The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 08, 1968, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 08, 1968, Image 1

Newspaper Page Textii i LINDA RUSSELL . . . ETSU Junior ELIZABETH RENEAU . . . from Longview PAM FRENCH . . from Weatherford mt.. ' I ; mmmr t ' .r.vS ; ANNE MORROW . . Fort Worth Secretary mm 8111 WBRMSB&HP «^if^ JUDITH ARNOLD . . Texas Sophomore :\ Che Battalion Weather | Friday — Cloudy to partly cloudy, •:;• •i-i winds, Easterly 10-15 ni.p.h. High 63, i; £: low 39. $• £: Saturday — Mostly cloudy, winds :•:• :•:• Southeasterly 10-20 m.p.h. High 68, x; low 47. **'•*•*•*» 4 **I*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•"•*•*•"•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*#*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*#*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*•*• *•* VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1968 Numebr 531 No Change Seen In D&C Fees Drill and Ceremony cadets’ fees will not be increased for the next two semesters as rumored, Wes Donaldson, director of purchasing and stores, said Wednesday. Donaldson also explained why the D&C fees were now placed at the present $75, rather than the $50 of the past two years or the $27.90 before that. “We get the D&C fee from the average annual payment that the Army and Air Force pays the school for the use of uniforms by basic and contract cadets,” Don aldson said. “The Army pays $50 for each cadet in basic sections and $100 annually for each advanced cadet. This gives a four-year total of $300.” For Corps reaction to D&C fees See page 2 The fee was raised to $75 after the Army auditor who annually checks the books, complained that the Army was paying an average of $75 a year for clothing while the D&C’s were paying only $50. “The $50 per year was not sufficient to cover our actual costs for the uniform items and alterations that the Drill and Ceremony cadet gets,” Donaldson noted. “At current prices our annual cost for D&C cadet is $75.64. This figure includes the cost of uni forms and alterations only and does not include any of the over head cost of operating the mili tary property warehouse. Donaldson pointed out that the universtiy actually came out $50 short on cadets who stay in the Corps for two years and then change to D&C status. Col. Jim McCoy, Corps com mandant, noted that the Air Force has stopped requiring in coming freshmen to take the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test. “This would make for fewer D&C cadets, because people could continue to have the Air Force pay for their uniforms until their junior year,’” McCoy said. This test in the past has forced many Cadets either out of the Corps or into another service. According to Donaldson’s fig ures, an annual sum of $5,000 would have to be secured if D&C fees were reduced to $50 a year, the figure D&C cadets agree upon as the most reasonable. Band Announces Finalists In Sweetheart Contest Dance To Feature Na m ingOf Winner Services Held For Employee Of A&M Press Funeral services for Thelston O. Williams, 58, longtime Texas A&M Press employee, were to be held at 3 p.m. today in Bryan. He died Tuesday in a Bryan hospital. Dr. W. M. Shamburger, pastor of Tyler’s First Baptist Church, will officiate at rites in the Hillier Funeral Chapel. Burial is planned in the College Station City Cemetery. Born July 27, 1909 in Wellborn, Williams resided on South College Road in College Station. He first joined the A&M Press in 1926 and worked as a pressman when he retired. Survivors include the widow; a son, Dan E. Williams of Lex ington; a sister, Mrs. Wilson Viator of Jeanerette, La.; a brother, Curtis H. Williams of Wellborn and two grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Joe Hudson, Garland Sluder, Raymond Duck ett, John Looney, Dwayne Hunt er and Hershel Eskue, all A&M Press employees. PEACE CORPS RECRUITER A&M student John Wayman gets information on student deferments and job skills in connection with membership in the Peace Corps from Barbara Hunter, one of two work ers in the program who are sponsoring an information booth this week in the Memorial Student Center. (Photo by Mike Wright.) Lasers Highlight Fifth Day Of Hydro - Space Fiesta ’68 Lang Vei Special Forces Camp Overrun By Soviet-Built Tanks By EDWIN Q. WHITE Associated Press Writer SAIGON <SP>—The Lang Vei Special Forces camp has fallen to North Vietnamese troops sup ported by Soviet-built tanks, South Vietnamese headquarters reported Thursday. But it said 76 defenders, including 12 Ameri cans, escaped. A government spokesman said the camp, astride the invasion route from Laos in South Viet nam’s northwest corner, was overrun about 6:40 p.m., Saigon time. The camp had been under siege for 18 hours by infantry, rockets, flame throwers and, for the first reported time, Russian- made tanks. THE SPOKESMAN said 316 defenders, most of them civilian irregulars, were killed, wounded or missing. He said the survivors escaped to the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh, about three miles to the east. They were said to include 60 civilians, four South Vietnamese Special Force troops and 12 U.S. Green Berets. As the focus of the latest Com munist offensive shifted to the northern frontier, the U.S. Com mand said 24,662 of the enemy had been killed in the last nine days of fighting throughout the country. ON THE allied side, 2,043 troops—including 703 Americans —were reported killed since the Communists opened the war’s biggest offensive against South Vietnam’s cities. The wounded in cluded 3,729 Americans, 4,493 South Vietnamese troops and 154 other allies. Some of the defenders were re ported lifted out of the camp by U.S. helicopters when it was decided to abandon it. Lasers, those exciting new de vices whose pencil beams of light are opening- up new worlds in communication, were demonstrat ed today at the Hydro-Space Fi esta ’68. Richard Dear, engineering as sociate with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in Houston, made two presentations at the Memorial Student Center—one at 10 a.m. and the other at 2 p.m. Laser, an acronym for “light sion of radiation,” now describes a family of devices whose basic operating material ranges from crystals to gasses. Electrons of the atoms in those materials can be “pumped” to higher energy states, a “coher ent” form of light is