Cbe Battalion iH,
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY MAY 14, 1964
Number 47
Congratulations SWC Champions
Pictured are the 1964 Southwest Conference baseball champion Tex
as Aggies. Top row, left to right, are: Coach Tom Chandler, Mike
McClure, Jerry Ballard, Fred Carlton, Billy Crain, Lance Cobb, Alan
BEST IN THE SOUTHWEST
Koonce, Jerry Pizzitola, George Hargett, Richard Beller, Bill Han
cock, equipment manager S. M. Meeks, manager Ed Hannigan,
manager Bobby Mohr. Bottom row, left to right; Steve Hillhouse,
Bill Grochett, batboy Harry Perkins, DeWayne Stewart, Chuck Mc
Guire, Johnny Lee, Ronnie Byrd, Marvin Dawkins, Robert Mc
Adams, Johnny Crain, Neal Thompson, Frank Stark.
i Cuban Exiles
! Capture Port
i In Homeland
UP)—A Cuban exile organization said Wednesday night
its war against Fidel Castro’s regime began Wednesday with
temporary capture of a port in eastern Cuba and demolition
of a large sugar mill after a pitched battle with Castro’s
forces.
The Revolutionary Recovery
Movement-RRM — issued its “first
war communique” and revealed
that guerrilla forces already in
Cuba joined “commandos, frog
men, combat engineers, signal
corps units and torpedo units” and
took the port of Pilon, on the
southern coast of Oriente Prov
ince, by force.
The attacking forces, the com
munique said, held the port of Pil
on and declared it “free territory
of Cuba” while the raiding engi
neers “completed its task of sabo
tage and demonlition at the Cabo
Cruz sugar mill.”
Prime Minister Fidel Castro
charged the attack on Puerto Pilon
was “ a new and vandal action of
the United States government.”
He issued a communique here
saying the attack was “launched
from a pirate ship of the Rex
type.”
RRM said there would be other
similar raids “immeditely” and
two other action groups have been
‘Pinky’ Awarded
Veteran Citiation
P. L. “Pinky” Downs Jr., offi
cial greeter at A&M University,
received a special citation Tues
day from the Temple Veterans’
Administration Center.
Downs was cited for his long
time service to hospitalized veter
ans by Dr. S. J. Muirhead, VA
Center director.
The Aggie greeter makes annual
arrangements for a busload of vet
erans to attend an A&M football
game. Each Christmas he super
vises collection of fruit for the VA
hospital.
saying for weeks that they too
would be fighting soon on Cuban
soil. May 20 is the aniversary of
Cuban independence.
The RRM is one of the larger
exile organizations and a mem-
of the Cuban Revolutionary Coun
cil which sponsored the illfated
Bay of Pigs invasion.
Doggett Named
‘Boy Of Year’
Michael Doggett, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Doggett of
Bryan, was selected Boy of the
Year Tuesday night.
The Bryan Boy’s Club cited
young Doggett for his participa
tion in the local organization, his
serious mindedness and his humble
attitude.
Mrs. M. L. Parker Jr., secretary
of the club and chairman of the
awards committee, presented Dog
gett with a trophy.
In taking the honor, the Bryan
youth was chosen from five nomi
nees for the award.
The sophomore at Stephen F.
Austin High School is a “B” stu
dent. He joined the local club
when it first originated here.
His hobbies tinclude coin col
lecting, reading and sports— es
pecially baseball, handball and
track.
About 250 adults and 50 club
members attended the club’s an
nual awards banquet.
The boy’s father is employed by
the A&M University Dining Hall
system.
Final Exam Schedule
So that all A&M students may plan their end-of-semes-
ter activities. The Battalion again publishes the following
final exam schedule.
Monday, May 25 8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
Tuesday, May 26 8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
Wednesday, May 27 8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
Thursday, May 28 8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
Friday, May 29 8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
Saturday, May 30 8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
Classes meeting MWF8
Classes meeting TThSFl
Classes meeting MWF9
Classes meeting MWThl
Classes meeting MWF10
Classes meeting TF1
Classes meeting M3TThl0
Classes meeting MWTh2
Classes meeting MWF11
Classes meeting M4TThll
Classes meeting TTh9F2
Classes meeting TF2, or
TWF3, or TThFS
Ring Dance To Highlight
Big Weekend For Seniors
A LITTLE RELAXATION
T-Association initiates take a break between after washing cars at U-Wash-M in Bryan,
phases of their initiation Wednesday night
UH Still Seeks Membership
HOUSTON UP) — A Univer
sity of Houston official said Wed
nesday the school will press its
efforts to become a member of
the Southwest Conference.
“We are determined to pursue
this matter until the inevitable
time when the University of Hous
ton is a member of the Southwest
Conference,” said Corbin J. Ro
bertson, vice chairman of the
Board of Regents.
Robertson addressed a meet
ing of a University of Houston
athletic booster group.
