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15 Aggies Honored
For Summer Work
Fifteen Texas A&M students
have been honored by the South
western Company of Nashville,
Tenn., for their summer work.
The Nashville firm, which pub
lishes Bibles and religious books,
employs approximately 4,000 stu
dents from over 500 colleges and
universities. Last summer A&M
was represented by 60 student
salesmen.
Receiving special recognition
at sales seminars held in Texar
kana and Saledo were Carl Sta-
nitzsky, Top Twenty Student
Manager; and David Batten, Top
Twenty Student Salesman.
For averaging over 75 hours of
work a week, the Gold Award was
presented to Dorian David, Larry
Heitman, Richard Weathers, Tom
Lee, Adel Marouf, Richard Green,
Pat Bailey, Dan Schlueter, John
Otto, Ronnie Hubert, Mickey Lee,
Don Earnst, David Batten, Carl
Stanitzsky and the late Don
Pruitt.
INTERNATIONAL CHAMPS
Here is Texas A&M University’s Senior Livestock Judging
Team which won first in the recent 67th International
Collegiate Livestock Judging Contest in Chicago. At the
lower left is the famed Bronze Bull Trophy, awarded per
manently to the Aggies for winning the event three times
(1959, 1965 and 1967). Left to right are Spencer Tanksley
of Bryan, Roy Birk of Llano, David Wolfe of Beeville,
Coach L. D. Wythe of the A&M Animal Science Department,
Jim Sanders of Beeville, John McNeill of Happy and Larry
Boleman of Waco. The other trophies were wone at the
International and other major contests this year.
at her Admits Dead Soldier Is Son-Some Doubt
By RICH OPPEL
Associated Press Writer
SARASOTA, Fla. <AP) — A
grief-stricken Sarasota father
ended a three-day dispute with
the Army Wednesday night and
acknowledged that a sandy-
PLANO, Tex. (JP)—Evalyn Mc
Lean, one of the heirs to the
Sope Diamond and its famous
death jinx, was found dead in
her sumptuous ranch home Tues
day.
Police ordered an autopsy
Wednesday but said there was
no indication of foul play in the
death of the 25-year-old woman.
Miss McLean was the daugh
ter of Jacques McLean and a
granddaughter of Evalyn Walsh
McLean. A dark-haired, dark-
complexioned woman, she lived
alone in a home at her Friendly
Acres Horse Ranch six miles
northeast of Plano, a suburb of
Dallas.
Neighbors broke into the home
Tuesday and found Miss Mc
Lean’s body lying, fully clothed,
in a bedroom of the home.
Justice of the Peace B. B. Car
penter of Plano said there was
no sign of foul play. An autopsy
report was expected early Thurs
day, Carpenter said.
Miss McLean, a Dallas debu
tante and society figure, was one
of the heirs to the 44 V2 carat
Hope Diamond, which has a his
tory of bringing death or ex
treme bad luck to its possessors.
Famed Washington hostess
Evalyn Walsh McLean left the
Hope Diamond to her grandchil
dren when she died in 1947, with
instructions that it and her other
possessions were t o remain in
storage for 20 years. The heirs
turned the diamond over to the
Smithsonian Institute in 1958.
The stone was priceless. Eva
lyn Walsh McLean said she had
turned down offers of $2 million
to buy it.
haired dead soldier shipped home
from Vietnam was his son.
The father, brickmason Fred
H. Hettich, accepted the Army
identification of the body as Cpl.
Donald Hettich after an early
evening conference with Lt. Col.
Evalyn Walsh McLean, who
loved to wear the Hope Diamond
at her Washington parties, never
allowed her children to touch the
stone. She required the diamond
on a trip abroad after she mar
ried the late Ned McLean in
1908. Mrs. McLean said she paid
$40,000 for the diamond and took
it to a priest to have it blessed.
The stone, legend has it, was
wrenched from the forehead of
a Hindu idol by a French travel
er named Tavernier. Tavernier
took it to Paris and sold it to
Louis XIV. Tavernier later was
killed by a pack of dogs.
The king gave the diamond to
a Madame de Montespan, who
then fell out of royal favor as
the king’s mistress. History says
the next possessor, King Louis
XV, kept the diamond locked up.
Louis XVI gave it to his queen,
Marie Antoinette. The Hope Dia
mond then disappeared after
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
were beheaded by French revo
lutionaries.
The diamond next came into
the possession of London broker
Thomas Hope in the early 1800s.
Dallas society figures remem
bered Miss McLean as a recluse
who preferred to be left alone.
Neighbors near her ranch re
ported they broke into the home
because no sign of activity had
been seen for several days. Miss
McLean was an expert horse
woman.
