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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, June 6, 1968
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
... At College Station, I was
witness to the Grand-daddy of all
Aggie jokes. Not the usual Ag
gies joke involving one or two
Aggies, but a mass joke on over
3,000 of thise uncouth characters
from the Brazos bottom.
“You’ll notice on your quiz that the questions do not re
quire ‘true’ or ‘false’ but instead ‘heads’ or ‘tails’!”
The setting for this joke was
the Final Review of the Corps
in which those 3,000 young men
marched, stood, and paraded in
the hot sweltering sunshine,
simply to pay their respects to
a few hundred of their number
who were graduating from the
University. Don’t you Aggies
realize that such expressions of
sentiment went out with chivalry ?
This joke was the more amusing
by the appearance of those young
men. Uniforms were spotless,
boots were mirror shiny, hair was
cropped to a military length, and
there wasn’t a beard in the crowd.
By VERN SANFORD
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN—Texas’ Constitution
al Revision Commission has com
pleted its series of winter and
spring work sessions, rewriting
the Texas charter of government.
It will not meet again until
August.
Any fair analysis of the status
of constitutional revision in Texas
would have to be based on a note
of pessimism regarding the
chances for ultimate acceptance
of the committee’s work to date.
Main problem for the 25 re
visionists to overcome was cre
ated when the Commission was
established—by a divided legis
lature—in the spring of 1967.
Originally the Commission was
to be formed by a joint House
and Senate resolution. However,
the Senate refused to go along
with the plan so the House acted
alone. Speaker Ben Barnes named
a House Committee. But Lt. Gov.
Preston Smith declined to make
any appointments. Gov. John
Connally gave considerable moral
support to the committee, but
now he is a “lame duck” and will
not be governor when the Com
mission submits its report to the
Legislature next January.
In terms of the substantive pro-
the governor. They maintain that
a majority of the state agencies
are virtually free of his influence
and can carry out public policy
without regard to his wishes.
Opponents of the proposal point
out that the governor already has
Senator Kennedy
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his condition, and that did not
develop.”
Salinger announced the body
was to be taken from Los An
geles between 10 and 11 a.m.
PDT. He said the family, friends
and some staff members were to
be aboard.
The Requiem Mass will be held
at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The body will be placed on a
train at 12:30 p.m. for the last
journey to Washington. It is ex
pected to arrive at about 4:40
p.m.
The funeral route will take the
cortege past the U. S. Senate
Office Building where Kennedy
worked, and the Department of
Justice, where he served as at
torney general.
SALINGER SAID KENNEDY
will be buried at about 5:30 p^m.
authority to appoint 3,000 office
holders.
Commission voted 8-7 to limit
the governor to a single term—
a procedure which would, in ef
fect, make every Texas governor
a lame duck for some undeter
mined portion of his term in
office. Commission also favors
providing the governor with a
four-year term rather than the
current two-year term.
Tentatively, the group approv
ed a provision which would re
quire the governor to be elected
during “off-years”—years with
out presidential elections.
Many Capitol observers recall
that a constitutional revision
commission created by the Legis
lature in 1957 submitted recom
mendations after several years
of meetings, but no action has
ever been taken on them.
CONNALLY WIN CERTAIN
Governor Connally’s control of
the State Democratic Convention
in Dallas on June 11 apparently
will be by overwhelming majority.
Will Davis, Chairman of the
State Democratic Executive Com
mittee, says 215 of the 254 coun
ty conventions passed resolutions
endorsing Connally’s favorite son
candidacy, and 22 more counties
posals for a new
constitution Saturday in Arlington, probably are sending uninstructed delega-
the Commission has been far from
decisive to this point.
Reports have been heard from
various subcommittees on the
executive branch, the judiciary,
political subdivisions, taxation
and other topics.
These reports have been given
tentative approval by the Com
mission as a whole, but on all
votes it was made clear that de
cisions made now can be reversed
during the next slate of meetings
this coming fall.
One of the most heated debates
in the brief history of the Com
mission came from a recommen
dation for the appointment of the
judges on the Texas Supreme
Court and the Court of Criminal
Appeals by a five-man commis
sion. Voters would either approve
or remove them. At present these
judges are elected by the people.
Two members of the Commis
sion were particularly forceful in
their argument against this pro
posal.
H. S. (Hank) Brown of San
Antonio, president of the Texas
AFL-CIO, opposed the measure
as being a dangerous trend for a
democratic society. Brown argued
that the people have a right to
elect their judges.
