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Vol. 70 No. 16
10 Pages
Tuesday, September 28, 1976
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
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signed all duties previously held by
liversity President Jack K. Williams.
The board designated Freeman chief
scutive officer of the A&M System and
M University. He will continue to
idle his old responsibilities as executive
e-president as well as those duties for-
dyheld by the president’s office.
President Williams has been on sick
ve from his post since June when he
suffered the first of three heart attacks.
During that time Freeman has been acting
university and system president.
The board assigned President Williams
“the responsibility of developing for the
board his recommendations for the long
range objectives, programs, activities, and
policies of the system and the university. ”
In the past, Williams had been univer
sity and system executive officer as part of
his job as president. The action by the
board relieves him of those duties until
further action is taken by the board. Board
Chairman Clyde H. Wells said.
The action is designed to provide
Williams with duties which can benefit the
system while he is recuperating. Wells
said.
“Dr. Williams, as he continues to recov
er, will do what he can, as he can,” he said.
The board authorized Freeman, as chief
executive officer, to delegate any of his
duties to other system or uriiversity staffs.
This move is aimed at keeping Freeman
from being overworked by the two execu
tive posts, Wells said.
The board’s action came during the Re
gents’ Executive Committee report.
Chairman Wells read the recommencfation
which was immediately approved unanim
ously without discussion.
University officials have been reluctant
to say when Williams will be able to return
to work full-time.
Dr. Williams said this morning the board
clarified the question of responsibility so
there is no question who is the legal reep-
resentative for the University.
“To do business we have to have the
official notice the board gave us this morn
ing,” Williams said. A&M renews a
number of research contracts in September
and the board needed to clarify that those
contracts will be legally binding with
Freeman’s signature, Williams said.
“I’ll get back in the harness before too
long, ” he said. Williams did not know when
he will return to work full time.
Williams said he had discussed the
board’s action before the meeting this
morning and was “real pleased” with it.
In other action, the board approved
funds for a number of construction projects
on campus including improvements in
Duncan Dining Hall, conversion of the old
Exchange Store building, modification of
Rudder Tower’s second floor to office space
and replacement of the present Horse
Barns and Arena.
The board awarded Emeritus titles to
three administrators who retired Sep
tember 1. They are: A. R. Luedecke,
former system executive vice-president;
Tom D. Cherry, former A&M vice-
president for business affairs; and J. A.
Amis, former systems attorney.
The Board also accepted over $1.5 mil
lion in gifts and grants to the university and
system.
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Despite long lines at the postal window
growing criticism from student cus-
ners, the University Center Post Office
llaot be open more than two hours a day,
daysaweek, said Stan Sartain, director
{customer services for Bryan-College S ta
bu post offices.
Sartain said the Postal Service can not
ford to pay postal employes to work at the
jition more than two hours day.
“We’ve determined that most services at
jeUniversity Center can be handled in a
ro-hour period, said Sartain. “The rest
be handled by self-service machines. ”
The Postal Service has offered the Texas
JrM University a contract to run the of-
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Iniversity-determined hours. The Postal
race would provide all equipment
cessary for the operation.
Sartain said the University has shown no
terest in the proposal.
They ve refused to even discuss the
matter,” he said .
Charles Cargill, University Center man
ager, has a different view of the situation.
“There has been no formal offer to hand
the operation of the post office to A&M,”
he said. “In my opinion, if the offer were
made, it would be turned down.”
A similar proposal was studied during
the planning stages of the University Cen
ter and turned down, Cargill said.
“We re not in the post office business,”
he said. “This is a highly specialized area
for which the Postal Service is trained and
we are not.”
Cargill said that in early 1973 the Postal
Service agreed to run a first-class postal
facility, eight and a half hours a day, five
days a week.
On May 24, 1975, Cargill received a let
ter from M.G. Moulder, the area
manager-postmaster.
The letter informed Cargill that service
hours for the post office would be
shortened to two hours.
“We received no advance warning, and
we were not consulted in the matter,” said
Cargill.
Cargill criticized the Postal Service for
reducing University Center service hours
and not doing the same at the station in the
Redmond Terrace shopping center in Col
lege Station.
“It makes you wonder why they keep a
900-box station open, and choose to cut
hours for a 5000-box office like the Univer
sity station,” Cargill said.
