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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1967
Number 454
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VIETNAM
U. S. air cavalrymen and Marines battled North Viet
namese troops Wednesday in two eng-ag-ements 300 miles
apart while Navy jets, pursuing the war north of the
border, bombed two fuel dumps near the port of Haiphong.
WASHINGTON
The State Department said today it has no knowledge
of a reported Turkish pledge to Egypt that it would not
permit the use of American bases in Turkey if war broke
out in the Middle East.
INTERNATIONAL
The idea is gaining ground that the Soviet Union is
maneuvering the crisis in the Middle East to put pressure
on the United States in Vietnam.
Britain warned Egypt Wednesday any closing of the
Gulf of Aqaba would be an act of belligerence. But Presi
dent Gamal Abdel Nasser showed no weakening of a deter
mination to keep Israeli shipping out of the gulf.
NATIONAL
A. J. Foyt, never quitting in spite of an apparently
hopeless battle against a fantastic aircraft engine, won the
i rain-delayed 500-mile Memorial Day auto race Wednesday
for the third time.
TEXAS
Governor John Connally said Wednesday he thinks that
the special legislative session for taxing and spending can
get by without a sales tax increase.
A long-standing Texas legal rule that a property owner
must warn employes of a contractor of hidden dangers on
the property was scrapped Wednesday by the Texas Supreme
Court.
379 Cadets Attend
Army, Air Camps
Spring Semester Closes
With Final Examinations
Summer Classes
To Begin Tuesday
FINISHED FINALS AND LEAVING TOWN!
Three Aggies load car with boxes, books, clothing and other accumulated items as they
prepare to depart for summer vacation after finishing finals Thursday. More unlucky
students will be able to leave Saturday when semester officially ends. (Photo by Russel
Autrey)
Council Submits Meal Plan
To Board For Consideration
Texas A&M’s four-year ROTC
program will send 379 cadets to
summer camp in the next three
months, Military Science Depart
ment records show.
Encamped at Fort Sill, Okla.,
for six weeks beginning June 12
will be 261 Army ROTC cadets.
The Air Force program will
scatter 118 future officers to 13
bases in 12 states. Col. Vernon
L. Head, professor of aerospace
studies, said 65 AFROTC students
will attend summer camp during
the June 18-July 15 period.
The second period, July 30-
Aug. 26, will activate the other
53 cadets.
ROTC cadets who will be sen
iors next fall will train at Ama
rillo, Charleston and Myrthle
Beach, S. C.; Eglin, Fla.; Hollo-
Student May Use
MSC Typewriters
The students’ need for type
writer use within the Memorial
Student Center has been met by
placing two new typewriters in
Room B of the sound proof piano
practice rooms in the lower level
of the MSC.
These typewriters are coin-
operated. The nominal charge is
ten cents for twenty minutes or
twenty-five cents for one hour.
This additional service is the
latest in a continuing series of
additions for student use.
Similar typing facilities at oth
er leading educational institutions
have been warmly welcomed by
students who find that the tran
sition from manual machines to
electric machines is done with
ease, and that the superior ap
pearance of the electrically typed
page is beneficial to them.
The key to the typewriter room
can be checked out at the MSC
Main Desk.
man, N. M.; Little Rock, Ark.;
Plattsburgh, N. Y.; Scott, 111.; the
Air Force Academy; March,
Calif.; Pease, N. H.; Richards-
Gebaur, Mo., and Gunter, Ala., Air
Force Bases.
Three A&M students will attend
an accelerated three-week course
at Gunter and be commissioned
during the summer, Colonel Head
noted.
The summer training is requir
ed of contract ROTC students who
will be commissioned upon gradu
ation.
Band Members
Check in Early
For Fall Opener
Texas Aggie Band members will
have a shorter summer vacation
than most A&M students.
While most students will report
back for the fall semester Sept.
14, bandsmen will check in 10
days earlier, according to Lt. Col.
E. V. Adams, director.
The 255-cadet organization will
use the time to prepare a half
time show for the nationally-tele
vised A&M-Southem Methodist
football opener at College Station.
“We hope to accomplish in that
time what we would normally do
in four weeks,” Colonel Adams
said. “We’ll work out like the
football team, except the band
will be putting in five or six
practices a day.”
The colonel said the band cadet
staff and drum majors Richard
Westbrook of Beaumont, Marc
Sheiness of Alice and James
Criswell of Brady will report
Sept. 2. Freshmen will check in
Sept. 3 and other returning stu
dents will move back in Sept. 4.
The A&M-SMU game is sche
duled at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 16.
