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LIBRARY F. F. 12 COPIES *19000 $ 12, OOO $ IO, OOO $ 6.000 *6,000 *4,000 *2,000 ,s l A Goal Other Than Football Mrs. Dana Marable, student publications receptionist, gazes at the $19,000 goal on one of the College Station United Chest “Thermometers”. Breakfast Starts UF Toward Goal The 10-day College Station United Fund Campaign was off to a running start Tuesday. • Half of the 90 workers attending a kickoff breakfast in Memorial Student Center pledged one day’s pay to the drive. Total pledges at the breakfast hit $1,945 or more than “♦■IO per cent of the $19,000 goal, Pieter Groot, treasurer, reported. Who Who Deadline Set Forms for the nomination of stu dents to be listed in “Who’s Who Among Students in American Uni versities” must be filed not later than Thursday, Dean of Students James P. Hannigan announced. Thirty-seven will be chosen as the nominees from A&M. Completed forms may be left at the Memorial Student Center, the Housing, Commandant’s and Dean Hannigan’s offices. Nomination blanks are available at these of fices or from deans and other mem bers of the University Executive Committee. “All that is needed to make the nomination is to fill in the name of the nominees,” Dean Hannigan said. The Who’s Who Selection Com mittee composed of nine students, faculty and staff members will screen the nominees and late in October submit a list from A&M. Each of the 15 members of the Board of Directors pledged a day’s pay, Chest President J. M. Hen dricks announced in opening the breakfast program. The workers received reporting instructions from H. L. Hunt, Jr., campaign director. “The campaign is an opportunity for the community to ban together for the good of mankind,” he de clared. Fifteen agencies will share in the Chest funds this year. Hunt challenged the workers to make all of the contacts possible the first day of the campaign. “‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’ should be the philosophy of the fund solicitor,” he said. “We should recognize people are blessed when they give in response to a request.” Hunt urged community residents to “determine in your heart what your personal committment should be.” “Have a personal desire to see College Station become an even better community in which to live and work,” he appealed. Polls Remain Open Until 6 For 3 Senate Seats Polls will remain open until 6 tonight for elections to fill three vacancies on the Student Senate, reported Charles E. Wal lace, election chairman. The three positions opened are recording secretary, senior repre sentative from the School of Engineering and sophomore rep resentative from the School of Agriculture. Only one student filed for the recording secretary position. This portion of the election is opened for all students to vote, includ ing graduate students. The filing was accepted from Daniel H. Fischer. The two other positions have two candidates filing for each opening. Fliing for the position of sen ior representative from the School of Engineering were Michael Wier and Richard Moore, while Eugene Riser and Eddie Joe Davis filed for the opening for sopho more representative from the School of Agriculture. Only students in senior level in the School of Engineering will be eligible to vote for the two candi dates in that field, while only sophomores in the School of Agriculture can vote for that position. Voting polls are placed in the hall in front of the Gift Shop in the Memorial Student Center. “Before students will be allow ed to cast their vote, they will have to present their identifica tion cards,” said Wallace. Che Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1964 Number 75 Soviet Expert To Speak Predicted A-Ban, Sino-Soviet Rift A commentator and speaker on relations with the Soviet Union and Red China, will address students and faculty as the first speaker for the 1964-65 Great Issues Series. Leon Volkov, top level expert on Soviet affairs, will speak at 8 p. m. Tuesday in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. As Soviet Affairs editor for Newsweek magazine, Volkov follows Soviet dignitaries on tours of the United States. He was the first observer in the American press to detect the first stages of the Sino-Soviet rift in 1958. Volkov accurate ly predicted Premier Khrush chev would seek a partial test- ban agreement. In addition to covering regular meetings with diplomatic officials dealing with Soviet affairs, he also covers all U. S. - USSR cultural exchange events, meeting perform ing artists, writers and scientists traveling under the program. A playwright of note, Volkov has had three plays produced off Broadway with subsequent pro ductions at Harvard, in England and Denmark. Two of his plays were produced on Moscow’s professional stage be fore World War II. The Russian-born writer served in the Red Air Force during World War II, ending the war as a lieu tenant colonel. In August, 