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. • ■ • • • • •' '' 1 ••v-■■ ■_ . ■ - ■ . ■ ••• • - j NEW AGGIE SWEETHEART laudia Gk>rdy, 1969-70 Aggie Sweetheart, receives the traditional Aggie pin from Student enate President Gerry Geistweidt Sunday in the Memorial Student Center after being as, will amed to the position. Miss Gordy succeeds Annella Wright of Mexia as the Aggie First j Bean ady. (Photo by Bob Stump) laudia Gordy Named 69-70 Ag Sweetheart IGH LI DDLS al1 game. J GB Claudia Gordy of Columbus, an ggie daughter, is the 1969-70 ggie Sweetheart. The 21-year-old hazel - eyed londe, selected to represent UiM’s 14,042 students at a va- iety of university events, was amed Sunday following a week- |nd of campus activities high- ighted by the A&M-Baylor foot- Like all previous Sweethearts and the 13 other finalists vying for the honor this year, Miss Gordy is a student at Texas Woman’s University in Denton. The five-foot three-inch beauty is a junior majoring in medical technology and plans a career as a laboratory technician. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gordy of Columbus. The new Aggie Sweetheart was born in Bryan while her father was attending Texas A&M, where he was graduated in 1949. Miss Gordy was presented the traditional Aggie pin and red roses by Gerald Geistweidt of Mason, A&M student body presi dent. She succeeds Annella Wright of Mexia. Jnited Chest In Last Week; hort 15 Pet. of Goal for 1969 Linda Wylie of Kilgore was named runner-up for the title, said Ronnie Adams, sweetheart selection committee chairman. The senior elementary education major will represent the Aggie More than 85 percent of the ecord $28,050 goal for the Col lege Station United Chest has |how been collected, reported Cam- aign Chairman Bob Evans. He said contributions currently tal $23,961, up more than $5,000 iver the same period last week. “We are still optimistic that we will attain the goal,” Evans noted. The United Chest drive to raise funds for 16 charitable and civil organizations was extended last week to Nov. 1. The campaign was originially scheduled to end Oct. 18. See related picture, page 3. Sweetheart at events she is un able to attend, Adams said, and would become the Sweetheart if Miss Gordy were to become en gaged, married, or for some other reason could not serve as Aggie Sweetheart. With ‘Guess What^s Happening Tonight, Dear?’ Fallout Begins Fall Season ) A Jim The Fallout Theater-Workshop (opens its fall season this week kith “Guess What’s Happening ffonight, Dear?”, an original pne-act play by Bob Robinson. I The play, a satire on modern suburban living, will be per formed Thursday and Friday tights at 8 in the back of Guion Hall. N KIN ENS “Guess What’s Happening To night, Dear?” goes into detail on such common situations as a bill collector dropping by on a Sat urday evening to pick up some Flannigan Fills VP Position On HSC Council Dennis G. Flannigan of Bryan was elected vice president of the Memorial Student Center Council and Directorate Monday night at a special council meeting. The sophomore architectural construction major replaces Kent Caperton of Caldwell who re signed the post to serve as Stu dent Senate vice president. Flannigan, a former Marine, Will resign his post as vice chair man of the Fifteenth Student Conference on National Affairs (SC0NA XV) to serve as vice president. His election by the council came after recommenda tion of himself and one other candidate by the council nominat ing committee. money or a car, and a daughter who goes out on a date and comes back to tell everyone she’s going to elope secretly with her boy friend. Jim Weyhenmeyer plays Mr. Taft, the bill collector who is dedicated to collecting money for Acme Confidential. Larry Ludewig and Margaret Curtis play the Andersons. An expected quiet evening of bridge with friends turns into an unex pected not-so-quiet evening of trying to explain why they have n’t paid their bills and trying to keep their 16 year old daughter from eloping. Laura Anderson, played by Virginia Link, wants to elope be cause “all the kids are doing it.” Joey, Laura’s boyfriend, played by Joseph Adelman, wants to join the Army and go to Viet Nam after he graduates to find out if people really die like they do on television. “Talkin’ Airplane Disaster,” which explains why you should take the train. The evenings are set for com edy. The place is the Fallout Theater-Workshop and admission is 50 cents. Moore BBQ Set Tonight More than 1,000 persons from throughout the state will attend the appreciation barbecue tonight for Sen. William T. (Bill) Moore, predicted Ridley Briggs. The dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Texas Transportation Institute hangar at the A&M Re search Annex, formerly Bryan Air Force Base. The Johnsons, played by Cliff Purcell and Jeanette Boswell, dis cover that Taft is from the same company that they owe money to and haven’t been paying. In the midst of Laura wanting to elope and the Andersons and the Johnsons wanting to play bridge, Taft now has to collect payments from four people in stead of two. Also featured in the Fallout Theater program for Thursday and Friday nights, are “The Wanderers,” a folk duo who will sing contemporary and tradition al ballads. Briggs, chairman of the citi zens committee organizing the fete, said the barbecue is being conducted to express appreciation to Senator Moore for his many contributions to the community, especially along the lines of ap propriations for Texas A&M. He noted that numerous per sons from Austin, Dallas, Hous ton and several other Texas cities also are planning to attend. Tickets will be available at the barbecue, assured Clark C. Mun- roe, the committee’s ticket chair man. They also may be purchased during the day at banks, savings and loans, the Bryan-College Sta tion Chamber of Commerce and the Ramada Inn. Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. BB&L -Adv. Their half hour performance will consist of such songs as “Liz zie Borden,” which discusses the hatchet murders in Massachu setts and their relationship with modem suburban living, and Munroe emphasized that wives and business women are invited. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. be Battalion Vol. 65 No. 26 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 28, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 145 Acres Annexec By CS City Council By Jay F. Goode Battalion Staff Writer The College Station City Coun cil annexed 145 acres south of the city Monday night. The property is located east of State Highway 6 and north of the East By-pass. The tract includes single family residences and the Bernadine Es tates mobile home park. The mobile home park was annexed as a “nonconforming user.” The remaining area annexed by the city comes in zoned as single family residences, Mayor D. A. Anderson said. “The city can provide water, but currently cannot provide sew erage to the area,” Anderson said. According to the City Manager emergency telephone system and designate 911 as the emergency number. “The number will be used for immediate communication to a dispatcher at the police station in case of an emergency. The dispatcher will follow up on the call,” Anderson said. The system will provide an easy way of reaching the police, hospital or fire station. General Telephone of the Southwest will have to install a trunk line to the police station, the mayor said. The service will cost $33 or $66 a month if two trunk lines are installed, Anderson said. The emergency number is be ing adopted throughout the coun try, the mayor explained, and wherever one goes in the United States, one could dial 911 in case of emergency. A representative for the Gen eral Telephone said that the com pany would have to have time to study and determine the costs of installing the system. “There may be a rate adjust ment to all residents of College Station,” the phone company rep resentative said. Other areas with the service didn’t have rate increases, Ander son said. A petition to have sidewalks built on Gilchrist Street was con sidered and submitted to the city engineer for further study. Mrs. Jean Ringer, who submit ted the petition, said that chil dren walking to College Hills Elementary School were in dan ger from passing cars. Property owners affected would have to pay half of the costs which would be about one dollar per foot, Mayor Anderson said. Two preliminary plats which had been approved by the Plan ning and Zoning Commission were adopted. One was the University Oaks subdivision which is located north of SH 30 and east of Cul pepper Drive. The Southwood subdivision is located east of the new school site and north of the west by-pass. Also approved in (See CS, Page 3) Ran Boswell, sewerage service would require installing a lifting station because sewage would have to be pumped up hill to meet U.S. ‘Lucked Into’Brilliant existing sewer lines. “There are no plans to extend sewer service into this area,” Boswell said. China Policy, Walker Says C. A. (Clint) Bertrand, who owns 25 acres of agricultural property in the tract, objected to the annexation during the pub lic hearing. He made his objection after Mayor Pro Tern O. M. Holt said that Bertrand would be taxed the same as other property owners in the area. In other business, the council decided to study a proposal by Mayor Anderson to install an By Pam Troboy Battalion Staff Writer The United States “lucked” into a brilliant China policy, ac cording to Dr. Richard Walker, government consultant on the Far East. Walker, director of South Caro lina University’s Institute on In ternational Studies, was on cam pus Monday night for the third in a series of Great Issues lec- Officials Say 4 No’ tures. An extensive traveler in Southeast Asia, Walker explained China’s goal in the area. “The United States out-waited Chairman Mao with Oriental-like patience,” Walker said, “and while we were waiting the Chi nese model discredited itself. The United States, almost alone, held the line and exposed the failure of China. Mass human labor has not brought China to modernity. The real revolution has taken place on our side of the iron cur tain. To Afro-Americans A&M’s Executive Committee Monday disapproved the Afro- American Society’s second appli cation for on-campus recognition but suggested the university- sanctioned