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VOLUME 61
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1967
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Number 491
I Job Corps Center^
j Wastes Reported 1
WASHINGTON <dP) — A gov
ernment report circulating on
Capitol Hill under a “confiden
tial” label presents a picture of
high cost, waste and disciplinary
problems at a Job Corps center
in California.
The Office of Economic Oppor
tunity says the paper is not secret
at all—that the agency itself had
made it available to members of
Congress—and that conditions
have been corrected.
On the other hand the copy
made available to a reporter
carries a memorandum from the
General Accounting Office which
says the GAO had submitted the
findings to the anti-poverty
Engineering,
Liberal Arts
Top Majors
Engineering, Liberal Arts, and
Agriculture, in that order, are the
leading fields of study for Aggies
this year.
Although the Aggies’ nickname
indicates a majority are studying
agriculture, statistics reveal one
out of every three students at
tending Texas A&M University
is majoring in engineering and
one out of four is specializing in
some area of liberal arts.
Registrar H. L. Heaton reports
the College of Engineering, which
includes architecture, heads the
enrollment explosion at A&M
with 3.839 students, or 32.38 per
font of this fall’s record 12,029
registration.
The College of Liberal Arts,
which has made the largest gains
in recent years, ranks second
with 3,203, or 27.07 per cent of
the student body.
Agriculture is third, with 2,215
students, followed by the College
of Science, 1,286, and the College
of Veterinary Medicine, 876.
The College of Geosciences, the
newest division of the university
and involving a high percentage
of graduate students, has 281.
The Texas Maritime Academy,
with students located at both Col
lege Station and Galveston, has
an enrollment of 141.
agency, had received no response,
and felt Congress should be in
formed for its guidance on legis
lation.
The report says that after two
years of operation, the estimated
cost of the California center had
jumped from $12.8 million to
$25.5 million, the dropout rate
was 55 per cent and only 8 per
cent of the enrollees were placed
in jobs related to their training.
It also relates that within a
60-day period, a dismissal was
recommended for 93 enrollees on
disciplinary grounds ranging
from assault, robbery and extor
tion to use of marijuana and
sex perversion.
A spokesman for the Office of
Economic Opportunity said the
report was completed almost a
year ago and was based on 1965-
66 operations. He added that
since 1966 operations have been
tightened up at all such centers.
Case Gets Grant
For Research
In South America
Dr. James E. Case of Texas
A&M has been awarded a $30,000
National Science Foundation
grant for a South American
study of the earth’s interior.
Research entitled “Tectono-
physics of Western Colombia,
South America, A Regional Grav
ity, Magnetic and Structural In
vestigation” will be conducted
during a two-year grant period.
The cooperative project with
the Universidad de National de
Colombia will employ gravity
meter and magentic measure
ments to determine subsurface
trends of three mountain ranges
that fan from Western Colombia.
Case, associate professor of
geology and geophysics, has been
at A&M a year. He was geologist
and geophysicist with the U. S.
Geological Survey while studying
for his Ph.D. at the University
of California, Berkeley.
The 1954 Arkansas graduate
has been measuring the sub
surface continuation of the Ar
kansas and Oklahoma Ouachita
Mountains through Texas.
Ranger Photo Gets Response
Ranger Ill’s plight with the
candy machines at Texas A&M
hasn’t gone unnoticed.
A photograph showing the pet
bulldog of A&M President Earl
Rudder’s son, Bob, jawing on the
knobs of a candy machine ap
peared recently in The Battalion.
The picture was later dis
tributed throughout the nation
by the Association Press with a
caption noting the college canine
has learned the technique for
operating the machines but, un
fortunately, doesn’t have a dime
to his name.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
ASTAtb —Adv.
He now has—or, had—30 cents,
thanks to three sympathetic
readers.
The dimes, however, are being
returned with notes of thanks
pointing out Ranger III has a
slight problem with his weight
and also a tendency for cavities.
Still undetermined is what to
do wtih an offer to provide
Ranger III a $200 paid-up life
insurance policy in return for the
right to use his picture in a pub
lic relations program. The offer
was made by an Atlanta, Ga.,
firm specializing in pet insur
ance.
As the AP caption also noted,
“What’s a dog to do?”
State Government Heads
Arrive For Conference
This driver hurriedly mails his letter before the civilian crowd turns on him and puts his
car on the balcony of Sbisa Hall—next to the Volkswagen which they have just put there.
The several hundred students, acting in good fun after evening chow, then headed for
the Duncan Area for a yell practice.
