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...vt MS ■ •v- r Che Battalion Weather •:•: SATURDAY — SUNDAY—Cloudy to f. parftly cloudy, widely scattered after- :£ noon rain showers, winds Southerly jS 15-20 m.p.h. High 77, low 62. :$ VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1968 NUMBER 560 bsu To Sponsor 122 Class Officers Named; Tien, sho„ Here«Runoff Ballot Set For 22 By MIKE FLAKE Contributions from Texas col- texas A&M’s Baptist Student leges last year sent 46 student Union will present its second an- summer missionaries all over the nual Intercollegiate Talent Show Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the stu dent center at North Gate. A hamburger supper, included in the 75-cent ticket price, will be served at 6 p.m. "All students and faculty mem bers are invited to this event,” Bob Burch, BSU director, said. The talent show will feature fifteen acts from five colleges in the state. “We have several acts from A&M, four from Tarleton State College, two from Mary Hardin- Bay lor, two from Texas Univer sity, and three from North Texas State,” Burch said. HE NOTED that the acts will be varied. ‘We will have everything from a choir singing to a skit, given by the Peanut Gallery from North Texas State.” Burch said he expected folk singers, solos, balladeers, coun try and western singers, and imi tation groups. "It will be a full evening, with abundant talent,” he added. Burch explained that profits from the night’s events will go to a fund to sponsor two summer missionaries from the A&M Bap tist Student Union. “WE HAVE John New, a soph omore pre-vet major, going this year,” Burch said. “John will be going to South Texas this sum mer and will work with a mobile Dental clinic. "Larry Marcum, our second missionary, will be going to the South Texas Work Camp. There, he will assist in building new area churches.” world. “The goal for Texas this year is 59 students,” Burch noted. “To send them, the Texas schools must raise $25,000. Last year, the goal was $20,000.” Burch said each year, because of the wide range of experience gained by the individual through summer missions work, applica tions for the posts far surpass the number of positions available. He added that more than 300 students attended ITS last year. Graduate Reps In 3 Colleges To Be Named By CHARLES ROWTON Battalion Editor Elections for representatives to the Graduate Student Council are being conducted through campus mail. Balloting is only for the Col leges of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, according to James Harrison, chairman of the Elec tion Committee. “Only one person was nomi nated in the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Geosci ences, and the College of Veter inary Medicine did not have any nominees. The liberal arts and geosciences representatives are elected by acclamation,” Harri son said. One of the runners-up in one of the other representative elections (See Grad Elections, Page 2) 2,450 Cast Votes In Record Turnou t By BOB PALMER Battalion Staff Writer Beverly “Early” Davis walked away with the senior presidency in class elections Thursday in one of the heaviest turnouts in recent years. Ag-gies, 2,450 of them, packed the polls in the basement of the Memorial Student Center the entire 12 hours they were open. “I am very happy to see such a large number of voters,” Election Commission Chairman Tony Benedetto said. Benedetto noted that 979 freshmen, 766 sophomores and 705 juniors voted. William E. Bradford, civilian candidate for the office, was disqualified in the last days of the campaign when the Election Commission learned that he is on probabation. In almost all other offices for which a civilian was running, a civilian is in at least a runoff. As a rule the civilian candidates did not receive a majority of the votes, but because of the large number of Corps members running, the vote for them was divided. VOTING LINES Tom McAlister, Company B-2 sophomore, has his activity card punched by Election Com missioner John Gingrich prior to voting in Thursday’s class elections. Voters turned out in record numbers for the balloting. (Photo by Mike Wright) Civilian Council Secretary Post Changed To Elective Status CS Residents To Elect Mayor, 3 City Councilmen Tuesday By JOHN FULLER Battalion Managing Editor College Station voters will elect a mayor and three City Council members at large Tuesday for the first time in the city’s history. It will be the first municipal election since adoption of a char ter change in January repealing the ward system. Each city coun cilman had been elected by the voters of his geographically- defined ward under the previous method. Assistant City Secretary Mrs. Florence Neelley said the ballot will include names of candidates See Related Story, P. 2 for mayor and for councilmen of Places 2, 4 and 6. Councilmen for places 1, 3 and 5 will be voted on next year, she added. Candidates for mayor will be the incumbent, D. A. Anderson, who is completing his first two- year term, and independent con- University National Bank ‘‘On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. tractor Don Dale. Place 2 coun cilman candidates are Homer B. Adams, who is presently council man of Ward 1, and James H. Dozier, a professor in the A&M School of Business Administra tion. Three candidates will seek the Place 4 position. They are Joe Payton of A&M’s Food Services Department; William B. Moon, a College Station barber, and in cumbent O. M. Holt, who is cur rently mayor