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t pass is Ed 't 1 a me af- uble du- between Adams end for h e has bi nation with the 1 align- inebaek- 1 Hobbs he Tech d on to the Red ichdown hat the finally that it C title, lowever. tIBRAR MHPUS 14 COPIES Che Battalion Wednesday — Clear, winds westerly 10-15 m.p.h. High 79, low 46. Thursday — Continued clear, winds easterly 5-10 m.p.h. High 78, low 43. Ft. Worth — Saturday night clear, 68° 20% humidity, winds southwesterly 10. VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1967 Number 487 Marines Drive Into Quang Tri By EDWIN Q. WHITE Associated Press Writer SAIGON </P) — A task force of U. S. Marines and South Vietna mese troops is gunning deep in Quang Tri Province for Commun ists who might some day try to join in a Red hammer-and-anvil blow at Marine outposts below the demilitarized zone. The U. S. Command announced Tuesday that 44 Communists had been killed and 19 suspects cap tured in a week of campaigning in rain-drenched mountains that cost the Marines 21 dead and 167 wounded. POSSIBLY 5,000 men are in volved in the sweep, called Oper ation Medina, launched in secre cy Oct. 11. The action centers Meeting Set On Education In East Texas The first conference of a Title III educational project in Lufkin, Marshall, Tyler and Longview schools will be held at Texas A&M Monday and Tuesday. “Project RA-TOD” (research application — techniques of dis semination), will design and exe cute plans for telling publics in the East Texas cities of exem plary educational practices. Next week’s conference will be devoted to identification of the practices in question, according to Dr. Roger Harell of A&Mi, project director. FEATURE speakers include Dr. John T. Horvat of Indiana Univer sity, executive officer of the Na tional Institute for Study of Edu cational Change, and Dr. Clayton Rose, public relations director of the New York State Teachers Association. Thirty project officials, nation al organization, Texas Education Agency, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory and A&M representatives will attend the conference. Harrell said the public is in vited to hear Dr. Horvat’s “Focus on Problems of Dissemination’’ at 10:20 a.m. Monday and “Dissem inating Exemplary Educational Practices Through Effective Pub lic Relations” by Dr. Rose at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Both presentations will be in Room D at the Ramada Inn, conference headquarters. DR. HARRELL, assistant pro fessor of education at A&M, said television, radio, newspapers, seminars, demonstrations, stu dent-parent brochures, school- sponsored information meetings, among others, will inform Long view, Tyler, Marshall and Lufkin of innovative education. The project will also assess the impact of dissemination techni ques involved and make a compar ative evaluation of methods’ ef fectiveness. Officials attending the first conference from the member school districts will be Supt. Dr. Frank Leathers and Langston Kerr, change agent, Lufkin schools; Supt. Ed Irons and change agent Jim Barham, Tyler; Charles F. Mathews, Longview superintendent, and Paul W. Man ning, Marshall superintendent. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. 28 miles south of the DMZ and nine miles south of Quang Tri City, the provincial capital. The task force includes several battalions of the 1st Marine Reg iment, a special battalion landing team from the 7th Fleet’s Ready Amphibious Force and some South Vietnamese units. The immediate purpose seemed to be to ease the pressure around Quang Tri City, which Marine officers have said is a likely tar get for a major attack. CON THIEN and other Marine outposts farther north were still under sporadic shelling. Spokes men said the Marines counted 58 incoming rounds Monday. Ten men were wounded. Indigenous Viet Cong and in filtrated North Vietnamese troops, if left undisturbed, could form the anvil against which Ha noi regulars based in and near the DMZ would aim to hammer the forward Marine elements in any new attempt at a mass in vasion. Destruction of these Commu nist units could cool the situation throughout Quang Tri and the four other provinces of South Vietnam’s 1st Corps area. In telligence officers estimate the enemy within the corps area numbers 46,000 men. IN SAIGON Gen. William C. Westmoreland’s command wel comed the word that there would be a buildup of Australian and New Zealand forces in the war. Prime Minister Harold Holt an nounced in Canberra that Aus- tralia will send in a third army battalion and a squadron of Cen turion tanks, boosting its com mitted men from 6,300 to more than 8,000. In Wellington, Prime Minister Keith J. Holyoake announced New Zealand will send in a 170- man infantry company in No vember