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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.