The Battalion
Vol. 71 No. 3
10 Pages
Monday, September 5, 1977
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Fish Day participants
ready for intramurals
By JOHNNIE HENDON
Corps freshmen were introduced to
Texas A&M intramurals Saturday morning
during the fourth annual Fish Intramural
Day.
Competition began at 8 a.m. with flag
football. It continued with basketball and
volleyball, and ended with the crowd-
pleasing games of tug-o-war late in the af
ternoon.
“There are no rules about it (Fish
Day),” said Jim Jeter, associate director of
intramurals, “but it’s understood that
everybody plays, not just the first string. ”
Armando Ramirez, a Squadron 3 senior,
commented on what inspires the
freshmen’s enthusiastic participation in
Fish Day activities.
“It introduces the freshmen to the in
tramural program and gives them a chance
to show their abilities. They can also get
more involved with upperclassmen. And,
besides, we’ve got a beer bust after
wards.”
Jeter noted that because the A&M in
tramural rules are different from those in
most high schools. Fish Day orients
freshmen to the program before they
begin the regular intramural season. He
added that officers can determine which
players are more skilled at the various
sports.
Jeter emphasized that the Intramural
program does not cater to the super
athlete.’ He said that although there are
some highly-competitive levels, there are
levels on which non-athletes could enjoy
the sports.
Upperclassmen said that Fish Day was
designed to promote Corps and company
unity among the freshman class.
“The intramural program is one of the
advantages of a big university,” said Sean
Burke, a junior in Squadron 3. “It gives
the fish a chance to take a break from the
routine of classes, and to learn to work
together as a unified group.”
Although members of company VV-I
agreed with that idea, one woman noted
another reason for participating in pre
season intramurals.
“Today, we re not just isolated as a
female group,” said Doriot Mascarich, a
freshman. “This brings unity to the whole
corps.”
The freshmen didn’t seem to care about
the higher ideals of Fish Day, and most
said they were relaxed and having a good
time. They pulled, ran and executed shots
when their upperclassmen yelled, “Pull!,”
“Run!,” and “Shoot!,” but even orders
were relaxed. They were, however, fol
lowed.
“Boy,” commented one freshman, “we
are motivated!”
Renowned agricultural economist
Professor emeritus dies at 65
Will Ness, a junior in corps company M-2, barks
that order to freshman Bob Pike as Pike struggles
to defeat company S-2 in yesterday’s Fish In
tramurals Day. Winning the tug-o-war meant pul
ling all one’s opponents across a chalk line. At the
Battalion photo by Pat O’Malley.
time of this photo, only two M-2 members had not
crossed the line. M-2 “dug in” and began pulling
back, slowly at the end of five minutes, M-2 was the
victor.
affected lightly
abe hits Louisiana
lousands flee high
coast
water
I United Press International
V ORLEANS — Hurricane Babe
■the southeast Louisiana coast just
I lawn today, pushing tides eight feet
icnnal and cutting electrical power
acuation routes in several coin-
ties.
'ere watching her go inland now,
Hiles Lawrence of the National Hur-
" Center in Miami. “According to
he eye is moving over land. She’s
i landfall.”
\ was a minimal hurricane when it
ietl the coast near Morgan City, 110
flvest of the mouth of the Mississippi
rj Highest sustained winds were 75
Ler hour and the storm was moving
ard at about 5 mph.
irand Isle, 70 miles east of Morgan
H Civil Defense official said tides as
eight feet above normal cut off elec-
?ower and flooded the only evacua-
mte.
: water is coming in real fast,” said
Crosby of the Grand Isle Civil De-
The power is down all over the
and we don’t have any light company
down here to fix it.
urgency generators provided tempo-
ower to Grand Isle Town Hall —
juarters for 200 civil defense workers.
police officers and city officials who stayed
behind when 2,300 residents evacuated
the island yesterday.
The storm caused little more than tides
two to three feet higher than normal along
the upper Texas coast.
The Texas Highway Department said
that Texas 87 was closed between High
Island and Sabine Pass. Tides at Sabine
Pass were two to three feet above normal.
The highway was closed when Hurricane
Anita flooded the road last week.
Babe was expected to cause scattered
thundershowers and a few squalls mainly
east of Galveston. The winds and high tides
were expected to gradually subside to
night.
