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iber 3,19! Che Battalion Thursday — Cloudy, light rain show- :$ ers winds, southerly, 10-15 m.p.h. High 86, low 72. £i Friday — Cloudy to partly cloudy, g; winds, southerly 10-15 m.p.h. High 88, low 71. g: Kyle Field, Saturday — 81°, Winds South - Southeaster!3 low 65. y, 10-15. VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1967 Number 479 iible for i loss to mj y duo whid urth in tin lassing «!• :k is Em junior wli it year it t 55 pass! ear befe i side! , big Eli i 28 pass!! o averajd ate in tk se is god, g probta- delded f iree gamfi they ban die presar, 111 surpis t: So’ rell Royal wreckage Southwest unpionstiip impionsliip —and said u folks I ise great Uy art- ime Adams To Review Corps Saturday The dean of Southwest Confer ence band directors, Lt. Col. E. V, Adams of Texas A&M, will be the reviewing officer for a Corps of Cadets march-in at the A&M- Florida State football game in Kyle Field Saturday. The graded march-in starts at 6:20 p.m. for the 7:30 game, an nounced Col. Jim H. McCoy, com mandant. Units of the 3,000-man corps will be graded. Points count in competition for the Gen. George F. Moore trophy and oth er annual awards. Colonel Adams, Aggie band master since 1046, will review the Corps parade from a stand on the press box side of Kyle Field. “The Colonel,” as he is known to bandsmen, will have a large number of his former students present for a reunion of the Tex- ★ ★ ★ Band Schedules Reunion Saturday A halftime performance fea turing a salute to members of the new Texas Aggie Band Associa tion is being installed for the A&M-Florida State game Satur day night, announced Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, band director. The recently formed organiza tion meets Saturday, with more than 300 former bandsmen ex pected. The 1967-68 band will at tend the group’s noon luncheon meeting. Colonel Adams said Saturday’s drill will include an 80-yard-long "Hi Bandmen” with letters 10 yards high. The band’s third game appear ance will be set to music outdoors Tuesday, with the normal prac tice schedule lightened by an idle date last Saturday. A two-week headstart on classes, with three inside and three outside practices a day until Sept. 15, has put the band four to five weeks ahead of its usual development, Adams es timated. "The bands sound has come right along with its marching this season,” he noted. “Usually, when the members report one weekend and have to march the next, we devote more time to marching and the music doesn’t sound its best until later in the First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. as Aggie Band Association, com prised of graduated bandsmen. The organization will hold a lunch eon meeting in Duncan Dining Hall Saturday. Adams graduated from A&M in 1929. He directed high school bands in Bryan and Palestine, at tended the Northwestern Univer sity School of Music, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and Van derbilt School of Music. The Bryan High graduate served in the Army four years during World War II and suc ceeded Col. Richard F. Dunn as A&M bandmaster. The guiding mind of the 255- man organization that will per form at halftime Saturday night, Colonel Adams designs and in stalls the Aggie Band’s intricate formations, selects and directs music, makes transportation ar rangements, supervises equip ment maintenance and performs tactical officer duties for 266 cadets. He is married and has one son, Edward Jr., a 1961 A&M gradu ate. The colonel and his wife, Ida, reside at 601 Olive, Bryan. ‘Standells’ Will Perform For Town Hall Friday Recording Group Sets 8p.m. Show United Chest Aims To Beat $22,500 Mark A record $22,500 goal has been set for the 1967 College Station United Chest campaign Oct. 16-31. Walter H. Parson Jr., president of the United Chest board of di rectors, said 13 charitable and civic organizations will share in the funds raised this year. Parsons, physical plants direc tor at Texas A&M, noted that while the 1967 goal is $1,500 more than for 1966, it is $350 less than the amount contributed last year. “WE HAVE studied all appli cations for financial support very carefully and are confident that we have a realistic budget which will adequately serve our growing community,” Parsons stated. “The job now is to get out and raise the necessary money,” he continued. “We need the support of everyone for this once-a-year campaign.” Parsons said the 1967 campaign chairman, Joe Sawyer of Univer sity National Bank, will soon be (See United Chest, Page 2) THE STANDELLS “The Standells,” recording- artists whose hits include “Dirty Water” and “Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White Hats,” will be Town Hall’s attraction Friday at 8 p. m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Members of the group, from left, are Larry Tamblyn, Dick Dodd, Tony Valentino and John Fleck. Tickets are available in the Memorial Student Center. Rudders In MSC To Host Ballroom F acuity Reception Texas A&M’s annual faculty- staff reception is set for 7-9 p.m. Thursday in the Memorial Stu dent Center ballroom. The fall reception, hosted by President and Mrs. Earl Rudder, honors new members of the uni versity’s faculty and staff. President and Mrs. Rudder are extending a general invitation to all faculty and staff and their wives and husbands, and widows of faculty and staff members. Joining President and Mrs. Rudder in the receiving line will be the following faculty members who have assumed their present positions since last fall: DURING THE first hour—Dr. and Mrs. H. O. Kunkel, acting dean, College of Agriculture; Dr. and Mrs. Johannes van Overbeek, head, Biology Department; Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Kunze, associate dean, Graduate College; Col. and Mrs. J. H. McCoy, head, Military Science