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i r tn ■ft Lindsej. ®rica pick, fehind Hat. md carriei CO. \G 1 they’re OOKIN’ for the PRICES ttacular • budget m COPIES Southeast Asian Countries Favor U.S. Involvement Editor’s Note: This is the first of a series of articles designed to acquaint Texas A&M students vith issues to be discussed at the eleventh Student Conference on National Affairs Dec. 8-11. Another will appear soon. By TONY ESCODA KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia ® — The stormy over Ameri can military involvement in South Viet Nam isn’t blowing just one way in Southeast Asia. Along with guests of criticism against the United States, there is a current of “Yankee, stay” sentiment. Wellsprings of support for American policy are Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Laos, whose governments and' people feel their future is close ly linked with the fate of South Viet Nam. One Malaysian observer cau tions: “If Viet Nam goes Com munist, for us there may be no tomorrow.” The most strident opposition to U. S. involvement has come from Indonesia and Cambodia, which have bonds with Commu nist China and North Viet Nam. Indonesian President Sukarno has condemned what he calls American “intervention and ag gression” in South Viet Nam. It remains to be seen whether the recent crisis in Jakarta, with the solidifying of army power there, will mute Indonesia’s anti-U. S. outcry. Little change, if any, can be expected in the attitude of Cam bodia. Its chief of state. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, sees China as the eventual victor. Sihanouk is both scornful and angry toward the United States and what he calls the “pretend ed government” in Saigon. He broke relations with Washington last May after accusing U. S.- Vietnamese forces of intruding into Cambodian territory where the Viet Cong are said to take refuge. Singapore, Southeast Asia’s newest independent state, has taken a somewhat less than warm line toward the American effort in Viet Nam. Its premier, Lee Kuan Yew, is pessimistic about U. S. ability to sweep back the Communist tide. He claims Americans know nothing about Southeast Asia - “that’s why they are in a mess.” But in the Philippines, Thai land and Malaysia, official and popular opinion are running in favor of America’s presence in South Viet Nam and its air strikes against the Red North. The Thais, in fact, think the Americans could have moved in a bit earlier. In Perspective; Thailand’s Communist - hating Foreign Minister Thanat Kho- man advocates “careful use of armed force” to prevent a Com munist takeover in Viet Nam and eventually in all of South east Asia. A long border with Laos has put Thailand close to the Indo china firing line. The feeling in Bangkok is that if Viet Nam falls, Laos will fall too, and Thailand also. Thanat Khoman believes that, faced with American military power, the Communists “are be ginning to feel that they can not get what they want. There is no other way to stop aggres sion.” Although Thai military lead ers say they need all their armed strength to meet threats developing along their own bor ders, Thailand has pitched in with some active help for the American-Viet Nam effort, in cluding use of airfields. The Thai air force .has trained some 30 South Vietnamese pi lots, and promises more of the same. Thai medical and devel opment project teams are oper ating in South Viet Nam. Similar aid is being supplied by the Philippines whose foreign secretary, Mauro Mendez, is known to feel that no action tak en by the United States in Viet Nam could be too strong. Nei ther President Diosdado Maca- pagal nor his chief opponent, Ferdinand Marcos, has made Viet Nam an issue in their cam paigns for Nov. 9 presidential elections. A reliable private poll recently showed that 76 per cent of the Filipinos cheer for the Americans in Viet Nam, with only a few of the remaining 24 per cent actually in opposition. Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdul Rahman is a vocal sup porter of America’s policy. Rahman notes that Malaysia, while saddled with its own de fense problems involving hostile Indonesia, is throwing open mil itary centers to South Vietnam ese personnel for training in jungle warfare. He recently wel comed Vietnamese Primier Mar shal Nguyen Cao Ky. The influential Straits Times, which does not hesitate to twit the United States on other mat ters, has praised President Johnson’s Viet Nam decisions. In neutralist Burma, which shares a frontier with Commu nist China, there has been criti cism of U. S. policy- and also of North Viet Nam’s refusal to negotiate a peaceful settlement. Burmese condemnation of “pow er bloc” competition in Viet Nam cuts two ways. Laos has not let its official neutralist line get in the way of support for the United States. The government of Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma has be come increasingly aware of the role played by North Viet Nam and Communist China in stir ring up Laotian civil strife. It’s acknowledged that American pressure on the North Vietnam ese has slackened the Red war in Laos. The American - equipped Lao tian air force raids the Ho Chi Minh trail, the jungle corridor in southern Laos used by the North Vietnamese to funnel men and equipment to South Viet Nam. Che Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1965 Number 224 .49c 93c J ) c 19c 45c First WAF Officer Here Picks Aggies For Victory Student Attitudes Change Seen An Air Force officer studying computer science at Texas A&M las the Aggies and 13 points in bet with her finance on the ootball game with No. 2-ranked Arkansas this weekend. Second Lt. Claire Glover, first voman Air Force oficers assign- id to the University for advanced studies, doesn’t put faith in A&M’s $31.6 million 7094 corn- rater to figure those odds. A&M enrolls about 200 Air Force officers each year, but Lt. Glover is the first female. She studies in a two-year program