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The Battalion
Tuesday, August 8, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Inside Tuesday
» A&M graduates guard Lady
Bird Johnson — p. 3.
» Manilow concert scheduled
for this fall is canceled — p. 3.
• Impressions of Sunday’s race
- p. 8.
The only way to dig a ditch
Thomas Lopez, who works for J.W. Bell Christie Contractors, is using a
mechanical trencher to dig a ditch for a new natural gas pipeline at the
corner of Ross and Bizzell Streets on the University campus. The
pipeline will service the wood shop adjoining the Landford Architecture
Building.
Battalion photo by Pat O’Malley
earn investigates
ood death count
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pcials in Parker and Palo Pinto coun-
1— on the flood-swollen Brazos River
wnstream from last week’s destruction
are bracing for a 10-foot rise that is ex-
led to carry away buildings in low-lying
las.
le river is up about 25 feet with water
lased from Possum Kingdom Lake,
|i|h collected the flood runoff. The lake
thority has advised officials in
jvnstream counties that more flood gates
llpe opened today, adding 10 feet to the
/er level.
Bventy-eight people were killed in a
eek of flooding in the agricultural area of
It central Texas and the Hill Country
the south central portion of the state.
Jthorities today continued their search
light more bodies.
In the Hill Country, a disaster survey
tm from the National Weather Service
ived in Kerrville Monday to determine
lythe death toll was so high despite ad-
ice warning by the media.
National Weather Service Director Dr.
eorge Cressman said evidence indicated
forecasts and flood warnings were is-
by television and radio stations and
safety officials had acted promptly on
In the Hill Country, officials Monday
ered the bodies of three more flood
ms, bringing the death toll to 23 along
Medina and Guadalupe rivers,
inother five people died in flooding at
ny in west central Texas.
A .spokesman for the Parker County Fire
epartment said local units Monday
acuated campers and rural homes
aptain: Sex less likely
n ship than on beach
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NORFOLK, Va. — The skipper of the
[S Vulcan, oldest ship in the Atlantic
t and one of the five first vessels to
1 women to its crew, says sex will be
1 of a problem aboard “than you’d find
' the beach .'
he Vulcan’s crew is getting ready to
come its first female members, who
I move aboard as a result of legislation,
win final stages of congressional action,
tmitting their assignment to sea-going
I'y support ships.
Vithin a year, close to 10 per cent of the
lean’s 750-member crew will be female,
ingfrom officers to dental technicians
machinists mates in the engine room.
Men aboard the ships have shown little
opposition to a change the tradition-bound
Navy would have regarded as cataclysmic
just a few years ago.
What controversy and grumbling there
has been has taken place on shore, some of
it among Navy wives.
“Anytime you have men and women to
gether, one of the first things people think
about is sex,” said Capt. Harry Spencer,
the Vulcan’s skipper.
“I think that has been overplayed. A
ship is a small, contained environment,
heavily controlled. That problem will be of
far less magnitude than you’d find on the
beach,” he said.
Pope’s successor to be named
by large group of cardinals
around Horseshoe Bend, Rio Brazos and
Dennis.
In Albany, the water and sewer systems
were functioning throughout most of the
town, about a third of which washed away
last Thursday and Friday. Telephone serv
ice also had been restored.
Disaster relief has been streaming into
town since the weekend, according to
sheriff’s dispatcher Bobbie Hoard.
“We received a planeload of supplies
from Albany, New York, and I think most
every Albany in every state is sending
something,” Mrs. Hoard said. “The
people in Abilene and the surrounding
area have been just great. Individuals are
bringing in pickup loads of clothing. ”
The town also reopened an abandoned
nursing home to provide temporary hous
ing for the homeless, she said.
“But the death toll still remained high,”
Cressman said. “We need to find out the
reason for those deaths and if there are any
aspects of the warning system that need
correcting, we need to correct them.”
Meanwhile, the rain-swollen Brazos,
which engulfed more than a third of
Graham during the weekend, receded
Monday and residents of the west central
Texas town returned to shovel ankle-deep
mud and debris from their homes and
businesses.
“About a fifth of the town is still under
water but it’s going down. People are get
ting back to work and cleaning up,” a
spokesman for the Young County sherifFs
office said. “It’s a mess, but we don’t have
any drownings so we have a lot to be
thankful for.”
By ERNEST SAKLER
United Press International
VATICAN CITY — Pope Paul Vi’s successor, whose
election will decide the future of the Roman Catholic
church and perhaps the allegiance of nearly 700 million
faithful, probably will come from a group of fewer than
20 cardinals, Vatican experts said Monday.
Predicting the outcome of a papal election is always
difficult, but particularly so this time because the Col
lege o* Cardinals is the largest in history.
There will be 115 cardinals meeting in
Miehaelangelo’s Sistine Chapel to elect a new pontiff,
compared with the 80 who elected Paul in 1963 and the
51 who elected John XXIII in 1958.
