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Merry Christmas...Happy New Year...Drive Carefully Che Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1966 Number 384 iot!i AGGIE SWEETHEART Kathi Austin and Her Santa. Kathi Asks Santa To Visit Aggies NATO High Command Set Up By Leaders 7-Member Group To Plan N-Policy | Dear Santa, jg Every year at this time I sit down to write you a gi | nice long- letter full of things I want for Christmas, jg I This year, as I sit here writing, I can’t think of any g: | thing I want or need. You see, Santa, my Christmas jg | came early this year. In October, I received a big box' gj wrapped with maroon paper and tied with a big white jg g bow. Inside I found 8,000 Fightin’ Texas Aggies. What gj S more could any girl ask for? :g So Santa, instead of asking for presents for me, I gj | would like to give you a short list of things I want for gj g them. |g 1. Shelby Metcalf, another Southwest Conference jjjj g championship basketball team; gj 2. Reveille, a nice, thick, juicy Bevo steak (and an ;g us in ohpdipnnp sphnol £: •X 1 X; | ;X g: g A-plus in obedience school;) 3. “Pinkie” Downs, another fifty years of hap- g piness with Mrs. Downs; 4. The Freshmen, wool-stocking caps for their bald | heads; 5. The Sophomores, Junior privileges; 6. The Juniors, Senior boots; 7. The Seniors, the best possible Senior year; 8. The Singing Cadets, each one—his own individ- | ual Miss Teenage America; 9. Passing grades for everyone; and 10. A safe trip home for all my Aggies. The Former Students Association doesn’t need g anything because they have their senior boots and | rings, their memories, and their membership in the g largest brotherhood in the world. The Fightin’ Texas g Aggie Band doesn’t need anything either. With Col. | E. V. Adams at the helm and their powerful lungs, g they will remain the largest and finest band in the g country. Bring all Aggies everywhere the merriest of Christmases and the happiest of New Years. In closing, Santa, I just want to say that “some where in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good” because look at what I have to keep for a whole year. Tell the Aggies how very proud I am of them, and tell them how very proud I am to represent them and be a part of the “Twelfth Man.” Finally, tell them that I remain. . . . Always theirs, Kathi Austin Architects Entertain Children In Cardboard Fantasyland By PATRICIA ANNE HILL An architect’s home is his castle .... At least this week it is! The architecture students constructed a child-size castle on the first floor of the elaborately decorated Architecture Building. Senate Shorts By BARNEY FUDGE Student Senate President The weather finally decided to go ahead and get Christmasy. There was some doubt for a while whether the good old Aggie gas was going to get a chance to set in before the holidays this year. The profs are still trying to de lay what has already occurred by giving quizzes. Some of them are succeeding, partially because a few people are studying. As the holidays approach and everyone gets ready to relax from the rigors of scholastic pursuit, there are a few things the Student Senate must continue to think about. One is the winter meeting of the Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Committee, Dec. 29-31 in Dallas. The committee members decide who will win the sportsmanship trophy. Balloting of last year’s basketball games and this year’s football games will decide which school is the lucky one. DORM DECORATIONS SHOW CHRISTMAS SPIRIT Door decorations and dorm Christmas trees show Aggie spirit. Traveling Conditions Good This afternoon the architecture students and faculty played Santa to about 40 eager youngsters who belong to the students, professors, and children from the rehabilita tion center in Bryan. If one want ed to get a month’s exercise in about 10 minutes, all he had to do was to take one good tour of the castle, which wove around the lobby in a tunnel all over the lobby area. This was the fifth consecutive year for the architecture students to play host to the kids. Although it’s suppose to be a kid’s heaven, the students had quite a time put ting it all together. In fact, ex actly who had the most fun at the party is a question to which we’ll never know the answer. Each division of the depart ment was responsible for one project. The first-year students made hundreds of the wildest colored birds around. They hung in a giant mobile in the lobby until they were “removed” from their perch. Second year students created a South American village which in cluded a wide-eyed clown with big floppy red ears and rolling eyes, and a puppet show with pup pets that talked to the children and tried to talk them into giving up their colored birds. A French shopping village made (See Architects, Page 2) Texas A&M’s 10,500 students taking to the highways this week end for Christmas holidays will find generally favorable travel conditions within the state. Continued clear and cool wea ther is the picture in a long-range forecast prepared by the univer sity weather station, in the Me teorology Department. Students’ Christmas leave of ficially begins at noon Saturday and ends at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3. A&M faculty-staff members will observe Christmas holidays Dec. 23 through Jan. 1. “For the state, Friday will hold generally clear skies with some coastal stratus, winds northeast erly at 15 to 20 knots and tem peratures, at College Station, from a minimum of 27 to 55 max imum,” predicted Weather Sta tion Manager Jim Lightfoot from five-day outlook maps. Continued clear is forecast Sat urday with 10 to 15 knot winds shifting more to the east. The Battmen To Take Holiday Batt-break This will be the last edition of The Battalion for 1966. So until next year, may we wish you all a Merry Christmas. Ho, ho, ho. B-CS temperature range is fore cast from 30 to 58, Lightfoot went on. “There will be increasing cloudiness Saturday night,” he es timated. “It should turn colder Sunday morning under partly cloudy to cloudy skies.” Students traveling outside the state this weekend may encoun ter more difficult conditions,” he added. Snowstorms in the Mid west are forecast to move into the Great Lakes region. Snow showers are feasible in the Ken- tucky-Tennessee area. Driving in the Southeast United States may also be hazardous due to rain. Award Program Announced For Highway Employees An annual program to honor two outstanding Texas Highway Department employees with $1,000 cash awards . was an nounced by Lufkin attorney John S. Redditt at the 40th Annual Highway Short Course now in progress at Texas A&M Uni versity. Redditt, former chairman of the Texas Highway Commission and a past president of the Texas Good Roads Assn., requested the two awards be made each year in commemoration of State High way Engineer Dewitt C. Greer and his predecessor, Gibb Gil christ. Greer has been the depart ment’s top administrator the past 26 years and Gilchrist held the position 11 years. Redditt requested that Charles E. Simons of Dallas, executive vice president of Texas Mid- Continent Oil and Gas Associa tion, be appointed chairman of a three-member selection commit tee. Other members would be Dr. M. T. Harrington of College Station, former A&M chancellor, and Sterling C. Evans of Hous ton, Texas A&M director. Redditt presented a $2,000 check for the 1967 awards and said he soon would complete ar rangements for a $20,000 perma nent endowment or trust fund for future awards. Gilchrist is a former president and chancellor of A&M and also was instrumental in the organiza tion of TTI. By ARTHUR L. GAVSHON PARIS bD—Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion set up a new seven-nation high command Wednesday night that will manage the political and strategic use of their nuclear weapons resources. The move by all NATO states, minus France, gave West Ger many and smaller allied powers a share in the planning of nuclear policy but left the United States with the right to veto any pro posal by its partners for use of | U. S. nuclear weapons. It also shelved indefinitely, if not for good, rival U. S. and • British projects for a “hardware solution” to the problem of nu clear sharing within the alliance. In this way it kept open the door for a treaty with the Soviet Union to stop the spread of nu clear weapons. A DAY packed wtih diplomatic activity also brought several other developments: —U. S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk spent nearly an hour with President Charles de Gaulle discussing Vietnam, U. S.-French affairs and improving East-West relations. —Earlier, Rusk assured his partners: “There is no lessening of the U. S. commitment to the idea of collective security and no reduction of the need for secur ity.” Signs of changing policies among the Russians and their East European friends must, he said, be encouraged but he cau tioned that so far nothing basic had altered in Soviet aims. This led him to his main points—that NATO must be as ready for all out crisis as for all out peace. THE AGREEMENT by 14 NATO defense ministers was an outgrowth of a plan to solve the problem of interallied crisis man agement and nuclear sharing first advanced by Defense Secre tary Robert S. McNamara in 1965. Highly conscious of national sensitivities on the issues, the ministers chose this method of resolving the tangled problem: —They created a Nuclear De fense Affairs Committee made up of all member nations wanting to join. There were 11 of them—the United States, Britain, West Ger many, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Den mark and Canada. France, Nor way, Luxembourg and Iceland will be free to come in later if they wish. —WITHIN THE committee they formed a nuclear planning group of seven countries whose experts still have the task of precisely defining the .scope of their mission. Four nations will have permanent seats in the group—the United States, Brit ain, West Germany and Italy. The remaining seven members of the committee will share the three other places on a rotational basis of 18-month terms with Turkey, the Netherlands and Denmark going in first, according to Brit ish authorities. Stark Returns After NY Trip J. Wayne Stark, director of Texas A&M’s Memorial Student Center, returns to the campus to day after attending a national conference in New York this week. Stark represented A&M at the 10th conference of the Associa tion of College and University Concert Managers at the Park- Sheraton Hotel. Snook, Somerville To Get Lectures On Atom Power Atomic energy and its uses will be demonstrated at Somerville and Snook High Schools Dec. 20 and 21. “This Atomic World,” a dem onstration lecture designed by the Atomic Energy Commission, will acquaint the two schools’ students with basic principles of nuclear energy, its sources and role in industry, agriculture and medi cine. Charles McLemore manages the 40 - minute assembly program sponsored by Texas A&M and Oak Ridge Associated Universi ties. Using student terms, McLe more describes structure of atoms, radiation, reactors and fusion. Special equipment shows radiation sources, how nuclear energy is harnessed for electric power, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and life process studies using radioistotopes. Civilians And Corps Enjoy Christmas Meal Wednesday Night Aggies’ Shout: ‘One More Day And WeTl Be Out!’