defeat
him in the 1972 Democratic prim
ary in which Erwin’s close friend,
then-Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes was a
gubernatorial candidate.
In choosing new regents, the fa
culty asked Briscoe to find men and
women “who are committed to the
principle that system administrators
consult with campus adminis
trators, faculty, students and staff
before undertaking major personnel
decisions and, also to the principle
of campus autonomy on matters of
academic program.”
Spurr has accused Erwin and
LeMaistre of meddling in the inter
nal affairs of UT-Austin.
In another development, House
Speaker Price Daniel Jr. turned
down a request by Rep. Lane De
nton, D-Waco, for a House Higher
Education Subcommittee probe of
the Spurr firing.
Daniel said such an investigation
would be “inappropriate” since a
faculty-student committee and the
American Association of University
Professors are inquiring into the
matter.
Calves to be killed
in economic protest
CLASSICAL MUSIC was the offering of Anton del Forno when
he performed at the Rudder Center Theater Tuesday night.
About 100 people were present to hear the young artist. (Photo by
David Kimmel)
STEPHENVILLE, Tex.
(AP)—Cattlemen from a wide area
gather here today to shoot what one
rancher estimated may be as many
as 1,000 calves to protest economic
conditions.
Rancher Bill Greenway said the
calves—all too expensive to raise to
maturity—will be shot in the head
then buried by bulldozers in a mass
grave.
“There’s nothing left to do,”
Greenway said. “It’s any act of
mercy. I can’t afford to raise them
and I can’t give them away. Nobody
wants them. Feed just costs too
much.”
Greenway is spokesman for the
Cross Timbers Milk and Beef Pro
ducers Association, sponsors of the
mass slaughter.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner
John C. White said Tuesday he
would be in Stephenville this morn
ing.
White said in a telegram, asked
the cattlemen to delay the slaugh
ter, “I recognize that everything
your members say about the depre
ssed conditions of dairy and lives
tock men is true, without
question . . . but it is my earnest
hope that your planned actions to
morrow can be averted. ”
Greenway said the organization
of Stephenville area cattlemen met
Monday to plan the slaughter
which, he said, will be attended by
stock raisers from Brownwood,
Cleburne, Fort Worth and a broad
area of West Central Texas.
The calves to be slaughtered, he
said, are all weaned animals, most of
them dairy cattle.
“We can’t go on like this any
more,” Greenway said. “It’s not a
publicity thing. It’s an act of mercy.
I’ve got 1,000 head and I’m losing
$100 a head on every one of them.”
Greenway, who has been in the
agriculture business 35 years, said
he is not concerned with the possi
bility the mass slaughter could gen
erate hostility from the nonagricul
ture public.
“It don’t make any difference if it
does. There’s nothing else we can
do. We re all going broke. We can’t
give them away,” he said.
Th$ planned slaughter follows a
protest rally staged last month at
Sulphur Springs, Tex., by beef and
dairymen over the costs of feed and
the comparatively low prices they
receive for beef and milk.
A delegation of cattlemen went to
Washington last month to discuss
their situation with Agriculture Sec
retary Earl Butz, but, according to
Greenway, “I just wasted my
money.
Thicket bill passes both houses
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill
establishing a Big Thicket National
Preserve in East Texas has been ap
proved by both houses and sent to
President Ford for his signature.
The Senate Tuesday gave final
approval for the park, which will in
clude about 84,500 acres of bogs,
dry uplands, streams and floodplain
forests.
The nearly-extinct ivory-billed
woodpecker and the red wolf would
get protection under the bill.
The House last week approved
the bill which was hammered out in
conference after the two houses pas
sed separate measures.
The Senate earlier this year pas
sed a Big Thicket Bill that would
have set aside 100,000 acres, but the
acreage was reduced by the
House-Senate conference commit
tee.
The House, in approving the
compromise bill last week, dropped
its demands that the land for the
park be acquired linder a system
known as “legislative taking, ” which
would have permitted the Interior
Department to buy the land under a
short time table.
Instead, the department under
the final legislation, will have six
years to acquire the land, compen
sating its owners.
The two U. S. senators from
Texas, Republican John Tower and
Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, both
praised the passage of the legisla
tion, but expressed disappointment
Tech game
sold out
to public
All general public tickets are sold
for the Texas Tech-A&M game said'
Athletic Ticket Manager Mrs.
Euleta Miller.
Tickets go on sale at 7 a.m. Mon
day to seniors and graduate stu
dents.
Miller says that the Monday after
the LSU game a record 1,400 tickets
were purchased. Monday 2,500 tic
kets were sold.
Miller said that no other games
are sold out.
that the acreage of the preserve was
reduced.
