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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1964
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Seagoing Ags
To End Cruise
In Galveston
Stories of skindiving in tropical
waters and visits to Caribbean
ports will be told Saturday as Tex
as Maritime Academy cadets land
at Galveston to complete a 10-
week cruise.
Pleasure with results of the
cruise has been expressed by Capt.
Bennett M. Dodson, skipper of the
academy, seagoing branch of A&M
University.
The training ship State of Maine
will dock in Galveston at 8 a.m.
Saturday, Dodson said.
The Aggies have been “working
guests” aboard the Maine Mari
time Academy ship.
Midshipmen’s reports on the
cruise follow.
Midshipmen D. S. Miller of Dal
las and W. W. Radican of Wake
Village tell of standing watch:
Miller and other engineering cadets
in the engine room, and Radican
and other future deck officers on
the bridge.
Navigation training and plenty
of practice sessions are among
Radican’s memories. There also
has been “chipping, scraping, paint
ing and the other maintenance
work that never ceases,” Radican
said.
Midshipman R. B. Ellis Jr., of
Richmond, Calif., says Willemstad,
Curacao, the Dutch island off
South America, swung open its
Queen Emma Pontoon Bridge to
admit the training ship, Ellis re
ported. Cadets were honored with
a reception by the American con
sul at the Roosevelt House,” he
reported.
Midshipman M. E. Resner of
LaMarque described skindiving
from the beaches of St. Thomas,
Virgin Islands in his logbook.
The Texas and Maine cadets were
guests of the mayor of San Juan,
recalled Midshipman L. M. New
man III of Bryan.
“The reception was held on the
balcony of an ancient colonial
mansion, Newman said.
The Maine cadets hosted the
Texans in their homes while the
ship was docked at Castine, Me.
The Aggies toured parts of New
England, Midshipman R. C. Schul-
theis of Houston reported.
JANICE WILLENBORG
SUSIE SANDERS
DOLLY STILES
JOANNE SHIPMAN
CAROL LYNN VOELKEL
CONNIE LEWELLEN
PATRICIA ANN PARKER
One Of 14 Girls
To Be Sweetheart
These young beauties are sev
en of the 14 finalists for Civi
lian Sweetheart to be named
this weekend at the Civilian Stu
dent Ball.
The 14 finalists will be pre
sented at a barbecue in the
Grove at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
The girls, each nominated by a
dorm or housing unit, will again
be presented and the winner
named at the ball Saturday at
9:30 p.m.
Music for the dance will be
furnished by Jimmy Heap and
the Melody Masters. The theme
of the semi-formal dance will be
Casino-Gambling, Dancing and
Roulette.
Phi Eta Sigma To Host Fish
By DONALD HOOKS
Special Writer
Forty-two freshmen at A&M
University will be honored April
22 at a banquet sponsored by Phi
Eta Sigma, national scholastic hon
or society.
First-year students must have a
grade point ratio of 2.5 and must
be enrolled for at least 13 semes
ter hours in order to qualify for
the honor fraternity.
The A&M chapter was founded in
1949, making it the oldest such
organization on campus.
Ransdell emphasized that the
purpose of the society is to “en
courage scholarship.
“Generally, campus leaders were
in the society as freshmen,” he
added.
The initiates include:
Penn D. Baggett, accounting,
Ozona; David M. Barton, pre-law,
Midland; Robert Allen Beene, aero
space engineering, Joshua; Donald
P. Burney, pre-med, Corpus Christi;
Gregory S. Carter, civil engineer
ing, San Antonio; Edward D. Chau-
viere, architecture, Waco; James
Dudley Chipps, physics, New York;
John Macklin Cook, chemistry, Tex
arkana; Leonard D. Cooper, archi
tecture, Houston;
Thomas M. Defrank, journalism,
Arlington; William T. Dinwiddie,
chemistry, Topeka, Kansas; Louis
‘Great Betrayal’ Revealed
By 1954 Mac Arthur Talk
NEW YORK GP)—The late Gen.
of the Army Douglas MacArthur,
in a secret interview, was quoted
Wednesday as saying the Chinese
Communists entered the Korean
War “after being assured by the
British that MacArthur would be
hamstrung and could not effec
tively oppose them.”
Jim Lucas, in a copyright story
for the Scripps-Howard Newspa
pers, said MacArthur told him in
1954: “On several occasions dur
ing the Korean War he had the
Communists in the ‘palm of my
hand’ and could have crushed them
but was circumvented by the per
fidy of the British and by con
stant harassment and interference
from Washington.”
“He referred to this as the great
betrayal, a story he said was un
matched in history but ‘will never
be told while I am alive,” Lucas
added.
“He said every message he sent
to Washington and every message
Washington sent to him was
shown to the British by the State
Department and that, within 48
hours, was relayed by the British,
either through India or through
the Russian Embassy in London,
to the Chinese Communists.
