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By HUGH MULLIGAN
SAIGON, South Viet Nam <A>)_What’s it
like, this land where nearly 130,000 American
military men now find themselves ?
Some of it is unbelievably lovely.
The mountains in the west, sweeping
toward the border of Laos, rise to 7,000 feet
and are as dark green and deeply forested as
the Canadian Rockies in summer.
The coastal plains on the east, all the
way from the 17th Parallel at the border of
North Viet Nam, south almost to Saigon, run
down to jewel-like bays as beautiful as any
in the Caribbean. These abound in broad,
empty beaches that would tempt the imagina
tion of a master builder.
In between, almost at the dead center of
Viet Nam, lies elephant country, wide ex-
panese of flat plains tufted with tall grass.
Just to the north of that is tiger country,
deep jungles where in the days before there
was a war hunters used to come to hang on
their belts the most prized of all trophies:
a tiger paw.
South is the Mekong River delta. Broad
muddy rivers running down to the South China
Sea in countless rivulets and irrigating a land
lush enough in peacetime to feed much of
Southeast Asia. The delta occupies one fourth
of Viet Nam’s land area and is home to two-
thirds of its population.
Here indeed is the inscrutable East of
the tourist posters. Flooded rice paddies
mirror the merciless noonday sun. Teeming
grass-hut villages sit on the hanks of swift
running estuaries. Thunderheads pile up the
afternoon monsoon in a vast brooding sky.
Water buffaloes pull ancient plows. Sampans
and junks in an endless profileration swim
the muddy canals. Dense mangrove swamps
swarm with lizards and snakes. Women in
coolie hats carry enormous loads at each end
of a shoulder pole.
Then there is the other side to the delta
never shown in the tourist brochures: sand
bagged outposts silhouetted in the glare of
flares slowly parachuting to earth in a night
attack, schools and churches ringed with con
certinas of barbed wire, the bodies of the dead
wrapped up in rubber ponchos and stacked
along a bridge after a Viet Cong raid.
South Viet Nam is roughly shaped like
a sea serpent and almost the size of the State
of Washington or Missouri in land mass. It
is a country of painful contrasts and glaring
contradictions.
Since the Viet Cong began blowing up the
bridges and ambushing the convoys, many of
the roads don’t go any place. The railroad
that used to go from Saigon in the south
to Hue in the north ends in a tangle of
ripped-up track a few miles outside each city.
Still, no matter how unfriendly the terrain
as far as Viet Cong infiltrators go, rickety
tourist buses traverse what’s left of the dusty
roads, jammed beyond belief with passengers,
loaded with all sorts of bags, boxes and
trunks, including bicycles strapped to the roof.
And always, as the bus rumbles along,
someone is climbing out the window onto the
roof to get at a piece of luggage.
The residents of Saigon, still a gay city
despite the war, love to go for a drive on
Sunday.
Today the road only goes to Bien Hoa,
14 miles to the east. That doesn’t stop the
Sunday drivers. All of Saigon, it seems, drives
back and forth along the road to Bien Hoa
every Sunday, creating a massive traffic jam
that includes 20 police squad cars the U. S.
government gave the Vietnamese police to
catch speeders in the days when there was
any place to speed to.
An agronomist looking at a map of Viet
Nam would have quiet a different view of
the country than the Sunday driver or the
big-game hunter—or, for that matter, the
military tactician.
He could follow the rice paddies of the
delta north beyond Saigon to well-ordered
rubber and coffee plantations, and going
steadily north continue in crop progression
to the vegetable and truck farms around Dalat,
the tea plantations of the middle plateau be
tween the mountains and the coastal plains,
and finally the barren, deforested hills of the
north around Da Nang and Hue.
The view that most Americans get must
necessarily be the military view of the
countryside.
Any infantryman who managed to fight in
all four corps areas would find himself more
often in rice paddies than in dense jungles.
He would probably never get to see a tiger
or an elephant, only rarely a cobra or a python,
but would have a rather wide acquaintance
with leeches, mosquitos, cockroaches and rats.
He would probably conclude that Viet
Nam is not nearly so hot as he thought it
was going to be, thanks to breezes, and not
nearly so wet as he thought it was going to
be, even in the monsoon season.
Che Battalion
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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1965
Number 207
Footl"Veterans Able . AgglCS Seek Second
Against Red Raiders
By BOB PALMER
Battalion Staff Writer
The Food Services Depart
ment of Texas A&M employs
six men who have a combined
total 202 years of experience.
