AGGIE CINEMA
Popular Film Series
presents
The Odd Couple
starring Matthau and Lemmon
(G)
"funniest domestic battle of the century’
Nov. 14
Rudder Theater
Midnite Showing
$1.00
Advance Tickets Available at Box Office
AGGIE CINEMA
Popular Film Series
presents
Allbucn 'Or Class
On 11 i \m si Ci i vi s i si i vi v
(PG)
. . one of the most satisfying
and well crafted movies of the
year.”
Charles Champlin, LOS ANGELES
TIMES
Nov. 14 & 15
Rudder Theater
Academy Award
Winner, Best Actress
Glenda Jackson.
8 p.m.
$1.00
Advance Tickets Available at Box Office
ENJOY AN EVENING OF
Comedy and Music
When
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November 13, 14, 15 & 20, 21, 22
8:00 P.M.
3100 S. College
ADULTS $2.50 STUDENTS $1.50
Marilyn Home,
Soprano
Rudder Center Auditorium
8:00 P.M. Thurs. Nov. 20
Tickets - Regular 6.75, Tickets & information avail-
5.70, 4.60 able at MSC Box Office
A&M Student 5.00, 4.50, 845-2916.
3.70
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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOV. 11, 1975
Page 3
By ERIC LINDQUIST
Battalion Staff Writer
The United States must have
energy options open for it can no
longer depend on a narrow base of
dwindling resources, reported Dr.
Robert C. Seamans.
Seamans, Administrator of the
Energy Research and Development
Administration, said that the nation
will have to increase its reliance on
coal, “including lignite that is
around here.”
The coal industry, which today
furnishes less than a fifth of our
energy requirements, said Sea
mans, should be able to double its
600 million tons per year production
by 1985. He spoke at the annual
A&M Research Foundation meet-
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“VHe must look beyond coal to
meet our future energy needs,” he
said. “Some will be met ... by ex
tracting oil from shale and tar sands,
others by expanding geothermal
and possibly wind systems.”
Until the development of com
mercially feasible solar electric, fu
sion power and breeder reactor sys
tems, the nation will have to rely
heavily on nuclear power, he said.
Seamans stressed the important
energy role that universities play.
The universities undertake basic re
search and develop future scientific
manpower, he said. The need for
scientific manpower in energy-
related fields is enormous, he ad
ded.
Increase noted
in 3 diseases
in October
The Brazos County Health De
partment reported that cases of in
fluenza, strep throat and mononuc
leosis took big jumps over last
month s number of reported cases.
One hundred cases of strep throat
were reported in the county by
health authorities during October,
up from 52 cases in September. In
fluenza cases numbered 74, an in
crease of 61 cases from the previous
month, and mononucleosis cases
jumped from nine to 46.
The health department reported
83 cases of gonorrhea, an increase of
seven cases. Only two cases of
syphilis were reported, the same
number as last month.
Other cases reported by the
county include chicken pox, four;
infectious hepatitis, four; menin
gitis, one; mumps, one; and scarlet
fever, two.
Greg Martin (left), representing Black
Awareness, and Roice Murcherson (right).
representing the Arts Committee, talk
with John Riggers. Staff photo by David McCarrol
Africa’s relevance
Rigger’s topic
PEANUT
GALLERY
ORIGINAL
EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT IS
GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT
ALL BAR DRINKS & BEER
“A people do not lose in 300
years what they accomplished in
5000,” said black artist John Rig
gers here Monday. Riggers was
speaking on the relevance of Afri
ca’s culture to America’s blacks.
Riggers, head of the art de
partment at Texas Southern Uni
versity is currently exhibiting his
works in the Rudder Center. He
told a handful of students and fa
culty that his six-month trip to
Africa had been the most impor
tant period in his life. Riggers is
the author of Ananse, a book
chronicling his trip to Africa.
“Ananse means spider-web
and represents the ordering of
life. People don’t realize the great
subtlety and deep meaning of Af
rican life,” Riggers said.
Riggers, born in Gastonia,
North Carolina, also spoke of
America’s contemporary
sociological predicaments. He
declared that the South was the
birthplace of a new humanism
and said that the South was also
the cradle of American culture.
“Whatever the strengths of the
nation, it is here, in the South.”
Throughout his talk, which was
accompanied by slides, the idea
of sense of place was pervasive.
Riggers decried the fact that
•ghetto children had no feel of the
land and said that part of his job
was to try to instill that feeling
into his students.
“Probably the most important
form of art is pottery. It comes
from the land. It is the land.”
Movie spins yarn,
angers Texas DPS
Tuesday Nov. 18, 1975 8:00 p.m.