“The basic difference is the type of oper
ation,” Sartain said in a later interview.
He said the University Center office is
geared to serve students, receiving little
profit from customer sales. The Redmond
Terrace operation, he explained, is de
signed to attain higher profits to help pay
for itself.
Also, said Sartain, the University Center
office is equipped with a $30,000 self-
service center that changes one-dollar
bills, dispenses postcards and envelopes
and delivers a variety of postage stamps.
The Redmond Terrace office has a stamp
machine that dispenses 10 cent and 1 cent
stamps.
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onnally to keynote
entennial convocation
Texas A&M University’s Centennial ac-
vities will begin Oct. 4 with former Gov.
Pcrf ifinB. Comvally delivering the main ad-
ress e 10:30 . convocation in G.
allie White Coliseum.
The convocation will open with the pro-
ssional, which will include a color guard
em the Corps of Cadets, the mace, car
ed by Dr. Haskell Monroe; the Board of
egents; recipients of the Distinguished
. Uumni Award; and representatives of the
f fully.
yiM| The convocation will be followed by a
lorps of Cadets review at 1:15 p.m. At 2
i.m. six large walnut carvings by Prof, and
Mrs. Rodney Hill will be unveiled in the
Memorial Student Center and at 8 p. m. the
United States Marine Corps Band will pre
sent a concert in Rudder Auditorium.
The band concert is the only activity
which requires a ticket. All other activities
are open to all segments of the university
community and general public.
Dr. Daniel Aldrich, the chancellor of
University of California at Irvine, and Dr.
Archie Dykes, chancellor of the University
of Kansas, will give centennial seminars!
Dr. Aldrich will speak at 3 p.m. and Dr.
Dykes at 4 p.m., both in the Rudder Thea
ter.
W. Clyde Freeman, Texas A&M’s
executive vice president for administra
tion, said that “Gov. Connally is the ideal
person to speak at this milestone occasion
for Texas A&M because he was instrumen
tal in making the resourceis available at the
crucial period for the university, enabling
it to begin or enhance many of the pro
grams which figure prominently in its re
cent growth and progress.”
Classes will be dismissed from 10 a.m.
until 3 p.m. to allow students and faculty to
attend the centennial convocation and
other related events.
In a cloud of smoke
Ken Krobot above, an agricultural education
major, won first place in the cigar smoking contest
Sunday during the Texas A&M Collegiate FFA
Battalion photo by Linda Baerwald
Annual Barbeque. Other activities at the picnic
included a three-legged race, egg toss and cow chip
toss.
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Campus
DEADLINE for student organi
zations to update and re-establish
their recognition status is Thursday.
Organizations must have their signa
ture cards in the Student Finance
Center, MSC, by the above date.
Texas
THE FIRST shipment of swine
flu vaccines reached the State
Health Department yesterday in
Austin and are on their way to the
department’s 10 regional offices.
National
THE FEDERAL budget deficit
in the third quarter of 1976 may be as
much as $7 billion lower than the
Ford administration’s estimate, a
budget agency official said yesterday
in Washington.
World
SEVEN PERSONS in a remote
Ethiopian desert village are the only
persons in the world known to have
smallpox and they may be the last,
the World Health Organization in
Geneva, Switzerland, said yester
day. Officials of the WHO said the
last cases of the disease should be
over in two months, and if no new
breakouts occur in two years, they
will declare the plague officially
eradicated.
Syrian troops launch
offensive on guerillas
Kissinger to confer
African leaders meet
Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Savage fighting
was reported today as Syrian troops and
tanks launched a new offensive aimed at
dislodging Palestinian guerrillas from
mountain strongholds overlooking Beirut.
A flurry of Palestinian communiques said
their antiaircraft batteries were in action
against “unidentified enemy planes” mak
ing low passes over a string of seven
Palestinian-held summer resort towns 12
to 18 miles east of here.
The top Christian militia commander
said Christian forces had joined the Syrian
attack, and that the entire Christian en
clave north of Beirut has been put in a state
of alert.
“We have used the Syrian attack to
launch an offensive of our own,” said Bashir
Gemayel, commander of the Phalange
party militia, largest on the Christian side.
“We are determined to purge Mount
Lebanon of every Palestinian,” he said.
Bashir is the son of Phalange party leader
Pierre Gemayel.
