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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.
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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.
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