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Ags At Austin Saturday For Day Game With Texas By GARY SHERER Battalion Sports Editor The Aggies will take the floor Saturday afternoon at Austin in Texas’ Gregory Gym for a 2 p.m. encounter with the Longhorns. TEXAS WILL be looking to gain revenge for the loss they suffered at College Station last month, 68-59. The Aggies on the other hand will want to top the Longhorns, as a win will give the Aggies their only clean sweep of another Southwest Conference team this year. Longhorn Coach Harold Brad ley currently has his team at 6-5 in the SWC and 12-9 overall. Texas has had good and bad moments this year, as they were expected to be a contender. The team has been averaging over 80 points a game, led by their guard- duo of Noel Stout and Billy Arnold. Stout, 6-3 senior from Dallas, leads the scoring in the SWC with a 16-point average. He is 16.1 for the season. Arnold, a junior from Fort Worth, is runner-up in SWC scoring with a 15.5 average and is 15.7 for the season. THE LONGHORNS are on a two-game losing streak in the SWC, falling to Baylor, 101-75, last Saturday and Tuesday night were knocked off by hot Texas Tech, 88-78. The Steers lost one of their better scorers to academic ineli gibility in the form of Dale Dot son. Dotson had been a starter since transferred to Texas from Lon Morris JC last year. Since losing Dotson, the Long horns have gone 2-3 in the SWC. This has been the case with Texas all year, however, as they have not been consistent, but have managed to keep a winning record. The Aggies have won three out of the last five ball games and are now 6-3 at home. However, they have not been able to find the winning touch on the road. Aggie Coach Shelby Metcalf was really pleased with his team Tuesday night when they came back from a 17-point deficit to top Baylor, 71-69. He praised the team for its never-give-up atti tude and hopes they can carry their hot streak to Austin Satur day afternoon. Sonny Benefield still leads the team in SWC scoring with a 12.2 count. John Underwood, Billy Bob Barnett and Ronnie Peret are 11.3, 11.2 and 10.8, respec tively. PERET, Benefield and Barnett are running one-two-three in sea son scoring with 12.4, 12.1 and 11.0 readings, respectively. Peret and Barnett are having a friendly duel for the team re bound leadership. Peret is well ahead for the season, leading 186-144. Barnett, however, leads in SWC play with a slim 83-82 margin. None of the other play ers are close to the two sopho mores in this department. HOWEVER, the third-leading Aggie rebounder is Underwood, and this is quite a feat for the Honey Grove junior, as he plays on the outside. He has still man aged to grab off 83 rebounds for the season and 32 in the SWC* This game will be the next-to- last road game for the Aggies, who are now 5-6 in the SWC and 6-15 overal. They will be home Tuesday night against league leading Southern Methodist. Fish Ball Begins Saturday At 8 p.m. The 1967 Fish Sweetheart will Saturday night and will then be Che Bdttdlion be crowned Saturday night dur ing ceremonies in the annual Fish Ball at Sbisa Dining Hall. A judging committee, including class officers and advisors, plus Aggie Sweetheart Kathi Austin, will choose from seven finalists in the competition whose names were submitted by first-year stu dents here. The seven were among 35 entries, according to Fish Social Secretary James St. John of Dallas. The candidates are Glenda Jean Phillips, a senior at Winnsboro High School; Karen Cox, a senior at Fort Worth Eastern Hills High School; Janet Feldmann, a jun ior at Marlin High School; Cheryl Ann Schneider of San Antonio, a Robert E. Lee High School sen ior; Kathy Frances Crews, a jun ior at Temple High School; Betsy Stark of San Antonio, a SMU freshman; and Deborah Ann Spurlock of San Antonio, a fresh man at Trinity University. THEIR ESCORTS FOR the dance are, respectively, Richard Conley, Blaine Purcell, Virgil Yoakum, Robert Burnside, Gary T. DeCola, Ken Trawick, and Lewis Radicke. Theme of the dance will be "Under Water in Blue,” accord ing to St. John. Two bands, the Yaks and the Aggieland Orches tra, will provide music. Tickets to the ball, which will last from 8 to 12, remain on sale from class officers until sold at the door, St. John added. DRESS FOR the dance will be class “A” winter uniform with white shirts and bow ties for Corps members and black suits or tuxedos for civilians. Girls will wear short or long formals. Saturday afternoon’s activities in preparation for the annual event include a reception at 2:30 in the Memorial Student Center, where the sweetheart candidates will meet the judges. Class Pres ident Gerry Geistweidt said the girls will be presented during the ball at 9:30 p.m., and the an nouncement of the winner is scheduled for 10 p.m. Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1967 Number 407 Events, Plans Announced For Big Military Weekend Fish Drill Team Goes To Canyon For Competition The Fish Drill Team unracks rifles for its first campetition since December Saturday at West Texas State. The six-team Canyon meet will be the team’s only appearance be fore the annual A&M drill tourn ament March 11. “We’ll be shooting for a first place so we can go to the Cherry Blossom national championships in Washington, D. C.,” com mented Calvin Reese, team spon sor. Top teams in the six competing are A&M, Texas Tech, New Mex ico Military Institute and West Texas. Oklahoma will also be represented. The 31-man team, commanded by Justo Gonzales of San An tonio, departs for Canyon at noon Friday. Executive officer and right guide is Richard G. Gon zales of San Antonio. Beat t.u. 2 Dances, Review To Be Features TOP ENGINEERS Dr. Charles Sampson Jr., (right) head of the night. Leonard Brown Jr. Civil Engineering Dept., was named “En gineer of the Year” at the annual banquet of the Brazos Chapter of the National So ciety of Professional Engineers Thursday _ (left), a 1954 A&M graduate, was named “Outstanding Young Engineer.” Chapter president, Peter Weiner, (center) presided. Head Of CE Department Named ‘Engineer Of Year’ Weather SATURDAY—Clear, winds east erly 5 to 10 m.p.h. High 64. Low 31. SUNDAY—Clear to partly cloudy. Winds southerly 15 to 20 m.p.h. High 71. Low 38. Dr. Charles H. Sampson Jr., head of Texas A&M’s Civil Engi neering Department, has been named “Engineer of the Year” by the Brazos Chapter of the Na tional Society of Professional En gineers. The award, presented annually to the engineer deemed to have made the most significant contri bution to his profession, was an nounced during the organization’s “E ngineer’s Week” banquet Thursday night at Briarcrest Country Club. A second award, for the “Out- The Assassination; Did Oswald Act Alone? standing Young Engineer,” went to Leonard S. Brown Jr., of Buf falo, a 1954 civil engineering graduate of Texas A&M. He is now resident engineer for the Texas Highway Department in Freestone and Leon counties. Dr. Sampson joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1960 as professor of civil and aerospace engineer ing and was named head of the Civil Engineering Department in 1964. In addition to his position as department head, he is a re search engineer and head of the Civil Engineering Division of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station and a research engineer for the Texas Transportation In stitute. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Notre Dame in 1947 and 1948 and his Ph.D. from Missouri in 1953. Brown joined the Highway De partment immediately upon grad uation from Texas A&M and served a year as an engineering assistant at Hearne before ac cepting a position as design en gineer for Dow Chemical Co. in Freeport. He returned to the Highway Department in 1958. Beat t.u. Texas A&M’s military moves front and center March 3 and 4 for military weekend activities. Two dances—the Combat and Military Balls—and a Corps of Cadets review highlight the week end. A Saturday luncheon, com mandant’s reception and Presi dent Earl Rudder’s buffet for distinguished guests are included in the schedule. Maj. Gen. Chester A. Dahlen, deputy commanding general of the Fourth U. S. Army, Fort Sam Houston, and Maj. Gen. Melvin F. McNickle, command ing general, Oklahoma City Air Materiel Area, Tinker AFB, will be among distinguished guests, announced Col. D. L. Baker, com mandant. CADET COLONEL of the Corps Eddie Joe Davis of Henri etta will initiate Saturday activi- Grad Invites Deadline Set Next Tuesday Seniors who expect to gradu ate in May must order their graduation invitations at the MSC Student Finance office be tween 9 a.m. and noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Monday or Tuesday. Mrs. Faye Yeates of the Stu dent Finance Office said that not enough students have ordered. She urged seniors to do so Mon day because of the crowded con ditions that will result from all later-comers Tuesday. Four types of invitations are being offered, the leather-bound at $1.00 each, the imitation leather, for 50 cents, the card board bound for 25 cents and the French fold for 10 cents. Printed and engraved cards are also being sold, the printed for $1.00 per 100, and the engraved for $2.50 to $3.50 per 100. Beat t.u. ties with a luncheon at the Me morial Student Center. Distin guished guests, corps staff, brigade, air division and com bined band commanders will at tend. The Aggie Band leads off the review at 2 p.m. on the main drill field. Colonel Baker will host the com mandant’s reception for guests at 5:30 p.m. at the Ramada Inn, with the president’s buffet to follow at 7 p.m. Davis said Army ROTC cadets and their dates will dance to the music of “The Traits” of Hous ton at the 8-12 p.m. Combat Ball Friday night, at which the “Com bat Cutie” will be named. NOMINATIONS for “Combat Cutie” will be accepted by Barney Fudge, Room 119, Corps Staff Headquarters, until noon Thurs day. All Army ROTC cadets may submit candidates, Davis added. Air Force seniors may buy tickets for the Combat Ball from Mike Bassham, Corps operations officer, or at the door. They may pick up their invitations from Joey Weber, Corps sergeant major. “Liberation of Paris” will be the theme for the Sbisa Hall dance. The Saturday night Military Ball wil begin at 9 p.m., accord ing to Davis. Music will be pro vided by the Phil Gray Orchestra of Houston. Beat t.u. University Bank Appoints Sawyer Vice-President Joe R. Sawyer has been ap pointed vice president of the University National Bank, ac cording to President Harold Sullivan. Sawyer, a graduate of Baylor University, was formerly execu tive vice president of the West Bank & Trust in West, Texas. “Sawyer’s appointment to our staff is a continuation of the policy of the Board of Directors to provide the best in banking personnel to serve our customers and the people of Bryan-College Station area,” said Sullivan. He is married and has one son, 14. Beat t.u. Great Issues Sets Lecture By Time Magazine Assistant Collegian Comments Tom McKnight “In the light of the Warren Com mission and all the articles— the deal in New Orleans for one—I think it was a group— a plot, instead of just a single man,” says McKnight, a senior history major. Chip Hill “I think it should be investigated again!” Says Hill, a freshman aerospace engineering major. “Everything was rushed over. The Warren Commission’s con clusions were arrived at too quickly.” Robert McLeroy “You’d think such a thing would be very organized,” says Mc Leroy,, a senior math major, “and I don’t think it was that well organized. It seems like a lot of sensationalism. Lots of people are just putting ideas in the air!” John Scott, special assistant to the publisher of “Time” maga zine, will lecture here March 8. Sponsored by the A&M Memo rial Student Center’s Great Is sues Committee, Scott’s 8 p.m. talk in Guion Hall is entitled “Must We Starve?” The topic is the result of Scott’s 1966 visit to Asia, South Amer ica and Europe. Steve Kovich, Great Issues Committee chairman, said the au thor-lecturer has been making fact-finding trips to all parts of the globe each summer for the past 15 years. “Immediately upon his return from these journeys,” Kovich ex plained, “Scott writes a book- length, behind-the-scenes report to ‘Time’s’ publisher. When the book is published, he makes up to 200 speeches too business, profes sional and educational groups around the world.” Among Scott’s books are “East of Suez,” “Asian Journey,” “The New Europe — Can Six and Seven Make One?,” “The Soviet Economic Offensive,” ‘Crisis in Communist China,” “How Much Progress?,” and “Democracy is Not Enough.” Bom in Philadelphia, Scott at tended schools in the U. S. and Switzerland. He was graduated from George School in Pennsyl vania and spent two years at the University of Wisconsin. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. After dropping out of college during depression years Scott gained a welder’s certificate and sailed for Russia, where he work ed for five years in industrial plants before being ousted in the purge of 1937. Beat t.u. ‘February Frolic’ Slated Saturday At TWU Union Texas Women’s University in vites all Aggies to join in a “February Frolic” Saturday night. The dance, in the Sub Ball room of the Student Union Buvtdr ing, will be from 8 to 12 p.m. Admission is 50 cents and a stu dent identification card. The “Ceiling Lights” will provide the music and dress will be suit and tie or sports coat. The “February Frolic” is a prelude to the big A&M-TWU weekend to be held later in the spring. Though no specific plans have been set for the proposed weekend, it will include some form of entertainment on Friday night and a picnic and dance Saturday night, said Miss Jill Anderson, publicity chairman on the Student Council of Social Activities at TWU. Beat t.u.