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Conference Speakers. And Panel Members Keynote Speaker JOHN E. HORNER RICHARD WILSON GEN. ROBERT J. SMITH THE HON. G. SIMPSON THE HON. Y. RODRIGUES Che Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1966 Number 378 JOHN T. McNAUGTON Drill Team Places 3rd In UH Meet Texas A&M’s Fish Drill Team, which marches in the annual Christmas Parade in Bryan Thursday, won third place in the University of Houston competi tion this weekend. The freshman precision march ing group took a first in inspec tion, third in regulation maneu vers and fourth in precision marching for third place overall, announced Calvin Reese, team sponsor. “This is the highest a Fish team placed, overall, at the Uni versity of Houston,” Reese com mented. “It appears the team is well ahead of schedule toward rounding into top - marching shape.” The Fish competed against 16 teams from New Mexico, Arkan sas, Louisiana and Texas. North west Louisiana captured top YMCA Spsonsors Wrapping Service, Announces Gay The annual Christmas gift wrapping service by the YMCA is now available to students, Gordon Gay, director of the YMCA announced recently. Gay said the service will in clude wrapping for mailing, but the student should bring a sturdy box in which to wrap the gift. He stressed that it is important to bring the gift as early as possible to avoid the inevitable rush right before dismissal for the holidays. All wrapping services are free, and are done with the help of volunteer labor. Gay said the YMCA has been offering the service for over 25 years. They wrapped an all-time high of 727 gifts last year. A&M Security Chief Powell Wins Statewide Presidency Ed E. Powell, campus security chief at Texas A&M University, was elected president of the Texas Association of College and University Traffic and Security ‘Fruit Project’ Set For Dec. 14 Texas A&M University’s an nual “Fruit Project” donating 3,000 to 4,000 apples and oranges to 1,200 patients at the Veterans Administration Center in Temple is set Dec. 14, announced coordi nator P. L. (Pinkie) Downs Jr. Students of A&M Consolidated and Lincoln High Schools, A&M faculty-staff members and Col lege Station citizens will partici pate, Downs said. They will bring fruit to the Memorial Stu dent Center Dec. 15. “Aggies traditionally give ap ples and oranges from their an nual Christmas dinner to the vet erans,” noted Downs, official A&M greeter. Containers will be located at Duncan and Sbisa Din ing Halls, he said. “Patients’ names will be at tached to the bags and a Christ mas card placed in each, wishing the veteran a Merry Christmas and Happy New Yeax from A&M and College Station friends,” the eldest Aggie explained. honors. Texas A&I won second overall, followed by the Fish, Sam Houston State and the Uni versity of Houston. The 54-man traveling squad stayed at Ellington AFB Friday night and was individually hosted by members of the Houston A&M Mothers Club Saturday. The Bryan - College Station Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade takes over downtown Bryan streets at 7:30 Thursday night. SCONA XII Sessions To Start Tomorrow Keynote Address Slated For 1:30 Unknown Ags Get Accolade From Austin Four anonymous Texas A&M students are the subject of a thank-you letter received this week by A&M President Earl Rudder. An Austin attorney, William F. Turman, wrote Rudder to thank the school as a whole, and specificially four Cadet Corps members for help following a Thanksgiving Day automobile accident in Austin. “Immediately preceding the Texas A&M-Texas football game, I was involved in an automobile accident in Austin, and received a rather severe laceration on my head,” Turman wrote. “Four members of your Corps of Cadets stopped and gave me able assist ance and help, and I am ashamed to say I did not get their names, nor would I even recognize them at this time.” President Rudder forwarded copies of Turman’s letter to staff members and student leaders in hope that the helpful Aggies will learn of Turman’s appreciation. FRED WARING The “grand old man” of music, now on tour along with other members of his Pennsyl- celebrating “The First Fifty Years,” is vanians troupe in a Town Hall presentation pictured here with three of his fellow (fel- Wednesday at 8 p. m. in G. Rollie White low?) performers. They will be featured Coliseum. Fred Waring Show Slated For Town Hall Wednesday Departments at the group’s re cent conference in Houston. The organization also selected A&M as the site for next year’s meeting, to be conducted Nov. 29-30. The University of Houston hosted the recent conference which drew 36 participants from 22 institutions in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana and New Jersey. “We expect larger attendance at A&M next fall,” noted Pow ell, who has served as vice presi dent of the association during the past year. “All our staff will attend,” he added. Powell said the meetings are attended by campus security di rectors and other college-univer sity officials, including deans. “Junior college participation will probably increase,” he said. “They have the same problems larger schools have.” The conferences include dis cussion of traffic control, spot ting symptoms of offenders, cam pus police legal status, depart mental budgeting procedures, law enforcement, investigations and problems clinics. Powell presented a session on investigations at the Houston meeting. In addition to Powell, A&M was represented at the meeting by Cleen E. Bolton, assistant chief. An artist who loves the live theater aspect of his musical life will present a Town Hall pro gram at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Texas A&M’s G. Rollie White Coliseum. He is Fred Waring, who with his Pennsylvanians, is celebrating “The First Fifty Years.” Waring started his musical career 50 years ago in Tyrone, Penn. “I’ve been asked many times why I tour the country, with its one-night stands, the hazards of travel and the weather, the al most predictable sighs of exhaus tion, and the frayed nerves that start showing up midway on each safari,” Waring commented. “Each performance is a new ex perience, every audience in every town and city is different. And these audiences are my instru ments.” THROUGH HALF a century, Waring has run the gamut of the entertainment business. Start ing with dance-dates back in the Tyrone days, his became the first orchestra and glee club to invade radio with a regular show. His Pennsylvanians also have starred in television, films, concerts and recordings. A COMPANY of 50 young and veteran performers comprise the Waring orchestra and choral en semble. Lovely Karen Kopseng— Miss North Dakota of 1965—is a featured soprano. Other featured performers in clude singing comedy team Linda Wicker and Jim Wheeler; Cordo- vox virtuoso Donna Dee Ander son ; deep-voiced Leonard Kran- endonk and banjo-humorist Bobby Day; and comedian-drummer Poley McClintock, an original member of Waring’s band. Tickets are available at the Student Program Office in the Memorial Student Center and at the door. Season Town Hall tick ets are good for the show. By JOHN FULLER Battalion Managing Editor Delegates from 16 states and three countries began arriving on the A&M campus today for the twelfth annual Student Confer ence on National Affairs, begin ning tomorrow. SCONA XII Chairman Bob Heaton, said final preparations for the conference are “on schedule” and that he is expecting “the biggest and best SCONA ever.” Some 173 delegates from col leges and universities in Texas and neighboring states, along with representatives of the Military, Naval, Air Force and Coast Guard Academies and of several Mexican universities, are expected to at tend the four-day meeting, accord ing to Housing Chairman Bill Morgan. Morgan said the num ber of delegates may eventually reach 180. TEXAS A&M will send 35 dele gates to the conference. Conference activities begin to morrow at 1 p.m. with a keynote address by John T. McNaughton, assistant secretary of defense. McNaughton will speak on the SCONA XII topic, “Europe and the U.S.: Challenge of National ism and C o-o p e r a t i o n.” All speeches will be in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. “We are most fortunate to have someone as prominent as Mr. Mc Naughton as our keynoter,” Hea ton said. Thursday’s highlight will be a panel presentation, “NATO — Revise or Abandon?” at 8 p.m. in the Ballroom. Yves Rodrigues, British consul general for Texas; and Gen. Robert J. Smith, form er board chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, will make up the panel. JOHN E. HORNER, diplomat- in-residence at Tulane University, will speak on “The Changing Sa tellites” at the 8 p.m. Friday ses sion. The Conference Round-up address will be given by Richard Wilson, Washington bureau chief for Cowles Publications, at the final session Saturday at noon in the Ballroom. Round-Table discussion sessions will be conducted throughout the conference. “The Future of NA TO and the Atlantic Partnership” is the topic of Thursday’s session, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Round-tables have been scheduled for Thursday afternoon, Friday morning and afternoon, and Sat urday morning. SOCIAL ACTIVITIES for dele gates to the conference include a barbecue Friday evening and a luncheon Saturday. Heaton said the round-table groups will be led by 16 ‘out standing co-chairmen from busi ness, academic and political cir cles of the world.” They include consuls from four countries, a Royal Air Force squadron leader, and a U. S. Air Force Academy political science professor. Heaton emphasized that the general public is invited to the conference presentations. No ad mission will be charged. Freshman Elections Slated Thursday In MSC Basement SENATOR YARBOROUGH Senator Ralph Yarborough speaks with students at a public reception in the Presbyterian Student Center Monday, pre ceding a speech to the Brazos County Young Democrats. Couple Celebrates 50th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. P. L. (Pinkie) Downs will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house in the Assembly Room of the Memorial Student Center from 10 a.m. until noon Wednesday. The couple has extended a gen eral invitation to attend the re ception to all their friends and everyone associated with the uni versity. Downs is A&M’s official greet er and has been associated with the university in various capaci ties for decades. Freshman elections will be con ducted from 8 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the basement of the Memorial Student Center, Jack Myers, Election Committee chairman announced. Running for freshman presi dent are Kenneth Bresnen, Ar thur G. Geistweidt, Lewis W. Hudgins, Daniel A. Rosenstein, and Joe M. Spears. Vice-presidential candidates are Lester B. Coalson, Billy T. Elder, Mark A. Fairchild, Richard J. Hodge, Richard A. Nance, Rich ard J. Reese, and Philip R. Run- nion. Candidates for secretary-treas urer are Robert Marshall Adams, Robert N. Stevenson, Alan Thompson, and Jose G. Velas quez. For the office of social secre tary the candidates are Jerry W. Clark, Paul H. Edmonds, Cary Farrow III, James StJohn III. The Student Senate race has drawn the greatest number of candidates. They are Barry W. Bauer- schlag, Larry A. Bowles, Donald R. Cameron, James B. Edwards, Neal M. Ely, Barry S. Farber, Philip R. Frye, James Grimes, William F. Magee III, Frank Montalbano, Don Morris, Wil liam H. Steele, William V. Ste phens, and Eugene A. Taylor Jr. Running for the election com mittee are Bruce Gilchrist and Michael Mueller. Write-in can didates for this office will be accepted, Myers said. Some of the students who filed were found to be lacking the 1.5 grade-point ratio required to hold an office. The names of these students have been taken off the ballot. The number of students filing for freshman posts, 36, is down greatly from the 110 fish candi dates last year. There are only 12 student senate candidates compared to 37 last year, and only 2 election commission candi dates compared to 23 last year. Last year was also a record year for voter turn-out, with 901 fish voting. The general election last spring was notable for the demonstra tion of apathy by the student body. According to last year’s election commission chairman, the total turn-out in the general election was less than the total response to the previous fall’s fish election.