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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1967
Number 418
Junior Class Selects
Sweetheart Saturday
CAROL AUSTIN BELL
Aggieland Accepting Entries
anity Fair Contestants
jFor V;
W Vanitv Fair
Vanity Fair entries are now be
ing accepted at the Student Pub
lications office in the YMCA, an-
. \nounced Jack Hammond, editor
\:>f the Aggieland ’67.
Engineer Classes
ITo Be Dismissed
[2 Days Next Week
AH College of Engineering
Jclasses at Texas A&M will be
dismissed Tuesday and Wednes-
pay to allow maximum faculty
[and student participation in the
luniversity’s “Engineering for the
|l970’s” convocation.
In announcing the Executive
[Committee decision to suspend
[engineering classes during the
[two-day convocation, Engineering
[Dean Fred Benson said he felt
rthe meeting was of such signifi
cance that it would provide long-
range benefits to all persons par
ticipating.
Dean Benson pointed out, how
ever, that only engineering, arch
itecture and industrial education
classes are being dismissed.
Applications may be picked up
at the Student Publications Of
fice or in Dorm 18, Room 207.
Only seniors may submit entries.
Deadline for entering a girl is
April 4.
A “5 x 7”, or larger photograph
must accompany each application.
Each applicant must be able to
fulfill the following conditions if
accepted as a candidate for Van
ity Fair:
(1) Attend picnic given for all
Vanity Fair applicants on April
8. Cost $1.00.
(2) If for some reason the
candidate cannot be present for
the picnic, get in touch with Jack
Hammond (18-207 or phone
846-3364) or Bill Crawford (18-
402) to make arrangements for a
later meeting with the candidate.
(3) Be able to appear on the
campus Friday, May 19 at a time
and place to be later specified.
The Press Club Banquet will be
held Friday night.
(4) Be able to attend the Sen
ior Ring Dance, May 20.
(5) Have a picture made on
campus for the AGGIELAND ’67.
By RANDY PLUMMER
Battalion Staff Writer
Highlighting the Junior Ball in
Sbisa Hall Saturday night will
be the selection of the class
sweetheart. Candidates for sweet
heart were selected by class offi
cers earlier this week.
The finalists are Janet Wilson,
Madeline Wilson, Carolyn Ander
son, Melinda Malone and Carol
Austin Bell.
Miss Janet Wilson, a 19-year-
old San Antonio sophomore at the
University of Texas, will be es
corted by William M. Hughs.
A 17-year-old senior at Bryan
Adams High School in Dallas,
Miss Wilson will be escorted by
James H. Averett.
Miss Anderson, a 20-year-old
sophomore at North Texas State
University, will be escorted by
B. A. Wolfe.
Two Ag Firemen
To Go To Memphis
Two Firemen’s Training Divi
sion representatives of Texas
A&M’s Engineering Extension
Service will participate in a na
tional fire department instruc
tors’ conference next week in
Memphis, Tenn.
Chief instructor Henry D.
Smith will speak during a Na
tional Fire Protection Commit
tee meeting, using training pro
grams as his topic. He also will
attend a meeting of the Interna
tional Society of Fire Service In
structors’ board of directors.
Top Scientists Gather
For Academy Of Science
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Top scientists from all areas of
the state are expected here this
weekend for annual meetings of
the Texas Academy of Science
and affiliated organizations.
Registration begins at 2 p.m.
Thursday in the A&M Memorial
Student Center, announced Dr.
Sidney O. Brown, president-elect
Weather
FRIDAY—Clear to partly
cloudy, winds southerly 5 to 10
m.p.h. High 82. Low 54.
SATURDAY—Cloudy in morn
ing becoming partly cloudy after
noon, winds southerly 15 to 25
m.p.h. High 83. Low 59.
THIRTY DAY OUTLOOK
March 15 to April 15.
Forecast temperature much
above normal. The normal mean
temperature is 63 and the much
above 68. The precipitation out
look is light to no precipitation
and for the 30 days will probably
be less than 2% inches. The nor
mal rainfall for this 30 day pe
riod is about 3% inches.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
of the Texas Academy of Science.
THE TEXAS Ornithological
Society, the Texas Branch of the
Animal Care Panel, and the
Texas Society for Electron Micro
scopy are meeting jointly with
the Texas Academy of Science.
Presentations of scientific pa
pers Friday and Saturday will be
supplemented by major speakers.
First speaker on the program
is Dr. George H. Lowery Jr.,
director of the Louisiana State
University Museum. His subject
is “Bird Migrations on the Texas
Coast.”
DR. ROBBIN C. Anderson of
the University of Texas, presi
dent of the Texas Academy of
Science, wil speak during a gen
eral business sessions of the TAS
Friday afternon.
“Nuclear Power from the Light
Elements—the Problem and the
Challenge,” is the 3:30 p.m. Fri-
Filing Deadline
Is 5 p. m. Friday
Deadline for filing for class
elections is 5 p.m. Friday. Those
interested should go by the Stu
dent Programs Office in the Me
morial Student Center.
day topic of James L. Tuck,
Physics Division associate leader
at Los Alamos, N. M., Scientific
Laboratory.
A banquet session Friday night
in Sbisa Hall features Dr. New
man A. Hall, executive director of
the Commission on Engineering
Education.
DR. KEITH Arnold, ornithol
ogy professor at Texas A&M, will
speak to the Texas Ornithological
Society at 2 p.m. Saturday. He
will discuss bird identification
techniques, using A&M’s collec
tion for demonstrations.
A surprise speaker is due to ad
dress the Texas Ornithological
Society at a Saturday night
dinner at the Ramada Inn. Jerry
Strickling of Houston, TOS
president, will be heard Sunday
morning.
