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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1967
Number 388
Foreign Ags Entertain
At Prairie View A&M
WHAT OUR TROOPS FACE IN THE MEKONG DELTA
Vietnamese infantrymen and rangers ride armored person- faced by several battalions of the U. S. 25th Division which
nel carriers through the muck of the Mekong Delta during have moved into this area of South Vietnam. (AP Wire-
a search and clear operation southwest of My Tho, about photo)
60 miles from Saigon last week. Terrain of this kind is
Jury Chosen For Baker Trial
By MARTHA COLE
WASHINGTON <A>> — A jury
of six men and six women was
chosen Monday to try Bobby Bak
er on multiple charges. Six alter
nates — four men and two wom
en — also were picked.
Both the government and de
fense expressed satisfaction with
the selection after a day of ques
tioning a panel, and with federal
Judge Oliver Gasch taking extra
ordinary precautions to get and
maintain a fair and impartial
jury.
The judge announced that the
jury would be locked up each
night during the trial, which he
said is expected to run from two
months to 10 weeks.
Baker, 38-year-old former sec
retary to the Senate’s Demo
cratic majority and confidant to
many of the senators, including
Lyndon B. Johnson, watched at
tentively as the panel was ques
tioned.
And as the jury and alternates
were sworn, Baker arose and
faced them.
The questioning began the trial
which is expected to include the
issue of electronic surveillance of
hotel or office suites of Baker
Aggie Band, Ross Volunteers
Invited To Inaugural Parade
Lt. Gov. Preston Smith has
designated the Texas Aggie Band
to lead him in the Governor’s
Inaugural Parade at Austin Jan.
17.
The band, directed by Lt. Col.
E. V. Adams, and Ross Volun
teers will represent Texas A&M
in the state ceremonies.
Gov. John Connally and Smith
will take the oath of office at
noon. Scene of the inauguration
will be a special platform at the
Capitol building south entrance.
The Ross Volunteers assemble
in the capitol rotunda at 11:30
a.m. The governor’s honor guard
will form a lane through the
Educational
TV In For
Busy Month
Two remote videotape record
ings will consume most of the
time of the staff of Educational
Television this month, reports
ETV Director Mel Chastain.
The Engineering Building will
be the site of the first video
taping. The programs presented
by a visiting engineer will be
recorded Jan. 19-20.
The next event to be videotaped
by ETV will be the Executive
Development Course sponsored by
the 3M Corporation. The three-
hour session will be conducted
Jan. 24 at the Ramada Inn.
The ETV staff is also getting
ready to present another course,
Mathematics 122, the spring
semester. The calculus course is
the second half of Mathematics
121 which was presented by ETV
this semester.
The department is also involved
in videotaping all the Texas A&M
home basketball games. Coach
Shelby Metcalf looks at the in
stant replay during halftimes in
order to determine his strategy
for the second half, according to
Chastain.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
south entrance to the platform
through which the ranking state
official and his party will pass.
The band and RVs will march
in the 3 p.m. parade.
Colonel Adams said the 255-
man band will be one of four
leading units in the inaugural
parade. The Aggie Band will
precede the lieutenant governor.
Lubbock High School’s band will
also march in the parade, at his
invitation. Smith attended Lub
bock High.
Connally chose the University
of Texas and Floresville High
School bands for the parade.
Drum majors William M. Hens
ley of San Antonio, Freeman J.
Jarrell of Dallas and Donald C.
Burleson of Pasadena will direct
the band over the Congress Ave
nue parade route to the capitol.
The organization journeys to
Austin on seven buses Tuesday
morning and returns immediately
after the parade.
The band plays at an 8 p.m.
A&M-Texas basketball game at
College Station, following a late
supper.
Colonel Adams announced the
band will participate in the Hous
ton Livestock Show and Rodeo
Feb. 22.
acquaintances. The government
maintains the admitted bugging
operations had no connection
with the indictments charging
Baker with income tax evasion,
larceny and conspiracy.
