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ROTC Bill Gives Advanced Cadets
By ELIAS MORENO
Special Writer
Seniors and juniors enrolled in the advanced
Army ROTC program at A&M have started signing
new contracts which will raise their monthly sub
sistence pay, now called retainer pay, from $27 to
?40.
The monthly pay raise is only one provision of
the ROTC Vitalization Act of 1964 passed by Con
gress and signed by President Johnson on Oct. 13.
Seniors and juniors in the Air Force ROTC had
not started signing contracts as of Tuesday after
noon, said Col. Raymond C. Lee Jr., professor of
aerospace studies.
The Army ROTC here has started to process
new contracts for its 419 advanced program stu
dents, said Lt. Col. T. A. Hotchkiss, executive officer
and adjutant of the Department of Military Science.
“All advanced cadets who desire the contracts
must sign -before Dec. 13,” said Hotchkiss. He
emphasized that no cadet is required to sign a
contract under the new terms. Hotchkiss also
pointed out that those signing contracts will get
back pay from Oct. 13.
“The new law also raises the pay for summer
camp from $78 to $115 per month,” said James P.
Hannigan, dean of students. “It increases the
summer camp mileage allowance from five cents to
six cents a mile,” Hannigan said.
Hannigan also pointed out that the act provides
for a $300 uniform allowance for all ROTC gradu
ates whether they receive a regular or reserve
commission.
“Under the old law only those commissioned
in the reserve received the $300 uniform allowance,”
he explained.
“There are three programs under the ROTC
Vitalization Act of 1964 and A&M will probably get
all three,” Hannigan said. The first is a four-year
program much like the present ROTC setup at
A&M where the cadets sign up for the advanced
program their junior year.
“There is the two-year program which would
be offered to junior college transfers during the
junior and senior years,” Hannigan added. “The
cadets in this advanced program would receive a
six to eight week training period at a summer camp
prior to entering A&M. This camp would take the
place of the training the transfer student missed
the first two years,” Hannigan explained.
Hannigan said that the third program would
involve the scholarship provision of the act.
“The act allows the Army and the Air Force
each 4,000 scolarships nation-wide,” he said. “The
provision also allows $50 per month for a 10-month
academic year, payment of tuition, books, lab fees,
and other such fees.”
He went in to say that cadets in the advanced
program as well as freshmen and sophomores would
be eligible for the scholarships. In four years both
the Army and the Air Force will be allowed to
raise the number of scholarships to 5,500, the
number the act initiately gives the Navy, Hannigan
said.
The Air Force and the Army will not utilize the
total number of scholarships granted them the first
year, Lee said. He explained that the first year
the program was a trial run and the number would
be increased each year until the allotted 5,500 was
reached.
Pay Raise
“We don’t know how many scholarships will be
allotted A&M, but we will try to get the maximum
possible number of them,” Hannigan commented.
Besides the raise in retainer pay, thte ROTC
Vitalization Act of 1964 also makes each cadet in
the advanced program a member of the reserve
forces for six years. Lee said, “Even though the
law provides for six years in the reserve forces,
those who complete the program will be discharged
from the reserve upon being commissioned in either
the reserve or regular forces.”
Lee said, “It appears that the intent of the six-
year reserve agreement would apply particularly
to four-year-full-paid scholarship students who
might decide to avoid any obligation to serve as
a commisioned officer upon graduation. In such a
case, the student could be placed on active duty as
an airman for up to two years, with four subse
quent years in the inactive reserve, and up to four
years as a private in the Army.”
“I don’t foresee any great change in our status
for the current year; however, next fall we will
possibly have a few wrinkles,” Hannigan said, com
menting on the effects of the new ROTC program.
Cbe Battalion
Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1964 Number 100
Fish Don 9 t Approve
Of New Privileges
Survey Indicates
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By CLOVIS McCALLISTER
Night News Editor
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fifth of a series concerning
political clubs on state-supported university and college campuses.
North Texas State University and the University of Houston are
two state schools which officially recognize political clubs.
Poltical clubs at North Texas were first recognized in 1936.
The clubs meet on campus without rental charge, twice a month.
Both clubs are listed as service clubs and are not allowed to
campaign for a candidate until after the primary.
