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Vol. 65 No. 3
College Station, Texas Wednesday, September IT, 1969
Telephone 845-2226
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By Pam Troboy
Battalion Staff Writer
The first of a number of state
and federal government officials
have begun arriving here for the
agricultural “listening confer
ence” to be held on the campus
Thursday.
The one-day session, called by
Secretary of Agriculture Clifford
M. Hardin to hear of rural in
terests and problems, will begin
at 9:30 a.m. in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
Governor Preston Smith and
A&M President Earl Rudder will
be early speakers in the “listen-
in,” expected to draw from 2,000
to 4,000 persons.
Charles McDougall, assistant
administrator of university rela
tions for the Federal Extension
Office, said as he arrived Tues
day night that the secretary
hopes to find solutions to re
gional problems by traveling all
over the nation to meet farm
and rural leaders in conferences
such as the one here at A&M.
‘‘These conferences give people
a chance to meet the secretary
and his senior staff,” McDougall
noted, “and it also helps the sec
retary to keep in touch with the
people.
“The prime objective of the
conference is to obtain new solu
tions and alternatives to the ag
ricultural problems of different
regions,” McDougall said.
Four other conferences have
been held in Nebraska, Washing
ton, California and Georgia. More
sessions are scheduled for the
near future, perhaps one every
three months, he added.
Secretary Hardin and his staff
will spend the day listening to
representatives of almost every
major farm organization and ag
ricultural commodity in the
Southwest.
Dr. H. O. Kunkel, dean of the
College of Agriculture and pre
siding officer at the session, said
other officials attending the con
ference include Under Secretary
Phil J. Campbell; C. D. Palmby,
assistant secretary for interna
tional affairs and commodity
programs; T. K. Cowden, assist
ant secretary for rural develop
ment and conservation; Don
Paarlberg, director of Agricul
tural economics; Ned D. Bayley,
director of science and educa
tion, and Donald E. Brock, spe
cial assistant.
(McDonald said that because of
pending action on the House
Election Reform Bill, House Ag
riculture Committeemen may not
be able to attend.
Farmers and farm industry
leaders from five southwestern
states—Arkansas, Louisiana, New
Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas—
will attend.
Cooperating on arrangements
for the conference are administra
tors, vice presidents and deans
of agriculture in the land grant
universities of the five states.
The conference is designed to
give every person who attends
an opportunity, either by oral
presentations or written briefs,
to express his ideas on an ex
pected wide range of topics.
Subject matter is expected to
include opportunities for main
taining and increasing farm in
come, opportunities in rural
America; rural-urban balance,
proper nutrition and diets, de
velopment of natural resources
and conservation and related sub
jects.
Dr. Kunkel said the conference
is open to any person who has
an interest in agriculture and its
economic well-being.
The program also allows time
during the morning and afternoon
sessions for unscheduled speak
ers, provided they register. Any
person who does not have an op
portunity to speak due to lack
of time may file a written state
ment with the secretary.
Dr. Kunkel said speakers
should register in the Lettermen’s
Lounge in the coliseum beginning
at 8:30 a.m. The conference will
adjourn at 4:30 p.m.
Seven members of the Secre
tary’s party are to arrive at
Easterwood Airport Wednesday
night, and A&M President Earl
Rudder will host a reception for
the officials at Briarcrest Coun
try Club.
Thursday morning an avenue
of flags will greet the officials on
New Main Drive. The 1st Battal
ion of the Corps of Cadets will
raise 120 of the parade-size flags
at 50-foot intervals along the
four-tenths of a mile long campus
entrance. Another 52 flags will be
installed next to World War I
memorials around the parade
grounds across from the Me
morial Student Center.
The secretary and his staff will
have breakfast with officials of
the land grant universities and
then meet with members of the
United States Department of Ag
riculture Club of College Station.
A press conference is slated
for 9 a.m., with the conference
starting promptly at 9:30 a.m.
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Junior and senior students in
the College of Agriculture will be
dismissed from classes at 9 a.m.
Thursday to attend Secretary
Hardin’s “listening conference.”
Dr. R. C. Potts, associate dean
in the college, said the junior and
senior students are expected to
attend the hearings.
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standing young conductors makes
an early season appearance with
the Houston Symphony Orchestra
Thursday in Bryan and College
Station.
Antonio de Almeida will con
duct the orchestra in the Rotary
Community Series’ first presen
tation of the 1969-70 season.
The Bryan Civic Auditorium
curtain will raise at 7:30 p.m. on
the Houston Symphony’s third
concert under de Almeida’s baton.
