THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH
Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, December 1, 1967
by Jim Earle
Another Problem
For The British
This may be one of the toughest months in the history
of America’s biggest European ally.
Britain it seems has been shot out of the saddle on
three occassions, all of them belittling Churchill’s “V” sign.
The biggest world headlines came when Britain de
valued the pound to $2.40 and created a temporary gold
rush which had Charles DeGaulle grinning at the prospects
of hindering United States economic position.
The devaluation had some Britains screaming for Prime
Minister Wilson’s head, and, as head, Wilson still remains
in a tender position.
Next, British troops completely evacuated the Protecto
rate of Yeadon, and left rule to its native inhabitants. The
British empire doesn’t seem to extend beyond London city
limits these days.
A third blight on the tiny North Seat island empire
has come in the form of hoof and mouth disease, which has
caused British farmers to kill more than 200,000 cattle,
sheep, pigs and goats in an attempt to halt the spread of the
disease.
Veterinarians say the epidemic is extremely contagious
and each new case means the slaughter of hundreds of
animals.
Although the farmer gets market value for his lost
stock, he gets nothing for lost milk yield, butter sales or
the cost of starting a new herd.
Minister of Agriculture Fred Peart insists the disease
is not out of control and that losses are less than one per
cent of Britain’s livestock. But he does admit that Britain
will lose almost $300,000 in exports. No boom for an already
faltering British economy.
We hope that a stiff upper lip and some good turns of
fate accompany an otherwise rainy winter outlook for our
Atlantic partners.
Fuller's Follies byjohnm
A few nights ago, CBS News
commentator Harry Reasoner de
voted several minutes of radio
airtime to a typically dry, semi-
tongue-in-check discussion of that
new giant of the airwaves, Victor
Lundberg’s ‘“An Open Letter To
My Teenage Son.” The record, a
fatherly chiding of a potential
draft-card-burner, is already a
solid hit on “Top 40” station
surveys—right up there with “In
cense and Peppermints,” “The
Rain, The Park & Other Things,”
and other things—but Reasoner
was not to be intimidated by
such a clear-cut mandate.
“It's pretty bad,” he noted,
with characteristic eloquence. But
what really concerned him was
the fact that Lundberg’s inept
attempt at misty-eyed patriotism,
complete with stirring back
ground music, was presuming to
represent Reasoner’s generation’s
views on America in the arena
of the Younger Generation-which
he suggested, is ready, willing
and able to pounce on such a
shoddy representative and rip it
AJOJ “S' 7
Sound Off
“I don’t think I could have made it if football season had
lasted one more week!”
AFROTC Offers
‘Acting Under Lord’s Guidance,’
Man, Wife Emerge From Vigil
LOS ANGELES (A’) — Say- day night, the first such illumina-
2-Year Program
The object of Air Force ROTC
is to place on active duty lieu
tenants who have the knowledge
and potential to become compe
tent leaders and managers. Be
sides the traditional four-year
program normally entered into
by freshmen, Texas A&M offers a
two-year program for students
who have only two years of aca
demic work remaining, at either
the undergraduate or graduate
level or through a combination
of the two. Entry into the two-
year program is on a competitive
basis. Applicants must pass the
Air Force Officers Quilifying
Test, the Air Foijeji physical ex
am, and be selected by an inter
view with officers of the A&M
Department of Aerospace Studies.
Emphasis is being placed on the
career areas most needed by the
Air Force: pilot, navigator, and
technical or scientific in that
order, according to Maj. H. H.
Wandry.
“Selectees must attend one six-
week Field Training course, held
on an Air Force base during each
summer semester. Trainees re
ceive travel pay both ways and
approximately $120 for the train
ing period, and are provided uni
forms and text books. Those who
successfully complete this train
ing and who meet all require
ments may then enroll as cadets
in the two-year Professional Off
icer Course upon return to camp
us in the fall.”
“Cadets in two-year POC re
ceive $50 per month in non-tax-
able pay. Interested senior cadets
who qualify for the Flight In
struction Program receive up to
36V2 hours of flying in light
aircraft provided by Texas Air-
motive Inc. at Easterwood Air
port. The program also includes
ground school in weather, navi
gation and civil air regulations.
Those who successfully complete
this program and pass the FAA
pilot’s licenses - all at Air Force
exam may receive their private
expense.” Wandry said.
“Upon graduation and commis
sioning, cadets who qualify may
request a delay from entry onto
active duty to complete graduate
work, either here at A&M or else
where. This advanced education is
pursued at the individual’s own
expense. However, AFROTC
graduates may also apply for
graduate training at Air Force
expense under the Air Force In
stitute of Technology (AFIT)
program. Those selected will re
ceive all pay and allowances of
a second lieutenant and will have
their tuition and fees paid by the
Air Force in return for an addi
tional service obligation after
graduation.”
