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VOLUME 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1968 Number 607
$20,700 Collected In Drives!
For SCONA XIY Dec. 4-7 I
Tape Deck Thieves
Active Here Again
EYES RIGHT
Gregory K. Meyer leads his unit Company C-2, past the reviewing line in a Second Bri
gade passby in the Duncan Area. The brigade review Wednesday was in honor of Corps
unit faculty scholastic advisers. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Top Army ROTC Cadets
Chosen At Summer Camps
Approximately $20,700 has been
collected to finance the fourteenth
Student Conference on National
Affairs Dec. 4-7, Bill Howell,
SCONA finance chairman, said
Wednesday.
By DALE FOSTER
Battalion Staff Writer
Twenty - three new members
are among 59 Singing Cadets that
will first perform as a full group
Nov. 30 at the 1968 Miss Teenage
America Pageant, in Fort Worth.
New members of the cadets,
directed by Robert L. Boone and
accompanied by Mrs. June Bier-
ing, are the following:
First Tenors Roger Fry of San
Antonio; Mike Murrell, Gruver;
Joe Snow, Irving.
Second Tenors Walter Ash
worth, La Marque; Ronald Chan-
cey, Merkel; Dave Denney, Bry
an; Kenneth Green, Galveston;
Ernest Khoury, Waco; Dan Sal-
din, Elmhurst, New York.
Baritones Earl Bond, Bill But
ler, and Dale Foster of Bryan;
Clarence Hill, Freer; Eddie Mc
Cann, Sweeny; Mike McCulley,
Bryan; Robert Rowe, Dallas; Teri
Soli, Bay City.
Basses Rick Allen, Houston;
Gary Cohen, Peekskill, New York;
Mike Hensley, Cameron; Justin
Jones, San Antonio; James Mc
Leroy, Houston; Scott Wilson,
Bryan; and John Yantis, Brown-
wood.
“A good group of men return
ing from last year’s organization
will provide us a solid founda
tion to build upon,” President
Jerry Holbert said. “We are look
ing forward to a full year of
programs, both on and off the
campus.”
“We also think the organiza
tion has gained a good crop of
Buffos, or new members,” he
added, “with several All-State
voices included in the group.”
“Response this year was good
for the single week of tryouts.
More than 100 students tried out
for 23 positions. Normally two
weeks are used for auditions,”
the senior continued.
During an indoctrination period
next week the Buffos will wear
Howard Notes
New Policies
In Blood Drive
David Howard, chairman of the
Student Senate Welfare Commit
tee, Wednesday told how A&M
students may benefit from the
blood collection in the annual sen
ate blood drive.
“Misunderstandings arose last
year about who was eligible to
receive blood and in what quanti
ties,” Howard said. “The Wad-
ley Blood Bank of Dallas, which
handles blood drive arrange
ments, has agreed to honor our
new rulings.”
“Any A&M student in need of
transfusions is eligible to receive
full credit from the bank in the
amount needed. Any member of
a student’s immediate family is
eligible to receive up to 15 pints
of free blood.”
“Up to 10 pints of blood are
available to anyone connected
with the A&M staff. No ques
tions will be asked when an emer
gency transfusion is needed.”
“The Wadley Blood Bank, 9000
Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, must
be notified as soon as possible
that an emergency exists and to
which hospital credit is to be
given.”
The blood drive, a service spon
sored by the Campus Chest and
the Welfare Committee, will be
April 16-17, in the basement of
the Memorial Student Center.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association, Your Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
BB&L —Adv.
Howell told a SCONA commit
tee meeting the funds were gath
ered in drives during Easter, June
and August and from alumni.
The remainder, to be collected by
delegate registration fees, will be
Singing Cadet keys and attempt
to get the signatures of all the
old members. On Buffo Night, the
new members will provide en
tertainment for the old members.
First activity for the cadets
will be a performance by old
members for delegates to the
Junior College Press Conference
Oct. 14 at the Memorial Student
Center.
During the Thanksgiving Holi
days, the choral group will spend
three days in Fort Worth as es
corts for the Miss Teenage Amer
ica contestants, climaxed by a
nationally - televised performance
on Saturday.
Previously held in Dallas, the
seven - year - old Pageant was
changed to Fort Worth this year
to coincide with the grand open
ing of the Tarrant County Con
vention Center.
Also scheduled for the coming
year are concerts at Ft. Hood,
San Antonio, and Houston, as
well as a local concert and Sing
ing Cadets Awards Banquet next
May.
Besides Holbert, officers for
this semester are Vice President
G. T. Hill, Business Manager Paul
Worley, Publicity Manager Jerry
Street, Librarian Bill Thorp and
Editor Jim Cain.
By TIM SEARSON
Battalion Staff Writer
The organizational meeting of
the A&M Sailing Club will be at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday in room 210
of the Military Science Annex.
“We hope anyone interested in
sailing will come to our first
meeting,” said David L. Walker,
third-year architect student from
Corpus Christi and commodore
of the club. “Not only experienced
sailors, but beginners are wel
come to join.”
To encourage new members,
the club will host a picnic Satur
day at Lake Somerville to ac
quaint the beginner with the
fundamentals of sailing. Seventy
returning members are expected
this year, along with 50 sailing
families in the Bryan area.
THE CLUB currently has on
display in the Memorial Student
Center a collection of 11 trophies
won over the summer.
Jim St. John, first vice com
modore, and Larry Richter work
ed as a team in a Lone Star sail
boat to place first in the Arling
ton Invitational, third in Waco,
fifth in Fort Worth, and tenth in
the National Championship re
gatta in Fort Worth.
Club Secretary Anne Carter,
entered in a Day Sailor, won the
club championship in the women’s
division, the summer series, and
the Adam’s Cup, women’s division.
She also placed in the New Eng
land semi-finals.
CLARK ERSKINE placed first
in the Fort Worth Invitational
and second in the Alice Invitation
al in a Star Fish.
Several books of interest to
the new sailor and a drawing of
the official Southwest Conference
sailboat, the International 420,
are also included in the display.
In the past two years, a train
ing program has been used to
teach the fundamentals of sailing
to beginners. The club hopes to
continue the program with fea-
WEATHER
Thurs.—partly cloudy to cloudy,
few afternooh rain showers—
easterly 5-10; high 84, low 68.
Friday — cloudy, southerly 10-
15; light rain; high 86, low 71.
Tulane — cloudy, scattered rain
showers; southerly 10-15; high
81.
enough to finance the conference,
Howell said.
“Limits and Responsibilities of
U.S. Power” is the topic for the
SCONA conference, scheduled to
meet in the Memorial Student
Center.
The topic was chosen, according
to conference chairman Don Mc-
Crory, “because the U. S. is at
a point of crisis both at home and
abroad over military, economic,
and political issues.”
Plans have been worked out,
according to Ranee Palmer, pub
licity chairman, to have heads of
the department provide lectures
on various topics at the confer
ence for A&M members, staff
and delegates.
Personal invitations have been
sent to 125 institutions in the
United States, Canada, and Mexi
co by President Earl Rudder. This
list includes five schools in Cana
da, two schools in Mexico, and all
five military academies.
Walter Cronkite, CBS news
commentator, is one of three
prominent Americans asked to
join the group of outstanding
speakers already slated to speak
at the conference.
Others asked to speak are
Walter Rostow, special advisor
to the President on Southeastern
Asian Affairs; George F. Cannon,
Ambassador-at-large; and David
Rockefeller, U.S. Representative
from West Virginia.
Speakers accepting invitations
are James Buchanan of the Uni
versity of Virginia, one of the
top six economists in the world;
Gen. Harold K. Johnson, retired
chief of staff of the Army; Ed
ward S. Marcus, president of the
National Association for the Part
ners of the Alliance; John T.
Barton, representative of Dow
Chemical Co., and Gutierre Tibon,
representative from the Univer
sity of Mexico.
tured speakers and instructive
films.
Members of the sailing club
hope to enter a number of races
scheduled this year. The Aggie
club will challenge such schools
as Texas Christian University,
Texas Tech, University of Hous
ton, and University of Texas at
Austin.
A regatta is scheduled for early
next spring in Houston, followed
by the Embleton Cup race in Aus
tin during Easter, an invitational
in Dallas, and a race sponsored
by the Fort Worth Boat Club in
the late spring.
