Filing For Class Elections Opens Friday At MSC
7 Officers, 5 Yell Leaders:
Be Chosen Next Month
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Filing for class elections opens
at 8 a.m. Friday, announced Jack
Myers, election committee chair
man.
Names may be submitted at the
Student Programs Office in the
MSC during business hours until
5 p.m. March 17.
|f “Class officers must be aca
demically classified for their re
spective class at the time of the
election and at the beginning of
the year for which they were
elected,” Myers stated.
* He pointed out that class offi
cers must have a one-point over
all average and have posted a
one point in the fall. Yell leaders
must have a 1.25 overall and have
posted likewise the previous
semester.
All classes will elect a presi
dent, vice-president, secretary-
treasurer, and social secretary.
Each class will also elect an MSC
representative who must have a
1.5 overall and have posted a 1.5
in the fall.
The incoming senior class will
add a historian and a student en
tertainment manager to its list of
officers. These two students
must have a 1.25 overall as well
as the previous semester.
Incoming juniors will elect two
yell leaders and the incoming sen
iors will elect three yell leaders.
Applications for interviews for
two MSC Council positions may
be picked up in the Student Pro
grams Office. Positions still
open are chairman of the Travel
Committee and chairman of the
contemporary Arts Committee.
Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1967
Number 414
13 Teams Will Compete
In Drill Meet Saturday
FISH DRILL TEAM
Several members of the Fish Drill Team demonstrate Saturday in the A&M Invitational Drill Meet.
^ proficiency after last week’s review. They will compete
Time’s Scott Discusses Hunger
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By JERRY GRISHAM
|( “Man need not starve. Hunger
and starvation are manifesta
tions of mismanagement rather
than the results of any pre
ordained system of imbalances,”
John Scott, special assistant to
the publisher of Time Magazine,
said Wednesday night in Guion
Hall.
Sponsored by the A&M Memo-
rial Student Center’s Great Issues
Committee, Scott’s talk was en-
Bj titled, “Hunger: Must We
Starve?”
According to Scott, there are
three countries in the world
which represent the crux of the
world’s food problem. During the
past year he visited the three
countries, India, Pakistan and
Brazil, and left them with the
opinion that only through proper
management of resources and
capital can these countries elimi
nate their agricultural difficul
ties.
“In India I was disappointed
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VIETNAM
Viet Cong killed six Americans, wounded 25 and per
haps captured one in attacks on two camps of the U. S.
force that is getting set to challenge their 20-year hold
on the Mekong Delta rice bowl.
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WASHINGTON
Congress sent to President Johnson a bill Wednesday
authorizing $4.5 billion for additional purchases of air
craft, missiles and other expenditures for Vietnam.
Rocketing hospital costs may force Congress to find
more tax revenues to keep the medicare program in the
black. Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee, indicated Wednesday.
“Fitzsimmons is no patsy,” a Teamster Union source
said of James R. Hoffa’s replacement at national trucking
negotiations.
INTERNATIONAL
Striking Irish farmers blockaded Dublin and raised
threat of a meat and vegetable shortage. Strikers clashed
g a with police outside the capital.
NATIONAL
Adam Clayton Powell said his Republican opponent,
I James H. Meredith, “is not even a civil rights leader” and
|. will not be a formidable opponent.
A state judge indicated Wednesday that New Orleans
District Attorney Jim Garrison may have to produce his
^ unnamed “confidential informant” at a preliminary hearing
-h|| Tuesday for Clay L. Shaw, who was booked on a charge
■of conspiracy in the Kennedy assasination.
The United Auto Workers Union took control Wednes
day of a rebellious Ohio local that is threatening a wildcat
walkout which could cripple General Motors auto production.
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by he lack of efficiency,” Scott
commented. “There are 34,000
tractors in the country of 500
million and last year there were
only about one half of them in
operation due to a lack of spare
parts and qualified mechanics.”
Scott attributed India’s failure
in agriculture, in part, to the
government’s past policy of con
centrating on heavy industries
such as steel and allowing agri
culture to take care of itself.
He pointed out that programs
have been initiated in the country
to educate the people in birth
control methods. With one of the
world’s fastest growing popula
tions, the number of people born
in India each year must be re
duced before any methods to pro
vide more food can be truly effec
tive.