All of the men have worked
over 30 years at A&M, giving
this department more 30-year
men than any other, according to
Col. Fred Dollar, head of Food
Service.
The six are William P. Yeager,
Paul Lopez Rodriguez, John
Dewey Tubbs, Leo Grimaldo,
Harold Shelly and Pedro Garcia.
William Yeager started work
ing at A&M on September 14,
1935 as a vege-
table helper, and
nr-V by 1940 he had
1 *■* Pi worked in all the
departments of
the kitchen. He
is the head chef
lfe| in Sbisa Dining
Hall. Yeager
Pete Garcia says that he “en
joyed all my years taking care
of the Aggies,” and there are
plenty of those, all 30.
Paul Rodriguez has been there
even longer. He has worked
36 years in the food service.
Beginning as a store room keep
er, he now holds the position
of Supervisor III class, the top
category, in Sbisa.
John Tubbs came to A&M in
1932, working on insulation in
the power plant. In June of 1939
he acquired the job of mainte
nance supervisor in the food
service department, and has held
that job ever since.
Leo Grimaldo is another class
III supervisor who began at the
bottom. Starting in 1934 as
FOOD SERVICE OLDTIMERS
These five men are senior employes in the Department of
Food Services, each having 1 served more than 30 years.
From left are William Yeager, Harold Shelly, John Dewey
Tubbs, Paul Lopez Rodrigues and Leo Grimaldo.
what is presently called a food
service worker, he worked his
way to the top with only a short
hitch in the Navy interrupting
his time here.
Harold Shelly is the rabbit
man of Sbisa. That is, he is in
charge of salads. First coming
to A&M in 1927, he worked in
the Agricultural Engineering De
partment, then transferred over
to Food Service in 1931.
Pedro Garcia, who began work
ing for Food Service by clean
ing in Sbisa, is now 34 years
later head vegetable cook in
Duncan Hall. He says he has
enjoyed his experience and hopes
to work another 34 years.
These are only a few of the
men who have worked in the food
services department that have
gone on to top positions.
Even A&M President Earl
Rudder was a “Sbisa volunteer”
during his student days here.
Deadline Scheduled Oct. 12
For Rhodes Grant Hopefuls
Students interested in applying
for a 1965 Rhodes Scholarship
should contact Dr. Richard H.
Ballinger, university representa
tive, in Room 302-C of the Aca
demic Building before Oct. 12.
Amendment Group
Includes 3 Aggies
Three eminent Texas Aggies
have accepted membership on the
statewide Committee for Amend
ment One, A&M President Earl
Rudder announced Wednesday.
The men are H. B. Zachary,
J. Harold Dunn and Roy B.
Davis.
Slated for voting in the Nov
ember elections, the amendment
provides constitutionally - based
building funds for state-financed
senior colleges and universities.
“We are fortunate to have such
men on this vital committee,”
Rudder said.
“The state schools are facing
a 120 per cent increase in the
number of students in the next
10 years, and we must build for
the future,” the A&M president
said. “If we do not build for
the future, we will start turning
students away for lack of room.
That is why so many leading
Texans are working to assure
votes for Amendment One.”
A grade point ratio of 2.5 or
better is considered desirable for
application. The recipient of a
scholarship pursues a degree at
the University of Oxford, usually
for a period of two years.
A stipend of 900 pounds or ap
proximately $2,500 is awarded to
Rhodes Scholars.
To be eligible, a candidate must
be a male citizen of the United
States, unmarried, between 18-24,
and have at least a junior stand
ing at a recognized college or
university.
The founder of the program,
Cecil Rhodes, laid down these
qualities he desired in his benefi
ciaries: literary or scholastic at
tainments, qualities of manhood,
truthfulness, courage, kindliness,
exhibition of moral force of char
acter and of instincts to lead and
to take an interest in his fellows,
and physical vigor, as shown by
fondness for and success in
sports.
The essence of the require
ments is sound character and in
tegrity of character founded up
on sound intellect. Rhodes’ wish
was that his scholars would come
“to esteem the performance of
public duties as his highest aim.”
Furthermore, he specifies that
“no student shall be qualified or
disqualified, for election to a
scholarship on account of his race
or religious opinions.”
Only two Rhodes Scholars have
come from A&M. Charles W.
Thomas, a 1912 graduate, was
the former head of the Depart
ment of Engineering at New
York State Teacher’s College.
Jack E. Brooks, who was gradu
ated in 1947, is now the senior
staff engineer for Space Tech
nological Laboratory, Inc. at Re
dondo Beach, Calif.
