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winds northerly 10-15 m.p.h. High 68,
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Thursday — Clear, winds easterly 10-
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Kyle — Saturday, cloudy, winds south
easterly 10-15, 73°. 60% humidity.
VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1967
Number 490
Haiphong Railyard
Hit By Navy Jets
By LEWIS M. SIMONS
Associated Press Writer
SAIGON AP — U. S. Navy
ets hammered Haiphong again
Way in the campaign to par-
ilyze North Vietnam’s main port.
I, S. Army troops clashed with
lie Communists in an intermit-
ttnt seven-hour battle south of
)a Nang.
Carrier-based U. S. warplanes
struck Haiphong’s railroad yard
or the second straight day and
ilso attacked a major highway
Iridge in raids aimed at clog-
[ing the city’s wharves and ware-
iouses with supplies brought in
iy sea.
Elsewhere in the northern part
if the country, U. S. Marines be
low the demilitarized zone under-
<ent another day of light, har
assing mortar and artillery fire
from North Vietnamese gunners.
I!,S. spokesmen said 78 rounds of
inemy shelling landed on Con
Men and nearby forward base,
rhich a month ago were being
sit with bombardment of 500 to
1,000 rounds daily.
In the latest shelling, two Ma-
lines were wounded, spokesmen
reported.
The U. S. Command made no
announcement immediately of any
plane losses in the raids against
the north. The North Vietnam
News Agency claimed two Ameri
can planes were shot down.
Pilots reported they dropped
one span of the previously hit
highway bridge in Haiphong. The
bridge is one of four major spans
leading out of the city, all of
which had been attacked earlier by
American bombers.
In the raids on Haiphong’s
railroad yards, the Navy pilots
reported their bombs touched off
numerous fires among the box
cars but said smoke prevented
further assessment of damage.
The U. S. pilots, flying in from
aircraft carriers in the Gulf of
Tonkin, also reported silencing
two missiles sites and two anti
aircraft gun positions as well as
heavily damaging two more flak
sites around the rail yards.
In simultaneous raids, U. S. Air
Force jets from Thailand bases
struck near and above Hanoi, hit
ting at the Hoa Lac airfield 20
miles west of the Communist cap
ital and the Thanh Moi rail yards
59 miles northeast of it and about
25 miles below the border of Red
China.
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As Lady Luck Smiles
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Driver To Speak
At SCONA XIII
William J. Driver, U. S. Veter-
uis Administration head, has been
lamed a featured speaker for the
Student Conference on Na-
lional Affairs Dec. 6 at Texas
m
Driver, appointed by President
lohnson in 1964 to head the larg-
ist independent agency in the
ederal establishment, announced
topic of “No Retreat From To-
torrow.”
A 1964 winner of the Career
Service Award of the National
Svil Service League, Driver holds
lie Exceptional Service Medal and
he Meritorious Service Medal,
he two highest awards granted
iythe VA.
Driver, a native of Rochester,
[. Y., was graduated with honors
rom Niagara University with a
legree in business administration,
le added the bachelor of laws
legree and a master’s degree in
mb 1 i c administration from
leorge Washington University.
A veteran of World War II and
he Korean conflict, Driver earned
he Legion of Merit, the Bronze
lar, Order of the British Empire
id the Croix de Guerre.
Driver joined the VA in Wash-
igton in 1946 as special assistant
& the assistant administrator for
Mtract and administrative serv-
te. He rose steadily and in 1956
fas named to direct the VA’s
empensation and Pension Serv-
*. Two years later he became
(ad of the Veterans Benefits
Apartment.
In 1961, Driver advanced to
(puty administrator, a post he
held until the president named
him administrator.
The VA has more than 165,000
employes, annual expenditures of
$6 billion, and the mission of
serving eligible beneficiaries
among the nation’s more than
25 million veterans.
Driver serves on the Board of
Foreign Scholarships, the Presi
dent’s Committee on Health Man
power, the Joint United States-
Philippine Commission, and the
President’s Committee on Em
ployment of the Handicapped.
On his appointment of Driver
as the first career official to ad
minister the affairs of America’s
veterans, President Johnson com
mented, “He is being promoted
to this important post on the
basis of outstanding achievement
and demonstrated ability through
the years in the VA.”
Students from colleges in the
United States, Canada and Mexi
co will participate in SCONA
XIII, discussing facets of the
conference theme: “The Price of
Peace in Southeast Asia.”
AGRONSKY ON WORLD AFFAIRS
CBS News Correspondent Martin Agronsky, center, answers students, questions following
his foreign affairs address for Great Issues here Monday. At left is David Maddox, who
introduced the speaker.
Agronsky Urges Freedom
For Vietnam War Critics
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
Services Held
For H. L Earle
Funeral services for Hubert L.
Earle, father of Dr. James H.