“Last year,” Scott pointed out,
“33 nations and over 600 ships
carried food to India.”
Upon visiting Pakistan, next
door to India, Scott reported that
he found a situation distinctly
different from that of India.
“I found Pakistan quite encour
aging,” he said. “They have set
realistic goals in solving their
problems.”
Scott credited Pakistan’s prog
ress to a more homogeneous pop
ulation while India is hampered
by a spirit of localism or states’
rights which have helped prevent
complete national cooperation.
“Brazil should not only be feed
ing the Brazilians, but it should
be feeding the Indians in the
Andes also,” Scott said in com
menting on the third country he
visited.
He said that Brazil’s difficul
ties lay not in over population
but in a lack of initiative on the
part of the Brazilian government.
“The Brazilians are splendid
people,” Scott noted. “They try
to solve their problems by evasion
and procrastination instead of
violence like other Latin Ameri
ca ncountries.”
Scott said that he ended his
assignment very pessimistic about
solutions to the world’s food
crisis.
Texas A&M’s fourth drill team
competition will match 13 teams
for eight trophies Saturday.
The Sponsor Corps, a girls’
rifle team from the University of
Texas at El Paso, will put on an
exhibition at 1:25 p.m. on the
main parade grounds in front of
the Memorial Student Center.
A&M’s Fish Drill Team will
defend the championship and a
48-inch rotating trophy that goes
to the best overall team.
Teams from Texas, Oklahoma,
New Mexico, Arkansas and Lou
isiana will be judged on inspec
tion, basic and precision drill.
First, second and third place tro
phies will be awarded in basic
and precision areas. One award
will be made to the team grading
highest in inspection. Combined
scores determine the overall win
ner.
MORE THAN 300 cadets will
be here for the meet sponsored
by the Association of Former
Fish Drill Team Members, Mili
tary Science and Aerospace Stu
dies Departments, according to
Larry G. Rice, association spon
sor.
Competing will be the Arkan
sas Polytechnic College drill team
of Russellville; Keathley Rifles,
Cameron State College, Lawton,
Okla.; Ware Rifles, McNeese
State, Lake Charles, La.; Cen-
taurian Guard, New Mexico In
stitute, Roswell, N.M.; Pershing
Rifles Company C-7, Oklahoma
State University, Stillwater; Lo-
man Rifles, Sam Houston State,
Huntsville; Marian Guard, St.
Mary’s University, San Antonio;
Also King’s Rifles, Texas A&I,
Kingsville; Cougar Rifles, Uni
versity of Houston; Buccaneers,
University of Texas, Austin; Sam
Houston Rifles, West Texas State,
Canyon; Pershing Rifles Com
pany H-10, Texas at El Paso, and
A&M’s Fish Drill Team.
TEAMS WILL begin arriving
Friday. Registration will be in
Room 105 of the military science
building. Drill team commanders
and sponsors will meet for a 6
a.m. breakfast Saturday at the
Ramada Inn to draw for sequ
ence of performance, Rice said.
Inspection will be held on the
parking lot behind the Trigon be
ginning at 8:15 a.m. Teams will
move to the main parade ground
and begin basic drill at 8:30 a.m.
Precision drill competition will
follow the Sponsor Corps exhibi
tion Saturday afternoon.
Four judges from the Fourth
Army N.C.O. Academy at Fort
Polk, La., will be headed by Maj.
Arthur J. Cates, academy com
mander.
Officers of the sponsoring Fish
Drill Team Association include
senior Richard H. Rowe of Hous
ton, president; junior Donald M.
Savage of Fort Worth, vice pres
ident; junior Bob Boldt of Tyler,
secretary, and sophomore Henry
Dille Jr. of El Paso, treasurer.
“Association members make
the meet go,” Rice said. “They
do the work.”
700 JETS Attend
Conference Friday
Weather
FRIDAY — Cloudy with fog in
morning, becoming partly cloudy
in the afternoon, winds southerly
10 to 15 m.p.h. High 71. Low
52.
SATURDAY — Cloudy mornings,
becoming clear, partly cloudy
afternoon, winds southerly 15 to
20 m.p.h. High 77. Low 53.
More than 700 persons are ex
pected to participate in the Jun
ior Engineering Technical Society
state conference Friday at Texas
A&M.
Assistant Engineering Dean J.
G. McGuire, JETS’ state coordi
nator, said 500 high school stu
dents will take competitive tests
in chemistry, engineering graph
ics, mathematics, physics and
slide rule.
Computers in A&M’s Data Pro
cessing Center will be used in
grading tests in order that win-
Great Issues
Presents Hall,
India Speech
Fran William Hall, photogra
pher, lecturer and world traveler,
will show a color film, “India,”
Thursday night at the Memorial
Student Center.
Sponsored by the MSC Great
Issues Committee, the presenta
tion features processions, ele
phant rides, rope-making, bul
locks in rice paddies, exotic danc
es, the Taj Mahal, snake charm
ers, Tibetan refugees and sacred
cows.
Steve Kovich, Great Issues’
chairman, said the movie is set
for 8 p.m. in the MSC ballroom.
Hall, former head of the photo
graphy department at Carleton
College in Northfield, Minn., has
traveled in 48 countries. He has
the distinction of being official
photographer for the only trail
er caravan ever to journey around
the world.
The lecturer has spoken in
every state in the union except
Alaska. His photographic back
ground includes a stint for Walt
Disney on the film “Secrets of
Life.” Admission for students
with activity cards is free. Ag
gie wives and public school stu
dents, 50tf; and general public,
$1.00.
ners may receive awards the
same day. Plaques will go to in
dividual winners and their respec
tive schools.
JETS’ NATIONAL president,
M. F. X. Gigliotti of St. Louis,
Mo., will address the conference’s
opening session. His topic is “The
Importance of JETS to the Stu
dent and His School.”
A&M President Earl Rudder
and Engineering Dean Fred J.
Benson also will speak.
W. J. Butler and E. A. Rose,
officials of the Diamond Alkali
Co., Deer Park, will discuss “The
Importance of Engineering Plan
ning.”
A SEMINAR is planned for
high school sponsors, advisors,
teachers and counselors. Presen
tations are set by Miss Harriet
Griffin of the Fort Worth Public
Schools, Mrs. Katherine Mays of
Needville, and Dan Massingill of
Calhoun.
Another seminar will probe
questions regarding suggested
preparation for students planning
engineering or physical science
careers.
SPEAKERS include Mrs. Thel
ma Hammerling, President of the
Texas Association of Mathe
matics Supervisors; George Mill
er, secretary of the Texas Asso
ciation of Science Supervisors;
and Dr. C. H. Samson Jr., head
of A&M’s Civil Engineering De
partment.
JETS promotes greater aca
demic preparation by high school
students who aspire to become
professional engineers.
Second Board Due
The fiscal department has an
nounced that the second install
ment of board payments is due
Monday. Payments may be paid
in the fiscal office in the Coke
Building.
University National Bank
‘On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
Collegian Comments
Should College Students Remain Deferred?
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TEXAS
Students at Paul Quinn College at Waco struck for
better food and more privileges.
Final arguments were heard Wednesday in the em
bezzlement trial of James D. Owens, accused of taking
funds from the Lumbermen’s Insurance Corporation of
Dallas and then using the money to buy the company.
Senators Joe Bernal of San Antonio and Wayne Con-
Inaly of Floresville introduced a bill Wednesday which would
[create a four-year state supported university in San
j Antonio.
Ross Ligon
“I think students who are mak
ing the grades should be de
ferred,” says Ligon, a sophomore
in economics, but contends that,
“those who don’t make the aver
age grades might be better off
serving a few years.”
Charles Hethcoat
“Johnson’s proposal seems to
eliminate a lot of uncertainity
about student draft status,” ob
serves Hethcoat, a junior in
aeronautical engineering. Fur
ther, he says, “as long as there
must be conscription at least this
new deal eliminates some
doubts.”
Robert Burford
“I think that everyone has an
obligation to give some part of
his productive life in service to
his country,” asserts Burford,
a fish pre-law major. “But, I
don’t think exceptional students
in certain fields should have
their education interrupted.
Mike Benton
Benton, a junior in management,
says he likes the new Johnson
idea better than the way it is
now. “It gives some men a chance
to mature in the service before
they go out in the world. I be
lieve it’s more fair.”
Joe Peters
Peters, a fish in management,
believes that students should be
deferred because, “they are in
college for a good reason.” He
also believes that, “students are
more help to the government by
staying in school.”