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I-8-7-3- :ks (5 ifar Runoffs For Fish Needed Offices Freshmen elected four Student Senators and five election com missioners and narrowed the field of class officer candidates to 11 Wednesday in class elections. A runoff will be held Wednes day in the basement of the Me morial Student Center to decide the officer races, Election Com missioner Gerald Geistweidt said. Freshmen president candidates in the runoff will be Stephen J. Chiocca, Charles R. Hoffman and Willliam Shepard. Running for vice-president will be John W. Nance Elected To ASA Post Dr. J. M. Nance, history and government department head at Texas A&M, has been elected vice president of the American Studies Association of Texas for 1967-68. The association will meet on the A&M campus in 1969. Dr. Nance is a member of the Texas chapter’s executive coun cil. He was named vice president at the annual chapter meeting on the University of Houston campus over the weekend. Several graduate students in English at Texas A&M joined faculty members in attending the Houston meeting. Prof. Lloyd C. Taylor presented a paper on “Anne Morrow Lindbergh and American Transcendentalism.” Others going to Houston in cluded Professors J. P. Abbott and Herbert H. Lang. The association attempts the study of American civilization from many directions t o see America as a whole rather than from the viewpoint of a single discipline, Dr. Nance said. Mem bers come from many fields in cluding literature, history, philos ophy, art, architecture, govern ment economics, journalism, science and sociology. Bebout, Dennis L. Blaschke, and John R. Collins. The secretary - treasurer post will be decided between Thomas C. Fitzhugh and Edward J. Hic key. Michael E. Godwin, Paul A. Scopel and Danna G. Strebeck will run for social secretary. Twenty - three candidates had applied for the offices. The four Student Senator mem bers, elected from a field of 22 candidates, are John M. Conrad, with 161 votes; Fred Hoffstetter, 213; William D. Nordhaus, 179; and Simms, 161. Election commissioners named were Bruce Damron, Edward A. Gould, Charles D. Nelson, Van H. Taylor and Warren T. Faulkner. Faulkner led the balloting with 359 votes. Of the 661 votes cast for presi dent, Chiocca fielded 103, Hoff man 105 and Shepard 153. The top vice - presidential candidate, Blaschke, got 131 votes to Be- bout’s 129 and Collins’ 115. Fitzhugh set the pace with 187 votes in the secretary-treasurer race, followed by Hickey with 183. In the Social secretary voting, G'odwin led with 152 votes. Geist weidt said Wednesday’s election rules will require freshmen to show identification and activity cards. Bombing North ‘Costly,’ Hilsman Tells SCONA Keynote Address Hits U. S. Policies Aggie Players Set Christmas Plays The Aggie Players will present two Christmas plays at five dif ferent Bryan-College Station lo cations next week, announced Director C. K. Esten. “A Child Is Born” and “Gift of the Magi” will open at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Fatiout Theater at Texas A&M’s Guion Hall. The production will move to the First Baptist Church of College Station Monday night and to the First Baptist Church of Bryan Wednesday. Allen Academy will host the presentation Thursday, with the concluding performance set Fri day at Crestview nursing home. The two admission-free plays will be directed by Kathleen Heaton, librarian at A&M Con solidated Junior High School. Cast includes Thelma McGill, Ron Becker, Ruth Reeves, Rene Saenz, Jim Weyhenmeyer, Roger Killingsworth, Pat Phillips, Dan O’Sullivan, Cal Easterling and Miss Heaton. Cynthia Smith will be in charge of lighting and Ed Collins Jr., sound. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. Thieves Take A&M Emblems Campus security officials are looking for burglars who are especially fond of items em blazoned with Aggie emblems. Ed E. Powell, campus secur ity chief, said burglars took an estimated $1,000 in merchan dise last weekend from the Me morial Student Center Gift Shop warehouse in the MSC basement. The burglary was discovered by MSC employes. Powell said the burglars gained entrance to the ware house through a ventilator fan which connects to an under ground steam tunnel. MSC Business Manager Bill Lancaster said missing mer chandise included sweatshirts, mugs, bronze bookends and desk sets. Eubank Presents Plasma Report Dr. P. T. Eubank, associate professor of chemical engineer ing, presented a key technical paper on plasma heat transfer at the American Institute of Chem ical Engineers’ recent convention in New York. The paper, co-authored by A&M doctoral candidate J. R. Johnson, was entitled “Empirical Correla tion and Experimental Results for Radial Heat Transfer from a Plasma Stream.” Dr. Eubank’s presentation de scribed an experiment dealing with heat transfer from a plasma jet moving through a circular pipe. Results of the investigation have application to problems in chemical synthesis, power genera tion from nuclear fusion reactions and spacecraft re-entry. SCONA DISCUSSION SCONA XIII delegates Steven R. Rader, left, and John Dodson of the U. S. Military Acad emy discuss conference topics with Francis McKenna of A&M during a break in Wednes day’s sessions. The conference continues through Saturday afternoon. Communists Destroy