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Friday, September 28, 1978
College Station, Texas
News Dept. 845-2611
Business Dept. 845-2611
Republican sheriff nominee ‘in
• After a month of controversy, W.
R. “Bill” Owens has been officially
placed on the Republican ballot. The
sheriff nominee is in, but the GOP
county chairman is out.
See page 5.
• Adamson Pool in College Station
will receive a winter coat. See page
• The SPCA is charging that
sportsmen are cruel to jackrabbits.
See page 8.
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By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Sports Editor
It has taken its own sweet time in
arriving. Some people probably
bought it would never get here,
ut finally, after two long road trips
[and an open date, the 1978 home
pener for the Texas Aggie football
team is here.
Ah, football. That mystical entity
that has made many a poor man
rich, made many a rich man richer,
squandered a few marital relation
ships and caused the president of
the United States to reschedule
news conferences.
And football has some unique ef
fects on College Station, too. It fills
parking lots, increases the revenue
at local restaurants and hotels and
creates an unparalleled excitement
in an otherwise dreary college town.
When the two football teams take
the field Saturday afternoon for the
1:30 kickoff, the expected 54,000
fans will see two teams that have
never played on Kyle Field before.
Memphis State, under Coach
Richard Williamson, will be making
| its initial apearance in College Sta
tion, althought Williamson was once
an assistant coach at Arkansas.
“It s a heck of a place to play, ” the
Tiger coach said of Kyle Field. “I
know what goes on down there. I
know what to expect.”
The other team that will greet the
College Station crowd for the first
time is the 1978 Texas Aggies. Yes,
this team bears some resemblance
to Texas A&M teams of the past.
But in many respects it is a different
team. Anyone who was fortunate
enough to see the Aggies’ first two
games against Kansas and Boston
College can attest to that.
The most uoUcwble d\fteveYvee is
on offense. It is a difference that has
been analyzed by the fans, the op
ponents and the press since last
spring, when head coach Emory
Bellard installed the I-formation in
the Aggie attack. For the past six
years, the Aggies offensive reper-
1976 Football
Parking Mop
Visitors may park in the black areas. Students with green or day
stickers are not allowed to park there, however. Anyone may park
in staff lots. The field behind Duncan Dining Hall also is open to
anyone for parking, but autos must be removed by Sunday.
toire has consisted solely of Bellard s
chalkboard baby, the wishbone. The
combination of the wishbone and
the I adds a new dimension to the
Aggie offense.
The wishbone allows sophomore
quarterback Mike Mosley to do
what he does best—run the option.
The 1 ahows junior running hack
Curtis Dickey to do what he does
best—run.
A few differences can be noted on
the Aggie defense, too, mostly in
personnel. Unfamiliar names like
Milligan, Little and Carr will be
come more familiar as the game
progresses.
As senior defensive tackle
Eugene Sanders pointed out, the
Aggie defense this year is playing
with an improved attitude over last
year.
“We are playing on confidence,”
Sanders said. “We have the chance
to be the best defense since I’ve
been here.
In their 37-10 victory over Kansas
and in their 37-2 victory over Boston
College, the Aggies have displayed
their offensive ability and their de
fensive confidence. Now, the Aggies
and football return to Kyle Field.
Enjoy.
Pope John Paul I
dies of heart attack
United Press International
VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul I,
65, elected less than five weeks ago to suc
ceed Pope Paul VI as the leader of 700
million Roman Catholics around the
world, was found dead in his sleep Thurs
day night at the Vatican palace.
John Paul’s reign of 34 days — he was
elected Aug. 26 and died Thursday night
— was the briefest in nearly three cen
turies. The Vatican said he died peacefully
in bed, “as if he were still reading,” of a
heart attack.
“It’s impossible. It just can’t be true,”
wailed a Vatican attendant ushering
thousands of mourners into St. Peter’s
Basilica.
“He had opened his arms to all of us and
now he is gone so quickly. It’s just impos
sible.”
The Vatican said the pope’s private sec
retary discovered John Paul’s body at 5:30
a.m. — 11:30 p.m. EDT Thursday. The
pope’s doctor set the time of death about
OVi hours earlier.
The news of the pontiffs death was
flashed throughout Rome and Italy and
around the world within minutes.
Half an hour after Italian radio broadcast
its first bulletin about 7,500 people,
mostly nuns and priests, had rushed to St.
Peter’s Square to pray for his soul.
Cardinal John Cody of Chicago,
awakened at his residence, noted the pope
had asked many times during his brief
reign for Catholic faithfuls to pray for his
divine guidance.
“In his name, I ask today for that same
kindness — that all of you might join me in
prayer for his good, loving soul.
The Vatican’s official announcement of
the pontiffs death said: “This morning at
about 5:30 a.m. the private secretary of
the pope. Father Nagee, entered the bed
room of Pope John Paul I. Not having
found him in his chapel as usual, he was
looking for him in his room and found him
dead in bed with the lights still on, as if he
were still reading."
