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feRARY &PUS 14 COPIES Che Battalion Weather •x. Friday — Cloudy to partly cloudy, S winds South 10-20 m.p.h. High 72, &: low 49. Saturday—Cloudy, few afternoon rain S; showers, winds South 10-15 m.p.h. j:j: High 76, low 53. §: VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1968 NUMBER 551 ConsiderationBegins For SCONA Topics e wit! of tk \ggit in tlx id da teat 654 Down \ggie in of irst nd 40 f Tot Greet ed tlk e free 1 older ell ant i Rio e plat scorer Chris Soutli- gams ive tli id ther he vk- Jem d Rot- i Did gled. o ruts in tks 14th Chairman Names Heads Of Committees &M** K ^ < ***' NEW MSC VICE-PRESIDENTS Three vice-presidents-elect of the Memorial Student Center Council and Directorate look over the agenda before the Wednesday night meeting. They are (from left), Harry Snow- dy, vice-president for programs Mac Spears, vice-president for operations, and Jim Fi- nane, MSC Council vice-president. (Photo by Mike Wright) Committee Chairmen Needed By MSC Council-Directorate By DAVE MAYES Battalion Staff Writer Chairmen are still needed for six Memorial Student Center com mittees, according to Wayne Prescott, executive vice president elect of programs. “Applications for chairmen of Political Forum, Dance, Recrea tion, Bridge, Radio and Chess Committees should be returned to the Student Programs Office by Tuesday,” Prescott announced in an MSC Directorate meeting Wednesday night. He added that the only quali fications for a committee chair manship are a 1.4 grade point ratio overall and the preceding semester and no conduct or aca demic probation. IN OTHER Directorate busi ness, Jim Finane, MSC Council vice president-elect, announced that freshmen interested in be coming one of 11 assistants to the Council and Directorate next year should apply at the Student Programs Office before March 23. president-elect of the Council and Directorate. Sims also announced that “Mexican Fiesta” will be the theme of the annual MSC Coun- “The only requirement applicants have a 1.5 Finane said. is that GPR,” A1 Reinert, sophomore geology major from Fairfax, Va., is the new Finance Committee chair man, according to Benny Sims, Kennedy Says Pciwnry* V? te T £1 t\i ^ Influence ti Students and faculty plan ning to spend this summer in Europe will have their last opportunity to take advantage of reduced air travel rates at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Me morial Student Center Social Room, according to Dave Mayes, chairman of the MSC Travel Committee. “Flights still available are Dallas-London, June 4-Sept. 5 ($373 rountrip), and several New York-London flights leav ing on different dates ($245 rouiwHrip),” Mayes said. Might Influence turn To Run WASHINGTON UP* — Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., in dicated Wednesday he is consid ering a possible challenge to President Johnson for the Dem ocratic Presidential nomination. Kennedy said results of the New Hampshire primary had re moved “the major obstacles” to his running against Johnson. He met in private for 20 min utes with antiwar candidate Eu gene McCarthy, D-Minn., who drew 42 per cent of the Demo cratic vote compared to Johnson’s 48 per cent in New Hampshire Tuesday. KENNEDY TOLD the Wash ington Post that if he decided to run he would probably have to campaign actively in the nation’s primaries. ^‘Otherwise, there is no reason why anyone would consider me,” he said. McCarthy said Kennedy had “never really said he was taking himself out, and I have no rea son to expect him to stay out.” McCarthy also reported: “He (Kennedy) just said what he had said this morning, that he was reassessing his position. He said he had reached no conclu sions, that he just wanted to let me know. He didn’t ask me for any commitments. He didn’t give me any.” THE POST quoted Kennedy as saying McCarthy would “con tinue in the race, as I expected and as is proper.” Kennedy had said two months ago he would not oppose the President “under any forseeable circumstances.” But he announced to newsmen Wednesday, “I am reassessing my position as to whether I’ll run against President Johnson.” The younger brother of John son’s predecessor flew to New York Wednesday night for an other meeting with political ad visers. He said it was too early to make a decision on entering primaries in Oregon and Cali fornia. KENNEDY SAID the major obstacle to his entry into the race had been the possibility people might suspect him of running because of personal ambition or personal animosity toward John son and this would deeply divide the Democratic party. But he said the New Hampshire showing by McCarthy “clearly indicates that a sizeable group of Democrats are concerned about the direction in which the country is going, in the fields of both foreign and domestic pol icy.” He said McCarthy’s campaign, based on issues arising from U.S. policy in Vietnam, had removed the personal element from a chal lenge to the President. The meeting between Kennedy and McCarthy took place in the office of Robert Kennedy’s brother, Sen. Edward M. Ken nedy, D-Mass. Arrowsmith Sets 8 p. m. Address For