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VOLUME 61 Cbe Battalion COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1967 Friday — Partly cloudy, winds south- :$• low 67. erly 10-15 m.p.h. High 86, Saturday — Cloudy. Intermittent light rain showers, winds Southerly 10-15 m.p.h. High 84, low 69. Lubbock — 74°, 40% humidity, winds southeasterly 10-15 m.p.h. Number 484 Swensson Added To JC Speakers Paul Swensson, executive direc tor of The Newspaper Fund, has been added as a speaker for the Texas Junior College Press Asso ciation Conference Monday and Tuesday at Texas A&M Uni versity. Swensson will discuss opera tions of The Newspaper Fund in seminar sessions for newspaper College Station United Chest Campaign Set Mayor D. A. Anderson and Tex as A & M University President Earl Rudder have joined together in proclaiming Oct. 16-31 as the United Chest campaign drive per iod in College Station. The two officials urged all citi zens to participate and “give gen erously t o this most worthy cause.” Their joint proclamation states in part: “Whereas, the College Station United Chest provides operating funds for many local health, wel fare and character-building agen cies of importance to our city, and Whereas, the coordinated effort to raise funds through the United Chest makes fund-raising more efficient and equitable, and Whereas, the College Station United Chest deserves of every citizen. . The drive to raise a record $22,500 for 13 agencies officially opens Monday. United Chest volunteer work ers, however, have scheduled a lick-off breakfast for 6:45 Friday morning in A&M’s Memorial Stu dent Center ballroom. Campaign chairman Joe Saw yer said the featured speaker for the breakfast meeting will be William H. Brigham, vice presi dent and trust officer for the First National Bank of Waco. Brigham, who has been active in Waco’s United Fund program and: other civic activities, is a graduate of the Baylor University Law School. Prior to entering the banking business, he was trial lawyer with previous experience as a special agent for the FBI. Sawyer said the kick-off ses sion will include a thorough brief ing of campaign activities and dis tribution of worker packets. Listed below are the sharing agencies and the amounts approv ed by the United Chest board of directors: College Station Local Chest Charity Fund, $1,900; College Sta tion Community House, Inc., $1,- 800; College Station Recreational Council, $2,500; Boys’ Club of America, $3,000; Brazos Commit tee on Alcholism, Inc., $150; Bra zos Valley Rehabilitation Center, $2,500; Brazos County Counseling Service, $2,500; Salvation Army, $1,000; Girl Scouts Area Council, $2,000; Boy Scouts of America, $2,000; American Red Cross, $2,- 000; Texas United Fund, $100, and USO, $300. Baptists Top Church Poll More than half of Texas A&M’s 12,029 students are of the Bap tist, Methodist and Catholic faiths. In all, students designated 21 de nominational preferences. YMCA General Secretary J. Gordon Gay said statistics com piled from fall enrollment cards indicate 2,521 attend the Baptist church. Methodist preference was checked by 2,395. The Catholic religion ranked third in the survey with 2,059. Gay reported that about 12 per cent, or 1,417 listed no preference. Other preferences included Presbyterian 787, Lutheran 627, Episcopal 548, Church of Christ 175, Protestant 360 and Christian 269. A&M students also profess Moslem, Jewish, United Church of Christ, Mormon, Unitarian, Hindu, Christian Science, Brethren, Pen tecostal, Greek Orthodox, Naza- rene and Buddhist faiths. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. and yearbook sponsors. The News paper Fund sponsors college and high school publications work shops throughout the nation. Registration begins at 7 p.m. Sunday in the A&M Memorial Student Center. Dr. David R. Bowers, A&M journalism profes sor and TJCPA director, predicts more than 200 participants from 21 member colleges. The keynote address at 9 a.m. Monday spotlights Robert Hol lingsworth, managing editor of the Dallas Times Herald. Other morning speakers include David Nance of the Houston Chronicle, runnerup for national photographer of the year; Harold Ratliff, Texas sports editor for the Associated Press and D’Eon Priest of Taylor Publishing Com pany, Houston. “Special Assignment Report ing” will be the topic of Carolyn Barta, Dallas Morning News edu cation writer, in a Monday after noon talk. Dr. C. Richard King, Universtiy of Texas professor, will use the topic. “Features Make Your Newspaper Come Alive.” Also in an afternoon session, Dr. Ferel Robinson, Sam Hous ton State College Journalism De partment