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t'e, °f tnin >ch has The weather Fair and mild through tomorrow th highs in low 80s. Low tonight upper 50s. Precipitation proba bility zero. Cbe Battalion Vol. 70 No. 13 16 Pages Wednesday, September 22, 1976 College Station, Texas News Dept. 845-2611 Business Dept. 845-2611 Ford’s ii e and dr ’ nuance, 1 hist 7 ive points outlined for peace Ash I, direct^ sible si'i *ym In his idednes Rhodesia told to huckle down Associated Press KINSHASA, Zaire—Secretary of State enry A. Kissinger in effect told Prime inister Ian Smith, “The game is up.” The Rhodesian leader and the three muchiij hinet colleagues who accompanied him st weekend to Pretoria, the South Afri- m capital, had already heard much the me thing from Prime Minister John Vor- jer of South Africa, their lone foreign ipporter. 1 Smith and his men buckled and agreed advise their cabinet in Salisbury to yield er to black majority, after 11 years of bellious independence. nd provi :heyaici v somdj The Rhodesian leaders behaved with dignity as Kissinger emphasized five major points in his assessment of the situation: 1. After 11 years of illegal statehood, Rhodesia today remains in quarantine by the world community. 2. After a few more years of escalating guerrilla activity by independence seeking blacks, the white regime will find itself progressively beleaguered and un able to defend its supporters, especially when the summer rains immobilize its tanks and armor. 3. After the collapse of Portugal’s em pire in Africa, the perils of Soviet and Cuban intervention were dramatically displayed in Angola and could spill over into Rhodesia. 4. With world pressures on South Afri ca’s white minority government mount ing, prospects of active South African sup port can only diminish because that re gime also may become the target of guer rilla action. 5. After the American experience, in Vietnam, the white Rhodesians can count on no help from the United States, or any other Western nations, if one day they find themselves with their backs to the wall. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere told reporters he was no longer gloomy about prospects for a Rhodesian settlement after Kissinger told him Tuesday that Smith had accepted the British-American plan calling for black power within two years, and a $2 billion fund to compensate Rhodesian whites who left the country and finance development of Rhodesia under black rule. But Nuerere cautioned, “Life is full of imponderables, and Smith is an impon derable.” Agriculturist says plants can be developed to fit regional production requirements Ifagriculture is to meet the world’s con- anfly rising food needs, technology must adapted to fit specific production re- ons, said Dr. Sylvan Wittwer, director of e Michigan Agricultural Experiment I!!',' 1 It Mot illlt'-’ 1911 1,1 Lit^ ilaveO' jjtoi Station, at Texas A&M University Tues day. However, this is just a start. Crop plants should be developed to better utilize the sun’s energy and to more efficiently pull TOP OF THE NEWS Texas THIRTY-THREE PERSONS, who say they are relatives of Howard Hughes, have filed claims against the estate of the late billionaire re cluse. W. A. Jones of Nashville, Term., who described himself as a genealogical investigator, filed the claims yesterday in the court of Har ris County Probate Judge Pat Greg ory. Twenty other Hughes relatives have already signed an agreement to divide the estate in the event no will is authenticated. HEALTH AUTHORITIES have reported the 20th confirmed case of St. Louis encephalitis in Harris County this year. Two additional suspected cases of the sickness were reported yesterday, bringing the total of suspected cases to 14. A FORMER Women’s Army Corps officer candidate testified yes terday that Col. Milford L. Marshall subdued her and raped her twice at his Ft. McClellan, Ala., apartment last June. The colonel, 46, is a 23- year Army veteran who was relieved ofhis command in Ft. Hood after the charges were filed against him. THE STOCK MARKET has awakened from a slumbering sum mer, soaring 20.28 points yesterday to 1,014.79. It was the biggest daily gain for the average since it took a 22.45 point jump on Aug. 8, 1975. OPPONENTS of the ruling mili tary junta in Chile are charging that nation’s secret police with responsi bility for a bomb blast in Washington that ripped through the car of Or lando Letelier, a former Chilean of ficial. The explosion killed bothLetelier and a woman coleague. THE FEDERAL Aviation Ad ministration is investigating the fatal crash of a single-engine plane in a heavily wooded area near Eag- letown. Wreckage of the plane was found yesterday, and the body of pilot Harrison Eugene Woodard of Fort Worth, was recovered. The cause of the crash has not been de termined. A TEXACO OFFICIAL has told the Oklahoma Corporation Commis sion his company would be forced to raise gasoline prices 2.5 cents per gallon if it increases octane standards. Octane increases have been proposed before the commis sion because Roy Stafford, state fuel inspector, said that gasoline loses oc tane between the refinery and the service station. National THE HOUSE yesterday rejected a plan to speed