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Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1966 Number 376
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PENNY BEUCHERT
Senior Meat Team
Takes Top Award
Texas A&M University’s Sen
ior Meat Team edged out 20
other schools to take first place
in the International Intercolle
giate Meat Judging Contest Tues
day at Madison Wis.
One of the Aggie team mem
bers, Spencer Tanksley of Bryan,
was the high-point individual in
the overall contest, scoring 934
points out of a possible 1,000. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. D.
Tanksley of 607 Ethel.
A team-mate of Tanksley’s,
Jim Sanders of Beeville, was sec
ond high point individual.
The contest was held in con
junction with the International
Livestock Exposition now under
way in Chicago. Texas A&M
also won first in the event in
1959 and placed fourth last year.
Pinkie Says ...
A total of 21,373 visitors were
at Texas A&M University during
the six-month period ending Nov.
30, P. L. Downs Jr., official A&M
greeter, announced Wednesday.
They attended short courses,
conferences, class reunions and
other scheduled meetings.
Downs has counted 1,086,955
campus visitors for 17 years and
six months since June 1, 1949.
They spent $22,826,055 in the
communities, he estimated.
OTHER A&M team members
are Roy Birk of Llano, Vincent
Neuhaus of Mercedes and Larry
Boleman of Waco. Dr. Z. L. Car
penter of the A&M Animal
Science Department is team
coach, and Gary Smith and Her
bert Abraham are assistants.
The Aggies were first in pork
judging and lamb and beef
judging. The group was present
ed the American Hereford Asso
ciation Award for its perform
ance.
Carpenter said Kansas State
University was second in the
contest, Virginia Poly Tech third,
Pennsylvania State University
fourth, and Oklahoma State Uni
versity fifth.
EARLIER IN THE week, the
A&M Senior Livestock Team
won 10th among 35 teams com
peting in the International Col
legiate Livestock Judging Contest
in Chicago.
Coach L. D. Wythe of the
A&M Animal Science Depart
ment said Joey Skrivanek of
Caldwell tied for third overall in
talking reasons and received a
$50 award.
Other livestock team members
are Harley Zwahr of Richmond,
Tex Nowlin of Harlingen, Dexter
Sagebiel of Llano and Richard
McDonald of San Benito.
5 Finalists Announced
For Air Force Sweetheart
Saturday night will find Sbisa
dining hall donning its formal
apparel as the Texas A&M Air
Force ROTC Ball begins at 8 p.m.
The high point in the ball is
expected when five finalists are
introduced as candidates for Air
Forces ROTC sweeetheart. Air
Division Commander Arturo Es
quivel will act as emcee when the
judges give their final votes on
the sweetheart winner.
Finalists this year are:
Lyn Nuding, a TU freshman
from Goldsboro, North Carolina,
with a major in modem lan
guages ;
Betty Bruce, a Southwest Texas
State College sophomore from
Lake Jackson, majoring in home
economics;
Jane Restivo, a junior Maggie
from Bryan, with a specialization
in accounting;
Penny Beuchert, of Dallas;
Kay McMurray, a TU sopho
more from Sabinal, majoring in
home economics.
The semi-formal dance is free
to all A&M Air Force ROTC
cadets. Army ROTC seniors are
invited, but must purchase $1.50
tickets at the door.
Entertainment will be provided
by Maynard Gimble and his dance
band. Gimble’s group specializes
in playing request tunes from the
audience, and the group prides
itself on their ability to play al
most any kind of? music, from folk
rock to deep bl^Ts.
Robert Beene, > Deputy Cadet
Corps Commander, will welcome
Two Peace Corps Volunteers
To Recruit Here Next Week
Aggies interested in Peace
Corps work will have an oppor
tunity next week to meet with
Bryan Firm Given
$759,708 Contract
A $759,708 contract for air-
conditioning and remodeling Tex
as A&M’s Civil Engineering and
Geology buildings has been
awarded to the W. E. Kutzsch-
bach Co. of Bryan, announced
W. C. Freeman, Jr., university
vice president.
Freeman also said a $57,503
contract has been awarded to the
Metalab Equipment Co. of Hicks-
ville, N. Y., for new laboratory
furniture for the two buildings.
two volunteers who recently re
turned from service overseas.
Mary Jackson of Fayetteville,
Ark., and Geri Deskin of Win
ston-Salem, N. C., will be on cam
pus Monday through Friday to
answer questions about the Peace
Corps, take applications and ad
minister a brief test. They will
set up a booth in the lobby of the
Memorial Student Center.
Miss Jackson has just returned
from a tour of duty in Tunisia
and Miss Deskin recently com
pleted her Peace Corps assign
ment in Venezuela.
The Peace Corps has an
nounced it will send 10,500 vol
unteers overseas during 1967.
To qualify for Peace Corps
service, a person must be a U. S.
citizen, at least 18 years old and
have no dependents.
guests at the door with a regis
tration booklet. However, it will
be Esquivel presenting the new
sweetheart with the traditional
kiss and a bouquet of flowers as
she begins her reign of 1966-67.
New Long Distance
Rates Begin Jan. 1
Reduced long distance rates for
most station-to-station calls with
in Texas will become effective
January 1, 1967 for customers
of General Telephone Company
of the Southwest, Southwestern
States Telephone and Four States
Telephone Companies, according
to E. H. Danner, president of the
three companies.
State-wide reductions on three
minute calls vary from five to
fifteen cents on most station-to-
station calls over 56 miles within
Texas. Reductions for calls over
three minutes are even greater,
according to Danner. The reduc
tions apply to calls made during
the time when “day rates” are in
effect as well as to all intrastate
(within Texas) station-to-station
calls made during the “night
rate” hours after 8 p.m. and all
day Sunday.
| Viet Nam Policy
l Debate Set Here
Deadline Is Dec. 7
For Biology Exam
Agricultural Education gradu
ating seniors should register for
the biology test of the Graduate
Record Examination at the Coun
seling and Testing Center before
Wednesday, according to Dr. O.
M. Holt, associate professor of
agricultural education.
The test will be free and will be
given Jan. 7. It will not affect
the GRE that will be given in
December. It will only provide
scores for the second teaching
field of the students.
United States policy in Viet
Nam will be publicly debated in
the annual Computer-Match In
vitational Debate Tournament
Friday and Saturday at Texas
A&M University.
Oxford University and A&M
debaters square off over “Re
solved: That this house deplores
the American policy in Viet
Nam” at 8 p.m. Friday in the
Memorial Student Center Ball
room.
The public is invited, an
nounced Carl Kell, A&M debate
coach.
English debaters Douglas Hogg
and Jeremy Beloff are touring
the U. S. under auspices of the
committee on international dis
cussion and debate of the Speech
Association of America.
DAVID MADDOX and David
Gay of College Station will repre
sent A&M. Each team in the
public debate will consist of an
A&M student and Oxford student.
The program will be videotaped
by the university Educational
Television Department.
Hogg and Jeremy have traveled
extensively in Europe for debates
since 1964 and began their U. S.
tour Oct. 13. It continues through
Dec. 16. The Oxford debaters are
prepared to argue 14 topics, ac
cording to Kell. Their Texas
schedule includes Texas Lutheran,
Baylor, Arlington State and North
Texas State.
The second annual debate tour
ney is expected to draw teams
from 30 schools, the A&M debate
coach estimated. Teams in the
second through the sixth rounds
will be matched by IBM computer
in A&M’s Data Processing Center.
“RESOLVED: That the United
States should substantially reduce
its foreign policy commitments”
will be the contest debate propo
sition. Competition in a junior
division for college freshmen and
sophomores and a senior division
of juniors and seniors will be held.
Trophies will be awarded winners
and runners-up in each division.
Several out-of-state colleges
have entered teams along with
A&M, Baylor, Texas, Houston,
Lamar Tech, Abilene Christian,
Rice, Odessa and Hardin-Simmons.
Martin’s Father
Dies In Annona
W. H. (Bill) Martin, 64, father
of Britt Martin, died Tuesday
night of a heart attack in his
home at Annona, near Clarksville.
Arrangements pend at the
Clarksville Funeral Home.
Native of Red River County,
Martin was a long-time merchant
at Annona.
Britt Martin is a member of
the Texas A&M University In
formation staff. Survivors in
clude another son, three daughters
ard 12 grandchildren.
THANKS GO TO TEAM
Two more signatures are added to the sign located in the
Memorial Student Center which shows appreciation for the
Aggie football team’s winning season.
Aggie Players To Present
First Production Of Year
“Which Death To Die?,” the
Aggie Players’ first major pro
duction of 1966-67 at Texas A&M
University, coincides with the an
niversary of Pearl Harbor on
which the plot develops.
Robert C. Stewart Jr., local
author and Bryan Daily Eagle
managing editor, locates the play
in a sunken battleship on the
“Day of Infamy”. The three-act
play deals with how five men
trapped in the vessel conduct
themselves, without hope of res
cue.
“Which Death To Die?” opens
Friday at Guion Hall. The story
of war and heroism starts Fri
day and continues Saturday, Mon
day and Tuesday, Thursday and
Esten, Players sponsor and Eng-
Friday next week announced C. K.
lish professor.
Admission is $1. Curtain time
is 8 p.m. and the box office opens
at 7:15 p.m.
CONGRESSMAN Olin E. Teague,
author of a bill to make the bat
tleship Arizona a national monu
ment, prefaces the play: “Amer
icans have been called upon to
suffer, to fight and to make the
ultimate sacrifice of their lives.
They have not faltered. In trib
ute to these men and to the spirit
which builds such men, this play
is offered.”
Robert Wenck, English instruc
tor, directs the first of three ma
jor productions this year.
“It is the Aggie Players’ first
shot at an original, full-length
play,” he said.
The cast includes Paul Bleau of
Lynn, Mass., as Schwartz; Paul
Stewart of College Station, Rob
erts; Roger Williams of Alexan
dria, Va., Armstrong; Mike Leid-
er of Houston, Shrimp; Larry
Baugh of West Columbia, South-
all; Shirley Whatley of Bryan,
Anna; Marie Crook of College
Station, Ma Twiddle.
ALSO JEAN Reyna of Bren-
ham, Jill; Jan Gannaway of Has
kell, Sandy; Sandra Rose of San
Antonio, Cindy; Nancy Wick of
Milburn, N.J., nurse; Ray Evans
of Dallas, recruiter; Roger Kil-
lingsworth of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
and Ted Boriskie of Bryan, res
cuers, and Henry Vander Cruys-
sen of College Station, announcer.
Stewart, native of Beeville, has
contributed numerous one-act
plays for Aggie Player produc
tion and furnished two scripts for
the TV series, “Gunsmoke.”
“Which Death To Die?” is his
first play to become a major Ag
gie Players production.
FOUNDED IN 1946, the thes-
pian group embraces a large
membership. In 1965-66, 150 stu
dents worked with 47 scripts to
present 65 nights of live theater.
Membership is open to any inter
ested student. Special awards are
made annually for outstanding
student work.
LOCAL AUTHOR
Robert C. Stewart Jr. local author and Bryan Daily Eagle
managing editor locates the three-act play “Which Death
to Die ?” in a sunken battleship on the “Day of Infamy.”