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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, March 3, 1965
Number 144
Dignitaries Named
Military Day
Corps To Review,
Stage Annual Ball
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MAJ. GEN. HOPWOOD
LT. GEN. COLGLAZIER
Animal Scientists
To Speak Friday
Two lectures by widely-known
animal scientists will be deliv
ered from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday un
der sponsorship of the Wortham
Foundation and the A&M Grad
uate College. The lectures will
be given in the Animal Industries
Building Lecture Room.
Dr. Everett J. Warwick of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Beltsville, Md., and Dr. Jorge de
Alba, presently with the Bank of
Mexico to stimulate technical de
velopment in Mexican agricul
ture, will give the lectures.
Warwick is chief of the Beef
Cattle Research Branch of the
Animal Husbandry Research Di
vision, USDA. He will lecture on
“Significant Recent Develop
ments in Beef Cattle Research”
under sponsorship of the Grad
uate College.
De Alba is known widely for
his teaching, research and con
sultation in Latin American
countries. He will lecture on
“Problems of Tropical Animal
Science with Particular Refer
ence to the Influence of High
Temperature on Spermatogene
sis.”
The Wortham Foundation, Ster
ling C. Evans trustee, sponsors
de Alba’s lecture.
Warwick served the USDA as
regional coordinator of beef cat
tle breeding research in the
southern region before assuming
his present duties.
Born on a livestock farm in
Western Illinois, he completed
undergraduate studies at the
University of Illinois in 1939.
After a year as a high school
teacher he commenced graduate
studies at the University of
consin. In 1943 he received a
Ph.D. degree in genetics and ani
mal husbandry. Warwick taught
at the State College of Washing
ton and Purdue University be
fore joining the USDA in 1950.
De Alba, born in Mexico in
1920, studied, animal science at
the University of Maryland. Aft
er receiving his bachelor’s degree
in 1941, he commenced graduate
studies in animal physiology at
Cornell University and received
the master’s degree in 1942 and
the Ph.D. in 1945.
De Alba’s positions since 1945
have been a dministrator of a
large Hereford ranch in Mexico;
founder and director of the
School of Animal Science and
Experimental Farm, University
of Sonora, Mexico; head of the
Department of Animal Science,
Inter-American Institute of Ag
ricultural Sciences, Turrialba,
Costa Rica; and his present posi
tion with the Bank of Mexico.
Among de Alba’s contributions
are two books. These are “Ali-
mentacion del Ganado en Ameri
ca Latina,” published in 1957,
and “Reproduccion y Genetica
Animal,” 1964.
Juniors Schedule
Active Weekend
“The Junior Banquet and Ball
slated for March 27, promises to
offer dining, dancing and good
entertainment for a reasonable
price,” Tom Hargrove, Junior
Class vice-president said this
week.
The Juniors’ big night will
start with the banquet in the
east wing of Duncan Dining Hall
at 6 p.m., featuring a menu of
broiled filet mignon.
Candidates for Junior Class
sweetheart will be presented at
the banque.t Nat Stuckey, Louis
iana Hayride star, will provide
the entertainment.
The juniors and their dates
will be special guests at the Lou
isiana Hayride directly following
the banquet. The Hayride, spon
sored by Sigma Delta Chi pro
fessional journalistic society will
feature stars George Jones, Jer
ry Lee Lewis, Connie Smith, and
Nat Stuckey all of whom are
scheduled to appear at least once
before 9 p.m. This will enable
the juniors to be on time for
their ball which starts at 9 p.m.
in the Ramada Inn Ball Room.
“This will be different from
previous years when the ball was
held in Sbisa,” added Hargrove.
The World Renown Gill and
the Brothers Seven will provide
the music, announced Harris
Pappas, Junior Social Secretary.
The crowning of Junior Class
sweetheart will cap the night fes
tivities at the ball.
Tickets will be sold in the mess
halls and in the Memorial Stu
dent Center until March 22.
Prices are $3.25 for the ball only,
$5.25 for the ball and banquet
and $6.25 for the ball, banquet
and Hayride.
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Ticket Sales
For Hayride
Roll Friday
. ..Advance tickets for the Louisi
ana Hayride show schehuled for
7:30 p.m.. March 27 in G. Rollie
White Coliseum will go on sale
Friday, said Glenn Dromgoole,
Sigma Delta Chi present.
The three and one-half hour
show sponsored by SDX will be
headlined by George Jones and
will be broadcast live over KWKH
radio in Shreveport, La. Others
appearing will be Jerry Lee Lewis,
Connie Smith, Johnnie and Joanie
Mosby, Nat Stuckey and Don Bow
man.
Prices for advance tickets will
be $2.25 for reserved seats, $1.75
for general admission and $1.25
for students. Tickets at the door
will be 25 cents higher.
Tickets will be sold at the Ex
change Store, Student Publication
Office, MSC Student Finance Of
fice, Department of Journalism
and Jarrott’s Pharmacy in Bryan
and Townshire.
