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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1967
Number 442
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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.