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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1967
Number 499
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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.
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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.
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