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Vol. 68 No. 121 College Station, Texas Tuesday, May 11, 1976
Report says unions unfair
Mushroom hunts
result in arrests
By ROBERT A. DOBKIN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Civil
ghts Commission said today that wide-
ead racial and sex discrimination pre-
ils throughout the nation s building
ides and trucking unions.
[Despite numerous federal laws, court
isionsand government programs, those
ions “continue to restrict the employ-
nt opportunities of minorities and wo-
n," the commission said in a 291-page
irt issued today.
The commission said the discrimination
less frequently caused by clear intent
it was a decade ago and more by ap
parently neutral, but still discriminatory,
institutional practices.”
The report contained 15 recom
mendations for strengthening federal em
ployment opportunity programs, including
one that would require unions that have
agreements with federal construction con
tractors to set goals and timetables for the
hiring of minorities and women.
Another recommends that the Interstate
Commerce Commission require regulated
trucking firms to submit affirmative action
programs with goals and timetables for hir
ing and promoting minority and female
workers. Federal licenses would be re
voked for noncompliance.
The report focused on the so-called re
ferral unions, such as those in the construc
tion and trucking industries that refer
workers directly to employers through
such means as hiring halls.
It said discrimination is exercised
through union practices related to mem
bership rules, recruitment methods, limi
tations on membership size, referral eligi
bility, and apprenticeship requirements,
including restrictions on age, education
and experience.
Government figures, the report said, in
dicate minorities account for 9.3 per cent of
the membership of 15 national building
trades unions. But it said the percentage of
minorities who are actually journeymen
engaged in construction work could be
under 5.5 per cent.
Women, it said, are a rarity on construc
tion work, accounting for less than 1 per
cent of all unionized construction workers.
Robert A. Georgine, president of the
AFL-CIP Building and Construction
Trades Department, called the findings in
accurate and said blacks make up 19 per
cent of construction union apprentices.
But, he said in a statement, many ap
prentices, both black and white, have not
been able to put time in on a job because of
“the tremendous unemployment situation
in the construction industry, which has
been in double-digit figures for the past 23
months.”
arter has new foe in primary
Associated Press
Jimmy Carter, far ahead in the race for
Democratic presidential nomination,
ikon a new foe in Nebraska’s primary
tion today while President Ford tried
throttle Ronald Reagan’s challenge in
publican voting there and in West
irginia.
Democrats were voting, too, in West
ginia, where the field was limited to two
mdidates, and in Connecticut, where the
ection was just the first step in picking the
ite’s national convention delegation.
Ford, loser of four primaries in a row,
juared off with Reagan in statewide popu-
ity contests with no effect on the dele
te count. But 25 Republican delegates
re at stake in Nebraska in separate con-
sts in congressional districts and West
rginians chose 28 delegates uncommit
ted by state law. Reagan went into today’s
primaries with 396 delegates to Ford’s 309,
with 1,130 needed for the nomination and
1,207 yet to be chosen.
The major Democratic contest was in
Nebraska, where Sen. Frank Church of
Idaho made his primary debut. There were
11 candidates on the Democratic ballot and
23 delegates at stake, but only Church and
Carter campaigned there.
Sen. Robert Byrd, running as a favorite
son, was considered the favorite in West
Virginia’s Democratic primary although,
by law, the state’s 33 delegates are un
committed. The only other candidate on
the ballot was Alabama Gov. George C.
Wallace, whose campaign in the state was
hampered by a lack of money.
In Connecticut, Democrats voted in a
party-run primary to choose delegates to
June 12 congressional district conventions
that will in turn pick the state’s 51 delegates
to the national convention.
Carter, Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona
and Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington
were the main contenders there, though
Jackson announced over a week ago an end
to his active campaign.
Carter led the Democrats before this
week’s voting with 569 delegates to 199 for
Jackson, 187.5 for Udall and 138 for Wal
lace. Another 1,453 are to be chosen, with
1,505 needed for the nomination.