Five Air Force and Army major generals have been
added to the distinguished guests for Military Day Saturday.
They join Lt. Gen. Robert W. Colglazier, commanding gen
eral of the Fourth U. S. Army with headquarters at Ft. Sam
Houston.
Civilian as well as military guests will be present as
the Corps of Cadets forms at 1 p. m. Saturday to pass in re
view. The guests will have a busy schedule starting with a
dinner Friday evening with President and Mrs. Earl Rudder
as hosts.
Final event of the Military Day program is the tradition
al Military Ball scheduled at 9 p. m. Saturday for all members
of the Cadet Corps and their
guests. Friday night mem
bers of the Army Reserve Of
ficer Training Corps will stage
the annual Combat Ball and
select their Combat Cutie.
Among the guests, as announc
ed by Col. D. L. Baker, command
ant:
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Lloyd P. Hop-
wood, Amarillo Air Force Base.
He commands the Amarillo Tech
nical Training Center. The gen
eral won his pilot’s wings in 1933
and has held varied staff posts
and commands including service as
commandant of the Air Command
and Staff College.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. William A.
Harris. He is deputy command
ing general of the Fourth U. S.
Army.
Maj, Gen. and Mrs. William R.
Calhoun. The general commands
the VIII U. S. Army Corps with
headquarters in Austin.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. John C.
Meyer. He is commander of the
12th Air Force with headquarters
at Waco.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Robert H.
Travis. The general commands the
90th Infantry Division. The Travis
es reside in San Antonio.
Other distinguished guests ex
pected for Military Day activities
Mrs. N. B. Keltner, mother of
the A&M cadet corps commander.
She resides in Lansing, Mich.
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Younger
of Midland. He is president of the
Association of Former Students.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Dew of
Tyler. She is president of the Fed
erated A&M Mothers’ Clubs.
700 Expected
At Career Day
An estimated 700 high school
students are expected to partici
pate in Career Day activities Mar.
13 on campus.
William W. Mason, Intercouncil
chairman, said attendance is ex
pected to surpass last year's 440
registrants.
Seniors, juniors and sophomores
from high schools throughout the
state have been invited to get ac
quainted with the campus, faculty,
facilities, and coufses of study.
Parents, teachers and counselors
are also invited to participate.
Rangerettes Featured At ITS
The Kilgore Rangerettes will return to the legiate talent from throughout the South-
A&M campus Friday night as the featured western United States. The Rangerettes
Quests of the Intercollegiate Talent Show, will open and close the show.
This year’s ITS will feature 10 acts of col-
FORT KNOX IN BELL COUNTY?
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Discovery Raises
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Special Writers
SALADO, — Is there more gold
in Bell County than Fort Knox ?
Les Guerra, an Aggie-Ex who
hopes to strike it rich over-night,
evidently thinks so. Guerra, who
reportedly attended A&M in 1936-
38, is head of Guerra Enterprises,
a Houston-based firm that is cur
rently searching for a fortune in
gold near Salado.
While Guerra is at his sick
mother’s side in a Dallas hospital,
workers of Guerra Enterprises
and International Explorers Inc.
were feverishly digging and
blasting away at a rocky hill
near Salado, Tuesday. Guerra
says there is $36 million in gold,
silver, and diamonds buried in
the jagged hill that is typical of
that part of Texas.
The discovery of a new tunnel
in the face of a knoll raised hopes
higher than ever Monday. Gene
Ritchey, superintendent of In
ternational Explorers, Inc., is of
Indian ancestry and claims to be
a pilot, skindiver, skydiver, and
soldier of fortune by trade. He
said this particular rock forma
tion had aroused his curiosity.
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
DA NANG, South Viet Nam—U. S. and South
Vietnamese air force squadrons, no longer restricted
to tit for tat reprisals, rained tons of bombs and
rockets on two of North Viet Nam’s military instal
lations Tuesday in the heaviest such strike of the
war.
More than 160 land-based planes—jet fighters,
fighter-bombers and bombers and propeller-driven
Skyraiders—attacked the port of Quang Khe and a
munitions depot at Xom Bang.
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NEW DELHI, India—The U. S. dock strike has
cut off American aid grain for hungry India, Parlia
ment was told Tuesday.
“The ships have not come and we have had to
make a cut everywhere,” Finance Minister T. T.
Krishnamachari declared.
“I can tell the house that the government is
straining every nerve to meet the situation which,
in an abnormal situation, becomes even more ab
normal.’
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NEW DELHI—The Soviet Union is learning it
can be an expensive proposition to help out India.
Even so, it seems to be getting value received.
The Soviet assistance program for India has
passed the billion-dollar mark, making it the largest
Moscow has undertaken outside the Communist bloc.
It probably is one of Moscow’s most successful
ventures.
National
NEW YORK—Police Commissioner Michael J.
Murphy voiced a recurrent complaint Tuesday—that
housewives are operating telephone answering serv
ices for bookmakers.
He said 24 housewives were arrested in the first
seven weeks of this year.
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NEW YORK—A federal grand jury indictment
Tuesday named a second Canadian white woman
among the defendants in a fantastic scheme to blow
up the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monu
ment and the Liberty Bell.
Indicted with the three American Negro men
and Canadian white woman arrested earlier was
Michelle Saunier, 39, of Montreal, a schoolteacher
studying for her doctor’s degree at the University
of Montreal.
★ ★ ★
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla.—An Atlas-Centaur
space rocket exploded into a boiling fireball on its
launching pad Tuesday, dealing a damaging blow
to U. S. plans to launch a Project Surveyor space
craft this year to determine if the moon’s surface
can support astronaut expeditions.
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BELMONT, Mass.—The founder of the John
Birch Society called Tuesday for establishing chap
ters in a majority of congressional districts to sway
political support toward conservative candidates.
In a special pamphlet issued with the society’s
monthly bulletin, founder Robert Welch set a goal
of 50 chapters of 20 members apiece in each of
325 congressional districts—three-quarters of the
435 total.
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DALLAS, Ore.—A woman was accused Tuesday
of drowning her three children and cutting their
throats.
A judge went to the hospital room of Mrs.
Nelson Van Kleeck, 40, to notify her of the first-
degree murder charge. She is recovering from a
throat wound, which Police Chief Jim Greene said
was self-inflicted.
Texas
DALLAS—Billie Sol Estes took the witness
stand today for the first time in any of his criminal
trials to enter what his lawyer said would be a com
plete denial of any guilt of lying to the government.
Closer inspection revealed a
huge boulder wedged into the
mouth of a tunnel.
Ritchey said that he and his
men found the rock to be plast
ered together with a makeshift
mortar made of “goat milk’ ani
mal blood, and limestone.” He
added that “somebody didn’t
want anyone else in there.”
Workers immediately began
cleaning out the tunnel, a job
that was necessary because it
had been filled up with dirt.
The workers found different
types of sand, bits of chicken
bone, charred wood, and a solid
stone wheel about 18 inches in
diameter with a steel center in
the dirt they removed from the
tunnel. The charred wood and
soot stains in the ceiling of the
tunnel indicates that this parti
cular room was used as a smelt
er, said H. D. McCord, of Guerra
Enterprises.
V. J. Barker, commenting on
the stone wheel, said that it was
probably used for grinding ore
and that they expected to find
another one.
Barker, wearing an expensive
looking brown suit with a Shriner
pin on his left lapel, is half own
er of International Explorers, Inc.
The enthusiasm of the group
is gaining momentum. Accord
ing to Ritchey, there are records
in the county court house of 92
known mining operations in the
area. There is a strong indica
tion that a big operation had once
been conducted in this area.
A man-made cave, now under
water, going about four hundred
feet into solid rock has also been
explored by the crew. A seg
ment of rail about 25 feet long
was found in the cave, Ritchey
said, adding that it was probably
used to transport ore cars. “I
am only waiting to find an ore car
now,” Ritchey said.
Geologists at A&M say that
gold ore is not usually found in
limestone, which is the type rock
most common to this area.
But McCord has an answer to
this, too. An affable man with
bushy grey eye - brows and a
friendly nature who likes to talk,
McCord said geologists exploring
the area before had found traces
of serpentine oil. Serpentine oil,
McCord said, is found only around
volcanic formations. He said{
that volcanic activity had forced
gold and diamond producing stra
ta to the surface in this area.
McCord said that seismo-
graphic operations have been con
ducted and indicate that there are
six or seven connecting tunnels
running under this hill at a depth
of about 80 ft. He mentioned one
large room 700 ft. underground
that covered about an acre.
“Don’t kid yourselves, this is
no hoax, it’s here,” McCord said.
“There are gold bars, gold coins,
silver bars and coins, silver-plated
saddles, diamonds, a gold madon
na about two feet tall, and a
solid gold bull’s head with rubies
for eyes.”
“If you boys knew everything
I know you wouldn’t be skeptical.
I know several men who have
been in the big room and have
seen the treasure. People have
gotten gold out of here for years,”
McCord said referring to an In
dian named Pablo Juarez. “I
have known people who have
come in here and hauled gold out
in trucks,” he said, adding that
Juarez, who lived in the area for
105 years was seen with gold
bars several times.
The core drill is already in
the room where the gold is sup
posed to be. A shaft, some 109
feet deep was dug at a lower
level, and a tunnel is being open
ed in the direction of the room.
The tunnel has been extended
some 60 ft. from the base of the
shaft toward the room.
Ritchey estimated that over
“$300,000 of equipment is now on
the site and it’s cornin’ in all the
time.” “We’ve already con
structed an airport to speed up
the process of bringing in the
equipment,’ Ritchey added.
Ritchey said that the primary
interest of the expedition was
to find the gold, but that no
archeological possibility was be
ing overlooked. He summed up
the reason for the feverish en
thusiasm of the crew by saying
“You can’t be an adventurer and
not have gold fever.”