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VOLUME 64 Number 96 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1969 Tdephana 846-2226
YMCA, Old Library
Designated Polls
Houston Lawyer To Speak
At 67th Annual Muster
3-Part Roll Call
Planned By Sena te
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REVVIN’ HER UP
Richard Humphries, a senior mechanical engineering major, checks out his engine as
freshman aerospace engineering major Craig McDougald holds the model airplane steady.
Students have been flying their models in most any open space on campus as spring
weather seems to have returned to Aggieland to stay. (Photo by Bob Peek)
For Civilian Weekend
Planning Nears Completion
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writer
The YMCA and the old library
building will be polling places
for the April 24 general elec
tions as a result of Election
Commission action Wednesday
night.
The action, climaxing stormy
debate and a secret vote, pro
vides for multiple polling places
within the library if the YMCA
is not available.
Absentee voting for Veteri
nary Medicine students, necessi
tated by a break between tri
mesters during the week of elec
tions, will be looked into by the
Commission Executive Commit
tee.
In other action, the Commis
sion decided to consider Senate
positions as constituting mem
bership in a student organiza
tion.
BEFORE THE final decision,
Tommy Henderson, Commission
vice-president for publicity, pro
posed three polling places; the
Memorial Student Center base
ment, the Sbisa newsstand and
a lounge in the Duncan area.
"The main purpose of the
Election Commission is to pro
vide for the most participation
of the student body in elections,”
Henderson asserted as he made
his proposal, “and I believe that
at least three polling places are
A&M cadets to be commission
ed in the U. S. Army upon grad
uation next month will serve in
15 different branches, announced
Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant.
Three of each four will report
for basic officer training in the
combat arms.
Branch assignments for the
302 Army ROTC cadets now
qualified for May 24 commis
sioning are primarily in infan
try, engineers, artillery (air de
fense and field) and armor
Solons To Attend
Vanderbilt Meet
Three Student Senate repre
sentatives will attend “Impact
’69,” a symposium at Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, Tenn.,
Friday and Saturday.
They are Senate President
Bill Carter, Student Life Com
mittee Chairman Phil Callahan
and sophomore Senator Marcus
Hill.
“This conference will give us
a good idea of the trends of
student government because
delegates will come from many
U. S. universities and colleges,”
Carter said.
During the symposium, the
topic of the “Emerging Genera
tion” will be discussed by speak
ers such as Samuel Yorty, mayor
of Los Angeles; Senator Ed
mund Muskie, D-Maine; Phillip
Abbott Luce, consultant for the
Young Americans for Freedom;
McGeorge Bundy, U. S. ambas
sador to the United Nations, and
Anson Mount, public affairs
manager of Playboy Magazine.
Faculty-Staff Fete
Tickets On Sale
Tickets are now on sale for
A&M’s April 25 Board of Direc-
tors-Faculty-Staff Dinner in
Sbisa Hall, announced Dr. Hor
ace Byers, academic vice presi-x
dent.
Dr. Byers, member of the din
ner committee, said the tickets
are available through heads of
the university’s various academic
and administrative departments.
The 7:15 p.m. dinner will in
clude remarks by Board Presi
dent Clyde Wells. Musical enter
tainment will be provided by the
Singing Cadets.
The dinner will be preceded by
a reception, beginning at 6:45
p.m., with board members in the
receiving line.
Although the dinner is “stag”,
Dr. Byers emphasized women
faculty-staff members are in
vited.
FIRST BANK & TRUST—Home
of the Super CD- 5% interest
compounded daily.
needed.”
“It turns my stomach,” re-
tored Gary Martin, sophomore
class president, “to think that
we have to spoon-feed some
people. The people that matter
are the people that make the
effort to vote. One polling place
is simpler and more control
lable.”
AFTER MORE debate, cen
tering on whether the Corps or
civilians had the advantage in
any way, a vote was taken. By
request of Kirby Brown, fresh
man class president, the vote
was by secret ballot.
Following further discussion
and a defeated motion to hold
elections in the library and the
MSC, Ray Girsham moved to
hold elections in the library and
the YMCA.
Earlier, the commission con
sidered a case concerning a stu
dent filing for a Senate position
who did not meet the grade point
ratio requirements for the pre
vious semester. Henderson cited
University Regulations stating
that all candidates for offices in
student organizations must have
a 1.0 GPR for the previous
semester.
After discussion, the decision
was to disqualify the candidate
because Senate positions consti
tute membership in a student
organization.
branches. McCoy also noted
some military police and signal
corps units are considered part
of the combat arms.
Most of the new second lieu
tenants will be wearing crossed
rifles of the infantry. Sixty-two
graduates will go to Fort Ben-
ning, Ga., for officers basic.
The corps of engineers and
Fort Belvoir, Va., will get 53;
air defense artillery and Fort
Bliss, Tex., 22; field artillery and
Fort Sill, Okla., 35; armor and
Fort Knox, Ky., 34.