Many of the newer cardinals are from distant lands
—- rare visitors to Rome who are as yet unacquainted
with the various Vatican lobbies. •
Most observers feel the traditionalists will prevail
and choose an Italian, just as all other popes have been
for more than 450 years. But some think the chances
for a non-Italian pope are the best so far this century —
possibly a liberal central European or a cardinal from
the Third World.
Election of an American would be virtually impossi
ble, most Vatican experts said.
Only 46 of the church’s 262 popes have been non-
Italians. The last was Hadrian VI of Holland who
reigned for 13 months in 1522-1523 and was booed by
Roman crowds at his election.
The new pope could be a conservative, bent on
maintaining the Church’s traditional dictums on papal
authority, priestly celibacy and birth control. Or he
could be a progressive trying to align Roman Catholi
cism with what he feels is the spirit of the times.
American
not likely
to he pope
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VATICAN CITY — Vatican sources said
Monday there is little chance a non-
Italian, much less an American, could be
elected to succeed the late Pope Paul VI as
leader of the world’s Roman Catholics.
Nevertheless, two U.S. cardinals were
mentioned as possible papal candidates.
Of the two, the sources said, only Car
dinal John Francis Dearden, 70, arch
bishop of Detroit and a noted activist in
the struggle for human rights and racial
justice, had the necessary experience.
The other man mentioned was Cardinal
John Joseph Wright, 69, prefect for the
Vatican’s Sacred Congregation of the
Clergy.
The Vatican sources said neither man
had any, but the slimmest chance of step
ping into the papacy.
"The church hierarchy (in the United
States) has consistently identified the
church interests with those of their own
nation. This is an important factor against
the Americans,” one source said.
Other sources said it was highly unlikely
that any Cardinal from a nation involved in
big power politics could be elected pope.
The sources said most of the 10 current
U.S. cardinals were considered prag
matists and able administrators, but lacked
the pastoral, prophetic point of view
praised by the Second Vatican Council
that ended in 1965.
Italian “papabili ’ — potential papal candidates —
include Cardinals Giovanni Benelli, Sergio Pignedoli,
Sebastiano Baggio, Pericle Felici, Giovanni Colombo,
Michele Pellegrino, Antonio Poma, Corrado Ursi and
Albino Luciani.
Non-Italian cardinals, who were given long-shot
chances for election, include American Cardinals John
F. Dearden and John J. Wright, Leon Duval of
Algeria, Gabriel Garrone and Jean Villot of France,
James Knox of Australia, Franz Koenig of Austria,
Maurice Roy of Canada, Johannes Willenbrands of Hol
land and Stefan Wyszynski of Poland.
Here are capsule biographies of the leading candi
dates:
Benelli: Paul’s 1977 appointment of Benelli as a car
dinal and archbishop of Florence was seen as an obvi
ous attempt to smooth the way for the Tuscan prelate to
become his successor — or at least play a key role in
the election of the next pope. Benelli, 57, has three
decades of experience as a Vatican diplomat and last
served as assistant secretary of state. No. 3 post in the
Vatican. But the efficient, sharp-tongued Benelli has
many enemies and at 57 is considered too young.
Baggio: At age 65, a former papal ambassador to
Brazil who now heads the Sacred Congregation for
Bishops, one of the most powerful Curia departments.
Paul made him a cardinal in 1969. A rather rigid
character and his comparative youth may be handicaps
in the papal sweepstakes.
Colombo: Paul s personal choice in 1963 to succeed
him as archbishop of Milan, Italy’s largest diocese, he is
a distinguished educator and writer. Now aged 76, Paul
made him a cardinal in 1965.
Felici: An expert in civil and canon law, the 67-
year-old Segri-born Felici is a polished and pungent
speaker who leans toward the conservative. He is dis
trusted by church progressives. A cardinal since 1967,
his lack of pastoral experience could hurt him in papal
balloting.
Luciani: A theologian and philosopher, he is one of
the newest cardinals, named in 1973. Born in Forno di
Canale in 1912 he is vice president of the Italian
Bishops’ Conference.
Pellegrino: The retired archbishop of Turin is
viewed by many traditionalists as too liberal. Born in
Centalo in 1903, he prefers to be called “Padre” rather
than “your eminence,” lives frugally and wears simple
cassocks instead of more regal cardinal garb. His pec
toral cross is wooden rather than jeweled. Unlike other
cardinals, he has no limousine, but drives a green com
pact .
Pignedoli: A veteran Vatican diplomat who has
visited 156 countries, he has long been mentioned as a
leading candidate to succeed Paul. Born in Felina in
1910, Pignedoli often strolls around the Spanish Steps
in the heart of Rome, meeting students and hippies and
sometimes inviting them to tea or dinner.
Poma: Quiet and unassuming, he is president of the
Italian Bishops’ Conference. Colleagues describe him
as a “man of the center,” open to ideas in the doctrinal
field, but rigid on matters of morals and discipline.
Born in Pavia in 1910, he is rated an outsider in the
papal voting unless the conclave wants someone akin to
the manner and method of Paul.
Ursi: Praised by the Vatican newspaper for his "out
standing multifarious and fervent pastoral activity,” he
was born in 1908 in Andria. He was ordained in 1931,
became bishop in 1951 and cardinal in 1967.