The university was denied mem
bership in the eight-school confer
ence at the spring meeting in Lub
bock. Conference officials said the
league is large enough.
“Call to mind,” Robertson said,
“how closely the statement of the
Southwest Conference in Lubbock
dovetails with their previous atti
tude toward Texas Tech the latest
school to join. And I think no
one will question that Tech has
made a fine member and helped
to achieve the fine reputation the
conference now enjoys.
“In other words, their minds can
and have changed.”
“Notice that no one now ques
tions our academic standing or ath
letic program,” he said. “Let it
suffice to say that the University
of Houston meets every conceiv
able standard for conference mem
bership.”
Robertson mentioned Rice Uni
versity’s decision not to sponsor
Three aerospace engineering
seniors received awards Tuesday
night at the annual American
Institute of Aeronautics and As
tronautics and Sigma Gamma
Tau awards banquet.
Robert C. Burk, Leawood, Kan.,
received the outstanding achieve
ment award for his contributions
to the chapter and his academic
record. He is the outgoing treas
urer of Sigma Gamma Tau, the
Honor Society for Aerospace En
gineers.
Guy J. Sherrill, Shreveport, La.,
was cited for submitting the top
the Cougars for membership in the
conference.
“I share the concern that has
been expressed in print as to the
bitterness that a long drawn-out
fight between the two Houston
institutions would develop,” he said.
Robertson agreed to suggestions
the boards of the two universities
should meet. “There are certain
ly areas of compromise,” he said.
undergraduate research paper of
the year. His research involved
the control of aircraft wheel rim
fragments which often result in
extensive damage after the loss
of a tire. Sherrill’s proposed
solution called for a high-strength
steel binding to prevent frag
ments from reaching critical
areas.
The other award was presented
to James F. Setchell, Ennis Tex.
He received a certificate of ap
preciation for his work as local
AIAA chapter president.
Sigma Gamma Tau Honors 3
Press Clubbers
Choose Beauties
By BOB SCHULZ
Associate Editor
Seniors and their dates will dance to the music of Buddy
Brock and his band as the Class of ’64 observes the annual
Ring Dance Saturday night at 8 in Sbisa Hall.
The theme of the dance is, appropriately, “Bon Voyage.”
Decorations for this theme have been handled by Head Yell
Leader Mike Marlow.
The dance will be preceded by the Senior Banquet, to be
held in Duncan Dining Hall at 6 p. m. Featured speaker for
the dinner is Bob Murphy, Nacogdoches lawyer who has be
come noted as an after-dinner speaker for his “Tales from
East Texas. Banquet tickets are no longer on sale. Dance
tickets, however, will be available until Friday afternoon.
Activities at the Ring Dance —
will include, naturally, dancing,
the Ring Ceremony and the an
nouncing of the 1964 Vanity Fair
winners.
The Brock orchestra is the larg
est group every to play for an
A&M dance. Murphy also uses a
small combo when the larger group
takes an intermission. This ar
rangement will provide continuous
music throughout the dance.
The Vanity Fair beauties will
be chosen at the annual A&M
Press Club banquet Friday. They
will not be notified until the an
nouncement at the Ring Dance.
The Press Club Banquet is for
the faculty, staff and students in
volved in the various branches
of Student Publications and In
formation.
Seniors are reminded to check
their dance tickets for the times
at which they may have their pic
tures made. Each ticket is num
bered, and times are listed for the
calling of the numbers for pic
tures.
Other activities for the week
end include the All-Sports Banquet
to be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday in
Sbisa Hall and the Town Hall per
formance of Pete Fountain that
same night at 8. Date tickets
for the show will be on sale Fri
day at the Student Programs Of
fice in the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
Several committees have worked
on preparations for the Ring
Dance. Committees and chairmen
are: David. C. Anderson, class
president and general chairman;
Dance Chairman, Richard L. Rail-
ston, class social secretary; Ban
quet Chairman, Stanley R. Wylie,
class historian.
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
THE HAGUE, Netherlands —
Secretary of State Dean Rusk ask
ed France on Wednesday to come
forward with any changes Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle wants in
the structure of the Atlantic Alli
ance.
In a secret meeting of alliance
foreign ministers, Rusk appealed
for unity at a moment when the
alliance is strained by the mount
ing Greek-Turkish dispute over Cy
prus and de Gaulle’s lone wolf
policies.
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — The Sen
ate was thrown into a political
tailspin Wednesday by a propo
sal that it include itself in the
Bobby Baker investigation.
Sen. John J. Williams, R-Del.,
broke into the dawdling civil
rights debate with a resolution
proposing that the Baker in
quiry be broadened to include
‘'any illegal, immoral, or im
proper activities” by senators.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barry
Goldwater said Wednesday night
the United States should take the
lead in applying economic and poli
tical pressure “to change the Com
munist plan.”
“In fact I think we ought to
use every peaceful means avail
able for calling freedom’s tune,”
the Arizona senator said in re
marks taped for a nationwide CBS
television program.