Black Students Com mittee be reactivated. The Afro-American Society, which currently meets off cam pus, submitted a request last week to Dean of Students James P. Hannigan for university rec ognition. The dean referred the matter to the Executive Com mittee. “After careful consideration of the proposal,” noted a statement released by the Executive Com mittee, “the committee reaf firmed its previous decision, an nounced Oct. 28, 1968, when it stated: ‘It was the consensus that requests for establishment of special interest group clubs should not be approved’.” “This decision,” the statement continued, “merely means that if the black students attending A&M want to operate as a club, they are free to function off cam pus in the same manner as social fraternities (such as Phi Delta Sigma), political clubs (Young Democrats and Young Republi cans) and denominational reli gious clubs (Newman Club, Can terbury Club, Hillel Foundation, Wesley Foundation, Baptist Stu dent Union, etc.).” While disapproving the Afro- American Society’s application to meet on the campus, the Execu tive Committee encouraged the reactivation of the Black Stu dents Committee under the super vision of Director of Civilian Stu dent Activities Howard Perry. Dr. Manuel M. Davenport, head of the Philosophy Department and adviser to the society, told The Battalion Monday that he wished to reserve comment on the Executive Committee’s decision until he had met with the Afro- American Society officers. Last Wednesday, the day the Afro-American Society made its request for recognition to Dean of Students James P. Hannigan, Dr. Davenport said that the so ciety had tried to meet objections to the organization that the uni versity voiced last year. “The society is neither ethnic nor political,” he said, noting that the purpose of the club was to “foster social cultural and aca demic interests of black students on campus.” “There are many more black students on campus this year, and they want a club to study Afro-American culture,” the so ciety adviser continued. “I’m con vinced that this is not a group of militants; their interest is to make blacks Aggies.” “Despite all the agony,” Walk er continued, “U. S. power still has some credibility in that part of the world. The issues are com plex; there are no simple answers. Some of our leaders have, how ever, grasped that the United States is a Pacific power and that we cannot withdraw from the area.” The structure of Southeast Asia has dramatically changed since the European powers withdrew, Walker said. There are now three nuclear powers — Russia, Com munist China and the United States—and Japan to contend with in the Pacific, and mainland China is in a central and domi nant position. “Southeast Asia is ideally suit ed for Mao’s methods of Power,” Walker said. “The Maoist strate gy for wars of liberation is more political than militaristic. Mao takes advantage of local condi tions—corruption, inflation, disil lusioned students, provencialism and outside interference — all common in developing nations.” Mao’s strategy is to train an elite corps and make a strong po litical organization which teaches techniques of terror and violence. Walker said. These trainees then recruit support and begin selec tive terror, going after the intra structure. A united front is formed, and then, if necessary, open warfare is conducted on a territorial basis. “China’s leadership is now questing superpower status, and Japan is the crucial issue,” Walk er said. “Japan made it and ad justed to the mainstream when China couldn’t. “I predict that China’s major goal next year will be the sub sidy of violence in Japan,” Walk er said. “This will be an effort to repudiate the U.S. - Japanese agreements and force the com plete withdrawal of all U. S. forces. “This may not be a total suc cess,” Walker said, “but we will have to adjust our position in the Pacific.” 13 A&M Students Selected Recipients of DAFC Honor Thirteen Distinguished Air Force Cadets have been named by Col. K. C. Hanna, professor of aerospace studies. The senior cadets are to grad uate and receive commissions as Air Force second lieutenants in May, 1971. As a DAFC, the cadet may be come a Distinguished Military Graduate and receive a commis sion in the Regular Air Force rather than the reserve. Colonel Hanna pointed out. Recipients of the honor include John L. Grumbles of Bedford, Mass.; Lewis W. Hudgins Jr., Galveston; Jon T. Huinker, Gret na, La.; Richard G. Lanier, Dal* las; George I. Mason III, San Antonio; Frank Montalbano III, Beaumont; Barry E. Morgan, Bryan. Also, William H. Richard, San Antonio; Jerry A. Richerson, Wa co; Rex E. Stewart, San Antonio; Richard E. Taylor Jr., Santa Fe, N. M.; Kenneth W. Trawick, Chipley, Fla., and John D. White, Houston. HALFTIME PERFECTION The Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band performs one of its incom- ance was the first of the year at home for the band, follow- parable marching drills during halftime at the A&M-Baylor ing road trips to Lubbock and Ft. Worth. A&M beat Baylor football game Saturday night in Kyle Field. The perform- in the game, 24-0. 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