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Vol. 70 No. 10
8 Pages
Thursday, September 16, 1976
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Hughes uAU TOR OF THE NEWS
agreement
filed by heirs
Reporter won’t reveal sources
Post office delays students
Battalion photo by Kevin Venner
The 11 a.m.-l p.m. open hours of the MSC Post
Office presents problems for students needing
to use the facility, yet have a limited time sched
ule. This line formed about 10:30 a.m. One
student said he did not like waiting so long, but
that it was as quick as walking across campus
to the Northgate Office and back to class.
Associated Press
HOUSTON — An agreement that
splits the ,Howard Hughes estate
among 20 Hughes relatives in the
event no valid will is found has been
filed in probate court here.
Under the agreement filed yes
terday with Harris County Probate
Judge Pat Gregory, 25 per cent of
the estimated $2.5 billion estate
would go to Mrs. Annette Gammo
Lummis of Houston. Mrs. Lummis,
Hughes’ aunt, is temporary co-
administrator of the estate.
One half of the estate would be
shared by 16 maternal heirs and one
fourth would be shared by three
paternal first cousins.
A similar document was filed last
month in a Las Vegas, Nev. court
that also is involved in the con
troversy over the estate of the bil
lionaire recluse who died April 5.
Gregory also received reports yes
terday from attorneys detailing
schedules for their preparations for a
Houston trial to determine the legal
residence of Hughes.
By PEGGY SIMPSON
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Television news-
an Daniel Schorr apparently will not be
argedwith contempt of Congress for his
fusal to name the person who supplied
mwith the House intelligence report.
Nine times during Schorr’s sworn tes-
mony yesterday, Ethics Committee
hairman John J. Flynt Jr. (D-Ga.),
araed him that he could be held in con-
mptof Congress and be jailed or fined if
refused to identify his source and an-
rer other questions about the source.
E i times, Schorr refused.
r the hearing, an informal poll of the
members showed that six of the 12 commit
tee members opposed any attempt to cite
Schorr for contempt and two others either
leaned that way or were uncertain. This
means any contempt resolution apparently
would fail by at least a tie vote.
Rep. Charles E. Bennett (D-Fla.), who
had led the move to subpoena Schorr, said
he leaned against a contempt citation. “I
never intended in the first place that this
would send him to prison,” Bennett said.
“This was a step to let him give his views
and he did that.”
Others who had voted to subpoena
Schorr were opposed to holding him in
contempt, including Rep. Donald J.
niversity enrollment
aids growth of Bryan
Texas A6fM University has been a major
ictor in Bryan’s growth from a small
Minty seat to its current metropolitan
latus, said Pat Mann, executive vice pres
ent of the Bryan-College Station
Chamber of Commerce.
The economic impact of Texas A&M on
he Bryan-College Station area totaled
'36,000,000 for 1975.
The 1975 total represents an 18.6 per
ent increase over the previous year, said
achK. Williams, Texas A&M President.
The sharp increase was attributed to the
diversity’s enrollment gains and ex
panded research activities. During the
all semester, Texas A&M’S total en-
ollment was pushed past 25,000 for the
irsttime—25,247. The official enrollment
or the 1976 fall semester is 28,038. Total
egistration is now twice as large as 1969-
1,
Also, during 1975, the University’s vol-
ime of research continued to rise, totaling
39.3 million. Currently, the volume of
esearch is running about $6 million ahead
flast year’s pace.
Students contributed $39 million to the
tonomy in 1975. Major expenses were
and housing, along with school
supplies, clothing and recreation.
The University spent $6 million locally
for utilities, services and supplies.
Visitors attending athletic events, con
ferences and short courses at the Univer
sity spent about $5.5 million. Most of these
expenditures were for food, lodging, and
entertainment.
According to the Bureau of Economic
Analysis, Bryan-College Station is the
smallest standard metropolitan statistical
area. Yet, it is given the state’s highest
growth rate. The major reason for the
growth rate, says the Bureau of Economic
Analysis, is Texas A&M University, the
dominant employer in Bryan-College Sta
tion.
