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Che Battalion Thursday — Cloudy, to partly cloudy, wind southeast 10 m.p.h. High 66, low 49. Friday — Partly cloudy, wind south- east 10-15 m.p.h. High 68, low 48. VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1967 Number 499 .:: -.-r. ;; ' ; VV.r<v, -r" ~*~^**^*''' -: u.. !w'^ r ' r r^' i mm.. . ■ ” -~- *% ™-,. -4S?a~»' v ■ 4*:fV *.„ i _ ■ j« __ i _ J4-|PI%J|.-^ i~. i;_ v ju. ^S'-sa; .■ • a ■ ■•■'a---?; •'■:■■;:::■*> v: .::':: ; ::;.- V , > !• id are Iffice, MARKING THE RUSSIAN MILESTONE Soviet Communist party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev is on podium during- Kremlin meeting of Supreme Soviet marking 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. Brezhnev claimed So viet Union has world’s best weapons system, (AP Wirephoto by cable from Moscow) Hero Of Three Wars Dies In Loc Ninh Area Combat By EDWIN Q. WHITE Associated Press Writer SAIGON OP'—A U. S. Army hero of three wars w f as killed in action Tuesday as fighting in the central highlands pointed to a possible new r Communist dry sea son offensive in South Vietnam. Lt. Col. Arthur I). Stigall, a U.S. 1st Infantry Division bat talion commander, died in combat TTI Studying Safe Supports For Roadsides Safer luminaire supports at the nation’s roadsides are the goal of study by structural re searchers of the Texas Transpor- around the embattled Loc Ninh district headquarters town near the Cambodian bolder. In the air war, U. S. planes swept to within 21 miles of Red China’s border on the deepest penetration into the North in two weeks. Other planes raided an apparent new r target near Hai phong. Fresh fighting flared Tuesday near the district headquarters town of Loc Ninh, w-here heavy action raged last W'eek, and in the central highlands. Latest re ports placed the total American casualties at 18 dead, including the battalion commander, and 55 wounded. A SPOKESMAN for the 1st Division said early Wednesday there had been no further fight ing anywhere in the Loc Ninh area since Tuesday’s engagement. In the central highlands near tation Institute at Texas A&M. The National Cooperative High way Research Program contract administered by the Highway Re search Board-National Academy of Sciences totals $150,000 for one year, announced Charles J. Keese, TTI director. Dr. Thomas C. Edwards, as sistant research for TTI, is prin cipal investigator for the study, “Development for Criteria for Safer Luminaire Supports.” His research team includes Dr. J. E. Martinez, Hayes Ross and Ivan J. Taylor. Drs. Teddy J. Hirsch and Neilon J. Rowan are technical advisors. The study calls for production of a mathematical model to eval uate the hazard potential of ex isting and proposed luminaire de signs, performance evaluations verifying the mathematical model and a measure of safety improve ments, new design concepts and standards, plus a procedure for attaining maximum safety. Plans call for completion of the project in August, 1968. Grad Plans Study In Alpine Tunnel Equipment for a Texas A&M graduate student’s dissertation research includes a mountain, 17,- 581-foot Mt. Blanc on the French- Italian border. He will situate electronic equip ment in the seven-mile long Mt. Blanc tunnel to measure high- energy particles that come from the upper reaches of the earth’s atmosphere. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. Actually, Gene Cantrell, 35, will be one of three Texans and a number of Frenchmen involved in the Mt. Blanc Tunnel under ground experiment. Dr. Nelson M. Duller, associate professor in A&M’s Physics Department, and Dr. William R. Sheldon of the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies in Dallas will oversee electronics installation and oper ation for the experiment. THE GROUP of scientists will study the earth penetrating pow- SNOWBOUND IN OHIO Eastbound traffic is snarled for miles in northeastern tip of Ohio after a 14-inch snowfall. Vehicles are on Interstate !)0 outside of Ashtabula. Republican Elected Kentucky Governor Dak To, 300 miles northeast of Saigon, two companies from the U. S. 4th Infantry Division re ported killing 12 North Vietna mese troops in another of a series of running skirmishes that began last Friday. THE AMERICAN infantrymen came under heavy small arms, automatic weapons, rocket