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Page 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1977 TEXASBURGER Buy One HAMBURGER ANY SIZE And get one same size HAMBURGER 340 Jersey Across St. From Campus Southside Offer Expires 31 January 1977 PowelVs press job not easy sSP V® 811 S. TEXAS Across from A&M 846-9490 By HELEN THOMAS United Press International WASHINGTON — Jody Powell is stepping into one of the toughest jobs in the White House — spokes man for the president. In the past, the role has been more distinguished for its failures than its successes. His predecessors have all assumed the mantle of “Voice of the White House” apparently with good intentions, stressing openness and candor. But somewhere along the way to the forum, their credibility often came into question. Powell, 33, of Vienna, Ga. is one of the two closest advisers to Jimmy Carter. The other is Hamilton Jor dan, who was Carter’s campaign manager. Both were with Carter when he was governor of Georgia, and both won their credentials as the early true believers. Powell is sometimes described as Carter’s alter ego. Certainly when reporters talk to him they assume that they are getting the straight goods from the president-elect. Powell does not discourage that Powell can be knowledgable and glib in knowing Carter’s intentions. He is trusted enough to sit in on the top secret meetings, and trusted by Carter to be close mouthed with re porters. Carter has said “I will never lie to you. ” Powell has said he knows it’s important to be credible, but he has never laid it out in Carter’s words. The relationship between Carter and Powell was tested and survived without a dent after Carter’s disastr ous “Playboy Magazine” interview at the height of the campaign. In the interview. Carter disclosed that he “lusted” after women. Powell had arranged the interview, but Carter, according to sources, never chided him for it. Their friendship is so close that Powell can tell a group of reporters watching Carter at a soft ball game “he’s an arrogant little bastard. Powell has selected a staff, includ ing two former reporters as de puties. They are Rex Granum, who will frequently brief the press, and Walt Werfel who will be in charge of adm in is tration. Qbc) INTERSTATE ^UNh^RSlTY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER 846-6714 & 846-1151 EDG STUDENTS! News Office Supply is your complete store for fine EDG supplies by • drafting equipment TZidouHtyA full template selection • diazo prints • illustrating & mounting board • special project photo-reproduction services IlCUfO OFFICE 108 COLLEGE MAIN IICvVu SUPPLY 846-2522 “The department store for business needs since 1935“ *<Sv*nr- of Our Time T search of Hoah im FW,<last yVAYSl Copyrighr Sun Ckjum: Pictures. 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He obviously chafes al ready under the “protective’ scrutiny of reporters and cameramen when he would like to be in public without a press entourage. At times he has tried to give the press the slip while he is on an outing around Plains. Sometimes he has succeeded and sometimes he hasn’t. Powell has told reporters that there will be times when Carter does not want to be covered that closely. Carter felt he did not get a fair shake at times from television par ticularly during the campaign, and he told the TV correspondents what was on his mind. He often recalls that when he began his campaign for 0 the presidency a few years ago.ii he who had to approach a repo] and make himself known. Powell is a student of political® t ence and was close to attaininj|L-.r tt . doctorate when he broke () take part in the real world ofpoljR Some observers believe that^j one-man band and bitten off s than it is humanly possible toll rs h^ n, well, even in the national sej? 6, power, and even with all tin ent 0 tance he will have. liaious On the other hand, Carter and press spokesman corne to the hlS House with the lessons of thi clearly written, knowing therei s !Bf ac room for improvement. ,n ® u ' e ot '' Carter inaugural to begin with fireworks extravaganz ■rs. Rober ill itation e with faith aders. '“We United Press International WASHINGTON — The Inaugu ration of Jimmy Carter will be launched tonight with a green and white bang that can be heard for miles around. A five-day Inaugural festival offi cially gets under way with a fireworks display — in the Carter- Mondale colors of green and white — on the mall between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. The opening salvo will be so loud it can be heard for 12 miles, or ganizers said. The fireworks are just one aspect of Carter’s “people’s inaugural” that will be unique in many respects. Among them is Carter’s decision to walk the last two blocks of the inaugural parade route along Pennsylvania Avenue so campaign workers and friends who paid $25 each for special seats can get a good look at him. Also breaking tradition, he will walk from Blair House across the street to the White House Thursday morning for a cup of coffee with President Ford before the two men drive to the Capitol for the swearing-in. While the fireworks marks the of ficial start of inaugural week, the ac tual festivities open earlier in the day with a dozen free concerts around town, a film festival, poetry reading, children’s theater and a horse show — all free to the public. Before the fireworks there will be just about every kind of live music imaginable outdoors on the mall. For the first 2,000 who get tickets and want to stay inside, away from icy winds, the Atlanta Symphony and the National Symphony will present a joint concert — free — in the Kennedy Center. After the concert the Kennedy Center roof offers a ringside seat for the fireworks. Forecasters say it’s going to be a chilly week. The 1977 Inaugural Committee just hopes Carter won’t be the first president since William Howard Taft in 1909 to be driven indoors by a blizzard. Brown’s raid sets precedent An article written by the late Dr. Keith A. Sutherland of Texas A&M University describing a U.S. Senate investigation of the Harpers Ferry raid appears in the Winter 1976 issue of “Prologue,” Journal of the National Archives. The 16-page, copyrighted article revolved around the 1859 Senate inquiry of the raid led by John Brown four years earlier. Sutherland had been a member of the A&M history faculty about two years when he died in a West Texas auto accident last year. Before com ing to A&M, he had been an in structor at Tarleton State Universi ty- His article explains that the inves tigation of the famous pre-Civil War incident set precedents for future Congressional inquiries, including the broadening of subpoena powers and expansion of the right to jiunish those found in contempt of Con gress. Soldiers armed with'every® from shovels to flame throwenl ready to attack any snow thalj fall. The National Weather Sfnjl first Inauguration Day forecasll terday doesn’t mention snow] predicts the temperature willc to “near 20 degrees” by thelH ^ day noon swearing-in. AUST Unusual subfreezing tenij-jck, L tures have gripped the capitalize! u two weeks, sending Inaugur fcal sch planners out to buy long ii Bock f wear. The solar heating panelikalmo the presidential parade revietjue to stand outside the White Housetfit’s h been boosted by good old Iasi eak, steam heat. mires Carter will miss the oper® pre events. He and his immediateffid to ily are scheduled to arrive in' ceives ington from Plains, Ga., latet lied th row afternoon. The first event®)??, known he will attend is theg. 'The b augural concert at the Ke Mato Center tomorrow night. the 4 1 The president-elect’s b: ecial f Billy gets in town earlier tom cal pro — leading a chartered plantBocks about 100 kinfolk and friend ibuted will take over the top flooi Fective downtown Washington hotel, ict. D gher est s Coal will repiaaock out $4 gas for heating Something fishy is always going on at Pices Special for Week 10% off to TAMU Students, Faculty, Staff Good on all merchandise except specials Coal will probably be thesunj sor to natural gas as the fuel he for homes of the next generati] but few researchers think people* tolerate the dirty, foul-smellj material in the homes. *! “No, people wouldn’t like to back to coal after so many years* clean burning natural gas, obser Dr. Jack H. 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