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Texas
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University
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1965
Number 141
State Department
Slates Interview
Of A&M Students
Richard H. Howarth of the U. S. State Department’s
college relations staff will visit campus Monday to acquaint
interested students with career possibilities in the U. S.
Foreign Service.
He will meet with students at 10-11:30 a. m. and 1:30-
3 p. m. in Room 208, Nagle Hall.
Foreign Service Officers are diplomats especially selected
and trained to assist the Secretary of State in preparing
policy recommendations to the president of the United States
♦■and in carrying out the foreign
policy decisions.
The next annual Foreign Service
Officer examination will be held
May 1, Dr. J. M. Nance, head of
the Department of History and
Government and campus liaison of
ficer, said. Candidates for the one-
day examination must be at least
21 and under 31 years of age at
the time of the examination. Those
20 years of age may apply if they
have completed their junior year.
All candidates must have been citi
zens of the United States for at
least seven and a half years.
The Foreign Service requires of
ficers with training in public and
business administration, executive
management, economics and related
subjects as well as those whose
mapor courses of study include
political science, history, language
and area studies, geopraphy and
international affairs.
Area Folk Singer
To Perform Here
At 8 p.m. Friday
The Aggie Players and the John
A. Lomax Folklore Society will
present a program of folk music
at the opening of the new experi
mental theatre in the basement of
Guion Hall.
Mance Lipscomb, nationally-
known Negro primitive folk singer
and recording artist, will perform
in the Fallout Theatre Workshop
at 8 p.m. Friday.
Lipscomb, a sharecropper on the
Navasota Bottoms and the son of
a slave, is known for his original
renditions of traditional Texas
songs, primitive blues, spirituals
and work songs.
“Trouble ’n Mind,” Lipscomb’s
fourth album was cut shortly after
his California concert tour with
Jean Ritchie, Pete Seeger, Light-
nin’ Hopkins and several other folk
musicians.
The program will be presented
in the new classroom and work
shop for Theatre Arts classes and
for arena and experimental produc
tions of the Aggie Players.
Admission for the performance
is 75 cents and tickets may be ob
tained from any member of the
| Folklore Society.
Applications to take the exami
nation may be obtained from Nance
or by writing to the Board of Ex
aminers, Foreign Service, Depart
ment of State, Washington, D. C.
20520. The completed application
form must be postmarked not later
than March 15.
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Southwest Talent Set
For 14th Annual ITS
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. . Annette Bogue will represent Stephen F. Austin in Show.
Aggressions On Corps
A skirmish occurred Wednes
day night between members of
insurgent athletes and loyalists
Corps of Cadets’ Squadrons 10
and 11. The unwarranted, un
provoked aggressions (according
to the Corps) .by the Civilian ter
rorists came as the outfits were
marching to their evening meal.
Armaments consisted of snow
balls, handfulls of ice, and cadets.
Second Wing officers pledged
that any further attacks would
be fnet with the same swift re
taliation.
Air Force Team
Seeking Officers
From Senior Class
The Air Force Officer Selection
team will visit campus Monday
through Wednesday to interview
seniors interested in the Air Force
Officer Training School program.
The group, including Lt. R. P.
McMichael, officer selection spe
cialist from Houston and M/Sgt.
LeRoy Balmain, local recruiter
will be in the lobby of the Memorial
Student Center from 9 a.m. until
3 p.m.
Under the officer training pro
gram, applicants must be college
graduates or within 210 days of re
ceiving a degree; between ages of
of 20% and 29%; U. S. citizens;
and be able to pass a written and
physical examination.
The Air Force Officer Quali
fying Examination will be arranged
for any interested seniors.
Further information may be ob
tained from Sgt. Balmain, Room 1,
Post Office Building in Bryan, or
by calling TA 2-3061.
The Wortd at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
SAIGON, South Viet Nam—The United States
has unleashed jet planes for the first time against
the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam, a U. S. Embassy
spokesman announced Wednesday. They have made
several strikes.
Battles between powerful Viet Cong units and
government outfits continued sweeping across moun
tainous Birih Dinh Province today, with a rapidly
rising casualty toll.
