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be Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1966 Merchants Show Friendship Dinner Honors S Indents Bargain Toiletries Supply Samples RICHARD C. HOTTELET “Campus Pacs,” boxes contain ing an estimated $3 worth of brand name toilet articles, are now on sale at the Texas A&M Hottelet Opens Great Issues CBS news commentator Rich ard C. Hottelet opens the Texas A&M Great Issues Series with an Oct. 19 address at the Memorial Student Center. Hottelet, a top-ranked corre spondent and political observer of radio and TV, will speak at 8 p.m. in the MSC Ballroom. His topic is “Behind International Head lines.” The speaker spent the summer in Viet Nam getting to know the people, their problems and ap proaches to solving them. He talked wtih military and political leaders and spent time in side-by- side, day-by-day living with com bat GI’s. Great Issues ChaiAnan Steve Kovich said tickets are on sale at the MSC Student Program Office. A&M students with ac tivity cards will be admitted free. Since his assignment to cover the United Nations for CBS News in 1960, Hottlet has covered vari ous crises at the world organiza tion headquarters, among them former Soviet Premier Khrush chev’s tumult-stirring appearance and the diplomatic struggles over Cuba, the Congo, Kashmir and Viet Nam. Before his U.N. assignment, Hottelet was the Bonn, Germany, correspondent from 1961 to 1966. He joined CBS News in London in January, 1944, and made the first report of the sea-borne in vasion of Normady. Later in the war Hottelet cov ered the Battle of the Bulge with the U. S. First Army, then made the Rhine crossing. The New York native parachuted to safety when his plane was struck by enemy flak. Hottelet is a graduate of Brooklyn College and studied as a graduate student at the Uni versity of Berlin. A second Great Issues Program is set for 8 p.m. Oct. 20. Kenneth S. Armstrong, an authority on Southeast Asia, will present a documentary color film and lec ture on South Viet Nam. Geologist Dr. Fred Bullard will discuss “The Birth of a Volcano” Oct. 27 at the MSC as the initial program of the “World Around Us” series. Exchange Store for 29 cents. The package available at the Exchange Store, slanted toward male consumers, contains tooth paste, shaving cream, deodorant, hair cream, pre-shave lotion, after-shave lotion, stainless steel razor blades, alkalizing tablets, antiseptic ointment, and keep alert tablets. “More than 95 out of every 100 Aggies passing through the counter line have purchased the Pac,” Exchange Store manager Chuck Cargill said. “They are really getting the items for al most nothing. The 29 cent price is based on cost of the container and shipping and packaging ex penses.” “There were two stipulations that came with the Campus Pacs. One, that we could only order half of our projected population for the school year. Since our student figure was about 11,000, we order 5,500 Campus Pacs. “The second condition was that we have each customer sign a statement saying that they had only bought one. “In one week at the Exchange Store we have sold half our order,” he continued. Items in the Campus Pac were furnished at little or no cost to representatives of the National Association of College Stores, who provided for the packaging and the marketing through col lege stores throughout the nation. “Before the invention of the Campus Pac, each company would send representatives to college campuses showing a potential market. But rising costs of sal aries and taxes made the direct representative method far too ex pensive for the manufacturers. So they hit upon the idea of us ing college stores.” “We wanted to generate more traffic in the store,” Cargill said. “This turned out much to our advantage as we ran a final clear ance sale on spring and summer goods in the clothing department and had very good results with it.” Town Hall ‘Doc’ Ace Trumpeter A man who refused to play the fiddle as a child will be in the spotlight Friday night at Texas A&M University. He’s “Doc” Severinsen, a trum pet player with an impressive set of credentials. “Doc” is the Town Hall Series attraction billed for an 8 p.m. perfromance in G. Rollie White Coliseum. When Carl was seven years old, his dentist father banished him to a chair for the hour he Reid Elected To Parks Board Dr. Leslie M. Reid, head of the Texas A&M University Depart ment of Recreation and Parks, has been elected to the board of directors of the Society of Park and Recreation Educators. The Society is a branch of the National Recreation and Park Association. Reid was elected on a national ballot for a three-year term. The A&M Department of Rec reation and Parks is a part of the College of Agriculture’s new School of Natural Bio-Sciences. Other departments in the school are Range Science and Wildlife Science. should have been playing the vio lin. “Little Doc,’ as he was then known, mulishly refused to strike up the fiddle. After a week of meting out “sittings,” the amateur violinist agreed to buy a horn for his son. Luckily for the trumpet fans, the music store was fresh out of trombones. After three weeks’ practice, Carl was invited to join the high school band. Two years later he captured first