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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1968
Number 532
Soph Sweetheart |Council Asks I OV Vote
On Clothing Regulations
Deadline Today
Seven finalist will be chosen
in the search for the 1968 Sopho
more Sweetheart early next week,
with deadline for entering names
of candidates set today at 5 p.m.,
according to Sophomore Class
President Ronnie Adams.
Applications may be obtained
at the Student Programs Office
in the lower level of the Memorial
Student Center, Adams said. A
wallet-sized or larger picture is
required for each applicant.
The sweetheart will be named
at the Sophomore Ball in Sbisa
Dining Hall Feb. 17. The dance
will be from 8 until 12 p.m. Neal
Ford and the Fanatics will be the
main attraction, with other bands
playing during intermission.
Theme of the occasion will be
“The Groovy Sophomore Ball,”
and it will be styled as “Psyche
delic Wipeout.”
“The Architectural Society is
in charge of the psychedelic light
show during the dance,” Adams
said.
Tickets are on sale from Sopho
more Council representatives and
at the Student Programs Office.
The price is $3.50 a couple, and
tickets will be available at the
door before the Ball.
“Revenue from ticket sales goes
into the Sophomore Class Fund,
used to finance other class ac
tivities,” Adams noted, “and as
the class graduates, a gift is
given the school in the class’s
name.”
Corps uniform will be Class B
winter with ascots, and civilians
will wear coats and ties.
“Dates may choose to dress
semi-formal or formal, Adams
said.
NEAL FORD
Bronze Star
Awarded To
New MS Prof
Army Maj. William D. Thoma
son, a recent addition to the mili
tary science staff at Texas A&M,
has been awarded the Bronze Star
Medal.
The officer was cited for meri
torious service as senior advisor
to a Vietnamese army battalion.
The medal was presented by Col.
Jim H. McCoy, A&M comman
dant.
Major Thomason was assigned
as assistant professor of military
science at the university follow
ing his Vietnam tour. He served
with the Army Military Advisory
Command and as III Corps assist
ant operations officer at Bien
Hoa. He was also with the 12th
Cavalry in Korea and 34th Infan
try in Germany.
A 1959 Henderson State Col
lege graduate, the major instructs
in the Military Science Depart
ment basic section. He was com
missioned at the Arkansas Col
lege, is member of Theta Alpha
Phi and Phi Lambda Chi and also
wears the Vietnamese Cross of
Gallantry.
Thomason, 31, resides at 3808
Tanglewood with his wife Berna
dette and two children, Karl 3
and Charlotte 2.
Top Official
Of Dominican
Tours Campus
A high official in the Domini
can Republic government — Lie.
P'rancisco Dorta Duque — visited
A&M this week.
Dorta Duque, who is director
of the Office of Planification for
the Dominican Secretary of Agri
culture, consulted with A&M of
ficials on the university’s agri
cultural development programs in
that Caribbean island nation.
Texas A&M has 30 staff mem
bers working in all phases of ag
ricultural development in the Do
minican Republic. The overall
project is sponsored by the U. S.
Agency for International Devel
opment (AID).
Dorta Duque has consulted with
A&M President Earl Rudder,
leaders in the College of Agri
culture and the Office of Inter
national Programs, and has visit
ed among the 67 Dominican Re
public students attending the
university.
Rudder honoied Dorta Duque
with a reception and dinner Wed
nesday evening at Briarcrest
Country Club.
Bill Breech of the Office of In
ternational Programs said the of
ficial holds a master of science
degree from Purdue University.
Senate May Okay
March 28 Ballot
PORPOISE EXPERT
Mrs. Karen Pryor, curator and trainer at Sea Life Park in Hawaii, answers questions
following her talk here, in connection with Hydro-Space Fiesta ’68. Behind her, at left,
is one of the Fiesta’s exhibits. (Photo by Russell Autry)
Porpoise Study May Aid
In Solving Man’s Problems
Seniors To Take
GRE In March;
Registration Set
Texas A&M’s graduating sen
iors will roll up their sleeves for
institutional graduate record ex
aminations (GRE) March 29-30.
The GRE is a prerequisite for
graduation and vital to the stu
dent who plans advance degree
work.
S. Auston Kerley, counseling
and testing director, said only
seniors who register at the cen
ter before March 1 may take the
exam March 29 and 30.
“PJaeh student will x-eceive a
card in the mail indicating when
and where to report,” Kerley
added. “This card should reach
the student about five days be
fore testing.”
He said seniors who cannot
take the March exams should
register for the GRE national
testing program to be given at
A&M April 27.