The Texas Branch of the
Animal Care Panel will center
attention on the use of primates
in research. Dr. J. D. McCrady
of A&M’s College of Veterinary
Medicine said animal mainten
ance facilities, diseases of labora
tory animals and proper diet are
among phases of the program.
Dr. McCrady is president of the
TBACP.
A senior high school student
from Montgomery, Alabama,
Miss Bell is 18 years old and will
be escorted by Clarence T. Daugh
erty.
Miss Malone, a 20-year-old
resident of Ingram and a junior
at Texas Tech, will be escorted by
Robert R. Merritt.
A reception for the finalists
will be given in the YMCA Sat
urday at 2:30 p.m.
Posts Being
Filled For
SCONA 13
By BILL ALDRICH
Battalion Staff Writer
The Student Conference on Na
tional Affairs, SCONA, has start
ed a personnel drive for next
year’s Conference.
Applications may be picked up
in the Student Program Office.
The only qualification is a 1.0
overall grade point ratio and a
1.0 last fall.
An important general meeting
will be held at 7:30 in the social
room of the MSC, announced Carl
Feducia, personnel chairman.
“SINCE SCONA is financed by
private contributions solicited by
SCONA members, we will soon
be starting the spring fund drive
and need new members to help
organize the drive and to work
on the drive in their hometown
area,” Feducia said.
“SCONA XIII is already being
organized and now is the time
to join and help make SCONA
XIII as successful as SCONA XII
was,” Don McCrory, SCONA pub
licity chairman, added.
PATRICK G. REHMET, chair
man of SCONA XIII, stated,
“Our first job for SCONA XIII
will be to conduct a fund drive
during the Easter break, March
23-27.” He also said Henry Cis
neros has accepted the position of
finance chairman. “Most of the
first meeting will be an organi
zational one, with Henry explain
ing the Easter and June finance
drives.”
All Executive Committee mem
bers praised this year’s Confer
ence as a complete success and
were equally optimistic about
SCONA XIII.
“Partytime U.S.A.” will be the
ball theme. The decorations, set
up by class volunteers, will com
plement the theme.
Neal Ford and the Fanatics
will provide the music.
A banquet, beginning at 6:30
p.m., will precede the ball which
starts at 8:30.
Tickets, now on sale at the
Student Programs Office in the
Memorial Student Center, cost $2
per person for the banquet and
$3 per couple for the ball.
Uniform for the banquet will
be midnights and for the ball
midnights with battle scarfs.
Dress will be semi-formal for ci
vilian students.
“Everyone connected with the
ball has put in a lot of effort to
make this the best dance A&M
has ever had,” John Daly class
social secretary, said.
Overpass Opening
Set For Tuesday
Formal opening of the College
Station underpass on F. M. Road
60 has been set for 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, announced District
Highway Engineer Joe G. Han
over of Bryan.
State Highway Engineer D. C.
Greer of Austin will be featured
speaker for the ceremonies dedi
cating the $1 million project on
the north side of the Texas A&M
campus.
Additional remarks will be
made by A&M President Earl
Rudder, Brazos County Judge W.
C. Davis, College Station Mayor
D. A. Anderson and officials for
the Southern Pacific and Missouri
Pacific railroads.
The ceremonies also will in
clude the Aggie Band and a
unique ribbon-cutting.
I the outside world l
VIETNAM
Henry Cabot Lodge is resigning as ambassador to
South Vietnam, said President Johnson, making the sur
prise announcement in a speech to the Tennessee Legis
lature. Veteran diplomat Ellsworth Bunker will take over
in Saigon.
The scope of U. S. air raids on North Vietnam rose,
and field deployment of American troops in the South
increased, as the monsoon clouds began to thin out.
The generals who rule South Vietnam and the men
who are writing a new Constitution face an early show
down on how to achieve an elected government this year.
NATIONAL
Perry Raymond Russo, who testified he heard Lee
Harvey Oswald and two other man plot to assassinate
President Kennedy, said on cross-examination that he under
went psychiatric treatment in 1959 and 1960.
WASHINGTON ’
Sen. Thomas J. Dodd’s former bookkeeper told the
Senate Ethics Committee that the Connecticut Democrat
arranged to draw $6,000 from testimonial funds when
pressed by the government to pay back taxes.
The House Ways and Means Committee approved Presi
dent Johnson’s proposal for restoring business tax incenti-
tives, but made it more liberal than the White House
recommended.
The body of President John F. Kennedy was trans
ferred in secrecy to its final resting place and his widow
placed a small bouquet of lilies of the valley on the black
fnarble slab at the memorial service.
INTERNATIONAL
A friend of Stalin’s daughter said he believes she
defected because of “a desperate longing for freedom —
to meet people she wanted, to live the life she desired.”
West Germany agreed to buy half a billion dollars
worth of U. S. government bonds to help offset costs of
keeping troops in Germany.
TEXAS
The widow of Lee Harvey Oswald said in an interview
that she never knew any of the men accused in New Orleans
of conspiring with Oswald to kill President Kennedy.
Early efforts to postpone the city sales tax issue
failed, but a Texas senator said he plans to make it a
long, drawn-out fight.
‘Old Army’ Movie
Scheduled Friday
The most popular movie at
Texas A&M is scheduled for a
benefit presentation Friday night
at Guion Hall.
“We’ve Never Been Licked,”
which depicts student life dur
ing the days of the real “Old
Army,” is set for 7:30.
Proceeds are to go to the
Memorial Student Center Travel
Committee’s overseas scholarship
and loan program.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
“A MODERN DILEMMAMA”
Aggie Players Cynthia Smith and Paul Ste- Fuller. The play will be presented tonight
wart enact a scene from the comedy, “A and Friday night in the Fallout Theater.
Modem Dilemmama,” written by Hollynn (Photo by Russell Autrey)