Hurricane warnings remained in effect
from Vermilion Bay eastward to the mouth
of the Mississippi and forecasters issued
tornado warnings for New Orleans, Baton
Rouge and other inland areas northeast of
the storm.
The highest winds before Babe moved
ashore were along thinly populated areas of
southeast Louisiana.
There were no reports of deaths, but
three elderly Chauvin, La., residents suf
fered burns and shock while trying to flee
oyager rockets to
upiter and beyond
the high waters. An antenna on their boat
struck a power line in Bayou Terrebonne.
A dozen other boaters had to be rescued
from inland hikes, according to authorities
in Terrebonne Parish.
In New Orleans, city officials maintained
an around-the-clock storm watch and
workers kept constant watch on the 121
miles of levees which protect the city from
the waters of Lake Pontchartrain and the
Mississippi River.
Babe was the second hurricane to form
off Louisiana in a week and forecasters
watched still another tropical wave gather
ing strength off eastern Cuba today.
Joe Pelisser of the National Hurricane
Center in Miami said the tropical activity
was unusual, but not unprecedented.
“It has happened before, especially this
time of year, but probably not in the last 10
years,” Pelisser said.
Most of those who evacuated southeast
Louisiana were chased from their homes
early last week by Hurricane Anita, the
first major storm of the year. Anita eventu
ally drifted westward to northern Mexico
where its winds and waters killed 10 per
sons.
Luke Petrovich, Civil Defense director
of Plaquemines Parish, ordered dozens of
communities along the lower Mississippi
River evacuated as Babe approached.
“We’ve easily had 25,000 to 30,000,”
said Petrovich. “We evacuated all the
lower portion of the parish. ”
Timm
By JULIE SPEIGHTS
Battalion Staff
Dr. Tyrus R. Timm, 65, who devoted 32
years to Agricultural Extension Service,
teaching and research at Texas A&M Uni
versity, died Saturday in a Houston hospi
tal.
Dr. Timm, professor emeritus at Texas
A&M, retired from the university in 1975.
He was a native of Hallettsville.
The agricultural economist was na
tionally known for his trips abroad in the
1960’s to study the Common Market and
served as chairman of a governor’s task
force evaluating Texas Agriculture in
Western Europe.
He was the author of a number of official
reports on foreign agricultural policy and
the expansion of European markets for
U.S. farm products.
The 1934 graduate of Texas A&M also
was in federal service as agricultural
economist and agricultural relations ad
viser to the administrator of the Office of
Price Administration in 1944-1945.
Dr. Timm became professor of Agricul
tural Economics and Extension Economist
at Texas A&M in 1949. In 1953, he was
named head of the Department of Agricul
tural Economics and Sociology.
He contributed to the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce National Agriculture Commit
tee and chaired the Farm Foundation Na
tional Agricultural Policy Committee. He
also served as adviser to the National Cot
ton Council’s Special Export Committee.
"He was a master teacher whose stu
dents are doing good work in many
places,” Chancellor Jack K. Williams said
of Dr. Timm.
“His joy in life made every day better
for everyone,” Williams said.
The funeral will be at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday
at the A&M United Methodist Church
with burial in the College Station city
cemetary. Arrangements are under the di
rection of the Memorial Funeral Chapel.
Perfect partners for lonely Ags
just might be found in dating ads
By GLENNA WHITLEY
Battalion Staff
Sex: Male. Age: 19. Hair: Near bald.
Eyes: Blue. Interests: Majors in engineer
ing, member of Corps of Cadets, likes
playing dominoes, drinking beer, hump
ing it, girls, football and going to
Lakeview.
If this is your dream Aggie, women,
send $1.25 to “The Texas Aggie Dating
Scene,” a magazine that proposes to help
you meet that Mr. Right.
George Goldey, an entrepreneur from
Canton, Tex., will send you the Aggie’s
name and phone number. Goldey is pub
lishing a magazine containing advertise
ments of students wishing to meet compat
ible members of the opposite sex.
“There’s a real need for it, ” Goldey said.
He added that he is starting these publica
tions at other schools in Texas, Arkansas
and Oklahoma. The idea is very popular in
Midwest colleges, he said.
It works this way. A student (male or
female) sends information about himself
and his interests to Goldey, and encloses a
large, self-addressed stamped envelope.
A 15-20 word advertisement is free. The
$1.25 fee is paid upon receipt of the pub
lished list—if the person finds an interest
ing candidate.
Each description has a code number.
