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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1967
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"We will not move one whit
closer to a settlement of the Mid
dle East until the people of the
United States and the West ad
mit that there is more than one
side to the question, the Arab
side.”
This was the view of Alfred
M. Lilienthal as he spoke Wed
nesday night at the Memorial
Student Center ballroom. The pre
sentation was sponsored by the
MSC Speaker Series.
Lilienthal said that the Arab
views have not been aired in the
United States.
“Anti-anti-Semitism has pre
vented any freedom of debate of
the crisis,” he noted. He said
that anyone supporting the Arabs
was automatically branded as an
anti-Semite.
“Anti-Semitism has no place in
the Middle East,” he said. “The
Arabs are first class Semites.”
Lilienthal said that in 1947
when the United Nations was
considering partitioning Palestine
AF Marksmen
Get Ribbons
Air Force small arms expert
marksmanship ribbons have been
presented to 33 Texas A&M
cadets, announced Col. Vernon L.
Head, professor of aerospace
studies.
Presentations were made in
Aerospace Studies 400 classes
this week.
The AFROTC seniors qualified
with the weapons during summer
training at Air Force bases
across the U. S.
Awarded the ribbon were John
R. Baldridge Jr. of Memphis,
Tenn.; Robert D. Barr, Atlanta;
Charles T. Bell, Montgomery,
Ala.; James M. Butler, Big
Spring; Michael D. Clader and
Kim E. Hammond, Midland;
Charley B. Clark, Bryan; Rich
ard S. Couch, Texarkana, Ark.;
Donald E. Frank, Kirtland AFB,
N. M.;
Gerald R. Gantt, Tyler; Ter
rel V. Garrett, El Paso; Gary A
Gerasimowicz, Dickinson; Wil
liam C. Grothues and Fred L
May III, San Antonio; Phillip R
Hardin, San Benito; Hal M
Hornburg and Larry L. Land
troop, Dallas; George F. Jack-
son, Jacksonville; Stanley M.
Jarosz, Waco;
Also, Edwin D. Maberly and
John D. Parr, Corpus Christi;
Terry L. Mayse, Freeport; Rich
ard A. Pazderski, Columbia, S.
C.; Samuel D. Smith, Uvalde;
Charles H. Stilson Jr. and Mitch
ell A. Woodard, Houston; Robert
C. Trott, Yoakum; Dan P. Wim
berly, Redlands, Calif.; Charles
H. Wittrock, Wright-Patterson
AFB, Ohio; Fred S. Andes III
and Randy T. Andes, Fairbanks,
Alaska; Gary G. Harvey, San
Augustine, and Robert J. Myers,
Tampa, Fla.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
and giving 56 per cent of the land
to the Jews, who made up one-
third of the population, the fate
of the remaining two-thirds, the
Arabs, was not considered.
“The primary motivation of the
West was to be humanitarian and
repay the Jews for the crimes of
Hitler,” he pointed out. He noted
that while anti-semitism was a
western creature, the United Na
tions took land from the Middle
East which had never been guil
ty of anti-semitism to repay the
Jews.
Lilienthal contended that the
ultimate solution lay in Israel’s
abolishment of the idea that it
was the home of all Jews and
simply became a national state
accepting its Arab cousins as a
true part of the nation.
Mac Makes It Official:
He’ll Leave Cabinet Post
Defense Secretary
Will Direct Bank
Commendation
Medals Given
To 3 Officers
Air Force Commendation Med
als were presented to three offi
cers Wednesday at Texas A&M
by Col. Vernon L. Head, profes
sor of aerospace studies.
Recipients included Maj. Wil
liam O. Sailer, Capt. James B. T.
Sebolka and 1st Lt. Ronald C.
Cournoyer, all currently gradu
ate students at A&M.
Major Sailer was cited for
meritorious service as an aircraft
performance officer at U-Tapao
Airfield, Thailand, in 1966-67. He
is working toward a master’s de
gree in computer science at A&M.
Captain Sebolka received his
medal for outstanding service as
missile combat crew commander
and other assignments at McCon
nell Air Force Base, Kan., for the
past four years. At A&M, Se
bolka is pursuing a master’s de
gree in mechanical engineering.
Lieutenant Cournoyer was cited
for meritorious service as a com
munications - electronics officer
and maintenance chief at Kelly
Air Force Base in San Antonio
during the past year. Cournoyer
is seeking a master’s degree in
computer science.
Sailer lives at 1411 Caudill,
Sebolka at 603 Jersey, and Cour
noyer at 601 N. Cross, all in Col
lege Station.
A&M’S TWELFTH MAN
Texas A&M students sign on the dotted line to express their appreciation to the football
team that brought them their first Southwest Conference championship in a decade and
first trip to the Cotton Bowl in 25 years. The tradition of thanking the A&M team dates
back to the lean years.
‘Paul Revere, Raiders 9 Set
January Town Hall Show
Colombia Poison
Epidemic Spreads
BOGOTA, Colombia UP) —
A new outbreak of poising
cause the death of a child and
hospitalized 32 persons Wednes
day in Cauca State in southwes
tern Colombia.
Authorities in Popayan, the
state capital, said they had not
determined the cause of the poi
soning.
Eighty persons died and near
ly 150 were hospitalized after
they ate bread contaminated
with insecitcide in the eastern
town of Chiquinuira on Saturday.
Paul Revere and the Raiders,
a “colonial-clad quintet” specializ
ing in hard-rock music, will ap
pear in a Town Hall extra Jan. 5,
the first Friday after the Christ
mas holidays, in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Tickets for the show, which also
will feature another group, will
go on sale at noon Dec. 11, ac
cording to Town Hall Chairman
Bobby Gonzales.
Students with activity cards
will pay $1.50 for general admis
sion tickets and $3 for reserved-
seat tickets. Other students must
pay $2 and non-students, $2.50.
“The Aggies are playing a bas
ketball game with Texas Christian
University here Saturday after
the Raiders’ show,” Gonzales said
explaining the choice of the date.
“The Raiders will be on a tour
of Texas and they asked to play
here, and it was just too good to
pass up,” he added.
“Paul Revere and the Raiders
are now firmly established as one
of the most powerful, exciting
groups in the world,” Gonzales
continued. “Paul Revere, Mark
Lindsay, Philip Volk, Jim Valley
and Michael Smith comprise the
group, which has arisen from the
Northwest part of the country.”
Valley is the latest addition to
the group, replacing Drake Levin
who started with the group, dur
ing the past year.
Some of the Raiders’ big hits
include “Kicks,” “Hungry,” “Just
Like Me,” “The Great Airplane
Strike,” “Him Or Me,” and “I
Had a Dream.” Best-selling al
bums on the charts have been
“Here They Come!” “The Spirit
of ’67,” Midnight Ride” and “Just
Like Us.”
Senate Plans Blood Drive
For Vietnam War Wounded
DPC MAKES WAY FOR THE NEW
Robert Bower Jr., acting director of Texas A&M’s Data Processing Center, looks over floor
plans as workmen prepare to install a powerful new third-generation IBM 360/65 compu
ter. DPC’s 7094 computer has been transferred to the Cyclotron Institute where it will be
used to monitor the operations of the giant “atom-smasher.” DPC is continuing to op
erate the 7094 until the new computer is ready shortly after the first of the year.
Aggies are being asked once
more to support America’s fight
ing men, this time with their own
blood.
T'he Student Senate will oper
ate a blood drive Dec. 11, 12 and
14 that will furnish blood for
soldiers in Vietnam. Donor regis
tration will be in the Memorial
Student Center Wednesday and
Thursday.
“The Senate felt that we should
have an opportunity to show our
support for our men in Vietnam,”
John Daly, drive chairman, said,
“and what better way than with
blood that might save someone’s
life?
“We first got the idea from
a Vietnamese War veteran who
told us of the need for fresh blood
in Vietnam,” Daly explained.
“Many times the blood that
the men are getting is old and
Spanish Civil War,
Vietnam Compared
The 8 p.m. Sunday meeting of
the Unitarian Fellowship will
feature Dr. David R. Woodward,
assistant professor in A&M’s De
partment of History, who will
discuss the parallelism of the war
in Vietnam with the Spanish
Civil War.
Dr. Woodward’s comparisons
will follow the showing of a film,
“To Die in Madrid”—a docu
mentary on the Spanish Civil
War. The meeting will be held
at the Unitarian Fellowship
Building at 305 Old Highway 6
South, College Station, at 8 p.m.
Sunday.
will not clot a wound as well as
fresh blood.
“The blood is being taken by
Blood Services of Houston, which
will take as many units of blood
that we can give and credit them
to an account with the Defense
Department,” he added.
“When the Defense Department
calls for the blood it will be flown
fresh to Vietnam.
“It’s just like a checking ac
count,” Daly explained. “We are
depositing blood and when the
Army wants blood it can get it
as easily as people write a check
for money in an account.”
Application Due
For II-S Status,
Registrar Notes
Texas A&M civilian and gradu
ate students must request student
deferment to remain in school,
reminded Registrar H. L. Heaton.
Local boards must receive writ
ten requests for II-S classifica
tion consideration.
Forms for undergraduate de
ferment requests are available at
the registrar’s office. Graduate
or professional students may
make such request by letter.
Col. Morris S. Schwartz, Selec
tive Service System state direc
tor, noted that until recently
Texas local boards classified
qualified graduate and profes
sional students in II-S without
the student request. Changes now
require the graduate student to
initiate the request.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
BB&L
WASHINGTON <A>) _ Secre
tary of Defense Robert S. Mc
Namara announced Wednesday
night he is resigning to become
president of the World Bank.
President Johnson followed
through with a statement that
major defense policies are clearly
defined and “the course of our
participation in the war in Viet
nam is firmly set.”
The two men issued statements
shortly after the executive direc
tors of the bank voted unani
mously to offer McNamara the
presidency of the 107-nation lend
ing agency.
THE FORMAL offer is ex
pected to come as soon as the
necessary other steps are com
pleted.
Johnson, said of McNamara,
“I shall miss him greatly as a
member of my cabinet, as one of
my closest colleagues and as my
valued friend.”
The President thus obviously
moved quickly to counter specula
tion that McNamara’s departure
might lead to a harder war line
in Vietnam.
The Chief Executive said that
while no precise date has been
fixed for McNamara’s departure,
“I have asked him to remain at
least long enough into next year
to complete the work on the mili
tary program and financial bud
get for fiscal year 1969.”
THAT BUDGET will be sub
mitted to Congress in January.
Johnson said McNamara had
assured him, even while saying
he was interested in the World
Bank post, that he was willing
to remain as secretary of defense
“so long as the President con
sidered it to be necessary.”
However, Johnson also said the
defense chief expressed the view
to him sometime ago that he be
lieves the military service” would
benefit from the appointment of
a fresh person.”
The President said that “I
could not justify asking Secre
tary McNamara indefinitely to
continue to bear the enormous
burdens of his position nor could
I, in justice to him and to this
nation’s obligations to the World
Bank, refrain from recommend
ing that he be selected as presi
dent of the bank.”
JOHNSON predicted that “it
will be possible for Secretary
McNamara’s successor to continue
his able and effective adminis
tration of the defense establish
ment and our program without
loss of momentum or effective
ness.”
Johnson was lavish in his
praise of McNamara, saying that
his service as a cabinet member
and counselor “has been unex
celled.”
McNamara, in a separate state
ment telling of his plans to take
the $40,000-a-year post, had also
said no date had been set for his
departure, but had agreed to re
main long enough to complete
work on the new defense budget.
IN ANNOUNCING his step-
down, McNamara generally left
unanswered a number of rumors
and speculation that had kept the
nation’s capital buzzing for two
days.
McNAMARA
But he did say the idea of him
assuming the World Bank presi
dency was presented as early as
last April 18 when George Woods,
present head of the institution,
“told me that he wished to recom
mend me” as his successor.
VISTA Booth,
Filins To Aid
In Recruiting
Recruiters for VISTA, Volun
teers in Service to America, are
manning a booth next to the post
office in the Memorial Student
Center this week.
Joe Cavanaugh of Providence,
R. I., and Vicki Samsel of Red
wood City, Calif., are seeking
volunteers for the “domestic
Peace Corps.”
Cavanaugh explained that any
resident of the U.S., 18 or older,
is eligible to apply. Married
couples may serve together if
they do not have dependents un
der 18 years of age.
The recruiting will show films
depicting work for VISTA, which
varies from city slums to Indian
reservations. The half-hour
films will be shown in room 3-D
of the MSC at 9:15 a.m., 11:15
a.m. and 2:15 p.m. Thursday and
Friday.
Volunteers receive $50 sub
sistence allowance per month, but
no salary, according to Cava
naugh, who worked two years in
Tanzania with the Peace Corps.
The volunteers will go through
six weeks of intensive training
before being sent to their first
assignment, somewhere in the 50
states or the District of Colum
bia, Cavanaugh said.
DPC Supervisor
Dies In Houston;
Rites Set Here
Derrel L. Brown, 50, tabulation
equipment supervisor at Texas
A&M’s Data Processing Center,
died early Wednesday in a Hous
ton hospital.
Brown had been a member of
the Data Processing Center staff
since July 2, 1962. Previously, he
worked as an IBM supervisor for
an insurance company and earlier
for the U. S. Treasury Depart
ment Procurement Division in
Tulsa, Okla.
Funeral services are set for 2
p.m. Friday in A&M’s All Faiths
Chapel. Tom Seay, minister of
the Highland Village Church of
Christ in Austin, will officiate.
Burial will be in the College
Station City Cemetery. Callaway-
Jones Funeral Home of Bryan has
charge of arrangements.
Survivors include the wife,
Jean; a son, Ronald, and a
daughter, Judith. The family
lives at 1111 Langford, College
Station.
$1,000 Check Given
By B-CS Chamber
The Bryan - College Station
Chamber of Commerce presented
Texas A&M a $1,000 check
Wednesday morning for use in
any manner deemed appropriate
by the university.
Chamber President J. B.
(Dick) Hervey presented the con
tribution during brief ceremonies
in the office of A&M President
Earl Rudder.
The check is the second award
ed by the chamber this year.
Hervey noted a third contribu
tion has been budgeted for the
current year.
The local organization of mer
chants and businessmen has made
similar awards to A&M for sev
eral years.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
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