Other assignments are in the
quartermaster corps, 23; trans
portation corps, seven; medical
service corps, 14; chemical corps,
one, adjutant generals corps,
five; finance corps, one; military
corps, 10.
McCoy said the military intel
ligence branch is one of the
Army’s relatively new career
fields.
A&M graduates to be commis
sioned next month will begin
reporting for active duty from
the first week of June until the
end of the summer.
By TONY HUDDLESTON
Battalion Staff Writer
Preparations for “an event-
filled Civilian Weekend,” April
25-27 are nearing completion,
according to Ernie Godsey,
Weekend Committee chairman.
“It will be a different type of
Civilian Weekend than in pre
vious years,” Godsey commented.
“We have tried to plan this year
for all civilians by scheduling
many different types of activi
ties.”
Godsey said that civilian dor
mitory counselors are distribut
ing barbecue and dance tickets
for the weekend civilian affair.
“A student who does not have
a fall activity card will have to
buy dance tickets at $3 a couple;
if he doesn’t have a spring ac
tivity card, he will have to pay
$1 per person for barbecue
tickets,” he explained.
CIVILIANS may buy dance
tickets at the door but must
purchase barbecue tickets by
April 21, Godsey noted.
The weekend will commence
on a Friday with a dance spon
sored by the Civilian Student
Council in the grove from 8-12
p.m. Godsey noted that the
dance would be free, with the
“Gypsy Moth,” band of College
Station entertaining.
Other entertainment planned
for Friday includes a folk-sing
ing program at “The Basement,”
located in the Memorial Student
Center, and the film, “We’ve
Never Been Licked,” will be
shown in the Guion Hall.
ROGER KNAPP, coordinator
of residence hall programs,
noted that several residence hall
dances and open houses are also
being scheduled on the 25th.
Saturday’s timetable begins
with a noon barbecue in the
Grove, where the Civilian Sweet
heart nominees will be pre
sented.
A carnival is scheduled at 1
p.m. following the barbecue in
the area located across from the
Grove. Godsey noted that booths
manned by members of the var
ious residence halls will provide
dart throwing and other enter
tainment normally found in a
carnival.
“At 3 p.m. field day activities
will begin on the Civil Engineer
ing field east of the Cyclotron,”
Godsey said. He noted that sky
diving exhibitions by the A&M
Parachute Club, and radio con
trolled air exhibitions by model
airplanes belonging to A&M
students would provide, enter
tainment.
Consol Schoolmen
To Talk To PTA
A&M Consolidated School
Board members and Superintend
ent W. T. Riedel will discuss the
future of the College Station
school system at the 7:30 p.m.
meeting Tuesday of the College
Hills Parent-Teacher Association
in the school cafeteria.
Dr. R. J. Freund Jr., PTA pres
ident, said the A&M Consolidat
ed officials will present the
board’s 10-year plan and be avail
able afterwards for a question-
and-answer session.
The meeting also will include
election of officers, Dr. Freund
noted.
At 7 p.m., Town Hall will pre
sent “The Sandpipers,” a ver
satile group with a modernistic
approach to pop music, in G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
' “STUDENTS will be admitted
free to the Town Hall perform
ance, and date tickets will cost
$1.50,” Godsey remarked.
“Gemini Twins” is the theme
of the two dances beginning at
9 p.m. in Sbisa Dining Hall and
the MSC. “The Ambassadors of
Soul,” from Houston will per
form in Sbisa, while simultane
ously, a Western band, to be
selected at a later date, will per
form in the MSC.
Dress for the dance is semi-
formal with sport coat and tie
for men and “after five” party
dresses for women.
Godsey noted that the Civilian
Sweetheart will be announced at
the Sbisa dance.
AF Sweetheart
Applications Set
Applications for the “Dream
Queen,” to be presented at the
“space-age, informal” Air Force
Ball April 19, are available from
any Air Force ROTC first ser
geant, Bud Welch, Ball Commit
tee chairman, said Wednesday.
Cadets may turn in completed
applications to David Woods, 8-
415, or Welch, 6-118.
“A prize will be given to the
girl with most futuristic costume
for the year 2069,” Welch added.
“TDY (Temporary Duty) and
the Dream Dimension is the
theme of the 8 p.m.-to-midnight
ball in the East Wing of Duncan
Dining Hall. We’ll have good
music, from the Countdown Five
from Houston, wild lights and
probably a space monster for
decorations,” he added.
Cadets will wear Class ‘B’ sum
mer uniforms with short-sleeve
shirts and ascot.
Tickets for Army seniors will
be sold in the dorm for $1.25
Welch said.
WEATHER
Friday — Cloudy to partly
cloudy. Afternoon thundershow
ers. Wind Southerly 10 to 15
mph. High 81, low 58.
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Y’our Sav
ings Center, since 1919.
BB&Li —Adv.
By TOM CURL
Battalion Staff Writer
Mayo J. Thompson, former
student and noted maritime law
yer from Houston, will be the
guest speaker at the 67th annual
Aggie Muster April 21, in front
of the A&M System Administra
tion Building.
The long-standing tradition
will be slightly altered this year,
according to Phil Callahan, chair
man of the Student Life Commit
tee of the Student Senate and
Muster Chairman.
“The roll call will be in three
parts for the first time,” he com
mented. Callahan explained that
in recent years, the roll call has
included deceased A&M students
and former students who have
died while on active duty with
the armed forces during the pre
ceding year.
This year’s list of names will
include six former students from
Brazos County because former
students in this area have no
formal muster of their own.
“IF THESE six names aren’t
called at the campus muster, they
won’t be called at all,” Callahan
said.
A member of the class of ’41,
Thompson is a senior partner in
the firm of Royston, Rayzor and
Cook in Houston.
“We felt that this year we
wanted an eloquent speaker and
outstanding speaker who could
get a message to the students,”
Callahan remarked.
Thompson is a retired Army
colonel and member of the panel
of the American Arbitration As
sociation and also a member of
the American Judicature Society
and the Maritime Law Associa
tion of the United States.
ALSO ON the program is a
presentation of a plaque to A&M
President Earl Rudder in hon
or of A&M former students who
served in the Philippines during
World War II.
The award will be presented
by John H. LeClair, National
Commander of the American De
fenders of Bataan and Corregi-
dor. Honored guests will be the
17 surviving Aggies who served
there during the war.
Another guest will be L. V.
Wallace, class of ’03, who served
as class president his senior year.
“To give an idea of how old
the man is; he was a freshman
when Pinky Downs was a sopho
more,” commented Callahan.
The program, planned by Cal
lahan and Jim Stephenson, sub
committee chairman for Aggie
Muster, will also include greet
ings by Ford Albritton Jr., pres
ident of the Association of Form
er Students.
CORPS COMMANDER Hector
Gutierrez will explain the tradi
tion of Aggie Muster, called
every year on the anniversary of
San Jacinto Day. The annual
meeting is organized wherever
Aggies happen to be at the time,
including on the battlefields of
Vietnam.
Tryouts for “Simple Simon,”
Aggie Players production to be
presented in May to children of
Bryan and College Station, will
be conducted here Monday.
“Simple Simon” will be staged
at 2 p. m. May 17 in the Fallout
Theater of Guion Hall, announced
C. K. Esten, Aggie Players di
rector.
Eight parts to be filled at 7:30
p. m. Monday tryouts are open to
all interested thespians. Mrs.
Aileen A. Wenck, “Simple Simon”
director, indicated virtually all
the Aggie Player regulars are
involved with the group’s major
production, “Everyman,” and
Fallout parts.
roll call of the deceased, will be
conducted by Bill Youngkin,
yell leader. As each name is
called, a living comrade will an
swer with the single word “here”
to signify that although the Ag
gie is gone, he is not forgotten.
Callahan commented that in
case of inclement weather or wet
grounds, the 5 p.m. ceremony
will be moved to G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
DR. ROBERT W. CAIRNS
Noted Chemist
To Speak Here
On Research
A leading spokesman for the
nation’s chemical industry will
present a Robert A. Welch
Foundation lecture here at 8 p.m.
Friday.
Dr. Robert W. Cairns, presi
dent of the American Chemical
Society and vice president and
board member of Hercules Inc.,
will speak on “Who Directs Re
search?”, a commentary on
chemical research in industry, in
room 231 of the Chemistry Build
ing.
Dr. Cairns joined Hercules in
1934 as a research chemist and
was appointed director of re
search in 1955. He was elected
to the chemical company’s broad
of directors in 1959 and promot
ed to vice president in 1966.
The Oberlin, Ohio, native serv
ed as deputy assistant secretary
of defense (research and devel
opment) in 1954 and is currently
a member of the Defense Science
Board.
Cairns also is chairman of the
National Academy of Sciences-
National Academy of Engineer
ing Committee on Scientific and
Technical Communication. He
holds several patents in the field
of explosives and is the author
of numerous technical papers.
The Robert A. Welch Founda
tion, which arranged Cairns’ vis
it to A&M, has assisted the uni
versity in numerous research and
scholarly endeavors, including
award of a $1 million grant to
help build its cyclotron.
The cast for the childen’s play
by Aurand Harris calls for two
women, four men and two parts
for either men or women. Mrs.
Barbara Karpinski will be assist
ant director.
Concerning a stranger’s visit in
a make-believe kingdom where he
is persecuted because he is dif
ferent, the play was first given
by the Children’s Theater of
Washington, D. C., in 1952. The
Aggie Players production is by
special arrangement with Anchor
age Press of Anchorage, Ky.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.
—Adr.
SIGNING UP
Pat Hruska signs up for the annual blood drive sponsored
by Alpha Phi Omega in cooperation with the Wadley Foun
dation of Dallas. Students will have until noon FYiday to
register for the April 16-17 drive at the registration desk
near the Memorial Student Center post office. (Photo by
Bob Peek)
302Army ROTC Cadets Receive
Assignments To 15 Branches
The highlight of the Muster,
Players Schedule Auditions
For ‘Simple Simon 9 Cast