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VOLUME 64
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1968
Number 23
United Chest Drive Nets $6,000
In First Week of Campaign
‘Experimenter’
Picnic To West
COEDS MAKE BONFIRE PLANS
3 lans for serving coffee around the clock in the stacking area during bonfire were discus-
ed by an informal coed committee which included from left, Ed Cooper, director of civil-
an student activities, Mrs. Lorene Roby, coed adviser, Candy Parker and Anne Carter.
Photo by W. R. Wright)
Vietnam Youth, 12, Finds
§3-Member Family 9 Here
A Vietnamese youth, 12-year-
d Do Thanh Quang of Saigon,
)st eight members of his family
ist spring but gained 33 more
September.
Election Thursday
fill Determine
I Senate Posts
| Seniors in the College of Busi-
less Administration and sopho-
liores in the College of Pre-
'eterinary Medicine will vote
'hursday in a run-off election to
ecide two representatives to the
itudent Senate.
Competing for Senior BA repre-
entative are Robert Edgecomb
fld Arthur J. Erickson. Mitchell
.Timmons and Tommy Hender-
on will be running for Sopho-
lore Pre-Vet representative.
Elected last week were Sam
fom, junior BA representative,
jtod Kent Caperton, sophomore
BA representative.
The run-offs will be held in
he typewriter room of Francis
fall from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The
eason for the change from the
iemorial Student Center, the
isual election spot, to Francis, is
o locate the voting site “as close
o the potential electors as pos-
ible,” according to Election Com
mission president Gerald Geist-
reidt.
Geistweidt also said the turn
out last Thursday, although light,
fas “better than in previous
ears in an election of this type.”
Unirersity National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adr.
He was adopted last year by
Squadron 5. The AFROTC unit
“adoption” was through the
Christian Children’s Fund, an in
ternational organization which
promotes help for needy children.
Do likes the idea of his squad
ron “family.”
“I thought I had only one spon
sor and did not realize that in
stead, there are 60 sponsors to
look after me,” he wrote the
Squadron 5 cadets. “From now
on, my life should be much hap
pier and brighter.”
Through the unit sponsorship,
the youngster in Saigon is pro
vided food, clothing, school books
and other necessities. The A&M
unit commanded by Cadet Maj.
Stephen B. Maddox of Pampa
also sends along gifts at Christ
mas, a current project of the
squadron’s 33 freshmen.
Squadron 5 graduated eight
seniors last spring.
“The sponsorship is sort of a
freshman project each year,” ex
plained William K. Ohlmeyer of
Yazoo City, Miss. “Our freshmen
liked the idea of sponsoring Do
when we told them about it.
They’re getting together a letter
introducing themselves, a unit
picture and “T” shirt to send
him.”
Communication is slow, noted
Ohlmeyer, a junior aerospace en
gineering major.
“We mailed a letter last No
vember and didn’t get a reply
until February,” he said.
Squadron 5 went through fur
ther uncertainty of its ward’s
welfare last spring during the
Vietcong Saigon offensive.
“I wrote the CCF headquarters
in Richmond, Va., twice a week
trying to find out something,”
Ohlmeyer added.
“We later found out the or
phanage was bombed and all the
kids were scattered for a while.
Some of the advisors who worked
there were captured. Several
weeks later we received a letter
that they were all back together.”
Do and a brother live with his
70-year-old grandfather, a retired
pastor, and after school carries
water, cooks meals, washes
clothes and sweeps the house.
“These kids don’t understand
the war and haven’t any choice
in it,” Ohlmeyer pointed out. “We
feel it’s sort of up to us to help
out the best way we can.”
“One of these days, most of us
in Squadron 5 will be in Vietnam
and Saigon. We’ll have someone
to see,” he went on.
Do will likely be the only kid
running around in an Aggie “T”
shirt.
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The German tourist center of
Bad Salzuflen took another step
toward Westernization last sum
mer with introduction of the
American picnic.
Other cultural exchanges and
increased understanding between
the United States and Germany
came about as the result of the
Experiment in International Liv
ing, which sent A&M student
Frank Tilley to Europe for two
months.
“Germany and Berlin are very
Western,” observed the senior in
dustrial engineering major. “I
tried to speak German to them
and they conversed in English.”
ONE OF five A&M Experi
menters who traveled in Russia,
Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and
West Germany, Tilley became a
member of the family of Mr. and
Mrs. Georg Schirmack of Bad
Salzuflen, a resort city on the
autobahn between Cologne and
Hannover.
The EIL program is one of
international goodwill based on the
premise that one best under
stands another people and their
culture by living among them as
members of a family.