and mortar fire from two sides while pursuing the Communist troops eight miles southwest of Dak To. The Communists broke contact with one of the companies after 35 minutes, but continued a heavy barrage of fire on the second company. Artillery and air strikes pounded the Communist positions and, shortly before dark, the North Vietnamese withdrew from their positions and broke contact. The U. S. troops suffered 10 dead and 35 wounded. er of muons, one of several classes of particles born in the upper tenth of the atmosphere from cosmic radiation. Data will be compared with measurements taken at sea level in Texas in the study under an Air Force Office of Scientific Re search grant. Muons are fast-traveling bits of mattbr that constantly rain on and into the earth. The particles can be “seen” as tiny “lightning” trails in the spark chambers of spectrometer telescopes, one of which is under construction at A&M. Muons live a very brief life. The radioactive particle decays rapidly, though its life span is stretched out due to relativistic effects of its speed, which is very near that of light. IN THE Mt. Blanc tunnel, in tegral spectra will be taken on the number of muons penetrating the mountain’s granite flank, as a function of the particles’ direc tion and energy, according to Cantrell. “A&M and SCAS are designing and constructing electronic com ponents to be mounted in a French Army truck,” the physics instructor added. The vehicle will be parked in garages within the tunnel, to make measure ments on muons passing through as much as 3,000 feet of rock. “We are doing final design on electronics for the geiger counter hodoscope, which will take the data,” Cantrell explained. “The equipment will be constructed at Dallas. It will fit on a shelf sev en feet long, three feet high and one foot deep in the truck.” THE DOCTORAL student from Big Spring said scientists from the University of Toulouse and other French institutions will pro vide the truck, geiger tubes and other mechanical parts. They will conduct the experiment and fur nish muon counts over a period of four to six months. Cantrell said Sheldon, Duller and himself will accompany the electronic gear to Chamonix, France, set it up in the truck and see that it works. Target date for assembly is early next spring. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON tdPi—Republi can Louis B. Nunn captured Ken tucky’s governorship for the GOP Tuesday night, while Mas sachusetts Seci'etary of State Ke vin H. White was elected mayor of Boston in a contest tinged by racial controversy. Both decisions could hold por tents for 1968 and the presiden tial election one year aw'ay. Nunn campaigned past his democratic opponent, Henry Ward, contend ing that a GOP vote was a vote to repudiate President Johnson’s administration and his policy in Vietnam. WITH THAT appeal, he be came the first Republican elect ed governor of Kentucky in 24 years. White defeated Mrs. Lou ise Day Hicks, a controversial grandmother, in a battle between Democrats which centered in the public schools. The arithmetic of race was a more overt factor in mayoral contests in Cleveland and in Gary, Ind., where Republicans were snarled in tight contests with Negro Democrats. SETH C. TAFT opened an ear ly lead as votes were counted from predominantly white Cleve land neighborhoods, but Carl B. Stokes moved up as the Negro vote was tabulated. Stokes said the count was so close it was “impossible to give any kind of accurate evaluation.” In Gary, Republican Joseph Radigan and Democrat Richard G. Hatcher were running a vir tual dead heat, too. In Boston, White, who said he was running to keep “hate and bigotry” from invading the city, beat Mrs. Hicks a 48-year-old grandmother, in a nonpartisan contest between Democrats. MRS. HICKS sprang to promi nence and controversy with her campaign against the transporta tion of Negro students out of their home neighborhoods to achieve racial balance in the schools. The outcome, virtually com plete but unofficial: White 100,- 828 votes, Mrs. Hicks 90,775. Nunn, making his second bid to become governor of Kentucky, collected 392,598 votes to Ward’s 369,166 with all but about 400 of 3,031 precincts counted. Kentucky politicians questioned Forum To Cover Texas Politics State Senator Joe J. Bernal of San Antonio will discuss “Texas Politics ’68” as the featured speaker for a Political Forum luncheon Friday at Texas A&M’s Memorial Student Center. The 40-year old Democrat is vice chairman of the Senate’s Public Health Committee and a member of education, state af fairs, finance, labor and manage ment relations committees. Bill Preston, Political . Forum chairman, said all interested stu dents and faculty members are invited to the ‘‘brown bag” lunch eon in the MSC Ballroom. A former teacher and social worker, Bernal served one term in the House of Representatives be fore being elected to the Senate last year. He has a bachelor’s degree from Trinity University and a master of education degree from Our Lady of the Lake Col lege. Bernal, former San Antonio city councilman, is a member of sever al civic organizations, including the Optimist, Lulac and G. I. Forum. An Air Force veteran, Bernal is married and has three children. Preston said Bernal’s sugges tions for improving effectiveness of the Texas Legislature include adoption of the seniority system for committee assignments and chairmanships, a code of ethics for all legislators, and a strict rule of germaneness to be fol lowed in assignment of bill to committees. BB &L Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. whether Nunn’s relatively nar row victory could &e interpreted as a repudiation of Johnson, de spite the candidate’s contention that was the case. In any event, his victory put Republicans in charge of 26 of the nation’s 50 state houses. A Democrat, predictably held Mis sissippi for his party. Prof To Head NCTE Panel At Honolulu Dr. Garland Cannon of Texas A&M will be a panel chairman at the 57th National Council of Teachers of English meeting at Honolulu, Hawaii Nov. 22-25. The associate professor of Eng lish will chair a panel on applica tion of computers to language and literature. Among papers to be presented will be an examina tion of computer use in the hum anities by Dr. Vinton A. Dearing, UCLA English professor. Dearing was a key speaker in the conference on computer ap plications to the humanities at A&M last year. An internationally recognized linguist, Dr. Cannon is listed in the recently published “Dictionary of International Biography.” Data on Cannon and his linguistics work is given in three other scholarly dictionaries. At the NCTE meeting, Cannon will visit linguistic facilities of the University of Hawaii. The linguistics specialist i s completing’ 17 years research to ward publication of two volumes of letters by Sir William Jones, 18th Century orientalist who founded disciplines of compara tive law, linguistics and mytho logy. Some 400 of Jones’ 700 let ters included in the work are currently unpublished. A native of Sterling City, he studied at the University of Texas and Stanford and taught at 10 universities including- Hawaii be fore coming to A&M last fall. BONANZAS READY Winston Green, (right), president of the Texas A&M chap ter of Alpha Delta Sigma, national advertising fraternity, and John Menger, look over a copy of this year’s Bonfire Bonanza which will go on sale Thursday. The Bonanzas describe the color and history of the Aggie Bonfire with stories and pictures. ‘Bonfire Bonanzas’ Published; ADS Begins Sale Thursday Profs To Attend Santa Fe Confab Three faculty members of Texas A&M’s Philosophy and Humanities Department will at tend a Southwest Philosophical Society meeting in Santa Fe, N. M., Nov. 16-18. Dr. Manuel M. Davenport, de partment head, will be accompa nied by Dr. Ed Harris and Rich ard W. Stadelman. The regional meeting will in clude about 200 participants from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico. “The Aggies are Back” and so are the Bonfire Bonanzas, ac cording to Winston Green, presi dent of Texas A&M’s chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma, national ad vertising fraternity. “Last year’s edition of this magazine was so popular,” Green said, “that we are offering it again this year on a limited basis.” More than 4,000 of the 24-page booklets which describe the con struction, history and tradition of the Aggie Bonfire were sold in a five-week period last year. “This year’s edition is similar to last year’s with pictures of the cutting and stacking areas, and a large two-page picture of the ignited Bonfire,” said Green. “There are also