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.VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1967
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Texas A&M now has the larg-
st percentage of graduate stu-
ents in the state, notes Graduate
ean Wayne C. Hall.
One out of every five A&M
in KicAtudents is studying for an ad-
Hth a Aance degree, the dean said, with
he number of graduate students
arger than any other campus
roup except freshmen.
Dean Hall also said Texas
&M’s graduate enrollment of
2,349 this fall is second only to
he AggiJjthe University of Texas in total
Stallinjjnumbers.
“This steady growth of the
graduate college has outdistanced
astfjeven the projections made four
that soijyeans ago,” he pointed out.
were tfl University officials are now
the SoiiBPrcdHting 6,000 graduate stu-
efore, «dents by 1976, the school’s cen-
d to mil tennial -
ssful. I Prior to 1957, A&M’s graduate
ried a |J enro n iT ' en t remained steady at
k bctuJ apDroximatelv s i x per c e n t
total enrollment. Since 1958,
however, the graduate college has
expanded at a more rapid pace
than any other division of the
university.
Should anyone think A&M is
becoming strictly a graduate in
stitution, Dean Hall pointed out
the university’s total enrollment
this fall reached a record 12,029,
including the largest freshman
class in history.
The dean said A&M this year
has awarded 719 advance degrees,
with 150 of them Ph.D.’s.
“This rate of graduate degree
awards places Teocas A&M among
the nation’s leaders as a science
and technology source,” Dean
Hall said.
More than 90 per cent of the
Ph.D. candidates at A&M are
studying in some area of engi
neering or science.
Ph.D. candidates, he added, is
ies. It
nly
another area in which A&M leads
the state on the basis of percent
age of enrollment.
The university currently offers
Ph.D. degrees in 54 different
fields and master’s in 90. The
fields range from nuclear and
aerospace engineering to ocean
ography, meteorology and wild
life science, with some of the
newer fields being Engilsh, eco
nomics and education.
Although engineering and
science account for the vast ma
jority of A&M’s graduate stu
dents, education has the largest
enrollment with 252 students, in
cluding 110 Ph.D. candidates.
Other fields with more than 100
students include chemistry, civil
engineering and computer science.
The university is counting on a
$50 million research budget by
1976 to support that forecast of
6,000 graduate students.
Ranger’s Picture
Goes To Vietnam
Ranger Ill’s Sherman tank-like
build, ruggedness and tenacity
will soon inspire a U. S. fighting
man in Vietnam.
A picture of Ranger, pet bull
dog of Texas A&M President
Eai'l Rudder’s son, Bob, has been
requested by 1st Lt. Louis (Butch)
Sabayrac Jr. of Houston. The
A&M graduate of 1966 is station
ed at Long Binh, Vietnam.
Actually, Lieutenant Sabayrac
has more than a passing interest
in the beefy bulldog.
He was secretary-treasurer of
the ’66 class that presented Ran
ger to the Rudders. Louis and his
wife kept the pup until time for
the presentation.
SIMON AND GARFUNKLE
Simon and Garfunkel, a music
duo popular with the younger set,
will perform for a Town Hall
"Extra” Nov. 22 at Texas A&M
University.
The show is set for 9:15 p.m.
in G. Rollie White Coliseum, an
nounced Robert Gonzales, chair
man of the Memorial Student
Center’s Town Hall Committee.
“We moved the time up in order
that everyone can join in Aggie
Bonfire activities,” noted Gon
zales. “The bonfire is to be put
to the torch at 8 o’clock.”
Sharing billing with Simon and
Garfunkel will be a singing group,
"The Hollies,” whose hits include
"Bus Stop,” “Look Through Any
Window,” “Stop, Stop, Stop” and
"Carrie Ann.”
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel,
both in their early twenties, are
best known for “The Sounds of
Silence,” a song which catapulted
them to fame. The record quickly
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
Cutting Gets Underway
For ’67 Aggie Bonfire
Hauling, Stacking
I Starts Saturday
AGGIE PLAYERS PRODUCTION
Members of the Aggie Players perform in a scene from the first act of Tennessee Williams’
“A Streetcar Named Desire.” The play, which opened Wednesday at Guion Hall, con
tinues its run tonight at 8 p. m.
Cadet Corps Unit Adopts
11 - Year- Old Vietnamese
A Vietnamese boy has 64 foster
parents in Squadron 5 of Texas
A&M’s Corps of Cadets.
The AFROTC unit adopted Do
Thanh Quang through the Chris
tian Children’s Fund, an inter
national organization which pro
motes help for needy children.
The squadron, commanded by
Cadet Maj. Fred M. McConnell of
Centreville, Va., will provide for
Do’s school expenses, food, med
ical care, clothing and other ne
cessities through a monthly sti
pend.
