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^ firs from 5. jldwij-: 5-H niekl e bac'i first r e's tv : . and 1 out a ecutiv; Pran's; Battalion Weather | THURSDAY—Partly cloudy, winds southeasterly 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 82. Low 63. £ j:j: FRIDAY—Partly cloudy to cloudy, g: winds southerly 15 to 20 m.p.h. High j:- :§ 86. Low 66. g: Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1967 Number 450 Ring Dance Tickets Go Off Sale Today Today is the last chance to buy tickets for the Senior Ring |Banquet scheduled for Saturday I night in Duncan Mess Hall. The tickets will be taken off ii sale at 5 p.m. in the Memorial j Student Center’s Student Pro- Igram Office. Tickets for the |dance, slated for the same night jun Sbisa Mess Hall, will remain lion sale through 5 p.m. Friday. A special mystery speaker will | be featured at the banquet. “Because of the special nature |of his act and of his being widely Iknown, we feel it would be bet- Bter not to release the speaker’s Iname,” Terrell S. Mullins, senior fclass president, explained. A package price of $11.50 is tbeing asked for couple admit- itance to both the dance and the Ibanquet, plus two pictures at the 1dance. The banquet begins at 6 p.m. |while the dance does not start till 8:30. Claude Gordon and his orches- |tra will furnish the music for the fdance. The Gordon orchestra »uncil Positions [Close On Friday Applications for three Me- Imorial Student Center Council BCommittee Chairmanships still Ivacant must be turned in by 5 |p.m. Friday, accoi'ding to Coun- |cil President Scott Roberts. These chairmanships include |the Bridge, Talent and Travel jCommittees. “Chairmen will plan and di- [rect student programs for each jcommittee’s area of operation,” fRoberts said. According to Betty Franklin, ^Council Public Relations director, | there have been “only a couple” fof applications turned in to date. The Bridge Committee pro- jvides opportunity for people in- fterested in bridge to play or [learn to play. The Talent Committee plans [the annual Aggie Talent Show [and provides the enlistment and [presentation of performing stu- [dent ai'tists enrolled at Texas [A&M. The Travel Committee provides j organized student and faculty [vacation tours and low cost [transportation abroad during the I summer. A minimum over-all grade [point ratio of 1.4 is required of Jail applicants. Applications may jta picked up and turned in at [the Student Programs Office in [the MSC. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. was elected the top new group in the nation by the American Association of Musicians. Times will be allotted accord ing to the ticket numbers when each couple may have its picture taken. Cocktail dress will be appro priate for the banquet but the dance will be formal. Pennies Used To Pay Loan A sophomore saved his pennies carefully to repay a $20 loan to A&M’s Student Aid Office. Miss Mary Ruth Watkins, a Student Aid Office employe, was suip-rised Wednesday when the youth produced a sock heavy laden with pennies. More than 400 of the copper coins were among a stack of change the stu dent has saved since January. Six Editors Retire At Friday Banquet Fish Counselors Cook Out Agriculture Dean Announces Parks Department Professor The first and only Landscape Architecture Ph.D. recipient in the U.S., Dr. Clare A. Gunn, has accepted a Recreation and Parks Department position, announced Dr. R. E. Patterson, dean of the School of Agriculture. “Effective August 1, Dr. Gunn will be professor of tourism-rec reation development,” Patterson said. “He is one of the few re searchers in the world studying the many facets of tourism and tourism development to discover their inter-relationships.” “He is best known currently for his theory called ‘vacation- scape,’ a method of planning re gions for tourism - recreation uses,” Dr. Leslie M. Reid, head of the Recreations and Parks De partment, said. “The majority of motels and resorts in Michigan have been influenced by his ideas and re search results on location, site development, and design. Many of his recommendations have al so been incorporated into state Twelve Honored For Vanity Fair DR. CLARE A. GUNN and federal ning.” recreational plan- STEAK FRY Ag-gie counselors for the Fish Camp held each fall help themselves at a steak fry sponsored by the YMCA in Hensel Park as they got together to discuss plans for next year’s camp. Riot Kills Houston Off icer Space official Speaks At Confab HOUSTON, Tex. <AP)—A rookie policeman died of a gunshot wound Wednesday in a battle be tween officers and student snipers at Texas Southern University, the state’s largest Negro school. Three other persons suffered wounds. Police said more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition were fired. While police questioned 488 students arrested during the four- hour dormitory siege, city and school officials sought to discover what led to an outbreak Mayor Louie Welch said amounted to anarchy. Patrolman Lewis R. Kuba was shot between the eyes as he crouched on the terrace of the Student Union Building during an assault with some 100 fellow po licemen on the dormitory from which students were firing guns and hurling crude fire bombs. Kuba, 25, died about IVz hours later without recovering con sciousness. His widow is expect ing their first child and the cou ple had moved into a new home only Tuesday. While police questioned the stu dents jamming every available city and county cell, trying to pin point the gunmen, Welch met with the Police Chief Herman Short, the district attorney and the school administration. Later, Welch said he found a total breakdown of communica tion between students and admin istration at the 7,000-student school. “When that happens, you have anarchy, and that’s what we had last night,” Welch said, promising a full report to Texas Gov. John Connally. TSU is a state-sup ported school. The Rev. Marvin Griffin of Waco, Tex., chairman of TSU’s board, said he would confer with the governor. “Once we find the students who precipitated the violence, we will get rid of them,” he said. TSU’s acting president, Dr. Jos eph A. Pierce, professed bewilder ment. “I drove past the campus about 9:30 or 10 last night and all was peaceful,” he said. “I went to bed.” Tuesday had been an unusually heavy day of protest actions in Houston. A total of 64 ax-rests were made in separate demon strations at a city dump Negx-oes want closed and at a suburban junior high school where 14 white and Negi-o students wei-e expelled for fighting. Ten persons blockading the en- tx-ance to the dump, which neigh borhood Negroes called a health hazard, were taken by police to a conversation with Welch, who urged a halt to the protest. Late Tuesday afternoon, the protest was renewed and 32 pex-- sons, mostly TSU students, were arrested at the dump on loitering charges. A Marshall Space Flight Cen ter official, Dr. James R. Scog gins, will present a May 25 Meteorology Colloquium at Texas A&M University, announced Dr. Vance E. Moyer, Meteox-ology Department head. Dr. Moyer said the 3:30 p.m. presentation, “Observed Charac- tex-istics of Mesoscale Motions,” will be in the Coke Building fac ulty room. Dr. Scoggins will present an alyses of data collected at Cape Kennedy, Fla., and Point Mugu, Calif., x-elating to Atlantic and Pacific missile x-ange operations. The colloquium speaker is dep uty chief of the aerospace envir onment division at the Huntsville, Ala., center. He holds the A. B. degree in math and physics from Berry Col lege, Ga., and B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in meteorology from Penn State, where he was a student of Hans Panofsky. The NASA scientist was an Air Force meteorologist and Lock heed Aii-craft mathematical an alyst and meteorologist before NASA at Huntsville. During his seven years at the center, Scog gins has served as space scien tist (meteox-ologist). His primary endeavors have been measurement and analysis of small-scale mo tions at sub-60,000 feet altitudes. Six retiring student editors and 12 Vanity Fair semi-finalists will be honored at Friday’s Texas A&M Press Club banquet in the Memorial Student Center Ball room at 7 p.m. Outgoing editors will receive watches for their efforts this year and six beauties will be chosen by secret ballot and an nounced Saturday night at the senior Ring Dance in the Vanity Fair competition. Editors to be honored are Winston Green, The Battalion; Judy Franklin, The Review; John Hammond, The Aggieland; Boyd Cherry, The Engineer; Leroy Shaffer, The Agriculturist; and J. Alford Moore, The Southwest ern Veterinarian. The new editors for 1967-68 also will be introduced at the banquet. The 12 Vanity Fair finalists to be presented by Hammond are: Merideth Curry, a Lamar Tech business and education major fx-om Highlands. Her escort will be Gerald A. Teel. Barbax-a Jane Hinnant, a Tex as Tech English major, escorted by Steve G. Beever. Malda Lynn Mayo, a psycholo gy education major at Texas University, escorted by Richard L. Burns. Diane Elizabeth Wehner, a Texas Christian University home economics major, escorted by Skip Wehner. Sharon Huff, a Sam Houston State College business adminis tration major from Houston, es corted by John L. Bradley. Cheryl Latham, a Trinity Uni versity medical technology maj or, escorted by Dennis R. McLe roy. Karen Kay Arterburn, a com mercial ax-t major at Southwest Texas State, escorted by William David Roberts, Jr. Rebecca N. Stax-k, a journalism major at Texas Woman’s Uni versity, escorted by Terrell S. Mullins. Linda