FISH GETS HEADY FOR PONIES
Bob Palmer walks out of Kyle Field Monday night after
Yell Practice displaying the “Spurs” traditionally worn by
Texas A&M freshmen during the week prior to the SMU
?ame. Palmer is from Company A-l. Fish Dave Polys is
n the background. The Aggies meet SMU Saturday in
Kyle Field.
Author
Aware,
Explained
Inc. Put
Fear On Society
By DANI PRESSWOOD
Battalion Staff Writer
John Henry Faulk, author of
lie best selling book “Fear on
trial,” said Monday night his six-
ear battle with the racketeers of
Aware, Inc.” arose from “a fear
ihich plays havoc on a society.”
Presenting the Contemporary
irts Committee - sponsored lec-
iire, Faulk described his struggle
ihich resulted in the exposure of
lie “patriots of profit” which
iackballed radio and television
wfomers during the 1950’s.
“Aware, Inc. was an organiza-
ion whose alleged purpose was
• expose the Communist conspir-
«y in radio and TV,” Faulk said.
“First this was based on two
try questionable presumptions,
jtpresumes there is a Communist
•nspiracy in radio and TV, and
tat Aware was qualified to ex-
ose it.”
The organization printed a
blacklist” periodically which con-
>ined names of performers who
ad been associated in any way
dth affiliations which had “left-
dag” tendencies.
"In time all names hired in ra
id and TV were submitted first
•this group,” he recalled. “This
■t some of the biggest names in
ta business.”
Zinn Outlines Silver Taps Procedure
By M. L. BANNING
Student Affairs Director Ben
nie Zinn outlined the University-
policy regarding Silver Taps Mon
day in the wake of the recent
rash of criticism over the cere
mony.
Zinn, in reviewing the tradi
tional arrangements for Silver
Taps, said it is one of Texas
A&M’s finest traditions and
merits the full cooperation of all
students, staff members and
campus visitors.
Zinn noted that the Housing
Office is notified as soon as pos
sible of the death of every stu
dent. The office then prepares
a card for the flag pole in front
of the Academic Building, places
it in the holder and lowers the
flag to half mast. The card
gives the student’s name, mili
tary unit or civilian residence,
the burial date, home town and
time for the Silver Taps cere
mony.
The Silver Taps policy, as ap
proved by Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan on March 30,
1960, provides for the Housing
Office to notify all departments
and offices in the buildings in
the central area prior to the cere
mony. These are the only build
ings required to have all lights
out.
The buildings in the central
area are Coke Building, Goodwin
Hall, YMCA, Nagle Hall, Phy
sics Building, Biological Sciences
Building and the Academic Build
ing.
Others are the Electrical En
gineering Building, Mechanical
Engineering Building, Experi
ment Station (Agronomy), Me
morial Student Center, Guion
Hall and the Military Sciences
Building. Other buildings on the
campus are not required to be
darkened.
Zinn added that the Housing
Office is to notify the assistant
commandant of the death and
the ceremony. The assistant is
to secure the buglers and the
firing squad and post guards on
all streets adjacent to the Aca
demic Building. He is also re
quired to have announcements
made in both dining halls at the
evening meal, to remind students
of the ceremony.
The Housing Office is respon
sible for contacting the Build
ings and Utilities Department
for street lights to be turned
off around the central area of
the campus during the ceremony.
This service is to be paid for
by the Department of Student
Affairs.
The Housing Office, is also re
sponsible for instructing the jani
tors in the central area to as
sist in “blacking out” the build
ings named above and placing an
order for flowers for the family.
The flowers are paid for by the
Memorial Student Center.
Normally, Silver Taps is con
ducted on the night of the Stu
dent’s death, week ends and holi
days excepted. The usual hour
for the ceremony is 10:30 p.m.
At 10:15 p.m. the MSC makes
an announcement over the tower
public address speaker to the
effect that the ceremony is to
be held at 10:30 p.m. The an
nouncement is followed by a re
cording of sacred music.
At 10:30 all dormitory lights
and building and street lights
as indicated above are “blacked
out” and students are requested
to quietly assemble in the quad
rangle in front of the Academic
Building. There is to be no smok
ing or talking.
Complete quiet is maintained
and the honor guard of Ross
Volunteers fires three rifle vol
leys in honor of the departed
Aggie. Following the last vol
ley the buglers sound ‘Silver
Taps’ from the Academic Build
ing three times.
All the participants quietly
leave the assembly area and re
turn to their quarters. No lights
are to be turned on within five
minutes of the completion of the
ceremony.
Cbe Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1965
Number 225
Conference Set Dec. 8-11
SCONA Names
24 Delegates
Faulk, a former professor of
English at the University of Tex
as, was an entertainer on a daily
radio show and a weekly CBS
television program when he came
into contact with Aware.
Feeling “they had run their own
court system too long,” Faulk
consulted lawyer Louis Nizer and
spoke against the organization.
“I was blacklisted and fired,”
he said. “It made me unemploy
able. It got to where I was put
ashore by a Soviet submarine.
