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“Dry Offensive” A Flop,
Allege The Communists
Editor’s note:
The following is not actually
a news story. It is a propagan
da release prepared in Peking
and sent to the Battalion and,
presumably, to other college
newspapers across the country,
with the apparent objective of
discouraging and demoralizing
the American public toward the
war in Vietnam. We feel it pre
sents an interesting, if quite
unconvincing, look at the Com
munists’ interpretation of the
war. Pictures and captions ac
companied the release.
WATER PATROL
Canoe takes south Vietnamese guerillas across a jungle stream.
ONE MORE PLANE
Wreckage of American aircraft downed in South Vietnam.
Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1967
Number 387
By China Features’
Correspondent in Hanoi
The U. S. Army of occupation
in south Vietnam met with seri
ous setbacks on the battlefield
during the rainy season that end
ed in October, 1966. However, it
began its much publicised “dry-
season offensive” as soon as the
rain stopped in . November.
Early in that month, the U. S.
Military Command deployed 30,-
000 to 40,000 American GIs and
Saigon puppet troops, supported
by motorized units, to “search
and destroy’ the main forces of
the Liberation Armed Forces in
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| Few Ags Make
I New Year's
| Resolutions
If a poll of 50 Texas A&M
students is indicative of student
body activity, few Aggies make
New Year’s Resolutions.
Most quizzed students candidly
admitted they don’t make resolu
tions because experience shows
they are quickly broken.
One of the more unique com
ments was by Francis Bourgeosis
of New Braunfels.
“I resolved to get an earlier
start on New Year’s Eve next
year so it won’t be such a shock,”
he quipped. “Maybe I’ll start next
week.”
Olden’s Ken Reese vowed to
graduate in May, find a good job
and make lots of money.
Aubrey Davis of Hubbard was
too busy with studies to think
about resolutions.
“I came back a week early to
finish two term papers,” he
grimaced. “I’m trying hard to
graduate this term.”
Graduate student Ronnie Dod
son of Paris plans to do more
fishing.
Sammy Pearson of Calvert re
flected the attitude of numerous
students who survived the rigors
of the holidays.
“I’m going to live slower,” he
emphasized.
The majority echoed a com
ment by Donna Files of College
Station.
“I’ve never made a New Year’s
Resolution in my life,” she ad
mitted.
Second Semester Housing
Planned For Civilians
Dormitories 10,12
Must Be Vacated
Air R0TC Unit
Flys To Barksdale
Squadron 1 of Texas A&M’s
Corps of Cadets takes to the air
at 6:30 p.m. today, airlifting to
Barksdale AFB near Shreveport
for weekend tours of Air Force
equipment and installations.
The 89 AFROTC cadets of
Squadron 1, commanded by Cadet
Maj. Donald E. Woods of Mc
Lean, depart Easterwood Field at
6:30 in a C-124 of the 917th Re
serve Squadron at Barksdale, an
nounced Col. Vernon L. Head,
professor of aerospace studies.
Barksdale AFB Commander
Col. Wallace A. Mason is spon
soring the airlift and tour. Col
onel Mason has twin sons, Rich
ard and Russ, in the corps unit.
The Saturday tour includes in
side views of the B-52 bomber and
KC-135 tanker, base supply,
AGN-28 “Hound Dog” and ADM-
20 “Quail” missiles, alert facili
ties where B-52 crews are billeted
and the Second Air Force Head
quarters command post and ma
terial control center.
A demonstration by security
personnel and exercise of base
disaster control procedures will
also be viewed by the Aggies,
who will be quartered two nights
in Barksdale barracks.
Following church services Sun
day, the cadet squadron will;.fly
back to College Station.
ROOM RESERVATIONS
Mary Vance fills out forms as Aggie stu- and Don Prycer line up to reserve rooms
dents, (1 to r) Eddie Els, Rapheal Ledesma for next semester.
Turner New Highway Head
Francis C. Turner, a 1929 civil
engineering graduate of Texas
A&M University, is the newly
named acting highway adminis
trator by U. S. Secretary of
Commerce John T. Connor.
Turner, chief engineer for the
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
since 1957, succeeds Rex M.
Whitton, who retired last Fri
day as federal highway adminis
trator.
A Dallas native, Turner is a
career government employe who
Flag Drapes Ruby’s Casket,
Family Views Body Thursday
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
By EARL AYKROID
CHICAGO <A>) _ Jack Ruby’s
sisters and brothers viewed his
body Thursday as it lay in a flag-
draped casket in a funeral home.
An American flag, token of
Ruby’s service as an Army Air
Corps mechanic during World
War II, was draped on the
bronze casket. Nearby were eight
floral pieces.
The body was attired in a
black suit, a black tie and a
white shirt, and the traditional
Jewish shawl and skullcap.