director, will discuss newspaper makeup. Wick Fowler, an Austin public relations counselor, will address a 6:30 p.m. Monday banquet in the MSC Ballroom. Special music is planned by A&M’s Singing Cadets. An Allen Academy combo, “The Mind Monopoly,” will play for a dance following the banquet. Tuesday’s slate includes a newspaper critique by David Mc- Ham of Baylor University and a yearbook critique by Dr. Otha Spencer, East Texas State Uni verstiy professor. Newspaper and yearbook win ners for 1967 will receive awards at a luncheon. Dr. Norris Davis, University of Texas Journalism Department head on leave to prepare a report for a journalism advisory com mittee making recommendations to the Texas College and Uni versity System Coordinating- Board, will speak in the advisors seminar. His subject involves “A Look at Journalism Education in Texas in the Years Ahead.” Other seminar speakers include Sara Anderson, Cooke County Junior College; Bob Vaughn, San Jacinto College; Jeanine Johns ton, Dallas El Centro College; and Frank Deaver of Victoria Col lege, Publications Advisors of Texas Junior Colleges president. Eulogy Said For Victim Of Initiation WACO (A*)—John Everett Clif ton, 19, Baylor University sopho more who died while undergoing initiation into a campus club, was eulogized by his pastor Wednes day as a “tall, quiet fellow and a standout among others.” More than 2,500 students at tended a memorial service for Clifton. Funeral services for Clifton will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the First Baptist Church of Cros- b ,r , Clifton’s hometown. Clifton’s death, ruled accident by a justice of the peace, came on a farm near Waco Tuesday morning as Clifton and other in itiates exercised by running in place after drinking a concoction of laxatives. The group was be ing initiated into the Baylor Chamber of Commerce, a service club which has no relation to civic chambers of commerce. Baylor President Abner V. Mc Call told the memorial service gathering that Clifton’s death was “so needless and so useless.” “We can not do much about the death being needless,” McCall said, “but we can do something about it being useless. We will pledge together to end these prac tices (hazing) which are so de grading to those affected and even more degrading on those who are inflicting them.” Collections began Wednesday for a memorial fund for Clifton. School officials said two anony mous gifts of $300 and $50 came in quickly. Duncan Area Dormitories To Get New Telephones Units, Individuals Can Place Orders HM 1111 '.fc? SHALL WE? Manning Smith, right, instructs four members of the Aggie Dance Class, which began recently in the Memorial Student Center. Classes are being held each Tuesday from 8-10 p. m. in the MSC ballroom. Students, left to right, are Sherri Trisk, Ronnie Whitman, Clare Elkins and Pat Scott. In terna liana IProgramsIIelp Nations Help Themselves Texas A&M’s International Programs Office is helping emerging nations help themselves through cooperative assistance programs. Dr. Jack Gray, International Programs director, contends the role of universities, especially land grant universities such as A&M, will increase in foreign aid programs, especially in agri culture and food production. “The major aim of these pro grams is to assist the countries concerned build their own univer sities, research and extension or ganizations,” Gray said, “and other types of institutions re quired for modernizing these countries.” Gray said service is the moti vating force of A&M’s interna tional programs. “SPECIAL emphasis has been placed on agriculture although other fields have been treated since A&M entered this challeng ing new area of service in 1954,” Gray pointed out. “Such institu tions are a key factor in develop ment of expanding economies and stable governments in less-devel oped countries.” Manning development p r o - grams overseas for A&M are 62 staff members serving two-year assignments as advisors in teach ing, research or extension. The scope of A&M’s interna tional programs is reflected in budgets totaling $10,801,623 since Students Must Ask Deferments Undergraduate students carrying 12 or more hours must submit a request to their draft boards for a student (II-S) deferment. Under the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 all such students are entitled to the deferment. The request may be either a letter informing the draft board of being a student or Form 104 available at the Coke Building. The university will auto matically inform the draft boards of a student’s registra tion, but the student request is still necessary. Questions about the selective service law will be answered by the Selective Service De partment in the Coke Building. 