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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1967
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By EDWIN Q. WHITE
Associated Press Writer
SAIGON O'P) — American in
fantrymen supported by fighter-
bombers and point-blank artillery
fire beat off wave assaults by
hundreds of troops Thursday on
a Special Forces camp near the
Cambodian border, where U. S.
commanders believe the Com
munists may be trying to lure
allied units into another major
battle.
The action occurred as the U.S.
Command announced the number
of Americans killed in the war
passed 15,000 last week. It said
212 were killed in the week, com
pared with 225 the week before,
bringing the total American bat
tle deaths to 15,058.
A MIXED Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese force fell back from
the U. S. camp at Bu Dop under
a storm of napalm and shrapnel
bombs after reaching a seven-
foot concrete cross in a Roman
Catholic cemetery 50 yards from
American lines.
Bu Dop, 80 miles north of Sai
gon, is four miles north of the
Bo Due government district
headquarters partly overrun by
Communist attackers Wednes
day. It is also near Loc Ninh,
scene of a week of heavy fight
ing early in November.
AT LOC NINH, the enemy
was believed aiming to divert
large American and South Viet
namese forces away from impor
tant rural pacification duties.
Four U. S. battalions were moved
as reinforcements and the
272nd Viet Cong Regiment paid
a stiff price — more than 900
killed.
Elements of the same regiment
were reported to have lost at
least 98 men in the latest fight
ing around Bu Dop and Bo Due.
A single battalion of the U. S.
1st Infantry Division was flown
in Wednesday to strengthen the
Bu Dop camp. American officers
said they were hoping to egg on
the enemy to a massed attack in
which superior allied firepower
could take a heavy toll.
ASSOCIATED PRESS corres
pondent John T. Wheeler reported
from Bu Dop that enemy mor
tars, antitank rockets and ma
chine guns opened up late Wed
nesday night. The firing from
rubber trees 100 yards away
buried three Americans under
five feet of earth and exploded
gasoline stores.
As 400 or more of the enemy
tried to charge well-dug-in Amer
ican positions, U. S. planes lit up
the area with flares. Helicopters
began firing machine guns and
rockets and Air Force jets drop
ped bombs and napalm. U. S.
artillery shells exploded so close
that shrapnel fell on American
lines.
U.S. SPOKESMEN reported 31
enemy bodies were found after
the battle ended at dawn and
Wheeler said blood trails indi
cated that large numbers of
enemy casualties had been drag
ged away. Seven Americans
were killed and 13 wounded.
F orces
Attack
“We did them a lot of damage.
If they want to come back, we’ll
do it again,” said Lt. Col. James
S. Cochran III of Tallahassee,
Fla., the battalion commander.
Other South Vietnamese forces
killed 130 North Vietnamese in a
six-hour engagement Wednesday
near Dak To, where the bloodiest
battle of the war ended last week.
Light casualties were reported
among the 800 government para
troopers.
THE WEEKLY casualty fig
ures from U. S. headquarters in
cluded the Dak To fighting. Be
sides the 212 Americans killed in
combat, South Vietnamese dead
were 261, down slightly from a
week earlier. Enemy killed to
taled 1,826, up shar-ply from 1,-
561 in the previous week.
There were 1,242 Americans
wounded and 66 missing or cap-
tured, compared with 1,256
wounded and 22 missing a week
earlier.
The total of Americans wound
ed rose to 94,469. The U. S.
Command said 44,420 of them
did not require hospitalization.
There were 39 noncombat cas
ualties in the week, bringing the
total in that category to 2,986.
IN OTHER action, the Viet
Cong continued mortar harass-
ments of government installa
tions. About 100 shells were fired
at a battalion base 20 miles
northwest of Saigon, then 30
more at a nearby government
sector headquarters, and later a
smaller barrage on government
troops a few miles to the south.
Poor weather limited strikes
by U. S. planes over North Viet
nam to 90. The targets included
two fuel storage areas near Hai
phong.