Newsmen walked by the cas
ket later. They did so at the re
quest of some members of the
family. Hershey Weinstein pres
ident of the Weinstein & Sons
Funeral Home, said they wanted
to forestall any future specula
tion that the body was not Ruby’s.
A family-only funeral has been
arranged at the funeral home on
the Northwest Side on Friday
morning. Ruby will be interred
beside his parents in Westlawn
Cemetery.
Ruby, 55, the slayer of Lee
Harvey Oswald, who was named
by the Warren Commission as
President John F. Kennedy’s as
sassin, died Tuesday in Dallas,
Tex.
One brother, Hyman Ruben-
stein, objected to the presence
of reporters in the lobby of the
funeral home before they and
members of the family viewed
the body. But his objections
ended after another brother, Earl,
talked to him.
A police detail stood guard at
the chapel to prevent any dis
ruptive incidents by curious
strangers.
Rabbi David Graubart will
conduct the funeral services,
which he described as a tradi
tional Jewish ritual of burial, at
the funeral chapel and at grave
side.
At the grave, Ruby’s three bro
thers, Earl Ruby of Southfield,
Mich.; Sam Ruby and Hyman
Rubenstein, both of Chicago, will
recite the Kaddish, a Jewish
prayer.
joined the bureau in 1929 . He
earned a professional engineer’s
degree at A&M in 1940.
At A&M, Turner was an offi
cer in the Corps of Cadets and a
member of the student chapter of
the American Society of Civil
Engineers. The A&M Chapter of
Tau Beta Pi, engineering honor
society, named him an honorary
member in 1959.
Turner is a member of the
American Society of Civil Engi
neers, the Society of American
Military Engineers, the American
Association of State Highway
Officials, the Highway Research
Board, and the American Road
Builders Association.
During World War II, he was
a liaison official for work on the
Alaska Highway. In 1946 he was
named to head a $550 million
highway rehabilitation program
in the Philippines and was cited
with the Philippine Legion of
Honor for his achievements. The
U. S. State Department then re
quested his assignment to the
Foreign Service to coordinate its
entire rehabilitation program.
Other citations include the
Thomas H. McDonald Memorial
Award in 1962 from the Ameri
can Association of State High
way Officials, and three awards
from the U. S. Commerce Depart
ment, including a silver medal in
1954, a monetary award in 1956
for contributions to the national
highway development program
and a gold medal in 1962 for ex
ceptional service.
Spring semester schedules for
making room reservations for
civilian dormitories have been an
nounced by Housing Manager
Allan M. Madeley.
Students who want to reserve
the room they now occupy began
makifng reservations Thursday.
The schedule continues through
Jan. 11.
Madeley said students now liv
ing in dormitories 10 and 12,
both of which will be closed for
the spring term for air-condition
ing work, may reserve rooms in
other dormitories Jan. 12 and 13.
Students who wish to reserve
rooms other than the ones they
now occupy may register on a
first-come, first-served basis
from Jan. 16 through Jan. 27,
Madeley revealed.
Dallas Vet Joins
Ag Animal Clinic
Dr. Roland C. Mallett, a veteri
nary medical practitioner in Dal
las, joined the staff of the small
animal clinic in the College of
Veterinary Medicine this week
anounced Veterinary Medicine
Dean A. A. Price.
Dr. Mallett will be installed
as president of the Texas Veteri
nary Medical Association in
Houston Feb. 1 and has 18 years
private practice. The new A&M
faculty member has done com
mercial and government work,
serving with the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Ad
ministration and the USDA Ag
ricultural Research Service.
A 1944 graduate of A&M, Dr.
Mallett presided over the Dallas
Speakers Club, Preston North
Lions Club and the Dallas Coun
ty Veterinary Medical Associa
tion.
Room reservations are accepted
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. in the
Housing Office in the YMCA.
STUDENTS WHO have a $20
room deposit on file will not have
to pay any additional fees to re
serve rooms. Other students must
pay the deposit before reserving
a room.
Those reserving rooms for the
spring and cancelling after Jan.
15 or do not register will forfeit
their deposit unless they are not
allowed to register by the univer
sity.
Students changing rooms for
the spring semester are reminded
that it is their personal respon
sibility to clear their old rooms
properly and to check in to their
rooms with the housemaster con
cerned. This must be done with
in 48 hours of the time the physi
cal move takes place. Failure
to accomplish either of these pro
cedures will result in a charge of
$5.
IN MOVING from one civilian
room to another, one must present
a room clearance slip to the hous
ing office signed by the house
master of the room he is leaving
before exchanging keys to the
new room.
A student who moves from a
civilian dorm to a cadet dorm
will need a room change slip
signed by the housemaster, orga
nization commander, and the
cadet dorm counselor concerned
before exchanging keys.
Civilian day students, includ
ing those who live in the univer
sity apartments, are strongly
urged to secure day student per
mits early in order to save time
for all concerned on registra
tion day. Anyone who expects to
be a day student during the
spring must secure a day student
permit from the housing office
before paying fees.