The 41-year-old conductor re
cently took the Houston podium,
replacing Andre Previn as con
ductor of the 92-musician organ-
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Has 22 Seats Left
Twenty-two seats are still avail
able on the Senior Class-sponsor
ed charter flight to New York for
the A&M-Army football game,
according to Jimmy Dunham of
Baytown, Senior Class president.
Dunham said that the trip is
open to any A&M student, male
or female, and the student’s wife
or husband. This applies to the
new freshmen as well, Dunham
added.
Dunham stressed that if a student
who reserves a seat on the plane
does not pay the total cost of
$120 by Tuesday, his seat will be
forfeited, since no refunds can
be made. This includes all under
classmen who were on the waiting
list and have been reserved a
seat. A $30 down payment must
be made with each reservation.
Dunham said that the student
is still responsible for buying a
ticket to the game. The tickets
may only be purchased at G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
An orientation meeting will be
announced later, Dunham added.
ization. The symphony makes its
Jones Hall debut under de Al
meida Tuesday after concerts at
League City, Baytown, Bryan and
Galveston.
The new conductor, whose 15-
year career has placed him in
front of 79 different orchestras
in 22 countries, will direct three
selections for the Rotary Series
opener. The program includes the
Overture to “Rosamunde” by
Franz Schubert, the “Surprise
Symphony” of Joseph Haydn and
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4
in F Minor.
Rotary series chairman Allister
M. Waldrop reminded interested
persons that the deadline for ob
taining the few remaining series
season tickets is Thursday.
De Almeida became the Hous
ton conductor after two trium
phant seasons with the San Fran
cisco Symphony. He received
extraordinary acclaim in the
California conductorship.
Born in Paris of an American
mother and Portuguese father,
the conductor had public schooling
in Paris and Argentina. After
beginning professional studies in
Buenos Aires, de Almeida studied
nuclear chemistry three years at
MIT and earned a degree in musi
cology at Yale.
He worked under Hindemith,
Koussevitsky and Bernstein. His
first professional concerts were
given in Switzerland in 1954. The
conductor won his first perma
nent post in Oporto, Portugal.
Sir Thomas Beecham guest
conducted the Oporto Symphony
in 1957 and, impressed with the
way de Almeida worked, invited
him to conduct London’s Royal
Philharmonic the following sea
son.
De Almeida returned to London
many times, continued to guest
conduct throughout Europe and
was soon a familiar figure in
continent music centers.
Veteran of every concert stage
in Paris, he has conducted opera,
symphonic and festival perform
ances in Spain, England, Ger
many, Russia, Portugal, Italy,
Sweden, Belgium, Argentina and
Uruguay, among others.
His American debut in 1960
was with the American Opera
Society.
Married and the father of three
children, the Houston conductor
has a Wyoming ranch where his
family summers.
A student appears momentarily confused as he shops in the Exchange Store bookstore
along with a large number of fellow Aggies preparing for the long nine months ahead.
(Photo by Bob Peek)
Policeman Killed, 3 Injured
In Near Head - On Collision
A Bryan city patrolman was
killed and his roommate and two
others injured Tuesday afternoon
in a near head-on collision involv
ing three cars on Highway 6
Deadline for obtaining season
tickets to Rotary Community
Series presentations is Thursday,
officials of the Bryan and Col
lege Station cultural program an
nounced.
Silver Taps Rite
For 2 Tonight
Silver Taps will be held tonight
for two A&M students who died
during the summer.
The ceremony will be held for
Jose Almanza of Bryan, who
drowned, and Doyle R. Urban of
Rowena, who was killed in a con
struction accident.
The service was postponed: last
night due to heavy rain, said Al
lan M. Madeley, housing manager,
but will be held tonight barring
further severe weather.
south of College Station.
Dead is Patrolman Ben Potter,
of 3700 Plainsman, the lone
driver of a 1969 Dodge. He was
pronounced dead on arrival at St.
The deadline was announced by
Allister M. Waldrop, Rotary Club
series chairman, and Rex Stew
art, Town Hall chairman of San
Antonio.
Series presentations are a co
operative effort of the Rotary
Club and Town Hall.
Season tickets lose value after
Thursday, Waldrop and Stewart
noted.
The Houston Symphony Or
chestra opens tthe season with a
Thursday concert at the Bryan
Civic Auditorium.
Season tickets also cover re
serve seats for “Marne,” Broad
way musical scheduled Dec. 17;
“La Traviata” by the Goldovsky
Grand Opera Theater Feb. 23;
Misha Dichter, March 17, and the
Town Hall crossover, Mantovani,
Nov. 5.
Season reserved tickets are
$16.50 each and may be pur
chased at the MSC.
