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The North Texas Daily
58TH YEAR NO. 109
NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY, DENTON. TEXAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1976
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Student Government Association (SGA) Assembly-
woman Janie Milner puts together a playpen (left)
at Tuesday's meeting to demonstrate her belief that
SGA is full of "playpen politics." Oscar Chamber-
lain, Denton senior, wears a t-shirt showing his
favorite candidate. Quincy Ollison, SGA president,
poked fun at Ms. Milner's antics saying that SGA
spent "great days and hours in the playpen."
Wets Plan Fall Petition Drive
Campaign Will Begin at Registration
By SCOTT DANIELS
Daily Reporter
Students Active in the Community
(SAC) will start a new petition drive for
a wet-dry vote in Denton beginning at
fall registration, John Taylor, SAC cam-
paign manager, said Tuesday.
Taylor said he and several other stu-
dents will spend the summer reorganiz-
ing the wet group that was unsuccessful
in calling a wet-dry election earlier this
year.
“WE KNOW what to do this time.
We know where we made our mistakes
in the first campaign," Taylor said.
A major area of concern to the organi-
zation is finances. Taylor said SAC is
still $350 in debt from the February peti-
tion drive. He said he is currently speak-
ing with area businessmen who might
contribute to the campaign.
In order to create incentive among
student workers, Taylor proposes pay-
ing 25 cents for each valid signature
that an SAC worker gets on a petition.
TAYLOR SAID the campaign ap-
proach in the fall will be different from
the first petition attempt
“We plan to involve the community
in the petition drive very early in the
campaign.” Taylor said. “We will be
more selective in choosing workers and
try to utilize our time more effectively.”
The campaign manager said SAC
plans to buy a copy of the Denton regis-
tered voter list to help insure the vali-
dity of signatures on the petition.
SAC’s last petition drive failed by 76
signature in calling for a wet-dry elec-
tion. Taylor said 1,911 signatures will
be needed to call for the vote.
“IF WE CAN gather 4,000 signa-
tures on the petition in the fall, I think
we have a good chance of having an elec-
tion,” he said.
Taylor said SAC workers will be at
the back door of the Coliseum during
fall registration to gather petition signa-
tures.
He said there are many jobs within
the organization that need to be filled.
A meeting for students interested in
working in the fall SAC campaign will
be held at 8 p.m. Thursday in Room
120 of the Temporary Union Building
(TUB).
Taylor said he is involved in the SAC
campaign for a variety of reasons.
“I don’t think that you can restrict
the sale of alcohol. I think it should be
more of a moral decision,” he said.
SAIGON (AP)— President Duong
Van “Big” Minh of South Vietnam
announced today an unconditional sur-
render to the Viet Cong.
“We are here to hand over to you the
power in order to avoid bloodshed,”
Minh said in a radio speech to the na-
tion, addressing himself to the Viet
Cong.
He ordered the Saigon army to stop
firing and remain in place.
Minh’s surrender ccme hours after
Americans left Saigoi in an armada of
81 helicopters guarded by BOO Marines.
The evacuating Americans dodged ran-
dom shots fired by bitter South Viet-
namese soldiers and fought off desperate
civilians.
VIET CONG gunners sent rockets
hurtling into Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut
airport early Wednesday as a rear guard
of American Marines was evacuated
from the rooftop of the abandoned U.S.
Embassy in downtown Saigon.
The shelling continued after dawn
and the Viet Cong claimed they had
captured the big Bien Hoa air base 15
miles north of the capital.
The United States completed evacua-
tion of about 6,500 Americans and
South Vietnamese as legislation to au-
thorize the use of U.S. troops for evacu-
ation and $327 million in humanitarian
aid for South Vietnam was withdrawn
from the House calendar late Tuesday.
President Ford called on the nation
“to close ranks, to avoid recrimination
about the past ”
When word was flashed to the White
House that Ambassador Graham Mar-
tin and the last evacuees had been airlift-
ed out of Saigon, Ford said, "This ac-
tion closes a chapter in the American ex-
perience.”
DELAYS BLAMED on bad weather,
pilot fatigue and difficult helicopter
landings stretched out the withdrawal,
which marked the end of U.S. involve-
ment in the Vietnam war.
Two Marine pilots died in the final ef-
fort when their helicopter fell into the
South China Sea.
White House Press Secretary Ron
Nessen said the operation was extended
several hours because “a lot more Viet-
SGA Balloting Closes Tonight
In Presidential Runoff Election
Today is the final day of balloting in
the Student Government Association
(SGA) presidential runoff election be-
tween Luke Davis and Clyde Lee.
Polls will be open today from 8.30
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Speech Com-
munication and Drama Mall and from
5 to 8 p.m. at Wooten Hall.
An estimated 700 votes were cast
Tuesday at the polls at the Library
Mall, according to Rey Franco, election
chairman. An estimated 1,200 votes
were cast the first day ol the April 15-16
elections, according to Steve Duyka,
chairman of the permanent Rules and
Election Committee.
Members of the campus Black Coali-
tion issued a statement Tuesday endors-
ing Lee in the runoff election because,
“Lee has been responsive to the needs
of the minority students as well as the
overall student population.”