“If I had been able to pick
another family, I couldn’t have
selected one I’d have liked more,”
remarked Tilley, a resident of
Jacksonville.
The Schirmack’s two children,
Manfred 17 and Karin 10, struck
quick friendships with the sum
mer EIL visitor.
THEY MADE many excursions
through the Bad Salzuflen-Her-
ford area with other Experiment
ers in the region.
“We walked almost everywhere
we went,” noted Tilley. “We aver
aged four to five miles a day and
often took a picnic lunch. It took
awhile to sell them on the idea
of a picnic, though.”
Brings
Germany
Coordinating Board Authorizes
Geography Department Here
Texas A&M has been author
ized by the Texas College and
Universtiy System Coordinating
Board to form a separate geog
raphy department offering a full
slate of degrees, announced Dr.
Earl F. Cook, acting geosciences
dean.
The university currently oper
ates a geology and geography
department offering several geog
raphy courses but no degrees in
the field.
Dr. Cook noted the Coordinat
ing Board’s action was unusual
in that it will allow the new de
partment to offer initially all
three academic degrees — bache
lor’s, master’s and Ph.D.
“This action clearly demon
strates the Coordinating Board's
confidence in us,” Dr. Cook em
phasized.
He pointed out the Geology and
Geography Department currently
has five geography professors on
its staff, including a distinguished
professor of geography, Dr.
George F. Carter.
Cook said Dr. Edwin B. Doran
Jr., assistant geosciences dean
and professor of geography, was
instrumental in efforts to estab
lish the new department.
Operation of a separate geog
raphy department still requires
presentation of a financial plan,
Dr. Cook said, but he anticipates
formal approval before mid-term.
Mrs. Schirmack, whose husband
is a brick mason and owns a 25-
room boarding house popular with
German tourists from Berlin,
tried the picnic idea in the living
room of their home first.
“We once ate on the steps of
Sbisa To Get
New System
For Messages
To provide “better communi
cations to the civilian students,”
David Wilks, president of the
Civilian Student Council, has ap
pointed Garry Mauro as student
coordinator of a committee to
operate the public address system
of Sbisa Hall.
The new program for student
announcements is a result of dis
cussions with Col. Fred Dollar,
director of Food Services. Due
to a shortage of dining hall staff,
effective use of the system put
a strain on workers in Sbisa be
cause of the lengthy meal hours.
All proposed announcements
must be delivered in writing to
Howard Perry, room 8 in the
/YMCA, for approval. If possible,
announcements should be sub
mitted one day prior to broad
casting.
Mauro, junior yell leader and
a civilian, will operate with a
student committee of four re
sponsible for making announce
ments on the system. Individual
members will pick up approved
announcements from Perry on a
daily basis and before noon,
schedules permitting.
The committee chairmen will
be responsible for rotating the
key to the office where the PA
system is located. He will also
be in charge of instructing com
mittee members in the use of the
system.
Announcements will be brief
and consist of only what would
be of widespread interest to the
students, such as Silver Taps,
bonfire coordination, yell prac
tice, student election information,
and university social and recre
ational events, Mauro said. An
nouncements will be approved for
broadcasting for one day only
under most circumstances.
During non-office hours, the
committee chairman may approve
urgent announcements, such as
a change in time or location of
yell practice or the cancellation
of major events.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
a city’s town hall,” remarked
Tilley. The former A&M camera
committee chairman said Bad
Salzuflen’s Kurpark (tourist
park) included a large wooded
tract with hiking trails, an
amusement area and other park
features common in the U. S.,
except picnic tables.
Jaunts also included a five-day
visit in Berlin, an overnight bus-
boat trip to the Island of Helgo
land in the North Sea and a 17-
day bus trip into Southern Ger
many’s Alps.
“THE TRIP to Helgoland was
by bus to Bremen where we spent
the night in a lavish hotel and
then on to Bremerhaven. A 1,900-
passenger boat took us to the
island. We returned by the same
route and it cost us 58 marks
(about $15) apiece,” Tilley said.
The Germans are very gener
ous, he noted. The Schirmacks
sent along gifts for Frank, his
parents, brother, sister-in-law and
niece.
“They wouldn’t let me pay for
the weekend to the North Sea,”
he added.
Tilley, who studied German at
EIL headquarters in Vermont be
fore the summer tour started,
said a three-day photo course at
the Leitz factory in Wetzlar “did
more for my German than any
thing else.”
“THE INSTRUCTOR, who had
the remarkable name of Herr
Kraut, said everything twice, in
English and German,” he said.
“Germans I talked with knew
quite a bit about the United
States,” he added. “Manfred keeps
up with American and English
popular music by listening avidly
to British Armed Forces radio.”
