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Che Battalion >:• Saturday — Cloudy, few light rain g: :$ showers, wind southerly 5-10 m.p.h. :? g High 72, low 63. g g: Sunday — Cloudy to partly cloudy, g- :g wind southerly 10-15 m.p.h. High 74, g; :g low 61. :g g: Rice Saturday—Occasional light rain, g: :g wind southerly 5-10 m.p.h. 72*. g- VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1967 Number 505 ] uch ikes ) & 5< Young Democrats Call For Peace By FRANK MURRAY Associated Press Writer HOLLYWOOD, Fla. UP) — A coalition of anti-Johnson forces and peace-seekers introduced a resolution at the national con vention of Young Democrats Thursday night calling for “the immediate and unconditional ces sation of bombing in Vietnam.” The coalition, which includes college-age Young Democrats who previously had sought a strong statement calling for President Johnson to pass up a bid for re- election, gathered behind the can didacy of Allen Reed of Lincoln, Neb., for the Young Democrats’ presidency. REED, AN avowed peace can didate, said the coalition believes an immediate end of the bombing "should substantially improve prospects of negotiation while also serving the humanitarian purpose of limiting civilian cas ualties” in Vietnam. The proposal was submitted by Joseph Berlant of Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. Soon after the coalition force was announced, Thomas O’Brien of Boston, a spokesman for the college-age group, said he was sacrificing his draft resolution to keep Johnson from being the 1968 Democratic presidential nominee. O’BRIEN said his proposal “would destroy the unity of the Rain Expected For Weekend |J College Teachers Schedule Meeting Late-week meteorological data indicates cloudy skies and scat tered rain will be the weather sit uation this weekend in Houston and Bryan-College Station. Texas A&M students will be in Houston Saturday for a 9:30 a.m. Corps Trip parade and 1:30 p.m. football game with the Rice Owls. Bonfire work will resume follow ing the trip. The A&M Meteorology Depart ment weather station forecast is sued earlier will remain in effect, with slight variations, according to Jim Lightfoot, station man ager. He said game time forecast calls for clouds, scattered rain, 72 degrees, easterly wind 10 to 15 mph and 80 percent relative humidity. The moist forecast is the result of a weak Pacific front that is expected to stall along the coast, allowing moisture to build inland. Architect Model Exhibit Underway BB&L peace forces. To introduce some thing you know would be beaten under those circumstances would be fruitless.” Earlier Mayor Richard G. Hatcher of Gary, Ind., said “po litical-racial maturity in America must await the day when Negro public officials are free to fail as well as succeed.” And, in an interview on the con vention’s major topic, Vietnam, Hatcher said, “Young Democrats have the responsibility to prick the conscience of the Democratic party.” CONVENTION officials who support President Lyndon John son have called the efforts to force through a so-called peace resolution “deliberate attempts to embarrass the President.” More proposals, including two described by the chairman of the international affairs subcommit tee as “hawkfish,” were due for presentation. •: The Texas A&M chapter of the Texas Association of College Teachers will hold its first 1967- 68 meeting Tuesday. Dr. Donald D. McLain, chapter president, said the 7:30 p.m. meeting will be in Rooms 2C and D of the Memorial Students Cen ter. “TACT has been active in the area of recent developments by the Texas Coordinating Board in volving tenure, faculty leave, broadened retirement policy and academic freedom at state-sup- ported colleges and universities,” McLain said. The assistant professor of biol ogy said all interested faculty members are invited to the meet ing. Those not affiliated with the association will have opportunity to join at the meeting. A cross section of student pro jects in Texas A&M’s School of Architecture went on exhibit Wednesday, announced assistant professor Norman Ufer. Color collages by freshmen and sophisticated architectural mod els by fifth year students will be included in displays throughout the school, he noted, adding that the work will remain on display through Dec. 1. The art includes graphics from several areas, designs of furni ture by third year students, plus models of urban and regional planning projects. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Yonr Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. Bulletin Following a thorough investi gation, the Board of Directors for the Texas A&M University- System decided this morning not to attempt a telecast of the Texas A&M-University of Texas football game Thanks giving Day. ‘Tn view of the complexities involved, we have reluctantly decided against televising the game,” announced Board Presi dent L. F. Peterson of Fort W orth. “As much as we would like to accommodate the many fans who have contacted us regard ing a possible telecast, and the thousands who were undoubted ly hoping this would be the case, we simply do not feel it would be in the best interests of either university to approve such action at this late date,” Peterson added. If the telecast had been made, it would have been for viewers in the Bryan-College Station and Austin area only-, in keep ing with NCAA regulations. Because of this regulation Peterson noted, a national or area-wide telecast was never contemplated. Aggie Publishes Art Magazine Statistics Award Ivy League Presidents Oppose Draft Proposal Given To Waldron Bobby R. Waldron