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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1967
Number 474
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ate help from Texans in the wind-
torn, partly flooded Rio Grande
Valley.
A federal official estimated
the machinery of federal aid will
begin turning this week and one
of the congressmen noted Gov.
John Connally’s advice to some
local authorities to spend now
for emergencies—not to wait for
the formalities.
The nine congressmen, and one
senator, used five helicopters to
inspect Hurricane Beulah’s dam
age to the Coastal Bend and to
the Valley adjoining Mexico. In
two cities they were told every
business establishment in town
was damaged by Beulah.
"WE’RE OUT of power, we’re
out of sewage, we’re out of water,
our city hall is blown down and
our schools are torn up,” Port
Isabel City Commissioner Juan
Gonzales told the visitors.
Rep. Eligio de la Garza, D-Tex.,
led his colleagues through his
home district. He said about 80
per cent of the vital citrus crop
had been lost and that truck and
row crops were under water or
washed away.
At an old U.S. cavalry fort near
Rio Grande City upriver, refugees
stood in a block-long line for the
first clean clothes many of them
had had since they entered the
refugee center a -week ago.
DR. MAURIO Ramirez said
sufficient emergency supplies
were on hand when he came from
his home in nearby Roma to help
shelter 7,000 refugees, many from
Mexico’s flooded camargo sec
tion, in Fort Ringgold.
Rep. Ray Roberts, D-Tex., said
his group saw Gov. Connally con
duct what amounted to an in
formal public hearing in Three
Rivers in the Coastal Bend area.
HE SAID the governor told of
ficials of Atascosa and Live Oak
Counties that everything possible
Pre-Law Students
Get BIT Invitation
Pre-law students at Texas A&M
have been invited to be guests of
the Baylor Universtiy School of
Law Oct. 14 for Baylor’s Pre-Law
Day.
Dr. J. M. Nance, A&M History
and Government Department
head, said wives of pre-law stu
dents also are invited for activi
ties which include panel discus
sions of entrance requirements,
scholarships and student aid,
placement, a tour of Baylor’s Law
School, a coffee and evening meal,
andthe Baylor-Arkansas football
game.
Nance said reservations should
be made by Oct. 7 through him or
Claude Davis, Pre-Law Advisory
Committee chairman, room 303,
i«l Nagle Hall.
Bourgeois Appointed Leader
Of A&M’s Ross Volunteers
Francis J. Bourgeois of New
Braunfels will command Texas
A&M University’s elite Ross Vol
unteers during the 1967-68 school
year, announced Col. Jim H.
McCoy, Corps commandant.
The 125-cadet honor military
unit inaugurated 80 years ago will
have Patrick G. Rehmet of Alice
as executive officer; James H.
Lehmann, Bellaire, administrative
officer; Scott H. Roberts, Austin,
operations officer, and Sanford T.
Ward, Austin, first sergeant.
Platoon leaders are James R.
Thompson, Alice; Carl V. Feducia,
Shreveport, and John R. Bal
dridge Jr., Bossier City, La.
' The distinctive, white-clad unit
ierves as honor guard for digni
taries visiting the campus; repre
sents A&M as a precision march
ing unit and is guard of honor
during inauguration of the Gov
ernor of Texas. The RVs also
furnish firing squads for Silver
Taps ceremonies and the annual
Aggie Muster.
'The unit was formed as an
honor guard for Texas Governor
Civilians Start Receiving
New Housing Assignments
cover the expenses later.
Connally is expected to attend
formal hearings conducted by the
congressmen in Corpus Christi
Tuesday.
“In my opinion,” said Roberts,
“we’re going to have to have lots
of federal money down here—it’s
just a matter of how much.”
OFFICIALS OF Three Rivers
estimated 65 per cent of the
homes and all the businesses
suffered hurricane damage. Port
Isabel Mayor Leo Sanders said
his city, hardest hit by Beulah,
also suffered damage to 100 per
cent of the business establish
ments, and 75 per cent of the
homes.
“You can’t express it in words,
but just look around and you can
see,” he said. Nearly all of Port
Isabel’s shrimp boats were dam
aged, with possibly half of them
needing repairs in drydock.
Mimms Luncheon
Set Here Oct. 7
Marvin Mimms, 1926 Texas
A&M graduate who wrote “The
Spirit of Aggieland,” will be
honored at a reunion luncheon
meeting of the Texas Aggie Band
Association Oct. 7.
Mimms, of Banquete, wrote the
words to the “Spirit” in 1925
while a junior . Music for the
school song was composed by Col.
Richard C. Dunn, late director of
the Aggie Band.
TABA President Tom Murrah
’38 of San Antonio announced the
reunion luncheon for 1 p.m., Oct.
7, date of A&M’s next home game,
wtih Florida State.
Newt Hielscher, class ’33 of
Shreveport, widely known speak
er, will be master of ceremonies
for the Duncan Dining Hall lunch
eon. Attending with other former
bandsmen and their fives will be
members of the 1967-68 band
directed by Lt. Col. E. V. Adams.
