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Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1967 Number 462
Col. Jim H. McCoy has been
named commandant of Texas
A&M’s 3,000-man Corps of Ca
dets, announced A&M President
Earl Rudder.
Rudder said McCoy, a 1940
graduate of Texas A&M, will as
sume his new position immedi
ately, succeeding Col. D. L. Bak
er who retired last spring after
30 years of military service.
McCoy will also serve as pro
fessor of military science.
Prior to his assignment to
Texas A&M, McCoy was deputy
director of plans in the office of
the Deputy Chief of Staff for
Logistics, Washington, D. C.
The 27-year veteran previous
ly served in Europe, Japan, the
Far East, Puerto Rico and Ko
rea. He commanded an infantry
battalion during World War II.
Colonel McCoy is a graduate
of the Command and General
Staff College, Armed Forces
Staff College and the Armed
Forces Industrial College. His
military decorations include the
Silver Star, Legion of Merit,
Bronze Star and Combat Infan
try Badge.
McCoy, 51, is a native of Eddy,
Tex., but currently lists his home
town as Mart. He graduated
from Bruceville - Eddy High
School in 1935, from John Tarle-
ton College in 1938 and Texas
A&M in 1940.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. McCoy of Midland and is
married to the former Miss Dor
othy Nettles of Mart. They have
two sons, James, 24, and Donald,
18.
PRESIDENT EARL RUDDER
President Greets
Incoming ‘Fish’
It is a sincere pleasure to welcome you to Texas A&M
University, the state’s oldest public institution of higher
learning. This institution will play an increasingly im
portant role in the advancement of higher education in
Texas.
You will be impressed with the environment which
exists on this campus. Such an environment has been
created by an outstanding faculty and staff, by an inspired
student body, by fine teaching and research facilities, and
by educational programs of the highest calibre. Your
acceptance into A&M indicates that you have the capability
to contribute in a meaningful way to this environment for
learning. Your attitude, your diligent effort and your
every action can be of lasting benefit to yourself and will
contribute also to the enhancement of the University.
The difference in outstanding success, mediocrity or
failure for the student is determined largely by the stu
dent. The scholastic record you achieve will be the basic
standard by which success is measured. This record will
begin your FIRST DAY on campus and will follow you
throughout life. We hope that you will accept scholastic
achievement as your primary mission while at Texas A&M.
We place great confidence in the A&M Class of 1971.
You have our best wishes for success and for an except-
tionally challenging educational career at Texas A&M Uni
versity. We commend you for selecting Texas A&M for
the attainment of your educational objectives.
Fall Semester To Kick Off
With A Full Weekend Slate
Humphrey Plans To Visit Postal Services To Be Curtailed
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A&M’s Galveston Facilities
Vice President Hubert Humph
rey’s whirlwind tour of Galves
ton Friday is expected to include
visits to Texas A&M’s Marine
Laboratory and Texas Maritime
Academy, A&M President Earl
Rudder has announced.
Rudder said the Vice President
is scheduled to arrive at A&M’s
oceanographic facilities about 11
a.m. after a helicopter tour of
the Galveston area.
Plans call for Humphrey to
tour the Marine Laboratory and
possibly go aboard the "Ala-
minos,” the university’s oceano
graphic research vessel which
will have just returned from a
three-week cruise in the Yucatan
Straits.
His visit to the Texas Maritime
Academy, a division of Texas
A&M, is expected to be brief, in
that the TMA cadets and most of
the staff are currently on a 10-
week South American cruise
aboard the “Texas Clipper,” the
university’s other major vessel.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates.
Vice President Humphrey’s in
spection of the oceanographic fa
cilities at Galveston is being con
ducted in connection with his po
sition as chairman of the Nation
al Council on Marine Resources
and Engineering Development.
In addition to Rudder, A&M
officials accompanying Vice
President Hump'hrey on the tour
include Geosciences Dean Horace
Byers and Dr. Richard A. Geyer,
head of the Oceanography De
partment.
Congressman Jack Brooks of
the 9th Congressional District is
coordinating the Vice President’s
overall Texas trip, with County
Judge Ray Holbrook, A&M grad
uate, handling the Galveston
visit.
A&M’s Marine Laboratory is
engaged in various phases of re
search in marine biology. One of
its principal projects is the study
of water pollution as it affects
the poisoning of oysters and
shrimp.
The Texas Maritime Academy,
established in 1962, is the newest
of the five institutions of its type
-Adv. in the nation. It offers a four-
What’s In It
For Me?
This is the annual “Freshman Edition” of The Batta
lion. This edition is designed to give the incoming fresh
man and his parents a better insight into the history,
traditions, scope, facilities and academic quality of Texas
A&M.
Many new students find it helpful to keep this issue
of “The Batt” and bring it with them in September to
help with the big job of getting acquainted with the
campus.
