The North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 67, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1972 Page: 1 of 6
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Larry Page, who was a pos-
sibility for the 1968 Olympic
Games, is on campus for a
month to work with blind
students Page and a twin
brother both were blinded
by a birth defect
Page Proves
He Can Beat
Lack of Sight
By SHELDON BOLDEN
Daily Reporter
It was Aug. 29, I968, that Larry Page
woke up totally blind in his University of
Texas at El Paso dormitory. He had been a
candidate for the 1968 Olympics.
Page, of Houston, hasn't let his blindness
stop him. He turned his life in a different
direction and became the first black reha-
bilitation teacher for the blind in Texas
PAGE HAS come to North Texas for a
month to work with Franklin Johnson,
rehabilitation counselor for the blind, on
a training program to familiarize himself
with the policies of the State Commission
for the Blind
Page went to UT-El Paso on an athletic
scholarship from Detroit, Mich He was
to have run in September of 1968 with such
outstanding athletes as Tommy Smith of
San Jose and Bob Beaman of Texas South-
ern. That year, Smith broke the world
record in the 220-meter run and Beaman
set a new longjump record.
Page was to have run the half mile.
During his running years Page was
awarded 37 trophies and 42 medals. He
was also the national junior college cham-
pion and state champion for three years.
“AFTER I LOST my eyesight,” Page
said, “my athletic scholarship was forfeited
I was then picked up by the State Com-
mission for the Blind.
“When 1 was 16, the doctor told me that
I would lose my eyesight within 10 years,”
Page said “My twin brother has lost his
eyesight earlier, a result of a birth defect.”
Page started losing his eyesight while
attending a three-day group therapy pro-
gram in Mexico with other college students.
“I WAS GIVEN an exam in class but I
returned the test to my teacher and told
her she gave me a blank sheet of paper,”
he said “She told me it wasn’t a blank
sheet of paper .”
The next day, Page woke up blind
Page now attends Texas Southern in
Houston where he is working on his mas-
ter’s degree in counseling and guidance.
Page is the first totally blind student at
TSU. He works with Model Cities program
in Houston where he is the counselor and
office manager
BEING THE first black rehabilitation
teacher for the blind in Texas, Page works
mainly in the black ghetto areas and with
chicanos.
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity will assist
Page while he is here at North Texas with
his readings and work as a service project
for the blind
The North Texas Daily
55TH YEAR NO 67 NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY. DENTON, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1972
EAC, RAP
To Enlist
Volunteers
Students who have expressed concern
for environmental issues will have a chance
to pledge their efforts to a campus recycling
center today at 4 p m in Room 302 of the
Union Building.
The Environmental Action Coalition
(FAC) and the Reaction Against Pollution
(RAP) will hold a joint meeting to enlist
volunteers to aid in the operation of the
proposed recycling center.
PLANS FOR the center, to be at Fouls
Field, are being carried forward success-
fully, said Carlton Flowers, Denton junior
and FAC director, but he fears that "stu-
dent support might become a stumbling
block ."
Conferences with city officials have been
"very promising,” Flowers said. City offi-
cials have pledged to aid the project and
have offered several constructive sugges-
tions, he said.
The Denton Chamber of Commerce has
expressed support for the planned com
pound and intends to "communicate the
idea to its members,” Flowers said.
Musical Chairs
For most North Texas music students, Wednesday
morning was one of the most coveted times of the year —
a time that ranks only with passing music barriers The
students lined up through the Music Building before 8
a m to fight it out for practice room assignments By
9:30, these few souls had decided it was just a matter of
time
VC To Negotiate
If Thieu Resigns
SAIGON (AP) The Viet Cong said
Wednesday it could begin immediate dis-
dussions with the Saigon government
toward a political solution of the war if
President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned
now and the United States set a troop with-
drawal deadline.
In calling for Thieu's immediate resigna-
tion, a National Liberation Front radio
broadcast said, “Thieu and his oppressive
machinery, instruments of the U.S. Viet-
namization plan," are the “main obstacle”
to a political solution.