Jets Bomb Hanoi Bridge,
MIG Field In N. Vietnam
By LEWIS M. SIMONS
Associated Press Writer
SAIGON AP — Thailand-based
U. S. Air Force jets, pressing
maximum effort raids, bombed
Hanoi’s Doumer Bridge for the
second time in the war Wednes
day and again worked over the
North Vietnamese MIG field at
Phuc Yen.
The North Vietnamese, i n a
broadcast dispatch that lacked
American or other confirmation,
declared 10 planes were shot
down.
Bombs “on target” were re
ported to have sent dust and
smoke boiling up from the Dou
mer Bridge, a mile-long concrete
structure across the Red River
that carries railway and highway
traffic between Hanoi and Red
China.
WORK CREWS had repaired it
since the first - raid* Aug. 11,
dropped the center span into the
river. Wilfred Burchett, an Aus
tralian correspondent who speci
alizes in Communist affairs, said
in a dispatch from Hanoi last
Saturday, that the North Viet
namese put it back in operation
in less than six weeks.
Squadrons of F 1 0 5 Thunder-
chiefs returned to Phuc Yen, 18
miles Northwest of Hanoi, which
was hit Tuesday for the first time
after being removed from the
Pentagon’s restricted list. Spokes
men said they blasted fresh cra
ters in the 9,170-foot runway and
hit maintenance and support facil
ities that were passed up in the
initial raid, the most massive of
the war.
IN THE South, two American
planes were lost in a collision at
Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut Airport.
Witnesses said an F105 Thunder-
chief, landing in a heavy rain,
crashed into a taxiing C123 trans
port and flames engulfed both.
The Thunderchief pilot was killed.
The transport’s four crewmen es
caped with injuries.
The ground war was marked
by light Viet Cong mortar at
tacks on a half-dozen closely
Fickets Available
For Rivers Show
Tickets for Saturday’s John
ny Rivers Town Hall show are
still on sale in the Student
Program Office in the Memorial
Student Center, Town Hall
Chairman Robert Gonzalez said.
Season tickets and activity
cards will not admit the hold
ers to this “extra” performance,
Gonzalez noted. Prices are
$1.50 for A&M students and
their wives or dates, $2 for
public school students, $2.50
general admission and $3 for
reserved seats.
The performance, which will
also feature Neal Ford and the
Fanatics, will begin at 7:30 p.m.
in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
bunched towns and an airfield
of Kien Hoa Province, in the Me
kong Delta 30 to 45 miles south
of Saigon.
THE U. S. Army’s 4th Infan
try Division announced slim re
sults in a 13-day hunt for North
Vietnamese troops across four
provinces of the central high
lands; four Communists killed, 16
Americans wounded. The opera
tion, dubbed McArthur, involves
about 8,000 men.
The Saigon government a n -
nounced a reward of $850-would
be paid to anyone catching or
helping to catch Viet Cong ter
rorists Oct. 31 or Nov. 1. On
those successive days Chief of
State Nguyen Van Thieu is being
inaugurated a s president and
South Vietnam is celebrating its
National Day.
AMERICAN PILOTS, striving
to cut the enemy’s war potential
significantly before northeast
monsoon storms blanket North
Vietnam, flew through heavy flak
and challenging MIG fighters on
their missions Wednesday.
Radio Hanoi declared 10 planes
were shot down and some of the
fliers were captured. It is said the
Americans raided “populous ar
eas” in the capital and its sub
urbs. Charging steel pellet bombs
landed in the city center, it called
this “a new and extremely brazen
step in war escalation.”
There was no immediate an
nouncement by U. S. headquar
ters as how many-if any-planes
were lost.
Legislative Study
Begins At MSC
“Texas Assembly-1967,” a four-
day meeting to discuss various
aspects of the Texas Legislature,
got underway today at the Me
morial Student Center.
Lt. Gov. Preston Smith and
Speaker of the House Ben Barnes
head a list of 80 top state gov
ernment, business, labor and or
ganizational leaders who will
serve as panelists for the semi
nar.
The session is jointly sponsored
by Texas A&M and Columbia
University’s American Assembly.
It is one of 13 seminars sched
uled throughout the country ex
ploring the same subject, “State
Legislatures in American Poli
tics.”
In addition to serving as “Tex
as Assembly” panelists, Smith
will be keynote speaker for a
Friday luncheon and Barnes will
keynote a dinner meeting Friday
evening.
