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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1967
Number 431
NEW CLASS PRESIDENT
Daniel Ruiz Jr., (left) and Sanford T. Ward presidency. Not pictured is Ronald L.
pose for picture after winning in runoff Adams, the new sophomore class president,
election Thursday. Ruiz won the junior class
‘Randy Matson Day’ Plans
Announced By Senate Head
Plans are under way to cele
brate "Randy Matson Day” Sat
urday, April 22, announced Stu
dent Senate President Barney
Fudge on behalf of the student
body.
Fudge said the observance will
coincide with Matson’s final Kyle
Field appearance as a member of
the Aggie track team. The squad
will be hosting a triangular meet
with Baylor and Texas Tech and
Matson will be out to better his
world shotput mark and continue
his assault on the world discus
record.
Marine Corps General To Be
Guest Speaker At Muster
From Texas to Vietnam, and smashed the Mexican Army at
from England to Venezuela,
thousands of Texas Aggies will
pay homage to fallen comrades
Friday, April 21.
Although the attendance at
musters may range from two in
Geneva, Switzerland, to 5,000 at
Texas A&M, the ceremony is the
same.
Aggie Muster is one of the old
est traditions of Texas A&M. It
was started in 1903 when the
A&M Corps gathered on campus
to pay respects to Texans who
Mom Of The Year
Contest To Begin
Terry C. Aglietti, chairman of
the Student Senate’s Student Life
Committee, has announced the
opening of the 1967 Aggie Mother
of the Year competition.
The winner of the annual con
test will be recognized May 14
during Parents Day ceremonies at
Kyle Field.
Aglietti said students will have
until May 1 to submit applica
tions for their mothers. Entries
are to consist of pictures and
nominating letters and are to be
mailed to Aglietti at 601 Cross,
Apartment 5, College Station.
San Jacinto in 1836.
This year’s muster will mark
the 65th annual observance. Some
300 p r o gr a m s are planned
throughout the world. Texas will
set the pace with 167 musters,
while 100 such gatherings are
scheduled in other states and 33
in foreign countries.
Musters in Vietnam are ticket
ed for Bien Hoa, Nha Trang,
Quien Nhon and Saigon. Others
are planned in Turkey, North
Africa, Australia, Bolovia, Japan,
Labrador, Pakistan and Thailand.
The muster ceremony at Texas
A&M is set for 5:00 p.m. on the
steps of the System Building.
Principal speaker for the cere
mony will be Maj. Gen. Raymond
Murray of the United States Ma
rine Corps. A 1935 graduate of
Texas A&M, General Murray is
assigned to the Pentagon in
Washington, D. C.
Highlight of muster will come
when head yell leader Tommy
Stone of Donna reads the roll call
for the absent. When the names
of the honored dead are called
from muster rolls, someone in the
crowd, usually a friend of the
deceased, answers “here.”
The Ross Volunteers will then
fire a volley and Aggie Band
members will play Silver Taps.
Registration Begins Tuesday
For Wadley Blood Bank Drive
Pre-registration begins Tues
day for the annual Wadley Re
search Foundation Blood bank in
Dallas.
Students and faculty may pre
register at a table near the Me
morial Student Center post office
to contribute to the 600-pint Tex
as A&M drive on April 26-27.
“Pre-registration will allow
donors to schedule definite times
for giving blood,” announced Don
Allen of San Antonio, Student
Senate welfare committee chair
man. “Time spent in donating
blood will be reduced by proper
scheduling.”
The drive is co-sponsored by
the Senate and Alpha Phi Omega,
national service fraternity.
A&M donors have contributed
3,459 pints since the Wadley
Foundation drive was begun in
1957. Donors assure themselves
and their families a transfusion
source if need arises.
5% per year paid on all
savings at Bryan Build-
b"&L ing & Loan Assn. Adv.
Blood not used by the donor or
his family within a year helps
save the lives of leukemia-strick
en persons.
“We want to take this oppor
tunity to show our appreciation
to Randy for the many honors
and world-wide recognition he has
brought to Texas A&M,” Fudge
declared.
“The best way we can demon
strate our appreciation,” contin
ued the Student Senate president,
“is to turn out in force for Ran
dy’s last official performance at
home.”
Fudge said specific plans for
’’Randy Matson Day” will be an
nounced early next week.
Matson is scheduled to gradu
ate in January but is considering
post-graduate study here in con
junction with his preparation for
the 1968 World Olympics in Mex
ico City. In any event, his col
lege track eligibility expires this
spring, so the April 22 meet will
be the last chance for students
and local residents to see him in
formal competition.
Tickets For
Big Weekend
Now On Sale
Tickets for the Civilian dance
and barbecue April 22 must be
picked up from dorm counselors
before 5 p.m. Monday.
Fall dorm activity card holders
are entitled to dance tickets for
two, but no barbecue tickets.
Spring activity card holders can
get one barbecue ticket only.
Otherwise, dance tickets are $3
stag or drag and barbecue tickets
are $1.
Civilian day students may pick
up tickets from William G. Brea-
zeale, 1-H Puryear Hall or How
ard S. Perry, Lounge 22. Univer
sity Apartment students may pick
up tickets from Perry.
Tickets for the Town Hall Ex
tra during the weekend will go
on sale Monday in the Student
Program office in the Memorial
Student Center. Student activity
cards will not apply for this
extra.
Orr Speaks To Apollo Gub
By NEAL COOK
Battalion Staff Writer
Dr. John Orr, professor and
head of the Department of Phi
losophy, spoke on “Who Is Re
sponsible For Our Moral Stand
ards?” at the second meeting of
the YMCA’s Apollo Club Thurs
day night.
“The United States and the en
tire western world idolizes the in
dividual. To most of us the indi
vidual is responsible for his own
set of moral standards,” Orr said.
“But we should realize that
most of our standards are the re
sult of our environment,” he con
tinued.
“No man can be completely an
individual, he is in part a social
. product and men should recognize
this. Although individualism is
important, we cannot live as a
complete entity we must establish
our morals on a give-and-take,
person - to - person compromise,”
Orr advised.
“Moral individualism is a
strong factor, but over empha
sized it cuts us off from moral
effectiveness. It leads to the il
lusion that we are masters of our
own ships, but we are really part
of a large crew that consists of
those we follow and who have es
tablished many of our standards,”
Orr concluded.
At next Thursday night’s meet
ing David Gibbons, the YMCA
secretary at Denison University
will speak on “What Can I Do
About the World Situation—The
Future Won’t Wait.”
Students Elect 13
Officers In Runoffs
Ward 9 Ruiz, Adams
Elected President
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| the outside worlds
VIETNAM
A Viet Cong—Vietnamese fight in the Meking Delta
last night underlined the fact that the Saigon government’s
armed forces are carrying on afield despite diversion of
troops for pacification work.
WASHINGTON
Hayden C. Covington, attorney for Cassius Clay, asked
the Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart yesterday for an
injunction to stop the heavyweight boxing champion’s in
duction into the Army.
INTERNATIONAL
President Johnson urged the inter-American summit
conference to follow up words with prompt economic action
so that Latin America may flourish in freedom and dignity.
Syria charged Israel at the United Nations yesterday
with acts of aggression against Arab lands and said that
they will be opposed ‘‘no matter what the cost.”
The economic integration of Latin America into a com
mon market, as proposed by Western Hemisphere chiefs at
Punta del Este, Uraguay, would be a slow, tedious job re
quiring much self-sacrifice.
NATIONAL
“Russia is about to launch a major manned space shot,
possible to circle the moon and be recovered,” said Sir Ber
nard Lovell, director of the world’s largest directional radio
telescope at Jodrell Bank, England.
High winds and a few small tornadoes battered por
tions of Kansas, Texas, and Arkansas early Thursday as
heavy rains and snows covered much of the Midwest and
Southwest.
Richard Speck’s trial on charges of murdering eight
nurses encountered a long delay yesterday. Attorneys for
both sides spent the morning in the chambers of Judge
Herbert C. Paschen. The subject of their discussions was
not made known.
TEXAS
Sen. Ralph Hall of Rockwall proposed yesterday that
the various state legislatures be allowed to vote on a U. S.
Constitutional change that would allow prayers and Bible
reading in public schools.
A fire, which apparently smoldered for hours in a base-
ii.ent area, did heavy damage yesterday to the three-story,
40 room San Antonio mansion of millionaire Morris Jaffe,
of San Antonio.
Town Hall Brings Russians,
Back Porchers, Skeeter Here
By LEE MORENO
Battalion Managing Editor
A little dampened by rain,
Texas A&M students went to the
polls Thursday to elect 13 class
officers.
Sanford T. Ward, Daniel Ruiz
and Ronald L. Adams were elect
ed presidents of next year’s sen
ior, junior and sophomore classes
respectively.
Bernard Dawson was elected
the second junior yell leader.
Ward is a 21-year-old pre-med
ical major from Austin. The first
sergeant of Company E-l said:
“I hope to continue the efforts
of the Junior Council as a Senior
Council to discuss openly and re
ceive as many opinions as possi
ble about the fraternity question.
“I definitely believe that some
kind of organization is needed
among the civilians,” Ward con
tinued.
“I am looking forward to work
ing with all the men who are now
active in our class and to work
ing with the class activities,” he
commented.
A psychology major from Aus
tin, Ruiz, 19, said:
“I wish to thank all my class
mates who supported me and who
stuck it out with me.”
Adams, an 18-year-old architec
tural construction major from Ty
ler, stated:
“I hope that I can do the job
the class deserves. I would like
to set up a Sophomore Council
consisting of one sophomore from
each Corps outfit and about two
from each civilian dorm.
“The Council would make it
possible to get a better idea of
what the sophomore class wants
to do,” Adams explained.
In two tight races, Ward de
feated William R. McLeroy 198 to
189 and Ruiz squeaked by John
G. Adami 247 to 238. Adams de
feated Gerald Geistweidt 244 to
193. Dawson trounced Charles E.
Holt 307 to 177..
In othe other senior class races,
Maurice Main won over Richard
L. Gummer for vice-president 241
to 142. Secretary-treasurer went
to Robert K. Nordhaus over
Charles A. Joyner 239 to 136.
Kenneth Kennerly will hold the
position of class historian. He
downed Michael L. Lanning 213
to 161.
.Richard C. Westbrook of Beau
mont, Marc A. Sheiness of Alice
and James W. Crisswell of Brady
have been chosen Texas Aggie
Band drum majors for 1967-68,
announced Lt. Col. E. V. Adams,
bandmaster.
For the junior class positions,
Beverly Early Davis outgunned
James R. Horner 253 to 212 for
vice-president. William A. Mc
Kean defeated Dennis J. Fontana
for social secretary 276 to 184.
Vice-president of the sopho
more class went to John L. Cas
sell. He swept by Nokomis Jack-
son 219 to 202. Richard O. Love
won over John D. Cunningham
268 to 160 for secretary-treas
urer. Social secretary went to
James St. John with 235 votes to
Carroll L. Cawley’s 185. MSC
representative will be Dean T.
Eshelman with 220 to Barry W.
Bauerschlag’s 189.
Jack Myers, election committee
chairman was pleased with the
turn out in spite of the rain. He
reported 1,357 ballots cast.
Myers reminds all students to
keep their registration cards in
order to vote in the two upcom
ing elections.
Vandals Damage
Golf Course
Rip Up Tee’s’
Vandals left broken hole mark
ers jabbed into the greens cm
holes 13, 14, and 16, ripped up
tee markers and used their shoe
heels to dig into the three greens
at the A&M golf course Tuesday
night, according to Ed E. Powell,
campus security chief.
“It’s happened before,” Powell
said, “but this time we have an
identifiable finger print from one
of the tee markers.”
Vandals have used motor bikes
or motor scooters to slash across
the greens at the course in earlier
incidents, Powell said.
“The vandalism began last fall,”
LutRer A. Harrison, golf course
manager, said, “just after we
planted winter seed. I’m going
to leave those greens as they are
for a while and let the players
see just how severe the damage
is.
“I think parents of children
who have motor bikes or motor
scooters should be concerned
about this vandalism,” Harrison
commented.
ments in football halftime per
formances, military reviews, pa
rades and appearances across
Texas during the 1967-68 school
year.
G. Rollie White Coliseum is in
for a storming week as Serge
Jaroff’s Don Cossack Chorus and
Dancers present a Wednesday
night Town Hall performance and
the Back Porch Majority and
Skeeter Davis invade the gym
Saturday night.
The Don Cossack Chorus and
Dancers are a regular Town Hall
presentation and activity cards
and season ticket holders will be
admitted free. This is the 35th
coast-to-coast tour for the Rus
sians.
The combined Back Porch Ma-
jority-Skeeter Davis Show is a
Town Hall Extra and tickets are
now on sale for $1.50 for stu
dents with an activity card and
$2.00 for all others. The show is
slated for 6:30 p.m. and will pre
cede the Civilian Dance.
Tickets for the Saturday night
performance may be purchased at
the Memorial Student Center Stu
dent Programs Office until the
concert and also at the door.
The Back Porch Majority was
originally organized by Randy
Sparks along the lines of the New
Christy Minstrels, which Sparks
also organized. They soon came
up with a folk sound all their own
and an individuality apart from
other folk groups.
Also on the bill for the Satur
day night extra is Grand Ole
Opry singer Skeeter Davis. Some
of her top recordings are “Last
Date,” “The End of the World,”
and “Sunglasses.” The Civilian
Ball will be on the second floor
of the Memorial Student Center
following the Back Porch-Davis
show. Jimmy Heap and the Yaks
will play for the event.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
Trio Named As Drum Majors
For 1967-68 School Season
The trio of juniors was chosen
by a 14-man selection committee
for recommendation to President
Earl Rudder through the com
mandant’s office for appointment
to cadet rank next September,
Adams said.
The class of ’68 drum majors
were selected from 13 applicants
who directed the band in the “Na
tional Anthem” and “Aggie War
Hymn” and in marching maneu
vers outdoors.
Westbrook, a graduate of For
est Park High in Beaumont and
a chemical engineering major,
was recommended for head drum
major.
Recommended for Maroon and
White Band drum majors, respec
tively, were Sheiness and Criss
well. Crisswell, an industrial dis
tribution major, is a graduate of
Brady High School. Sheiness
graduated from William Adams
High in Alice and majors in his
tory.
Three drum majors are re
quired for “whistle power” to co
ordinate movements of the large
band, 12 files wide and 40 ranks
deep. Westbrook, Crisswell and
Sheiness will direct band move-
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
NEW DRUM MAJORS
The Texas Aggie Band announced its nomi- to right, James W. Criswell, Richard C.
nees for ’67-68 drum majors. They are, left Westbrook and Marc A. Sheiness.
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