The Department of Government sponsors the organizations. The
department limits the club activities to:
1. Regularly scheduled club meetings on the campus according
to a schedule approved in advance by sponsors.
2. Executive committee meetings on campus, when necessary,
but with advance notice to sponsors or according to a schdule so
approved.
3. Political activities in conjunction with official units of the
Senior Party Organization. Sponsors are to be informed of club
projects.
4. Club sponsorship or participation in other activities must be
approved in advance by the sponsoring committee of the Department
of Government. Approval will never be given to activities which are
not clearly related to and limited to affairs of the respective major
parties.
Activities of officers of the respective clubs, as representatives
or spokesmen for the club, shall conform to this standard.
All publications, displays or posters of the clubs, shall be subject
to the same limitations. Club publications shall never deal with
matters other than affairs of the respective major parties and the
club.
5. Speakers from off-campus must be approved in advance by
club sponsors. Invitations may not be extended to candidates at times
when they are active in political campaigns.
Five clubs are recognized at the University of Houston. The
clubs first received recognition on March 30, 1960. Meetings vary
from weekly to monthly with the groups.
Activities Counselor Susan Guma said last May that the clubs
meet in university classrooms without charge. She also said there
are no particular rules governing the clubs except those which govern
any student organization.
Restrictions are not placed on the speaker at the University of
Houston and a poltical candidate is free to address the club.
Mrs. Guma said, “Until a serious request was made March 30,
1960, there was an assumption that there would not be political clubs.
Upon such a specific request being received, it was granted.”
She said that students are allowed to campaign for candidates
in the name of the club.
TTI Given
$75,000 Pact
For Research
The second portion of a $75,000
contract for formal research on the
“Value of Time” has been awarded
to the Texas Transportation In
stitute.
Dr. W. G. Adkins, research eco
nomist for TTI, will be principal
investigator for the research. He
will be assisted by Allen W. Ward,
assistant research economist, C. V.
Wootan, associate research econo
mist, and E. P. Boaze and J. P.
Buchanan, graduate research as
sistants.
Ultimate purpose of the pro
ject, Adkins said, is the prepara
tion of a set of guidelines to aid
state highway departments in plac
ing a dollar value on time savings
that accrue to commercial carriers
due to highway improvements.
Provisionally usable data also are
to be developed. ,
“We are attempting to identify
first round time-savings determin
ing what truckers or trucking
firms. Principally, this involves
determining what resources are
saved when time requirements for
a given amount of service are re
duced,” Adkins commented.
Funds for the research are being
furnished by the National Coop
erative Highway Research Pro
gram, administered by the High
way Research Board, a part of the
National Academy of Sciences-Na-
tional Research Council. The work
is supported by all state highway
departments in the nation through
the cooperative program.
First year of the program was
devoted to a review of previous
research and the development of
methodology.
Work on the second year of the
contract will continue through
September, 1965.
“Time savings may be the most
important benefits of highway im
provement. Knowledge of the value
of these benefits is critical in the
economic evaluation of alternative
highway locations and designs,”
Adkins continued.
According to Wootan, the re
search project is the only one of
its kind in the nation. “We are hap
py that A&M was given the chance
to conduct this unique research.
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
CAIRO—Street crowds made attacks on the
American, British and Egyptian embassies in Khar
toum Tuesday during new demonstrations in the
Sudanese capital, Cairo Radio reported.
★ ★ ★
HONG KONG—Five prominent Red Chinese
Communists have brought down the wrath of Mao
Tze-tung by arguing for some sort of reconciliation
with the Soviet Union, Chinse periodicals reaching
Hong Kong report.
★ ★ ★
TOKYO—Two big moderate Japanese labor
unions were disbanded Tuesday to make way for
a new labor organization.
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MOSCOW—The man considered by some to be
the key Communist in Laos, Information Minister
Phoumi Vongvichit, met Tuesday in Moscow with
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
National
WASHINGTON—A State Department spokes
man said Tuesday the United States has no intention
of replying to Chinese Communist Premier Chou
en-Lai’s proposal for a world summit conference on
nuclear disarmament.
