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Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1965
Number 135
Band Queen Crowned
Judy Frame of Bryan was selected as 1965 Band Sweet
heart at the Band Dance Saturday night. Miss Franze,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Franze of 2305 Bristol St.,
was crowned by John D. Smith, a Houston senior.
STRIKE POSSIBLE
Next Trouble Spot
In Steel Industry
WASHINGTON UP) — With
most longshoremen back on the
job, federal officials are bracing
themselves for the next poten
tial labor explosion - in the steel
industry.
While no one is predicting a
steel sti'ike, or even whether overt
government intervention will be
needed, the Labor Department is
clearly uneasy over the possibi
lities.
Spokesmen insist, however, that
beside the dock strike and possible
steel troubles, prospects are for
a generally peaceful year at the
bargaining table even though about
one-third of all union contracts-
covering about 5 million workers-
are up for renewal.
While some longshoremen are
still on strike, most mapor ports
are back in operation.
The most immediately worri
some aspect of the steel talks is
the uncertainty over the election
contest for president of the mil
lion - member AFL-CIO United
Steelworkers of America.
“Nobody will be able to do a
thing until we know who the lead
er is,” said one government spokes
man, referring to the contest be
tween President David J. McDon
ald and Secretary-Treasurer I. W.
Abel, for the presidency of the
Steelworkers Union.
Abel has claimed victory, but
official ballots are still being
tabulated. McDonald forces are
talking about a court fight if
their man is declared the loser.
The union’s talks with the steel
industry were recessed pending the
outcome of the election and several
weeks of bargaining time already
have been lost. Steel contracts ex
pire May 1.
While rejecting predictions of
widespread labor strife the rest
of the year, some Labor Depart
ment officials concede that any
of the major contract talks could
erupt unexpectedlly.
Aerospace, textiles, rubber, alumi
num, canning and construction are
some of the big negotiations com
ing up.
Despite a sharp rise in strikes
during the past six months, the
Labor Department insists the
period looks worse than it really
was because 1963 was so quiet.
Department spokesmen say such
publicized strikes as last fall’s
fall’s auto walkouts and the cur
rent dock strike created a mis
leading impression of general labor
strife.
The walkouts at General Motors,
Ford and American Motors ac
counted for nearly one-third of the
23 million man-days of strike time
last year.
While the figure may seem
large, the Labor Department points
out that the 23 million days were
.18 of 1 per cent of total working
time in all non-farm businesses and
industries The figure in 1963 was
.13 of 1 per cent, a 19-year low.
RE Week Speaker Says
False Faiths Hinder Truth
Man
Own
Must Form
Conclusions
Religious Emphasis opened Monday night before less
than 200 persons.
The Rev. James Argue, presently of Little Rock, Ark.
was introduced by President Earl Rudder as guest speaker
for the week.
Argue spoke on “Developing A
Personal Theology.” He compared
individuals with a students enter
ing a seminary.
He said a person’s biggest and
most difficult job was to rid him
self of all false faiths so he could
recognize the real truth. It is all
too easy to let others do our own
thinking for us, Argue said.
He added that one must form
his own conclusions from his own
thinking and not allow himself to
be necessarily persuaded by others,
including his minister.
Another problem common today,
Argue pointed out, is that church
going has become nothing more
than a exercise. He said that few
people know what they believe or
what their church’s doctrine holds.
Argue compared religion with an
appendix, “exceptable enough when
it doesn’t bother you but expend
able if it begins to hurt.”
He said theology is a system of
beliefs that help answer the ques
tion “What are we here for?”
The speaker emphasized that God
must be the central sphere of our
goal in life, the foundation of
existence, and must not be made
secondary to anything.
The most frightening thing to
day to Rev. Argue is not the threat
of nuclear war but the increasing’
loss of morals, the self-centered
ness, and the materialism of our
society. Argue said today’s socie
ty is too concerned with what may
happen and concerned enough with
what God has already done.
He urged students to “play a
good part in a great scheme.”
Assisting in the program were
Don Warren, president of the
YMCA, who presided over the
meeting, and James Hatton and
Mrs. Carol Olejnik. Hatton led
the singing and Mrs. Olejnik ac
companied on the organ.
Argue is no stranger to the
College Station area. He was pas
tor of the A&M Methodist Church
from 1957 to 1961.
He will be available throughout
the week in Room 333 of the
Memorial Student Center for con
ferences.
Tuesday night at 6:30 in Guion
Hall he will speak on “Theologies
Of Today.” The meeting will be
over in plenty of time for the bas
ketball game.
House Passes
Connally’s Bill
For Education
AUSTIN <^)—Gov. John Con
nally’s No. 1 legislative demand,
creation of a new and powerful 18-
man coordinating board for higher
education, won tentative House ap
proval Monday.
Final House action on the meas
ure, which was discussed 2% hours
and amended 18 times, will be
asked Tuesday, said its sponsor,
Rep. Dick Cory of Victoria. The
Senate has yet to vote on its ver
sion of the bill.
There was no debate on the bill
as a whole and no objection was
voiced to its tentative approval.
Connally’s bill, sponsored in the
senate by Sen. Bill Moore of Bry
an, calls for replacement of the
nine-year-old Texas Commission
on Higher Education by the “Co
ordinating Board, Texas College
and University System.”
The board will have power to
classify schools as junior or senior
colleges and could eliminate or con
solidate courses found to duplicate
existing courses or start new pro
grams. It could order degree pro
grams started, eliminated or con
solidated.
Schools could not use their ap
propriated funds for programs
disapproved by the board—unless
the Legislature overrides the
board’s decision.
Junior colleges would come un
der the board, instead of the Texas
Education Agency. The board
could prescribe a “core” of courses
at junior colleges that would be
freely transferrable to four-year
institutions.
Major amendments provided that
board disapproval of programs
could be nullified by a legislative
appropriation of funds for the pro
gram, and that the board could not
revise existing university systems.
The bill does not carry out Con
nally’s recommendation that col
leges and universities be grouped
into systems, he said.
RE WEEK SPEAKER
South Viet Nam Relaxes,
Selects Premier, Cabinet
Grad Enrollment
Up By 17 Per Cent
Over Last Year
Graduate College enrollment is
up 17 per cent over the spring
semester of 1964, Dean Wayne C.
Hall has announced.
Hall reported 1,453 graduate
students now enrolled, an increase
of 215 over a year ago.
Spring semester enrollment
totals 7,646, a 17-year record, of
ficials announced earlier this week.
“This 17 percent increase in
Graduate College enrollment is
about what we showed last fall
over the previous fall,” Hall said.
The breakdown among colleges
shows 381 graduate students in the
College of Agriculture, up 24 over
a year ago; 587 in the College
of Arts and Science, up 129; 432 in
the College of Engineering, up 35;
33 in the College of Veterinary
Medicine, up 13, and 20 in the In
stitute of Statistics, up 14.
SAIGON, South Viet Nam (JP)
— Bickering over the makeup of
a new Cabinet was reported over
come today and Dr. Phan Huy
Quat was named South Viet Nam’s
new premier.
The official Viet Nam Press re-
Bryan-CS Chamber Seeking Members
President Earl Rudder present
ed his check to members of the
Bryan-College Station Chamber of
Commerce Monday to officially
kick-off the Chamber’s 1965 mem
bership drive on campus.
Other Chamber of Commerce
volunteers were busy contacting
businessmen and individuals in
Bryan and College Station in an
effort to increase the Chamber’s
membership to 1,000 and to raise
its budget of $63,558.
More than 100 volunteers gath
ered at the B-CS Chamber office
earlier Monday to receive instruc
tions from Jim Ingram, drive
chairman, and L. H. “Hill” West
moreland, executive vice-president
of the Chamber.
This year’s campaign is being
handled as a three-pronged effort.
C. J. Allen is heading the commer
cial division, Clark Munroe is co
ordinating the A&M drive and
Jerry Barton is in charge of the
new membership drive.
CLARK MUNROE RECEIVES MEMBERSHIP CHECK
. . . Rudder launches campus C of C drive.
ported selection of Quat to head the
country’s eighth government in 16
months.
The announcement said strong
man Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh also
asked Phan Khac Suu to continue
as chief of state.
Khanh also was expected to an
nounce formation of a 20-man
council of civilians and military of
ficers to act as a legislative ad
visory body.
Selection of Quat, 55, a former
foreign minister, was delayed when
Saigon’s military men balked at
plans to appoint Tran Van Tu/en
as interior minister, reportedly be
cause he was originally from
North Viet Nam and might have
difficulty dealing with the touchy
religious groups of South Viet
Nam.
Political sources said Nguyen
Hoa Hiep, a southerner, would be
interior minister and Tuyen would
be a deputy premier and minister
of planning.
In central Viet Nam, where sold
iers killed 15 civilians Monday in
putting down two antigovernment
demonstrations, a firing squad ex
ecution was scheduled for one of
the demonstrators.
Brig. Gen. Nguyen Chanh Thi
said two of the dead were known
Viet Cong agitators, and the pri
soner scheduled for execution Wed
nesday was a Viet Cong section
leader.
Faculty-Staff Fete
Set For Thursday
Deadline for individual tickets
to the third Faculty-Staff Dinner
Club event is noon Wednesday, ac
cording to Walter H. Parsons Jr.,
committee chairman.
Tickets are on sale at the Memo
rial Student Center Main Desk.
The dinner-dance will be a cos
tume affair, with Dick Baldauf’s
Aggieland Combo furnishing the
music at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in
the MSC Assembly Room.