In other political developments:
V Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey said in
Atlantic City, N.J., that victory by Califor
nia Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. in Mary
land’s primary next week would “send a
whole set of reverberations through the
Democratic party that will give people sec
ond thoughts about a frontrunner.”
V A White House aide said Ford is
trimming 60 positions from his campaign
staff to channel $60,000 a month from
salaries to his primary efforts.
Part of the money will pay for televised
advertising in Ford’s home state of Michi
gan, where he faces a crucial challenge
from Reagan, the aide said.
V An aide to George Meany, presi
dent of the AFL-CIO, confirmed that the
81-year-old labor leader will meet privately
with Carter in Washington Friday.
V Chicago’s Mayor Richard J. Daley
said a Democratic ticket of Carter and Il
linois Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson would be
“outstanding.”
But Daley said Carter hasn’t won the
nomination yet, and “you’ll see a lot of
things happening between May and July. ”
Associated Press
BASTROP, Tex. — Sheriff Jimmy Nutt’s biggest weekend
worry was those magic mushrooms growing in Bastrop County’s
cow patties.
“This thing’s getting out of hand,” Nutt told the Austin
American-Statesman Sunday night.
He said he and his deputies arrested about 20 persons, mostly
University of Texas students, who were found poking around in
cow manure for what they call “magic” mushrooms. The mus
hrooms, which grow better in cool weather after two or three
days of rain, contain psilocybin, a psychedelic drug in the same
class as LSD.
Nutt said most of the mushroom seekers were charged with
misdemeanor trespassing and possession of a controlled sub
stance, a third degree felony. He said most of them had been
released Sunday night after being levied a $100 fine and re
leased under $1,000 bond.
Nutt said that a youngster from Bastrop last week was taken to
the hospital in serious condition because he ate the wrong kind
of mushroom.
“Some of them are good kids and they’re just messing them
selves up getting criminal records,” Nutt said.
Middle Earth Unlimited Inc., an Austin organization that
helps those with drug problems, said the mushrooms have a flat
yellow cap and grow in patties left by grain-fed cows. When the
stem of the mushroom is broken it turns a purplish color in a few
minutes — but so do some poisonous mushrooms.
Index
"\
Experimental eyedrops give a
“high” while treating glaucoma.
Page 2.
College Station City Council looks
at different methods of financing
bonds. Page 3.
V
Basketball and track coaches sign
more recruits. Page 5.
Army meat inspectors charged with
accepting bribes to send Penta
gon low-quality meat. Page 4.
Wednesday’s Battalion will be the
last issue this week. The Battalion
will go on a summer schedule and
issue only one paper a week (on
Wednesdays).
J BI, CIA cited as recipients
Senate panel charges IRS
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Internal Reve-
le Service has abused its unique inves-
'ative powers by granting the CIA and
BI illegal access to taxpayer returns, a
inateintelligence committee report says.
According to the report, “the FBI has
dfree access to tax information for im-
operpurposes,” while the CIA regularly
Associated Press
DEER PARK — Investigators sought
day to determine the cause of an explo-
on and fire that left one man dead and six
hers injured at the Shell Refinery and
hemical plant here.
As of last night one of the injured was
sted in critical condition.
The explosion last night shook the area
mounding the complex and the fire sent
pblack smoke that was visible for miles.
The dead man was identified by Shell
Ificials as H. S. Arthur Jr., 30, of
Funeral services for Mr. Louis Hovorak,
n A&M mathematics instructor since
946, will be held tomorrow at St. Joseph’s
latholic Church at 10 a.m.
Hovorak, 59, died Monday morning.
bypassed official channels in obtaining IRS
data.
The report, released today, added that
both the CIA and FBI pressured the IBS to
take action against “certain taxpayers for
reasons having no bearing upon com
pliance with the tax laws,” the report
added.