Mann is aware of the impact on Bryan-
College Station by A&M.
“Part of the Bryan-College Station per
sonality is Texas A&M,” said Mann. “If
there’s anything we can do to help A&M
grow, it benefits us indirectly.”
Students are major contributors to many
Bryan-College Station businesses.
“I’m geared mainly towards students for
most of my business,” said Bill Card, man
ager of the Sports Club.
Mitchell (R-N. Y.). Mitchell said he wanted
to prevent a constitutional confrontation
over the issue.
Rep. Thomas Foley (D-Wash.), who had
opposed summoning Schorr, said he didn’t
think contempt action would even be pro
posed in committee. For all practical pur
poses, he said, Schorr’s testimony has
ended the committee’s $150,000, five-
month attempt to locate Schorr’s source.
The committee still must prepare a re
port to the House on its search for the
leaker and on its recommendations for im
proving security measures for committees
dealing with sensitive subjects.
gain
businesses
“Football season is big because all the
alumni are out and everyone’s ready to
party,” Card said. However, he added,
“All the businesses that operate at night are
competing with Town Hall and Midnight
Yell Practice.”
When asked how businesses would func
tion without A&M, Card said, “Most of the
businesses within walking distance
wouldn’t exist but for the college stu
dents.”
The Bank of A&M also benefits from stu
dents. Students compromise approxi
mately one-third of their checking ac
counts.
“Definitely, there is an advantage to stu
dent accounts, but it’s a long range bene
fit,” said Jerry Burrows, comptroller and
trust officer of the Bank of A&M. After
students graduate, many of them become
successful businessmen and still retain
their accounts at the Bank of A&M, he said.
The only disadvantage to student ac
counts, Burrows said, is the great amount
of paperwork involved.
“We look at student accounts more as a
service to provide in the community,” he
sa ^- —Brenda Grissom
Both Schorr and committee members
have said the hearing constituted a show
down over the constitutional rights of Con
gress to investigate and guard its materials
versus the rights of a free press to gather
and report the news.
Schorr said Congress had every right to
try to protect its own material and to disci
pline members who violate its rules against
disclosure of the material.
But he disagreed that Congress’ power
extended to muzzling the news media’s ef
forts to get that material or to punishing
reporters who don’t cooperate in tracing
the leaker.
Texas
REP. ROBERT O’KELLEY,
D-El Paso, pleaded guilty yesterday
to a misdemeanor charge of official
misconduct arising from his alleged
filing of an incorrect state travel vou
cher. O’Kelley was given a one-year
probated sentence and was fined
$1,000 by State District Court Judge
Mace Thurman. Dist. Atty. Bob
Smith said a travel voucher was
turned in on O’Kelley’s behalf for
reimbursement for a round-trip air
line ticket between El Paso and Aus
tin. O’Kelley, however, cashed in
the Austin-El Paso portion of the tic
ket, Smith said.
ATTORNEYS IN THE felony
theft trial of Oscar Carrillo in Jour-
danton expect the trial to end either
late today or tomorrow. The former
tax assessor for the Benavides Inde
pendent School District testified
Wednesday that Carrillo asked him
to run campaign material through
the school’s postage meter and that
he complied. Rodolfo Couling, who
agreed to testify as part of plea bar
gaining in his indictment on official
misconduct charges, testified that
the school district was never reim
bursed by Carrillo. The brother of
former Dist. Court Judge O. P. Car
rillo is charged with felony theft in
the use of the postage.
GOV. DOLPH BRISCOE an
nounced several steps to cut down
on the cost of higher education yes
terday. Briscoe said he has directed
the College Coordinating Board to
exercise its powers to halt the crea
tion of new colleges and to restrict
additional degree programs in such
fields of “oversupply” as teaching,
law and journalism. He also asked
the board to issue news releases
every spring describing job oppor
tunities in Texas.
