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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1967
Number 515
jjDrs. Trager, Pye
1 Agree On War
Fish To Elect Officers
In Run-Off Wednesday
Shepard, Hoffman
Vie For Top Spot
BLOOD DONORS
Robert G. McAndrew, left, and Dennis Gant, right, give blood for the Student Senate’s
Vietnam Blood Drive as medical technician Len Walker of Blood Services of Houston
watches. Chairman John Daly said he hopes the drive, which continues Tuesday, Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday from 8 a. m. to 5p. m. in the Memorial Student Center base
ment, will produce 700 units for U. S. fighting men in Vietnam.
Issues Speaker Describes
‘Knee Deep 9 Navy’s War
—
A professor of international af
fairs and a political science pi-o-
fessor seemed to agree that bomb
ing of North Vietnam is not the
only answer to winning the war,
in speeches at the 13th Student
Conference on National Affairs at
A&M last week.
They wore Dr. Frank N. Tra
ger, professor of international af
fairs ir the Graduate School of
Public Administration at New
DR. JACK WILLIAMS
Commencement
Speaker Namefl
Dr. Jack K. Williams, commis
sioner of the Texas College and
University Coordinating Board,
will be commencement speaker for
the Texas A&M’s mid-term grad
uation exercises, announced A&M
President Earl Rudder.
Graduation ceremonies are
scheduled for 10 a.m. January 20
in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Dr. Williams, who assumed the
coordinating board’s top adminis
trative post in August, 1966, was
associated with Clemson Univer
sity nearly 20 years before com
ing to Texas. After serving 10
years as a history px*ofessor, he
was named graduate dean in 1957,
dean of the university in 1960
and vice president three years
later.
A native of Galax, Va., he holds
three degrees in American history
and political science from Emory
University. He also studied on the
graduate level at the University
of Virginia and University of
Kentucky.
Dr. Williams is a former presi
dent of the Council of Academic
Vice Presidents of Southern Uni
versities and served two terms as
a member of the executive coun
cil for the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools’ Commis
sion on Colleges.
Transportation officials from
throughout the nation converge
on Texas A&M this week for a
three-day conference on railroad
highway grade crossing safety.
The Grade Crossing Safety
Symposium, sponsored by the
Texas Transportation Institute
and the United States Depart
ment of Transportation, is ex
pected to draw 175 participants
from 30 states.
A. Scheffer Lang, federal rail
road administrator, will open the
symposium at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday
with a review of the agenda. He
also will introduce panelists for
“Significance of the Railroad
Grade Crossing Problem.”
Party Will Honor
Foreign Students
A Christmas party honoring
international students and their
families is scheduled Friday
night in the Memorial Student
Center ballroom.
Dr. Jack Gray, director of the
hosting International Programs
Office, said more than 400 per
sons are expected to attend the 7
to 9 p.m. party.
Faculty-staff and students who
have worked closely with interna
tional students have been invited
as special guests. No formal
program is planned, Gray noted.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
York University, and Dr. Lucian
Pye of the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology.
Dr. Trager said despite the
views of some, the United States
has a commitment in Southeast
Asia and that American dissent
on the war adds to Hanoi’s will
ingness to resist.
“Those who say we have no
commitment belie the history of
Southeast Asia,” he said.
On the bombing issue, Dr. Tra
ger said that power is too often
interpreted to mean “bombing”
the North.
“Power also means old fash
ioned foot soldiers and Marines
fighting the enemy on land, and
seapower isolating the enemy
from sources of resupply by wat
er,” Dr. Trager said.
Dr. Pye’s alternative to the es
calating of the bombing of the
North, was for the U. S. to do a
better job of policing the South
Vietnamese borders.
“We need to eliminate raiders
along the South Vietnamese bor
ders and demilitarized zone,” he
said. “If raids and infiltration by
the enemy decline, I think our
pace of activity also could begin
to decline.”
After a settlement is eventually
reached in Vietnam, Pye forsees
a program of economic and social
development and commitment for
containment of Communist ex
pansion by the United States.
