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Cbe Battalion
Vol. 68 No. 113
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, Apr. 27, 1976
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Lmerican support pledged to Africa
Associated Press
iUS tKA, Zambia — Secretary oi State
■ A. Kissinger took his African tour to
hbia Monday and said it was time to face
issues of independence, majority rule
Iratial justice in southern Africa.
He time has come for us to address
■issues squarely and with a sense of
Hity," Kissinger declared shortly after
ivlig here from Tanzania, where Presi-
it Julius Nyerere said “war has started”
black majority rule in Rhodesia and
nj be avoided.”
jlbave come here to listen and to learn
Ho offer ways in which the United
lies can join its efforts to Zambia’s in the
H of the aspirations and values we
H Kissinger said at Lusaka airport.
At an earlier news conference in Tan-
iia, Kissinger referred to Nyerere’s
tementon Rhodesian war and said: “We
>fer that the solution he found through
tcliations. Ifwar has started, as we have
11 told, then it is clear that at some point
it will have to be ended by negotiations.
“We support majority rule. We will indi
cate specific methods by which that can be
achieved in our judgment.
“The United States might not support
the war, Nyerere, who is the chief
spokesman for African liberation, told re
porters after meeting with Kissinger. “We
will not quarrel with that. I did not get the
impression that Dr. Kissinger will support
us in prosecuting the war.”
As the Kissinger tour continued, the
white-minority Rhodesian government in
Salisbury announced that two more African
guerrillas were killed by Rhodesian secu
rity forces in the undefined “operational
area” along the Mozambique border. It
said the number of black insurgents killed
this year climbed to 138, compared with
the deaths of 19 Rhodesian soldiers.
A curfew was imposed by police head-
quarters on the road between two popular
Rhodesian holiday resorts — the town of
Umtali on the border with Mozambique
and Hot Springs about 50 miles south. A
government communique said during the
day protected convoys will operate be
tween the two points. It was the first ad
mission of guerrilla activity in the area.
One of Rhodesia’s best known junior pri
vate schools. Eagle School, is perched high
in the Yuma mountains and sources say
plans have been made to transfer the pupils
to another school.
Rhodesia said it was establishing a secu
rity committee with powers to ban Rhode
sian news media from publishing or broad
casting news items it thinks should be
withheld.
“The government considers a measure of
control is necessary in view of the intense
psychological pressures to which Rhodesia
is being subjected,” said the announce
ment.
The penalty for violating the new censor
ship laws will be a maximum fine of
$14,950, or five years in jail or both.
The restrictions specifically mention
“local news media” and foreign journalists
in Salisbury said the rules are apparently
not aimed at censoring news dispatches to
the outside world.
In Cape Town, Police Minister J. T.
Kruger said South African security police
over the past few weeks arrested about 5
people running an underground network
recruiting black South Africans for guerrilla
training. He said the network organized by
the banned African National Congress
(ANC) was “badly hurt” by the arrests.
Newspaper reports said blacks recruited
by the network were smuggled out of South
Africa along a secret trail through Swazi
land and Mozambique for eventual guer
rilla training in Tanzania.
Security police managed to expose the
network after infiltrating their own black
agents as recruits.
In Lusaka, Kissinger was to meet with
Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, who
umphrey’s hopes riding,
n Pennsylvania primary
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By WALTER R. MEARS
AP Special Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA — He’s not on the
plot but Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey has
lotj riding on the Pennsylvania primary
eclnon today.
Itlcould determine whether the Demo
ats’ senior campaigner belongs to the past
1 to the future.
jimmy Carter, top man among the
emocratic candidates as the primary
bjiaign enters its most hectic phase, be-
oves that Humphrey now looms as his
fijrtr rival for the White House nornina-
on.
JSo Carter is trying to assemble his own
op Humphrey movement — before the
liriiesota senator can get started,
i Parter, Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Wash-
igtpnand Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona
I the major contestants in Pennsylvania,
feliama Gov. George C. Wallace is on the
allot but he campaigned only briefly.
Hnd then there are the 1,102 Pennsyl-
|hla Democrats running for seats at the
Hy’s national convention. One hundred
■ thirty-four of them will he elected, in
■'separate contests.
ISo there are two separate sets of num-
|ers to watch in judging the Pennsylvania
iHrns. One is the popular vote in the
fcewide test of Democratic presidential
References.
hat is purely advisory, a so-called
Juty contest. It does not determine how
Jnnsylvania will he counted in July when
he Democrats choose their nominee.
i Nonetheless, the candidate who wins it
dll get a significant psychological boost.
