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c tice 0 PRESS ■ti short will turn 1 of South- tball train- nth and a ir >y games, exas Tech list looms, ssibility to es in per- ed the pi c . . which a 1 choice to hared with w is rated making it ■use failure ool work s Tech last ently was for disci- turning to Tech three termen. - ■ ""T Civilian Students Voice Opposition To Criticism Che Battalion See Letters Pages 2, 3 Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1965 Number 217 i c k e d up dd’s record : it height ", and this ready with contenders, best play- hn Beasley, ie talented has six re nding Car- all-confer- ipects are hilltop. ; returning , but there the roster, complains experienced but it still ending. ospects are i all of last along with Big point- rnishes the HERE SHE COMES, 1966 Cheri Holland, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis R. Holland of 514 Kyle, College Sta tion, is escorted off the field after she was presented to the Aggies Saturday night during the TCU Corps Trip. Roland Smith, AGGIE SWEETHEART Student Senate President, escorts Cheri, 1966 Aggie Sweetheart, while Terry Nor man, Civilian Student Council President, left, Joanna Leister, 1965 Sweetheart, and Ralph Filburn, Corps Commander, follow. SWEETHEART GETS A KISS Roland Smith, Student Senate President, gives 1966 Aggie Sweetheart Cheri Holland a kiss after she was presented to the Aggies during halftime ceremonies Saturday night at the A&M-TCU game. FORT WORTH TAKEN OVER The annual North Texas invasion, which saw 2,900 Texas A&M Cadets making the trip, took over the streets of Fort Worth Saturday morning. Company E-2, led by Andrew Salge, passes by the reviewing stand. Reveille, Aggie mascot, precedes the outfit. Banquet Tonight Juniors Slated RV Induction The Ross Volunteer Company will include 72 newly- chosen junior members at an initiation banquet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. William A. McKenzie of Dallas, a 1944 Texas A&M graduate and a former RV member, will deliver the main address at the banquet. The 72 juniors were selected from approximately 130 applications. Juniors to be inducted include: Terry Craig Aglietti, Joel Aggies Remain Critical Two Texas A&M sophomores remained in critical condition Tuesday after receiving serious burns in an automobile accident in Fort Worth Friday night. Wayne H. Werdung, a sopho more from O’Fallon, 111., is be ing treated at Brooke Army Med ical Center in San Antonio for second and third degree burns over 78 per cent of his body. Joe B. Wilson Jr., a freshman from Texarkana, is in the inten sive care unit of Harris Hospi tal in Fort Worth with second and third degree burns over 80 per cent of his body. Both students were injured about midnight Friday as they arrived in Fort Worth for the TCU football game. Their car was stopped at a red light on Camp Bowie Blvd. when it was rammed from the rear by another automobile. Their car was slammed into the car ahead, ripping open the gas tank. Gasoline was spread across the road and the pair’s clothing caught afire. An unidentified truck driver used a fire extinguisher to douse the flames on one of the boys while another passerby, James Timmons of Fort Worth, ripped the clothes off the other. Werdung was transferred Sat urday to BAMC, one of the coun try’s leading bum centers. A physician administering to the youth said late Monday that Wer dung is still in critical condition but has made “satisfactory prog ress.” Wilson’s father said Monday his son could hear and under stand but was still “in a very bad way.” Werdung’s father, an Army of ficer on active duty in South Viet Nam, was given permission to fly home to be with his son and arrived in San Antonio Mon day afternoon. Werdung is a member of Squadron 8 while Wilson is a member of Squadron 7. Aldape, Robert Allen Beene, Gordon Warren Bentzen, Charles Mark Berry Jr., Paul Donald Bettge, Charles Phillips Brown III, Richard Earl Burleson Jr., Rayford Richard Carey, Gergory Scott Carter, Frederick Boyd Cherry and Mel vin Wayne Cockrell. Layne Hale Connevey, John Macklin Cook III, David Joe Cruz, Donald Leonard Donker- voet, Thomas David Edgar, Art uro Esquivel, Gary William Fos ter, Wayne Bernard