Griff Venator, Civilian Student
Council president, said Wednes
day that a “five-day meal plan”
was the only practical alternative
to the present seven-day plan now
being used at Texas A&M.
The plan, to be presented to
board of director in early July,
means essentially that students
leaving for the weekends would
not be changed for meals missed.
“It would be based on 60 per
cent participation of the students
on the five-day plan. This would
yield about 6,300 students partici
pating in the fall and 5,400 in the
spring semester,” Venator ex
plained.
“The other 40 per cent would
be those who decided to eat on
the seven-day plan,” he continued.
People on the five-day plan
Officials Revise
Air-conditioning
Shut-off Plans
The Texas A&M campus will
have air-conditioning next week,
according to a revision of plans
announced Wednesday afternoon
by Tom D. Cherry, vice president
for business affairs.
A spokesman for the univer
sity’s Physical Plants Department
said earlier in the week all “com
fort” air-conditioning on campus
would be out of operation from
Saturday, June 3, to Sunday,
June 11, while repairs were be
ing made on the university’s main
power generator.
Although the university will be
tied in with the Bryan electrical
system during the period, A&M
officials originally anticipated
there would not be enough power
to operate the air-conditioning
systems throughout the campus.
Cherry said it now appears
there will be adequate power to
furnish air-conditioning, provided
all departaments conserve as much
power as possible by turning off
all unnecessary lights and equip
ment.
If the voluntary reductions in
power are inadequate, Cherry
added, the cooling capacity of the
air-conditioning system will be re
duced, thereby raising the temper
ature throughout the campus.
University National Bank
"On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
would pay $182 per semester; the
seven-day plan board fee would
total $216.
“This would give a total figure
of about $2,250,000, for both
semesters, enough to cover the
projected deficit caused by the
new minimum wage law,” Sam
Reeves, a member of the com
mittee, said.
A resolution to be submitted by
the council to the A&M board
reads:
“We understand that student
been requested by our respective
representative bodies to write you
concerning the recent decision to
enforce compulsory board pay
ment for all dormitory students.
“We undestand that student
opinion cannot and should not be
obtained on all decisions made by
the board of directors, nor can
those opinions serve as the policy
of a university on any single
issue. However, in this instance,
it is believed that the students’
comments could have been bene
ficial. A large percentage of the
enrollment is opposed to the com
pulsory board ruling. This opposi
tion stems from the fact that
while students would be required
to pay for 21 meals a week, many
students are not on campus a
large number of weekends and
would thus be paying for meals
they could not eat. As a result
of this situation, many students
have found that they could be
more economical in their subsist
ence by paying for their meals
as consumed. Also, compulsory
board would tend to eliminate
competitiveness in service and
quality of the university dining
facilities.
“In the course of discussion on
the ruling, the point has been
made that equity between the
civilian students and the Corps
of Cadets is impossible under the
present system. However, it is
believed that if equity is neces
sary, it can be accomplished by
some method other than compul
sory 7-day board for all students.
“A student committee has been
appointed by the Civilian Stu
dent Council to work with the
university officials to investigate
possible alternatives that would
best serve all interests of the uni
versity, both from an adminis
trative and student viewpoint.
We respectively request that at
the next meeting of the board of
directors, that the ruling on com
pulsory board be held in abeyance
until such time as the committee
can resolve an equitable working
alternative for the subsistence of
dormitory students.”
Sincerely yours,
Gerald W. Campbell, President,
Student Senate; Lewis G. Ven
ator, President, Civilian Student
Council; and Charles E. Knowles,
President, Graduate Council.
Col. D. L. Baker accompanied
— in spirit — the Texas A&M
Corps of Cadets in its first tour
around the drill field at Final
Review Saturday. Like graduat
ing seniors who will not be back
next fall, he didn’t join the sec
ond circuit.
The retiring commandant and
professor of military science was
awarded the Legion of Merit, the
nation’s second highest decoration
for non-combat Army service, at
the Cadet Corps’ last appearance
of the year.
President Earl Rudder present
ed Baker the distinctive decora
tion.
“With skillful guidance, diplo
macy and management techniques
(Colonel Baker) formed the Corps
into a unit with high morale and
fine espirit de corps,” the Legion
of Merit citation reads. The
medal cited the colonel’s four
years service at A&M.
Cadet Colonel of the Corps Ed
die Joe Davis of Henrietta pre
sented the retiring A&M military
head a plaque and saber for the
military student body.
Colonel Baker, A&M comman
dant and professor of military
science since July, 1963, complet
ed over 30 years service.
