DEBATE SEASON RESULTS
Texas A&M's debate club stacked up more row, left to right) James Byrd, Ron Hinds,
trophies in 1966-67 than any other team in David Gay, (upper row) Robert Peek,
Aggie history. Team members are (front Wayne Prescott and David Maddox.
Debaters Research Extensively
The Texas A&M debate club of
sophomores and a freshman per
formed research equivalent to a
master degree thesis in a record
setting season during 1966-67.
The club directed by Carl Kell
had its best squad record and
trophy year in A&M history.
FIVE TROPHIES and a .606
winning percentage were amass
ed by three sophs and a fresh
man. Major ball carriers were
David Maddox of College Station,
Ronald Hinds of Midland, James
Bryd of Houston and Robert
Peek of Jacksboro.
Wayne Prescott of Houston and
David Gay of College Station de
bated in the early fall. Prescott
figured in the first trophy win,
at the Harding Invitational in
Searcy, Ark.
Research work for the 85-56
season began in August, when a
national committee announced
the 1966-67 question, “Resolved,
that the U. S. should substantial
ly reduce its sworn policy com
mitments.”
“It has been established that
a good debater will do as much or
more research than a masters
degree candidate,” Kell said. “He
has class work too.”
A&M WON FIRST place tro
phies at Natchitoches, La., and
Nacogdoches and second places
at SFA, Searcy and Abilene.
Individual trophies were taken
by Hinds, Maddox and Bryd in
extemporaneous, best speaker
and radio speaking.
Peek, freshman in the four
some, debated for two top plac
es and worked with Byrd for run-
nerup at Arkansas. He was the
Class 4A state debate champ in
1965 UIL competition.
The team competed in nine
meets and spoke more than a
quarter of a million words dur
ing the six-month season.
“High point for us was the
Oxford round,” Kell noted. The
special match with two Oxford
University students came dur
ing A&M’s second computer-
match tourney in December.
DOUGLAS HOGG and Jeremy
Beloff of England said the A&M
match provided the most lively
discussion and best crowd par
ticipation of their 10-week U. S.
tour. More than 600 attended.
“Debaters are usually top stu
dents,” he observed. “Our mem
bers rank high in their classes.”
Maddox has a perfect 3.0 grade
point ratio. Byrd posts a 2.5,
Hinds 2.4, Peek near 2.0, Pres
cott 2.8 and Gay 2.3.
“The boys have become thor
oughly familiar with library uti
lization tthrough their research,”
the coach went on. “They read
many books and study hard to
develop analysis, reasoning, evid
ence, organization, refutation and
delivery which debate judges
grade.”
He added that during the
spring, A&M’s two junior divi
sion teams were as good as any
in the state.
“WITH HARD work and dedi
cation, they can go to the na
tional tournament in Chicago in
the next two years.”
Maddox said records were the
result of teamwork and thou
sands of hours preparation.
“The team worked well togeth
er,” the sophomore said. “We
shared research ideas. When
something new in foreign policy
commitments came out, all four
of us studied it.”
He said an average of two
hours research a day uncovered
interesting data.
“Since the 1700s, the U. S. has
entered into 4,000 treaties,” Mad
dox pointed out.
Space Fiesta Will Emphasize
Recent Space Achievement
By RUSSELL AUTREY opens with a review of the Corps
Battalion Staff Writer Dr. Debus, guest of honor, will
Space Fiesta ’67, highlighting speak at 8 that evening in tthe
Che Battalion
the United States’ achievements
and efforts in outer space, will
begin Monday and continued for
10 days.
Speakers for the ’67 Fiesta will
be Dr. Kurt Debus, director of
the John F. Kennedy Space
Flight Center, NASA; Jack
James, deputy assistant labora
tory director for lunar and
planetary projects, Jet Propul
sion Laboratory, California Insti
tute of Technology; and the U.S.
Air Force Aerospace Presenta
tions Team.
Space Fiesta ’67 officially
Lone Star Steel
Exhibit Now On
Display Locally
Did you know that iron ore is
found in Texas?
“Lone Star Steel Co. alone has
enough for 100 years in the East
Texas land to which it has min
eral rights, owns, or leases,” Todd
Crowell, company representative,
said Thursday.
Crowell is here this week with
a display trailer which shows
the manufacturing operations of
Lone Star Steel Co. The trailer
is in front of the YMCA.
“The company now has a 22-
state market, from Florida to
Colorado, Illinois to Texas,”
Crowell explained, “and we’ve had
our display trailer in all of
them.”
There have been over 200
presentations this year including
visits to the campuses of the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin and
Arlington, Lamar Technological
College, Oklahoma State Uni
versity, Southern Methodist Uni-
verstiy and Texas A&M.
MSC Ballroom.
James will discuss “The Auto
matic Spacecraft” in a presenta
tion Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the
Memorial Student Center Ball
room.
The Air Force Aerospace
Presentation Team from the Air
University at Maxwell Air Force
Base, Ala., will discuss the U.S.