By MIKE PLAKE
Battalion Features Editor
“Porpoises may hold the answer
to many of man’s problems in the
future exploration of the under
sea frontier,” Mrs. Karen Pryor
told the first audience of the
Texas A&M 1968 Hydro-Space
Fiesta Thursday night.
Mrs. Pryor said the science of
bionics, a technique of borrowing-
ideas from evolution in animals
to solve technological problems
besetting man, was often used
with propoises.
“These animals are studied in
a number of ways,” she noted.
“They have a complex sonar
system which enables them to
trace objects quickly and easily
underwater.”
Curator of a $2 million re
search-exhibit facility in Hawaii,
Mrs. Pryor added that researchers
are now investigating the por
poise’s ability to dive to depths
of more than a hundred feet with
out damage to their lungs or other
internal organs.
As a sidenote, she revealed that
a study made several years ago
showed the porpoise’s ability to
surf across the bow of a boat
mnying as fast as thirty knots.
“We tried again and again to
time the porpoise in experiments
at the institute, but we could
never get times of more than 20
knots, she said.
“But then we found that in the
open sea, as the boat’s bow broke
Former Athlete
Speaks To Scouts
A former Fellowship of Chris
tian Athletes president, Ken
Lamkin of Texas A&M, will speak
at the 11th boy scout convocation
Sunday at the All Faiths Chapel.
The interdenominational convo
cation for scouts and their par
ents will begin at 3 p.m., an
nounced Ralph McCormick, Ar-
rowmoon District commissioner.
Lamkin, captain of the 1966
Aggie football team, will give
the devotional message. The
health and physical education
graduate student from Brown-
wood has been active in FCA pro
grams. He was a three-year let-
terman at tackle and guard.
Bob Pettit, junior government
major of Waco, will assist
Lamkin.
water, the porpoises hitched a ride
on the waves. They could go as
fast as your boat would travel.’
She ranked porpoises equal in
intelligence capabilities to the
timber wolf, elephant, and chim
panzee.
“Of course, that’s only an
opinion,” she added. She also said
that porpoises are temperamental
at times.
“They will do several things to
attract your attention, or to get
a reward. Slapping the water is
a favorite gesture. If they are
really perturbed, they’ve been
known to jump high out of the
water, and land near the edge of
a tank in a great splash. They
get everyone around the tank
soaking wet.”
Another part of the Sea Life
exhibition features false killer
whales, cousin to the true killer
whale, performing tricks invented
by Mrs. Pryor. One whale pei - -
forms in a gigantic salt water
pool in and around a scaled-down
whaling ship of the late nine
teenth century. She said one
whale has jumped over 24 feet
from the surface of the water in
some performances.
A mother of three children,
Mrs. Pryor graduated from Cor
nell University with a B.A. in
English. She did graduate work
at the University of Hawaii in
Marine Biology. After Sea Life
Park was opened, she became
curator and trainer for many
varieties of porpoises there.
By JOHN W. FULLER
Battalion Managing Editor
The Civilian Student Council
Thursday moved a step closer to
a student referendum on clothing
regulations by unanimously vot
ing to ask for a place on the first
spring election ballot.
The request will be submitted
at next week’s meeting of the
Student Senate, which will deter
mine whether the Election Com
mission can submit the regula
tions question to the student body
March 28.
The council approved a three-
question poll, drawn up by Pres
ident Gi’iff Venator and Vice-
President Geoi'ge Walne, to as
sess student opinion on clothing-
regulations as set forth in the
University Regulations. Last
month the council withdrew its
support of the restrictions, which
had been di-awn up.several yeai’S
ago by the council.
THE QUESTIONS to be sub
mitted for Senate appx-oval read
as follows:
—“Are you in favor of having
no written clothing regulations ?
—“Do you feel the present
clothing regulations should be
rewritten ?
—“Do you favor the present
clothing regulations?”
Venator said he hopes to be
able to include the three choices
“in one form or another” on the
ballot.
“It’s all up to the Senate,” he
added. “We hope evei'y student
will be allowed to vote on the
measure, with provisions for de
termining the percentages of civ
ilians and Cadet Corps members
voting.”
THE COUNCIL voted not to
restrict voting to civilians, after
several members argued that
cadets should have a say in dx-ess
habits because they affect the
overall reputation of the student
body.
Testimony By Oswald’s Widow
‘Helpful,’ Garrison Aide Says
A&M OFFICER DECORATED
The Bronze Star for service in Vietnam was awarded to
Army Maj. William D. Thomason (left) at Texas A&M.
Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant, made the presentation.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
By JOHN S. LANG
NEW ORLEANS _ Lee
Harvey Oswald’s widow testified
before the Orleans Parish Grand
Jury for three hours Thursday.
