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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1968
Number 539
Drill Tearn Invited
To National Meet
The Fish Drill Team has been
invited to compete in the 1968
National Intercollegiate ROTC
Drill Team Championships in
iWashington, D. C., April 5-6.
The invitation for the A&M
unit’s second straight appearance
I at the annual competition was
made by Brig. Gen. William R.
McCall Jr., ROTC drill team com-
FBI Explores
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WASHINGTON OP) _ Work
ing under President Johnson’s per
sonal order to clear up the case
quickly, police and FBI agents
probing a bomb explosion at the
Soviet Embassy are exploring a
possible link with a dynamite
theft in nearby Virginia.
They said Wednesday night
they had “several leads” on the
case.
Eighteen sticks of dynamite and
50 blasting caps were reported
stolen from a construction site in
West Springfield, Va., a Washing
ton suburb.
The theft was noticed Wednes
day shortly after the predawn ex
plosion shook the four-story em
bassy, just four blocks from the
White House.
NO ONE WAS hurt in the blast
but it did slight damage to a first-
floor office and reception room,
shattered windows in nearby
buildings — and shook U.S.-Soviet
relations.
The Soviet government formal
ly protested the incident, accused
the United States of providing in
adequate protection and demanded
compensation.
Johnson and Secretary of State
Dean Rusk expressed regrets but
the State Department rejected the
charge of inadequate protection.
There were indications the So
viets would be compensated.
ONE EMBASSY official said the
explosion could have been the
work of fanatics inflamed by a
three-day mock trial of commu
nism which ended Wednesday on
the Georgetown University cam
pus in Washington. It was spon
sored by a coalition of anti-Com-
munist groups and included
lengthy testimony concerning
prison torture and religious per
secution in Iron Curtain coun
tries.
An embassy source also said
the FBI should have photographs
of the dynamiters because it main
tains camera surveillance on the
embassy from a window across
the street. But the FBI wouldn’t
comment on that.
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HSC Leaders
To Be Chosen
In Interviews
Interviews are now being con
ducted to fill the chairmanships
of the Memorial Student Center
Council committees, Benjamin J.
Sims, Council and Directorate
president-elect, announced.
Positions to be filled include
the chairmanships of Town Hall,
Great Issues, Leadership Com
mittee, Camera Club, Chess Club
and Flying Kadets. Other com
mittees needing chairmen are
Bridge, Recreation, Dance and
Travel.
Sims pointed out that the class
representatives to the Council and
Directorate will be elected by the
student body later in the year.
In an earlier meeting the Coun
cil picked Sims as president,
Donald B. McCrory as chairman
of the Fourteenth Student Con
ference on National Affairs,
Wayne H. Prescott as executive
vice-president of programs and
Keller W. Webster as executive
vice-president of operations.
Sims said the interviews by the
Dominating committee will con
tinue until March 4, when the
council will vote on recommenda
tions of the committee.
“Although there is a lack of
interest in a couple of the com
mittees, we are enthusiastic about
the interest shown in most of the
directorate groups,” Sims said.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif-
icates. —Adv.
petition chairman at the District
of Columbia National Guard Ar
mory, announced FDT advisor
Calvin Reese.
Competition is limited this year
to 30 teams. The Fish Drill Team,
commanded by Sammy Garcia of
San Antonio, was one of about
20 male teams invited.
A&M opened spring competi
tion last weekend in Canyon by
taking all four trophies in West
Texas State’s Scabbard and Blade
Tournament.
Coed units also compete at the
nationals held in conjunction with
the Cherry Blossom Festival at
the nation’s capitol.
The invitation includes appear
ances in the drill championships
April 5 and the Cherry Blossom
Parade of Princesses April 6.
A&M’s 1966-67 team, which
won 21 trophies, was second in the
competition last spring and
placed fifth in the parade. Whis
key Company of Villanova won
the national championship and
Rutgers’ Scarlet Rifles finished
third behind the Fish.
Sam Houston State’s Loman
Rifles also competed for the drill
title. They brought home first
place in the parade.
