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/'V’ • V.V-AWr".’-.- Cbc Bdttdlion :|i; Thursday—Clear, partly cloudy, winds §• southerly 10-20. High 73, low 46. :$ Friday—Winds southerly 10-25, be- :£ •:J: coming- northerly 15-25. High 72, low £: Saturday Kick Off—Clear. 61° 41% humidity, wids southeasterly. VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1967 Number 495 I Rudder Predicts Housing Shortage Texas A&M President Earl Rudder says community backing such as the university has experi enced in the last 10 years will assist in A&M’s future growth. He tied together Bryan, College Station and A&M through hous ing, community improvement and other areas in discussing “Texas A&M in 1976” at a Brazos County A&M Club meeting Monday. “One of the great heeds for A&M’s continued growth is hous ing,” the A&M president said. “We couldn’t take care of 20 more graduate students now.” Rudder forecast a 20,000-stu dent enrollment in 1976 and hous ing as the chief problem. “Until 1960, A&M’s capital ex penditures was $60 million. To day, it’s $100 million and an additional $25 million is in build ing at present. In the next few years, the expenditure figure will increase $25 to $40 million for housing and laboratories,” he added. Rudder said the present need is new apartment units. Geyer Attends Paris Meeting He cited dormitory construc tion and renovation, the Board of Directors’ views toward at tracting top scholars, the type of student presently enrolled, grad uate student research funding and continued industrial support “if colleges and universities make the educational dollar buy more.” “It’s going to be difficult for our communities to assimilate 20,000 students,” Rudder stated. “It can be done with a wide awake, entreprenuring, growing attitude the cities have had in the last 10 years. To get good faculty members for our students it will take good churches, good schools and good roads.” “The legislature will support us, I believe, if we do a good job,” Rudder went on. The club recognized Mrs. Hoy A. Richards for College Station and campus work as the A&M Development Fund drive chair man of 1967. Club president Ed Cooper presented a citation awarded by the Association of Former Students. Club board member Bob Roepke introduced four A&M students from Brazos County on club scholarships — Willie Milberger, George Williams and Dennis Ca hill, all of Bryan and David Alex ander of Wellborn. Dr. Richai'd A. Geyer, head of the Oceanography Department, recently attended a meeting of the Intergovernmental Oceano graphic Commission at Unesco in Paris. This fifth meeting of the IOC, Oct. 21-28, was attended by 58 na tions. Each submitted plans for expeditions in 1970, one of which is scheduled for the Caribbean and will extend into the Gulf of Mexico. Emphasis of the expedition is on synoptic oceanographic studies of different poi-tions of the ocean. Also representing Texas A&M was Dr. Luis A. Capurro, presi dent of an affiliated group, SCOR, the Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Research. Other matters brought up were ocean data stations, - group com munications, marine pollution, and law of the sea. Singing Cadets To Appear On National TV Greenhut Named Science Councilor Dr. M. L. Greenhut, head of the Economics Department at Texas A&M, has been elected a coun cilor of the 5,000-member Re gional Science Association. Greenhut is one of 14 coun cilors of the international orga nization comprised of academi cians and businessmen concerned with industrial development, in put-output studies, mathematical programming and regional eco- ndmic development. The RSA executive will attend the association’s annual meeting Thursday through Sunday in Houston. He will be in Ohio Wednesday to give two regional science lectures at the University of Akron. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. HALLOWEEN MASK? Texas A&M sophomores won’t expect trick or treat when they go behind this “mask” at the university hospital this week. Optometrist Dr. Sylvester Bradford of Austin will thoroughly test each cadet’s eyesight. An Air Force med ical team is conducting pre-contract physicals for 180 A&M students, 150 or which hope to pass the pre-flight check. Peter C. van Bavel, sophomore electrical engineering major of Bryan, prepares to try the “blinders” for size. Humphrey Visits Marines Near Demilitarized Zone Says Amaricans Back War Effort ROS VOLUNTEERS BEGIN DRILLS Carl Feducia, left, second platoon leader for the Ross Volunteers Company, drills recent ly-inducted RV juniors in the platoon. Drills began Tuesday for the 76 new members of the honor military unit. Petition Asks Board Study Of Houston Air Pollution The Singing Cadets of Texas A&M will fly to Philadelphia Wednesday to make a taped ap pearance for a future Mike Douglas Show on national tele vision. The 62-member glee club will be featured by the daytime NBC variety show co-hosted by Mrs. John Connally and wives of four other governors. Also appearing on the program to be run during the week after Thanksgiving will be singer Anita Bryant and a rock and roll band including Governor John Connally’s young son. The trip evolved out of the re cent Texas Assembly at A&M, according to Singing Cadets di rector Bob Boone. Among as sembly speakers was Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes. “I just wish the bunch of beat niks and peaceniks that marched on the Capitol recently could