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. i we pa» ed well in Ags hit' it for tij k 43,51] Volume 61 Cbc Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1965 Number 248 aids will t at nira i with sii digit raes et, nine; ! Matson, ward to (d Meni' the pen rers. Hi ipartment ir skill it » Mexici the Fisk i the van ngle witi nior W over the credit, lief Tl 26' r50 I in :ter. no." .8 ;of ;es; sts, md I >y- ng 3*, e! 7* k '1 I | | i Merry Christmas ‘Twas the nig-ht before holidays and through Aggieland, All the Aggies were stirring — Corps, civilians and band. The bags were all packed and cars homeward bound, In hopes that girl friends, good food and home would be found. The Aggies made merry and stayed out of the rack, With visions of Christmas and presents to pack. The cars were all packed with riders along. The Ags had the spirit with friendships and song. When out in the quad there arose such a clatter, They all formed up to see what was the matter. When all to their wondering eyes did appear, A maroon and white sleigh and eight tiny reindeer! A Santa Clause Ag with spirit for all, In the sleigh did arrive — strong, handsome and tall. Hey reindeer, and mascots and Aggies and sleigh, Hey Santa and spirit, are you here to stay? Said Santa to them, everyone and all, “I came down from the heavens on a very urgent call.” I’ve known of your spirit that can’t be beat, So I just had to see it from a “quadrangle” seat. If Christmas still means lots of happiness, You deserve it all and never any less! So off in the sky he then did go, Wishing Merry Christmas to the Aggies below. Because they are all the best any place, They got the first look at Santa Clause’ face. And the next day, when the campus they depart, I’ll wish them “Merry Chritmas” from the very start. May God always bless them and guide them all home, Whether north, south, east or west they do roam! The Merriest Christmas to each and everyone of you! Sincerely, Cheri Holland CHERI HOLLAND .. Aggie Sweetheart Aggie Players Tour Area With Christmas Production New Parking Rules Slated For Spring THIS IS WHAT CAUSED IT . . . crowded parking lots will force freshmen to park in South lots. District Judge Barron Says Society Needs Educated Men By LANI PRESSWOOD Battalion Amusements Editor For the second straight year, the Aggie Players are getting into the Christmas spirit by pre senting a gift to the local com munity. The gift is a presentation of “The Other Wise Man,” a one- act play in four scenes. "The Other Wise Man” has played five different locations this year and two more are sched uled. No admission is charged for the play because it is being per formed as a public service. Allen Academy was the site of the play’s opening December 5, with a crowd of several hundred on hand. A runoff election Thursday will determine freshman class president, vice president, secre tary-treasurer and social secre tary officers, announced Election Commission Chairman Harris Pappas. The runoff procedure will be the same as in the initial elec tion, with voting machines locat ed in the basement of the Mem orial Student Center and identi fication cards required. The polls will be open from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Contending for the class presi dency are Leroy W. Edwards and John Focke III. Edwards was the top vote-getter in last week’s election with 187 votes to Focke’s 97. The two finalists in the vice president race are Richard L. Goode and Harvey Lee Cooper. Goode edged Cooper by a narrow two-vote margin last Thursday. Vying for secretary-treasurer are Steven Lee Bourn and Doug las M. Scott. The vote was 136 to 113 in Bourn’s favor in last Week’s balloting. Gaining the runoff in the so cial secretary contest were Gary Pan Am Oil Official To Speak Tomorrow T. M. Geffen, research section supervisor for oil recovery of Pan American Petroleum Corp., Will present an illustrated lecture at 4 p. m. Thursday in the Archi tecture Building auditorium. He will also visit Department of Pe troleum Engineering. Another large crowd turned out at the First Baptist Church in Bryan two nights later. The play was next taken to a pair of College Station churches, St. Thomas Episcopal and the A&M Presbyterian Church. The troupe took the play to Caldwell Tuesday night and will close out with a pair of nearby performances, one at St. Mary’s Student Center (Catholic) and the other at the University Lu theran Church. The Players not only give in presenting this Christmas play, they also receive. What they re ceive is the valuable experience of appearing on a different stage before a different type of audi- R. Mayes with 112 votes, and Richard K. Newman with 125. Last week’s election which boasted a record 110 candidates decided the offices of Election Commission and Student Senate representatives. WASHINGTON (A>) — Rep. Olin E. Teague, the father of the GI Bill of Rights for Korean War veterans, predicted today early approval of a new bill which would grant similar benefits to American fighting