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Singing Cadets Schedule
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The Singing Cadets will take trips are planned during an open
to the road this weekend for a day Saturday.
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1967
Number 422
Space Fiesta Will Begin
10-Day Run On Monday
Review Highlights
First Ceremonies
heavy slate of performances in
San Marcos and San Antonio.
First stop on the abbreviated
tour is set for the Job Corps
Center in San Marcos, announced
Robert L. (Bob) Boone, director
of the 48-voice glee club.
Mrs. June Biering is pianist-
accompanist for the Singing Ca
dets.
Two one-hour programs are
booked for trainees at the Job
Corps Center. The first show is
at 9 a.m., the second at 1 p.m.
The Singing Cadets will pre
sent a two-hour concert at 8 p.m.
Friday in the San Antonio Col
ie g e Auditorium. Sightseeing
DR. KURT H. DEBUS
Space Fiesta ’67 is due a color
ful launching here Monday for a
10-day orbit.
Dr. Kurt H. Debus, director of
the John F. Kennedy Space Cen
ter, will be guest of honor for a
review of A&M’s Corps of Cadets
at 5:45 p.m. Monday.
Dr. Debus also is the featured
speaker for an 8 p.m. program in
the MSC Ballroom. His topic:
“Space Flight . . . Yesterday . . .
Today . . . Tomorrow.”
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WASHINGTON
A Senate subcommittee reported Wednesday night —
and the pentagon denied — that U. S. air and sea trans
portation forces “will be stretched to the limit” to support
massive military operations in Vietnam.
NATIONAL
The full 5th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed
Wednesday a far-reaching decision that six Southern states
must integrate their public schools from kindergarten
up at the start of the fall term this year.
An announcers’ wage strike scrambled national radio
and television network programming Wednesday, blacking
out many of the faces and voices familiar to audiences coast
to coast. All stations stayed on the air, however.
INTERNATIONAL
France took another long step into the atomic age
Wednesday. President Charles de Gaulle launched the first
French nuclear-powered submarine that will be able to
deliver Polaris-type missiles when it becomes fully opera
tional in 1970.
TEXAS
A Dallas mother shot her three children Wednesday
and then took her own life by slashing her wrists and
slitting her throat. One of the children died.
Governor Connally personally phoned a House member
who had voted against the four-year term amendment when
it came up for the second reading on Tuesday and threaten
ed to block a proposed four-year college in his county if he
didn’t switch his vote yesterday and vote for four year
terms. This particular House member had the courage of
his convictions and refused to yield to pressure. Several
others did yield.
Fire early Wednesday destroyed the business of a
member of the Washington County Grand Jury investigat
ing an alledged bawdy house near Brenham.
The finals of the discus throw at the Texas relays is
being shifted this year to the Texas stadium to give more
fans a chance to watch A&M’s Randy Matson, who recently
threw the discus 200-7V2 f° r a collegiate record.
KENNEDY SPACE Center as
sembles, checks out and launches
manned and unmanned spacecraft
at Cape Kennedy and the NASA
launch facility at the Western
Test Range, Lompoc, Calif.
Spotlighted speaker for Wed
nesday is Jack N. James, deputy
assistant director for lunar and
planetary projects for the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory at the
California Institute of Technol
ogy.
His 8 p.m. address in the A&M
Memorial Student Center will be
“The Automatic Spacecraft—Its
Seven Years Past and Its Fu
ture.”
James has been associated with
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
since 1950. He was project man
ager when Mariner II flew by
Venus in 1962. And he man
aged the Mariner Mars Project
which resulted in the Mariner IV
encountering Mars in 1965.
THE U.S. AIR FORCE Aero
space Presentations Team will be
on campus April 7 for an 8 p.m.
program in the Memorial Student
Center.
Team members are Lt. Col.
James S. Wall, Major Dannie R.
Hoskins and Capt. David L. Fred
rick from the Air University at
Maxwell AFB, Ala.
The program covers all phases
of the U. S. space program —
propulsion, spacecraft, interplan
etary probes, and plans for a trip
to the moon. Color slides and
motion pictures will be shown.
SPACE FIESTA Chairman
Harry Britt said the general pub
lic its invited to participate in
activities of the week. Invita
tions have been sent to schools
within a 60-mile radius of A&M
to tour exhibits at the Memorial
Student Center.
Britt said a continuous display
of space-related exhibits from
government and industry is val
ued at more than $1 million.
Thirty exhibits include space cap
sules, space suits and related
equipment.
The Fiesta ends April 9.
