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Beauties Vie For Crown BY MIKE REYNOLDS Battalion Staff Writer Seven beauties from all over the state will vie for the title of Air Force Sweetheart at the Air Force Ball Friday night at the Ram ad a Inn. The girls, chosen from en trants submitted by Air Force Cadets, will face another judg ing before the Sweetheart Selec tion Committee during the dance that will last from 8 until 12 >.m. The committee consists of Richard Railston, Frank Kiol- bassa and Gerald Siegelin. Pamela Knapp, former South ern Methodist University Fresh man Football Queen and escort ed by Ray Jones of Squadron 6, is from Dallas and stands 5’6” tall, and has black hair. Sherrie Pendergrast, a stu- rent at Southwest Texas State in San Marcos is escorted by Jim Schnabel. Miss Sharon Lee Spellman is escorted by Jan A. Linsey. The brunette stands 5’4” tall, and is also a student at San Marcos. Miss Gayla Schwarting, hails from Bellaire and is escorted by Leonard R. Barker. Joyce Haley, 5’8” tall, brown eyed, brown haired and a resi dent of Beaumont. She will be escorted by John H. Allen. Barbara Kay, a resident of Buda, Texas, and a student at Southern Methodist, is 5’3” tall with blonde hair and green eyes. She will be escorted by Joe Bowles. Margaret Fore, a student at North Texas State in Denton, will be presented by Douglas Hewett. The blonde senior stands 5’7” tall. Admission to the ball will be free to all Air Force cadets, stat ed Kiolbassa. Army seniors will also be admitted for a fee of $3, he continued. Dates will be furnished with orchid corsages free of charge. Music for the ball will be fur nished by Buddy Brock and his orchestra. The guest list for the ball will include Chancellor M. T. Har rington, President Earl Rudder and James P. Hannigan, Dean of Students, and all Department of Military and Air Science In structors. Students and faculty attending the dance have been asked to park in the south parking lot of the Ramada Inn. This lot should be entered from the Sulphur Springs Highway. Railston is the head of the dance committee. A1 Simmons is in charge of decorations for the ball and Bill Setchell co-ordi nates finances. James Fox is in charge of the publicity for the ball. SHARON SPELLMAN Escort, Jan Linsey BARBARA KAY Escort, Joe Bowles PAN KNAPP Escort, Ray Jones S. PENDERGRAST Escort, Jim Schnabel JOYCE HALEY Escort, John Allen GAYLA SCHWARTING Escort, Leonard Barker Cbe Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1963 Number 176 Alcoholism Talk Set For Monday A lecture on alcoholism to be presented by the Sociology Club, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m., Tues day, in the auditorium of the new Architectural Building according to the club’s president, Larry San- derlin. The free lecture, to which the public has been invited, will be presented by Mrs. Frances A. Robertson, executive director of the Houston Council on Alcoholism. The program will begin with the showing of a short movie, “For Those Who Drink.” Follow ing the film, Mrs. Robertson will discuss the social consequences of alcoholism. THE HOUSTON COUNCIL, like the National Council on Alcohol ism, with which it is affiliated, bases its program on the theme that alcoholism is a treatable di sease, ranking among the four ma jor health threats in the U.S. to day. Mrs. Robertson, a resident of Houston for 28 years, has dealt with alcoholics professionally for MARGARET FORE Escort, Doug Hewett A gg JFK tes To With Honor Wreath BY GLENN DROMGOOLE Battalion News Editor Frank Muller, Junior Class pres ident, announced Thursday night to the Student Senate that a trib ute to the late John F. Kennedy has been planned for the Christ mas holidays. A wreath will be placed on the late President’s grave during a short ceremony by Muller and oth er Aggies of the Washington, D.C., area. Muller said that about 120 stu dents live in and around Washing- Governor Praises State Court Probe DALLAS (A*) — Gov. John Con- nally said Thursday the state court of inquiry into President Kennedy’s assassination “can and perhaps will shed great light on many details now unknown to the public.” The governor did on this point when ne not expand met with newsmen in his first general news YMCA Will Wrap Gifts For Students The YMCA has made plans to help Aggies wrap their Christ mas presents again this year, annnounced Gordon Gay, general secretary of the YMCA. The wrapping will be done free of charge for both gifts and packages for the mail, said Gay. Wrapping materials will also be furnished. Aggies are urged to bring their gifts by early so that the wrappers will not be pressed, continued Gay. The song books of Christmas carols are also ready and some outfits have already picked them up at the front desk of the YMCA, announced Lannie Jack- son, the organization’s president. “We are happy to try to add a little to the boys’ Christmas enjoyment,” concluded Gay. conference since he and the presi dent were shot Nov. 22. The governor went home from the hospital Thursday. Obviously more severely wounded than pre viously disclosed. Connally said he does not ex pect to return to his office in Austin this month. THE GOVERNOR was in the same automobile with Kennedy when they were shot, police say, by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was killed two days later by Jack Ruby, Dallas night club owner. Connally said he does not know if he will regain full, use of his right hand and wrist. The bullet plowed through Con- nally’s chest, through his wrist and embedded itself in a thigh. HE LEFT THE HOSPITAL in a wheel shair, his arm in a sling. On arrival at Austin he walked down the plane ramp and into a terminal building. Connally, 46, said doctors have informed him his chest is in ex cellent shape, but “my wrist looks like it will be a long, suffering thing. It will be in a cast for 90 days and it will be six months before it will be finally determined whether I will have Tull use of my right hand and wrist.” Ruby, charged with murder for the slaying of Oswald, remained in jail without bond. His trial is scheduled for Feb. 3. His at torney said he will ask for a sanity trial before a jury. ton, two-thirds of whom are in the Corps. “Several students have men tioned to me that it would be ap propriate for us to do something to honor him,” Muller noted. In other Senate business, Allan Peterson, chairman of the Senate’s student welfare committee, an nounced the final results of this year’s Campus Chest campaign. A&M students gave $2,223.21 which, although it fell far short of the original goal of $5,000, exceed ed last year’s contributions by $300. Peterson said 22 student groups were 100 per cent, with Squadron 13 winning the plaque for contri butions over 100 per cent. Muller also pointed out to the Senate that students should be re minded of the penalty that will be assessed if they are caught with even the intent of defacing or re moving materials from a rival campus. The president of the Class of ’65 cited as an example the recent sus pension of eight students for ar riving on the University of Texas campus with the intent of painting the lights in the school’s famed tower. Shelley Veselka, head of the election commission, named Ray mond Porter to replace Michael R. Walker as one of the freshmen Senators. Walker was one of the students suspended early this week. 11 years. Her volunteer activities in the field stem back 17 years. She has attended the Yale School of Alcoholic Studies and has re turned there for subsequent re fresher courses. She has also at tended training courses for execu tives of local councils, offered jointly by Columbia Teachers Col lege and the National Council on Alcoholism. She has since served as a facul ty member of the Columbia school. She has lead numerous workshops on the study of alcoholism, includ ing ones sponsored by The Texas Institute for Alcohol Studies in Austin and the National Council on Alcoholism in New York. THE OPEN LECTURE is the first activity of general public in terest sponsored by the Sociology Club session, according to Sander- lin. Other events of campus-wide and community-wide interest are are being planned for later meet ings in the ’63-64 school year. Other officers of the Sociology Club are Michael Hayes, vice presi dent; and Robert Miller, secretary- treasurer. Representatives to the Agricultural Student Council are the club president and John Hy man. Seagoing Ags Planning Cruise Today 9 s Thought It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too to check up once in a while and be sure you haven’t lost the things money can’t buy— George Horace Lorimer. TMA Announces Cruise Vacancies There will be several vacancies for the spring cruise of the Texas Maritime Academy, Capt. Bennett M. Dodson, superintendent an nounced. These vacancies may be filled by qualified freshmen. Freshmen interested in the TMA program should contact the Of fice of the Superintendent in Room 210, YMCA Building. CouneilmenElected By Annex Students Students living at the Research and Development Annex recently elected representatives to the An nex Council. The Council of 17 members was formed to coordinate all student activities of the annex which do not come under the jurisdiction of the Civilian Student Council or the Student Senate. Officers of the Annex Council are V. W. Howard, president; Gary Blinka, vice - president; Howard Pumpelly, secretary - treasurer; James R. Hatton, chaplain; and Paul Hubert, intramural manager. Pennsylvania Prof To Address Group The eighth annual meeting of the Texas chapter of the American Studies Association will be held Saturday in the Memorial Student Center. The association is composed of professors in the fields of eco nomics, history, literature and phi losophy. Theme