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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1965
Number 217
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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.