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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1967
Number 425
Elections Thursday
In MSC Basement
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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.
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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.
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