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■In IUT VOLUME 61 Che Battalion Wednesday — Partly cloudy, wind *• northeast. High 74, low 53. Thursday — Clear to partly cloudy, wind southerly 10-15 m.p.h. High 76, low 47. Saturday for Rice Stadium — cloudy, rain showers, wind southerly 10-15. Temperature 66. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1967 Number 502 Leadership Trip To Include 37 payroll * an ot, cal Ej, I in tlit| Thirty-seven Texas A&M stu- ^nt leaders will make a leader- lip trip to Houston Nov. 19-20, nnounced trip chairman John leall of Houston. First stop on the tour will be Deslflile Shamrock-Hilton Hotel where troleurHers will have coffee with iati0Hil embers Association Vfin ttjof Former Students and the Long [ange Planning Committee. After tours of the Astrodome nd the Baker Planetarium the tudents will hear a representa- ve of the architectural firm of audill, Rowlett and Scott review le planning and construction of e aboii; UOP, icemem Aggies Charged nTU Prank Whether Texas A&M students lilfered a drumhead from “Big iertha,” Texas University’s mas- ive drum—that is the question. A&M Dean of Students James >, Hannigan said Tuesday he had 10 indication that any A&M stu- lents were involved in the alleged ncident of Sunday night. An Associated Press story Tuesday said an Aggie trio laimed to have pilfered the drum- lead in a commando raid Sunday light. But Texas Band Director Vincent R. DiNino said an old Irumhead made from the skin >f a Longhorn steer was the only ;hing missing from the band hall. DiNino said “Big Bertha’s” ilastic drumhead is still intact. Observers theorized the drum- wad would be used in connection with the annual Aggie Bonfire the night before A&M clashes with Texas in football at College Station. “I hope that we will beat Texas on the playing field and not in dulge in a lot of high school type off-field pranks,” Hannigan re marked. ‘‘Students are reminded that the Board of Directors of Texas A&M University and the Board of Re gents of the University of Texas have agreed for many years that any student under the control of either Board who visited either campus with the intent to paint or otherwise deface buildings and other State property should at least be suspended from the Uni versity during the semester the act occurred.” TTI Allocated $1.3 Million Funds totaling $1,304,904 have been allocated to Texas A&M for 1967-68 continuing highway re search programs. The continuing research being conducted by the Texas Transpor tation Institute at A&M is spon sored by the Texas Highway De partment in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Transporta tion, Federal Highway Admin istration and U. S. Bureau of Public Roads. Joint announcement of the al locations was made by Dewitt C. Greer, state highway engineer, and Charles J. Keese, director of the Texas Transportation Insti tute. Keese said the allocation fin ances innumerable research studies being conducted in high way design and traffic engineer ing, highway bridges and struc tures, highway materials and soils, pavement design, asphalt technology, construction, vegeta tion, economic aspects of trans portation, highway literature searching, and research data re porting. “Our TTI staff — representing 25 major disciplines — already is at work on studies aimed at pro viding data that can result in more effective, safe and enduring highway facilities,” Keese re marked. “Interdisciplinary team effort is common in our research endeavors.” “TTI has a long established philosophy that research findings have little or no inventory value and should be applied as rapidly as possible in meeting demands on transportation today,” Keese added. “We utilize an investiga tive approach which involves de velopment of theory, evaluation by experimentation and additional evaluation through practical ap plication.” Jones Hall. A tour of Jones Hall will follow. The group will attend a play, “A Delicate Balance,” by Edward Albee, at the Alley Theater. A post-play visit with the cast also is scheduled. Prominent A&M families will host the leaders during a dinner Sunday at the Warwick Club. Students will be Monday break fast guests of Gerald Hines, a real estate developer. Students will be guests of Robert Sakowitz for lunch and a men’s style show. Sakowitz will discuss wines of the world and French art. Later, the visitors will see the French Impressionist art collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Beck. Another afternoon activity will be a tour of the art gallery of Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Long. A highlight of the trip comes Monday night when the leaders attend a performance of the Houston Symphony, featuring Andre Previn, at Jones Hall. Accompanying the students will be Dr. and Mrs. Harry Coyle, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Boone and Mr. and Mrs. J. Wayne Stark. 