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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.
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