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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1967
Number 427
Large Student Turnout
Elects Eight Officers
13 Offices Await
Thursday Run-Off
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NATIONAL
A financier’s son was kidnapped from his Beverly
Hills home, ransomed for $250,000 and returned unharmed
after three days in the hands of his abductors.
Richard Speck’s lawyer questioned a Philippine nurse’s
account of the night of terror in an effort to find detail
that will support the defense in the mass killing trial.
Cameramen and technicians have boycotted major
networks as the AFTRA strike grows. Studios are striv
ing to carry on but home television reception has been
affected.
Without giving a reason, the prosecutor dismissed an
expert chemist as a potential juror in the trial of Dr.
Carl Coppolino, who has been charged with murdering his
wife with an exotic drug.
VIETNAM
Communist troops smashed at U. S. and Vietnamese
posts in Quang Tri, near the DMZ, and freed more than
200 presoners from the provincial jail.
Gen. Creighton W. Abrams Jr., who used to lead his
tanks into battle crying “Attack! Attack! Attack!” has
been picked by President Johnson to be the No. 2 com
mander in Vietnam.
INTERNATIONAL
Vice President Humphrey renewed the U. S. pledge
to defend West Berlin during a visit marked by the deten
tion of youthful lefists accused of plotting to kill him.
WASHINGTON
The House Rules Committee voted to create a perman
ent House Ethics Committee with authority to recommend
changes needed to enforce standards of conduct.
TEXAS
The federal government has filed a claim of $45,637.43
for back taxes against Jack Ruby, who killed Lee Harvey
Oswald.
Titan II Missile Is Featured
’67 Space Fiesta Attraction
Space Fiesta ’67 at Texas A&M
has a dazzling display of attrac
tions for today.
One of the major attractions
is a Titan II missile which has
been converted into a traveling
exhibit. It will be exhibited on
the parking lot behind the A&M
Memorial Student Center.
SPECTATORS will see the Air
Force missile story told in
slides and films while standing
inside an actutal ICB'M. A dis
play case of large, scale models
shows the growth of missiles
Four Suspended
In Marijuna Case
Four Texas A&M students
were suspended from school
Thursday for “suspected connec
tion with or use of marijuana,”
announced Associate Dean of
Students Bennie Zinn.
Zinn said no formal charges
have been filed against the stu
dents.
The action followed the arrest
and school suspension Wednes
day of Robert R. Burnside, a
freshman from Torrance, Calif.,
who was charged in Bryan with
possession and sale of marijuana.
Burnside was released later in
the day after posting $2,500 bond.
A freshman coed was among
the students suspended Thursday.
Two of the other students were
also classified as freshmen and
one as a junior.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
from Thor to Titan IIIC. A three
dimensional diorama shows the
underground complex of a Titan
ICBM site.
The missile is displayed in a
horizontal position to allow the
public a complete and close in
spection.
Another highlight of the day
will be an 8 p.m. program in the
MSC Ballroom featuring the
U. S. Air Force Aerospace
Presentations Team from the Air
University at Maxwell AFB, Ala.
THE TEAM includes Lt. Col.
James S. Wall, Major Dannie R.
Hoskins and Capt. David L. Fred
rick. Featured in the program
will be color slides and motion
pictures of various phases of the
U. S. space program.
Harry Britt, Space Fiesta
chairman, said the team will out
line cooperative efforts of NASA
and the Department of Defense
in the national space program.
THE AEROSPACE story
stresses that America’s space ef
fort is directed toward insur
ing peace. Team members will
discuss their visits with astro
nauts and inspections of Mer
cury, Gemini and Appollo cap
sules, plus their experiences in
operating simulated spacecraft.
Now in its third year as a full
time operation, the presentations
team makes hundreds of lectures
each year to educational, civic
and scientific groups.
BRITT estimated that 20,000
persons have toured Space Fiesta
exhibits this week in the MSC.
He said exhibits will remain on
public display through Satur
day.
AT THE POLLS
One of the largest number of students in in Thursday’s class elections. Runoffs will
several years turned out to cast their votes be next Thursday. (Photo by Russell Autrey)
Air ROTC Detachment To
Send Group To Air Base
A&M’s Air Force ROTC de
tachment will send 70 cadets and
several officers on a field trip
to Tinker Air Force Base, Okla.,
April 13-15.
Maj. L. J. Magers of the de
tachment said the cadets will be
selected from the freshman and
junior classes. Applicants must
have a minimum grade point
ratio of 1.0, and those who have
not been on any previous trips
will be given priority, he added.
Applications are being taken in
Four Are Injured In Train
Collision At Waco Rail Yard
WACO, Tex. <-dP) — A Missouri
Pacific freight train and a Mis-
souri-Kansas-Texas switch en
gine collided headon in the Bell-
meade yards Thursday night in
juring four men.
Railroad officials at the scene
said the Missouri Pacific train,
five diesel engines and 90 freight
cars, was on the M-K-T tracks
when the accident occurred.
Engineer M. L. Blount, 57, of
the MP train said the block sig
nal indicated he had the right of
way when the collision occurred.
One of the injured, Blount was
not believed in serious condition.
He is a resident of Mart, Tex.
The most seriously injured was
David M. Henry, 61, of Mart, also
an MP crewman. He was taken
to Hillcrest Hospital here.
The other injured, both from
Mart and both MP crewmen, were
Ralph Garland, 49, and Burt
Davidson, 45. Davidson was treat
ed at a Waco hospital and re
leased Garland was not believed
seriously hurt. None of the
switching crew was reported in
jured.
Railroad officials said it had
not been determined whether a
switch was open or had been acci
dentally thrown. Investigations
by both railroads were in prog-
air science classes.
PURPOSE OF the trip, Mag
ers explained, is “to familiarize
future Air Force officers with
the inner workings, logistics,
maintenance, computers, and
everything else connected with
Air Force supply.”
Magers said Maj. Melvin F.
McNickle, commander of the
Oklahoma City Air Material
Area, based at Tinker, is spon
soring the trip.
“WE ASKED him what he
though about the trip during his
visit here earlier this month,”
Magers explained, “and he en
dorsed the idea.” McNickle was
a reviewing officer at Spring
Military Weekend here.
In addition, Magers said Col.
G. N. Patton of the base is co
ordinating plans with Col. Ver
non Head, professor of Aerospace
studies at A&M. Patton’s son,
Neal, is commander of the Third
Wing of the Corps of Cadets.
A C-124, cargo plane, has been
reserved by the Air Force to
carry the cadets.
PLANS ARE to depart Easter-
wood Airport April 13 at 2 p.m.
The group will return late Sat
urday, April 15.
Detachment personnel accom
panying the cadets include Head,
Lt. Col. Philip Hopkins, and
Magers.
By LEE MORENO
Battalion Managing Editor
Casting 2,101 votes, students at
Texas A&M elected eight to of
fice in class elections Thursday.
Neal W. Adams, William Mich
ael Bagget and Wayne Porter
were elected senior yell leaders
for 1967-68. Adams received 273
votes; Bagget, 390; and Porter,
252.
Robert Segner was elected
junior yell leader with 163 votes.
A runoff between Charles E. Holt
Jr. and Bernard Dawson will de
cide the second junior yell leader.
Each had 138 votes.
KENNETH M. ROBINSON de
feated Peter John Isani for senior
social secretary, 357 to 196.
Joseph Paul Webber was elect
ed senior class MSC representa
tive. He won over Michael C.
Kostelnik 370 to 192.
Junior class secretary will be
Billy Jack Youngkin. He swept
over George H. Rau Jr., 405 to
187.
Davis G. Mayes fielded 334
votes to defeat Robert Ernest
Easley for junior MSC represen
tative. Easley had 220 votes.
The remaining 13 class offices
will be decided in a runoff elec
tion Thursday, said Jack Myers,
election committee chairman.
Myers was pleased with the voter
turnout.
“THESE ARE the most votes
I’ve seen cast since I’ve been
here,” Myers observed. “There
was a crowd here about 10
minutes after 8 a.m. and it lasted
all day. This shows that students
are taking more interest in their
class leaders,” he pointed out.
Myers urged all students to
vote in the runoff. The polls will
be open from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
in the basement of the MSC.
Sanford T. Ward and William
Ronald McLeroy will face each
other for president of the class of
’68. Ward received 232 votes and
McLeroy, 208.
RUNNING FOR vice president
are Richard L. Gummer and
Maurice Main. Main captured 196
votes to Gummer’s 102.
In the race for senior secretary-
treasurer are Robert Nordhaus
and Charles Joyner who received
212 and 148 votes, respectively.
Vying for senior class historian
are Kenneth Kennerly and Mich
ael Lanning who stood at 218 to
175 Thursday.
In the runoff for the class of
1969 are the following:
Daniel Ruiz Jr and John G.
Adami Jr. are up for president.
Ruiz mustered 170 votes to
Adami’s 112.
Beverly Early Davis and James
R. Horner are competing for vice
president. Davis had 229 votes
to Horner’s 151.
ON THE BALLOT for social
secretary are Dennis Fontana
with 148 votes; William McKean
Jr. with 200.
Holt and Dawson will fight it
out for junior yell leader.
