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Vote In Class Elections...Do n’t Complain Next Year! Weather THURSDAY — Partly cloudy, winds S southerly 10 to 20 m.p.h. Hight 89. Low 67. FRIDAY — Partly cloudy to cloudy, £: scattered light rain during the after noon, winds southerly 15 to 25 m.p.h. :$ High 91. Low 71. Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1967 Number 425 Elections Thursday In MSC Basement m VICTIMS OF APATHY Three candidates for class offices sit disappointedly on the steps of Guion Hall after students failed to appear Tuesday afternoon for a scheduled election rally. (Photo by Russele Autrey) Fish Drill Team To March In Washington On Friday Twenty-five Fish. Drill Team rifles will align against a back ground of cherry blossoms Friday when the Texas A&M freshman unit marches in national cham pionships at Washington, D.C. Thirty teams will compete for the national title in fancy drill on the Ellipse south of the White House and march in a Saturday Cherry Blossom Festival Parade. The Fish Drill Team, command ed by Justo Gonzales of San An tonio, will march at 9:54 a.m. The unit will appear seventh in the 30-team order, noted Calvin Reese, sponsor. He said the team’s eight-minute fancy drill will be a condensed version of the performance used in the A&M In vitational last month. Congressmen Bob Casey of Houston and Graham Purcell of Wichita Falls have arranged a special tour of the White House and a personal tour of the Capi tol including the floor of the 3 College Station Incumbents Back Incumbents Bill Cooley, Robert R. Rhodes and Antone L. Rosprim Were returned to office Tuesday in College Station’s city council election. City Manager Ran Boswell said only 616 votes were cast in the city’s three wards. Cooley was the only councilman facing an announced opponent, but the other two representatives drew write-in opposition. In Ward I, Cooley defeated Nol an Williamson by a vote of 204 to 117. Rhodes, running in Ward II, re ceived 152 votes, while his write- in opponents, E. A. Denton and Wes Harper, polled 90 and 16 ballots, respectively. Ward III Councilman Rosprim tallied 35 votes and write-in can didate Jack Smith received two. Councilmen are elected for two- year terms. Boswell said elections for the city’s three other council positions and the mayor’s post will be held next year. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. House for the drill team, Reese said. Casey’s son, Mike, is a sopho more at A&M and one of six up- perclass advisors to accompany the team. Purcell’s son, Blaine, is a freshman pre-veterinary medicine major at A&M. The squad, winner of 13 tro phies this school year, was in vited to compete in the nationals. Sam Houston State’s “Loman Rifles” and the “Black Knights” of Northwestern Louisiana will march in D. C. also. “Going into the Cherry Blos soms, the 1967 Fish team is main taining high standards of previ ous years,” Reese declared. The drill team, six advisors, Reese and Maj. Gerald J. Harber of the military science depart ment depart Easterwood Airport Thursday morning. They return Sunday. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings cer tificates. —Adv. Class elections will be held in the basement of the Memorial Student Center Thursday. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Voter registration cards will be handed out at the voting ma chines. Jack E. Myers, Election Com mission chairman, urged every one to vote. “The success of the students’ respective classes depends upon the quality of their officers,” Myers said. AN ELECTION rally which was to have been highlighted by stump speeches by the candidates failed to take place because of sparce attendance. Candidates for the Class of 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 Lu ther Zirjacks. Secretary - Treasurer: Martin Ray Alldering, Charles Anderson Joyner, Robert Keith Nordhous, and Kerry Charles Williams. Social Secretary: Peter John Insani and Kenneth M. Robinson. 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. Candidates for the Class of 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 Earley Davis, James Horner, and Keller W. Webster. Secretary-Treasurer: George H. Rau, and Billy Jack Youngkin. Social Secretary: Dennis Jo seph Fontana, Victor John Har ris, William Alvan McKean, Rich ard K. Newman, and Ralph Ray burn. Memorial Student Center Rep resentative: Robert Ernest Eas ley and Davis G. Mayes. Yell Leader: Robert Segner, John E. Vahalik, Jack Orr Rob inson, Charles E. Holt, Max Bry ans Fitzhugh, Randolph John Davis, Robert David Schartz, (See Election, Page 3) Space Fiesta Hears Jet Lab Chief Tonight Space Fiesta ’67 is in orbit this week at Texas A&M. The Fiesta moves into its sec ond stage Wednesday with an 8 p.m. address by Jack N. James, deputy assistant laboratory di rector for lunar and planetary projects at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Dr. Kurt H. Debus, director of the John F. Kennedy Space Cen ter of NASA, opened the Fiesta Monday with a review of U. S. space flight accomplishments during the past nine years and a brief look into the future. Debus said there is consider able interest in the employment of orbital sensing devices to test the feasibility and utility of meteorological observations and Earth resources. The space leader noted the likelihood of the use of satellite sensors to measure Earth’s popu lation and fqod resources, thus permitting application of intelli gent judgment to solve the pre dictable population explosion that may tax our ability by the year 2000. Debus called the challenge of space an outlet for creative ener gies of all nations. ALL SYSTEMS “GO” Space Fiesta ’67 is in orbit this week at Helping- Debus inspect a Saturn booster Texas A&M. The blastoff was an address model are Richard Adams (left) and Harry by Dr. Kurt H. Debus (right), director of Britt. Britt is Space Fiesta chairman, the John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA. Indian Fighting Techniques Used By Special Forces Indian fighting tactics from early U. S. history have been revived for use in Vietnam. Capt. Paul A. Dresser Jr. of