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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1967
Number 445
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WASHINGTON
The Senate passed 93 to 1 Tuesday a bill restoring
| major business tax incentives, after voting to make a
hollow shell of the law to finance presidential campaigns
j with $1 checkoffs on income tax returns.
Ten anti-war demonstrators staged a sit-in at the Penta-
} gon Tuesday after guards prevented them from entering
l a top-security area.
The condition of former President Eisenhower con
tinued to improve, but he will remain in the hospital at
least for the remainder of the week, the commanding
general of Walter Reed Army Hospital said Tuesday.
A Public Health Service official warned Tuesday that
the heavy plane and ship traffic from South Vietnam
has boosted the chances of bubonic plague outbreaks in the
United States.
The first three-man Apollo orbit of the earth has been
rescheduled for early next year, space chief James E.
Webb said Tuesday.
NATIONAL
A hearing on James R. Hoffa’s fourth motion for a
new jury tampering trial, expected to last at least three
days, was over in 45 minutes Tuesday. His lawyers re
mained silent when asked to present their evidence.
Cassius Clay Sr., father of the former heavyweight
champion, was listed in satisfactory condition Tuesday
after being stabbed in the chest while at a restaurant.
INTERNATIONAL
Negotiators have set Sunday as the deadline for com
pletion of work on the Kennedy Round of negotiations to
lower tariffs and other obstacles to world trade.
Reports from Communist China Tuesday indicated a
developing upheaval in the turbulent southwest, where sup
porters of Communist party Chairman Mao Tse-tung and
his opponents were said to be clashing in bloody battles.
TEXAS
The Citizens National Bank of Austin announced Tues
day that Patrick J. Nugent, son-in-law of President John
son, has been elected to its board of directors.
A complex voter registration bill requiring voters to
register in person within the next two years was approved
by Senate committee Tuesday.
Randy Matson, Texas A&M’s world champion shot
putter, said Tuesday that he will take a two-week rest
before resuming competition.
346 In First Corps Area
“WHY, YOU’RE A DRAGON!”
Cast members rehearse for presentation of the Aggie Follies’ “The Syncopated Psychedelic
Time Funnel,” or “Time-trapped on the Brazos at Gunbutt.” It will be presented in Guion
Hall Thursday through Saturday at 8 p. m. (Photo by Russell Autrey)
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Fish Drill Team Captures 21 Trophies
What makes a cadet want to
toss a rifle around under a street
lamp at midnight?
A Texas A&'M Fish Drill Team
member may require a couple of
hours to explain.
Pride and accomplisment are
the principal factors. The 1966-
67 FDT has a cabinet full of
hardware to prove the latter.
THE TEAM commanded by
Justo (Gus) Gonzales of San An
tonio stepped precisely through
seven parades and competitions
this year and brought back 21
trophies. In the maze of gleam
ing gold, silver and wood are 13
first place awards.
“The freshmen’s most cherished
trophy, however, is the 24-inch
replica of the Washington Monu
ment won in the national cham
pionships,” reclares Maj. Calvin
Reese, team sponsor. The simpl-
Three Aggie Architects Win
In National Awards Contest
Three School of Architecture
students have been named win
ners in national awards compe
tition.
Maj. Jones Fund
Set By Friends
Of Viet Nam Pilot
A Maj. Charles C. Jones Me
morial Fund has been started at
Texas A&M by family friends of
the Army helicopter pilot killed
in Viet Nam last week.
Contributions will be consoli
dated in the Industrial Engineer
ing Department for delivery to
Robert M. Logan, Student Finan
cial Aid director, for entry in the
“little loan” fund, according to
Hank Lewis, graduate research
assistant in industrial engineer
ing.
IN THE “little loan” fund, the
contributions will be used in a
non - depleting $20 - for - 30 - days
loan program to students. Major
Jones’ name will be listed with
seven or eight other contributors
on printed checks by which loans
are issued.
“We have $20,000 in the ‘little
loan’ fund,” Logan noted. “This
amount is turned over five or six
times a year. A report to the
family describing fund usage is
made annually.”
“BOB BAKER of the depart
ment had the idea and the me
morial fund was opened in re
sponse to wishes of friends of the
family and Major Jones’ class
mates,” Lewis said.
iNe pilot was on a combat mis
sion flight when his UH-1D
crashed and burned. Jones was
from San Antonio and a 1957
A&M graduate. The major had
been in Viet Nam only two
months. He received his masters
degree here in January.
They include James Foster of
Bryan, Charles G. Hamel of Gal
veston, and Ronald R. Copeland
of Texarkana.
Edward J. Romieniec, A&M’s
School of Architecture chairman,
announced the award winners.
Foster was one of four in the
nation to receive a $400 Ameri
can Institute of Architects Foun
dation scholarship. Foster, son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Foster, Rt.
3, Bryan, is editor of Architec
ture Plus, a school publication,
and a member of the Design Stu
dent Society. Twice a distin
guished student, he was named
outstanding freshman in 1962-63.
Hamel, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles P. Hamel, 3125 Avenue
North Vz, won a $1,300 summer
travel grant from Pitts, Mebane,
Phelps and White, architects in
Beaumont and Washington, D. C.
The award winner will work,
study and travel in England,
Scotland or Scandanavia this
summer.
Copeland received a $500 travel
grant from the National Founda
tion on the Arts and Humanities.
Romieniec said the award will
help Copeland enlarge his knowl
edge and experience in planning
and landscape architecture
through first-hand observation.
Copeland is the son of C. W.
Copeland, 121 Robison Place,
Texarkana.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
est of the 21 trophies was won
when the 25-cadet team placed
second among the nation’s top
rated 24 drill teams.
THE BLACK-helmeted unit will
leave a distinguished mark when
it completes the year in the
Houston Armed Forces Day
parade May 20.
In meets at West Texas State
and LSU, the “fish” took every
first place trophy available. The
25 members from all major Texas
cities, Midland, Humble, Lake
Jackson, Burleson, Vidor, Hunts
ville and five out-of-state cities
were second to none in appear
ance. The freshmen won every
inspection award, maintaining a
string of firsts dating to the
1964-65 school year.
The success may trace to a
sign posted in the team’s rifle
storage room: “Luck is what hap
pens when preparation meets op
portunity.”
A HIGH DEGREE of espirit de
corps is built through a calculated
series of jibes, insults, hard work
by upperclass advisors and long
hours on the practice field.
‘Each team is accused of spong
ing off the previous team’s rec
ord,” explained Dick Grossen-
bacher, senior advisor from San
Antonio.
Moulded from the crucible of
long hours practice is a hard
faith in ability voiced by a fresh
man who quit turning his head
to catch a tossed rifle.
“I don’t have to,” he said. “I
know it will be there.”
MEMBERS ARE “recruited” at
a September new student open
house, according to James L.
Vogas, 1967-68 senior advisor.
Tryouts and two months practice
precede the team’s first appear
ance.
“We keep stressing the idea
that until they make their own
mark — if they do — the team
is living off the reputation of last
year’s team,” Vogas went on.
To make the unit, fish are re
quired to decide between member
ship and intramural sports, other
extra-curricular activities and go
ing home weekends. Strict time
accounting is mandatory, if the
student is to maintain grades that
will keep him in school.
‘THAT’S ONE of the advan
tages of being a team member,”
noted Maj. Gerald J. Harber,
Military Science Department rep
resentative. “The boys are forc
ed to learn to budget their time.”
The capability is valuable. In
previous years, team members
have become senior class presi
dent and held other key student
government positions. Two years
ago, 27 Cadet Corps commanders
were FDT “graduates.”
Movements, intricate rifle pass
es and new tactics are designed
and installed by seven upperclass
advisors. Each year’s drills are
different except for a basic “rip
ple” and Queen Anne salute.
NEW IDEAS are voiced only
after long thought and two or
three cadets have worked out
the rifle manual on their own.
Design sessions usually fall at
odd hours and places.
“YOUR MOVE”
Four students relax from studies Tuesday afternoon to play a game of chess on lawn out
side dorm.
Agronomy Society
Slates Barbecue
The Texas A&M Student Agron
omy Society will hold its spring
barbecue Tuesday, according to
John Cosper of Edna, Agronomy
Society president.
A highlight of the annual event
will be presentation of the Luther
Jones Scholarship. The scholar
ship is awarded each year to the
outstanding junior member of the
Agronomy Society, Cosper said.
The barbecue, which culminates
the year’s activities for the So
ciety, will be held in Hensel Park
at 5:30 p.m.
5% per year paid on all
savings at Bryan Build-
B n“& l, ing & Loan Assn. Adv.
Root-Out Outshined
By Border Actions
SAIGON UP)—A U. S. Marine
task force has been rooting out
North Vietnamese infiltrators
deep in the 1st Corps area while
battles near the border held world
attention, the U.S. Command dis
closed Tuesday. It said enemy
dead in Operation Union totaled
346.
LOSSES AMONG the 1,200 or
more Marines in the operation,
launched April 21, were listed as
52 killed and 232 wounded. The
task force was officially described
only as multibattalion. The lo
cale is Quang Nam and Quang
Tin provinces, which are from 100
to 150 miles south of the border.
“Contact has ranged from light
to moderate,” a spokesman said.
U.S. B52 jets roared high above
that mountainous area for two
saturation attacks with their 30-
ton bomb loads. One of these was
in Quang Ngai Province, which
adjoins Quang Tin, and the other
in the southern portion of the de
militarized zone blanketing the
border.
THE SPOKESMAN said both
raids by the eight-engine Strato-
fortresses were aimed at enemy
troop concentrations and weapons
positions.
U.S. Marines, Army artillery
and South Vietnamese troops
manning hot spots near the bor
der built up their defenses in the
expectation of further heavy ac
tion in the wake of the battle of
Con Thien.
There was an upward revision
of casualty figures for both sides
at Con Thien, two miles south of
the demilitarized zone, where an
attack by about 1,200 North Viet
namese regulars was repulsed
Monday.
THE U.S. COMMAND said 197
of the enemy were killed, 18 more
than previously announced. Al
lied casualties were put at 44
Marines killed, 140 Marines and
other American troops wounded
and 14 Vietnamese irregulars
killed and 16 wounded. This in
creased the number of Marine
dead by nine and the number of
Brain Study Is
Aided By Grant
Texas A&M has been awarded
a $21,070 National Institute of
Health grant for research in the
evolutionary history of the brain
in the embryo status.
A&M President Earl Rudder
said Dr. Lawrence Dillon, profes
sor of biology, is principal inves
tigator for the study. Dr. Dillon
said the research, to be conduct
ed in A&M Biology Department
laboratories, involves checking
brain functions of closely related
carnivorous mammals, such as
dogs, cats, skunks, badgers, bears,
racoons and lions.
“We will probe their brains to
determine real relationships to
each other,” Dr. Dillon explained.
“And we want to apply these re
lationships to mankind.
Americans wounded by 41.
While U.S. jets again pounded
selected targets in North Viet
nam, it was announced five air
attacks over the past two weeks
different from other mammals
have put the Hoa Lac MIG air
base out of action.
Bank Of A&M
Names Two
New Directors
An engineer and a veterinarian
have been elected directors of the
Bank of A&M, Chairman of the
board John R. Naylor, announced
today.
New directors are Dr. Charles
H, Samson Jr., head of the De
partment of Civil Engineering,
and Dr. Fred D. Maurer, associ
ate dean and distinguished pro
fessor pathology, College of Vet
erinary Medicine.
“WE ARE FORTUNATE to
find men of this caliber to join
the board of the Bank of A&M,”
Naylor commented. . “Both Dr
Samson and Dr. Maurer are out
standing in their professional
fields. They will provide leader
ship and assistance in the man
agement of our financial institu
tion, to permit us to be of greater
service to the students, faculty
and staff of Texas A&M as well
as the business community of
Bryan-College Station.”
Dr. Samson received his B.S.
and M.S. degrees in civil engi
neering from Notre Dame and
the Ph.D. from the University of
Missouri in 1953. An assistant
professor at Notre Dame from
1953-56, he went to SMU in 1956
as a graduate lecturer and was a
project engineer for General Dy
namics Corporation.
HE CAME TO College Station
in 1960 as a professor of civil and
aeronautical engineering and was
made head of the Structural Re
search Department in 1962. He
was named head of his depart
ment in 1964.
Chosen “Engineer of the Year”
for Brazos County in 1966, Dr.
Samson is listed in “American
Men of Science,” “Leaders in
American Science,” “Who’s Who
in American Education,” “Who’s
Who in Engineering,” and “Who’s
Who in the South and South
west.”
He was given the General Dy
namics/Fort Worth ^‘Excellence
in Teaching” award in 1962.
A Registered Professional En
gineer for both Texas and Indi
ana, Samson also serves as head
of the Civil Engineering Division,
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station and is a research engineer
for the Texas Transportation In
stitute.
HE IS VICE president for the
Texas Society for Professional
Engineers, Brazos Chapter; and
See Bank Of A&M page 4
Final Exam Schedule
Final exams for the Spring Semester 1967 will be
May 26 through June 3, as follows:
Friday-
Monday-
Monday-
Monday-
Tuesday-
Tuesday-
Tuesday-
Wednesday-
Wednesday-
Wednesday-
Thursday-
Thursday-
Thursday-
Friday-
Friday-
Friday-
Saturday-
Saturday-
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29
29
29
30
May
May
May
May
May
May 30
May 30
May
May
May
31
31
31
7- 10 p.m. Biology 107
8- 11 a.m. Classes MWF8
1-4 p.m Clesses TThSFl
7- 10 p.m. Classes MWF12
8- 11 a.m. Classes MWF9
1-4 p.m. Classes MWThl
7- 10 p.m. Classes TThl2
8- 11 a.m. Classes MWF10
1-4 p.m. Classes TF1
7-10 p.m. Mathematics 103,
122, & 308
June 1 8-11 a.m. Classes MSTThlO
June 1 1-4 p.m. Classes MWTh2
June 1 7-10 p.m. Mathematics 102,
121, & 307
June 2 8-11 a.m. ClassesMWFll
June 2 1-4 p.m. Classes M4TThll
June 2 7-10 p.m. Chemistry 101, 102
June 3 8-11 a.m. Classes TTh9F2
June 3 1-4 p.m. Classes TF2 or TWF3
or TThF3
Final exams in courses with only one theory hour
per week will be given, at the discretion of the department
head concerned, at the last meeting of either the theory
or practice period before the close of the semester.