Joseph Hospital in Bryan.
Funeral arrangements are
pending at Hillier Funeral Home.
Seriously injured was Beulah
Salley of Houston, the driver of
a 1968 Chrysler. She is under
observation at St. Joseph Hos
pital where her condition was
listed Tuesday night as “unde
termined.” Her passenger, David
Hill, a Texas Highway Depart
ment patrolman from Magnolia,
was treated and released.
Another Bryan patrolman, Joe
Alvarado, Potter’s roommate,
suffered bruises and lacerations.
He was also treated at St. Jos
eph and released. He was driving
a 1969 Chevrolet.
An investigating officer with
the Texas Department of Public
Safety said the Salley car was
traveling north on Highway 6,
when it apparently went left of
center and struck the Potter auto
traveling south.
The Potter car then flipped
backward and came down on the
Alvarado vehicle which was fol
lowing behind. The accident oc
curred at 4:40 p.m. about 1.4
miles outside of the city limits.
All three patrolmen were off
duty at the time of the accident.
Last 2 Days For Rotary Ducats
U.S. Lied To Obtain Release
Lee Hayes, a former Pueblo crewman who was held prisoner in North
Korea for 11 months, pauses for thought as he tells of the capture of the
spy ship and confinement of her crew by the North Koreans, and of his
experiences while in prison. (Photo by Bob Peek)
By David Middlebrooke
Battalion Managing Editor
The United States lied to ob
tain the release of the crewmen
of the U.S.S. Pueblo last Decem
ber, in the opinion of Lee Hayes,
a former crewman and lead radio
man on the ship.
Hayes gave his opinion Tues
day during an interview with The
Battalion. He was in town to
speak at the Bryan Civic Audi
torium on behalf of the TRAIN
(To Restore American Independ
ence Now) Committee.
The former second class petty
officer said that he and his fel
low crewmen felt “rather bitter”
about the United States signing
a confession of crimes against
North Korea to obtain the men’s
release.
“They signed a lie and they
knew it,” he said. “They always
knew we were never in North
Korea’s waters. We could have
been out earlier if they were go
ing to lie about it.”
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Of Pueblo Crew: Hayes
Hayes explained that he had
worked with the navigator of the
ship and his men and could “state
with knowledge” that the Pueblo
had never violated North Korea’s
territorial waters.
“We called for help within a
minute of the attack,” he said as
he described the capture, “We
kept asking for help for an hour
and a half. We were talking to
Japan up until the North Ko
reans were aboard the ship. The
last we heard from Japan was
‘good luck.’
“We were promised before we
left port that if we were attack
ed, and asked for help, it would
be available. Help was within 15
minutes of us from Suoth Korea
and help an hour from Japan, but
it was not sent. I’ll never know
completely why not.”
“Some were treated better than
I was, some worse,” the crewman
commented when asked about
treatment while in North Korea.
“They hate you over there with a
passion you can’t realize. I don’t
care how much you dislike some
body, you don’t hate like they do.
“They tried to get us to doubt
God, doubt that our families were
thinking about us or writing to
us. They told us our govern
ment had forgotten us. We had
communist ideology classes, and
the only reading material was
communist propaganda.
“Letters were signed by the
crewmen after some ‘work’ on
them (the men),” Hayes went on.
“It took six weeks to do a letter.
Sometimes you made it in four,
but it was usually about six
weeks to get a letter the way
they wanted it. They would tell
us what they wanted us to say,
and eventually you would do it.
“They would take the letter,
then bring it back and say ‘We
didn’t mail it; we don’t like it.’
Then we would have to do them
over. I didn’t want to write any
of the four I wrote, but I wanted
to stay alive.”
Hayes mentioned that during
his confinement his jaw was
broken. The only medical treat
ment he received, he said, was to
have some iodine painted on the
outside of the injury.
“We never tried, but t h e r e
were three different escape
plans,” Hayes continued. “All
were worked through the captain
(Cmdr Lloyd Bucher). He would
have ordered an escape whenever
he thought that there was no
alternative.”
“They told us about the stu
dent riots, peace marches that
burned down cities, and the gen
eral disregard for law and order.
We didn’t believe most of it until
we got home and saw for our
selves,” Hayes added.
He also said that he had hoped
that the United States would re
taliate soon after the Pueblo’s
capture, and was sorry it did not.
He commented that two-thirds of
the Pueblo crew was out of the
service, with the other one-third
staying in for the few more years
needed for retirement.
“What happened to me over
there woke me up,” Hayes said,
“and I want other Americans to
know what is going on in their
government.”
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