men in Viet Nam. Teague, a Texas Democrat who heads the House Veterans’ Af fairs Committee, said in a tele phone interview from Waxa- hachie, Tex., he expected Con gress to pass by the end of Feb ruary a bill extending education and home-buying benefits to vet erans of more than 180 days’ active duty since 1955. Such a bill already has been approved by the Senate. He said he hopes the Johnson administration will retreat from its opposition to the measure when his committee resumes hearings next month on the measure.” ence each night. Some stages thus far have been fairly wide. They have re quired long entrances and the mounting of steps before reach ing the actual playing area. Oth ers have been much smaller and entrance to the playing area has been through doors located at the stage’s edge. Aggies Receive Gratitude For Ranger Tribute We wish to thank all of you wonderful Aggies who were so good to Ranger the past few years. He made his home with you far more than he did with us, and we think he was his happiest when he was a part of your activities. The many tributes you have paid him, especially the final tribute at the time of his death and burial, will be remembered gratefully by all of us. “There is reason to believe they have changed their views,” Teague added, noting that con ferences have been under way in Washington to ease administra tion objections. “We want to try to pass something they can live with,” he said. Explaining why the adminis tration opposes the bill, Teague said: “Money is the whole thing.” He estimated the bill would cost several hundred million dollars in the first year. Like the previous bills which helped millions of World War II veterans go to college and buy homes, the new bill would pay college or vocational school ex penses and guarantee loans for purchase of homes, farms and farm equipment for veterans with more than 180 days’ active service since Jan. 31, 1955, when the Korean GI bill expired. Maximum education payments All Fish Drivers Affected By MIKE WHITE Battalion. Staff Writer Starting next semester freshmen will be required to park their cars in either of two parking lots on the south side of the campus. These are known to the students as the Navasota and Hempstead park ing lots. “Students who do not have 30 academic hours will be required to park in these lots,” explained Ed E. Powell, Chief of Campus Security, Tuesday. “This does not, however, affect the day stu dent freshmen.” There are 7,782 cars registered for parking on campus and only 6,495 places to park. “The freshmen will be issued new parking permits for their cars. This includes both Corps and civilian freshmen students,” said James P. Hannigan, Dean of Students. The Corps freshmen have been taken care of by their upper classmen and this helps eliminate some of the freshmen problem but it does not completely solve it, Hannigan added. This still leaves the civilian freshmen. The new type parking sticker for the freshmen will be some what the same as the regular sticker with several changes. It will have the word “permit” on it and the numbers will be be tween 1 and 1,000. They will be square as are regular stickers. The parking lot across the street from Sbisa Dining Hall will be for day students and customers of the dining hall only. This lot is still under construc tion and should be completed soon. There are plans in the making to enlarge several of the parking lots and surface of several more in hopes of relieving the parking situation as it now stands. There are plans to enlarge the Hempstead parking lot from the present position to Throckmorton Street. There are also plans of using head-in parking along Lub bock street. The parking lot at the comer of Spence and Farm Road 60 can now be used by day students. A conference concerning the parking situation and the park ing lots will be held December 22. In this conference all aspects of the parking problem will be covered and parking surfacing will also be discussed, Hannigan noted. would be $160 a month for a vet eran with two or more depend ents for up to 36 months. Maxi mum guarantees of home pur chase loans would be $7,500 for commercial loans and $15,000 for direct government loans where private financing is not available. The Senate bill, sponsored by Teague’s fellow Texas Demo crat, Sen. Ralph W. Yarborough, sets a July 1, 1967, cutoff for eligible servicemen. But Teague said this date represents an ef fort to hold down the cost of the bill. “I want a bill that would last from now on,” he said. The Ko rean GI bill, which he sponsored, extended to the 1955 expiration date the benefits originally granted after World War II. Teague said he expected the final version of the bill to be similar to the Senate and Ko rean GI bills. “A formal education is not alone the criteria for an educated man,” said District Judge John M. Barron of Bryan. Barron, who spoke at the YMCA’s last program of “The Educated Man Series,” told the group that to be an educated man, “balance”—controlling your