Rudder Theater
Tickets
(no reserved seats)
A&M Student free w/activity card
Student Date 1 00
General Public 2.50
Tickets and information available at the MSC Box Office, first floor of Rudder
Tower. Open 9-4 Monday-Friday. 845-2916. No cameras or recording
equipment will be allowed.
The Pennsylvania Ballet
Associated Press
AUSTIN — “Sugarland Ex-.
press,” a critically acclaimed film,
shown Saturday on NBC, is a good
yarn but shouldn’t be taken as an
accurate account of the events on
which it was. .based.
And the Texas Department of
Public Safety is upset, to put it
mildly, over the way in which it and
its officers were portrayed in the
movie.
Evidently a number of Texans
took the film as a factual account of
the kidnaping of a state trooper in
1969. Col. Wilson Speir, DPS di
rector, said his agency had been
“flooded with phone calls.” The cal
lers, he said, criticized the DPS for
things that happened in the movie.
“It is my belief that NBC did law
enforcement in general, and the
DPS in particular, a serious disser
vice by broadcasting this film with
out noting before and after that it
was fiction,” Speir said in a state
ment.
The “Poplins” of the movie,
shown by NBC stations Saturday
night, were Robert Samuel Dent,
22, and his wife, Ila Faye, 21. They
abducted Highway Patrolman J.
Kenneth Crone on May 2, 1969, and
used his car for a meandering six-
hour, 300-mile drive through East
Texas.
According to newspaper stories
and DPS records, Capt. Jerry Mil
ler of Beaumont — the “Capt. Tan
ner” of the movie — used patrol car
radios to urge Dent to surrender.
Dent refused, but at one point
said he would free Crone unharmed
if given a 15-minute head start so he
could visit his children at his father-
in-law’s house in Wheelock, near
Bryan.
Officers were waiting in the
father-in-law’s house, into which
Dent marched Crone with a shot
gun at his back. As Crone passed a
doorway, he saw someone, and
ducked and rolled away.
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Robertson County Sheriff E. 3'.
Elliott and FBI Agent Boh Wiatt ol
Bryan opened fire. Eliott used a
shotgun, and Wiatt used a pistol,
the records show, and Dent was not
wounded with a shot from a rifle
with a telescopic sight from a dis
tance of about 40 feet as depicted in
the movie.
Dent died in a Bryan hospital
shortly after he was shot, not behind
the wheel in a continuation of the
chase.
Records show the incident began
when Dent fled from a Port Arthur
police unit that had attempted to
stop him for a traffic violation. Other
officers joined the pursuit, but
Dent’s car was lost near Winnie.
Crone later answered a call from a
ranch, saying two persons had been
beaten by hitchhikers and needed
help. When he arrived, Dent pulled
a pistol and disarmed Crone.
Miller located the car after it pas
sed through Beaumont. With Crone
driving, Dent fired three shots at
Miller, DPS records show.
The Dents and Crane, trailed by
about 50 carloads of police and re
porters wound through Beaumont,
Houston, Dayton, Cleveland, Con
roe, Navasota and Bryan before en
ding their flight in Wheelock.
A helicopter kept track of the
fugitives position and radioed
ahead that Dent was going to his
father-in-law’s home.
Nothing in the record supports
the film version that Dent had es
caped from Huntsville State Prison
with help from his wife, that the
couple spent a night of the chase in a
motor home on a used car lot, where
they were attacked by rifle-toting
civilians, or that their whole object
was to remove their baby from a
foster home.
A DPS spokesman said the film’s
makers once showed the script to
agency officials, who said it was in
accurate. “They changed the script
somewhat, but never came back,”
he said.
The DPS cars shown in the film
were surplus “clunkers” that the
producers of the movie obtained by
bidding high when the vehicles
were auctioned off, the spokesman
said.
Miller is now a major and regional
commander of the highway patrol at
Houston.
Crone,27 at the time of his abduc
tion, remains on the force as a high
way patrolman stationed at Winnie,
near Beaumont.
Mrs. Dent was sent to prison
Sept. 10, 1969, after being con
victed on charges of forgery and
armed robbery.
Tickets Regular - 8.00, 6.75, 5.60
A&M Student - 6.40, 5.40, 4.40
Tickets and info available
MSC BOX OMce 845-2910.
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Linda Ronstadt
Bonfire Special Attraction
Wednesday Nov. 26, 1975 G. Rollie White Coliseum
Everyone must
buy a ticket.
Tickets
Reserved seats $4.50
General Admission
A&M Student/date $2.50
General Public $3.50
Tickets and informatton available at MSC Box Office, first floor of the Rudder Tower. Open 9-4 Monday-Friday.
845-2916. No cameras or recording equipment will be allowed.