Seniors Must File
Degree Intentions
All students, both graduate and
undergraduate, who expect to re
ceive degrees at the end of the
fall semester 1965 must make
formal application for their ap
propriate degrees no later than
5 p.m. Nov. 1.
Undergraduate candidates file
for their degrees in the Regis
trar’s Office while candidates for
advanced degrees must make ap
plication in both the Registrar's
Office and in the Graduate
Dean’s Office.
Undergraduate candidates are
reminded that Nov. 1 is also the
deadline for registering for the
Graduate Record Examination
which is a part of graduation re
quirements. Registration for the
GRE will take place at the Coun
seling and Testing Center, Room
107, Academic Building, but be
fore this can be accompilshed,
the applicant must report to the
University Fiscal Office and pay
an $8 graduation fee.
Lubbock
Sellout
Expected
By LARRY R. JERDEN
Battalion Sports Editor
The Aggies will try to make it
two in a row and keep things
happening Saturday night when
they meet the Texas Tech Red
Raiders in Jones Stadium in Lub
bock.
Tech will be hungry for victory
before an expected sellout crowd
of 41,500 after receiving a 33-7
drubbing from Texas in Austin
last Saturday. Both teams go
into the game with a 1-1 record
for the season. Tech won its
opener over Kansas in a three-
quarter contest, 26-7.
Tech coach J. T. King has 24
lettermen returning from a team
that led the league in offense
last year with a 297 yards-per-
game average. Led by Halfback
Donny Anderson, Tech won last
year’s game 16-12 in Kyle Field.
Anderson, the Red Raiders’ All-
America candidate, led the SWC
in rushing last year with a total
of 966 yards, and placed third in
total offense. In 1964 he scored
seven touchdowns, led the con
ference in kickoff returns, was
fourth in pass receiving and four
th in punting.
Calling signals for the Raider
offense will be Tom Wilson. The
strong Tech running game will
be aided by halfback Johnny Agan
and 210-pound fullback Andy
Reed.
Tech’s offense will operate be
hind a forward wall averaging
210 pounds from tackle-to-tackle.
This line will be opposed by an
Aggie string weighing 198 pounds
per man.
When the Aggies have the ball,
their line will give away four
pounds per man, 204-208, to the
Tech defensive wall.
The Aggies, for the second
game in a row, escaped without
serious injury and will start es
sentially the same units that fac
ed LSU and Georgia Tech.
Harry Ledbetter, third in SWC
total offense and passing, will
guide the attack, with Dan Sch
neider starting at fullback. Dan
Westerfield and Jim Stabler will
alternate at strongside hack,
with Bill Sallee, Lloyd Curing-
ton and Stabler three-deep in the
weakside back spot.
Ken “Dude” McLean, the
SWC’s number two pass receiver,
will start at the weakside end.
John Poss is at strongside end
and Ted Nelson will be available
for high-speed duties.
Aggie punter, Phil Scoggin,
has a 39.3 yard average on 15
kicks, placing him fourth in the
conference. Tech’s Anderson is
third with 11 boots and a 39.6
average.
The Aggies will leave for Lub
bock from Easterwood Airport
early Friday afternoon and will
return after the game.
BATT PICKS
GAME
DROMGOOLE
GARCIA
DeFRANK
JERDEN
A&M-Tech
A&M 14-7
A&M 13-8
A&M 20-13
A&M 13-9
TCU-Ark.
Ark. 24-0
Ark. 19-10
Ark. 27-0
Ark. 20-3
Baylor-Fla. St.
Baylor 31-16
Baylor 21-10
Baylor 28-8
Baylor 14-7
Duke-Rice
Duke 10-0
Duke 14-8
Duke 20-0
Duke 21-3
Purdue-SMU
Purdue 52-0
Purdue 42-0
Purdue 48-0
Purdue 49-0
Ind.-Texas
Texas 28-7
Texas 30-6
Texas 30-0
Texas 18-7
LSU-Fla.
LSU 14-13
LSU 21-6
LSU 14-6
LSU 10-0
Ala.-Miss.
Ala. 20-15
Ala. 22-14
Ala. 21-10
Ala. 21-7
Navy-Okla.
Navy 15-7
Okla. 13-10
Okla. 16-6
Navy 14-13
Neb.-Iowa St.
Neb. 21-0
Neb. 24-13
Neb. 26-0
Neb. 18-7
PCT.