The 85-page report also detailed the
workings of such previously disclosed IRS
programs as:
Friendswood, a Shell employe.
Listed in critical condition at a Galveston
hospital was H. M. Culpepper of Deer
Park, also a Shell employe. He was re
ported to have suffered third-degree burns
over 95 per cent of his body.
Other Shell employes injured were B. S.
Roopnarine of Baytown, listed in fair condi
tion, and R. B. Strahan and E. L. Stubs of
Pasadena, both believed to have suffered
only minor injuries.
Two other workers, employed by a
maintenance firm, were treated at a
Pasadena hospital and dismissed.
Besides his widow, he is survived by a
son, Delbert.
He received his bachelor of science de
gree from Texas A&M in 1943 and his mas
ter of arts degree from A&M in 1952.
V The Special Services Staffs investi
gation of 11,000 politically active or dissi
dent individuals and organizations;
V The Information Gathering and Re-
trival System — “a glut of largely useless
information” on nearly half a million
Americans;
V Operation Leprechaun, in which
special agents used informants, electronic
eavesdropping and break-ins to gather in-
unknown
The cause of the explosion which oc
curred about 6:30 p.m. was not determined
at once. The fire it produced was extin
guished about 9 p.m. and it was then that
the charred body of the dead man was
found.
A Shell spokesman said the fire was con
fined to the company’s “paraxylene unit”,
which produces chemical solvents. This
unit consists of several towers and numer
ous pipelines connecting them.
Nell Kelley, who operates Shell’s re
staurant, said it “sounded like a loud crack
of thunder. ”
“I felt the building come up and go back
down,” she said. “It knocked pans off the
kitchen shelves.”
Bill Arnold, a delivery truck driver, was
headed into the plant when the explosion
occurred.
“A tremendous fireball mushroomed up
like an atomic explosion,” he said. “I
thought the whole plant was going to go.”
Refinery blast’s cause
Math teacher, Hovorak, dies
I
with illegal tax-return use
formation on the sex and drinking habits of
Florida political figures.
The report is one of 13 volumes being
released by the intelligence committee in
support of its final report on domestic spy
ing.
Most committee members say they hope
the additional reports will dramatize the
need for a new congressional panel to
monitor intelligence agencies. Senate
leaders reportedly reached a compromise
agreement Monday night that would estab
lish such a committee.
The report said that between 1966 and
1974, the FBI made approximately 200 re
quests to IRS for tax returns. The majority
of the requests, virtually all of which were
granted, were intended for use in the FBI’s
Cointelpro operations, according to the re
port.
The bureau sought the returns of 107
“key activists” in the “new left” and “black
nationalist” movements for use “as
weapons in its campaign to neutralize
them,” the report said.
The IRS also gave the FBI the names of
contributors to such organizations as the
Southern Christian Leadership Confer
ence and Students for a Democratic Soci
ety, the report said.
Between 1957 and 1972 “the CIA ob
tained tax return information on at least 13
occasions through unofficial channels,” the
report said. “All but one of the disclosures
would have been legal had the CIA fol
lowed legal procedures,” according to the
report.
“The CIA’s illegal access” to tax data “led
to at least two serious breaches of IRS re
sponsibility for impartial, evenhanded en
forcement of the tax laws, ” the report said.
In one case, the CIA’s interest in the tax
returns of Victor Marchetti, author of the
book “The CIA and The Cult of Intelli
gence, ” led an IRS agent to offer the CIA an
audit of Marchetti’s tax returns over a three
year period.
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — A drill sergeant who
headed a special punishment platoon will
be the first of four Marines to face court-
martial in the death of Pvt. Lynn McClure.
The court-martial of S.Sgt. Harold L.
Bronson of Freeport, Fla., has been
scheduled for June 14 by Lt. Col. W. D.
Drapper, a Marine trial judge stationed at
Camp Pendleton, 50 miles north of here.
