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Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, February 16, 1968
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
The Strange Case
Of H. L. Hummel
Did you hear the story about the traveling salesman
and the farmer’s daughter? You have. Hhhhmmmm.
Well how about the strange case of H. L. Hummel?
Hummel, you see, is another anti-war nut who lives
in California, a land of many gay people.
Hummel is not a placard bearer, torch carrier, bearded
boy, Berkeley beatnik, or even a Hell’s Angel. He would
even be kicked out of a crowd of high-flying “Make love,
not war” hippies because, well, he’s too old to love.
And yet the H. L. Hummel in our story has created
more trouble and grief than a dozen peace-children lying
in front of Dow Chemical Company or blocking supply
shipments to Vietnam.
To most people who Hummel has contacted, he has
merely been a signature with the address: P. O. Box 497,
Susanville, California.
Hummel enjoyed sending anti-war material to widows
and parents of servicemen who were killed in Vietnam.
After being contacted by one infuriated woman, the
Pentagon, with the help of the Army’s Criminal Investi
gations Division and the FBI, took charge.
“When women are contacted in this matter we’re en
couraging them to let us know about it,” a Pentagon spokes
man said.
“This junk is all objectionable from a moral and
ethical sense, but legally there is little we can do except
appeal to the sender to stop.
“But where we find material that is actionable, we’ll
take action,” he said. Only obscene or seditious material
is actionable.
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35 State Candidates File !
By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN — Eleven Democratic
and three Republican candidates
for governor squared off for an
action-packed May 4 primary
election as filing deadline closed
last week.
Most of the interest centers in
the gubernatorial contest. Only
one Democratic incumbent in
state-wide office, Comptroller
Robert S. Calvert, has primary
opposition. The lieutenant gover
nor’s office and two Supreme
Court places being vacated by
incumbents are contested by
Democrats.
While Republicans provided
candidates for all statewide of
fices except judicial, only in the
governor’s column is there a GOP
primary race. The rest are un
opposed.
Here’s the way the primary
ballots will look:
candidate for the Court of Crimi
nal Appeals have no Democratic
opposition.
Included in the packet of goodies which Hummel sent
were an anti-war essay personally written by H. L. H.; a
reprint, one of 100, of an anti-war essay which appeared
in the “Christian Century;” and a 150-word anti-war news
story bylined by “Wilfred Burchett.” No mention was
made that Burchett is a Communits.
“It gives me that ‘eye-to-eye’ contact that I’ve been
missing.”
Sound Off
A call placed to Hummel in California was answered
by a woman who said her husband was 87 years old and
unable to hear well. She relayed questions to him and he
answered into the telephone himself.
The man said he had ordered the 100 reprints from
the “Christian Century” because he “wanted to read them.”
When asked if he had ever mailed the material to
women whose sons or husbands had died in Vietnam, Hum
mel would only say that he didn’t remember”, but added
“what if I did? I don’t see anything wrong with it.”
Hummel’s essay accused the United States of “bomb
ing hospitals, kindergartens and private homes” and then
added “We self-styled civilized people kill thousands for
no cause at all which makes us a thousand times the bar
barian the cannibal is.”
Editor,
The Battalion
Just to get the record straight,
I would like to correct one date
in Davis Mayes’ “Research Re
veals A&M’s True Age” in The
Battalion of February 14, 1968.
The date “June 13, 1871” should
be “June 20, 1871.” The commis
sioners inspected sites in Brazos
County on June 13, 1871; they
chose the present location of Tex
as A&M on June 20, 1871. All of
our effort has been directed to
wards establishing the fact that
the date of June 20, 1872, which
appears in all chronologies of
Texas A&M, is an error. There
simply is no longer any doubt
that the present site was chosen
by the commissioners at their
in Houston on June 20,
meeting
1871.
Yours very truly,
Ernest Langford
Archivist
DEMOCRATIC
Governor — Lt. Gov. Preston
Smith of Lubbock; John L. Hill
of Houston; Waggoner Carr of
Lubbock; Eugene Locke of Dal
las; Gordon McLendon of Dallas;
Dolph Briscoe of Uvalde; Pat
O’Daniel of Dallas; Don Yar
borough of Houston; Johnnie Mae
Hackworth of Brenham; Edward
L. Whittenburg of Houston and
Alfonso Veloz of Houston.
Lieutenant Governor — House
Speaker Ben Barnes of DeLeon;
Rep. Don Gladden and Gene
Smith, both of Fort Worth.
Comptroller—Robert S. Calvert
and Dallas Blankenship, Paris.
Supreme Court, Place 2—Tom
Reavley of Austin and James G.
Denton of Amarillo.
Atty. Gen. Crawford C. Martin,
Land Commissioner Jerry Sadler,
Agriculture Commissioner John
White, Treasurer Jesse James,
Railroad Commissioner Jim Lang-
don, Supreme Court Associate
Justice Zollie Steakley, Court of
Criminal Appeals Judge W. A.
Morrison and Leon Douglas, a
REPUBLICAN
Governor — Paul Eggers of
Wichita Falls, Wallace Sisk of
Houston and John R. Trice of
Dallas.
Republican candidates with no
primary opposition are: Lieuten
ant Governor—Douglas DeCluitt
of Waco; Attorney General—
Sproesser Wynn of Fort Worth;
Treasurer — Manuel Sanchez of
Brownsville; Comptroller — John
Bennett, San Antonio; Agricul
ture Commissioner—E. H. Schu-
hart of Dalhart; Land Commis
sioner—Millard Neptune of New
Ulm; and Railroad Commissioner
—Jim Segret of San Antonio.
★ ★ ★
DRINK BATTLE RENEWED
Gov. John Connally told a press
conference that he may renew his
effort to strengthen state liquor
laws and legalize and tax liquor
by the drink at the special session
of the Legislature he must call
this year.
Connally said the liquor pro
posal he made in 1967, which was
killed by the Legislature, may
well be a part of his program for
raising the $160,000,000 to $190,-
000,000 which will be needed to
operate state government next
year.
He renewed his attack on the
“subterfuge” of the private club,
and said that his efforts in 1967
to tighten up the liquor law were
opposed by some who now profess
to be shocked at the shortcomings
of the liquor laws.
But Connally said he has not
yet decided when to call the Legis
lature back to Austin. Specula
tion is that the session will be in
June, after the primaries.
He suggested that if the liquor
issue is not handled by the first
special session, he might call an
other session to work on it. He
also announced that he wants a
strong conflict of interest law to
prohibit any member of the Legis
lature from practice before any
state agency.
Student Senate
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inate the regulations would con
tribute to destroying the imagt
of A&M.
“It seems a shame that AM,
known for building men and for
being a school full of pride, must
insult its students, men and
women, by insinuating that tlis
students are morally irresponsi.
ble and too immature to dress
correctly,” Senator Sanny Ward
said.
Following is the opinion poll
that the CSC proposed to the
Student Senate:
OPINION POLL ON STUDENT
CLOTHING REGULATIONS
Instructions: Vote by mark
ing (X) the one
statement yon
prefer. Should
you select the 3rd
statement, addi
tional marking is
requested. This
ballot is to
turned in at the
polls when yon
vote in the gen
eral elections.
) I favor the current cloth
ing regulations as print
ed below.
) I feel there should be no
clothing regulations for
students.
) I feel the current cloth
ing regulations are ton
strict and should be rt-
vised. I favor revising
the paragraphs which
have been marked (X)
below:
A list of the clothing regula
tions followed on the ballot.
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For a widow or a woman whose son was killed to have
to receive such letters is an offense against the public
good. It should be treated as such by the postal depart
ment.
Senile fools who include such activities under their
rights as citizens do not realize what added pain they
cause to the open wound of a personal liss. We’ll take
beel-led cattle and sheep like the hippies over the world’s
Hummels anyday.
Bulletin Board
FRIDAY
The Society of Iranian Students
will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the
YMCA.
MONDAY
The Pre-Vet Society will have
pictures taken for the Aggieland
at 7:30 p.m. on the steps of the
Memorial Student Center.
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type of man who could wake from a sound sleep at two in the morning, rally
and beat off an enemy attack. We’re thinkers, not fighters, at Brown
Engineering. But we’re looking tor the same general sort of person—the
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shaping our nation's space and defense efforts. If you’d like to help
create tomorrow’s technology, mail your resume to: David Lay, College
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The movie industry may feel the same way about words such as colossal,
gigantic, sensational and history-making. They’re good words —good sym
bols. But they’ve been overused, and we tend to pay them little heed. Their
effectiveness as symbols is being depleted.
One of our own problems is with the word “opportunity.” It’s suffering sym
bol depletion, too. It’s passed over with scant notice in an advertisement.
It’s been used too much and too loosely.
This bothers us because we still like to talk about opportunity. A position
at Collins holds great potential. Potential for involvement in designing
and producing some of the most important communication systems in
the world. Potential for progressive advancement in responsibility and
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