4 Navy Men Oppose War By Defecting TOKYO (A*)—A Japanese peace group announced Monday the de fection of four U. S. Navy men from the 7th Fleet carrier In trepid because they oppose Amer ican involvement in Vietnam. It said the men had asked for politi cal refuge in Japan or any other country not involved in the war. The Japan Peace for Vietnam Committee showed a movie in which four Americans in civilian clothes read statements which said they did not want to take part in the war. The Intrepid is stationed off Vietnam and its planes fly bombing missions over the North. A U. S. Navy spokesman said the four men named by the peace committee were absent without leave after the Intrepid left for Vietnamese waters Oct. 25. She had been in Yokosuka to give her crew a week’s recreation and rest. The peace group identified the men as John M. Barrilla, 20, an airman; Richard D. Bailey, 19, airman; Michael A. Lindner, 19, airman apprentice, and Craig W. Anderson, 20, airman apprentice. The names corresponded with those given by the Navy in Wash ington which said the four were listed UA — Unauthorized Ab sence. A spokesman said the four men did not return from liberty by the time the Intrepid departed from Yokosuka Oct. 26. THE NAVY listed Bailey as from Jacksonville, Fla.; Barrilla from Catonsville, Md.; Lindner from Mount Pocono, Pa.; and An derson from San Jose, Calif. The Navy said that it had no other information on the men. In the film, entitled “The In trepid Four,” the youth who iden tified himself as Barrilla said he lived most of his life in Baltimore, Md., and the one who said he was Anderson listed his birthplace as San Jose, Calif. The other two made no mention of their home towns and the peace committee said it could not give them. IN BALTIMORE, Barrilla’s sis ter-in-law, Mrs. Frank Barrilla, said Barrilla’s mother had re ceived mailed notification Mon day of her son’s absence from duty and that she was “very much upset.” Mrs. Barrilla described the sailor as being quiet. “He doesn’t talk much,” she said. “We had no idea that he’d do anything like this.” Silver Taps Held For Gary Pruitt Silver Taps was conducted Monday for Gary Don Pruitt, a sophomore liberal arts major who was killed in a car-train collision Friday near Hearne. Pruitt, 20, lived at 1204 Gov ernment Drive in Waco. Fun eral services were held Monday in Waco. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. Marine General Killed In Helicopter Explosion THE HOLLIES The Hollies, a British singing group with several hit records in the U. S., will lead off Town Hall’s Bonfire Night show. Simon and Garfunkel a'e the featured performers in the show, which begins at 9:15 p. m. Nov. 22 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. ♦ ^ ‘The Hollies 9 To Perform On Town Hall Bonfire Bill Hochmuth Was ’35 Graduate Of A&M “The Hollies,” a British record ing group, will share billing with Simon and Garfunkel for a Town Hall “Extra” Nov. 22. Town Hall Chairman Robert Gonzales said “The Hollies” have the ability not only to recreate their recording sound, but to add to it that extra dimension one hopes for in a live concert. The presentation is scheduled for 9‘15 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. “This group is composed of five young musicians who have a special sense of personal style, musical intelligence and spon- taniety,” Gonzales remarked. Comprising the group are Gra ham Nash, vocalist and rhythm guitarist; Allan Clarke, lead singer; Tony Hicks, lead guitar and vocalist; Bobby Elliott, drummer, and Bernard Calvert, bass guitarist and pianist. “The Hollies” had waxed 15 consecutive “top ten” hits in Eng land before their first singles were released in the United States. “I Can’t Let Go,” “Look Through Any Window,” “Bus Stop,” and “Stop, Stop, Stop” created a demand for live appear ances by the group in the U. S. “Carrie-Anne” and “Evolution” are among- top songs of the group in their second U. S. tour. In their first tour with Herman’s Hermits, “The Hollies” impressed a CBS-Television documentary crew and won a spot on a tele vision special. British and visiting American writers and record-makers have tagged “The Hollies” with a label of a “group’s group.” Although most of the group writes songs and helps with ar rangements, the comic relief is usually provided by Hicks. Elliott also is well known for his pun making. Tickets for the presentation are available at the Memorial Stu dent Center program office. Three To Attend SDX Convention Three representatives of the Texas A&M Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national fraternity for professional journalists, will at tend the organization’s national convention Wednesday through Saturday in Minneapolis, Minn. They include delegates Dani Presswood of Fort Worth and Charles Rowton of Killeen, and SDX sponsor Dr. David R. Bow ers. Presswood is president of the A&M Chapter and vice presi dent of District 8. Rowton is edi tor of the Battalion. Both are journalism majors. Among spotlighted speakers for the convention are Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Associated Press General Manager Wess Gal lagher. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. BB &L Maj. Gen. Bruno A. Hochmuth, commander of the 3rd Marine Division and a 1935 graduate of Texas A&M, was killed today when his helicopter exploded and crashed north of Hue in South Vietnam, according- to the Associ ated Press. He was the first general to die in the Vietnam war. A native of Houston, General Hochmuth received his Bachelor of Sciencd degree here in indus trial education. He last visited the campus two years ago when he participated in commissioning- exercises at graduation. His par ents still reside in Houston at 2034 Colquitt. As a student, the general was active in the Corps of Cadets and a member of the Ross Volunteers and Scholastic Honor Society. GENERAL HOCHMUTH was one of five 1935-36 A&M grad uates who attained the rank of general in the Marine Corps. The others, also major generals, are Raymond Murray, Odell Conoley, Wood B. Kyle and Ormond Simp son. General Kyle was commanding