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Che Battalion Texas A&M University Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1965 Number 177 nh Spring Sports Carnival Underway + + Defeated Yell Leader Candidate Files Protest / Rogers Claims Political Blackmail On Limited Coed Bill Senator Cites | jubbock Rep or Delaying By TOMMY DeFRANK News Editor Senator Andy Rogers charged Wednesday that “juvenile black- ail” by State Rep. Bill Parsley Lubbock has resulted in a dam- 11 park.1 jing snag in legislative action on third p s limited coeducation bill. Rogers claimed that Parsley had Jones. 1 [tentionally refused to consider le bill in subcommittee for sev- aroi al weeks in an attempt to gain aging sii incessions on a $3 million federal ' things) ‘ant for water research. said esi A bill authorizing the creation lat winni1 a Texas Water Institute at Tex- ; year s had to A&M to utilize the federal funds on House approval after Parsley ig 55 yeajad tacked on an amendment di- ding the sum equally among Texas Tech and the Univer- ’'1D ty of Texas. The bill has been AO ailed in the Senate pending com- ittee action. i. The i "A third of that grant has been iown to it aside for underground water re- in the U iarch, and one of the largest un- n compe srground water deposits in the orld is near Lubbock. Parsley is ent «ist trying to shake a million dol- Janoft,rs loose from the water bill ety offi id he’s using my bill to bargain ith,” Rogers claimed, onsor, J Both Rogers and Senator Bill ssed th [00re 0f Bryan are members of of Hear le senate Education Committee, light, hjjh wjb pass judgment on the ater bill. Moore is the committee 1| .airman. Ill. w "Parsley promised that my bill ould be passed out of subcommit- reaf ie two weeks ago and then he aid it would be approved at last ivals * eek’s meeting and nothing has >ur froi appened yet. He keeps saying ;ic comp is subcommittee can’t get togeth- \ but he’s the only one who can’t Aggies it together. The other two mem- ime has ers have asked him for approval Park i pass the bill out but he keeps field st ailing,” Rogers complained. 3 trat «j|jg project won’t get like y l>ose jn genate before we reach ■ jome kind of understanding on 0 ies jjiine,” he continued. ^ 0 Rogers blasted Parsley for dis- iday an ■ (egarding letters from constituents straigl lv°ring the bill and for interfer- al i? with the legislative process. Try Tl "-Despite the fact that he has witli !ce*ved over 1,000 letters from r eoPle district endorsing e behi! V bill, he has said he doesn’t sre one way or the other. It’s er( sp|vidently more important to shake , regul|S loose of a million dollars than » give the House the opportunity ter foi» vote on my bill. He’s denying i-nanieiile chance for the democratic pro- j. ' juniiess to function in the Legisla- .egenti« are,” he noted. ayed tl The Childress legislator admit- . a r 81 id that the momentum of the ;era®ill had been slowed, but he Pressed that speedy House action > junkrould still leave time for the a 5-ljieasure to be approved and sent ;he 19% fjje governor. phomfl! was rojjjng. rea] weB gun 'Vfore it got stalled, but I think his -ur chances are still increasing, 'fl’y have received more legislative jelp and public opinion is still numKiounting. see 3rj “if fhe House subcommittee )ushes it out Monday we’ll be ini good shape, but I’m not going will 10 move in the Senate until I get divide ome action on the other side,” in °viie explained. and ickets On Sale or Ring Dance Tickets for the Senior Banquet nd Ring Dance may be purchas- d until Friday at the Student inance Office in the lower level f the Memorial Student Center. Dance tickets are $6 per couple nd include two 8 x 10 pictures, 'he Ed Sullivan Band from Hous- on will perform at the dance, fickets for the banquet are $4. I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND The eight-member Fort Hood Parachute team will perform intricate maneuvers in plunging from a troop carrier high over Easterwood Field Saturday as one of the featured events of Armed Forces Day. Two team members are shown during free fall. Armed Forces Day Hosts Skydivers Fort Hood skydivers plunging from a C-119 transport Saturday and performing feats which have thrilled onlookers all over Texas and in other states will be one of the highlights of Armed Forces Day at Easterwood Field. The Bryan - College Station Chamber of Commerce sponsored affair is expected to attract more than 10,000 citizens during the seven-hour show. One of the most breath-taking events scheduled by the Fort Hood Parachute Club is the cut- away type jump. During this maneuver, a para- chutist will plunge from the troop carrier wearing three parachutes. He will fall free for 10 seconds, open his first chute to slow his rate of fall and then release it before plunging toward the ground in excess of 120 miles per hour for another 15 seconds. At the last moment, he opens his second chute and drops to the ground in front of the specta- tors. The skydivers will also perform such maneuvers as passing a baton between each other as they fall prior to opening their para- chutes, jump with smoke bombs to mark their descent, and jump holding hands with a partner before separating and opening their chutes. In the five years the Fort Hood Parachute Club has been perform- ing, members have demonstrated their skills to more than 200 groups. The parachutists