“Enactment of this legislation is a
victory for all advocates of the Big
Thicket Preserve, even though we
have not gotten all we may have
wanted,” said Bentsen. “The de
velopment in the region has inten
sified in recent years and positive
action today is necessary to balance
future development with the pre
servation of nature’s treasures. ”
“The legislation passed today will
do much to preserve the unique
character of the Big Thicket,” said
Tower.
Plans for preserving the Big Thic
ket area as part of the National Park
System began before World War II.
The Advisory Board on National
Parks, Historic Sites and Monu
ments found in 1967 that “the Big
Thicket, with its great variety of
vegetational types, its magnificent
speciments of individual tree
species, its diversity of bird life...
and its unusual animal com
munities, is of national signifi
cances.”
Milk co-op pays $230,000
in out-of-court settlement
AUSTIN (AP)—A state district
court judge permanently enjoined
Tuesday the nation’s largest milk
cooperative from violating Texas an
titrust provisions and ordered the;
'co-op to pay $230,000 in civil penal
ties.
Dist. Court Judge Tom Blackwell
accepted an out-of-court settlement
between the Texas attorney
general’s office and attorneys for As
sociated Milk Producers Inc.,
AMPI a 41,000-member coopera
tive based in San Antonio.
Atty. Gen. John Hill personally
appeared in court and read the
11-page judgement.
The judgement contained prohib
itions against AMPI coercing milk
haulers to transport AMPI milk
exclusively, against rebates to any
milk processor, against exclusive ar
rangements with processors, and
against what is known as illegally
“loading the pool”.
The state, under terms of Texas
antitrust laws, could have asked for
penalties of $50 to $1,500 per day for
any violations proven against
AMPI. When the suit was filed,
spokesman estimated the maximum
potential damages to be more than
$2 million.
Hill told the court of the $230,000
in penalties: “We do have several
well documented violations al
leged. ”
He said he analyzed the “proba
bly court reaction” to the violations
and estimated the $230,000 figure
from that, adding, “I take personal
responsibility for it.”
The judgement, although provid
ing for penalties, does not contain
any admission by AMPI of wrongdo
ing.
Hill said none of the practices al
leged in the anti-trust petition by
the state “are continuing” in AMPI
as far as he knows.
AMPI lawyer Sidney Harris of
Washington, D.C., also told Black-
well, “AMPI does not agree or
admit that the attorney general
could have proved violations. AMPI
does want to continue in business. ”
He said the co-op, which has
been mentioned in Watergate-
related controversies and is a de
fendant in a federal anti-trust suit,
wants to “get its litigation behind it
and to go forward in an entirely
aid to Chile, Turkey ended
[HI
F E.T. 5.72
FE.T. 6.12
F.E.T. 6.40
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ignor
ing pleas from President Ford and
its own leaders, the Senate reaf-
firmed Tuesday its vote to end
(2! military aid to Turkey and added a
similar cutoff to Chile.
Despite a threatened veto, the
Senate rejected 59 to 29 a motion by
Republican Leader Hugh Scott,
R-Pa., to strike the ban of aid to any
country using U.S. military equip
ment for other than defensive pur
poses.
That provision, aimed specifically
at Turkey, was first adopted Mon
day. The cutoff of some $12 million
in military assistance to Chile was
approved in a separate vote Tues
day.
Scott was joined by Majority
Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont.,
in unsuccessfully urging a reversal
of the Turkey amendment. Both it
and the Chile restriction were at
tached to a broad resolution needed
to extend beyond Sept. 30 the
spending authority for foreign aid
and other federal programs for
which regular money bills have not
yet been passed.
The continuing resolution was
then passed 72 to 16 and sent to a
House-Senate conference commit
tee, which will meet later in the
week.
President Ford announced his
veto intention if an amendment cut
ting off military aid to Turkey sur
vives a Senate-House conference.
The President said the amend
ment by Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton,
D-Mo., adopted 57 to 20 Monday
night, would deprive the United
States of its negotiating flexibility
and influence in efforts to negotiate
agreement between Greece and
Turkey for peace on Cyprus.
“It is my intention ... to with
hold my consent to any continuing
resolution which reaches my desk
containing language such as found
in the Eagleton amendment,” Ford
said.
In Ankara, Turkey, Defense
Minister Hasan Isik said the Senate
vote to suspend military aid to Tur
key would have no effect on
Turkey’s Cyprus policy.
Isik said Turkey is trying to main
tain the recent improvement in
U.S.-Turkish relations and added,
“We are now waiting to see what
action will be taken by the U.S.
government.”
Although word of the possible
veto was relayed to the Senate by
senior Appropriations Committee
members, the Senate voted within
minutes to add further restrictions
to the continuing money measure.
It adopted an amendment by
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, 52 to31,
to cut off military aid amounting to
about $12 million to Chile.
