Che Battalion
Texas
A&M
University
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1965
Number 142
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1 Gold Mine I
VOTING CARDS INTRODUCED
. . . Election commissioners pass out cards to prospective voters.
Fourth Army Commander
To Be Here Military Day
Full Coeducation
Voluntary Military
Narrowly Approved
Distinguished visitors includ
ing Lt. Gen. Robert W. Colglazier,
commanding general of the
Fourth U. S. Army with head
quarters at San Antonio, will be
on campus March 6 for tradi
tional Military Day activities.
The Civilian Student Council
Thursday night voted to adopt
recommendations made by the
Dormitory Presidents Council to
form a new council combining the
two.
The council also voted to re
solve that they were in favor of
non-compulsory Corps and un
limited coeducation. The measure
passed the council 11-14 with
Representative Lani Presswood
presenting the only vocal opposi
tion.
The recommendations endorsed
by the council request that this
new council, if formed, are that
the members of this new council
shall consist of: Civilian dormi
tory presidents; representatives
from College View, Hensel, and
the project area; day student;
graduate council; Corps, civilian
chaplain, and civilian yell leader,
and The Battalion.
Also recommended was that
A number of distinguished
guests in addition to Gen. and
Mrs. Colglazier are expected for
a busy schedule of events includ
ing a review of the Corps of
Cadets. Plans for the day were
announced by Col. D. L. Baker,
the officers, president, vice-presi
dent, and treasurer would be elec
ted from the civilian studenfb
population. The secretary and
parliamentarian appointed by the
new council.
A theme for the civilian dance
was selected and the band an
nounced. The theme picked is
“Moonlight and Roses,” and Bud
dy Brock was named as the band.
It was announced that the
council had two architects to plan
the decorations for the dance.
President Paul Oliver said Ronald
Reel and Steve Murphy are the
two selected.
The council also sent to a com
mittee recommendations for the
service recognition award. The
selection will be made public at
a later date.
Other business discussed in
cluded outstanding councilman
award, voter registration cards
and campus improvements.
commandant.
Gen. Colglazier, a 1925 gradu
ate of A&M:, is the highest rank
ing reserve officer in the Army
today. He has commanded the
Fourth Army since Aug. 1.
The Cadet Corps will pass in
review for Gen. Colglazier, Presi
dent Earl Rudder and others
Saturday afternoon. Climaxing
the busy schedule is the Military
Ball that night in Sbisa Hall for
all cadets.
Gen. Colglazier entered active
duty in May, 1941, and served
during World War II with the
Corps of Engineers in the U. S.,
Northern Ireland, North Africa
and in Europe. He returned to
civilian life in 1946.
He was promoted to brigadier
general in the reserves in 1947
and during the Korean conflict
was recalled to extended active
duty on the Army General Staff.
Important assignment followed
which included commander of the
communications zone in Europe
and deputy chief of staff for
logistics.
The general’s list of citations
and decorations include the
Legion of Merit with two Oak
Leaf Clusters, honorary officer of
the Most Excellent Order of the
British Empire, Bronze Star
Medal, campaign and service
medals, the Army Commendation
Ribbon wiht Metal Pendant, and
both the Legion of Honor and
Croix de Guerre of France.
A light turnout of voters gave
a narrow margin of approval to
full coeducation and a non-com
pulsory military education at
A&M.
2,076 students voted 1,216-961
in favor of a non-compulsory
Corps. The Corps students voted
613-806 against non-compulsory
Corps while the civilians voted
440-108 for it. In separate bal
loting, vet students voted 163-32
in favor of the voluntary Corps.
The student body voiced a 1,029
vote in favor of unlimited co
education; 242 for limited coedu
cation and 293 for no coeds.
795 Corps members voted
against any coeds; 187 for limited
coeducation 445 for unlimited co
education.
Civilians voted 108 against co
eds, 39 for limited coeducation
and 423 for unlimited coeduca
tion.
The vet students voted 20
against coeds; 16 for limited co
education and 161 for unlimited
coeducation.
Frank Muller, A&M Student
Body President, and Neil Keltner,
Commander of the Corps of Ca
dets, will meet with the Board
of Directors at 3 p.m. Friday.
Muller will present the results
of Thursday’s election concerning
a non-compulsory Corps and co
education. Keltner will voice the
opinion of the Cadet Corps on
these two issues.
