...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.