Fudge, Pedro Garza, Stephen Vincent Gummer, John Carlton Hammond and Olen Victor Harvey. William Carl Haseloff Jr., Dur- wood James Heinrich, Lawrence P. Heitman, William Ronnie Hind man, Charles Wesley Hoffman, Dennis Nicholas Hohman, John Robert Holcomb, Robert Allen Holcomb, John Norman Holladay and Ernest Morris Hudgens. Curtis Lindsay Hunt, Richard Kardys, David Arlen Kocian, An drew Steven Kovich Jr., James Riley Lane III, Charles Clarence Malitz III, Douglas Vincent Mar shall Jr., Roy Earl Massey, Don- 2 Aggies Receive McFarland Grants Two Fort Worth students have been named winners of Mrs. Min- nete W. McFarland Scholarships at Texas A&M. William T. Timmons Jr., son of Mrs. Virginia Timmons, re ceived a $1,000 scholarship in physics. A junior, he is a grad uate of Paschal High School in Fort Worth. Gary Alan Windsor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Windsor, was awarded $650, the first scholar ship in the 59-year history of the Singing Cadets, official glee club at A&M. aid John Matocha and Dennis Ray McElroy. Richard James Mergen, Robert Michael Miller, Dennis Patrick Moraski, Terrell Sheppard Mul lins, Troy Harlod Myers, Michael Stanley O’Hara, Gene Neal Patton, Sammy Wray Pearson, Dwight Laurence Recht, and Joseph Don Rehmet. Hugh Michael Richards, Char les Nolen Robertson, Harold Charles Schade III, Victor Her man Schmidt, Sidney Ian Scott, Manzell Leroy Shafer, Thomas Carl Stone, Gerald Adron Teel, Ronald Norbert Tomas and Mich ael McKenzie Tower. John Patton Tyson, Michael Roland Walker, Forbes Lee Wal lace Jr., Neal Clinton Ward, Wal ter Cely Weathersbee, John Law rence Willingham, Donald Edward Woods and William John Zwart- jes Jr. John Weber is commanding of ficer of the honor unit. Other officers includ-e Roland Smith, ex ecutive officer; Donald Lee Pet erson, administrative officer; John Gay, operations officer and John Young, Charles Mella and Roland Lee Burnette, platoon leaders. Jay Alan Gray is first sergeant. Other active seniors include Terry Leo Fisher, Kenneth Bur dette Wille, Eric Joseph Holden* Miro Arthur Pavelka Jr., Rich ard Balbach Darmon Jr., Russell Lee Doran, Roy Louis May, Sam Sherrill Henry Jr., Benjamin Frank Alford, Jack Wier Brat ton, Dickie Aaron Harris, Wil liam Richard Ward, Alton Dale Phelps, Jerry Lynn Lummus, Reginald Daniel Newton, David Bullard Smith, Pete William Jaco by Jr., Charles Edwin Rash, Ben ny Ray Smith, Enrique Augusto Tessada IV, Larry Dee Crocker, Larry Clinton Kennemer, Frank Lopez Jr., Thomas Mason Luns ford and Tifton Simmons Jr. MR. SPORTS WRITER Mickey Herskowitz, Houston Post Sports Editor, told delegates to the Texas Junior College Press Association Conference Monday that humor could be bad in a story. He also noted that sports are a growing interest in the nation. He said that the sports section is the fun, games and toy department of any newspaper. Humor Important Herskowitz Says Houston Post Sports Editor Mickey Herskowitz Monday com pared poor usage of humor in writing with a gun in the hand of a nervous woman. “It should be taken away, as quickly and painlessly as possi ble,” Herskowitz chuckled. His remarks were made in a talk to the Texas Junior College Press Association Conference at Texas A&M. One hundred and three delegates from 20 colleges Lee Urges Young People To Make Best Of Youth Col. Raymond C. Lee, Profes sor of Aerospace Studies at Tex as A&M, urged young people to make the best of their youth Monday at the YMCA’s first 1965 presentation in the “Last College Station Post Office Expects To Break 25 Million Mark Again Graduate Lecture Set For Tonight Dr. Gennard Matrone, chair man of the biochemistry faculty at North Carolina State Univer sity, will give a graduate lecture Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Room 231 of the Chemistry Building. Matrone’s topic will be “Ace tate and Propionate Activating Systems of Microrganisms with Special Emphasis on Cation Re quirements.” Matrone earned his doctorate in nutrition and biological chem istry at North Carolina State, and B.S. and M.S. degrees at Cornell University. By ROBERT SOLOVEY Battalion Special Writer The volume of mail handled by the College Station Post Office is expected to exceed last