Kay Teekell, a graduate of Louisiana Tech who majored in medical technology, escorted by Mike Ma^fin. Kathy Jarman, a history major at Sam Houston State, escorted by Paul D. Bettge. Nancy Buser, a Houston sec retary, escorted by Mickey Bat- selk Also a special awax-d given by The Battalion will be presented to the person for giving the most time and assistance to that pub lication, while not being official ly a member of its staff. More than 250 persons have been invited to attend the annual banquet. According to Winston Green, Battalion editor and president of the press club, “It looks as though we are going to have a real fine turnout this year. I’m sure those 12 pretty Vanity Fair finalists are responsible.” More than 128 students worked on the six publications this year. Summer Students Must Move After Second Semester Second semester summer school students must move out of the dormitories immediately after the sessions close, accord ing to Allan M. Madeley, hous ing manager. “The reason is an expected at tendance of 4,000-5,000 for the Amei'ican Institute of Biological Sciences Conference here, Aug. 26-Sept. 1,” Madeley explained. Ordinarily, students have been permitted to move belongings to their fall rooms after the close of summer school. “We realize that the absence of that privilege this year may work some degree of hardship on our students. We sincerely hope, however, that they will un derstand the importance of this nationwide conference to Texas A&M,” Madeley said. “Their co-operation will make a most important contribution to the smoothness of the housing operations during the confer ence,” he added. 5% per year paid on all savings at Bryan Build- B B-& l ing & Loan Assn. Adv. i WOUNDED AND DEAJD ‘LEATHERNECK SQUARE x xr , vv a Tnrfrlp.ari Leather- Thion, three miles south of demDitarized zone. These troops Wounded U. S. Marines crouch on giouna mese mor _ were defending the western sector of “Leatherneck u^drive rffevfcu^tiCheUco^ters during battle at Con Square.” (AT Wirephoto via radio from Saigon) Faculty Awards Program Is Set Texas A&M’s annual faculty recognition and achievement awards program is set for 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Guion Hall. Highlight of the program will be the Association of Former Stu dents’ presentation of eight Dis tinguished Faculty Achievement awards. Each award includes a $1,000 check, gold watch and a certificate. Retiring faculty members also will be honored. A&M President Earl Rudder will preside and briefly review major events of the current school year. Jack Crichton of Dallas, Former Students president, also will make brief remarks and pre sent the awards. Four of the awards will be pre sented for teaching, two for re search and one each for extension work and individual student rela tions. President Rudder has urged all faculty and staff members to at tend the program. I the outside world\ VIETNAM Sixteen Senate critics of U. S. policy in Vietnam told Hanoi Wednesday that they oppose_ unilateral American withdrawal from the war — and advised the White House that their dessent will continue. WASHINGTON President Johnson’s “Great Society” program broke into two fights Wednesday as the House voted to end rent subsidies and halt the model cities program. The House Armed Services Committee voted Wed nesday to insure continued draft deferments for college students by writing them into law. Waste and inefficiency by the Navy and a huge con tractor combine pushed up constructnon costs unnecessar ily during the rapid buildup of U. S. forces in Vietnam, the General Accounting Office charged Wednesday. NATIONAL Congressional investigations of Sen. Thomas J. Dodd and Adam Clayton Powell apparently have created little concern in state legislatures about the ethics of their members. INTERNATIONAL The Soviet Union launched two unmanned earth satel lites Wednesday. Opponents of Mao-Tse-tung are preparing a big of fensive to root out his supporters in the turbulent western province of Szechwan, a Japanese dispatch from Peking said Wednesday. Secretary-General U Thant canceled a trip to London and Brussels because of what he described Wednesday as “the potentially very grave” situation in the Middle East. The commander in chief of the Soviet navy accused the United States Wednesday of causing last week’s two ship-bumping incidents during American maneuvers in the Sea of Japan. A newspaperman who recently visited Red China said Wednesday that top Chinese leaders believe a shooting war on the Soviet-Chinese border is “possible and even probable.” TEXAS A rookie policeman died of gunshot wound Wednesday in a battle between officers and student snipers at Texas Southern University, the state’s largest Negro school. Mr! | -1 jlU it h •SW :i>a f" »!•*' I il fe