Dr. Trager and Dr. Pye were
roundup speakers for SGONA,
which attracted 14 5 delegates
from 53 universities and colleges
in the United States, Canada and
Mexico. The four days of discus
sions were related to the theme,
“The Price of Peace in Southeast
Asia.”
Funeral Services
Held For Moore
Funeral services were held
Sunday for Dr. A. V. Moore,
retired professor of dairy science
at Texas A&M, who died of an
apparent heart attack at his
home Friday afternoon.
Burial was in the College Sta
tion Cemtery under the direction
of the Hillier Funeral Home.
Dr. Moore, who resided at 205
W. Brookside in Bryan, retired
last year after 29 years of service
at Texas A&M.
A native of Cincinnati, the 61-
year-old educator received his
B.S. and M.S. degrees from Pur
due and Ph.D. from Michigan
State. He also taught at Purdue
before coming to Texas A&M.
Survivors include the widow
and one son.
Peter B. Spivak of the Michigan
Public Service Commission will
chair the panel. Members include
M. A. Ross, vice president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen; Marvin
Blakeney Jr., vice president of
East Texas Motor Freight Lines
Inc., and Leonard I. Lindas of
the Nevada Department of High
ways.
Charles J. Keese, director of
the Texas Transportation Insti-
tue, will discuss “Vehicle-Train
Conflicts at Grade Crossings” in
a 10:15 a.m. presentation.
Tuesday’s luncheon speaker
will be Thomas Goodfellow, presi
dent of the Association of Ameri
can Railroads.
Workshops will highlight
Wednesday’s activities. A featur
ed talk also is slated by Oscar
M. Laurel, member of the Na
tional Transportation Safety
Board.
Thursday’s principal speaker
will be Under Secretary of
Transportation Everett Hutchin
son. He will cover recently an
nounced federal grade crossing
safety programs.
Workshops are planned regard
ing ratings, accident records—
including reporting and analysis,
communication and control sys
tems and public responsibility.
Dr. C. V. Wootan, TTI’s asso
ciate director, is the conference
summary speaker.
Lt. C’omdr. David. C. Wright,
USN, gave a film slide presenta
tion on the “knee-deep Navy’s”
operations in the Mekong Delta,
South Vietnam.
A turn-away Great Issues audi
ence in the Memorial Student
Center heard Wright, an A&M
graduate student in chemical
oceanography, describe the work
of the men in the river patrol
|boats and those in the other serv
ices that cooperate with them.
The color slides showed clearly
the deep green of the VietCong-
infested rain forests, the rusty
brown of the rice paddies, the
light blue of the main channel
and the dirty brown of the canals.
“The Mekong Delta is the pri
mary military objective of the
war,” Wright said. “It has 90
per cent of the country’s rice
and 50 per cent of the people.
“In the wet season the delta
has 5,000 miles of waterways,
and during the dry season 2,500,”
Wright reported.
This figure is compared to the
only 200 miles of roads in the
‘Fun House’ Set
By Architecture
“One great big fun house for
the children.”
That’s an architecture profes
sor’s description of the way Tex
as A&M’s School of Architecture
will look next Tuesday for a spe
cial Christmas display.
Results of the extravaganza
will be labeled “A Christmas
Happening,” announced Assistant
Professor Norman Ufer.
“Each class is working to make
a fun area out of a specific sec
tion of the building,” he ex
plained. “The students have a lot
of unique ideas which should add
of interest to the displays.”
Among the projects will be
pinatas, games with prizes, a
giant sliding board which will
come down two floors, mazes,
three dimensional puzzles, and
continuous showings of special
Christmas movies.
Ufer said all local elementary
school children are especially in
vited to participate in the fes
tivities. Children of A&M fami
lies also are invited to joint the
activities.
The fun house will open at 1
p.m. Tuesday, with no definite
closing hour set.
“We want to allow plenty of
time because we realize everyone
is bustling about getting ready
for Christmas,” Ufer said.
Some 500 architecture students
are working on the project.
area, most of them controlled by
the VietCong.
“These rivers are the highways
for the people and the enemy
too,” Wright remarked.