“I studied politics and govern
ment extensively before going
over,” Tilley smiled. “I should
have been reading ‘Billboard’.”
College Station’s United Chest
fund-raising drive netted nearly
$6,000 during the first week and
is rapidly gaining momentum,
noted Edwin H. Fenner, campaign
chairman.
Fenner, assistant director of
Texas A&M’s Engineering Ex
periment Station, said first-week
contributions totaled $5,857.06, or
21 per cent of the $27,500 goal.
HE POINTED OUT, however,
that “turn-ins” are increasing
regularly each day and now run
ning about twice as high as dur
ing the first days of the cam
paign.
“We don’t envision any prob
lem in reaching the goal,” Fenner
remarked. “It simply takes time
to get things going.”
A&M President Earl Rudder
and College Station Mayor D. A.
(Andy) Anderson have both en
dorsed the drive and urged maxi
mum participation by all resi
dents.
The United Chest’s record bud
get this year will support 16
charitable and civic agencies,
three more than in 1967.
SHARING AGENCIES and
amounts they will receive:
College Station Community
House, Inc., $2,500; College Sta
tion Recreation Council, $2,500;
Boy’s Club of America (Bryan),
$3,000; Brazos Valley Rehabilita
tion Center, $3,000; Brazos Coun
ty Counseling Service, $2,500;
Salvation Army, $1,350.
Girl Scouts Area Council, $2,-
800; Boy Scouts of America,
$3,000; American Red Cross,
$3,500; Texas United Fund, $100;
United Service Organization,
(USO), $300; Traveler’s Aid of
America, $50; United Cerebal
Palsy of Texas, Inc., $200; Girl’s
Club of Brazos County, $1,500;
and Texas Association of Mental
Health, $450.
JOINING with Fenner in spear
heading the drive are Joe Sawyer,
Jack Bradshaw, W. Taylor Riedel
and Dr. Luther Jones.
Pool Closing Date
Will Be Delayed
Wofford Cain Swimming Pool
is remaining open past the an
nounced closing date, according
to Dr. Carl W. Landiss, head of
the Health and Physical Edu
cation Department.
Dr. Landiss said the pool will
be open from 4-6 p.m. Monday
through Friday and from 2-5
p.m. Saturday and Sunday until
further notice.
B B &L
WEATHER
Thursday—Partly Cloudy, winds
Southerly 5 to 10 mph. High 76,
low 66.
Friday — Partly cloudy, winds
Northerly 10 to 15 mph. High 74,
low 58.
Kickoff at Waco — 74°, South
westerly winds 10 mph. Humidity
40%.
APO Campus Chest
Collects $1100,
With $7500 Goal
The Campus Chest campaign of
the Student Senate Welfare Com
mittee has collected $1,100, Bill
Faulkner, president of XI Delta
Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega,
reported Tuesday.
The money has come from dor
mitory drives and contributions
placed in barrels at each gate of
Kyle Field at home football games.
Leading in donations, according
to Faulkner, were Company F-l,
leading in total donations, and
Company D-l, leading in per
capita donations.
“A campus chest sweetheart
will be selected from nominees of
the units and dorms,” Faulkner
said, adding that the nominee of
the unit or dorm with the highest
per capita will be selected as the
Campus Chest Sweetheart.
“We were pleased with how
successful the first two games
were, but we hope for a larger
donation at the Arkansas game,”
Faulkner said.
The Inquiring Battman
University - College Ave. Intersection: What Should Be Done?
DAVID BAKER
Junior
“1 think traffic lights should be
put up, but during the rush hours
a patrolman would still be neces-
wry to control the flow of traf-
BILL HAMILTON
Freshman
“I think it is a traffic hazard be
cause too many people are in a
hurry when they pass through
the intersection. The addition of
a stop light would be a big help.”
ROBERT MACK
Graduate Student
“Although I’ve been here a year,
I haven’t heard of any collisions
at the intersection. Therefore, I
don’t think it is a traffic hazard,
as long as there is a traffic pa
trolman to direct traffic during
rush hours.”
JAN ONDROVIK
Junior
“I really don’t think it’s a hazard
as long as people drive carefully.”
DWAYNE LINDSEY
Senior
“I think it does create a traffic
hazard. Installation of a stop
light would probably solve this
problem.”
jim McDonald
Senior
“I think the flow of traffic is bet
ter with the four way stop. Dur
ing rush hours a traffic patrol
man controls the intersection and
during non-rush hours most
people drive courteously.”
CUTRIS FUCHS
Junior
“I think it’s a traffic hazard and
the addition of a stop light would
help solve the problem.” (All
photos by W. R. Wright)