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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1965
Number 226
British Officer
Set To Speak
At SCONA XI
A British Army officer with
extensive service in Malaya has
been added as a main speaker
for the eleventh Student Confer
ence on National Affairs here
Dec. 8-11.
Col. A. N. Griffiths, C.B.E.,
a staff officer at the British Em
bassy in Washington, will deliver
of five principal addresses
at the conference.
He joins Dr. Frank Trager and
Charles E. Vetter as SCONA
speakers, with two more speakers
to be added. Trager is Profes
sor of New York University’s
Graduate School of Public Ad
ministration and Vetter is In
formation Coordinator for the
United States Information Agen
cy Office of Public Information.
Griffiths was graduated from
Oxford University and was com
missioned into Signals in 1940.
He served as Troop Command
er/Adjutant of a field unit and
was then Chief Instructor of Of
ficer Training unit in 1043. He
was later assigned to special
duties with Sonic Deception and
Radio Deception units. He was
then appointed Kadio Counter
measures Officer for Supreme
Headquarters, Allied Expedition
ary Force (SHAEF).
He joined the Airborne Troops
and planned and participated in
Operation Market Garden with
the 1st British Airborne Division,
S2nd and 101st U. S. Airborne
'Divisions.
Griffiths was trasferred to In
dia in 1945 as part of the Brit
ish Airborne force. Following
VJ Day he was moved to Malaya
for three years. From 1949-54
he served in the United Kingdom
in various capacities, including
Commandant of the Royal Engi
neers Signal School.
He was returned to Malaya in
1954 as Commander Royal Sig
nals of a Gurkha Division Signal
Regiment. He was appointed
Commandant of the Infantry
Signal School in 1958 and two
years later was named Deputy
Director of the Ministry of De
fense Joint Communications
Staff.
County Voters Pass
9 Of 10 Amendments
By RON MUNFORD
Battalion Staff Writer
Brazos County citizens dis
agreed with state voters and
passed nine of the 10 state con
stitutional amendments in Tues
day’s election. Two thousand sev
en hundred fifty-seven voted in
the county.
County voters approved amend
ments 2, 4, 7 and 9, while state
returns early Wednesday indi
cated disapproval of the pro
posals. Local citizens agreed
with state voters in rejecting
amendment 10.
Amendment 1, created the
greatest stir locally with both
Lt. Gov. Preston Smith and State
Sen. W. T. (Bill) Moore request
ing support of the five cent
increase in ad valorem tax, was
State Rejects
5 Proposals
MIDNIGHT OIL FOR CORPS
The Corps of Cadets slushed through a prac- into the night hours preparing for the
tice review Tuesday in preparation for Fri- Teague review. Marching conditions were
day's review honoring Congressman Olin hampered after the drill field sprinklers
Teague of College Station. The Corps drilled had been turned on Tuesday.
Human Heart
To Abnormal
Reacts Fast
Body Stresses
New Parking Lot
To Open Dec. 1
The new parking lot being
instructed in front of Sbisa
Dining Hall will be completed
before Dec. 1, announced Bennie
l Zinn, director of student af
fairs.
The hard-surfaced lot, to have
?0 spaces, will be used by day
students during class hours and
available for Sbisa users after
> p,m.
The parking lot will also be
used for dances and banquets
ffld at Sbisa.
By ALTON BLAKESLEE
NEW YORK GP) _ Driving
your car, you almost have a ter
rible accident.
And almost instantly, your
heart speeds up.
Your heart of course couldn’t
“see” the threat. Neither could
the glands inside you that spurt
ed out adrenalin to make your
heart start pumping.
Then how does such an aston
ishingly quick reaction come
about ?
The answer is fantastic. For
at least eight separate events
take place, in chain sequence, in
perhaps three seconds or less.
The story is another example
of the, remarkable workings of
the human body, plus new in
sights as to how vital hormones,
such as adrenalin, really do their
jobs. It’s also an example of basic
medical research digging ever
deeper toward knowledge that
might lead to new means of safe
guarding human health.
As for those eight steps:
1. Your eyes spot danger, and
register images in your brain, so
you slam on brakes, steer away,
or just luckily escape collision.
2. Your brain flashes nerve sig
nals to your adrenal glands, sit
ting atop your kidneys, as well as
to your heart and various other
organs.
Sii
Up
OPERA STAR APPEARS FRIDAY
fropolitan Opera Tenor Jan Peerce will give a Town
J performance at 8 p. m. Friday in G. Rollie White
Vum. Peerce, one of the world’s busiest artists, is the
* r d Town Hall performer of the year. The singer will
8 both opera and popular songs.
3. The nerve impulses stimulate
the adrenals to release some
adrenalin — about 1,000 times as
much as when you’re just reading
— and stimulate nerve endings in
the heart to release some nor-
adrenalin. Adrenalin and nor-
adrenalin are the hormones that
mobilize energy to fight or run
away.
