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V§*£»£iV. .*-V .'V SHOP JOYCE'S Maternity Infants Ladies Petites Girls Boys JOYCES 608 Texas RABB/7 it’s IN to go OUT to “THE RABBIT” good college fun DANCING • LIVE BANDS 758 east mulberry san antonio, texas OPEN 11 a. m. PE 2-0336 Shot-Put Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 9, 1968 THE BATTALION RogersTriesF orOlympicTeam Buddy Rogers of Texas A&M has high hopes of being an Olympic shot-putter this year— and wise observers say he’s a good bet to make the U. S. team. Where, it might be asked, does that leave A&M’s other shot- putter, a fellow named Randy Matson, who also is shooting for the Olympics? Matson, always a gentleman, has offered to help Rogers but notes he’s showing *%ood form” on his own. The world record- holder would likely lend a helping hand under any circumstances, but it so happens he and Rogers are headed for different Olympics. While Matson is going to Mexi co City for the Summer Olympics, Rogers will go half-way around the world to Tel Aviv, Israel, for the “wheel chair Olympics,” or the Paralympics, as the event is known officially. THE JUNIOR agricultural journalism student has been para lyzed from the waist down since a 1962 auto accident while in the Air Force. But he hasn’t let the disability slow him down. One of Rogers’ big problems, Guardsmen Camp In Senator’s Stadium By JAMES R. POLK WASHINGTON CP) _ Battle- clad soldiers occupied the stadium where baseball’s annual presiden tial opener was to have been played Monday. “It feels very odd,” said Pfc. Pete Richert, who only a year ago was pitching the traditional opener for the Washington Sena tors in the same stadium. Richert, called to duty with the National Guard, is one of more than 11,000 soldiers patrol- NEED C ASH ? Borrow $10 to $100 Loans to Students, Secretaries, and All Salaried People. Advantage of Our Prompt, Confidential Loan Service. UNIVERSITY LOAN COMPANY 317 Patricia (North Gate) — College Station Telephone 846-8319 Take Call 822-1441 Allow 20 Minutes Carry Out or Eat-In THE PIZZA HUT 2610 Texas Ave. ing Washington to enforce order after three nights of racial vio lence following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. THE SENATORS have post poned the American League open er against the Minnesota Twins at least until Wednesday as the nation mourns the slain civil rights leader. The Wednesday date still was not a certainty as troops stood guard around the stadium. Field kitchens were set up in the concrete runways beneath the right field stands. Guardsmen in combat gear lined up for mess. Parking lots were clogged with jeeps and troop trucks. Richert said, “There should have been 45,000 people and the President or the Vice President here for a happy day. Instead you have to be here under these circumstances. It’s not fun.” THE PITCHER, traded to the Baltimore Orioles in the second month of the 1967 season, caught a flight to Washington from a spring training stopover in At lanta on a single hour’s notice when the guard was called out. For Richert and the other troops, sleep has been where they find it. “We sleep on the floors wherever you can find a spot,” he said. “It’s amazing how comfortable you can make a floor.” The Oriole strikeout artist doesn’t know yet how long he’ll be on duty. “Until it clears up, I guess,” he said. “You have to be here.” 12 ideas for college seniors who want to get ahead in the world. Locate in a city that is growing and prospering. A recent study by the Economics Department of Texas Commerce Bank shows that Houston is the city in the entire South and Southwest by al most every economic yardstick — effective buy ing income, retail sales, value added by manufac ture, new capital expenditures in manufacturing, etc. A young business executive enjoys more ca reer opportunities in a city like Houston. (But is there another city like Houston?) Locate in an industry that is growing and pros pering. There are lots of such industries, of course. But the one most often overlooked by college seniors is banking. And here is a special fact about banking that makes banking different: There are more middle-management executive positions open than there are trained men to fill them, and these positions are stepping stones to top management. Accordingly, today, young men are moving up faster in banking than in almost any other in dustry. Go with a company that is growing and prosper ing. Then the young man has a trend “going for” him. Take, for example, Texas Commerce Bank of Houston. In 1967, this Bank’s deposits increased 12 per cent; its operating revenues increased 13 per cent. Go with an organization that is strong nationally. Texas Commerce Bank works for 50 U. S. com panies whose annual sales or revenues exceed one billion dollars. This Bank has long been known as a strong corporate bank. For example, among all Texas banks, Texas Commerce Bank is #1 in corporate trust services. Go with a bank that is strong in local business. Texas Commerce Bank works for more than 4,000 Houston-area companies, some large, some small. These companies know this is the only Houston bank with a full-fledged economics department. They know Texas Commerce Bank to be unique and progressive in other ways. For example, #1 in Electronic Data Processing, #1 in computerized payroll service. Go with a bank that is strong in retail services. This Bank works for 50,000 Houston families. Its new and unique Family Banking Center helps these families with 53 personal services. (If you’d like to see our newspaper advertisement that ex plains all these 53 services, please let us know.) Go with a bank that is alert and progressive. In today’s competitive market, few companies will survive unless their marketing is aggressive and intelligent. In the annual Houston advertising com petition, for the past three successive years, Texas Commerce Bank’s advertising has won the Grand Prix trophy for the best coordinated advertising campaign