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)