“Most of the VC funds come
from the delta where they are
either impressed or stolen.
“When we first arrived on the
river, the enemy’s tax collectors
could operate freely on it,”
Wright said. “He would collect
a percentage from the farmers
on their way to market.
“These tax collectors are in
sidious individuals. By the time
the farmer reaches market, he
does not have much left after
both the government and VC tax
collectors have finished with
him.”
The Viet Cong taxers are off
the river, Wright claimed, and
if the farmer can reach the main
river he will be safe.
Wright discussed the method
by which VC control much of the
delta area.
“The way the Viet Cong con
trols — by fear — is the hardest
thing for Americans to under
stand,” he said. “It is like the
syndicate in the city ghettoes.
They move in and remove the
head man and put in one of their
own.
“Often this new head man will
be one of the villagers and will
be accompanied by a propaganda
officer and a couple squads of
local toughs,” he added.
“We cannot win the war until
every one of these local guys is
identified and rooted out,”
Wright stressed.
One of the ways that the VC
maintain control is through ter
rorism. One case Wright sighted
was when two 17-year-old girls
set off a mine in a street packed
with people, killing 17 and injur
ing 49.
Wright went into detail, de
scribing patrol work on the
rivers.
During the first six months
that Navy personnel patrolled the
twisting rivers, they merely let
the enemy know they were
around and had orders not to
shoot to kill.
After that initial period, any
time a boat tried to run on them,
the boat was destroyed
“Every day, 2,000 craft use
the rivers, and the Navy has to
inspect and control them with
300 men and 80 boats,” Wright
said.
“The fiberglass patrol boats,
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with speeds up to 25 knots, have
only their crew’s courage for
armor,” he said. “The four-man
crews, commanded by a petty
officer, are armed with three 50-
calibers, two grenade launchers,
five M-16 rifles and two M-60
machine guns.
“A Vietnamese National Mari
time Policeman accompanies each
two-boat patrol, and we turn
everyone we capture over to him,”
he noted. “If they start firing
at us, we assume they are Viet
Cong and act accordingly.”
Wright described actions in
which the VC had constructed
bunkers on the river banks and
would fire on the boats from the
protected positions. In cases like
these, helicopter gunships would
be called in for close support.
Lt. Eugene L. Butler, USN,
who worked with Wright on the
river, aided in answering ques
tions after the talk. He is a 1963
graduate of A&M.
J. S. Bach Group
To Perforin Here
The J. S. Bach Society of Hous
ton will perform Thursday in the
Memorial Student Center ball
room under auspices of the MSC
Town Hall Artists’ Showcase.
Headed by Albert Hirsh, musi
cal director and pianist, the J. S.
Bach Society presentation is set
for 8 p.m.
Musicians in the Society in
clude Fredell Lack, violin; Shir
ley Trepel, cello; Albert Muenzer,
violin; Marcella Boffa, violin;
Wayne Crouse, viola; Stephen
Gorisch, cello; Keith Robinson,
double-bass; David Colvig, flute;
and Raymond Weaver, oboe.
Soloists are John Druary, ten
or; Stephen Harbachick, bari
tone; and Jean Preston, soprano.
All have professional opera ex
perience and are members of the
University of Houston music fac
ulty.
Town Hall Chairman Robert
Gonzales said student activity
card and Town Hall season ticket
holders will be admitted free.
Gonzales said season tickets for
the remaining three programs are
on sale for $4.50. Children 12
years old and under will be ad
mitted free. Single performance
tickets are $2 for adults, $1 for
students.
Remaining programs include
the University of Texas Harp
Ensemble Feb. 28 in the Bryan
Civic Auditorium and Daniel and
Carol Domb performing a duo
program of cello and violin March
28 in the MSC ballroom.
Freshmen will elect class of
ficers Wednesday in run-off bal
loting in the basement of the Me
morial Student Center.
Officers to be elected include
president, vice-president, secre
tary-treasurer, and social secre
tary.
Presidential candidates will be
William Shepard and Charles R.
