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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1967
Number 480
Connally Denies
4th-Term Doubts
By GARTH JONES
AUSTIN (A*)—Gov. John Con-
nally refused Wednesday to dis
cuss reports that he has serious
doubts about a fourth term but
stressed that he still has not “fi
nally and irrevocably” made up
his mind.
“I just want a while longer to
think things over,” Connally told
an impromptu news conference.
“I have some pretty firm ideas
now' . . . but I am still talking
to people.”
He indicated he probably will
make an announcement of some
sort the latter part of October.
CONNALLY firmed that he
met with a number of advisors
from^ throughout the state at the
Mansion Tuesday night and
talked about his future political
plans.
However, he refused to con
firm or deny an Austin Ameri
can report that he told the group
he “almost certainly” would not
run again. Neither would he dis
cuss other reports that he has
contacted numerous Democratic
Party leaders recently telling
them he personally did not want
to run again but still had not
decided whether he should.
Other sources noted that Con
nally threatened to withdraw be
fore his third term race in 1966
but announced anyway.
CONNALLY told newsmen, in
answering questions, that his de
cision would not hinge solely on:
Whether his old political enemy,
Foreign Student
Numbers Decline
Texas A&M’s record 12,029 en
rollment this fall includes 580
foreign students from 61 coun
tries, reports Foreign Student
Advisor Bob Melcher.
Graduate students account for
almost half the foreign enroll
ment, with 277 in this category.
The Dominican Republic is the
leader in number of students with
73, followed by India with 57.
Mexico has 54, Pakisttan, 50, and
China, 48.
Countries with 15 or more stu
dents registered include Tunisia,
Panama, United Arab Republic,
Iran and Lebanon.
Noting the university enrolled
633 foreign students last fall,
Melcher said the slight decline in
registration is the result of a high
rate of completions of study pro
grams during the summer.
Sen. Ralph Yarborough, D-Tex.,
makes a gubernatorial race;
whether President Johnson’s pop
ularity continues to decline, or
whether the possibility of Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y. be
coming the presidential nominee
increases.
“I am not going to seek office
just because someone I might not
want is going to seek the office,”
he said.
THE AUSTIN newspaper story
said that Connally had told close
friends that he is afraid Kennedy
might capture the Democratic
nomination next year because of
Johnson’s decline in popularity.
The story quoted Connally as
saying “if Kennedy is the nomi
nee, I would not support him and
would have to bolt the party and
I certainly don’t intend to be re
membered for that.”
“I will not discuss anything
that was said last night,” Con
nally said Wednesday when asked
about the Kennedy reference.
CONNALLY said that one of
the “important considerations” in
making his decision will be the
effect it will have on national
and state Democratic parties.
“The stability of the party is
obviously one of the things that
I am considering. It troubles me
very much as I have told you
before. It is a large factor . . .
this whole atmosphere through
out the nation of unrest and un
certainty is a large factor in de
ciding whether I can perform in
a useful and worthwhile service
at this time.”
CONNALLY said he likely
would not announce his decision
until after the National Gover
nors’ Conference meeting Oct. 16
but his attendance at the confer
ence had no bearing on the de
cision.
Speaker Ben Barnes, who earli
er this year said he was inter
ested in running for governor if
Connally did not, did not attend
the Mansion meeting Tuesday
night. Barnes has said recently
he is considering a race of lieu
tenant governor and an aide said
Wednesday that Barnes probably
will make an announcement Fri
day or Saturday.
Ciardi, Noted Columnist,
To Speak Here Sunday
TIME OUT
Guidon bearers from units in the Second Brigade listen to instructions from Brigade Sup
ply Officer Jim Yogas during Wednesday afternoon’s drill on the parade ground. 1 he
Army cadets continued basic drilling through the week in preparation for Saturday s
march-in.
Student Life Committee
Lists Tips On Traditions
MSC Announces
Committee Filing
Wayne Prescott of the Memori
al Student Center Directorate
has announced openings for chair
manships of the Recreation and
Bridge Committees.
Applications can be made in
the Student Program Office of
the MSC through Wednesday,
Prescott said.
Cushing To Loan
Color Paintings
Cushing Library’s collection of
color prints of famous paintings
will be ready for loan Oct. 12,
announced Dr. James P. Dyke,
director.
The collection covers a broad
range of artistic styles and repre
sents the works of 80 artists, in
cluding Remembrandt, Velazquez,
Goya, Matisse and Picasso.
The prints will go on loan at
2 p.m. Oct. 12, to individual stu
dents for the entire semester
period, ending Jan. 19, 1968.
In case of loss or damage, the
borrower will be held responsible
for full replacement cost.
(Editor’s note: The following
article was prepared by members
of the Student Life Committee of
the Student Senate, in response
to a request by a student i n
“Sound Off.”)
During the past two weeks, it
has become evident that there is
a need for the students at Texas
A&M to become better acquainted
with the Aggie traditions.
We on the Student Life Com
mittee of the Student Senate are
going to write a few articles to
acquaint the students with Aggie
traditions. The first article will be
a list of a few traditional actions
concerning the conduct before,
during and after football games.
1. The Aggies always win. We
may be outscored, but when the
team and the twelth man give a
100% effort we can never be beat
en!
2. When marching to midnight
yell practice, no one gets into or
in front of the band.
3. Upon entering Kyle Field or
G. Rollie White you remove your
hat.
4. When singing the “Spirit”
or the “War Hymn” you are
standing at attention. This does
not mean you have your arm
around your date.
5. It is a senior privilege to
wildcat after the first “saw var
sity’s horns off.”
6. During the game always keep
one eye on the yell leader.
7. Never clap; Aggies wildcat.
8. It is a senior privilege to
stand on or walk on the wood in
Kyle Field or G. Rollie White. Al
so, at basketball games it is a
senior privilege to sit on flour
level.
9. Aggies never “countdown”
the clock. We also never hiss or
boo. This displays bad sportsman
ship.
10. It is a fish privilege to carry
the team off the field after the
game.
11. When we outscore the op
ponents, it is a fish privilege to
carry the yell leaders to the fish
pond. A yell practice will immed
iately follow on the steps of the
Y. M. C. A.
12. If outscored, we will immed
iately sing “The Twelth Man”
and have a yell practice in the
stands.
13. When we outscore the op
ponents away from home the fish
will carry the yell leaders to the
fish pond after Monday night yell
practice.
14. Always meet the team when
they are returning from a distant
out of town game.
You have been handed down
these traditions.
With everybody’s knowledge
and cooperation we, the students,
can work together as the twelth
man should. Oh, don’t forget to
kiss your date every time we
score!
Hartley Serves
Medical Facility
Dr. H. O. Hartley, director of
Texas A&M University’s Institute
of Statistics, will participate in
an advisory committee meeting
Thursday at the Texas Medical
Center in Houston.
Hartley is serving as a statisti-
can on the committee named to
advise the medical facility on mat
ters concerning establishment of
a regional computer center.
The invitation to Hartley was
made by Dr. Richard T. Eastwood,
executive Vice president of the
Texas Medical Center.
Mess Hall Employee Drives
Thirty Miles Daily To Work
A Sbisa Hall employe has driv
en almost half a million miles to
see that Texas A&M students’
meals include a tasty meat dish.
Willie Paul, 46, of Caldwell has
been working in the A&M dining
ball 22 years.
He drives 30 miles by himself
to get to work, and declines join
ing a car pool as many A&M em
ployes of Caldwell do.
”1 prefer to drive myself,” the
meat-line employe states. “If I
could work it out with a good
rider, a car pool would be okay.
But I’m going to be at work on
time.”
Willie is as fanatical about pre
paring smothered, pan fried and
Swiss steaK stew and other meat
dishes Aggies consume as he is
about punching in on time, notes
Fred W. Dollar.
“WILLIE HAS been late only
one time in 22 years,” the food
service director explained. “It
was snowing that time. And in
the 22 years, he has missed only
three days due to sickness.”
Paul, who lives on a Caldwell
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
rural route a mile north of the
city, says he keeps his car in
good shape. Outside of a few
flats, he claims to have had trou
ble only once.
“I didn’t come to a complete
halt at a stop sign,” he offered.
When he mentioned to Morris
Maddox he . had driven the route
22 years without a citation, the
Campus Security sergeant wrote
only a warning.
Willie’s Sbisa kitchen pride is
a stainless steel, 10-yard long
oven.^It will bake enough chicken
at one time to feed a battalion.
HE SAYS Yankee stew, chili
and smothered, pan fried and
Swiss steak are A&M students’
main course favorites.
“I’ve never heard a complaint
about our Yankee stew,” he re
marked.
“We put six meats on the cash
cafeteria line during summers,
and students go most for sausage
and roast beef, which are lower
cost items.” The same selections
comprise leftovers on family-
style service menus.
The father of three says he
wishes he could feed his children
for what it costs a student to eat
at A&M.
“I’m a heavy eater and my
family likes a big dinner. My 11-
year-old, Tiny Willie, can put it
away,” the former Caldwell farm
er and Houston shop machinist
said. Suzanne, 19, who works in
Bryan, and Kenny Lane, 9, also
enjoy both parents’ cooking.
Willie indicates his wife, Ger
trude, can bake better than he,
but that at cooking it’s a tossup.
“When she wants to go shop
ping, I’ll cook the meal and have
it ready when she gets home,”
the meats specialist added.
Tickets Available
For Town Hall
The Standells will be featured
in the second Town Hall program
of the year Friday night at 8 in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Students with activity cards
will be admitted free. Tickets
will also be on sale at the door,
with date tickets priced at $1.50,
general admission at $3 and pub
lic school students, $2.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
ONWARD, UPWARD . , ,
Real progress in the expansion of Kyle Field s east stands
was evident this week as bench supports were adaed to the
ramps. Thanksgiving is still the target date on completion
of the new deck.
3 p.m. Lecture Set
In MSC Ballroom
John Ciardi, noted columnist,
author and poet, will lecture Sun
day at Texas A&M.
The former host of CBS-TV’s
weekly show, “Accent,” will dis
cuss “What Good is a College?”
in a 3 p.m. presentation in the
Memorial Student Center b a 1 1 -
room.
Gerald Moore, chairman of the
hosting MSC Great Issues Com
mittee, said students, fellow wri
ters and lecture audiences across
the nation have found in Ciardi
a man who can speak plain sense
on poetry, freeing it from the fogs
of misunderstanding which too of
ten surround it.
CO-HOSTS for the lectures are
the MSC Contemporary Arts
Committee and the Graduate Col
lege.
In addition to serving as poetry
editor of the “Saturday Review’”
Ciardi is working this year to
complete his translation of Dan
te’s “Divine Comedy” for publica
tion in early 1968. He recently
completed three years a s John
Holmes Visiting Professor of Poe
try at Tufts University.
Boston bred, Ciardi received his
B.A. magna cum laude from Tufts
in 1938. He earned the M.A. in
1939 at the University of Michi
gan, where he was granted Hop-
wood Award in poetry.
AFTER SERVING as an aerial
gunner in, the B-20 offensive
against Japan in World War II,
Ciarda, taught at Harvard and
Rutgers before becoming a free
lance writer and lectui’er in 1961.
Ciardi also is acclaimed as a
definitive translator of Dante into
English. The paperback edition of
his “Inferno” has sold over a
million copies and is a popular
teaching text in the United States.
The most recent of his ten books
for children, is “The Monster
Den,” a parent’s eye view of fam
ily life.
About his lectures, Ciardi is
candid in saying, “I don’t give
speeches. I talk to the eyes I see.”
Students will be admitted with
activity cards—admission for Ag
gie wives and students of other
schools is $.75, and general ad
mission is $1.50.
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JOHN CIARDI
Ballinger Sets Deadline
For Rhodes Grant Hopefuls
Students interested in applying
for a Rhodes Scholarship have
been asked to contact Dr. Richard
H. Ballinger, 302-C Academic
Building, by Oct. 14.
Applicants must be unmarried
males between ages 18 and 24 and
classified no lower than a junior,
Ballinger said.
Since only 32 of the $3,000 per
year grants will be available to
U. S. students, Dr. Ballinger
added that a 2.5 grade point ratio
will also be required.
Scholarship winners may choose
from a number of fields of study,
ranging from business manage
ment to mathematics to chemical
engineering during their two-year
tenure at Oxford Universtiy.
Dr. Ballinger noted that only
two Aggies, both engineering
graduates, have ever been Rhodes
Adams Releases
Seating Schedule
A new student seating sched
ule for the Florida State game
has been announced by Neal
Adams, head yell leader.
The new arrangement calls
for the fish to occupy sections
120-124, sophomores, 125-127,
and juniors, 128-130.
Corps seniors and the band
will be placed in sections 131-
132 with civilian seniors in
133-134 and graduate students
in 135-137.
Scholars. Clark W. Thomas, ’22,
studied English, and Jack E.
Brooks, ’46, physics.
Dollar To Meet
Student Leaders
The Civilian Student Menu
Committee will have a luncheon
meeting with Col. Fred Dollar
and his food service staff at noon
Friday in Sbisa Dining Hall, an
nounced Edwin H. Cooper, direc
tor of civilian student activities.
Cooper said students desiring
to make suggestions regarding
the improvement of dining hall
services are invited to contact
one of the student members of
the committee.
Each committee member may
invite a limited number of stu
dents to attend the luncheon ses
sion as his guest.
Committee members are Lewis
G. Venator, president of the Ci
vilian Student Council; Ernie
Knowles, president of the Grad
uate Student Council; George
Walne, Civilian Student Council
vice president, and Steven Ban
croft, president of Dormitory 15.
The committee meets with food
service personnel each month to
discuss possible additions or de
letions to the menu and to offer
suggestions for improved service.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
L —Adv.