year’s 25 million pieces, Postmaster Ern est Gregg said Thursday. For the first time, all mail boxes have been rented. Plans for expansion call for 128 new mail boxes in the main Post Office building. Gregg asks that all students make sure that everyone with which they correspond know their present address. Mis-addressed mail costs postal employees a great deal of time, and may delay a letter up to three days. After a long battle with post office rules, the College Station branch was given permission to put all student names and ad dresses on special IBM cards. These cards are on file and when the post office receives a piece of mis-addressed mail, they are able to look up the proper box number. Officially, all mis-ad dressed mail is supposed to be returned to the sender. Gregg urges that everyone use Zip Codes when addressing their mail. In a few years all mail will be handled in this way, be cause it is much faster and re quires less handling. There has been a marked in crease in the amount of air mail, Gregg said. The post office has the facilities to deliver any air mail letter within 200 miles in one day if the letters are in the mail by noon. With the new volume of mail, a letter will receive faster serv ice if it is mailed early in the day, instead of later in the after noon or evening. In another area Gregg an nounced that the post office sold over $300,000 stamps last year and they expect to sell over $350,- 000 this year. He also announced that Christ mas stamps would be available late this month or in early Nov ember. Lecture” series. The combat veteran said that youth must be good for some thing while still young “because one never realizes how important those wonderful years were un til they are gone. “You have energy and good health on your side so use them to your advantage,” he said. Lee noted that many persons appear to be extremely success ful but are in reality miserable, either because they wasted their lives doing things that they were incompetent at or they did things which they did not believe in. “Always be alert and ready to move on to something better and no one will be able to get the best of you,” he said. A 23- year service veteran, Lee was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1947 after having served in the Army Air Corps during World War II . He commanded the 35th Fight er Bomber Squadron during the Korean War. He now holds a Command Pilot rating. Other “Last Lecture” speakers include C. K. Esten of the Eng lish Department, E. S. Webb of the Agricultural Education De partment and A. L. Stacell of the Architecture Department. are participating in the two-day conference. “The most important element in writing is a sense of humor,” he said, “but don’t try to be cute or funny until you have a com mand of the language.” Herskowitz noted interest in sports is growing daily through out the nation. “Sports gives people an outlet to channel their drives,” he com mented. “It gives them an es cape from the pressures of inter national tensions.” Herskowitz called the sports section the fun, games and toy department of any newspaper. “Too many times sports writ ers exercise their sense of humor to people who can’t answer back,” he said. “Writers need imagina tion, humor, compassion for peo ple, but most of all, they need good judgement. “Perhaps, sports writers are sometimes too close to sports fi gures,” he continued. “They as sociate with them in many in stances when the players are off their guard. Sports writers need to understand the limitations of sports figures.” The columnist praised sports as one of the few fields in which man is judged solely on his abil ity to produce. Senate Election Slated Thursday Six seats on the Student Sen ate will be filled in a special elec tion Thursday in the Memorial Student Center. Positions open include sopho more representative from the College of Liberal Arts, junior and senior representatives from the College of Sciences and sopho more, junior and senior repre sentatives from the College of Geosciences. The election was made neces sary with the division of the College of Arts and Sciences into two colleges and the creation of the College of Geosciences. Filing for the election closed Friday.