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Cbe Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1966 Number 383 Mansfield Proposes -Day Viet Truce Hopes Cease-Fire Would Bring End TRIPPET REBOUNDS Terry Trippet, 50, and Larry Ditto, 54, grab for rebound in game with Stephen F. Austin Tuesday night. A&M won 78-76. A&M Win ‘Adopt’ 54 Needy Families More than 50 less fortunate families in Bryan and College Station will have a happier Christmas this year because of Texas A&M University students. Companies or squadrons of the Corps of Cadets and several civil ian student organizations have “adopted” needy families for the Christmas Season. A joint project of the YMCA and the Student Affairs Office, the family adoption program pro vides food, clothing and other necessities, reports J. Gordon Gay, YMCA secretary. "We have a list of 64 families,” Gay explained. “Of these fami lies, 54 have been adopted. Two or three others may be taken in the next day or two.” IF ALL THE families are not adopted before the Aggies begin Christmas holidays Saturday, a list will be retained in the Stu dent Affairs Office for interested church and Sunday School groups. “Some of these families have as many as 10 children,” Gay noted. “None have fewer than five. The Aggies are urged to visit the homes of their adopted families to determine specific needs.” Funds for providing gifts for the families are raised by each sponsoring unit. Some have dormitory funds. Others simply pass the hat. , Gay said many sponsoring units host families for a meal in university dining halls. Others, he said, have Christmas parties and pass out individual gifts to family members. “DURABLE GOODS or staple groceries usually make up the Christmas bundles,” Gay said. “Sometimes, there are toys for the children.” Local merchants are kind to student organizations buying gifts for needy families, Gay pointed out. “One outfit had $70 to buy gifts,” he said, “but when the bill was totaled, it was closer to $80. The merchant gave them a discount in order that all the family might receive gifts.” The number of families assisted has varied little in the 10 years of the program. Gay recalled an unusual inci dent which happened several years ago. ONE OF THE sponsoring groups was a little late getting its gifts together before the holi days,” he recalled. “I agreed to deliver the gifts to an unfamiliar street in Bryan. After packing the car, I stopped at a College Station service station to ask for help in locating the address.” “The attendant seemed startled,” Gay continued. “Then he asked why I wanted the ad dress. It was his home. He was so grateful that the boys had thought of him.” Marketing Team To Compete In Intercollegiate Contest By RUSSELL AUTREY Texas A&M’s Marketing Team is now busy planning a simulated marketing management program in a first-of-its-kind intercol legiate marketing contest. The computerized marketing game is completely different from past competition in the National Intercollegiate Marketing Compe tition, said Jerry M. Dehay, faculty sponsor of the team. “It’s similar to duplicate bridge,” he explained. “Each team is given the same set of conditions to work with, but one team’s decisions do not affect another team.” WITH THE aid of computers, each competing team makes 12 decisions during a six tnonth period which represents a year’s Hurlbut’s Kin Dies Of Heart Attack Funeral services for C. H. Galloway, father-in-law of Texas A&M assistant football coach Jack Hurlbut, were held today at the Pat H. Foley Funeral Chapel in Houston. Mr. Galloway, 53, died Tues day as the result of a heart attack while on a deer hunt at Llano. He lived at 1546 Erwin Road in Houston. Survivors, in addition to Mrs. Hurlbut, the former Gail Gallo way, include his wife, Jewell; two other daughters, Mrs. Gloria Marshall and Mary Frances Gal loway, both of Houston; a son, Joel, of Houston, and his mother, Mrs. Grace Galloway of Houston. operation of a major company. Each team consists of four mem bers who act as the marketing department of the company. Aggie team members are Dan Ahart, Mickey Batsell, Kelly Parker and Harry Stengele. Three alternates are Bob Donel- lan, Dick Carey and John Lewis. Texas A&M is the only uni versity in Texas competing in the national contest. Some of the other schools in competition are Notre Dame, University of Michi gan, Mississippi, LSU, Arizona State and some Canadian colleges. “THE CONTEST is based up on a program designed by the Sylvania Company for training their new sales management trainees,” Dehay said. The prob lems to solve involve elements of marketing management, including advertising, sales and distribu tion. The first decision was sent in Nov. 8, and nine more will be made before the team travels to East Lansing, Mich., where the fcontest ends. The