Tay Ninh, Thu Dau Mot and
Bien Hao porvinces. But these
offensives were foiled by the
well-timed counter-offensive op
erations of the Liberation Armed
Forces. The South Vietnam Liber
ation Press Agency reported that
these had thrown the American
“dry-season offensive” out of
gear before it even got started.
THE U. S. 19TH Light Infan
try Brigade, which had been es
pecially trained for the type of
warfare in Vietnam, was so badly
mauled that its commander, Bri
gadier General Edward H. de
Saussure, was dismissed by the
Pentagon. The Paris edition of the
New York Herald Tribune dis
closed, in a Saigon report on
November 17, that Saussure was
sacked because the brigade he
commanded “was hard hit” in the
Tay Ninh action. It added that
the U. S. Military Command “was
less than pleased” with the way
he commanded the troops.
A detailed account of the Tay
Ninh action has just been re
leased by the South Vietnam
Liberation Press Agency. In a
lightning attack at daybreak on
November 3, the liberation forces
stormed Go Dau, an important
puppet-held stronghold in Tay
Ninh Province, strategically lo
cated 60 miles (90 kilometres)
northwest of Saigon. Helicopter-
borne American troops soon land
ed nearby, with the task of res
cuing the beleagured puppets in
Go Dau. Waiting guerillas opened
fire on the Americans as they
landed and routed them.
IN THE EVENING, the liber
ation forces shelled Go Dau and
many other posts in the neigh
borhood, killing and wounding
a large number of puppet troops.
Shells falling on the U. S. Brir
gade and its command post in
Trang Lon took a toll of nearly
300 U. S. troops.
On the morning of November
4, a strong U. S. force, consisting
of two battalions of the U. S.
196th Brigade and a battalion
of the U. S. 25th Infantry Di
vision, was dispatched to relieve
the Go Dau stronghold. This was
what the Liberation Armed
Forces had been expecting. They
shelled the leading U. S. battalion
and then charged into the Ameri
can ranks and engaged the GIs
in hand-to-hand fighting. The
whole battalion was annihilated.
The two others were repulsed
with heavy losses.
THE U. S. Military Command
hurriedly sent the 173rd Airborne
Brigade and the U. S. 1st Infan
try Division, which was then en
gaged in a “search and destroy”
operation near Saigon, to the aid
of the 196th Brigade in Tay Ninh
Province. In the fighting that
ensued the U. S. Army encounter
ed further setbacks.
While stepping up their attacks
on the main battlefield, the Lib-
(See Communist Page 3)
Paper On Traffic
Flow Presented
By Researchers
Hoy A. Richards and James D.
Jones of Texas A&M University
will present a paper Jan. 18 at
the 46th Highway Research
Board meeting in Washington,
D. C.
Entitled “Application of Motor
Carrier Continuous Traffic Study
Techniques to Assembly of Inter
city Freight Traffic Data,” the
paper results from a continuous
study of traffic flow character
istic of motor freight carriers
being conducted by the Texas
Transportation Institute for the
Southwest Motor Freight Bureau.
Computerized freight bill anal
ysis provides data for transporta
tion planning and research in the
Southwest.
Ag Judging Team On Top
By JAMES A. BASINGER
Most people are familiar with
the duties of a basketball coach
or a football coach but how many
have ever thought how one goes
about coaching a meat judging
team ?
Texas A&M University, long
noted for its outstanding School
of Agriculture, showed off its
Department of Animal Science
with a convincing win in the 37th
annual intercollegiate meat judg
ing contest at the International
Live Stock Exposition in Chicago.
Dr. Zerle L. Carpenter, coach
of the team and assistant pro
fessor of Animal Science, ex
plained how members of the
team are chosen.
“Everyone who takes my
course, Animal Science 317, is
eligible for the team. I select the
team from the best students in
that class.
IN THIS COURSE, the stu
dents are acquainted with the
principles of meat judging. This
requires the student’s ability in
placing beef, lamb, and pork car
casses into classes in addition to
placing into different classes the
various cut classes including beef
ribs, chucks, loins, and rounds,
and fresh hams.
There are five members on the
team including two alternates.
The regular members of this
year’s team are . Roy Birk of
Llano, Jim Sanders of Beeville
and Spencer Tanksley of Bryan.
The alternates are Larry Boleman
of Waco and Vincent Neuhaus
of Mercedes.
One unique feature of this team
is that Dr. Carpenter chooses
new members every year re
gardless of whether a student may
be eligible for another year.
“ALTHOUGH MOSTother
teams have holdovers, I mainly
have juniors and then after one
year on the team, I encourage
them to move somewhere else
where they may gain experience
in other forms of judging such
as livestock judging.”
Dr. Carpenter encourages the
top 10 to 12 students from his
Animal Science class to go out
for the team, and from these
people, he will have his new team.
(See Judging Page 3)