He pleaded innocent at the time
of his indictment a year ago.
Gasch emphasized that “both
the accused and the government
are entitled to have this case
tried by a fair and impartial
jury.”
He recognized, Gasch said, that
there would be extensive press
coverage of the trial, and said
that this is in accord with the
principles of American society.
“I must also take note of the
decision in the Sheppard case,”
he said. In that case the Su
preme Court ruled that Dr. Sam
uel H. Sheppard was deprived of
his constitutional right to a fair
trial because the jury that con
victed him of killing his wife
wasn’t shielded from prejudicial
publicity. A second trial won
him acquittal.
Baker sat at a table with his
four attorneys, including the
noted trial lawyer Edward Ben-
ett Williams.
Gasch first excused those who
said they are acquainted with
Williams or the other lawyers.
He excused those also who said
that they had formed an opinion
about the case.
Remarking that there had been
many news stories about the case,
particularly in weekly maga
zines, Gasch asked the panel if
they subscribed to or read regu
larly the following:
National Review, U. S. News
and World Report, New Repub
lic, the Nation, Time and News
week.
Many said they subscribed to
one or more of the magazines;
some said they read them; but
none said they had formed an
opinion from their reading.
Gasch asked also if any knew
the senators and two members
of the staff of the Senate Rules
Committee. The Rules Commit
tee, which conducted an investi
gation, issued a denunciation of
Baker in June 1965 saying the
used “the political influence of
his public office to feather his
own nest.”
Baker made $19,600 a year in
his Senate post, but he built hold
ings which he estimated as worth
$2 million in such diverse fields
as vending machines, real estate,
and law.
By MIKE FLAKE
Battalion Staff Writer
The Texas International Stu
dents helped initiate Prairie View
A&M’s new Health and Physical
center Monday with a program
entitled “International Night.”
The night’s events began early
Monday morning when Interna
tional Day was declared, and all
foreign students on the Prairie
View campus were given special
honors.
At 7 p.m., three carloads of
A&M students representing 13
countries walked into the newly-
constructed center while a local
band played the processional.
For the following two hours,
the foreign Aggies entertained
their hosts with eight-minute per
formances, covering fields from
judo exercises to Mexican ballads.
In each act, the performer wore
the clothes of his native land.
An audience of several hun
dred, including guests and digni
taries from Houston, saw the
program.
The night’s activities were com
pleted by a reception, in which
the Aggie visitors visited with
the Prairie View faculty.
“Over the years some lasting
friendships have been formed
through this occasion,” Robert L.
Melcher, foreign student advisor,
said.
The official program included
a judo exhibition by Donald
Scafe, Canada, and Jose Lopez,
Dominican Republic; “Charcaz,”
an Armenian folk dance by Higus
Gasperian, Iran; “Don Huaste-
cas,” a Mexican ballad and “Odi-
ame,” a Peruvian folk song, both
with guitar accompaniment by
Jose Adame, Mexico; Ruben Ba-
zan, Mexico; Octavio Arias,
Panama.
“Solamente una vez ame”
Only Once I Loved), piano
selection by Jose Flores, Domini
can Republic; “Tinikling” (Dance
of the Rice Birds), by Mr. and
Mrs. Ramon Ibarbia, Philippines,
and Mr. and Mrs. Romero Obordo,
Philippines; “Babkya Mo Nen-
eng” (Your Wooden Slippers), a
Philippines folk song, by Mr. and
Mrs. Ramon Ibarbia.
“Chang Yong de Fang” (In a
Very Far Place), Chinese folk
song by Justin Liu; “You Are My
First Love,” flute and drum duet,
by Abdul Azeez, Pakistan, and
Muhammad Akhtar, Pakistan;
“Play for Me,” flute solo by
Abdul Azeez; “Las Chapanecas”
(The Girls From the State of
Cornell Announces
Ag Assistantships
Dean L. Linscott, graduate com
mittee Department of Agronomy,
Cornell University, announced
graduate assistantships are avail
able in the Department of Agron
omy at Cornell.