last two decisions will be completed at Michigan State Uni versity April 14-15. THE DECISIONS are rated by three criteria: return of invest ment, contribution to sales and total sales dollars. After all teams complete the twelfth decision, the top five teams will be chosen. These five will make a presentation before a panel of judges. The winner will be chosen on the basis of how well it has fol lowed a marketing plan which each will have submitted earlier. WASHINGTON GP) — Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mans field wants the United States to propose a 45-day or longer truce in Vietnam for the purpose of negotiations. But two of his Southern colleagues counter that the war should be stepped up. The Montana Democrat’s com ments were among a series made on Vietnam strategy Tuesday. Henry Cabot Lodge, U. S. am- basador to South Vietnam, would say nothing about the war as he returned for Christmas and a talk with President Johnson. Mansfield, long a foe of step ped-up military effort, said the United States should offer a “cease-fire and stand-fast” from Christmas through mid-February in hopes of getting North Vietna mese leaders to negotiate a set tlement of the war. Sens. John C. Stennis, D-Miss., and Ernest F. Rollings, D-S.C., however, called for more military effort. Rollings met for 25 minutes with Johnson shortly after re- Freshmen Slate Run-Off Election For Tomorrow The fish run-off election will be Thursday from 8-5:30 in the Memorial Student Center base ment, Jack Myers, election com mittee chairman said. All four executive positions will be decided in the election. These are president, vice president, secretary-treasurer, and social secretary. Also in the run-offs are two election committee candi dates who tied for the fifth place on the slate. Candidates for president were narrowed down to Gerald Geist- weidt and Joe M. Spears. Richard J. Hodge and Richard James Reese are in the run-off for vice president. Robert Nelson Stevenson and Alan Thompson will vie for secre tary-treasurer, and James St. John and Paul Hillard Edmonds are the run-off candidates for social-secretary. The first four positions for fish election committee represen tatives Were filled, but a tie be tween Thbmas Harper and Charles Gary will require a run off tomorrow. turning from an inspection trip to the war area. He urged bombing of 75 more military targets in North Viet nam but admitted, “I don’t think I’ve changed the President’s mind.” Stennis told a dinner audience in Jackson, Miss., that a John son request for $10 billion in ad ditional war funds this fiscal year would be inadequate. The Presi dent has estimated his request of Congress next month might be about $9 billion to $10 billion in supplemental funds. Stennis urged an all-out mili tary effort and said “much bloody fighting lies ahead and it may take years to win a complete mili tary victory. These guerrillas are far from being defeated.” Barry Goldwater, the 1964 GOP presidential candidate, told a New York news conference he advo cates sealing the North Vietnam port of Haiphong by sinking ves sels in the narrow channel leading to the harbor. He said he is con sidering visiting Vietnam early next year. In another development seem ingly aimed at stimulating repa triation of Communist-held U. S. prisoners, the State Department said it probably would send back to North Vietnam one sick and one wounded prisoner. Officials said only that they were 2 of 19 seamen captured in the Gulf of Tonkin when their torpedo boats were sunk. Lodge, arriving in Boston from Takyo, said he “will discuss noth ing of substance until after I have talked with the President. But he said he will return to Saigon shortly after Jan. 1 and dismissed as “rumors and day dreams” some reports he will resign. SINGING CADETS PERFORM The 64-voice Singing- Cadets will present a directs the group and Mrs. June Beiring is program of Christmas music tonight at 7:45 the piano accompanist, in the All-Faiths Chapel. Robert L. Boone Singing Cadets To Present Christmas Program Tonight The Singing Cadets, directed by Robert L. Boone, will present a program of Christmas music at the annual Christmas Service to night in the All-Faiths Chapel. The service, scheduled for 7:45 p.m., will follow the traditional Christmas dinner served in Dun can and Sbisa Dining Halls be fore the holidays. Mrs. June Beir ing will accompany the cadets during the program. Before coming to College Sta tion, Mrs. Beiring was the music director for radio station WOAI Retired Genetics Head Dies C. B. Godbey, 71, retired Gen etics Department head at Texas A&M University, died of a heart attack here Tuesday afternoon. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Thursday in the A&M Methodist Church with Calloway- Jones in charge of arrangements. Professor Godbey was head of the Genetics Department for 15 years before his retirement in 1961. He joined the faculty in 1926. A Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award winner, Mr. Godbey was named “Man of the Year” in 1949 by the City of Col lege Station. BORN AUG. 21, 1895, at Mid- dleburg, Ky., Mr. Godbey served in World War I and earned a bachelor of science degree in 1925 at the University of Kentucky. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Gay Godbey of 210 Lee Street, College Station; a daugh ter, Mrs. Anna Jean Kirk of Mc Gregor; a brother, E. G. Godbey of Clemson, S. C., and four grand children. in San Antonio. She served in that capacity for 12 years. Soloists will be featured in the songs “Sweet Little Jesus Boy,” “Jesu Bambino,” “Behold That Star,” “I Wonder As I Wander,” and “O Holy Night.” Solositsts for the Singing Ca dets are Kurt Schember, A1 Mey- Scholarship Fund To Commemorate Larry Anderson Joint plans for establishment of a Larry Otis Anderson memo rial student loan fund were an nounced last week in separate meetings of the A&M chapters of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Aerospace and Sigma Gamma Tau, national honorary society of aerospace engineers. Anderson, class of 1967 in Aerospace Engineering, was killed in a plane crash near Hempstead Sept. 30. The Larry Otis Anderson Memorial Fund will provide loans to aerospace engineering students beginning in the spring of 1967. er, Jimmy Cain, Jerry Holbert, John Roby, and Jack Smith. A quartet from the full chorus will sing “The Coventry Carol,” “Carol, Brothers, Carol,” “Away In the Manger,” and “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear.” During the program the Christ mas story, taken from St. Luke, will be read. Following a pro nounced benediction, the cadets will close the program with their traditional benediction. Dance Ticket Sale To Close Thursday Deadline for buying tickets for the special holiday-season Texas A&M Faculty-Staff dinner dance is noon Thursday, December 22, according to Don Young, com mittee chairman. The event will be at the Ramada Inn starting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, December 29. Tickets to the semi-formal- dress affair are on sale at the Ramada Inn and the MSC Main Desk at $3 per person (not in cluded in season tickets). Young urged all faculty-staff members to attend and bring guests. Tributes Pour In On Greer’s Day GREER HONORED State Highway- Engineer Dewitt C. Greer A&M. Among those paying tribute to the (center) was honored for his 40 years of “dean of the nation’s highway administra- Texas Highway Department service Tues- tors” were A&M President Earl Rudder day during the opening session of the 40th (left) and State Sen. William T. Moore of Annual Highway Short Course at Texas Bryan, representing Gov. John Connally. Tributes from all levels of gov ernment and civic and industrial organizations poured in here Tuesday for State Highway En gineer Dewitt C. Greer. Greer’s 40 years of Texas High way Department service, the past 26 as its top administrative offi cial, was cited during the opening session of the 40th Annual Texas Highway Short Course at Texas A&M University. The entire three-day meeting is being dedicated to the “dean of the nation’s highway administra tors.” The Bryan-College Station community and A&M proclaimed Tuesday “Dewitt C. Greer Day.” “TEXAS DOES not have good highways because it is a rich state; the state’s well-being is due to men like Dewitt Greer who had the vision to build good highways in the first place,” re marked State Sen. William T. Moore of Bryan, representing Gov. John Connally. “Under Mr. Greer’s leadership, highway development totaling almost $5 billion has been achieved efficiently, economical ly and honestly for the benefit of all Texans,” Sen. Moore contin ued. “The highway network he developed has brought to Texas a mobility undreamed of in his tory.” Speaking in behalf of the cities of Texas, S. J. Matthews of Aus tin, executive director of the Tex as Municipal League, noted, “Through the years, Dewitt Greer has been a steadfast friend of Texas cities.” REPRESENTING THE 254 counties of Texas, Nueces County Judge Noah Kennedy of Corpus Christi called attention to the “finest network of Farm to Mar ket roads anywhere in the world — more than 37,000 miles offer ing gateways to markets and recreation throughout the state.” A. C. Taylor of Fort Worth, re gional engineer for the U. S. Bu reau of Public Roads, represented the federal government in the tribute and praised Greer’s keen interest in highway safety. “Greer is convinced that well- engineered highways are the best way to cut the auto death toll,” Taylor remarked. He cited the state’s new break-away highway signs and electrically - heated (See Tributes, Page 3)