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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1964
Number 92
Savage Commands Fish Drill Team
58 Selected To Represent
A&M In National Meets
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.. . Sophomores Ken Korb, Richard Rowe and Richard Grossenbacher inspect the 1964-65 Fish Drill Team.
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Press Corps
Plane Carries
Stowaway
PITTSBURGH OP) — A stowa
way was taken into custody Tues
day night abroad a jet airliner that
carried the White House press
corps to Pittsburgh.
Secret Service agents traveling
abroad the plane took into custo
dy without charge a bespectacled,
mustached Negro man who vari
ously identified himself as a Bos
ton radio station sales represent
ative and “Chief Oceola of the
Seminole Indians.”
Searching the stowaway’s brief
case, agents found a clarinet
mouthpiece which they examined
with as much care as if it had been
a bomb fuse. They eventually con
cluded it was a harmless gadget.
The well-groomed man was hust
led from the chartered air liner
when it landed and driven away
in an Allegheny County Pittsburgh
police cruiser.
President Johnson, who made
campaign speeches in both cities,
was aboard ’another plane — his
regular Air Force transport.
Arts 9 Sciences Top
Enrollment Marks
The College of Arts and Sci
ences with an enrollment of 3,145
students has 38.17 per cent of the
8,239 students now enrolled at
A&M.
According to the fall enrollment
report released by the Director of
Admissions and Registrar, the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences has more
students enrolled than any other
A&M college. In the second place
was the College of Engineering
with 36.06 per cent and 2,971 stu
dents.
The College of Agriculture with
17.28 per cent and 1,424 students
is third and the College of Veter
inary Medicine with 7.4 per cent
and 610 students is fourth. In
fifth place with only 67 students
and making up 0.82 per cent is
the Texas Maritime Academy. The
Institute of Statistics has 22 stu
dents comprising .27 per cent of
the enrollment.
The report counted 2,253 fresh
men. Of this number 901 are in
the College of Engineering and
CAMPAIGN TRAILS
Johnson Criticizes
Barry’s ‘No’ Votes
By The Associated Press low income housing, against area
Preident Johnson said Tuesday
night Sen. Barry Goldwater “has
voted to cut out or cut down al
most every program of common
responsibility for anything.”
He did not refer to Goldwater
by name in a speech prepared
for a Democratic rally, but spoke
of the “opposition candidate.”
Johnson said the Goldwater
votes he has in mind range from
national defense to education to
social security, and he added:
“When he says ‘make social se
curity voluntary’ our answer is that
old age — and the sickness that
comes with it — is not voluntary.
We believe in more insurance, not
less.”
Johnson said Goldwater voted
a ?ainst urban renewal, against
Group To Consider
Club Aid Applicants
The Exchange Store Advisory
Board will meet at 7 p.m. Wednes-
% to consider application for the
annual disbursement of funds to
Various campus organizations, Dean
°f Students James P. Hannigan,
lioard chairman, announced. The
meeting will be held in Hannigan’s
office.
Recommendations of the ad
visory board will be forwarded to
die A&M Board of Directors for
their consideration at the Novem
ber board meeting, Dean Hannigan
said.
redevelopment, against aid to edu
cation.
“The opposition candidate in this
campaign has voted 25 times in the
past four years against major pro
posals which were in the 1960 Re
publican platform and were sup
ported by a majority of Republican
senators,” Johnson said.
Johnson said the great society
he talks about can become a real
ity — “and it’s going to be soon”
— when nobody in the country is
poor, “when every boy or girl in
his country can have all the edu
cation that a boy or girl can put
to good use.
“It’s the time when, every older
man or woman has not just social
security but meaning and purpose
and pleasure.
“It’s the time when there is a
job for everybody who wants to
work at a decent wage.
“It’s the time when every false
distinction — of what your race
is or your creed or your sex or
how you spell your name or where
your folks came from or how they
pray doesn’t make any difference.
“It’s the time when every slum
is gone and every city in America
is beautiful.
“It’s the time when man gains
full domain — under God — over
his own destiny.
“It’s the time of peace on earth
and good will among men.
“The place is here and the time
is now.”
749 in the College of Arts and
Sciences. The College of Agri
culture has 201 freshmen and the
College of Veterinary Medicine has
320 and the Texas Maritime Acad
emy has 32.
A&M now has 473 doctoral stu
dents and 834 masters candidates.
Of the doctoral students 165 are
in agriculture, 148 in engineering,
140 in arts and sciences, 10 in
veterinary medicine and 10 in sta
tistics.
There are 1,470 seniors, 1,395
juniors and 1,370 sophomores.
Consolidated
Expansion
I
Program Set
By LARRY JERDEN
Special Writer
W. T. Riedel, superintendent of
the A&M Consolidated School Dis
trict, said Tuesday that the expan
sion program resulting from last
year’s bond issue “will take care
of the high school and elementary
school for the next few years.”
He added, however, that the jun
ior high remains in crowded con
dition.
The bond issue, passed last Oct
ober, was for $250,000. Added
to this figure was $100,000 saved
from previous school budgets- and
some short-term loans which
brought the operating total to
$375,000.
Construction costs, both com
pleted and unfinished, are covered
by this sum, according to Riedel.
Riedel listed the new buildings
and improvements resulting from
the bonds and outlined future work
programs now under consideration.
Now in use is an eight-room addi
tion to College Hills Elementary
School; a new high school wing,
including three classrooms, a mod
ern language lab and a library;
a central administration building,
and the widening, paving, curbing
and guttering of Holly Street.
A new health and physical edu^
cation center, including a gym
nasium and classrooms, will be
completed and ready for use for
the high school by next September.
Reidel said the new construction
is now sufficient for the element
ary and high school. He noted,
however, that it was difficult to
predict the enrollment in the high
school from year-to-year.
Reidel said plans are being made
to construct an elementary school
at another site and make the A&M
Consolidater elementary facilities
available to the junior high.
“This program,” concluded Reidel,
“is still three to four years off.”
Students Have
2 Days To File
For SCONA X
Students interested in acting as
delegates to SCONA X may apply
through Friday in the office of
Wayne Stark, director of the
Memorial Student Center.
Twenty-four delegates will be
chosen by the two interviewing
committees. Of that number, 16
will be students from the United
States, and the remaining eight
will be international students. Late
Tuesday, 30 students had filed.
Stark said interested students
may apply at any time. Appli
cants can also choose an interview
time.
Committee No. 1 includes Chair
man Dr. Charles L. Boyd, Larry
A. Maddox, Dr. Albert L. Casey
and Ivan W. Schmedemann.
Committee No. 2 is being chaired
by Dr. William B. Letbetter. Mem
bers include Dr. Michael J. Francis,
Robert P. Knight and J. T. Rose.
SCONA X, or the 10th Student
Conference on National Affairs, is
scheduled Dec. 9-12 on the campus.
Students from 75 universities and
colleges in the United States, Mex
ico and Canada have been invited
to participate.
Invitation Deadline
J anuary graduates have been
reminded that Friday is the dead
line for ordering graduation invi
tations.
Students may order invitations
in the Student Finance Office, on
the lower level of the Memorial
Student Center, from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. daily. As a special service
the office will be open during noon
Friday.
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Managing Editor
Donald M. Savage of Fort
Worth has been chosen command
er of the Freshman Drill Team.
Other officers of the 58-cadet
unit are Jerry E. Bridges of
Shreveport, La., executive offi
cer; William F. Bailey of Galves
ton, guidon bearer, and Homero
Luis Gutierrez of Laredo, right
guide.
Malon Southerland of Houston
serves as senior advisor to the
all-freshman company which spe
cializes in fancy drill. Junior ad
visors are Ken Koch of San An
tonio and Dan Petty of Groves.
Dick Grossenbacher of San An
tonio, Marvin Simpson of Fort
Worth, Ken Korb of San Antonio
and Richard Rowe of Houston are
sophomore advisors.
Members of the 1964-65 Fresh
man Drill Team are Richard U.
Alvarez of San Antonio, Charles
W. Anderson of Fort W o r t h,
Wayne T. Armour of Libertyville,
111., Carl S. Ball of Arlington,
Jerry B. Barton of Dallas, Robert
B. Boldt of Tyler.
George D. Bond II of Newber
ry, Ore., Francil J. Bourgeois of
New Braunfels, Richard H. Brad
ford of Fort Worth, John J.
Bums of Edwards, Cal., Chris H.
Carlson of Mexia, Terry L. Carr
of Abilene, Sergei Ceyanes of
Miami, Fla., Walter Lee Cloyd of
Shreveport, Roger L. Collins of
Braintree, Mass.
Johnny O. Crespo of Wichita
Falls, Paul D. Cyr of Tarrant,
Ruben E. Delgado of San Antonio,
Jack W. Downing Jr. of West-
port, Conn.
Charles R. Doyle of Houston,
Stephen A. Eklund of Friends
wood, Thomas A. Freeze of Dal
las, John T. Fregia of Houston,
John E. French of San Antonio,
William York Frentzel II of San
Antonio, David Charles Gastinger
of San Antonio, William Craig
Glasscock of Georgetown, William
Littlejohn Goode of Shreveport,
Donald Charles Grevert of
Springfield, Va.
Richard Elliot Harlan of Dal
las, John Jeffery Harris of Ju
neau, Alaska, Howard Milton
Hensel of Chicago, John Jordan
Hill of Dallas, Lewis E. Holmes
of Fort Worth, Benny J. Jomes
of Devine, Charles Joyner Jr. of
Fort Bragg, N. C.
Larry M. Kimsey of Dallas,
James R. Lawrence of Roswell,
N. M., Timothy B. Levan of Reno,
Nev., David D. Nagy of Houston,
Jack E. Ogdee of San Benito,
Ronald H. Poston of San Antonio,
Charles W. Purcell of Alexandria,
Jr., Frederick Sager Jr. of Hous
ton, Robert A. Sikes of Fort
Worth, James G. Stutler of Ar
lington.