The U. S. Command said 758
American planes had been lost
over the North through Tuesday,
including one loss not announced
before.
Freshman Filing Closes;
Elections Set Wednesday
34 Hopefuls Try
For Class Offices
...... . ...
TRAFFIC BARRICADES
Concrete barriers installed Thursday to restrict traffic on the east side of the Memorial
Student Center following a minor accident involving a car and motorcycle. The barriers
will allow southbound traffic only on Houston Street between Lamar and Joe Routt Blvd.
Freshman Class officers and
Student Senate representatives
will be elected Wednesday in the
basement of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Among offices to be filled in
the 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. voting are
president, vice-president, secre
tary-treasurer and Socil Secre
tary. Four Student Senators and
five election commissioners also
will be elected, with each voter
alowed to vote for four candi
dates in the Senate race and
five in the Election Commission
race.
In order to vote, a freshman
must have his student identifica
tion card and student activy card,
Election Commission Chairman
Antony Benedetto said. Only per
sons whose ID number begins
with 67 will be alowed to vote
with 67 will be allowed to vote,
he added.
THE RUNOFF elcetion will be
December 13.
Eight students are in the race
Cyclotron Sets
‘Open House’
Those who have never seen a
cyclotron will have an opportun
ity Monday afternoon and night
when Texas A&M opens the mas
sive doors to its new $6 million
machine.
The public is invited to an
open house at the Cyclotron In
stitute from 3 to 5 p.m. and from
7 to 9 p.m. Monday.
Visitors will be able to see not
only the cyclotron with its huge
300-ton magnet, but will be
shown the complex control room
and console, various research lab
oratories and other support
equipment.
Cyclotron Institute members
will explain workings of the ma
chine and other devices which
give A&M one of the best nu
clear research tools in the na
tion.
School groups and science
classes are particularly welcomed
at the open house, cyclotron offi
cials said.
Barriers Put
On Houston St.
Traffic barricades were instal
led on the east side of the Memor
ial Student Center Thursday fol
lowing a morning accident invol
ving a car and motorcycle.
Col. Walter H. Parsons, physi
cal plants director, said the con
crete barriers will allow south
bound traffic only on Houston
Street between Lamar and Joe
Routt Blvd.
Lamar will be restricted to
westbound traffic only and mot
orists will be prohibited from
turning right onto Houston.
Traffic regulations will be iden
tical to those in force in the MSC
area until about a year ago, Par
sons noted. The barricades were
removed during a construction
project.
Two architecture students, El
bert R. Martin III and Donald
Roundtree, escaped serious injury
Thursday morning when their
motorcycle collided with a car
driven by Betty Kay Restivo,
freshman psychology major from
Bryan.
Martin, a sophomore from Bay-
town, was taken to the University
Hospital for observation.
Roundtree, a freshman from
Pittsburg, was treated for abra
sions and released.
Miss Restivo was not injured.
Heated Debate Hits Senate
On Cotton Bowl Seating
Students Thank
Team With Sign
Texas A&M students, faculty
and fans are signing their names
on the dotted line to show their
appreciation to the Aggie foot
ball team which captured the
Southwest Conference champion
ship.
Bill Faulkner of Bryan, project
chairman for the sponsoring
Alpha Phi Omega Chapter at
A&M, said members of the serv
ice organization felt students
ought to pat the Aggies on the
back for a job well done.
They built an eight-foot high
sign in the shape of a football
and emblazoned a Maroon Num
ber 1 on it, then attached paper
for signatures.
Signers were plentiful. In
two days, more than 4,000 signa
tures were affixed. Faulkner said
the sign should have more than
5,000 signatures before it is re
moved from the Memorial Stu
dent Center in about a week.
“Anybody is welcome to sign,”
he said. “Bear Bryan, Darrell
Royal . . . anybody!”
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adr.
