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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1966
Number 353
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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
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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.