14 COPIES A A isrrs^ \ w \ Volume 61 \A h ? Che Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1967 Weather SATURDAY — Cloudy in morning, partly cloudy during afternoon with £: widely scattered rain showers. High 78. Low 68. SUNDAY—Cloudy to partly cloudy. High 82. Low 70. I\%*I*>X\*X*X*t*l*I*X‘‘.*i*XvX*I44*I*X4*>I*lNvX*X*I*X*X*I*l%*I4*X*I*X^*V* Number 443 ies( Connally, Lines On i HE MX '■ K. • ym Senators Draw State Spending «§I "/mm 4 ■ JW m P I Needed Services Cut, Claims Gov. WaSmmmBmSMm mm 1,1 h '" -■ ; NEW PRESIDENT Jerry Campbell (left), new Student Senate president, re ceives the g-avel of his office from Barney Fudge. Gavel Exchanged At Senate Banquet The Student Senate presidency formally exchanged hands Thurs day night as Barney Fudge pre sented Jerry Campbell with the president’s gavel at the Student Senate Awards Banquet. Campbell, a junior physical education major, was elected April 27. Fudge is the outgoing president. Student Senate members were presented Student Senate keys during the awards ceremony. Speaker for the banquet was Dr. William P. Fife, acting head, Department of Biology. He spoke about the trend for young people to demand more voice, authority and equality in schools. “Is there,” Dr. Fife asked, “a happy mid-point between full freedom of expression and solid learning?” The way to achieve this point lies in one word, he said, “respon sibility.” “Some people have an irrespon sible feeling and think it is their prerogative to act irresponsibly,” he said. However, he pointed out, a doctor who has to perform a critical operation doesn’t get the skill he needs “by sitting around a table with a bunch of long- bearded guys having ‘experi ences’.” Fudge summed up his year as president as “productive, inter esting and active.” “It was an interesting year,” he noted, “although we began with a catastrophe, the “Battalion Incident” and we progressed through the fraternity issue, seating at football games and the Aggie Blood Drive. We buried Reveille, and trained the new Reveille, ran all student elections and set up a traffic committee.” By GARTH JONES AUSTIN UP) — Gov. John Con nally and legislative leaders drew a tight battle line Thursday on the 60th legislature’s prime prob- ley — state spending and taxa tion. “The Senate spending bill is woefully deficient,” Connally said in a news conference called before the Senate Finance Committee completed clearing its version of the 1968 appropriations bill for floor debate. THE GOVERNOR claimed he saw numerous fatal flaws in the Senate version, including a $20 million need for new taxes. He also hinted the Senate slashed some essential state services in order to give the powerful pub lic school teachers organization a hefty pay raise. “If he, Connally, had this in formation why didn’t he tell us?” said Lt. Gov. Preston Smith, who says there is only an $11 million deficit. “. . . I’m going to stand behind the finance committee and the Senate.” Speaker Ben Barnes sided with Connally saying the Senate plan would drive the state to deficit financing, which is contrary to the constitution’s pay-as-you-go di rections. BOTH HOUSES indicated they would bring up their separate versions of 1968 spending Mon day for debate. When the separate Senate and House spending bills are ap proved, they likely will be sent BrazilCallsMeeting RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil ) —President Arturo da Costa e Silva has called a meeting of 22 state agriculture secretaries for July 15 to develop plans for in creasing Brazil’s food supplies. Costa e Silva announced the meeting as he opened the coun try’s largest cattle show at Ub- eraba, 300 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. Nigerian Student Gives Top Paper Texas A&M graduate student Leo Khelil of Nigeria is the win ner of a student technical contest of the Society of Petroleum Engi neers. The A&M doctoral student’s paper, “Study of Some Factors Influencing Transmission of Blow Energy to the Rock in Drilling,” won over eight graduate division papers in the three-state contest at Mississippi State University. The society is a bi’anch of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering. Khelil, 28, earned bachelor and masters degrees in petroleum engineering at Ohio State in 1964. His A&M doctoral work is in petroleum engineering. to a 10-man conference commit tee that will, attempt to write a compromise acceptable to both houses before the May 29 end of this regular session. Connally asked this session to limit spending to the 1968 fiscal year and promised he would call a special session in 1968 to appro priate 1969 funds. Normally this session would decide on spending and revenue