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>er nin g abilii ver y bardil j 15th Annual Aggie Blood Drive begins By JIM CRAWLEY and MARILYN BERRY Staff Writers The Fifteenth Annual Aggie Blood Drive festion n 1 began today and will continue through 'e p& : I Thursday in room 224 of the MSC. Dona- id Bella/ 5 tions will be collected between 8 a.in. to 5 P The drive! sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega (APO), Omega Phi Alpha and Stu dent Government, is being conducted by the Wadley Institute of Molecular Medicine le °ffense«~ split bac|| andfeahj, Hulin is d injury. Cfe enable will Jimmy Dea injury suft, le of the lead kickoff all aren’t w of 50,000 p| ast byKTl painted i trusting.'! experienct e tower ria probably si notes in Dallas. Drive Chairman Doc Wagner of APO said this year s goal is 1200 units, or pints of blood. If achieved this would surpass last year’s donation by 200 units. Students giving blood will have their own and their families entire blood needs, for the next year, fullfilled. Students who vol- unteer their blood but whose blood is re jected for some reason, will be able to obtain their blood, if needed, for the next year free of charge. Wagner said, “If enough Aggies donate. all students and faculty become eligible” for free blood replacement. Previously, if 1 out of 20 Aggies donated, all students and fa culty could obtain blood for one year. An additional benefit this year for donors is the issuance of cards indicating the donor’s blood type and factors, for easy reference during emergencies. Students may come by room 224 of the MSC during the drive and donate. The pro cedure is “relatively painless” and takes ap proximately 45 minutes. Muniz canceled Ramsey Muniz, Raza Unida ubematorial candidate, canceled bis Monday speech late Monday af- rheyarebjaftcmoon. Muniz missed his plane, !r here, amlj said Oscar Orta from the Commit- ee for Awareness of Mexican- \merican Culture. Thought for the Day A foolish consistency is the hob goblin of little minds .... —Ralph Waldo Emerson Cbe Battalion Vol.. 68, No. 33 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 29, 1974 ity Attorney claims etition not admis sable By GERALD OLIVIER Staff Writer A petition by Dominik Street re sidents against a rezoning proposal approved at the Oct. 21 City Coun cil meeting was ruled inadmissable by City Attorney Neeley Lewis. Lewis said the petition was ruled inadmissable because it was not submitted before the public hearing began. The law is specific on the re quirements for admission of such a proposal, and this did not meet them, said Lewis. However, “a city attorney’s opin ion has no more weight than the council wants to give it, ” Lewis said. The petition was signed by 280 area residents. The city’s zoning or dinance states that if such a petition is presented to the city secretary prior to the start of the public hear ing on the rezoning in question, a three-fourths vote of the council would be required approving the rezoning. City Councilman Larry Bravenec said Lewis may only advise the council. Lewis’ opinion is in no way binding on the council, Bravenec said. Councilman Jim Gardner said he felt the decision by Lewis was bind ing on the council. He said Lewis was the official legal adviser of the council and should be respected in his opinions. The rezoning request in question was submitted by Harry Seaback for a tract of land between Dominik and Highway 30. The original proposal for all apartments on the land was fought by Dominik residents and re jected by the council. Seaback resubmitted his prop osal, providing a buffer of single family residences and duplexes be tween the Dominik homes and the apartments. The council passed the later proposal 4 to 3, short of the three- fourths needed if the petition is legal. Mayor O. M. Holt, Don Dale, Homer Adams and Gardner voted for the proposal; Bravenec, Fred Brison and Jim Dozier voted against. Lewis’ ruling was made on a “fine technicality” of the law, said Tom Kozik, Dominik Street resident. Kozik said the spirit of the law was observed, if not the letter. “I can’t believe 15 or 20 minutes makes that much of a difference,” said Kozik. Kozik said he does not question how the councilmen voted, but whether the petition will be thrown out on a fine point of