IT SAID the United States, by setting a
date for the complete withdrawal of all
allied forces and giving up all United States
bases, could win freedom for the American
pilots held in North Vietnam.
The broadcast called these demands
"the two key points” of the National Liber-
ation Front’s seven-point plan for ending
the war. The front is the Viet Cong's po-
litical arm.
The broadcast said that once these
requirements were met. the Viet Cong's
provisional revolutionary government
(PRGl would be ready to discuss establish-
ment of a "national reconciliatory govern-
ment" to organize elections and an "official
government" for South Viet am. "I! the
two said conditions could be agreed upon,
the other problems could be solved easily,
the broadcast said
THE EIGH I -POINT allied peace pro-
posal disclosed by President Nixon a week
ago included a provision that Thieu would
resign a month ahead of an election, with
a caretaker government to serve in the
interim.
It did not provide, however, for any
dismantling of the government machinery
now rule out Thieu as a candidate in the
election.
Various Communist broadcasts and
statements have indicated that this is the
most objectionable portion of the proposed
political solution, saying this would be only
a repeat of last October's one-man election
in which Thieu won a second four-year
term
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Draft Lottery Puts March 6, 7 First,
Gives Safest '73 Spot to July 23
WASHINGTON (AP) By rare coincidence, March 6 drew No. I in
Wednesday’s draft lottery, and the following dav, March 7 drew No. 2, put-
ting men born those days in 1953 first in line for next year's call up.
In the safest spot with the highest numbers were those born July 23 with
No. 365 and Sept. 9 with No. 364. But dralt officials expect draftabie num-
bers to fall far below the 125 oflast year.
Gov. Smith To Transfer Tax Funds
For Political Party Primaries Use
AUSTIN (AP) Gov Preston Smith, heartened by a new federal court
order, said Wednesday he would transfer tax funds for use in financing polit-
ical party primaries.
Comptroller Robert S Calvert and Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin stood as
the only possible roadblocks to Smith's precedent-breaking plan, and Smith's
aides already were planning an end run around them.
Uvalde Rancher Briscoe To File
As Candidate for Governor Today
AUSTIN (AP) Uvalde businessman and rancher Dolph Briscoe said
Wednesday he will file Thursday as a candidate for governor in the Demo-
cratic Party primary .
Briscoe said he would be available for questions after he files at I I a m
at state party headquarters.
Business Office Distributes Checks
For 1972-73 Scholarship Recipients
The North Texas State Scholarship checks for the I972-73 academic year
are now available at the cashier window in the business office. Dr Hugh M
Ayer, chairman of the university scholarship committee, said recently .
Scholarships were awarded to 160 students on the basis of financial needs
IFC Elects Cromwell President,
Fills Four Other Offices
Noels C romwell, Austin senior and member of Delta Sigma Phi, has been
elected president of the Interfraternity Council (IFC) for the current semester.
Four other offices have also been filled Bill Fair, Odessa senior, Kappa
Alpha, was elected vice-president Ralph Manoushagian, Bridgeport senior,
Lambda Chi Alpha, was elected secretary. I ce Prince, Great Neck, N Y.,
junior, Sigma Alpha Mu, was elected treasurer Prince served as secretary of
the IFC last semester
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Kitty Carlisle
To Lecture
Tonight
Actress Kitty Carlisle will speak in the
Music Recital Hall tonight at 8:15 for a
Fine Arts Series lecture entitled “First Per-
son Singular.” Friday at 9 a m. she will give
an informal talk and hold a question and
answer session in the University Theatre.