1954. Current budget is $2,508,- 837—more than seven times larg er than the initial budget. At present, A&M is aiding in development of a new agricul tural university and college of architecture in East Pakistan, an agricultural school in Tunisia, a national agricultural economics research and extension organiza tion in Argentina, a comprehen sive program of national agricul tural development in the Domini can Republic, and a veterinary science research institute in Co lombia. GRAY NOTED A&M has com pleted programs in several insti tutions in Ceylon and Pakistan. These include an agricultural col lege and an engineering college in each country. In East. Paki stan, established or improved institutions include a college of veterinary medicine, a teacher training college, a college-level economics department, and a business college. The director observed A&M personnel have totaled more than 300 man years in overseas assist ance programs, with assignments ranging from a month to four years. In addition, 30 A&M facul ty members known as “short termers” spend a week to six weeks handling specific overseas technical assignments. As an example, Dr. O. D. But ler, Animal Science Department head, spent about a month last year in the Dominican Republic surveying the animal industry By BARRY KRAMER Associated Press Writer SAIGON —South Vietnam’s new government will seek peace negotiations and will welcome peace initiatives from any nation including Communist states, President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu said in a major address Wednesday. “Until this day, it is not so much that we have not expressed our desire for peace but we have many times been disappointed by the ever obstinate attitude of North Vietnam,” Thieu told the opening session of the new 60- member Senate. “EVEN TODAY we still sin- University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. and recommending ways to effi ciently increase production. ANOTHER PROBLEM in the Dominican Republic necessitated the services of Price Hobgood, Agricultural Engineering Depart ment head. Hobgood spent sev eral weeks helping devise a grain storage system. Cooperative programs also in clude graduate training at A&M for students from participating countries. “Some 364 graduate students have put in 593 collective years of study and research at A&M and returned to work in develop ment of their home countries,” Gray explained. “Many students eventually attain high-level lead ership positions in agriculture. Abdul Hakim, who earned a mas ter’s degree in agriculture here, has been promoted to deputy sec retary of agriculture in Afghan istan.” In 12 years, Gray pointed out, more than 3,000 trainees from 50 countries have spent a week to a year in specialized training at A&M. Their fields are varied. An East Pakistan trainee is now at Aggieland undergoing train ing to take charge of mainte nance. of scientific and aircondi tioning equipment. Resources to support A&M’s international programs come largely from host countries, Gray commented, with assistance from the Agency for International De velopment and Ford and Rocke feller Foundations. cerely wish that the government of North Vietnam would sit down with us to discuss the logical and concrete steps toward an ef fective negotiation.” Thieu said his government would accept peace moves from Western, neutralist or Commu nist countries “provided those initiatives contribute to bring a just and lasting peace.” He did not mention his cam paign promise to offer North Vietnam a bombing pause in an effort to get peace talks started. He had said the offer depended on some sign from the North Vietnamese that they would re spond to it. IN ANOTHER political devel opment, a moderate sect recog nized by the government as the mother church of South Viet- Duncan Area dormitories and Hart Hall will soon have pay tele phones in dorm lounges, Bennie A. Zinn, director of student acti vities, announced Wednesday. Installation began Monday and are expected to be completed by Nov. 15, Zinn said. The dormitories had pay phones last year, but during the sum mer’s air-conditioning and paint ing projects the phones were re moved. The only telephones in use so far this semester were those in Corps, Wing and Brigade headquarters, the guard room in Dormitory 2, Combined Band headquarters and Squadron 8. Squadron 8, the only unit with a telephone is assigned to Hart Hall and separated from the rest of the Corps. “The purpose of these few phones was to facilitate and main tain communication through Corps echelons,” Frank