will perform at 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Youngsters attending the pro- gram will have a chance to shoot a short burst from a .30 caliber machine gun set up by military advisors from Allen Military Academy. Other weapons to be displayed include a 105 mm howitzer which will fire blank rounds during the program, a 106 mm recoilless rifle, a 17 foot antitank and anti- personnel weapon now being used in Viet Nam, several types of mortars, machine guns and the 3.5 rocket launcher, a shoulder- fired anti-tank weapon. Air Force displays include a fly-over of F-102 fighters from the 147th Fighter Group, Texas Air National Guard, stationed at Ellington Air Force Base, Hous- ton, and a fly-over by the C-119 transport and the T-37 jet train- er. Airplanes on ground display will include the T-39, a twin-jet pilot trainer which also can dou- ble as an eight passenger trans- port, DC-3 transport, a C-119 transport, a T-37 jet trainer and a T-28 piston engine driven train- er. Camp Claims Smith Broke Election Codes By MIKE REYNOLDS Campus Editor An election protest was filed with the Election Commission Wednesday by Bill Camp, defeated candidate for Civilian Yell Leader. The protest listed four points with which Camp contested the election of Darrell Smith to the yell leader position. The four points which Camp charged Smith were: 1. Failure to remove posters the morning following the election. 2. Unethical campaigning in the form of a letter of recommenda- tion of Smith to the Battalion by four athletes. Camp presented the signatures of the four athletes stating that if they had known the use of the letter, they would not have signed it. 3. The use of candidates’ names on a slate by the University Party, of which Smith was a member, without their consent. A state- ment signed by Terry Norman, successful candidate for president of the Civilian Student Council, supported Camp’s claim. 4. The coincidence that 10 of the 12 University Party candidates in- cluding Smith appeared first on the ballot. The Election Commission ap- pointed a four-man committee to investigate the charges. A meeting of the commission will be held Wednesday to hear the committee’s report and to rule on the protest. While Smith’s failure to remove his posters by the following morn- ing was a violation of University Regulations, Charles Wallace, chairman of the Election Commis- sion, said that he had informed the candidates that they could leave posters up until the Monday morning following the election. Camp was present at the meeting when the announcement was made. “The names on the University Party slate included the names of people we endorsed as well as the people who belong to the party,” Don Warren, presidential candi- date on the University slate, said. “All we were doing was making recommendations,” he added. Positions on the ballots had been drawn by Warren, also a member of the Election Commission, in the absence of Wallace. “I knew it looked suspicious, but it was just a coincidence,” Warren said. “That is the way they came out of the hat.” FOLLIES’ STARS REHEARSE Mrs. H. Fuller, who stars as Mille Spivens, and K. Blair, who plays Osgood Smithers, are the heroine and hero of “The Peril of Her Position,” the Aggie Follies’ production set for Friday and Saturday at 8 p. m. Space Fiesta ’66 Changes Theme Space Fiesta ’66 at Texas A&M will spotlight inner space. Paul Studley, chairman of Space Fiesta for the sponsoring Great Issues Committee of the Memorial Student Center, an- nounced the theme as “Hydro Space I.” Studley said speakers of na- tional prominence will be invited to speak on military and scientific advances in oceanography, while other outstanding scientific and technical speakers will be asked to give more specific information in the form of smaller lectures and symposia. Static displays from industry, military, governmental, educa- tional and scientific institutions will be featured in the fair. The World at a Glance International SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic—Gun- fire wounded four U. S. troops and the Dominican rebels claimed they had captured an American Marine in rebel territory Wednesday after the sign- ing of an amplified cease-fire agreement in the Dominican civil war. A U. S. official charged that the rebel move- ment is Red-controlled and its provisional president is “moving closer to the Communists.” SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Island. A Spanish airliner with 48 persons aboard crashed on a landing approach to Los Rodeos Airport Wednesday night, killing 31 persons, officials of Iberia Airlines said Thursday. National HAYNEVILLE, Ala.—An FBI plant in the Ku Klux Klan denied Wednesday that he was bribed to frame a young Alabama Klansman in the night- rider slaying of Viola Liuzzo a white civil rights demonstrator. “How much money were you offered to come here and testify?” the informer, red-haired Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., 34, was asked by Matt H. Murphy Jr., an attorney for the Klan. “Absolutely nothing,” replied the witness, a former bartender who said he joined the Klan five years ago at the behest of the FBI. BERKELEY, Calif.