Earle of Texas A&M’s Engineer
ing Graphics Department, were
conducted Monday afternoon in
Jacksonville.
Mr. Earle died Sunday in a
Jacksonville hospital.
In addition to Dr. Earle, sur
vivors include Mr. Earle’s widow
and one other son.
By JOHN W. FULLER
Battalion Managing Editor
A veteran Washington news
correspondent Monday empha
sized the need for free and con
structive criticism of American
policy in Vietnam because that
represents “the road to hope” for
an end to the fighting.
Martin Agronsky, Columbia
Broadcasting System news ana
lyst, urged a Great Issues Series
audience at A&M to “give atten
tion to all possible answers” to
ward peace, adding that “if there
ever was a time when construc
tive criticism was necessary, now
is that time.
“American citizens should nev
er forget how important it is to
exercise the right of free speech,”
he continued. “Those who disa
gree with policies have an obli
gation to s a y so loudly and
often.”
AGRONSKY ADMITTED that
the situation poses a dilemma—a
choice between “an unattainable
victory and an unacceptable
peace”—and that he could offer
no clear-cut solution. But he
warned against becoming too set
in a policy that could be in error.
“I’m fed up with the conten
tion of supporters of the Admin
istration that criticism can be
equated with lack of patriotism,”
he went on. “The ability to ques
tion governmental policies is a
basic democratic right.”
At the same time, Agronsky
defended the Administration
against its more violent attack
ers.
“It is stupid and mistaken to
portray President Johnson as a
bloody warmonger,” he said. “If
the President seeks any charac
terization, it is that of the peace
maker. I fully accept his sincer
ity in believing what he is doing
is necessary.
“PM FULLY aware of the
Presidential burden,” he added,
“and I don’t think it should be
added to by undue criticism.
What some Americans have for
gotten is that the responsibility
is not that of the President alone.
These are times that demand in
dividual responsibility in seeking
solutions.”
Agronsky pointed out that the
nearly 500,000 American troops
in Vietnam exceeds the maximum
number of 400,000 committed to
the Korean conflict. He noted
that the war is costing some $24
billion per year, or $66 million
a day—“and we’re not winning.”
He went on to summarize the
history of U.S. involvement in
Southeast Asia, quoting Defense
Secretary McNamara and Presi
dents Kennedy and Johnson on
the “limited involvement” during
the first few years. He blamed
the apparent contradiction be
tween limited purposes and grad
ually increased involvement for
the so-called “credibility gap.”
“REPORTERS quote officials,”
he said, commenting on charges
that newsmen brought about the
“gap.” “We don’t write their ob
servations.”
Agronsky explained the appar
ent inability to negotiate a settle
ment on U.S. bombing policy.
“The Administration’s position
has been to offer immediate
peace talks whenever the Com
munists agree to talk,” he noted.
“We tried temporary bombing
halts, and offered to cease bomb
ing with certain conditions, as
indications of good will. “We’ve
been told that we can’t stop the
bombings again because this en
dangers our troops in the field,”
he continued. Yet, Secretary Mc
Namara recently told a Senate
committee that bombings haven’t
stopped troop and supply infil
tration.
“If this is so, how could our
troops be placed in greater dan
ger by bombing pauses?”
Agronsky, a graduate of Rut
gers University, joined NBC
News in 1940. He also worked
for the American Broadcasting
Co. before joining CBS. He has
been a Washington correspondent
for 25 years.
R V’s Name NCO’s
LOVE THOSE TOUCHDOWNS
Aggies kiss their dates following an A&M touchdown in the game against TCU.
Ross Volunteer non-commis
sioned officers appointments for
1967-68 have been announced by
Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant.
RV Capt. Francis J. Boui’geois
of New Braunfels commands the
110-member elite honor military
unit which inducted 76 junior
members last week.
NCO assignments are for three
cadet master sergeants, two tech
nical sergeants, 12 staff ser
geants and six sergeants.
Michael P. Booker of San An
tonio; Lonnie C. Minze, Houston,
and Dennis S. Bailey, Mineral
Wells, are first, second and third
platoon sergeants, respectively,
with the RV rank of master ser
geant.
Technical sergeants are James
E. Glynn of Garland, supply, and
Richard L. Engel of Elm Grove,
Wis., public information.
Drill assistants for the three
Ross Volunteer platoons are John
T. Corcoran of Tyler; John W.
Morgan, Fort Bragg, N. C.; and
Donald M. Savage, Fort Worth,
with staff sergeant rank.
With the same rank are right
guides Dennis R. Parrish, Agua
Dulce; Brian E. Heckman, Hum
ble, and Michael P. Hoffman,
Denison; supply sergeants Leon
E. Travis III, San Antonio; John
H. Daly III, Corpus Christi, and
John D. McLeroy, Dallas.