law. Bravenec said the requirement that petitions be submitted before the hearing was designed to create orderly meetings. The manner in which the petition was submitted did not delay the meeting, Bravenec said. “I think the council needs to meet and decide what to do,” said Bravenec. INSIDE THE TOWER presents an unusual view of the new A&M watertower. This was taken at the base of the water section of the tower which is where the tower begins to flare. (Photo by Douglas Winshin) B-CS fund drive overlap criticized by drive official Hunt confesses lies; tells all By STEVE GRAY Staff Writer Local United Fund (UF) drive ef forts are being hampered because of the overlapping operations of two separate campaigns, a top UF offi cial said Wednesday. James W. Stegall, president of the board of directors for the Grea ter Bryan United Fund, Inc., said consolidation of the two drives (Bryan and College Station) would increase the campaign’s efficiency and minimize confusion among con tributors. “There’s no reason not to have one drive,” Stegall said, “because we (Bryan UF) serve the same agen cies as the College Station cam paign. They take in money and pay the same agencies we do.” Stegall pointed out that confusion i sport to ericans, :d to tlie nigh sta- ^quested nurals i 1 loves to iut most support etoflM verlook ie oflM ie even- -7 p.m- m. Vol- m. The npus at all and n prove away ihaW tudent ) WASHINGTON (AP) — Water gate conspirator E. Howard Hunt Jr. admitted Monday he lied at least 12 times in appearances before a grand jury. But he said that after reading transcripts of the White House tapes he decided to tell all he knew about the break-in. Testifying at the Watergate Wver-up trial, Hunt said, “In the spring of this year I began to read transcripts of the White House japes. I felt a sense of rude awaken- mg. 1 realized these men were not worthy of my continued loyalty.” e former CIA agent who was Wnvicted of burglary, conspiracy *n wiretapping in the Watergate reak-in trial, said that when he was sn poenaed this past summer to i 65 V again, he was “faced with the ar decision of whether to con- mi' 6 ,/? *° P r °tect others or to tell all. He said his attorneys advised him '0 tell everything he knew. n er questioning by Assistant fecial Prosecutor Richard Ben- emste Hunt admitted that he had ; a * eas * ^ times since granted mmunity f rom prosecution on the is o his testimony before a fed- era * grand jury. ^ e< J about his contacts 1 ^ rme r White House special u.Charles Colson and fellow a, n ln defendant James McCord inv ? <lS a ^ ou t bis knowledge of the ) em f n t of others in the Water gate break-in. at torneys will begin Tiiesd 0 ™ 55 eXarn ^ na ^° n bl ur rt on When he leaves the stand, the M a SeC j tion plans to cal1 J eb Stuart former deputy director a „ lx ° n re-election committee, as ‘bnext witness. a ^ready has pleaded ikte A f° nsp * r * n S to obstruct jus- tke an las been cooperating with Prosecutors. Wjf ar * er ’ Hunt described how his mentTln ^k ed i aS a i condllit f °r pay- g , ^be break-in defendants. Dnint- i 6 P a y me nts proved disap- Pointmgjy small, Hunt testified. 1972, showed that nearly all the money went for attorneys’ fees and bail. Hunt told how two days after the June 17, 1972, Watergate break-in he went to his office in the Execu tive Office Building next to the White House and “gave a cursory glance around to satisfy myself that nothing had been disturbed. ” Then he passed a message to the secretary of Charles W. Colson, special White House counsel, tel ling her, “I want Chuck to know my safe upstairs is loaded.” He described the contents as in cluding bugging equipment, faked State Department cables,a psychiatric profile of Daniel Ellsberg and notebooks listing peo ple involved in political intelligence activities being conducted by the Nixon re-election committee. Earlier, Hunt had testified that he was told that the “big man” had approved a political intelligence plan calling for illegal break-ins and wiretapping. Asked who the “big man” was, Hunt replied: “There was only one big man in volved in the entire planning episode. The big man involved stature-wise was the attorney gen eral, Mr. John Mitchell.” Hunt, convicted of burglary and conspiracy in the Watergate break- in trial, said it was another of