emitted with its wave motions in step. The laser forms the basis for a new kind of photography called holography in which one negative can produce a three - dimensional First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. Opportunity Loans Ready For Pickup Texas Opportunity Plan loan checks have arrived for the Spring semester, Robert M. Logan, director of A&M’s student financial aid office, has an nounced. He urged recipients to pick up the checks immediately on the third floor of the YMCA building. Aggies have more than 300 checks totaling $100,000 from the state loan plan, Logan said. KHE SANH BATTLE AREA Map shows key U. S. Marine and North Vietnamese posi tions at the Khe Sanh area near the Laos border in South Vietnam. Hill 861A was defended by Marine company in a SVs-hour assault by Communist troops. Arrows give range of artillery and rockets. (AP Wirephoto Map) Tours of the exhibits by school groups continued. Wednesday. The previously - announced talk of glass submarine expert H. A. Pei - - ry was cancelled because of ill ness. At 8 p.m. Thursday in the MSC Ballroom, Mrs. Karen Pryor, cur ator of Sea Life Park in Hawaii, will speak on “Training Porpoises for Fun and Science.” Mrs. Pryor, daughter of the famous novelist, Philip Wylie, and her husband, Taylor A. Pryor, have established a $2 million mar ine exhibition and research cen ter in Hawaii where porpoises are trained with extremely advanced techniques. Friday evening Walter S. Sulli van, science editor of The New York Times will lecture on move ments of the ocean floor. Sullivan, one of the top science writers in the world, has parti cipated in Antarctic and Arctic expeditions, has covered the Kor ean War and a large number of scientific events and enterprises. He is the author of “We Are Not Alone,” a book exploring the possibility of life in other parts of the universe. The Hydro-Space Fiesta, a pre sentation of the Great Issues Committee of the Memorial Stu dent Center Council and Director ate, ends Saturday. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. By MIKE WRIGHT Battalion Staff Writer The Texas Aggie Band will choose its 1968 Sweetheart Satur day night during the Band Dance in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom after the A&M-Texas basketball game, according to Sweetheart Director Larry Eccard. The dance will be from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Five finalists have been select ed and will be voted on by band members and their dates at the affair. The ballroom will be decorated to resemble a Spanish courtyard. Barnes Calls For Change In Liquor Laws AUSTIN <A>> — Speaker Ben Barnes said Wednesday he will appoint a liquor law investigating committee and give it powers to subpoena reluctant witnesses. He said he is leaning toward a five-man subcommittee, all lawyers, of the House State Af fairs Committee. “I feel revision of the Liquor Control Act is needed to com pletely clean up the mess that exists in Texas today,” he said after conferring for 45 minutes with Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin, who is conducting his own investi gation. Later in his news conference, Barnes said he was sorry he used the word “mess” after a reporter pressed him several times to say what he meant by the term. Barnes said he expects to an nounce his committee selections by Monday. A possible choice for chairman is Rep. R. H. Cory, Victoria, chairman of the State Affairs Committee. “I don’t know whether the committee should get into lack of enforcement or poor administration,” Barnes said. “The act itself leads to situations that could be interpreted as bad administration.” He said he wants the committee to become familiar enough with the state liquor law to be quali fied and prepared to recommend changes to this year’s special legislative session. Barnes said he has told Gov. John Connally he will set up the committee, and “the governor seemed pleased.” Only Connally has the power to decide whether the special budgetary session may consider changing the liquor law. Barnes said if the committee makes recommendations, he will ask the governor to open the session to the subject. Bruce Hicks and other architec tural students are in charge of the mural scenes and the wrought- iron fixtures. THE LINE-UP of petite con testants includes Linda Russell of Irving, Judith Arnold of San Antonio, Elizabeth Ann Reneau of Longview, Pam French of Weatherford and Anne Morrow of Fort Worth. Miss Russell is a junior at East Texas State, majoring in elemen tary education. She stands 5 feet, 4 inches and weighs 105 pounds, with blonde hair and hazel eyes. She is escorted by sophomore Bruce Barrett. Miss Arnold, a sophomore at the University of Texas, stands 5 feet, 7 inches and weighs 120 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes and will be escorted by sophomore Richard Garrett. MISS RENEAU is a senior at L on g v i e w High School. She stands 4 feet, 11 inches and weighs 95 pounds, and plans to enter the University of Texas next fall and major in business. She is escorted by junior Mike Perritt. Miss French is another high school senior who made the finals. She is a senior at Weatherford High School in Weatherford, is 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 100 pounds. She plans to enter Stephens College in Missouri to study fashion next fall. Miss French will be escorted by fresh man Ernest Johnson. Miss Morrow is a secretary at a Fort Worth bank. She stands 5 feet, 4 inches and weighs 104 pounds. She will be escorted by junior Mike Curd. All finalists will receive a heart necklace bearing an embossed seal of the university. In addition, the sweetheart will receive a doz en long-stem red roses. Aggie Graduate Gets Air Medal Army Capt. Joe M. Burt of Bryan, 1961 Texas A&M graduate, has received the second, third and fourth award of the Air Medal in Vietnam. The awards were for combat aerial support of ground opera tions in Vietnam. Captain Burt is a platoon leader in the 498th Medical Company at Lane Army Heliport. He was commissioned at A&M and studied physical education. Burt’s wife and parents reside in Bryan. BB&L Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. .V V ■ ».« - * «»;v

Texas A&M Newspaper Collection

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 08, 1968, Image 1

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