Aggie Ring Chosen As Target
For First Cyclotron Action
CYCLOTRON TARGET
This ring top is the first
object ever used as a target
in Texas A&M University’s
$6 million cyclotron. The
intense beam of alpha par
ticles melted away one side
of the emblem.
Since this is the year of the
Aggies, it was only fitting that
the first target to be bombarded
in the new $6 million cyclotron
was the top of a 1967 class ring.
The scientists put it in the big
300-ton machine, punched but
tons and a 65 million electron
volt beam of alpha particles
zapped the 14-carat gold emblem
before you could say “atom
smasher.”
The idea was to make the ring
top slightly radioactive as a
keepsake.
The trouble was: “We nearly
melted it,” laughed Whitney A.
McFarlin, associate director of
the Cyclotron Institute.
Like a blowtorch on a pat of
butter, the intense beam of nu
clear energy liquified one side of
the ring top.
When the scientists pulled it
out of the machine, the ring top
registered 200 milliroentgens per
hour of radiation.
That’s why they’re keeping the
keepsake in a thick lead con
tainer.
Well, as they say, that’s half
life.
By BOB PALMER
Debate raged in the Student
Senate Thursday night over stu
dent seating for the Cotton Bowl
Classic on New Year’s Day.
The Senate finally decided,
after much heated discussion, to
sell the remaining 2,700 tickets
to both freshmen and sophomores
but would not sell any more date
tickets.
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan and Athletic Business
Manager Wally Groff explained
the ticket allotment to A&M
from the Cotton Bowl officials.
According to Groff, A&M is
allowing more tickets to students
than Alabama is receiving for all
persons. He also pointed out that
the University of Texas allowed
only 6,000 tickets for students
the Ihst time its team appeared
in the bowl.
Pat Rehmet, Deputy Corps
commander, told the Senate that
Cotton Bowl officials would not
allow “blocking-in” at the game
and that identification cards
would be checked closely at the
gate.
As a result of the ticket discus
sion, a committee was established
to study the possibility of re
served seating for students in
Kyle Field.
DEAN HANNIGAN also re
ported that telephones will be
installed in rooms of all dorms,
except Milner, Mitchell, Leggett
and Dorm 13, by the beginning of
the next fall semester.
The Senate decided on wail
phones, except for the new dorms,
which have connections for desk
models.
Rudder’s Brother
Dies At Brooke
Marshall Rudder, 54-year-old
brother of Texas A&M President
Earl Rudder, died Thursday
morning in the Brooke Army
Medical Center at San Antonio.
A San Antonio resident, Rud
der was a retired Army captain.
Services will be held at 1:45
p.m. Friday in the Homer-Mc-
Claugherty Funeral Home, 1322
North St. Mary’s Street, in San
Antonio. Burial will follow in
the Fort Sam Houston Cemetery.
Survivors include the widow,
several children and two other
brothers, John Rudder of Brady
and J. D., of Riverside, Calif.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
The phones will cost $2.50 per
person and will have individual
numbers.
SENATOR JOHN DALY an
nounced to the Senate upcoming
blood drives Dec. 12, 13 and 15
and Feb. 14, 15 and 16.
“The drive will be a symbol of
Aggie support for the American
fighting men in the Vietnam war,
to whom the blood is being sent,”
Daly said.
REGISTRATION for the drive,
which is in response to an appeal
by a Vietnamese war veteran,
will be Wednesday and Thursday
in the Memorial Student Center.
The blood, from 250 to 270
units a day, will be taken by
Blood Services of Houston, which
will credit it to an account that
the Defense Department can
draw on when it needs blood.
Daly pointed out that the drive
will not interfere with the an
nual one sponsored by Alpha Phi
Omega.
Head Yell Leader Neal Adams
opened discussion on means to
raise funds so that the band can
make longer road trips with the
football team.
THE SENATE voiced favor of
sending the band to the Arkan
sas and Texas Tech games and
the game with West Point in
1969. A committee was organ
ized to find the best way to raise
funds for the trips.