This canine visitor to the University campus seems
quite content to stretch out in the flower beds on
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iversitv camous seems
the north side of the Academic Building.
Battalion photo by Pat O’Malley
Extension services to undergo change
Prairie View to receive $1.4 million
By DOUG GRAHAM
Battalion Staff
Texas’ traditional statewide agricultural
service programs, the Texas Agricultural
Extension service and the Texas Agricul
tural Experiment Station are undergoing
change.
The change centers around Prairie View
A&M University, which is slated to re
ceive $1.4 million in federal funds, Texas
A&M University President Jarvis Miller
said.
He said Prairie View A&M should re
ceive another $900,000, bringing the total
to $2.3 million.
Last year, Congress passed the National
Agricultural Research, Extension, and
Teaching Policy Act of 1977. The act is
designed to improve research and trans
mission of agricultural knowledge.
Several of the goals include research on
nutrition and consumption patterns, alter
natives to fossil fuel-based technologies,
and energy conservation. Improvement of
extension and research programs in ag
riculture, forestry, and general agriculture
are other goals.
One aim of the extension services will
be to orient the programs toward the small
farmer. A small farmer is defined as one
whose gross sales from farming are
$20,000 or less per year.
The legislation will fund Tuskegee Insti
tute and the 14 land grant colleges estab
lished in 1890.
These are traditionally all-black colleges
which were set up after the first land grant
schools such as Texas A&M were founded
under the Morrill Act of 1862.
Miller said the the 1977 Farm Act was
designed to restore agricultural extension
programs to the 1890 schools.
Prairie View lost their program because
of the 1964 civil rights rulings against
“separate but equal” organizations, Miller
said.
At that time Prairie View and Texas
A&M s programs were combined into one
statewide agency.
Dr. Daniel Pfannstiel of the Agricultural
Extension Service, said the separate gov
ernment funds have split the statewide ex
tension program.
“Our feeling has been where we were
one organization, we were able to facilitate
a one-program effort. Now we re going to
have to work hard just to maintain that,"
Pfannstiel said.
“Our preference is to keep it.”
The division becomes effective Oct.l,
he said.
Pfannstiel said that Prairie View’s exten
sion service has no personnel trained in
bookkeeping.
“Getting those people will drain their
funds,” he said.
He added that Prairie View personnel
were as good as any in the state, but that
their extension program had no need for
bookkeepers. Pfannstiel said that as of
Oct.l, Prairie View will probably contract
with the Texas A&M extension service to
do the bookkeeping.
The emphasis at Prairie View is on re
search, said the school’s new research di
rector, Dr. O. C. Simpson. He said state
funds for research were approximately
$60,000 versus the $1.4 million from the
federal government.
He said, however, there is a time con
straint on the federal funds. The act re
quires funds to be contracted within 12
months. Funds cannot be carried over
from year to year.
The crunch comes, he said, in getting
through state regulations on construction.
Simpson said it is crucial that Prairie
View initiate its building program this
year. It is the only year the University will
have the funds flexibility to do building
without cutting the staff too deeply, he
said.
Simpson said money is needed because
“there’s an urgent need of facilities, both
in labs and offices.”
Assistant director of the Texas Agricul
tural Experiment Station, Dr. Dudley
Smith, said that Prairie View facilities are
about on par statewide with other experi
ment stations.
In fact, their greenhouses are better
than most, Smith said.
Simpson outlined what he hoped to im
plement as a research program. One
project is a poultry brooder house for
analyzing temperature, food, and other
factors in producing maximum meat and
egg yields. Energy will be the most impor
tant aspect, he said. He said he wants to
increase energy efficiency in poultry opera
tions.
Another project is oriented toward small
farmer pork production. The goal is to im
prove quality and yield for low income
“dirt farmers.”
An agricultural extension-related
project involves setting up a computerized
data base on greenhouse and indoor plant
operations. He said the project would
supply information to nurseries and indi
viduals about growing plants.
Simpson said he hopes to build free
standing structures for each of the
projects.
The overall change between Prairie
View and Texas A&M will not be radical,
said Dr. John C. Calhoun, Executive Vice
Chancellor for Programs of the Texas
A&M University System.
The system includes Prairie View, Texas
A&M, and the statewide agricultural and
engineering extension and experiment sta
tions.
The act requires that each school de
velop plans in conjunction with an overall
state program in Section 1445.
Calhoun expressed his opinion that the
schools will continue to work closely to
gether.
Pfannstiel and Smith said their organiza
tions are continuing their close relation
ships with Prairie View. Pfannstiel said the
extension service was in the process of
drawing up working agreements with
Prairie View.
As far as handling the increased re
search load goes, Simpson said the
facilities would pose the only problem.
Smith said facilities are a common re
searcher’s complaint because money has to
be divided between staff and equipment.
There is a lot to research, he said, but not
enough resources to do it all.
Personnel at Prairie View does not pose
an obstacle.
“Prairie View will have no problems
with quality,” Pfannstiel said.