of the conclave is “The American Identity: The Develop ment of Domestic and Foreign Concepts of the American Nation al Character.” Registration begins at 9 a.m. in the MSC assembly room, with the morning session getting underway at 9:45. Nine college and university pro fessors will present papers at Sat urday’s meeting. Following a noon smorgasbord meal, Robert E. Spiller of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania and for mer president of the national asso ciation will speak on the subject Camera Committee To Sponsor Campus Photography Contest Charles Beal, chairman of the MSC Camera Committee has an nounced that it is currently spon soring a “Snapshop Contest,” with students, faculty members and staff members invited to enter. As many pictures as desired, on whatever subjects, and in any size of print may be entered. Pictures should be turned in to the Student Program Office in the MSC with the entrant’s name and address on the back. Since these snapshots will be given to the Aggieland, it would be helpful if the time, location, and a description of what is going on was to be added on the back of the pictures, the chairman said. The deadline for this contest is Jan. 17, 1964. Winners will be announced by the Camera Com mittee on Feb. 17, and dis played in the MSC from Feb. 17 through 23. To make things interesting, prizes of $10, $5, and $2.50 will be awarded to the first, second, and third-place winners, respect fully, Beal said. Honorable men tion snapshots will be awarded a roll of black or white film. “Attitudes Toward International Relations.” Spiller has been a visiting Ful- bright professor at the Universi ties of Oslo and of London. He is the author of three books and edi tor of two others. Students Depart From New School Texas Maritime Academy cadets, the seagoing students of A&M University, will board ship Feb. 1 for a more than two-month cruise into tropical ports and northward to Maine, Capt. Bennett M. Dodson, academy superintendent, announced Friday. “These training cruises provide excellent opportunities for cadets to prepare for their future roles as seagoing of ficers, as well as to visit interesting ports of the world," Capt. Dodson said. The 1964 cruise for the TMA cadets begins at Galveston, where the Academy is located,, and includes calls to ports in Colombia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Several Carib bean Islands. The 1963 cruise was made to European ports by TMA cadets who now are sopho mores in the original class of the Academy. TMA FRESHMEN attend class es on campus, while upperclassmen live at the academy in Galveston. Cadets aboard training ship for cruises carry out a variety of dut- ties and also attend special class es to further their education. The cruises are an integrad part of the Academy’s program, the only pro gram of its type on the Gulf of Mexico coast. “The sophomores will find on this cruise that their responsibili ties have increased,” Capt. Dod son said. “Typical of their duties will be firing ship’s boilers and operation of steam turbines, navi gation by celestial bodies (‘shoot ing stars' to compile the ship’s position) and doing ship handling in actual situations.” THE SOPHOMORES will find on their final cruise, to be made in the summer of 1965, that they will be expected to operate the ship in all its facets. This quali fies them in part for the U. S. Coast Guard examination for the licenses required in order to serve aboard ships of the U. S. Mar- chant Marine as third mates or third assistant engineers. The upcoming cruise will be made aboard the training ship State of Maine as “working guests” of the Maine Maritime Academy. The cruises last sum mer was made aboard the New York State Maritime College train ing ship Empire State IV. Plans call for the Texas Mari time Academy training ship, which already has been obtained, to be placed in operation when there are sufficient classes of TMA cadets to fully man the ship. Capt. Dodson said the 1964 cruise which commences in Gal veston will be to the ports of Cart agena, Colombia; Willemstadt, Curacao; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and then to Castine, Me., home port of that maritime academy. The second leg of the cruise will begin two weeks later and include calls at Charlotte-Amalie, St. Thomas in the Virgin Island group; Bridgetown, Barbados; Aruba, Netherland West Indies; and then to Galveston. A Moving Conference George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, for civil rights legislation, sits in the car with President Johnson be fore leaving Johnson’s northwest Washing ton home for a ride to the White House. During the ride Meany told the President he could count on organized labor’s support They also dis cussed an expanded retraining program to equip unemployed to handle available jobs and aid to chronically depressed areas. (AP Wirephoto)