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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, March 21, 1968
F-lll In Vietnam,
Ups Combat Power
The United States is about to introduce one of two
new aircraft which will greatly increase combat effective
ness while lowering operating and shipping costs.
Six of the controversial F-lll swing-wing bombers will
be introduced into the Vietnam war in about two weeks.
They are the first of the newly-developed aircraft to
be used in combat, and if successful, are destined to replace
the F-105’s, which are no longer in production but are
being shot down over North Vietnam daily.
Air Force spokesmen say the F-lll will fly farther and
faster than any other aircraft in the military inventory-
It can carry up to 50,000 pounds of bombs, can maintain
supersonic speeds in any weather and at any level, day or
night, and could carry any weapon, conventional or nuclear.
The spokesmen say the bomber is more accurate than
any other bomber and is more effective in eluding enemy
ground fire.
The bomber will be used for low level raids on Hanoi
and other heavily defended targets where it can be flown
at supersonic speeds at low level for a long period of time.
The introduction of the plane could lead to a reduction
in the number of fighter aircraft needed and thus a possible
reduction in the cost of maintaining an efficient and effec
tive striking force.
Within the next two years, should the war continue,
the Air Force will also have the new C-5A transport which
is being produced by Lockheed.
Larger than any aircraft to have ever flown, it will
have the capability of carrying 350,00 pounds of cargo.
Translated into more meaningful terms, that might
be six Greyhound buses; or 400 combat troops with their
equipment; or a tank, several jeeps, an artillery piece and
150 combat troops, or any combination which adds up to
a capability more than twice as great as any plane we now
have.
Both planes represent the continuing and mounting
pressure which is brought to bear against the enemy and
yet at less expense to the taxpayer.
Local Tax Addition
Social Phenomena
Bryan voters recently did what most other Texas
towns had done in the past few weeks, and passed the thing
that hurts the least—a one per cent city sales tax.
That way the increased costs of city services can be met
while the taxpayer only vaguely realizes the loss of a few
pennies on each item he buys.
For taxpayers to swallow the proposition of a 10 per
cent federal income tax surcharge is a gagging gulp.
In some states, added to federal taxes are state income
tax deductions- And, in the cities of many states, tax at
that level provides still further revenue for the costs of
; providing government service and benefits.
The local option city sales tax vote Which was passed
in Bryan was a sociological and psychological phenomena.
People who are radically opposed to any further pay
ments to the federal government were probably willing to
vote in a one per cent increase at the local level.
The community is like a breathing, living person with
which an individual can identify for his job, his education,
his recreation, his family—his security.
The federal and state governments remain too imper
sonal, at a level where the words “bureaucracy” and “waste”
are too often dropped.
Like other Texas citizens, Bryan voters were willing
to increase city sales taxes to three cents.
And there was also another important factor—they had
a choice to pass it or reject it.
The issue points up the fact that taxes, tax forms or
even how much (within reason) taxes are paid is not neces
sarily repulsive—it’s who is being paid.
On the one hand, President Johnson asks for an in
crease to stem the “tide of inflation” and people cringe.
On the other hand, citizens go to the polls and pass a
tax increase at the local level. The services which are being
supported by the increase will benefit them directly; it’s
easier to see just how their dollar is being spent, and it’s
nice to drive on the new roads which can now be built.
But no matter what the issue or its importance, the
Bryan vote illustrated the apathy of an entire nation—only
15 per cent of the eligible voters voted.
Bulletin Board
TODAY
The Lower Trinity Valley
Hometown Club will meet at 8
p.m. in the Memorial Student
Center.
The Russian Club will hear
Dr. K. H. Ro of the Department
of Political Science speak on the
Moscow-Peking rivalry in Asia
at Room 3D of the Memorial
Student Center at 7:30 p.m.
The Leaders In World Agricul
ture will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the
Ag Engineering Building.
The Deep East Texas Home
town Club will elect officers at
7:30 p.m. in Room 3A of the Me
morial Student Center.
The Amarillo Hometown Club
will make plans for an Easter
party at 7:30 p.m. in the lobby
of the Academic Building.
