THE BATTALION
Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 5, 1965
Students May Get
Higher Social
Security Benefits
“There are students at Texas
A&M University who are entitled
to social security benefits,” Holly
E. Rees, social security district
manager in Bryan announced
Monday.
The 1965 Amendments to the
Social Security Act have extend
ed the age limit for child’s bene
fits from 18 to 22. Here is what
this change could mean to an
Aggie:
If you were getting benefits
on either of your parents’ social
security accounts and those bene
fits were stopped when you
reached 18, you may be able to
start getting benefits again if
you are a full-time student under
22 years of age and have not
married.
If you are now getting bene
fits, they can continue after you
are 18 if you are a full-time stu
dent and unmarried.
If one of your parents has re
tired, become disabled, or died
and you were already 18 at that
time, you may now be eligible for
social security benefits if you are
going to school and are under 22.
These benefits are retroactive
to January, 1965. This means
that even if you are now 22, mar
ried, or not attending school, you
may be eligible for benefits for
some months of 1965 if you met
all the requirements in those
months.
“We believe that there are sev
eral hundred Aggies who could
qualify for these benefits,” hees
stated. “These folks should check
with the Bryan social security of
fice for more information,” Rees
advised the Battalion.
Baylor President
To Keynote Rural
Church Conclave
Baylor University’s president.
Judge Abner V. McCall, will be
keynote speaker during the 20th
annual Town and Country Church
Conference Oct. 14-15 at Texas
A&M.
The widely known educator,
judge and religious leader will be
heard the first day at 7 p.m.
banquet honoring rural ministers
of the year.
His topic is “Means and Me
chanics,’ a subject which points
up the conference’s general theme,
“New Tools for the Church and
Community in Town and Coun
try.”
The judge was an Associate
Judge of the Texas Supreme
Court in 1956. He is now presi
dent of the Baptist General Con
vention of Texas.
The meeting is sponsored by
the Texas Agricultural Extension
Service, Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station, and conducted
by the A&M Department of Agri
cultural Economics and Sociology.
Library Starts
Computer System
Because new ID cards have
been issued, the Texas A&M
libraries are switching to a new
circulation system.
The system is based on the use
of computers rather than human
labor. When a person wants to
check out a book, he simply pre
sents his ID card and his book
at the same time. Ten seconds
later he gets both back and is
ready to leave.
This computer system will also
handle the fines and overdue book
notices. The 15 minutes of work
that these computers do equals
to an entire day’s work under the
old system, according to Bruce
Stuart, Data Processing manager.
Despite this great savings in
working hours, Richard Puckett,
circulation manager, said that
there are not any plans to layoff
present employees. He said that
these workers will be needed as
the library continues to grow.
Harrington Fete
Ducat Deadline Set
Tickets for the M. T. Harring
ton testimonial dinner Friday will
go off sale at noon Wednesday,
Robert G. Cherry, chairman of
the event, announced Monday.
Cherry said the deadline was
set “to allow adequate time to
plan seating and food for the
large crowd expected for the
dinner.” Tickets may be secured
at any area bank or savings
institution, the chamber of com
merce, or through deans and de
partment heads, Cherry noted.
The testimonial dinner will be
held at '7 p.m. Friday in Sbisa
Hall. Faculty and staff members
of the A&M System and other
friends from the local community
and around the state have been
invited to honor the former chan
cellor.
FRED HALE
Hale To Address
Saddle, Sirloin
Annual Barbecue
Fred Hale, professor emeritus
of the Department of Animal Sci
ence, will speak at the Saddle
and Sirloin Club’s annual fall
barbecue at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the
lecture room of the Animal In
dustries Building.
Hale’s subject will be “Taking
Advantage of Opportunities.”
After 40 years of distinguished
service in research and teaching,
Hale retired from active work in
June, 1965.
He was made an honorary mem
ber of the Saddle and Sirloin Club
in 1963.
