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By JIM CRAWLEY
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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
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Omega (APO), Omega Phi Alpha and Stu
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.