Asked if she contributed any
thing of value to Dist. Atty. Jim
Garrison’s Kennedy assassination
probe, she hesitantly replied: “I
don’t think so.”^
Asst. Dist. Atty. James L. Al-
cock said the parish county grand
jury would have no further need
of Marina Oswald, now Mrs.
Kenneth J. Porter.
Alcock said only that her testi
mony was helpful.
OSWALD was named by the
Warren Commission as the lone
assassin of President John F.
Kennedy. In his controversial
probe, Garrison says several men
were involved, with the conspiracy
originating in New Orleans.
Garrison contends that Oswald
was “a patsy” for an assassina
tion team of CIA-trained guer
rilla fighters. Mrs. Porter has
said she does not think she can
help Garrison in his probe.
MRS. PORTER, a native of
Russia who married Oswald when
he was in her country after his
discharge from the U. S. Marines
was ordered by a state judge in
Dallas, Tex., to come here for
questioning. She and her second
husband live in the Dallas sub
urb of Richardson.
Also testifying Thursday was
Kerry Thornley of Tampa, Fla.,
a Marine Corps buddy of Oswald.
Garrison contends Thornley also
saw Oswald when they both lived
in New Orleans. This, says
Garrison, was at a time when
Oswald plotted here to assassi
nate President Kennedy, who was
in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
NEXT DOOR to the grand
jury room a state judge gave per
mission to another subpoenaed
witness, Thomas Beckham of
Omaha, Neb., to return to Ne
braska for “pressing business.”
Beckham said he had sold
$4,000 worth of tickets to three
country music shops in Alliance,
Neb., this coming week-end and
needed to be there. He was told
he would be held in contempt of
court if he did not return here
Feb. 15 for a grand jury appear
ance.
Meanwhile, lawyer Dean An
drews who was convicted of per
jury before the grand jury in
connection with the probe, legally
declared himself a pauper and
was awarded a free transcript of
his trial.
ANDREWS, who has been free
on $2,500 bond, requested the
transcript for his appeal. Tran
scripts of trials as lengthy as
Andrews’ has often cost several
thousands of dollars.
The jive-talking attorney said
he had become impoverished be
cause of the probe. He was sen
tenced to concurrent three-month
jail terms after being convicted
last August of lying to the grand
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Say
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
jury when he said he could not
identify New Orleans Clay Shaw
as Clay Bertrand, the name Gar
rison contends Shaw used to plot
Kennedy’s assassination.
Shaw and Los Angeles broad
cast salesman Edgar Eugene
Bradley both are charged by
Garrison with conspiring to mur
der Kennedy.
Dormitory 18 President Mike
Jordan, who introduced the meas
ure, also won council approval to
ask for an option in procedures
for turning in clothes to the
University Laundry.
The plan calls for a choice, to
be made by students at registra
tion, between the present system
and one in which only white arti
cles would be laundered.
“UNDER THE present system,
we’re only allowed to turn in four
shirts and two paii-s of pants a
week without paying extx-a
charges,” Wayne noted. “This is
ridiculous. Any clean human be
ing uses moi-e than this per
week.”
Jordan argued that the laun
dry could cut costs by processing
only sheets, socks, underwear and
other such items for the students
who took this option.
“If these savings are passed on
to the students, they could better
afford to have shirts and pants
cleaned elsewhere,” Walne noted.
He said a special committee will
submit the request to University
Laundry officials.
IN OTHER action, the council
reminded dormitory presidents
to turn in pictures of dorm sweet
hearts to council officers by
March 14. The sweethearts will
be nominees for Civilian Sweet
heart, to be selected during Civ
ilian Weekend April 26-28.
Highlight of the weekend will
be a masquerade ball in Sbisa
Hall. Venator said a Town Hall
attraction is also being booked for
the weekend.
Ed Cooper, director of civilian
student activities, told the coun
cil he has secured the services of
a graduate student, whom he did
not name, as a full-time assist
ant in the intramural athletics
office. Cooper said the student,
who will begin work next fall, is
being hired to strengthen the
intramural program among civ
ilians.
VENATOR reported that a
council “newsletter”, explaining
its goals and noting the activi
ties it plans for the coming se
mester, will be available to civ
ilian day students “as soon as pos
sible” in the Memorial Student
Center and the Academic Build
ing.
“We attempted unsuccessfully
to pass out these newsletters to
day students as they registered
last week,” he explained. “We
have already circulated them
through civilian dormitories.”
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
BB&L
FORWARD THE LIGHT BRIGADE
A U. S. Marine, loaded with combat gear, rides a requisi
tioned civilian motorbike up to battlefront in Hue, South
Vietnam. Leathernecks battled Viet Cong for control of
that city. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Saigon)