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MOTHER OF THE YEAR . . . Mrs. Overton receives roses. Company A-l Selected \ Outstanding Corps Unit| Company A-l received both the General Moore trophy and the Academic Achievement Award Sunday in the annual Parents Day awards pres entation. The unit, commanded by Cadet Maj. Jerry Lynn Lummus, was awarded a flag-, plaque, citation cords, and gold keys for cadet officers, all in recognition of its top ranking in all-around proficiency. It also receinved citations cords for academic of 1.495. The General Moore Award, named for former A&M Commandant Gen. George F. Moore, has been presented each year since 1946 to the out standing company-sized unit on the basis of grades, marching, intramurals, extracurricular par ticipation and retention of freshmen. Company G-l, commanded by Cadet Maj. Curtis Wayne Terrell, was presented a flag and plaque by Brigadier General Spencer J. Buchanan, USAR, Retired. The award annually recognizes the best company-sized unit of engineering students. Another top award, citation cords from the Houston Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee, was presented to the Combined Band as the best-drilled unit. Mrs. Gene Overton of Haskell, Aggie Mother of the Year, was honored during ceremonies in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Mrs. Overton, whose son Mike is a senior on First Battalion Staff, was selected last week by the Student Life Com mittee of the Student Senate. Leonard D. Holder, First Brigade commander, received the Albert Sidney Johnston saber, pre sented each year to the outstanding Brigade or Air Division Commander by the Texas Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. The N. S. Meyer-Raeburn Foundation Award, a saber, went to Second Wing Commander Frank Watson, chosen the outstanding Battalion or Wing commander for the year. Cadet Maj. Lloyd Leon Chester, commander of Company H-2, received a cup and medal pre sented annually to the outstanding company com mander by Capt. John H. Fritz. Eddie Joe Davis, first segeant of C-l, was recognized as the outstanding noncommissioned officer in the Corps, and received the Caldwell Trophy, a watch from Caldwell’s Jewelry Store in Bryan. William R. Howell Jr., a freshman in the White Band-Air Force ROTC, was named the outstand ing freshman in the Cadet Corps. His award in cludes a medal and a $100 cash scholarship from the N. S. Meyer-Raeburn Foundation. The Second Battalion received the President’s Award, a flag presented annually to the Batta lion or Wing with the highest scholastic standing. ... GENERAL MOORE WINNER Cbe Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1966 Number 311 Corps - Civilian Melee Criticized By Dean Dean of Students James P. Hannigan sharply criticized par ticipants in Monday’s student dis turbance in the north dorm area and called for both Corps and civilian leaders to help prevent a recurrence. An estimated 500 students took part in the outbreak, apparently touched off by an incident early Saturday morning that damaged Editor’s Note: The follow- lowing letter, voluntarily draft ed and signed by all 42 com manders in the Corps of Cadets for 1966-67, was de livered to The Battalion office Monday, a short time before last night’s disturbance in the north dorm area. The incident refers to a water fight between Corps and civilian students last month. Editor, The Battalion: It is the voiced opinion of many civilian students that cadet com manders have given their approv al, secret or otherwise, to the destructive activities that have arisen from the Corps-civilian watertight. This is definitely not true! Cadet leaders are disgusted with Corps members that have taken the water splashing beyond limits of Aggie “good bull.” However, various members of the Corps are not the only guilty culprits. Watertight incidents in the Sbisa area this year have been provoked by both civilian and cadet AGGIES. As the cliche goes, “there are a few rotten apples in every lot.” two civilian dormitories. “I’ve seen kindergarten kids behave better than some of those tonight,” Hannigan said late Monday. “It was awfully childish and it certainly doesn’t improve the Aggie spirit.” Before order was finally re stored about 8 p.m. Bryan and College Station police as well as Campus Security and various ad- ★ This can easily be applied to all individuals guilty of damaging pranks in this so-called Corps- civilian feud. Commanders of cadet units are doing everything possible to cur tail any such future activity by students under their command. It is the expressed desire of the undersigned that civilian dorm leaders do likewise. According to present housing plans, next year’s Corps-civilian members in the Sbisa dorm area will be about the same as those under present conditions. It is our primary desire to have one of the best possible relationships between civilians and cadets. We (all Aggies) are known for our spirit. Let us use this spirit to build the Aggie reputation, not destroy it. Let us control those few individuals that give both the Corps and civilian student body a bad name with their prankish actions. We would also request that the class of 1966 continue in their role as leaders and assist the class of 1967 in an attempt to maintain and restore order among the student body. Respectfully, 1966-67 Unit Commanders ministration officials had been summoned. Hannigan, Col. D. L. Baker, Commandant of the Corps, and Director of Student Affairs Ben nie Zinn all pleaded with the crowd to disperse but were greet ed with various jeers and obsceni ties. The incident broke out about 6:30 