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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, September 17, 1969
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
“What’s wrong with these upperclassmen—all I did was
say something about it being good to be back and he
starts carrying on and slams the door on me!”
9 Americans Killed, 27 Injured
In South Vietnam Fighting
By George Esper
Associated Press Writer
SAIGON <A>> — Nine Ameri
cans and seven Vietnamese were
killed in Vietnam war accidents
in the past four days, the U. S.
Command announced yesterday.
Another 17 Vietnamese and 10
Americans were wounded in the
incidents.
Most of the American casual
ties occurred Saturday. U. S.
headquarters said eight men
from the 1st Infantry Division
were killed and 10 wounded
when an explosive charge they
were placing near an artillery
base blew up.
The accident occurred 33 miles
northwest of Saigon and is being
investigated.
A U.S. Marine was killed Tues
day six miles south of the de
militarized zone when a helicop
ter rotor blade hit him. The heli
copter was lifting a Marine pa
trol out after a brief fight.
The 24 South Vietnamese were
killed or wounded in an American
gunship attack Tuesday in the
Mekong Delta about 100 miles
southwest of Saigon.
The U. S. helicopter gunships
Grad Council
Organizes
OrientationSet
The Graduate Student Council
organized Tuesday and planned a
New Graduate Student Orienta
tion program for Oct. 8.
Council President Tony Bene
detto said the program agenda
will include an introduction of this
year’s Graduate Student Council,
a speech by Graduate College
Dean G. W. Kunze on the re
quirements for entering the Grad
uate College and earning a de
gree.
Benedetto said he will also tell
graduate students the A&M tra
ditions surrounding football
games.
A meeting place for the ori
entation program will be announc
ed later Benedetto said.
opened fire with rockets and ma
chine guns on suspected enemy
troops who turned out to be
civilians 18 miles northwest of
Bac Lien, a provincial capital.
U. S. headquarters said four
men and three women were killed
and 12 men and five women were
wounded.
“The incident is being investi
gated,” a communique said.
The enemy forces supposed to
be in the area were never located,
and there was no fighting,
spokesmen said.
According to the U. S. account,
South Vietnamese regional forces
were landed in the area by Amer
ican helicopters after intelligence
reports that there were Viet
Cong troops there.
“As the regional force troopers
were landed,” the U. S. Com
mand said, “an unknown number
of suspected enemy were observed
evading from the area. U. S.
Army helicopter gunships sup
porting the ground force were
cleared by the senior government
of Vietnam representative on the
operation to engage the evading
personnel with aerial machine-
gun and rocket fire.
“The regional force soldiers
searched the strike area and
found seven Vietnamese, later
identified as civilians, kille4 and
17 other Vietnamese, later iden
tified as civilians, killed and 17
other Vietnamese civilians
wounded by the gunship fire.
There was no reported ground
contact with the enemy, and
there was no regional force or
U. S. casualties.”
Asked why the people were
fired on if they had not been
positively identified as Viet Cong,
a U. S. spokesman said:
“It is not a friendly area
were probably making a
that led the Vietnamese
mander to believe they
enemy. I don’t know whether the
terrain was such as you could
easily tell whether weapons were
being carried or not.”
Meanwhile, military sources
said South Vietnamese troops
will take over the entire defense
of Saigon within the next 30
days, freeing a brigade of Amer
ican paratroopers.
They
move
com-
were
Bulletin Board
Plant Pathologists
To Travel to India
Dr. R. A. Frederiksen will rep
resent the university as one of
three U. S. representatives at a
grain sorghum disease workshop
in India, Sept. 22-25.
The workshop will be jointly
sponsored by the Indian Council
of Agricultural Research, the
Uttar Pradesh Agricultural Uni
versity and the Inter-Asian Corn
Program. It will be held at Uttar
Pradesh Agricultural University.
Scientists noted for their work
with the downy mildews of corn
and sorghums will gather to ex
change information, experiences,
ideas and methods. They will dis
cuss current research and future
work contemplated in various
parts of the world to plan and
organize cooperative work.
Frederiksen, assistant profes
sor in A&M's Department of
Plant Sciences, will present a pa
per on “Downy Mildew Caused by
Sclerospora Sorghi in the U.S.”
He will describe how downy mil
dew has increased in economic
importance since 1961, and vary
ing control methods for the dis
ease.
Graphics Department
Authors 9th Workbook
Eight faculty members of the
Engineering Graphics Depart
ment have produced their ninth
design problems workbook in four
years .
“Engineering Graphics and De
sign Problems No. 4” is specially
structured by the faculty for
students in Engineering Graphics
105, a freshman-level engineering
course. Students started using the
book Monday.
“We think this is a rather
unique project where the engi
neering graphics faculty prepares
two books per year,” noted Dr.
James H. Earle, department head.
“The first editions are publish
ed by us so we can work the
bugs out,” Dr. Earle said. It is
then released in the spring to
Addison - Wesley Publishing Co.
for general distribution next fall.
Previous editions are being
used in approximately 40 engi
neering graphics departments
throughout the United States.
President’s Reception
Slated for Tuesday
The annual Texas A&M presi
dent’s reception for faculty and
staff members will be held Tues
day in the Memorial Student
Center ballroom.
New faculty members will be
honored at the 7-9 p.m. reception,
but A&M President Earl Rudder
emphasized all faculty and staff
and their wives and husbands are
invited, along with retired per
sonnel, their wives and husbands
and widows of faculty-staff mem
bers.
President and Mrs. Rudder will
head the receiving line.
“We cherish opportunities to
meet with the faculty and staff,”
Rudder noted, “because such fel
lowship contributes significantly
to our university.”
Architect Grad Wins
$3,000 Scholarship
James Brinkley, graduate stu
dent from Houston, has been
awarded a $3,000 scholarship
sponsored jointly by the Amer
ican Hospital Association and the
American Institute of Architects.
AHA-AIA annually awards two
scholarships on a competitive ba
sis to outstanding young profes
sionals who desire graduate study
in areas related to design in the
health field.
Brinkley, who received his un
dergraduate degree in architec
ture here in lO'eS, will be involved
in research and development of
pre-school facilities for mentally
retarded children. The work will
be conducted at the Research In-
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Phone Announcement
System In Operation
A&M’s phone announcement
system is now in operation for
the school year, announced Logan
E. Weston, YMCA general secre
tary and religious life coordina
tor.
Any announcement that applies
to the majority of the students
may be made on the system,
Weston said. To have an an
nouncement put on the system,
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the working day preceding the
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at 845-1626.
Students wishing to hear about
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Available in MSC
Representatives from the Gen
eral Telephone Company of the
Southwest’s business office will
be in the east corridor of the
Memorial Student Center (next
to the Post Office) this week to
make long distance phone privil
ege arrangements with those stu
dents having phones that are part
of the A&M Centrex system who
desire the service.
B. A. Erwin, General’s division
manager in Bryan, said that the
company will have representa
tives in the MSC from 8 a. m.-
5 p. m. through Friday. After
that, he said, anyone wishing to
sign a student long distance tele
phone agreement will have to go
by the business office in Bryan.
THURSDAY
The Association of Students
from Mexico will present its pro
gram for the fall semester at 7
p.m. in room 3B of the Memorial
Student Center.
The El Paso Home Town Club
will meet after yell practice, room
2-A in the MSC.
FRIDAY
The A&M Rugby Club will meet
in room 2-C in the MSC at 8 p.m.
to elect officers and collect money
for letters.
TUESDAY
All new Army ROTC cadets
and their wives are invited to a
welcoming party, 7:30 p.m. Tues
day at the home of Colonel Jim
McCoy, 2702 Burton, in Bryan.
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