HERBERT L. WILTSEE of
Atlanta, Ga., director of the
Southern office of the Council of
State Governments, will be fea
tured speaker for the seminar’s
dinner meeting tonight at Briar-
crest Country Club.
^ h e opening plenary session
was scheduled for 4 p.m. today
in the MSC Assembly Room, with
the first panel sessions set for
4:45 p.m.
A&M President Earl Rudder,
assembly chairman, welcomed the
panelists and Dallas Mayor Erik
Jonsson will outline the concept
of the American Assembly.
The American Assembly was
established by Gen. Dwight A.
Eisenhower at Columbia Univer
sity in 1950 as a national, non
partisan educational institution.
It is dedicated to the principles
of informed talk and is an instru
ment for voicing the opinions of
both the expert and lay citizen
on significant public issues.
OTHER TOP state officials
participating in the seminar in
clude Attoiney General Crawford
Martin, Secretary of State John
Hill, State Senators Ralph Hall,
William T. Moore, A. R. Schwartz
and J. P. Word and State Repre
sentatives R. H. Cory, David
Crews, Dewitt Hale, Gus Mutsch-
er and John Wright.
The legislators and other state
officials will join in panel discus
sions with many of the state’s
business, professions and labor
leaders and representatives of the
“capitol press.”
Among the topics to be dis
cussed are:
—What should be done to im
prove the effectiveness of the
Legislature ?
—Should the state consider
adopting a unicameral system ?
—Should there be any changes
in the present number of state
representatives and senators ?
—What problems, if any, does
the Legislature have with the
“conflict of interest” principle or
abuse of the lobbying privilege ?
“Texas Assembly” concludes
Sunday morning with a general
session for debate and adoption
of recommendations.
Israeli Barrage
Hits Refinery
In Suez Port
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Raging fires still swept the
ruins of two major Egyptian oil
refineries in the port of Suez
Wednesday 24 hours after they
were blasted by a terrific Israeli
artillery barrage. A pall of smoke
Hung high over the desolate and
silent port.
Correspondents brought from
Cairo to Suez said an Israeli jet
swept low over the port and fired
machine guns at Egyptians fight
ing the refinery fires.
Israeli officers across the Suez
Canal denied this, saying Egyptian
antiaircraft gunners opened fire
on one of their own Soviet-built
Sukhoi SU7 jets as it flew low
over the refineries.
However, a U. N. observation
post in the area reported an
Israeli plane flew low over the
sector and that Israel later com
plained Egyptian antiaircraft
guns fired on one of its aircraft
near Port Taufiq south of Suez.
While tension continued along
the Suez Canal, the cease-fire
front of the June war, the U. N.
Security Council debated in New
York the latest Egyptian and
Israeli charges growing out of
the heavy artillery exchange
Wednesday.
Foreign correspondents driving
from Cairo by bus reported they
could see the glow of fires in
Suez when they were still 40
miles away.
When they arrived, they found
300 men battling the blaze in the
refinery complex. Some flames
leaped as high as nearby four-
story apartment houses. The
Egyptians were trying to local
ize the fires to stop them from
reaching other storage tanks. But
the storage tanks were still going
up in flames.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
Collegian Comment
What About That Mess Hall Food?
Bill Carter, junior agricultural
economics major from Decatur:
"I believe that the food in the
mess hall has improved over the
past years, but it still leaves much
to be desired, especially at the
noon meal.
Richard C. Westbrook, senior
chemical engineering major from
Beaumont:
“The quantity of food most of
the time is ample, however, the
quality of the food leaves a lot
to be desired.”
Steven W T . Stiles, freshman
range science major from Taylor:
“Food is good considering it is
prepared for so many people. I
get enough to eat because it is
served family style and we can
eat all we can hold.
Grady Fort, junior business
major from Fullerton, Calif.:
“Despite an increase in board
fees the quality of mess hall food
has again gone down. I just wish
the people in charge of this pro
gram were forced to eat in Sbisa
as we are.”
Clarence Coldewey, agricultural
economics major from Yoakum:
“I think that the food is usually
decent but they do not serve
seconds on anything that anyone
wants to eat.”
Larry Poldrack, freshman pre-
veterinary major from Coupland:
“I think the food at Sbisa Din
ing Hall is pretty good. Of course,
we all have our bad days. Usually,
when the menu is something
everybody likes, there are no
seconds on it.
Fred Seal, sophomore agricul
tural economics major from Mc
Allen:
“I think the amount of food we
get is enough, but the qualitc
isn’t up to par.
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