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wttSSj* . •. - Campus The Alpha Phi Omega Ticket Market will be open Saturday, from 9 a.in. to 12 p.m. on the first floor of the Memorial Student Center. The Ticket Market will buy tickets from students for the Texas A&M-Illinois game and sell them prior to the game. • The Texas A&M University Library’s loan-print collection will he available Thursday. The 75 framed, ready-to-hang prints of master works will be loaned on a one-per-student, first come, first served basis. Loans are restricted to University students. Checkout will start at 2 p.m. The prints will become due Dec. 1. • A Physics Colloquium today features Prof . M. Vaughn of the Department of Physics at Northeastern University. Vaughn will discuss the "Survey of New Particles at 4 p.m. in room 146 of the Physics Building at Texas A&M University. A coffee precedes the lecture. Professor Vaughn is a visiting professor at A&M this fall. • The Texas A&M University Press will host an informal reception and autographing party Wednesday honoring Jim Bones and John Graves, whose book, Texas Heartland: A Hill Country Year, will be released next week. The reception and autographing party will be from 3 to 5 p.m. in Room 205 of the Memorial Student Center. Bones and Graves will conduct a presentation of slides of pictures from the book and other Hill Country scenes at 8:15 p.m. in Room 206 of’the MSC. Both events are open to the public. Three Texas A&M University faculty members will lead a Wednesday seminar on coastal zone management. The 3 p.m. program, in Room 110 of the Oceanography and Meteorology' Building, is part of a graduate seminar in management. Dr. Robert Stephenson, special programs director in the Center for Marine Resources, will speak on man’s intervention in the coastal zone; Gerald Swanson, A&M political scientist and John L. Seymour, assistant management professor, will speak on economics in alloca tions of coastal resources. Texas A government witness indicated Monday the Hunt brothers knew wiretaps ordered on the telephones of aides to their late father were illegal. An Internal Revenue Service employe testified Monday that a lawy er for suspended State District Court Judge O. P. Carrillo and Duval County Commissioner Ramiro Carrillo told him Zertuche’s General Store was set up in order to make sales to local government agencies. • Secretary of State Mark White Monday said the U. S. Justice Department has agreed to allow Texas to hold its Nov. 4 election on the proposed new constitution without Federal supervision. • A federal judge Monday fired the school integration expert he had hired only last week to help school officials work out an integration plan for Dallas. Six new encephalitis cases have been reported in Houston. National Hurricane Eloise raked a four-state stretch of the Gulf Coast with lashing rains and pounding seas Monday. Its highest winds were expected to carve a crescent from the mouth of the Mississippi 100 miles eastward to Pensacola. Amid reports that Patricia Hearst broke away from her Symbionese Liberation Army fellow-fugitives over their revolutio nary tactics, FBI agents Monday examined evidence for possible links between the SLA and terrorist bombings in the Bay area. • A New Jersey judge heard arguments Monday in a suit to determine whether a 21-year-old woman remains in a five-month long coma or will be allowed to die. Former President Richard M. Nixon has denied under oath personal responsibility for a gap in White House tapes involved in Watergate, his lawyers disclosed at a court hearing in Washington Monday. Government figures on gasoline mileage for 1976 cars show an average improvement of 12.8 per cent in fuel economy over 1975 models. Teachers striking for more money picketed Boston’s public- schools Monday, but classes resumed in the third week of court- ordered integration. A restraining order has been issued by a North Carolina court against Trinity Christian College of Brownsville, Tex., for allegedly selling fraudulent college diplomas for $500 to military personnel in the Ft. Bragg area. World Street fighting exploded again in Beirut’s eastern suburbs Monday despite efforts of high-level Syrian mediators to make a weekend cease-fire effective. Moslem leftists and right-wing Christ ians fought with machine guns, mortars and grenades. Snipers fired at passersby from rooftops despite a government pledge to hunt them down. The Chad government took measure Monday to prevent any possible last-minute French commando raid to rescue a French ar cheologist held by rebels who have threatened to execute her today unless she is ransomed. • Secretary of State Kissinger says he has opened consultations on an “informal multilateral” alternative to the Geneva peace confer ence to settle the Arab-Israeli dispute. He also proposed four-nation talks on Korea in an address to the UN General Assembly. Battalion Vol. 69 No. 13 Copyright (c) 1975, The Battalion College Station, Texas Tuesday, September 23, 1975 Ford again target of would-be-killer This is an Aggie? One of the Corps’ Officers proved that with only 1240 of the Day gets caught by the “Gig ’Em” sign made of paper over chicken wire. The LSU-A&M game tickets available for Ag gies, they still could “show up in force.” Game story can be found on Page 5. Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A 45- year-old woman fired a shot at President Ford Monday, but the President escaped unharmed in the second assassination attempt against him in 17 days. Police said she had been picked up with a gun the day before by authorities and questioned by the Secret Service, which had her on a “questionable Two more needed Senators may be added By KARLA MOURITSEN Campus Editor The Student Senate will consider Wednesday a resolution increasing the number of living area senators to allow for the representation of the Krueger-Aston-Mosher dor mitories. Although limited by the Student Body Constitution to 30 living area senators, the resolution requests two at-large senators be elected from the Krueger-Aston-Mosher areas, inereasingthenumber to31. This change would be in effect until the regular reapportioning of the Senate in the spring. At that time, the 30-senator limit would be again enforced. In other business, the Senate will consider allocating $100 from the Refrigerator Rental account to publicize the changes being prop osed in the new state constitution. The resolution states that “the vot ers of Texas will have the first op portunity in 100 years to adopt a new constitution on November 4, 1975, and the dissemination of in formation on the changes proposed is vital to an understanding of the new constitution.” The funds, if allocated, are to be spent in non-partisan advertise ments and will not represent a Se nate endorsement of the proposed changes, said Student Body Presi dent Jeff Dunn. A resolution approving the con tracts between Student Radio and both of the local cable companies will be voted on during the meet ing. Another resolution calling for the renewal of the lease of the pre sent radio station site in the Ridgecrest Shopping Center will be presented by Vice-President of Student Services Troie Pruett. Also at the Wednesday.meeting, Dunn will recommend Sam Terry to fill the now-vacant position of senior on the Judicial Board. Michael Gerst will be nominated for graduate senator from Agricul ture, Barbara Palmer for junior senator from Agriculture, and Judy Stearman for Married Student Housing senator. All of Dunn’s appointments re quire Senate approval before be coming effective. The Senate meeting, which is open to the public, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Room 204 of the Har rington Center. list.” She was immediately arrested. Ford was emerging from the St. Francis Hotel in midafternoon when the shot rang out from a crowd of onlookers. San Francisco police said the gun was deflected by a spectator. The woman, identified as Sarah Jane Moore, was about 35 to 40 feet away from Ford, She was said by police to be a known activist in a number of leftist causes in the Bay Area, including a massive food giveaway last year intended to help secure the release of kidnaped heiress Patricia Hearst. As the cheers of the crowd turned suddenly to screams. Ford was rushed by Secret Service agents into his waiting limousine and sped to the airport. The presi dential jet was airborne about 30 minutes later, at 3:55 p.m. It was not known whether the President was wearing the bullet proof vest he wore in New Hamp shire in his first public outing after an attempt on his life in Sac ramento by a follower of multiple-murderer Charles Man- At the airport, Ford appeared shaken and pale as he shook hands with the escort policemen before boarding Air Force One. But White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen reported from the plane about an hour later— “In a word, he is re laxed. The President’s wife, Betty, was waiting for him at the airport. Nes- sen said she, too, appeared relax ed. Police said an Oliver Sipple, alert spectator, a 33-year-old ex- Marine from San Francisco, was responsible for striking the gun just as it fired. The bullet ricocheted and struck another onlooker, injur ing him slightly. DeWitt rejected as Muster head By KARLA MOURITSEN Campus Editor The appointment of Kelly De- Witt as Muster chairman was re jected late Sunday night by the Student Government Executive Committee. DeWitt, junior class president, was instead appointed Muster best qualified for the job, said Student Body President Jeff Dunn after DeWitt s rejection. Dunn also said that he couldn’t understand why Martin had appointed DeWitt without prior approval. “I think Kelly would’ve done a good job, said McClure. He said that both he and DeWitt wanted to increase student partici pation in the ceremony by making students more aware of Muster. Since Muster is so deeply based in tradition, McClure said there was actually little that they could change. DeWitt said he knew McClure had not done anything to get the position from him, but he said that his rejection was a political move by the executive committee against Martin. “I hate to think that students at A&M woidd try to use politics in something as sacred as Muster,” said DeWitt. "But I just hope we have a good Muster.” A&M Consol School Superintendent Fred Hopson voices his support of $60,000 loan to help pay teacher salaries and op- crating expenses until January. See story, Page 3. Photo bv Glen Johnson Seeks injunction B-CS fights phone hike By STEVE GRAY City Editor The cities of Bryan and College Station will attempt in the next few days to enjoin General Telephone Company from putting its new $1,073,193 local rate increase into effect. But, according to phone com pany officials, the new rate in crease went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday. Neeley Lewis, city attorney for College Station, said Monday night he and Bryan City Attorney Joel Roberts have been working on the request for a temporary restrain ing order that will be presented to 85th District Court Judge W. C. Davis sometime this week. If the restraining order is issued, a hearing must be held within the following 10 days at which time both cities will request issuance of a temporary injunction by the court to halt the rate increase. The phone company cannot leg ally raise phone rates while the temporary injunction is in effect. The court will rule on the matter after a final hearing concerning the merits of the rate increase. It could be some time before the final hear ing is held. Kelly DeWitt vice-chairman, while Fred McClure, speaker of the senate, was named chairman. DeWitt had previously been ap pointed Muster chairman by Stu dent Government Executive Direc tor Mary Ellen Martin. T went for interviews last year and was told that McClure was the number-one prospect,” said De Witt. “But Mary Ellen Martin said that, although it wasn’t official, she liked my ideas and wanted to ap point me. In June, DeWitt received a letter from Martin congratulating him on his selection as Muster chairman. However, DeWitt s appointment had not been reviewed by the Stu dent Government Executive Committee, as stipulated in the Student Constitution. “I know I had to have Executive Committee approval,” said Martin, “but I planned to bring it up at the first meeting and had full confi dence that the Executive Commit tee would back my decision.” “The Executive Committee wanted to pick the person they felt Preservation Hall Jazz Band will per form at 8 in the Rudder Auditorium to night. Tickets are still available in the Rudder Box Office for the band from New Preservation Hall Orleans Bourbonstreet. Admission is $3 for students, $4.50 for A&M dates and $5.50 for general public. General Telephone representa tives met on Thursday for more than two hours with city officials in a futile attempt to compromise on the rate increase. The cities had offered to grant the phone com pany increases from $219,307 to $375,000. General Telephone, in a similar move, offered to settle for amounts ranging from $688,000 to $550,000. The new rates will increase charges for a residence single party line from $6.50 to $9.65 per month. Single-party business lines would jump from $13.55 to $21.20 a month. Pop band to play Friday “Rock the Boat — Hues Corp. and Mandrill will liftoff the A&M- Illinois football weekend. The two groups perform Friday at G. Rollie White Coliseum under Town Hall sponsorship. The Black Awareness Committee of the Memorial Student Center is cooperating in the venture. Showtime is 8 p.m. Midnight yell practice at Kyle Field follows. A three-member soid and pop group, the Hues Corporation does “liquid sold that dissolved into dynamic funk, followed by a ballad for a change of pace. ’ Admission to the concert is free to students with activity card and ID, but tickets must be picked up in advance on tbe 1st floor of the Rud der Tower.