The coalition consists of representa-
tives of all the Black organizations on
campus.
The Coalition stated its opposition to
the “political machine that has existed
and controlled the SGA for the past
three years.” The coalition feels the “po-
litical machine” is endorsed by the ad-
ministration to benefit the administra-
tion not students, according to a state-
ment issued by the Coalition.
An Ad Hoc Election Committee was
chosen by SGA President Quincy Olli-
son as the SGA Supreme Court had re-
commended.
Denton Plans for Spirit of '76
Bicentennial Committee Organizes Campus Activities
By SHEILA LUCAS
Daily Reporter
July 4, 1976, is just around the corner
and the NTSU and Denton County Bi-
centennial Committees have already
begun planning for the nation’s 200th
anniversary.
The Denton County committee re-
cently received endorsement from the
American Revolution Bicentennial
Committee as a national bicentennial
committee, and now is working in four
smaller committees on the planning
stages of the local celebration.
I)R. LARRY BOWMAN of the his-
tory faculty is chairman of the Heritage
Committee, which deals with the histori-
cal aspects of the bicentennial.
The activities of today—the actual
bicentennial celebrations—are guided
by the Festivals Committee, chaired by
Dr. J. Wingus Eberly, dean of fine arts
at TWU.
The Horizons Committee, chaired by
Denton physician Dr. Alexander Fin-
lay, deals with future goals of the Den-
ton County area.
The fourth committee, which coordi-
nates the bicentennial activities of the
smaller communities in Denton County,
is chaired by Mrs. Patricia Graham of
the music faculty.
DR. JIM B. PEARSON, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, is chair-
man of the NTSU campus effort and
Dr. Kemp P. Yarborough is chairman of
the TWU committee.
The NTSU Bicentennial Committee
includes faculty members and students
from various departments, as well as
two TWU faculty members. “We want-
ed a liaison with the TWU committee so
the committees would be coordinated
and not have overlapping programs,”
Dr. Pearson said.
Eight areas are represented on the
NTSU committee at this time, but other
departments and organizations are en-
couraged to participate in the bicen-
tennial, according to Dr. Bowman, who
is also cochairman of the NTSU Bicen-
tennial Committee.
THE COMMITTEE will meet May
12 to decide on some of the definite
programs for the celebration. They will
be working from suggestions which
committee members have submitted.
“This will just be the nucleus of the
program; things will be added later,”
said Dr. Bowman.
KNTU, the campus radio station,
plans to present a series of music of the
revolutionary period and possibly stories
of historical events and figures. The
radio station will also serve as a news
outlet for bicentennial information.
The North Texas Daily will be a me-
dium for bicentennial information.
“We basically want the paper to pro-
vide the students with information about
whal’s happening in the Denton bicen-
tennial celebration,” according to Rob
Lineback, Dallas junior, who will be
the newspaper’s fall editor.
THE DRAMA division is planning a
series of dramatic productions dedi-
cated to the bicentennial.
A series of exhibits of first editions is
being considered by the Library.
Don Schol of the art faculty is plan-
ning a photographic history of the cam-
pus to be included in his comprehensive
photographic history of Denton County.
THE MUSEUM will be the site of
military equipment and other items in-
volved with the bicentennial celebration.
The department of aerospace studies
will be of help in the bicentennial
through its ability to get various films
and slides for campus use.
The College of Education is consider-
ing a display of historical books, as well
as a series of mini-courses on the history
and development of education.
The Heritage Committee has already
begun one of its major projects. Each
Sunday since Feb. 16 it has had a histori-
cal article on the early history of Denton
County and Texas published in the Den-
ton Record-Chronicle. The committee
plans to continue these articles at least
until July 4, 1976, according to Dr.
Bowman.
HUGH LONG of Lewisville, a mem-
ber of the Heritage Committee, has
undertaken a project to locate, repair
and take a census of all the cemeteries
in Denton County. An effort will be
made to identify all unmarked grave
sites. The plan is to place copies of the
census in the County Courthouse for
those interested in geneology.
Clyde McWilliams of Little Elm is
researching and restoring the Peters
Colony, which was the first settlement
in Denton County. It was established
in the 1840s.
There is a plan to produce a map of
the historical sites in Denton County,
which would be sold at a minimal price.
The money would be used to help finance
other bicentennial projects, Dr. Bowman
said.
Dr. Bowman described the bicenten-
nial as not just a celebration of revolu-
tionary history, but a celebration of the
entire history and culture of the United
States.
He encouraged all interested people
to get involved in the bicentennial cele-
bration. "When you think about it, it
is certainly a once-in-a-lifetime experi-
ence,” he said.
namese were taken out than had been
planned.”
IN A BRIEFING, Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger rejected suggestions
that Ambassador Martin resisted this
last withdrawal. “He was in a very diffi-
cult position,” Kissinger said “He felt
a moral obligation to the people with
whom he was associated
“He attempted to save as many peo-
ple as possible. That’s not the worst
fault a man can have ”
Kissinger said the U.b. moved de-
liberately over the last few weeks to
avoid panic among the local population
and to save many of the 5,000 to 8,000
South Vietnamese thought to be in a
“high risk” category because of their
known opposition to Hanoi and the
Viet Cong
AT THE SAME time, Kissinger cred-
ited the Soviet Union with providing
“some help” in the evacuation effort.
He was not specific, saying the degree
would have to be assessed later
The rocketing of Tan Son Nhut Air-
port impelled Ford to order a final eva-
cuation. “The North Vietnamese
changed signals and we don’t know
why,” Kissinger said.
At the same news briefing, Nessen
read Ford’s statement, in which the
President said he had ordered “the re-
duction of American personnel in the
United States mission in Saigon to levels
that could be quickly evacuated during
an emergency, while enabling that mis-
sion to continue to fulfill its duties.”
“THE EVACUATION has been com-
pleted. 1 commend the personnel of the
armed forces who accomplished it, as
well as Ambassador Graham Martin
and the staff of his mission who served
so well under difficult conditions
Hours before, Secretary of Defense
James R Schlesinger sent a message of
appreciation to the members of the
U.S. armed forces saying, “Our involve-
ment was not purposeless.”
“IT WAS INTENDED to assist a
small nation to preserve its indepen-
dence in the face of external attack and
to provide at least a reasonable chance
to survive,” he said.
The proposed legislation, which had
already been approved by the Senate,
was expected to go back to a House-Sen-
ate conference committee for revision.
House Speaker Carl Albert, who or-
dered the bill off the House calendar,
said President Ford had agreed to the
delay at a meeting with congressional
leaders.
Engineer Foresees
Construction Strike
Bn ERNEST MURRAY
Daily Reporter
If a new union contract is not worked
out by Thursday, construction workers
may strike, creating a standstill in build-
ing in Denton, Dallas and Fort Worth.
John Matt Howard, resident engi-
neer, said that each union has its own
bargaining agent and all construction
workers, except electricians and brick-
layers, may go on strike. Bricklayers al-
ready have a new contract and the elec-
tricians’ contract will not expire until
July.
“If a new contract is not worked out
by Thursday, they may vote to work on
a day-to-day basis,” Howard said. “It’s
really too early to tell now, though.”
Joe Tawater, clerk of the works for
all construction on campus, said it ap-
pears that a new contract will not be
worked out and the workers will strike.
"The plumbers have the biggest de-
mands," Tawater said. “They want a
$2-an-hour pay increase and health and
welfare benefits.”
He said, however, that most of the
plumbing work had been finished in the
Union Building and if workers do not
picket, construction could go on as
planned.
One worker said the construction
workers met Monday night and did not
make any definite decisions anu mat
they would have another meeting today.
Most workers said they were not sure
whether they would strike and wouldn’t
know until Thursday.
New Walks
To Replace
Old Paths
As new sidewalks stretch out from
the Union Building (UB) in all direc-
tions, the older walkways will be closed
while workmen begin reworking them.
Workmen have begun laying the
walks on the south side of the Adminis-
tration Building between the UB and In-
formation Sciences Building and must
temporarily barricade the southeast
door of the Administration Building,
John Matt Howard, resident engineer,
said.
However, walks have been completed
leading to the UB from the Information
Sciences, Business Administration and
Journalism buildings. The west en-
trances facing Avenue A and the dock
afCa afC Still CiOSCd tC the public.
Newscaps
Justin Wilson To Appear in Auditorium May 5
An appearance by Justin Wilson, the Cajun storyteller, will be May 5 at 8
p.m. in the Main Auditorium, not May 3, as reported last week
The show is sponsored by Amigos de las Americas, a nonprofit volunteer or-
ganization. Tickets are $2 for students and $4 for nonstudents.
Mrs. Doris Laing at 788-2445 has ticket information
Women's Center To Relocate, Limit Operation
The Women’s Center will move to the Dean of Student’s Office for the sum-
mer and operate on a limited basis, according to Margot Raskin, director of
the center.
Five noncrcdit mini-courses will be offered this summer through the center.
“Belly Dancing,” “Assertive Training," “Newly Single” and “For the Wo-
men Over 25” will be offered for $1 per session.
“Consciousness-Raising” for men and women will be offered at no cost. In-
terested persons may call the Women’s Center at 788-2456 before the end of
the semester or at 788-2030 after June 1.
'Green Fuse' Accepts Staff Applications Today
The editorial board of the Green Fuse will be accepting applications for
1975-1976 staff positions today through Monday.
The positions open are editor-in-chief, art editor, publicity and format edi-
tor and staff editors. Applications and job descriptions are available in the
main office of the Art Building, the main office of the Journalism Building,
Room 110 of the Auditorium Building and Suite 409 of the Language Build-
ing.
None of the positions is paid.
Students Must Request Refunds by July 15
Students who do not plan to live in resident halls in the fall have until July
15 to request a refund on their room deposits.
To obtain refunds, students should send a written request including their
names, social security numbers and addresses to the Housing OfTice in Terrill
Hal! before July 15, said Jim Peterson, assistant director of housing.
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