temper, being a good sport and not criticizing constantly—comes into the picture. He said that a person must carry out these qualities and make his knowledge useful. The judge said that he has the opportunity from the legal stand point to see whether a lawyer in his profession is educated. “An educated man has got to respect the court. “To do justice wheth er his client is to win or not is the central theme.” He remarked that after stu dying the basic pre-law courses, the first quality to gain is the desire to succeed. “The burning desire to be a good lawyer—a professional man—is the main criteria in becoming a success,” he said. Barron explained people who are vitally interested must con tinue to be an eager “student” the rest of their lives. He told the group that because law changes he has to read books all of the time to keep up on the “fine points.” “All lawyers are biased,” Bar ron claimed. He said they must be if they are taking a side in NAMED SWEETHEART Anne Ballinger, of College Station, was recently named sweetheart of the Sociology Club. The sweetheart sings with the Wayfarers, folks singing group. a dispute. But, he also explained that they must keep an open mind while handling a case. “A lawyer has to be a ham actor at times,” the speaker add ed. “It’s human nature for peo ple to admire a man who puts on an act.” Barron added the public is gul lible to it and the papers and the juries like it. The judge pointed out a per son needs to be himself and know himself and must constant ly be striving to overcome his weaknesses. He must believe in God and the values of man and never forget it. By not keeping our spiritual values working, there has been a loss of respect Lonnie Zweiner, assistant state Attorney General called the new Criminal Code “revolutionary and totally different” and explained its implications on Texas juris prudence to members of Sigma Delta Chi Tuesday night. Important clauses of the new code deal with “due process” which have expanded the older concepts, he pointed out. It now includes new interpretations of illegal seizure, right of counsel and illegal search. Methods of obtaining and employing confes sions have been revised. “The source of all these changes,” Zweiner said, “has been the federal courts.” The Supreme Court placed the restraint of “probable cause” upon the search and seizure procedures. The grounds for granting search war rants now rest upon the proof of evident and implicit reason. Another Supreme Court case, Gideon v Wainright, expanded the right of counsel to include felony cases, where the only pre vious requirement had been capi tal cases. However, Zweiner said, Texas already had this provision. The section of the new Code that directly affects the press is 2.30b, which states; “it is the duty of trial court attorneys for the state and for the defense to so conduct themselves as to give the defendant a fair trial and act in accordance with a free press.” Zweiner noted this provision would place court officers in a dilemna when a conflict of re sponsibilities to protect the de fer the oath, he said. “It has become a group of empty words,” he commented. Barron told the audience an educated lawyer should possess ability to take criticism, be graciousness with legislation in making justice work; he must be self-confidence and self-re spective, trained emotions and respect for his fellow man be fore the law without discrimina tion. “Our nation is as strong today as our educated men are,” Bar ron remarked. He continued that the big conflict today between the free world and the Commu nists is the struggle for “the mind of man.” fendant’s civil rights and to in form the press arose. He characterized the Supreme Court as being “in a schizo phrenic position regarding the press” because of the conflict be tween press freedom and the in dividual’s right to a fair and im partial trial. “The Court,” he continued, “has not really come out with a guide line decision with cases concern ing pretrial or trial publicity.” The trend in the area of pre trial publicity is from a proof of actual harm to a standard of “inherent harm” that presupposes influence from press coverage. Zweiner warned of the possi bility of legislation to regulate the press in court cases because the present devices of injunction and comtempt have not proved effective in some cases. The new Criminal Code will go into effect Jan. 1, but its pro cedural changes have already manifested themselves, he said. Sbisa Cafeteria To Close Friday The commercial cafeteria at Sbisa Dining Hall will close at noon Friday for the holidays, announced Col. Fred Dollar, head of the Food Service Department. Dollar said the cafeteria will reopen for breakfast on Jan. 3. Memorial Student Center food service facilities will close at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 22 and reopen at 7 a.m. Jan. 2. \ Freshmen Class Runoff Set In MSC Thursday The Rudder Family Teague Sees Passage Of Viet Nam GI Bill i\ew Criminal Code Called Revolutionary By Zweiner