procedures to pass a bill extending Daylight Saving Time, virtually assuring that the measure will not be enacted this year. The bill would have added a month of fast time, setting the be ginning date as the third Sunday of March and the ending date as the third Sunday of October, beginning in 1977. Under existing law, the country is on daylight time from the last Sunday in April to the last Sun day in October. World MEMBERS of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries favor a boost in oil prices next year, Venezuela’s minister of mines and hydrocarbons said yesterday. An ar ticle in the Caracas newspaper in dicated Venezuela and Iran would seek a 25 per cent oil price increase at the next ministerial conference of the organization in December. Iran and Venezuela are the second and third largest producers in the 13- nation Arab oil cartel. nutrients out of the soil instead of relying mostly on commercial fertilizer. If this is not done, said Wittwer, food production will have more difficulty satis fying predicted end-of-century goals: Enough food between now and the year 2000 as has been produced since man’s recorded history. Wittwer was the opening speaker dur ing the Texas A&M University College of Agriculture’s Centennial Symposium: Technology and Man, a session in which he outlined the “Role of Technology in Meeting World Food Needs.” He said the President’s National Re search Council is currently studying fu ture food production requirements for the United States and also is trying to deter mine what types of technoloty can best be applied to other countries. Sorghum, for example, is a major cash crop in the U.S., but it is used almost en tirely for livestock and poultry feed. In In dia, sorghum is the third most important food grain. Millet is a feed in the U.S. and an important food in some other nations. Therefore, similar crops with different purposes will require different technologies, Wittwer told about 200 per sons attending the symposium. He described hybrid corn as the single most important agricultural development in U.S. history. Corn also is being grown more widely by other countries but under different conditions. Corn, he said, is a good example of a food and feed making plant whch captures the sun’s energy very efficiently. Sorghum and millet are also efficient users of sun’s energy. Cotton is a poor user of solar energy. The idea is to emphasize use of plants which are better at absorbing the sun’s energy and to find out how and why they can do this, the speaker said. Sometimes, a plant can be genetically modified to utilize sun rays more effi ciently in the photosynthesis process, he pointed out. For example, rice has been developed with some of ijs leaves above the brain heads to get more sunshine. Wittwer emphasized that plant modification could increase protein con tent of cereal grains and would be the easiest and’ quickest way to improve pro tein intake in less developed countries. Another research field needing closer attention is development of fertilizer from renewable resources, he said. Commercial nitrogen is made mostly from non renewable resources, such as petroleum. A big step forward would be development of plants which can extract more nutrients from the soil. Research budgets, Wittwer said, are notoriously low for studies on nitrogen fixation in plants. More research on biological recovery of nitrogen would be a great help. Dr. John Hopkin of the Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station and head of the A&M Department of Agricultural Eco nomics introduced Wittwer. Hopkin said Thomas Malthus’ theory (almost 200 years ago) that mass starvation would eventually result unless population growth is checked has not proven as se vere as predicted. The possibility is there, however, if food production technology is neglected. At least one-eighth of the world is now undernourished. He said the earth is expected to double its current population by the year 2000. Hanging ten . Battalion photo by Kevin Vennei !' . the hard way Sidewalk surfers, Bernie Bennett (left) and John Gutzler, utilize a ramp near the corps’ dorms for extra propulsion. One surfer said he and friends often skate for the exercise and the enjoyment. Study recommends code modernization Council to review housing committee’s report The College Station City Council will discuss the Housing Code Review Com mittee Report as part of the agenda for the Sept. 23 meeting. A modernization of the present housing code has been recommended by the committee, including revisions designed to protect people in danger of experienc ing flood damage. Also recommended by the committee are revisions affecting the building offi cial’s role in condemnation proceedings, a revision of the enforcement policies and several recommendations connected with the cost of rental housing. The council will also consider an amendment to the building code, which would allow for the construction of an open stair as part of required exit facilities. Adoption of a resolution authorizing the execution of the annual Contributions Contract and General Depository Agree ment for the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program will be discussed. Ap proval