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Will The Real Bill Maddox Please Stand Up?
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THE BATTALION
Friday, September 24, 1965
College Station, Texas
Page 3
By JOE LEMMING
Battalion Staff Writer
Life for an Aggie Freshman
is usually confusing, but for
two Fish by the name of Mad
dox, bewildering is more.
It seems a certain William
Allen Maddox has managed to
enroll twice, join both Air Force
and Army ROTC, and be in two
places at one time. Of course
this is impossible as A&M reg
istrars, teachers and platoon
sergeants have discovered.
The dilemma has arisen over
two young men whose parents
just happened to like the name
of William Allen Maddox. One
is from Brenham studying busi
ness, while the other Bill Mad
dox hails from Carson City, Nev.,
majoring in Pre-Law.
Upon arrivall at Aggieland,
each was given the other's tran
script and issued the other’s
books.
Bill Maddox from Texas ex
plained, “At the Registrar’s of
fice they kept asking me if
I was sure my name wasn’t
John, Tom or Steve. Somehow
they gave me the wrong sched
ule, and the next thing I knew
I was taking Pre-Law.”
The Nevadan Maddox dis
covered he had signed up for
Air Force ROTC, and wound up
in an Army outfit. The situation
finally came to a head when
both reported to the same bio
logy class, and tried to sit at
the same assigned seat.
Bill Maddox from Nevada
grinned, “It was pretty funny;
I walked up to this other Fish
and whipped out, Howdy Fish
Maddox is my name; I believe
you’re sitting in my chair. He re-
Pro-Communist Agitators Raid
Army Post In North Mexico
MEXICO CITY UP) _ A small
armed band of pro-Communist
agitators attacked an army post
in a remote area of the northern
state of Chichuahua Thursday
and 13 persons were killed in a
1%-hour battle.
The dead included eight of the
attackers and five soldiers.
The Defense Ministry estimat
ed the number in the band as
between 15 and 18 and said its
remnants were being pursued
through the rugged Sierra Madre
Mountains Thursday.
It described the band as “a
group of agitation,” and listed
two known pro-Communist lead
ers among those killed.
The ministry earlier had esti
mated the number of attackers
at between 30 and 40 and had
said the attack had no political
significance.
A company of soldiers — about
100, men—was at the post, in
Madera, a town of 12,000 about
200 miles south of Ciudad Juar
ez, which is across the border
from El Paso.
There was no official word on
the number of injured, but the
newspaper El Heraldo in Chi
huahua City said its reporters
had been to the scene and count
ed 13 hurt. Chihuahua City is the
capital of the state in which Ma
dera is located and about 150
miles east of Madera.
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At least 100 soldiers were sent
from Ciudad Juarez to reinforce
the Madera garrison.
Among the dead was Arturo
Gamis, a former professor who
had been leading a pro-Commu
nist armed band for two years.
Also killed was Gamis’ second
in command, Dr. Pablo Gomez.
Government sources here said
the two belonged to a strongly
pro-Communist and violently
anti-United States organization
called the People’s Electoral
Front.
They reportedly were killed
when homemade bombs they
were preparing to hurl at the
soldiers went off in their hands.
The attack was launched about
dawn after the attackers had
surrounded the garrison and de
manded first that the soldiers
surrender. The garrison com
mander refused.
turned the greeting, and ex
plained his name was Maddox
also, and his first and middle
names were Wiliam Allen. Of
course I told him my name and
we both started laughing.”
The Bill Maddox duet made
another hasty retreat to the
Registrar’s Office, where things
were finally straightened out
after a week of chaos. The solu
tion arrived at was quite simple,
after everything they do they
must sign their name with an ac
companying Nevada or Texas.
“Tex” Maddox said his big
gest problem came from greet
ing upperclassmen who insisted
that they had met him before.
“All the upperclassmen kept
screaming at me and asking me
why I couldn’t remember their
name,” Tex confided. Tex add
ed, “The way things looked for
awhile I though I was going
to be forced to become a lawyer.”
“Nevada Bill” wants to prac
tice in Holloywood where he
hopes he will be “discovered,”
and become a star. Upon being
asked how he likes Texas A&M
he replied, “It sure is a helluva
long way from Carson City.”
He misses a young lady at
tending Oregon State Universi
ty which he considers, “A mere
separation of 2,700 miles,” Bill
is somewhat of a party goer,
and says he finds adjustment to
military life rough at times.
“At least I’m learning good
study habits,” he said rather re
morsefully.”
Tex is worried about the mail
situation, and explained, “I sure
hope my girlfriend doesn’t lose
my box number, some of my let
ters might be embarrassing if
read by a stranger.”
As a result of the mix up,
Bill and Bill have become good
friends, giving this strange story
a happy ending.
The question still remains
though, “Will the real Bill Mad
dox please stand up!”
“BUT I’M BILL MADDOX
Aggie freshmen William Allen Maddox, left, week, the two fish have received each
and William Allen Maddox, right, can’t other’s mail, class cards and classroom seats,
seem to agree on which Maddox this letter (Staff photo by Gus De La Garza.)
is intended. Since enrolling in A&M last
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Criminal Code
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AUSTIN (A*) — Rep. Bob Arm
strong of Austin, one of the
framers of the controversial
criminal code revision, said
Thursday he plans to ask Gov.
John Connally to call a special
legislative session to soften some
of the code’s changes.
In an unrelated development,
attorneys for former University
of Texas student James C. Cross
Jr. of Fort Worth said they be
lieve the revised code makes it
impossible to win a death penal
ty against Cross.
Cross, 23, is charged in the
deaths of two Dallas coeds, Shir
ley Ann Stark and Susan Rigsby.
Armstrong told The Associat
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penalty controversy only what
he had seen in newspapers, but
said he agrees with local police
officials' complaints that the
criminal code revision goes fur
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that accused persons be warned
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“I haven’t written the letter
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a knowledgeable letter,” Arm
strong said.
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ficials said Thursday they may
have to persuade tens of thou
sands of youths to volunteer for
the six-months active-duty Re
serve program in order to fulfill
military manpower needs.
This would be in addition to
doubled draft calls, recruiting for
regular service and trying to get
men to re-enlist—to provide the
340,000-man buildup which Presi
dent Johnson approved in July to
raise the armed services to two
million.
The officials blamed the need
for turning to short-term full
time soldiers on congressional re
fusal to go along with Secretary
of Defense Robert S. McNamara’s
Tower Claims Republicans
Will Focus On Senate Race
SUNDAY
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By GARTH JONES
Associated Press Writer
AUSTIN — U. S. Sen. John
Tower, R-Tex., said Thursday the
entire campaign effort of the
Texas Republican Party will be
behind his re-election bid in 1966.
Tower told a capitol news con
ference that Texas Republicans
had arrived at “the realistic con
clusion” that the 1966 Senate
race would be the only “exten
sive contest for the GOP on the
statewide level.”
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worked with the Texas Demo
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lines. Tower said he had “com
municated” with Connally on
Texas’ protests against the mer
ger of the Army reserves with
the National Guard, the right of
a governor to veto certain pover
ty program provisions, and Con-
nally’s opposition to a congres
sional plan that would ban state
right to work laws.
Tower said he felt the status
of the so-called state right to
work laws — which say that no
worker shall be required to join
any organization in order to hold
his job—would be a main issue
of the 1966 Senate race. Wright
has endorsed the congressional
plan to outlaw the state statutes.
Other issues will develop lat
er,” Tower said. “There is a cer
tain unanimity of Viet Nam and
I don’t expect that to be an is
sue.”
Earlier Thursday, Tower told
an Austin civic club he supported
the firm stand President Johnson
is making against Communism
in Asia.
“As Texans we certainly can
not abdicate our tasks with re
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tablishment,” Tower said. “Our
state supports nine key Army
installations; four key Navy in
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They repeated McNamara’s
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of little or no use to units for
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The officials conceded that the
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a particularly efficient way of
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The men who sign up for the
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The officials figure that they
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the Viet Nam crisis would re
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and National Guardsmen, but
Johnson decided against this in
July — falling back on increas
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