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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1976)
- _ Muster: Living tradition 3 7 7 f \ t Dressed in style I he Corps of Cadets were fortunate to have lovely ladies pin flowers upon their uniforms. The flower pinning ceremony was the first event of Sunday’s activities. (See related stories, more photos. Page 4.) ^Former lover blamed By MARY ALACK WOODHAMS Tnntorrrm at 5.10 p m . students will Uatliet here at <•. Rollit- Mlute ta>hseiiu« in tl*e .imm.ll traditHm wt Muster.to Imnni Aggies who Im\e died during the |Mst sear Muster is lield on San J.ietotn LXts an\- wherr in the world where two or tiMHe \gg*es imi-t to remetnlier tlmse \vIh» have |MKsed away This sear, more than 150 gatlH lings will iKxur troiu IikIoim'su to Cemwny, hut tin- hugest Muster isalwass Iwhl at \&M Charles G. S< mggs sice-presideut ami editoi i.ii 11111*1401 of Progressive Tanner Magamie ami an \6c M gr.uiu.ite. will lie tl»e main s|H‘aket at tlie eeremoiiies \uld I -mg Ssne. snug l»\ tlie Singing ( adets, a 21-gun salute tired In tin- Ross \ olinit«*ers. tlie roll call tor tlie alneut ' am! Silver Ta|n elkinieten/e the campus Muster. When the niiiines ol tin* honored ilead are called troin the Mustei Roll a tneml ot the deceased answers ‘Here This sear s campus Muster houui s 41 stu dents. tormer students ami pmtessois ol A&M. said Muster chairnuui F.red McClure Several s|ieakers Irom the campus will visit cities throughout Texas tor the Cen tennial Muster, including Dr Jack lx Williams. Drs. Tom and Cutolv ii Atkiir. C.ol Ihomas Parsons. Congressman Olin K league. I)i John koldus. and Rogt-r Millei Muster was lirst recallctl in 1SS.3, when Vggics met on June 2(S to li\<- over again our college days, tin* \ ictones and deleats won ami lost ii|xm tlrill grouml and class room I .ct e\ cry alumni ausvv ci at roll call, wrote tin- torim*r students, then known as cx-cadcts These early meetings were par ties and h.impiets relating to the com mencement activ itu-s Hx the late lS90s. tin* ( orps made* an imal visits to the S.m Jacinto linttlelicld near I louston to partu ipatc in sham (kittles and maneuvers, followed liv a paradt* on Houston s Main Street In tin* early l9<Kk. a Track and Field Day . a series of ix>in|>etiti\<• athletie ex enfs similar to intramurals. was held ex ery April 21 W h«*n the <*x«*nts wi-ii* called of! in 1903, a ' rletermineil student IxkIx. 3(M) strong, maiched in oiderly military preci sion to the home of President Dax is K. Houston to insist ii|miii some ohserx ance of the anniversary of the hattle that won Texas IiKlependentx*. April 21 marks the • day Sam Houston s small hand of volun teers defeated Santa Anna s troops, treeing Texas from Mexican rule in IS.3ft During World W at I. groups ol Aggies met in foxholes all oxer F.urope, and at \rmy posts in Ameriea hut no musters were held on campus. In 1923. the former students prox ided \ggies with an op|)ortimity to nieet old trieuds ag.uu and h\e over th«- old days at Cavllegt* Station In planning a state ami nationwide rally of former students. WTAW radio station broadcast a program consisting ol a im-dle\ ol AGcM swings. gn»«*tii»gs from (Ik- Bni/os Country \&M Cluh. worth from athlctte ssrach D.\. Bi ble. and Aggie veils In tin* cadets It tlieir is an \&c M man in one hundred miles of you. von are expected to get tt»- getlier. jeat a little, ami live oxer tin* davs yon s|reiit at the \& M (jillege ol Texas, urged tire March. 192-3 Texas Nggn* B\ 1929 meetings had liecninc iuterna- tmn.il. ami the roll call ot the absent mcm- Irers eaare into practice. In 1^442. A^c M Muster gam«*d uation.il recogmtHYn wlwn it was held at < iirrrrgulnr Islaml in tin* Phihp)>iiM*s Fifteen tkivs Ih*- krre the fall nt tire isI.iimI 23 men, led In C.eiteral (iesnge Mtrore.’ON ~mustered in tire dun recesses of the Rock amd amweved here loi tli«*n de.iil cfassmate*.” W ai tunc brought \ggres togctlmr in al- nrost every area ol tin- world, and tw«» im*n were r^ixortevl to have Ih*UI Muster nr a stihiiiariiie. In 1913, E K Mct,)mllen. tlM*n diK'ctor ol tire \ss» iciatiouol Former Strnlents. sent out muster Ikakr-ts to \ggie\ througlmut tin- ixMintry. Filled with uitnrmatkMi on