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Carroll,
Matthew Carroll of Annandale,
Va., and George Mason of San
Antonio will be commander and
deputy commander, respectively,
of the Corps of Cadets next year.
Appointment of the juniors to
the two top command posts of
the 2,800-member Corps was an
nounced Thursday by Col. Jim H.
McCoy, commandant, with the
concurrence of President Earl
Rudder and Dean of Students
James P. Hannigan.
MATTHEW CARROLL
A Distinguished Student in
architectural construction, Carroll
is sergeant major on Corps Staff
and an Army ROTC cadet. He is
a member of the Ross Volunteers
and the 1969-70 RV firing squad.
The 21-year-old cadet was a
host for the Fourteenth Student
Conference on National Affairs
and is a member of Wings and
Sabres, an organization of cadets
on Army and Air Force scholar
ships.
Named outstanding sophomore
of the First Brigade last year,
Carroll is a member of Company
G-l and a graduate of Andress
High School, El Paso. He is the
son of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Robert
M. Carroll, of Annandale.
Cadet Sergeant Major of the
Second Wing, Mason is also a
distinguished student and a psy
chology major. He is a member
of the RV firing squad and Wings
and Sabres.
Last summer, Mason was re
cipient of the Commandant’s
Award, given to the outstanding
summer camp cadet at Gunter Air
Force Base, Alabama. He has
served as a member of SCON A
and Town Hall.
The 21-year-old cadet was pre
viously chosen outstanding soph
omore of the Second Wing and
outstanding freshman of Squad
ron 12.
A graduate of Thomas Jeffer
son High School, San Antonio,
Mason’s parents are Col. and Mrs.
G. I. Mason, living in Philadel
phia.
The new cadet colonel of the
Corps and deputy cadet colonel
will assume command at Final
Review, May 24.
According to outgoing Corps
Commander H e ct o r Gutierrez,
wing and brigade commanders
will be announced within the next
few days.
“I feel these two cadets will
have much to add toward building
an ever greater Corps of Cadets,”
Gutierrez said. “I know all out
going seniors support the choices
made . . . and the fact that their
own class is behind them is ob
vious.”
GEORGE MASON
Che Battalion
VOLUME 64 Number 101
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
1 Tribute To A&M’s Dead I
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\Scheduled 5p.m. Mondayl
A&M students and former stu
dents Monday gather on campus
and at some 500 other locations
around the world for Muster, final
tribute to fellow Aggies who died
during the past year.
Campus Muster, which will at
tract several thousand persons,
will be conducted at 5 p. m. on
The announcement of the Air
Force Dream Queen will high
light the 1969 Air Force ROTC
Ball here Saturday night.
The theme this year is ‘‘TDY
(Temporary Duty) and the
Dream Dimensions” and is
scheduled for 8-12 p.m. in Dun
can Dining Hall.
Seven finalists will vie for the
title and the winner will reign
over the yearly cadet social
event.
Miss Trisha Puck, 17, is a
student at Jefferson High School
in San Antonio. Her cadet escort
will be Milton Fehrle of Squad
ron 12.
Claudia Marple of San Anto-
NALGA JANE PRICE
the steps of the System Building.
The 66-year-old campus cere
mony, for the first time since its
inception, will include the man
who started the tradition. He is
Lawrence W. Wallace of Daven
port, Iowa, president of the class
of ’03 and leader of a march that
year on the institution’s president.
nio, is a freshman at Texas
Woman’s University. The 19-
year-old miss will be escorted by
David Frost of Squadron 12.
A sophomore at Baylor Univer
sity, Linda Gayle Hubbard, 19,
comes from Brady and will be
escorted by Rod Taylor or Squad
ron 12.
Nelga Jane Price, a junior at
Stephen F. Austin State College,
is from Atlanta, Texas. The 21-
year-old miss is being sponsored
by Paul Mebane of Sguadron 4.
Eighteen-year-old Gail Blan
ton is a freshman here at A&M
and comes from Austin. She will
be escorted by Karl Eschmann
of Squad 8.
Nancy L. Adkins, 20, is from
Bryan and is a stenographer
with the Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service. The blonde
haired girl is being sponsored
by James B. Jones of Squadron
7.
A sophomore at TWU, Linda
Klutts will be escorted by Ken
R. Sluis. The 19-year-old miss
comes from Dallas. Sluis is in
Squadron 9.
Music will be furnished by the
Countdown Five from Galveston,
according to Air Force cadet
Harold T. (Bud) Welch.
“The girls should dress for
‘after five’ in the year 2069; that
includes miniskirts and pant
suits,” Welch commented.
He added that a prize would
be awarded to the girl wearing
the most “futuristic” outfit.
LINDA HUBBARD
demanding recognition of San Ja
cinto Day. The tribue to the Tex
ans who defeated the Mexican
Army in 1836 transpired into Ag
gie Muster.
This year’s Muster will honor
177 students and former students,
including 19 killed in Vietnam.
Featured speaker for campus
Muster will be Houston attorney
Mayo Thompson, a 1941 Texas
A&M graduate.
Phil Callahan, senior market
ing student from Algeria and
campus Muster chairman, noted
this year’s program will include
a special presentation by the
American Defenders of Bataan &
Corregidor.
ADB&C National Commander
John H. LeClair will present the
university a plaque inscribed with
the names of all the known former
A&M students killed or impris
oned in the Philippines when the
island fell to the Japanese early
in World War II.
LeClair will be accompanied by
Lt. Col. Jerome A. McDavitt
(Ret.) of San Antonio, a 1933
A&M graduate and active ADB&C
member. McDavitt will bring
with him the first American flag
to fly over Honshu Island after
liberation of the Philippines. The
flag, which will be prominently
displayed at Muster, was made
from scraps by the imprisoned
U. S. fighting men.
490-Player
Chess Tourney
Slated Here
A state and national associa
tion-sanctioned chess tournament
here this weekend will qualify
six winners for Texas Chess
Championship play in Dallas next
December.
The Region 6 tourney also will
feature computer vs. human
I matches.
Sponsored by the Memorial
Student Center Chess Commit
tee, the San Jacinto Open starts
at 9 a.m. Saturday and is ex
pected to run through 5 p.m.
Sunday in rooms 2B and 2C of
the MSC, announced David Line
of Monahans.
The committee chairman indi
cated 40 participants are ex
pected, including Eric Bone,
former state champion of Bay-
town, and Robert Brieger, U. S.
Chess Federation-rated expert of
Houston.
Top-ranked local players to
participate include Dr. Dusan
Djuric, meteorology professor;
Dr. Svetozar Pejovich, economics
professor; Line, sophomore math
major, and freshman Emil Pros-
ke, geophysics major of Gid-
dings. Proske recently repre
sented the committee in the
American College Union tourney
in Houston.
Four hundred state associa
tion members have been invited
and 16 USCF-affiliated A&M
players are expected to partici-
;pate in the five-round, Swiss
style tournament, Line added.
A feature of the tourney will
be five matches between A&M’s
IBM 360/65 computer and human
players via telephone cable be
tween the MSC and Data Proc
essing Center. Schach, as the
computer chess program is call
ed, has been checkmated in three
matches with MIT’s Mac Hack
Six but won several games
against A&M players.
‘Dream Queen’ To Be Selected
At Saturday’s Air Force Ball
Reapportioning Plan
Sent To Acad Council
“MAGGIES ARE ALL RIGHT”
Ron Hinds, Senate parliamentarian, explains the reasons for his support of a proposal
by P. Wayne Gosnell, Issues chairman, to discontinue selecting the Aggie Sweetheart
from students at Texas Woman’s University. Bob Edgecomb, Don Mauro, Phil Calla
han, and Gosnell look on as Hinds makes his presentation. (Photo by Bob Peek)
Of City Growth: Duba
Technology Key To Crisis
By TONY HUDDLESTON
America’s technological ad
vances must be applied now to
urban problems if the fast-grow
ing metropolitan areas are to
continue to grow, the head of
New York City’s Municipal Serv
ice Administration said Thurs
day.
“Our cities must use intelli
gent planning and present-day
technology to find solutions to
the many problems that have
sprung up in the cities in the
last 20 years,” John Duba told
the Urban Crisis Conference aud
ience.
Duba, conference wrap-up
speaker, cited pollution, mass
congestion, relocation, and the
need for more recreational areas
as key items to which scientific
knowledge must be applied.
“Our pollution problems can
be solved by the use of car pools
instead of individuals driving
their own cars and the establish
ment of better subway and tran
sit systems from the outskirts of
an urban area to the inner city,”
noted Duba, former Chicago dep
uty mayor and city planner.
HE ADDED that New York
City was running subway sys
tems out to the expressways to
cut down on the congestion in
the city.
The next step to control the
pollution and mass congestion
problem in the metropolitan
areas is to make the interior of
the city less attractive to single
occupant auto drivers.
“The possible use of conveyor
belts for interior travel across
the city is a possibility for re
placing the automobile,” Duba
pointed out.
He said such a mode of in
dividual transportation is only
one step beyond escalators.
“Relocation is a problem that
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
nearly every city has begun to
face in the last 20 years,” Duba
said. “But the cities have just
begun to realize that it is a
problem that has to be solved.”
HE POINTED to older cities
like Chicago, Philadelphia, Bos
ton, and New York that have
decreased in population because
they have not planned for the
future, while newer cities like
Houston, Denver, and Los An
geles have increased in popula
tion because of careful planning.
