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nuumawgiaww a^ar^rr Jmr ■ -M . XlNli X ■ " ■ : I* x; \ Pi l ^3^ ■ pM a/- iM ROUGH RIDE ug Richards holds tight as he comes out of the chute on his animal during the bare- ack riding competition at the All-Aggie Rodeo last Friday and Saturday on the A&M mpus. Richards placed first in the bull riding, John South won the All-Around Win er’s Trophy at the rodeo. (Photo by Tom Curl) South Is Overall Winner In Ag Rodeo Competition For the second year in a row, ohn South, agricultural eco- omics graduate student, was amed All-Around Winner in the Jl-Aggie Rodeo, according to irs. Jodie Holman, rodeo secre- ry. The rodeo, sponsored by the exas Aggie Rodeo Association, ras held Friday and Saturday ights in the Aggie Rodeo Arena n the A&M campus. South, president of the asso- iation, scored 281 points and as awarded a trophy saddle, se All-Around Winner must place in two events, Mrs. Hol man said. Men’s events were open only to students or former students of A&M, but women’s events events were open to everyone, she said. Other winners and their events were bull riding — Doug Rich ards, first place, Larry Neil, Bubba Loupot and A1 Kauffman; steer wrestling — Roddy Schoen- feld, Albert Bissett, Tommy Bak er and Mike Herrington; barrel cloverleaf race — Mikey Han non, Kathy Dennison and Frances Stover, with K. K. Welch and Sue Dutton tied for fourth; bare- back bronc — John South, Don Newcomb and Richard Smith, with George W. Vance and De ward Strong tied for fourth; tie down — Bill Shuler, Ronnie Woodley, Tommy Blakeney and Murry McDurmott; saddle bronc — Randy Anderwald and John South; ribbon roping — Ronnie Davis, Albert Bissett, Neil Kerr and John South; and goat tying — Marilyn Stancil, Lynda Rog ers, Elaine Beaken and Leila Mc Donald. ‘Peace’ or ‘Piece’ Israel Can’t Have Both, Official Says )y Clifford Broyles lattalion Staff Writer Israel must realize she can ave either peace or a piece of be Arab states but not both, said n Arab official to a Great Issues udience Monday. Khalid Babaa, director of the jeague of Arab States, U. S. outhwest region, spoke to a rowd of about 150 at the first tf a two-part series on the Mid- lie East situation. He spoke on he “Arab View of the Middle Hast”. Yaacov Hess, Israel’s Consul leneral, will give a talk on the ‘Israeli View of the Middle East” Dec. 15. Israel has based its society on ixclusive racial lines, Babaa said, idding that this is to the disad vantage of the Palestinian Jews vho are being treated unmercifuly )y the Israelis. The Israel population in Pales- iine is based on racial priority, he said, explaining that there are three groups with varying degrees of priority. The groups in order of priority are European and American Jews, Oriental Jews, and Arabs, he said. Babaa compared the torture the Arab refugees face to the torture the Nazis put the Jews through during World War II. The Arabs in Palestine, he said, are in three groups, refugees, civilians under military rule and the minority lower class. Israel has continually length ened its boundaries since 1947, he .said, noting that this is a ma jor controversy today. The boundaries were increased in 1947, 1949, 1967 he said, and the current plan calls for an ex tension of control into Syria. Modern Israel, he said, talks of peace on her own terms. That is, she wants peace that is im posed on the Arabs, not peace with justice. Cbe Battalion Vol. 65 No. 30 College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 4, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 ‘Mantovani Sound’ Here Wednesday The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on Nov. 22, 1967, Babaa said, which has been agreed to by all parties except Israel. Two of Israel’s enemies, Jordan and the United Arab Republic, have both agreed to accept the U.N. resolution which was backed by both the United States and Russia, he said. The resolution had concrete .solutions he said, which included the withdrawal of Israeli forces, discontinuation of the warlike at titude that has prevailed since 1948, establishment of recognized boundaries, provision of free pas sage on the Suez Canal and the guarantees of freedom for refu gees. He said a timetable for with drawal should be set up which would draw support of the United States and United Nations. Israel, he said, has done a great injustice to the Palestinian Jews by depriving them of the right to freedom in their homeland. “The biggest musical phe nomenon of the 20th century” will add another 6,000 to 8,000 witnesses to the magic of Man- tovani in a Town Hall perform ance here Wednesday. The Incomparable Mantovani, as London Records dedicated the orchestra’s latest album, down- beats the first number at 8 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum, an nounced Town Hall chairman Rex Stewart. More than three million Amer icans have heard in person the finely toned orchestrations de scribed as “gemlike” and “irri- descent.” Mantovani albums, from “Romantic Melodies” in 1954 to last year’s “Red Petti coats,” are probably more com mon on the racks of U. S. turn table owners than any other. Wednesday’s Town Hall pro grams will range from “Love Is Blue” through “Slavonic Dance,” “The Virginian” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” to “Granada” and “Scottish Rhapsody,” many arranged for the string-heavy 45-piece orchestra by Mantovani himself. Even Mantovani is not sure of the secret of his prodigious suc cess, which led Variety to call him “the biggest musical phe nomenon of the 20th Century.’' “I don’t understand why we are the only light orchestra in the world doing this sort of thing,” he says. The magic of Mantovani caught in 1951 with the record ing of a single piece, “Char- maine,” which swept the world like a prairie fire. It led to de mands for personal appearances from Tobruk to Texas and Queensland to Peru. Critics try ing to describe his effects have come up with “Cascading Vio lins,” “Tumbling Strings” and “A Niagara Falls of Fiddles.” “I am a string man,” the dis tinguished English director ex plains the continued pre-emi nence. “I know what I want from string players. I know the capabilities of the violin. I know what it can do and what it cannot do. I can avoid the soaring phase that goes squeaky on top.” That knowledge goes back to Annunzio Paolo Mantovani’s early life in Venice and study under his father, Toscanni’s prin cipal violinist at La Scala, Mi lan, and holder of the title “Cav- alieri.” His father would have pre ferred the security of almost any Peace Corps Volunteers Here This Week To Talk With Ags By Bob Robinson Battalion Staff Writer Three Peace Corps volunteers 'n\W be on the Texas A&M Uni versity campus this week to talk to students interested in the Peace Corps program. Frank R. Rodriguez, Jr., from El Paso, and Fred E. Weller, from Ottumwa, Iowa, will be at the Peace Corps information table next to the gift shop in the Me morial Student Center this week to discuss with interested stu dents the programs offered by the Peace Corps. Assisting them will be William F. Combs, of Houston, the area representative for southwestern Texas. Their purpose for being here, said Weller, is to contact and interest as many students as pos sible; to answer questions, ex plain the goals of the Peace Corps, and to take applications from those students who are in terested. The persons they are looking for, Weller said, are mainly agri cultural and engineering stu- University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. dents, students with some form of special skills background. Any student, though, he said, is in vited to fill out an application. All applicants, Rodriguez said, will sign up for a 30 minute aptitude test, given to determine as near as possible the linguistic ability of the applicant. It will be given in room 3D of the MSC at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Thurs day, and in the MSC Art Room at the same times on Friday, he said. All three men have spent two years in a country which has requested Peace Corps assistance. Weller and Rodriguez presently are on a nine month contract for recruiting during the 1969-70 school year. Combs is serving as area representative for southern Texas, with his office in Houston. Rodriguez graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso in August, 1966, with a bachelor of arts degree in Psychology. He joined the Peace Corps in No vember. He served as a volunteer in Panama City, Panama, in an urban community development project. In this capacity, he re cruited the hard-core unemployed in the slum areas, saw to their training and placed them in good jobs. After returning to the United States, he worked in a training program in Brockport, N. Y., arranging for trainees to live with Puerto Rican families. Rodriguez joined the Peace Corps partly because he wanted to learn more about other Spanish cultures. He has traveled in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico. Weller graduated from Iowa State University in 1967 with a bachelor of science degree in Ani mal Science. He joined the Peace Corps in October of the same year. He was assigned to Ecuador, where he was a member of the distribution committee for the Heifer Project, working with purebred Brahman and Santa Gertrudis cattle as a field inves tigator. He also did agriculture extension work in de-horning, castration, vaccination, worming, improving management practices and planting improved pastures. He managed the 190 acre repro duction center for several months and taught agriculture classes for five months in an agricultural other profession — such as engi neering — for his son. But the mold was cast. A significant landmark in Mantovani’s career was engagement to play at the Metropole Hotel, near Charing Cross, London. During that period and despite later world triumphs, Mantovani reached what he chose as his peak — playing as a “serious” violinist the Saint-Saens “B Min or Concerto” to a packed audi ence at London’s Queens Hall. He has since become the first conductor to be commanded by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth to appear before her at the annual Royal Variety Show. Manto vani also was the first conductor to have a major television series built around him for world-wide distribution and has had album sales top 25 million. He lives in Bournemouth, Eng land, with his wife Winifred and a black poodle called Bijou in a home called “Greensleeves.” His 31-year-old son Kenneth of Kent became that engineer, in elec tronics, and a daughter Paula, in her mid-20s, is a ground host ess at London Airport. 