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Band Will Pick Sweetheart From 5 Finalists JUDY FRANZE CARROLL McCOY PAT LOTSPEICH CHERYL HARDIE CURRIN CARPENTER Saturday Selection of the 1965 Band Sweetheart will feature the annual Band Dance, scheduled for 9-12 p.m. Saturday in the Memorial Student Center Ball room. The five finalists include Currin Ann Carpenter, Brownwood; Pat Lotspeich, Liberty; Cheryl Hardie, San Antonio; Carroll McCoy, Banquete, and Judy Franze, Bryan. The Aggieland Combo will provide the entertain ment for the dance, open to band members only. Uniform will be Class A Winter with white dress shirt and black bow tie. Girls will wear formals. The finalists were selected from approximately 20 entries submitted and were judged by the sweet heart committee. The sweetheart will be selected by band members by secret ballot at the dance and the winner will be announced by Doug Smith, chair man of the sweetheart committee. She will be presented with a corsage and miniature saber, and other finalists will receive engraved charms. Guests include Chancellor and Mrs. Harrington, President and Mrs. Rudder, all academic deans and their wives, Lt. Col. and Mrs. Adams, Cbe Battalion JE, COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1965 Number 132 Board Silent On Exes’ Resolution Air Force Is Gambling In Close Weapons Race And To Keep Your Boots Dry Three coeds decide to help a fellow English wet. Judy Rowe volunteers her rain coat major get across the big water puddle on the while Jo Thomas and Lyn Brown right look Academic Building lawn without getting on. Jim Hunt waits eagerly. Student Senate Studying Health Insurance Policy (^P) New Analysis By MALCOLM W. BROWNE SAIGON, South Viet Nam — The United States is gambling that its space-age aircraft will silence weapons built on the prin ciple of medieval siege guns. In effect, it is betting that super sonic jet bombers costing several million dollars each will be a match for $876 field mortars. It looks like a close race. Jet bombers are supreme in the air, but when they land they become vulnerable, as long as their bases are within striking distance of resourceful guerillas. American airpower has had its wings singed repeatedly in Viet Nam. Sunday’s attack on Plei- ku airstrip was the work of only about 120 guerrillas. For every guerrilla participating in the raid, one American in Pleiku was killed or wounded. Besides killing eight Americans and wounding 126 others, the guerrillas destroyed or damaged millions of dollars worth of helicopters, planes and equipment. Most of this work was accom plished by American-made 81mm mortars, captured from Vietnam ese government forces. The rest was done by careful planning and skillful movements. The guerril las penetrated the heart of the two big American installations placing destructive charges where they would do the most damage. The United States and South Viet Nam have more or less rec ognized they cannot beat the Viet Cong at this game, at least for the time being. The only way out is to bomb North Viet Nam, in hope the Communist bosses will order the querrillas to stop their raids on American installations. As Vietnamese strong man Nguyen Khanh put it Monday: “If a Viet Cong can throw a grenade into a crowd in Saigon or a military zone, or bombard a base with mortars, we have other means of retaliating.” He was speaking of the Vietnamese and American air forces, not ground forces. The fact is that many Ameri can installations are sitting ducks to commando raids like that at Pleiku. “Even with a couple of divisions around Pleiku,” a senior Ameri can officer there said, “the Viet Cong might have got through. There just is no guarantee again st this kind of thing, no matter what precautions you take. That’s the way this war is.” The native population around American installations has often shown itself willing to help Viet Cong raiders or at least to con ceal guerrilla attacks. The 70 or so heavy mortar shells used Sunday by the Viet Cong were probably lugged to a hamlet only 1,000 yards away from the airstrip by mountain tribesmen living in the area. Spring Enrollment Is Highest Total Since 1947 Mark Spring enrollment at A&M totaled 7,646, a 17-year record. This represents the highest fi gure since 1947 when 7,760 stu dents were admitted for second semester studies. H. L. Heaton, director of admis sions and registrar, said this sp ring’s enrollment was an increase of 7.2 per cent over the same period last year when 7,131 stu dents signed for courses. Women accounted for one fifth of the gain of 515 students this semester. Figures released by Heaton show 316 women signed up for courses, a gain of 106 over the same period last year. The current enrollment includes 7,330 men and 316 women. This is the largest number of women to attend A&M since the Board of Directors approved limited co education two years ago. Registration totaled 8,239 last Fall, including 254 girls. The Student Health Service and Insurance Program is currently under study by the Student Senate. Albert Knapp and Associates, administrators of the program, failed to honor a claim by Kenneth Taylor, a freshman from Dallas. Taylor chipped a tooth Oct. 1 at yell practice. According to the policy which took effect Sept. 1 and runs for one year, payment is made for medical expense originating from an accident in which a student is injured, provided such medical ex pense is incurred within 52 weeks from the date of injury. Expenses include x-rays, labora tory costs, hospital bills, nurses, physicians and surgeons fees, me dicines, surgical appliances, and practically any medical costs in curred as a result of an accidental injury. Payment is made up to $1,000 for each accident including injury to sound and natural teeth. The policy explains that it pro vides for coverage in the majority of cases, but there are certain con ditions under which the insurance does not apply. The policy does not cover serv ices rendered by the A&M Health Service or salaried physicians of the Health Service, except as pro vided in the policy; loss caused by war or any act of war, or suf fered by the injured student while in the military service of any coun try; losses incurred in employ ment; and dental surgery except when such surgery is necessary by