or December, boosting its total to 546 men. DESPITE CLOUDY weather, U. S. jet squadrons got in 105 missions against North Vietna mese targets Monday. The em phasis was on further isolating Haiphong, the country’s main port. Navy Skyhawk and Phantom pilots, striking from carriers in the Tonkin Gulf, blasted for the third time in eight days at a military compound where Rus sian helicopters and missiles are assembled and said smoke from the bomb-set fires soared 2,000 feet. B52 bombers, adding their weight to air and artillery opera tions against Communist positions within the DMZ, dumped about 150 tons of bombs Monday night and Tuesday morning northeast and northwest of Con Thien. Demonstrations Against Draft, ROSS VOLUNTEERS PLEDGE Juniors initiated into the Ross Volunteers Company take the pledge of office in cere monies Tuesday night. A total of 76 new members were inducted into the honor com pany at the banquet, which was followed by presentation of ribbons, citation cords and certificates. Great Issues Committee Schedules Varied Season Silver Taps Held For Crash Victim George X. Smajstrla Jr. of West, a sophomore at Texas A&M, died Saturday morning as the result of injuries received in a one-car accident Friday night at West, a small community 25 miles north of Waco. Another A&M student, John Sulak, also of West, was injured in the accident. Smajstrla, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. George X. Smajstrla of West, was a management major and a member of Company A-l of the Corps of Cadets. JUCO PRESS LEADERS New Texas Junior College Press Association officers look over stacks of newspapers during a conference at Texas A&M. They include (from left) president Carter Pettit of Grayson County, vice president Craig Bird of San Jacinto, secretary-treasurer Donna Karleski of El Centro, and parliamentarian Steve Uthoff of Victoria. The association has 28 member colleges. World Crisis . . . African Re volt . . . The Space Race . . . Un derwater Worlds. These and many other areas of interest are to be explored in the Great Issues presentations dur ing the coming weeks, according to Chairman Gerald Moore, who recently announced his committee chairmen for the new series. David Maddox, a junior pre-law student from College Station, will head the Speaker Series. Bill Preston, a senior government major from Henderson, is chair man of the Political Forums. The “World Around Us” series will be organized by Fran Kimbrough, a junior modern languages major. Larry Scott of Cleburne, a sen ior computer sciences major, will head the plans for the ’68 Hydro- Space Fiesta. “Positions are still open on the committees of Great Issues,” ad ded Moore. “We need people to work on publicity, a secretary and interested people who will work on these shows. Most of the planning has been done, now we need people to help us make this season a success.” Most of the committee’s work is done in Thursday noon meet- Clifton Fund For Memorial Nears $2,000 A total of $1,909.04 has been received for the John Everet Clif ton Memorial Fund being collected by Baylor University students. With an additional $300 pledged by students, $2,209.04 was the total at 3 p.m. last week for the fund in memory of the 19-year-old sophomore who died during Bay lor Chamber of Commerce initia tion activities Tuesday morning. Money for the fund was col lected by members of 16 social and service clubs on campus. After the final collections are made, the University Develop ment Office will handle the fund, which will be used to name a room in the new Moody Library in Clifton’s honor. The fund has been coordinated by a committee headed by Student Congress president Bubba Moffatt and Dan McNeil of Lubbock. Par ticipating clubs had representa tives on the committee. The major collections were made Wednesday night in a door to door canvasing of university housing and off-campus apart ment complexes. The fund was started by two anonymous gifts of $300 and $50 by students. Both faculty and students were participating in the all-campus ef fort, according to McJSJeil. ings, where members have lunch and discuss new shows. MEMBERS of the Great Issues Committee are responsible for bringing speakers and programs relating to vital issues to the A&M campus. Presented infor mally, these programs offer the students an opportunity to par ticipate in question-answer ses sions with each of the visiting speakers. Already in action, the Speaker series has sponsored the appear ance of John Ciardi on campus. “It was a very successful show,” said Maddox. “We were very pleased by the response of the audience to Mr. Ciardi dur ing his presentation and through the question-answer period. We even had the majority of the audience move into the reception which followed.” Merki