“Thus he said, the Chinese Com
munists knew in advance every
step he proposed to take. “At
Wake Island in October 1950, Gen.
MacArthur said, he told President
Truman that if the Chinese Com
munists intervened in Korea, he
Would let them cross the Yalu
River and then bomb their bridges
behind them, cutting their supply
lines and causing them to starve
a while before being destroyed.
“He insists this strategy was
relayed by the British to the Chi
nese Communists with assurances
he—MacArthur—would not be per
mitted to do any such thing.”
There was little immediate com
ment on the MacArthur interview.
In Washington, State Depart
ment press officer Richard I. Phil
lips said: “I would not think of
making a comment on this pur
ported statement at any time and
particularly at this time.”
A British Embassy spokesman
in Washington said, “We think
the story is unfounded.”
MacArthur died Sunday at the
age of 84. His body was brought
AID Slates
A&M Support
The A&M University System
has been given a $3,207,138 con
tract to furnish support to the
Agency for International Develop
ment in the United States’ foreign
assistance effort, the State De
partment has announced.
Support by the A&M system
will include education, business ad
ministration, agriculture and home
economics. AID has contracted
with A&M University for $794,-
661 in agriculture services.
Contracts totaling $5,336,293
have been made with A&M and
two other Texas schools. The Uni
versity of Texas will provide $205,-
925 in Education-language serv
ices to China and $400,000 in edu
cation to Iraq. The University of
Houston will furnish Ecuador edu
cational services amounting to
$727,569.
AID, with university assistance,
is helping to start in foreign coun
tries new programs within estab
lished universities, modernizing
academic programs in others and
—in some instances—helping cre
ate new institutions. Assistance is
given in curriculum development
or establishing educational stand
ards and, occasionally, direct class
room instruction while the staff
of nationals is being trained. AID
also works with foreign govern
ment agencies such as the minis
try of agriculture and health.
to New York but returned Wed
nesday to Washington, prepara
tory to interment in Norfolk, Va.
Lucas, winner of a Pulitzer
Prize for Korean War reporting,
now is covering the war in South
Viet Nam.
He said he spent about two
hours with MacArthur on Jan. 20,
1954, as the five-star general ap
proached his 74th birthday.
The Scripps-Howard Newspa
pers said in an editorial note:
“Jim wrote for his editors a memo
on that interview, which has rest
ed in his office files all these
years, since Jim felt honor-bound
not to report any of it as long as
Gen. MacArthur was alive.”
Lucas wrote of MacArthur: “In
cidentally, he was extremely bitter
about published reports he had as
sured Truman the Chinese would
not intervene in Korea—a state
ment he insists he did not make—
and regards it as part of a ‘leftist
press’ plot to discredit him.”
MacArthur was critical of many
of the Americans he dealt with
during the Korean War, among
them President Truman.
Lucas writes: “Gen. MacArthur
frequently expressed bitterness
when he spoke of Truman, but
he paid him grudging respect as
‘a man of raw courage and guts.
The little bastard honestly be
lieves he is a patriot.’
“By accident, he said, Truman
was in Independence, Mo., the day
the North Koreans invaded the
south and he ‘reacted instinctive
ly, like the gutter fighter he is—
and you’ve got to admire him.’
“Once Truman was back in
Washington, Gen. MacArthur said,
‘Dean Acheson, secretary of state,
brought him back under control.’ ”
In Independence, a spokesman
for Truman said the former presi
dent “will not engage in any com
ment of rebuttal.” Truman re
lieved MacArthur of his command
during the Korean War in an his
toric dispute.
DeWayne Eidson, electrical engi
neering, Morton, 111.; Humberto
Fossati, electrical engineering, La
Paz, Bolivia; Ralph A. Frederick,
electrical engineering, San Angelo;
Pedro Garza, pre-law, Santa Rose;
William Wade Gordon, pre-vet, San
Antonio; William E. Groce, chemi
cal engineering, Houston;
Edward V. Hannigan, pre-med.,
Galveston; Daniel Hatzenbuehler,
architecture, Dallas; James Barry
Heath, mechanical engineering,
Ozona; Richard Allen Hickman,
electrical engineering, Shreveport,
La.; Robert Allen Holcomb, pre-
med., Ft. Worth; Bruce L. Hopper,
mechanical engineering, Manches
ter, Conn.; Robert Alvin Houze,
meteorology, College Station; Er
nest M. Hudgens, industrial educa
tion, Lufkin;
Kenneth C. Love, pre-vet, Cor
sicana; Jim Bob Mitchell, govern
ment, Amarillo; Philip Lynn New
ton, aerospace engineering, Stet-
sonville, Wis.; Sammy Wray Pear
son, math, Calvert; Robert W.
Plsek Jr., meteorology, West;
Charles N. Robertson, electrical en
gineering, Texas City; Roland M.
Roudon, pre-vet., Ft. Worth.
Kurt Alan Schember, math. Col
lege Station; Charles E. Scherbel,
physics, Bryan; Jose Eduardo Ser
na, industrial engineering, Nueva
Rosita, Mexico; Robert M. Starnes,
mechanical engineering, Dallas;
Gerald Adron Teel, electrical engi
neering, Baytown; Neal C. Ward,
animal science, Ozona;
Ira Dan Westerfield, math, Craw
ford; James Henry White Jr.,
aerospace engineering, New York;
Haskell E. Wright, architecture,
Texarkana, and Ralph R. Young,
pre-med, Bryan.
Educational Group
Hears New Ideas
AUSTIN (JP) — A high Calif
ornia educational official told
Gov. John Connally and his
“Committee of 25” Wednesday a
1960 revision of his state’s high
er education structure “has saved
us from extravagances and has
improved education.”
Dr. Donald McLaughlin, chair
man of the board of regents of
the seven-school University of
California system, said the re
organization was recommended
by a committee similar to the
Texas group, which must present
Connally suggestions by Sept. 1
to improve higher education in
the state.
Tuesday, a subcommittee head
ed by Dallas industrialist Gifford
Johnson proposed to the full
committee that it recommend re
organization of Texas’ system of
public colleges, universities and
junior colleges along lines similar
to those of California.
Millican Project
Upheld By Court
AUSTIN, Tex. <A>) — The Texas
Supreme Court upheld Wednes
day, without a written opinion,
the State Water Commission’s
approval of construction of the
$65 million Millican Dam in Cen
tral Texas.
The court refused to hear ar
guments against the commission’s
decision. Lower courts ruled the
commission holding was final and
cannot be appealed.
Seven Brazos and Grimes Coun
ty landowners brought suit ques
tioning the federal project’s fea
sibility. They alleged the 88,000
acre reservoir, to be the second
largest wholly within the state,
would inundate their land. Their
suit was opposed by the cities
of Bryan, College Station and
Navasota.
The landowners also objected
that the Water Commission mem
bers should have been disqualified
because of an earlier expression
on the dam’s location. They
questioned the ability of the
Brazos River Authority to pay
$45 million to the federal govern
ment as the authority’s share of
the project’s cost.
An Austin district court deci
sion dismissing the landowners’
suit last April 23 was upheld Nov.
20 by the Third Court of Civil
Appeals here.
The reservoir is to have 2.4
million acre feet of conservation
storage. An acre foot is 325,851
gallons. The lake will cover an
area 39 miles long and 17 miles
wide at its broadest point.
The high court also ruled that
Austin Stewart, an East Texas
oilman, may continue to operate
two slanted oil wells because they
do not cross his lease line.
The 7-1 ruling reversed a de
cision by Dist, Judge Herman
Jones of Austin that Stewart’s
wells should be shut down.
Stewart applied to the Texas
Railroad Commission in 1962 for
approval of the bottomhole loca
tions of the wells, drilled in 1935
and 1940. The commission grant
ed the order, which was attack
ed in court by Humble, Tidewater
and Cities Service oil companies.
The Supreme Court’s majority
opinion, by Associate Justice
Clyde Smith, said the drilling
dates were prior to the commis
sion’s 1949 statewide order again
st deviated wells.
12 th Man Bowl
Set For 7:30
In G. Rollie
By LARRY R. JERDEN
Battalion Staff Writer
The second annual 12th Man
Bowl basketball game will get
underway at 7:30 p.m. Thursday
in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The game, sponsored by the
Student Senate and Civilian Stu
dent Council, is a benefit for the
12th Man scholarship fund. The
fund is used for an academic
scholarship.
The admission price is 50 cents
per person, and tickets may be
bought at the door.
The coaches are David Stiles for
the Corps and Bill Robinette for
the civilians.
The starting lineup for the corps
includes Raymond Stancil, Paul
Crank, Gary Bush, Mike Seago
and John Worst.
The starters are backed up by
Garland Boyd, Bob Englebert, Ric
hard Englebert, Ronnie Ayres, Bob
Sims, Carl Draebert, Mickey Star-
ek, Jim Schnabel, Ed Breding and
Hohn Poss.
Starting for the civilians will be
John Sparling, Henry Boxley, Pete
Catalina, Bennet Ghormley and
Gary Koonce.
Rounding out the civilian team
are Les Harris, Mike Moore, Mel
Meyers, Mike Stephens, Butch
Thompson, Pat McKinnis, Billy Uz-
zell, Ira Hillyer, Rick Spencer and
Bob Brown.
Dick Stringfellow and Lynn Mer
ritt will referree the contest, and
Cliff Hankins will run the clock.
