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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPage 01 Vol. 95 - No. 69 Since 187& Bryan.Cullege Station. Texas BEIRUT. Lebanon (<\P) - Jordanian troops supported by a I' till e r y and warplanes launched a drive in northern Jordan today and drove invad- ers from Syria out of the coun- try, Amman radio said. A communique from Jordan's military governor, Field Mar- shal Habis Majali said the Syri- an withdrawal began at noon "and by 2: 15 p.m the last Syri- an soldier left Jordanian soil." 1':= j'News I. II Briefs Livin~ Costs Rise WASHINGTON (AP) - Living costs rose two-tenths of one per lent in August for the smallest monthly rite in 20 months, the government reported today. The report, by the Labor Department, was good news for President Nixon and his economists who have been insisting their economic policies were beginning to slow the nation's worst inflation in 20 years. Mideast Strike JERUSALEM (AP) - Arab mer- chants in Jerusalem closed their doors today in a solidarity strike with Palestinians in Jordan. The stnke, against what they called the "tyranical monarch in Jordan." reportedly clos~d more than 90 per cent of occupied East Jerusalem's shop. Deactivated DA NANG (AP) - The headquarters of a five-year-old U.S. Marine pacification program in South Vietnam's five northernmost provinces ',vas for. mally deactivated in a brief ceremony today. Terrorists .'>ArGON (\P) The FUI'elgo Ministry has told the Internattonal Control Commission that the North Vietnamese killed 148 civilians last' month in numerous acts of terrorism and sabotage. The protest made pUblic today also claimed 471 persons were wounded and 164 kidnaped by sabOteurs during August. Inquest LONDON (AP) - The inquest in the death of American pop guitarist JIOn Hendrix was adjourned today until next Wednesday for a pathologist's final decision on the cause. Quakes LOS ANGELES (AP) - Four ear. thquakes, all coming within an honr, jostled the Los Angeles ~rea to.1ay. None was strong enough to cause significant damage, a spokesman at the California Institute of Technol'igy seismology laboratory said. All of the temors were centered in the Inglewood. Torrance area, the spokesman added. Balloon NEW YORK (AP) - The Coast Guard today added seven aIrcraft to the search force combing rhoppy seas off Newfoundland for three adventuf>':rs who disappeared Monday while trJmg to cross the Atlantic in a balloon. Luna 16 MOSCOW (AP) - The Soviet Unian's Luna 16 rocket and its cargo of moen rocks wiII land Thursday in the cellt~'ll Asian republic of Kazakhstan, Tass said today. The official Soviet news agency report ended speculation that the ror.ket might splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Arms Aid WASHINGTON (AP) Pr<:!sident Nixon has okayed renewal of fullscale U.S. arms aid to Greece despite some continuing criticism of Athens' military regime both here and abroad. {;ooler Bo'an-College Station Are.a Foreast: Decreasing cloudiness and cooler this afternoon and tonight. Fair and a little warmer Thursday. Thursday: Sunrise 7:15 "a. m. Sunset 7:20 p m. Temperature: To noon today, low 66 degrees at 8:01. a. m.: high 75 degrees at Mid. High Tuesday (fray). 89 degrees: low 75 degrees. . Rainfall: For the p..1 24 hours endmg today. .14: lotal this week. .30; total this month. 8.18: total this year. 14.78. Win~ velocity: From the !I.,V at 12.17 miles per hour. Relative humidity; 92 per cent. Barometric pressure: 29.53 and rising. * . '* I N D E X Bridge .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . fiC Comics ....... ........... 7B Crossword ................ 6B Deaths . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 6A Editorial .................. 6B Family.................. 1-5B Horoscope ................ 3A Spot ...................... lOA Sports . . . ... . .. . . .. ... . .. 1-5C Stocks . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6A Television ................ lOA Want Ads ................ 7-9A Weather Elsewhere ...... 6A He said Jordanian forces \\ere in complete control of Irbid, the country's second largest city 50 miles north of Amman, and Ramtha, 10 miles east of Irbi;j. If true, this would lessen the pr.ssibility of U.S. intervention. It \ras the invasion from Syria on Sunday that touched off t('~ that the Americans might inter- vene. King Hussein of Jordan saJd in Amman Tuesday "I do not ~ ., expect military intervention at this time" and that his force had commarrd of the situation. As fierce fighting went into it~ seventh day in Amman, thp .Jor. danian capital, Hussein and the captured No.2 man of the guer- rilla movement announced a four-point agreement to end the conflict. The Central Committee of the Palestine resistance movement, ho\\ever. reJected the plan It announced in a broadcast from Iraq that it would fight to the last man. There was no mention of HIp. guerrillas' NO.1 boss. YaSir Ar- atat. head of AI Fatilh as well as the Palestine Liberation Or- ganization, which jnclud{'~ 10 other guerrilla grr.ups. Arafat said Tuesday night that he could never again lIe- gotiate a cease-fire with thp .Ior- danian government because '20.000 dead and \\Ounded ,me. a sea of blood separate liS 11'0111 them." AGLE Wednesday, September 23. 