Space Program Thursday at 8
p.m. in the MSC ballroom.
An Air Force Titan II Inter
continental Ballistic Missile will
be on display, beginning Wednes
day. Converted into a walk
through exhibit, this missile was
the type used for all Gemini
flights.
More than 30 exhibits will be
on continuous display including
a full-size Mercury space capsule,
mock Gemini and Apollo space
craft, lasers, spacesuits, satellites,
color films and photographs
taken in space.
The program is open to the
general public and is free of
charge.
Guided tours can be arranged
for groups interested in attend
ing the program. If a group tour
is desired, arrangement should be
made through the Student Pro
gram Office in the MSC two days
before the preferred date.
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1967
Number 423
’67 Cotton Ball, Pageant
Make For Big Weekend
Queen & Court
Will Be Chosen
Weather
SATURDAY — Cloudy with oc
casional light rain showers dur
ing morning, chance of thunder
storms in the afternoon, winds
southerly 15 to 25 m.p.h. High
83. Low 66.
SUNDAY — Cloudy with light
rain during morning with thun
der storms during afternoon.
Winds southerly 15 to 25 m.p.h.
High 80. Low 68.
By GRAHAM PAINTER
Battalion Special Writer
Texas A&M’s Student Agron
omy Society sponsors its 33rd
Cotton Pageant and Ball Satur
day night.
Scheduled for 7:30 in Guion
Hall, the pageant will select a
Cotton Queen and a court from
nine finalists. The nine will come
from a field of 136 entries.
THE BALL is set for the Ball
room of the Memorial Student
Center following the Pageant.
Tickets are $3 per couple or sin
gle. The dress will be formal for
the participants. Guests may
wear dark suits or white sports
coats and evening dresses. Uni
form for the Corps will be Class
A Summer with white gloves.
The Aggieland orchestra will
proride the music for the Ball.
Guion Hall Rally Kicks Off
Class Elections On Tuesday
By PATRICIA HILL
Battalion Staff Writer
An election rally at 5 p.m. on
the steps of Guion Hall on Tues
day will set the stage for class
elections Thursday.
The rally will give candidates
a chance to express their views
to the students through five-min
ute “stump speeches,” according
to Jack Myers.
Myers said that anyone wishing
to make a speech should leave his
name in a note on the door of
Room 318 in Dorm 7.
Candidates for the Class of
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MAYORS VISIT A&M
Mayors Louis Welch, (second from left), of Houston and
Judson Williams of El Paso speak with Great Issues Chair
man Steve Kovich, (left) and Political Forum Chairman
David Gay, before a presentation of the Political Forum
in the MSC Thursday.
1968 are as follows:
President: Albert N. Allen,
William Ronald McLeroy, John
R. Baldridge, Ernest Jose’ Pena
and Sanford T. Ward.
Vice-President: Kenneth Alan
Dooley, Richard L. Gummer, Phil
lip Edward Nelson, Maurice Main,
Neal Wayne Rockhold, Marc Al
lan Sheiness and Winston Luther
Zirjacks.
Secretary-Treasurer: Martin
Ray Alldering, Charles Anderson
Joyner, Robert Keith Nordhous
and Kerry Charles Williams.
Social Secretary: Peter John
Insani and Kenneth M. Robison.
Memorial Student Center Rep
resentative: Robert Floyd Gon
zales, Michael C. Kostelnik and
Joseph Paul Webber.
Yell Leader: Neal W. Adams,
William Michael Baggett, James
Henry Budde, Johnny B. Drury,
Frank O. Holder, John D. McLe
roy, Wayne Porter, Paul H. San
ders, Darrell Aluin Struss and
Lohn F. Yoder.
Historian: Steven Craig High
tower, Kenneth Daniel Kennerly
and Michael Lee Lanning.
Seeking office for the Class of
1969 are:
President: John G. Adami,
Larry Elwin Henry, Henry Maur
ice Johnson, William Allen Mad
dox, John Edward Mayfield, Dan
iel Ruiz Jr. and James Hal Will-
banks.
Vice-President: Ford D. Albrit
ton, Beverly Early Davis, James
Homer and Keller W. Webster.
Secretary -T reasurer: George
(See Rally, Page 3)
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer-
The affair honors the state’s
main cash crop, cotton.
JIMMY McAFEE, senior
Agronomy major from College
Station will reign as King Cot
ton.
McAfee will be crowned by
Sterling C. Evans, a member of
the Texas A&M Systems Board
of Directors. Evans, an Aggie-
Ex, holds personal ranching in
terests in Texas and Louisiana.
He is active in the Wortham
Foundation, the Santa Gertrudis
Breeders Internation, The Texas
and Southwestern Cattle Growers
Association, the Luling Founda
tion, and the Board of Governors
of the Agricultural Hall of Fame.
