News Analysis
Communists
Still Strong
In America
Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1965
Number 234
Student Senate Discusses
Political Clubs Thursday
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Resolution To Ask
Change In Policy
The long-simmering feud over political clubs at Texas
A&M erupts into the open Thursday when the Student
Senate will consider a resolution urging that political clubs
be allowed to operate on campus.
The resolution, to be submitted by Craig Buck, will ask
the Board of Directors to permit clubs to meet on campus,
recruit members and solicit funds from members of the
student body.
Buck will moderate a discussion reviewing both sides
of the controversial issue.
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■ ARCHITECT STUDENTS PLAN URBAN RENEWAL
Texas A&M’s third-year architect student
constructed, as a term project, a model to
be used by the Plano Central Business Devel
opment for urban renewal. The Plano group
awarded the School of Architecture $1,000
to work on a plan for their city. Pictured
around the model are, left to right. Bob
Brill, Don Rapp, Don Teddlie, C. J. Prashaw,
Plano businessman, Elmo Drume, Plano city
manager, Dennis Walo, Romeo Garcia, Craig
Noonan and Chartier Newton, group advisor.
Kennedy Stoned
By Chile Students
California Dress Designers
Create More Skin Fashions
CONCEPCION, Chile WP) —
Angry leftist students spat on
U. S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy,
D-N.Y., and threw eggs, rocks
and money at him when he vis
ited the University of Chile
Tuesday. He had been warned
by student leaders to stay away.
Although the senator appar
ently was not hit by the eggs or
stones, spittle fell on his fore
head and clothes.
Later, this group remained in
front of the gym and when the
leftist students approached they
clashed with stones and clubs.
Kennedy had been warned not
to go to the university but after
consulting with his advisers he
decided to go.
During the afternoon the sen
ator met informally with the uni
versity student leaders.
off-campus political activ
ities will support the resolu
tion, while Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan will ex
plain the administration’s policy.
The question of political clubs
on campus was initiated by the
Issues Committee of the Senate
last week.
“Certain members of the com
mittee felt it was time to end the
administration’s double standard,”
said Mike Reynolds, chairman of
the committee.
The political club issue has lain
dormant since last fall, when the
nonpartisan Committee for Politi
cal Rights on Campus staged a
demonstration in front of the
Academic Building protesting
the administration's policy in
banning clubs on campus.
The committee asked for the
right “to publicly support with
out fear of incrimination from
the administration . . . political
candidates, political clubs or any
other controversial issues which
affect the nation, state or student
body.”
Political clubs are barred from
campus under interpretation of
House Bill 86, Article 5, Section
2, which was passed by the 58th
State Legislature.
That section states “none of the
money appropriated by . . . this
act, regardless of their source or
character, shall be used for in
fluencing the outcome of any
election or the passage or defeat
of any legislative measure.”
Administrative order 3 of the
A&M University System says
that “no property under the con
trol of the Texas A&M System
will be used for political cam
paigns, meetings, speeches or in
the furtherance of any political
campaign nor used in any way
for any political office.”
Fallout Plays
To Open
Friday Night
“Forgive Me My Trespasses”
and “A Good Woman” open Fall
out Theater Productions at Tex
as A&M at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
The one-act plays go on stage
in the basement of Guion Hall.
Classified as a fallout shelter, the
basement was converted for “lab”
productions by the Aggie Play
ers. Fallout productions fulfill
a requirement for students tak
ing C. K. Esten’s “techniques of
directing” theater arts course.
“Forgive Me My Trespasses”
is written and directed by Hol-
lynn Fuller, sophomore English
major from El Paso. The cast
includes Jim Pye as Jim Winters,
Jan Gannaway as Mollie Simp
son Winters, the young man's
wife, and Jim Baldauf as Old
Peters. Bob Spivey will manage
the stage.
“A Good Woman,” by Arnold
Bennett, is directed by Roger
Williams. He studies education
and is a junior from Alexandria,
Va. Frances Flynn will depict
Rosamund, Bob Hipp plays
James and John Gray is cast as
Gerald. Lighting for both plays
is under Cynthia Smith’s super
vision.
The third play originally
scheduled Friday, “The Juror,”
was cancelled. The program will
include a musical interlude, the
performing group to be an
nounced.
Fallout Theater admission is
50 cents per person.
Flying Cowman Duffy Duller
Instructs Future Aggie Pilots
By JAMES MARLOW
AP News Analyst
WASHINGTON <^ > )—It’s more
than just a wild and woolly time.
It’s a hodge-podge, left and right.
“Real squares. Old ladies up
in the Bronx.”
That’s what some young radi
cals today call members of the
American Communist party. The
weekly newspaper, the National
Observer, which quoted them,
said they are equally contempt
uous of liberals and labor unions.
But Monday the party thought
it got a shot in the arm and
talked of running candidates for
office. But George Lincoln Rock
well, commander of the Ameri
can Nazi party, has already said
he will run for president in 1972.
The Ku Klux Klan is in busi
ness. The ultraconservative Min-
utemen talk of their secret “un
derground army.”
