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\ Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1966 Number 353 A: ✓ win V* ' * * s * -!» •, .*>.*£m? •** »■ Rout Stunned TCU Passing, Defense Key To Big Victory ONE OF FEW MISSED Quarterback Edd Hargett overshot Bob Long on this play as TCU’s Cubby Hudler pursues, in a game which saw new passing and interception records for A&M. Hottelet, CBS News, GreatlssuesSpeaker CHS News United Nations cor respondent Richard C. Hottelet will open the Texas A&M Great Issues series with an address Wednesday in the Memorial Stu dent Center Ballroom. The topic of Hottelet’s 8 p.m. speech will he “The United Na tions on its 20th Anniversary.” The subject is especially perti nent as the United Nations pre pares to select a new secretary- general and with the controversy over the admission of Red China still boiling. Great Issues Chairman Steve Kovich said tickets will not be on sale at the Student Programs Office as had been announced, but will be available at the door. General admission is $1, and 50 cents for public school chil dren and Aggie wives. A&M stu dents with activity cards will be admitted free. After the program there will be a question and answer period, followed by an informal recep tion during which those who wish to do so may talk to Hottelet. Since his assignment to cover the United Nations for CBS News in 1900, Hottelet has cov ered various crises at the world organization headquarters, among them former Soviet Premier Khrushchev’s appearance and the diplomatic struggles over Cuba, the Congo, Kashmir, and Viet Nam. Hattelet joined CBS News in January. 1944, and made the first report of the sea-borne (invasion of Normandy. Later in the war he covered the Battle of the Bulge with the U. S. First Army, and then made the Rhine cross ing. He parachuted to safety when his plane was hit by enemy flak. Before his U.N. assignment in 1950, Hottelet was CBS corre spondent in Bonn, Germany. Great Issues Committeemen Steve Kovich and Tom Morgan will fly to Houston Wednesday afternoon to meet Hottelet, and will later accompany h i m to Dallas. In another program, “The World Around Us” series will ysi BY BOB JONES Battalion Sports Editor The Fightin’ Texas Aggies returned to Kyle Field Saturday nig'ht and renewed an Old Aggie tradition — winning 1 football — with their impressive 85-7 vic tory over the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs. A crowd of 28,500 watched the pie-season conference contenders fall before the grinding attack of the Aggies. It’s a g'ood feeling - to know that A&M is now fielding a team that can win a football game and not luck into a victory now and then. The Maroon and White just couldn’t seem to do anything Sat urday without scoring, or break ing some record in the Aggie *■§ AG DEFENSE STOPS FROG TCU fullback Kenny Post is hauled to the are Ag\s Rolf Krueger and Ken Lamkin. ground by Aggie defenders Bill Hobbs and A&M went on to thrash TCU 35-7. feature geologist Dr. Fred Bui- Tuffy Fletcher. Others moving in on the play lard on Oct. 27 at the MSC. Bul lard’s program will be entitled “The Bii-th of a Volcano.” Tickets (date and student) for the Baylor game will go off sale at 5 p.m. Wednesday. All students are urged to buy their tickets early as a sell-out crowd is expected in Waco for the regionally televised game. Former Scouts, Alpha Phi Omega Pledges Service More than 1,200 man-hours of service are expected from this year’s pledge of Xi Delta Chap ter, Alpha Omega, which held its first meeting last week in the YMCA. “Pledges are required to com plete 25 hours of service during the semester,” according to pledge trainer Bob Meister. Alpha Phi Omega, an interna tional service fraternity of more than 75,000 college men, was first organized on the A&M campus in March, 1902. Since then it has acted in many service capacities on and off campus. Projects in clude the Aggie blood drive, spon- sorship of a local Boy Scout troop, hospital visitation, and the maintenance of Hensel Park. Membership is open to college men who have at one time been affiliated with the scouting move ment and wish to serve their school. “Xi Delta Chapter charges no dues” according to Meister. Ransdell, YMCA Lecturer Says Faith In Self Vital history books. The w i n itself ended a long dry spell for the Aggies. A&M hadn’t beaten TCU since 1957. But if Saturday’s performance was any indication of how the Aggies will be playing the rest of the season there’s liable to be a thundercloud hanging over Ag- gieland from now on. Lawson Howard, Aggie defen sive left safety, opened A&M’s night of action only 29 seconds deep into the contest. TCU took the opening kickoff and managed to return the ball to its own 19. On the first play from scrim mage the Horned Frogs were penalized back to their own nine, for holding. Then the Aggies took over for the night. TCU’s sophomore quarterback Rick Bridges dropped back to pass, threw to his right, Howard intercepted the toss and raced 19 yards for the score, with 14:81 left in the first quarter. Aggie kicking specialist Glynn Lindsey booted the extra point and A&M led, 7-0. Howard’s interception, the most timely steal of the night for the Aggies, caused a chain reaction among the Aggie defen sive ranks. In all the Maroon swiped seven Horned Frog - pass es for a new A&M school record. The old mark of six interceptions in one game was set in 1944 and tied in 1950 and 1952. Howard picked off another Bridges pass later in the game, Tuffy Fletcher nabbed two, and Harry Ledbetter, Robert Cortez and Ivan Jones each caught one apiece. Head Basketball Coach Shelby Metcalf was pleased with A&M’s grid win. Monday morning Met- (See Aggies, Page 5) BY ROBERT BORDERS Batt Staff Writer “You are greater than you think,” Dr. C. H. Ransdell, as sistant dean of the School of En gineering, told students in the second of the YMCA “Last Lec ture” series Monday night. Dr. Ransdell said that as one leads about problems such as AP Chief Urges Newsmen To Read, Listen, Write More Newsmen of the future need to be better educated to cope with increasing responsibility and challenge, an Associated Press bureau chief said Monday at Tex as A&M University. Robert H. Johnson Jr., AP bu reau chief at Dallas, in the key note address to 160 students from 22 Texas junior colleges, urged prospective newsmen to learn to read, listen and write. The students are delegates to the Texas Junior College Press Conference which continues through Tuesday. “All the digging and special education you obtain will be use less unless you learn to put down Odd Shapes, Sizes and Woods Pipes Of The World At MSC BY WILLIAM DINGER Batt Special Writer The Memorial Student Center’s Gift Shop has amassed one of the biggest and probably least talked-about pipe collections in this area. Mrs. Azaleene F. Covey, Gift Shop manager, described the col lection. “We try to get as many im ports as possible. We also try to get as many odd shapes and kinds as possible, for collectors. “Some of the pipes on display are for smokers, while others are MSC PIPE DISPLAY LARGE Azaleene Covey, Gift Shop manager, shows junior Chester Cloudt one of hundreds of imported, hand-carved pipes on display. too fancy to smoke, and are per fect for collections. This collec tion is probably the biggest any where from Houston to Dallas. We have 400 to 500 pipes on dis play or in boxes.” Tlie pipes, if you haven’t no ticed, line about 20 feet of wall in the Gift Shop. More are on display in the counter just in front, with many m ore stored beneath the counter. Intricately carved Algeria briar pipes, more for collecting than smoking, are intermingled with block meerschaums, other pipes which look like they came light out of “Sherlock Holmes,” leath er-bound models, and intricately silver-embossed pipes. These are displayed in the front display case. A collection of beautiful corn cob pipes, enough to make any Huckleberry Finn smile approval, as well as a complete selection of good, smoking pipes, and Kay- woodies, line the back wall. Pipes from Belgium, England, Holland, and Italy, to name but a few countries, make quite a sight for many visitors. The MSC carries different brands of pipes, such as Pioneers, G.B.D.s, Olimpeias, B.B.B.s and Dunhills. For those of you in the Corps, this might make a good cush question: “How many pipes are there in the MSC collection, and what kinds?” words people want to read,” Johnson said. “Bear down on writing and read the work of masters. You absorb good writ ing through the eye.” “The best reporters work at writing,” he continued. “They die a little bit at the typewriter.” “We live in a world of causes,” Johnson remarked. “And truth is the greatest cause in the world. The newsman must determine the facts and tell the world. His job is not impossible, but it is diffi cult.” “Think of the responsibility of the first reporter on the moon,” he said. “Newspapers are doing more recruiting these days than the U. S. Marines,” the former Ma rine officer commented. “We want the highest type individual in the news field.” Johnson said vast new oppor tunities await young people in the news business. “Newspapers cannot simply re port the events of the day,” Johnson noted. “They must put flesh on the bare bones of news, and add perspective.” “A lot of experimenting is go ing on in newspapers in a con tinuing effort to know the facts,” he explained. “Computers will streamline operations, but noth ing will replace editors and re porters, the people with the ideas . . . who perceive issues that need illumination.” Johnson said journalism stu dents should be better educated in a variety of subjects. “A heavier dose of history and political science would be in or der,” he declared. “Perhaps an interchange of law and journal ism would help. Journalism stu dents need to study more prob lems of the judiciary.” “Personally, I’ve done things that would never have been pos sible without being a newsman,” Johnson emphasized. “I wouldn’t trade a minute of my life as a newsman. I’ve been a newsman since the day I found that I could have all that fun and get paid for it.” Other speakers scheduled are Marge Crumbaker, Houston Post reporter; Dr. Olin Hinkle, Uni versity of Texas professor; Lew is C. Fay, TCU professor, and Shelby Metcalf, A&M basketball coach. Viet Nam, lack of money in a spiraling economy, and other day-to-day frustrations, the stu dent needs something stable to hold on to. “The frustrations you face to day are no greater than those you will meet all your life,” he said. But he emphasized the student can control these frustrations if he will lecognize the fact he is greater than he thinks. “Nothing can whip you but fear itself, but by being afraid you can whip yourself.” “The fact you were born is not happenstance. The odds are greater than one billion to one against your birth,” Ransdell said. He said a person is a grain of sand in the universe, but he is at least an individual grain of sand and not a statistic. And every body is born for a reason. What is that reason ? He said that most people look for it all their lives and never find it. Ransdell said God has some purpose in mind for us, whether we know what that purpose is or not. “Jesus said there is a little bit of God in each of us who be lieves. We recognize his exist ence in everything around us.” Ransdell said nothing in the world is new, we only discover things which already exist. He went on to say a person shouldn’t fail to develop the tal ent God gave him. That talent is a link with God, and through it we can form a partnership with Him. Ransdell said it makes no dif ference what a person’s major is as long as it is in accord with him, and his silent partner. The secret is to choose your direction and stick to it. More Coin Phones Due By January Building Burned Not Once-Twice! Last week was File Preven tion Week across the nation. Local fire-fighting units spon sored an exhibit featuring vari ous types of fire control and life saving methods for residents on the vacant field across from the Duncan Dining Hall Tuesday night. The highlight of the program was the controlled burning of a temporary building. The building was set afire and quickly extinguished by the fire department on hand in a very impressive demonstration. But during the night prank- sters re-set the edifice ablaze. This time it b u r n e d to the ground. An investigation is underway. INSTALLATION OF ADDI TIONAL Central Office equip ment to relieve the shortage of coin telephones on the A&M cam pus is scheduled for January, 1967 according to Rex Bailey, di vision manager of The South western States Telephone Com pany. “Special dial switching equip ment is required for pre-pay coin telephone operation. The num ber of telephones and the amount of usage are engineering factors for determing how much equip ment will be installed”, Bailey said. “THIS TIME WE just under estimated the demand, and have had to order additional equipment from our suppliers. “Due to the shortage in equip ment we have had to place some of the coin telephones temporari ly out of service to alleviate the problem of failure to return coins.”.. Bailey indicated the most criti cal problems were occurring at 8 p.m. each evening when the low est long distance rates go into effect. In order to avoid de lays in completing calls at that time he encouraged students to call during the day on Sunday when the low rates were in effect all day. Kelly AFB Needs Pilots, Navigators Kelly Air Force Base officials say a recent Manning Document Change has opened new positions in the 433rd Troop Carrier Wing, an Air Force Reserve flying unit at the San Antonio base. Most urgently needed, accord ing to the document, are multi- engine pilots and navigators in the grades of lieutenant and cap tain. Some airmen positions, mainly in the technical fields, are also available. Both the Alamo Wing’s C-119 and C-124 units have openings. Qualified personnel from any branch of the service have been asked to contact Capt. Hoy Rich ards, 510 Gilchrist, at VI 6-5649 and VI 6-8844, for additional in formation. Crew members train a mini mum of two weekends a month and during the annual two-week tour of active duty. First Bank & Trust now pays 5 ( /i per annum on savings cer tificates. —Adv. HE ALSO SUGGESTED plac ing calls earlier in the afternoon on week days for calls which are not subject to lower rates . at 8 p.m. These include calls to places located less than 88 miles from College Station and/or person to person and collect calls. In addition to the new equip ment to l^e installed in January, Bailey pointed out that plans were going ahead for the instal lation of CENTREX service in 1968. This system will permit stu dents to make local calls from individual room telephones. "WE REGRET THE inconven ience that we might have caused and ask you bear with us until we can get the additional equip ment installed in January, Bailey said. Phone Ripper Strikes Dorms Is there a phone-ripped loose on campus? The fatality rate among phones in the Northgate dormatory area must be at an all-time high. There are five dorm lounges in the area, each containing three phones. As of Wednesday night only two of these phones, or 13 per cent were in working condition. The problem seems to be a lack of receivers. There are 12 phones, or 80 per cent in the area with no receivers. All that’s left of one phone in the Dorm 15 lounge is a small hole from which dangle two white wires. THE LOUNGES for dorm’s 22, 17, and 15 have no working phone, while there is only one working phone in the lounge for both dorms 18 and 21. Pay phones next to the bowl ing alley in the Memorial Student Center have a slightly lower fatality rate. Of these, 10 phones or 50 percent are in working con dition, while four have no re ceiver. AT LEAST one Aggie seems to be profiting from the situa tion. A note appears on phones in many of the lounges with the words: “Can’t Find a W’orking Phone? You’ll find one in Room 119, Dorm 16.” There is nothing like supply and demand.