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VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1967 Number 478
14 Finalists Announced
In Sweetheart Selection
PHYLLIS KAYE DRAKE BARBARA MULVIHILL
JUDITH JOHNSON KATHY HELDMAN
Weekend Activities
Set For Tessies
BY JOHN FULLER
Battalion Managing Editor
Fourteen finalists for the 1967-
68 Aggie Sweetheart title were
announced Monday b y Student
Senate Vice-President Bill Car
ter.
The girls, all students at Texas
Woman’s University in Denton,
will visit the A&M campus this
weekend and a winner will be
chosen Sunday. She will be of
ficially presented at halftime of
the TCU football game in Fort
Worth Oct. 21.
Carter said the finalists will
arrive Friday aftemoon and will
eat dinner in Duncan Dining
Hall. They will be special guests
at the Town Hall’s presentation
of the Standells Friday evening
and will attend Midnight Yell
Practice afterward.
SATURDAY’S activities will
include a morning tour of the
campus, a picnic in Hensel Park
and a dinner at 5 p.m. in the Me
morial Student Center. Later the
finalists will be guests at the
Florida State football game and
at a dance in the MSC Saturday
night.
They are to attend a special
Sunday morning service at 8:15
in the All-Faiths Chapel, which
will b e followed by a buffet
breakfast in the MSC.
Carter said a five-student judg
ing committee, to be named later
this week, will select the new
Sweetheart after caucus meet
ings Saturday night and Sunday.
The finalists were chosen from
a field of 29 semi-finalists named
last week, Carter noted.
SWEETHEART finalists in
clude the following:
• Darlene Faye Blumenshine,
sophomore music education ma
jor from Columbia Pa.
• Phyllis Kaye Drake, junior
nursing major from Alice.
• Bennie Jordan, junior nurs
ing major from Baytown.
• Barbara Mulvihill, sophomore
clothing and fashions merchan
dising major from Puducah.
• Lou Ann Carrington, senior
biology major from Richardson.
• Karen Burk, sophomore home
economics education major from
Rochelle.
• Penny Gregory, sophomore
textiles and home economics ed-
PAM GILLESPIE
pam McAlister
ucation major from Port Aran
sas.
• Ana Alicia Esparza, sopho
more library science major from
Laredo.
• Pam Gillespie, junior fashion
merchandising major from Pecos.
• Judith Johnson, senior coci-
ology major from Baytown.
• Pam McAlister, sophomore
radio-television major from Well
ington, Kan.
• Mary Crook, senior nursing
major from San Antonio.
• And Kathy Heldman, sopho
more music-voice major from
Caldwell.
Segner Names
Fish Leaders
Fish Yell Leaders for 1967-68
were named Monday.
They are Mike A. Burch, aero
space engineering major from
Hempstead, Squadron 11; Dennis
K. Chapman, math major from
Haskell, Squadron 9; Albert L.
Reese, economics major from
Houston, Company B-2; Thomas
M. Rideout, math major from
Marshall, Company E-2; Barrett
J. Smith, business major from
Perryland, Squadron 2; Ronald
W. Van Orne, aerospace engine
ering major from Fort Worth,
Squadron 7.
“The fish were asked to learn
three yells, campusology and the
football team,” Bob Segner, jun
ior yell leader, said. They were
also graded on appearance and
spirit, he added.
The fish yell leaders will make
*-beir first appearance Thursday
night when the Aggie “fish” op
en against the Polywogs of TCU.
Silver Taps Held
For Grad Student
Silver Taps were observed
Monday night for Richard Henry
Jessup, A&M graduate student
killed in an automobile accident
here Friday night.
Jessup, 31, an 8th-year mete
orology student and father of
two, was thrown from his station
wagon and killed instantly when
his vechicle slammed into a con
crete bridge pillar at the inter
section of FM 2154 and FM 60
late Friday night.
Jessup i s survived by h i s wi
dow, Mrs. Felipa Jessup; son,
Michael , 3, daughter, Theresa
Marie, 2; one brother, Jack W.
Jessup of Hyde Park, New York,
and parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Jessup of Brownsville.
Weather
Wednesday: Cloudy, few light
rain showers in afternoon—south
easterly winds 10 to 15—high 88,
low 71.
Thursday: Cloudy, intermittent
rain showers all day—southeast
erly winds 10 to 15—high 86, low
72.
Kyle Field, Oct. 7: 81°, 65%,
south-southeasterly winds 10 to
15.
12,029 Enrolled
In Fall Classes
A record 12,029 students
are enrolled at Texas A&M
University this fall, an
nounced Registrar H. L.
Heaton.
Heaton said current reg
istration represents an in
crease of 11 per cent over
the previous record of 10,676
established a year ago.
The registrar also noted
the university has increased
its enrollment by more than
1,000 during each of the
past three years.
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IN orth Vietnamese Reported
Infiltrating Under Barrage
SAIGON (A*) — Battle reports
produced evidence Monday the
North Vietnamese may have slip
ped fresh troops with modern
weapons into South Vietnam’s
central highlands during the
month-long Communist artillery
siege of Con Thien.
The attacks on the U. S. Ma
rine outpost at Con Thien slack
ened for the fifth straight day,
possibly because heavy U. S. air
attacks on Communist positions
in and above the demilitarized
zone have inflicted crippling dam
age.
The U. S. Command reported
high-flying B52 bombers in four
days last week touched off 110
secondary explosions, indicating
direct hits on ammunition dumps
and fuel.
WORD OF THE possible infil
tration of fresh North Vietnamese
troops into South Vietnam came
as the nation’s military leaders,
President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu
and Vice Px-esident-elect Nguyen
Cao Ky, cleared another political
hurdle. The National Assembly
in Saigon threw out charges of
ballot frauds on Sept. 3 and vali
dated the victory of the Thieu-
Ky ticket by a vote of 58-43, with
one vote blank and four invali
dated.
The action mean Thieu and
Ky will take over the leadership
of a civilian-based government
next month. They now head a
military government with Ky as
premier and Thieu as chief of
state.
THE U. S. Command reported
a day-long clash Sunday between
troops of the U. S. 4th Infantry
Division and an enemy force 23
miles southeast of Pleiku, a key
Army base about 225 miles below
the DMZ.
The battle report said the
North Vietnamese were wearing
new uniforms and were equipped
with late-model automatic rifles
and other advanced weapons.
While an official intelligence
assessment was lacking, the en
emy force seemed to be part of
a new unit infiltrated into the
country by way of the old Ho Chi
Minh trail which winds around
the DMZ through neighboring
Laos and Cambodia from North
Vietnam.
THE NORTH Vietnamese are
known to be holding four and
possibly five regiments in Laos
in territory controlled by the
Communist Pathet Lao.
Pleiku is about 40 miles east
of the Cambodian border and
about 60 miles southeast of the
nearest Laotian border point.
In previous fighting in the cen
tral highlands the Communists
sought to cut South Vietnam
across the middle. The Red forces
always were driven off by U. S.
air cavalrymen.
The Marines at Con Thien, 2\>
miles below the DMZ, have been
holding out against what could be
an invasion force of 35,000 North
Vietnamese.
THE 4TH DIVISION infantry
men reported killing 28 North
Vietnamese in the action near
Pleiku Sunday. Artillery and air
strikes supported the g r o u n d
troops.
U. S. losses were put at one
man killed and two wounded.
The highlands action was the
only one listed as significant by
the U. S. Command, although
there were other scattered clashes
across the country.
In the air war over North Viet
nam, U. S. pilots flew 99 strike
missions, a lower number than
usual and apparently the result
of bad weather.
TARGETS included the MIG
airfield and railroad yard at Kep,
38 miles northeast of Hanoi, and
military structures and supply fa
cilities ranging south through the
panhandle. There were no reports
of U. S. plane losses.
ETV Department Offers
Video Tapes Of Lectures
Borrowing a technique familiar
to TV football fans, Texas A&M
will soon be offering its students
video tape replays of classroom
lectures.
M. L. Chastain, director for the
university’s Educational Televi
sion Department, said the pro
gram should begin by the end
of this semester.
Thirty learning carrells are
currently being installed. Each
cubicle contains a study desk,
television monitor, touchstone
dial system and headset, plus a
shelf for reference material.
SOPHISTICATED machinery to
store audio and visual materials
needed by students includes a
Sidac 661, a memory unit which
allows students in any carrell
access to specific information.
The Sidac 661 is harnessed to
an Ampex VR 660 which plays
the video tapes for projection on
TV monitors. In addition, four
video tape recorders can be har
nessed to the learning center.
Chastain noted that 250 hours
of video presentations are al
ready taped in biology, psychol
ogy, English, industrial educa
tion, engineering graphics and
education.
Most of the presentations,
Chastain pointed out, employ the
single-concept theory for a film
six to nine minutes in length.
Some run as long as 45 minutes.
A SCHEDULE in the ETV
learning center will show the
types of audio and visual materi
als available. After checking the
number of the lecture desired, a
student can simply dial the num
ber of that lecture for instant
replay.
“If a student doesn’t under
stand a classroom video presedta-
Baptists To Host
Foreign Wives
A new program called “Dis
covery” will be featured at a
coffee for the wives of inter
national students at 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday in the Fellowship
Room of the First Baptist Church
of College Station.
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“On the side of Texas A&M”
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tion,” Chastain said, “he will have
an opportunity for clarification
by asking the professor to have
the tape put on the schedule at
the ETV Learning Center.
“This facility also can be help
ful for professors who wish to
assign students to study video
tapes as outside research proj
ects,” Chastain continued.
“WE ARE constantly produc
ing new video taped information,”
Chastain explained. “Everything
we do can be applied to carrell
use.”
Chastain said the video tape
mechanisms are not presently
equipped for stops and reverses
for students who might want to
linger on a particular point. Most
tapes, however, are brief enough
that they could be replayed
quickly.
The program offers material
for both undergraduates and
graduates, Chastain noted.
The program is a cooperative
effort between A&M and the U. S.
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
NO DOG BISCUITS?
“Every week I check these machines. Every week the same
old thing—Baby Ruths, Butterfingers, Hershey Bars . . .
BLAH!! What this country needs is a good five-cent dog
biscuit—in vending machines. And these knobs aren’t the
easiest things in the world to pull. Now if they were shaped
like the end of a bone, then . . . .” — Ranger II
(Photo by Dave Ruckman)