in Houston. Go with a bank where you can learn the total business. The comprehensive training program at Texas Commerce Bank gives total exposure to all the Bank’s many departments and divisions. The goal: Produce total bankers. Go where you can specialize — if you choose. There are lots of specialists in a big bank — in Chemicals, Petroleum, Real Estate, Investments, Electronic Data Processing, etc. In our Bank, the young executive who has or develops special tal ents in one of these specialties will have the op portunity to become an expert in the field that best suits him — if he chooses. Go where the compensation is worthwhile. Start ing salaries at Texas Commerce Bank are com petitive with other banks and with business in general. And our other benefits are generous. Go where there is opportunity for rapid advance ment. Most of the graduates of our management training program have become officers within two or three years after joining Texas Commerce Bank. We don’t keep young men “waiting around.” We train them, give them responsibility, and pro mote them. Find out more. If you think you would like to know more about getting ahead through banking, get in touch with John T. Cater, vice president, Texas Commerce Bank, Houston, Texas 77001. Phone (713) CA 4-5161. Mr. Cater (University of Texas, B.B.A., ’58, B.A. and LL.B. ’59) is a graduate of our management training program. He became a vice president of our Bank at age 31. ★ TEXAS COMMERCE BANK TEXAS NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE Our representative will be on the Texas A +M campus for interviews on April 17th. he contends, is that he has more interests than time. His shot-put training, for example, has suffer ed because he’s been too involved with basketball. He just returned from Chicago where he played in a tournament sponsored by the Paralyzed Veterans of America, an organization he serves as na tional sports coordinator. Rogers, also a hunting and fish ing enthusiast, admits he’s not setting the world on fire as an outdoorsman. “Been hunting four years and hadn’t gotten a deer yet—and not many more fish,” he quips. Rogers also “picks” a little guitar.” HIS CHIEF interest, however, is competitive sports. While con centrating on the shot, he also hopes to represent the U. S. wheelchairers in the 100-yard dash, the mile, discuss, slalom (an obstacle race) and as a mem ber of the basketball team. Before the 25-year-old League City native starts packing his bags for the November Israeli trip, however, there’s some stiff competition a head for him in June at New York’s National Wheel Chair Games, which dou bles as the Olympic tryouts. But Rogers has seemingly come too far to be whipped now. He made up his mind during a long year in a hospital that he wasn’t going to let life pass him by. “This is the way it is,” he emphasizes, referring to his in jury. “I can’t change it, so I have to make the best of it.” “CAN’T STAY around in bed and have people wait on me all my life,” Rogers adds. He cites that old saying, “You can always look around and see somebody in worst shape.” He’s quick to note he’s seen lots of people in worse shape through his PVA work. Rogers attended the University of Houston until mid-term. Asked why he transferred, he replied: “I just wanted to be an Aggie.” Although he thoroughly enjoys athletics, he has a secondary motive for keeping active. “If I ever should walk again,” he explains, “I need to keep my body in as good a shape as possible.” Rogers is realistic, however, about his chances. He figures he has a much better chance of winning a gold medal or two in the Olympics. A&M SHOT-PUTTERS SHOOT FOR OLYMPICS Buddy Rogers of Texas A&M gets off a shotas fellow Aggie and world champion Randy Matson checks his form. Rogers is training for the “wheel chair Olympics” in Israel, while Matson has his sights on the Summer Olympics at Mexico City. British Jet Crashes, Burns; 4 Passengers, Stewardess Die LONDON (A 1 ) — A British jet airliner carrying 126 persons caught fire on takeoff Monday, began to fall apart in the air, then returned to a flaming crash landing at London Airport. Four passengers and a stewardess were killed. Officials said many of the 121 who survived jumped free in the split second after the plane touched ground following its four- minute horror flight. An engine fell from the Aus tralia-bound plane before the crash landing. Seconds earlier the aircraft had flown over a busy shopping center. Moments after take off, the commander of the British Over seas Airways Corp. Boeing 707 reported fire in one of the plane’s left engines. He circled for an emergency landing and the plane burst into flames, sending up a cloud of black smoke. SURVIVORS scrambled out emergency doors or slid down escape chutes as fire trucks and ambulances roared up. BOAC said an engine of the same plane caught fire on take off from Honolulu on a flight to Tokyo late last year. The plane was stopped before it left the ground and there were no casual ties. Sir Giles Guthrie, chairman of the government-owned airline, said the company would conduct its own investigation in addition to the government inquiry. “I shall be trying to find out why the fire extinguishers were not working, why the fire warn ing system was not working and why the engine caught fire,” he said. Give year face an education in closeness. Withont making it smart. The new ’68 Norelco Tripleheader 35T gives you a shave so close, we dare any blade to match it. And it won’t nick or scrape either. Let this be a lesson to you: in independent lab oratory tests this Norelco Tripleheader Speedshaver®—with floating Microgroove™ heads, rotary blades and pop-up trimmer- shaved as close or even closer than a leading stainless steel blade 2 out of every 3 times. What more could you want? Maybe the new Norelco Rechargeable Tripleheader 45CT. Same great Norelco shave and features. .Works with or without a cord. 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