hear this group sing patriotic songs that mean so much to this coun try,” Barnes said. The Si n ging Cadets will leave Easterwood Airport at 9 a.m., vis it the Freedoms Foundation and Independence Hall, go before TV cameras from 5 to 8 p.m. and re turn late Wednesday, Boone said. The Singing Cadets, with Mrs. June Biering as pianist-accom panist, harmonize at 40 campus events a year, perform a concert in Houston’s Jones Hall and make an annual spring tour of six or more Texas cities. The A&M glee club has ap peared on the Miss Teenage America TV pageant. By JACK KEEVER AUSTIN (A 1 )—Industry spokes men and one city official sought Tuesday to loosen up proposed air control regulations. A law maker and 5,112 Harris County residents claimed industries al ready are violating a regulation that went into effect in June. The residents’ names were on petitions submitted by Rep. Rex Braun, Houston, at a Texas Air Control Board meeting on revi sions of earlier regulations and three new proposals. Braun said that he and a few friends and neighbors “decided that petitions by citizens might be the spur needed to have you send your staff to that part of Harris County—the northeast area, and the entire area including Pasa dena and Galena Park along the Houston ship channel—which has for many, many years had a con stant, day and night, 365 days each year, air pollution problem of menacing proportions.” THE PETITIONS asked the board to investigate and take court action against industries along the channel that are violat ing the board’s rule No. 1, regu lating smoke and particles in the air, and to take legal action to stop open dump disposal of trash and garbage in Harris County. “There are flagrant and wide spread violations” of rule No. 1, said Dr. John W. Nichols, city health officer for Galena Park, and he added that sulphur fumes are so bad they are “defoliating our trees, discoloring the paint ing of our homes, rusting iron work and jeopardizing the health of our citizens.” “WHEN THE winds were from the south,” he said in a letter, “the incidence of bronchitis and allied respiratory disorders in creased more than five-fold.” The board hearing primarily was on revision of the smoke- particle regulation and proposals to control outdoor burning, sul phur compounds and motor ve hicle exhausts. Objections, for the most part, centered on air standards for sul phur dioxide and a portion of the outdoor burning regulation on hydrocarbon wastes, which states: “The location of the burning must be outside a defined stand ard metropolitan statistical area (SMSA).” THE OUTDOOR proposal “may be well advised in some locales, but in the SMSA’s of Ector, Lub bock, Midland and Tom Green this order can only create undue hardship and expense,” said Rus sell J. Ransland, president of the Permian Basin Petroleum Asso ciation. R. John Catlett of the West Central Texas Oil and Gas Asso ciation said, “This county-wide condition would automatically outlaw the burning on hydro carbon waste products, even in isolated areas in Taylor, Jones and Tom Green counties.” The association asked the board to strike the proposal. THE TEXAS Manufacturers Association said the proposal “would eliminate all burning in any county of the Upper Gulf Coast with the exception of Chambers County.” Roland Gouldy, executive vice president of North Texas Oil and Gas Association, said the pro posal is, “in our opinion, unrea sonable and unnecessary. In North Texas we have one such area, the Wichita Falls SMSA which includes all of Wichita County and all of Archer county.” U. S., European Nations Agree To Halt N-Weapons Spread By PHILIPPE NEURAY Associated Press Writer BRUSSELS, Belgium <A>) — The United States and the Common Market countries except France agreed Tuesday on terms of a treaty to halt the spread of nuclear weapons. Harlan Cleveland, U. S. repre sentative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, announced U. S.-Soviet negotiations on the treaty would resume in Geneva. The Geneva talks have been stalled on the terms in inspec tion in a treaty designed to prevent acquisition of nuclear weapons by countries that do not have them. The Agreement reported by Atlantic Alliance sources removes one obstacle to the treaty. But the United States must now go to Geneva and try to gain Soviet acceptance of the principles pro posed by the five members of Euratom—the European Atomic Energy Commission. France is also a member of Euratom, but President Charles de Gaulle wants no part of the nuclear treaty and France has said it will refuse to sign. De Gaulle sees the treaty as a sym bol of what he calls “the hegem ony of the superpowers.” The agreement was reached at the weekly meeting of the NATO Permanent Council. The five countries are West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Lux embourg. The five European members agreed on the following condi tions, according to an official German source: 1. Controls, must be restricted to fissionable materials and must not include nuclear research or construction or the operation of nuclear reactors. 2. There must be a treaty be tween Euratom and the IAEA. 3. The effectiveness of Eura tom controls must be recognized in the treaty. The IAEA must not be given control powers over Euratom. 4. The supply of fissionable material to all Euratom countries, including France, must not be endangered. 5. The recognition of Euratom controls must not have a time limit. By PETER ARNETT Associated Press Writer DA NANG, Vietnam. (A*)_Fly- ing a quarter of a mile high be tween the range of Communist machine guns and missiles. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey surveyed the U. S. Marines’ bat tleground along the demilitarized zone today. From his lumbering transport plane, he saw U. S. artillery hammering Red posi tions. As the vice president’s slow- flying Cl18 droned over the scarred terrain where 10,000 Ma rines have been wounded or killed this year, Humphrey said: “I saw the firing of cannons, and I could see a destroyer offshore.” Marine F4 Phantom and 46 Intruder jets flew cover above i the transport while it traveled at 1,500 feet, out of range of ma chine guns and automatic weap ons and below the 3,000-foot level at which planes become vulner able to Communist missiles that may be positioned just north of the zone. U. S. headquarters re ported today that a squadron of Phantoms attacked a suspected missile site just north of the DMZ Tuesday. Humphrey, dressed in light blue slacks and a sports shirt, suggest ed landing at Dong Ha, the Ma rine base 17 miles south of the DMZ, so he could “take a little helicopter ride north.” “You’re kidding, sir,” one of the Secret Service men replied. The Marines had made elaborate preparations in case the vice president’s plane went down. Four H3 helicopters, two helicopter gunships and an infantry force were on the alert at Dong Ha. Humphrey ended his visit to South Vietnam for the inaugura tion of President Nguyen Van Thieu with a visit to the Marines at Da Nang before flying to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. He told the Marines Americans must be “patient with ourselves and patient with our allies.” In a broadcast earlier from Saigon, Humphrey told U. S. per sonnel in Vietnam not to be “distracted by the so-called voices of dissent” at home. “By and large,” he said, Americans support their government’s actions in Vietnam. American sources said Hum phrey was highly pleased with his talks with President Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky. Oceanography Group Formed Transport Sought For 1967 Bonfire Any persons who can supply trucks or pickups for Bonfire have been asked to meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Room 103 of the Military Science Building, Bonfire transporta tion committee chairman Jim Callahan has announced. “This is a very important meeting,” Callahan noted. “With the first Bonfire work weekend coming up in just 10 days, we need an estimate of the amount of transportation available.” A Bryan-College Station chap ter of the American Society for Oceanography was formed Tues day by the communities’ civic and business leaders. The society, an organization of 1,700 members including business man, economists, lawyers, teach ers and students, was formed in 1965 to spread knowledge and focus attention on oceanography and its problems in non-oceano- graphic areas. “The problems may seem dis tant, but they are coming closer and closer,” noted Dr. Richaz-d A. Geyer, Oceanography Department head at Texas A&M. THE VICE chairman of the President’s Commission on Ma rine Science, Engineering and Resources said the world’s oceans have become a source of food, fresh water, raw materials and recreation and have a profound effect on the atmosphere and weather. “The sea is a part of our en vironment,” he added, pointing out it covers three-quarters of the earth’s surface. The Bryan-College chapter was formed to develop community in terest in oceanographic programs. It will meet on a monthly basis and provide programs of general interest, open to wives and chil dren, Waldrop said. Capt. T. K. Tredwell, deputy commander of the Naval Ocean ographic Office, will speak Nov. 17. GEYER NOTED the Oceanog raphy Department operates on an annual budget of $2 million in volving 160 persons. Several local firms are involved in oceanog raphy. The A&M research ship Alaminos is insured and major hardware is manufactured locally. Geosciences Dean Horace Byers and Dr. Dale W. Leipper, ocean ography professor, explained ASO programs and commented on A&M’s involvement in oceanog raphy. The organizational meeting was attended by about 30 bankers, lawyers, school teachers, insur ance executives, a dentist and others. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. Applicants Asked For Program VP Gobble, Gobble The front-page picture of Bob Long’s touchdown run in Tuesday’s Battalion should have been credited to Dan Gable. The Battalion regrets the over sight. A vice-president for programs will be named to the Memorial Student Center Council and Di rectorate following Thursday evening interviews, President Scott Roberts has announced. Requirements are a 1.4 grade point ratio overall and 1.4 last semester, junior status and no probation. Duties of the office include advising the executive vice president for programs, be ing responsible for execution of functions through Directorate as sistants and serving on the Direc torate Committee. Applications must be turned in to the Student Program Office by 5 p.m. Thursday. BB &L Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. REDS SAY U. S. PILOT CAPTURED Caption with this picture radioed by the North Vietnamese news agency from Hanoi and received in Warsaw says it shows the capture ,of a U. S. pilot on True Bach lake in Hanoi last week. (AP Wirephoto by cable from Warsaw)