RENDEZVOUS
Space Fiesta ’67 opens here Monday. In the docking vehicle rendezvous 46V2 f ee t apart,
above picture, Gemini VIII and the Agena (NASA Photo.)
Air Force ROTC Offers 67
Officer Contracts This Fall
Air Force ROTC Detachment
805 at A&M will grant at least
67 officer contracts beginning
this fall, according to Lt. Col.
Harold L. Stancil, head of Aero
space Studies 200 here.
The detachment received no
tice of the quota from Air Uni
versity headquarters, Stancil said.
Under terms of the quota, sopho
more cadets desiring commissions
will be ranked in order, with the
top 21 pilot-qualified, or Category
I, students to be given contracts.
Navigator-qualified, technical
major (Category II) and non
technical (Category III) cadets
will receive the other 46 con
tracts, Stancil added. Rankings
are based on grade point ratio,
Air Force Officer Qualifying Test
scores, and interview scores.
For the first time, some addi
tional contracts may be given to
cadets qualified for pilot training
and having at least a 1.0 over
all GPR, Stancil announced. He
said this may mean that as many
as 100 cadets will receive con
tracts.
“This is an indication of the
needs of the Air Force,” he noted.
“They’re looking for pilots right
now.”
Students under contract enter
the Professional Officer Course
in the ROTC program. They re
ceive monthly salaries and full
Air Force Reserve benefits, plus
transportation to and from sum
mer camp and salary while at
camp. In addition, qualified sen
ior cadets receive free pilot train
ing.
Interviews with contract appli
cants are being scheduled for next
week, Stancil said.
A worship service in song at
Jefferson Methodist Church in
San Antonio is set Sunday morn
ing at 758 Donaldson Avenue.
Among the songs for the program
are “The Prodigal Son,” “Battle
Hymn of the Republic,” and se
lections from the “Testament of
Freedom.”
Boone said the Singing Cadets
will present a full concert at 4
p.m. Sunday for faculty and staff
members at the Job Corps Center.
Pool To Open
On Saturday
The Wofford Cain Olympic
Pool will open at 10 a.m. Satur
day.
Students presenting identifica
tion cards can be admitted for 25
cents. Also children 12 and un
der may use the facilities if they
meet pool requirements.
Adults, including faculty and
former students, may use the pool
during regular hours for 50 cents.
Season tickets may be pur
chased for $15 for students and
faculty; $20 for former students.
Each season ticket covers one ses
sion beginning April 1, through
the end of the first summer
school semester or beginning with
the second summer school semes
ter and ending in October.
Pool hours are:
Saturday 10-12 a.m., 1:30-5:30
Sunday 1:30-5:30 p.m.
Weekdays 2:00-6 p.m.
TTI Conference
Focuses on Urban
Mobility in Texas
The ninth annual Transporta
tion Conference opening here to
day will focus on “Total Urban
Mobility in Texas Cities.”
Sponsors of the conference ex
pected to attract 150 participants
are the Texas Transportation In
stitute and the MacDonald Chair
of Transportation.
Maj. Gen. John P. Doyle of the
MacDonald Chair of Transporta
tion said most of the participants
are presidents or vice presidents
of companies which use or provide
transportation. He noted the
conference will attract city gov
ernment officials for the first
time. ;
A&M President Earl Rudder
welcomed conferees in today’s
initial session.
Hoy A. Richards, TTI research
economist, will open the confer
ence with a review of urbaniza
tion in Texas.
Friday’s slate of speakers in
cludes Alvin A. Burger, Texas
Research League executive direc
tor, Austin; Eugene Maier, Hous
ton’s Jamaica Corporation execu
tive vice president; and Fred J.
Benson, A&M’s Engineering Col
lege dean.
lissi*!****!#*. Brenham Cautious Following
By DONALD R. JANACEK
Battalion Special Writer
Few people have known the
fear of a simple telephone call,,
as have the residents of the small
South Central Texas town of
Brenham in the past few weeks.
Parents are afraid to send
their children to school because
someone has threatened to blow
up a school, but would not say
which one.
Parents are afraid to let their
children go play with the neigh
bor kids because that same per
son or persons has threatened to
throw acid on the children.
THE THREATS are the result
of a recent Washington County
Grand Jury investigation into al
leged “bawdy house” activities in
the Brenham area.
Investigations of this nature
are not unusual in many sections
of the country, but the circum
stances surrounding this one
leave many questions in the mind
of the outside observer.
The investigation started four
weeks ago when citizens living
in the vicinity of the bawdy
house began complaining to their
ministers about customers of the
house mistaking their homes for
the house.