DAVID MATHEWS,secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare, will
address the LBJ Library symposium
in Austin on social policies of the
Kennedy-Johnson era. Charles
Haar, law professor at Harvard Uni
versity, said yesterday at the sym
posium that Johnson made housing a
major national priority, creating the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development and pushing through
Congress major new fair housing
legislation.
National
DEVALUATION OF THE
PESO has turned the flow of money
back into Mexico instead of out of it,
Mexico’s treasury secretary told a
news conference yesterday. He said
that although he announced the de
cision only last week it has already
increased tourism along the border
and is expected to help increase
trade. When the decision to allow
the peso to float was announced it
was worth eight to the American dol
lar and now the rate is 20 to one.
Mexicans who formerly crossed the
border to make purchases in this
country are now shopping at home
because costs are more favorable.
“ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVE,
America” is the theme of a national
campaign to get Americans in line for
swine flu shots. However if everyone
rolls up when the shots first become
available, there won’t be enough
vaccine. President Ford is pushing
to have all Americans inoculated
against the viral infection by the end
of fall.
World
SECRETARY OF STATE Henry
A. Kissinger flew to Zambia today to
meet with President Kenneth
Kaunda. Kissinger is still expressing
hope of success in his mission to help
bring black rule to southern Africa
peacefully. However, Julius Nye-
rere. President of Tanzania, said he
was less hopeful than he was before
about the chances for averting a ra
cial bloodbath in the region.
Candidates attack each other
Campaigning moves west
By DAVE RILEY
Associated Press
President Ford faced a crowd of en
thusiastic hecklers as he began his cam
paign at his alma mater, but some of the
most energetic heckling came from 30
miles away, where Jimmy Carter charged
him with being a cause of economic disas
ter.
Leaving Washington for the first time in
the fall campaign. Ford flew to the Uni
versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he
said, “It is not enough for anyone to say
‘trust me.’ Trust must be earned.”
Carter was appearing at a state AFL-
CIO convention 30 miles away in the De
troit suburb of Dearborn. There, in the
shadow of the strike-idled Ford Motor Co.
assembly plant, he blamed Ford and
former President Richard M. Nixon for
the country’s economic ills.
“When Richard Nixon resigned, Gerald
Ford inherited a difficult situation, but in
a few short weeks he unerringly turned
difficulty into disaster,” Carter said.
Carter’s Democratic running mate,
Sen. Walter Mondale, quickly jumped on
Ford’s speech, saying Ford “has a record
that belies and puts the falsehood to ev
erything he now says he’s for.” He said
Ford has an “absolutely terrible” record
on the economy, health care, housing, and
education.
Ford’s Republican running mate. Sen.
Bob Dole, spent Wednesday campaigning
with Vice President Nelson A. Rockefel
ler.
Both presidential candidates are
scheduled to speak tonight to a dinner of
the Italo-American Foundation in Wash
ington, but their schedules should keep
them from seeing each other.
Ford’s speech sometimes drew spirited
booing from the university crowd last
night, but he got a standing ovation as he
spoke about trust in terms obviously
aimed at Carter.
“Trust is not having to guess what a
candidate means,” Ford said.
“Trust is leveling with the people before
the election about what you are going to
do after the election. Trust is not being all
things to all people, but being the same
thing to all people. Trust is not cleverly
choosing words so that each separate audi
ence can hear what it wants to hear, but
saying plainly and simply what you
mean—and meaning what you say.”
The boos and catcalls greeted the men
tion of nearly everyone, but the loudest
came with mention of Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger.
Ford took no notice of the heckling and
barely paused when a cherry bomb
exploded in the upper tier of the basket
ball stadium.
Carter told the union convention that
his campaign against Ford is an install
ment in “a battle joined 10 times over” by
Committee has backpacks,
tents for rent in MSC
360 turn
Battalion photo by Denise Edmonds
Students watched yesterday as a group of acro
batic skiers performed aerial stunts at the MSC
plaza. The K2 Ski Team used a ramp covered
with material which simulated a snow covered
surface to obtain speed and height for their
flips and turns.