injury. Other exclusions are injury from air travel, eye glasses, free medi cal care, injury sustained from re sult of the practice and play of intercollegiate athletics, intention ally self-inflicted injury, elective treatment and cosmetic surgery un less such is necessitated by in jury. Was Georgette Male Or Female? WASHINGTON UP) _ Georget te, it turns out, should be a George, so the captive young whooping crane at Audubon Park Zoo in New Orleans has been renamed George II. He had to be No. 2, because there already was a George I, another of the little flock of whoopers at the zoo. The name change follows a re cently discovered technique by an Interior Department scientist for distinguished young male cranes from young females. The whooping cranes once were numbered in the thousands, but over the years almost became ex tinct. The New Orleans zoo has seven, four males and three fe males. Proposals Merit Study Directors Say A&M University’s Board of Di rectors were non-committal Tues day night about the resolution passed by the Association of Former Students proposing chang es in the Corps of Cadets and co education. Only board president Sterling C. Evans had seen a copy of the re solution, but the members agreed on two points: 1. The resolution will be studied by the board. 2. They want to do whatever is best for Texas A&M. Evans said, “The board will cer tainly review the subject. Of course, there is nothing immediate to be done.” Evans said non-compulsory mili tary education is being tried at one or two places now and the outcome there will also be con sidered. He added that the board will certainly study the resolution and said it is always of interest to the board how the Former Stu dent Association feels. The board president said the coeducation program will also be reviewed from every angle. Vice President John W. New ton of Beaumont assumed that it would be discussed at the board meeting. When questioned about the resolution, he said, “I think I would have to study it a little bit before I could say anything about it. I know I would.” S. B. Whittenburg of Amarillo also agreed that the board will study the recommendation of the association, but he had no present comment concerning the matter. Corpus Christi member H. C. Heldenfels said he would have to be non-commital at this time. He added that the feeling changes about the Corps from time to time and that the resolution would be given some sort of study. Heldenfels said that the educa tion program as it is now is fine for A&M. This answer came when he was asked about expanding the limited coeducation program. Clyde H. Wells, Granbury direc tor, said, “I think this matter will require much discussion and con sideration by the board. I have not seen a copy of the resolution yet, so I cannot express an opin ion at this time. The board is concerned about the higher educa tion offered at Texas A&M, and I will have an open mind on the subject.” Director A. P. Beutel from Lake Jackson commented, “I certainly can’t find any fault with it (the resolution.) I think A&M would be better off with coeducation. “We have been accused,” he con tinued, “of trying to annihilate the Corps, and that is certainly not our intention at all. Person ally, I don't think it hurts fresh men and sophomores to spend two years in military training. The military has made A&M distinct from other schools and that should certainly be weighed. If the other members want these changes, I will certainly go along. I want to do whatever is best for Texas A&M.” Directors L. F. Peterson, Gardi ner Symonds and Clyde Thompson were unavailable for comment. Miss Texas Visits New Bank Saturday Sharon McCauley, the current Miss Texas and Second runner-up in the Miss America pageant, will be among the dignitaries taking part at ribbon cutting ceremonies at 1:15 p. m. Saturday for First Bank and Trust’s new build ing. Miss McCauley is a native of Athens. The World at a Glance By The Associated Press International SAIGON, South Viet Nam—Vietnamese defenses against possible Communist retaliatory attacks bristled Tuesday. A battery of Hawk antiaircraft missiles was set up at Da Nang air base and Viet namese armed forces tightened the alert along the North Viet Nam border. U. S. Air Force F105 fighter bombers roared aloft from Da Nang Tuesday, but headed into neighboring Laos for a bombing raid on Communist supply lines there. National HONOLULU—Twenty-two women and children —the vanguard of 1,819 American dependents ordered out of South Viet Nam by President John son—arrived in Honolulu Tuesday. Louisa Thomte, wife of an Army colonel, said she was glad she left the war-tom country. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—Postmaster General John A. Gronouski said Tuesday he plans to ask Congress to abolish the concept of air mail to let the Post Office Department move first class mail “the fastest and cheapest way we can.” He said the nation “is on the verge of overnight mail service anywhere in the country,” but he told a news conference that goal cannot be realized until what he termed outdated thinking about postal transportation is modernized. WASHINGTON — The Southeast Asia crisis marked time Tuesday in the wake of two retaliatory air strikes against North Viet Nam. U. S. strate gists looked for signs the Reds might act to broaden the war but reported none so far. About 1,000 students demonstrated at the U. S. Embassy in Moscow, hurling rocks, smashing windows and smearing the walls with green and blue ink. ★ ★ ★ NEW YORK—The placid sun-dappled surface of the Atlantic Ocean hid Tuesday the cause of an airline disaster that claimed 84 lives. Investigators hoped to wrest the hulk of an Eastern Air Lines plane from beneath the sea and solve the tragic mystery. Texas HOUSTON—Optimism was expressed Tuesday by the president of the International Longshore men’s Association that the West Gulf longshore men’s strike could be settled by Thursday. “I think if everybody got together,” said Thomas W. Gleason, “it could be settled immediately.” ★ ★ ★ Texas schools closed by the score Tuesday as waves of illness swept through classrooms. The scholastic situation worsened further when some schools shut their doors because high water from dousing rains made it impossible for children to reach classes.