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tenu oati is ants ces ates OWE! )PPE LIBRARY CARPUS 15 COPIES Battalion VOLUME 64, Number 34 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1968 Telephone 845-2226 OH, m D PURE LED [” HATS OFF Company C-l seniors salute bareheaded in Dallas as they pass by the reviewing stand in respect for three of their comrades, one the company commander, who were killed early Saturday in a car-truck collision. (Photo by Mike Wright) Corps Trip Claims Three Silver Taps for three Company C-l cadets, John W. Groves, commander from Lovington, N. M.; George W. Reynolds of Orange Grove; and Donald Coward of Corpus Christi, will be sounded at 10:30 tonight in front of the Academic building. Funeral services were held Monday for he three cadets killed in a car-truck col lision north of Fort Worth Saturday during he Dallas Corps trip. Services for Coward, son of Mr. and Mrs. . B. Coward, 1114 Timber Grove, were at the ackson-Woods Presbyterian Church in Cor ns Christi. His parents requested that in ieu of flowers, contributions be made to an Aggie Fund at Corpus Stonewell Bank for the purpose of establishing an A&M scholar- l ship. The First Lutheran Church of Orange Grove was the scene of services for Reynolds, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Reynolds, Route 1. Services for Groves were at Lovington, N. M., with burial at Denver City. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Groves, Denver City. The car in which the three Army ROTC cadets were returning from a dance at Texas Woman’s University collided head-on with a freight truck early Saturday five miles west of Roanoke. The truck driver, injured only slightly, said the auto veered across the highway cen ter line into the truck. In a separate accident on the Corps trip, a junior, Rex E. Stewart of San Antonio, suffered a broken leg and possible back in juries in an accident in Dallas. The Squadron 11 first sergeant was admitted to Parkland Hospital. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Stewart, 7619 Cartwheel Lane, San An tonio. PURE Faculty Member To Open \University Lecture Series i P. M, SHOW ITNtt Dr. H. O. Hartley, director of the Graduate Institute of Statis tics, will be the lead-off speaker Thursday for the 1968-69 Uni versity Lecture Series. Dr. Edwin Doran, assistant geosciences dean and chairman of the University Lecture Commit tee, said Dr. Hartley is the first member of the A&M faculty to participate in the series. Hartley will discuss “The De sign of Scientific Experiments” at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. Dean Doran pointed out Dr. Hartley has a distinguished rec ord of service on two continents as a teacher, author, research scientist, scientific adviser to gov ernment and industry and as an administrator of scientific re search activities. Dr. Hartley joined the faculty here in 1963. He came to the United States in 1953 and served sp!' E" NOW IT’S OFFICIAL Aggie Sweetheart Annella Wright receives an official, though somewhat lengthy, Aggie welcome by Student Senate President Bill Carter. Miss Wright was presented to the A&M student body at the halftime of the SMU game. (Photo by Mike Wright) $1.4 Million Apartment Project Planned For Married Students 10 years as professor of statistics at Iowa State. He previously served as scien tific officer to Scientific Comput ing Service, Ltd., in London and as lecturer in statistics at Uni versity College, London. Dr. Hartley holds doctoral de grees from the University of Berlin, Cambridge University and the University of London. He is author or co-author of more than 70 scholarly articles and several books. He has been elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Associa tion and is a member of the Inter national Statistical Institute. He also serves as president of East ern North American Region of the Biometric Society. Other University Lecture Series presentations are scheduled Jan. 9, Feb. 6, Feb. 18 and March 25. Dean Doran pointed out the admission-free series is designed to give the faculty, students and general public the opportunity to hear authorities discuss subjects of broad social, political and in tellectual interest. MSC Council Raises Status Of Film Series To Committee As an extension of Memorial Student Center activities, the MSC Council voted Monday night to elevate the Film Series to a full committee of the MSC Di rectorate. In other action the Council ap proved budget additions for two Directorate committees, heard the Town Hall Committee finance re port, and heard an evaluation of the Student Leadership Training Conference in September. “AT PRESENT, THE FILM Series is a research committee,” stated Film Series Chairman Jack A. Abbott. “Due to the enthusi astic response, I feel that it mer its full committee status.” The first two films of the sea son, “The Guns of Navarone” and “Fail-Safe” netted an excess of $135 with admission priced at $.35 per person at both shows. Other films for the semester will be “War Wagon,” Dec. 13 and “Ipcress File,” Jan. 10. A SUMMARY OF income and attendance at Town Hall Com mittee programs this year showed that the overall program is $6,411 in the red. While the first six programs have cost $3,500 less than anticipated, ticket sales are $9,911 less than expected. BUDGET RECOMMENDA TIONS for two Directorate Com mittees were approved by the Council. The Council Executive Committee recommended supple mentary funds of $44 for the Chess Committee and revolving funds of $1,000 for the Contem porary Arts Committee. “This year’s Leadership Con ference was held at Lakeview Methodist Assembly on Sept. 4-7,” the Leadership Committee stated in a prepared report. “One by product of this lab is that every one felt much closer after the laboratory. “Still, one leader may dislike another, but they will always listen and respect each other’s opinions. The result is a unity among leaders on the A&M cam pus.” The Council also created the new position of Council Historian and approved revisions in the Activity Point System as stated in the University Regulations. By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE Battalion Staff Writer Texas A&M will begin con struction soon on seven new apartment buildings for married students, announced Howard Ves tal, management services director. Construction will begin next semester, with a portion of the units to be ready by fall of 1969. The $1.4 million project will provide 84 air-conditioned, one- bedroom apartments, Vestal con tinued. The new units will be similar to the Hensel apartments, but somewhat larger. The units will be built in the College View area, and seven of the old barracks-type apart ments will be tom down to make room for the new buildings. SO THAT the old buildings may be torn down, students living in the seven units are being re located, Vestal said. “Fifty - seven apartments are being vacated at the semester break, and we are holding these apartments for those who must move,” he said. Students have reacted to the news of a move in two ways. “Most of them are understand ing,” said Rocky Boudreaux, a student apartment manager in College View. “They realize that it had to happen sooner or later, and they just happen to be the ones involved. Some, of course, don’t like the idea.” “The university will provide all possible assistance to students who must move,” Vestal noted. “SOME STUDENTS don’t like the fact that the new apartments will be one-bedroom,” commented Jim West, another student mana ger. “Most, however, do feel that the new units will be a big im provement on present conditions.” “I’ve also heard that some of the families who had been plan ning to get an extension, on their lease must now vacate. They are, however, being given priority on vacancies in Hensel and South- side.” “Some who can’t extend feel that they should have priority on their apartments, due to length of residence,” said Jack Norton, (See Apartments, Page 4) Aggie Players Announce Cast For ‘Arms And The Man’ Coeds Plan Bonfire Meet All university women are in vited to help make Bonfire plans at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in room 2B-C in the Memorial Student Center. An informal steering commit tee of Ann Carter, Bobbi Van Ness, Candy Parker, and Janet Whitehead will organize the work for serving coffee around-the- clock at the stacking area in con nection with the YMCA. They will also lay the ground work for organizing A&M women students. Advisers for the coeds are Mrs. Lorene Roby and Mrs. Grace Kieffer. BB &L Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. Casting for George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” has been completed, announced Rob ert W. Wenck, director of the Aggie Players’ ’»ec. 9-14 produc tion. Shaw’s play, a satiric comment on war and pretensions to culture, involves disruption of the ideas and prejudices of a Bulgarian family by a Swiss mercenary. It is set in 1885 during the Balkan Wars- The Aggie Players production has cast Becky Ingraham, wife of an A&M student, and students George McCoy of Marble Falls; Candy Yager, Bryan; Jim Wey- henmeyer, Livingston, N. J.; Marc Fleishman, Dallas; Irene Wood ard, College Station; Travis Mil ler, West Winfield, N. Y., and Bruce McKenty, Arlington, Va., as members of the family and soldiers with whom they come in contact. MRS. INGRAHAM plays Raina Petkoff, a romantic young girl whose high ideals of the glories of warfare are shattered when she meets a professional soldier. The Swiss mercenary Blunt- schli, portrayed by McCoy, is pro fessional to the practical point of carrying food in his ammunition pouch. Producer C. K. Esten, Aggie Players director, said the play has “a little something for every body. Shaw even pokes fun at his satirical expression of war and some aspects of capitalism.” Hobby To Speak On Media’s Role In City Crises Houston Post editor William P. Hobby Jr. will speak on news media responsibility Wednesday in the fourth presentation