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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1967
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A $100,000 supplemental NASA
grant to Texas A&M for interdis
ciplinary space-oriented research
programs in physical life and en
gineering sciences has been an
nounced by Congressman Olin E.
Teague.
Harry E. Whitmore, Space
Technology Division head, said
the grant will support a broad
integrated program of space-re
lated scientific and engineering
basic resources activities.
Individual projects and princi
pal investigators included in the
grant are:
“Gas Dynamic Studies in an
Arc-Driven Shock Tube,” Dr.
Richard E. Thomas.
“Fracture Mechanics of Visco
elastic Composite Materials,” Dr.
William B. Ledbetter.
Viet Cong Guerrillas’ Morale
Reportedly ‘At All-Time Low’
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A captive North Vietnamese
officer, who was a platoon lead
er in the Viet Cong’s hard-core
85th Battalion, reports that the
failure of the lunar new year
truce to produce peace negotia
tions has put the guerrillas’ mo
rale “at an all-time low.”
Lt. Truong Hiep told AP spe
cial correspondent Hugh A. Mul
ligan in an interview through an
interpreter at the South Korean
Tiger Division’s wire-enclosed
stockade in the central highlands
Bryan Residents
Are Participants
In 3-Day School
Two Bryan residents are among
60 participants in a three-day
school at Texas A&M for emer
gency care and transportation of
the sick and injured.
They include Sergeant Major
Ernest W. Bowers and Major
Robert Lealos of the United
States Army Reserve.
Bowers and Lealos also earned
basic first aid certificates in a
10-hour special course Monday
and Tuesday at A&M’s Memorial
Student Center.
The emergency care and trans
portation of the sick and injured
course ends Friday. Participants
are instructed by experts from
the medical profession and the
Red Cross.
Among the topics are resusci
tation procedures, rescue breath
ing, emergency driving, surgical
emergencies, ambulance crew as
signments, and importance and
limitations of immediate care.
at Phuoc Thanh: “Night and day
the Viet Cong long for peace.
“They had high hopes for ne
gotiation. Now they know they
cannot win without direct help
from Russia or Red China.”
A Korean private captured
Hiep earlier this week with a
karate blow. A Hanoi regular,
he had infiltrated South Vietnam
a year ago.
THE PRISONER’S pessimistic
view was in contrast to broadcast
declarations of the Viet Cong and
North Vietnam that they intend
to fight on.
Ho Chi Minh’s Foreign Minis
ter declared there will never be
peace negotiations in Vietnam
under “the threats of U.S. bombs
and bullets.” Another Hanoi dis
patch said U.S. air attacks have
had little effect in disrupting
land communications in North
Vietnam. It attributed this to a
“well-organized defense and re
pair work system.”
U.S. AMBASSADOR Arthur J.
Goldberg, arriving in Saigon
Wednesday night on his South
east Asian fact-finding mission,
said the path to unconditional
peace talks is still open if the
Communists want to talk.
Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut air
base was under full alert against
any Viet Cong attack as a spe
cial military jet plane brought
Goldberg, head of the U.S. mis
sion to the United Nations, from
a visit to Formosa. Patrols
fanned out around the base and
parachute flares pierced the dark-
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
“Studies in Low Altitude Flight
Mechanics,” Dr. Richard E.
Thomas.
“The Effect of Porosity on
Shearing Resistance and Ther-
man Conductivity for Amorphous
Soils in Vacuum,” Spencer J.
Buchanan.
“Plasma and Magnetohydrody
namic Research,” Dr. P. T. Eu
bank, Dr. Nicholas Gothard and
Prof. Stan Lowy.
“Digital Computer Solution of
Two Dimensional Plan Stress
Problems,” Dr. J. George H.
Thompson.
“Search for Anistropies in Cos
mic Ray Muon Intensities at High
Energies,” Dr. Nelson M. Duller.
“Rheological Properties of Sol
id Rocket Propellant Slurries,”
Dr. P. T. Eubank.
Additional research programs
will be initiated, particularly in
the College of Science, Whitmore
added.
Research is conducted on the
A&M campus and at the A&M
Research Annex west of Bryan.
Part of Buchanan’s research is
carried out in NASA’s vacuum
chambers at the Manned Space
craft Center near Houston.
By PATRICIA HILL
Battalion Staff Writer
Scott Roberts and Wayne Pres
cott were elected president and
vice-president of the MSC Coun
cil and Directorate, announced
Steve Gummer, current president
of the organization.
Roberts, a junior economics
major from Austin, is sergeant
major of 1st Brigade staff and
has an overall grade point ratio
of 2.33.
Prescott, sophomore economics
major from Houston, is a civilian
with an overall grade point ratio
of 2.8.
The requirements for holding
an office on the Council are:
1) The student must be interest
ed in student activities; 2) he
must have had some experience
in the student programs at the
MSC; and 3) he must have an
overall grade point ratio of 1.5,
and must have posted at least a
1.5 the previous semester.
Composed of ten students, five
A&M Mascot
Gets ‘Recess’
This Weekend
Reveille III, already bigger
than her predecessor, will par
ticipate in the Military Weekend
review Saturday during a day of
“leave” from her school work.
The Alaskan-born collie has
been in a private school in Hous
ton since December. She will re
main in the “obedience school”
until April, according to her Ca
det Company E-2 handler, John
Harris of San Antonio.
“Rev has been working out
with the Bellaire High School
band,” Harris explained.
“She is learning quite well,”
Brier said, “and this trip should
do her good.”
faculty members, and two former
students, the Council is the gov
erning body of the MSC.
The MSC Directorate is made
up of the president and vice-pres
ident of the council, plus the
chairmen of the 15 standing com
mittees of the MSC.
“Our job is to make decisions
on policy for the use of the build
ing,” Gummer said.
Each of the 15 committees has
a chairman and one faculty ad
visor who works with them. The
MSC Council and Directorate has
a $100,000 budget that it works
with throughout the year.
Also elected at the February
meeting were the chairmen of the
standing committees. They are:
Henry G. Cisneros, Leadership;
Gerald Moore, Great Issues;
Frank Tilley, Camera; Bob Bur-
ford, Personnel; Betty Franklin,
Public Relations; Fred White,
Recreation; Don Smith, Flying
Cadets; Theodore Witliff, Radio;
Norman Gabitzsch, Chess; Rob
ert Gonzales, Town Hall and Pat
Rhemet, SCONA.
Chairmen for the other five
committees will be announced
later.
“It will be Scott’s and Wayne’s
job to coordinate all these stu
dent activities and to do as good
a job as has been done in the
past,” said Gummer.
Gummer, a senior from San
Antonio, is an accounting major
and is Corps Staff scholastic of
ficer.
Remarking on the election of
the committee chairmen, Gummer
said, “All of these people will of
ficially take office at the MSC
Council and Directorate Awards
Banquet April 20.”
Roberts said that the organiza
tion has lots of new ideas for
next year that they hope to in
corporate into the program.
“We’re very optimistic,” said
the forthcoming president.
Dominican Aggies Will Celebrate
123rd Anniversary Of Independence
Dominican Republic students
here will observe the 123rd cele
bration of the independence of
their country with a special
presentation March 3 in the Me
morial Student Center.
Rafael Vargas, Dominican Club
president, said the 8 p.m. pro
gram will include traditional
music, the Merengue dance, a
student skit and slides depicting
life in the Caribbean country. It
will be open to the public.
Dominican independence was
declared Feb. 27, 1844, by a Trini-
taria of Duarte, Sanchez and
Mela, regarded as the fathers of
the country. The top Dominican
holiday is celebrated by fiestas,
speeches, special programs and
school parades, Vargas said.
