Corps Of Cadets Review Kicks Off Space Fiesta
REVIEWING PARTY SPACE FIESTA ’67 BEGINS
Space Fiesta ’67 officially opened Monday with a review of the Corps Visitors and Aggie delegates look at one of more than 30 exhibits in the
of Cadets. Honored guest was Dr. Kurt Debus. (Photos by Russell Autrey) ninth annual Space Fiesta which began Monday and continue through
Friday.
DEBUS SPEAKS
Dr. Kurt Debus, director of the John F.
Kennedy Space Center, speaks in the first
Space Fiesta presentation Monday night.
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Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1967 Number 424
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WASHINGTON
Secretary of Defense McNamara launched a secret
study of profits flowing from the Pentagon’s multi-billion
dollar spending.
A Presidential package of tax reforms has been shaped,
but it’s not a drastic overhaul and it can’t be enacted before
1968.
NATIONAL
Space
Social
Technology Seen
Change Catalyst
The prosecutor detailed, step by step, how eight stu
dent nurses were slain as a jury of seven men and five
women began hearing the murder case against Richard
Speck.
The task of selecting a jury started as Dr. Carl Coppo-
line went on trial on a charge of murder for the second
time in less than six months.
The threat of a trucking strike eased, at least tempo
rarily, as negotiators recessed so union representatives
could attend a funeral.
VIETNAM
Allied forces range along the South Vietnamese coast
in operations designed to secure roads and drive the Com
munists away from food.
INTERNATIONAL
COTTON PAGEANT ROYALTY
Esther Jane Grant of Bryan was crowned of Bryan, reigned as King Cotton. (Photo
Queen Cotton at Texas A&M’s 33rd Cotton by Russell Autrey)
Pageant Saturday night. Jim McAfee, also
B-CS Holds Elections Today
For Eight City Councilmen
Five Bryan commissioners and
three College Station councilmen
will be elected today in city
council elections in each city.
In Bryan, seven persons have
filed for the commissioner of
fice. They are Mrs. Lawrence
Parker, Harmon Bell, Jerome G.
Zubik, John R. Naylor, A. W.
Davis, Ray F. Downey and J. D.
Four coeds from Texas Wo
mans’ University will begin the
first of the YMCA’s “Man Your
Manners” programs tonight at
7:30.
The coeds will be discussing
“How to Get Along With People.”
The group will include last
year’s Aggie sweetheart, Cheri
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates, —Adv.
Conlee. The last five names are
the incumbents.
In College Station, there is only
one ward where the incumbent is
being challenged. Nolan Wil
liamson is the opponent of in
cumbent Bill Cooley in the Ward
1. Ward II Councilman Robert
R. Rhodes and Ward III Coun
cilman Antone L. Rosprim are
Holland, who is also the presi
dent of the Student Council of
Social Activities at T.W.U.
Also on the panel will be Kathy
Heldman, Pat Calliham, and Jill
Anderson.
The discussion will cover let
ter writing, flowers, introduc
tions, dances and telephone man
ners. The program will con
clude with a question and ans
wer session.
running unopposed, although Col
lege Station Mayor D. A. Ander
son has announced an active
write-in candidate is at work in
one of the wards.
The polls will be open until 7
p.m. Mayor Anderson also an
nounced that free transportation
will be provided for College Sta
tion voters through the College
Station Cab Company. Anyone
needing a ride should call 846-
6777.
The Jaycees have been heading
an active get-out-the-vote cam
paign in Bryan, reminding the
citizens of the “multi-million dol
lar business” of city government.
Polling places in Bryan are at
the two fire stations, and in Col
lege Station at the A&M Con
solidated High School music room
(Ward I), the College Hills Ele
mentary School (Ward II), and at
city hall (Ward III).
‘Manners’ Panel Is Tonight
U.S. Space Policy
Lauded By Debus
Vice President Humphrey conferred with British lead
ers, lectured Americans and defended U. S. Vietnamese
policies before students.
British troops fought a day-long battle against sniping
and bomb-throwing Arab terrorists in Aden.
A pilot who survived 58 days alone in the artic greeted
his rescuers “as if he were waiting for a bus’’ and his watch
was only 10 minutes off the correct time.