KING COTTON McAfee is the
son of Dr. and Mrs. McAfee of
College Station. He was chosen
by the Agronomy Society because
of his outstanding student activi
ty record. McAfee, a “Distin
guished Student”, serves as social
secretary of the Agronomy So
ciety and is a member of the Stu
dent Agricultural Council.
McAfee’s awards include the
U. S. Golf Association Scholar
ship, 1966-67; the Turf-Grass As
sociation Scholarship, 1965-67;
and the Trans-Mississippi Golf
Scholarship, 1965-67.
MEMBERS OF King Cotton’s
Court are Dan Batte of Italy,
Texas; John Cosper of Edna;
Mike Stewart, Belleville; Rodney
Smith, Rockwall; Ronnie Cole
man, Huntsville; Gary McEl-
vaney, Channelview; Weldon Bol
linger, Sealy; and Mike Deike of
Winters.
tificates.
—Adv.
Crash Claims 18
At New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, La. —
A DCS jet flying a practice
landing pattern cut a swath of
destruction through a residen
tial area near New Orleans In
ternational Airport early Thurs
day and exploded in a fiery
crash into the rear of the Hilton
Inn, killing 18 persons.
Nine of the dead were high
school girls from Juda, Wis. All
but one burned to death in their
rooms as flames fed by jet fuel
engulfed a portion of the motel.
The ninth girl was blown out of
the building.
The tragedy occurred only
hours before the girls were
scheduled to leave with their
classmates for some fun on the
Mississippi Gulf Coast. They
were on a senior class vacation
outing.
On board the Delta Air Lines
jet were five pilots and an in
spector for the Federal Aviation
Agency. All were killed when
the plane fell sharply during a
banking turn.
“AW RIGHT, YOU GUYS!”
Stephen F. Austin High School choir mem- Jane” to be presented April 7-8 in the Bryan
bers rehearse for a production of “Calamity Civic auditorium.
Airline Official
Opens Conference
Planned urbanization in Texas
is a necessity for counteract
ing mushrooming transportation
problems an airline official em
phasized here Thursday.
John A. Vaill, a Pan American
Airways executive, said total ur
ban mobility in Texas cities can
best be made effective by long-
range planning.
Vaill spoke in the opening ses
sion of the ninth Texas Trans
portation Conference at A&M.
“For the good of Texas, build
out, not up, during the next 20
years,” Vaill commented. “Give
the transportation carriers a
chance to move your people and
goods, not bottleneck them.”
The speaker said Texas ranks
fourth in the country in overall
urban area air traffic production.
He noted that Dallas, Houston
and San Antonio airports handled
4.5 million passengers last year
in addition to four million pounds
of air cargo per day.
A&M President Earl Rudder
welcomed conferees, urging them
to challenge A&M and the Texas
Transportation Institute to great
er effort in helping solve trans
portation problems.
Speakers for Friday sessions
include Alvin A. Burger, execu
tive director of the Texas Re
search League, Eugene Maier, ex
ecutive vice president of Hous
ton’s Jamaica Corporation, and
Fred J. Benson, dean of A&M’s
College of Engineering.
Maj. General John P. Doyle
of the MacDonald Chair of Trans
portation will sum up the con
ference.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
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VIETNAM
Casualty reports reveal the bloodiest week of the war:
274 Americans and 213 of their allies killed, against 2,774
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese.
The toll of Americans killed and wounded in the Viet
nam war this year could soar to more than 61,000 at the
present rate, nearly matching Korea’s first 12 months.
Red China’s leadership is trying hard to convince
North Vietnam that it cannot lose if it holds indefinitely
against U. S. peace proposals.
WASHINGTON
The government rejects appeals by 38 auto manufac
turers for changes and deletions in the initial federal motor
vehicle safety standards.
Democrats plans to send more than 40 congressmen to
college campuses next month to show off their party’s
wares and to find out what students are thinking.
NATIONAL
Two men and two women were approved today as the
final four members of the jury which will try Richard
Speck on charges of murdering eight student nurses. Only
the selection of two alternates, expected within a few days,
is delaying the start of testimony in the six-week-old trial.
An Illinois high school girl, returning to the Hilton
Inn afteP a late night snack with friends at an airport
restaurant, watched with horror yesterday as a giant
Delta Airlines jet smashed into their luxury motel.
In the high school library at Juda, Wis., there’s an
itinerary for the senior class trip that ended in death for
nine girls. Thursday’s notation begins: “This is your last
morning in New Orleans.”
A winter of above average snowfall has eased the
drought in the Northeast, but it’s getting dryer in the
Midwest.
LABOR
The latest in a long series of jurisdictional battles —
this one involving only 300 of the 18,000 members of Amer
ican Federation of Television and Radio Artists — appar
ently led to the strike of network personalities.
The federal government went into court to block the
National Farmer’s Oreganization's drive to get more money
for the diary farmer, charging that milk market boycott
is illegal coercion.
INTERNATIONAL
After three days of bombing, all of the 35.8 million
gallons of oil aboard the grounded tanker Torrey Canyon
apparently has spilled out.
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