THE BATTALION
Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, September 28, 1967
Departments, Students Get
$10,200 In PAPF Grants
Pan American Petroleum Foun
dation stipends and grants total
ing more than $10,200 have been
awarded to two Texas A&M Uni
versity departments, a graduate
student and five undergraduates.
Benjamin F. Marek of West
received over $3,800 through a
faculty doctoral fellowship.
Undergraduate awards in pe
troleum engineering went to jun
ior Harrell L. Bilhartz Jr. of Dal
las, sophomore Thomas A. Hail
ing and freshman Bussell E.
Telg, both of Houston.
Scholarship winners in geo
physics were sophomore William
D. Heinze of University City,
Hurricane Spawns
Political Twisters
PILOT DECORATED
The Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal and a 10th
Oak Leaf Cluster to the Bronze Star were awarded to
Capt. Eric E. Miller at Texas A&M. The decorations for
combat service in Vietnam were presented by Col. Vernon
L. Head (left).
Aggie In Vietnam
Weds Stewardess
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Capt. Robert J. Swain, a Texan
at war from Beaumont, had to
go halfway around the world to
meet and marry a girl from the
Alamo city, San Antonio, just a
little more than 200 miles away.
The Swains’ unusual courtship
began in May, 1966, when the
captain boarded a plane in Oki
nawa for the last leg of a jour
ney which would take him to
Saigon and the Vietnam war.
The pretty stewardess aboard
the plane was Miss Vilma Ma
cias of San Antonio, the future
Mrs. J Swain, although she didn’t
know it at the time. Neither did
he.
But the two Texans were
aware of each other throughout
the trip. The stewardess spent
every spare minute talking to
Capt. Swain, who was visibly
impressed.
They parted, promising to
write.
“I wrote her, and she an
swered,” said the captain. “I fi
nally sat down and >v.rote about
four letters at a time. From
then on we wrote every day.”
Capt. Swain had a short time
off for rest and relaxation (R
and R) and the two made plans
to meet.
“We wrote back and forth nam
ing a dozen different places we
could meet. I finally wrote and
gave her a choice — Okinawa or
the Philippines. She chose Bang
kok.”
After a whirlwind courtship of
four days, the two were married
and had a short honeymoon be
fore he I’eturned to Vietnam.
Capt. Swain is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. J. Swain of Beau
mont. Mrs. Swain is the daugh
ter of Mrs. Hortense Macias of
San Antonio.
Capt. Swain is a graduate of
Beaumont French High School
and of Texas A&M in 1962. He
entered the service soon after his
graduation from college.
He received his citation while
at Ft. Wolters, the citation read
ing that “when his aircraft was
downed by enemy fire, Capt.
Swain immediately organized his
crew into a defensive perimeter.
Meier To Write
Book On Usage
Of River Water
Dr. Wilbur L. Meier of Texas
A&M’s Industrial Engineering
Department has contracted to
write a book on optimization of
Water resource systems, reser
voirs and river basins.
The book, “Multistage Optim
ization of Water Resource Sys
tems,” will be published by the
American Elsevief Co. of New
York.
Dr. Meier, an assistant profes
sor, said the 180-page volume will
be one of a series on modern
analytic and computational meth
ods in science and mathematics.
“It will be directed to seniors
and graduate students in oper
ations research or water resource
engineering,” he explained. “The
text may also be used as a sup
plementary reference in under
graduate courses.”
The professor works on the
optimization portion of “Project
Themis” handled by the depart
ment. He authored an article, “A
Multistage Optimization Scheme
for Water Systems and Reser
voirs,” in the September issue of
the “Water Resources Research
Journal.”
positioning himself on an adja
cent hill where he could observe
the entire position.” He later di
rected fire on the enemy position,
and “continued to expose himself
to direct the weapons strikes un
til the weapons became too close
. . . But he refused to leave his
post until the squad had linked
up with the remainder of the pla
toon” although he was wounded
twice.
He also received his second
award of the Bronze Star Medal
for meritorius service in Viet
nam. His other decorations in
clude the Purple Heart and 21
awards of the Air Medal, one
fov, valor.
