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Fish Richard Wilson gets a four-minute special.
“A fish reg and white sid^ttl
Would you believe the felhpaw
That’s the freshman de- the
where frosh are named for tsr.
Recent hair styles have then
where Cadet Corps militar mak-
the pace. The eight-cha'iy°u’ve
or other local barber sho' - meet
enrollees. r ^ es
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wouldn’t recognize him. ^ e ^ c
removal often require Rut-
Fish rarely voice the
to the floor in four to ei^ over _
Aggies were military-min<y ear of
no thought to the close-; an j ma ]
barbers’ mirror. Fish 3 j s no t
realize the price must b^
the MSC shop. 3 snakes
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say anything about it,” m e some
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tually because their kitchen wares
get them out of the kitchen so
fast, white tornados, and the
housewife getting the right wash
everytime from way up there.
Couldn’t the housewife guess
wrong or couldn’t the roach knock
off Raid just once,
There are a few commercials I
like and even some I look forward
to. My favorite would have to be
the Dodge Charger ad, or more
specifically the Dodge Charger
girl. Why she has fan clubs all
over America. I usually prefer
brunettes, but her careless ways
have won a special part of my
heart and I will always love a
bumbling girl.
Now you may disagree with
my favorite ads and my favorite
peeves. Please don’t write in and
tell me about it. I’m only human.
I have six people on the Batt staff
that have already told me that
the White Knight is great. Ha!!
Now that I’m back at college
and have given my blood-shot
eyes a chance to rest I believe I
will just stick to fall-out plays
and drive-in movies. Last night
when I went to the fall-out thea
ter to see Bob Spivey’s produc
tion, he didn’t make me suffer
through one commercial. That’s
the life.
y is especially
Hierth To A-ttciid , 0 were } n the
Linguistics Meet de is better,”
Dr. Harrison E. Hierth, E
lish professor, will participaL'ugh the “peel-
a linguistics conference April fish mop mani-
30 in Washington, D. C.
Seminar sessions are spon ea f^ er > one °f"
by the Center for Applied no attention after
guistics for language spec
from U. S. universities an^ e en j°ys zipping
leges, the Office of Edu * n £-
and the Ford Foundation. Houston frosh
tt. , . -vt i. , meet his parents
Hierth teaches in National
fense Education Act sun , . , , ,
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institutes at A&M. ,
ber Eddie Camp-
Conference topic is “The 1 aircut for dark _
guage Component in the Trai
of English and Reading T< l( j
ers: Views and Problems.’
Northwestern Pr
long Corps upper-
le type cut which
can be combed, but still order “not quite white side-
walls” or almost shaved temples with it.
Crewcuts, flattops and burrs were in vogue at one
time, Schoppe recalled, with about 90 per cent of business
in the close-cut variety. Only one in 10 ask for haircuts
combed with a wet washrag now.
“One is just as easy as another for a good barber,”
he says.
Local barbers are more exposed to the close clip,
though. One small town barber, criticized for a crooked
flattop, brought a “whisky glass” to work. Next time,
he finished the trim, whirled the complainant to face
the mirror, applied the carpenter’s level and declared:
“There, argue with the glass.”
“Beatle” and surfer style haircuts rarely show up in
the MSC chairs, as if wearers are ashamed to appear.
A fender-wearing, long-haired youth was caped for
the works. After snipping a few stray hairs around his
ears, the barber looked at the twisted and piled top.
“You don’t want any off the top do you?” he asked.
“No, sir.”
“I’m sure glad. I don’t think I could comb it back
the way you have it,” he replied.
To Speak Monda
Dr. L. Carroll King, prc
of chemistry at h
University, will speak Moi
the Texas A&M-Baylor C
of the American Chemic.j
ciety.
King’s talk, “Molecular
tecture,” is set for 7:45
room 231 of the Chemistry t
ing, announced J. B. BeckhPRIL 15, 1966
chapter secretary.
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Houston Attorney To Speak
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Ross Volunteers Ho"
Banquet, Ball Saturday
Houston attorney Mayo J.
Thompson, a 1941 A&M gradu
ate, will speak for the annual
Ross Volunteer Company Ban
quet and Ball Saturday night, In
formation Sergeant Dick Dar-
mon announced.
The banquet in the Bryan Holi
day Inn begins at 7 p.m., fol
lowed by the ball at 9:30 p.m.
The RV firing squad for 1966-67
will be announced at the formal
ball.
Thompson is a practicing mari
time lawyer, operating in federal
courts in Houston, New Orleans
and San Antonio. He has served
for two years as chairman of the
Development Fund Projects Com
mittee of the Association of
Former students.
A colonel in the Army Reserve,
Thompson is married and has two
children.
