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Army Gives Tour To ROTC Cadets By DONALD R. JANACEK Battalion Special Writer Army cadets were treated to helicopter tours of the Bryan- College Station area Wednesday, courtesy of the United States Army. Two HU-1D Troop Carrier Helicopters from the Bell Air craft Co. spent the afternoon taking the cadets on 15-minute flights around the area. A heli port was improvised in front of Duncan Hall and cadets were lined up, begining at 1 p.m. Purpose of the flights was to arouse interest in the Army Avia tion Program for which cadets may apply upon graduation. The two ’copters were flown Wednesday morning from Sam Houston State College in Hunts ville where they spent Tuesday stimulating interest in the mem bers of the ROTC program at that school. They were piloted by two Bell Helicopter test pilots and two regular Army pilots from Ft. Hood. Included in the crew were two maintenance sergeants from the helicopter branch at Ft. Hood. General Hamilton H. Howze, Ret., who is now vice-president of Bell Helicopter, was also on campus in connection with the chopper flights. He spoke to the Corps of Cadets Wednesday night in the ballroom of the MSC. The subject of his speech was “The Battle of Chancellorville.” The two aircraft are the latest model troop carriers in use in Vietnam. They are armed with Marriage Forum Draws Crowd For First Meet “Lack of communication is one of the most prevalent problems facing all married couples,” said Dr. Robert Ledbetter, visiting lec turer from the University of Texas, Wednesday night at the YMCA’s “Marriage Forum.” Ledbetter told the nearly 250 Aggies who were at the forum that too many couples try to solve their problems by discussing trivial details and that more at tention should be given to the major problems. If a couple cannot seem to solve their own problems, then Led better suggests they discuss them with a neighbor or another friend. He added that this “third party” should not be a member of either family because this would only tend to divide the family. Another problem that many couples have in their marriage is when one of the spouses tries to change the other. This is a prob lem in many instances where the couples have not been honest in the courtship stage and they have tried to change their personalities in order to get along better with their “steady” or “fiance.” A third area in which many couples have problems is when there is a lack of understanding between the couple and they aren’t willing to try and become inter ested in related areas. Ledbetter said it is important for all couples to realize that “every marriage has problems” and it is only by both members of a marriage attempting to understand these problems and using strong will-power that the problems will be solved. Ledbetter is a graduate of the Universtiy of Texas and he has been counciling at the University Health Center, doing private mar riage counciling and acting as a visiting lecturer for the Uni versity Sociology Department since 1961. Girl Watcher’s Feature Added A “Girl Watchers’ Corner” has been added to the Battalion, starting today. This project will feature Texas Woman’s University girls. Pic tures and short personal sketches will be included. The Battalion undertook the feature in an effort to give its readers a better understanding of its female counterparts All ma terials were gathered on the TWU campus in Denton or at the school’s Nursing Center in Dal las. Weather two M-60 machine guns when used in combat. On Wednesday’s flights, each craft carried 11 cadets at a time. Cadets who are interested in the Army flight program should apply for aviation training. If selected, they will undergo four months of pre-flight training at Ft. Wolters, near Mineral Wells. They then proceed to advanced training in Virginia. A cadet spends approximately nine months in training before re ceiving his wings. He may then go on to more advanced training, such as instrument flying. One of the pilots here Wednes day was W. O. Harrison, a gradu ate of Texas A&M. Cbe Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1967 Number 402 Manry Speak Friday Tinker belle’s Voyage MSC Presentation To Begin At 8p.m. I— iMISi Sr : ; ' H JPr 1 " m ^ \ 'v A* ' w I® I W ®-} Sir , vrfB HIP HELICOPTER TOURS Senior Army ROTC cadets are shown with one of two HU- on tours of the area. Purpose of the project was to arouse ID Troop Carrier Helicopters from the Bell Aircraft Co. interest in the Army Aviation Program, which spent Wednesday afternoon at A&M taking students ‘Books-To-Viet’ Request Set Donald G. Rapp, a senior archi tecture major from Galveston, will appear before the Student Senate tonight with a request for support of his project to send paperback books to Marines in Vietnam. Rapp said Senate President Barney Fudge has already pledged funds to finance the ef fort, which began when Rapp re ceived a letter from a friend in the front lines. “Bill Johnson, a corporal in the Third Marine Division in South Vietnam, wrote to me asking for reading matter,” he explained. “The men close to the action aren’t able to find much enter tainment during lulls in combat, and they want paperback books to FRIDAY—Partly cloudy to cloudy, winds northly 10 to 20 m.p.h. High 52. Low 34. SATURDAY—Clear to partly cloudy, winds northly 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 61. Low 28. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. ParkingViolations May Bring Change Continuing parking violations may soon cause day students to lose the use of the temporary fa cilities along the golf course. “Due to campus construction projects, day students have been allowed to park on the west side of Bizzell St. across from the golf course,” Ed Powell, campus se curity chief, explained, “but they have been using the east side also, which is reserved for only those persons playing golf.” Powell added that continued violations and complaints will re sult in an end to the present ar rangements for day students. Concerning other parking prob lems, Powell explained violations by spouses of Texas A&M em ployees. “We find that some persons are violating the purpose of the permits issued to their spouses,” Powell said, “by using the ve hicles for personal business on the campus and thfen returning the vehicles to the parking areas.” It is a problem of unfair ad vantage. One student is al lowed the use of a more desirable parking area just because his spouse is employed at the school, while another student cannot be cause his spouse does not work at the university, Powell said. pass the time.” Rapp said the letter arrived during final exams last month. At first, members of his company, E-l, began sending the books to Johnson, but later the idea oc curred to Rapp that the project could be carried out on a larger scale. “AFTER WE began running low on books around the dorm, we contacted Pete Plotts, the manager of the Exchange Store Bookstore,” he went on. “He said the store could let us have a lot of books that for some reason haven’t sold. They usually end up sending these books back to the company of throwing them away.” Plotts also agreed to help pack and mail the volumes, Rapp con tinued. The only cost would be for postage, which had originally been paid out of the paychecks of Johnson and the other Marines. “I WANT to bring this matter to the attention of the Student Senate so that we could spread the word on the project,” Rapp added. “Anyone who knows serv icemen in Vietnam with similar problems, or anyone who has a number of bonks to contribute, may contact me in Dorm 3, Room 318, or at the Fourth Year De sign Laboratory, Room 210 of the Architecture Building.” Rapp emphasized that the proj ect is seeking “good, clean litera ture” to send overseas. “As I see it, the number of books we can send depends on the amount of help we get packing them and on the amount of post age money contributed,” he noted. He said Fudge had indicated that the Senate would probably appro priate a reasonable sum of money for the postage. Rapp explained that the books may be shipped three ways: regu lar rate, at 10 cents for the first pound and five cents per pound from there up; by free airmail service from San Francisco to Vietnam, at 30 cents for less than five pounds; and direct airmail for over five pounds at 80 cents a pound. Sbisa Needs Noon Report “Students with noon classes, who Want to eat late meals in Sbisa Hall, but who have not al ready made arrangements, should come by the Food Services Dept, at their earliest convenience,” an nounced Col. Fred Dollar, Food Services director. Col. Dollar also noted that be fore coming to get their I.D. cards embossed, students should have their professors give them notes explaining that they are enrolled in noon classes. Upon presenting the notes, students will get their cards embossed, allowing them to eat in the base ment board cafeteria. By RUSSELL AUTREY Battalion Special Writer Robert Manry, 47-year old newspaper copy editor who sailed his 13%-foot boat across the At lantic, will speak Friday night in the Memorial Student Center. Manry will give his account of “Tinkerbelle’s Run to Glory” at 8 p.m. in the MSC ballroom. He is the second speaker of the Great Issues “World Around Us” series. It was on June 1, 1965, that the small but gallant white boat with its orange-red sails set out on her successful 78-day journey across the Atlantic from Falmouth, Mas sachusetts, to Falmouth, England. Her captain, crew and only pas senger was a modest, 47-year old copy editor on the staff of The Plain Dealer, morning and Sun day newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio. MARRIED, the father of two children, Bob Manry was educat ed at the Universities of Dijon in France, Lignan in China, and Antioch College, Ohio. The only previous cruising he had done was on Lake Erie, but for many years he had read about and been fascinated by the stories of other small-craft crossings. It was a long, lonely adventure. “I met Portuguese men-of-war, a Russian trawler and a U. S. sub that came up with a loud honk,” Manry says. “On the 69th day, a plane came bearing oranges, bananas and a welcome to British waters.” The end of the voyage was joyous. It was estimated that 50,000 people lined the Falmouth shore. As Manry describes the scene: “Boats swarmed around us. I patted Tinkerbelle on the stern and said, ‘Well done.’ ” TINKERBELLE is one of the Whitecap Class, but Manry large ly built her. The single-masted boat is 36 years old, and he’s had her for six years. Manry coated the hull with fiberglass, installed a heavy iron daggerboard and built the tiny cabin and cockpit of plywood, sealed water-tight. A special flotation material was put in. Manry was able to climb back aboard the boat the half a dozen times he was thrown into the ocean by the force of wind and waves. Equipment that Manry had in cluded a sextant, ocean charts and a Victory Girl radio trans mitter for sending distress calls, if necessary. He also had 28 gal lons of fresh water plus a solar still for freshening salt water, canned food for 90 days, two ex tra suits of sails, foul weather gear, medicines, books and photo equipment. MANRY WAS absolutely un subsidized, equipping for the ap proximately 3,000 mile venture on his own. He set a new record for this size of boat, the previous having been set by Si Lawler in a 15-footer in 1891. The international publicity that followed Manry’s adventure came as something of a surprise to him. LIFE called him a “reluc tant hero” and had to talk him into writing of his dangers at sea. The magazine devoted ten pages to his fascinating story and his brilliant color photos. He later decided to write a book about his experiences aboard Tinkerbelle. Bob Manry’s reason for sail ing? “There comes a time that one must decide, of one’s dreams, either to risk everything to achieve them, or sit for the rest of one’s life in the backyard.” Admission is $1 for general public, 50 cents for public school children and Aggie wives and free for Aggies with activity cards. NASA Says Fire In Several Phases Killed Astronauts WASHINGTON (A>)_The spacecraft fire which killed three astronauts at Cape Kennedy, Fla., may have had more than one phase, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Wednesday. A report from NASA Deputy Administrator Robert C. Seamans Jr. said that one theory, support ed by the history of the cabin pressure, indicates that a small low-grade fire occurred first with the heat initially absorbed largely by the spacecraft structure. This could have been the fire burning at the time of the first alarm from the three-man crew, the report said. It added that that fire may have continued for as long as ten seconds. “A more intense fire may have then developed, causing the rapid increase in cabin pressure,” the report continued. “This fire was probably then extingiushed by the depletion of oxygen.” Seamans added that the theory is difficult to prove, since the last phase would obscure the evidence of the earlier. “Other peculiarities require further analyses,” h e said. “These deal with the ruptures in the spacecraft and the role of the fire in burning through into the space between the inner and the outer hulls. “At this time, there has been no determination as to the force of the ignition itself.” Collegian Comments Should The IL S. Continue Its Bombing? "i'"' JAMES LARKIN Graduate Student “I can’t see making a game out of the war,” says Larkin. They’ve got more ground rules than any game you can men tion—don’t bomb this or that or the other. Then this thing about avoiding civilian deaths . . . war is war.” DENNIS HORMAN Senior “The freedom of choice of what government yon w&nt to rule you. The American _ attitude to do good—the good neighbor—and keeping communism Out of Viet nam are the reasons I favOr the bombing.” MICHAEL JENKINS Junior “It would probably be better if a large land force was used to seize, hold and control rather than bomb,” Jenkins said. LARRY BEREND Sophomore “Look what happened when we did stop the bombing!” said Berend. “North Vietnam in creased their flow of supplies. I believe that continued bombing will get them into a position where they will have to talk peace.” RAY RODGERS Graduate Student “We certainly should continue the bombing!” says Rogers. We are in there and we certainly can’t back out now. If we’re go ing to win, we have to continue the bombing in other areas also in order to make it more effec tive.”