Harter said he expected to run first un-
ess the voter turnout was slow. Jackson
aid it was close, dropping his earlier fore-
Est of popular vote victory. Udall said he’d
lo no worse than second place.
IfThe Pennsylvania delegates are being
roportioned in separate competition, in
bch of the 5 districts from which state
pators are elected. All told, Pennsylvania
Peace Corps,
VISTA to look for
volunteers at A&M
H’eace Corps and VISTA representatives
Hi be on campus next week to interview
Jtential volunteers for the two programs.
JStudents will be interviewed May 3-6 in
[he Placement Office, Rudder Tower,
pace Corps personnel will also man an
■formation table by Rudder Tower 9 a.m.
lo 5 p.m. Students interested in an inter-
pew should contact the Placement Office
In advance.
■The recruiters are looking primarily for
Haduating seniors and graduate students
In agriculture, business, architecture, en
gineering, education, math-science and
, podern language, a representative said.
fMe said recruits will begin training for the
■eace Corps or VISTA programs in July or
iAugust of this year.
■The last time the Peace Corps recruited
I p A&M, they interviewed 25 people and
■eceived over a dozen applications.
will have 178 votes at the Democratic con
vention, and that phase of the primary will
determine how they are cast.
Pennsylvania’s remaining 44 Demo
cratic National Convention delegates will
be chosen by the party’s state committee.
Jackson, counting on labor and Demo
cratic organization support, said he would
win the delegate competition. Carter said
he couldn’t forecast the outcome. Udall
said he’d he a satisfied second.
But it may take some time to determine
how the candidates — and noncandidate
Humphrey — actually fare in the delegate
race. Each entry is running a slate of dele
gates committed to him. But there also are
418 uncommitted Democrats on the vari
ous ballots.
Furthermore, some would-be delegates
are still listed for presidential candidates
who have quit the race, among them
Pennsylvania Gov. Milton J. Shapp.
Some of his delegates are now for
Jackson, some are uncommitted and some
prefer the other entries. Then, too, there
are Humphrey supporters in the ranks of
the currently uncommitted, although no
one knows how many.
All of that tends to put more emphasis on
the Democratic popularity vote, which is
fine with Carter, since he thinks he can win
it.
He also believes that a victory in the
preference vote would influence the un
committed delegates in his direction. And
he acknowledges that if he doesn’t win,
they would tend to turn toward others,
most of them Humphrey.
Humphrey remains a popular figure in
Pennsylvania, where he won the 1972 pri
mary. Some of Jackson’s labor supporters
have said openly they would prefer Hum
phrey.
For the Democrat who favors Hum
phrey, anyone hut Carter will do in
Pennsylvania. Carter is the only candidate
who now appears to have a chance of as
sembling enough delegates to take clear
command of the race before the conven
tion.
Associated Press
Texas A&M freshman basketball player
Karl Godine says he’ll play at a junior col
lege next season and then return to the
Aggies for his final two seasons of eligibil
ity.
Godine and Jarvis Williams, both from
Houston Kashmere, were suspended
through the 1976-77 season following a
Southwest Conference investigation. The
SWC said the players were guilty of re
cruiting violations.
“All I know is that I can’t stand around for
a whole season and not play, ” Godine said.
“I feel it would be better for me to go to a
junior college where I can play 35 or 40
games next season and then, come back.”
Because of varying junior college trans
fer rules, Godine and Aggie Coach Shelby
Metcalf say they have not decided on the
school Godine will attend.
Godine first considered San Jacinto Col
lege in Pasadena, a perennially strong
junior college team, but Metcalf said the
South Zone of the Texas Junior College
Athletic Conference does not permit trans
fers unless they are eligible in the confer
ence from which they transfer.
Metcalf said the conference’s Eastern
Zone recently instituted a similar rule.
National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) rules permit junior college
graduates to transfer to an NCAA school
and become eligible immediately.
Metcalf said SWC Commissioner Cliff
Speegle told him Godine and Williams
would be allowed to follow such a route
under terms of their SWC suspensions.
Metcalf said Williams apparently has not
decided if he will stay at A&M next season
was expected to press for military aid to
Rhodesian nationalist groups. The secre
tary was also expected to hold discussions
with ANC leader Joshua Nkomo, who flew
to Lusaka from Salisbury. Nkomo is one of
the few black Rhodesian nationalists to
agree to meet with Kissinger.
