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VOLUME 61
COULEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1967
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AGGIE SWEETHEART
Kathy Heldman and “Santa” Slouch
Kathy Asks Santa
To Visit Aggies
Holiday Break Approaches
Dear Cadet Slouch,
Since you’re dressed up like Santa Claus, I’d like ?
to introduce myself and tell you what I want for |
Christmas. My name is Kathy Heldman. You see |
I’m extremely proud of the Aggies so I want a few |
special things for them.
First of all I want you to let all the Aggies have |
a safe and enjoyable trip home, to the Cotton Bowl j
Game and then back to Aggieland.
For all the coaches and their respective teams I |
want a Conference Championship. |
To Coach Stallings and the football team, a Cotton |
Bowl Victory with all the players free from injuries, j
On New Year’s Day I would like for the Twelfth !
Man with its Fightin’ Texas Aggie Spirit to spread j
throughout the nation and let this spirit last for years j
and years to come. |
Cadet Slouch, since you are so close to the Aggies, i
I want you to send each and everyone of them a thank- \
you for me. Being Aggie Sweetheart has brought me !
many wonderful experiences and memories. My
Christmas and New Year will be one I’ll never forget.
The cards I have received at school and the HOWDYS [
I get from them at Aggieland make me the proudest |
girl ever.
My one last gift to the Aggies is to let all their
dreams come true during the Christmas Holi ’ays and
the New Year.
Cadet Slouch, will you introduce me to all the i
Aggies I haven’t met? No! Wait. I’ll make that j
my New Year’s Resolution!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Love,
Kathy Heldman
UN Group Recesses Discussion
On Anti-Proliferation Treaty
By CHARLES STORER
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. <A>)
—The U! N. General Assembly’s
Main Political Committee voted
Monday for a resumption of the
assembly session next spring- to
debate a proposed treaty to pre
vent the spread of nuclear wea
pons.
The resolution, approved 94 to
1 with four abstentions, was one
of several key disarmament ques
tions considered by the committee
as it wound up its business for
the year.
In the show of hands, Albania
opposed the resolution and Cuba,
France, Ghana and Mali abstained.
THE ASSEMBLY, now in its
adjournment rush, will take up
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
YMCA Schedules
Program Tonight
By BOB PALMER
Battalion Staff Writer
As Aggies prepare to return
home for the holidays, Christmas
activities cram the schedule for
both campus and community.
The annual Christmas dinner
in Duncan and Sbisa Dining Halls
Monday night was a highlight of
the remaining days before the
holidays begin at 5 p.m. Wednes
day. Aggies donated fruit on
their tables to the Bryan Boys
Club to help the ^underprivileged
children of the area.
The “Campus - Community
Christmas” program will begin
at 8 p.m. Tuesday in front of the
Systems Administration Build
ing.
THE PROGRAM will feature
the Singing Cadets and the light
ing of a 25-foot tree. The tree,
cut by YMCA members south of
College Station, will be trimmed
with about 400 lights, according
to David Howard, YMCA public
relations chairman.
“This tree will serve as a sym
bol of the best wishes of the stu
dent body toward the community,”
Howard said. The tree will be
lit every night until New Year’s.
The School of Architecture will
treat area youngsters to a
“Christmas Happening” from 1
to 7 Tuesday afternoon in the
Architecture Building.
THE CHILDREN will be given
pinatas filled with treats, and
will be taken on a tour of “Funs-
ville.” The trip includes trolley
rides through “mountains,” crawl
ing through “Carlsbad Caverns,”
and a 60-foot toboggan ride.
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Declared Lost;
Services Set
Although most Aggies will be
vacating the campus, some to
whom home is too far away must
spend Christmas here.
Dorm 22 and ramps E, F, G,
H, I, J and K will be left open for
them, while all others will be
closed.
For the duration of the holi
days, the bowling and billiards
area of the Memorial Student
Center will serve normal func
tions of the entire building. News
papers will be sold and dominoes,
checkers and other games will be
dispensed there. The rest of the
Center will shut down Friday.
HOLIDAY activities will con
tinue during the break for faculty
and staff.
Tickets are now on sale for $3
at the main desk of the MSC for
the Faculty-Staff Dinner Dance
Club’s Christmas party Dec. 28.
The party, planned for the Ra-
mada Inn at 7 p.m., will be open
to other faculty and staff mem
bers.
MSC personnel and families
will have a party where “Santa”
will hand out gifts to the 100
youngsters expected to attend.
Marring the Christmas atmos
phere of the holidays is the theft
during the weekend of YMCA
Christmas lights.
“They took three strings of
electric lights and about 90 per
cent of our Christmas decora
tions,” J. Gordon Gay, YMCA
director, reported. He said this
was the first such occurrence in
27 years.
The latest forecast by the uni
versity’s weather station indicates
Aggies should have generally good
driving conditions for their trips
home and back to school.
Jim Lightfoot, station manager,
predicted the only hazardous driv
ing in the state Wednesday and
Thursday will be in the moun
tains in far West Texas.
the resolution Tuesday. Since all
123 U. N. members are represent
ed on the committee, assembly ap
proval is considered certain.