★ ★ ★
NEW YORK—Police Lt. Thomas R. Gilligan,
placed on sick leave after his fatal shooting of a
Negro boy last July touched off riots, has been
restored to active duty, the Police Department re
ported Tuesday.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—The United States has sus
pended a large portion of its aid to Bolivia until
the internal situation there clears up, the State
Department announced Tuesday.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON — West Germany is reported
ready to purchase three American destroyers during
a new round of defense talks that Kai-Uwe von
Hassel, the West German defense ministers, opens
Wednesday.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON — The Housing and Home
Finance Agency called a temporary halt Tuesday
to the approval of any more financing for urban
renewal projects now under way in California.
Texas
AUSTIN—Leaders of a University of Texas
group called “Students for a Democratic Society”
protested a campus minstrel show Tuesday, calling
it a “program of racial slur.”
★ ★ ★
HOUSTON—Newsmen from around the nation
began arriving Tuesday for the four-day 19th
annual conference of the Radio and Television News
Directors Association (RTNDA).
And Concerning That Election Issue
Newspapermen Gayle McNutt, left, and Jim Hyatt, right,
told of the backstage functions of political machinery of
both President Lyndon Johnson and Senator Barry Gold-
water Tuesday night at a public meeting sponsored by
Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic society. McNutt
is employed in the Austin Bureau of The Houston Post.
Hyatt reports political affairs for The Houston Chronicle.
By TOMMY DeFRANK
Staff Writer
Freshmen members of the Corps of Cadets expressed overwhelming
disapproval of their newly-gained privileges in the mess hall in a poll
conducted by The Battalion Tuesday.
The modified sophomore privileges, outlined in an order issued
Monday from the Commandant’s office, went into effect Tuesday.
The new order forbids asking freshmen campusology or other such
questions in the mess halls and allows them to use the backs of their
chairs and to rest their hands and forearms on the table while eating.
Only one of the 50—or two per cent—of freshmen interviewed
favored the new privileges. The one dissenter felt that the privileges
in themselves were very good, but that having them pushed upon the
freshmen in the middle of the year would probably cause resentment
among upperclassmen.
“However, I enjoy these privileges and I think they are very nice,”
he added.
The rest of the freshmen interviewed disagreed with him, how
ever, citing various reasons for their opposition to the new privileges.
Several felt the privileges would help to destroy class pride.
“For years and years every other fish has gone through the same
thing, and I don’t see any harm in the way we sit at the table. I’m
a fish and proud of it, but when our fish privileges are replaced you
just lose pride in your class,” one fish said.
“Procedure in the mess hall is a distinction that makes us different
from other schools and it also will give me a feeling of pride at the
end of the year that I was able to make it through,” another said.
“My dad went here in the 40’s when it was really ‘Old Army,’ and I’d
be ashamed to write home and tell him we don’t do those things in the
mess hall anymore,” he continued.
This same freshman also revealed that there are several petitions
being signed by freshmen and circulated throughout the campus asking
the Department of Military Science to revoke the new order.
Another freshman voiced concern that the Corps is headed for
extinction if the new order is retained.
“The reason that I’m against it is because things are too easy
here to begin with. It’s really not A&M any more. If this (the new
privileges) goes through, then I think the Corps will be done away
with in just a matter of time,” he said.
“Being a fish is part of the Aggie spirit, and if you take away
the fish year, there’s no place to form the spirit, and once the spirit
goes, this place will turn into a TU without girls,” another said.
Upperclassmen interviewed in the poll were unanimous in their
disapproval of the new measures. All of the approximately 45 upper
classmen interviewed felt that the measures would hurt the effective
ness of the Corps.
“Measures such as these are defeating the purpose of A&M,” one
sophomore noted. “To me A&M is a military school where the lowest
ranking cadets should receive training. The mess hall is one of the
main training devices for the fish, and I would like to see the policies
of the past followed,” he added.
“If the fish can’t eat like fish, why be a fish at all? They might
as well do away with the class system and let everyone eat, get up
and get out,” a junior commented.
Students interviewed were selected at random from dormitories
in both the old and new area.
Singing Cadets To Escort Beauties
By HAROLD SCHADE
Special Writer
Who ever thought they’d hear
the Singing Cadets sing “The Eyes
of Texas”?
Quite a few people will hear
that Friday when the Cadets per
form for the “Miss Teenage Amer
ica Pageant” at the Dallas Audi
torium Memorial Theater.