The Mechanical Engineer
ing Seminar Program will hear
Mike D. Batey and Bill Nicks,
engineers for Southwest Bell
Telephone Co. in Houston, speak
ing about Bell’s management
training program for engineers
at 10 a.m. in Room 303 of Fermier
Hall.
The Fort Worth Hometown
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
the Art Room of the Memorial
Student Center.
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Sex, Colleges—
Should They Mix?
PITTSBURGH <7P)_An educa
tor said Monday colleges have
no business meddling with the
sex lives of their students.
“I believe that college students
have the right to pursue their
personal lives without the inter
ference of overzealous adminis
trators,” said Dr. Marvin Bunch-
er, vice president for student
affairs at Point Park College.
“The college,” he said in a
Arts Group Sets
‘Citizen Kane’
“There’s an ad here for a second-hand car that would
‘make an excellent faculty car or a fair second car for a
student!’ ”
Sound Off
To the Class of ’69:
My name is Bud Welch, and I
am campaigning for the position
of your class vice-president. My
job as vice-president would in
volve the organization and co
ordination of our class through
the Senior Council.
I hope to speak to each of you
individually, but this letter may
have to be a substitute. Our
Senior year should be our most
active, and I shall do my best to
make it a year for you to remem
ber.
Candidate for Vice-President
Bud Welch ’69
★ ★ ★
Editor,
The Battalion:
All right, Ags — You have had
plenty of time to think about
what is going to happen on
March 28th. You have had time
to sit in your “bull” sessions
and talk about it. But, remem
ber Ags, talk is cheap and talk
never got you to the polls.
Do you know enough now to
go to, the polls next Thursday
and Voice your feelings? Do
you think what you say with your
power to vote will be effective ?
Do you know how to make your
feelings effective? You can, you
know, if you voice your feelings
as a body, a body of Aggies!
A concerted effort by you will
get something done. Think
about it! Look at the responsi
bilities. Draw some conclusions.
Act on these obvious conclusions.
Above all, Ags, remember one
thing. After all is said and
done, you know where the respon
sibility lies, at the polls.
Clifford Tice ’69
★ ★ ★
Editor,
The Battalion:
I am writing this letter in
reference to the upcoming elec
tions and one of the candidates
running for yell leader. -
The candidate I am referring
to is Garry Mauro, class of 1970.
Garry is running because he
would like to see A&M united
once again. He, along with many
others are tired of seeing a great
school like A&M being ruined by
a split in the student body be
cause some of us are not in the
Corps of Cadets. We feel that
being in the Corps is not a pre
requisite to being an Aggie.
Rather having that true Fighting
Texas Aggie Spirit is what
makes a real Aggie.
Garry would also like to see
more spirit exhibited by the
civilian . students. He would like
to see more civilians out at the
yell practices and would work
toward this goal if elected. Gar
ry has been said to be the most
spirited non-reg on campus.
I personally would like to see
Garry Mauro elected yell leader
not just because he is a non-reg
but because I believe he can do
a lot for A&M. Let’s all get out
and vote on March 28 and remem-
Garry Mauro for yell leader.
Bill Wakefield ’70
“Citizen Kane,” Orson Wells’
first and most famous film, will
be the Contemporary Arts Com
mittee’s feature at 8 p.m. Monday
in the Memorial Student Center
Ball Room.
“We have fewer than 100 sea
son passes left which will be sold
on a first-come, first-served bas
is,” according to Mark Schumann,
film series chairman.
He added that single admis
sions will be sold at the door
for “Citizen Kane” for 50 cents
per student and 75 cents for
faculty.
An American color film, “The
Adventures of is the second
feature.
lecture, “should not establish
standards of student dress, dic
tate the length of the male tress
es, or attempt to regulate the
sexual morality of the students.”
Buncher said a sexual evolu
tion is taking place on college
campuses. He said there appear
to be five reasons for this: (1)
the use of birth control pills,
(2) a chemo-therapeutic approach
to venereal disease, (3) the use
of drugs, narcotics and alcohol,
(4) the “chronic exposure of sex
manifestations via the mass me
dia, and (5) “an unknown quan
tity is the so-called ‘stress syn
drome’ based on the uncertainties
of the world situation.”
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