Rep. Dick Cory of Victoria con
tended that such a provision in
the revised constitution would in
sure its defeat when the matter
is put to a vote.
Dr. Janice May, government
professor at the University of
Texas, said Cory and Brown are
overlooking the realities of the
current system of judicial selec
tion.
“Right now two-thirds of all
our judges are initially named by
appointment from the governor.
Then, as a matter of practice,
they run for re-election and are
almost always retained in office,”
she said.
Most of the members of the
Commission have expressed some
desire to strengthen the hand of
at the hillside site where his
brother’s body lies.
Salinger said “all legal re
quirements” would be met be
fore the body is removed from
California. This apparently was
in reference to an autopsy.
President Johnson said of Ken
nedy’s death: “This is a time of
tragedy and loss.
“During his life, he knew far
more than his share of personal
tragedy,” Johnson said. “Yet he
never abandoned his faith in
America.”
KENNEDY WAS HIT at least
twice as his assailant emptied
an eight shot, .22-caliber revolver
in a swift volley as he passed
through a kitchen passageway
at the Ambassador.
One bullet struck his shoulder
and lodged in his neck, the other
penetrated to his brain.
Vice President Hubert H. Hum
phrey, in Washington, expressed
“profound personal loss” at Ken
nedy’s death. “We have all lost
a great American,” he said. The
vice president appealed that
America may find the strength
“to dispel the forces of irrational
hate among us.”
Kennedy’s assassination brought
presidential campaigning to a
halt, as candidates suspended
their search for political support.
And it left the future Democra
tic picture in turmoil.
Kennedy’s victory in California
has pledged to him 172 delegates
to the Democratic National Con
vention. They will represent Cal
ifornia at the convention despite
his death.
Kennedy entered the race on
March 16, four days after Sen.
Eugene J. McCarthy, D.-Minn.,
demonstrated the breadth of op
position to the administration by
holding Johnson to a standoff in
the New Hampshire presidential
primary. McCarthy is the candi
date Kennedy defeated in the
California primary.
tions to the state convention.
SPECIAL SESSION
There will be a hot time in
this old town . . . extending from
the June 4 opening of the special
legislative session until whenever
it ends . . . and that is anybody’s
guess.
Main business, of course, is
passing a $2,500,000,000 appropri
ations bill to finance state gov
ernment for the 1969 fiscal year
beginning September 1 and ap
proval of about $125,000,000 in
new taxes.
Governor Connally has recom
mended general revenue spending
of $465,200,000. That would re
quire $123,800,000 in additional
state taxation. Legislative Bud
get Board proposes a budget of
$471,000,000 from the fund over
which the legislature has direct
control, which would boost the
tax bill to $129,600,000.
Connally’s tax bill calls for an
increase of the state sales tax
rate from two to three per cent,
with cities to get most of the
additional revenue in the form of
a direct rebate. Many services
not now taxed also would be
included in the three per cent
levy. Statewide tax would do
away with one per cent local
sales tax now charged in more
than 300 cities that contain the
vast majority of Texas’ popula
tion.
Session also is expected to
come to grips with the explosive
issue of liquor by the drink. A
slight majority of the legislators
live in districts which approved
the May 4 mixed drink referen
dum by margins ranging from
slight to overwhelming. But that’s
no assurance the measure will
pass.
Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin,
Lt. Gov. Preston Smith and House
Speaker Ben Barnes also are urg
ing Governor Connally to submit
riot control bills to the legisla
tors.
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In this day of student protests
and uprisings, this can only in
dicate that you Aggies are an
illiterate lot who don’t know what
makes up acceptable campus ac
tivities.
To make the joke even more
hilarious, we need but consider
the attitude of each young man
when the Band began to play
The Star Spangled Banner. Every
back straightened to a ramrod
stiffness, every pair of shoulders
squared, and every eye, looking
straight ahead, developed a gleam
of fierce pride and awareness of
the part each man was playing
in the overall ceremony honoring
God, Country and School. In this
era of draft card burnings, Flag
defacing, love-ins, and hippie
groups, it is obvious that you
Aggies are truly a backward lot.
All in all, it was a grand joke.
To think that so many young
men would willingly give up a
Saturday afternoon of their free
time, parade a drill field in the
hot, humid weather, and take a
fierce pride in doing so, simply
to honor and pay tribute to their
graduating friends, is indeed a
reason for ridicule and scorn.
There is but one thing that
bothers me; just who is the butt
of this joke?
Louis R. Morris
Lamesa
Research Planned
On Subsonic Flight
Corpus Plan
‘Open House'
On Alaminm
Texas A&M has been selected
by the Department of Defense to
establish a “center of excellence”
in subsonic flight dynamics re
search.