A guerrilla communique said Palesti-
Smoke from burned
wood fills motor inn;
twelve evacuated
Twelve presons were evacuated from the
kitchen and dining facilities at the Holiday
Inn on North Texas Avenue last night when
smoke filled the rooms.
Spokesman for the Bryan Fire Depart
ment reported that a short in wiring lead
ing into the building charred a portion of
wooden structure, producing the smoke.
The smoke was dispersed through the
airconditioning system into the rest of the
building.
Firemen and hotel service personnel in
vestigated almost an hour before the source
of the smoke was detected.
No damage was reported in the incident.
nians and their Lebanese leftist forces were
locked in ground and artillery combat with
Syrian attackers. It claimed guerrillas had
knocked out three Syrian tanks.
“The four-pronged assault began at dawn
behind a night-long artillery and rocket
barrage,” a guerrilla communique said.
“Right-wing Christian forces launched a
simultaneous attack to sandwich guerrilla
forces.”
The communique claimed that savage
battles were ranging along a six-mile front
12 miles east of Beirut.
Associated Press
SALISBURY, Rhodesia — Rhodesian
nationalist leader Jshua Nkomo is to leave
for neighboring Botswana today for more
talks with black African leaders on the
changeover from white to black rule in
Rhodesia.
Also headed for the Botswana capital of
Gabarone are U.S. Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger’s top Africa aide, William
Schaufele, and British Minister of State for
African Affairs Ted Rowlands.
Rowlands will begin talks on setting up a
constitutional conference demanded by
the leaders of the five “front-line” black
African states as the next step in transfer
ring power from Rhodesia’s 278,000 whites
to its 6.4 million blacks.
Nkomo is considered a top candidate to
be Rhodesia’s first black prime minister.
He denied Monday that the five “front
line black African presidents who met in
Lusaka, Zambia, last week, had rejected
Kissinger’s plan for a transition to black
majority rule in Rhodesia.
“They have rejected nothing,” he said,
adding that all they had done was insist that
Britain is the only power that can call a
conference of Rhodesian leaders to work
out a new constitution.
“What they did was remove serious flaws
which were in the document that is gener
ally known as the Kissinger plan, he said.
Nkomo said the presidents had pro
duced a “workable document” in their
meeting, but he would not disclose what it
contained.
The presidents of Zambia, Botswana,
Zaire, Mozambique and Tanzania issued a
statement after their meeting saying they
would not accept the plan for an interim
government in Rhodesia outlined by Prime
Minister Ian Smith. Smith said the transi
tion administration should be evenly di
vided between whites and blacks. The five
black leaders said it must be dominated by
blacks.
Rhodesian Foreign Minister P.K. van
der Byl said the black leaders’ statement
showed “unreliability and irresponsibil
ity.” Smith said he was waiting for clarifica
tion from the United States and Britain.
The Rhodesian leader added that “it
looks as though the Communists are calling
the tune in those parts.
Corps commander ordered rabbit’s removal
By GAIL JOHNSON
Woodstock, a five-month-old brown cot
tontail rabbit, is going to have to pack up
and leave his cozy maroon and white hutch
behind Dorm 1 on the Texas A&M campus.
The rabbit’s owner, Robin Gibson, said
that she was told last week by her outfit
commander that Corps Commander
Robert Harvey had ordered the rabbit’s
removal.
Woodstock has lived on the campus
since April, when some of Gibson’s friends
built a hutch for the rabbit. Gibson said
that she received Woodstock as a birthday
present.
“I wish I could keep him but I under
stand why I can’t,” Gibson said.
She added that during the summer she
was warned the rabbit might have to leave
the campus, but she had not been officially
requested to remove him until recently.
Gibson, a junior in the Company W-l of
the Corps of Cadets, said that she has never
worried about anyone hurting Woodstock
and said that a lot of people stop by the cage
to visit the rabbit.
Woodstock is not the first animal to be
asked to leave the Corps dorms. Other girls
in W-l have had to find homes for their
pets, which include a cat, a ferret and a
rooster. University regulations prohibit
the harboring of pets in dorm rooms, unless
the animals are confined to aquariums.
Since rabbits don’t live in aquariums,
Woodstock will move in soon with a friend
of Gibson’s until she can find a more per
manent solution.