He also envisioned platform-
type residential construction over
railroad yards and industrial
complexes and noted New York
City has such a project being
built over Grand Central Sta
tion.
“From the human standpoint,
there’s the visual impact of a
city,” Duba added. “I think we
will see removal of the signs,
power lines, and littered vacant
lots associated with metropoli
tan areas.
Table Tennis Meet
To Begin Saturday
A student table tennis tourna
ment will begin at 9 a.m. Satur
day in the Memorial Student
Center Ballroom, according to
Jim Cain of the MSC Recreation
Committee.
Events will include men’s sin
gles, both open and class B re-
(stricted; and women’s singles,
open. Trophies will be award
ed in all classes and a 50-cent
entry fee will be charged per
person per event.
Participants should register
before Saturday by calling either
Cain at 846-3965 after 6 p.m. or
Frank Storey at 845-6593.
BB&L
-Adv.
WEATHER
Saturday — Clear. Wind East
erly 5 to 10 mph. High 76, low
58.
Sunday — Partly cluody. In-
ceasing cloudiness in afternoon.
In the future, all utilities will
be underground, signs will be
regulated, billboards will be
eliminated and junkyards will be
a thing of the past. More and
more complexes within a city,
such as shopping centers, will go
to controlled environments.”
DUBA NOTED that more rec
reation space was needed in the
urban and city areas. “Old
sprawling buildings must be torn
down to make room for sky
scrapers that will expand apart
ment complexes vertically up
ward. This will provide space
for recreation areas to expand
horizontally.”
“It all sounds far out,” he ad
mitted, “but you would be
amazed to see the starts that
have been made in urban and
metropolitan planning.”
“It will take coordinated re
gional planning by federal, state
and local agencies to work out
solutions to the urban problem,”
Duba said.
Duba pointed out that im
provement in urban areas will re
quire a change in the tax struc
ture. “Real estate taxes will
not support it.”
DUBA ADDED that it would
require non-residents of the city
who worked in the urban area to
share the tax load. He gave as
example Pittsburgh, an area of
55 square miles that supported
non-residents in a 750 square
mile surrounding area. “The
non-resident doesn’t pay anything
for facilities used in the city,”
he said.
“I worked at the Polytechnic
Institute of Brooklyn and lived
on Long Island in Nassau Coun
ty. ‘Use’ taxes were taken from
my check for not being a Brook
lyn resident along with state and
federal withholding taxes. It
hurt but it’s fair.”
The Urban Crisis Conference
was sponsored jointly by the
Memorial Student Center Great
Issues Committee and the A&M
College of Engineering.
Senate Okays
One Of Three
Changes Asked
By DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE
Battalion Staff Writer
The Student Senate Thursday
night voted to send its reappor
tionment plan to the Academic
Council without implementing
all three changes recommended
by the University Executive
Committee.
Senators accepted one of the
recommendations, but turned
thumbs down on the remaining
two.
The Senate also voted to con
tinue selecting the Aggie Sweet
heart from students at Texas
Woman’s University, despite
opinions by some senators that
the practice was outdated.
Bill Carter, Senate president,
reported to the Senate on the
progress of the reapportionment
plan passed March 20. He told
them of his appearance before
the University Executive Com
mittee, and noted that the com
mittee had passed the plan with
three recommendations. The plan
and recommendations would be
sent to the Academic Council, he
said.
The three suggestions Carter
mentioned were to clarify the
wording concerning veterinary
Medicine students, to have at
least three representatives per
college, and to double the number
of freshman representatives.
“I TOLD President Rudder
yesterday that I strongly resent
ed the fact that the recommenda
tions go to the Academic Council
regardless of Senate action tak
en,” Carter told the senators.
The first recommendation was
accepted by the Senate without
comment. The other two were
noted, but no action taken, as a
result of motions by Tony Bene
detto, graduate representative.
P. Wayne Gosnell, Issues com
mittee chairman, brought a reso
lution before the Senate that ad
vocated selecting the Aggie
Sweetheart from among A&M
coeds instead of TWU students.
Gosnell noted that the sweet
heart was traditionally from
TWU because A&M, until re
cently, had no coeds. Now that
A&M is coed, he said, the sweet
heart should be chosen from
among them.
“We’ve got to think of the
money involved,” said Ron Hinds,
parliamentarian, speaking for
the measure. “A great deal of
money is spent on sweetheart
selection: $1,500 this year. The
money can be better spent by the
Senate in other areas.”
“WE’VE GOT a lot going for
us at TWU,” replied Collier Wat
son, junior Agriculture repre
sentative. “Where else can an
Aggie go and find such a recep
tive mood? They have recently
started a spirit club to promote
further relations between our
schools. I think the sweetheart
should remain a Tessie.”
Sam Tom, junior Business Ad
ministration representative, and
(See Senate, Page 3)
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.