To Present Smoking Paper An effective educational method of teaching against smoking among high school children will be discussed in a Texas A&M professor’s paper to be presented at Miami Beach, Fla., next week. “The Effects of Two Different Educational Methods and Mes sage Themes on Rural Youth Smoking” will be given by Dr. Donald J. Merki, assistant pro fessor in the Health and Physical Education Department. His research of 1,200 eighth and eleventh grade students under U. S. Public Health Service contract was done at the Uni versity of Illinois. Merki, who received his Ph.D. at Urbana in August, said use of peer smoking attitudes in class- rom symposia was discovered to be most effective in controlling the teenager habit. “Not only did the research show that the students object to adult directives about smoking, it brought out a relationship be tween parental and child smoking habits,” Merki said. “The research showed an in crease in the number of- girls smoking at those ages,” the A&M health education specialist said. The paper shows that in the schools observed, 28 per cent of junior class girls smoke, along with 36 per cent of junior class boys. At the eighth grade level, percentages were 12 for girls, 18 for boys. Merki said smoking students have lower future educational aspirations and are less likely to participate in school activities. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav- * ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. The next Speaker Series pres entation will be CBS news com mentator Martin Agronsky on Oct. 23. His topic will be “World Crisis and the United States.” POLITICAL Forums will begin their season of presentations with a debate this Thursday between Republican Congressman Rums feld and the director of the Youth Division of the Democratic Na tional Party, Wycke Fowler. They will debate “Partisan Politics.” The “World Around Us” series will bring Harry Peterson to campus Nov. 1. Peterson will present his film “Village Beneath the Sea” after which he will be available for comment from the audience. Hydro-Space Fiesta ’68 is still in the planning stages, according to chairman Scott. The week- long program will feature sev eral major speakers and over a million dollars worth of exhibits and films related to the ocean ography theme. Scott emphasized the need for interested people to work on this project. This is “where the ac tion is” for those sincerely inter ested in serious work for the Great Issues Committee, Scott said. Prof Adds $5,000 To Jones Fund Dr. Luther G. Jones, retired Texas A&M agronomy professor, and his sister, Miss Doris Jones of Waco, presented A&M a $5,000 check Tuesday for permanent en dowment of the W. Goodrich Jones Memorial Forestry Fund. The presentation was made dur ing brief ceremonies in the office of A&M President Earl Rudder. Dr. and Miss Jones established the memorial to their father in 1955 with a $200 annual scholar ship for forestry students. The fund is a tribute to the late Mr. Jones’ “life-long interest and constructive inspiration and lead ership in the development and advancement of the field of for estry in the State of Texas.” Mr. Jones, who resided in Tem ple, is credited with initiating the legislation which created the Tex as Forest Service. New provisions of the fund pro vide for fellowships, scholarships, awards or grants for forestry study or research at Texas A&M. Recipients will be selected by a committee composed of forestry professors and representatives of the Texas Forest Service. Dr. Jones, who retired from the A&M faculty in 1952 but still re sides in College Station, also pro vides an agronomy scholarship at the university. He permanently endowed this scholarship with a $5,000 gift earlier this year. Continue Viet War Police Arrest 25 In Oakland Melee By WILLIAM C. HARRISON Associated Press Writer OAKLAND, Calif. AP — Po lice, using clubs and tear gas against some 3,500 antidraft dem onstrators, cleared the way Tues day for nine buses bringing draf tees to the Armed Services In duction Center. Twenty of the shouting- and singing crowd—mostly young, people—were taken to hospital for treatment of cuts and bruises. Scores of others suffered lesser injuries. California Highway Pat rolman Donald Woods, 31, was treated at Merritt Hospital for an ankle broken in the melee. MORE THAN 25 persons were arrested. Oakland police, Alameda Coun ty sheriff’s officers and Califor nia Highway Patrolmen were di rected from a command post set up on the third story of an open sided parking garage across the intersection from the downtown induction center. They made it plain they meant business and had their operations precisely planned. Long before the buses came in sight, officers, moving- quickly in double lines and