Hoffman, who led the balloting
in last week’s primary. Vice-
president will be chosen between
John W. Bebout and Dennis L.
Blaschke.
In the secretary - treasurer’s
race, Thomas C. Fitzhugh will
run against Edward J. Hickey.
Social secretary candidates in
clude Michael E. Godwin, Paul A.
Scopel and Dana G. Strebeck.
Four Student Senate represen
tatives and five Election Com
mission members were elected in
the primary.
SENATORS ARE John M. Con
rad, Fred Hoffstetter, William D.
Nordhaus and Jon C. Simms. Elec
tion commissioners are Bruce
Damron, Edward A. Gould, Char
les D. Nelson, Van H. Taylor and
Warren T. Faulkner.
Some 54 freshmen applied for
the primary elections.
W. Vernon Wright of Dallas,
president of Wright Asphalt
Products Co., presented Texas
A&M $4,000 Monday for estab
lishment of undergraduate schol
arships in the field of petroleum
asphalt.
Wright also pledged $2,000
contributions during 1968 and
1969 and expressed hopes of con
tinuing his financial assistance
programs in succeeding years.
The ward was made in the of
fice of A&M Engineering Dean
Fred Benson. Joining Dean Ben
son in accepting the funds were
Dr. Charles Samson, head of
A&M’s Civil Engineering Depart
ment, and Charles R. Foster, di
rector of the A&M-based Na
tional Asphalt Pavement Asso
ciation.
Scholarships averaging $500
per year will be awarded to at
least six students who plan ca
reers in areas related to petro
leum asphalt.
University officials said civil
engineering students will be the
principal source for “W. Vernon
Wright Scholarships in Petro
leum Asphalt,” but chemistry,
chemical engineering and petro
leum engineering students also
will be eligible.
Each recipient will be desig
nated an undergraduate research
“Last week’s voting turnout
was pretty disappointing,” Elec
tion Commission Chairman Tony
Benedetto said. “We're hoping for
a much better number of voters
in Wednesday's runoff election.”
Benedetto noted that 661 fresh
men, or approximately 30 per
cent of the class, voted in that
election.
“Freshmen should realize that
these people they’re voting on
now will probably be in leader
ship positions for the rest of the
time they’re here,” Benedetto said.
“They should take a special in
terest in voting for the candi
dates of their choice.”
THE BALLOTING will be con
ducted by election commissioners
from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. In order
to vote, a freshman must have
his student identification card
and student activity card, Bene
detto added.
Only persons whose ID number
begins with 67 will be allowed
to vote, he said.
In last year’s freshman class
primary elections, more than 950
votes were cast for eight posi
tions. This represented more than
50 per cent of the class enroll
ment, Benedetto noted.
participant and be assigned as an
assistant to a professor engaged
in petroleum asphalt research.
The student also will be required
to complete at least one research
project each year.
A committee appointed by Dr.
Samson will award the scholar
ship.
A&M Gets Grant
For Oceanography
Texas A&M’s Oceanography
Department has been awarded a
$5,000 grant by Chevron Re
search Co. for basic research in
physical oceanography.
Dr. Richard A. Geyer, depart
ment head, was notified of the
award Monday by R. F. Faull,
vice president of the San Fran
cisco-based research branch of
Standard Oil of California.
Geyer said the funds probably
will be applied to equipment for
use aboard the Alaminos, the
university’s oceanographic re
search vessel.
Chevron Research presented
Texas A&M a similar grant last
year, Geyer added.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
Top Transportation Officials
Arrive For Safety Conference
PETROLEUM ASPHALT SCHOLARSHIPS
W. Vernon Wright (second from right) of Dallas presents
a $4,000 check to Texas A&M Engineering Dean Fred Ben
son for establishment of undergraduate petroleum asphalt
scholarships. Looking on are Dr. Charles Samson (left),
head of A&M’s Civil Engineering Department, and Charles
R. Foster, director of the A&M-based National Asphalt
Pavement Association. Wright is president of Wright As
phalt Products Co.
Wright Asphalt Firm Donates
$4,000 For Scholarship Funds
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