The Senate adopted an idea,
put forth by Barney Welch, to
give the fruit regularly collected
for the veterans hospital in Tem
ple to the local Boys Club.
The Temple hospital had ad
vised the Senate that it no longer
needed the fruit donated from the
Christmas supper.
David Howard reported to the
Senate that the YMCA is sending
Christmas cards to the 625 Ag
gies serving in Vietnam, remind
ing them that “they have not
been forgotten.”
ADAMS OUTLINES PLAN
Head Yell Leader Neal Adams explains his Band Fund
proposal to members of the Student Senate. At left is
Senator Jim Lehmann.
for president, including Charles
Wayne Adams, Stphen Joseph
Chiocca, Walter Dan Fischer,
Charles R. Hoffman, Dean C.
Mill, Nelson Barbee Nuckles,
Wiliam Shepard and Tery Lee
Wilson.
Among the six students run
ning for vice-president are John
William Bebout, Dennis Lloyd
Blaschke, John Roger Collins, E.
Windle Harper, Robert Edward
Smith and Ronald William Van
Orne, Jr.
Candidates for secretary-trea
surer are Thomas Champe Fitz-
hugh III. Edward Joseph Hickey,
Robert Andrew Nelson and David
A. Woods III. John Edward Ed-
miston, Michael Edward Godwin,
Paul Anthony Schopel, Jay V.
Smith and Danna Glenn Strebeck
are running for social secretary.
BATTLING FOR the four Stu
dent Senate positions are a field
of 22 candidates, including Otis
Carroll, John Martin Conrad,
Walter J. DeLury, Jr., William
Raymond Dierksen, Jesse Charles
Dipietra, Laurence Lee Duncan,
Stephen Carl Hang and James
Michael Hackedorn.
Also in the Student Senate
race are Fred Malcolm Hofstet-
ter, Wiliam D. Nordhaus, Donald
Mark Olson, Lonnie Dale Roberts,
Joseph L. Russo, Richard James
Rynearson and Jon Christopher
Simms. Other Senate candidates
are Robert Derrell Trimble, Gor
don Scott Vincent, Edward Law
rence Vogelpohl, Billy Wehring,
David Thomas Wesolka, James
Edward Wiley, Jr., and Michael
Allen Zwartjes.
In the race for the five election
commission spots are Daniel Balz-
er, Wiliam Louis Bechtol, Earl
Bruce Damron, Warren Thomas
Faulkner, Edward Andrew
Gould, Charles Dean Nelson, Rob
ert A. Osterholtz, Van Hunter
Taylor and Steve C. Voss.
BSU To Sponsor
‘Confrontations’
Christian Action Week, spon
sored by the A&M Baptist Stu
dent Union, concludes with “con
frontation” programs at 7:15 to
night and Saturday in Texas
A&M’s All Faiths Chapel.
Dr. John P. Newport, professor
of philosophy of religion at
Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Fort Worth, will be
the speaker for tonight’s “Phil
osophy Confronts Christianity”
presentation. He will discuss the
“new philosophies of life, sex, vo
cation, values and morality.
The Saturday night program is
entitled “Man Confronts Chris
tianity,” with Dr. Newport lead
ing a probe into “what makes
man tick.”
The series of “confrontation”
programs began Monday and
have covered history, science and
sociology.
Snowfall Prevents
Yarborough Visit
Nine inches of snow in Wash
ington, D.C., Thursday prevented
any planes from leaving the city
and forced Ralph Yarborough,
United States Senator from Tex
as, to cancel his trip to A&M to
speak at the Great Issues Politi
cal Forum last night.
According to Claude Davis, a
political forum committee mem
ber, Yarborough tried four air
ports in the Washington area
trying to find a flight out.
“He spent $40 in taxi fares
trying to find an airport with
planes still flying,” Davis said.
We are trying now to reschedule
him for the week of Dec. 10
through the 14th if possible.”
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adr.