197'0 The agreement was reIJd first by Hussein, then by Ayad. Un- der the pact: -Guerrillas wlluld move flleir bases from the cities to the front with Israel. When the_ guerrillas begin movmg. the army will return to its nllrmal positions. -The' Palestine Liberati,m Organization would be the sole representative of the Palestini- 26 Pages in Three Sections 10 Cents Jordanians Drive Syrian Invaders Out of Country an people in dealing with the Jordanian authorities. -Guerrilla bases would be banned in Amman or any other town and restricted to the front with Israel. -AU Jordanian laws and reg- ulations would appiy to the guerrillas, and they WJuld have to pledge to respect them. Hussein said he respected the guerrilla movement but it "should be devoted to the Iiber- a tion of occupied land." Abu Ayad, co-founder wih AI" afat of AI Fatah and command- er of the group'S military arm, said he and other captured guerrilla leaders approved of the terms and he called on all commandos to begin pulling out of Amman when the curfew on the capital is lifted. The 24- hour-a-day curfew was imposed last Thursday in the early hours of the civil war. was later IiIted and was reimposed Tuesday aft- er new fighting broke out. CS Wins Class Action Suit Zubik Sets Meet As Critics Jab B" DAVE MAYES E'agle City Editor After being labeled the cause of the fuming city-schools controversy and accused of delaying a vote on the elected school board issue. Bryan Mayor Jerome (Jack) Zubik Tuesday said he would make an announcement on the elec- tion when city commissioners met with school trustees Oct. 1. In a prepared statement read by Commissioner Joe Faulk, who was serving as "mayor fnr the night" at the commission meeting, Zubik said the ioii!t session was bemg set to ~aU an election on whether t!:e schools should be separated from the city. He added that a press con- ference would be held after tlle session, which is due to begin at 10 a.m. in the commission room Ilf city hall. The petition requesting ttle separation election was cert;f1ed to the city commission Monday by the schOOl board. The trustees then had asked that the joint meeting, which is required by law, be held Oct. 2 but Zubik said TueSday this date would not be suitable. The other petition. r~questing that trustees be elected withuut separation, was certified to the mayor Sept. 10 by the city at- torney. Since then, the mayor, who along with three olller com missioners favors sepan'iing the schools from the citv: 11'~ said he has bern b~'H:l~ himself on "possible legal PII_ tanglements" involved in ilp proval of the elected trw;Il'E' proposal. Zubik'.s "procrastination' In ca J I i n g an election \\.as criticized by three supporters of the elected trustee proposal, which is also favored by most school board members, 10 the applause of about 50 in the audience Dr. Robert H. Benbow. one of the leaders of the petition drive, said he was speaking for the 1,600 signers in asking whv an pleetiOll has noL been ('alied '.Th..s election should be called immediately," Benbow said, "to end the turmoil and confusion that we're now ex- periencing. "Further procrastination," he said, "would be detrimental to (See ZUBIK, Page 6A) V.F. Fund Drive Gets Off Ground By BOB ROBINSON Eagle taff Writer Hum 0 l' and enthusiasm marked the United Fund kick- off coffee this morning at the Memorial Student Center on the Texas A&M campus. Joe G. Hanover, fund drive chairman, opened with thE! introduction of area com. m i t tee men and the an. nouncement that 'today is the day we start cranking the machinery into operation." The actual drive will only last one week, starting Oct. 4, he said, but a lot of work needs to be done. Hanover introduced speakers rf:presenting different areas to be covered, as well as special guest speaker, Texas A&M a e tin g presrdent A. R. Luedecke. Luedecke said he applauded the decision to handle the drive ~ IIJI)II 1'...."llli.I!~II';, 'ill , " : I, ~ , I ! III. I ',Willll>' ili: 11111111111 Ilil I ~ r i, in the manner projected. "This year, the role played by the university is slightly different," he said. "The op- portunity is provided for any individual to make donations to College Station or Bryan Funds or if not specified, to divide them according to each area's goal. " County Judge William R. Vance said a community is measured in many ways, but the way an outsider measures a community is in the manner in which it supports worthy endeavors. C 0 u n c i I man Clifford H. Ransdell, speaking for Mayor D. A. (Andy) Anderson, said there had to be some reason why former Aggies and former Bryan-College Station resident~ returned to the community to live, and that reason was that (See KICK-OFF, Page 6A) ~ '. .If 11',j Rigged to Jump Riggers of the 82nd Airborne Div., gi\~ a final check to the rigging holding a % ton truck to its' jump platform. The 82nd is one of the units on Southern Governors Chairman of the Southern Governors Conference Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas at left gf;'stures as he talks to a newsman before the opening ses- sion on the second day of the governors con- Reports Former astronaut Frank Bor- nan reports to a joint session 0' Congress on his recent \\Orld tour on behalf of Pres i- d!l1t Nixon to try to gain free- d,lm of American prisoners of \\Ilf in Southeast Asia. See SlJry Page 7A (AP Wirephoto) alert for movenent to the middle east. (AP) Wirephoto) By KATE THO~fAS Eagle Staff WrIter Judge W. C. (Bill) Davis of the 85th District Court tOday ruled in favor of the City of College Station in its class action suit and request for a declatory judgement. The judge ruled that members of the faculty, staff and other employes of Texas A&M University are not "officers. agents or