4. The hormones reach the mus
cle cells of your heart.
5. But they don’t act within
these cells, and this is one new
finding. Instead, they activate an
enzyme, or chemical governor,
which appears to be located in
the cell membrane or wall.
6. This activated enzyme then
brings about the release inside
the cell of a special chemical,
nicknamed cyclic amp.
7. Cyclic amp then activates
one or more enzymes inside heart
muscle cells.
8. And this enzyme — or en
zymes — actually does the job
of making your heart speed up
and work harder — all because
of wh^f your eyes saw an in
stant a|:o.
Hormones are chemical mes
sengers playing powerful roles
in maintaining health and nor
mal body functions. Different
hormones are produced by the
adrenals, the sex glands, the pit
uitary, and other glands. Each
hormone affects only one or a
few body organs or tissues.
Now, from research at Vander
bilt University, it appears that
hormones carry their “messages”
only part way. Upon reaching
their target organs, they turn
over the job of delivering the
message to a kind of errand boy
inside cells of the organ. And this
errand boy is cyclic amp.
This chemical can mimic or
Corps-Qvilian
Discussion Set
A panel discussion on “Corps-
Civilian Student Relations” if
scheduled for 8 p.m. Wednes
day in the Memorial Studeni
Center Ballroom.
Sponsored by the MSC Great
Issues series, the discussion
will be moderated by Dr. Ed*
win Doran Jr., associate pro
lessor of geography.
Panelists include Craig Buck
chairman of SCONA XI; Ec
Carpenter, president of th<
YMCA; Glenn Dromgoole, edi
tor of The Battalion; Tommj
DeFrank, Battalion news edi
tor; Ralph Filburn, Corps com
mander, and Don Peterson, Ail
Division Staff.
do the job of at least some hor
mones, the researchers find.
These new studies of hormone
action were described to the
American Chemical Society re
cently by a team of Vanderbilt
researchers, including Dr. Earl
W. Sutherland, who first discov
ered amp; and Drs. R. W. Butch
er and G. Alan Robison.
Cyclic amp seems to mediate
or control the action of a variety
of hormones, they said.
By The Associated Press
A relatively small number of
citizens balloted Tuesday on 10
proposed changes in the Texas
Constitution.
The issues involved education,
terms for state officials, veter
ans land funds, aid to the needy
and salary questions for two of
ficials.
Reports to the Texas Election
Bureau early Wednesday from
242 of the 254 counties, 163 com
plete:
1. Financing college buildings:
Approval 279,549, against 185,-
958.
2. Veterans’ land fund: Approv
al 227,524, against 237,623.
3. Aid to needy: Approval 330,-
077, against 143,646.
4. Four-year terms (state of
ficials) : Approval 217,032,
against 264,375.
5. Teachers’ retirement funds:
Approval 318,496, against 146,-
025.
6. Texas opportunity plan: Ap
proval 306,517, against 162,680.
7. Hospital tax exemption: Ap
proval 218,813, against 244,170.
8. Judges’ retirement: Approv
al 339,923, against 126,525.
9. Salaries (lieutenant gover
nor and speaker): Approval 202,-
579, against 259,400.
10. Four-year terms (repre
sentatives): Approval 133,199,
against 329,479.
The balloting followed by al
most two months another consti
tutional amendment offering: A
proposal to increase the senate
to 39 members from 31 lost by
a top-heavy vote. About 222,000
p *S'*ns voted then.
Another 16 amendments will be
on the ballot next year.
Harold Dunn elected
Foundation Head
Harold Dunn of Amarillo has
been elected chairman of the
board of the Texas A&M Re
search Foundation.
Earl Rudder was elected presi
dent; Fred J. Benson, vice presi
dent and director; Harry E.
Whitmore, vice-president and di
rector; Mrs. Judy Davis, secre
tary-treasurer and comptroller,
and C. M. Gaines, attorney.
passed by county voters. The
funds will be utilized in colleges
and university building pro
grams.
‘A&M is not slated to receive
any of the money but the pas
sing of the amendment is essen
tial for education in Texas,” re
marked James P. Hannigan,
Dean of Students.
Voting at A&M Consolidated,
precinct 3, was:
Amendment 1 — 367 for, 52
against.
Amendment 2 — 199 for, 220
against.
Amendment 3 — 341 for, 81
against.
Amendment 4 — 280 for, 136
against.
Amendment 5 — 360 for, 53
against.
Amendment 6 — 333 for, 82
against.
Amendment 7 — 254 for, 165
against.
Amendment 8 — 363 for, 51
against .
Amendment 9 — 264 for, 153
against.
Amendment 10 — 169 for, 254
against.