of the Great Issues seminar, “The People and the Cities.” Series chairman Tom Fitzhugh of Waco said the 8 p.m. talk will be in the Memorial Student Cen ter ballroom. Hobby will discuss news media obligations to report controversial and sensitive subjects to the pub lic. Fitzhugh noted the topic is timely in view of Chicago conven tion rioting and election coverage and projections that many feel influence voting patterns. President and executive editor of the Post three years, Hobby has been an official of the Houston newspaper eight years and previ ously served as parliamentarian of the Texas Senate. He was managing ^editor three years and executive vice president two. Hobby has served four times on the recommendations jury for Pulitzer Prizes in journalism. Miss Woodard will play Cath erine, Raina’s mother who aspires to European culture, and her hus band Paul is Miller, one of the few Bulgarian soldiers to attain officer rank. All the cast except Mrs. Ingra ham had parts in the Aggie Play ers’ recent production of “The Trojan Women.” 1968-69 Directory On Sale The all-new 1968-69 directory is off the press, accord ing- to Jim Lindsey, University Information director. Lindsey said the new full-size directory includes faculty, staff and student listing’s, the university calen dar, campus map and other data. Personnel sections in clude both campus and home addresses. The new directory supersedes the temporary faculty- staff and student directories which were printed to serve campus needs during the interim period after the new Centrex telephone system was placed in operation. The new directory is particularly valuable, Lindsey noted, since all campus telephone numbers changed when the Centrex system was installed in mid-August. The new directories, which cost $1.50 each, are avail able on campus at the Student Publications Department in the Services Building, the Exchange Store and the Memorial Student Center gift shop and off-campus at Shaffer’s University Book Store and all Bryan-College Station banks. Bevo’s ‘Upset Stomach’ Cured Here With Surgery By TOM CURL Battalion Staff Writer The Aggies had Bevo again, at least for a while. This time, however, it was with the blessing of the Teasips. The three-year-old longhorn steer, mascot of the University of Texas at Austin, was a patient of the A&M Large Animal Clinic at the vet school for a week. He was returned to Austin Monday afternoon. BEVO WAS brought to A&M Nov. 4 by two members of the Silver Spurs, the TU spirit group. One of the two who delivered the animal is the brother of Bill Montgomery, quarterback for the University of Arkansas. The steer was suffering from an intestinal disorder and under went exploratory surgery for two hours the next day. Dr. C. L. Boyd, associate pro fessor of medicine and surgery, and Dr. Don McDonald, assistant professor, performed the opera tion. They were assisted by Glen Marrs, Elmer Herndon and Wil liam Hogenmeyer, all senior vet students. Lloyd Rowe, a vet stu dent who has a pharmacy degree from TU, observed the surgery. DR. W. M. ROMANE (head of the department) and I are both ‘Old Army’,” said Dr. Boyd. “Everybody was reconciled to the fact that this was a dastardly deed we had to do for the Sips; so we did it and then forgot about it,” he quipped. Dr. Boyd went back to the hos pital to check on the recuperat ing steer after the surgery and hand-fed the animal some hay. “WHO WOULD HAVE ever thought I would be spoon-feeding the mascot of Texas University,” he lamented. In the daytime, the steer was kept in a high-walled pen but at night he was moved to the sur gery recovery room, a closed room with padded floor and walls; and doors that look like the doors of a moving van. Three locked doors and two student guards protected Bevo after dark. “WE KNEW THE Aggies wouldn’t try anything; we just didn’t want to tempt them,” Dr. Boyd remarked. The eight-inch scar along Bevo’s right side is no more un attractive than the large rec tangle of shaved hair around the surgical wound. “I don’t see why they couldn’t have shaved the area in the shape of a ‘T’ with an ‘A’ and an ‘M’ on either side,” commented one vet student. DR. BOYD said the steer could probably be taken to the Texas- TCU game in Fort Worth this weekend. “They took another steer to Waco last Saturday and even though they had him sedated, he was too wild for them to handle,” he remarked. Dr. Boyd pointed out that the veterinarian who usually cares for Bevo in Austin is Dr. Clay Stubbs, a graduate of A&M. SIZING UP FOR SAWING Pre-vet major J. R. Powell of Menard seems to be doing some pre-Turkey Day measuring on Bevo’s horns. The TU mascot was here this past week for surgery at A&M’s large animal rlinirv (Photo hv Tom Curl) WEATHER Wednesday — Cloudy. Winds Southerly 15 to 25 mph. High 66, low 41. Thursday — Cloudy. Intermit ten rains. Winds Southerly 15 to 20 mph. High 64, low 45. Kyle Field Saturday — Cloudy. Winds 10 to 20 mph. 63°. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv.