Select Combat Cutie From 6 Finalists Friday
JUDY GARRETT
Escorted by Bill Davis
PAT HALFEN
Escorted by Randy Smith
BECKY DUNN
Escorted by Lep Babin
SHERRY KAY REESE
Escorted by Gary McKinney
SHARON HUFF
Escorted by John Bradley
MAUREEN NANKIVELL
Escorted by Bill Taylor
Spring Military Day activities
for the Corps of Cadets get un
derway Friday with the Combat
Ball, to be held in Sbisa Hall fol
lowing the Intercollegiate Talent
Show.
The 1965 Combat Cutie will be
selected and announced at the
dance. The six finalists include
Sharon Huff, Pat Halfen, Becky
Dunn, Sherry Kay Reese, Judy
Garrett and Maureen Nankiyell.
The ball has a “South Pacific”
theme. Uniform is class C fa
tigue. Solid color battle scarves
are optional and flight suits are
not authorized. Army cadets
who have been assigned a branch
of service to be entered upon
commissioning may wear branch
insignia on their collar.
Other Military Weekend activ
ities include a 1 p.m. Saturday
review and the Military Ball.
Che Battalion JE,
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1965
Number 145
Spring English
Literary Fete
Set April 1-12
The Department of English will hold its second annual
Spring Literary Festival Apr. 1-12, Dr. John Q. Anderson,
department head, has announced.
Three professors will present papers, students of the
oral interpretation class will read selections from nineteenth
century American literature and Dr. William A. Owens will
read selections from his works at the event.
Owens, a novelist and professor of English at Columbia
University, taugh at A&M before going to Columbia in the
1940s. His recent novel, “Look*
to the River,” has been sold
to the movies. This and other
of his novels have Texas
backgrounds, as he is a native
of East Texas and active in folk
lore studies in the Southwest.
“A Texas Christmas” will be
the title of his lecture, sponsored
by the Department of English and
the Graduate College, scheduled
for 8 p.m. Monday, April 12.
“This literary festival is a furth-
attempt to emphasize the in-
reasing cultural opportunities on
the campus for students, faculty
members and townspeople,” Dr.
Anderson said.
“We are particularly pleased in
having Dr. Owens come here in
view of his current success as a
novelist,” he continued.
Making arrangements for the
festival is a faculty-student com
mittee. Sigma Tau Delta, the
English fraternity, and the English
Society are assisting.
The festival will open April 1
with a lecture by Prof. Carroll D.
Laverty on “Caverns Measureless
to Man — A View of Poe and
Hawthorne.”
On April 5 Richard H. Ballinger
will speak on “The Place of Wil
liam Dean Howells in American
Literature.” The readings in
American literature by the oral
interpretation class also will be
given the same day. Allen Schrad
er, an assistant professor, will
furnish incidental music drawn
from “Dialogue with the Nine
teenth Century,” a suite for piano
and orchestra which he composed.
“Washington Square and One
West Main Stree—Edith Wharton
and Ellen Glasgow” will be the
title of a lecture April 8 by As
sociate Professor Harrison E.
Hierth.
Eccles Called
Accounting’s
Top Student
Joe Eccles, a senior from Bay-
town, has been honored as the
outstanding accounting student at
A&M University. Eccles combines
scholarship — he has straight
“A’s” in accounting and a solid
“B” average in all courses—and
student leadership.
The Haskins-Sells Foundation
Award of $500 was presented to
Eccles Tuesday night during a
meeting of the Accounting Society.
Eccles is president of the approxi
mately 80-member student group.
Eccles’ name also is to be placed
on a plaque in the School of Busi
ness Administration library.
The senior was chosen for the
honor on the basis of his excellent
record. The accounting faculty of
the business school selected Ec
cles.
Jury Finds
Billie Sol
Innocent
DALLAS OP)—Prison-bound Bil
lie Sol Estes, on trial for a third
and probably last time, heard a
jury pronounce him innocent Wed
nesday of lying to the government
about his debts.
It was the first acquittal in
three cases for the former pro
moter, reputed to be worth $150
million before his complex of
farm-based business collapsed a
little less than three years ago.
Estes, a onetime confidant of
industrialists and politicians, re
mained in custody nevertheless to
start serving a 15-year sentence
for mail fraud, which the Supreme
Court has refused for the last time
to review. That occurred in Wash
ington as jurors were being picked
for the three-day trial here.
The Dallas jury of five women
and seven men took Estes’ word
over that of others that he did not
give fhe Cohimodity Credit Corp.
falsified financial statements. The
government claimed he did this to
qualify for grain storage contracts
worth more than $5 million a year.
U. S. Dist. Judge Sarah T.
Hughes warned spectators against
any demonstration and there was
complete silence as she read the
verdict.
A moment after Judge Hughes
stepped off the bench, however,
there was a mild “yippee” from
Pam Estes, 17, eldest of the de
fendants’ five children.