Great Issues cil and Directorate Awards Ban quet April 25. Ron Zipp, executive vice presi dent of operations, reminded committee chairmen to prepare booths for the Spring Personnel Drive at 7:30 p.m. April 2 in the MSC Assembly Room. “WE WANT this drive to serve as a stimulant not only for new committee members but also for new committee chairmen as well,” he declared. Mac Spears, vice president elect of operations, announced plans for a 4x8 foot display board to show the organizational struc ture of the Council and Director ate. A report on the recent three- day World Affairs Conference sponsored by Texas Tech was given by David Maddox, chair man-elect of Great Issues. He said that the conference theme, “The Soviet Bloc: Evolu tion in World 1 Affairs,” was well presented but noted the seminar sessions lacked the student-to- student idea exchanges in the roundtable discussions of A&M’s Student Conference on National Affairs (SCONA). By BOB PALMER Battalion Staff Writer Groundwork was laid Wednes day night in the Memorial Stu dent Center on the Fourteenth Student Conference on National Affairs. Chairman-elect Don McCrory announced the committee chair men and discussed possible topics for the upcoming SCONA. “Topics being considered are ‘Communism in the Americas,’ ‘The Three Brands of Communism —Russian, Chinese and Eastern Bloc,’ and ‘The Middle East’,” McCrory said. ALSO UNDER consideration, acording to McCrory, is the pos sibility of using a national topic such as “The Crisis in the Cities and Civil Justice.” In the past SCONA has delt with an inter national problem. Bill Howell, finance chairman, announced plans for the Easter fund drive in which he hopes to net $10,000 instead of last year’s $9,000. “There are other conferences on the size and quality of SCONA, but we are the only conference that is solely financed from out side funds,” Howell commented. He pointed out that last year’s SCONA spent $18,000 and that it will take the work of all the SCONA members to be able to raise enough funds to pay for the conference. THE DRIVE will run from Ap^il 11 through the 15 and will he followed by another drive in June, Howell said. Applications for membership in SCONA can be picked up in the SCONA office, Roger Engelke, personnel chairman, noted. Committee chairmen announced at the meeting were Harry K. Lesser, vice chairman; James H. Willbanks. conference manager: William R. Howell, finance, and Roger L. Engelke, personnel. John C. Sutherland, publicity; Ray Dillon, transportation; Hec tor Gutierrez, arrangements; Frank Davis. secretary, and Stephen A. Holditch, housing, were also recognized. The remaining committees were program. Scott Spitzer; planning, Jon Beall; host. Garland Clark; and member-at-large, Patrick G. Rehmet. The publication chairmanship has not been filled. TARLETON DRILL TEAM The Wainwright Debutantes, a girls’ drill team from Tarleton State College, will give a special performance in the A&M Invitational Drill Meet here Saturday. They are among 14 teams to be participating. Red Cross With VC, Meets Czechs 1 I : : : : ! I Tarleton Debs To March In Drill Tourney Town Hall Seeks ’68-’69 Applicants By FRED S. HOFFMAN AP Military Writer WASHINGTON UP> — Ameri can Red Cross authorities have been meeting with representatives of the Viet Cong in Communist Czechoslovakia in so-far frustrat ed efforts to get food packages and mail to U. S. prisioners. The Red Cross also has sent cable after cable to Hanoi in hopes of arranging some regular chan nel of contact with U. S. POWs in North Vietnam,, sources said. “So far we’ve had absolutely no encouragement either from the VC or the North Vietnamese,” one American Red Cross official said. HE DISCLOSED that a repre sentative of the American Red Cross meets a Viet Cong repre sentative in Prague every other month or so. “We’ve tried time and time again,” he said. The VC and the North Vietna mese also are spurning efforts by the International Red Cross, officials reported. The intransigence of the Com munist Vietnamese is puzzling to American Red Cross authorities in view of the totally different attitude on the part of the Chi nese Communists, also bitter ene mies of the United States. mail and packages with the con tents undisturbed, it was said. Four of the five are American civilians who have been held in Chinese jails on espionage charges for nearly 20 years. They are Father John J. Walsh, a Mary- knoll priest from Ossining, N. Y.; Richard G. Fecteau of Lynn, Mass.; Hugh Redmond, Yonkers, N. Y., and John Downey of New Britain, Conn. THE FIFTH is Air Force Cadet Capt. Philip E. Smith of Victor ville, Calif., who was taken pris oner after his plane was shot down over the South China Sea in September 1965. Except for an exchange of mail three years ago, the American Red Cross has been tunned back in ajl its tries—though a varie ty of possible channels—to get the Viet Cong to agree to accept packages for POWs. The latest Pentagon listing car ries 240 Americans captured or interned and 897 missing. The great bulk are captured fliers downed in air attacks against the North. The 19-member Wainwright De butantes, a