plans for the next two years. THE SENATE bill cleared for floor debate Thursday allots $55.5 million for a teachers pay raise averaging $633 each a year — an indirect obligation also on the General Rvenue Fund. Teach ers originally asked a $776 an nual raise. Connally said the $436 million Senate bill, plus $55.5 million for a pay raise and plus $3.5 mil lion for teachers retirement, ac tually adds up to a total Senate bill of $494 million, compared to $483.9 million expected income in 1968. IN ADDITION, the governor told his hurriedly called news con ference, a special rider or provi sion in the Senate bill will cost the state another $10 million. The special rider, he said, limits state participation in the federal medi care program to five basic serv ices, cutting out a $13 million a year state-federal program of medicare to the mentally ill and retarded and to tuberculosis pa tients in state institutions. “If it is true the Finance Com mittee will be happy to correct it (the welfare rider),” Smith said in answer to Connally. CONNALLY also charged the Senate bill short-changed the state hospital system by $2 mil lion for construction funds and $1.67 million for operating funds, when compared to the House bill. He said the Senate forgot vital requests for halfway houses to fight juvenile crime, construction of a new dormitory at Corsicana .State School, money for driver safety training, and financing of the water adjudication act already passed. He said the Senate bill was far below House bequests for ful fillment of the Texas water devel opment plan, the Texas Water Quality Act, the Galveston Bay water pollution study, areawide sewage plant planning and operat ing funds for the College Coordi nating Board. \ 'V SlggljDfe Photo Salon To Be Judged By THD Man Herman F. Kelly Jr., Texas Highway Department photogra pher-writer, will judge the 1967 Intercollegiate Photo Salon spon sored by the Camera Committee at Texas A&M. Salon ’67 will have entries from colleges and universities all over the nation, according to Ken neth Reese, committee chairman. KELLY WILL serve on a three- man judging panel that will pick first, second and third places in each of eight categories, an out standing photograph and out standing photographer. Judging will be held in the Memorial Student Center Assem bly Room May 13. It will be open to the public. Accepted prints will be displayed in the MSC, Reese added. A HOUSTON native, Kelly at tended San Marcos Academy. His college work in journalism and photography was at North Texas State, the University of Houston and Sam Houston State where he received his degree in 1960. He worked in the Photo and Visual Aids Laboratory at A&M five years, serving as technical advisor to the camera committee. KELLY WAS photography in structor at the Gary Job Corps Training Center at San Marcos and joined the highway depart ment last year. Dr. Hubert Named To Head SEHC, Non-Profit Corp. Dr. Frank Hubert, liberal arts dean, has been appointed board president of the Southwest Educa tional Development Corp., a non profit educational organization f serving Texas and Louisiana. The corporation, with headquar ters in Austin, operates through fp* a 21-month, $1,050,000 contract Under the Elementary and Second ary Education Act of 1965. The corporation is also recipient of a 1216,000 U. S. Office of Educa tion contract for development of new approaches to intercultural education in a regional institu tion to be instigated by the SEDC. Dean Hubert was vice president last year. Dr. Edwin Hindsman of Austin, ^ executive director, emphasizes that the research-oriented insti- PLAN N MCA PROGRAMS tution will not displace nor in- Comprising the 1967-68 YMCA Cabinet, are (from left) Gary Anderson, secretary-trea- fringe upon responsibilities of surer; Ron McLeroy, vice president; Tom Bell, president; and David Howard, special pro- existing institutions. grams chairman, standing. NO SPLINTERS After removing the old wooden type benches, workmen install new Fiberglass seats as part of the Kyle Field remodeling. Conquest of Hill 881 North Proves Costly for Marines By EDWIN Q. WHITE SAIGON > — Weary U. S. Marines dug in Thursday night on the explosive-scarred slopes of Hill 881 North with the hope that, perhaps today they could drive tenacious North Vietnamese regu lars from its crest. Conquest of Hill 881 North should wind up some of the blood iest fighting of the war, an 11- day campaign in which the Ma rines have won two other hills at a cost of 900 casualties. WITH 157 dead and 264 seri ously wounded, they count 506 of the enemy killed and estimate 610 others have been wiped out in the American drive to clear high ground in the strategic