Trigon officials to see concern
ing your interest in Air Force
ROTC are Maj. H. H. Wandry
(Two-Year Program Representa
tive), Col. V. L. Head (PAS),
or Col. W. M. Coble (Assistant
PAS).
ing they acted “under the Lord’s
guidance,” three members of a
family of nine emerged today
from their home after seven
months of near-continuous seclu
sion in a religious vigil.
Robert Holt, 36, and his wife
Loyce, 33, surrendered to sher
iff’s deputies who held a war
rant for their arrest for keeping
their young daughter out of
school. Leaving the house with
them was Holt’s sister, Ella
Mae Johnson, 40.
Beleived remaining in the
two-story home in southern Los
Angeles were the daughters,
Robbie, 6, and Sally, 9; Holt’s
mother; brother Ralph, and Mrs.
Johnson’s sons, Clinton, 17 and
Andrew, 19.
Deputies converged on the
home this morning to talk the
Holts into surrendering or to
serve the warrant. Holt earlier
had said they would not come
out “until God instructs us to.”
Holt told deputies today they
were leaving the home “under
the Lord’s guidance” and that
the Lord had told him the
$35,000 rented house was hal
lowed ground.
The nine were without elec
tricity, heat or furniture and the
source of food was unknown. No
one was seen entering or leav
ing the house for weeks.
Sheriff’s Capt. Walter D. All-
sop said the Holt girls “seemed
healthy and well fed” and were
clad in pajamas when he viewed
them through a partly opened
front door today.
He said the inside of the home
appeared clean and neat.
Neighbors had said they saw
what appeared to be candles
burning in the residence Wednes-
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The Holts were taken before
Municipal Court Judge Harry
Schaffer who had issued the
warrant after they failed to ap
pear in court Monday.
The couple pleaded guilty Oct.
2 to misdemeanor charges of
keeping the girls out of school.
But the judge refused to accept
the pleas, saying he felt there
was a serious constitutional
question involved and they
should be allowed to voice their
views in court.
Howdy,
Fish Nelson (Barb) Nuckles is
my name. I am runing for fish
class president.
I can make you the best presi
dent that the freshman class
ever had. I am experienced in
leadership roles up to the state
level in 4-H. I have a 2.4091 grade
point ratio, and I am a fish waiter
in Duncan Mess Hall.
We can make the class of ’71
the best class that ever hit this
campus if we all work together
to preserve the traditions of
Aggieland.
I hope to be able to meet my
fish buddies before the elections,
but in the event that I do not see
you before then, remember fish
Nuckles is the best man for the
job when you vote on Dec. 6.
Sincerely,
fish Nuckles (Barb)
BEAT THE CLASS OF ’71 HELL
OUT OF ALABAMA !!!!!!
to shreds.
WHICH, OF COURSE, it has
done. Radio stations across the
country have sponsored contests
for an answer to the sermon, and
suddenly hunderds of teenagers
have become Crusaders for Hu
man Dignity.
All this could have passed into
history, to be resurrected by fu
ture compilers of trivia quizzes,
had not another major recording
company released a defiant
“Letter From a Teenage Son.”
Now the issue, as the history
books put it, is joined.
We received a promotional copy
of the record this week, along
with a new release telling the
warm and wonderful story behind
the record and how it became a
reality.
“PLEASE GIVE a listen to
‘Letter From a Teenage Son,”
the accompanying letter pleaded,
“and you’ll quickly realize why
it is the best reply so far re
corded.”
Well, we listened to the record,
which is narrated by “youthful
Chicagoan Brandon Wade” (a
name at least as unlikely as Vic
tor Lundberg) and backed by
21 members of the Chicago Sym
phony Orchestra playing—really
and truly-movement from Ravel’s
“Mother Goose Suite.” The re
ply makes the predictable inroads
into Lundberg’s unpredictable
logic, climaxing with a grudging
promise not to “embarrass you or
Mother by buring my draft card,”
but reserving the right “to ex
press what I feel in my heart.”
Admirable sentiments, lad,;
sort of thing that Made Our]
tion What It Is Today, But 3 |
the future, couldn’t you and y,,
dad just send letters to each oil
through the mail, like everyh
else ?
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SATURDAY
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Wives Club will have a eovei
dish super at 6 p.m. in the
Solarium of the YMCA. Faci
and husbands are invited.
The W.S.C.S. of the A. and!
Methodist Church in College Sli
tion will sponsor a Christ!
Bazaar Saturday, at 4:00 p.m,i
the church.
A chicken spaghetti suppen
be served 5-7:30 p.m. Tickets lt|
the supper will be $1.25forado!
and 50 cents for children.
MONDAY
The Industrial Education Win
Club will hold its Christ:
party at 8 p.m. in the home:
Mrs. Clint Bertrand. New offi«
and the outstanding memben
be elected.
TUESDAY
The MSC Bridge Commitl
will meet in the Art Room of I
Memorial Student Center fn
7-10 p.m.
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