1945, while on a Soviet military mission in Germany, Volkov parachuted to safety in the French zone from a plane that crashed and .left few survivors. First French reports said all occupants of the plane were killed. Volkov’s escape served as a basis for William L. White’s “Land of Milk and Honey.” Later, under a pseudonym, Volkov wrote a series of articles for the Saturday Even ing Post entitled “Stalin thinks I’m Dead.” His latest article for the Post is called “The Intellectual Ferment Behind the Iron Curtain.” His articles also have been pub lished in the Reader’s Digest, Look, Pageant, Commentary and the Brit ish literary magazine, Encounter. A&M students will be admitted to the address with student activi ty books. Other admission is $1 for adults and 50 cents for public school students and Aggie wives. Noted Army General To See Corps Review The World at a Glance By The Associated Press International UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—The United States pledged full cooperation Monday in seeing that diplomats accredited to the United Nations are given full protection on the streets of New York. But it took issue with an Asian-African charge that the latest incident involving an African diplomat was racially motivated. ★ ★ ★ VATICAN CITY—Seven cardinals—three Ameri cans, three Europeans and a Canadian—launched a Vatican Ecumenical Council drive today for a strong Homan Catholic declaration clearing Jews of sole fesponsibility for the crucifixion of Christ. National WASHINGTON—Beville Development Corp. of Port Worth, is the successful bidder to construct a post office in Bryan, the Post Office Department said today. The building, to cost an estimated $280,000, will be leased to the government for 20 years at an annual rental of $27,816, the department said. The department announced also it will seek bids, to be opened Nov. 30, for a post office at Hubbard, Tex., and bids, to be opened Dec. 4, for a post office at DeKalb, Tex. ★ ★ ★ PORTLAND, Maine—President Johnson got a Wild, roaring welcome in New England today and responded by delivering more than a dozen off-the- cuff speeches in a little more than an hour. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—The Senate, by voice vote with only two over the quorum of 51 members present, passed legislation Monday to expand the military Reserve Officers Training Corps for both colleges and high schools. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—The senate approved Monday a constitutional amendment which provides a method for filling the office of vice president when a vacancy occurs, as is the situation now. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—Sen. Barry Goldwater, key noting an old-fashioned whistle-stop hunt for votes, charged Monday night that President Johnson is “burning up taxpayers’ money a mile a minute” in his quest for election. ★ ★ ★ Texas WICHITA FALLS—Robert Oswald, 30, brother of the accused assassin of President John F. Ken nedy, said today that while he agrees with the Warren Commission report, one question still is unanswered. “I can’t help feeling that somehow someone originated the idea in Lee’s mind, either directly or indirectly,” he said. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—Texas Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr said Monday he would give Gov. John Connally a report early next week on Texas’ role in the investigation of President Kennedy’s assassination. ★ ★ ★ HOUSTON—Mayor Louie Welch said today he has asked and secured the resignation at once of Police Chief Hobson McGill. “I requested the resignation of Chief McGill, subsequent to our conference relating to the recent federal grand jury indictments,” the mayor said. VOLKOV The Commanding General of the Continental Army of the United States will review the Corps of Ca dets Saturday. General Hugh P. Harris will watch the march of the Corps at 10 a.m., following a briefing by Dean of Students James P. Hanni gan and the Department of Mili tary Science. Following the re view, General Harris will brunch with cadet leaders before attending a luncheon at Briarcrest Country Club honoring J. B. Hervey, former executive secretary of the Associa tion of Former Students. A briefing for General Harris is scheduled Saturday afternoon by Tom Cherry, director of business affairs, and Dr. W. J. Graff, dean of instruction. with the executive committee and special guests at the Memorial Stu dent Center on campus. Mrs. Harris will receive infor mation about the University from Mrs. Earl Rudder, wife of the pres ident, and the, wives of the deans Friday afternoon. General Harris assumed com mand of the U. S. Continental Ar my last March 1 after serving as commanding general of the Sev- S. Army since November, 1962. Prior to that time, he com manded the I Corps in Korea from Aug. 15, 1961, following an assign ment as commanding general of the U. S. Army Infantry Center. and the