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By The Associated Press
Texas Republicans, spurred to a
0 skyhigh enthusiasm by party fa
vorites including 1 a member of
national ticket, turned their
state convention Tuesday into a
folly to kick off campaigning for
Hie November elections.
“Sen. Barry Goldwater and I
in the weeks ahead will wage the
most vigorous campaign we know
' 10w ” vice presidential nominee
it William Miller told the 4,200 dele
gates and spectators jammed into
Municipal auditorium.
We are convinced this elec
tion isn’t going to be decided by
columnists or the pollsters
■ j hy the people of the nation.”
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New Corps ‘Standard’
evises Cadet Policy
GIVE ’EM . . . WHOOPS, THERE’S THAT STANDARD
Charles Michie interrupts Layne Connevey before Fish David Leese has the dirt swept
Texas GOP Hears Miller;
State Demos Open Conclave
The filling of vacancies in the
udent Senate will be the chief
tk ’ su ® discussed at the Senate’s
L! T in Room 30 of the Mem-
Wsda^^ Center at 7:30 P- m -
The offices to be filled are those
L j. lc stations chairman and
, erp rd ' ng secretary. The offices
a Cm- acated by Eugene Gregory,
Ten« PS Student from Union City.
'ivilian a f d j J ‘ Donald B owen, a
an stu< dent from Abilene.
forTw^^f listed on the agenda
*Pnoinf ay 8 meetin S include the
Jmtaent of committees, a re-
« t he 12th Man Bow ,
M Jay Jay-
th e «; or , x 3, re P° rt on revision of
6 ^ ons i'ii' u hion by student
e chairman Jim ah^
,re Prarii 11 at of ^i cers ^on the year
aid p , Mull er, president; Ron-
Vman’ VlCe ; president ; David
im A1 parliainentar ian and
t haim 1 ^ A tman ’ stu 4ent welfare
Miliar
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feet with cheers and jeers as he
derided President Johnson and his
running mate, Sen. Hubert Hum
phrey of Minnesota.
Miller’s charge that the John
sons inserted an anti-Negro clause
in a deed, to Austin land elicited
cries of happy surprise and a
standing ovation led by a Negro
delegate.
Miller’s 40-minute speech al
most overshadowed the conven
tion’s primary task; writing a
platform for gubernatorial nom
inee Jack Crichton of Dallas
★ ★ ★
Texas Democrats sped through
an unspectacular state convention
Tuesday, pausing occasionally for
brief bursts of applause for Presi
dent Johnson and other Democratic
nominees.
The major tasks of adopting a
party platform and selecting party
officers were accomplished with
out a test vote of the 5,669 dele
gates or a voice raised in argu
ment from the convention floor.
Many delegates and most spec
tators deserted the hall during the
final droning minutes.
The convention lasted three hours
Placement Service
Slates Orientation
Job prospects and the operation
of the placement service for grad
uating students will be outlined
at meetings next week, announced
W. R. Horsley, placement officer.
Seniors and graduate students
are invited to attend one of the
meetings at 4 p.m. on Sept. 22, 23
and 24 in the Memorial Student
Center Assembly Room.
“The first on-campus interviews
for graduating students are sched
uled here by prospective employers
for the week of Oct. 12,” Horsley
said.
Students unable to attend have
been urged to contact Horsley’s
office on the third floor of the
YMCA Building.
and 17 minutes with Gov. John
Connally calling all signals with
out a bobble or worried moment.
“This is the type of convention
I like,” Connally said later, with
a grin.
Sen. Ralph Yarborough, whose
supporters challenged Connally un
successfully at the first state con
vention in June, was not present.
He was in Dallas Monday night for
a big campaign fund dinner but
returned to Washington Tuesday
for a Senate vote.
By LARRY JERDEN
Staff Writer
When the Corps of Cadets be
gan their operations for the 1964-
65 school year, they did so under a
completely revised set of rules.
“The Cadence,” “Aggie Code of
Honor,” “Social Customs,” “Cadet
Code of Conduct” and ‘Articles of
the Cadet Corps” have all been in
corporated in “The Standard.”
This new Corps guidebook is
divided into two sections, “Cad
ence” and “Articles of the Cadet
Corps.”
The “Cadence” section gives a
brief history of the university
and presents the tradition of the
institution and the Cadet Corps.
It also lists, in its code of conduct,
the high ideals expected of every
cadet. In both the “Cadence” and
the “Articles,” high moral stand
ards and integrity are held before
cadets as the Aggie way of life.
See editorial on Page 2.
Some changes have been made
in the “Articles,” and the overall
effect is considered a great im
provement over the previous stand
ards. As in any change some of
the new regulations will be ex
tremely unpopular among the ca
dets.
One long-time source of trouble
in the Corps has been the incon-
Information Staff
Adds Britt Martin
Britt Martin, a 29-year-old news
man with a collection of top writ
ing honors, has joined the A&M
University information staff, di
rector Jim Lindsey has announced.
Martin moved here this week
from The Dallas Times Herald
where he was assistant county edi
tor. He was formerly city editor
and columnist for the Bryan Daily
Eagle.
Martin has several journalism
awards to his credit. He won
first place in headline writing in
the Associated Press Managing
Editors Contest in 1962 and honor
able memtion in 1963 in spot news
coverage while with the Eagle.
While at Paris, Martin was a
member of a news team which
received special national recogni
tion from the Associated Press for
coverage of a school bus wreck
near Cooper in which a number
of students from Mount Vernon
died. He won several APME
awards for sports news and column
writing while with the Paris News.
He was chairman of the selection
committee for high school baseball
coach of the year in 1962, and
served on several all-state commit
tees in football, baseball and has-
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
Moscow r. In . terna Gonal
^Pariese rerrder Khrushchev told a visiting
Net Unfon u mCntary gr ° Up Tuesday tha t th e
•festrovinc as deve ^°Ped new weapons capable
“e an hf e on garth.
SenLaf rn 1 ?i T , Y ~~T 0p directors of the Vatican
0t thia third CU ° rdered greater secrecy Tuesday
‘ sho Ps to work k° U ^ Cl1 session and exhorted the
arder to bring th council to an end.
( SAN JUAN x* * . *
t," 1 tw o unidentif- 6 ^ 0 RlC °— Machine -g un blasts
|>ter afir e ai ,d f .n boats set a Spanisb
t a n 'ght att u 1 6<d Rs cap t a in and two officers
>sday. aUack east of Cuba, survivors said
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U* 8 sta lemate ^ enate headed into a deep-
res Tuesdav V6r . reapport * onrne nt of state legis-
b-te sSd 1 re t r 0ne b ° th * to-sh a
he $3.3-billj r he 1SSUe and having the fate
onlion foreign aid bill in doubt.
w D ETRoi T _ r * * ★
JL f Co - and ne e° tiat ions between Ford
^ptgd f e nited Auto Workers were
‘•'ousaM I"'?: f ‘ Ve h °'‘ rs Tues ^ a y when
Pord ’s huge p>: Workers staged a wildcat strike
se River Rouge plant.
PE KENN *DY, *Fla._*reside„t Johnson,
ketball. He was chairman of the
District 6-AAA sportswriters As
sociation for two years and secre
tary of the Lamar County Base
ball League. He is a former sports
editor of the Sulphur Springs Tele
gram.
Martin is a member of the pro
fessional chapter of Sigma Delta
Chi, national journalism fraterni
ty, in Houston. He is also a mem
ber of the Southwest Basketball
Officials Association.
sistancy among the outfits of
various “outfit policies.” Article
9-10, if followed, should go far
in limiting this condition. It says,
in part, “No cadet commander or
any other cadet will publish “pol
icies’ . . . that are in any way
in conflict or supplementary to
these Articles without prior ap
proval of the Commandant.”
Another change in the “Articles”
involves the role of sophomores
in the training and disciplining
of freshmen. Article 9-11 states
that “. . . Third classmen . . . will
not give orders, instruct or dis
cipline privates of the class jun
ior to them, except to cadets of
their own respective units . . . and
then only when specified by their
unit commander and when acting
as a squad leader or assistant
squad leader.
Another condition which has
been emphasized is the enforce
ment of soliciting in the dorms
during call to quarters. This prac
tice is expressly prohibited in
Article 12.
Drinking is, by many Aggie, con-
Changes Noted
For Phones
A new alteration has been added
to the proposed all-campus tele
phone system that has a timetable
for 1966, Dr. Clark C. Munroe, di
rector of the Personnel Office,
commented Tuesday.
“It was first proposed that all
university dormitory rooms would
have a telephone, but the plan
now reads that only a part of the
university dorms will have tele
phones installed,” Munroe con
tinued.
This plan was resolved to help
students who did not desire phones
in their rooms and for those who
would be unable to pay for the
telephone service charge. Present
estimate indicate the room tele
phone service will cost between $3
and $3.75 a month, but the exact
cost has not yet been determined.
The timetable hinges on the new
proposed library which will be
built soon. Because the Centrex
Telephone System will be installed
in the library, the telephone serv
ice will have to follow the course
set by library completion.
The Centrex Telephone System
is the complex operating device
which will handle the campus calls
plus all local and out of town
connections.
This system was first designed
to be installed in the Academic
Building, but the cost of re-build-
Industrial Development Meet
To Open Sessions Thursday
making a 91-minute visit to Cape Kennedy while
Republican rival Barry Goldwater toured neighbor
ing Florida cities, said Tuesday the United States
“cannot be second in space and first in the world.”
★ ★ ★
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Sen. Barry Goldwater
said Tuesday night pampering of criminals by the
courts must be stopped and a president should con
sider this in making appointments to a “closely
divided Supreme Court.”
★ ★ ★
NEW YORK—CBS News reported Tuesday night
Sen. Strom Thurmond, D.-S.C., States’ Rights party
candidate for president in 1948, will announce
Wednesday his support of Sen. Barry Goldwater,
R.-Ariz., for president.