Run-off candidates for the class
of ’70 are as follows:
Ronald Adams with 172 votes
will seek to defeat Gerald Geist-
weidt with 158 for president.
Running for vice president are
John L. Cassell Jr. with 166 and
Nokomis Jackson Jr. wtih 109.
The job of secretary-treasurer
will go to either John D. Cunning
ham with 194 or Richard Oran
Love with 152.
JAMES ST. JOHN III and Car-
roll Leo Cawley Jr. are seeking
the office of social secretary. St.
John had 159 votes to Cawley’s
131.
MSC representative will be be
tween Barry W. Bauerschlag and
Dean T. Eshelman. Bauerschlag
took 178 votes to Eshelman’s 169.
Russian Chorus,
Dancers Perform
As Town Hall Act
Serge Jaroff’s Original Don
Cossack Chorus and Dancers will
appear in concert here April 19.
The ensemble of 24 uniformed
white Russian giants, recently re
turned from Europe, is in the
midst of its 35th annual coast-to-
coast tour of the United States
and Canada.
Sam Pearson, chairman of the
sponsoring Memorial Student
Center Town Hall Committee,
said season tickets and student
activity cards are acceptable for
the 8 p.m. performance in G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
LED BY THE four-foot, ten-
inch Serge Jaroff, the chorus
and dancers’ repertoire includes
Russian church music, plus sold
ier and folk ditties of exaltation,
whimsey, power and joy.
Jaroff formed the group in
1923, putting into effect early
training as a choirmaster. The
Chorus’s debut concert was given
in Vienna July 4. Its first tour
of the United States was made
during the winter of 1930. Since
then, the Chorus has toured the
U. S. every season except 1965-
66.
CRITICS OFTEN write of
the wide range of voices in the
Cossack Chorus. The basses can
descend to A below low C and
the tenors can hit G above high
C. And the singers also can
do whistles, cat-calls and girlish
laughter, and can simulate the
sound of horses’ hoofs by cluck
ing their tongues.
Jaroff’s directing style is uni
que, Pearson commented. With
his back to an audience, Jaroff
does not seem to be conducting
at all. There are no displays of
flailing arms. Holding his hands
close to his chest, Jaroff points
a finger, turns a palm up or
down, lifts an eyebrow frowns or
smiles to get trigger responses
from his men.
MISSILE DISPLAYED HERE
A Titain II missile went on display today griant missile has been converted
and will remain on campus throug-h Tues- traveling- exhibit,
day. A part of the Space Fiesta ’67, the
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Civilian Housing
Sign-Up Begins
Beginning Monday at 8 p.m.,
civilian students who expect to
live in dormitories next year may
report to the Housing Office and
reserve their rooms, according to
Allen M. Madeley, housing man
ager.
Ramps G, H, I, and J of Hart
Hall will be occupied by the
Corps of Cadets. From 8 a.m.
Thursday through 5 p.m. Friday,
students living in these ramps
may reserve civilian rooms not
previously reserved.
All students who do not re
serve their rooms by April 28
may sign up on a first-come,
first-serve basis, beginning May
1.
5% per year paid on all
savings at Bryan Bulld-
bb&l ing & Loan Assn. Adv.
A&M Nuclear Engineering
Matures As Field Of Study
By RICHARD CAMPBELL
Battalion Special Writer
Of the many new and challeng
ing fields of study beginning to
open up at Texas A&M, one —
nuclear engineering — has begun
to mature.
At its conception in 1959, the
Department of Nuclear Engi
neering was a small and strug
gling one. It had a limited fac
ulty and an almost minute stu
dent enrollment. But since that
time it has started to progress
at a fantastic rate by adding new
facilities and competent profes
sors.
ALTHOUGH Texas A&M has
offered master’s and doctoral
studies in nuclear engineering
since the beginning, it made one
of the biggest strides in the field
only this past fall. In September,
the university initiated an under
graduate degree in nuclear engi
neering, the state’s first.
The university has also made
other strides to improve the de
partment. First, administrators
felt they needed an outstanding
leader for the department and
they got one. His name is Dr.
Robert G. Cochran and he comes
well-qualified. He graduated
from the University of Indiana in
1948, got his master’s in 1950 and
then went on to Pennsylvania
State for his doctorate in 1957.
He also worked as a group
leader at the famous Oak Ridge
National Laboratory in Oak
Ridge, Tenn. Backing up Dr.
Cochran is another man hand
picked to teach at A&M. He is
Dr. Robert S. Wick, formerly
with the Westinghouse Founda
tion and the only other full pro
fessor in the department.
DRS. WALTER H. KOHLER
and Donald E. Emon are both as
sistant professors and carry most
of the teaching load. Probaoly
(See Nuclear Engineering, Page 3)
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5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
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