the break-in conspirators, G. Gordon Liddy, who told him Mitchell had approved the intelligence opera tion. Asked how he knew Liddy meant Mitchell, Hunt said Liddy always referred to the then attorney gen eral “as the big man and also as the big boy.” His answer drew a laugh from Mitchell, one of five defendants charged with conspiring to block in vestigation of the Watergate break- in. The other defendants are former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former as sistant attorney general Robert C. Mardian, and Kenneth W. Parkin son, one-time attorney for the Nixon re-election committee. Over protests from defense attor neys, U. S. District Judge John J. - Sirica agreed to a prosecution re quest to call Hunt as a court witness, which meant that both prosecution and defense attorneys could ask leading questions in an attempt to get him to tell all he knows. Today Today in the Batt Hookers’ Ball Don Juan . . . Tornadoes . . j:;: 1 I Si Si X* | X* ij-i Sj | :S I J Weather Partly cloudy Tuesday af ternoon with southerly winds 10 mph. Increasing cloudiness Wednesday. High both days mid-SO’s. Low tonite 62°. arrears were steadily he said. forrn| 0Se \/ OrS at tr * a ^ ^* ve camtf 1 - ^ dxon administration and aides entered into evi- d e i Horn!/ 0 accoun bng Hunt’s wife, ••am O y n ? aVe to his attorney, Wil- of 552 5oo man ’ distribution 1,16 acc °unting, dated Sept. 19, TEXAS STUDENT LOBBY delegates discussed a variety of issues at the TSA con vention held at A&M last weekend. In this session led by Frank Fleming, University of Texas student body president, delegates debated the pros and cons of liquor on campus. (Photo by Douglas Winship) arises when persons are asked to contribute to both drives. “We have people in Bryan that work in College Station and vice- versa. There’s constant confusion on whether they should give to one or the other,” Stegall said. “For example, there’s the possi bility that a husband thinks that his wife is going to give to the Bryan drive while he gives to the College Station campaign. It could turn out that both give to one or the other, ” he said. Two attempts to combine the two campaigns have been made in the past, said Stegall. Neither have been successful, however. “I really don’t know why the idea hasn’t been supported,” Stegall said. “It isn’t fair to the people of the two communities or the agencies because it seems that both drives are pulling in different directions.” “I think it’s rather foolish to have two boards running up and down the streets of Bryan and College Sta tion trying to raise funds,” Stegall said. The last attempt to consolidate the two drives was in early 1967, said Stegall. Contributors in both cities were asked at that time to ap prove the plan. Residents in both cities turned down the proposal by an overwhelming majority. “I think, by and large, directors for both drives would be in favor of consolidation. The idea has been talked about from year to year,” Stegall said. Bill Landiss, College Station drive chairman, said he does not know much of the story behind the consolidation efforts. This is Land iss’ first year on the College Station UF board. “I’m just too new in the UF cam paign to say we should definitely combine the two drives or stay sepa rate,” he said. However, he said it would have a lot of advantages. “People would only have to give to one central drive. But, on the other hand, the drives were set up by people in their respective communities. It would take a lot of effort to sell the idea to both groups before such a combina tion could be successful,” he said. Both local drives are operating smoothly, according to Landiss and Stegall, both volunteer chairmen. The goal for the College Station drive this year is $30,000, up $1,000 from last year. “We have reached 50 per cent of our goal as of today (Wednesday), much of it coming from the univer sity,” Landiss said. “We shouldn’t have any problem reaching our goal, even though much of the money didn’t start coming in until mid-October. ” The College Station drive started Oct. 1. Landiss said the drive will continue until the goal is reached. Stegall said Bryan residents and workers have been receptive to their campaign, which also began Oct. 1. “We have presently raised $85,000 of our $131,690 goal,” Stegall said.