George T. Taff of Fort Worth,
Thomas A. Teague of Dallas,
James L. Yogas of Galveston,
Fred T. Ward and Sanford T.
Ward of Austin, Joseph P. Web
ber of Waco, Mitchell A. Wood
ard of Houston and Billy H.
Young of Port O’Connor.
Team members were chosen
from about 350 candidates, South
erland said. He added that the
unit would probably be reduced
to about 40 members by the
spring semester.
Scholastic and performance de
ficiencies ordinarily cull the
group to this figure, Southerland
said.
Competition scheduled for the
team this year includes the
Southern Invitational Drill Meet
at Louisiana State University in
Baton Rouge in March, Fiesta
Flambeau in San Antonio in Ap
ril and Buccaneer Days in Corpus
Christi in May. Other trips are
planned if transportation is made
available.
Team sponsors this year are
Calvin Reese, assistant to the
commandant; Capt. John L.
Lorms, Military Science sponsor,
and Maj. T. F. Hines, Air Science
sponsor.
Funds for team operation are
provided by the Commandant’s
Office through the Exchange
Store and by the Federation of
A&M Mothers Clubs. Each boy
usually must provide about $100
during the year, too.
The Freshman Drill Team is
composed of both Air Force and
Army cadets. They drill about
one hour a day for the first
month after selection and two
hours a day afterwards.
Team members must maintain
a 1.0 grade point ratio to remain
eligible.
Trying- Out For TV
Don Ivey, local folk singer, was one of about a dozen hope
fuls who auditioned for KHOU-TV Tuesday night in G.
Rollie White Coliseum. The Houston station, Channel 11,
is conducting tryouts throughout the Southwest.
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
TOKYO—Japan told the Soviet Union today that
the Japanese government has approved visits by
U. S. nuclear-powered submarines in line with the
U. S.-Japan security pact and Japanese-American
cooperation.
★ ★ ★
LONDON—Britain told Rhodesia Tuesday it will
be guilty of treason and banished from the Common
wealth if it declares itself independent. The white
rulers of the East African territory reacted angrily.
★ ★ ★
SAIGON, South Viet Nam—Rival charges of
hostile intrusions have heated up the centuries-old
frontier dispute between Vietnamese and Cam
bodians. The enmity complicates South Viet Nam’s
U. S.-backed war against the Communist Viet Cong.
★ ★ ★
National
WASHINGTON—The Soviet Union’s new two-
man leadership “is not likely to last very long,”
Patrick Gordon Walker, Britain’s new foreign secre
tary, predicted Tuesday.
★ ★ ★
EL CENTRO, Calif.—A jet bomber, roaring
along only 20 feet off the ground during a para
chuting show, clipped a power pole and crashed
in fiery pieces at a naval air base Tuesday, killing
at least eight persons.
KEY WEST, Fla.—A badly burned survivor of
an explosion at sea said today his 23-foot boat blew
up when it was struck by gunfire, killing four
others aboard.
In a hospital bed interview, Carlos Hernandez,
23, said he believed the attack was made by a
Cuban gunboat.
★ ★ ★
NEW YORK—U. S. Steel Corp., industry giant,
Tuesday reported the highest July-September profits
since 1958. Still, the percentage increase over a
year ago lagged behind those of other major steel
makers.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—First signs of what appears
to be a delayed trickle of fallout from Red China’s
Oct. 16 nuclear blast showed up on American terri
tory over the weekend in a pattern previously fore
cast by the U. S. Weather Bureau.
Texas
HOUSTON—-Independent oil operators asked
Tuesday that oil imports be reduced at least 275,000
barrels a day and hinted they will go to Congress
if their request is not granted.
★ ★ ★
CORPUS CHRISTI—Paul Amos Sandblom must
go on trial here Jan. 11 on federal charges of
fraud.
He is free on bonds totaling $280,000 on the
federal charges and five state indictments.
Rudder Tells
History Club
Of Rangers’
President Earl Rudder met with
the History Club Wednesday night
and spoke on the evolution and
employment of his Ranger Division
during World War II.
The Rangers were a crack col
lection of volunteers who played
a major part in the Normandy
invasion. Rudder was assigned
the screening and training of the
men and processed several thou
sand before deciding upon his unit.
Their objective was several large
guns on Pointe du Hoc which were
menacing allied operations. The
Rangers scaled the cliffs on Pointe
du Hoc with grappling hooks under
grenading from the Germans
above. They fought their way to
the top and captured the guns
which later proved to be one of
the most important accomplish
ments of the invasion.
When asked what it takes to
win, Rudder said, “It takes two
things. Number one, brains, and
number two, to know what they
are fighting for. Put these two
things together and you’ve got a
great soldier or student.”
Rudder said that what little
military experience he had before
entering the service proved to be
most beneficial.
Only 23 per cent of his Rangers
had attended college, however.
Queen
Miss Georg-ia Heritage was
named Friday night to reign
as A&M Consolidated
Homecoming Queen for
1964-65. Miss Heritage, a
sophomore, was escorted by
her father, W. M. Heritage.