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Back-To-School Edition Che Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1966 Number 336 Aggies Tackle Ramblin’ Wreck In Grid Season Opener Saturday GENE BRIEFS HIS CHARGES Coach Stallings prepares the troops for battle. $600,000 Bond Issue Scheduled Saturday By GERALD GARCIA Battalion Sports Editor ATLANTA — At T e x a s A&M it’s known as the “if” season, instead of the foot ball campaign. This is the way head coach Gene Stallings views the up coming gridiron season and the Aggies’ opener against Georgia Tech at 2 p. m. (EST) Saturday here. “If our sophomores play like juniors, our juniors like seniors and our seniors like they never played before, then . . . “If our quarterback situation improves over last year, then . . . “If our defensive secondary A record 11,000 enrollment is due this fall as Texas A&M con tinues registration today and to morrow, according to associate registrar R. G. Perryman. The largest student body in A&M history is forecast to top the previous high by 14 per cent. Fall, 1965, registration signed 9,511 students. “We don’t know just how many upperclassmen are coming back,” Perryman said,, “but we antici pate somewhere between 10,500 and 11,000 students altogether.” New students checked in and registered yesterday. Registra tion of all other students was to have begun at 1 p.m. today and conclude at 5 p.m. tomorrow. “The freshman registration was just a routine registration with no major problems,” Perryman noted. “They were all supposed to have registered, but you never can tell.” The Cadet Corps organizes Sat- Upperclassmen Receive New Corps Blouses A new lightweight blouse for the Class A Cadet Corps uniform will be issued to Corps juniors and seniors beginning next week. The blouse, identical in color to its predecessor, is tailored after the current dress blouse worn by Army and Air Force personnel. The new garment does not have a belt like the old blouse but instead fits loosely at the waist. Corps Commandant Col. D. L. Baker said the blouse will not be issued freshmen and sophomores until the fall of 1967. All upperclassmen will also be gin be issued a new raincoat to replace both the current rubber and nylon raincoats. The new rainwear was tested by Company E-2 with favorable results last year, Baker noted. Upperclassmen will also re ceive additional shade 1193 short sleeve shirts, with Air Force Ca dets receiving two shirts and Army cadets one. Army cadets received an additional short sleeve shirt last year. Cadets will turn in to the Mili tary Property Custodian all khaki uniforms except one pair of trousers and one short sleeve shirt. Khaki will be eliminated entirely next year. Juniors and seniors will also be issued one pair of lightweight winter pink trousers in exchange for one pair of the older, heavier garment. Upperclassmen will pick up their uniform additions by units, with the schedule being an nounced by the Commandant next week. Freshmen received the new items when they were issued uni forms earlier this week. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings cer tificates. —Adv. plays better football than they played last year, then . . . “If our second teams improve more than they have improved in the past, then . . . ‘If we avoid injuries to key personnel, then . . .” And always after the then, Stallings will say: “We will be a better team than we were last year and we could surprise a lot of folks. We don’t believe what we read about the Aggies being picked to finish in the lower third, of the Southwest Conference. The biggest thing this team has over the one last year is that they want to win and this is one of the most im portant things.” urday and Sunday. Fall semester classes begin at 8 a.m. Monday. The 1966-67 students descend on Sbisa Hall in waves, with those whose surnames begin with C through K arranging classes this afternoon. A’s and B’s sign up from 8-10 a.m. tomorrow; T through Z, 10- ■11:30 a.m.; L through O, 1-3 p.m., and P through S, 3-4 p.m. The last day for enrolling or adding courses is Sept. 24 and the last day for dropping courses Sept. 28. AFTER 16 DAYS of fall work outs, Stallings thinks the Aggies have eliminated some of the un- certainities. The main one be ing that A&M went through nine, two-a-day workouts and seven daily practices without getting any of the first unit members in jured. Besides keeping key personnel healthy, Stallings said the quar terback situation has improved over the previous season. “We have three good quarter backs in Harry Ledbetter, Edd Hargett and Charlie Riggs,” he said. “Harry has a year of ex perience, Edd throws the ball well and Charlie is a good scram bler, but on the other hand Harry is too slow, Edd has had two operations on his knee and Char lie is too small.” The defensive secondary, which has given the Aggie coaching staff much concern this fall, has shown promise during recent prac tices. “I think the boys have improv ed at their positions, but we still have a long way to go,” the Ag gie boss said. OF COURSE THE other “ifs” can’t be measured until the Ag gies play a game, and with pow erful Georgia Tech Saturday the answers could be hard to bear. At Georgia Tech coach Bobby Dodd claims he has the best team in years and has said his start ing backfield of Kim King at quarterback, Lenny Snow at tail back, Craig Baynham at wingback and Doc Harvin at fullback is the best he has had at Tech in 22 seasons. Another thing in the Jacket’s favor is 41 returning lettermen, almost twice as many as the Ag gies list on their roster. The Aggies will leave tomor row by chartered plane and a workout is slated during the afternoon at Grant Field. STALLINGS HAS indicated he will give Ledbetter the starting assignment at quarterback since Ledbetter has a year experience and he was the field general when the Aggies upset the Yellow Jac kets, 14-10, last year. Wendell Housley will be the only Aggie sophomore starting offensively. The only other offensive changes among the first 22 since the end of spring training finds Larry Lee at split end ahead of Tommy Maxwell, Bill Sallee ahead of Bob Long at strong back and Dan Schneider ahead of Ronnie Lindsey at fullback. Defensively, Tuffy Fletcher moved in front of Gary Kitchens at left end and Lawson Howard is still ahead of track sprinter Gilbert Smith at left half. “Some of those starting assign ments might change after the first play,” Stallings explained. “You’ll notice I am going with experienc ed players in most cases, but you can bet a bunch of sophomores will see what it’s like, too.” AGGIES PLAN to start five youngsters on the defensive pla toon. Tackles Rolf Krueger and Harvey Aschenbeck, rover Joe Wood, linebacker Bill Hobbs and safety George Walker have never faced varsity competition. The game will also mark the debut of Maurice (Mo) Moor man, the 6-5, 250 pound junior transfer from the University of Kentucky. Even though he has never played a varsity down, “Mighty Mo,” as he is called by Aggie faithfuls, has already been picked for All-Southwest Confer ence honors. All the A&M play ers claim that Moorman is “all that everybody says he is and maybe more.” Saturday’s second football meeting in history between the Aggies and Yellow Jackets will be carried over the Humble Net work over 17 stations with Jim Wiggins and John Smith at mike- side. Radio KORA will start the pre-game show at 12:45 p.m. (CST). GEORGIA TECH has been made a 10-point favorite, but the Aggies remember last year when they were down by 10 points go ing into the fourth quarter and rallied to upset the Yellow Jac kets. The Aggies know that one game does not make a season, but the Georgia Tech game will answer a lot of questions if . . . ★ ★ ★ STARTING OFFENSIVE LINEUPS Texas A&M Split End—'Larry Lee (184) Weak Side Tackle- Mark Weaver (210) Weak Side Guard— Don Koehn (215) Center—Jim Singleton (196) Strong Side Guard— Gary Kovar (208) Strong Side Tackle— (Maurice Moorman (250) Strong Side End—Ed Breding (217) Quarterback—Harry Ledbetter (195) Weak Side Back— Wendell Housley (200) Strong Side Back—Bill Sallee (185) Fullback—Dan Schneider (198) Georgia Tech Split End—"Mike Fortier (203) Left Tackle—Bill Moorer (227) Left-Guard—Buddy McCoy (208) Center—Jim (Breland (223) Right Guard—Lamar Wright (231) Right Tackle—Jim Penley (219) Tight End'—Steve Almond (201) Quarterback—Kim King (181) Tailback—Lenny Snow (192) Wingback—'Craig Baynham (201) Fullback—Doc Harvin (193) College Station residents vote Saturday on a proposed $600,000 bond issue to help finance a $1,- 085,000 improvement program for the city’s water system. If the issue is approved by the voters, charges for water, sewer and garbage fees will be in creased a total of $1.50 per month. Mayor D. A. Anderson, in a letter mailed to city residents, $300 Award Aimed At Fish Retention A $300 cash award designed to help curb the loss of freshmen from the Corps of Cadets has been authorized by President Earl Rudder. Dean of Students James P. Hannigan announced the grant at the Corps Commanders’ Con ference this week. Hannigan said the unit with the best record of freshman reten tion through the first 12 days of the spring semester will receive $200. The unit with the next best retention record will be awarded $100. Prices Reduced On Date Tickets Reduced price date tickets at $4 for all home football games are now on sale at G. Rollie White Coliseum. The discount tickets must be purchased before 5 p.m. Sept. 23. All tickets bought after that time will cost the regular $5. Date and student tickets for out-of-town games will be sold for one week ending iat 5 p.m. the Wednesday be fore each game. Student ac tivity cards and identifica tion cards will be required when purchasing these tick ets. Ticket booths will be open from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a..m.- noon on Saturdays. The booths will remain open dur ing the noon hour Monday through Friday. explained that the City Council felt an increase in the three serv ices was a more practical method of raising the $600,000 to finance bonds than increasing the current tax rate. As proposed, water charges would be increased by 75 cents per month, garbage fees would be hiked by 50 cents per month and sewage service would cost 25 cents more per month. The mayor claimed the pro posed facilities will serve the city’s water needs until 1990. The funds would be used to install 10 miles of water lines in the city to aid in water distribu tion and fire protection. Also included in the plan is the establishment of a 2 million gal lon ground storage reservoir and a 1 million gallon elevated stor age tank to insure an adequate water supply and pressure at all times. Cost of the improvements would be financed in part by a $484,250 federal grant, with the increase in water, sewer and gar bage service bringing in the re mainder. Polling stations include: Ward 1 — A&M Consolidated School Music Room. (Ward 1 in cludes parts of the city south of Texas A&M and between old and new Highway 6.) Ward 2 — A&M Consolidated Elementary School. (Ward 2 in cludes parts of the city east of Highway 6 and south of Lincoln Avenue.) Ward 3 — City Hall. (Ward 3 is the remainder of the city, in cluding Texas A&M.) FORTUNES OF A FISH As if standing in line forever and fighting for your life in Sbisa Hall is enough of a problem, one hapless freshman, on crutches yet, got them stuck in a manhole cover while waiting his turn to register yesterday. Sympathetic com rades came to his rescue and within minutes the new Aggie was ready to face an ever greater peril — his first registra tion. Inside Today’s Issue Today’s issue of The Battalion includes the annual Back- To-School Edition. Section 1 is the regular Thursday edition, Section 2 focuses on Aggie football and Section 3 includes news from the summer and features. News of the Corps of Cadets is featured on Page 5, Sec. 1. Here are some of the items you’ll find inside: —Arkansas picked to take SWC title. Page 4, Sec. 2. —Reveille II put to sleep after long illness. Page 1, Sec. 3. -—Leadership Conference lures campus leaders. Page 3, Sec. 1. —Bear Bryant talks about Aggie football. Page 8, Sec. 2. —Tragedy strikes the University of Texas. Page 5, Sec. 3. —An old campus landmark torn down to make way for progress. Page 2, Sec. 3. —Head yell leader works out with team. Page 11, Sec. 2. —Another dining hall tradition in the Corps bites the dust. Page 5, Sec. 1. EARLY APPLE POLISHING Student Senate President Barney Fudge chats with Corps of Cadets Commandant Col. D. L. Baker during the Com mandant’s Reception this week. President Earl Rudder and various faculty and staff officials met with Corps student leaders at the annual reception. Fall Enrollment To Set New Mark