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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1975
President continues touring
Ford won’t become ‘hostage of his office’
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — While
President Ford insisted Tues
day he will not become a hos
tage of his off ice, an investigat
ing senator said the woman ac
cused of trying to assassinate
him had pleaded to be arrested
so she wouldn’t start “testing
the system.
That disclosure promised
congressional controversy
about the protection of the Pres
ident, and Secretary of the
Treasury William E. Simon said
the Secret Service already is
looking to an overhaul of its pro
tective system.
Congressional leaders
suggested immediate Secret
Senice protection for the 1976
presidential candidates, rather
than waiting until Jan. 1.
As Sara Jane Moore, charged
with attempting to kill Ford
Monday in San Francisco,
awaited a hearing for a possible
psychiatric examination, Sen.
Joseph M. Montoya, D-N.M.
told of her request Sunday to be
placed in protective custody.
He said it was that request
that prompted the Secret Ser
vice to interview her Sunday
night, the day before the shot
aimed at the President. The
Secret Service said it found “she
was not of sufficient protective
interest to warrant surveillance
during the President’s visit.
No follow-up
“The fact is that they did not
follow up, said Montoya, head
of the committee that handles
Secret Service funds. He an
nounced his panel will begin
hearings next Tuesday or Wed
nesday.
Although official Treasury
spokesmen declined to expand
on Simon’s statement, other
sources said the departmental
evaluation is focusing on the
Secret Service system for de
termining in advance who
might be a threat to the Presi
dent or other officials.
The evaluation, which will be
conducted by consultants from
outside the federal govern
ment, will go into how the Sec
ret Service collects information
on potential threats and what
criteria it uses to weed out
people who don t seem like
serious threats.
Ford is tentatively scheduled
to speak in Chicago and
Evanston, 111., on Tuesday.
Still travelling
Press Secretary Ron Nessen
said Monday’s incident, in front
of the St. Francis Hotel in San
Francisco, has not changed the
President’s belief that he should
continue travel.
The alternative, Nessen said,
would be “putting the President
in the Oval Office and keeping
him hostage there for four
years.
If the President needed to
take refuge in the White House
and other prominent govern
ment figures followed that lead,
Nessen said, “it woidd mean
that all public officials would
hide in a bunker.
The attempted assassination
was the second in 17 days.
Nessen said Ford feels “the
action represents a tiny, tiny
minority of Americans and the
actions of such a tiny minority
cannot be allowed to keep the
President, the vice president
and other public officials hos
tage."
Ford not ‘flaunt-
ing’
Nessen said Ford has done
nothing that “could be consi
dered as flaunting himself or his
office in front of people who
might belong to this tiny minor
ity.
“Nor does he feel that any
thing he’s said or done repre
sents in any way a dare or an
egging on of these individuals,
added Nessen.
Sen. Montoya said neither
Mrs. Moore nor Lynette Alice
Fromme, arrested and charged
in the apparent assassination at
tempt in Sacramento, Calif.,
was listed in the 47,000-name
computer listing of persons con
sidered possibly dangerous to
the President.
Montoya read a memoran
dum that he said his staff pre
pared on the basis of informa
tion from the Secret Service. It
said that on Sunday night, after
her arrest for carrying a re
volver, Mrs. Moore “phoned an
inspector of the San Francisco
police department and re
quested that he retain her in
custody.
“The inspector knew Mrs.
Moore as an informant and
asked her what the charge for
continued custody could be,”
Montoya said. “She replied that
she had been a part of the pro
test movement for some time
and that she might just start
‘testing the system.’
The police inspector alerted
the Secret Service, Montoya
said, and agents interviewed
the 45-year-old woman.
Hearing Witnesses
The New Mexico senator said
he will call Stuart Knight, direc
tor of the Secret Service, as a
witness at next week’s hearings.
Simon, in his written state
ment, said: “In striving to per
fect procedures, neither the
Secret Service nor we at Treas
ury are ever satisfied with the
job we are doing in this area and
this is particularly true when
two back-to-back incidents like
this occur. ’
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(from page 1)
Au additional $271,600 was
awarded for the preliminary design
of an addition to the library, for ex
pansion of the waste water treat
ment plant, and for the design of a
facility for laboratory animal re
search and resources.
Other contracts given by the Re
gents included $246,750 to Sentry
Construction Co. of Bryan for a new
water utilities classroom building at
the Research and Extension Cent
er, and $67,485 to R. B. Butler, Inc.
for a mock-up to be used in fire
fighting exercises.
A total of $214,621 was awarded
for the purchase of furniture and
special equipment for the new
Prairie View A&M health center.
Tarletoh State University re
ceived appropriations totaling
$81,000. The contracts dealt with
sidewalk construction, repair of a
steam tunnel, landscaping a central
mall area and repairing a rock wall
around the campus.
Williams reported that twelfth
day class figures stood at 7,182
women and 18,065 men at A&M, for
a total enrollment of 25,247. This
represents a 17.6 per cent increase
in student enrollment over last
year. Dr. Haskell Monroe, dean of
faculties, said the figure was nearly
double the enrollment of the entire
university in 1968.
The regents voted to name the
Architecture Building and the adja
cent building under construction in
honor of Ernest Langford, a 1913
A&M graduate, who was head of the
Architecture Department from
1929 to 1956. He also served for 25
years as councilman and mayor of
College Station.
The facilities will he called the
Ernest Langford Architectural
Center. The building under con
struction and the renovation of the
present Architecture Building has
been contracted for $6,438,100.
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and apartment dwellers to deter
mine if they feel there is adequate
park acreage in the community.
The poll also asks whether apart
ment dwellers would be willing to
incur a rent increase of one per cent
or less in order to increase available
park land. Developers in the city
have said the costs of dedicating
more land would have to he passed
on to apartment renters.
Persons may participate in the
poll by going by room 216C of the
Memorial Student Center.
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