Nyerere said he would like to see the
United States and all other countries frilly
support the black liberationists fighting to
topple the government of Rhodesian Pre
mier Ian Smith. But Nyerere sidestepped a
direct answer when he was asked if he
would like to see American arms intro
duced into the conflict.
He said there were “limitations” as to
what Washington could do. Kissinger has
said the U. S. government “does not plan to
give military aid in any form to the nation
alist movements in Africa.”
Nyerere said the United States has an
obligation to support the U.N. economic
embargo against the Smith government.
which represents about 273,000 whites
among a nation of 5.7 million blacks.
Kissinger told a news conference in Tan
zania his talks with Nyerere were “among
the most instructive I have had with any
leader” and said he would keep in close
touch with him.
Kissinger met Sunday with President
Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya in Nairobi. Kis
singer told newsmen the United States
wants non-African powers to stay out of the
conflict in Rhodesia, South-West Africa
and South Africa. South-West Africa is
ruled by South Africa under a mandate dis
puted by the United Nations.
Kissinger’s agenda called for him to fly to
Livingstone on the border with Rhodesia to
view Victoria Falls and return to Lusaka on
his way to Zaire. He was also to visit Ghana,
Liberia and Senegal on his tour which ends
in Kenya with a U.N. conference on trade
and development May 6.
Godine to leave A&M,
at jr. college next year
or also transfer to a junior college and then
return for his two final years of eligibility.
“There’s no real urgency to choose the
junior college, if that’s what they want to
do,” Metcalf said. T’ve been tied up with
recruiting and the last time we talked, Jar
vis said he was going to stay here next
season.”
The SWC also penalized the Aggies two
scholarships for next season, but Metcalf
said the Aggies would not benefit if Godine
and Williams transfer.
“We’d still have to save a scholarship for
them so we’d just have to bank’ two
scholarships,” Metcalf said.
Another complicating factor could arise
from an upcoming NCAA investigation of
the Godine-Williams case. That probe is
expected to begin in several months.
Index
The new policies will not change the
quality of marines’ training, a '
general says. Page 4.
Ford begins his longest speaking
tour of the campaign. Page 3.
Olin Teague denies claims that he
has been neglecting his duties.
Page 3.
A new degree will be offered here
next year. Page 5.
Young and old joined together in the activities
at the second annual Folk Art Festival held
at Thomas Park Sunday afternoon. The festival.
sponsored by the parks and recreation depart
ment, featured crafts and games of the 1800’s,
including chair making and butter churning.
Folk festival features
cornbread and crafts
By ELAINE MERRIFIELD
Have you ever played with a hooey stick,
churned butter or eaten cornbread that has
been cooked outdoors?
Eight hundred people got to do these
things and more at the second annual Folk
Art Festival held at Thomas Park Sunday
afternoon.
The Folk Festival, sponsored by Texas
A&M recreation and parks department and
the parks and recreation department of
College Station, gave people an opportu
nity to observe firsthand some of the crafts
of the Brazos Valley area during the 1800s.
Students in the recreation and parks de
partment, dressed in 1800-style costumes,
demonstrated such arts and crafts as mak
ing chairs, braiding rope and whittling
hooey sticks.
A hooey stick is a small stick made of pine
or other soft wood. It has a row of notches
cut in the top and a propeller on the end.
When a stick is rubbed across the notches,
the propeller spins. According to a young
lady who claimed to be an old toymaker’s
apprentice, if, while rubbing the hooey
stick someone yells hooey, the propeller
will stop spinning and start going in the
opposite direction. This is how the hooey
stick got its name.
Denise Gordon demonstrated how to
churn butter using one of the more
“modern” models of churns. It was 70 years
old and looked like an eggbeater that
screwed onto the top of a jar of cream. This
method of churning only took five minutes
to make butter, whereas the old-fashioned
style churn that used a dasher took 30 to 40
minutes.
All of that butter didn’t go to waste.
Bruce Weinheimer made cornbread in a
Dutch oven and cooked it in a bed of coals.
This cornbread, thickly spread with fresh
butter, was a favorite among the crowd.
Weinheimer said, his key to a successful
pan of cornbread was simple.
“Don’t measure anything,” he said.
“That way you get variation.”
While they munched on their
cornbread, the spectators listened to foot-
stomping folk music. Robin Pfannstiel led
the singing and played the guitar and the
harmonica. He was dressed in faded over
alls, a flannel shirt with a red handkerchief
tied around his neck and a straw hat.
Several other guitars, two banjos and
even a jug and a washboard made up the
rest of the band. Some of the younger
members of the crowd joined in the music
with jew s harps and tambourines.
The women had an opportunity to par
ticipate in typical female activites of the
1800s. They could learn how to make dolls
out of cornhusks, embroider samplers or
candles. Many of the males also seemed to
be interested in the candle making as there
was always a crowd at this exhibit.
However, the taffy pull was the most
popular event of the festival. Mike Tibbs
and Cindy Erwin had plenty of help stir
ring the taffy which was cooked on an old
woodburning stove.
After the taffy was cooked, it was poured
onto a marble slab to cool. The children
waited impatiently around the slab with
hands greased and ready to start pulling the
candy. When Erwin finally announced that
the taffy was ready, 40 pairs of buttered
hands shot out to receive the first piece.
Everyone went home a little sticky from
the taffy, a little burned by the sun, but
with a better understanding of what life was
like 100 years ago.
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Jack Ford gives reasons for Ford in ’76
Dressed in beige corduroy pants, a red-
and white-checked shirt and blue blazer.
Jack Ford sat poised and composed as he
addressed an enthusiastic audience in the
Memorial Student Center Ballroom last
night.
The standing-room-only crowd, com
prised mostly of females, based the major
ity of their questions on Gerald Ford’s
presidential campaign. But the hour long
session also brought Ford an invitation for
dinner, an invitation to drink beer, and one
of the female spectators even asked for the
glass he was drinking from.
But Ford, surrounded by Secret Ser
vicemen and posters of his father, re
mained calm as he answered all of the ques
tions he was asked.
“The man is going to promise you what
he can produce and then produce what he
promises,” Ford said as he gave the first of
three reasons why voters should cast their
votes for Gerald Ford in Saturday’s pri
mary.
He said his father is “one who is going to
put the good of the country before his per
sonal, political gains. The third reason, an
issue he said he considers to be the cor
nerstone of the Ford administration, is
President Ford’s economic policy.
“We have an opportunity for the first
time in my lifetime to see long range eco
nomic stability,” Ford said, as he noted
that the inflation rate has decreased from
14.7 per cent last July to less than 4.7 per
cent now. He also remarked that his father
would prefer to run against Hubert Hum
phrey in the November election because
that would present a clearcut opportunity
for American voters to decide between big
spending and a more conservative fiscal
administration.
One of the major topics discussed was
the energy problem. When asked if the
President has further plans for energy pro
grams as a result of last year’s problems
with Congress, Ford replied, “We were
very disappointed with the lack of respon
sibility on the part of Congress. Congress
passed 5 of the 13 specific majors our ad
ministration proposed last year.”
He said the Ford administration will
keep pushing for a comprehensive energy
program which will include deregulation of
oil and gas prices so that other oil and gas
resources can be developed in the country.
Another issue raised was the foreign re
lations policy. When asked why the Presi
dent dropped the word detente from use in
foreign policy statements. Ford said that
the word had become a code word repre
senting more than it should.
He said he feels everyone agrees that the
U.S. should pursue the principle of nuclear
disarmament and discussions with other
foreign powers to try and relax tension in
the world, but the word detente was halt
ing such progress. “No one wants to go
back to the cold war,” Ford said, “and the
word detente seemed to represent that.
Ford also said that the administration is
trying very aggressively to find a solution to
the problem of Americans missing in action
(MIA) from the Vietnam war, which allows
us to account for the MIA’s but doesn’t
“require the U.S. to sell its soul to the
North Vietnamese. He said it is a very
delicate situation with high priority among
programs his father will pursue.
On the subject of busing. Ford said that
the education question has “gotten wrap
ped up in forced busing instead of quality
education.” He said that we need to ad
dress ourselves more towards quality edu
cation and less towards the psychological
aspects. He said his father is in favor of
letting communities work out their own
integration systems and using busing only
as a last resort.
The President’s stand on handguns rep
resents a two-fold attack, Ford said. First, a
mandatory sentencing for anyone who
commits a crime involving a handgun,
“with no questions asked, he added. Sec
ondly, President Ford proposes a cease in
manufacturing of the small handguns, or
Saturday-night specials, that are present
ing the largest problem, coupled with a 200
per cent increase in federal agents hired to
enforce handgun laws.
On the subject of national health insur
ance aid and socialized medicine. Ford said
that the first and foremost area to deal with
is catastrophic illness, the most devastating
to the American family.