Texas
DALLAS—President Lyndon Johnson will speak
in Dallas and Fort Worth next month, his Texas
campaign director said Tuesday.
The campaign leader, Hunter McLean, said he
anticipates the President will speak also in Houston
and San Antonio “and possibly other cities” during
a political visit to his native state.
★ ★ ★
DALLAS—The robber who held up the Lakewood
State Bank Monday and escaped briefly with $15,000
was not John McCormick of Rochester, N. Y., Dallas
police said Tuesday.
“That was just a name the guy pulled out of
the air,” a policeman said.
A Dallas electronics executive
will be the spotlighted speaker for
the opening luncheon of the 14th
annual Texas Industrial Develop
ment conference Thursday at the
Ramada Inn.
Robert McCulloch, chairman of
the executive committee of Ling-
Temco-Vaught Inc., of Dallas, will
address an estimated 250-300 in
dustrial developers.
Registration will begin at 8 a.m.
Thursday for the conference. A&M
University President Earl Rud
der will welcome the group and
Arthur A. Smith, vice president
and economist of First National
of Dallas, will open the conference
at 9:20 a.m. with a discussion of
past, present and future econo
mic trends.
Other top executives scheduled
to speak during the two-day con
ference include Paul R. Thompson,
a General Electric Co. official;
John B. Turner Jr., Humble Oil
and Refining Co.; L. C. AuBuchon,
regional buyer for Sears Roe
buck & Co., Dallas, and Harry W.
Clark, executive director of the
Texas Industrial Commission, Aus
tin.
Conference director is James R.
Bradley, head of A&M’s Industrial
Economics Research Division.
ing would exceed the proposed
plan estimate. The Academic
Building was also picked because
the system is designed for the
most centrally located spot, but
even with the added material to
be used in the library system,
the cost would still be less than
the re-building apd repairing of
the Academic Building, Munroe
noted.
The Centrex system will be
placed in the library basement
where no student activity will be
held.
Munroe added, “For those who
want telephones, they will be avail
able and telephones will be a great
help to everybody—students and
administration.”
“This is a new trend. Michigan
State and Texas have a similar
system and more will be going into
it in the future,” he added.
sidered “good bull,” but Article 27
states in its entirity “Any degree
of drunkeness or disorderly con
duct resulting therefrom is a Cate
gory I offense.” This type of of
fense is punishable by action of
the Commandant or higher univer
sity authority. The article on
drunkenness makes no mention of
time, place or circumstances.
For perhaps the first time in
the history of the Corps, all auth
orized unit details are outlined in
the “Articles.” This artcile, along
with the one concerning outfit
policies, should insure uniform
operations throughout the Corps,
cadets have said.
Also detailed in the “Articles”
are all the authorized privileges
of each class. Seniors are, by
Article 59-6 authorized to wear
“Bull Peaks,” a privilege long
taken, but never printed.
Most of the other changes have
been the removal of certain other
traditions and privileges. One of
extreme unpopularity according to
some upperclassmen is the regula
tion concerning the green shirt and
pants for juniors.
The green pants are unauthor
ized and 10 demerits are awarded
to any cadet who violates this di
rective. The green shirt is op
tional for first and second class-
men. It is, according to Article
59-2a, an optional Class B uni
form. Article 59-6i states, how
ever, that whenever the green shirt
is worn, it will be worn with the
khaki tie.
“The Standard” is a virtually
complete outline of Corps proce
dures, privileges and punishments.
Bryan High School
Holds Adult Classes
The fall session of the Adult
Education Program at Stephen F.
Austin High School has been an
nounced by John Lucas, director
of the program.
Registration begins Wednesday
at Stephen F. Austin High School
and classes start Sept. 28. Classes
will meet each Monday, Tuesday
and Thursday at 6 p.m.
The evening school of the Adult
Education Division of the Bryan
Public Schools was organized to
offer all adults in the surrounding
communities the same educational
opportunities available to those
who attend the Bryan high schools.
The evening school is open to any
person 16 years of age or older
who is not attending any high
school during the day and who
wishes to further his knowledge or
skill by additional study.
Courses will be offered in most
approved high school subjects, in
cluding English, history, govern
ment, science, mathematics, book
keeping, typing, shorthand and art.
A new course in principles of
design will be added this year.
The course will include analysis
and application of the principles
of design and the use of lines,
shapes, space, color and texture.
The study of design will be applied
according to the interests and
backgrounds of those taking the
3 Grad Assistants
Hired For English
Three graduate assistants have
been added to the Department of
English faculty, according to Dr.
John Q. Anderson, department
head.
The students are all studying
for their master’s degrees here
and bring the total to eight teach
ing assistants and two non-teach
ing assistants hired by the depart-
this year.
The newly-appointed assistants
are David E. White of Big Sandy,
Roberta L. Hursey of Flagstaff,
Ariz., and Dan D. Mast of Poplar
Bluff, Mo.
Force Ra COTnmendatk>n e ’Medals r Monday A t r r ', 8h -’ f ° r their achievem ents with the
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