U. S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. T'he general holds the Distin- Medal with Metal Pendant with one Oak Leaf Cluster. A native of Anderson, Ala., Har ris was graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1931. He ad vanced through various assign ments and became Assistant G3 of the Airborne Command at Fort Bragg, N. C., during combat prep arations of the 82nd, 101st, 11th and 17th Airborne Divisions and of eight separate airborne combat teams. He was Army maneuver direc tor for the joint Army-Air Force exercises held by these troops prior to their departure overseas. Later he spent three months as War Department observer during Allied operations in North Africa and served on several official General Harris will fly to Eas- terwood Airport Friday morning and be the honoree at a luncheon guished Service Medal, Silver Star, boards which developed and deter- Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf mined combat doctrine to be used Clusters, and the Commendation by airborne forces. 2 Arrested On Bribery Charge A&M Student, Staffer Apprehended By GLENN DROMGOOLE An A&M foreign student was released from custody of the Bra zos County Sheriff’s Office early Tuesday after posting $1,000 bail on the charge of bribing a state official. Suphachai Weopraslrt, 22, of Thailand, was named Friday by Campus Security in the alleged bribery of Lynn Ray Carter, an assistant registrar. Carter, 25, has been charged with accepting a bribe while an employee of a state agency. He was released Monday after post ing $1,000 bond with Justice of the Peace Jess McGee. The arrests followed a tv/o- week investigation by Campus Security officers and Texas Ran ger O. L. Luther of Bryan. Carter allegedly took advant age of his position with the Data Processing Center to make changes on Weoprasirt’s grade record. Carter, at the time of the alleged offense, was a tabulating equipment operator in the center. He was moved to the assistant registrar’s post Sept. 1. Registrar H. L. Heaton sus pended Carter Thursday. The incident supposedly occur red following the 1964 spring semester. Carter is alleged to have accepted $100 from the Thai land student in exchange for changing a failing grade to a passing grade. Two checks for $50 each from Weoprasirt were deposited in Carter’s bank account on June 22 and July 15 respectively, in vestigating officers said. The charges were filed by County Atty. Brooks Gofer Jr. with McGee after investigating officers discovered the checks from Weoprasirt to Carter. Dr. John M. Nance, head of the Department of History and Government, discovered the grade discrepancy when he compared his department’s records with the registrar’s records. Both men are awaiting 85th District Court grand jury action. Carter will be represented by former district judge W. S. Bar ron of Bryan. Weoprasirt’s at torney had not been named Tues day. Penalties upon conviction could be from 30 days to 10 years in prison for Carter and 30 days to five years for Weoprasirt. Fines could range from $500 to $5,000. LYNDA BIRD, TOO Muller Gets Invite To Dine With LBJ Student Senate President Frank M. Muller Jr. has been invited by President Lyndon B. Johnson to a White House reception and buffet dinner at 5 p.m. Saturday, Presi dent Earl Rudder announced Mon day. Muller, a senior majoring in English, has earned honors as a scholar, cadet and student leader. Muller is among “a group of stu dent leaders from representative colleges and universities through out the country” to attend the re ception. “I was flabbergasted,” Muller said of his invitation. “Elated” and “chance of a lifetime” were other immediate reactions. President Johnson, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Sec retary of Labor Willard Wirtz and Ambassador Adlai Stevenson will speak to the students. President and Mrs. Johnson will host the reception and their daugh ter, Lynda, will be hostess for the buffet dinner and entertainment. “I have a great interest in the young leaders who are emerging in our colleges and would like to get to know them and their think ing as much as I can,” the Presi dent wrote in a letter to A&M. Muller plans to leave here about 6:15 a.m. Friday and will fly to Washington to visit his family. A Lovely Way To Fill A Laundry Bag Miss Carol Lucas, of Medina, Ohio, started a new campus fad when she made a shift from a laundry bag sent to her by a special Aggie friend, sophomore John Happ Jr. of Squadron 12. Miss Lucas is an 18-year-old freshman at Bowling Green State University. CSC Keys Ready For DS Civilians Bennie Zinn, student affairs director, has announced that all who were civilian students dur ing the spring semester of 1964 and whose names appeared on the “Distingiushed Student” list may report to the Student Af fairs office and secure a “Dis tinguished Student” key. ID cards are necessary for identiifcation. The keys are gifts of the Civilian Student Council. MULLER