roaring- orders over 4 bullhorns, pushed the de fiance - shouting demonstrators back at least a block from the center. THE BUSES stopped two blocks south of the center on Clay Street. A dozen police piled out of the lead bus. “I want you people to clear the street now,” a policeman bellowed. Demonstrators scurried out of the way as a double line of po lice marched abreast ahead of the buses. Lines of sheriff’s deputies on one side and highway patrol men on the other formed a pro tective “U” with a double line of buses on the inside. Without a halt, the procession moved to the cleared block in front of the induction center. The buses stopped. One by^ one their doors opened and draftees were directed into the center. THE NEAREST demonstrators shouted in frustration from 50 yards away, taunting reinforced ranks of officers massed across Clay Street. Just as swiftly, the buses were back up, turned on 14th street, a block from the center, and rolled away. Most of the demonstrators im mediately left the area. Eighty to 100 returned two hours later and sang protest songs to guitar accompaniment. A few burned what they said were draft cards. Police told them they could pic ket as long as they didn’t block the entrance to the building. ABANDONED PEACE signs and paper cups littered the streets. Several newsmen and photographers reported being shoved around by officers even though they wore identifying badges supplied by the police de partment. Many demonstrators came by bus from the University of Cali fornia in nearby Berkeley. Some 5,000 had defied a court injunc tion and participated in an all- night teach-in there against the Vietnam war. The antidraft, antiwar demon strations began Monday. Spokes men said they would continue all week. Armed Services Committee Approves $3.5 Million Raise WASHINGTON OP)—-Without a dissenting vote, the House Armed Services Committee ap proved a pay raise for 3.5 million servicemen Tuesday designed to keep pace with a pending three- stage boost for federal civilian employees. It could cost $2.7 billion a year in 1969. The committee, in a 40 to 0 show of strength, also took action to see that the military gets com parable increases granted classi fied employees in the future. “We need to keep these two creatures in proper perspective,” Chairman L. Mendel Rivers, D.- S.C., commented. THE BILL provides a 4.5 per cent increase for servicemen in the current fiscal year which actually translates into a 5.6 per cent boost in basic pay. The bal ance would be distributed among such things as allowances, re enlistment bonuses and separation pay. It would be retroactive to Oct. 1. The first-year cost is estimated Agency Wants Air Conditioners For Govt. Cars WASHINGTON h?>)—The Gen eral Services Administration, seeking congressional authoriza tion to air-condition some 2,000 government vehicles, said Tues day the touch of luxury would not only improve the efficiency of government workers, but, in fact, save money. Joe E. Moody, deputy adminis trator of the GSA, explained to a House government operations subcommittee that air-condition ing government vehicles reduces the use of personal cars and com mercial rental cars on govern ment business, at a saving in costs. It also increases the re sale value of the vehicles. at more than $600 million. It would be the fifth year in a row that men and women in the armed forces got a pay raise. A $1.2 billion one was voted in 1963, a $207 million in 1964, $1 billion in 1965 and $356.6 million last year. RIVERS, who said he plans to seek House consideration “as soon as possible,” took note of the administration’s support for a three-stage pay boost for federal employees but only a 4.5 per cent increase for the military. Rivers said he hopes a Defense Department study now under way will result in recommendations that will enable Congress to carry out the President’s view that “as civilian pay goes up, so should the pay of the armed services.” BUT RIVERS said he is reluc tant to “ignore the possibility that future military pay increases might somehow become the victim of executive branch bureaucracy.” It is for this reason he said, that the committee included lan guage to insure that, if for one reason or another, either the President or the Congress fails to act affirmatively on additional military pay increases compar able to that provided civilian workers the armed forces would be insured an automatic and equivalent adjustment in com pensation. Board Installment Deadline Friday Second board-fee install- ments must be paid before Fri day. Payments can be made in the Fiscal Office. Students on the five-day plan owe $66, and students on the seven-day plan owe $73, according to Fis cal Office spokesmen. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv.