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Vol. 70 No. 12 Tuesday, September 21, 1976 News Dept. 845-2611
10 Pages College Station, Texas Business Dept. 845-2611
ets important to both
umans and animals
By GAIL JOHNSON
Veterinarians play an important role in
le physical and mental well-being of hu-
|ans as well as their pets, said Dr.
ichaelj. McCulloch Friday afternoon in
udder Theater at Texas A&M.
“Veterinary activities cross a wide range
[human health programs,” McCulloch of
Northwest Psychiatric Associates of
panel, Ore. said in his speech on ethi-
1 issues concerning the veterinarian.
McCulloch’s speech was received en-
usiastically by the crowd of medical and
terinary students and faculty in the final
ssion of the two-day Centennial
lemic Assembly on the “Implications
History and Ethics to Medicine— Vet-
inary and Human.”
d leader in: In his speech, McCulloch spoke about
grams. |( econtributions made by veterinarians to
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unans. He emphasized the varying rela-
Inships between pets and owners and
the effects these relationships create.
McCulloch said that people, especially
those who are elderly or lonely, may de
pend on their pets for companionship. He
said the veterinarian should notice this
situation and try to prevent it from de
veloping.
Pets have positive effects on children,
according to McCulloch.
“For children, it’s a dress rehersal,.” he
said. He explained that children with pets
must learn to cope with problems such as
suffering and death. This forms a basis for
a child when he must deal with such prob
lems in his own life.
A pet can aid a child in understanding
the world and the problems he must face.
It can also provide a basis from which to
explore and learn new things, according to
McCulloch.
Pets also tend to mirror neurotic distur
bances in their owners, McCulloch said.
These signals may give the veterinarian
the first indication of a problem. The vet
erinarian should notice a pet that is nerv
ous since he may be reflecting his owner’s
condition. Similarly, an obese owner is
likely to have an obese pet, according to
McCulloch.
“A veterinarian’s obligation is to both
his client and his pet,’’ McCulloch said.
“Many people bring in a healthy pet for a
‘check-up’ simply to talk.”
McCulloch said that a veterinarian
should try to assist the pet owners he
comes in contact with, as well as the pets.
“His responsibility is to promote opti
mal dignity and health in both the pet and
owner,” he said.
McCulloch also called for veterinarians
to be involved in their communities and
public health. He also suggested the med
ical and veterinary medicine professions
should work more closely. He said that
both must work together in the battle
against communicable diseases.
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Prince collecting information
iechtenstein royalty tours
campus agricultural facilities
By KATHY HENDERSON
Prince Hans Adams and Princess Marie
dams of Liechtenstein visited the Texas
&M University campus last Friday.
They came to gather recent agricultural
leatherl search information on crops such as
rain sorghum, soybeans, and other
andlonjli leed crops. They were also interested in
clothes ill !< ^ ern swine production techniques,
ae Norlta ^ on § with the prince and princess
Hegtowi *Rie Professor Hans Nuerurer of the
h a prl^'^rdty of Austria, and Karl Kaiblinger,
mager of the prince’s land northeast of
ienna, Austria. Jim Hickman, who man-
ijes Prince Adams’ 9,000 acres of land
ear Texarkana, Ark. also accompanied
lem as they toured labs in the Plant Sci-
mces Department and later visited the
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A&M Plantation to observe the research
work.
Prince and Princess Adams met with
Dean Kunkel of the College of Agricul
ture, Dr. Jarvis E. Miller of the Texas Ag
ricultural Experiment Station and Dr. R.
C. Potts to ask questions.
Mary Mahoney of the Experiment Sta
tion said she was surprised at the number
of questions Prince Adams had ready for
them.
“They wanted to learn as much as they
could about crops that would adapt to
their lands in Austria and in Texas and Ar
kansas,” she said.
The prince, age 31, and princess have
bought a 12,000 acre farm near
Clarksville, Tex. The prince and his family
hold some 50,000 acres of land in Austria,
Mahoney said. Liechenstein, about the
size of the District of Columbia, has a
population of less than 24,000.
The farm in Clarksville is now being
leased, Mahoney said, until Prince Adams
feels it can be developed properly.
During the tour they saw controlled en
vironmental chambers that affect the vari
ous rates of plant growth, and research
using the electron microscope, she said.
Prince Adams was very much impressed
with the microscope and even asked what
an electron microscope would cost,
Mahoney said.
Princess Adams, a tall, slender woman
in her twenties, expressed a keen interest
in swine production, she said.
$
S residents dissatisfied
ith school tax increase
trim
By MARY MAERTENS
Disgruntled College Station residents
ittfied last night against school tax in
leases stemming from revaluation of their
[toperty.
Speaking out at the A&M Consolidated
100I Board meeting at the Special Serv-
a Building, taxpayers claimed in excess
per cent increases in property re-
uluation.
Each year the school district tax office
[evaluates a section of the A&M Consoli-
lated School District for tax purposes.
section of property recently re-
aluated is the area between Jersey Street
Holleman Drive.
Dr. Herman Brown, spokesman for
incerned residents, charged the Board of
rustees with “permitting a monster to be
He said a question of equity in the
iessment of property taxes “could bring
lisharmony none of us want. ” He told the
)ard that homeowners under the greatest
Ijrden include salaried, retired and black
lembers of the community.
Brown presented a petition to the board
hearing the signatures of 150 taxpayers
opposing the current equalization process.
William B. Lancaster, president of the
school board, remarked that his taxes went
up with those of everyone else, but said,
T do not have an answer.” He said the
Board of Equalization of the school system
decides what to put on and what to take off
the tax rolls.
Joseph B. Natowitz, vice-president of
the school board, admitted that revalua
tion has been haphazard. The solution is
“equalizing a tax base across the entire
city,” he said.
The audience agreed with a suggestion
from Dr. O.D. Butler that the board “pro
ceed with caution until there has been
adequate investigation.”
Mrs. E.B. Reynolds, spokeswoman for a
number of senior citizens, recalled the
days when residents voluntarily put in
sidewalks, planted shrubs and installed
window shades in classrooms.
In a voice broken with emotion, she
concluded that senior citizens “have cer
tainly done their part, and they did it by
grubbing in the dirt.”
Another resident, Mrs. Stanley Clark,
said a comparison of the 1974-1975 budget
with the 1975-1976 budget shows an in
crease of $2 million, while the number of
students has increased by 276. She said
that the bulk of the taxpayers’ money has
unjustifiably gone to administrative costs.
Dr. Jack Woods, school attorney, told
the audience that the trustees could not
act as a board of equalization. He said,
however, that tax exemptions could be al
tered.
The board then passed a motion allow
ing taxpayers over the age of 65 to increase
their tax exemption from $3,000 to $6,000.
At the same time, the amount of money in
the budget was amended to reflect this in
crease.
In other business, the board approved
the hiring of a first grade teacher at South
Knoll Elementary School. Also, board
member Roger G. Feldman told fellow
trustees that he must resign his post for
health reasons.
The recipe of these fight n Texas Aggies is no sec
ret.. . just add enough Aggie spirit to any Texas
State Chile Cookoff and people will eat it up. Tom
Whiteside (left) and Tom Sturgeon (4th from left).
both ’75 graduates of A&M and attending the Uni
versity of Texas (tu) Law School, won third place
with their assistants at the 7th annual Chilympiad in
San Marcos this past weekend.
Battalion Photo by Carl Key
Don't. . . hite 'em Aggie
Yell leader Robbie Tucker introduced his two-year- day at the Kansas State football game.. The two men
old brother, Toby, to Reveille, A&M’s mascot Satur- are sons of Mr. and Mrs; Thomas Tucker of Clyde,
Morals affect client, doctor
By LUANN WOOD
The rights and responsibilities between
a doctor and patient involve moral issues
of concern, Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino
Dr. Talbot
to present
wildlife film
Dr. Lee M. Talbot will be presenting
his NBC News television film, “Man,
Beast and the Land,” a documentary on
the wildlife of the East African plains, to
night in the Memorial Student Center.
Talbot is an internationally recognized
biologist, conservationist and expert on
land use problems. He served as a dele
gate to the United Nations Conference on
the Human Environment in Stockholm in
1972. He has written more than 150 pa
pers and articles on wildlife and conserva
tion related subjects. For his work and
writings he has received the 1975 Albert
Schweitzer Medal.
Talbot is currently Assistant to the
Chairman for International and Scientific
Affairs of the Council on Environmental
Quality, Executive Office of the President
and a research associate with the Smithso
nian Institution.
With his wife, Marty, Talbot spent an
aggregate of six years in the Serengeti-
Mara plainsland of Kenya and Tanzania,
East Africa. The resulting film of the work
and research of these expeditions shows
the wildlife, predators and prey, the Masai
with their lifestock, the vegetation, fire,
soils and climate, and the roles each plays
in life on the plainsland. The Talbots re
ceived the CINE Golden Eagle Award for
this documentary film.