7-3
6-4
8-2
7-3
News Analysis
Congress Dull Yet Busy
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON <A>) — This
session of Congress, heading to
ward a close now, has been the
dullest in memory and at the
same time the most productive
in more than 30 years.
Next year will probably be
equally dull, if not as productive.
For 1966 is a congressional elec
tion year and President Johnson,
instead of loading the members
down as he did this year, may
let them go home early to cam
paign.
No other Congress in this cen
tury, outside of wartime, could
match this year’s performance
unless perhaps it was the one
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
dealt with in his first few months
after taking office in 1933.
Then, with the country in de
pression chaos. Congress let the
president write his own ticket
and railroaded through what he
wanted to get the nation moving.
But much of what it did was
subsequently knocked out by one
of the most reactionary Supreme
Courts in history, which led to
Roosevelt’s fight with the court.
Then the court changed its *tune.
It began approving the far-
reaching legislation — like the
Social Security and Labor Rela
tions acts — which Congress at
a much slower ♦.ace began pass
ing in 1935.
It’s different now, due to a
change in American thinking, the
needs of the times and the per
sonnel of the court. There’s no
reason to think this court won’t
uphold all the legislation passed
this year if any is tested.
What made this year dull was
that, while tremendous pieces of
legislation were rammed through.
Guatemalan Educator To Give
Spanish Lecture Tomorrow
A lecture entirely in Spanish
will be given at 7:30 p.m. Fri
day in rooms 2C and 2D of the
Memorial Student Center.
The talk will be sponsored by
the Graduate College and the
Pan American Club.
Ingeniero Alfredo Obiols G.
will be the speaker. He is a
native of Guatemala and is the
director general of the National
Institute of Geography there.
Obiols’ topic will cover the
inventory natural resources in
Latin America. This is defined
as the first step for social and
economic development in those
countries.
It will be noted that if full
account of the natural resources
is not taken costly results will
occur. However, with new de
velopments such as aerial photos,
these surveys can be taken des
pite the terrain, and the coun
tries will be able to develop
their resources to the maximum.
Guatemala is one of the lead
ing Latin American countries in
the development of resources
through the use of these new
means. Obiols, as head of the
National Institute of Geography,
is helping to lead the way in
this development. His program
strives to keep a balance between
the new method and the biologi
cal and human interrelations.
While majoring in civil engi
neering Obiols specialized in geo
desy and cartography while at
tending the University of San
Carlos in Guatemala.
Since then he has held posts
as first professor of Civil En
gineering at that university,
Dean of the Faculties of En
gineering, Architecture and
Agronomy, Vice Rector, and di
rector general of the Carto
graphic Institute of Guatemala.
CORRECTION
Company H-2, a day student
unit, was the company pictured
polishing the Lawrence Sullivan
Ross statue on the front page
of Tuesday’s Battalion instead
of Company E-l as originally re
ported.
there was little real conflict.
There were two main reasons for
this: Johnson’s skill in dealing
with Congress and the huge Dem
ocratic majorities in the House
and Senate.
Besides, much t h at Johnson
proposed and Congress approved
had been long debated before he
took office. In short, the country
had been heading toward it.
Some people don’t like Johnson
personally, and many are indif
ferent to him personally. But it’s
a rare one who won’t admit he is
an extraordinary politician and
perhaps the hardest - working
president in history.
And no other president was
better prepared for understand
ing Congress — which means
knowing the individual members’
strengths, weaknesses and inter
ests—than Johnson. He had
served in Congress 33 years.
Since in both houses Demo
crats outnumbered Republicans
by more than two to one, this
gave Johnson a steamroller to
start with and left the Republi
cans more or less impotent.
Besides, even in the public re
lations job of getting its views
across, the Republican leadership
in the House has been pretty in
ept. Its views are hackneyed, a
true hangover from the past.
All this helped Johnson.
But in the Senate, where Dem
ocratic presidents in the past suf
fered anguished ordeals from Re
publican opposition, the Republi
can leader, Everett M. Dirksen
of Illinois, has done for Johnson
what Johnson did for President
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Dirksen has been cooperative.
This was the policy Johnson fol
lowed from 1955 to 1961 when he
was Senate majority leader and
Eisenhower was in the White
House.
The Johnson-Dirksen tactics
were a drastic switch from what
the country had been used to for
years.
Republicans in the Senate gave
Democratic President Woodrow
Wilson the miseries. Roosevelt
had trouble with the Republicans.
And GOP Sens. Robert A. Taft
and Joseph R. McCarthy were
always on President Harry S.
Truman’s back.