officer of the 3rd Marine Division immediately prior to General Hochmuth. In other Vietnam action, the Associated Press said the U. S. Command also announced that Communist gunners shot down two American helicopters and damaged five more Monday in fighting- along the coastal low lands 365 miles northeast of Sai gon. But it was not known whet her Hochmuth’s death was due to enemy action. THE GENERAL who took com mand of the 3rd Division last March, was on an inspection trip. The pilot of another helicopter accompanied him said the gener al’s craft was flying at about 1,000 feet when it appeared to explode in the air, broke in two and crashed on its back in a lake. There were no survivors. Two American pilots, the American crew chief and a Vietnamese in terpreter also died in the crash. A campus television news pro gram made its debute today at Texas A&M under direction of the Educational Television De partment. The five-minute telecast will be beamed four times a day Tues day through Friday, announced Melvin Chastain, ETV director. “The program will be directed and produced by students,” Chas tain pointed out. “They have their own studio, cameras and fa cilities. We purposely set up an isolated situation in order that the program will not interfer with other ETV productions.” Chastain said the Federal Com munications Commission granted permission for students to make video tapes of network broadcasts and rebroadcast them. Starting Tuesday, newscasts will be aired at 10:50 and 11:50 a.m. and 1:50 and 2:50 p.m. Wed nesday programs will be repeats of the Tuesday production. Thurs day’s program will be new, but will be repeated Friday. Chastain said the philosophy of the program is to offer students an opportunity to work close to a live TV news experience with real and regular time disciplines. “WITH VIDEO tape, the stu dents have the benefit of play backs to see how well they per formed assigned tasks,” he ob served. “It gives them a yard stick of improvement not normal ly available to television profes sionals.” Another aim of the newscast, Chastain explained, is to provide a service to the student body by offering information. The “on-camera” announcer for the program is Robert Solovey, senior journalism major from Sil ver Springs, Md. Rick Single- U. S. military headquarters in Saigon said it was not believed there was any enemy fire in the area at the time, but officers at Marine headquarters in Da Nang said they did not rule out that possibility. THE FLAREUP of fighting along the coastal lowlands coin cided with a lull around Dak To, in the central highlands, after two weeks of hard battling there. Only occasional sniper and mor tar fire were reported this morn ing after fierce battle late Mon day in which 10 paratroopers of the U. S. 173rd Airborne Brigade were reported killed and another 33 wounded. Eight - engine B 5 2 bombers pounded suspected Red positions 16 miles southwest of Dak To, dropping 150,000 pounds of bombs on a suspected base camp and staging area. THE U. S. HELICOPTERS came under heavy machine-gun and small arms fire Monday while lifting 450 men of the 1st Air Cavalry Division into a battle area 15 miles west of the provincial capital of Tam Ky. The U. S. Command said fighting tapered off after six hours with four Am ericans killed and 19 wounded. Communist casualties were not known. Less than 25 miles to the south in the coastal lowlands, U. S. paratroopers of the 101st Air borne Division reported killing 20 Communist troops in a series of scattered clashes while suffering no casualties. The U. S. Army said 10 of the enemy dead were North Vietnamese Army regulars wearing new green uniforms, in dicating they might have 1'ecently come south. No major ground fighting was reported elsewhere. THE NORTHEAST MONSOON weather once again cut heavily into U. S. air strikes against North Vietnam limiting U. S. planes to targets in the southem half of the country and 93 mis sions. tary, junior English major from Orange, is the producer-director. Both are taking problems courses. Additional help is expected from a nine-man staff from a radio-TV newswriting class. “We also have a portable video tape recorder which we hope to use for lively on-campus inter view's,” Chastain commented. “Later, we hope to replace some of the re-i-uns with campus fea tures and interviews with stu dents.” The program was run on an experimental basis at 2:50 p.m. on Fridays as students sought to iron out “bugs.” Filing Underway For Fish Offices Filing for Freshman Class offices opened Monday in the Student Program Office in the Memorial Student Center. Freshmen will be electing a president, vice-president, secre tary-treasurer, social secretary and five members to the election commission, all of whom must have a 1.0 grade point ratio. Filing will close Nov. 20 at 1 p.m. Four student senators wtih 1.5 GPRs will also be elected. Pre- Vet majors are not eligible for Student Senate officers, but elect their own Pre-Vet senator. While filing, candidates are to pick up a copy of the election rules. They are also to attend an 8 p.m. meeting Nov. 20 in rooms 2-C and 2-D in the MSC. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. VETERAN’S DAY HOMECOMING The wife of S/Sgt. Jimmie Lowe, holding 15-month-old Steve, rushes into her husband’s arms at Valdosta, Ga., Municipal Airport. S/Sgt. Lowe returned to his family on Veteran’s Day after serving 12 months in South Vietnam. He was stationed at Cam Rahn Bay. (AP Wirephoto) ETV Starts News Telecasts