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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1967
Number 491
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DRILL TEAM LEADERS
Newly-named officers of the Fish Drill Team stand at attention at the beginning of drills
Tuesday. Left to right, they are Samuel E. Garcia, executive officer and guidon bearer;
Noel H. Thomas, commander; and F. M. Hofstetter, right guide.
Vietnam Returnee Finds
Studies Mare Meaningful
Peace Disturbed
By New Flare-Up
Texas A&M athletes are re
cruiting an athletic team that
will never play a down, inning,
run a race or shoot a basket.
Under Aggie football player
Jerry Campbell of Center, they
are appearing in Bryan, College
Station, Brenham, Caldwell, ot
her area schools and Houston to
win over high school athletes.
Gridders, basketballers, base
ball players and others who ac
cept won’t get a letter—or even
a uniform.
Campbell, president, and other
members of the A&M chapter of
the Fellowship of Christian Ath
letes, are recruiting for Christ.
‘‘The FCA has one purpose, to
contact athletes and coaches, and
through them, the youth of our
nation with the challenge and ad
venture of following Christ, par
ticipating in His Church and ser
ving Him through our vocations,”
Campbell declared.
EVERY ATHLETE is a “blue
chipper” in the A&M chapter’s
drive. The only prerequisites for
membership are willingness to
follow Jesus’ example and be an
athletic letterman.
Campbell, who also heads the
Texas A&M student body; Edd
Hargett, Jimmy Adams, Tommy
Maxwell, Tom Buckman, Grady
String Quartet
To Play Here
Houston’s Lyric Art String
Quartet—acclaimed by critics as
one of the most promising groups
in the nation—will have the spot
light Wednesday night at the
Memorial Student Center.
Robert Gonzales, MSC Town
Hall Committee chairman, said
the presentation is set for 8 p.m.
in the MSC ballroom.
The quartet has presented con
certs throughout the Southwest
and the East, Gonzales remarked,
and is well known for playing new
works of contemporary
composers.
Members of the group include
violinists Fredell Lack and Albert
Muenzer, violist Wayne Crouse
and cellist Shirley Trepel.
Formed in 1955, the quartet
since 1956 has starred in a con
cert series at Rice University un
der auspices of the Shepherd
School of Music.
The performance will feature
works of Joseph Haydn, Bohuslav
Martinu and Maurice Ravel.
Allen and others of the A&M
football team are active in chap
ter work, along with track, swim
ming and other A&M sports mem
bers.
Vice presidents of the A&M
chapter play several sports. Jack
Whitmore of Houston plays foot
ball, Steve Bancroft of Houston
runs track and Bob Pettit of Wa
co swims.
Secretary-treasurer is gridder
Gaddy Wells of Liberty and track
weightman Ronnie Lightfoot of
Copperas Cove handles publicity.
THE INTERDENOMINATION
AL effort takes form in presen
tations in high school meetings,
church school classes, youth or
ganizations and other church
functions. Dan Westerfield of
Crawford, president last year,
Ken Lamkin of Brownwood and
Jack Pyburn of Shreveport have
made numerous addresses to
young people.
Others have spoken and will
appear on an ‘‘Aggies for Christ”
radio broadcast of the Aggie Bib
le Association. The Rev. Arthur
Smith, the chapter’s ministerial
leader, arranges programming.
Several area high schools in
cluding Bryan and Brenham be
came interested in starting chap
ters when the students heard FCA
explained in an A&M meeting at
the All-Faiths Chapel.
SMITH, CAMPBELL and lay
leader Barney Welch, former
A&M gridder, are planning visits
in Houston schools after the sea
son to introduce the Fellowship
of Christian Athletes.
“The boys aren’t aggressive
about it,” Mr. Smith commented.
“A person who goes about living
a Christian life regardless of the
challenges h e receives helps
spread Christianity most.”
Welch, who scored the first
A&M touchdown i n Memorial
Stadium at Austin, said A&M’s
FCA members are “hard-nosed,
rock ’em, sock ’em football play
ers on the field. In the dressing
room and Henderson Hall, they
set fine examples. You won’t hear
them making a lot of racket nor
using vulgarity.”
“Being an athlete is an influ
ence on the life of a young per
son. It may be easier for us to
get the idea of Christian living
across than someone else,” Camp
bell explained. “At least we can
show them that to believe in God
is not sissy.”
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
Thomas W. Wiley III of Brady
detoured enroute to deciding his
field of study at Texas A&M.
During the detour, he was shot
at and hit three times. It cemen
ted his determination to earn a
degree at A&M.
Wiley, 27, a junior agricultural
economics major, finds his stu
dies more meaningful following
six years in the Army. The Korea
and Vietnam veteran says he has
hit snags and will meet more,
but nothing like April 28 in Viet
nam’s An Lao River valley.
Collecting gear after running
a river and road check point, the
Bellville High School graduate
was in a jeep radioing another
patrol vehicle.
His gaze fell on a live grenade
on the ground near the jeep.
“CHARLIE GRENADES have
Asia “is good, despite everything
he runs into there and hears about
home.”
“The thing that really hurts is
to hear about a military man re
fusing to do something in the line
o f service. Civilian demonstra
tions sort of slide off your back,”
he described.
AT FIRST, it made me mad to
hear about a demonstration. But
then I felt sorry for people who
can be so easily led into those
things.”
The stagg sergeant with First
Cav’s 545th MP security and es
cort platoon saw several Aggies
in Vietnam, including his fresh-
m a n roomate, Capt. Lester C.
Helmke, a chopper pilot.
“Three Company C-l freshmen,
class of '63, were general's aides,”
he remarked.
Wrapping college around s i x
years military service will work
out, the civilian student believes.
