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Hay j, i) Che Bdttdlion Weather FRIDAY—Cloudy to partly cloudy, :$ few light rain showers in afternoon. High 82. Low 68. : x SATURDAY—Partly cloudy becoming g: cloudy during the afternoon, scattered showers in late afternoon. High 84. :$ Low. 73. g v.v^i*r*x*x*X;XvX*!;X*i;X*rvX\*i*i*i*i\%*!*!*i*'vr*i*r**N*>x*x*x*i*x*i*X;*;.**r COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1967 Number 442 General Carpenter Commission Speaker er Dam sor, fit! juinn al( of a * en, win id choitt ; Satos and at Santa •' a gallot 1 le Than BOOKS TO VIETNAM Several hundred books are prepared for shipment to Aggies serving in Vietnam by (from left) sophomore John Raney, Peter B. Plotts, Exchange Store Book Dept, manager, and senior Donald G. Rapp, chairman of the book project. (Photo by Russell Autrey) Agriculture Dean Resigns To Accept Thailand Position R. E. Patterson, dean of agri culture at Texas A&M' and direc tor of the Texas Agricultural Ex periment Station, resigned Wed nesday, effective August 31, to take a position with the U. S. Administration for International Development (AID) in Thailand. On the staff of Texas A&M for 28 years, he has held the joint title of dean and director since 1961. As director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Patterson has directed research work in agriculture at the University and its 26 outlying field stations and Research-Extension Centers. Patterson came to A&M in the mid-30's for graduate work in animal genetics. He obtained both Masters and Ph.D. degrees at A&M in animal genetics and was first appointed to the staff in 1939 as an instructor in genetics. In 1946, he became assistant di rector of the Agricultural Exper iment Station and professor of genetics. In 1951 he was named vice director of the station. He climbed to vice president for agriculture in 1958, vice chan 5% per year paid on all savings at Bryan Build- Brf&i. ing & Loan Assn. Adv. cellor for agriculture in 1959, and dean of agriculture in 1960. Patterson recently announced a $1.4 million grant for wildlife conservation research from the Caesar Kleberg Foundation for Wildlife Conservation and two years ago revealed a $125,000 grant from the King Ranch for a chair for meats chemistry. Patterson also developed the area Research-Extension Center concept for coordinating univer sity field operations. The newest center, to be opened at Overton this summer, came about through a $300,000 grant, 150 head of cat tle and lease of 1,220 acres from the McMillian Foundation obtain ed 2 years ago. While at A&M, Patterson also promoted the inauguration of area extension specialists and was the architect of area agricultural pro grams to increase income from agricultural production. Four programs are currently underway. They are the Blackland Income Growth (BIG) program, the Build East Texas (BET) pro gram, the Panhandle Economic Program (PEP), and the South Plains Development (SPD) pro gram. A fifth, for the Rolling Plains, will get underway this summer. It has been estimated that the increased agricultural income from the BIG program during its 5 years has amounted to more than $250 million. In two years, the BET program has increased the income for the area about $65 million. Patterson is a Fellow of the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science, a member of Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi, the American Gene tics Association, the American Statistical Association, the Amer ican Society of Animal Produc tion, and the Texas Agricultural Workers Association. In 1965 he was president of the Southern Agricultural Workers Association. Illfttlllll the outside world VIETNAM North Vietnamese regulars mauled a U.S. Marine company with mortar and human wave assaults Wednes day and then fell back under a furious American counter attacks in the bloody campaign for control of high ground hear the Laotion frontier. | Highly informed sources denied Wednesday that U. S. Planes have made “any recent penetrations” of Red China’s skies. WASHINGTON The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, has directly challenged Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara’s basic reasons for opposing an anti missile defense for the nation. The United States is investigating a charge by Com- jmunist China that four American planes dropped bombs Tuesday on a Chinese town near the border of North Viet- ham, the State Department said Wednesday. The House Republican Policy Committee announced Wednesday its support of legislation to prohibit the delib erate and defiant desecration of the American flag. President Johnson’s program to build trade bridges to European Communist nations won it first congressional test Wednesday when the House Banking Committee re fused to bar U. S. financing of an automobile plant in the Soviet Union. President Johnson said Wednesday no decision is im minent on whether to send more troops to Vietnam. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said Wednesday that ^5,000 American troops due to be pulled out of Western Europe are not destined for duty in Vietnam. President Johnson outlined Wednesday new action to stave off a nationwide railroad strike, but said that he won’t ask Congress to dictate settlement of the wage dispute. Wrangling Senate critics and supporters of President Johnson’s Vietnam policies got a stern-voiced warning Wednesday from Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., not to make the war a “political football.” NATIONAL Gen. William C. Westmoreland has asked President Johnson to send another 160,000 fighting men to Vietnam to bring the total U. S. strength to 600,000, the New York Times reported from Saigon Wednessday. Explosion Injures Two; Blast Shock Felt In Abilene MERKEL, Tex. 0?*) — A truck loaded with dynamite and ferti lizer burned and exploded Wed nesday, blasting a hole 25 feet deep and 50 feet across on Inter state 20 near this West Central Texas town. There were no fatalities but five persons, including two fire men, were injured by flying debris. The shock wave from the blast broke windows a mile away in Merkel and could be felt in Abi lene, 13 miles to the east. Industrial Show Features 1,000 Student Displays More than 1,000 exhibits of stu dent work in the Texas Industrial Arts Fair will be displayed to the public from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sat urday at Texas A&M’s DeWare Field House. Dr. James L. Boone, associate professor of industrial education and the fair chairman, said free exhibits include gun cabinets, cer amics, living room and bedroom suites, a violin, a television cam era and additional projects made by senior and junior high school industrial arts students. Competition begins Friday in technical speaking, woodworking, electronics, technical writing, metal working, plastics and drafting. An awards luncheon is sche duled for 12:30 p.m. Saturday in Sbisa Hall. More than 500 stu dents, high school teachers and industrial arts club sponsors will attend. A sweetheart and new officers of the Texas Industrial Arts Student Association will be introduced at the luncheon, Boone said. Air University Commander Lt. Gen. John W. Carpenter III will be the honored military guest and speaker at commissioning ex ercises May 27. The three-star general will ad dress A&M cadets commissioned in the Air Force, Army and Ma rines and participate in Final Re view, which signals the end of the 1966-67 school year. AS AU COMMANDER, Gen eral Carpenter supervises plan ning and implementation of pro grams for educational develop ment of Air Force officers and airmen. National AFROTC head quarters are located under his command at Maxwell AFB, Ala. Born in Starkville, Miss., the A&M commissioning speaker studied engineering at Oklahoma A&M and Mississippi State and entered West Point in 1935. After commissioning in 1939, he earned his wings at Air Corps flying schools at Tulsa, Randolph and Kelly Fields and embarked on a career that has taken him to the Philippines, Java, Australia, New Guinea, the Far East and all over the U. S. THE 51-YEAR-old officer was on a reconnaissance flight from Clark Field, Hawaii, when the Japanese attacked in 1941. His aircraft was the first to land at Clark following the attack. After flying several missions against the Japanese, he left for Bataan where he commanded the ground echelon of the 19th Bomb ardment Group. General Carpenter was a test pilot inspector general, assistant vice commander and director of plans and programming of the Air Research and Development Com- Helicopter Crash Claims January Grad In Vietnam Maj. Charles C. Jones, a Texas A&M graduate of last January, was killed in a helicopter crash in Vietnam, his wife revealed • Wednesday. Mrs. Jones resides at 1202 Skrivanek, Bryan, with a son, Curtis 9, and daughter, Holly Ann 7. The major was on a combat mission Tuesday in a UH-1D heli copter when the craft crashed and burned from unknown causes. An investigation is under way. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Jones of San Antonio and completed work for a master’s degree in industrial engineering at A&M during the fall semester. He left for South east Asia March 1. Major Jones, 32, was a 1957 graduate of A&M in civil engi neering and attended flight train ing at the Army rotary wing school at Camp Gary. He had served in Germany, Fort Belvoir, Va., and Fort Rucker, Ala. The officer was bom in Corsicana and grew up in San Antonio. He was a cadet lieutenant in Company “A”, Engineers in the Cadet Corps at A&M. Mrs. Jones, also of San An tonio, is a special student major ing in education at A&M. Services pend at Fort Sam Houston. Lowery Elected Marketing Head Mike Lowery, a junior from Lancaster, is the new president of Texas A&M’s collegiate chap ter of the American Marketing Association. Lowery was elected at the group’s Tuesday night meeting which also included presentation of a pen set to marketing instruc tor Jerry DeHay for outstanding service as chapter sponsor. Guest sponsor for the meeting was Larry Chubert of Dallas, dis trict manager for the Industrial Products Division of Armstrong Cork Co. Phil Abernathy, senior from Hughes Springs, is the chapter’s outgoing president. mand, commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center, AF Headquarters director of plans and assistant deputy chief of staff, plans and operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington. HE BECAME the Air Univer sity commander in August, 1965, and was promoted to brigadier general in 1957. Among the Air Command and . Vjjgp Staff School and Air War College graduate’s