Texas A&M Army ROTC ca
dets had an outstanding record
at summer camp, announced Col.
Jim H. McCoy, commandant.
He said 146 of 285 cadets in
the six-week training camp at
Fort Sill, Okla., were recom
mended by the deputy camp com-
mander for Distinguished Mili
tary Student awards.
Aggies were ranked as the out
standing cadets in one of two bri
gades, first in six of 14 compa
nies and tops in 23 of 56 pla
toons.
“Eighty-three A&M cadets fin
ished in the top 10 percent of
their 44-member platoons,” Mc
Coy noted.
James M. Townsend, Company
D-2 commander of Falls Church,
Va., was the top cadet in his
brigade. About 1,200 cadets com
peted for the honor.
The first position at company
level was awarded John G. (Bus
ter) Adami Jr., H-l commander,
Freer; Roy D. Lewis, Second Bri
gade operations officer, Hurst;
Michael S. Meharg, D-2, Bartles
ville, Okla.; Richard C. Moley,
McGuire AFB, N. J.; and San
ford T. Ward, Austin. Moley and
Ward held senior rank in the
corps last year, Ward as E-l
commander and Moley, cadet
captain.
First in their platoons were
Raymond L. Armour Jr., H - 2
commander, Houston; James C.
Benson, First Battalion executive
officer, Dallas; Garland H. Clark,
deputy corps commander, Glen-
elg, Md.; Michael T. Curd, Aggie
Band, Fort Worth; Walter D.
Dabney, D-l commander, Dallas;
Henry W. Dille Jr., C-2, El Paso;
Gary H. Eaton, E-l, Houston;
Texas A&M seniors planning
to graduate in January should
register at the university’s Coun
seling and Testing Center by Oct.
18 to take the Graduate Record
Examinations, announced Auston
Kerley, center director.
Kerley said the GRE, a re
quirement for graduation from
Texas A&M, will be administered
by the university the evenings of
Dec. 10-11 as an institutional
testing program.
Students unable to take the
two-part test at that time, Kerley
added, may also apply at the cen
ter for the national testing pro-
Gibbs Case Goes
Into Fourth Day
Of Testimony
Testimony continues today in
the hearing for Dr. Leon W.
Gibbs, professor of veterinary
anatomy.
Gibbs, charged with n i n e >
counts of misconduct, is seeking
reinstatement as a teacher after
being transferred to a research
assignment in 1965.
Dr. Manuel Davenport, presi
dent of the local chapter of the
American Association of Univer
sity Professors, said Wednesday
night that testimony by the uni
versity administration would
probably be completed sometime
this morning.
Dr. Davenport estimated that
defense testimony would possibly
be finished by Friday afternoon.
The five-man faculty commit
tee hearing the case will then
make recommendations to A&M
President Earl Rudder, who in
turn will present the recommend
ations to the A&M Board of Di
rectors.
University National Bank
“On the aide of Texas A&M.
—Adv.
Frank X. Farias, E-2, San An
tonio; Dennis J. Fontana, C-2,
Lompox, Calif.
Also, William R. Howell Jr.,
Aggie Band commander, Bren-
ham; Samuel E. Hodge, A-l, Al-
leyton; Glenn W. Keim, H-2,
Spearman; Clamire J. Landry
III, D-l, Biloxi, Miss.; Ralph
Rayburn, Third Battalion opera
tions officer, ^ngleside; Charles
F. Schwab Jr., San Antonio;
Neill W. Wait, Dallas, and Ken
neth R. Wilkin, Second Brigade
scholastic officer, Bossier City,
La.
gram, which will be given on
numerous campuses, including
A&M’s, Dec. 14. Completed ap
plications for the national test
must reach Berkeley, Calif., be
fore Nov. 19.
Graduate Dean George W.
Kunze urged all spring 1969
graduates to register for one of
the December tests if they plan
to seek admission to a graduate
college or apply for an assistant-
ship, fellowship or traineeship.
Kerley said students who reg
ister for the Dec. 10-11 tests will
receive an admission card
through the mail telling him
where and when to report. He
said any student not notified by
Dec. 5 should report to the cen
ter, Room 107 in the Academic
Building.
Students who take the GRE
through the institutional testing
program will pay only $6.50,
while the charge for the national
test will be $15, Kerley noted.
Insurance Exec
Speaks Tonight
John Longley, executive vice-
president for an insurance com
pany, will discuss “Life Insur
ance from a Buyer’s Standpoint”,
at 7:30 tonight in the YMCA.
David Howard, YMCA presi
dent, said four questions Long-
ley will cover are what types of
insurance are available, what in
surance benefits to look and ask
for, who should be the policy
benefactor, and why life insur
ance should be bought at an early
age.
Howard added that this is the
first in a series of programs
sponsored by the YMCA.
H. B. Burgess, chairman of the
board of commissioners at a sav
ings and loan firm, will speak on
the advantages of investing in
savings and loans instead of buy
ing life insurance at 7:30 p.m.,
Oct. 5 in the YMCA.
Security Lists
Recent Thefts
Of 29 Units
By TOM CURL
Battalion News Editor
Tape deck thieves have struck
at Aggieland once again.
Campus Security reported
Wednesday night that a record
number of stereo tape decks have
been stolen since school started.
The department reported 30
cases of breaking and entering
of cars from Sept. 18-25. Most
of the complaints concerned tape
decks, with a few cases of stolen
tachometers.
“IT’S THE worst outbreak
we’ve ever had here,” said Offi
cer J. D. Gossett.
Campus Security Chief Ed
Powell said Wednesday night
that students should take their
tape decks out of their cars and
keep them in a safe place.
“As long as they (tape decks)
are in the cars, they will be stol
en,” Powell commented.
“The thefts look very ama
teurish and unprofessional,” com
mented Gossett.
“It’s hard to tell whether it’s
outsiders or students,” he con
tinued, “but we have been able
to get some fingerprints.”
THE OFFICER said much of
the stolen merchandise is taken
to large cities and then shipped
to another area for resale.
The robberies do not seem to
be confined to any particular
area or parking lot on the cam
pus, although the hardest hit is
Lot 49 along the west side of the
campus.
“It seems like they (the
thieves) try to hit one area at
a time. Next they hit a new area
and then sometimes back to the
first parking lot,” Gossett re
marked.
Twenty-one tape decks were
stolen from student automobiles
in the two weeks preceding
Christmas vacation last year.
Two hundred were stolen during
the year.
“WE BROKE up three different
bunches of thieves last year,”
said Gossett. One group, com
posed of two dormitory students,
had more than $5,000 worth of
stolen merchandise in their
rooms.
According to Gossett, students
should record the make and serial
number of their tape decks and
report this information to Cam
pus Security if the tape player
is stolen.
Powell said a representative
from an auto insurance company
called him Wednesday about n
student’s claim for a stolen tape
player. The representative said
that his company is considering
separating insurance rates for
tape decks and the usual com
prehensive auto insurance.
Experiment Club
Elects Officers
The Experiment Supper Club,
a newly-formed wing of the Me
morial Student Center Travel
Committee, organized Wednesday
and elected Pat Rehmet of Alice
chairman for the fall semester.
Other officers elected were
Blaine Purcell of Wichita Falls,
vice chairman, and Frank Tilley
of Jacksonville, secretary-treas
urer.
Rehmet, who had “experiment
ed” in Poland the summer of
1966, said the club would pro
mote Experiment In Interna
tional Living participation by
A&M students.
The supper club will also serve
as an alumni organization for
past experimenters. Last sum
mer, eight students from A&M,
the third highest number of stu
dents from a university partici
pating in the exchange program,
lived with families in five Euro
pean countries.
First Bank & Trust now pays
5% per annum on savings certif
icates. —Adv.
NOW IN OPERATION
College Station’s million-gallon water tower became fully
operational Wednesday. Projected figures show that it will
adequately serve the city’s needs for the next twenty years.
See story page 3. (Photo by Mike Wright)
23 Members Named
To Singing Cadets
Sailing Club Will Organize;
Beginners, ‘Old Salts’ Sought
January Graduation Hopefuls
Must Take GRE Dec. 10-11
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