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.
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1967
Number 402
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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?
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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.”