By JOHN TYNES
Students at Texas A&M who want to hike
through a rugged wilderness or camp in a
primitive forest don’t have to spend a lot of
money on equipment for their adventures.
They can rent it from the Outdoor Recrea
tion Committee in the Memorial Student
Center.
Various items of committee-owned
equipment are available to any person who
requests it on a first come, first serve basis.
Among the available gear are four tents,
two backpacks, and assorted other camping
aids.
Rental rates vary with the value of the
item rented, but are no higher than 75
cents a day. A refundable $10 deposit is
required and reduced rates are available
for long-term rentals.
Equipment rental is the latest project of
Outdoor Rec, a committee that is designed
to let students get involved in outdoor ac
tivities with a minimum of trouble.
Committee Chairman Kim Feazle said,
“We don’t try to be real restrictive, be
cause there’s so much to the outdoors, we
just try to make things available so that
you can do what you want to do.”
Organizing a trip in Outdoor Rec is sim
ple. Any interested person can start one by
filling out a trip adventure form with perti
nent information such as destination,
dates, costs, and equipment needed. The
person then places the form, which is avail
able in the committee cubicle, on the bul
letin board in the Student Programs Office.
Interested people will add their names to
the list and in a few days the form will be
filled.
The committee usually sponsors two or
three official trips a year, but by filling out
a trip adventure form, a person doesn’t
have to wait. “It’s so open, that anyone can
go on a trip anywhere at anytime,” Freazle
said.
Plans for this year include an Outdoor
Skills course that will teach basic skills in
backpacking and camping, canoeing, and
other sports that have not been decided
upon. Tentative plans for a regional confer
ence on outdoor sports in general have also
been made. The committee is also trying to
obtain more equipment for rental, includ
ing more tents and some canoes.
Democrats championing progress against
Republican opposition.
He characterized Ford, both in Con
gress and the White House, as a man of
“tireless opposition to all the great legisla
tion that bears the names of Democrats
who cared for the people and were not
controlled by special interests.”
Under Ford, Carter said, unemploy
ment, budget deficits and inflation remain
high.
He said, “Mr. Ford said ... he was
proud of the way he had turned the
economy around. It’s hard to believe, but
it’s true.”
In his speech Ford also touched on aid
ing parents who send their children to
parochial and other private schools,
suggesting the government “find ways
through the tax system to ease the burden
on families who choose to send their chil
dren to non-public schools and to help
families cope with the expense of a college
education.”
Mondale, campaigning in Chicago, said
Ford’s speech was misleading and deliber
ately inaccurate about his record in the
White House. The speech, he said, “un
dermines any possiblity that the American
people can trust” statements by Ford and
Dole.
The senator said Ford has an “abso
lutely terrible” record on economic,
health care, housing and educational pro
grams, expressing shock at the “boldness
of the misrepresentation contained in that
speech. ”
But he said the only surprise he found
in Ford’s speech “is that he thinks the
American people would actually be gulli
ble enough to buy statements of this kind
in light of the miserable record of his ad
ministration and his personal position on
those programs.”
Campaigning in New York, Dole hop
ped from airport to airport with Rockefel
ler, who was making his first campaign ef
fort for Ford.
Rockefeller praised Dole for the
“character, courage and the vision” he
brought to the Ford ticket.
Earlier, in Washington, Dole said he
expects Ford to give him “ a significant
role” in setting farm policy.
In the past. Dole has avoided the ques
tion of what he will do if he and Ford are
elected, claiming he has been too busy to
worry about it. But he told a meeting of
the American Bakers Association: “I’ll
have a rather significant role in the area of
agriculture.”
Dole, the ranking Republican on the
Senate Agriculture Committee, said
whatever his role is “I won’t be interfering
with the secretary of agriculture.”