The film will be presented at 7:30 p.m.,
Rm. 201, MSC. The Texas A&M Depart
ment of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences is
sponsoring the event.
Football fans
buy much booze
By DAN SULLINS
Battalion Staff
Drinking at A&M has become almost as
much a tradition as attendance at home
football games, or so it would appear from
the amount of alcohol sold to Aggie cus
tomers on football weekends.
Literall hundreds of cases of beer and an
untold number of mixed drinks are bought
and consumed by Aggies before, during,
and after home games, on the long Thurs
day to Sunday weekends.
Beer leads the sales list, with area fast-
(See ALCOHOLIC, Page 10.)
said at a Centennial assembly Friday in
Rudder Theater.
Pellegrino, chairman of the board and
director of Yale-New Haven Medical Cen
ter in New Haven, Conn., said improve
ments in technology and respect for the
individual have changed the medical prac
tice to benefit the patient, as well as the
doctor.
“We re declaring we will put our
knowledge at the service of another,” Pel
legrino said. He said that part of this serv
ice is an approach to understand people.
Without making an effort to communicate,
Pellegrino said, the doctor does not fulfill
his professional standards to himself or to
society.
The individual with an illness is limited
in the use of his freedoms, he added. The
freedom of the body is often deprived,
freedom of choice limited, and the self-
image of the individual is no longer pre
sent. All these limitations must be put in a
framework and imposed on a physician,
Pellegrino said.
Pellegrino said that medicine can now
alter the significance of living and provide
a moral and technical authority for the
physician to uphold.
If the doctor fufills his commitment to
humanity, he has fulfilled his purpose as a
medical doctor and can he proud to say, “I
am a physician,” Pellegrino said.
TOP OF THE NEWS
Texas
SINGER RAY PRICE and Willie
Nelson are among witnesses who
have been subpoenaed to appear
today in Dallas for testimony in the
trial of three persons charged in an
international cocaine and heroine
conspiracy case. Nelson is expected
to be called by the defense and
Price by the prosecution in the con
spiracy trial of Charles Lidge Bolts,
Joe Dee Hicks and Janet Hicks. At
the trial yesterday. Bolts testified
that charges against him should be
dropped.
THE TEXAS Public Utilities
Commission, today suspended the
Oct. 7 effective date of a $298 mil
lion rate-increase package re
quested by Southwestern Bell
Telephone Co. The requested in
crease was put off for 120 days so the
commission can hold public hear
ings and decide whether it was jus
tified. A Nov. 1 hearing date was set
on the proposal, which would raise
Bell’s Texas revenues by some 18
per cent.
FORMER State Rep. Oscar Car
rillo of Duval County said yesterday
in Jourdanton that the theft charges
against him are part of a conspiracy
against the once-politically powerful
Carrillo family of South Texas. Tes
timony in the case is expected to
end today.
National
UNITED AUTO Workers and
Ford Motor Co. resumed formal
contract talks yesterday for the first
time since 170,000 workers walked
off the job a week ago today. The
nationwide strike against Ford has
begun to cause a chain reaction of
layoffs at other companies and bar
gainers say they are not optimistic
about renewed efforts to reach a set
tlement.
JIMMY CARTER’S wife says his
statements that he has looked on a
lot of women with lust and commit
ted adultery in his heart have
caused her no anxiety about his
fidelity. However, Rosalynn Carter
said yesterday that her husband’s
remarks came as a surprise to her.
SECRETARY of Agriculture Earl
Butz has announced an increase in
the support price farmers get for
their manufacturing milk. The new
figure, up to $8.26 per hundred
weight, goes into effect Oct. 1. Butz
said the increase was necessary be
cause of increases in the costs of
feed, equipment, wages, energy
and other farm costs.
World
BRITISH and Dutch navy divers
made an underwater search in Lon
don today for 10 British naval re
serves believed entombed in a
minesweeper that capsized and sank
after a collision with a British fri
gate. A Royal Navy spokesman re
fused to speculate on the chances
that air trapped in the sunken hull
was keeping any of the missing men
alive.
THE U.N. General Assembly
opens its 31st annual session today
with the racial confrontation in
southern Africa and the perennial
Arab-Israeli standoff among its most
pressing issues. Also on the agenda
are the questions of curbing political
terrorism, bridging the gap be
tween rich and poor nations and the
election of the U.N. secretary-
general.