The Board of Directors will
AUSTIN UP) — The Texas
Legislature gave Gov. John Con-
nally a victory package Thurs
day topped by his prize demand,
a strong college coordinating
board.
Senators passed the college bill
27-3 and sent it to Connally,
who termed the action “a mile
stone in the history of higher
education in Texas which will
benefit its development and prog
ress for generations.”
The bill, the most important
higher education legislation
since the Texas Commission on
Higher Education was created in
1955, calls for an 18-member
board to replace the commission.
The bill puts junior colleges,
now under the State Board of
Education, under the new board,
and provides increased power
over addition of courses and de
gree programs.
The House passed the bill last
week 141-4.
officially convene at 9 a.m. Satur
day to consider a resolution
passed by the Board of Directors
of the Association of Former
Students at its meeting Feb. 6
and a possible building use
charge for students.
The former students resolution
urged a study of the non-com-
pulsory Corps and coeducation is
sues.
Other projects to be considered
President Earl Rudder will be
one of three principal speakers at
a symposium on Arms Control
Jointly sponsored by the Amer
ican Ordnance Association and
Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge Sp
ace Technology Laboratories on
March 9 and 10 at Los Angeles,
Calif.
The AOA is a large and presti
gious organization composed of
leading industrialists and top
military personnel whose princi
pal purpose is to promote the de
fense of the United States.
The fact that President Rudder
has been asked to be a main
speaker at this two-day meeting
is significant in that this marks
the first time that a representa-
Connally’s study committee
recommended creation of a strong
coordinating board last summer
and worked for support of the
proposal. Initial objection to the
proposal failed to materialize in
the legislature.
Five amendments aimed at
curbing the board’s power and
limiting the size and composi
tion of the board were easily
defeated by the sponsor, Sen.
Bill Moore of Bryan.
The board, named coordinating
board, Texas College and Uni
versity System, will have power
to classify schools as senior col
leges or universities.
The board could eliminate or
consolidate courses found to du
plicate existing courses, one of
several weapons against waste
sought by Connally.
Connally also based his request
for higher college spending on
creation of the board.
include air conditioning of Sbisa
Mess Hall and G. Rollie White
Coliseum, additions to the Memo
rial Student Center and parking
and landscape improvements for
the A&M campus.
Charles Wallace, chairman of
the Election Commission said that
voting cards will still be availa
ble on the lower level of the
MSC next week from 8 a.m. until
5 p.m.
tive of higher education has been
included in a key spot in the or
ganization’s national delibera
tions.
Some 500 persons from all
parts of the nation are expect
ed to attend the three panel ses
sions of the meeting.
In the second session, on “Ver
ification of Arms Control,” two
faculty members will be panel
ists. Dr. W. W. Meinke, head
of the Chemurgic Research Labo
ratory, and Dr. Sidney O. Brown,
head of the Radiation Biology
Laboratory, will discuss “A Uni
versity’s Approach to Arms Ver
ification.”
The other sessions are titled:
“Why Arms Control?,” which
opens the symposium, and “Eco
nomic/Industrial Effects and As
pects,” which ends the panel dis
cussions.
In addition to President Rudder,
the other two principal speakers
will be Lt. Gen. Arthur G. Tru
deau, former chief of research and
development for the U. S. Army
and presently president of the
Gulf Research and Development
Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa., and
Lt. Gen. Fred M. Dean, USAF
and member of the Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency.
CS United Chest
Meets March 8
The annual meeting of the Col
lege Station United Chest Inc.,
will be held at 7:30 p.m. March 8
in the A&M Consolidated Schools
cafeteria, president J. M. Hen
dricks announced Thursday.
All contributors to the 1964
campaign are considered corpora
tion members and may vote in the
election of five new board mem
bers, he pointed out. Directors
serve three-year terms.
College Station residents contri
buted more than $20,000 to exceed
the goal in the last fund drive sup
porting 15 agencies.
Value Estimated
At $200 Million
By LAYNE CONNEVEY
Special Writer
An Aggie is about to strike it
rich to the tune of $200 million
. . . or is he?
A news story by Mike Cochran
of the Associated Press stated that
Les Guerra, a graduate of A&M
University, claims to be excavat
ing $200 million in buried Spanish
gold near Salado, Texas. Guerra
is one of the four partners making
up the firm, called Guerra Enter
prises, that is officially looking for
the treasure.