Edwin H. Cooper, 1953 gradu
ate and trombone player in the
band, will represent A&M. The
director of civilian student activi
ties is former assistant to Presi
dent Earl Rudder.
Zinn Announces
Relocation Plan
THIS IS AUTUMN?
Although fall was officially ushered in last week by the calendar makers, sun and water
enthusiasts have played in the balmy weather that has followed Hurrican Beulah. Wof
ford Cain Pool will be kept open until Oct. 14 to allow the most diehard swimmers plenty
of opportunity to get wet.
Con Thien Siege Continues
Mail GI Christmas
Parcels By Nov. 11
Christmas parcels for armed
forces personnel overseas should
be mailed between Oct. 16 and
Nov. 11 if sent at regular rates.
Dec. 11 is the deadline for air
mail delivery before Dec. 25.
Post office officials noted that
legible, correctly addressed par
cels of not more than five pounds
and measuring to no more than
60 inches in combined length and
girth will virtually assure gifts
reaching their destination.
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, who later
became A&M’s third president.
Bourgeois is a pre-medicine
major, Cadet Corps adjutant and
active in student affairs.
By GEORGE ESPER
SAIGON <AP> — The big-gun
duel at Con Thien ranged with
increased fury Monday and the
North Vietnamese showed no
signs of easing their three-week
artillery siege of U. S. Marines
guarding invasion routes across
the demilitarized zone into South
Vietnam.
Again B52 bombers blanketed
suspected enemy gun and supply
positions with tons of bombs
while 7th Fleet warships pound
ed at the Reds’ east flank from
the South China Sea. The Ma
rines kept up their intense rate
of counterfire: about five artil
lery rounds a minute.
SINCE THE Communists open
ed the dueling Sept. 1, 61 Marines
have been killed and 785 wounded
— most of them in the past two
weeks.
Communist casualties are un
known, but Marine officials fig
ure them to be high. Communist
broadcasts say there ar«3 high
civilian casualties on the North
Vietnamese side of the DMZ.
While the Communists kept up
unrelenting artillery and rocket
attacks, the U. S. side let it be
known there would be no letup
from the south. The U. S. Com
mand reported a massive leaflet
drop around the North Vietna
mese village of Ben Quang, about
2 miles above the DMZ, to waim
civilians they should defect south
ward or face “the terrible rain of
death and destruction” of B52
bombing attacks still to come.
SINCE mid - August the eight-
engine Stratofortresses have
dropped 12.5 million pounds of
bombs onto targets in and around
the buffer zone dividing the two
Vietnams.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. , —Adv.
In Saigon there were two devel
opments indicating the Commun
ists may be feeling the effects of
the war far greater than their
propaganda organs would reveal.
Gen. William C. Westmoreland,
the U. S. commander, told a South
Korean troop ceremony that after
two years of fighting, the allies
in Vietnam “are now in a position
from which the picture of ulti
mate military success may be
viewed with increasing claritym”.
A REPORT to allied officers
by the crew of the Cypriot
freighter Amfiala, which spent
36 days in Haiphong this past
summer, told of a serious labor
shortage that delayed the unload
ing of ships with supplies and a
resulting backlog of war material
on the docks and streets of the
chief North Vietnamese port. The
report also described the people
of Haiphong as hungry and ill-
clothed.
The artillery battle along the
North-South frontier remained the
chief action in the war news.
COMMUNIST gunners opened
Monday’s barrages with a 300-
round attack at 7:15 a.m., while
most Leathernecks were still in
the sandbagged bunkers and holes.
Aggie Lieutenant
Unit Commander
Second Lt. John S. Gi'iffith,
1966 Texas A&M graduate, has
assumed command of a 67th
Armor headquarters company at
Fort Hood.
Griffith heads the service unit
of the 2nd Battalion, 67th Armor,
of the 2nd Armored Division. He
entered the Army in September,
1966, after receiving his degree in
management and a commission at
A&M. He was in Company A-l
of the Cadet Corps.
The barrage lasted only 15 min
utes and casualties were believed
light because the Marines were
not out on their usual patrols of
the hills around Con Thien, 2Y 2
miles below the DMZ.
This attack was followed by a
pair of shorter barrages around
midday.
Civilian students may begin
moving into more desirable dormi
tories provided “they first obtain
permission from the housemasters
of those dormitories,” Bennie
Zinn, associate dean of students
and director of student affairs
announced Monday.
The action w r as another step in
the campus-wide relocating proc
ess begun last Thursday in the
Duncan area.
“All a civilian student has to
do is to get his new housemaster
to sign a type of promissory form
guaranteeing a room for him in
that dorm,” Zinn continued.
THE CAUSE for the mix-up in
room assignments, according to
Zinn, is that “pi'ior to registra
tion, all dormitory rooms were
reserved with the exception of
those in dorm 13.
“When, as registration proceed
ed, students previously enrolled
last spring did not register,” he
added, “they forfeited their $20
room deposit and their room
reservations.”
“Those students who registered
late (after Saturday),” Zinn ex
plained, “were placed in dorms
where cancelled room reservations
made space available. The ma
jority of students were placed in
dorm 13 and Leggett, Milner and
Walton Halls.”
“FRESHMEN leaving the Ca
det Corps also occupied many of
the vacancies in civilian dorms,”
he added. “The freshmen will
have until Wednesday to decide
whether they wish to stay in the
Corps or not. After that day, bar
ring no unusual circumstances
such as sickness or injury, fresh
men will have to remain in the
Cadet Corps the entire semester.”
“This year,” Zinn continued,
“freshmen actually have three
more days to make their decision.
Last year, freshmen could not
leave the Corps after the final
day of registration.”
ZINN ALSO reminded students
who had paid for an air condi
tioned room and wanted to move
to a room that was non-air-
conditioned to apply to the Fiscal
Office for a refund.
“Rates for air conditioned
rooms are collected on the basis
of $5 every two-week period,”
he said. “Students changing from
an air-conditioned to non-air-
conditioned room'any time during
the semester up until two weeks
before the semester’s end, will
also receive a full refund of the
remaining air conditioning fee.”
“It’s been a normal year as far
as the housing situation goes,”
Housing Manager Allan M.
Madeley commented. “Our big
problem has always been finding
space for people who come with
out reserving rooms.”
Retiring Horsley Honored
At MSC Dinner Program
University National Bank
'On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
DIGGING ON MOON
Surveyor 5’s scattering instrument was demonstrated recently in pictures released by the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. At left, the instrument deploys and at
right, the machine digs into loose materials and is covered by thin lunar soil, following a
half-second engine firing. (AP Wirephoto)
More than 200 friends and as
sociates paid tribute Friday night
to the “dean” of college place
ment directors, Wendell Horsley,
who retires this month after 30
years of service to Texas A&M.
“I’ve never been known to be
without something to say, but
this time I’m completely un
strung,” Horsley noted in re
sponse to an array of testimonials
presented during a dinner pro
gram in A&M’s Memorial Student
Center ballroom.
Horsley heard himself described
by Maurice Cleaver of Southwest
ern Bell Telephone Co. as a man
who has “led the way in place
ment work, guided its path and
grown up with it.”
THE ST. LOUIS executive,
representing business and indus
try, also noted Horsley has been
a “good friend to industry, to
students and to his university be
cause he has brought them all
together for the good of all
three.”
D. Y. Robb of Southern Meth
odist University, representing the
Southwest Placement Association,
discussed the “Horsley Heritage.”
“Placement people, employers
and Aggies who have been privil
eged to work with Horsley are
the recipients not only of a great
heritage, but an equally great
legacy,” Robb remarked. “His
perserverance and faith in the
achievement of his goals have
been an inspiration to placement
people throughout the country.”
JOHN M. Brooks of North Tex
as State cited Horsley’s record
as a leader in placement associa
tion work.
“He’s one of only two persons
who has ever been president of
the national organization and two
regional associations,” observed
Brooks, speaking in behalf of the
College Placement Council.
Horsley was president of the
College Placement Council in 1958
and had previously served as
president of both the Southwest
Placement Association and the
Southern College Placement As
sociation.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
Brooks noted Horsley was the
first CPC president from the
South or Southwest.
A&M PRESIDENT Earl Rud
der, representing faculty and
staff, said Horsley has served
the university with “loyal dedi
cation, with pride and with calm
efficiency.”
Rudder noted A&M has gradu
ated some 45,000 students during
Horsley’s tenure. “He (Horsley)
has been a major influence in
guiding many thousands of these
graduates toward successful ca
reers,” the A&M president as
serted.
He said another measure of
Horsley’s success is reflected in
the dramatic increase in the num
ber of firms coming to the uni
versity in search of talent. In
1957, firms holding interviews
on campus totaled 249, while last
year the number had increased
to 662.
COLD STATISTICS do not re
veal, however, the degree of per
sonal interest he has shown in
so many young people,” Rudder
continued, “nor do they fully re
veal the high regard which has
been generated within industry
for the products of Texas A&M.”
J. B. (Dick) Hervey, president
of the Bryan-College Station
Chamber of Commerce, spoke in
behalf of the “many thousands
of former students whom Horsley
has helped.”
“I know of no individual at
A&M more respected and more
loved by the alumni than Wendell
Horsley,” Hervey remarked.
HORSLEY HONORED
Wendell Horsley, who retires this month after 27 years as
placement director at Texas A&M, inspects mementos and
gifts presented during a testimonial dinner. The “Smokey
the Bear” hat and hatchet are reminiscent of the three
years Horsley served as an A&M forestry professor before
moving into placement work.