decorations are the Sil ver Star, Legion of Merit, Dis tinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with numerous clusters. The general and his wife, the former Dorothy Bigelow Coding, list Tullulah, La., as their home. They have three children. Yogas New A dvisor To Fish Drill Team James L. Yogas of Galveston has been named senior advisor of the Texas A&M Freshman Drill Team for 1967-68, announced Maj. Calvin Reese, faculty advisor. Junior advisors will be Michael E. Casey of Washington, D. C., and Roy D. Lewis of Hurst. Four sophomore advisors will be named on Mothers Day, Reese added. Accompanist Will Perform Friday Mrs. June Biering, accompanist for the Singing Cadets of Texas A&M, will perform at the last public performance of the group Friday at 8 p.m. in the Bryan Civic Auditorium. She will play a portion from the great work, the “Warsaw Concerto” by Addinsell. The popular name for the work is “The World Outside”. This will be her first solo per formance in the Bryan area in three years. On her last per formance she played her own in terpretation of the song “Laura”. The concerto lends itself to the technical proficiency and musi cianship of Mrs. Biering, who was the music director for radio sta tion WOAI in San Antonio be fore becoming accompanist for the Singing Cadets. THE THREE students were junior and sophomore advisors on this year’s Fish Drill Team that captured 16 trophies, placed sec ond in the National Drill Team Championships at the Washing ton, D. C., Cherry Blossom Fes tival and won every inspection. The 1966-67 FDT won all four trophies at the Scabbard and Blade meet at West Texas State and four more awards in the re cent Southern Invitational at Baton Rouge. Vogas will head the seven up perclassmen who conduct team tryouts and practices and install employs in Houston, Baton Rouge movements the all-freshman unit and other meets. The senior ad visor has responsibility for team conduct and arranges travel, housing and equipment details on trips. VOGAS, A Ball High graduate, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lad Vogas, 4321 QVz, Galveston, and a cadet master sergeant on the Second Brigade Staff of the Corps of Cadets. He majors in electri cal engineering. An industrial technology major, Lewis is a Bell High graduate, son of James W. Duncan, 660 West Cedar, Hurst, and a Com pany B-2 cadet corporal. Son of Congressman Bob Casey of Houston, Mike Casey is a lib eral arts major and a Squadron 9 cadet corporal. Filing Deadline Set Friday For Senate Representative Election A deadline has been set at 5:00 p.m. Friday for all prospec tive candidates in the Student Senate college representative elections. Any student wishing to file may do so in the Student Pro gram’s Office of the Memorial Student Center. The election will be May 16 in the basement of the MSC. Each degree granting college not on the trimester system will elect three members to the Sen ate. A sophomore (class of ’70), junior (’69), and a senior (’68) will be elected by their respective classes to represent their colleges in next year’s senate. The five colleges to elect rep resentatives are the College of Engineering, the College of Geo sciences, the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Agriculture, and the College of Science. In the College of Veterinary Medicine, an academically classi fied third year, second year, and first year student will be elected. A minimum grade point ratio of 1.25 overall is required of all students filing for the post. The student also must not be on any kind of probation at the time of the election. LL Gen. J. W. Carpenter, III Ambassador To Address Arab Student Club Harold B. Minor, former United States ambassador to Lebanon, will address the Arab Students Club Monday. A. A. Bassyoni, president of the A&M Arab Student Club, said Minor, now a consultant to the U. S. State Department, will dis cuss “Arab-American Relations” during an 8 p.m. program in the Memorial Student Center Ball room. Bassyoni said the program also will feature two films about the Arab world. Ar^b refreshments will be served, he added. Faculty-staff members at A&M and other guests have been in vited to the program Bassyoni continued. Minor, a resident of Boca Raton, Fla., is chairman of the board of the American Middle East Council, and a member of the boards of the Near East Foundation and the American Colony Charities Association of Jerusalem. Also, he is vice-chair man of the board of American Friends of the Middle East. The speaker was educated at Drake Universtiy, Carnegie Insti tute and Georgetown University before entering the U. S. Foreign Service in 1927. He served in numerous capacities before being named chief of the Middle East and Indian Division of the State Department from 1944 to 1947. He was Minister to Greece in 1947-50 and served from 1951 to 1953 as Ambassador to Lebanon. Minor retired from the State Department in 1953. He accepted a post in the Government Rela tions Department of the Arabian American Oil Company for a year before becoming president of American Friends of the Middle East. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. FALLOUT THEATER PRESENTATION “Antigone,” a classic Greek drama by Sophocles and adapted by Jean Anouilh, will be pre sented in the Fallout Theater tonight and Friday at 8 p. m.