Dr. A. D. Suttle Jr., A&M’s
vice president for research, said
the program is part of DOD’s
Project Themis, in which the uni
versity currently participates in
the fields of meteorology and op
timization with grants totaling
$1.25 million.
Suttle noted funds for the
three-year flight dynamics pro
gram will total approximately
$600,000 and be administered
through the Department of the
Army.
RESEARCH efforts, he ex
plained, will emphasize unsteady
aerodynamics as it influences
flight dynamics of fixed-wing
aircraft, helicopters and vertical
take-off and landing (VTOL) air
craft.
Dr. W. P. Jones, aerospace
engineering research professor,
will be technical director for the
project, with Dr. Richard E.
Thomas, also an aerospace engi
neering professor, heading the
flight program.
“T h e r e’s been considerable
space research work going on in
Bolshoi Ballet Tickets On Sale
A Texas A&M group will at
tend a performance by the famed
Bolshoi Ballet from Russia in
San Antonio June 23.
J. Wayne Stark, A&M’s Mem
orial Student Center director,
said 78 tickets have been re
served for the 2:30 p.m. Stars
of the Bolshoi production at
HemisFair '68.
The matinee performance of
the Bolshoi will feature Act II
of F o k i n e’s “Les Sylphides,”
known as “Chopiniana” in the
USSR. It also includes the pas
de deux from Vasily Vainonen’s
“The Flames of Paris,” “The Dy
ing Swan” and other selections.
Plans call for the A&M con
tingent to board buses at 6 a.m.,
June 23, in front of the MSC.
Coffee and pastry will be served
on both buses, Stark said.
Tickets will be available from
the MSC’s director’s office, he
said.
this country for several years,”
Dr. Jones observed, “but there
has now been a rekindling of
interest in low-speed aero
dynamics”
Jones said A&M will develop a
well-balanced program involving
theoretical, flight and wind tun
nel work.
A major goal of the program
will be a better understanding of
clear-air turbulence.
“WE PLAN to make a detailed
study of what happens to an air
craft when it flies through tur
bulence,” Thomas noted. He said
this phase of the research will
involve use of a unique gust gen
erator developed at A&M.
One of the most difficult as
pects of the study, the engineer
pointed out, is detection of clear-
air turbulence. He said a device
must be developed that is more
sensitive than radar.
Once a technique has been per
fected to detect turbulence,
Thomas continued, then engi
neers can devote their energies
to creation of a system for air
craft similar to shock absorbers
for automobiles.
A&M’s flight dynamics re
search for Project Themis will
emphasize the interdisciplinary
approach, Suttle stressed. He
said the program will utilize
meteorology, mechanical engi
neering and computer science
personnel, in addition to those
in aerospace engineering.
The University’s Project
Themis program in meteorology
centers around subjective fore
casting in localized areas, where
as the optimization effort deals
with basic mathematical and sta
tistical regimes for a number of
physical operations. DOD au
thorized both three-year pro
grams last summer.
A six-week cruise of the Ala.
minos, Texas A&M’s oceanogra.
phic research ship, includes a so-
cial call at Corpus Christ!.
The ship departed Galveston
Monday and be on the Gulf o(
Mexico until July 18.
A 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. open house
and dinner aboard the 180-foot
vessel is set at Corpus Christ!
Sunday, announced Dr. Richard
A. Geyer, Oceanography Depart-
ment head.
The “social” is in conjunction
with the Corpus Christi Chamber
of Commerce’s promotion of ma-
rine sciences work out of the
port, and the U. S. Geological
Survey, Marine Geology and Hy
drology branch office in Corpus
Christi.
The office headed by Henry L,
Berryhill Jr. is cooperating with
A&M scientists on one leg of the
Alaminos cruise. Dr. Arnold H.
Bouma, oceanography professor,
is chief scientist for the first
part of the cruise.
Under his direction, seismic re
flections, piston coring and sam
plings in the Northwest Gulf will
be used as tools in a search for
Pleistocene (glacial age) river
courses on the shelf. Samples
also will be taken from Alaminos
Canyon off Galveston and
Brownsville.
During the second leg off the
coast of Florida, structure and
sedimentation studies will at
tempt to determine if the Florida
escarpment and Campeche shelf
were at one time connected. Dr
William R Bryant, oceanography
professor, heads the work.
Dr. Davis A. Fahlquist of the
Geophysics Department will di
rect the third portion of the 48-
day cruise.
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