This year’s drill will be on a
DC Stadium parking lot at the
intersection of Oklahoma Avenue
and Benning Road N. E. Last
year, the teams marched on the
Ellipse south of the White House,
in the shadow of the Washington
Monument.
Congressmen Bob Casey of
Houston and Olin E. Teague of
College Station are helping with
arrangements in Washington.
AF Personnel
Recognized By
Vietnam Wing
Air Force ROTC personnel at
Texas A&M have been honored
with an Outstanding Homefront
Award presented by Detachment
1, 314th Tactical Airlift Wing,
stationed in Vietnam.
The certificate cites A&M’s
aerospace studies personnel for
contributions to a civic project
the 314th unit carried out for the
children of a Vietnam village.
Through the project and A&M
support, 500 Vietnamese children
received Christmas stockings fill
ed with candy.
The project was initiated by
Maj. John Gargus, 314th detach
ment civic actions officer who
was formerly assigned at A&M.
Lt. Col. Thomas F. Hines, unit
operations officer, was also in
the aerospace studies department.
Col. Vernon L. Head, A&M’s
ranking Air Force officer and
professor of aerospace studies,
said the certificate will be dis
played in the military science
department instruction annex.
The award cites the A&M
detachment’s generous contribu
tions.
“Your thoughtful support of
our many-sided war effort indi
cates your loyal dedication to
the American ideals and to our
mutudl desire to share them with
all those who strive to be free.
By your action you have con
tributed greatly, not only to our
morale and effectiveness but also
to the accomplishment of our or
ganization’s mission,” the citation
reads.
It is signed by Lt. Col. Dow A.
Rogers Jr., 314th detachment
commander.
Colonel Head noted 16 officers
and seven enlisted men contribut
ed to the project.
OceanographyGets
$3,600 Fellowship
The Pan American Petroleum
Foundation of Tulsa has awarded
Texas A&M $3,600 for renewal of
a doctoral fellowship in ocean
ography, announced Dr. Richard
A. Geyer, head of the university’s
Oceanography Department.
Recipient of the funds is G. S.
Edwards of Houston, a Ph.D.
candidate studying sedimentation
of Mexican coastal waters. He
received an identical awaixl from
the foundation last year.
Dr. Geyer was notified of the
fellowship renewal by J. M. Allen
Jr., the foundation’s executive di
rector.
Gov. Connally To Address
Ag Confab Here Tonight
NEW MSC OFFICERS
The Memorial Student Center Council and Directorate’s three top officers for next year
look over a schedule of activities. They are, from left, Wayne Prescott, executive vice-
president of programs; Benny Sims, president; and Keller Webster, executive vice-presi
dent of operations. See related story, column 6. (Photo by Mike Wright)
‘Sully’ Took Three Monlhst
To Reach That Pedestal
Top Farm Leaders
Will Hear Speech
By DAVIS MAYES
Battalion Staff Writer
It took Sully three months to
step up to his granite pedestal,
but when he did, Gov. W. P.
Hobby, A&M President W. B.
Bizzell and little Besy Ross were
all there to watch him.
The bronze statue of LaWrence
Sullivan Ross, whose term as
A&M president is still rdfdrred
to as the “Golden Age of A&M,”
was originally scheduled to be
unveiled March 2, 1919.
The ceremony was to coincide
with the memorial services for
38 A&M men who died in World
War I.
On Feb. 12, however, the “Bry
an Daily Eagle” reported that
Gov. Hobby and members of both
houses of the legislature request
ed the date be changed “on ac
count of the inaugural ball set
for March 3 making it impracti
cal ... to attend both functions.”
BIZZELL appointed a faculty
committee to name a new date
for the unveiling.
The committee had originally
considered April 21, San Jacinto
Day. They had hoped the state
holiday would “be convenient for
state officials and other admirers
to attend the exercises.”
Other complications must have
arisen, because the date of the
ceremony was postponed until
Sunday, May 4.
The “Alumni Quarterly,” fore
runner to the “Texas Aggie” and
the “A&M Directory,” reported
the “very simple but beautiful
and impressive ceremonies.”
“THE VEIL formed by United
States and Texas flags was drawn
aside by little Miss Betsy Ross
of Houston, granddaughter of the
late Governor Ross, while the
Ross Volunteers presented arms
and the College band played the
Star Spangled Banner.
President Bizzell then made a
few introductory remarks, relat
ing the history of the statue to
the audience of “1,500 loyal
Texans.”
Norman G. Kittrell of Houston,
a personal friend of Ross, who
“in his eloquent manner, paid a
beautiful tribute to the patriotism
and high ideals of Ross as a
soldier, scholar and statesman.”
GOV. HOBBY formally pre
sented the statue on behalf of
the state and L. J. Hart of San
Antonio, president of the board,
accepted for Texas A&M.
Hart said “No other gift would
be accepted by the college with
so large appreciation or be the
means of more inspiration to
young men . . . ”
Captain Kellie, one of the color
bearers of the Confederate Bri
gade commanded by Ross, dis
played “the last remaining flag
of the Texas Legion . . . and told
of many fine principles of man
hood as set forth by Gen. Ross.”
MISS Louise Cline, represent
ing the Daughters of the Con
federacy, placed a floral wreath
upon the statue.
Sen. R. M. Johnson of Houston,
author of the joint resolution
appropriating money for the
statue, sent his regrets that legis
lative sessions kept him from
attending the unveiling.
Watching the ceremonies in
the audience was Pompeo L.
Coppini of Maglia, Italy, who
had designed the statue of Ross.
After the exercises, the audi
ence adjourned to the steps of
the YMCA to hear a “very ex
cellent” concert given by the
College band.
Travel Loans
Now Available
By MIKEPLAKE
Battalion Features Editor
Texas Governor John Connally,
a “rancher and farmer in his own
right,” will speak tonight at the
Southwest Agricultural Market
Power Conference at 7 p.m. in the
Memorial Student Center.
“Governor Connally will speak
from a background of first-hand
experience on the importance of
continually improving market fa
cilities for the agricultural pro
ducer,” John Hutchinson, director
of the Texas Agricultural Exten
sion Service, said.
Texas A&M’s Ross Volunteers,
the Governor’s official honor
guard, will form an honor corri
dor for Gov. Connally as he en
ters the Memorial Student Center.
The Conference theme is the
need for the agricultural producer
to develop more influence in the
market place.
“Governor Connally believes
there is a great potential for in
creasing agricultural incomes in
Texas,” Hutchinson noted. “He
has indicated, however, that pro
ducers must increase their influ
ence in the market place.”
“This way, they would be able
to earn a greater return on their
investment before their potential
can be fully realized.”
Officers and representatives
from the Board of Directors of
the major farm organizations in
Texas, as well as representatives
from each of the agricultural com
modity organizations, will attend
the conference.
The conference is co-sponsored
by Louisiana State University,
the University of Arkansas, and
Oklahoma State University. Also
supporting it are the Texas Agri
cultural Extension Service, Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station,
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics at Texas A&M, and the
Agricultural Adjustment Center
at North Carolina State Univer
sity.
“This center has provided funds
Aggie Debaters
Take On SWC
At Fayetteville
Southwest Conference cham
pionship debate will occupy Texas
A&M debate club members this
weekend in Fayetteville, Ark.
The round-robin tournament
will be conducted Friday and
Saturday at the University of
Arkansas. Baylor, Texas Tech
and the University of Texas,
Austin, are favored teams in the
debate meet.
Aggie debate director Robert
H. Archer said a team of Ron
Hinds of Midland and Robert
Peek of Jacksboro will debate the
negative. On the affirmative will
be Charles F. Stephan of Fresno,
Calif., and Morgan F. Heien of
Beaumont.
Stephan is a senior economics
major; Hinds a junior in finance;
Peek, sophomore, economics, and
Heien, freshman, pre-law.
Army Recruiters
To Visit MSC
A U.S. Army officer selection
team will be at Texas A&M Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday, lo
cating near the Memorial Student
Center post office.
Facts on how seniors may ful
fill their military obligation and
receive executive training and
challenge of leadership offered to
commissioned Army officers will
be available.
First Lt. David A. Johnson of
the San Antonio recruiting sta
tion said the team can administer
qualification tests for the Officer
Candidate School college option
program. These tests in no way
obligate the individual to enter the
service, the team chief said.
enabling us to bring outstanding
speakers from, all over the nation
to this conference,” Hutchinson
said.
“A significant feature of this
conference is the providing of
opportunities for free discussion
of the concepts presented by each
of the speakers,” he added. “Es
pecially important will be the con
sideration of how the market
power position of farmers and
ranchers in the Southwest are uti
lized.”
LBJ, U Thant
Meet To Talk
Peace Hopes
WASHINGTON <A>> — Presi
dent Johnson and Secretary-Gen
eral U Thant of the United Na
tions met for one hour Wednes
day for an intensive discussion
of Vietnam peace prospects.
A statement of less than 100
words issued by the White House
after the session said the Presi
dent had reaffirmed his desire to
achieve a peaceful settlement un
der the San Antonio formula.
The San Antonio formula was
contained in a speech the Presi
dent made in the Texas city Sept.
29, 1967. It said the United States
“is willing to stop all aerial and
naval bombardment of North
Vietnam when this will lead
promptly t o productive discus
sions.” It said this assumes that
while discussions proceeded, North
Vietnam would not take advan
tage of the bombing cessation or
limitation.
U Thant “conveyed to the Presi
dent his impressions regarding-
the prospect of peace in Vietnam
in light of his recent discussions
in various capitals of the world,”
the statement said.
Thant met with North Vietnam
diplomats in New Delhi and Paris
and also conferred with officials
in Moscow and London on the
Vietnam conflict, before coming
to Washington.
Following the meeting with
Thant, the President met with
the National Security Council.
The White House described
the Johnson-Thant meeting as a
“friendly exchange of views on
a number of matters, including
Vietnam.” There was no hint of
any agreement being reached.
In latest war developments,
U.S. planes for the first time in
the war attacked the Hanoi radio
station that beams out all Com
munist propaganda from North
Vietnam, the U.S. command an
nounced today. But monitors said
Radio Hanoi was still on the air.
The attack on the station ap
parently was intended as a blow
against Communist propaganda
claims of great victories in the
South and of shooting down more
than 2,000 U.S. warplanes in the
three-year bombing campaign
against the North. The U.S. Com
mand has accused Radio Hanoi of
gross exaggeration and distortion.
The station apparently had
heretofore been on the Pentagon’s
list of targets out of bounds to
U.S. pilots.
SW Veterinarian
Magazine Ready
The Winter issue of The
Southwestern Veterinarian is
now ready for distribution.
This issue can be obtained at
the new Student Publications
office. Room 217, Services
Building, across the street
from the Chemistry Building
and next to the A&M Press.
All Pre-Vets are urged to come
by at their earliest conveni
ence.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M”
—Adv.
Principal speaker was Judge
GAMMA ALPHA CHI PLEDGES
New members of Gamma Alpha Chi, national advertising-
sorority, sign membership blanks following their initiation
this week. They are, from left, Nancy Grossenbacher,
Vancy Manning, Jane Mills and Elizabeth Lyne. (Photo by
Mike Wright)
“A&M students needing finan
cial aid to travel to a foreigr
country are urged to apply for
loans from the Memorial Student
o Center Travel Committee,” Davis
G. Mayes, committee chairman
said Wednesday.
Mayes said students must apply
at the Student Programs Office
in the MSC between Feb. 23 and
March 1.
“Interviews for applicants will
probably begin on March 5,” he
said.
Mayes added that the loans
would charge no interest and be
repaid on a monthly basis after
graduation.
BB&L
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
—Adv.
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