leading to a master’s degree in lomputer science. Miss Glover, soon to be a first lieutenant, had her first brush ft'ith computers with in insurance company. The Nashville, Tenn., native went to Officers’ Training School at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio for more training on electronic brains. Her first assignment was the com puter selection office at Hanscom Field, Bedford, Mass. The next step was Texas A&M. “It is not different from most Air Force assignments,” she said, adding that working at another predominantly male location is no problem. “It surprises me how few girls consider military service, where there are so many men around. It’s really a marvelous life,” she asserted. That’s the way her fiance, an aircraft maintenance officer at WAF COMPUTER STUDENT Second Lt. Claire Glover sets up a problem on the control console of the Data Processing- Center’s 650 computer. She is the first WAF to enroll at Texas A&M. Sheppard Air Force Base near Wichita Falls, figured it, too. He brought Claire to her new as signment a couple of months ago. Enroute, he presented the bru nette WAF with a ring. “When John found out about A&M,” she related, “he told me he decided he’d better give me the ring before I got here.” Lt. Glover, due promotion to the same rank as her fiance next month, leads an academic life at A&M. Her computer science pro gram classes are scattered across the campus but she spends much of her free time in the Data Pro cessing Center. Other girls at tend classes there, but she is the only WAF in “the AFIT group.” Though only two months an Aggie, Claire recognizes the loyalty an A&M student de velops. Her bet against the un beaten Arkansas Razorbacks shows it. “The Aggies seem to care more about their school than most,” she observed. “They’re so fierce ly loyal.” Her only previous contact with an Aggie was Capt. Eugene Evo- niuk at Hanscom. He received his Master of Computing Sciences at A&M, though not an ungrad uate here. Claire studied English at Pea body Teachers College in Nash ville two years, then went to Greenville (111.) College. She earned her degree in physics in 1963. But she’s an Aggie now. Monroe Tells Apollo Club. College Students Affected I Friede Released S By DANI PRESSWOOD Battalion Staff Writer Political, religious and intellec tual attitudes of college students have changed drastically since World War II, Dr. Haskell Mon roe noted Thrusday night. Faulk Lecture Slated Monday The Memorial Student Cen ter Contemporary Arts Com mittee will present a lecture by John Henry Faulk at 8 p.m. Monday in the MSG Ballroom. Faulk’s lecture will be based on his best-selling novel, “Fear on Trial.” The book is the story of his battle against blacklisters who ruined Faulk’s career as a television commen tator. The climax of his battle was a dramatic 11-week court trial which ended in Faulk being awarded $3.5 million in dam ages. Poultry Science Club Slates Turkey Shoot The Poultry Science Club will begin its smoked turkey sale at the Poultry Center on Sat urday, Dr. C. B. Ryan, associate professor in the Department of Poultry Science, said. The turkey is priced, at $1 a pound. The sale will last until Christmas. Scholar Says Ghosts Exist By GEORGE W. CORNELL Associated Press Writer Hear that tapping at the windowsill? Those footsteps at midnight in a vacant room? and look. That hazy figure waver ing in the dark. What is it ? A ghost, naturally. Or rather, unnaturally. Next Sunday night is Hal loween, the eve of All-Saints Day on the church calendar, honoring all saintly souls known and un- Wwn. Traditionally, it’s a time »hen spirits of many kinds are aprowl. But really now, in this in tensely scientific age, are there actually such things as spooks, ghosts and noisy wraiths? Of course there are, says the Kev. Terence M. Petry, a Jesuit scholar. “I certainly believe in ghosts, though I have never seen 0I m. I find the evidence for them overwhelming.” Father Petry, who has gath- ov&d records on the phenomenon and claims to have had extensive first-hand experience with it, jsays “ghosts and kindred spirits seem to be very out of place in Shis busy world.” Nevertheless, he insists they arist. And he says he has had numerous encounters with one species of them—poltergeists, which means literally “a ghost who pelts things.” “A mountain of evidence sup ports the existence of preterna tural beings that go under this name,” he writes in the Catholic magazine America. Cases of their reported antics have turned up in various parts of the United States, including a much-investigated but unre solved case in a home at Seaford, N. Y. After a time, however, the crockery and other objects there quit flying about, and furniture moved by unseen hands in the house settled down in place. Ghosts of this kind apparently don’t stay long in one place. Numerous groups, learned and otherwise, carry on research into such manifestations. Duke Uni versity has a continuing program of analysis of occult and psy chical happenings, and a growing file of records. Father Petry, an Englishman who is editor of the Catholic Sttandardsin British Guiana, says that the United States doesn’t College Hills Students Help With Meals For Millions ’ Watch out for those hobgob lins! Oops! There goes another witch! The halls are full of them — ghosts, witches, jack-o-lanterns, black cats . . . and those sounds coming from all those rooms . . . it sure can' make a person real scared. It’s time to get out of this haunted house. But it isn’t a haunted house. It’s the College Hills Elementary School, and the children are get ting ready for Halloween Satur day night. They’ve decorated all their rooms and have witches fly ing around their hallways, and now they’re waiting to go trick or treating. But this year the kids aren’t going around asking for candy. They’re going to ask for money. That’s right. Money. Money to feed millions of starving chil dren all over the world. It’s all part of the “Meals