Department; Dr. and Mrs. M. M. Davenport, head, Philo sophy and Humanities Depart ment; Dr. and Mrs. R. R. Bell, acting head, Veterinary Parasito logy Department; Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Jones, head, Electrical En gineering Department, and Dr. and Mrs. R. R. Berg, head, Geo logy and Geography Department. During the second hour—Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Luther, acting head, Mathematics Department; Dr. and Mrs. E. R. Glazener, head, Industrial Education Department; Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Landiss, head. Health and Physical Education Department; Dr. and Mrs. J. U. McNeal, head, Marketing Depart ment; Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Reid, head, Recreation and Parks De partment; Dr. and Mrs. Vance Moyer, head, Meteorology Depart ment, and Mrs. P. R. Kramer, wife of director, Texas Forest Service. “The Standells,” a musical group with unique sounds, will be the featured attraction for a Town Hall performance Friday night at Texas A&M. “Their sound is strictly their own,” commented Town Hall Chairman Robert Gonzales. “They have borrowed or stolen from no one. Their beat is strong, their music is a thumping, pounding rhythm with guitars, organ and drums blending together beauti fully.” Show time is 8 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. “DIRTY WATER” was the first hit for “The Standells.” That came in 1966. Others have made the charts since that time, in cluding “Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White,” “Why Pick on Me?,” “The Shake,” and “Help Yourself.’ Comprising “The Standells are Larry Tamblyn, Dick Dodd, Tony Valentino and John Fleck. All are multi-talented with musical in struments and have played in semi-dramatic roles throughout the country. Tamblyn, younger brother of actor Russ Tamblyn, won a talent contest at age seven for singing “Four Leaf Clover” and has been an entertainer ever since. AN ORIGINAL Mousketeer on the Mickey Mouse Club, Todd has appeared on the Gizelle McKenzie Show and the Jack Benny Pro gram. He also acted in “The King and I” and “Bye Bye, Birdie” on Broadway. Valentino was inspired early by Frankie Avalon, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. Acting is his forte but he’s ranked tops on the guitar and drums. He fathers the group and acts as spokesman. Fleck, billed as a born “extro vert,” replaced Dave Burke, a former member of “The Stan dells” who was called into the armed forces. He sought to be come an actor via the back door at Columbia Studios where he was a second assistant camerman on many television shows. Later, Fleck tired of infrequent acting jobs and went to Mexico to become a matador. He returned to try out for “The Standells” and won the job over 163 aspirants. Tickets for the show are avail able at A&M’s Memorial Student Center. Perry Urges More Meetings Of Police, Civic Organizations They’re Twin Brothers Skrivaneks Confuse Students If “como se dice,” “jak se mas” and other Spanish, Czech, Ger man and French phrases aren’t enough to confuse Texas A&M modern language students, two of the department’s professors are. Dr. John M. Skrivanek and Joseph J. Skrivanek are twin brothers. “The are two of five college teachers of Czech in Texas,” points out Dr. Jack A. Dabbs, department head. The U. S. De partment of Health, Education and Welfare classifies Czech a critical language. John also is fluent in Spanish and Russian. WHO’S WHO? Texas A&M junior James Mobley of Bellaire pauses dur ing language lab work. He is confronted by his prof, Joseph J. Skrivanek (left) or Dr. John M. Skrivanek. Or is it vice versa? John, who holds the rank of professor, has been on the faculty since 1952. Joseph joined the university as an instructor this fall, after teaching 10 years at Lamar Junior High in Bryan. IT’S A disconcerting arrange ment for students, particularly if the professors are seen only in profile. “We haven’t been mixed up as much as I would have thought,” Dr. Skrivanek commented. One of the 74 Ph.D. candidates he in structs in scientific Russian re cently asked about course work. “Am I talking to the right man?” the graduate student checked before getting too in volved. “I’ve never been to downtown Bryan without someone calling me Jay,” John commented. They’ve made no attempts to confuse anyone. The brothers dress differently, but both smoke cigars. John M.’s office is in the Academic Building, Joseph’s in Building “D”, but both are seen around department offices. THE TWINS, 52, don’t have adjacent classrooms at the same period and, though the depart ment schedules three classes an hour in a lab utilized by all mod ern language students, the Skri vaneks haven’t crossed paths in the room full of recording booths. Circumstances have added to twin-fusion in the past, though. “We both came to the area at the same time, the fall of 1952,” Joseph noted. “Neither of us knew the other was coming.” John moved From Houston where he was head of languages at South Texas College. He also taught at Granger and Beaumont French High Schools, Texas and the University of Houston. Joseph arrived at A&M Con solidated High as principal in 1952. He previously taught at East Bernard and Rosenberg. EDUCATIONAL titles for the twins differ, for the present any way. Both graduated at Caldwell High in 1932 and earned bachelor and master degrees at the Uni versity of Texas. John M. Skri vanek, first of the family to re turn to Czechoslovakia, earned his Ph.D. at Charles University in Prague in 1948. Joseph has 45 hours toward his doctorate. Their great-grandfather came to the U. S. in 1845 and settled near Cooks Point, between Bryan and Caldwell. Dr. Skrivanek’s three-year visit in Europe coincided with the com munist takeover of Czechoslo vakia. The fourth generation Texans have five other brothers, includ ing another whose given name begins with “J”. He also lives in Bryan. THE LOOK-ALIKES — except for the parting of hair—admit to “twinning” up on a person only once. “Joe managed two dates for one night while we were in Cald well High,” John recalled. T helped him by taking one of the girls out. It worked.” The only solution for students meeting a distinguished, white- haired modern language profes sor is to view him head on. John parts his hair in the mid dle. Joseph’s part is on the left. A veteran police officer Tues day suggested more meetings in volving police, school and civic organizations in an effort to re duce the mushrooming increase of juvenile crime. “In this way,” remarked Lt. John Perry of the Austin ^Police Department’s Juvenile Division, “police leaders can explain the programs they are trying to car ry out, and at the same time seek assistance and cooperation of civic and school groups.” Perry made his comments in a lecture to a police juvenile offi cers course underway at the Me morial fj^udent Center. “THE TIME is coming soon when warrants will be necessary for the arrest of all juveniles,” Perry remarked. “At present, po lice can in most instances make arrests on suspicions. It’s highly important, however, that police have a very strong case against juveniles before taking them into custody.” Perry said school officials in many cities already require po lice to have warrants in hand before making arrests on school property. “Police officers should consider the juvenile’s family as well as the youth in making arrests,” Perry remarked. “Parents of ar rested juveniles should be noti fied immediately.” PERRY URGED parents to start early in teaching their chil dren to respect authority. “Too often, when trouble flares up,” Perry noted, “parents take the child’s side without bothering Sorry About That The Aggie Sweetheart final ists story in Tuesday’s Bat talion omitted the name of Dolores McCarroll, sophomore clothing and fashions merchan dising major from Paducah. It also incorrectly identified Bar bara Mulvihill, who is a sopho more nursing major from Houston. The Battalion regrets the errors. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. to find out the circumstances of the trouble.” Another Tuesday speaker, the Rev. Ron Birk, pastor of Our Saviour’s Luthern Church in Col lege Station, said parents need to go into youth’s world to under stand problems. “THE MOTTO of the youth of today is that they had rather see a sermon than hear one,” Birk declared. “Parents and adults need to listen to the young peo ple’s music, learn their language, and watch their television shows. You can’t understand anybody from a distance.” “Young people feel a need to serve,” Rev. Birk continued. “They want to do something as part of the activist generation. Many give their service as baby sitters, in tutoring underprivi leged children and in numerous summer projects.” “Not only should adults listen to youth,” Birk added, “they should speak. Young people ex pect guidance and help from adults within the church.” Fish To Tour Chem Plants Freshmen chemical engineer ing majors will tour three Texas City plants Thursday as part of the department’s freshman orien tation program. Dr. C. D. Holland said 75 stu dents will spend the day in Texas City, touring Monsanto, Union Carbide and American Oil plants in three groups. “Chemical engineering students at the freshman stage usually have an inacurate picture of what a chemical engineer does,” Dr. Holland noted.“At each plant, the groups will be sub-divided into two or three students who will accompany a young engineer as he goes about his daily tasks.” The department field trip is an extension of a freshman sem inar program under way through out the College of Engineering. Dr. R. R. Davison will also ac company students. Buses depart the campus at 6:30 a.m. Thursday and will re turn about 6 p.m. Hocking To Speak In USDA Series Dr. R. R. Hocking of Texas A&M’s Institute of Statistics will present six lectures to statisti cians and mathematicians of the United States Department of Ag riculture in Washington this week. Dr. H. O. Hartley, Institute of Statistics director, said the lec ture series is entitled “Mathe matical Programming: Theory and Application.” Hartley noted the lectures will provide a detailed introduction and general survey of recent developments in mathematical programming. Senator J. Montoya Backs Johnson’s Vietnam Policies LUBBOCK, AP — In a fiery defense o f President Johnson’s Vietnam policies, Sen. Joseph Montoya, D-N. M., Tuesday night warned that if the United States “sold out short” in the conflict, it would be buying “no more than a few pitiful years of phony sec urity.” Montoya spoke before several hundred West Texans attending an annual Lubbock Rotary Club inter-city meeting. He said that such a move by the United States would only mo mentarily postpone a threat that when it arrives “would come arm ed with nuclear teeth” in the form of Red Chinese missiles. Charging that many critics of President Johnson based their ar guments on wrong information, the New Mexico senator said that those fighting the administra tion’s stand were doing “a griev ous disservice to our country.” Montoya warned that should the United States withdraw from Vietnam, the rest of Southeast Asia would topple to communism within two to three years. The senator, who recently visi ted South Vietnam, told his au dience that in World War II Bri tain bought time for the Free World. “There is no one now to buy this time. We are the senior partner in this undertaking,” he said. During the talk, the New Mex ican also urged a grass roots cla mor to bring about federal water resources program that would guarantee all sectors of the na tion needed water supplies and food. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv.