H.o. BOX 45436 B
DALLAS, TEX. 75235
Leaders Of Short-Lived Cadet Confederacy Get Theirs
‘DEATH MARCH’
Hooded freshman guards armed with trash cans of water march on
either side of the deposed Corps “junta” leaders, on the way to an
early-morning “execution” Tuesday. The coup was an elaborate
April Fool’s day stunt led by Cadet Colonels John W. Morgan of
the First Brigade; Carl Feducia, Second Brigade; John R. Baldridge,
First Wing, and Richard Engel, Second Wing.
SPLASH DAYT
Coup leaders, already soaked by one volley of water from the
“firing squad,” brace for more. Baldridge, right, managed to keep
his traditional “last cigarette” throughout the execution. Feducia
stands at left. The execution was ordered after the Confederacy’s
“special order number one” self-destructed Monday night and Corps
Staff returned to power.
AMNESTY GRANTED
The condemned prisoners ate a hearty breakfast—after the “execu
tion.” From left, they are Morgan; Bob Hale, Corps Administra
tion sergeant; Baldridge; Hector Gutierrez, Corps supply sergeant;
Clarence Daugherty, Corps chaplain, and Engel. The Coup leaders
were invited to eat at the Corps Staff table to show there were no
hard feelings. (Photo by Moke Wright)
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Friday — Cloudy to partly cloudy, $
wind Northeast 15-20 m.p.h. High 58,
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VOLUME 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1968
Number 562
Fish Drill Team To Leave
Thursday For Washington
The Fish Drill Team is sched
uled to leave early Thursday for
Washington, D. C. and the nation-
a] ROTC drill championship*.
The unit, commanded by Sam
my Garcia of San Antonio, will
compete against 19 team* Friday
and march in the "Parade of
Princeeaes” Saturday. Competi
tion is on an invitational bast*.
Weekend festivities at the na
tion’s capitol coincide with the
annual Cherry Bloeaom Festival.
AAM’a 19S6-S7 team took second
against a background of the white
blossom*.
Malon Southerland, team spon
sor, said the freshmen appear
ready to give a championship per
formance.
“In recent practices, the drill
team has shown the capability of
giving an outstanding perform
ance,” the civilian counselor said.
"I am certain the team will, re
gardless of the outcome, do an
outstanding job of representing
itself and Texas A AM, which is
our primary mission.”
“TEAM MEMBERS are excited
about the trip, but know why they
are going.” Southerland added.
Champ of the recent AAM In
vitational Meet, the FDT ale*
won top honors at West Texas
State’s Scabbard and Blade
Tournament by winning all four
first place trophies.
The 20-member team departs
Easterwood Airport Thursday
Issues Topic To Be Volcanos
A. description of volcanic sc- plosive earth venU have girdled
tivity around the world will be the world and taken Bullard to
presented in a Memorial Student Hawaii, Central and South Ameri-
Center Great Issues lecture here ^ cs. Iceland, Turkey, Jhpho. the
tonight.
Prof. Fred M. Bullard's 8 p.m.
talk, “Volcanos Around the
World,” will be in the MSC Ball
room, announced Frances Kim
brough of Bryan, World Around
Us series chairman.
Bullard has mad* numerous
sppearances at Texas AAM to
speak on his observation of the
birth and growth of Mexico’s
Paricutin volcano. The University
of Texas geology professor be
came interested in volcanology on
a 1929 U. S. Geological Survey
expedition to Alaska when he
first saw an active volcano.
His travels to study the ex-
University Natioaal Bank
"On the side of Texas AAM”
—Adv.
Greek Islands, Africa, ‘Mew Gui
nea and islands of both oceans.
The UT geology professor was
e Fulbright research scholar to
Italy snd Fulbright lecturer in
Peru, where he taught volcanolo
gy at the University of San
Agustin at Arequipa.
Member of numerous societies.
Bullard has held several visiting
lectureships and presently teaches
general geology and graduate
volcanology and Latin American
geology at Austin. His publica
tions include a recent book, "Vol
canos, in History, in Theory, in
Eruption.”
Admission to the Great Issues
talk will be by student activity
card, 75 cents for Aggie wives
and public school students and
$1.50 general.
morning end will stay at Wash
ington’s downtown YMCA, two
blocks from the White House.
AAM is scheduled to march
Friday at 1:21 p.nw (CST). Thirty
teems including 10 girls’ units
will compete. A D. C. Stadium
parking lot will be the scene of
the champions hi pa
”AGGIE CONGRESSMEN have
been invited to view the competi
tion,” Southerland added. A White
House tour and Capitol visit con
ducted by Congressmen CMin E.
Teague of College Station and
Bob Casey of Houston are
planned.
"We anticipate being back at
Easterwood by 10:30 Sunday
night and will be happy to wave
at anyone there,” Southerland
noted.
FISH DRILL Team members
are Garcia, John Hamilton of
Galveston, executive officer end
right guide; William Berger, Aus
tin; Francis Conaty, Annandale,
Vs.; Alan Cramlet, Troy Ohio;
John DaCorte, Clifton, N. J.; Kent
L. Gee, Robert Harms and Robert
Patten, Houston; Bruce Hamel,
Richard Hanes and John Whipple,
San Antonio; Malcolm Hofatetter,
Bel la ire; Maurice Nethery, Junc
tion; Bill Reach, Pasadena; John
Russel, Temple; Jeffrey Schaub,
New Orienas; Karl Stoermer,
Lone Star; Thomas Stout, New
York, end Thornes Vandeipool,
Golden, Colo.
Upperclassmen advisors include
senior Jim Vogae of Galvetfton;
juniors Mike Casey of Washing
ton and Roy Lewis of Hurst; end
sophomores Richard Gonsales of
San Antonio, Eugene Taylor of
Fort Worth end Steve Nichols of
Crystal Lake, HI.
or, 1 Incumbent
Returned To Office
1495 Voters Set
Turnout Record
IRVIN HONORED
The Very Rev. Louis J. Blume, left, president of St. Mary’s
University, and retiring Texas A&M athletic director Bar-
low “Bones” Irvin hold the certificate naming Irvin an
honorary Professor of Athletics at St. Mary’s. Fr. Blume
presented the certificate to Irvin at the recent “Bones Irvin
Appreciation Dinner” held in San Antonio.
Engineering Banquet To Honor
Top Profs, Students Thursday
The outstanding professor, most
proficient department and top
student technical and non-tech-
nical writers will be honored here
Thursday at the annuel College
of Engineering Awards Banquet.
Engineering Student Council
Election Procedures Changed
By MIKE FLAKE
Battalion Feature Editor
In addition to approving the
result* of last week’s cl ess elec
tions, student election commis
sioners made numerous changes
and clarification* in the .present
election procedures.
On* important decisioTT con
cerned future run-off*. Students
asked at a special ejection com
mission meeting Monday if the
number of run-offs should be
limited to the two candidates own
ing the higeet number of votes.
Several students said that the
totals of last wesk’s election,
which showed several offices hav
ing more than two candidates
with similar number of votes,
proved their point. They argued
that if a third candidate acquired
within two or three votes of the
highest two, he should be included
in the run-offs.
THE COMMISSION rejected
the idea of more than two candi
dates in a run-off, and approved
the following rsoouhion:
“Run-offs shall include only the
two candidates with the greatest
number of votes. In case of e tie
for second place in an election,
the first place candidate and the
two second-place candidates will
compete in a run-off, plurality
deciding the winner.”
ed that no student could be ad
mitted to vote in any elections
hereafter without presentation of
their student activity cards,” Ben
edetto said.
FEE SLIPS can no longer be
Tn the case of a first place tie, f u **d
only the people tied for that piece
shall be included in a run-off, the
winner having a plurality.”
Uee of student activity cards as
s requirement to enter the voting
machine eras also discussed.
SECOND IN A
THREE-PART SERIES
“Students asked us if they could
vote by using their fee slips if
they had lost their activity cards.”
one commissioner explained. "But
then later we caught some of the
stuns students attempting to pass
through the polls a second time,
using their activity cards.’
Student Election Comssiaeion
Chairman Anthony Benedetto led
the discussion on the activity
cards.
“The commission finally deeid-
Rules affecting various aspects
of campaigning, placement of
campaign posters, end election
campaign gatherings were sub
jected to extensive examination
by commission members.
“For example, political com
ments over the public address sys
tems in either dining hall will be
prohibited in future elections,”
Benedetto explained. “This will
help prevent an unfair advantage
on the part of the candidate.”
Another change was the place
ment of campaign posters.
“The locations of signs in the
future will be on the Guion Hall
lawn (the traditional place estab
lished for the signa); between the
University hospital sad Hender
son Hall; within all dormitories;
and within the University apart
ment arses," he aakL
ACCORDING to the revised
rale*, campaign material may al
so be placed on doors and dormi
tory bulletin boards.
"Posters on bulletin boards,
however, are limited to an 8^fc” x
11” sixe,” Benedetto said.
The rules on campaigning over
radio, television and newspapers
were clarified by the election
commission.
Their motion "That campaign
ing in radio, television, and class
ified advertisements be allowed
so long as they are within the
$25 limitation that is stated in
the voting regulations,’ carried.
The Commission also decided
that in the future, any gather
ing which prohibits the normal
flow of campus activities will be
prohibited. Students will be al
lowed, however, to participate in
campaign demonstrations, pa
rades, and other types of elec
tion campaigning. Gatherings of
any type that would include a
large number of students cam
paigning will only be allowed
from 5 p.m. to 7:80 p.m. week
days
This decision was mad*. Bene
detto said, so that campaigning
would not interrupt classes
President Ed Miller of Oyster
Bay, N. J., said about 200 persons
are expected for the 6:30 p.m.
banquet in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom.
Dwight Nesmith, assistant di
rector of Kansas State Univer
sity’s Engineering Experiment
Station, will be the featured
speaker.' The associate professor
will talk on “Engineering end
Fairy Tale*.”
Other awards will * include
council membership certificates
awarded by Engineering Deen
Fred J. Benson. Council officers
also include Vic* President Robert
Stiles, senior aerospace engineer
ing major of San Antonio; Secre
tary Fred Schwiening III, senior
industrial engineering major of
Kerrville, and Treasurer Roy C.
Loutsenheiser. civil engineering
graduate student of Arlington,
V*. >
The 40-member council includes
presidents of all engineering tech
nical societies, a senior represen
tative of each department, an
elected junior of each technical
society end presidents of associ
ated societies, according to Prof.
J. G. McGuire, assistant daan.
“The council coordinates activi
ties of technical societies with the
college and sponsors various
events and projects, such as the
banquet. Career Day and Junior
Engineering Technical Society,”
he said.
First Bank A Trust now pays
6% per annum on savings certif
icates. * —Adv.
By BOB PALMER
Battelioa Staff Writer
The voters of College Station
returned Mayor D. A. Anderson
to office for a second term in
the largest turn-out for a city
election.
Of the 5,114 registered voters,
1,495 made it to the polls for
the election. This was about 20
percent, a new high.
The largest showing came from
the southside, or the old Ward I.
Eight hundred end thirty cast
ballots there, more than the total
of the other two boxes.
This was the first election on
the new place system, where the
councilmen ere selected at large
instead of by ward.
Riding e 600 vote margin.
Mayor Anderson caught 1,096
ballots. His opponent Don Dal*
received 460 votes. T
In the councilman races, one
incumbent was returned to office
while two were replaced. Of the
six councilmen, three run each
year.
Councilmen elected to serve for
two years were James H. Dozier,
O. M. Holt and Theo R. Hollo
man.
Dozier, a business administra
tion professor, ousted incumbent
Homer B. Adams for the Place 2
slot. Dozier captured 953 votes
while Adams polled 598.
Three candidates contested for
Place 4, but the incumbent, Holt,
won the race with 1,048 votes.
He defeated William B. Moon
who had 381 votes end Joe Pay-
ton, polling 108 votes.
Holleman walked ewey with
Place 6 with 1,088 votes. His
opponent, incumbent A. P. Boyett,
fielded 452 votes
"I am most grateful to the
citizens of College Station for
re-electing me to an additional
two year term.” Mayor Anderson
said after the vote* were in.
“I am honored by the trust
and confidence they have placed
in me as their public servant.”
Mayor Anderson pledged to
work in the next two years for
“the betterment of our city.”
"Ours is a growing, dynamic
community and the next two
years will see much progress in'
many areas,” he predicted.
"1 km grateful that | will be
privileged to share in and con
tribute to this progress with other
members of the council which the
citixens have chosen.”
The mayor called on the citi
zens to work together, now that
the election is over, “to make our
city what each of us wants it
to be, end what it is destined to
bet”
Hospital Needs
Supplies Returned
Anyone having crutches, canes,
slings, arm splints, basting pads,
and other supplies borrowed from
University Hospital should return
them.
Supplies are running low and
if these things are not returned
other students cannot be served.
Maddox Names
14 Aides To
Great Issues
Fourteen committee officers
will aid Chairman David Maddox
in his effkrt to “change Great
Issues from e personality-oriented
to an issue-oriented committee.”
Maddox has re-organised Great
Issues into two wings, grouping ,
four sub-committees under Pro
grams Vico Chairman Dick West
brook, a senior in mechanical en
gineering, end placing five others
under junior marketing major
Mies Jaaet Whitehead, vice chair
man of operations.
♦ K 4 I
Separate from the two-wing
structure ere Ron Hinds, a junior
in finance, chairman of Political
Forum; Treasurer Mel Miller,
sophomore economics major, and
Jeanna Chastain, secretary, a
freshman in pre-veterinary medi
cine..
Under Westbrook ere Student
Conference on National Affairs
(SCONA) Liaison Cliff Cham
berlain. freshman civil engineer
ing major; Seminar Series Direc
tor Tom Fitzhugh, e freshman in
geophysics; Issues Series Direc
tor Ron Teftoller, a junior in
agricultural economies, and
Speakers Series Director John
Cunningham, a sophomore phys
ics major.
Assisting Miss Whitehead are
Information Officer Glenn Head, i
a . freshman in management;
Radio-TV Liaison Harris Naeh-
linger, sophomore electrical engi
neering major ; Arrangements Di-
rector Gregg Weaver, a freshman
in mechanical engineering;
i.raph»c Art* Director Frank
Kuppersmith, sophomore psychol
ogy major and Director of Public
Relations Bob Edgeeotnb, a junior
majoring in marketing. •
Brysa Building A Leu
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
ll# —Adv.