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TOKYO—When the south Japan fishing port of
Kochi junks its buses, it dumps them into the sea
with persimmon trees. Officials believe the per
simmon trees will encourage growth of plankton,
attract fish and help boost a dying fishing industry
in Kochi.
National
MOBILE, Ala.—The homes of a civil rights
leader and the mayor of Mobile were fired upon
Tuesday night. No one was injured.
Police said the incidents were related. Officers
said the pistol shootings occurred while the families
of Negro leader J. L. Leflore and Mobile Mayor
Charles S. Trimmier were watching a Mardi Gras
parade in downtown Mobile.
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WASHINGTON—Walter Jenkins said in testi
mony made public Wednesday that a Maryland
insurance man bought Texas television advertising
time “to be competitive” in an effort to sell $100,000
worth of policies on President Johnson.
The onetime White House aide denied that he
pressured Don B. Reynolds into buying the time
on the Johnson family television station in Austin.
Texas
GALVESTON—Negotiators in the West Gulf
Coast dock strike Wednesday started putting on
paper the tentative agreements they have reached
by talking.
Shippers and International Longshoremen’s
Association bargainers have tentatively come to
terms on all major issues in the West Gulf District,
according to Assistant U. S. Labor Secretary James
J. Reynolds.
AUSTIN—The student body president of the
University of Texas spoke Tuesday night of teen
age revolutionaries—garbed in button-down shirts
and ivy league pants—but able to make intelligent
decisions in a voting booth.
The senior law student was one of four university
students, and the only non-teenager, who urged the
House Constitutional Amendments Committee to
approve a proposal lowering the voting age to 18.
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AUSTIN—The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
granted Wednesday an indefinite postponement of
its hearing of Jack Ruby’s appeal of his death
sentence for slaying presidential assassin Lee
Harvey Oswald.
The high court said submission of Ruby’s appeal
and a decision on which attorneys will be recognized
as his counsel should wait until Trial Judge Joe
Brown of Dallas decides whether Ruby is now sane
or insane.
Lineup for the 14th annual
Intercollegiate Talent Show will
include 11 acts from colleges
throughout the Southwest area,
Talent Committee Chairman
Richard Conner has announced.
The show will kick off Military
Weekend activities March 5, at
6:30 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coli
seum. Gary Gosney, a junior
pre-veterinary medicine major
from Fort Worth, will serve as
emcee while Bob Boone and the
Aggieland Orchestra will provide
the background music.
Forming the chorus line for the
show’s opening and closing num
bers will be the famed Kilgore
Rangerettes, returning after sev
eral previous appearances at the
event.
Other acts include Annette
Bogue from Stephen F. Austin
State College in Nacogdoches,
who will present a comic skit of
a little girl; The Riverside Sing
ers, folk singers from Arkansas
State Teachers College; The
Randy Bell Trio, a jazz combo
from the University of Arkansas,
and Just III, a folk singing trio
from Louisiana State University.
Millie Carr, a popular singer;
Manuel Melendez, a vocalist;
Linda Lepard, a singer and
dancer, and The Folk Four, a
novelty singing group, all from
Eastern New Mexico State Uni
versity, will also be presented.
The Loyola Stampers, a six-
man combo and comedy team, and
Jeanette Theriot, a light classical
singer, both from Loyola Uni
versity of New Orleans, and
Wanda Norgress, an LSU pianist,
will also perform.
Rounding out the program will
be The Coachmen, winners of the
Aggie Talent Show recently.
Talent for the show was chosen
from 100 persons or groups audi
tioned at colleges and universities
Clergyman Favors
Low Drinking Age
TOWACO, N. J. <A>) _ An Epis
copal clergyman has suggested that
New Jersey lower its legal drink
ing age from 21 to 16 to take al
cohol out of the “forbidden fruit”
category for teen-agers.
“If the drinking age were low
enough, high school kids would
soon come to regard alcohol as
another pizza pie,” said the Rev.
Joseph D. Herring, vicar of the
Episcopal Church of the Trans
figuration in this northern Jersey
community.
