DISSATISFIED
Students Form
‘Gung Ho’ Club
By BOB MITCHELL
“Gung Ho” is an expression
which to most people means an
over enthusiastic show of emotion
In its original definition, however,
“gung ho” means something en
tirely different.
Actually, the expression comes
from the Chinese language and
means “working together.”
The “Gung Ho” Club, a new
organization on the campus, will
take this meaning as the basis for
its foundation. The Club is the
first step in a plan which was con
ceived about a year ago by some
of the students in the college.
Last year a group of students,
mostly members of the Sons of
Service Club decided that the cur
rent program of the ROTC is not
rigorous enough to produce the
type of fighting man that is need
ed in our military forces today.
An example of this need was
the Korean War. Because of the
lack of knowledge of just what
the fighting was all about and a
lack of confidence in themselves,
many of the American soldiers
taken prisoner collaborated with
the enemy.
Voluntary Membership
The “Gung Ho” Club, which is
headed by James C. Smith, the
president of the Sons of Service,
plans to take cadets on a volun
tary basis and train them in these
ideas and fundamentals.
“We feel that a soldier must be
trained in this period of special
ized weapons and mass destruc-
SCONA
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ference, drawing 106 student dele
gates from 48 colleges and uni
versities in 16 states, and two
localities in Canada and Mexico.
From that early beginning,
SCONA has grown into a mam
moth operation, requiring months
of careful planning and hard work.
This year, delegates from 70 col
leges and universities in the United
States, 10 in Mexico, and two
Canadian universities have been in
vited to attend SCONA VI.
Partial transportation, all meals,
and housing costs are paid by
SCONA for each conferee. For this
reason, the budget for SCONA has
steadily grown from the $12,000
used to underwrite expenses for
SCONA I, to a top budget for
SCONA VI of $16,500.
SCUSA to SCONA
The SCONA idea was born in
1954 when Don Friend, vice-presi
dent of the Memorial Student
Council flew to West Point to
represent A&M at SCUSA—The
United States Military Academy’s
Student Conference on United
States Affairs.
Friend returned with a glowing
report of the meeting and a pro
posal that A&M promote a similar
conference for students of the
South and Southwest.
The MSG Council approved the
idea and the college administration
added its blessing.
In December of 1955, SCONA I
made history.
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tion to have the ability to operate
and maintain modern equipment
But the much touted push-butto-
warfare has limitations and a ma’
must be prepared to defend hi:
own life in any eventuality, i*
fighter is only as good as hi:
training,” said Smith.
“We are interested in producin
men who are able to fight highl
specialized personal warfare oj
their own terms, not the enemy’:
“The advent of thermo-nuclea
weapons does not preclude the ba
sic necessity for a thoroug]
grounding in the principles o
hand-to-hand combat and compleb
confidence in their application.”
As the program is now set up
all the training will be carried oi
during the cadets’ own time and
on a completely voluntary basis
Anyone may take the training
and once a person starts he is no1
obligated to stay in the group.
At first the organization wil
work one hour each day on three
days a week; Tuesday, Wednes
day and Thursday, from 5 p.m.
until 6 p.m. Later in the program
they hope to be able to have time
on weekends to work and make
hikes and overnight trips.
Training Schedule
Included in the schedule of
training for the group are: hand-
to-hand combat technique, bayonet
drill, survival, first aid, guerrilla
warfare, night fighting, techniques
of close combat, knife fighting and
self defense.
Since there now is a lack of
equipment which is needed for the
training, much of the work will be
carried on with the use of make
shift material. The unit hopes
that later they will be able to ac
quire some of the needed equip
ment.
The “Gung Ho” Club hopes even
tually it will be able to form into
a special outfit which will be a
part of the Corps. The unit would
take both Air Force and Army ca
dets and train them on the same
basis as the members are to be
trained now in order to have a
combat-ready unit which will be
much more able to defend our
country in the event of any future
BATTALION
Thursday, December 1,1960
College Station, Texas
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BANKERS CREDIT SCHOOL
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University, told the bankers he
anticipates an early up-turn in
economic activity in the first half
of 1961 and probably a strong up
surge during the last half of the
year. The improvement also will
amplify problems in the fiscal and
monetary fields.
“It also may temporarily, but
only temporarily, conceal difficul
ties in agriculture, in the resource
industries and in several manufac
turing industries which must be
solved if we are really to prosper
during the 196Q’s,” Johnson said.
Another feature of the confer
ence was the awarding of the
Bankers School Scholarship to Bob
Davis of Houston, an outstanding
senior in agricultural economics.
Banker School Participants
Left to right are Charles N. Shepardson, and Ranch Credit School
member of the board of governors, Federal
Reserve System, Washington, D. C.; Earl
Coke, vice president of the Bank of America
in California, and Sam Rowe, vice president
of Alvin State Bank at Alvin, who were
participants in the 10th annual Texas Farm
for Commercial
Bankers. Shepardson, who founded the
bankers school when he was Dean of Agri
culture, was presented a plaque of apprecia
tion by Rowe in behalf of the bankers. Coke,
former assistant secretary of agriculture,
was the main banquet speaker.
$7.25 MILLION
Liz Taylor, Fisher File
Suits Against Magazines
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK—Film star Eliza-
leth Taylor and her husband,
nnger Eddie Fisher, filed a $7.25
million libel action Wednesday
against eight film magazines,
charging they were damaged
through “lurid” front cover head
lines.
The action, filed in State Su
preme Court, accused the maga
zines of acting maliciously and
irresponsibly for the “crass com
mercial purpose” of stimulating
circulation.
The stories themselves “in no
way substantiated those headlines
and often belied them,” the suits
charged.
Defendants named were Official
Magazines Corp., publisher of
Screen Stars; Interstate Publish
ing Corp., publishers of Movie
World; Fawcett Publications, pub
lisher of Motion Picture; Dell
Publishing Co., publisher of Mod
ern Screen; Countrywide Publica
tions, publisher of Movie TV Se
crets; Sterling Group, Inc., pub
lishers of Movie Mirror, and Ideal
Publishing Corp., publisher of
Movie Stafs-TV Closeups and
Movie Life.
Some of the headlines were
cited in the complaint.
They included: “Eddie named
father of Liz’ child, Liza Todd,”
—Modern Screen, Oct., 1960.
“Will Liz’ children be taken
away from her?”—Screen Stars,
Oct., 1960.
“Is Liz breaking her marriage
vows?”—Movie World, Nov. 1960.
“Liz-Eddie-Debbie: Are they
-Mo-
planning to live together?”-
vie Mirror, Nov. 1960.
“We dare to print the facts.
Trouble between Liz and Eddie”—
Motion Picture, Feb. 1960.
“Stephen Boyd has split up Ed
die and Liz!”—Movie TV Secrets,
Dec. 1960.
Miss Taylor said some of the
headlines depicted her as “an ex
perienced and shameless courte
san who engages in acts of love-
making and displays passion in
public without restraint or mod
esty.”
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