stories telling the colorful and tragic past of the Bonfire.” He added that the Bonfire Bon anzas will be on sale beginning Thursday in the Exchange Store, MSC gift shop, from any member of Alpha Delta Sigma, or the Journalism Department located in Nagle Hall. “The Bonfire Bonanza is a pro ject of ADS, done by ADS mem bers, with all proceeds going to aid the club in other projects thioughout the year,” said Club Vice-president John Mengex - . “The Bonanza's are an excellent composite of information and en tertainment which shows the Ag gie desire to beat the hell outa t.u.! ” A&M Concert By Mantovani Begins At 8 “The biggest musical phenome non of the Twentieth Century.” Mantovani, who brings his or chestra to Texas A&M for a Wed nesday evening performance, drew that accolade from “Varie ty,” the f a m e d show-business magazine. The performance is set for 8 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum under auspices of the Memorial Student Center Town Hall Com mittee. Monty, as he is called by his friends, writes a large number of his own compositions. Among these are “A Poem to the Moon,” “Dance of the Eighth Veil,” “Toy shop Ballet,” and “To My Love.” Most familiar of Mantovani’s compositions is “Cara Mia.” A number of his tangos, written un der pseudonyms, have become Farley Extends Condolences On Death Of ‘Cactus Jack’ NEW YORK (AP) — Former Postmaster General James A. Farley, a cabinet member during John Nance Garner’s two terms as vice president, extended his condolences Tuesday on the death of his long-time friend. Farley, along with Garner, broke with President Franklin D. Roosevelt over the third-term is sue and left his office in 1940. Farley, 79, had planned to visit Garner at his Uvalde home for the celebration marking Garner’s 99th birthday on Nov. 22. Farley said: “THE PASSING o f former Vice President John Nance Gar ner marks the end of one of the greatest eras in the history of this country. I know of no man who made a greater contribution to his country than did Mr. Gar ner. “His long record as a member of the House of Representatives and as Speaker of the House will be pointed to with pride to gen erations of Americans yet un born. “I know better than any living American of the contribution he made as vice president of the United States in the two terms he served with the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “DESPITE his most conserva tive views he was more respon sible than any other person for the passage of legislation referred to as the ‘‘New Deal legislation” during Roosevelt’s first term. “He was most loyal in his de votion to the president and he labored unceasingly in order to get legislation through the House and Senate the way the Presi dent desired it,” Farley said. “He was a dedicated American and one of the most loyal party members I have ever known, but his devotion to his country, which I had an opportunity to observe, overshadowed his devotion to his party. “I KNOW of no man in public life for whom I had greater pri vileges of my life to be able to refer to him as my friend. “My family and I are saddened by his passing and extend to his son, Tully Garner, and the other members of the family our heart felt sympathy.” standards in English popular music: “Spider of the Night,” “Tango de la Luna,” and “Red Petticoats.” Robert Gonzales, Town Hall chairman noted that Mantovani has recently added three major points to his light music crown. “He became the first conduc tor to be commanded by Queen Elizabeth to appear before her at the annual Royal Variety Show,” Gonzales said. “And he became the first conductor to have a major television series built around him, for world-wide distribution. Thirdly, his stereo record sales have surpassed the five million mark.” Other songs to be played by the 41-piece orchestra during the A&M engagement are “Mis ty,” “Charmaine,” “Greensleeves,” “Moulin Rouge,” “Always,” and “Donkey Serenade.” Broadway hits also are offei'ed during the evening. Among them are “Hello, Dolly,” “Sound of Music,” and “Yesterday.” For the record, Mantovani’s first name is Annunzio. His fath er was Toscanini’s principal vio linist at La Scala, Milan, played for Mascagni, and was a profes sor at two Italian conservatories. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. ... v • ■ us.-. v.v.v.’ v.