In some instances, particularly
when residents were hosting par
ties, the customer would not be
lieve the people when told that
he had the wrong house.
MINISTERS of the Washing
ton County Ministerial Alliance,
in their regular monthly meeting,
decided to ask the Washington
County sheriff to investigate.
They elected Rev. Robert Gilpin,
a Methodist minister, as spokes
man for the group.
That meeting ended at 11:30
a.m. At 11:45 a.m. the Rev.
Gilpin received a phone call warn
ing him not to go to the sher-
riff’s office. This was the first
of four phone calls the minister
would receive in a period of three
weeks.
The minister went to the sher-
riff, asked for and got the in
vestigation. The Washington
County Grand Jury was called
into session and has been meet
ing for three weeks, without re-
Weather
FRIDAY — Cloudy, scattered
thunder storms afternoon and
night, winds southerly 20 to 30
m.p.h. High 84. Low 68.
SATURDAY—Continued cloudy,
scattered thunder storms, winds
southerly 15 to 30 m.p.h. High
88. Low 69.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
vealing any information on its
findings.
SHORTLY AFTER the Grand
Jury began its investigation,
members of the jury began re
ceiving phone calls from unknown
persons threatening to throw acid
in their children’s faces if the
investigation was not called off
immediately. The threats failed
to materialize and the investiga
tion went on.
Then last Thursday, the Grand
Jury recessed for the Easter
holidays, along with the schools.
Thursday night, an announcer at
the local radio station received
a call from someone who said
that if the investigation was not
called off by Tuesday, a school
would be blown up.
Texas Rangers, the Texas
Highway Patrol, sherrif’s depu
ties and local police were called
in to guard all schools in the
city.
Monday night, the president of
the radio station received a call
at his home. For the first time,
the caller was a woman. The
conversation went like this:
“Mr. Whitehead?”
“Yes.”
“Are they going to hold class
es tomorow?”
“Yes.”
“Then that’s when we’ll bomb.”
The caller hung up so fast
that Whitehead said he felt the
caller was putting the phone
down when she began the threat.
When dawn broke over Bren
ham that Tuesday morning, the
town looked the same as it has
for as long as this reporter can
remember. Quiet, peaceful and
the kind of town a parent would
think ideal for rearing his chil
NOT SO PEACEFUL
This peaceful-looking ranch style house has in Brenham. (Photo by Don Janacek)
become the center of a heated controversy
Threats
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dren. But this was a morning
that the people of the town
feared. The feeling hung over
the entire community, like the
thick fog that had lifted just
after daybreak.
THE CITIZENS tried to look
and act naturally and tried to
forget the threat that could take
their children’s lives. But the
fear was there and you could see
it — in their eyes, in their forc
ed smiles, in their aimless dis
cussions with the teachers and
school officials.
Some were more afraid than
others and the school attendance
reflected that fear. Only 50
per cent of the school children
attended classes that day and, in
the elementary grades, only 35
per cent of the students were
present.
Those who did attend classes
rode to school with their par
ents and got out of the car un
der the watchful eyes of the law
enforcement officers guarding
the schools. Newsmen were sub
jected to thorough questioning
and the license numbers of all
cars in the vicinity were record
ed.
EARLY THAT morning, teach
ers and custodians of the schools
made a thorough search of the
buildings and grounds. Parents
had been instructed to either fix
a lunch for their children or to
have them eat in the cafeteria, as
none would be allowed to leave
the grounds.
Play periods and lunch were
cut short and the children kept
(See Brenham, page 2)
Musical Play Is Presented
By Consolidated H.S. Choirs
“The Boyfriend,” a musical
written by S&ndy Wilson, will be
presented by the A&M Consoli
dated High School choirs tonight,
Friday, and Saturday at 8 p.m.
in the high school auditorium.
Frank Coulter is directing the
production, assisted by Mrs. Ruth
McGill on choreography.
Sharon Skrivanek and Lee Mar
tin have been cast in the lead
roles of the comedy which takes
place in France during the gay
Flapper Era of the 1920’s.
Polly Browne, played by Shar
on Skrivanek, is a quiet, rich
girl attending a French finishing
school in Nice.
Lee Martin plays Tony, a
young man from England who is
working in Nice. Polly and her
friends plan to attend a ball with
him and three French boys who
are Marcel (Larry Staten),
Pierre (Bob Stump), and Al
phonse (Toby Harvell). Wally
Williams plays the part of the
rich, American playboy, Bobby
Van Heusen.
University National Bank
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—Adv.