Bronson, 30, is charged with involuntary
manslaughter, aggravated assault and mal
treatment of a recruit. He also is accused of
dereliction of duty and violating a general
order.
McClure, a 20-year-old recruit from
Lufkin, Tex., died March 13. He never
regained consciousness after being
knocked senseless Dec. 5 during a close
combat drill with canvas-padded pugil
sticks at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot in
San Diego.
Draper set a June 28 court-martial date
for Sgt. Henry E. Aguilar ofHanford, Calif.
In another instance, IRS agents were
willing “to tailor their treatment of Ram
parts magazine to the desire and concerns
of the Central Intelligence Agency” sur
rounding the disclosure by Ramparts of
CIA ties with the National Student Associa
tion,” the report said.
and scheduled a July 17 court-martial for
S.Sgt. Henry C. Wallraff of St. Croix,
Minn. Aguilar is charged with negligent
homicide, aggravated assault and maltreat
ing a recruit. Wallraff is charged with dere
liction of duty and violating a general or
der.
A Marine colonel also received a letter of
reprimand in the case and a San Diego
Marine captain faces nonjudicial punish
ment scheduled for Friday.
Bronson was the drill instructor in
charge of the Motivation Platoon, a special
unit for men singled out as problem re
cruits. A spokesman for the recruit depot
said McClure showed a poor attitude to
ward Marine basic training.
Both Bronson and Aguilar, 23, were ac
cused of not stopping the pugil stick bout
when McClure dropped his stick and was
knocked down. Bronson also was accused
of allowing other recruits to smash
McClure with their sticks while he was on
the ground.
Courts-martial dates set
in death of Texas Marine
C ommencement
Two get $5,000 Rudder awards
By EDITH CHENAULT
Two Texas A&M University graduates received
the Brown Foundation-Earl Rudder Memorial
Outstanding Student Award at commencement
ceremonies held Friday night and Saturday morn
ing.
The two students, Deborah Doan Richardson
from New Braunfels and Bill J. Helwig from Miles,
received a check for $5,000 and a plaque.
A record 2,466 students, graduated from A&M
The color guard passes in front
of the reviewing stand at Final
Review Ceremonies held
Saturday on the drill field.
Parents, students and friends
came to watch as the juniors
officially became seniors and
assumed leadership of the
Corps.
Staff photo by Kevin Venner
in the ceremonies that were held in G. Rollie
White Coliseum. The coliseum was filled to capac
ity at both ceremonies.
Leon Jaworski addressed the crowd Friday night
and said that America had recovered from
Watergate and that the nation would be even
stronger because of it. He said that the Constitu
tion does work during troubled times but said the
American people should be wary.
“Vigilance is the price of liberty, he said.
General Fred C. Weyand, Chief of Staff of the
The United States Constitution does indeed
work during times of stress and strain, Leon
Jaworski said at commencement ceremonies at
A&M Friday night. He considered Watergate to be
one of the greatest tragedies in American history,
but he praised the American people for meeting
the challenges and keeping America stable during
those hard times. He also said that the democratic
institution of the United States was working very
well.
He said the Watergate incident will insure that
U.S Army, spoke Saturday morning. He said that
the world always expected more of America and the
American people had a great mission to insure the
survival and freedom of the world and to uphold its
own position in the world.
Six former students of A&M received Distin
guished Alumni Awards. They were George De-
metrie Comnas, Massachusetts; L. F. Peterson,
Ft. Worth; E. L. Wehner, Houston; Fred Hale,
College Station; William T. Moore, Bryan; and O.
P. Weyland, San Antonio.
the American people will have the kind of presi
dent the framers of the Constitution wanted.
Jaworski said there will probably be less power
exerted by the executive branch in the future.
“The president is not a sovereign,” he said.
Jaworski told the graduates that America was
embarking on a journey on uncharted seas. But he
added that, “ America will always have moral foun
dations whose builder and maker is God.”
—Edith Chenault
Jaworski praises Americans
for meeting challenges