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Btt know" si! ulated ll scoop, is involve! has do# , and Ge»i m as "si st Confer %gie Ex In Viet Nam Sends Battle Account Che Battalion Number -§5^ Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1965 Corps To Invade Houston Saturday Grid Tilt Highlights GAME BATT PICKS DROMGOOLE GARCIA DeFRANK JERDEN Weekend A&M-Rice A&M 6-3 A&M 10-7 A&M 14-10 A&M 23-0 Arkansas-SMU Ark 28-13 Ark 20-18 Ark 28-15 Ark 31-0 Baylor-TT TT 27-14 TT 24-7 TT 28-24 TT 20-0 The Corps of Cadets journeys TCU-TU TU 30-7 TU 15-10 TU 21-7 TU 20-0 south this weekend to parade Neb.-Okla.St. Neb 19-7 Neb 35-0 Neb 42-0 Neb 20-0 through downtown Houston while Mich.St.-Indiana MSt-21-10 MSt 30-7 MSt-40-0 MSt 20-0 the Aggies look for their first Houston-Ken. Ken 14-13 Ken 23-14 Ken 27-6 Ken 20-0 Southwest Conference victory LSU-Miss.St. LSU 9-7 MissSt 7-6 LSU 20-0 LSU 20-0 against the Rice Owls Saturday. Tenn.-Miss. Miss 20-17 Tenn 14-13 Tenn 13-0 Tenn 20-0 Weekend activities will con- Citadel-VMI VMI 18-8 VMI .12-10 VMI 6-0 Citadel 2-0 elude with a Rice Corps Trip LAST WEEK 5-5 8-2 6-4 8-2 party sponsored by the Houston Hometown Club Saturday night in the Knights of Columbus Hall. SEASON 44-26 46-24 50-20 45-25 AFTERMATH OF RICE PAINTINGS Academic Building bell, Sully’s head defaced. lice Paint Raiders )eface 11 Buildings Campus Security officials were continuing Friday investigation of an early morning paint spree by Rice University students that left 11 buildings defaced, includ ing the Memorial Student Center. Ironically, the Rice vandals left their mark on the MSC im mediately below the plaque hon oring Aggies who have died in wars even as American stopped to pay tribute to all her war dead on this Veteran’s Day. Security Chief Ed Powell said the paintings occurred between midnight and 1 a.m. Sgt. Mor ris Maddox of Campus Security discovered wet paint in the Aca demic Building about 1:30 a.m. The statue of Lawrence Sulli van Ross and the markers at the east gate entrance were also painted. Other buildings damaged in clude G. Rollie White Coliseum, the old athletic office, Plant Sci ences Building, Biological Sci ences building, Cushing Library, Engineering Library, Kyle Field, Agriculture Engineering Build ing and Engineering Building. A ticket booth under the Kyle Field stands and several campus walkways were also painted. The incident was the second herein three weeks. Baylor Uni versity students carried out a similar raid before the A&M- Baylor game Oct. 23. Thirteen students were later apprehended by Baylor officials after a lone student caught on the A&M campus implicated them in the paintings. The Baylor students, all fresh men, were placed on severe dis ciplinary and conduct probation for the remainder of the semes ter, “Maybe if they would have kicked those boys out the Rice boys wouldn’t have made this trip,” Powell said. A&M President Earl Rudder was in Lubbock and was unavail able for comment. News Analysis Northeast Blackout May Help Nation By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON <A>) _ Maybe the electric power blackout in the Northeast Tuesday night was a good thing for the nation as a whole. It may compel new think ing on distributing electricity in case more critical times come. But it was gruesome for awhile, wondering what had happened. There probably wasn’t a person who didn’t wonder: Was it just an accident? Or was it sabotage by enemies, screwballs, or mis guided citizens? (See Related Story Page 4) Yet, it wasn’t as gruesome as wondering what would happen, under present arrangements for distributing electric power, if the real thing, a nuclear attack, had struck the whole United States. Joseph C. Swidler, chairman of the Federal Power Commission, said the facts that have come in so far “aren’t really adequate for an appraisal of causes, much less cures. “It’s apparent that we’ll need a great deal of study and industry thinking—and perhaps some fair ly important technological reno vations.” He left unclear what he meant but it now seems incredible. thanks to what happened Tues day night, that a nation which some day could suffer a nuclear attack would have a power sys tem, or systems, so centralized that one disruption could throw a whole group of states into dark ness. Because there was no fear of worse to come—like a nuclear attack—there was no panic. But there would be panic if such an attack came and, with the central power plants destroyed, the whole nation was left in darkness. In that situation, remembering the fantastic traffic jams in New York City alone Tuesday night in the darkness, even the movement of troops might be impossible and communications from the govern ment to the people, telling them what to do and what to expect. In case of attack, and even with a broad power failure, the United States would probably be able to retaliate with its own nuclear weapons from American bases which, the Pentagon says, have auxiliary power of their own. But if an attack came, and the rest of the nation was blacked out as the Northeast was Tues day night, it seems pretty plain the civilian population, if not the defense structure, would be in chaos. The Corps parade will assemble