pro tempore. Candidates for councilman of Place 6 are Theo R. Holleman, A&M architecture professor, and Ward 3 incumbent A. P. Boyett. Mrs. Neelley said polling places will be the same as in previous elections. “Although candidates will be elected at large, voters should go to the polling place for their respective wards,” she explained. “Ward 1 voters will go to A&M Consolidated High School’s music room, Ward 2 to the College Hills Elementary School and Ward 3 to City Hall.” By DAVE MAYES Battalion Staff Writer The Civilian Student Council Thursday night unanimously voted to change the position of Council secretary from an office elected by the Council represent atives to one elected by the stu dent body. “The Council decided the secre tary should be elected in the spring instead of the fall to handle the council’s summer cor respondence,” David Wilks, coun cil chaplain, explained. “If the Election Commission approves, the new office will be added to the April 24 election slate,” he said The Council could not decide between two ways to recognize the outstanding civilian dormi tory of the year. Opinion was divided as to whether a large sign hung outside the winning dormi tory or a plaque displayed in the Memorial Student Center was the more effective award. GRIFF VENATOR, council president, announced tentative plans for a field day the after noon of the April 27 Civilian Weekend. “We are looking into the pos sibilities of having a tug-of-war match, complete with mud pit, between dormitories on the field east of the Cyclotron,” Venator said. Wilks reported to the council that, regardless of current ru mors, there is no change in the university’s day student policy. “With certain exceptions, an unmarried undergraduate stu dent must live in a campus dorm itory. Only when the dormitories are full are students allowed to live off campus,” he explained. “THOSE WHO have applied for day student permits for next fall will not find out until early May, when the amount of space in dormitories is known, whether or not he may be a day student,” Wilks said. Councilmen questioned the al leged discrepancies in the Elec tion Commission’s handling of Thursday’s election. “I’ve heard report that a lot of civilians didn’t get to vote be cause of the way they were dressed or because they had beards,” Steve Bancroft said. George Walne pointed out that there are regulations in the uni versity’s “blue book” which pre scribe proper dress for voting. “If the commission intended to strictly enforce the rules,” Ban croft said, “it should have made it known and not turned away students who had waited an hour to vote.” The council secretly elected the outstanding civilian councilman of the year, to be announced at the Civilian Student Council Banquet May 13 in the MSC. Kathy To Be ‘Roundup’ Guest Aggie Sweetheart Kathy Held- man will be one of six Southwest Conference beauties recognized in Roundup activities this week end at the University of Texas at Austin. The representatives were to be honored at a coffee today and will be presented at the Sweet heart Ball Saturday night. In addition to the Texas Wo man’s University sophomore, who will represent A&M, the following girls will be presented at the Ball: —Robyn Gannaway represent ing the University of Arkansas. —Gretta Youngblood represent ing Baylor University. —Shirley Revis representing Rice University. —Karen Walter representing Southern Methodist University. —Candy Leinweber represent ing Texas Christian University. Cabinet Member Says U. S. Transportation ‘High-Priced’ "We have the best transporta tion system in the world, but we pay two prices for its service— one in cash and the other in noise, polluted air, accidents and delay.” Secretary of Transportation Alan S. Boyd made that candid observation Thursday in a lunch eon address at Texas A&M’s 10th annual transportation conference. The meeting, co-sponsored by the Transportation Association of America, attracted 200 transport leaders from throughout the nation. He pointed out the transporta tion system accounts for 20 per cent of the gross national product, covers vehicles ranging from bi cycles to jumbo jets and is ex ceeded in complexity only by the people who use it. “WE WENT to work on April 1 of last year searching for the BB&L Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. right answers and we are now just beginning to find the right questions,” Boyd declared. He emphasized, however, the department has made progress during its first year. “We have made progress in safety programs on the highways, in the air and on the railroads,” Boyd asserted. On the technological side, he said prototypes of the high-speed trains that will go into service between Washington and Boston this year have both reached speeds of more than 160 miles per hour. “Testing and modification con tinues—testing that is necessary because these trains are at a higher level of technology than this country has ever before at tempted to reach,” the cabinet officer noted. “But I am satisfied that the resulting service will be worth the relatively short delay.” FOR THE future, DOT is studying a tracked air-cushion vehicle capable of traveling at speeds of 300 miles per hour. Boyd said other studies include the “conflict between the express way and the city it serves,” auto insurance, design of safety test cars and better road signs. The better road signs to which the secretary referred include the safer “break-away” highway signs developed by Texas A&M’s Trans portation