His proposal comes in the midst
of a new campaign by New Jersey
to get neighboring New York State
to raise its limit from 18 to 21.
New Jersey officials contend many
of the state’s teen-agers cross the
state line to New York to drink,
and often become involved in traf
fic accidents.
in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas,
Louisiana and New Mexico by
the talent committee.
Originally sponsored by the
Music Committee of the Memo
rial Student Center Council, the
inaugural talent show was held
before a capacity crowd in the
MSC Ballroom, March 7, 1952,
and included 13 acts from five
Texas schools. Last year’s attrac
tion featured 11 acts from 12
colleges.
Tickets are on sale in the Stu
dent Programs Office of the
MSC. They will be sold Monday
and Tuesday in the mess halls,
and a booth will be set up in the
MSC post office two days before
the show.
i Direct Combat I
1 In Viet Nam
I Is U.S. Policy I
WASHINGTON 69?) — A direct
American combat role in South
Viet Nam emerged officially Wed
nesday as within President John
son’s newly proclaimed policy of
“continuing action” against Red at
tacks.
At the same time, U. S. offi
cials listed as conditions for Viet
Nam peace negotiations: 1. an
end to the attacks by the Com
munist Viet Cong and 2. a halt in
the subversian, infiltration and;
supply of the guerrillas from the
outside.
With the guerrilla assaults con
tinuing, and Red Chinese Primier
Chou En-lai calling Wednesday for
complete, immediate and uncondi
tional U. S. withdrawal as the price
of negitiations, Johnson was re
ported cool on the prospect for
peace talks at this time.
France, the Soviet Union, Bri
tain, and U. N. Secretary General
U Thant maneuvered _ behind the
scenes to get negotiations under
way. But Peking and Hanoi were
reported adamant, and U.S. policy
appeared to be to press ahead to
improve the military situation and
its bargaining strength if negoti
ations do come later.
Late in the day, White House
press secretary George E. Reedy
told newsmen that there are no
“meaningful proposals” before the
U. S. government.
“The White House is not en
gaged in any negotiations for a
Viet Nam settlement,” he said,
and added that no one has been
authorized to negotiate on be
half of the United States.
First word of the broader U. S.
military role in South Viet Nam
came with a Saigon announcement
that American-manned jet bomb
ers had struck against Viet Cong
positions in central Viet Nam last
Thursday and several times since
then.
Previously, the 24,000 U. S.
military personnel in South Viet
Nam were supposed co be acting
as ‘advisers.” While the Ameri
cans avowedly shot back in self-
defense, direct combat was sup
posed to be the function of the
South Vietnamese forces.
The situation was different out
side of South Viet Nam. Late
last spring American fliers be
gan missions over neighboring
Laos, and hit North Vietnamese
targets following the August at
tacks on U. S. warships in the
Gulf of Tonkin.
The scope of the U. S. action
broadened early this month with
the reprisal air raids on North
Viet Nam, triggered by Viet Cong
killings of Americans in South
Viet Nam. Then last week John
son said “our continuing actions”
will be “measured and fitting and
adequate” to meet “the continuing
aggression of others.”
Rotary Foundation
To Offer Grants
For Top Scholars
Applications for Rotary Founda
tion Fellowships for graduate stu
dy abroad in 1966-67 must be filed
not later than April 15.
Program details are available
from Graduate Dean Wayne C.
Hall.
Rotary Foundation Fellows have
dual roles as scholars and ambas
sadors of good will. They may
study in any country in which there
are Rotary Clubs, and there are
clubs in most free countries of
the world.
The stipends include basically
all travel, study and living ex
penses for the year of graduate
study abroad.
Hall said the qualifications re
quire an applicant to have a friend
ly personality and ability to speak
in public, so as to enable him
to make effective contacts abroad
and at home; have high scholastic
ability and hold a bachelor’s de
gree or its equivalent by the time
the Fellowship is to begin; be
able to read, write and speak the
language of the country in which
he is to study; have an interest in
world affairs; be a male between
the ages of 20 and 28, inclusive,
and be single; and be a citizen of
the country of his permanent resi
dence.