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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, April 9, 1968
THE BATTALION
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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-
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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.
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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.
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