Institute. He toured TTI’s research facili ties prior to his talk and was briefed on the facility’s new Highway Safety Research Cen ter which officials here hope will eventually be designated the na tional or one of the regional centers. Boyd said the prime objective of DOT is to create a coordinated transportation system for the en tire nation. “WE FIND an increasing awareness among American busi ness that transportation is a total system,” the secretary said. “It shows up in the creation of new systems-oriented divisions of com panies that once were preoccupied with their own products.” He said DOT is building a strong office of system analysis. “We also intend to continue to concentrate on research in all fields — in high-speed ground transportation, in aids to naviga tion, in automobile and highway safety,” Boyd added. “There is some urgency about this,” he continued. “If the de mand for transportation continues to expand at its present rate, we must double the capacity of the system in the next 13 years. The meeting, which includes addresses on various modes of transportation, concludes Friday with a DOT briefing by Deputy Under Secretary Paul Sitton and Federal Railroad Administrator A. Scheffer Lang. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif icates. —Adv. A&M Grad In Fill Lost Over North LUBBOCK OP)—The family of Capt. Dennis L. Graham, 26, said Friday that he was one of the men apparently lost when one of the new Fill planes was downed in North Vietnam this week. The Fills, made in Fort Worth, are being battle-tested. It was the first of the new retractable winged super-fighter-bombers to be lost. North Vietnamese claimed they shot down the craft. Graham is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Graham. He is un married. Graham was graduated from Texas A&M in 1964. He was a wing chaplain in the Corps of Cadets. This was, however, the strong est showing civilians had made at the polls. Robert L. Bowling and John E. MacGillis, both civilians, are in a run-off for junior president. GARY J. MARTIN and Mich ael Schilhab, a civilian, will vie in Thursday’s runoff election for the Class of ’71’s top post. In the ’69 presidential election, Davis fielded 293 votes; Dennis J. Fontana, 123; Clarence T. Gore, 120, and Hank Johnson, 52. Bowling polled 117 votes in the junior presidential race, and Mac Gillis, 144. Other candidates were John R. Gingrich, 115; Allen D. Janacek, 83; John P. Maline, 52; John C. Otto, 13; Albert J. Reinert, 106, and Collier R. Wat son, 112. The civilian candidate, Schil hab, led the pack in the Sopho more presidential race with 215 votes while Martin polled 140. OTHER FRESHMEN running were Jim A. Bertucci, 77 votes; Steven J. Linick, 73; Tom Pratt, 44; Robert B. Price, 105; Steve J. Pringle, 98; Jesse A. Richardson, 90; and Jay Smith, 86. Senior yell leaders next year- will be Bob Segner, Bill Young- kin and Barney Dawson. Soph omores picked David Hoelscher and Garry Mauro, a civilian. Youngkin led the junior bal loting with 393 votes, while Daw son polled 351 and Segner 318. Philip Callahan was the next highest man with 264 and Robert L. Nida followed with 270. Mar shall R. Cox with 122 and Joe Hely with 166 finished the slate. HOELSCHER swamped the competition with 407 votes, while Mauro drew 292 votes. Richard Legler got 120 votes, Eugene A. Taylor, 60; Weldon J. Riggs, 149; Barry R. Griffin, 149; Vic T. Naccarato, 133, and Michael G. Cranberry, 148. Dan McCauley and Buddy (See Election Results, Page 2) ETV Receives $15,000 Worth Of Equipment By JOHN JAMES Battalion Special Writer What do you do if you are a television station and you want to retire some equipment from service, yet aren’t sure what to do with it ? KPRC, Channel 2 in Houston, decided to donate $15,000 worth of its surplus equipment to the educational television department of Texas A&M. Two weeks ago KPRC replaced some video equipment which had been in service since 1959 with new transistorized color equip ment. Bill Freiberger, an engi neer for A&M Educational Tele vision, heard of KPRC’s plans and phoned Paul Hehndorff, chief engineer for KPRC, to ask what would be done with the old video equipment. As a result of this well-timed phone call, Texas A&M’s ETV received a shipment Wednesday morning of two studio video switchers, six monitoring con soles, and assorted power supplies and video distribution amplifiers. The only cost of the equipment to A&M was transportation from Houston. The director of ETV, Mel Chas tain, said the video switchers will be used for routing the video portion of programming on the five TV channels on campus. Chastain said the six monitor ing consoles were sorely needed for use in running films and add ing more cameras to the equip ment inventory. Directorate Sets Personnel Drive Students wishing to join one of 12 Memorial Student Center Directorate committees should attend the Spring Personnel Drive at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the MSC Assembly Room, ac cording to Keller Webster, di rectorate finance chairman. “Directorate officers will ex plain the organization and the functions of the committees at a short orientation session at 8 p.m.,” Webster added. NEW ETV EQUIPMENT Student egineering- assistant Dale Ruspino checks out one of the 100,000 curcuits in a newly arrived video switching - console at ETV. Two of the switching consiles and a large assortment of other surplus equipment were donated to A&M’s educational television department by Houston’s KPRC-TV.