He said he decided on his major
while in Korea in 1965. The son
of Mr. and Mrs. Tom W. Wiley,
1913 South China, Brady, will
have enough hours for a ring like
his father’s in January.
THE ELDER Wiley, a 1933
graduate, is with the Farmers
Home Administration at Brady.
A brother in the Navy is due
in with the USS Hornet from
the Gulf of Tonkin Saturday,
Oct. 28.
Wiley said the 1st Cavalry unit
in which he served lost only one
man in Vietnam. Charles Wright
would call it luck.
Wiley’s mother would say it
was because her son was deter
mined to get back to A&M.
By TOM HOGE
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
—The Soviet Union sought sup
port today for its demand that
the U.N. Security Council con
demn Israel as the aggressor on
Tuesday’s battle of Suez. But
there seemed little chance it could
round up enough votes.
Chief U.S. delegate Arthur J.
Goldberg brushed aside the Soviet
resolution, terming it a “midnight
rerun of this stale record.” He
introduced a resolution calling on
the council to condemn all viola
tions of the Arab-Israeli cease
fire.
Israel and Egypt blamed each
other for triggering the fierce
artillery and mortar duel at the
southern end of the Suez Canal.
Fires still roared today in Egypt’s
two major oil refineries in the
city of Suez which produced 80
per cent of Egypt’s petroleum.
The pipeline terminal at nearby
Port Taufiq also was ablaze.
Gov. Hamid Mahmoud of Suez
told visiting newsmen one refine
ry was almost completely de
stroyed Tuesday and the other
was half flattened. He said three
civilians were killed and 60
wounded by the Israeli shelling,
while an Egyptian communique
said military casualties were three
killed and 12 wounded.
Israeli made no announcement
of its losses but denied an Egyp
tian claim that an Israeli jet was
shot down and four Israeli tanks
were destroyed. The Security
Council was called into urgent
session Tuesday night at the
request of Egypt which accused
Israel of “new and premeditated,
CORRECTION
An article in Tuesday’s edi
tion of The Battalion incor
rectly identified the Society of
Iranian Students at Texas
A&M as the Iran Students As
sociation.
Members of the SIS are in
no way connected with the Iran
Students Association.
The Battalion regrets the
error.
flagrant aggression.”
Israel filed a counter complaint
accusing the Egyptians of “open
aggression and violations of the
cease-fire resolution.” The Israel
is charged the Egyptians fired
first from gun emplacements
within inhabited areas of Port
Taufiq, Port Ibrahim and Suez.
Soviet Ambassador Nikolai T.
Fedorenko asked for prompt
council approval of his resolu
tion, which also called for com
pensation of Egypt for damage
caused in the fighting and de
manded that Israel observe the
cease-fire.
Fedorenko charged that the
United States, Britain and West
Germany were playing a danger
ous game abetting “ruling circles
in Tel Aviv.”
Goldberg, offering- his rival
i-esolution, said the council should
give the U.N. observers in the
area land, sea and air power
needed to enforce the cease-fire.
The council, he declared, “has the
right and obligation to insist on
a just, permanent and durable
peace in the area.”
CS Chest Fund
Has Good Start
More than $7,500 has been
raised so far in the College Sta
tion United Chest drive, Cam
paign Director Joe Sawyer an
nounced today.
Sawyer said contributions to
date represent about a third of
the campaign’s $22,500 goal.
In noting the fund-raising
drive is off to a good start, the
campaign chairman said most of
the volunteer workers have com
pleted their first solicitation con
tacts and are now making fol
low-up calls.
Sawyer also announced the ap
pointment of Dr. Luther Jones,
900 S. Hereford, to head the
fund-raising activities for retired
persons. Dr. Jones retired as pro
fessor of agronomy at Texas
A&M in 1952.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
TIME TO REST AND WAIT
Resting his head and hands on his rifle, a U. S. Marine
kneels in the sand at Dong Ha airstrip, just south of the
demilitarized zone. The men of the 3rd Battalion of the
4th Marines were waiting for helicopters that took them
into action against North Vietnamese troops at Quang Tri,
some 430 miles north of Saigon. The action was part of
Operation Medina. (AP Wirephoto)
a four-to six-second delay before
going off,” the sergeant explain
ed. “I yelled grenade to the other
five with me and bailed out be
hind the jeep. The grenade went
off just before I got to cover.”
The position was much like
Wiley’s summer of 1961, after he
had completed two years of ag
ricultural education at A&M and
a semester at Blinn Junior Col
lege. Uncertain of his college
standing and future and no sum
mer job, he enlisted. After stints
at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Fort
Dix N. J., Korea and Fort Rit
chie, Md., he shipped to Vietnam
and three dates with Viet Cong
ambushes.
Hit in the leg at the An Lao
River ford, he stayed at the jeep.
“I knew at least one of us was
hit, so I started radioing- for help.
Charles Wright, a First Cavalry
information specialist, had gotten
it in the shoulder and throat, so
the call went both for reinforce
ments and med-evac,” he said.
FOR STAYING at the jeep un
der hostile fire, Wiley received
the Bronze Star medal, pz*esented
at Brady after he was discharged
from Brooke Army Hospital.
Spec. 5 Charles Wright is still
alive, in Walter Reed Hospital
getting his larynx rebuilt. A gre
nade fragment nicked his jugular
and an artex-y while ripping out
part of his throat.
Wiley, who also wears two ot
her Purple Hearts fx*om VC am
bush injux-ies, said “Aggies are
doing quite well for themselves”
in Vietnam and that morale of
the avexage soldier in Southeast
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav-
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
PENTAGON ACTION
Three U. S. marshals, one swinging- a night stick, down security lines at the Pentagon. Other marshals hustle off
an antiwar demonstrator who tried to break through another demonstrator at right. (AP Wirephoto)
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