A6cM Ireritagu* ami tire tradition ot Muster. tlwse p-n-kets also lishfl tire nuuies of tla- arm s tUxe-ased Aggies Tire fust campus Muster w.iv held in| IW6 it k\l< I u ld flu IloiiKxsnnuig[ Muster lor AdtM veterans at wI»k4i fieri enrl Eisenhower xpokr* Caiii|rus Muster was hehl t*n tin- st« |»s nt the MS( in kvle Field, mi flu \dmmis tiatiou lawn, and more reteutly ill fi Rol lieWhite (kv.e i l v Hx2 c.ini|tns | Muster was ehmin.iUxI dm* to l*histr*i holi- xkrvs. hut tin* tr.uhtion lias ••mlurexl siiks I94fr This years Muster was originally planned for tire Adiniuistnition lawn, hut dm- to Iktd weatlrer it will Ire h»*kl in tlr4 Coliseum. I- • Cbe Battalion Vol 68 No 109 College Station. Texas Tuesday. April 20. 1976 Nelson B. Hunt pleads no contest Sssociated Prrsv DALLAS — Federal charges of obstruc tion of justice were dismissed Monday against four men. including two sons of the late Dallas oil billionaire H L. Hunt. In exchange, three of the men pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor action The plea bargain was worked out Ik*-' tween defense attorneys and prosecutors in the cases of Nelson Bunker Hunt. W' Her- lK*rt limit and prominent Dallas lawyers Charles Tessmer and B H Timmins. In exchange lor dismissal of the obstruc tion of justice charges. Nelson Bunker Hunt. Tessmer and Timmins pleaded no contest to a federal information accusing them of what amounted to misdemeanor contempt of court in their dealings with a federal grand jurx W Herbert Hunt was cleared of all charges in tl*- bargaining. Index Parents Dax at \£v\| was also \wards Dax at the l Diversity Stories. Photos Page 4. Fexas \&M men finished sccnml in the Bay loi track m»-ct despite tom firsts. Page S. I In ee haskethall plaxcrs share Must Valuable Plaxer' award. Page 9. B<K'k-musie lovers got their monev s worth, Siiys Paul Mueller in Ins rex iew. Page 5. yVeather Fair and mild today with a high in the upper 70s. Low to night in the mid-50s. Continued fair and mild tomorrow with a high in the upper 70s. No rain is predicted. Rainfall in the last 24 hours in the College Station area measured 76 inches. Eighteen tornadoes were sighted across the state last night and this morning One in jured 11 persons and destroyed three homes outside Brown- wood. Hearst’s ility challenged Svvociatrd Prrs\ NACRAM FNTO. Calif — \ prosecutor, challenging Patricia Hearst s credibility as an informer, saw the secret Kink robbery story she told authorities was motivated by lovaltv to her underground lover. Steven Soliah. Vsst l s \ttv Rk-hard Nichols, oppos ing Soliah s request to open Miss Hears! s revelations to public view, indicated Monday that authorities believed the convict-heiress has lied aKmt the robbery. Soliah is the onlv person charged in the April 21, 1975. robbery of a C rocker Na tional Bank branch in suburban Car michael in which a woman customer was slain bv a shotgun blast. "There is rational leason for disbelieving Mexico to investigate Howard Hughes’ aide Two-car, head-on collision kills parents, sister survives Hie parents of two Texas A6c M students wen* killed in a two-car. head-on collison Sunday evening on HWY 21, approxi mately two miles west of Bry an. Harold B McCiixray. 65. of fSM5 V Vandiver. San Antonio and his wife, Neta. were returning home with their daughter. Brenda kav. 13. after having s|ient Parents Day at \&M This morning Brenda McGilvray was listed in satisfactory condition, and is in intensive care in St Joseph Hospital with a broken leg ami arm. James Francis Hickman of Bishop. Texas, tin- driver of the other car. was translerreil from St Joseph Hospital to Methodist Hospital in Houston Monday morning and w as reported in fair condition this mocning. He has a broken leg and pos sible head injuries and internal bleeding, authorities said. Hickman, a mechanical engineering major, apparently lost control of his ear at approximately 5:50 p.m. on wet pavement as he attempted to pass some construction work on HWY 21 He swerved across the median, hitting the McGilvray car in the westKiund lane. McGilvray has two sons enrolled at A6c M. Lester Kieth McGilv ray is a sopho more psychology student and Richard H McGilvray is a senior in environmental de sign a woman who wants to look out for her Kiy friend, and that’s what it comes down to,” said Nichols. Miss Hearst s truthfulness is at the cen ter of a dispute in which a major decision was due today. U.S. District Court Judge Philip Wilkins said he would decide whether to hold a full-fledged hearing de manded by Soliah s defense. The hearing, eliciting testimony from prosecutors and FBI agents, would inves tigate details Miss Hearst confided about the Carmichael robbery. The government argued that the story is irrelevant because it probably is not true. “There is certainly an element of self- servingness and protectiveness to one’s friend in any statement Miss Hearst might have made," Nichols said Soliah s attorney, Sheldon Otis, said he could prove at a hearing that prosecutors ignored Miss Hearst s scenario of the hank robliery because it differed with the recol lections of two eyewitnesses. Miss Hearst told them that Steven Sol iah was not in the hank when it was rob bed, Otis declared. The two eyewitnesses have placed the 27-year-old house painter inside the hank. In the first open court discussion ol Miss Hearst s secret talks w ith prosecutors, Otis said he knew that U.S. Atty Dwayne, Keyes and others had listened to Miss Hearst in meetings at the San Francisco federal building between March 4 and April 12. during and after her own hank robliery trial. She was convicted March 20 and is under temporary sentence awaiting 90 days of psy chological tests The attorney made no mention of sum moning Miss Hearst She is confined to a Redwood City hospital for treatment of a collapsed lung. Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — Tlie Mexican attorney general's office has apfiealed to a high court the case of Clarence Albert Waldron, a private secretary of Howard Hughes accused of forging Hughes signa ture on his Mexican tourist card. Waldron. 41, Sun Valley, Calif., was cleared of the charge last Tuesday by Fed eral District Court Judge Antonio Uribe, who ruled there was insufficient evidence to support the accusation. Waldron left for the United States shortly after he was re leased from the Acapulco jail. Federal prosecutor Manuel Rodriguez Delgadillo, in charge of the attorney gen eral’s judicial ixilice office here, said the ease hail been appealed Rodrigue/. Delgadillo also said the judi cial police investigation of Waldron and of Hughes' stay in Acapulco would he reopened to determine whether to bring other charges against Hughes'aides, possi bly involving smuggling and liribery. We have a storage room of foreign goods which were illegally introduced into the country by this group." Rodriguez De lgadillo said He added that among the goods seized by police from the 20th floor of the Acapulco Princess Hotel where Hughes livt*d from Feb. 11 to April 5 are "three or four filing cabinets and a desk. "I don't know if there are documents inside them,” Rodriguez Delgadillo said. “They are locked, and we have sealed them We don't intend to open them until they are returned.’’ Commenting on speculation in the local press that Hughes' missing will could .he inside, Rodriguez Delgadillo said, "I think it is infantile to believe the w-ill of Mr. Hughes would lx* found inside. No one has claimed the gotxls up to now . Panel suggests frat house ordinance Ford trails Reagan in delegate battle By JIM CRAWLEY An ordinance requiring social frater nities and sororities to get special permis sion from College Station liefore building fraternity houses was recommended by the College Station Planning and Zoning Commission last night Tlie recommended ordinance will he submitted to the City Council at this Thursday night s meeting. Under the proposed ordinance, each fraternity or sorority house would have to lx* located in a certain zone classification B> The \t«onatrd Pm* WASHINGTON — President Ford is trailing Ronald Reagan in their contest for Texas’ delegates to the Re|Mih!ican Na tional Convention, former Texas Gov John Connally says Listings ready Fall pre-registration schedules an* now as ailahie in tlie registrar’s office in the Coke building Pn*-M*gistration for the fall semester 1976. will liegin at 8:00 a.in. on Monday, April 26 and end at 5 00 p.m. A|>ril 10. Only students that are currently en rolled for the present spring semester will lie allowed to pre-register during this time Students can secure their card packets at tlie office of their department head. Iden tification cards will he required for stu dents to receive their card packets. Each student (undergraduate or graduate) will report to the head of his major department to begin pre- registration Students will also he able to request a specific instructor or time prefer ence for each course requested. No lees for the fall semester will be col lected during pre-registration. A fee statement will he mailed to the student's permanent mailing address by the Fiscal Department on or about July 15. But Cunnally told reporters at a COP fund-raiser in Austin hist night that the vote could swing either way in the closing day s before Texas’ May 1 primary If 10 per cent of Texas’ Republicans change their minds in the last three days, it could alter the outcome. Connally pre dicted He also promised to tell Texans lx-fore Mav 1 why he has remained neu tral His influence. Connally said, has !x*en grossly exaggerated. Local and state GOP officials honored Connally at a $50-a-plate dinner. The former Democrat told tlx* crowd of 500 that fie felt like former President Nixon must liav e felt when he got off the plane recently in Peking — “It’s nice to lx Ixxk among friends. President Ford told a group of news paper editors in the White House yester day that Reagan was absolutely irresponsi ble lor advocating an end to the current Panama Canal negotiations. There was no immediate response from Reagan, who did not campaign Monday Reagan, who has been hammering away against Fordy defense policies, has charged that the negotiations will lead to a surrender of Aihgrica’s control over the Canal Zone. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Harry Jackson of Washington told suppor- (See Ford, Page 5.) and would be required to base a "condi tional permit Before granting the permit, the city would hold a public hearing. The present zoning ordinance allow s the houses in three tx |x-s ol /oning area*: R-3, R-6 and R-,. Tlie R-3, 6 and 7 zoning areas are different densities of apartments, ranging from high to loxx densitx Tlie recommended change allows tlx houses only in the C-1. R-3 and R-6 zoning areas, Tlie seven-member pane! was told by Al Mayo, city planner, that several courts have ruled that fraternity houses are not normal multi-family dwellings. One of the reasons cited by the courts was the higher levels of traffic and noise in a fraternity or sorority house. “Each one (fraternity house) should be hxiked at separately , said Mayo, in pre senting the proposed ordinance change to the commission memlxrs. Two panel memlxrs suggested that a separate zone be designated for fraternity houses that would lx different from the present zone classes. In other business Ixfore the commis sion. the city staff was told to set up a lee proposal whereliy developers would pay to defray the costs of making public notices Ixfore a zoning change. The group refused to re-evaluate a zon ing request that was disapproved at the last meeting. The request was from Tri-County leacher s Credit Union. The organization wants to build an office on University Drive ixar Zarape's Restaurant. Tlie City Coun cil will act on the zoning request at this week’s meeting. RHA casino turns students Jr into gamblers By DEBBY KRENEK W hat does it feel like to lx a mil lionaire? If you went to the fourth annual Resideixe Hall Association's Casino Friday night, chances are you found out—for a little w’hile anyway. For four hours, the MSC ballroom w’as transformed into a minature Lais Vegas, complete with roulette wheels, crap tables, blackjack, chuck-a-luck and a wheel of fortune. A chuck-a-luck is a wire cage for rol ling dice. Each player’s $2 was immediately transformed into $2,000 in play- money upon entering Casino, and customers were allowed three hours (See Millions, Page 5.) II X* ) Millions of dollars were won and lost Friday night at the Memorial Student Center and no one seemed upset. RHA’s Casino gave students a chance to try their luck at blackjack, craps, roulette and other games. Staff photo* b> Jim Ifendrtcluoti