appointees" of the state within the meaning of the Article 16. Sect. 33 of the state constitution. He held that A&M employes are not barred from holding elective or non-elective offices in the City of College Station so long as they receive no pay and are entitled to receive their salaries as employes of A&M. In the event that it should be held the constitutional sec- tion does apply to A&l\f em- ployes. Judge Davis ruled the section unconsititutional and in violation of the first and 14th amendments to the U.S. Con- stitution. Such a broad cunstruci;on of the Texas Con~titution would result in disrrim;nCllion and disQ':IalifiC'atio:iQ~ nprSOI1~ I 0 speklng non' 19 mUI, offke, as WOI .1E';1 p<, rights HS il \ cii ".en, the iurlge reilSlinL . . He held the ch ..." a right (0 maintain an action for a declaratory judgment pleas in abatement entered by chief defendant A. P. Boyett and the a t tor n e Y general were (See CS WINS, Page GA) ference. At his left is Georgia Governor Lester Maddox. The Governors succeeded in putting the Conference on record against busing scho(ll child. ren for purposes of integration. (AP Wirephoto) Leaders Try to Avert Strike Against Rails WASHrNGTON (AP) - The Nixon administration worked to. day to head off a midnight na- tionwrde railroad strike, but there were signs the govern- m~nt was pondering whether the nation could stand a rail shutdown. Labor Department officials reported very little progress to- ward settling the long dispute over eliminating locomotive firemen's jobs, and the govern- ment prepared to authorize emergency bus and truck serv- ice in the event of a rail strike. The strike has been called for 12:01 a.m. Thursday. President Nixon already. has exhausted all strike-delaying provisions of federal labor law. "If it keeps on we may have to be faced with a nationwide railroad strike," said Assistant Secretary of Labor W. J. Usery, working on the nation's fourth national rail labor crisis this year. Usery, in an interview, hinted that although the government must exert every effort to avoi'd it, a nationwide rail strike might not be as catastrophic as federal officials have said. There have been only three n3tionwide rail strikes in nearly half a century, with either the White House or Congress step- ping in to prevent others. "This day and time We are now beginning to look upon it as this - years ago we did not have airlines, we did not have trucking as we have it today. And if it keeps on we may have to be faced with a nationwide railroad strike even though ev- erything should be done to pre- vent that. . ." Usery said. Interstate Commerce Com- mission Chairman George M. Stafford announced his agency wiII issue emergency authority to truck and bus lines to haul passengers and freight if there is a rail strike. Sources in the trucking indus- try indicated it could pick up a considerable amount of the slack in shipments if there were a rail strike because generally depressed economic conditions have idled many trucks. Nixon has intervened three times this year under the Rail- way Labor Act to impose GO-day strike delays. His only recourse in the current dispute would be to ask Congress for a special law. Congress has stepped in with emergency laws in three similar cases in the past seven years. A special arbitration board ruled in 1963 the railroads could eliminate 90 per cent of the fire- men on diesel yard and freight engines, with severance pay. Nixon's Campus Request Wins Congressional Favor ,1 WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- dent Nixon's request for author- ity to send the FBI onto earn. puses hit by bombings and ar- son is getting prompt and fa. vorable action in Congress. Rep. Emanuel CelieI', D-N.Y., chairman of the House Judi- ciary Committee, said the provi- sion would be a'dded to an omni- buf' crime bill on which the pan- el is putting. finishing touches. Nixon outlined his request Twsday to Republican congres- sional leaders at a White House conference attended by Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. In ad-dition to seeking expand- ed federal authority to intervene in campus bombings, Nixon wants the FBI's strength boost- ed from 7,000 to 8,000 men to help bombing investigations and also to deal with airplane hi. jacking. The extra agents would cost $23 million a year. The administration's latest move to meet the bomb threat \\ as announced by GOP lea'ders Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michl- g<ln and Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania after the White House meeting. The use of the two Republican lpaders to announce Nixon's re- quest aroused the wrath of Celi- eI'. who has been driving his committee long and hard in the past two weeks to get out a big crime bill Nixon has accused him Of blocking. "Why not communicate die rectly with the chairman in. stead of going only through Re- pub lie a n s'?" asked CelIeI'. "That's a hell of a way to get something out of a committee." The administration sees law and order as a top issue in the coming congressional elections ar:c] would Iik~ to keep a GOP stand on any tough anti bomb legislation. The omnibus crime biB already includes an admin- istration-backed pro, ision call. ing for the death penalty for any- one convicted of a fatal bomb. ing. Celler's agreement to go along with Nixon's request de- spite his unhappiness at the way he received it indicates the strength of the law-and-oraer IS- sue in Congress. FIRST BANK & TRUST-NUM. BER ONE FOR A REASON.