Vatican priests offered mass for the re
pose of the pope’s soul in a dozen chapels
of the giant basilica and in the crypt where
Pope Paul VI and many of John Paul’s
other predecessors are buried. Police set
up security barriers around St. Peter’s
Square to control the crowds.
Vatican officials said the pope’s body
would not be moved into the basilica for
public viewing today. They did not say
when it would take place,
Pope John Paul, the former Cardinal
Albino Luciani, was elected pontiff Aug.
26 in a one day conclave of cardinals that
was the shortest this century. His reign
also was the shortest of the century.
John Paul — he took his papal name
after his two immediate predecessors,
Paul VII and Pope John XXIII — reigned
over the world’s Catholics for just 34 days.
The cardinals of the Roman Catholic
church cast only four ballots to choose
John Paul. He began his reign with
simplicity and humility, refusing the tradi
tional three-tiered papal crown at his
coronation ceremonies, and the news of
his death drew quick reactions of shock
and sorrow from around the world.
“It certainly will throw the church into a
little more turmoil,” a Catholic pastor said
in Wichita, Kansas, “because he seemed
like such a popular and easy choice and I
don’t think there will be such an easy
choice this time” to succeed him.
The church’s last rites were said over
John Paul’s body by Msgr. Canisio Van
Lierde. With him was Vatican Secretary of
State French Cardinal Jean Villot and Vat
ican Chief of Ceremonies Msgr. Virgilio
Noe.
The yellow and white papal flags on the
Vatican palace were lowered to half-staff.
Villot, who also is chamberlain of the
Roman Catholic Church, immediately as
sumed direction of its affairs following
John Paul’s death.
The French cardinal immediately began
notifying his fellow church princes around
the world of the death and summoning
them to Rome for the second time in two
months to choose a successor.
Nine days of requiem masses will follow
the pope’s death and decisions about the
selection of his successor will be taken by
the cardinals present in Rome under the
direction of Villot.
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cop to
Cinema hires
control crowds
By MARK PERRIN
Battalion Reporter
Aggie Cinema has hired a policeman to
watch the crowd at this Saturday’s mid
night movie and for at least four other
midnight movies during the semester.
Gina Casas, chairman of Aggie Cinema,
said the policeman was hired because of
damages to Rudder Auditorium during the
midnight movie on Sept. 15. Two broken
chairs, ripped carpet, tobacco stains,
srael defense minister to go to Egypt
dans negotiations for new peace pact
United Press International
ERUSALEM — Defense Mi
zer Weizman will go to Egypt in October
Istart peace negotiations authorized by
ejlsraeli parliament by ratification of the
l*nip David aceords, the state radio said
Jsf SfWrsday.
■he announcement came after the
lesset overwhelmingly approved the
®ip David accords Thursday, paving the
1' for the Jewish state’s first treaty with
■Arab nation in what President Carter
Bed as a “great step forward” to peace.
Israel s 120-member Knesset ended its
gest debate ever by voting, 84-19, with
abstentions, to give up 20 settlements
iff'e Sinai in exchange for the beginning
negotiations with Egypt — a decision
legislators called the most momentous
since Israel was born in 1948.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who
signed the summit accords with Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat, said the “yes ” vote
means peace talks with Egypt can begin as
early as next week. A treaty — Israel’s first
with an Arab nation — could be signed by
Christmas, possibly even before Thanksiv-
ing.
“Happy are we that we reached such a
night,” Begin said in an emotional address
that capped the raucous 17-hour debate —
the session lasted from Wednesday morn
ing until about 3:40 a.m. (9:40 p.m. EDT
Wednesday).
“This is a historical turning point of
great importance,” Begin said.
Carter, who engineered the twin ac
cords in 13 days at Camp David with
Begin and Sadat, received the news of the
vote in a scrawled note passed to him dur
ing a political fundraising party. He an
nounced to overwhelming applause:
“We’ve made a great step forward in the
negotiations. ”
“That’s sure proof of the tremendous
courage of Prime Minister Begin and the
Israeli members of the Knesset, who now
have formed a possible partnership for the
rest of our lives with their neighbors, the
Egyptians, under the leadership of Presi
dent Sadat,” Carter said.
Sadat stayed up late to await the results
of the morning vote at his summer resi
dence beside the Nile, 15 miles north of
ratntn says U.S. should
ack new energy sources
By KEITH TAYLOR
Battalion Reporter
[Phil Gramm, Democratic 6th district
P n gressional candidate, said Thursday
that interstate sale of natural gas
be deregulated so “yankees don’t
Ft Texas gas for one-third of what we pay at
tome. ”
Gramm was speaking to the Young
"jericans for Freedom on the Texas A&M
( (diversity campus.
the United States needs a program to
Pand the production of energy, he said
ding that ‘our problem is a lack of putting
sources to work.”