K. Nicolas, as sistant to the commandant, ex plained. Zinn also said private tele phones, including unit and indiv idual telephones, may now be in- Prof, Students Attend Meeting In Kansas City Dr. Herman Brown and gradu ate student Ross Alsup of the Texas A&M Agricultural Educa tion Department are in Kansas City, Mo., this week to participate in the National Student Teachers Conference and National Future Farmers of America Convention. They are accompanied by four undergraduate students: Leland Williams, George Isleibm, Luis Gonzales and Pedro Jimenez. Gonzales and Jimenez are sopho more students from the Domini can Republic. The group will hear Vice Presi dent Hubert H. Humphrey Wed nesday morning, who will address FFA members. Williams will be chairman of the Thursday afternoon session of the Student Teachers Conference. About 25 states will be repre sented at the session. Aggie Presented Medal For Valor A Texas A&M graduate, Army Maj. William V. Hill Jr. of San Antonio, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal. The decoration was awarded for outstanding meritorious service while the major was assigned to Headquarters of the U. S. Mili tary Assistance Command’s Ar mor Command Advisory Detach ment in Vietnam. nam’s Buddhists was reported to have agreed to suspension of this recognition in the interest of Buddhist unity. The government charter grant ed the moderates was intended to shut out the politically mili tant faction led by Thich Vener able Tri Quang, which has re peatedly opposed the military government to advance its politi cal position. After Tri Quang and three other monks kept a protest vigil for 13 days in front of the government palace and monks and nuns made several marches on the palace, Thieu promised to resolve the dispute. VIETNAM PRESS, the govern ment news agency, said the char ter granted the moderates would be suspended to create “a favor able atmosphere for reconcilia- stalled by Southwestern States Telephone Co. “Students over 21 years old may apply for a dormitory room telephone and put up a deposit of at least $50,” he said. Size of the deposit varies with the in dividual’s credit rating, a spokes man for the company said. Minors must show a statement from a parent or guardian as suming responsibility for bills, the spokesman added. Students must agree to pay for the installation of the telephone and must agree to pay all bills. A final stipulation is that the student must notify the company if and when he moves out of the room. Lodge Says Loss Of S. Vietnam Would Mean War WASHINGTON (Ah — Former ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge said Wednes day night the United States feared the downfall of the South east Asian country might bring this nation to the brink of a third world war. Lodge, in a keynote address to the annual Association of the Army convention here, told a largely milittary group: “Particularly, we feared that loss of Vietnam would so encour age the aggressors that they would move against other nations along the edge of east Asia—in which case the threat of World War III would stare us in the face.” At another point, Lodge, now a roving ambassador, declared: “It cannot be doubted that if we had been pushed out of Viet nam or if we had abandoned it, a catastrophe of global dimen sions might have ensued which might have involved us in a far more acute danger.” ProfessorToSpeak On Atomic Energy Dr. Cornelius H. M. van Bavel, Texas A&M biology professor, will be one of two Americans to participate in an International Atomic Energy Agency panel Oct. 30-Nov. 5. Topic of the panel is “The Val ue of High Quality Water from Nuclear Desalting in Agricul ture.” The IAEA invited Dr - . Bavel to discuss the role of water in the plant system and its relation to the environment. Dr. Bavel also will present two technical papers during a national meeting of the American Society of Agronomy Nov. 5-8 in Wash ington, D. C. Talks tion among the Buddhist ranks.” In his speech, Thieu warned that the South Vietnamese must increase their war efforts against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. “Since this is a fight for our survival,” he said, “we must not entirely depend on the help of our allies but our people must first of all be united in their unani mous determination to contribute all their efforts to the war.” He promised an immediate start on programs for social re form, to revamp the govern mental bureaucracy and to elimi nate corruption and inefficiency in the armed forces. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. President-Elect Says South Vietnam Seeks Pf ||i iii Bmj ttljj |j| Jfl" m )!