coed precision march ing unit of Tarleton State College, will add the feminine touch to Texas A&M’s annual Invitational Drill Meet Saturday. The Tarleton lasses will per form at 1:15 p.m. Saturday on the main parade ground in front of the Memorial Student Center. Fourteen teams will be march ing for 10 trophies in the regular day-long competition. The girls’ team from Stephenville will not compete. First place winner in San An tonio’s Fiesta Flambeau last year, the Debutantes execute a variety of military movements and se quences in their precision drill. The Debs march in parades, foot ball games and form a support unit of Tarleton’s State’s ROTC program. Wainwright Debutantes com mander is Pam McEntire, a sopho more elementary education ma jor of Waxahachie. Suzanne Marx, junior math major from Houston, is executive officer and Kristi Bowers, Brownwood soph in ele mentary education, is first ser geant. ★ ★ ★ BB&L Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. Scholarship vs. education are the general battle lines of a con troversial topic to be discussed in a Great Issues lecture tonight at Texas A&M. Dr. William Arrowsmith, Uni versity of Texas professor of classics and arts and letters, will speak on the topic “Toward A New University” at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center Ball room. His provocative educational criticisms have been voiced before numerous college and university student - faculty audiences, the American Council on Education and published in Harper’s Maga zine. Graduate of Princeton and Har vard, Arowsmith has taught at Texas 10 years. He has been acclaimed for new translations of the classics and is known for his denunciations of American educational processes. Admission to the lecture is free for Aggies with activity cards, $1.50 general and 75 cents for high school students and Aggie wives. University National Bank ‘On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. Applications for next year’s Town Hall staff junior positions are now available in the Student Programs Office, Town Hall Chairman-Elect Lewis Adams an nounced. The forms are to be returned to the office by March 22, he noted. FOR THE past 13 years, of ficials said, the Communist Chi nese have never failed to carry out a monthly arrangement where by a letter and two packages of food, each weighing 11 pounds, are provided for five Americans in Chinese captivity. Mail getting out of mainland China to families of the prisoners indicates they are getting the A&MInvitationalMeetTo Draw Regional Drill Teams Saturday MSC Ballroom — 8:00 p. m. Dr. William Arrowsmith THE ENEMY IS BELOW Theodore Rutkowski, U. S. Navy hospital corpsman of Pittsburgh, Pa., uses stethoscope to listen for digging by North Vietnamese troops under neath a U. S. Marine outpost at Khe Sanh. At right is Julian Kalama of San Lorenzo, Calif. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Saigon) Rifle teams from Texas, Ar kansas, Louisiana and New Mexi co clash for the Texas A&M In vitational Drill Meet champion ship Saturday. Mitch Woodard of Houston said 14 teams have entered the com petition and the Wainwright Deb utantes, a girls’ team of John Tarleton State College, will per form a special drill. Woodard is president of the As sociation of Former Fish Drill Team Members which co-sponsors the annual meet with the Military Science Department. Among the state’s top teams competing for 10 trophies will be A&M’s Freshman Drill Team, St. Mary’s University Marion Guard; Loman Rifles, Sam Houston State; King’s Rifles, Texas A&I; Buc caneers, University of Texas, Aus tin; Cougar Rifles, University of Houston, and Sam Houston Rifles, University of Texas, Arlington. SAM’S LOMAN Rifles is the defending champion and second place team at the fall semester University of Houston meet, won by St. Mary’s. The A&M Fish won sweepstakes at the recent West Texas State Scabbard and Blade meet and received invita tion to compete in the national intercollegiate ROTC drill cham pionships in Washington. Also competing will be the Drillmasters, New Mexico Uni versity; Texas Tech, McNeese, University of Texas, El Paso; New Mexico Military Institute; Wainwright Rifles, Tarleton, and Reng Rifles, Arkansas State. Three-phase competition will be held on A&M’s main parade ground in front of the Memorial Student Center and on the Trigon parking lot. Inspection begins at 8 a.m. Ba sic drill will be conducted Satur day morning with precision com petition to follow the Wainwright Debutantes’ special exhibition at 1:15 p.m. First, second and third place trophies will be awarded in basic and precision phases. A first place award goes to the in spection winner. THE MASTER trophy will be claimed by the team with the highest aggregate score. Second and third place overall awards will also be made. Presentation at 4:30 p.m. will be by Col. Jim H. McCoy, com mandant. A Marine Corps team com prised of Capt. Corbett G. Pool, Capt. Thomas A. Baily, Capt. Therlon E. Hughes, Gunnery Sgt. Arne S. Mikkelborg and Sgt. Don ald G'. Obermiller will judge com petition. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. 1U; I I