for Millions” non-sectarian campaign sponsor ed by the Methodist Church. The children at College Hills Elementary aren’t stopping with just Halloween-night collection. They contributed their nickels Friday to feed the less fortunate —nickels which had been brought to school to buy an ice cream bar at noontime. Just three pennies will give a child food for one day. So when a child stops by your house wear ing a “Meals for Millions” badge and carrying a collection can, make that can jingle. seem to have as many ghosts as older European cultures. The reason, he suggests, may be that ghosts seem to prefer old houses and Americans have a “habit of pulling houses down as soon as they are 40 years old.” “But there may soon be a re surgence of ghosts in America,” he adds, “since most historical figures seem to start making their midnight appearances about 200 years after death.” One theory. Father Petry says, is that “just as we see stars that may long ago have ceased to exist, so a ghostly apparition may be coming from a human entity once endowed with unusual radio activity which left vibrations on the ether that persons living now can somehow sense?” Can spirits be governed ? “The United States is much too busy to see or hear them,” Father Petry says. But they’ll go right on popping up, taxing people’s logic, straining them to find some explanation in emo tion or defective eyesight. “Yet in the end,” Father Petry adds, “we may have to face up to the fact that there are forces in this world that run counter to the sober conclusions of the scientists, that just cannot 'be ex plained by natural means, and that must belong, in a way we do not comprehend, to the mys terious other world one fine day we shall all of us inherit.” Monroe, assistant dean of the Graduate College and assistant professor of history at Texas A&M, told the Apollo Club, “To day’s students are asking ques tions their parents didn't dare ask at their age.” Not elaborating on whether this condition is good or bad, Monroe termed it wholesome. “Students are knowledge hun gry,” he said. “All over the United States athletics is losing some of its glamor. Scholastics is in.” College students across the na tion, no longer satisfied with ac cepting the college routine as it exists, are beginning to question authority. Monroe cited the ex ample of the confiscation of “Playboy” magazines at Rice University. An overwhelming majority of the students declared the act a great injustice. Individualism seems to be the goal of the student today. They do not want to be “just one of the herd. They want to be different, to be noticed,” he said. This is the reason for the un orthodox behavior on the Uni versity of California campus at Berkeley, Monroe believes. An other is that the students are “intellectually sound but psy chologically unprepared.” As a result of this move away from the ordinary “on most cam puses the political pot is boil ing.” Monroe referred to such practices as the establishment of the “alley” at L.S.U. where any one can speak anytime on any thing. A similar situation exists at the University of Wisconsin. Turning to A&M’s situation, Monroe noted a uniqueness which is not evident at many universi ties This is the fact that al though A&M’s enrollment has grown to almost 9,500 it has kept many of its small school advan tages. Without Bond From County Jail Bryan resident Bidal Friede, charged with the murder of Thomas C. Singleterry, was re leased from the Brazos County Jail without bond Thursday, said County Attorney David B. Gofer, Jr. Singleterry, a 35-year old con struction worker, was apparently killed during a family quarrel Wednesday night in Friede’s com bination dining room-bedroom. Friede, 60, was the victim’s com mon-law-marriage father-in-law. In a ruling by Justice of the Peace Jess McGee, Singleterry apparently died of gunshot wounds from a German-make Mauser rifle. He was hit by the .30 caliber cartridges in the upper chest and in the back, around the left kidney. The inquest was held at 11:50 p.m. at the scene of the slaying. Three .30 caliber cartridges were found in the rifle believed to have been used in the shoot ing. Two spent shells were also found in Friede’s bedroom. According to pilec According to police, Single terry’s 17-year-old wife, Terry Friede, witnessed the shooting. She declared that Singleterry be came angry and began making threats. Friede reported the incident to the Brazos County Sheriff’s office. He then led officers to the rifle which had apparently been used. Friede was warned of his sta tutory rights according to the new state Criminal Code when charges were filed. Detectives said Singleterry raised up once when the ambul ance arrived at the scene but died shortly thereafter. Friede resides at 804 N. Park er while Singleterry’s address was 503 N. Parker. Singleterry was born March 6, 1930 in Donna. Funeral services are pending at Callaway-Jones Funeral Home. Last Lecture Talk Scheduled Monday The third talk in the “My Last Lecture” series will be given Monday at 6 p.m. in the YMCA by Dr. Earl Webb. Webb is head of graduate in struction and director of ad vanced studies of the Agricultural Education Department. Beginning in a one room school, Webb has taught in all levels in the field of education. He holds three degrees from the Univer sity of Missouri, where he was on the staff before coming to A&M. Webb is chairman of the South ern Regional Research Commit tee in Agricultural Education and secretary of the National Re search Committee of the Agricul tural Education Section of the American Vocation Committee. Enrollment Increases In Wildlife Course Enrollment in wildlife manage ment courses increased from 171 to 264 students this year, or 64 per cent, said Richard J. Baldauf, department head. There are 29 graduate students this semester compared to 13 last year, Baldauf added. AGGIE PLAYERS REHEARSE Aggie Players Director C. K. 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