4 Fish Cited
At Ag Banquet
The Moorman Manufacturing
Company honored five of its 1963-
64 A&M University freshman
scholarship winners at a banquet
here recently.
The winners all enrolled in the
College of Agriculture had previ
ously received $300 each in schol
arships.
They are Boyce B. Balfour of
Lindale, Roger D. Bippert of La-
Coste, Alfred M. Gilliat of Boeme,
Ronald M. Jones of Brownwood,
and Gerald M. Smith of Big Lake.
A&M College of Agriculture of
ficials attending were Dr. R. E.
Patterson, dean of agriculture; Dr.
H. O. Kunkel, associate director,
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station; Dr. G. M. Watkins, direc
tor of agricultural instruction, and
his assistant, Dr. R. C. Potts.
Also, Dr. W. J. Graff, dean of
instruction; R. M. Logan, assistant
director of student aid, and Dr. A.
B. Wooten, scholarship committee
member and associate professor in
the Department of Agricultural
Economics and Sociology.
Representing the Moorman Com
pany were O. W. Randolph of
Quincy, 111., manager of personnel
and public relations; Sid Carney
of Comanche, general manager;
Dwight Graham of Justin and Loel
Dene Cox of Comanche, state sales
managers; Edward P. Morrow of
Madisonville and Paul M. Dreiss
of Comfort, district sales mana
gers, and John M. Powell of Fort
Stockton, service specialist.
2 Aero Students
Set For Contest
Two A&M University aerospace
engineering students will present
research papers at an American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astro
nautics contest in Arlington April
22-25.
The papers, prepared by G. J.
Sherrill and Armand J. Chaput,
won local competition to compete
in the 12th annual North Texas
AIAA contest. Winners there will
receive awards of $75 to $150.
Sherrill’s research involves con
trol of. aircraft wheel rim frag
ments that often result in extensive
damage following the loss of a tire.
The proposed control method
uses high-strength steel binding to
prevent fragments from reaching
critical areas of the aircraft or
slow the fragments enough to ren
der them harmless.
Chaput, an Omaha, Neb. gradu
ate student, has experimented with
aluminum tubing to absorbing
energy. The feasibility of using
tubing to slow spacecrafts during
landing is part of the study.
There will be four eight minute
quarters.
The A&M Judo club, instructed
by Capt. L. R. Hewitt Jr. and Larry
Stephens, will perform at halftime.
Jim Butler, Battalion Sports
Editor, said that after watching
the workouts, he feels the civilians
should come out on top, but noted
that the Corps team won last year.
He said that the civilians have the
advantage of superior speed and
greater height, which should give
them the edge.
He added that the overall better
depth of the Corps should make
it a close and exciting contest.
Butler said he wished to thank
the varsity basketball team for
giving their time and talents to
help with the game.
MSC Discords
‘Lottery-Like’
Reservations
The Memorial Student Center
announced that it has discontinued
its long-standing policy of con
ducting lottery-like “drawings” for
reservations of MSC rooms for
football and other major events
on weekends.
All reservation requests for ma
jor events submitted by students,
parents of students and former
students will be handled on a first
come, first served basis, the Guest
Rooms office announced. The re
servations will not be taken for
more than one year in advance.
A deposit will still be required
of those persons receiving reserva
tions for major event weekends.
Unless this deposit is received not
later than two weeks prior to the
event, an automatic cancellation
will occur.
Requests that can not be filled
will be placed on a waiting list
and the person who made the re
quest will be notified two weeks
before the event should a room be
come available due to a cancella
tion.
Wire
Review
WORLD NEWS
By The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — The Dutch
royal family, first ruling monarchs
ever to visit Mexico, received a
warm welcome as they began a
ten-day tour of Mexico Wednesday.
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — President
Johnson, the last commander in
chief of Gen. of the Army Doug
las MacArthur, saluted his mem
ory with an impressive tribute
Wednesday as the celebrated
soldier’s body was carried to the
Capitol to lie in state.
It was placed on a black-
draped bier in the high-domed
rotunda where, last November,
President John F. Kennedy’s
body lay in state.
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of
Labor W. Willard Wirtz went into
emergency session Wednesday
night with union and carrier repre
sentatives in a government effort
to head off a nation-wide rail
strike.
Representatives of five train
operating unions and negotiators
for nearly 200 railroads sat down
with Wirtz shortly after 8 p.m.
EST. The walkout of more than
200,000 workers was threatened for
12:01 a.m. EST.
★ ★ ★
NEW YORK—A federal avia
tion official said Wednesday a
Pan American World Airways
jetliner was warned just before
it cracked up that it was com
ing into Kennedy Airport too
high.
All 145 persons aboard sur
vived, although 48 were injured
when the aircraft overshot its
runway Tuesday night and
snapped in two. A thick cushion
of mud on the scene and fastened
seat belts helped avert a disaster.