Returning for the third time,
they will be seen on nation-wide
CBS television from 9 to 10:30 p.m.
They will serve both as enter
tainment and escorts for the 52
“Misses”. “The Eyes of Texas”
will be sung for Gov. John Con-
Teen Queens
Race Turtles
By The Associated Press
DALLAS — “Please, girls, don’t
step on the prize winner!” shouted
the master of ceremonies as a
turtle named Knight scrambled
across the finish line Tuesday to
win the first Teen-age America
Turtle Derby in 17 seconds flat.
The winner’s keeper, Linda
Joyce Putman of Tampa, Fla.,
jumped and squealed with delight.
During the race she had beaten
the floor, screamed encouragement
and followed her entry’s progress
on her knees.
The half-hour race was a break
in the tight schedule of the Miss
Teen-age America Pageant.
First runner-up was Janice
Irene Bosma of Indianpolis, Ind.,
who named her turtle Checkers.
nally when he makes his appear
ance at the show.
Four years ago the Singing Ca
dets made a trip to Dallas, and
sang for the Easter Morning and
Evening services at Six Flags Over
Texas. Charles Meeker, talent co
ordinator for Six Flags saw and
heard them, and as Robert (Bob)
Boone, director, said, “liked what
they were doing.” Meeker con
tacted the people in charge of the
pageant, and brought the group to
their attention.
As a result, the Cadets have an
invitation to perform at all the
pageants as long as they are in
Dallas. They received the title as
the Official Miss Teenage Glee
Club.
Their first appearance came in
the 1962 pageant, was only two
minutes long, and they sang from
the orchestra pit. The following
A search for high school stu
dents with engineering aptitudes
will be held throuerhout Texas
Jan. 15-16 under sponsorship of the
Junior Engineering Technical Soc
iety.
J. G. McGuire, assistant dean of
engineering at A&M and state co
ordinator for the JETS, said the
search is being conducted on a
nationwide scale. He added that
the state search is being made in
cooperation with the Texas Society
of Professional Engineers.
McGuire said a two-hour battery
year they were moved to the stage
and were given the job as escorts.
This year they will perform on
stage for two minutes at the be
ginning of the show and for 90
seconds toward the end, as well as
escorting the girls.
The 58 Cadets, Boone, and their
accompanist Mrs. June Biering,
will leave on their all-expense paid
trip at 3 p.m. Wednesday. That
night they will go to the Sheraton
Hotel to serenade a pajama party
that will be given for the partici
pants. Thursday and Friday the
Cadets will rehearse in the Audi
torium.
At 9 p.m. Friday the Singing
Cadets begin the show singing the
Miss Teenage America theme song.
The Cadets will sing eight songs,
during the pageant, most of which
will be special arrangements by
Robert Childe, arranged for the
Carnation Music Hour.
of tests will be given Jan. 16 at
A&M. Interested students from
grades 9 through 12 are invited
to take the tests.
Demonstration films on bon
fire safety procedures will be
shown to all freshmen and
sophomore students at 7:15 p.m.
Thursday at Guion Hall.
The lecture and films will ex
plain log carrying procedures,
truck loading and unloading
techniques and general safety
After the show the Cadets will
attend the Coronation Ball.
Combined Band
Wins Passby
The Combined Band took honors
in the Dallas Corps Trip pass by
with 74 points of a possible 100.
In second place was Squad 12
with 72. Other outfits placing in
the top five were Company F-l,
Company G-3 and Squad 7, re
spectively.
The cadets were graded on step
and arm swing, interval and dis
tance, appearance and maneuver
of saber and guidon, eyes right
and ready front.
After five passby’s the Band
has the best average, Squad 8 and
Squad 9 are tied for second place.
Squad 7 is fourth and Company
G-3 is fifth.
Reviewing the Corps of Cadets
Saturday was Maj. Gen. Harley B.
West, commanding general of the
National Guard’s 49th Armored
Division.
regulations to be used while
working on the traditional
Thanksgiving bonfire.
Head Yell Leader Frank Cox
said the meeting is compulsory
for cadet underclassmen, and
stressed that Civilians who have
n’t worked on previous bonfires
should attend the meeting.
Search For Statewide Talent
Bonfire Safety Flicks Scheduled
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