Corsicana, a Green Beret here for a Space Fiesta review of the Cadet Corps, said Allied forces turn the wet season against the Viet Cong through special equip ment and Indian tactics. “The VC are on equal grounds during the dry season,” the Texas A&M 1963 - 64 Cadet Colonel of Corps explained. “The wet season gives us advantage over the Cong, and offensive operations are geared to it.” TWU Students Discuss Rules Of Etiquette At YMCA Panel “If your date turns out to be a real loser, then you can always introduce her to an Aggie bud dy,” Pam Kutzer, Texas Woman’s University student, told nearly 150 Aggies Tuesday night at the first of the Y.M.C.A.’s Man Your Manners programs. Miss Kutzer, a native of Long view, was one of four students from TWU who outlined some rules of etiquette which girls expect from their dates. Other members of the panel were Cheri Holland and Pat Cal- liham, both of College Station and Kathy Heldman of Caldwell. “Don’t use your date for a bumper to help you through the crowd at a dance,” Miss Kutzer advised in her discussion on the etiquette of the dance floor. Miss Heldman, speaking on let ter writing, gave these hints: TESSIE PANEL ON MANNERS TWU coeds, (left to right), Pat Calliham, Kutzer presented a program on “Man Your Kathy Heldman, Cheri Holland and Pam Manners” in the YMCA Tuesday. “When writing to a blind date, the letter should include the plans for the date, the dress, your age, some of your hobbies, your major and some other facts which will tell the girl a little about what to suspect.” An important correspondence is the ‘Dear John’ letter. Miss Held man said a person who is writing one of these letters should “write the letter and then set it aside for a day, or even two days, and then re-read it before sending it.” Miss Calliham discussed when the boy should send flowers, who should pay for dates and how to introduce your date to friends. “Girls always appreciate flow ers and the boy should send them at any large social event, and even a little rose or other flower for honors which a girl may re ceive.” “The girl should pay for trans portation and the boy should pay for all other expenses,” Miss Cal liham added. Miss Holland was the final speaker and gave hints for tele phone conversations. “When a person calls he should talk slowly, not be a ‘Roaring Ralph’ and speak loudly, intro duce himself and leave messages if the person is not in.” Miss Holland stressed the im portance of leaving messages so the person being called will not worry and fear an emergency call, and also in long distance calls the person can replace the call when she receives the mes sage. 5% per year paid on all savings at Bryan Build ing & Loan Assn. Adv. THE SOUTH Vietnamese and U. S. stock outboard motorboats and airboats for the season in which Thailand and Laos rains turn the Vietnam delta into a lake. “The airboat draws only a few inches of water. Carrying a 30 caliber machine gun and five troops, the fan-driven boat can achieve 50 miles an hour,” Dres ser described. He said the swamp craft runs down VC sampans, then makes firing, passes, racing by at 50 mph in Indian single file forma tion. “The speed makes it difficult for Cong to return accurate fire,” Dresser said. He is on 30-day convalescent leave from the Fort Hood hos pital. Captain Dresser was trans ferred from Yokohama after sur gery for head and chest injuries inflicted by an exploding booby trap. THE OFFICER said his four months of Vietnam duty and in juries caused him to miss the upcoming wet season. He shipped to the Southeast Asian country last fall, to catch the end of last year’s wet season. “This war is bigger than you believe, and the U. S. is up to its neck in it,” Dresser said. “Equipment and building facili ties are extensive and costly. All the briefing I received before go ing over didn’t prepare me for the impact of it.” “Aggies and others who will be serving in Vietnam will have to learn to lie extremely flexible and inventive,” the special forces officer reviewed. “They’ll have to cope, in seconds, with any situation that comes up.” THE A&M graduate indicated his future hinges on medical re ports. If his physical condition won’t allow Dresser to return to combat duty, he may resign his commission. He took the National Graduate Test in business at A&M last weekend, with the thought of entering either Harvard or Stan ford business school if his phy sicals don’t measure up. Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lll| I the outside worldl VIETNAM U. S. officers hint that they expect the record high of 175 air missions over North Vietnam to be exceeded by the end of April as monsoon storms slowly give way to clear skies. Communists MIGs are responsible for the destruction of far more than the 10 U. S. fighter bombers they are officially credited with shooting down, said an American military man. The U. S. government is “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world,” said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in a new strongly worded policy statement on Vietnam. NATIONAL The state used a scale model of a Chicago town house to illustrate during testimony in the Richard Speck trial how eight student nurses were slain. Light early voting marked Chicago Mayor election where Richard J. Daley, Democrat, seeks an unprecedented fourth term in a lackadaisical campaign. WASHINGTON An attorney for the House of Representatives said a federal judge has no more authority to order Adam Clay ton Powell seated in Congress than Congress has to tell a judge how to decide a case. Members expect Senator Thomas J. Dodd to be rebuked in a report being drafted by the Senate ethics committee, for transferring testimonial and campaign funds to his personal bank account. TEXAS Police officers arrested the leader of some 500 pro testing Texas Southern University students Tuesday shortly after the group began a four-mile march on the downtown courthouse. The group was marching to town to demand the re lease from jail of two other men who had been active in the demonstrations on campus. liwai'ilrt" i, 'ip-'C j j tx iLu,,**! ” '7,, ■ i, ‘ iCl, null* 4 - 1 "