Texas
A&M
University
Che Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1963
Number 182
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WARMING UP FOR COMPETITION
A&M’s famous Fish Drill Team prepares for upcoming drill meets in the Spring.
Former Drill Team Members
To Stage Competition Here
BY GLENN DROMGOOLE
The Association of Former Fish
Drill Team members is making
plans for holding the Texas A&M
Invitational Drill Meet here April
11.
Teams entered in the meet will
compete in one of two categories—
high school and college. About 30
high school groups and 20 college
units are expected to attend the
association’s first competition. The
TEXAS A&M
Corps Plays
Major Role
At University
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth of a series of six
articles ivhich will discuss the development of Texas A&M
and present facts that students interested in recruiting new
Aggies during the Christmas Holidays may find valuable.
We encourage Aggies to clip these factual articles for refer
ence in discussing A&M with high school seniors while at
home during the holidays. It is important for each of us
to do a selling job for A&M every chance we get.
Texas A&M University is classified by the United
States government as one of seven military college and uni
versities in the nation.
It is the largest single source of reserve officers in
the nation and its highly qualified students are eligible for
regular commissions the equal of those offered by West
Point and the Air Force Academy.
All students are required to take elementary training
in the Air Force or Army ROTC if they are under 21,
of sound body and a citizen of the United States.
Air Force cadets apply for enrollment in the ad
vanced course during their second year of basic air science.
They take the Air Force Officer Qualification Test and
those who qualify are given a physical examination. Ad
vance course cadets are deferred from draft by the
Selective Service.
They receive uniforms and approximately $500 during
their two years in the program.
During the summer between the first and second years
of the advanced course, the cadet attends a four-week sum
mer camp on an Air Force base.
During his senior year, a cadet who has applied for
Air Force pilot training after graduation is given 36V2
hours of flight training in light aircraft and 35 hours of
ground school.
Flight training is provided at the University by an
FFA approved flying school operator, and upon successful
completion the student is eligible for a private pilots license.
If a student is admitted to the advanced course, he
must agree to accept a commission as an officer in the Air
Force Reserve.
He must also agree to serve on active duty for not
less than four years after being commissioned, or, if apply
ing for flight training either as a pilot or as a navigator, he
must agree to serve for four years upon completion of
flight training.
While the four year Army ROTC program normally
leads to a reserve commission, the Army relies upon this
source for half of the new Regular Army Officers appointed
each year.
The Army program is a general military science curri
culum and under the Distinguished Military Graduate pro
gram, interested cadets may apply for regular commissions.
Under the terms of the contract, Army program grad
uates are required to serve for two years in the Regular
Army and for four years with the Army Reserve.
Branch assignments for regular and reserve com
missions are made by the Department of the Army and are
based on the curriculum of the student’s major field of
study, student preference, leadership and technical quali
fications.
In the words of former President Dwight D. Eisen
hower, “ROTC is a ready-made course, designed and per
fected to develop the qualities of leadership required in both
military and civil enterprise.”
This is part of A&M’s goal in the future.
organization has invited 104 drill
teams from all over the United
States.
Two of the colleges which have
already accepted the group’s invi
tation are the University of Illi
nois and Arizona State University.
A&M’s Fish Drill Team was or
ganized in 1947 and has become
one of the foremost competitors in
contest marching. They are
praised wherever they go for their
military bearing. Their sharp dress
off the field of competition as well
as on has had a demoralizing ef
fect on their competitors in past
years.
The famous unit, which is com
posed entirely of freshmen stu
dents at A&M University, includes
39 marching members, a command
ing officer, an executive officer, a
right guide and a guidon bearer.
Presently, the team has 15 alter
nates.
The cadets began tryouts for the
Fish Drill Team during the third
week of the Fall semester, with
about 500 freshmen seeking posi
tions on the team. Within two
weeks this number was cut to 90
and by Christmas to 55.
Most of the group’s activities
are held the second semester as
they enter nation-wide drill com
petition. Already this year, how
ever, the team has piled up first
place honors in the Bryan Christ
mas Parade and second place in
competition at the University of
Houston. The freshmen have been
seen in action at various reviews
and marchings this semester, as
well as during the halftime cere
monies of the Twelfth Man Bowl
game Tuesday night.
The team gets into rigid compe
tition immediately after the begin
ning of the second semester, as
they travel to Tucson, Ariz., to en
ter the Sun City Drill Competition.