While at A&M, he served as
cadet captain holding the posi
tion of personnel officer on the
Coast Artillery Regimental Staff.
He was originally from Fort
Worth and majored in liberal
arts.
Thompson was a member of
the championship A&M debate
team and earned letters in 1938,
1939, 1940 and 1941. He won
the P. L. Downs Award in 1939
and the Battle of Flowers Ora
tory Award from 1938-41.
He had an active college career,
serving as president of the Pre-
Law Club, a member of the Ross
Volunteers and he won the Best
Drilled Medal as a sophomore.
Thompson also served as pres-
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ident of the Debate Club and the
Round Table Club, secretary of
the Fort Worth Home Town
Club and intramural manager for
his unit—G Battery, Coast Artil
lery.
In addition, he directed narra
tion for the-old Aggietone News
that presented headline news
events on the A&M campus in
motion picture newsreels, Regi
mental productions and also made
showings of A&M’s part in war
time. Films were made of the
Field Artillery, Cavalry, Engi
neer, Coast Artillery, Signal
Corps, and Chemical Warfare
Units.
Thompson served in World War
II and, upon retirement, remained
active in National Guard Affairs.
He was a staff officer on field
artillery brigade headquarters of
the Texas National Guard.
“He is very sentimental about
the RV’s,” said Buck Weirus,
executive secretary of the Asso
ciation of Former Students, “he
is a dedicated and devoted
Aggie.”
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AGGIE GRIDDERS OPEN SPRING DRILLS
A&M quarterbacks and centers practice signals at the Ag-- Coach Gene Stallings and his staff. Weekend workouts
gies opening spring football practice Thursday. Ninety continue today and Saturday. (See story on Page 4.)
candidates, including 24 lettermen, were on hand to greet
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Three one-act plays, including
one in German, are slated to
night for the Fallout Theater.
“The Propose 1,” by Anton
Chekov, starts the program and
features Hollynn Fuller, Lani
Presswood and Don Carter. The
play, directed by Jan Gannaway,
is a comedy about marriage and
has its setting in pre-revolution
ary Russia.
“Anatols Hochzeitsmorgen,”
written by Arthur Schnitzler and
directed by Steve Thurman, will
be presented entirely in German.
The cast includes Steve Thurman,
George Long, Rusty Reber and
Chris Schroeder.
It was recently presented at
the Texas Association of German
Students convention at Texas
Tech. The play concerns a bach
elor and an old girl friend on
his wedding morning.
“Leaves of Absence,” written
and directed by Frances Flynn,
an A&M student, was first per
formed last August in the Fall
out Theater. It was presented
this afternoon to the A&M fac
ulty Wives Club and moves to
night to the Fallout Theater.
Featured in this sophisticated
comedy are Kathie Wolket, Kirk
Stewart, Lynn Potts, Cynthia
Smith, Roger Williams and Kip-
pen Blair.
Curtain time in the Fallout
Theater, located in the rear base
ment of Guion Hall, is 8 p.m.
Admission is fifty cents.
Former A&M Director
Dies; Rites Pending
MEXIA (A 1 ' — Rufus Peeples,
former member of the Texas
A&M board of directors and
prominent area rancher, died at
his home Thursday following an
apparent heart attack.
Peeples was a candidate for
Limestone County judge when he
died.
Survivors include the widow,
two sons, Roddy Peeples of Mid
land and Dr. Gray Peeples of
Sonora, and one daughter, Miss
Charlotte Peeples, a student at
the University of Texas.
Funeral services were pending
Thursday night at Corley Funeral
Home. .
Annual Muster
Will Feature
New A&M Film
Texas Aggies around the world
will muster next Friday to mark
the passing of comrades and to
honor Texans who won independ
ence at San Jacinto.
A special feature of the 64th
muster is the premiere of Texas
A&M’s new color movie “Focus
on the Future.” Twenty-six
prints of the film will be shown
in the United States and overseas.
A year in production, the film
is narrated by news commentator
Paul Harvey and features music
from the motion picture “Giant”
plus the Aggie Band and the
Singing Cadets.
The Aggie Muster began in
1903 when the 300-member Corps
paid homage to Texans who de
feated the Mexican Army in 1836.
Musters have been held since
wherever Aggies find themselves
April 21—on ship, the battlefield,
and even on Corregidor, shortly
before the Japanese captured the
island in World War II. For some
Aggies it was their last muster.
Roll calls this year will be held
in 500 locations: Saigon, Nha
Trang, and Da Nang, Viet Nam;
Thailand; Germany; Italy; Lab
rador; Japan; Mexico; Okinawa;
Pakistan; Peru; Puerto Rico;
Scotland; Venezuela; England;
Costa Rica; Bolivia, and 480 Tex
as towns and cities.
The ceremony is the same in
every location. Aggies pay their
respects to those who are absent.
When the names of the honored
dead are called from muster rolls,
someone in the crowd, usually a
friend of the deceased, answers
“here.”
The program ends with a poem:
“Softly call the muster,
Let comrade answer ‘Here’.
Mark them present in our
hearts,
We’ll meet some other day.”
4 Tessies Speak Monday
At YMCA Manners Forum
Four Tessies will come to A&M Tuesday to give Aggies
tips on dating etiquette.
Speaking at the YMCA at 7:30 p.m., senior Nanette
Gabriel, junior Johanna Leister and sophomore Linda Mason
will comprise the first panel.
They will discuss:
1. The ABC’s of letter writing with a 3-D effect (blind
dates, thank-you notes and asking for a date)
2. Flowers — when and when not necessary, housing and
transportation
3. Introduction: Small talk and tactful conversation
4. Dances: How to ask for a dance, when it is proper
to “cut in” and what to do when the dance is over (Walk her
to her seat, talk to her and hope a buddy comes along or
leave her standing.)
5. Telephone manners: Asking for a date, confirming a
date, calling to say “I will be late” and guessing games like
“Guess who this is?”
Tessies will return for two more panels April 26 and
May 3.
Linguist To Join
Faculty Next Fall
Linguistics specialist Dr. Gar
land Cannon will join the Texas
A&M faculty Sept. 1, coming to
the Department of English from
Queens College of New York City
University.
Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, Col
lege of Arts dean, announced the
appointment.
Cannon specializes in history
and structure of the English lan
guage for future high school and
college teachers. Research ori
ented, he is preparing a two-vol-
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AGGIE PLAYERS REHEARSE “COURAGE BROTHER”
Aggie Players began putting finishing nights. The Players will present three one-
touches Thursday night on a four-act drama act plays tonight in the Fallout Theater at
scheduled next Wednesday and Friday the rear of Guion Hall.
First Bank & Trust now pays
4%% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
DR. GARLAND CANNON
ume edition of Sir William Jones’
letters for the Clarendon Press.
The native Texan acquired
bachelor and doctoral degrees at
the University of Texas. His
masters from Stanford Universi
ty included 18th Century studies,
continued in doctoral work with
linguistics.
The 41-year-old Texan from
Sterling City, has traveled in
Asia and Europe during five
years of the last decade for field
research in Thai, Spanish and
Persian.
The educator has a varied
teaching background, listing posi
tions at Texas, Stanford, Hawaii,
Michigan, Florida, Puerto Rico
and California universities, the
American University Language
Center at Bangkok, Columbia
University Teachers College and
Illinois Teachers Colleges.
The Directory of American
Scholars, Who’s Who in the East
and Who’s Who in Education list
Cannon, who has published 31 pa
pers and books, contributing
heavily to organizations such as
the Conference on College Com
position and Communication.
The American Philosophical
Society underwrote a research
and travel grant to England for
Cannon two years ago.
Baylor Prexy
Named Head
Of Foundation
ARLINGTON UP)—Dr. Abner
McCall, president of Baylor Uni
versity, Thursday was elected
chairman of the board of the 23-
member Texas Foundation of
Voluntarily Supported Colleges
and Universities.
The foundation is composed of
the 23 senior church-related col
leges in the state and the presi
dents of the institutions make
up the board of directors of the
organization.
Since its foundation 11 years
ago, it has received grants from
corporations totaling $3,434,000.
The money is distributed to
member colleges on a formula
basis.
Other officers are Dr. Joseph
R. Griggs of Dallas, president;
Father John Murphey, president
of University of St. Thomas at
Houston, vice chairman; and Dr.
Don Morris, president of Abilene
Christian College, secretary.
Members of the executive com
mittee are Dr. Martin Cole of
Texas Lutheran College; Dr. John
Moseley of Austin College; Dr.
Law Sone of Texas Wesleyan
College; Dr. James M. Moudy of
Texas Christian University; and
Dr. Donald A. Cowan of Uni
versity of Dallas.
Mother Of Year
CompetitionOpens
Dick Franklin, chairman of the
Student Senate’s Student Life
Committee, has announced the
1966 Aggie Mother of the Year
competition.
The winner of the annual con
test will be recognized May 8,
during Parents Day Ceremonies
in Kyle Field.
Franklin said students will
have until April 27, to submit
applications for their mothers.
Entries are to consist of pictures
and nominating letters, and are
to be turned in to the Student
Life Committee, in care of the
Student Programs Office in the
Memorial Student Center.
Last year Mrs. William T.
Ward of Austin was named
Mother of the Year. Her sons,
Bill Ward ’66, Tom War ’68, and
Sanny Ward ’68, are A&M stu
dents.