Survivors include Mrs. Henry
C. Coke Jr., of Dallas, the moth
er; her father Jacque McLean,
of New York, and a sister, Mrs.
Richard L. Jones, formerly of
Dallas.
Richard F. Alvera, who flew to
Sarasota earlier in the day from
Washington, D.C.
“It’s my son,” said the elder
Hettich.
NEITHER HE nor Alvera
would say what prompted him
to drop his challenge of the sol
dier’s identity. Hettich had
maintained the body was that of
a stranger.
Other relatives, however, still
contended the young soldier was
not Donald Hettich.
The father issued a statement
through a funeral home in Sara
sota saying his son would be
buried Friday.
But the younger Hettich’s fi
ancee, 16-year-old Mary Palmer,
said she viewed the body Wed
nesday and left convinced it was
not Donald.
“NOTHING about it looks like
him,” she said.
A brother and a sister of the
19-year-old soldier also held firm
in the belief that the man in the
flag-draped casket was not Don
ald.
The elder Hettich reportedly
conferred with a task force of
Army colonels and FBI agents
from Washington during the day.
The officials evaded newsmen.
After initial confusion over
the identity, the Army contend
ed that fingerprints established
that the dead man was Hettich,
crushed to death in a helicopter
crash late in November.
THE FUNERAL, scheduled for
2 p.m. Wednesday, was postponed
until 10 a.m. Friday, partly be
cause of the remaining doubts
in the Hettich family and also
because the Army honor guard
needed time to travel to Sara
sota.
The body was on view Wednes
day to friends who knew the
young man before he enlisted.
It was clad in a green uniform
with three ribbons and a rifle
marksmanship medal over the
breastpocket.
A YOUNG woman placed a
small metal cross and chain on
the dead youth’s flag-draped,
grey-metal casket when she came
to pay her last respects.
The youth’s sandy hair lay
ruffled, atop a broad and bony
face, clear of marks or scars. The
white-gloved hands were posi
tioned over the body.
Although Army representa
tives in Sarasota were not say
ing anything publicly Wednes
day, a statement released Tues
day maintained the right body
was shipped to this West Coast
Florida city.
Staff Sgt. John Caldwell of
Fort Stewart, Ga., who escorted
the body from Dover, Ga., to the
funeral home, said earlier: “The
family apparently just doesn’t
want to think it was their boy.”
Sophomore Queen
Filing Now Open
Any sophomore wishing to en
ter his girl in the content for
queen of the Sophomore Ball is
urged to turn in a picture and
other information about her to
the Student Programs Office in
The Memorial Student Center.
Photographs should be wallet
size or larger and should be ac
companied with an information
sheet on the girl. These applica
tions should be filled out between
Jan. 8 and Feb. 8, according to
Jim St. John, social secretary of
the sophomore class.
Judges will select seven final
ists from the girls entered. These
seven girls will be honored with
a reception in the Birch Room of
the MSC at 2 p.m. on Feb. 17.
Each girl will receive a gold
charm at the dance that night.
The dance, featuring Neal
Ford and the Fanatics, will be in
Sbisa Dining Hall from 8 until
12 Saturday night, Feb. 17. The
Queen will be presented to the
sophomore class at this time, St.
John said.
Make - Up Schedule
ALL CORPS SENIORS
CLASS PICTURES
DEADLINE
DEC. 20th
COLD WEATHER HITS VIETNAM
Bundled against the chill, a U. S. Marine reports to his
headquarters by radiotelephone during Operation Kentucky
near demilitarized zone in South Vietnam. Monsoon rains
and temperatures of 40 and 50 at night make conditions
more miserable. (AP Wirephoto)
Curse Claims Another Victim:
Hope Diamond Heir Is Dead
THE BATTAJLf^^N Thursday, December 14, 1967 College Station, Texas Page 5
Greek King Calls On People
To Revolt Against Military
By GERALD MILLER
Associated Press Writer
ROME (A 5 ) — King Constantine
of Greece called his people into
revolt Wednesday against the
military dictatorship that has
ruled the nation eight months.
Athens radio, controlled by the
military, said seven hours later:
“The plot has failed completely,
and it has been crushed.”
Direct communications with
Athens was cut off after The
Associated Press bureau there
reported early stages of an at
tempted coup countering the one
last April in which three colonels
gained control over Greece.
From Salonika in the north,
the king appealed by radio to his
countrymen to fight with him to
oust the military junta and re
store democracy. He vowed to
crush all opposition. Some seg
ments of the military, especially
around Salonika, were supporting
the king, at least at the start.
OTHER ACCOUNTS said the
27-year-old king had set up a
new government at Naousa, 45
miles west of Salonika, with for
mer Defense Minister Peter
Caroufalias as premier. But
Athens radio, heard in Instanbul,
said the king was “fleeing from
village to village.”
A statement broadcast by
Athens radio claimed “adventur
ers misled the king and forced
him to turn the April revolution.”
Later the Athens radio said:
“The plot has failed completely,
and it has been crushed. Official
reports being received state the
military forces remain loyal and
take orders from the national rev
olutionary government of April
21. Calm reigns throughout the
whole country.”
Around noon Wednesday, the
AP bureau in Athens said troops,
tanks and armored cars guarded
Parliament, the royal palace and
other key government buildings.
Jets swooped low over the capital.
AS TROOPS POURED into
Athens, the king’s voice came
over a short-wave radio from
Sadlika calling on the nation of
eight million to restore democracy
and freedom.
Open fighting could mean a
new civil war less than 20 years
after the bitter fighting of the
Communist insurrection that tore
Greece apart in a three-year
bloodbath. Only American inter
vention saved Greece from slip
ping under Communist control.
By nightfall the internal situa
tion was confused but it was
clear that the showdown long
believed to be coming between
the king and the military junta
had begun.
The 3rd Armored Corps in
Salonika, the strongest single
Greek army unit in the north,
has been led by a Gen. Peridis.
He is an avowed supporter of
the royal house and is known to
have been resentful of the junior
colonels who seized power last
April and made the King a vir
tual palace prisoner.
IN MAKING HIS APPEAL,
putting his throne at stake, Con
stantine may have taken advan
tage of widespread discontent in
the army because the military
regime buckled under pressure
from Turkey in the recent Cyprus
crisis.
Many officers resented the
junta’s agreement to withdraw
12,000 troops from the eastern
Mediterranean island under Tur
key’s threat to invade it. The
troops, like some from Turkey,
were in Cyprus illegally-beyond
the scope of an internatinoal
agreement.
In repudiating the junta, the
monarch said leaders of the April
coup represented only a small
part of the army.
It was not known how the king
managed to evade the surveillance
of the colonels to make his broad
cast. But he flies his own plane
and has a landing strip near his
suburban palace at Tatoi outside
Athens.
THERE WAS NO WORD on
the whereabouts of the rest of
the royal family—his 20-year-old
Danish-born queen, Anne Marie,
their baby son and daughter, and
Constantine’s mother, Queen
Frederika.
The start of the counter coup
was not totally unexpected. For
days Athens had buzzed with
rumors that disaffected officers,
fed up with the regime’s handling
of Cyprus and its treatment of
the royal house, would take action
before the month was out.
The move against the regime
broke just two days before the
scheduled appearance of a re
vised constitution that would
have made the king a powerless
figurehead and given the regime
power to rule by decree.
KING CONSTANTINE became
a virtual hostage last April when
military officers overthrew the
constitutional government, saying
they were thwarting a Communist
takeover.
That coup was swift and blood
less, but it was only under pres
sure from the junta that Con
stantine appeared to go along
with it.
Western allies of Greece, a
member of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, were quick
to show their displeasure. The
United States cut off all arms
shipments to Greece.
Racial Strife
Injures 20
At A. J. School
TRENTON, N. J. <A>)_Fighting
broke out between white and
Negro students at Trenton High
School Wednesday followed by
outbreaks of violence on down
town sidewalks, not far from the
state capitol.
Police said at least 20 persons
were injured, including a dozen
students.
Bands of youths roamed to
ward the center of the city fol
lowing the melee at the school,
breaking windows, harassing
pedestrians and assaulting at
least two men.
A gang of youths hauled a mo
torist from his car and beat him
severely, a witness said. A store-
owner was reported injured in the
head, apparently when slugged
by one or more roving youths.
Although for awhile it was
feared that a major disturbance
threatened, police reported things
were “under control” two hours
after the first fist fights at the
high school. Authorities said no
weapons were used by the stu
dents. The fighting broke out
during the lunch recess on the
school playgTounds.
Windows were broken in the
Trentonian, a morning newspaper
and in buildings on both sides of
Perry Street.
The regime plowed ahead,
promising to stamp out disorder
and corruption. It cracked down
hard on all opposition, both left
and right, intensifying press
censorship and suspending civil
liberties.
CIVILIAN
SENIORS
and
GRADUATES
STUDENTS
Will have their portrait
made for the 1968 Aggie-
land NOW thru Jan. 15.
Portraits will be made at
University Studio.
(Coats & Ties)
ATTENTION ! !
ALL CLUBS
Athletic, Hometown, Professional and Campus
Organizations.
Pictures for the club sections of the Aggieland are
now being scheduled at the Student Publications Office,
Y.M.C.A. Building.
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