of Natchi toches, La., has been named win ner of the first annual William S. Connor Award of the Institute of Statistics at Texas A&M. Waldron’s selection as the out standing doctoral candidate in statistics was announced by Dr. R. R. Hocking, professor of sta tistics. Dr. Hocking said the award is in memory of Dr. William S. Connor, former professor in the Institute of Statistics. The award includes a subscrip tion to the “Annals of Mathe matical Statistics.” High Court Judge Joins Controversy By BOB MONROE Associated Press Writer The presidents of two Ivy Lea gue universities have spoken out against a proposal to strip draft deferment from students who in terfere with militay recruiting. And U.S. Supreme Court Jus tice Abe Fortas says the author of the proposal, Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, head of the Selec tive Service, is “a law unto him self and responds only to his own conversation.” U. S. PLANES BURN AFTER MORTAR ATTACK Smoke and flames billow from two U. S. C130 transport planes on the Dak To airstrip after a Communist mortar attack. A second attack destroyed the camp’s ammunition dump. This picture was taken by AP photographer Rick Merron. (AP Wirephoto) via radio from Saigon) Fortas spoke Thursday night at Colgate University when asked his opinion of the proposal. He also said Hershey’s statement probably did not “have the ap proval of the executive branch of government.” Earlier, James A. Perkins, president of Cornell University, and Ray L. Heffner, president of Brown University, took issue with the proposal in separate actions. Westmoreland Can’t See Perkins urged, in a telephone conversation with Douglass Cater, a special assistant to President Johnson, that the White House abolish the Hershey proposal. Early End To Viet War Dr. Frank J. Malina, a 1934 Texas A&M graduate, is the founder and editor of “Leonardo”, an international journal of the contemporary artist published in Paris, France. Malina, originally from Bren- ham, earned a degree in mechan ical eftgineering at A&M, and has enjoyed successful careers as an aeronautical engineer, geophysi cist and artist. He was founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Malina is a past director of the International Academy of Aeronautics and a permanent representative to UNESCO of the International Astronautics Feder ation. Plans call for the new maga zine, published by the Pergam- mon Press in New York and Ox ford, England, to be published quarterly, with the first edition early in 1968. Dr. Malina said the journal, primarily a channel of communi cation between artists, will re flect the developing world-wide impact of contemporary works of art on mankind on a planet made small by modern communication and transportation. By JERRY T. BAULCH Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON <A>) — General William C. Westmoreland confer red Thursday with President Johnson on the Vietnam war and gave the Senate Armed Services Committtee what was described as a cautiously optimistic report. But the U.S. Commander in Vietnam “does not see any ear ly termination of the war” and suggested no timetable of when the fighting might end,” com mittee Chairman Richard B. Rus sell, D-Ga., told newsmen. Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D- Wash., another committee mem ber, said Westmoreland reported that although the North Viet namese troops are better equipped now than before, they are not well led and their quality is going down. “He feels quite confident,” Jackson said of Westmoreland. “He sees the enemy losing stead ily and continuously.” Westmoreland conferred with Johnson in his office for over an hour, but the White House made no report on their talks. Westmoreland flew here from Vietnam Wednesday to confer with Johnson and other officials. Before going into the Presi dent’s office, the general stood by in the East Room as Johnson presented the Medal Honor to Army S.Sgt. Charles B. Norris, a four-time wounded hero of the Vietnam fighting. Meanwhile, Secretary of eD- fense Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told newsmen at a Senate ap- proprations Committee hearing that there is no foundation for reports that Westmoreland will be replaced in Vietnam. McNamara said such specula tion is natural after a general has served four years in such a demanding job, but he hopes Westmoreland will remain on for a long time. In another development tied to the Vietnam war, the Senate For eign Relations Committee approv ed unanimously for Senate con sideration two resolutions expres sing that body’s sentiments that: —Johnson consider directing U. S. representatives in the United Nations to press for Security Council initiatives in search of peace in Vietnam. —In the future, Congress be given a greater voice in com mitting U.S. troops abroad. The U.N. resolution is spon sored by Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana and nearly 60 other Senators and is assured of approval probably next month. The troop commitment resolu tion is sponsored by Sen. J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark., chairman of the Foreign Relations Commit tee. But he told newsmen he does not plan to call it up before Congress reconvenes in January, to allow time for all concerned to study its implications. Neither resolution would be binding merely express the Sen ate’s views. Hershey recommended three weeks ago that local draft boards finding evidence that students with deferments are interfering with recruiting by U.S. military representatives remove the defer ments and make them available for call-up to