After six years of research and
compilation, Nizer had gathered
all the ties of Aware, Inc. neces
sary to bring the case to court.
After a three - month battle
Faulk was awarded $3.5 million,
the largest civil settlement in the
history of the United States. He
termed his part in the dissolution
of Aware, Inc. “the greatest priv
ilege that I’ve ever had in my
life.”
His best-selling novel “Fear on
Trial” is Faulk’s account of the
court case.
Twenty-four Texas A&M stu
dents have been selected as dele
gates to the eleventh Student
Conference on National Affairs
here Dec. 8-11.
Delegates include Sam Sherrill
Henry Jr., Thomas Michael De-
Frank, Michael John Sabatier,
Ronald Stephen Hines, Ronald D.
Schappaugh, Stephan S. Thurman,
Thomas Edward Moon, David Ed
win Stiles, Donald Patrick Burney,
Paul Albert Bleau, Ronald Wil
liam Fletcher, Romeo Cordero
Garcia, John Davis Gay, John Al
len Kearney, Leonard Frank Ray
Jr., and Manuel Zapata.
Foreign delegates selected are
Muhammed Hussain, (East Pakis
tan), Thean Soo Tee (Malaysia),
Jayant B. Shah (India), Abraham
Armand Schoenholz (Israel), Pao-
Shan Weng (China) Muhammad
Iqbal Akhtar (Pakistan), Francis
co R. Suarez (Puerto Rico) and
Henry Yuan Chou (China).
Alternates are Melvin Ray Frei,
David Arthur Trifon, Stephen T.
Holtz, William Shepherd Moore,
Mesa Yokubol and Moshe Finkel-
stein.
The delegates, selected by two
faculty committees, will be among
more than 240 representatives
from universities in the United
States, Canada and Mexico at
tending the conference.
The topic for SCONA XI is
“The Far East: Focus on South
east Asia (Challenges of a Dy
namic Region).”
The long-range goals of SCONA
is the promotion of enlightened,
responsible citizenship which is
fostered by free discussion. Out
standing public figures — deliber
ately chosen to include varying
viewpoints — are invited to par
ticipate as keynote speakers.
In addition to the five main
speakers, eight roundtables of
about 20 students each meet with
co-chairmen from business and
educational fields to discuss con
ference topics more closely.
Speakers who have already ac
cepted invitations to deliver main
addresses are Dr. Frank N. Tra-
ger, Professor of International
Affairs at the Graduate School of
Public Administration at New
York University, and Charles T.
Vetter, Information Coordinator
for the United States Information
Agency Office of Public Informa
tion.
New Registration Method
Studied By Data Center
The Data Processing Center is
studying a program to cut the
registration method in Shisa Din
ing Hall, Dan D. Drew, associate
director of the center, has an
nounced.
If the new system is adopted,
a student will go to his depart
ment head and tell him what
courses he wants to take. If he
has a job, he would specify the
time that he works.
This information, along with
additional information from the
department, is fed into the com
puter. The student is then mail
ed his class schedule along with
a fee notice. All the student has
to do is pay his fees at the Re
gistrar’s office.
Among the advantages of this
system is time saved. Students
could get the classes they need so
there would be no delay in wait
ing till next semester to take a
course or to graduate because of
a time conflict in classes.
Disadvantages are that a stu
dent is not given a choice of sec
tions or exact time of classes.
Drew said this registration me
thod is a controversial matter.
Universities using this method in
clude MIT and Purdue.
The center is presently work
ing on the regular class schedule
for the spring term.
Teague Dinner
Adds V A Head
The chief of the Veterans Administration has
been added as a speaker at the appreciation dinner for
Congressman Olin E. Teague Friday.
William J. Driver, administrator of Veteran’s Af
fairs, will join Dr. Kurt Debus, launch chief for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and
Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter as featured speakers
at the Teague testimonial.
The dinner is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Sbisa
Dining Hall.
Driver is the first career federal employe to
head the VA. He has been with the agency since
1946, except for a two year military tour during the
Korean War. He has been awarded the agency’s
two highest awards: the Exceptional Service Medal
and the Meritorious Service Medal.
His World War II service earned him the Legion
of Merit, Bronze Star, Order of the British Empire
and the Croix de Guerre.
Driver has been closely associated with Teague
during the congressman’s capacity as chairman of the
Committee House on Veterans Affairs.
“Mr. Driver is a most appropriate person to report
on our congressman's contributions to America's mili
tary veterans,” noted Ford Albritton Jr., chairman of
the dinner.
Busloads of “Tiger” Teague’s friends from Hills
boro, Whitney, Waco and other area towns are ex
pected to swell the crowd for the dinner to near
capacity.
Less than 300 tickets remained for the event
late Monday.
“I am worried that local persons planning to
attend the dinner have not yet purchased tickets and
they may be disappointed,” said Hill Westmoreland,
ticket chairman.
Westmoreland added that persons desiring to at
tend the banquet so their children can see Carpenter
may not be able to purchase tickets.