TEXAS
Dallas police arrested a Cuban exile on a warrant from
the New Orleans district attorney.
Coolege coordinating board approved a new state dental
school for Dallas and a medical school for Houston.
Voters will decide various hot issues in city-wide bal
loting Tuesday in most Texas cities.
Porter, Griffin Are Elected
To School Board Saturday
By BOB BORDERS
Battalion News Editor
Technological competition along
the lines of space exploration
may lead to the eventual reor
ganization of world social order.
This was the observation of
Kurt H. Debus, director of the
John F. Kennedy Space Center,
as he addressed an audience as
sembled for the first in a series
of Space Fiesta presentations
Monday night.
“We will eventually move to a
level of technological competi
tion,” Debus said. “This may help
us in avoiding involvements in
war. This is something long wait
ed for and hoped for,” he added.
Debus emphasized the fact that
the United States chose to oper
ate its space program completely
in the open. He said this has
Class Elections
Are Set Thursday
For All Students
Student class elections will be
held Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. in the basement of the
Memorial Student Center.
A total of 109 students have
filed for class offices and yell
leader positions. The class of ’70
leads all ballots, with 42 names
submitted for five offices.
The candidates will have a
chance to air their views before
the student body at 5 p.m. rally
today on the steps of Guion Hall.
Any of the candidates for any
office are eligible to make a
“stump speech.”
Ten juniors and 13 sophomores
have filed for senior yell leader
positions. Three seniors and two
juniors will be elected from the
23 candidates.
In the race for class president,
the juniors have five choices
while the sophomore class has
seven and the freshmen 10.
Weather
WEDNESDAY—Foggy in morn
ing, clear to partly cloudy in aft
ernoon, winds southerly 10 to 15
m.p.h. High 87. Low 68.
THURSDAY—Foggy in morning,
clear to partly cloudy in after
noon, winds southerly 10 to 15
m.p.h. High 92. Low 68.
5% per year paid on all
savings at Bryan Build-
B B & L. ing & Loan Association.
Adv.
come to make every citizen feel
that the space achievements are
really his.
“The very fact that we con
ducted our program in the open
has won us friends,” Debus said.
“Another milestone was the
agreement that we shall not take
possession of territory in space,”
he added.
Debus quoted President John
son as recently saying the pur
pose of the American people in
the space age shall be unchanged,
and “we will welcome all men to
join us in this space effort that
makes use of what this nation
has developed.”
“We have released the imagi
nation of men that was not there
before, and we have kindled a
spark of adventure that wasn’t
there before,” Debus said.
Debus outlined briefly the prog
ress the United States has made
in its space efforts.
He said space endeavor started
with the ballistic missile. Debus
himself was instrumental in the
launching of the first U. S. mis
sile, a Redstone, in 1953.
From this, we went to the un
manned space probe.
A slide presentation was then
shown, with slides depicting the
(See Space Technology, Page 3)
Dr. Russell Alan Porter and
incumbent Bob J. Griffin were
elected to the A&M Consolidated
School Board Saturday in an ex
tremely tight race.
Both Griffin and the other in
cumbent, Leslie Palmer, tallied
the same number of votes, 287,
throwing doubt into the proce
dure for determining the other
member of the board.
The problem was resolved Mon
day when Palmer withdrew from
the race.
The fourth candidate was Pie
ter Groote, who received 231
votes in the light turnout.
Ballots were counted twice Sat
urday night by election judge Dr.
Luther J. Jones and his assist
ants, both times coming out with
the tie between Griffin and Pal
mer.
Superintendent W. T. Riedel
stated that if the votes had come
out the same at a third counting
Monday morning, the matter
would have required a special
run-off election. State law re
quires such an election, unless
another way is decided upon by
the candidates.
Palmer said he withdrew from
the race for personal reasons. He
added, “I will continue to support
the Board of Trustees and the
school administration as I have
in the past in order to provide
the children of our community
with the best program of educa
tion possible.”
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
SINGING CADETS TOUR
Several members of the Singing- Cadets dis- of San Marcos and San Antonio. See story,
embark from their bus during one of the page four,
many stops they made during a recent tour
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