HARD TASK'
Today’s Church
Must Stimulate
New Type Faith
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Because of today’s complex society, churches in a college
community face a harder task than ever before.
They must stimulate faith by stimulating brains.
This is the conclusion of several Bryan-College Station
pastors questioned about the work of the church today.
“Our whole program must be set up to help people
analyze themselves in relation to the world,’’ said the Rev.
Paul Baumer, pastor of Faith United Church of Christ.
“Instead of the old quilting circles, which are good in their
own right, we must have discussion groups, Bible studies
and seminars, among other things, to benefit the Christian.”
The Rev. William Oxley, rector of St. Thomas’ Episcopal
Church said “There is a growing need for churches to rise
with the level of thought and maintain a well-balanced
program that will challenge our students to reach and sustain
individual dedication to God.”
More than 50 churches within the Bryan-College Station
area open their doors regularly each week to all who desire
to worship. And they do so with an intellectually oriented
membership in mind.
To reach these college-level members, the churches
sponsor activities designed to help students and lay workers
to gain a deeper insight into their religion as well as into
current problems of the world and how to face them.
“Since man requires the feeding of the mind, heart and
will,” Oxley said, “it is necessary to build a skeleton of
sound, Biblical convictions on which dedication may grow.
This basic framework, if it is to remain sturdy, must be
built by individual study and participation in activities that
contribute to the Christian life.
“We can’t force a person to mold elements of dedication
into his life. He must do it out of his love for God. All
we can do is show him the way.”
The church must reach the point where the students
turn to it for help, said the pastor. This way the church
can tap the potential of individual conviction. Students
today are looking for a mature Christian attitude with basic
principles bare of hypocrisy that will assure the “truth-
seeker” a continued interest and dedication.
“For example, five College Station churches are be
ginning a School of Christian Study soon,” said the Rev.
Walter Allen, campus minister of the First Christian Church.
“This 10-week school is designed to inform Christian laymen
and students to help them become more effective individuals
able to help others in the Christian life.”
Others participating in this effort—only one of many
joint efforts—are Faith United Church of Christ, the Presby
terian Student Center, the Wesley Foundation and St.
Thomas’ Episcopal Church.
The church is approaching the period where it can no
longer ask the masses to give and be loyal, the ministers
concluded. It must teach them about the supernatural and
how to serve God. And though the people have the Bible
at their fingertips, there are questions to be answered such
as “What is this thing called religion and how does it affect
me as an individual ? What effect does it have on the
World ?”
These questions are among the big ones today in the
college community church. People are looking for facts.
Since faith is the principle factor involved in Christianity,
churches must show their members the way of faith.
It may come in individual dedication or in daily experi
ences. The age-old life principle of right vs. wrong is also
a working elementt hat the church must instill in the lives
of believers.
“A society, whether it be a college campus or a village
of country folk, usually retains a moral fiber in its atmos
phere that will serve as a starting peint for individual dedi
cation to God,” said Mr. Thomas J. Seay, minister of the
A&M Church of Christ. “Our churches, though not presently
doning the best possible, are trying to retain this atmosphere
and serve as a guiding light for those who would serve God.
This is our goal.
“We are just beginning,” he added. “There is much
to do.”
Probably the essence of the conclusions of college com
munity pastors would be the famous words, “The serene
silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence
in the world next to the might of the Spirit of God.”
The Wortd at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
SAIGON, South Viet Nam—Troops from five
Communist North Vietnamese divisions have infil
trated South Viet Nam since 1959, the Saigon
government charged Monday.
It was officially estimated that 39,000 Com
munists have made the crossing and that 65 per cent,
or 25,350, of these ranked as squad leaders or higher.
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VIENTIANE, Laos—Communist forces in north
ern Laos, said to have been backed by North Viet
namese troops have knocked opt the last remaining
Laotian army stronghold in the area, an Army
spokesman in Vientiane reported Monday.
National
PITTSBURGH—The forces of I. W. Abel will
have the upper hand when it comes time to settle
vote disputes in the United Steelworkers election,
the opposition said Monday.
Election tellers and the majority voice of the
union’s powerful executive board are aligned with
the Abel camp, said Howard Hague, union vice
president.
Texas
GALVESTON—The government makes a third
effort Tuesday to send striking dock workers back
to their jobs at West Gulf Coast ports.
Assistant Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds
headed the efforts to get a settlement from shippers
and International Longshoremen’s Association nego
tiators, hung up on the size of work gangs.
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BRYAN—Lawyers began screening a special
venire of 200 Monday in an attempt to obtain a jury
in the murder trial of Rudolph Coffey Jr., 21, of
Cocoa, Fla.
Coffey is accused of the slaying of Elgin Police
Chief J. M. Mumford in 1963.
The state indicated it will ask the death penalty.