in the Clay and Bell Streets area and will move out at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Cadet Colonel Ralph B. Filburn will lead the Corps north on Main Street, east along Texas to Fannin and south to Bell, where units will be dismissed. The reviewing stand will be at the corner of Rusk and Main Streets. The Saturday afternoon foot ball battle will pitt the Aggies, winless in conference play, against Rice’s Owls, sporting a 1-3 con ference record. That one victory was a 20-17 upset over the Uni versity of Texas. A&M goes into the game on the heels of a 10-0 loss to SMU, while Rice will attempt a come back after a 27-0 drubbing by Texas Tech. Both teams sport losses to three common foes: SMU, Texas Tech and Arkansas. Oddsmakers give Rice a slim one-point nod over the Aggies. The Corps Trip party, beginning at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, will fea ture the music of The Souls, Inc., a prominent combo in the Gulf Coast area: The dance in the Knights of Columbus Hall at 807 Whitney in the Northline shopping center area will last until 1 a.m. Sunday. Publicity chairman Jack Gaden said tickets will be sold for $2.50 per couple at the door. Setups will be served. Folklore Group Music Program To Present W ednesday The John Avery Lomax Folk lore Society will present a pro gram of folk songs at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Fallout The ater workshop. Admission will be 50 cents and all proceeds will be donated to the J. Frank Dobie Ranch Fund. The program will offer a sur vey of folk singing. Performers will include Doc Sprague, a wes tern music vocalist who has re corded for RCA Victor, and Jon Sharon, who will sing Israeli and America folk songs. Dr. Grant Thomas, a member of the faculty, and his wife will sing Appalachian Mountain style music. James Newett will play two instruments which he made him self, the octaphone and the octa- vett. Rounding out the evening of entertainment will be Selma Clack, who specializes in British ballads, and the Williams’ who sing folk ballads. The history of the folklore so ciety dates back to 1906 when John Avery Lomax began to teach school at A&M. In 1909 he or ganized the Texas Folklore So ciety for the study, collection and preservation of the folklore of Texas and the Southwest. The program will enable A&M to contribute to the purchase of the J. Frank Dobie Ranch. Dobie, a famous Texas author and teacher, died a year ago. He made provisions that his ranch, called “Paisano” (road- runner) be made available to worthy writers. The ranch will be gift to the people of Texas. President Lyn don Johnson, a personal friend of Dobie’s, was the first to con tribute to the fund, which will maintain the ranch as a retreat for writers, scholars and artists. The ranch, to cost $76,000, will be administered by the Uni versity of Texas. Veteran’s Day Ceremonies Pay Tribute To War Dead SCONA XI Sets General Meeting The eleventh Student Confer ence on National Affairs will hold a general meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Memorial Student Center. Students desiring to serve as drivers for the Dec. 8-11 confer ence are urged to attend the meeting. Drivers must be willing to serve for 12-hour periods. All cars must be of 1962 make or newer and must accommodate four to six passengers. Theme of SCONA XI is “The Far East: Focus On Southeast Asia (Challenges of a Dynamic Region).” WASHINGTON (A 1 ) — The haunting refrain of Taps sounds again for the nation’s war dead today — Veterans’ Day. In cemeteries where the white crosses stand row on row, there will be many memorial remem brances, one of the most symbolic at Arlington, where men and women who served in almost all the nation’s wars sleep. Vice President Hubert H. Hum phrey is scheduled to lead cere monies at this vast resting place across the Potomac from the Lin coln Memorial. This Veterans Day there are none who wore the Blue and Gray in the Civil War to recall Bull Run, Gettysburg or Shiloh. There were two Confederates and one Union trooper alive in 1954. There are just seven left now who in memory can recall the Indian wars, the Western frontier forts and the warrior foes who are legend: the Commanche, the Sioux, Cheyenne, Apache, Kiowa. Of the 80,000 veterans of the Spanish-American war alive in 1954, only 15,000 survive today. The ranks of those who served in World War I have thinned to 3.093.000 off from 3,236,000 11 years ago. From World War II, when the nation’s greatest fighting force was organized, there are 14,957,- 000 who stormed the beaches on a global scale, from D-Day at Normandy to Iwo Jima, to re member. The figure stood at 15,- 425.000 in 1954. The VA estimates that there will be 8.6 million veterans alive at the turn of the century, not counting those who enter civil life in future years. Of the total, the year 2,000 will see 2,000 World War I, five million World War II and three million Korean conflict veterans still living. The VA put the total of veter ans now at 21,625,000 compared to a peak of 22,735,000 in March 1958, and 20,850,000 in November 1954. Water Conference Scheduled Nov. 22 The state’s progress in large scale water planning will be dis cussed at the Texas A&M 