The 1933 A&M graduate relin
quishes PMS duties to Col. Jim
H. McCoy, who will come to A&M
from the office of Deputy Chief
of Staff for Logistics at the
Pentagon.
Colonel Baker participated in
commencement and commission
ing exercises and stood in the re
viewing line for the last time in
the afternoon parade. The line in
cluded the reviewing officer, Air
University Commander Lt. Gen.
John W. Carpenter III; President
Rudder; Dean of Students James
P. Hannigan; Col. N. B. Aboosh,
Reserve Forces deputy chief of
staff, Fourth Army; and Col. Ver
non L. Head, aerospace studies
professor.
Colonel Baker saw duty in
Texas A&M students, many al
ready past the mid-way mark in
spring semester examinations, be
gan leaving the campus Wednes
day for summer jobs and vaca
tions.
Final examinations, which be
gan last Friday, are to continue
through 4 p.m. Saturday. Most
are three-hour sessions.
The trickle of cars leaving the
campus Wednesday for the open
road is expected to swell to a
mass exodus by Friday. All
should be quiet on the campus
by late Saturday, with the major
ity of activity being faculty-staff
readying for opening of summer
school Monday.
Summer school enrollment may
soar to a record 5,300 predicts
Registrar H. L. Heaton.
Services Held
For Col. Williams
Graveside services for Army
Lt. Col. Edward L. Williams, 39,
a 1951 graduate of Texas A&M,
were held this morning at College
Station City Cemetery.
Colonel Williams, a veteran of
three wars, died Sunday of a
heart atttack at his home in Falls
Church, Va. The College Station
native was the son of Mrs. Jane
Williams of College Sttaion. His
wife also survives.
Among Williams’ numerous
medals was the Bronze Star with
Oak Leaf Cluster.
World War II and Korea during
his service.
The much-decorated Infantry
officer came to A&M from the Of
fice of Army Personnel in the
Pentagon where he was chief of
the special review division.
He entered active duty in 1941
and in 1943 joined 3rd Army
Headquarters. He served as a
staff officer in the European
Theater until the end of World
War II.
In 1949, he assumed command
of the 2nd Battalion, 17th Infan
try Regiment, and served in that
capacity through 1951, the unit’s
“Increased interest of fresh
men and transfer, plus continued
growth of the Graduate College
are major factors leading to the
enrollment gain,” Heaton remark
ed. “About one fourth of the en
rollment will be graduate stu
dents.”
Registration begins Monday for
the first summer session. The
term ends July 14, with registra
tion for the second session to be
gin July 17. Closing date for
the second term is Aug. 25.
Heaton noted students enrolling
for National Science Foundation
programs and other special study
projects will contribute heavily to
registration figures.
As in past years, Heaton anti
cipates a decrease in enrollment
for the second summer term.
“I expect registration to drop
to about 4,600 for the second
semester,” Heaton said. “A num
ber of high school administrators
and teachers can’t spare another
six weeks. Some of our own
people — county agents, extension
workers and faculty-staff mem
bers have to get back to their full
time jobs.”
Summer school students should
note that all classes will begin
an hour later than listed in the
official bulletin, reminded Heaton.
The university’s Academic
Council recommended the one-
hour-later class plan after study
ing effects of Daylight Saving
Time under which Texas is operat
ing for the summer, Heaton point
ed out.
first year of combat in Korea.
Other assignments included
commands of an Infantry batta
lion at Camp Robinson, Ark., and
the 27th Infantry Regiment. He
was assistant chief of staff for
plans and assistant chief of in
fantry officer assignments in
Army Headquarters.
The Advanced Infantry Offic
ers’ Course, Command and General
Staff School and Army War Col
lege graduate also wears the
Combat Infantryman Badge, Sil
ver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster
and the Bronze Star with “V” de
vice and two Oak Leaf Clusters.
COFFEE BREAK
Study-weary Aggies take a coffee break in the YMCA
during finals. The “Y” will continue selling coffee and
donuts from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. through tonight.
CORPS HONORS COMMANDANT
The Texas A&M Corps of Cadets presented Col. D. L. Baker
a saber and plaque commemorating the retiring comman
dant’s four years at A&M. Awards were presented for the
3,000-cadet corps by Corps Commander Eddie Joe Davis
of Henrietta. Deputy Colonel of the Corps Robert A. Beene
of Big Spring watched the Final Review ceremony, at
which the colonel was decorated with the Legion of Merit.
Col. Baker Receives Award
During Corps Final Review
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