Estes, usually poker faced,
smiled slightly. His wife Patsy
shed happy tears. After a few
minutes she was able to say:
“I’m so glad he finally won a
case!”
Marshals refused to let Estes
talk to newsmen but he stuck out
a hand to shake that of one re
porter.
‘Cafe Rue Pinalle’
Entertainment billed as “Cafe
Rue Pinalle” has been scheduled
in the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom immediately following
the Intercollegiate Talent Show
Friday night at G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Music will be provided by the
“Avantis,” a singing group from
Houston; the “Just IIP from the
University of Arkansas, and the
“Randy Bell Trio” from Louisi
ana State University.
Tickets for the dance, spon
sored by the MSC Directorate
and Council, are available at the
Student Programs office in the
MSC and at the door at 75 cents
per person.
The Just III
Appearing at the Intercollegiate Talent Show Friday night
will be The Just HI, a singing group from Louisiana State
University. From the top, the group includes Bill Spann,
Jerie Ford and Bob Adams. ITS begins at 6:30 p. m. in G.
Rollie White Coliseum. Tickets sell for $1.25.
A&M Drill Contest
Scheduled March 27
6 Southuvestern Units To Compete
Approximately 300 cadets
representing drill teams from
throughout the Southwest are ex
pected to compete in the first
annual A&M Invitational Drill
Meet, scheduled for Saturday,
March 27, on the main parade
grounds.
Units from Texas A&I, the
University of Houston, Arlington
State, Sam Houston State and
West Texas State have already
accepted invitations, and several
additional confirmations are mo
mentarily expected, according to
Malon Southerland, president of
Drill Team Members, sponsors of
the competition.
The inaugural competition was
slated for last sping, but a con
flict with the Louisiana State
University meet forced cancella
tion of the project.
Competition will open follow
ing welcoming ceremonies at 8
a.m. Saturday. Inspection and
basic drill phases will then be
presented with fancy drill compe
tition scheduled that afternoon.
Awards ceremonies will be held
at approximately 4 p.m. A
master trophy will be presented
Air Force Strikes
Secret Viet Bases
SAIGON, South Viet Nam <AP)
— A U. S. Air Force jet mis
sion struck secret targets Wed
nesday in a followup to the wide
ly publicized U. S.-South Viet
namese attack Tuesday on mili
tary installations in Communist
North Viet Nam.
The Ho Chi Minh trail through
eastern Laos — a Viet Cong
supply line raided sporadically
throughout the winter — was
believed to have been hit by more
than 30 FIDO and F105 fighter-
bombers.
The supersonic squadrons took
of unheralded with heavy loads
of explosives from Da Nang base,
380 miles northeast of Saigon, and
sped back later with bomb bays
empty to a landing lacking in
fanfare.
U. S. authorities declined to
disclose the objectives, but said
no new strike had been made
i
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
SAIGON, South Viet Nam—A bomb exploded
Wednesday night in front of a bar frequented by
U. S. servicemen, wounding a dozen persons.
There apparently were no serious American
casualties but some Americans were cut.
The bomb ripped masonry from the front of the
bar and adjacent buildings, and cratered the side
walk.
★ ★ ★
MOSCOW—The Soviet Red Cross has cabled an
appeal to President Johnson to “display humaneness
and wise statesmanship” and stop the war in Viet
Nam, the Soviet news agency Tass said Wednesday.
The agency quoted the cable as saying the U. S.
air strikes in Viet Nam are “a crying violation of
international law, of the Geneva agreements and
conventions and also of the decisions of the Inter
national Red Cross conferences.”
★ ★ ★
TOKYO—Communist North Viet Nam said
through its official paper Wednesday it is ready
to dole out severe punishment for any new U. S.
jet attacks on its territory. It did not say what
the punishment would be.
“The Vietnamese people are resolved to shatter
their adventurous war expansion plan and punish
them for their crimes,” the official daily Nhan Dan
said in an editorial.
★ ★ ★
PISA, Ltaly—High winds uprooted trees around
the Leaning Tower of Pisa on Wednesday and moved
the famous bell tower another fraction off center.
The movement was minute—a few hundredths
of a millimeter—but it was enough to cause a fresh
upsurge of concern among specialists who fear that
one day the tower will come crashing down.
National
WASHINGTON—The Senate Investigations sub
committee reported Wednesday a ruthless, nation
wide mob known variously as the Mlafia and Cosa
Nostra is profiting to the tune of “many billions”
of dollars a year from gambling, narcotics, prostitu
tion and other rackets.
In a formal report to be submitted to the Senate
today, the subcommittee urged Congress to consider
the enactment of new laws for an all out war against
the outfit.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—Gen. Harold K. Johnson, Army
chief of staff, told senators Wednesday 75,000
Communist Viet Cong had been killed in the Viet
Nam fighting, and their side is being hurt.
He said U. S. aerial operations “contributed
materially to this success.”
Johnson’s prepared text, which had passed
through censorship before the Senate Armed Serv
ices Committee and Defense Appropriations sub
committee released it, did not mention losses by
the South Vietnamese and U. S. forces.
Texas
AUSTIN—The state adjutant general sent word
from Washington Wednesday that the Pentagon
wants to replace Texas’ three National Guard and
Army Reserve divisions with three separate
brigades.
Maj. Gen. Thomas S. Bishop informed his office
here that the troop unit proposal for merging of
the Army Reserve and National Guard in Texas
call for a reduction of some 155 units and more
than 4,645 men.
★ ★ ★
SONORA—The sheriff of this West Texas town
found the bodies of six persons from Oregon
Wednesday in the wreckage of their twin-engined
plane which had been missing since Sunday night.
against North Viet Nam. It was
not even made plain whether all
the raiders returned.
Compared with other operations
in the Vietnamese war, the lid
of news of the Laotian phase al
ways has been relatively tight.
U. S. Navy and Air Force pi
lots have alternated in the effort,
approved by Premier Prince Sou-
vanna Phouma’s Laotian govern
ment, to stem the flow of re
cruits and supplies from North
Viet Nam via Laotian territory
held by the pro-Communist Path-
et Lao.
While diplomats studied world
reaction to the thrust against
North Viem Nam by more than
160 U. S. and South Vietnamese
planes, intelligence experts stud
ied reconnaissance photographs
of the Quang Khe and Xom
Bang taget areas.
Radio Hanoi broadcast a dec
laration that the raids caused
“no appreciable losses,” but the
pictures showed heavy damage.
Six barracks and a dock were
reported destroyed at the Quang
Khe naval base, 60 miles north
of the 17th Parallel, and other
barracks outside the town were
burned. Still under assessment
was the toll at Xom Bang, a
munitions center 15 miles north
of the border.
But there was agreement on
both sides of the line on one
thing: Six of the raiders were
shot down. The pilots of one
Vietnamese and four U. S. planes
were rescued. The pilot of a
fifth American plane was miss
ing.
Tax Aid Slated
For Foreign Ags
Internal Revenue Service repre
sentatives will visit the campus
Tuesday and Wednesday from 2-4
p.m. to assist all foreign nationals
who need help in preparing their
income tax. Foreign Student Ad
visor Robert L. Melcher estimated
about 100 foreign nationals, in
cluding faculty and staff members,
must file income tax returns.
“Foreign nationals are advised
to consult with these tax repre
sentatives if they have any ques
tions pertaining to the prepara
tion of tax returns for the calen
dar year 1964,” Melcher said.
Persons consulting the tax spe
cialists should bring their W-2
form, passport and copy of their
income tax return.
to the best over-all entry, and
smaller trophies for top three
places in basic and fancy drill
and first place in inspection will
also be awarded.
A four-man Marine team from
the Houston recruiting office will
serve as judges.
Southerland said that invita
tions had been sent to approxi
mately 30 teams and that 10-15
teams were expected to accept
before the entry deadline.
“If not this year then by next
year we expect to have the larg
est drill competition of its kind
in the Southwest. In the near
future we’d like to have this turn
into an official Fourth Army or
Texas championship, expanding
each year. We also aim to hold
university and high school compe
tition at the same time in the
future,” he added.
The Fish Drill Team will make
their fourth appearance of the
year at the compeition. They
finished second in the University
of Houston competition and also
took second in the Washington
Day Celebration meet in Laredo
last week. The team will also
enter the LSU drill meet March
20.
Drill team advisers include
Southerland, Dan Petty, Ken
Koch, Richard Grossenbacher,
Richard Rohe, Ken Konb and
Mike Richards. Team sponsors
are Maj. Thomas Hines, Capt.
Calvin Reese and Capt. David
Lorms. Sponsors of the Associa
tion of Former Fish Drill Team
Members include Lt. Col. Phillip
Hopkins, Maj. Bolte and Capt.
Reese.
Academicians Lag
In History Study,
Kranzberg Claims
The academic world has lagged
in its study of the history and ef
fects of technology, professor Mel
vin Kranzberg told a University
Lecture audience Tuesday night.
“Technology and its twin,
science, are the distinguishing
hallmarks of our civilization . . .
contemporary western culture is
based more upon science and tech
nology than upon theology and
philosophy,” the Case Institute of
Technology professor said.
The history professor, whose
special interest has turned to tech
nology in recent years, spoke on
“The Role of Technology in Civili
zation.”
An audience of.-100 persons in
the chemistry lecture room asked
questions for an hour following
Kranzberg’s talk.
The historian spoke earlier in
the day to Dr. Carroll D. Laverty’s
English 334 class on “Science in
Literature,” and also to the engi
neering faculty.
He was the fourth of six dis
tinguished persons scheduled to
present University Lectures this
academic year.
Kranzberg acknowledged that
technology has its “darker side”
as well as its accomplishments,
but he also noted that a study of
technology showing human reason
and ingenuity in action can offer
positive guides to solving varied
problems.