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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.
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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.
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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.