in the Oregon state contest. He has been col lecting honors ever since. “Doc” later played with Tom my Dorsey, Charlie Barnett and Benny Goodman. He joined NBC in 1949 and played on the Kate Smith, Eddie Fisher, Steve Allen and Dinah Shore shows, “NBC Bandstand,” and dozens of others. In the recording field, “Doc” is famed for “Tempestous Trum pet,” “The Big Band’s Back in Town,” “Torch Songs for Trum pet,” “High-Wide - and - Wonder ful,” and “Fever.” Since joining the Skitch Hen derson Band in 1962, Severinsen has risen to prominence as a jazz and pop soloist, as part-time co median and often as deputy lead er. Tickets are on sale at the Stu dent Program Office in the A&M Memorial Student Center. More than 200 A&M students and member of the Northgate Merchants Association attended a barbecue honoring Aggie stu dent leaders Wednesday evening. The dinner, sponsored by 40 Northgate merchants, “showed that we as business men, are here to serve Aggies,” said member Herb Shaffer. “We wanted to show that we do not think of them in a monetary value, but in a value of friendship.” “We are behind the Aggies all the way,” Shaffer stated. Approximately 85 civilian and 80 Corps leaders attended the buf fet-styled dinner held at Briai'- crest Country Club. The evening’s high point was entertainment furnished by Stage Center Inc., a local non-profit organization. “Our entertainment included a skit and several songs by mem bers of Stage Center Inc.,” Shaf fer said. The last time merchants spon sored such an event was in 1962, according to Shaffer, but it was for Corps leaders only. “This year’s event was such a success that we hope to make it an annual project,” Shaffer added. “We may even sponsor some type program for graduating student leaders and incoming leaders in the spring. We would like to sponsor something for all stu dents, but would not have accom modations for such.” Emcee of the program was Mike Mistovitch of radio station KORA. What’s Inside • A&M Senior Pete Garza spends part of his summer get ting a taste of international politics, hoping for a future in the U. S. State Department. Page 6. • Student interviews with 10 major firms are scheduled for Monday. Page 3. • Journalist who was wound ed by Texas tower sniper to be speaker at annual news clinic. Page 4. • Two A&M professors study the difference between sprint ers and distance runners. Page 7. • Is the weather going to co operate with Aggie fans for the TCU game this weekend ? Page 8. A&M SINGING CADETS OFFICERS Proudly displaying an album by the Texas A&M Singing Cadets are the 1966-67 of ficers. From left, they are President Kurt Shember of College Station, Vice President Jim Cain of Brownsville, Business Manager Lee Millikin of Floresville; Publicity Man ager Frank Ray of Conroe, and Librarian Jerry Holbert of College Station. A major date for the Cadets is the Miss Teenage America Pageant Nov. 5 in Dallas. Texas Highway Department Publishes Travel Handbook AUSTIN, Texas — Two years of detailed research were cul minated today with the release of a comprehensive, 176-page “Tex as Travel Handbook,” published by the Travel and Information Division of the Texas Highway Department. The glove-compartment-sized book contains more than 1,500 items of interest ranging from Alibates Flint Quarries to Gen eral Zaragoza’s birthplace. In the family of materials now pub lished by the Highway Depart ment, the new Handbook fills a need by proving specific informa tion on points of interest and where they are located. As State Highway Engineer D. C. Greer pointed out, “We have in the past attracted visitors with a colorful array of brochures, maps, motion pictures and posters —all broad in scope. But once within our borders, there was no single volume to introduce spe cific sites of interest. “This new publication,” Greer said, “will lead our visitors to at tractions in every corner of the state.” In addition to guiding the in dividual visitor, the new “Texas Travel Handbook” will serve as First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings cer tificates. —Adv. a reference tool for national travel writers, whose interest is increasingly focused upon Texas. “Through Highway Depart ment distribution channel s,” Greer said, “the new travel hand book will be placed in the hands of travel writers, editors and pub lishers throughout the United States — and in fact, in many countries over the world. How ever,” Greer said, “the Handbook will not be available in bulk quan tities for redistribution. Rather, it will be provided on a select and individual basis to the actual traveler.” The publication represents the first attempt by a state agency to compile a comprehensive visi tor’s guide to Texas. “We realize,” Greer said, “in a volume of this depth and detail, some omissions are inevitable at the first printing. As new sites and attractions develop, and our information is updated, subse quent printings will include those new items.” Handbook subjects are as varied as the state itself, ranging from the melancholy Empty Saddle monument in Dalhart to the hu morous Popeye statue in Crystal City. With the Handbook as a guide, travelers will discover din osaur tracks and Indian picto- graphs; learn the location of lit tle-known ghost towns, and fol low specific directions to the most popular attractions of modern Texas cities. Special sections provide infor mation on recreational facilities in Big Bend National Park, four National Forests, and more than 50 Texas State Parks. Sum maries of Texas hunting and fish ing regulations are provided, as well as information on visiting Mexico. In p r o du c i n g the book, the Highway Department was assist ed by several groups including the Regional Chambers of Commerce of Texas, the Texas State His torical Survey Committee, Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas Water Development Board, and many other state and private groups. Significant contribu tions were also realized from city officials, civic and fraternal orga nizations, and numerous individ uals interested in the Texas travel program. The new “Texas Travel Hand book” will be available to more than 750,000 visitors who annual ly call at Highway Tourist Bu reaus, and by mail in response to travel inquiries now totaling some 224,000 each year. Like all Highway Department travel literature, the new book will be free. It will become a major item in more than three and-a-half million pieces of travel material annually distributed by the Texas Highway Department. Jose Valdez, 52, Attends A&M To Fulfill His Lifelong Dream To Teach Spanish Life is just beginning for Jose Valdez. At 52. He enrolled at Texas A&M last month to study language. Valdez wants to teach Spanish when he completes degree work. The Brownsville brokerage firm clerk finished his first two col lege years through night courses at Texas Southmost Junior Col lege and realized he had reached a turning point. “It dawned on me what I real ly wanted was to teach,” the 52- year-old A&M junior and father of four said. “One way was by going to classes nights and Saturdays at Pan American College in Edin burg, 60 miles away. Or I could go fulltime. It would be starting another career, but one I knew I wanted all along,” he recalled. The greying, Mexico-born Tex an wishes he had made the deci sion earlier. Three reasons he waited are Enrique, an electronics technician working in Houston; Ruben, at tending a Houston technical school, and Felipa, wife of me teorology graduate student Rich ard Jessup. She acquired an edu cation degree at Texas A&I and teaches at Bowie Elementary first grade class in Bryan—in English and Spanish. “There was no reason I couldn’t go to college with my children taken care of,” the friendly, engaging Valdez said. Sixteen-year-old Nola is a jun ior at A&M Consolidated High and wants to go to college at A&M. Nola and here father will graduate at the same time. “My wife, Aurora, likes it here,” Valdez remarked, pointing out more time together and a three- month summer vacation as big factors. They celebrated their 30th anniversary Friday. The Army medic said summers will be devoted to reading, listen ing to his collection of old rec ords and playing golf, which he shoots in the 90s. At 14 and speaking only Span ish, he entered the first grade. Young Jose’s desire to master English triumphed and he skipped to the third, fifth, eighth, tenth and twelfth grades to graduate from Brownsville High in 1934. Valdez took secretarial courses at night, picking up typing and shorthand. He worked at the travel agency, sold insurance then enlisted in the' Army. “I felt I had a moral obliga tion,” he explained. Three years later, at Camp Wolters, he was offered U. S. citizenship and accepted. From pre-medical courses he took in Mexico, Valdez was placed in the medical corps. He received surgi cal training, assisting in actual operations. After five years in the Army, he returned to Brownsville and took a job with Philen Co. for a 20-year stay. Valdez began night courses at Texas South- most in 1948. A 32-year lapse since his last formal classroom education causes the remarkable student some misgivings about being able to do his work. “I have to develop a new phil osophy about it,” he says. The two-language speaking Ag gie who studied Italian hasn’t let doubts get in his way though. Valdez is taking 18 hours this fall, studying linguistics, two courses in Spanish, French, his tory and vertebrate zoology. He credits college enrollment to friends and the desire to im prove himself. “Lee Garcia, an A&I graduate, urged me to go to college,” Jose mentioned. “It was also my de sire to emulate Mr. B. Struck, the company manager and a wonder ful friend. He is a learned man and can talk on diverse subjects. And he’s very unassuming.” Valdez’s choices narrowed to A&M and A&I, then he was as sisted by Felipa and Richard, who he helped through college. They told him of lower housing costs at Aggieland. The families live across the street from each other in College View. Felipa doesn’t view her father’s enrollment at 52 as unusual. “It’s been his dream as long as I can remember,” she said. A LIFELONG DREAM Fifty-two year old Jose Valdez enrolled at Texas A&M University this fall, to fulfill a desire to teach. The one time custom brokerage firm clerk started ignoring the calendar in 1948, when he began taking night courses at Texas Southmost Junior College. His four children, wife and friends heartily support his career change and goals.