Robert Welch, founder of the
right-wing John Birch Society,
says of the United States: “It’s
‘one vast insane asylum’ where
'they’ve let out the worst pa
tients to run the place’.”
The Communist party has
splinter groups. Even the Re
publican party has splinters.
But long after thousands of
today’s young radicals sag into
middle age, raising families and
buying homes between trips to
the bank, the Communist party
will probably be still here.
At least it has an ideology, al
though it changes with the wind,
while many and probably most of
Company G-l Wins
At Houston Parade
Company G-l placed first in
the Houston Corps Trip parade
with 910 points. In second place
was Company C-l with 893
points followed by Squadron 1
with 892 points.
Companies E-l and A-2 held
4th and 5th places with 888 and
886 points respectively.
The Aggie Band still leads the
marching competition with 4,324
points. Company C-2 and Squad
ron 12 are still in second and
third places with 4,267 and 4,425
points respectively. Company G-l
replaced Company F-2 in fourth
place having compiled 4,240
points.
The band now has a 57-point
lead over Company C-2. Its lead
last week was only 49 points
even though it placed higher in
the last weeks march-in than
it did in the Houston parade.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. <A>)_
Plenty of skin will be showing at
the nation’s resorts next year if
California designers have any
thing to say about it.
Midriffs, bare from bust to be
low the navel, peekaboo lace, cut
out sleeves and transparent
blouses worn over bare bosoms
Was the look at the opening of
the California fashion creators’
spring and resort press preview
Tuesday.
The bare midriff firmly estab
lished itself in the Geno of Cali
fornia collection. One short-
cropped top cascaded over the
Computer Confab
In Humanities Set
A conference on computer re
search in the humanities will be
held at Texas A&M Dec. 3, Dr.
Lee Martin of the English de
partment announced.
Seventy-five to 100 persons
from 15 state colleges and uni
versities are expected for the
conference.
“This conference is preparatory
to establishing a program in
computer research in humanities
»t A&M,” Martin said. “The on
ly other similar center in the
L’nited States is at New York
University.”
Speakers for the one-day con
ference at the Ramada Inn will
he Dr. W. A. Sedelow, head of
the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at St. Louis Uni
versity; his wife, Sally Y. Sede-
W, of the English Department;
L. C. Hubbard, branch manager
°f IBM in Dallas, and Phillip
h’ettleton of IBM in Beaumont.
the young radicals have only up
set emotions and incoherence.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
considers the Communist party
a “Moscow-controlled” menace
and part of an international Com
munist conspiracy. He called Gus
Hall, the party’s chief spokes
man, “Moscow-trained.”
It was Hall who Monday, after
a Supreme Court decision, got
the idea that now the party could
run candidates, although its
claimed membership has dropped
from perhaps 100,000 in the
1930s to 10,000 now.
The court held unconstitution
al a provision requiring a party
member to register as such with
the federal government.
This was the reasoning: For
failure to register he could be
prosecuted and jailed. But if he
did register, he could be prose
cuted under another law which
makes it a crime to belong to a
group that advocates overthrow
ing the government.
Thus, if he registered, he
would be risking incriminating
himself under the other law.
The court pointed out that un
der the Constitution’s Fifth
Amendment a man can’t be com
pelled to incriminate himself.
In the 1930s — although the
Communist party’s part in it
was very small — the great do
mestic crusade was to organize
workers into unions. They joined
in the millions.
Earlier this month, in a spe
cial story on the radical left
among the young, the New York
Times, picking out the Students
for a Democratic Society as the
“largest single radical student
group on or around campuses,”
said that the SDS had “pretty
much given up the working class
as lost, having fallen prey to the
union and the Democratic party.”
The Times says SDS claims 3,000
members, with 90 chapters
around the country.
The National Observer, not
limiting itself to student groups,
said the new left places less em
phasis on economic problems,
more on “human freedom,” and
only a few splinter groups try to
“out-Mao Mao Tze-tung.”
Yet, the newspaper went on,
“even a tiny splinter group pos
sesses the capacity for mischief
if it also possesses dynamite.”
Some groups are on a crusade
against poverty and the war in
Viet Nam.
FBI’s Hoover says “the Com
munist party is today expending
tremendous energy attempting to
increase its influence among col
lege students.”
bust line in a loop of fabric cov
ering a nude like bra.
An at-home outfit in polka
dots had no middle and a wrap
around patio skirt that left the
hip bones bare.
New fabrics turned up every
where. Campus casuals took
bathroom toweling, complete with
fringe, and fashioned full-skirted,
empire waist patio dress, bikini
style playsuit with matching
beach jacket and a shift.
Its designers also combined
printed voile tops wtih matching
printed canvas skirts and slacks.
They used old-fashioned cotton
curtain lace for a group of over
blouse dresses and the long
sleeves of a linen shift.
One-piece playsuits turned up
in all collections.
Slacks were either plastered to
the skin and flowing into bell
bottoms or perfectly straight and
somewhat wider than last year’s.
The most seductive clothes
were in the at-home outfits. Alex
Coleman showed wide, flowing,
harem trousers in vibrant prints.