, Gramm said the energy resources the
Jr* te d States has should be used. He also
tod the United States needs to invest in
, w e nergy sources with a premium on
P ar energy. He urged government to ac-
| on to provide energy at a price people can
r amm said the national budget should
® balanced and offered a plan to achieve
at goal. He said government spending
ould be limited to the amount taken in
1 'o u gh income taxes.
Re said a slower rate of government
l9~Q in ^ cou ^ cu t taxes by $20 billion by
» ar jd that government spending
owth should be limited to 7 percent a
"ear, the same rate as income tax growth.
Phil Gramm
“The government should live within the
same constraints as any American fami y,
he said.
Advocating a breakup of bureaucracy,
Gramm said government should be re
turned to the state, county and local levels.
“There is too much power in Washington
to reduce discretionary power of the fed
eral government,” he said.
He said he was in favor of President’s
Carter’s reform of bureaucracy, but that he
does not believe it will help solve the prob
lem. He said there is room for hope be
cause people are beginning to realize that
“big government does not work.
He gave recent tax revolts as an example
that people want to decentralize govern
ment power.
Cramm said the American farmer is
faced with the problem of being too pro
ductive. He said that the advancement of
farming methods has created a glut in the
markets and caused formers to lose money
on their crops. He said while the American
former is overproducing, the world is going
hungry and that the world should open up
to the United States agricultural market.
The falling value of the dollar on the
world market can be stopped, he said, by
the United States depending less on
foreign energy sources, balancing its
budget, and cutting the tax rate to stabilize
the dollar.
Cairo. He gave up early Thursday as the
Knesset speeches droned on, but an offi
cial spokesman delivered the Egyptian
government’s reaction.
“The Knesset approval is a victory for
the Camp David agreements and basically
a triumph for President Sadat’s initiative
in visiting Jerusalem last November.”
The spokesman said the vote to abandon
the settlements was spurred by Sadat. He
said Israel’s “change of attitude in such a
short time is almost unprecedented in his
tory.”
The Egyptians announced Wednesday
an Israeli communications team would ar
rive in Egypt Thursday to set up a “hot
line” with Jerusalem for the peace talks.
At the United Nations, Britain support
ed the twin “frameworks for peace” —
one for a treaty with Egypt and the other
for a comprehensive pact in the Middle
East. But France said “great uncertainty”
surrounded the accords.
Hundreds of Israelis who will lose their
homes in the Sinai settlements as a result
of the Knesset’s vote were massed outside
the Knesset to protest the decision.
ing the fate within five years of 1.1 million
Palestinians living on the West Bank of the
Jordan and the Gaza Strip, also occupied
in the 1967 war.
During the debate, a bomb made up of
more than 12 pounds of explosives blew up
near three movie houses less than two
miles from the Knesset buildine.
One person was slightly injured, and
many display windows and car windshields
were broken, throwing layers of broken
glass on the street.
Signs banned
in Kyle Field
A Texas A&M University policy
prohibits signs in Kyle Field. The
policy was adopted because signs
can inhibit the vision of spectators
and can be dangerous if they fall on
spectators. They also can be a
source of irritation to those seated in
the immediate area.
Attendants and ushers will serve
to remind all spectators of the pol
icy.
cigarette burns, empty beer cans and two
full quarts of liquor were found after the
showing of “Kentucky Fried Movie which
was attended by 1800 people, Casas said.
Leaves were ripped off of plants and the
light bulb from the theater entrance was
stolen, she said.
Two people got up on the stage near the
screen during the movie, Casas said. The
movie screen in the auditorium is valued
at $20,000, she said, and if someone were
to damage it during an Aggie Cinema pre
sentation, Aggie Cinema would be held
responsible.
All midnight movies except one have
been moved to the Rudder Theater. This
will cut the number of people who can see
a movie at one time from 2,300 to 700,
Casus said.
Schedules may also be altered because
of the recent damage to the auditorium.
Aggie Cinema may not be able to afford
recently released movies and may have to
limit film
make as m
festivals because they will not
ch money now that crowds will
be smaller,Casas said.
Weekday showings may also be cut be
cause the profits from weekend movies
help pay for the classic and international
movies that are shown during the week,
she said.
Aggie Cinema reserves the right to ask
people to leave without a refund. They
also will refuse to sell tickets to intoxicated
persons.
The decision to move most of the
movies from the auditorium to the theater
was agreed upon mutually by Aggie
Cinema and the theater staff, who operate
the projectors.
Casas said Aggie Cinema’s main pur
pose was to serve the students and now
they would be forced to cut down on the
number of people who could see a film.
Two showings of a film on the same night
are planned for many of the movies, but
this would be fewer people than could see
it in one showing in the auditorium.
Films for midnight shows will be chosen
more carefully in the future, Casas added.
Times may have changed, but Aggie Yell Practice has remained the
same. This photo from “We’ve Never Been Licked,” shows Micnight
Yell Practice held in front of the YMCA building on Coke St. in 1943. See
related story and picture, page 10. Photo courtesy University Archives