The Dominican Club, first of
its kind in the United States, was
formed last October with Vargas,
president; Alejandro Fondeur,
vice president; Rafael Ledesma,
secretary; and Leo Flores, treas
urer. William Beach of the Inter
national Programs Office is fac
ulty advisor. He is campus co
ordinator of Dominican Republic
programs.
Fifty students from the coun
try are studying at A&M, 37
under Agency for International
Development contract adminis
tered by International Programs.
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GIRL WATCHERS’ PERCH??
Two students take advantage of the spring-like weather
from their perch high on a fourth-floor window ledge.
Generals McNickle, Dahlen
To Review Corps Saturday
Two generals will review the
Corps of Cadets at 2 p.m. Satur
day during Spring Military
Weekend.
Maj. Gen. Melvin F. McNickle
oft he U. S. Air Force and Maj.
Gen. Chester A. Dahlen of the
U. S. Army will be on campus
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MAJ. GEN. McNICKLE
(USAF Photo)
for the ceremonies, according to
the Office of the Commandant.
McNickle, who commands the
Oklahoma City Air Materiel Area
based at Tanker AFB, Okla., is
a 1936 graduate of the University
of South Dakota. Immediately
prior to his current assignment,
he served as Director of Supply
and Services and Deputy Chief
of Staff for Systems and Logis
tics at Headquarters USAF.
Dahlen, a 1933 graduate of
West Point who later was gradu
ated from the Air and Army War
Colleges, is presently deputy
commander of the Fourth U. S.
Army at Fort Sam Houston. He
has been chief-of-staff for the
Allied Forces of Southern Europe
in Italy, commanding general of
the Seventh Infantry Division in
Korea, assistant commandant of
the Fort Benning, Ga., Infantry
School and assistant commander
of the Second Infantry Division.
TJCPA Sets
Competition
For Members
The Texas Junior College Press
Association’s spring contest is
expected to draw entries from 21
member schools.
Deadline for entries in the
newspaper categories is set
March 17, with all material to be
received in the association’s head
quarters, Texas A&M’s Journal
ism Department, by March 20.
Dr. David R. Bowers, TJCPA
director, said competition is in
news, sports and feature stories,
editorials, columns, cartoons,
headline writing, make - up and
advertising.
Entries in each category must
have been published in respective
student newspapers since Sep
tember 1, Bowers noted.
Winners will be announced
April 15.
Yearbook competition is sched
uled during the fall term, with
1967 winners to be announced at
an Oct. 16-17 TJCPA conference
at A&M.
MAJ. GEN. DAHLEN
(U. S. Army Photo)
TEES Gets $1,000
For Electronics
The Texas Engineering Exten
sion Service has received a gift
of $1,000 for the advancement of
the University’s electronics pro
gram, Engineering Dean Fred
Benson announced Wednesday.
The contribution came from
Homer Allspach, plant manager
at Luling, La., for the Chemical
Division, Union Carbide Corpo
ration.
Collegian Comments
Should C.LA. Subsidize Student Groups?
David Gay
Gay, a junior in economics com
ments: “Yes, I think they should
simply because they haven’t been
able to get probate funds. None
of the leaders of NS A felt com
promised at all, besides, it’s in
our national interest to send
students to those foreign meet
ings!”
Charles Greer
Greer, a graduate student in
physics thinks “it’s unfortunate
that they got caught but that
it is part of their job to investi
gate. I don’t see how you can
limit their means, however, it is
unfortunate they have to get in
volved with students.”
James Campa
Campa, a freshman studying
math, says,” If they’re going
to do this they’ve got to have
reliable organizations. Also
these organizations have to be
fully aware of their responsi
bility to keep everything secret”.
Calvin Schehin
Schehin insists, “there is no
thing wrong in sending people
to represent our society and our
culture.” Here the senior in ag-
eco is refering to the annual
conventions held abroad dealing
with various student organiza
tions.
Ranee Palmer
Palmer, whose father was in
volved with the counter-intel-
legence during W.W. II, protests
that; “students are used when
they have so many men on the
C.I.A. payroll. He is a Fresh
men in History.