Although Guerra is reportedly
an Aggie-ex, the office of the
Association of Former Students
has no records of his attendance
at A&M.
Guerra, who said he found the
gold while exploring a cave in
1957 but got lost on the way out
in a maze of tunnels, described a
room containing not only stacks of
gold and silver bars, but also a
life-size golden bull head with ruby
eyes. The treasure, legend has it,
was buried by Spanish conquista
dors who mined gold and silver
along Salado Creek, fashioned
them into bars and hid them.
There is no known record of gold
having ever been mined within
hundreds of miles of Salado. In
fact, the only known previous
mention of gold in that area con
cerns a gold mining stock promo
tion fifty years ago at nearby
Georgetown that proved to be
fraudulent.
Dr. Joseph Milton Nance, head
, of the Department of History, said
that he knew of no gold mining
operation along the Salado Creek
by conquistadors or anyone else.
However, he said that there was a
story of a German who had mined
for 20 years in Mexico and was
traveling through Texas in 1839
to see a lost love in North Caro
lina.
Legend has it that he was travel
ing with a party of Mexicans and
that he had with him ten heavily-
laden pack mules, loaded down
with gold. The party ran into
some difficulty with Texans and
the German escaped b ut later
buried his gold before he was
killed by Indians. The location of
his gold hoard can be approxi
mated by a letter he wrote to his
lady friend telling her the location.
Where is it? That’s right ... in
the general area of the excavations
of Guerra Enterprises.
Buried treasure in Texas? . . .
Why not?
CSC Favors Combining
With Dormitory Presidents
Senate Approves
Coordinating Board
Rudder Scheduled
For Defense Talk
Candid Comments On Current Crises
Students Approve Adopting Fee For Expanding Facilities
Question: Would you favor an additional fee to provide funds for expanding student facilities on campus?
JJ
ANDY TIJERINA
Sophomore, San Angelo
I wouldn’t mind paying a fee like
this as long as it would go to the
students’ benefit. All of our
dorms need to be air-conditioned
and I’d like to see a few more
buildings air-conditioned, too. I
work in the mess hall and I’d
also like to see some improve
ments made in them too. I know
some people would go along with
that idea.
WALTER ASCHENBECK
Freshman, Wharton
I think that such a fee has been
needed for some time. Most other
schools already have such a fee
and it would serve a good pur
pose here. There are plenty of
things that should be expanded
for use of the student body. As
long as such a fee would not be
too much I don’t think that there
would be much opposition to it.
We need some money, and this
is a good place to get it.
GLEN REUE
Senior, Fulsher
I feel like this might hit some
people hard, but I don’t think it
would hurt the average person.
We could use the money for a
bigger Exchange Store. Each
semester it takes an hour to get
through the lines after registra
tion. We also need to improve
Guion Hall. The coliseum is big
but we don’t have a nice auditor
ium and we need one badly.
JIM PATTON
Senior, Bellaire
I guess I would favor it on the
ground that for the small amount
we would pay we could stand to
gain some real benefit. I think
we should definitely have more
facilities for student recreation.
More money should be available
for our student clubs. But many
people may not want to pay the
fee, especially next year’s sen
iors, who might not ever benefit
from such a fee.
RUSSELL STEIN
Junior, Corpus Christi
We should not by any means
raise our fees. One reason many
students choose this school is be
cause of the economical factors,
and I don’t think we’d derive that
much benefit from it. If we can’t
get enough money through bonds
or from the former students,
then I firmly believe the students
should not have to be burdened
with this extra expense.
BOB HEATON
Sophomore, Tyler
I can’t see paying an extra fee
for this purpose. If there were a
specific improvement in mind,
maybe, but for a general fund I
see no need for additional fees.
I doubt that anybody would ob
ject to say, $15-$20 more for
something specific, but I don’t
believe we should have to pay
for something labeled as “bet
terment of the students.”
AL TIJERINA
Senior, San Angelo
I think it’s a good idea but a
fee should be set low enough so
that it won’t be too rough on us.
The money could go to good
enough use. Guion Hall needs to
be fixed up badly, G. Rollie
White could stand air-condition
ing, and we need much more
space in the MSC, especially in
the fountain room. There’s not
enough room in there for us,
much less for guests.