10th annual Water for Texas Confer ence Nov. 22-23. Conducted by the A&M Water Resources Institute, the session carries the theme “Creative Thinking and Practical Plan ning.” Banquet speaker Nov. 22 will be Joe Kilgore, former U. S. congressman and now an at torney and chairman of the Tex as Water Development Board Ad visory Panel. He will talk on “Developing a Comprehensive Water Plan.” Another conference speaker will be Joe Moore, executive di rector of the Texas Water De velopment Board in Austin, who will outline “Progress on the Comprehensive Texas Water Plan.” Dr. E. T. Smerdon, director of the Water Resources Institute, said 150 persons are expected for the meetings in the Memorial Student Center. An early regis tration will be held Nov. 21. Activities begin with a wel come address by Dr. John C. Calhoun, A&M vice chancellor for programs. Troops Think American Buildup Points To Viet Nam Victory EDITOR’S NOTE: How do the men fighting in Viet Nam feel about the war? This is a report from Army men in the field and He fourth in a series of articles feigned to acquaint students *ith issues to be discussed at the ifeenth Student Conference on National Affairs Dec. 8-11. An- ather will appear soon. By EDWIN Q. WHITE SAIGON, South Viet Nam (A*) - American military men and machines have changed the face vast areas of Viet Nam. How fep and lasting the change will ^remains a question. Since March, tens of thousands aJU. S. fighting men have pour- id in. Giant convoys move men Hd equipment. Bulldozers cut 4rough red sandy soil. Tent cities spring up almost overnight. “You want to know what it all means?” asked a U. S. Army major, sweltering in the heat of his tent at An Khe. “Well, I’ll tell you. It means we’re here to stay and nobody is going to shove us out.” There is wide agreement on this. The situation has reversed from the dark days of January and February when it appeared the Viet Cong might chop up the country, demoralize the Vietna mese army and walk away with the whole show. Then the massive air assaults began, both inside the country and against targets in North Viet Nam. U. S. combat troops be gan landing to push the total toward 150,000 U. S. military personnel in the country. Thou sands more are expected. The feeling now is that the first objective of this massive military buildup has been met: The Viet Cong has been denied the military victory that seemed within his grasp. Despite the great blanketing effect the increase of U. S. forces has had, especially in cer tain key coastal areas, there is no smug talk here of easy vic tory among high officials. The Viet Cong showed at the battle of Plei Me in the central highlands that he still is willing and able to fight. This also has been shown in a resurgence of attacks in the Mekong River delta country of the south, an area j SCONA XI | ; In Perspective a that had been relatively quiet and where no U. S. combat troops have been based. “You can call Charlie — slang for Viet Cong — almost anything you want,” said a field-grade officer in the delta town of Can Tho, “but you should never make the mistake of calling him stupid. That he is not. “If he can help it, he’s not going to tangle with any big American units with all their air and fire power, but he’s going to keep picking at them and he’s going to keep taking on the Viet namese army when the odds are right. Just look over there and you’ll see what I mean.” He pointed to the bodies of almost 50 Vietnamese soldiers who had been slain in a bitter delta clash. If, as many persons think, the Viet Cong now decides to go back to strictly guerrilla war fare of hit-and-run attacks by small groups, it is conceded that the war could drag on and on. The Communist guerrillas could tie down huge number of com bat troops who would spend their time seeking an enemy who has shown he can melt into the countryside with ease. Some do not share these fears. A U. S. paratrooper ser geant who has seen combat in three wars put it this way: “We’re learning how to deal with these little guys and we can go out and find them now and get them.” Many persons here, however, agree with a high-ranking Amer ican officer who says, “What we have done here is bought the time. Now it’s up to the Viet namese government, the Vietna mese military and the Vietna mese people to take advantage of it and do something about it.” The present emphasis on the military buildup and military operations almost is overwhelm ing. Even so, there is a wide spread feeling that the only real solution still must be found in a viable political, civil structure that will make the people shun the Viet Cong and turn to the government. Many who think along these lines feel that not nearly enough is being done to ward getting such a policy in motion. A civilian official who has been around a long time observes: “You can bring in troops, they can take the land and they can hold it as long as they are there. But if they move out, the Viet Cong is still capable of moving right in behind them. That’s what has to be changed before you get your answer. “We’ve got an awful lot of big boys here now doing a good job of holding their fingers in the holes in the dikes, but we’ve still got a lot of dike.”