Tickets are available from Bryan-College Station
banks, the Ramada and Holiday Inns, Memorial Stu
dent Center and the Bryan-College Station Chamber
of Commerce.
Telephone orders are being accepted by the Cham
ber of Commerce at TA 2-3721.
Tickets will go off sale early this week.
Spirit Remains High
Consolidated Tigers Have 5 Reasons
Blood Needed
Blood donations for Mrs. Mil-
•i Darwin, retired Bryan school
! *cher, are being accepted at St.
°seph Hospital.
Any blood type will be ac
table and Aggies who wish to
•Kate should go by the hospital.
Mrs. Darwin and her husband
ir e been longtime friends of
•tas A&M.
Aggie Fish Hurt
In Auto Mishap
Texas A&M freshman David
oberts was reported in good con-
taon by University Hospital of
fals after he was hit by a car
^sday night at North Gate.
College Station police reported
•tt Roberts was run over as he
tossed at the North Gate traffic
toal at about 8:15 p.m.
Roberts, from Houston, is a
totnber of Squadron 3. He re-
^ed bruises and a possible con-
•ssion.
Jacob F. Y a r t e r, sophomore
torn Bellaire, was the driver of
car that hit Roberts.
Webb Says Americans Begin
To Solve Social Problems
He also predicted the notion of
a college education as a status
symbol will be discarded for more
mature motivation and more pro
fessional attention to undergrad
uate teaching programs will be
given. \
“The iniquities of our demo
cratic society must be mended.”
The shift in education must be
made from college preparation
courses because the majority of
students will not go to college.
More and better vocational schools
must also be provided,” Webb em
phasized.
For the college student, how
ever, specialized instruction must
be counterbalanced by a genera
lized background. Specialization
will provide the means to make a
living, while an “understanding of
people” will provide the life, Webb
continued.
“An important part of that
life, in most cases, will be re
ligion, but in general religion
has not kept up with technology.
“Religion has been a status quo
thing and we have to reexamine
the things we have taken for
granted.” The Sunday School
version of Christianity does not
help in the turbulent intellectual
mainstreams,” Webb said.
Dr. Earl Webb told a “Last
Lecture” audience Monday night
Americans have set out to solve
the great social changes of this
age.
“The contrasts of our age —
illiteracy in a nation proud of
education; loneliness, crime and
neglect in a land based on Chris
tian principles — are coming into
the public awareness,” Webb said.
“We have set out to solve the
problems that face our people,”
he added.
The Agricultural Education pro
fessor said this added social re
sponsibility has given a new
meaning to the role of the indivi
dual.
“The question now for the in
dividual is how far to deviate
from the pattern and still exert
a positive influence,” Webb said,
“and the conformist who druges
in the same old rut is not worth
his salt because he does not con
tribute anything new.
“But the beatnik, the radical
goes too far; he becomes destruc
tive.”
In education Webb foresaw an
upgrading in faculty levels of
quality, in the efforts at improv
ing teaching methods and in en
couragement of gifted individuals.
By RON MUMFORD
Battalion Special Writer
Five reasons that school spirit
of the A&M Coonsolidated Tigers
remains high, even though the
team’s record is unsatisfactory,
are the five cheer leaders.
Head cheer leader for 1965-66
school year is Debbie Cooper
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. O. C.
Cooper of 1101 Walton Drive.
Debbie was freshman favorite
and Future Farmers of America
Sweetheart her junior year. She
is a member of the Consolidated
Spanish Club and the school
choir.
After graduation, Debbie plans
to attend Baylor University and
major in elementary education.
Another cheer leader and also
a member of the Cooper house
hold is Shelly. The Spanish Club
and FHA highlight Shelly’s ac
tivities.
She plans to go to college but
has not decided where.
Ann McMurry, senior, daugh
ter of Dr. and Mrs. E. D. McMur-.
ry of 905 Winding Road, is the
third member of the Consolidated
spirit squad. Ann belongs to the
Future Homemakers of America
and the Spanish Club.
She is the Latin Club vice-
president. After she graduates,
Ann plans to attend A&M, where
her father is assistant to the dean
of veterinary medicine.
Susan Culpepper, another sen
ior cheer leader, is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Van N. Cul
pepper of 908 Munson Drive.
Susan has decided to attend the
University of Arkansas after
graduation.
Charmille Bridges, junior, com
pletes the cheer leading quintet.
She is the daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. C. H. Bridges of 1502 Glade.
Charmille lettered on the girls’
basketball team and is a member
if FHA and the German Club.
She is the secretary-treasurer of
the Latin Club.
After high school, she plans to
attend A&M and study medical
technology. Charmille’s father is
head of veterinary pathology at
A&M.
Last summer the five cheer
leaders placed first in final com
petition in small groups at the
Southern Methodist University
cheerleader school in Dallas.
A&M CONSOLIDATED CHEERLEADERS
These five young ladies have been leading Charmille Bridges, Debbie Cooper, Shelly
the cheers for A&M Consolidated this year. Cooper; top row, from left, Ann McMurray
The girls are, bottom row, left to right, and Eusan Culpepper.