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Stallings Dismissed as Aggie Coach Index Bryan College Station Texas riday Nov 26 1971 Vol No 430 Board Tight Lipped iring About Suit Expected In Dock Strike two unanswered are being DR JACK WILLIAMS when con the 57 day the Taft at 1 1 was man to man After we won the championship in 1967 I suggested a written contract to Dr Earl Rudder He said I could stay at as long as I wanted and that I need a written 7A 4B 4B 4B2A 4 A7A 4B Horosc ope Religion Sports Stocks Television Want Ads Weather CLYDE WELLS president of the nine man board of directors when contacted at his home in Granbury Mrs Butler said she did know where he could be contacted in Chicago in 1975 said that he was just a member and could not give out any other in formation prison and the remaining four just before the meeting with newsmen ended The unwalled shaped prison houses Ann Landers Bridge Comics Crossword Deaths Editorials "amily Health everyone but Stallings expected was revealed By EW CRUSE Eagle Staff Writer There was more interest in his situation than the loss to Texas at the press con ference mind talking about it You guys have got your job to do too I really know what they want I prepared the team as best I Stallings said knows the an 8 pm Williams Rahway InmatesRelease Hostages After Promise By JERRY WAGGONER Eagle Sports Editor OTHER MEMBERS of the TAMU board of directors include AP Beutel vice president Lake Jackson HC Bell Jr Austin HC Heldenfels Corpus Christi William Lewie Jr Waco Peyton McKnight Jr Tyler Peterson ort Worth and SB Whit tenburg Amarillo The five member athletic council in RAHWAY NJ (AP) again in control of Rahway State Prison after reaching a peaceful agreement with 500 rebellious inmates who held two wings of the maximum security prison for 24 hours The prisoners released their remaining five hostages bn Thanksgiving night in return for a promise of no reprisals against them They also were permitted to air their grievances to three newsmen who entered the prison Officials pledged full negotiations on the grievances A team of eight attorneys headed by State Public Defender Stanley Van Ness planned to meet with prisoners this morning Under the agreement the inmates were returned to their cells as fellow prisoners watched to ensure against possible reprisals The demands included better medical care better food prompter parole hearings and an end to alleged rac ism by white officers Gov William Cahill who sought the release of the hostages without bloodshed told newsmen relate Attica to this situation Each man that is con fronted with the situation has to make the gest decision under the in September 43 persons died when armed troopers and corrections officers broke up a rebellion at Attica State Prison in upstate New York with gunfire and tear gas The Rahway hostages included Samuel Vukcevich the prison superin tendent He was treated at Rahway Hospital for cuts apparently caused by stab wounds and injuries to the pelvis and spine Prisoners contended that Vukcevich 43 was stabbed by a prison guard who pulled a switchblade knife when fighting began Wednesday night The prisoners released a statement purportedly signed by the superintendent in which he said the inmates did not harm him and sought medical attention for him Two of the guards held hostage were seized control of two wings after a movie in the prison auditorium One prisoner Clifton Brandon said the rioting in the auditorium intensified when WASHINGTON (AP) The Justice Department said it will file suit today in 12 East and Gulf Coast port cities to force 45000 striking dock workers to return to their jobs under the Taft Hartley Act The department said the primary suit against the International Union will be filed in a New York court But since employers re fused to be considered as a single group suits for an 80 day injunction against the strike will have to be sought in other port cities as well In a letter Thursday from the Western White House in San Clemente Calif Nixon ordered Atty Gen John Mitchell to seek an injunction against strike under provisions of Hartley Act necessary papers a Justice Department spokesman said following the White House announcement civil division undoubtedly expected something like this We will be ready to move tomorrow (ri be formed begin a search for successor TATE associate athletic director was named acting athletic director 36 compiled a 27 45 1 record during seven seasons at Texas About three hours before Stallings at his usual post game press conference told a room full of newsmen that think I EYEWITNESS REPORTS See Page 2A contract It was extended five years after the 1968 Cotton Bowl he added only contract talk had with Dr Williams was before the season began He told me he thought it necessary we have a good year I asked what he considered a good year I asked five wins six wins seven wins He gave me no specific answer but said have to be a contender We played our last game today for a bowl bid think the meeting will be a good one I think tell me I can finish out my contract I have to think like the board If I were on the board have thought of See COACH page 2A 112 Pages In 3 Sections IB Cents The powers that be who decided the fate of Gene Stallings as coach of Texas University late Thursday night kept tight lipped stances early riday morning Several key figures who played im portant roles in giving the boot to Stallings after 34 14 loss to Texas Thursday refused to comment or were unavailable on two unanswered questions: What was the board vote on retaining or firing Stallings? What was the recommendation of the athletic council? THE STATEMENT READ: Stallings Texas Univer head football coach and athletic director will be relieved of all athletic responsibilities effective Dec 1 action was taken Thursday night at a special board of directors meeting attended by representatives of the administration and athletic council committee consisting of representatives of the athletic council administration and board of directors will Photoby David Landmann STALLINGS ON WAY OUT Coach Goes Down to Defeat Texas head football coach and athletic director Gene Stallings confident of his position right up to the time the switch was thrown was fired in a late hour meeting of the Texas Board of Directors Thursday night after his team had absorbed a 34 14 defeat at the hands of the University of TexasIn a terse announcement delivered to a group of patiently awaiting newsmen at 10 pjn by Jim Lindsey the director of information the news that I to restore order Early Thursday a state police spokesman told an Associated Press newsman that about 50 helmeted state police armed with shotguns were prepared to break up the riot and regain control by force Police later denied that there was ever any decision to storm the two wings ires apparently fueled by mattresses 1143 inmates 75 per cent of them black and other debris burned on and off during in its four wings The rebellious prisoners the day in the two captured wings KIND decisions are extremely difficult to Wells' said before recommending that additional information on the Stallings firing come from the athletic council chairman Wells when asked if the entire board sat in on the decision replied no and would riot confirm exactly who was there or how many members participated in the decision want to comment on he said ord Albritton Jr of Bryan a member of the board whose term expires addition to Butler is composed or Dr Earl Bennett associate dean College of Business Dr Charles Samson Jr head of Civil Engineering Dept Dr Lannes Hope associate year tenure at Texas effedtive Dec 1 That 90 word release avoided men tioning the outcome of the vote and the athletic recommendation both of which were conducted behind closed doors Officials are hospitalized with injuries that included a possible fractured arm to one Authorities said the injuries were not serious The prisoners originally took seven men hostage One was released Wednesday Vukcevich tried to take tough guy one Thursday afternoon a third before newsmen were permitted to enter the GOT ANOTHER year on my contract It was an oral contract I know people better than you signed a contract since been (writers) do see who On that he left for meeting with Dr Jack university president and athletic OD Butler Photoby David Landmann This Little Guy Didn 7 Enjoy the Game See Story Page 2A The Daily Eagle CS Where Progress is a Way of Life 46 3B 12B 2A 46 5 76 2A 1 A4 it vrt The other cities where suits are ex pected to be filed later today or on Saturday include Boston Philadelphia Alexandria Va Baltimore Augusta Miami Mobile Houston Providence RI Portland Maine The name of the 12th city in which a suit will be filed was not immediately available Die department acted on an order by President Nixon Nixon acted after a special board of inquiry reconvened at his request reported there was little chance of a quick settlement between the International Association (ILA) and shipping industry representatives ILA headquarters spokesmen were not available for comment but Ralph Massey president of the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast ILA district expressed disappointment at the decision Weather Bryan College Station Area orecast: air and a little cooler tonight and Saturday Low tonight 55 High Saturday 70 said he preferred that any further com ment on the matter come from the head of the athletic council That would be Dr OD Butler head of the Animal Science Department at TAMU and president of the athletic council According to his wife Butler is in Chicago attending the American Society of Animal Science convention He is president of that organization tacted at his home issued this terse statement when asked about the vote and the recommendation of the athletic council: have in your hands about all going to get from me this mor Williams refered to the prepared statement issued shortly after the decision was made to end seven dean College of Education and Harry Kidd assistant to the dean Graduate College Butler is also the representative to the Southwest Con ference STALLINGS WHO PLANS to wait several days before making any public comment left riday morning for his home in Paris Texas Dockers Unhappy Over Nixon Move Atlantic and Gulf Coast District of the International Longshoremen Association the government would stay out of it we feel get a contract said Raspberry president of ILA Deepsea Local 1273 are always glad to be working but the men know that this does not solve said Reuben Wheatly president of Local 872 Local ILA spokesmen said dock workers could be back on the job the morning after a federal back to work order is issued perhaps as early as today or Sunday Move Rules Out African Control Tough opposition seems certain to come from both labor party critics at home and Africans and Asians in the Com monwealth and United Nations Some commentators even forecast that the coming UN row raised the prospect of am attempt to iiripose sanctions on Britain just as the United Nations im posed sanctions against the breakaway Rhodesian regime But the government convinced that the deal is the best that can be won for five million black Africans HOUSTON (AP) Local spokesman for striking longshoremen expressed disappointment at the prospects of a fed eral back to work 'order that could be issued today President Nixon called for a Taft Hartley Act injunction Thursday to send 45000 striking longshoremen back to the docks at Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports He directed Atty Gen John Mitchell to seek an 80 day back to work order when the federal courts reopen after the Thanksgiving Day holiday just postpones the thing 80 said Ralph Massey president of the South LONDON (AP) Con servative government embarked today on an uphill campaign to win acceptance of its plan to recognize Rhodesia as an in dependent republic by next summer The deal disclosed on Thursday is not likely to give cont 1 to black majority until aruund the turn of the century but in explaining the agreement to the UN Security Council the British said this is probably the last chance to prevent the former colony from becoming appendage of South Photoby David Landmann lllm'l b111 Bik BBBi LB STILL ENJOYS Ex president and Mrs Johnson greet officials National Burial Grounds Crowded WASHINGTON (AP) Only about 9000 of the more than 55500 Vietnam war dead have been buried in national ceme teries Army officials say this is because most families of war dead prefer to bury them in hometown cemeteries with the government defraying much of the cost Although national cemeteries are gradually running out of space there still is room for the Vietnam dead There were more than 244000 unfilled gravesites as of the end of September Diplomats With New UNITED NATIONS NY (AP) A growing number of UN diplomats say they have just about had it with New York City and are hinting at a move They want no more of sniper shootings protest demonstrations sugar in gas tanks rude policemen and other woes common to the city A delegate from Ceylon Christopher Pinto said UN delegates are subject to extraordinary form of in New York tells them: your views meet with the approval of all shades of the Still there are an estimated 285 million surviving veterans of this wars and peace time service All who were discharged honorably are technically eligible for a final resting place in a national cemetery as are their' wives husbands and minor children who might die But most of these veterans will have to be buried in private cemeteries where part of the expense is borne by the government under allowances totaling up to $500 ed Up York opinion or suffer at the hands of the particular group you have York is supposed to be a swinging permissive said Pinto where is this permissiveness when it comes to giving expression to the views of the countries represented Behind the complaints is the hint of a threat to move the world organization to another country Banking is a pleasure at irst Bank Trust.