duty. Perkin’s off ice said he told the White House: “I would be opposed to this policy if the incident took place off the campus but I am particularly op posed if it involves action on the university campus. “In this latter case, draft board monitoring of student behavior would destroy the university’s power to manage its own affairs and would substitute uninformed outside authority for carefully developed university judicial sys tems.” His call preceded a demonstra tion by 40 Cornell students against the appearance by two Marine recruiters on campus but his office said there was no con nection between the two. In Providence, Heffner said he intends to tell Hershey he strong ly disagrees with the proposal, considering it possibly illegal and “certainly unwise.” forms of protest involving physi cal force or physical obstruction “shall be subject to university discipline.” But he added, the rights of “peaceful assembly, free exchange of ideas and orderly protest are among the basic rights of all members of a university commun ity.” In Geneva, N. Y., Dr. Richard C. DeBold, dean of Hobart Col lege, called upon President John son to relieve Hershey of his post. In a letter to the President he charged the Selective Service di rector with a “lack of ability to understand the youth in our times.” “Because I feel that our youth is our hope for a better world, I strongly urge that you relieve Hershey of a command for which he is obviously incompetent.” In Washington Thursday, the Selective Service system made public an Oct. 26 letter from Her shey to government appeals agents — who advise draft regis trants of their legal rights — to report to draft boards any viola tions by registrants. He told the boards the request was made so registrants who have failed to comply with the draft law “may be expeditiously pro cessed by their local board as de linquents and that non-registrants who violate the law may be promptly reported to the Depart ment of Justice for prosecution.” Grad Speaker To Talk On Med Research He said students who engage in Thanksgiving Services Set MAJ. GEN. HOCHMUTH San Diego Rites Set For General SA NDIEGO, Calif. <A>) — Fun eral services for Maj. Gen. Bruno A. Hochmuch, killed in Vietnam Tuesday, will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m. PST in the chapel of the San Diego Marine Corps Depot. Hochmuth was commander of the 3rd Marine Division. He had commanded the recruit depot here before going to Vietnam. The Marine Corps said that Hochmuth will be buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego. Hochmuth, a native of Houston, was a 1935 graduate of Texas A&M. He was one of five 1935- 36 graduates to attain the rank of major general in the Marines. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. Thanksgiving services will be conducted at Texas A&M’s All Faiths Chapel Wednesday. The YMCA-sponsored services at 8, 9 and 10 a.m. have been ar ranged especially for students who may have visitors arriving for the A&M - Texas football game, announced Corps Chaplain Clarence Daugherty of San An tonio. The 45-minute service will be conducted by students with three local ministers giving the ser mons. The A&M Church of Christ minister, Mr. Dan E. Warden, will give the 8 a.m. sermon; Rev. Will iam Oxley, St. Thomas Episcopal Chapel, 9 a.m., and Rev. Arthur M. Smith, Aggie Bible Associa tion, 10. “Everyone is cordially invited to attend,” Daugherty said. He said the three services were arranged “so that everyone will have a chance to go.” He is a YMCA student assistant and reli gious programs chairman. J. Gordon Gay is religious life coordinator and general secere- tary of the YMCA. An internationally renown physicist, Dr. John Lenihan, will give Texas A&M’s first fall Uni- verstiy Lecture Tuesday. The lecture, “Medicine and the Challenge of Technology,” is set for 8 p.m. in the Memorial Stu dent Center ballroom, announced Academic Vice President Dr. Wayne C. Hall. As physicist to the Western Regional Hospital Board at Glas gow, Dr. Lenihan is concerned with applications of science and technology to medicine. His work involves direction of a large staff of research scholars and extends to more than 200 hospitals and many university clinical depart ments. In recent years, Dr. Lenihan gained additional fame by using “activation analysis” on a lock of Napoleon Bonaparte’s hair to prove conclusively that the French emperor’s death had been hastened by regular doses of arsenic. FIRST LOGS PLACED Juniors place the first series of logs around the center pole for the 1967 Bonfire. Behind them are some of the 1,100 logs that have been cut during the first half of the work period, which continues with cutting and stacking Sunday morning. Dr. Lenihan, a chartered engi neer, member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Royal Scoiety of Edinburgh, has been particularly concerned wtih problems of com munication between basic sci entists and medical men, as well as between scientists and the rest of the intellectual community. The speaker’s scholarship, Dr. Hall noted, has won him numer ous awards and prizes, plus lead ership positions in top-ranking societies. Lenihan’s Ph.D. is from Glasgow University, the master’s from Durham University. Dr. Lenihan’s publications in clude “Atomic Energy and Its Application,” “Activation Anal ysis: Principles and Applications” and “Instrumentation in Medi cine.” Five additional lectures are scheduled during the school year for the University Lecture series. University Nstionsl Bank 'On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. .mm#--™- .vXvX-Mv *-v*.