Entering the event for the first
time, the cadets may have an op
portunity to appear on national
television as well as visit the na
tion’s capital city.
Sun City’s top three performers
might be selected to appear on the
(See DRILL TEAM, Page 3)
Auto Accidents Take
Lives Of Two Aggies
Fall Final Exam Schedule
The following final exam schedule is being run in The
Battalion to enable students to make plans during the
Christmas holidays concerning their individual schedules.
Finals will be held the week of Jan. 20-25.
Date
Hours
Class
Monday
8-11 a.m.
MWF8
1-4 p.m.
TThSFl
Tuesday
8-11 p.m.
MWF9
1-4 p.m.
MWThl
Wednesday
8-11 a.m.
MWF10
1-4 p.m.
TF1
Thursday
8-11 a.m.
MSTThlO
1-4 p.m.
MWTh2
Friday
8-11 a.m.
MWF11
1-4 p.m.
M4TThll
Saturday
8-11 a.m.
TTh9F2
1-4 p.m.
TF2, TWF3,
or TThF3
Kennedy Assassin
Muffed One Shot
BY FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON <A>) — The first
shot fired by John F. Kennedy’s
assassin struck the President in
the back and did not hit any vital
organ, a reliable source familiar
with autopsy findings reported
Tuesday night.
The second bullet to hit Kennedy.
—after another struck Gov. John
B. Connally—tore through the late
President’s skull and proved fatal.
If this account of the two
wounds suffered by Kennedy in
Dallas, Tex., on Nov. 22 is correct,
it would suggest that the mur
dered chief executive did, very
briefly, have a chance to survive
after the first bullet struck him.
Motion picture films of the as
sassination indicate there was a
lag of five or six seconds between
the firing of the first shot and
the third, which struck Kennedy in
the head. Had the President fall
en to the floor of his limousine, or
been pushed there, before the third
shot was fired, he might have es
caped death and serious injury.
The first bullet made what was
described as a small, neat wound
in the back and penetrated two or
three inches.
A source said that this bullet
struck no vital organs and was
Hensarling Obtains
Advisory Position
Dr. Paul Hensarling, head of
the Department of Education and
Psychology, has been appointed to
the College Advisory Committee of
the Texas Association of School
Administrators b y Association
President S. M. Anderson of Big
Spring.
Hensarling and six other men
from as many Texas colleges and
universities from the committee
which will meet in Austin Jan. 8.
The committee members are
deans or chairmen from institu
tions of higher learning offering
approved programs in superinten
dent preparation.
Powell To Become
New KK Director
Ed E. Powell has been named as
new director of the university's
Campus Security Office. He will
replace Fred Hickman, who re
signed earlier this month, effec
tive Jan. 1.
Powell’s appointment was an
nounced by Bennie A. Zinn, di
rector of student affairs.
A veteran law enforcement of
ficer, Powell served as a patrol
man for 15 years with the Texas
Department of Public Safety in
Abilene and was elected to two
terms as sheriff of Taylor County
before joining the staff.
The Plainview native joined the
police training program of the
Engineering Extension Service in
1957. He has a total of 26 years
of law enforcement work.
AS A POLICE training school
instructor, Powell conducted class
es at many police centers over
Texas and at A&M. He has
taught such subjects as investiga
tion, public relations, traffic, crim
inal and other police matters at
the various schools.
After 15 years with the DPS,
Powell became sheriff in Abilene
and served from 1952-56. A Hard-
in-Simmons University graduate,
he taught in public schools in
Archer City, Carbon and a con
solidated school near Wichita
Falls before joining the DPS.
POWELL ATTENDED public
schools in Abilene and Wichita
Falls. He captained basketball and
football teams at Wichita Falls,
earning a total of seven letters in
both sports.
Married and father of four,
Powell will take over the 10-man
police force in January.
not likely to have inflicted a fatal
wound.
He raised the possibility that it
might have ricocheted off some
portion of the limousine before
striking the President because it
did not penetrate deeply.
The second bullet to strike Ken
nedy, the source said, entered the
back of the skull and tore open
his forehead.
Ethiopia Talk Given
The Agricultural Economics
Club hosted Ivan H. Schmedemann
of the Department of Agricultural
Economics and Sociology at a
meeting last night in the Physics
Building.
Schmedemann showed slides to
the group and talked of his trip to
Ethiopia recently, where he served
as an instructor in the new Ethio
pian College of Agriculture and
Mechanics.
The college is jointly sponsored
by the United States, Ethiopia and
Oklahoma State University.
Silver Taps Set
For Wednesday
Silver Taps will be sounded tonight for two Aggies who
died within a 24-hour period Tuesday. James P. Jenrette, a
graduate meteorology student, died in Bryan’s St. Joseph
Hospital at 8:15 Tuesday night from injuries received in a
one-car accident Sunday night on North College Avenue.
Edward Leroy Lewis, 23, died in an automobile accident just
outside Giddings Tuesday night.
Jenrette, a 38-year-old Air Force Captain, was injured
when his car went out of control and struck a parked car,
a roadside sign and a utility pole. He was taken to St. Joseph
Hospital and reported in serious condition Sunday night,
he had received numerous lacerations and bruises.
Lewis, a mangement major*
from Odessa, worked part
time for the Union Insurance
Co. and was returning from a
business trip to San Marcos
at the time of the accident.
Jenrette was working on his doc
torate degree in meteorology at
A&M and was to have completed
his instruction in February. He
was attending school under the Air
Force’s Institute of Technology
Program.
His death was the second Bryan
auto death within 24 hours. Until
that time Bryan had gone since
June 22, 1962, without a fatal auto
accident in its city limits. A North
Fort Hood Hospital nurse from
Killeen, Miss Dorothy Gertrude
Heath, was killed Monday when
her car collided with a Texas
Highway Department truck just
inside the city limits on Highway
21 East.
Jenrette’s survivors include, his
wife, Mrs. Jacquline Jenrette; his
Graff To Speak
On JFK 9 s Death
A special Christmas program
will be held at the Presbyterian
Student Center Wednesday at 7:15
p.m.
Along with the refreshments
and fellowship, Dean Graff, who
was in Russia last month, will dis
cuss the Russian people’s reaction
to the assassination of Kennedy.
‘But I Don 7 Want The Job, ’
Mayor Pleads With Voters
CHESTERTOWN, Md. CP) — Philip G. Wilmer has
convinced the residents of Chestertown he doesn’t want
to be their mayor.
Wilmer served as mayor for 28 years. He filed in only
two of the 14 elections, but won the other 12 on write-in
votes. In 1953 no one filed and Wilmer won with 11 write-
ins. Each time, Wilmer said he wouldn’t accept, but stayed.
Chestertown residents finally took Wilmer at his word
in Monday’s election. Two men filed for the position, and
David C. Haacke defeated Herbert F. Ward 213-149.
Wilmer got three write-in votes.
mother, Mrs. J. D. Jenrette of Wil
mington, N. C. and three children.
Lewis’ survivors include, his
wife, Mrs. Brenda Lewis, who
works in the Fiscal Department on
the A&M campus; and his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Lewis of
Odessa.
Arrangements are pending for
the two funeral services.
Hospital Reports
Dees Improving
Allan William Dees II, 21, was
still reported in good condition at
St. Joseph Hospital Tuesday night
after receiving multiple head and
internal injuries when he was
struck by a car on Farm Road 60
in College Station about midnight
Saturday.
The senior electrical engineering
major from Kaufman was struck
by a vehicle driven by Gilbert
Horton Forehand of Haynesville,
La. as he was walking “with the
traffic” and near the esplanade,
according to assistant College Sta
tion Police Chief Melvin O. Lued-
ke. No charges have been filed.
B&U Announces
New Office Chief
Lee R. Johnson of Bryan is the
new office manager of the De
partment of Buildings and Utili
ties, Supt. Walter H. Parson, Jr.,
announced recently.
Johnson assumed the duties
formerly handled by D. T. Whitt,
now assistant superintendent for
operations.
The new A&M employee had
been with the Singer Co. for more
than two years and managed the
Bryan store for more than a year.
He is a native of Belton and was
graduated from high school in
1955. In 1959 he received the BBA
degree from the University of
Texas.
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Nike Missile System
Shown here are the Nike-Ajax and Nike- day. State Adjutant General Thomas S.
Hercules. They a part of the State Ad- Bishop and four members of his staff
jutant General’s exhibit which accompanied briefed cadets on the current roles and sta-
him to the A&M campus Monday and Tues- tus of the Texas Army and Air Guard.