p.m. Monday when Corps units assembled to observe re treat formation. Witnesses re ported that civilian students be gan throwing eggs at members of the Corps while the flag was being lowered. After the evening meal one fistfight reportedly broke out be tween a civilian and Corps stu dent, and several hundred stu dents assembled in the dorm quadrangle. Corps students were pelted with rotten eggs, fruit and water. The newly-appointed Corps Com mander, Eddie Joe Davis, was doused with water when he ap proached civilians to appeal for order. A civilian student attempted to douse Maj. Robert B. Moore, duty officer for the Commandant’s Of fice, but missed the officer. “I’m pleased with the way commanders handled themselves,” Baker said. “If they hadn’t got their units in the dorms it could have been a lot worse.” The civilian outburst was ap parently initiated by civilians in reprisal for water damage in Dorms 20 and 21 early Saturday morning. Unknown culprits cut off all water and electricity in the dorms, removed heads from toilets and then flooded the dorms. First Bank & Trust now pays 4%% per annum on savings cer tificates. •—Adv. ★ ★ Commanders Deplore Strife Aggies Stay Alive, Drop Texas, 9-5 Showdown Battle May Decide Title In the seventh, two Aggie errors, one by Hillhouse, brought in reliever Billy Johnson, who settled Texas on one hit the rest of the way. Johnson came in with two men on and no outs. The first batter to face him sacrificed, but John son fanned the dangerous Gid eon and retired Darrell Johnson on a short fly to center. The Aggies added an insurance run in the seventh on Billy Crain’s solo homer to right. In the ninth, after singles by Thomp son and Cobb and a walk to Koonce, Joe Staples walked to force in the final run. Hillhouse heceived credit for his seventh win of the year while Robert Wells took the loss, even though he alowed but three hits in five innings. By GERALD GARCIA Battalion Sports Editor AUSTIN—For 20 of the last 40 years, including six of the last seven, the final two-game series between Texas and Texas A&M has decided the Southwest Conference base ball title. This year is no exception, and for the first time there are a few niore elements included. The Aggies and Texas tangled here Monday and A&M, having to win to stay alive and keep the Longhorns from winning their 19th title in the last 25 years, trounced Texas, 9-5. Now the stage is set for the important second game of the series, scheduled at 3 p. m. today. But with a strange combination of events, which includes three other games, the race could finish in an unprecedented four-way tie. That multiple deadlock could come about if these things hap pen: —A&M beats Texas today. —TCU beats A&M in their possible (A&M will have to play TCU if they beat Texas today) Saturday makeup game at Fort Worth. —Baylor sweeps Tuesday’s makeup doubleheader at Waco with SMU. Those results would leave A&M, Texas, TCU and Baylor tied for the top with 9-6 records and would snarl the SWC worse than it ever has been snarled. Never has there been more than a two-team tie in the baseball race. In Monday’s game, A&M, be hind the hitting, not the pitching, of Steve Hillhouse, pushed across five runs in the second inning, but Texas nibbled and scratched for single tallies in the second and fourth, sandwiched around a three-run homerun by Joe Gideon in the third to tie the count. Hillhouse, who is considered the “Texas Killer” because of his 5-1 career record against the Longhorns, delivered an opposite field, three-run double to high light the second inning five-run spurt. The Aggies scored what proved to be the winning tally in the fifth on walks to Lou Camilli, Neil Thompson and Lance Cobb and Alan Koonce’s fielder’s choice. A&M added another run in the inning on Richard Schwartz’s sin gle behind second to make the score 7-5. Meanwhile, Hillhouse was hav ing his problems. The lefty had been in constant trouble from the beginning and two disputed plays co^t him four runs. “I scored it A&M 9, Texas 3 and th’ umpires 2!” Former Hungarian Official To Teach During Summer Hungary’s prime minister be fore Communists gained control of his country will teach gradu ate history at Texas A&M the first summer school session. Dr. Ferenc Nagy will instruct “Developments in Central and Eastern Europe Since 1930,” an nounced Dr. J. M. Nance, Depart ment of History and Government head. The three-hour credit course, consisting of lectures and sem inars, will be offered during the first three weeks of summer school. Dr. David R. Woodward, assistant professor of modern European history, will assist. A Gestapo prisoner in 1944, Nagy was a central figure in Hungary’s reconstruction and post-war government until Com munism gained rule. He became an exile and U. S. resident in 1947. He acquired doctor of letters degrees at the University of Cali fornia and Bloomfield College and Seminary and embarked on a DR. FERENC NAGY busy academic life of lectures and publishing. A syndicated Associated Press writer, the 1939 Hungarian Par liament member has authored numerous analytical articles on international Communism in the Saturday Evening Post, Reader’s Digest, Life and Vital Speeches. Three of his books have been published. The only former political leader in exile in the U.S., Nagy is sought for his lectures on Com munism’s status. Southeast Asia crisis, Sino-Soviet Conflict, Com munist countries trade and re ligion behind the Iron Curtain. He was head of a coalition gov ernment in Central-Eastern Eur ope after World War II. He resides in Herndon, Va., with his wife and five children. His offices are in Washington, D. C.