Chemistry Wives Plan
Thanksgiving Dinner
The Chemistry Graduate Stu
dents Wives Club will sponsor a
Thanksgiving Specialty Dinner
at 7 p.m. Friday in the South
Solarium of the YMCA.
Couples are asked to please
bring a large dish. Single stu
dents will be charged 75 cents.
For reservations call Barbara
Russell at 846-7050 or contact
Roger Williams at room 313 of
the Chemistry Building. Reserva
tions must be made by Wednes
day.
A group of about 100 universi
ty students, identified as pro-
Communist, were among thou
sands that attended the meeting.
They sang the national an
thems of Cuba and Chile and
screamed “assassin,” and “Yan
kee, go home” at the senator,
who is on a Latin-American tour.
Kennedy remained calm and
waited 20 minutes for the stu
dents to quiet down. When he
started to speak his voice again
was drowned out.
He asked if some of the stu
dents wished to come forward
and discuss matters with him but
leftists shouted back that Ken
nedy should come toward them.
Kennedy started toward them
and as he approached some tried
to kick him, others spit at him
and still others burned a U. S.
flag in a corner of the gymna
sium where the meeting was
held.
In the few minutes that Ken
nedy tried to speak, he told the
students the United States looks
with sympathy toward the social
and economic reforms being ap
plied in Chile. He also told them
the United States is led by hu
man beings and, because of this,
errors will be made, but the er
rors will not be solved by throw
ing eggs.
Other students tried to quiet
the leftists and some ran to
ward the center of the gym and
challenged the leftists to fight.
As the tense situation con
tinued, Kennedy left the gym,
surounded by aides and news
men who sought to protect him.
Outside the building, some
anti-Communist students ap
proached his wife, Ethel, and told
her, “Senora, please forgive us
for this shameful situation.”
A cowman who has logged
nearly 19,000 hours flying and
holds valid pilot ratings from
China, Saudi Arabia and Laos
instructs in the Texas A&M
ROTC flight program.
Howard L. “Duffy” Buller is
one of four Texas Airmotive in
structors helping fledgling Army
and Air Force pilots get their
first feel of the clouds.
Circling Easterwood Airport
with a neophyte pilot at the con
trols is tame stuff for Buller,
though.
His 18,700 hours airborne in
everything from an Army Air
Corps trainer to the latest jet
job flown by Eastern Air Lines
has let him do it all. The 52-
year-old Bryanite chauffered
King Hussain to Jordan one aft
ernoon and saw the Arab mon
arch, tip the Jordanian black bag
containing $60,000 in gold.
Buller was a flying firefighter
while ranching in Oregon, log
ging time in two-engine trans
ports equipped to dump four
tanks of pancake batter-type ex
tinguisher on forest fires.
Buller, who piloted the first
mail pouch into New York’s La-
Guardia Airport, came to A&M
last summer to study animal
husbandry under Dr. O. D. But
ler, head of the Department of
Animal Science. Buller followed
Butler’s precepts in breeding and
Ag Talent Show
Auditions for the Aggie
Talent Show will continue
Wednesday and Thursday in
Room 119 of G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Shows may be scheduled
in the Student Program Of
fice of the Memorial Student
Center.
The best three acts will re
ceive cash prizes of $25, $15,
and $10 respectively and the
first place winner will repre
sent A&M in the Intercol
legiate Talent Show next
spring.
raising a prize-winning steer on
his Oregon ranch. Buller wanted
to get into theory.
But the 1935 graduate of Stan
ford with a degree in economics
had too much high-octane fuel
for his years. Buller located with
Texas Airmotive as ground, then
flight instructor, sold the ranch
and bought a home in Bryan.
Buller and his wife, Delocia, re
side at 1618 Nall Lane. One son,
Charles 14, is a student at San
Marcos Academy.
The route from Oregon to
A&M was a circuitous one,
though. Flying with Eastern in
1937, Duffy was assigned as co
pilot to Col. Joe Duckworth, com
manding officer of old Bryan
Field when it was the Army in
strument school in Texas.
“Colonel Duckworth was the
grandaddy of all instrument fly
ing,” Buller vouched.
With Eastern and rubbing
flight boards with Capt. Eddie
Rickenbacker, Buller flew the
first ail mail to LaGuardia. The
pouch was designated for an
other plane, but Buller’s DC2 was
loaded and on April 2, 1940, he
made the historic flight.
From Eastern Buller went to
the China National Aviation
Corp. in 1946. Two years later,
he left Shanghai two days be
fore the Communist takeover of
China. Then the Aggie ROTC
instructor ranched, flew produc
tion test planes for Convair in
California, airlifted to Tokyo,
flew a TWA contract in Saudi
Arabia and then in Laos.
Buller’s mother was full-blood
Norwegian, and there’s little
doubt he inherited the Viking
wanderlust. Currently, his ship
is in port at Texas A&M.
PRE-FLIGHT CHECK
Howard L. (Duffy) Buller and Texas A&M senior flight
student Jack Bratton of Fort Worth check the engine of a
Cessna 172 preparatory to a lesson in the air. Buller, vet
eran air transport pilot with 18,700 flying hours, is an in
structor in the ROTC flight program at A&M. Bratton is
the commanding officer of Squadron 10.