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BETHANY DONNELL ELEANOR ZABCIK GLYNDA CHEVERERE HHL. ..<? JUDY POPE ? -MM TONEY MEDLEY Che Battalion LINDA SUE DAY Rfeh^Mi SANDRA SUMMERS Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1967 Number 433 'Uthera: 11. Weekend Will Bring Variety Of Events lLL all t«i:| 1129 4 'ubs on! aco. n the Ff the Agl hey taJ lorns tl Suits By BILL ALDRICH Battalion Staff Writer The Corps of Cadets will take a back seat in campus activities Saturday, as Civilian Weekend swings in with a barbeque, a Town Hall Extra and a dance. THE FESTIVITIES begin at noon with the b arbeque. That afternoon “Randy Matson Day” will be celebrated at the tri angular track meet between Texas Tech, Baylor, and Texas A&M. The meet is scheduled for 1 p.m. A proclamation and a plaque will be presented to Mat- son. The Aggie baseballers will also be in action at Travis Field against SMU at 2 p.m. That evening Town Hall will present a special performance, with Skeeter Davis and the Back Porch Majority doing the enter taining, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Tickets are $1.50 for students with ac tivity cards and $2 for all others. The tickets are now available at the Memorial Student Center’s Programs Office and may also be purchased at the door. SKEETER DAVIS has won her fame as a regular on the Grand Ole Opry. The Back Porch Majority, a folk-singing group, was originated as a copy of the New Christy Minstrels, but has since blossomed into a fine group in their own right. jj» flllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllM^ I the outside worldl VIETNAM U. S. Air Force jets bombed the big- Thai Nguyen steel plant yesterday in what was believed to be the big gest attack so far against the industry and railroad yards 38 miles north of Hanoi. Welcoming a Canadian peace proposal, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky’s government suggested Tuesday that warring forces pull back from the demilitarized zone to help create a climate for talks. A U. S. spokesmen said the United States approved. NATIONAL Lawyer Dean Andrews filed a $100,000 damage suit Tuesday against District Attorney Jim Garrison, who sum moned Andrews before the grand jury in connection with the Kennedy assasination probe. Backers of last weekend’s big antiwar demonstrations set their sights on a May 17 confrontation with President Johnson in Washington. WASHINGTON Senator John Stennis, Dem.-Miss., said it looked as if the Senate ethics committee’s report on misconduct charges against Senator Thomas J. Dodd would be ready next week. Senator Charles H. Percy, Rep.-Ill., won the support of. his senior Illinois colleague, Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen, for a plan to improve the housing of the poor through private enterprise, with government backing. TEXAS A series of surprises shook legislators Tuesday, cli maxed by Governor John Connally’s unexpected request to speak to a joint session tonight. A Dallas judge granted an indefinite stay of execution Tuesday to Jimmy Placido Chavez, 25, sentenced to death for the rape of an 8 year old Amarillo girl. He originally was scheduled to die in the electric chair this morning. Following the Town Hall Extra is the Civilian Dance. The dance will feature Jimmy Heep’s band from Las Vegas, and the Yaks will also play. The dance will be on the second floor of the Memo rial Student Center from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. At the dance, Civilian Sweet heart candidates will be intro duced and a winner will be se lected. Twelve civilian dormitory Sweethearts will vie for the title. THE NOMINEE for Dorm 13 is Eleanor Zabcik, a 19-year-old sophomore at East Texas State University. She is from Paris, and will be escorted by Harrell Barnett. Dorm 14’s Sweetheart is Sarah Montgomery of San Angelo. She will be escorted by Steve Norton. Regina Brink is the Sweetheart candidate for Dorm 16. She is from Waco, and will be escorted by Butch Wilson. An 18-year-old freshman at Stephen F. Austin State College, Sandra Summers is the nomina tion of Dorm 19. She is from Karnack, and will be the date of Mike Phillips. Dorm 21 has nominated Judy Pope, a 20-year-old sophomore at North Texas State. Mike Neeley will be her escort. Miss Pope is from Dallas. TONEY MEDLEY, a 21-year- old junior at Texas Woman’s Universtiy has been entered by Dorm 22. She is from Raymond- ville, and will be escorted by A. T. DeWitt. Hart Hall’s sweetheart is 17- year-old Glynda Cheverere, a senior at LaMarque High School. Weather THURSDAY Partly cloudy to cloudy. Winds southerly, 10 to 15. High 86, low 72. FRIDAY Cloudy. Scattered rain showers during the afternoon. Winds southerly, 15 to 25. High 83, low 69. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. FALLOUT THEATER “Our Man in Pling-Fling-Tung,” a Fallout en’s Social Club in the MSC ballroom at 3 Theater production directed by Mrs. Nancy p. m. Friday. The cast is composed of A&M Wick, will be presented for the A&M Worn- Consolidated High School students. She will be the date of Gary Barber. Law Hall has nominated 19- year-old Bethany Donnell. She is a freshman at Texas University, and is from Spearman. She will be the date of Wesley Jarvis. Lee Curtis, a 19-year-old Bay lor University freshman, has been nominated by Legett Hall. She is from Bryan, and will be escorted by Randy McKee. A NORTH TEXAS State freshman, Linda Sue Day, has been selected to represent Mitchell Hall. The 19-year-old is from Newcastle and will be the date of Matt Oualline. Puryear Hall has selected Shirley Gabler as its sweetheart. The 18-year-old senior at Schu- lenburg High School will be escorted by Kent Ohnheiser. Vicki Hamlett, an 18-year-old Fort Worth native is the nomi nation of Walton Hall. She will be escorted by R. D. Vitek. SHIRLEY GABLER LEE CURTIS ft I REGINA BRINK '%11IS1SI11 SARAH MONTGOMERY Freshman MSC Positions Open Freshmen interested in being assistants of the MSC Council and Directorate next year are urged to apply in the Student Programs Office at the MSC. Interviews begin April 24. No previous council experience is re quired. Applicants should have a 1.5 GPR. ‘Weddings Can Have Humor’ Savs TWU Panel Member Staff Dinner Ticket Sales End Friday Tickets for Texas A&M’s board of directors-faculty-staff dinner April 24 will be available through Friday, announced Robert G. Cherry, assistant to A&M Presi dent Earl Rudder. Cherry said the $2.50 tickets may be purchased from depart ment heads and directors or at the Memorial Student Center. The stag banquet in Sbisa Hall includes a 6:30 p.m. reception and dinner at 7:15. All of the board members plan to be in the receiving line during the reception, Cherry noted. The program includes after- dinner remarks by Board Presi dent H. C. Heldenfels of Corpus Christi. Cherry said the annual dinner affords faculty and staff mem bers an opportunity to become better acquainted with the univer sity’s directors and with each other. Although billed as a stag din ner, Cherry emphasized that women faculty-staff members are invited. “No wedding goes exactly ac cording to the plans. The couple should look at minor mishaps as funny and not pay any more attention to them.” This advice was given by Kathy Naim, a senior elementary edu cation major at Texas Woman’s University when she spoke at the last of the YMCA’s Man Your Manners programs Tuesday night. Miss Naira, from Ft. Worth, was a panelist, along with Jo Gresham, a junior art education major from Grand Prairie; Jill Anderson, a junior interior de sign major from Amarillo, and Jane Eilers, a sophomore library science major from Sioux City, Iowa. “The financial responsibility of the groom” was the topic of Miss Nairn. “The groom is responsible for the wedding rings, the marriage license, the gifts for the bride, the best man and the ushers; the minister’s fee, which should be given to the best man who will Banquet To Top J-Day Activities Walter Humphrey, editor of the Fort Worth Press, will be the featured speaker for a journalism awards banquet April 29 at Texas A&M. Humphrey, known as the dean of Southwestern journalism will speak at 7 p.m. in A&M’s Mem orial Student Center. His topic will be “A Newspaperman’s Love Affair (or, Would Your Sister Marry a Journalist?).” A highlight of the evening will be presentation of five depart mental awards and 19 journalism scholarships. Dr. Delbert Mc Guire, head of A&M’s Journalism Department, said seven of the scholarships will go to junior col lege transfers and high school students who plan to enroll at A&M. 5% per year paid on all savings at Bryan Build- B B & l, ing & Loan Assn. Adv. give it to the minister, and the bride’s bouquet and the men’s carnations,” she said. Miss Gresham spoke on the length of the engagement. “I believe that a couple should wait until they can set a definite date for the wedding before they consider themselves engaged and this date should not be too far in the future,” Miss Gresham ad vised. Miss Eilers spoke on the prob lem of broken engagements and the differences between formal and civil weddings. “When a couple is engaged for a long period of time, their atti tudes may change and cause the engagement to be broken,” she warned. She also spoke on the problems of parental disapproval of the marriage, basic personality prob lems of the individuals and cul tural differences which may cause broken engagements. Miss Anderson spoke on the bride’s responsibilities in prepa ration for the wedding. “The bride and her parents are responsible for the preparation and the expenses of the wedding,” she said. Chess, Checkers Expert In MSC A chess and checkers expert will play exhibition matches Tuesday at the Memorial Student Center. Newell Banks, a chess master and “blindfold” checker cham pion of the world, will play simul taneous matches in chess and checkers, announced John Moffitt of Midland, MSC Chess Commit tee chairman. The exhibition is set at 7 p.m. in the MSC Social Room, Moffitt said. ZK* CA ipr Pwllr I ■ ■ , *#*m«*l M * ijuMimnW* 1 IWk*'" CT 2: “ROMANCE TO MARRIAGE” TWU coeds (left to right) Jo Gresham, present the last in a series of three Kathy Nairn, Jill Anderson and Jane Eilers Your Manners” programs Tuesday. ‘Man