of this resolution is needed in order to execute a contract with the Department of Housing and Urban Housing and Assis tance Development to administer the Plan as part of the Community Development Block Grant Program. A public hearing and consideration of an ordinance rezoning a 9.0 acre tract on Krenek Lane, adjoining the Oak Forest Mobile Home Park, from Single Family Residential District R-l to Mobile Home Park District R-5 is also on the agenda for the Thursday night meeting. The council will hold a public hearing and later discuss an ordinance which would rezone a 7.0 acre tract of land from Single Family Residential R-l to General Commercial District C-l. The land is lo cated at the intersection of Highway 6 Business and Highway 6 Bypass, south of College Station. Rezoning of Lots 4 and 5 of the Kap- chinskie Addition located on the north west corner of Park Place and Texas Av enue will be open for public hearing be fore the council considers an ordinance for that purpose. The proposal is to rezone the two lots from Single Family Residen tial R-l to General Commercial District C-l. Public hearing and consideration of an ordinance rezoning a 2.5 acre tract on the \ south side of FM 2818 from Single Family Residential R-l to Planned Industrial Dis- j trict M-l will also be discussed. The council will also consider a zoning ordinance concerning fences, along with proposed moratorium on the issuance of building permits for other than R-l in i areas being reconsidered for rezoning from R-3 to R-l. Proposed resubdivision of several lots in the McCulloch Addition and consideration of an application for an ambulance permit will complete the council’s agenda. The council meeting will be held in City Hall on Texas Avenue, beginning at 7 p.m. Plans to close Post Offices halted By RUSTY CAWLEY Plans to close, consolidate or contract 15 lost offices in Brazos and four other neighboring counties have been post poned by the U.S. Postal Service. ongress has approved a $500 million ir postal subsidy bill which temporar ily prohibits the closing of small town and rural post offices. The bill has gone to President Ford for his signature. Stan Sartain, director of customer serv ices for Bryan-College Station post offices, said the bill required the postal service to Preserving knowledge to be topic of assembly j By JOHN TYNES Do you want to learn how to taste the difference between a good wine and a bad wine? Do you have a de sire to communicate in Czechos lovakian? Do you need to learn basic self-defense skills? If you an swered yes to any of the above ques tions, then the Free University Committee of the Memorial Stu dent Center can fulfill your dreams. Wine Tasting, The Czechoslova kian Language, and Self-defense for Men and Women are three of thirty courses to be offered in the evening at no charge this semester by Free University. Registration for the courses will be held Thursday, Sept. 23 on the first floor of the MSC from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.-9 p.m. Classes are scheduled to begin the week of Sept. 27. Courses to be offered on Monday are Human Sexuality, The Revela tion, Beginning Guitar and Slimnas- tics. On Tuesdays: Social and Rec reational Dancing, Beginning Pho tography, Beginning Tap Dancing and Relaxation Training Techniqu es. Wednesday: Jogging, Bass Fish ing, the Czechoslovakian Language, Self-defense for Men and Women and Frisbee Techniques and Princi ples. Thursday: Ananda Marga Meditation and Belly Dancing. Saturday morning: Wine Tasting. Thirteen other courses are scheduled but dates have not been decided upon. Definite dates, times and room numbers will be available at registration on Sept. 23. drop proposals to close seven offices in the 778 zip code area. The offices are in Chriesman, Concord, Kurten, Ridge, Wellborn, Wheelock and Singleton. Community post offices, contracted and operated by private businesses, would have been established in Deanville, Flynn, Millican, Mumford, New Baden, Washington, and Shiro under proposed consolidation measures. These would have handled all functions of federally operated post offices except mail delivery. Mail de livery in these towns would have become the responsibility of larger offices in nearby towns. The postal service also planned to con solidate offices in Lyons and Sommerville into one location. The two cities are three miles apart. Offices in Bryan-College Station were not affected. All five will continue to oper ate as usual, including Aggieland Station in the Memorial Student Center. If the President approves the bill, a spe cial commission will be organized to exam ine the postal service and to make sugges tions to improve it. The commission’s re port is due March 15, 1977. Until then, no post offices are to be closed, no public services are to be discon tinued and postal rates are frozen at their current rates. The bill may save more than 600 third and fourth class post offices throughout Texas. ' What next? The Brazos County American Red Crosss Blood Drive is accepting blood at St. Mary’s Student Center until 6 p.m. today. Sue Goodwin watched the nurse carefully while giving blood at the cen ter, 103 Nagle, yesterday. Battalion photo by Ruth Marie Cowie