Also, public information ser
geants Joseph P. Webber, Waco;
Jack W. Downing, Fort Sam
Houston, and Mark W. Davis,
San Antonio.
Color guard sergeants include
Eldon J. Tipping Jr., Snyder;
Reese W. Brown III, Tyler; Bar
ry E. Morgan, Bryan; Hal M.
Hornburg, Dallas; Neal J. Brous
sard, Dickinson, and Burl E.
Glass III, North Bay, Ont.
The 23 Ross Volunteer NCOs
are seniors.
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Association, Your Sav-
feSflkt, ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
Hobbs 9 Thievery
Finishes Frogs
By GARY SHERER
Battalion Sports Editor
The black cloud has moved!
Saturday night, it moved about
185 miles due north from College
Station and settled over Fort
Worth’s Amon Carter Field and
the football game being played
there.
The Aggies won the game, 20-0,
over Texas Christian. They also
lost something too . . . the title
of hard luck champion of the
Southwest Conference.
TCU’s hard luck story really
started the day before Saturday
night’s game. The Aggies arrived
at Fort Worth’s Meacham Field
and were greeted with the news
that TCU Coach Fred Taylor had
booted three players off the
Frogs’ team. Hard Luck fact
No. 1.
The second chapter of our tale
of woe deals with all but the
field lights going off in Amon
Carter Stadium. Hard Luck fact
No. 2.
The third and final chapter was
the game itself. The Horned
Frogs totaled 336 total offense
yardage and could not cross the
goal line once. Hard Luck fact
No. 3.
On the Aggies’ side of the led
ger, there were many good points
and some bad. Halfback Wendell
Housley looked like the all-SWC
performer of last year. Billy
Hobbs proved himself one of the
fastest linebackers in the nation
and the Aggies gained 187 yards
on the ground.
Overall, however, it was not
the Aggies’ best effort of the
year. TCU could not capitalize
on the breaks that they got and
in doing so lost the game. This
is not to take away from the
Aggies’ efforts, but the game
could have been closer.
The SWC’s most potent weapon,
Edd Hargett to Bob Long, pro
duced a 7-0 A&M lead for three
quarters. Then, the first play of
the final 15 minutes brought the
crowd of 37,166 to its feet. Frog
quarterback Danny Carter had
brought his team to the A&M
seven-yard line in the one real
drive of the night for the Frogs.
Carter fell back to pass and
threw for the right side of the
end zone. What Carter didn’t see
was Bill Hobbs. Hobbs, however,
saw everything including the ball,
and the next thing the Frog team
saw was Hobbs’ back as the
Amarillo junior left them behind
on a 102-yard jaunt to paydirt.
The score made it 14-0 and the
Frogs were just about finished.
They tried to get back in the
game, but penalties kept them
from causing any threat to the
Aggies’ lead.
The final A&M score came on
a burst up the middle by Housley.
It had been set up by a 23-yard
scamper by Larry Stegent who
garnered 94 yards for the night
himself. Housley blew through a
big hole two plays later and
raced the final 26 yards for the
TD.
In most stories, happy or sad,
this one has a summation or
epilog.
It was the Aggies’ second
straight victory since their dis
astrous 0-4 beginning. The Aggie
defense, which had shown some
weaknesses in previous games,
looked better in this game and
the Maroon and White emerged
as a definite contender for the
SWC crown.
The Frogs are now faced with
the problem the Aggies had two
weeks ago. How to recover from
four straight losses. Their plight,
however, is a little more different.
They have been well-outscored in
all four games. Save one, the
Aggies were close in their quartet
of losses.
Aggie fans now know that
Texas A&M truly does have an
improved team. They can now
say that the bad breaks were
really bad breaks and not a true
indication of this football team.
But Horned Frog fans have to
face a different thought process.
Is this team that has not scored
a touchdown at home since 1965
going to recover?
Aggie fans can’t help them
with that question. One thing
they can tell TCU backers ... a
team that never gives up can
turn those bad breaks into good
Partovi Elected
ISA President
Roohollah Partovi, a petroleum
engineering graduate student, is
the newly elected president of the
Iran Students Association at
Texas A&M.
Partovi, a University of Okla
homa graduate, taught two years
at Pahlavi University in Shiraz,
Iran, before enrolling for gradu
ate study at A&M. His goal is a
doctor’s degree and return to
teaching.
Other new officers include vice
president Gholam R. Djavadi, sec
retary Jalal Alavinia, treasurer
Hossein Ava, and social chairman
Higus A. Gasparian.
Tentative plans call for a stu
dent-faculty tea hour Nov. 11,
visits with families in Houston,
and a special campus program
depicting life in Iran.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
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NEW SWEETHEART
Kathy Heldman, new Aggie Sweetheart, is given the tradi
tional kiss after being presented during half-time of the
TCU game by Bill Carter, student senate vice president.
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