A reception will be held in the Green
Room of the Speech and Drama Building
following Miss Carlisle's talk No admis-
sion will be charged to either function and
all students and faculty are invited to attend
FOLLOWING MISS Carlisle's profes-
sional debut in New York's Capital Theater
in a condensed version of the musical “Rio
Rita," she appeared in several stage and
screen productions,
ON NEW Year’s Eve, 1967, Miss Car-
lisle joined the Metropolitan Opera as
Prince Orlofsky in "Fledermaus," singing
with the Metropolitan throughout the win-
ter In the spring she appeared in concert
with Maestro Eugene Ormandy at the
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
16 Nations To Attend
Festival Invites
University Quartet
m
The School of Music has been invited to
send a quartet of singers to participate in
the Third International University Choral
Festival scheduled April 15-30 in Washing-
ton, D. C. and New York City.
Frank McKinley, director of choral
activities, will be a contributing conductor
of the festival The selected quartet of so-
prano Kris Reid, Oklahoma City senior;
alto Becky James, Monahans graduate
student; tenor Robert Austin, Denton grad-
uate student, and bass Lynn Christie, Lub-
bock sophomore; will be a part of a 40-
voice “national chorus” drawn from 10
university choruses in various parts of the
country.
The national chorus, directed by Thomas
Hilbish of the University of Michigan, will
combine with choirs from 15 foreign coun-
tries to perform at the Kennedy Center and
at Lincoln Center.
THE ENTIRE festival ensemble, direct-
ed by Robert Shaw, will also be received
at the White House and the United Nations.
As a contributing conductor of the Uni-
ted States Universities Chorus, McKinley
will oversee the preparations for the festi-
val of the quartet chosen from North Texas
He will also be in Washington and New
York City April 20-30 when the festival
choruses will perform individually and in
ensemble
“This will be a wonderful opportunity
for everybody involved," McKinley said
“The conductors of the choirs involved will
attend rehearsals, receptions and seminars
in which we’ll be discussing common goals
and problems, literature composers and
techniques"
ON APRIL 15, the choirs will meet at
the Kennedy Center in Washington and
begin rehearsals in preparation for perfor-
mances April 22 at the center and April
23 at the Lincoln Center in New York
They will be received at the White House on
April 21. The final performance of the
entire festival ensemble will be April 30 at
the Lincoln Center
Choirs from each country will present
concerts on assigned days throughout the
festival The United States representatives
will perform April 28
“This invitation is a real compliment to
North Texas State, the School of Music,
and to the reputation of the university
choirs,” McKinley said “We are greatly
honored to have an opportunity like this"
THE. 15 countries that will be represen-
ted at the festival along with the United
States arc Argentina, Brazil, Czechoslo-
vakia, Denmark, England, France, West
Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Po-
land, Uganda, India, Japan Korea and
New Zealand
The festival is privately financed by con
tributions to the Lincoln Center Fund
While the singers are in New York their
expenses will be paid by Lincoln Center
The university will pay round trip expenses
for the students
Panel OKs
Financing
Of Primaries
DALLAS (AP) A federal court that
threw out Texas's system of using filing
fees to pay for party primary elections
Wednesday amended its order to allow the
state to shoulder the expense
The three-judge panel granted an amend-
ment to its Jan 20 ruling sought b\ Bob
Bullock, Texas Secretary of State
“IHF ''Li RFIaKN of state is likewise
hereby authorized to make such rules and
regulations and to take such action as mav
be necessary to effectuate this order and for
the uniform operation of primary elec-
tions" the amendment read
Bullock had told the court in his motion
that since “candidates can no longer be
compelled to contribute the lull cost of the
primary election, it is essential that the
state provide financing for the remainder of
the cost of the primary elections ”
The order was signed bv U S Circuit
Court Judge Homer Thornberry and U S
Dist Court Judges Sarah T Hughes and
W illiam M Taylor Jr
IN ITS original order, the court ruled
unconstitutional a state law which allowed
political parties to levy filing fees on candi-
dates for office of up to four per cent of the
salarv for the position sought
The money collected by the parties was to
be used to pay the expense of conducting the
primary elections
The federal action attacking the filing fee
system was brought by Rick Johnston, a
candidate for lustice of the peace
JOHNSON ''AID he would have been
required to pay a filing fee of S3,456, based
on the $2 1,600 annual salary of the post
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