—Hundreds of University of California students marched on the Berkeley draft board headquarters Wednesday, presented the board coordinator with a black coffin, and 40 students burned their draft cards. Leaders of the group said they staged the “symbolic protest” against “the invasion of the Dominican Republic.” The march and card-burning climaxed a noon rally at Sproul Hall on the Berkeley campus. Stu- dents and faculty members assailed American inter- vention in the Dominican Republic crisis. WASHINGTON—The House voted speedy ap- proval Wednesday of President Johnson’s request for $700 million to fight Vietnamese Communists and the Senate set final action for Thursday. Texas HOUSTON—A woman witness told police Wednesday a man she believes she saw in Melvin Leon Steakley’s automobile an hour before the reporter was killed early last Saturday might have been Steakley himself. Steakley was killed by a bullet from a pistol which was fastened to the steering column of the small foreign-made automobile with tape. A wire connected the trigger to the clutch pedal and the revolver discharged when Steakley pressed the pedal. The choice of inner space as theme for the fiesta, Studley ex- plained, is to emphasize the in- creasing importance of ocean sciences and technology to the United States from military and economic points of view. “Because Texas A&M has one of the best schools of ocean- ography in the United States, we feel it is only fitting that A&M hold the first maor oceanographic exhibition in the Central U. S.,” Studley said. The chairman explained that such a major oceanographic con- gress will help A&M in obtaining first rate speakers and exhibits in an area hardly touched by large scale recruiting and information programs utilized by government, industry and scientific institu- tions. Industry recruitment will be encouraged in the static display area and at least one seminar period will be devoted to the specifics of career opportunities in hydrspace. Persons interested in helping with the Space Fiesta are urged to join the Great Issues Commit- tee in the Student Programs Office in the lower level of the Memorial Student Center. A prospectus is expected to be completed soon and a letter of invitation will be sent out to the principal speakers early this month. Liaison with assistance agen- cies such as the Navy Office of Information will begin later in the month. Attention Seniors A U. S. Post Office official re- ports that Texas A&M graduation announcements required 10 cents postage because they weigh more than an ounce. Competition Will Be Held In 5 Sports By LARRY JERDEN Sports Editor One of the greatest sports week- ends in the history of Aggie- land got underway Thursday with the opening rounds of the South- west Conference golf and tennis championships. The complete weekend schedule calls for a final baseball series between Texas A&M and Texas, a softball game between intra- mural teams of TU and A&M the individual golf championship, the singles and doubles tennis cham- pionships and the track and field meet. See schedule of events on page 8. The softball game is at 7 p.m. Thursday on the lighted intramural field. The two-day baseball series to decide the conference champion- ship begins at 3 p.m. Friday in Travis Park. The second game is at 2 p.m. Saturday. Texas will probably field the strongest golf team of the tourna- ment with their four league-win- ning players. Randy Geiselman, Eugene Mitchell, Mason Adkins and Dee Finley captured the SWC title for the Longhorns this year. Rice is the clear favorite in tennis after clinching its second straight conference title. John Pickens and Jim Parker will lead Rice in the tourney. Rice, A&M and Baylor will be top contenders for the track crown. The Owls have been given a slight nod by most experts on the streng- th of hurdling champion Bobby May, pole vaulter Warren Bratt- lof and their quarter and mile re- lay teams. Randy Matson will lead the Ag- gies’ charge to upset the Owls. Aggies Ted Nelson and Jim White will lead the running events and Dan Meadows will heave the javelin. Nelson is strong in the 440-yard dash and White is a 100- dash challenger. Mike Schrider won last year’s frosh high jump and is the favorite to repeat at the varsity level. Baylor’s hopes are centered a- round its mile relay team and jave- lin thrower. Ray Kayerl, Tommy Baxter, Rex Garvin and Dick Bour- land won the baton event at the Drake Relays and are considered a darkhorse. Jerry Cross is a javelin threat with a best toss of 216 feet. The Bear’s 440-yard relay team and dash men are also capable of cutting into the Rice sprint strength. Dick Bourland’s 48.4 in the 440-yard dash at the Baylor Invitational puts him among the SWC leaders. Billy Foster and Jim Bankhead star for SMU in the running events. (Foster holds conference season bests in the 100- and 220-yard dashes. Jim Bankhead is tied with A&M’s Nelson for the best time in the quarter mile. Other favorites will be Texas Tech’s miler Ronnie Davis, Arkan- sas’ James Mace in the board jump and Ken Sunderland of Tex- as in the three-mile run. Community Supper To Add Service Curb service will be an added feature of the Community Supper Thursday night at A&M Consoli- dated Schools. Patrons who prefer curb serv- ice will find it available at the north door of the gymnasium. For those who have time to sit and visit while they eat fried chicken, beans, potato chips, pick- les, bread and homemade cupcakes, tables will be provided in the gym- nasium. Drinks will be available. Tickets are $1.25 for adults anid 75 cents for students.