The barbecue is the “send off”
for the judging teams who will
be introduced by their coaches
at the meeting.
Coaches are L. D. Wythe Jr.,
livestock; Dr. Z. L. Carpenter,
meats, and Dr. James W. Basset,
wool.
Count on thick-fleshed varieties
of peppers being sweet as a rule;
the thin-fleshed varieties are
usually hot.
Reduce your chances of having an accident by
keeping your car in top mechanical condition.
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Student Report
From Viet NamlV
By ELMIRA KENDRICKS
Special To The Battalion
(Editor’s Note: Miss Kendricks
is past-president (1964-65) of the
National Student Christian Fed
eration. This summer she was
a member of the group of 14
American and world religious
leaders who visited Yiet Nam to
seek a solution to the conflict.
The group met with religious
leaders in Yiet Nam, with govern
ment and army officials, with
GI’s and students, and with Viet
Cong defectors and captives. They
visited Viet Nam, Thailand, Hong
Kong, and Japan. Here is her
report.)
Perhaps the most influential
thing that we learned in our
visit to South Viet Nam is that
the war is real. Twenty-five years
of war is too long.
The consequences of this too
long period of war have touched
each village, each family, each
person in Viet Nam. War has
become the normal way of life
for the nation.
Small children in areas control
led by the Viet Cong now learn
how to set land mines to blow
up South Vietnamese government
troops. Families of South Viet
namese soldiers live in the fox
holes with the soldiers, and dur
ing battles in the camp areas a
wife must divide her energies be
tween watching her children and
loading ammunition clips for her
husband.
At present there are 530,000
refugees in Saigon alone. The
refugees are mainly simple Viet
namese farmers and Montagnards
who have fled their villages be
cause the villages have become
battle grounds for confrontation
between South Vietnamese and
U. S. Government troops and the
Viet Cong. The refugees are now
completely dependent upon the
South Vietnamese government for
shelter, food and all other neces
sities of existence.
In Saigon, which often seems
to be untouched by the reality
of the rural areas, it is difficult
to miss the signs of war. Sai
gon’s new lullaby is the sound of
distant “harassment” mortar fire
combined with rock and roll music
that spills out from the new
crop of bars and night clubs
that cater to the U. S. soldiers.
During the day, Saigon’s normally
heavy traffic is now complicated
County Democrats
To Meet Thursday
The Brazos County Democrats
will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday
in the county courtroom of the
Brazos County Courthouse.
The program for the meeting
will include:
—Discussion by State Senator
Bill Moore and Rep. David Haines
of amendments to the Texas Con
stitution that will be voted upon
Nov. 2.
—A report on the redistricting
bills in the 1965 Texas Legisla
ture.
—A, report from the County
Democratic Executive Committee.
—A discussion of the status of
the poll tax.
—Membership dues for 1965-
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and halted by movement of troops
and equipment through the city
toward the battle zones. Even
the art exhibit sponsored by the
Catholic chaplains is a propa
ganda vehicle against the Viet
Cong.
The word from all the Viet
namese people today is: “How
long, (O Lord!) how long?”
Our conversations with mem
bers of the religious community
in South Viet Nam were very en
lightening. It appears that the
keystone of the Roman Catholic
position in South Viet Nam is
anti-communism. This position
makes it difficult for them to
think constructively about the
political future of the nation. The
Buddhist leaders seemed to be
deeply sensitive to the prolong
ed sufferings of the people and
report that the lesson learned
from war is the lesson of the
loss of one freedom after another.
They possess a sense of their
political responsibility and power
but do not over-estimate the|
effect of that power on military
decisions.
The priesthood seems commit
ted to be an example to the peo
ple in regard to noncompliance
with injustice. The Buddhists
and the Catholics are beginning
to plan joint action for relief. The
Protestant community under
stands its task as pure evangel
ism. Paradoxically it has there
fore taken a very political posi
tion.
According to the South Viet
namese foreign minister, the mili
tary action of his government is
purely defensive; South Viet Nam
is the victim of aggression from
the north. According to his,
freedom (individual) is too high
a price to pay for political inde
pendence. While reunification
with the north is the dream of
all those in South Viet Nam it
is only a distant possibility.
Other persons in South Viet
Nam produced more evidence of
the complexity of the situation.
Students, for example, both Bud
dhist and Catholic, were a part
of the South Vietnamese Union
of students, which were an im
portant factor in the opposition
to and overthrow of the Diem
regime.
A present their position is
both anti-Viet Cong and anti-
Government of South Viet Nam.
Anti-Viet Cong because of Viet
Cong terrorism and anti-Govern-
ment of South Viet Nam because
the government has failed to
try to meet the needs of the
people. At the same time while
they do not like the presence of
U. S. troops, they feel that the
troops are necessary to protect
the country from a take over
by the Viet Cong.
Their solution to the economic
problems of the nation are social
istic but they reject communism,
feeling that it restricts or forbids
the development of full humanity.
U. S. newsmen acknowledge the
desperateness of the present mili
tary and political situation and
yet see no alternative to the
present policy short of complete
U. S. capitulation.
A South Vietnamese Lt. Col.
described the present military
action as a holding operation, that
is the present situation demanded
that government of South Viet
Nam and U. S. troops seek to
hold their present positions again
st Viet Cong attack through the
rainy season. If this can be
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done, he said, the military ad
vantage will be on the side of the
government of South Viet Nam,
A non-Vietnamese doctor from
Hue reported that the current
National Liberation Front post
tions may not demand immediate
U. S. withdrawal but a cease-fire
to be followed by some kind of
recognition and acceptance of
their control of certain provinces
of the country and then the set
ting up of the machinery for an
election of a national coalition
government. The withdrawal of
U. S. troops to occur immediately
before this election.
The complexity and ambiguity
of the situation does not lend
itself to easy conclusions about
the situation or easy solutions
to the present problems. And so
instead of conclusions and solu
tions, I would simply like to raise
three questions:
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(1) Present U. S. policy is de
signed to secure a military ad
vantage for the Government of
South Viet Nam and U. S. troops
so that the Viet Cong and the
North Vietnamese will be con
vinced that a military victory is
impossible and be willing there
fore to negotiate. Even if we
grant that there is a possibility
that this may happen, what kind
of enemy will the Government of
Viet Nam and the U. S. be nego
tiating with? Will they be deal
ing with an NLF which seeks to
represent the needs of the South
Vietnamese people and the North
Vietnamese as friends and bro
thers but not bosses ? Will they
be dealing with a vigorous North
Viet Nam, committed to both
communism and resistence to
Chinese domination ? Or will the
present policy bring to the con
ference table an enemy which has
been forced into such a rigid
position that negotiations are im
possible ?
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(2) Does the present U. S.
policy make it impossible in the
future for multi-national efforts
to serve this or other internation
al crises? Does present U. S.
policy set a dangerous example
for all nations of the world to
use “the interests of national
security” as a license for inter
vention into the affairs of any
other nation in the world?
(3) From what sources can we
draw constructive alternatives to
the politically impractical sugges
tion for immediate U. S. with
drawal ? How can solutions be
developed that will make possible
maximum national integrity for
all nations and groups involved in
the present conflict?
Stabler Receives
$100 Scholarship
James M. Stabler of 7415 Cur-
rin Drive, Dallas, Tex., is among
10 college students recently se
lected by Johnson & Johnson for
special recognition. Stabler took
part in a new Johnson & John
son summer employment market-
ting program for college men.
The manfacturer of surgical
dressings, baby and medical pro
ducts reviewed the work of the
various college students who took
part in the program and invited
ten to attend a special seminar
at the home offices here. Each
was presented with a $100 schol
arship grant.
Stabler is a senior at A&M
and a starter on the football
team.
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