No names or phone numbers accompany
the ad. Goldey sends their name and
By DOUGLAS MONROE
United Press International
1PE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Voyager 1
M into space today on a mission that
ake it to Jupiter and Saturn for de-
| studies of the solar system’s two
est planets.
iding atop a 160-foot Titan Cantaur
:t, Voyager 1 lifted off on schedule at
a.m., CDT, in a flash of orange flame
allowing smoke.
entists were hoping the spacecraft’s
)[ flight would go more smoothly than
fits sister ship, Voyager 2, which was
ped Aug. 20. Voyager 2 was more
8 million miles from Earth today.
th voyagers are scheduled to make
iled studies of the solar system’s two
st and most remote planets and then
Inue onward beyond the solar system.
IVoyager 1 — which is scheduled to
f Jupiter four months ahead of Voyager
Ispite the latter’s prior launch — com
all its scientific tasks successfully,
iger2 might be diverted for a study of
planet Uranus.
>yager 2’s initial problems with its
era-carrying science boom, on-board
Iputer and nuclear generator boom ap-
r to have been ironed out.
Jr. Edward Stone, a project scientist,
Sunday Voyager 2 is a “very healthy”
spacecraft. The camera-carrying science
boom which failed to fully deploy and lock
on Voyager 2 is “from a science
standpoint. . . fully deployed and totally
useful,” Stone said.
Launch of Voyager 1 was delayed four
days so engineers could avert any repeti
tion of Voyager 2’s problems. They added
extra coil springs to the science boom and
the nuclear generator boom to insure full
deployment.
Voyager 1 will reach Jupiter in March,
1979, four months ahead of Voyager 2, be
cause it is taking a more direct flight path.
After completing its study of Jupiter,
Voyager 1 will use the planet’s gravity for a
“slingshot— effect to take it to Saturn,
which it will reach in late summer of 1980,
nine months ahead of Voyager 2.
Each Voyager has 11 scientific instru
ments to radio back to Earth photos and
measurements of atmospheric conditions,
temperatures and magnetic properties of
the mysterious giant planets. Scientists
hope the mission will provide information
on the origin and early history of the solar
system.
When the study of Saturn is complete.
Voyager 2 will head off at 38,700 miles an
hour toward interstellar space. Scientists
hope to continue to monitor its findings
there for about 30 years.
Doug White, a senior history major, gives a quizzi
cal look to his friends on the third floor of Dorm
four before they hoisted up another pail of White’s
belongings. Some Corps outfits were scattered
Battalion photo by Robin Linn.
over three dormitories, others were split up bet
ween two floors. To get the units together on the
same floor of a dorm, yesterday Corps members
had to make one more move.
phone numbers only after receiving pay
ment.
What happens after that exchange is up
to the contactor and the contactee.
“It’s going to be anonymous to protect
the people involved,” Goldey said.
“I may have to edit it (the magazine),”
he said. “There will be no obscenities. We
may have to toss out their whole ad al
together.”
Goldey, 53, said “The Dating Scene For
Aggies” is a family business. His wife, son
and two daughters will help him print and
mail the small magazine.
CIA implicated
in mind tests
at U. of Denver
United Press International
The chancellor of the University of
Denver yesterday said the school partici
pated in mind control experiments spon
sored by the CIA 20 years ago, but did not
know at that time of the spy agency’s in
volvement.
Maurice Mitchell said he received a let
ter from the CIA on Aug. 12 informing
him that from 1954 to 1957 then DU
graduate student Alden B. Sears con
ducted the experiments under a grant
from the Geschikter Foundation for Medi
cal Research, a CIA front.
“As far as we knew at the time, Geschik
ter Foundation was just another grant
providing foundation, nothing more, ’
Mitchell said.
He said under the grant's provisions.
Sears, who may not have known the experi
ments were connected to the CIA. was to
preform three types of hypnosis and
mind-control studies. One of the experi
ments involved testing whether a person
could be brainwashed and “programmed”
to do something at a later date.
During recent congressional hearings
CIA officials disclosed the agency was in
volved in drug and tranquilizer tests on
Canadian mental patients, in LSD exper
iments on American soldiers and in mind
control experiments in hospitals, universi
ties and prisons across the nation.
School records show Sears enrolled at
DU in 1954 as a Methodist minister who
wanted to take additional courses to be
come a better minister and counselor. He
worked on a thesis concerning hypnosis
for two years but never completed it.