Village In Flame Thrower Attack By PETER ARNETT Associated Press Writer DAKSON, Vietnam <A>> — The simple Montagnards of Dakson had only recently learned how to use matches, and flame throwers were beyond their imagination. Then, in one horrifying hour these weapons of fire, wielded by Communist troops, wreaked death and destruction against them. “They threw fire at us,” was how the survivors described the attack one of the most vicious of the war against Vietnam’s civil ian population. Sixty thatched-roof houses, built in four neat rows late last year, were razed just after Mon day midnight. The ashes blew across carcasses of water buffa lo slaughtered near the hamlet’s bamboo fence. A DAY LATER rows of bodies of women and children were lying- under the one shady tree on the hill. On the lid of a basket were the bodies of a tiny brother and sister, still clinging to each other. Like all the other bodies at Dak son, they were blistered by the flame throwers. By late Wednesday, 63 bodies had been dragged from the bunk ers where the population hid when the Viet Cong forces first launched their attack. More were expected to be dug up. American and Vietnamese offi cials at the scene estimated that as many as 114 civilians may have died. AT LEAST 47 were wounded, 33 burned seriously. Four hun dred villagers were missing, pre sumedly driven into the jungled countryside by the Communists. Scores more of the 2,008 pop- University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. ulation of Dakson are probably intjured. Some were dragging themselves into the provincial hospital at Song Be Wednesday. The province chief, Lt. Col. Nxuyen Duong Huy, described it as “a calculated Communist at tempt to frighten the Montag- nard population away from the government — the stakes are high.” The people are from the Steng tribe, a 20,000-strong Montag- nard group that comprises nearly half the population of Phuoc Long Province. THE STENG women go bare breasted and the men wear sim ple loincloths. They are nomads who move back and forth across the neighboring Cambodian bor der. Many have been used by the Communists for years to car ry loads. The Saigon government late in 1966 won several thousand Stengs to its side and these people set tled in “New Life” hamlets around Song Be, the province capital that sits lonely and vul nerable in the Vietnamese pied mont 80 miles northeast of Sai gon. “The Stengs are pawns in this war,” one American refugee of ficer commented. THE VIET CONG had made it clear this year that it wanted them all back under Red control. Emissaries visited the new ham lets, warning inhabitants that their houses would be burned un less the Montagnards returned to the jungles. Dakson was singled out as an example. The Communists tried three previous attacks on it; two of these were beaten off, the third partly succeeded. Some of the people fled in the darkness. Others cowered in the flimsy bamboo houses. many crawled into the deep bunkers dug into the houses’ earthen floors. THE VIET CONG moved with precision, according to one of the wounded survivors, a man named Duot. He heard them shouting in his language for him to get out and leave, but he was too frightened to move. He saw a shadow in his door way, then a yet of flame shot out, searing his back and shoul ders. As his house began to burn he crawled out. All around him, he said, men were running and “flames were shooting in the air.” Americans at Song Be across the valley said the hamlet seemed to be ablaze in minutes. SOME OF the dead were charred in the houses. Most ap peared to have died as the jets of the flame throwers shot into the tiny houses and into the open ings of the bunkers, asphyxiating those not killed in the thrust of flame. The Communists made little attempt to chase the defense force that had retreated to the south. Instead they melted back into the jungle. “We have to build Dakson and get the people back in there,” said province chief Huy. “It is important that we show the Viet Cong that the people will not be driven out. Right now the Mon tagnards are a little frightened. But they want to go back and build.” CEMETERY SCENE OF BATTLE OF BU DOP Framed by bullet-scarred crosses, an American gunship helicopter flutters in for landing at perimeter of U. S. Special Forces camp at Bu Dop, South Vietnam. The cemetery is located on the edge of airstrip and marks the deepest penetration of attacking Communist forces which were driven off by units of U. S. 1st Infantry Division and South Vietna mese. (AP Wirephoto) Housing Council Ponders Pets Texas A&M’s University Apartment Council has been asked to conduct a survey on the desirability of pets in university- operated apartments, announced Jim Boswell, council president. The council will discuss the subject of pets and make recom mendations at a 5:15 p.m. meet ing Wednesday in the Architec ture Building. Boswell urges residents of Hen- sey. College View and Southside to contact their area representa tives if they wish to express an opinion. Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. BB&L Prof To Study African Game Dr. James G. Teer, associate professor of wildlife science at Texas A&M, is enroute to Africa in conjunction with the Caesar Kleberg Foundation research program in wildlife ecology. Dr. Richard J. Baldauf, acting department head, said the pro gram was initiated early this year at A&M through an annual $200,000 grant for seven years by the Caesar Kleberg Founda tion for Wildlife Conservation. As program leader, Dr. Teer will review game ranching pro grams in several countries of Central and East Africa. He is to develop a cooperative arrange ment with the Serengeti Research Institute in Tanzania and the Mammal Research Institute of the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The arrangement involves re search programs for A&M wild life science staff members and graduate students. American bombing will not be decisive in causing North Viet nam to quit fighting, an authority on Southeast Asia emphasized Wednesday in an address at Texas A&M. Dr. Roger Hilsman, former as sistant secretary of state for Far Eastern Affairs, said the bombing of North Vietnam is costing the U. S. heavily politically through out the world. Hilsman was the keynote speak er for the 13th Student Confer ence on National Affairs, which attracted 150 delegates from 40 universities and colleges in 18 states, Canada and Mexico. Now a government professor at Columbia University, Hilsman said bombing has already cost the U. S. a billion dollars, with esti mates of damage set at $340 mil lion. He said the military argues continuing bombing costs dollars, not lives, but he noted the U. S. has lost 600 pilots in the war. HILSMAN SAID our military forces “have fought superbly” and casualties are “far below that of the enemy.” Because of the U. S. military success, Hils man believes the logical pressure of events will lead to an invasion of North Vietnam within the next several months. Nothing will be achieved by escalation of the bombing, he claimed, adding that escalation would greatly increase the dan ger of a third world war. Hilsman said stopping the bombing would create such a cli mate that the U. S. could re-ex amine its objectives. He con tended that the U. S. does not need to make Southeast Asia a bastion of anti-Communism. “The climate caused by the cessation of bombing will put the political pressures for negotia tions directly on Hanoi,” Hilsman observed, “and at the same time help to return the responsibility of the war to the Vietnamese.” “I BELIEVE Vietnam is not a domino,” he commented. “I be lieve it is the last Asian nation in which the Communists will capture dominance of the leader ship.” Asian nationalism is the only thing that can stop Communism there. He said the people have the desire to modernize and have a hand on the steering wheel of the planet. Hilsman called Red China a “regional power” which will “sooner or later be a world pow er.” He said it is unlikely that the Chinese will launch any direct attack on neighbors although they do want to use limited and cautious military force to achieve political domination of Southeast Asia. The speaker scolded the admin istration for contending that American dissenters strengthen the enemy’s will to resist. “This is dangerous nonsense,” Hilsman remarked. “First, it strikes at the roots of democracy. And it underestimates the strength of the enemy. The North Vietnamese recognize that guys with beards and sandals do not make the political decisions of the United States.” TONIGHT’S MAJOR speech event is a panel presentation, “Stability in Southeast Asia,” set for 8 p.m. in the Memorial Stu dent Center. Panelists are Tracy S. Park Jr., director of research for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Com pany of Houston; Anand Panyar- achun, Thailand’s ambassador to the United Nations; and Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky, economics profes sor at Georgetown University and economics editor of the American Security Council’s “Washington Report.” Park replaces Lloyd N. Hand, former chief of protocol for the U. S. State Department, who withdrew because of a conflict ing committment. Panyarachun is the panel’s chairman. KEYNOTE ADDRESS Dr. Roger Hilsman, former assistant secretary of state for Southeast Asian affairs, speaks on “The Price of Peace in Southeast Asia,” topic of the SCONA session. In the back ground is David Maddox of the Great Issues Committee, which is helping to sponsor the conference. TTI Economy Director Invited To Symposium In Washington Dr. William G. Adkins, head of the highway economy department of the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M, has been invited to participate in the Sym posium on Communities of To morrow and National Growth and Its Distribution, December 11 and 12 in Washington, D. C. The meeting is sponsored by six U. S. cabinet departments—agri culture; housing and urban de velopment; commerce; health, education and welfare; labor; and transportation. Discussions will involve living and working space for the U. S. population of the future which is expected to in crease by 100 million Americans by the year 2000, according to the Symposium’s sponsors. The agenda will include also such topics as mobility, capital, and labor, and the cities, towns, and countryside of the future. Dr. Adkins has conducted ex tensive research studies at TTI involving land values and land use and other economic and social factors associated with the im provement of transportation fa cilities. - • • 7,:. . .> • .* V..-, / .V .Y— \V. \ , .\ .• . v . * V A * •: % :• ’•' W? 4'zm*' v