sector ad joining the demilitarized zone on the north and the Laotian fron tier on the west. A Marine spokesman announced a battalion of the Leathernecks edged up Hill 881 North Thursday afternoon against enemy sniper fire, but stalled short of the sum mit and entrenched for the night. WHILE PLANES AND artil lery pounded enemy bunkers on the peak, two American shells strayed into Marine lines, killing one and wounding nine. Only a few miles to the south east, 300 or so Communist troops attacked and partly overran a U.S. Army Special Forces Camp at Lang Vei. They killed 28 of the defenders — two American Green Beret advisers and 26 of the irregular garrison — in a fierce fight launched with a mor tar barrage before dawn. Seven enemy dead were left behind when the Communists withdrew. The strength and location of the attack provided another in dication of a buildup of enemy forces in South Vietnam’s north ern 1st Corps area. HOWEVER, Lt. Gen. Lewis Walt, commander of the 75,000 U. S. Marines in Vietnam, told a news conference at his headquar ters in Da Nang that allied forces haVe thwarted seven Communist battle plans in the area since the end of the Vietnamese Tet truce last February. 5% per year paid on all savings at Bryan Build- Brf&L ing & Loan Assn. Adv. The news conference apparently was called to counter fears that North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong guerrilla forces were seriously jeopardizing the allies’ hold in the aiea. Walt said he has told Gen. Wil liam C. Westmoreland, com mander of all U.S. forces in Viet nam that he needs more troops if he is to ro6t out local guerrilla groups as well as the enemy’s main force units. ASKED IF HE considered Ma rine losses high in the battle for the hilltops, Walt replied it is “hard to know” the ratio of Amer ican to enemy casualties. The enemy in this case was identified as at least two regiments of North Vietnam’s 325th Division. Combat deaths in the American armed forces last week totaled 181 — more than double the 76 among South Vietnamese govern ment troops — and many of these were suffered by the Marines in the preliminary skirmishing in the hills. U. S. HEADQUARTERS said that, in addition to the 181 killed, 957 were wounded. That com pared with 148 killed and 1,031 wounded in the week of April 16- 22. Unofficial tabulations of American combat casualties since 1961 mounted to 9,407 killed and 46,076 wounded. In addition, 1,966 Americans have died in Vietnam of illness, accidents and other causes offi cially classified as nonhostile. There were 31 such cases last week. CSU Prof Gives Grad Talk Here Dr. Larry Miller of Colorado State University will give a Grad uate College lecture today. The talk is set for 4 p.m. in room 231 of the Chemistry Build ing. DR. WAYNE C. HALL, A&M’s Academic vice president, said Dr. Miller will discuss “The Electro chemical Generation of Carbo- nium and lodonium Ions.” Miller received his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, then worked in the CentVal Research Division of American Cyanamid Company before joining the Colo rado State University faculty last year. An assistant professor of chemistry, his primary research interests are ion radical chemis try and molecular rearrange ments. Former Drill Members Elect Woodard Association Head Mitchell A. Woodard will head officers of the Association of Former Fish Drill Team mem bers next fall. The association supports the rifle drill unit and co-sponsors with the Military Science De partment the A&M Invitational Drill Meet each March. This year’s team won national honors and 16 competition trophies. WOODARD, a mechanical engi neering major and son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave B. Woodard, 6110 Fairdale, Houston, was elected president. He is a junior advisor this year and a member of Squad ron 3 in the Cadet Corps. Other officers include Henry W. (Hank) Dille Jr. of El Paso, vice president; Richard L. Cal vert of Shreveport, La., secretary; Gai-y D. Westerfield of Crawford, treasurer, and Robert B. Boldt of Tyler, competition chairman. Dille is a sophomore electrical engineering major and the son of Lt. Col. and Mrs. H. W. Dille, 9544 Desert Ridge, El Paso. C VLVERT, a sophomore in dustrial technology major, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Cal vert Jr. of 3752 Murvon, Shreve port. The son of Mrs. Lanelle S. Boldt, 904 Dulse, Tyler, Boldt is an industrial technology major. Westerfield marched with the 1966-67 Fish Drill Team that was second in national championships at Washington, D. C. He majors in aerospace engineering and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira H. Westerfield, Route 1, Crawford.