■ Studertts enjoy a “double shot” of entertainment
as the Memorial Student Center gives “The Kind of
Party You Like.” See page 8, section 1.
■ The Aggies are picked for third place in the
Southwest Conference football race this fall. See a
run-down on how each of the Aggies’ opponents shape-
up for this season. See page 4, section 2.
■ The World’s Largest Bonfire” is the symbol of
the ever-burning Aggie Spirit. Each year Aggies con
struct the bonfire the week before the game with Texas
and ignite it during a pre-game yell practice. See pages
4-5, section 3.
year college course of instruction
leading to B.S. degrees in marine
transportation or marine engi
neering.
Summer Students
Asked To Move
All summer session students
living in air-conditioned univer
sity dormitories are requested to
remove their belongings from the
buildings at the conclusion of the
summer session to make way for
guests of the American Institute
of Biological Sciences, according
to Bennie Zinn, director of stu
dent affairs.
More than 4,000 are expected
to attend the conference from all
over the United States and some
foreign countries. The confer
ence is scheduled Aug. 27-Sept. 1.
“We consider this a great op
portunity to allow many people
to learn much about A&M and
its programs,” said Zinn.
Ernest Gregg, College Station
postmaster, announced today that
beginning Saturday, August 12,
1967 window services at the Col
lege Station office will be cur
tailed.
This new policy is in conformi
ty with those of the banks, sav
ings and loan associations and
city and county offices.
The Post Office has its labor
problems, as other businesses, in
that the 89th Session of Congress
passed a law that any regular
employee that worked on Satur
day or Sunday must work a full
eight-hour day. This has created
a problem as the service windows
remain open only four hours on
Saturdays.
All other mail services, such as
delivery of mail by carriers, mail
placed in post office boxes and
the dispatch of mail will continue
as usual, Gregg said. “This ven
ture will enable this office to give
more efficient service Mondays
through Fridays, as we will have
experienced clerks at the service
counters every day during the
week.”
The office will remain open on
Saturday, August 5th as usual.
There are two stamp vending
Town Hall Is Slated To Open
With Jazz Trumpeter A1 Hirt
Jazz trumpeter A1 Hirt, “King
of the Trumpeters,” will open the
1967-68 Town Hall Series at Tex
as A&M with a Sept. 15 perform
ance in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Robert Gonzales, chairman of
the A&M Memorial Student Cen
ter’s Town Hall Committee, not
ed that a capacity crowd is an
ticipated since the event is set
the night before A&M clashes
with SMU in the Southwest Con
ference football opener.
Hirt, who played to a packed
house here two years ago, is
booked for 8 p.m. The jolly 300-
pounder’s first gold record was
“Java,” but he has added a dou
ble handful since then, including
“Honey in the Horn” and “Su
gar Lips.”
The 1967-68 series, Gonzales
explained, will include three fall
and two spring presentations,
with three extras. Current plans
machines in the lobby of the
main post office and one in the
lobby at South Station in the
Memorial Student Center. Any
number or amount of stamps may
be purchased at any hour of day
or night as long as the patron
has the correct change in nickels,
dimes, or quarters.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
Texas A&M’s 1967-68 school
year will start with a bang.
Registration and a nationally-
televised football game with
SMU, including a Cadet Corps
march-in, will take place in a
48-hour period.
Registration Thursday and
Friday, Sept. 14 and 15, will be
held against the usual backdrop
of an expected record number of
students moving into dormitories.
Campus vehicular traffic will in
clude visitors for the 3:30 p.m.
A&M-SMU football opener at
Kyle Field Sept. 16.
During organization of the Ca
det Corps Saturday and Sunday,
the 3,000-man organization will
pause for a football game march-
in.
President Earl Rudder gave
1967-68 seniors advance warning
of the Corps’ game function while
visiting cadets at ROTC summer
camp.
Preparation for the march-in
will be limited, though the Aggie
Band will check in 10 days early
to work up a halftime drill.
Fall semester classes will start
Sept. 18.
call for extras October 27 and
November 22, and a third in the
spring.
Town Hall Extras are not in
cluded in season ticket sales. All
patrons, including students, need
tickets for these performances.
At regular performances, A&M
students are admitted on presen
tation of activity and identifica
tion cards, Gonzales pointed out.
The Town Hall chairman said
students with activity cards are
given priority on purchase of
season reserved seats in every
other row of G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Solid bookings for the regular
series include Mantovani and his
orchestra November 8 and Fred
Waring and the Pennsylvanians
Dec. 6.
BB&L
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
FIRE UNDER CONTROL
Firemen participating in the Texas A&M Firemen’s school keep a demonstration fire un
der control as they learn new fire-fighting techniques. The school concludes its third
and final week Friday.