By GARTH JONES
CORPUS CHRISTI (A’l-Politi-
cal tornadoes, spawned by
Hurricane Beulah’s investigation,
roared through the governor’s
office Wednesday following an
outbreak Tuesday amid a con
gressional hearing in Corpus
Christi.
“Playing politics with disaster,”
U.S. Sen. Ralph Yarborough, D-
Tex., said Tuesday of his favorite
political target, Gov. John Con-
nally, also a Democrat.
“The lowest form of demogogu-
ery and the foulest distortion of
facts and truth that I have ever
heard uttered by a public official,”
Connally, former secretary of the
Navy, answered Wednesday.
POLITICAL forecasters said
they saw nothing but storm winds
ahead.
Connally made his comments
Wednesday in a news conference
at Austin where he announced
plans to declare about 20 South
Texas Counties hard hit by Beu
lah a disaster area and eligible
for $2 million to $2.5 million in
immediate federal aid.
Yarborough contended to the
House Public Works subcommit
tee Tuesday that Connally should
have asked the designation of a
disaster area five days earlier.
Yarborough said he had talked
with a top White House aide,
Marvin Watson, and was told the
President had received no request
from Connally.
DUDING A tour of disaster
areas Monday, Yarborough told
several local officials that he had
asked the White House for help
and said he could not understand
why Connally did not take im
mediate action.
Connally said Wednesday he
could not make the White House
request until he had a fairly ac
curate assessment of damages,
which was obtained in Connally’s
own set of hearings Monday and
Tuesday.
Connally said he had talked
personally with President Johnson
about the declaration and disaster
problems, but he did not know
if Johnson planned a presidential
inspection tour of Texas.
MEANWHILE, the House Pub
lic Works subcommittee left Cor
pus Christi about noon Wednes
day for the return trip to Wash
ington without making any final
statement on the results of its
survey and hearings. Yarborough,
who appeared at the hearing as
an “invited guest” of the sub
committee, flew back to Washing
ton Tuesday night.
Mo., and freshman Thomas C.
Fitzhugh III of Waco.
SCHOLARSHIPS provide $700
for the freshman year, $800 soph
omore, $900 junior and reach
$1,000 in the senior year. Under
graduate awards can be retained
through four years with a “B”
or better grade average.
Petroleum Engineering and
Geophysics Departments received
grants of $900 and $600, respec
tively, as a result of the scholar
ships. Each scholarship provides
an annual grant of $300 to the
department in which the student
enrolls.
In addition, petroleum engi
neering received a $1,000 grant
in connection with the fellowship
awarded Marek.
Stan H. Stocker, engineering
group supervisor, and John F.
Campbell, industrial relations
analyst, of Pan American’s Hous
ton division made the awards to
Robert L. Whiting, petroleum en
gineering head, and Dr. Earl
Cook, Geosciences College associ
ate dean. The presentations were
made during a luncheon on Wed
nesday at A&M’s Memorial Stu
dent Center.
The Pan American Foundation,
which supports education in 13
leading universities, is supported
by the Pan American Petroleum
Corp., the North American ex
ploration and producing subsidi
ary of Standard Oil of Indiana.
GEOPHYSICS STIPEN DS
Pan American Petroleum representatives Stan Stocker
(left) and John Campbell (right) present checks for
undergraduate scholarships and a Geophysics Department
grant to Dr. Earl Cook, geosciences associate dean. The
awards to Geophysics and petroleum engineering totaled
over $10,200.
Dairy Judges Prepare For Meet
Texas A&M’s Dairy Products
Judging Team is girding for its
first major effort of the school
year — the International Dairy
Products Judging Contest Oct. 23
in Los Angeles, Calif.
Dr. C. W. Dill, team coach
and associate professor in the
A&M Animal Science Department,
said his group will compete with
about 25 teams from throughout
the United States.
He said the three top teams
will be awarded fellowships.
A&M team members are Billy
Armstrong of Waxahachie, Terry
Braswell of Texarkana, James
Howard of New Boston, and Don
ald Vogel of Muenster.
Dill said the A&M Dairy Sci-
ence Club has raised most of the
money to finance the trip to Cali
fornia.
Triangle Steak House
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