In addition, the unit plans to
send the 11-year-old Vietnamese
youth a baseball glove for Christ
mas, a monthly letter, photo of
the squadron and other items.
DO IS in a CCF project home
in Saigon, one of five children in
a family that lost its mother two
years ago. His father is a
preacher, but a meager income is
not sufficient to provide ade
quately for the family’s necessi
ties.
“He wanted Thanh Quang to
attend school but he could not
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4th Infantry Division Counts
100 N. Vietnamese Casualties
Simon And Garfunkle, ‘Hollies’
To Perform For Bonfire Night
soared past the million mark in
sales.
Other singles which have cap
tured best-selling status for the
pair include “Homeward Bound,”
“I Am a Rock,” “The Dangling
Conversation” and “A Hazy Shade
of Winter.”
Among their top ranked al
bums are “Wednesday Morning,
3 a.m.” and “Parsley, Sage, Rose
mary and Thyme.”
The singers grew up in New
York and teamed up at 13. They
went separate ways to college,
Simon to Queens College and
Garfunkel to Columbia.
Later, they gained popularity
in Europe before “The Sounds of
Silence” brought them to the
forefront in the United States.
Season tickets and activity
cards will not be honored at the
performance. Tickets for A&M
students and dates are $2, re
served seats are $3.50, public
school students $2.50 and general
admission is $3. Tickets are now
on sale at the MSC Student Pro
gram Office from 9 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. daily.
By EDWIN Q. WHITE
SAIGON GP>—-U. S. 4th Infan
try Division troops fought a
bloody five-hour battle Wednes
day in the jungled central high
lands of South Vietnam and
found 100 North Vietnamese
bodies in a sweep of the battle
field Thursday, American officers
reported.
In the air war, U. S. Air Force
jets made a concentrated assault
all along the main northwest rail
road line linking Hanoi with Red
China.
Heavy fighting in the Dak To
area of the central highlands in
the last few days may be a pre
lude to Communist dry season
offensives.
BEFORE the two companies of
infantrymen could complete their
sweep of the battle field near Dak
To, 270 miles north of Saigon,
they came under still another
small arms and mortar attack,
the second in less than 24 hours.
The 4th Division troops suf
fered six killed and 15 wounded,
officers said, when they came
under a five-hour heavy ground,
mortar and rocket assault as
they were moving into night de
fensive positions late Wednesday.
Simultaneously, a battalion artil
lery support base nearby came
under mortar attack.
UNDER A massive counter
bombardment by artillery, jet
fighter-bombers and twin-engine
C47s armed with rapid-firing
Gatling guns, the Communists
broke contact Wednesday night
but sporadic fire continued
through the night. Many of the
enemy casualties apparently were
from the artillery and air strikes.
Early Thursday morning, after
B52 bombers unloaded a string
of 160,000 pounds of bombs to
the west of the battlefield in
efforts to block a withdrawal by
the North Vietnamese troops, the
American Infantrymen began
pushing out from their night de
fensive positions to sweep the
battlefield.
DAK TO is along the triborder
region of South Vietnam, Laos
and Cambodia where the North
Vietnamese reportedly have up to
six regiments poised for a pos
sible offensive across the center
of South Vietnam. U. S. Infan
trymen have been conducting
numerous search operations in
efforts to check a Communist
thrust.
Since last Friday, units of the
4th Division and 173rd Airborne
Brigade have run into fierce
fighting with North Vietnamese
elements in the Dak To area, the
heaviest in more than three
months in the central highlands.
U. S. officers said 204 North
Vietnamese troops have been
killed since last Friday compared
to 44 American dead and 130
wounded. The Americans also
reportedly captured more than
200 weapons.
afford expenses,” the CCF,
Richmond, Va., reported
Squadron 5.
In order to continue in his fifth
grade work, rather than carrying
water to earn a few pennies a
day. Do became a ward of the
CCF in the Saigon area.
Squadron 5 whole-heartedly
pitched into the task, rounding up
funds for Do’s care for the next
year. The unit contributes $12 a
month to his support and has
enough beyond the year to send
him the baseball glove, since his
favorite sport is baseball.
THE “ADOPTION” idea origi
nated with a Squadron 5 sopho
more, William K. Ohlmeyer from
Westover AFB, Mass., last sum
mer.
“It was mainly a result of the
summer demonstrations over the
war in Vietnam,” explained Ohl
meyer, aerospace engineering ma
jor. “There are some of us who
approve of the government’s ac
tions. Our outfit decided the best
way to show support was to help
a South Vietnamese child caught
in the struggle. In helping him,
we hope to prove that we are con
cerned with the civilians who suf
fer along with him.”
McConnell said the entire
squadron backed the adoption.
“The freshmen especially liked
the idea,” the CO remarked.
“They intend to carry through as
Do’s ‘dads’ until he finishes school
and is of working age.”
Texas A&M doesn’t offer a de
gree in lumbering, but lab-work
for such a course begins Satur
day when logging replaces loga
rithms for 11 days.
Cutting for the 1967 bonfire
commences on the Henry Seale
ranch north of Bryan after a
5:30 a.m. breakfast.
Cutting and stacking this year
will be bracketed around the Nov.
18 Corps Trip to Houston, ac
cording to Neal Adams of Tyler,
head yell leader and bonfire chief.
Logs will be cut, trimmed and
trucked out of the cutting area
this weekend. Company D-l, com
manded by David J. Boethel of
Weimar, will set the bonfire cen-
terpole on the Duncan drill field
just east of President Earl Rud
der’s home next Wednesday.
STACKING WILL start and
cutting continue at noon Thurs
day, Nov. 16, and be completed
by 4 p.m. Nov. 22, the night yell
leaders will light the bonfire
Adams added.
A&M and Texas meet on Kyle
Field at 1:30 p.m. Thursday,
Nov. 23.
The Aggie bonfire symbolizes
“every Aggie’s burning desire to
beat Texas on Thanksgiving Day
and the flaming loyalty he has
for A&M.”
It has been an annual event
since 1908, except in 1963, due to
the assassination o f President
Kennedy.
Barrels of sweat go into the
cone-shaped stack of 30-to 50-
foot logs.
Each bonfire is considered that
of the freshman class that builds
it. The class of ’71 will furnish
most of the manpower, though
seniors and juniors oversee cut
ting, trucking and stacking.
THE FISH hook arms under
short saplings on which the 400
to 900 pound logs are toted to
trucks.
Power cranes ai'e used almost
exclusively for stacking now,
where manual labor was once the
only force. A log laid with its
big- end to the stack was raised
high enough for forked saplings
to support it and then “walked”
upward to lean against the stack.
Double-stacking achieves 60-
to-80 foot heights but requires
careful placement of logs end-to-
end on top of the first stack.
Considerable research and experi
mentation has gone into making
the center strong and compact
as possible.
Numerous safety precautions
are followed, including only jun
iors and seniors handling axes.
Gloves and goggles are required
and transportation regulations are
rigidly enforced.
THE 1967 bonfire has been
thoroughly organized by the yell
leaders. Adams appointed senior
yell leaders Wayne Porter of Dal-
hart and Mike Baggett of Waco
stacking and cutting area chiefs,
respectively. They will be assisted
by junior yell leaders Bob Segner
of San Antonio and Barney Daw
son of Wichita Falls. Executive
officer is Mike Beggs of Athens.
The cutting area has been seg
mented by battalion and group
with seniors in charge- of each
area. Stacking chiefs are Ron
McElroy of Dallas, John Fry of
Austin, Billy Bellomy of Channel-
view and Charles McCall of Luf
kin.
Adams also deleg-ated respon
sibility for equipment, cranes,
communications, transportation,
security and traffic control, safe
ty and first aid, civilians, conces
sions, mess hall, chain saws, load
ing and logistics.
JOBS BY Corps units have
been designated and guard details
for the stacking- area have been
scheduled for Nov. 15-22, with
companies and squadrons draw
ing four-hour guard shifts be
tween 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
“There will be security and
safety ring around the stack at
all times,” Adams noted. “No
one is to enter this ring unless
he is working directly with stack
ing crews.”
Log trucks and work crews will
use a special route to and from
the cutting area east of Highway
6, north of Bryan, to avoid the
main traffic artery through Bryan
and College Station. The route
employs farm - to - market roads
west of the cities.
“Everyone is going to' have to
think safety all the time,” Adams
added. “We can’t afford to have
any accidents or injuries.”
Alpha Phi Omega, national ser
vice Fraternity, will sponsor con
cession stands in the Bonfire cut
ting area November 11 & 12. APO
has used this project to help pay
Bonfire expenses for the last two
years.
Last year, more than $500 was
returned to the Bonfire Commit
tee, APO President Ronny Smith
said.
“This project will also g-ive
those who are physically unable
to carry logs an opportunity to
help with the bonfire,” he added.
“Those interested should contact
any APO member, or come by
the stands in the cutting area.”
Soft drinks, milk, candy, do
nuts, and tobacco will be sold,
Smith noted.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
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A&M-Rice Tickets
Sale Ends Tuesday
Student and date tickets for
the Rice game will go off sale
Tuesday at 4 p.m.
Student tickets are on sale
for $1 and date tickets sell for
$5.
Tickets for the Thanksgiving
game with t.u. go on sale Wed
nesday. Date tickets will again
cost $5.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
BB &L
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SOVIETS SAY THIS IS THEIR NEW ROCKET
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Red Square during celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
The Soviets said it is their new intercontinental rocket with orbital capabilities. (AP
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