Students who might be consid
ering graduate work should con
tact Dr. Morris E. Bloodworth,
head of the Soil and Crop Science,
Texas A&M University, for more
information.
Chapas), by Mrs. Joel Maltos.
The program was completed
with a presentation of interna
tional dress styles by Mrs. Joel
Maltos, Mexico; Mrs. Jung Uck
Seo and daughter, Korea; Mrs.
Horace Jacob, India; Mrs. Ashraf
Alam, Pakistan; Mrs. Ramon
Ibarbia, Philippines, and Mrs.
Luis Capurro, Mrs. Orlando Ruiz,
and Mrs. Hugo Stagno, all of
Argentina.
In addition, several people
traveled with the Aggies: Bennie
Zinn, associate dean of students;
Miss Sadie Hatfield, chairman of
the University Hospitality Com
mittee; Dwight Landua, graduate
student from the U. S.; Austin
Kerley, director, counseling and
testing center, Texas A&M; Jung
Uck Sea; Ashraf Alam; Mu
hammad Akhtar; Abdul Azeez,
Mrs. Daniel Gramatges, Cuba.
Following the reception, the
A&M troupe stopped in Hemp
stead, where President Earl
Rudder treated them to an eve
ning meal.
Baptist Pastor
Addresses Grads
Dr. Landrum Pinson Leavell, II,
Wichita Falls pastor and Baptist
denominational leader, will deliv
er the commencement address to
Texas A&M’s January* graduat
ing class.
A&M President Earl Rudder an
nounced Dr. LeavelTs acceptance
as speaker for the 10 a.m. Jan. 21
graduation exercises in G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Dr. Leavell replaces the earlier
announced speaker, Dr. M. B. Car-
roll, pastor of the East Grand
Baptist Church in Dallas, who
died Dec. 27.
Pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Wichita Falls since
1963, Dr. Leavell previously serv
ed as pastor of several Mississippi
Summer Institute Offered
For Nuclear Engineering
churches, among them the First
Baptist Church of Gulfport.
Dr. Leavell is a member of the
Sunday School Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention and
the Education Commission of the
Baptist General Convention of
Texas. He is a former member
of the Home Mission Board and
has served on several other state
and convention boards and agenc
ies.
The Ripley, Tenn., native earn
ed the A.B. degree at Mercer
University in Macon, Ga. Or
dained to the ministry in July,
1948, he entered the New Orleans
Seminary where he added the
B.D. and Th.D. degrees.
Active in civic affairs, Dr. Lea
vell is a member of the South
west Rotary Club in Wichita
Falls. He is married and has four
children.
By RICHARD CAMPBELL
Nuclear engineering does not
take a vacation even during the
vacation season.
Starting concurrently with the
Texas A&M summer session will
be a nuclear engineering summer
institute sponsored by the Atomic
Energy Commission.
The AEG has granted $20,000
to be used on the A&M campus
for the institute.
The institute will be conducted
for 15 teachers from colleges
throughout the nation.
The director of the institute
will be Dr. Robert G. Cochran,
head of A&M’s nuclear engineer
ing department. Professor Ronald
Yarborough To
Write Version
Of Kennedy Trip
DALLAS 0T>—Sen Ralph Yar
borough will write his own ver
sion of the ill-fated 1963 trip
President Kennedy made to Tex
as, trying to promote peace be
tween warring political factions.
Yarborough refused comment
Monday on the first installment
of William Manchester’s “Death
of a President” in which his feud
with Gov. John Connally and
Lyndon B. Johnson is a central
part.
The senator told the Dallas
Times Herald he plans his own
book about the controversy but
with the publication date no soon
er than 1973 “when there will be
two presidential elections behind
us.”
ENGINEERING GRANT
C. A. Altenbern, (left) a Natural Gas Pipeline Company
of America official, presents a $1,000 grant from his com
pany to Texas A&M’s College of Engineering. Accepting
for A&M are Development Director Dorsey McCrory and
Engineering Dean Fred Benson. Altenbern called the award
“an investment in the future.”
Williams of Del Mar College in
Corpus Christi will serve as the
tentative systems director.
“Because the teachers come
from all over the United States,
the nation as a whole and A&M
in particular benefit from their
knowledge,” said Dr. Donald E.
Emon, professor of nuclear engi
neering at A&M and last year’s
director.
The curriculum will include
lectures in the mornings and labs
in the afternoons five days a
week. There will be two six-week
periods, the first starting con
currently with the first summer
session. The teachers will be ex
posed to all of the theories, uses,
and controls of the field of radia-
All of the teachers also receive,
free from the government, a radi
ation detection and counting
system to take back to their re
spective schools.
The nuclear enginering lab in
Room 310 of the Engineering
Phi Delta Sigma
Names Officers
For Next Year
Phi Delta Sigma, honorary fra
ternity, has named officers for
1967.
David Barton was elected pres
ident; Tom Lee, vice president;
Mark Durbon, secretary; Tully
Shalan, treasurer; Ben Dial, his
torian; Scotty Barrett, parlia
mentarian; Larry Adams, chap
lain; and Joe Lipscomb, sergeant-
at-arms.
Durbon said the group is mak
ing plans for spring rush and
will announce them “shortly be
fore the end of the semester.”
The opening date of rush has not
been set, but he said it will be
sometime early in February.
A new pledge policy, now be
ing formulated, will be in effect
for the spring rush, Durbon add
ed.
Building will be used as well as
the Nuclear Science Center and
the AGN-201 reactor.
There will be a tentative field
trip to better integrate the teach
ers in the use of nuclear engi
neering in radiation. Last year a
field trip was taken to the NASA
space center in Houston. Other
extra - curricular activities are
planned.
’67 Inspection
Going Slowly
AUSTIN — Col. Homer Gar
rison, Jr., director of the Texas
Department of Public Safety, re
minded Texas motorists that
most vehicles have not yet re
ceived their 1967 inspection stick
er.
“The inspection period is two-
thirds over and only about one-
third of the vehicles have been
inspected,” said Garrison. “This
means that during the 14 weeks
remaining before the April 15
deadline for inspections, more
than twice as many persons each
week must have their car inspect
ed to avoid long lines forming at
the end of the period.”
In urging motorists to have
their vehicle inspected at an early
date, Garrison pointed out that
official stations are easily iden
tified by the standard sign dis
played at or near the service en
trance of the garage.
He advised that inspection sta
tions are being urged to request
permission to inspect any vehicle
brought into the garage for re
pairs or regular service.
“In this way,” Garrison point
ed out, “time will be saved for
the motorist as well as for the
inspection station.
And if you have not had your
vehicle inspected, take it to one
of the 5,500 authorized inspection
stations for a “check-up” and
start the new year off right with
a safe vehicle, he said.
DR. L. LEAVELL, II
‘Monique’ Casting
Begins Tonight
In Guion Hall
Casting will be conducted at
7:30 p.m. tonight and Wednes
day in the Fallout Theater Work
shop in Guion Hall for the Aggie
Players production of “Monique,”
a new French play which has just
been introduced in this country.
C. K. Esten, Aggie Players
director, said “Monique” is a
sophisticated murder mystery,
the first of its kind to be at
tempted recently by the local
stage group.
The cast will include 11 char
acters -T- five men and six wom
en.
Anyone in the community in
terested in working in the pro
duction is invited to attend the
casting, Esten said.
The play will open April 6 and
continue through April 12.
Civilian Rep
Applications for Freshman
Representative to the Civilian
Student Council are now being
accepted by H. S. Perry in the
Dorm 22 lounge. Applicant must
have posted a 1.5 or better at
mid-semester. Deadline for fil
ing is 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18.