Kennedy told the Senate the
“military dictatorship” in Chile “is
engaged in a continuing pattern of
gross violations of human rights-
—including the torture of political
prisoners.”
Adoption of his amendment, he
said, would “put the United States
on record in favor of restoration of
human rights.”
Adopted 52 to 31 was an amend
ment by Sen. Alan Cranston,
D-Calif., making progressive cuts in
the monthly spending rate for
Services
for Gray
scheduled
Services for Dr. Jack D. Gray, 57,
will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. in
Hillier Funeral Home with burial in
College Station City Cemetery.
Gray, director of International
Programs at TAMU, died in his
home shortly after midnight Mon
day.
In 1940 Gray graduated from
Texas A&M with a bachelor’s de
gree and received his master’s in
agricultural education in 1954. He
was named director of the Interna
tional Programs office in 1958 and a
year later received his Ed. D. from
Cornell University.
Gray is survived by his wife, Fr
ances, and a son, William Gray,
both of 1218 Munson Dr., College
Station.
foreign aid as long as the program
continues without new authorizing
legislation. The cuts would start
with 30 percent in November and
increase by 10 percent each month
until it reached zero next June.
Chairman John L. McClellan,
D-Ark., of the Senate Appropria
tions Committee appealed to the
Senate not to load the resolution
with policy amendments that might
deadlock it in conference with the
House.
The resolution would authorize
continued spending, basically at last
year’s rate, for certain programs.
The previous continuing resolution
expired Sept. 30.
MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK for the Aggie Players’ version of
“Lovers and Other Strangers” was written and produced by
members of the Players. Beau Sharbrough is the composer of the
music. See story. Page 10. (Photo by Douglas Winship)
Grand Jury asks extension
for bail bond investigation
District Judge W. C. Davis ac
cepted a motion for a 30-day exten
sion for the 85th District Court
Grand Jury session Monday.
The Grand Jury due to adjourn
next week, asked for the extension
to continue its investigation of bail
bond practices.
In its investigations, the Grand
Jury has subpoenaed several local
law enforcement officials. They in
clude: Brazos County Sheriff J. W.
Hamilton, Justices of Peace Mike
Calliham and B. H. Dewey, Bryan
Chief of Police Joe Ellisor, College
Station Chief of Police Marvin
Byrd, Sonny Ellen and Elmer
Grays, both bailbondsmen, along
with .George Moss and Carl
Rahnert, Brazos County jailers.
County Judge W. R. Vance and
District Judge W. C. Davis are also
expected to be heard.
County Sheriff J. W. Hamilton
testified all day Friday, the first day
of hearings. No report will be-made
public until the investigation is
over.
Davis, who granted the extension
said, “As long as I have been here, I
have had no knowledge of foul bail
bond practices in this county.”
Although no definite date for the
next hearing has been set. District
Attorney W. T. McDonald said it
should be Oct. 9.
legitimate manner.”
The state’s suit, which was filed
June 24, came as AMPI and the
U.S. Justice Department reached
agreement on a proposed consent
degree which is now pending before
a federal district judge in Kansas
City.
The board of directors of the co
op are known to be eager to settle
AMPI’s legal difficulties. AMPI’s
board feels alleged misdeeds were
the fault of officials no longer with
AMPI.
AMPI’s competitors, who have
also challenged AMPI in court,
cooperated with the state attorney
general’s office in bringing the state
suit.
The state suit alleged AMPI viol
ated 104,232 trust laws with illegal
rebates to handlers and processors,
foreclosures of markets and “loading
the pool,” when a market is flooded
and the price paid for milk is driven
down.
AMPI estimates 2,300 of Texas’
3,200 dairy farmers are members of
the cooperative, which was formed
in the late 1960s by mergers among
several cooperatives, principally
Milk Producers, Inc.
Opening
of pool
indefinite
The opening of the Bee Creek
Pool, scheduled for Saturday, may
be postponed due to a “few minor
problems” with contractors, said
Richard Arendt, pool manager.
The bathhouse lacks some re
quirements for serving the hand
icapped, but efforts to open the pool
for limited public use on Saturday
are being made, Arendt added. He
could not give any definite pool
hours.
The L-shaped pool, measuring 50
meters in length and 25 meters ac
ross the L, is three blocks south of
the Southwest Parkway.
The College Station Swim Club
and the A&M Consolidated swim
team will train at the pool on week
days from 6 to 8 a.m. Planned ac
tivities include a survival swimming
course designed especially for
policemen and firemen, scuba les
sons, a water ballet club and a life
saving course.
A Swim-and-Stay-Fit Program
sponsored by the Red Cross will also
be initiated. The program, open to
the public, requires participants to
swim 50 miles divided into regular
self-determined intervals.