The assembly is scheduled to
complete its work for the year
Tuesday night.
The Political Committee also
adopted a resolution urging sus
pension of a)l nuclear tests, un
derground as well as in the at
mosphere, and called “as a mat
ter of urgency” for a treaty to
bar underground tests.
OTHER RESOLUTIONS ap
proved provide for continued con
sideration of general and complete
disarmament and elimination of
foreign military bases in Asia,
Africa and Latin America. An
other schedules for August and
September a conference of state
without nuclear weapons to con
sider their security problems.
By GORDON TAIT
Associated Press Writer
CANBERRA, Australia (A*)—
The government declared the
orime ministry vacant Monday
night and Australian officials
prepared to receive President
Johnson at a memorial service
Friday for Prime Minister Har
old E. Holt.
Johnson will fly 10,173 miles
to Melbourne to pay his respects
to the man who led Australia as
a strong supporter of U. S. policy
in the Far East. The President
will leave Washington at noon
Tuesday and arrive about 30
hours later—Thursday—in Aus
tralia, on the other side of the
International Date Line.
Governor-General Lord Casey
ended Holt’s commission as prime
minister and announced that
Deputy Prime Minister John Mc-
Ewen will be sworn in as interim
prime minister Tuesday. Casey
had delayed the action while there
was hope that Holt had survived
the riptides that swallowed him
as he was swimming Sunday.
The memorial services was
scheduled for noon, Friday, in St.
Paul’s Church of England Ca
thedral, Melbourne.
’63 Grad Named
For Viet Service
Battalion Staff To
Get Holiday Break
This will be the last edition of
The Battalion for 1967. So until
next year, may we wish you all
a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year. Our next edition for
the new year will be January 5.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
CHRISTMAS DINNER
Students enjoy the traditional turkey-and-trimmings Christmas dinner in Duncan Din
ing Hall. Guests included officers from the Military and Air Science departments and
other administrative personnel.
Holiday Sent ina rs Sch edu led
For 33 Dominican Students
Rain, however, is expected for
most of the state Christmas.
Cotton Bowlers can anticipate
a crisp but dry day. Dallas
weather for New Years should
be clear to partly cloudy with
temperatures in the high 30’s or
low 40’s, Lightfoot said.
The favorable weather should
continue through Jan. 3, the
meteorologist continued, allowing
students safe driving conditions
for their trip back to the campus.
Texas A&M students from the
Dominican Republic will continue
their education straight through
the Christmas holidays.
Outside the classroom, lab and
textbook, that is.
The 33 sophomore and fresh
man students under Agency for
International Development con
tract will participate in mid
winter leadership training semi
nars, announced Dr. Jack Gray,
International Programs director
at A&M.
orientation on local government,
tour major points of interest and
experience citizen participation
in local public issues,” he went
Sponsored by international visi
tors councils, schools, colleges and
service organizations, the stu
dents will be among 30 AID-spon-
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For Cotton Bowl
Students will scatter to 19
U. S. cities Dec. 21-30.
“The main purpose of the semi
nars is for experience in different
cultural environments,” explained
William E. Beach, International
Programs campus coordinator for
AID-Dominican Republic.
“They will view the major seg
ments of U. S. society, receive
Students and faculty mem
bers who bought $3 Cotton
Bowl tickets, with stub at
tached, must have an identi
fication card to be admitted to
the stadium Jan. 1, Wally
Groff, athletic business man
ager, noted Monday. Faculty-
members who do not have ID’s
may pick them up at the per
sonnel office.
sored participants in each city.
Including families who invite the
boys to stay in their homes at
Christmas, from 50 to 75 persons
in each city will be involved in
the seminar, Beach said.
A&M students will be in Hart
ford, Conn.; East Lansing, Mich.;
Seattle, Wash.; San Diego, Calif.,
and Miami, Fla., and most of the
nation’s major cities.
“Many of our students asked
for northern and northeast loca
tions since they have never ex
perienced winter conditions in
cluding ice and snow,” Beach
noted.
“They will exchange experi
ences and ideas when they return
to the campus,” he added.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
bb&l
—Adv.
Air Medal Winner
A Texas A&M and Bryan High
graduate, Air Force Capt. Ronald
W. Marshall, has been awarded
the Air Medal for combat service
in Southeast Asia.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Marshall, 4310 Hwy. 6 N., was
cited for outstanding airmanship
and courage as a C-135 Strato-
lifter navigator.
Captain Marshall is now as
signed at Fairchild AFB, Wash.,
in a unit of the Strategic Air
Command. He studied physical
education at A&M, graduated and
was commissioned in 1963. His
wife, Jean, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Lynch, 711
Inwood Drive, Bryan.
CHRISTMAS MOOD AT THE WHITE HOUSE
The National Christmas tree stands brightly lighted in the Ellipse near the White House,
background, after lighting ceremonies. The full moon was added to picture by double ex
posure. (AP Wirephoto)
4ggies’ Shout: ‘One More Day And We’ll Be Out!’