No real campaigning took place
on any of the issues, but some
discussions involved the four-
year term for governor, lieute
nant governor, attorney general,
comptroller, treasurer, land com
missioner and agriculture com
missioner.
Thirty-six states have four-
year terms for governor. Those
favoring the longer term said
the governor, at least, needs that
much time to accomplish his pro
gram without the distractions of
campaigning each two years.
Opponents said a four-year
term would give a governor too
much power-and that if he held
office for two terms all state
boards would be filled with his
men. The proposal had no re-
election limitations.
Aggie Band Started In 1895
Reunion Scheduled Saturday
The Texas Aggie Band, the na
tion’s largest marching, musical
group, developed from 13 part
time members who slogged
through mud in baggy pants.
Saturday, bandsmen from as
far as Thousand Oaks, Calif., and
as far back as the class of 1904
will reunite on campus for the
first time.
A luncheon-business meeting
of the group in Duncan Dining
Hall will precede the afternoon
A&M-SMU football contest, at
which band exes will be saluted.
More than 500 former musi
cians and their wives will regis
ter at 10 a.m. Saturday in the
lounge of Dormitory 9, near the
east wing of Duncan Hall.
The reuniting musicians bridge
the gap from today’s precisely
aligned and meticulously in-step
Aggie Band to the original 13 of
1895 who played only for forma
tions.
Senior boots worn by men on
the bugle rank and outside files
are a tie with the past, as is strict
adherence to 120 beats-per-min-
ute, six-steps-to-five-yards cad
ence.
Many features of the 240-man
organization have evolved
through the years as the hand
grew in size. Three baton bearers
are required to direct movements
of the military group. The head
drum major marches in front
with company drum majors on
the flanks. They give synchron
ized signals that may be seen
and heard by all members of the
band.
From the first notes of “Hulla
baloo” in the Aggie War Hymn,
which opens every drill, to dis
solving of the famous block “T”
over the sideline at its end, all
240 instruments are being played.
Complexity of minstrel turns,
continuing counter - marches,
criss - crosses at midfield and
spread entrances might lead to
the belief the 40-yard-long band
spends long hours on the practice
field, next to Dorm 11.
Such is not the case. The band
spends an average of five hours a
week preparing drills.
The military organization is
called “the pulse of Aggieland.”
In view of the manner in which
the band presents itself to the
public, Director Lt. Col. E. V.
Adams must be described as the
heart of it. He is in his 21st year
at the post.
A&M’s khaki-clad 240 includes
no music majors, since the uni
versity has no school of music,
nor do members receive credit
for band work.
“The Colonel,” as he is known
across the campus, has no assist
ants. He directs each week’s daily
practice from 5-6 p.m.
Friday sessions for out-of-town
games often rouse College Sta
tion residents. To allow for trav
el, the workout must be conduct
ed early Friday morning. Dining
halls serve breakfast for the mu
sicians at 6:30 a.m., marching be
gins at 6:50 and ends at 7:15. In
struments are loaded on a mov
ing van so students can be in
class by 8.
Col. Adams charts each half
time show in two-and-a-half to
four hours on Wednesday. Only
drum majors see the chart.
On Mondays the colonel “talks
and walks” the band through
each part of the formation.
“We put everything together
Monday, regardless o^ what it
looks like,” the director said.
Tuesday the band smooths out
Monday’s wrinkles. Music is add
ed Wednesday and polishing con
tinues the next two days.
Col. Adams usually does not
come in contact with musicians
during practice, except in the
band room. He depends on drum
majors and seniors in the front
rank and outside files to execute
his wishes, using military leader
ship.
The 1965 hand marches 240 as
it has since 1954. Eleven alter
nates substitute for injured or
sick bandsmen, but once a player
learns a position he keeps it for
the week.
This year, the Maroon and
White Bands, company-size units
which comprise the Band Bat
talion, are made up of 251 men.
Almost 50 per cent — 111 — are
freshmen who are coming in
contact with Aggie Band methods
for the first time.
The unit, which can march only
36 seconds in one direction on a
football field, has appeared at
three games this season: Houston
and Baylor here and at Texas
Christian University on a Corps
trip.
Travel for the band to Baton
Rouge, Atlanta or Lubbock is a
major expense but the band is al
ways requested by fans at cities
in which the football team plays.
Bud Montet, sports editor of
the Baton Rouge Advocate, sum
marized the sentiments of half
time fans of the band:
“Next time you come to LSU,
leave the football team home and
bring the Aggie Band.”
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A sketchy group of 13 Texas A&M cadets
of questionable instrumentation provided
music for Corps of Cadets formation in 1895.
TEXAS AGGIE BAND “ORIGINAL 13”
As today, the band was attired in military
dress. The members played only for forma
tions.