38 Aggies Will Appear In 1970 ‘Who’s Who’ Thirty-eight A&M students will be listed in the 1970 edition of “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Col leges,” announced Dean of Stu dents James P. Hannigan. Editors of the annual directory certified all A&M nominees on the basis of academic achieve ment, community service, leader ship in extracurricular activities and future potential, Hannigan noted. “These students have been judged to be among the nation’s outstanding campus leaders,” the dean added. “Who’s Who” listing is restrict ed to graduating seniors who have at least a 2.5 grade point ratio on a four-point system and grad uate students who have a mini mum 3.5 GPR. Hannigan noted that the A&M students join an elite group se lected from more than 1,000 in stitutions in the United States and several other countries in North and South America. The A&M nominees were se lected by a committee headed by Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, dean of education. The committee includ ed faculty, staff and students. Students selected for the 1970 “Who’s Who” are: John George Adami Jr., Freer; Gustavo Aug ust© Berges, Santo Domingo, Do minican Republic; Roger Leonard Black welder, Pilot Point; Gerald Allen Bramlett, Shreveport, La.; Garland Harry Clark, Glenelg, Md.; John Christopher Conley, Cherry Point, N. C.; John Dabney Cunningham, Augusta, Kan.; Thomas Leonard Curl, San Juan, and Arthur Gerald Geistweidt, Mason. State Sen. Grover To Speak At Political Forum Luncheon “Republicans in Texas” will be discussed Wednesday by State Senator Henry C. (Hank) Grov er of Houston in A&M’s first Political Forum noon series pres entation of 1969-70. Grover’s talk and question- answer session will be in Rooms 2C and D of the Memorial Stu dent Center, announced Political Forum chairman Charles R. Hoffman of Greenbelt, Md. Hoffman said lunches will be available at the meeting for a nominal fee. Admission is free. Grover, 41, has been in state politics since 1960 when he was elected to the House of Repre sentatives as a Conservative Democrat. He was reelected for two more terms on the same ticket, then joined the Republi can Party in February, 1966, for two successful campaigns. His reelection last year was by 73 per cent of the vote. Senator Grover was named to the State Constitutional Revi sion Commission in 1967 and also serves on the claims, transpor tation, banking, constitutional amendments, federal programs- relations, legislative, congres sional and judicial districts, priv ileges and elections, oil-gas and water-conservation committees. A native Texan, Grover has lived in Houston 30 years. He studied for a degree in liberal arts at St. Thomas, received a master’s in history at the Uni versity of Houston and has done advanced work at the University of Texas in Austin. Grover taught in Houston pub lic schools 13 years and is pres ently on the staff of Houston Baptist College. high school. Weller looks at the Peace Corps as a challenge. “I didn’t know what I wanted,” he said. “The Peace Corps repre sented a challenge, a chance to go overseas and do something for someone else.” One of the most common ques tions that they’ve been asked, Weller said, is why they would want to leave when there’s so much work to be done here. “When I was in college,” Wel ler said, “The big questions were passing the next test or what time my date was for. Overseas, the big concern is feeding a fam ily. The Peace Corps gives you a chance to help others, yet it also offers the opportunity to travel, and gain a knowledge of other countries.” An applicant who is accepted for Peace Corps work, said Rod riguez, goes through a training course in the United States, after which he is assigned to a country requesting assistance. The assign ment is normally for the two full years, he said. Requests for a specific area or (See Peace Corps, Page 2) AND YOU THINK YOU’VE GOT PROBLEMS The Texas Aggies hit the Astroturf in Arkansas’ Razor- back Stadium running and moved for the best offensive output of the season with 449 total yards, but the Arkansas “red wiggler” is having his problems trying to burrow into the synthetic ground. Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to come out of the ground. (Photo by Richard Campbell) Also, Edward Eugene Hargett, Marietta; Joseph David Hartman, Muenster; Charles Thomas Head, Goldthwaite; Richard Jeffery Hodge, Pledger; Raymond Wesley Jordan, Boston; Charles Ernest Knowles, Ogden, Utah; Davis G. Mayes Jr., Fairborn, Ohio; Henry Davis Mayfield III, Waco; Robert Boon Peek, Jacksboro; Jess Byron Rhoden, Kerrville; Randolph Al bert Ruedrich, Marion; Lawrence Charles Schilhab Jr., Conroe; An drew Wilson Scott, Kermit; Harry Addison Snowdy Jr., Port Lava ca; Joe M. Spears III, Alice; Ron ald Gene Tefteller, Midland; Mark Xavier Vandaveer, Free port; Collier Royce Watson, Cole man; Henry Gabriel Cisneros, George Isaac Mason III, San An tonio; Charles Raymond Dillon, William James Finane, Long view; Dean Thomas Eshelman, Roland Sam Torn, Houston; Ken neth Earl Graeber, Harry Kay Lesser Jr., Brenham; Garry Paul Mauro, and James St. John III, Dallas, and John G. Anderson Jr., College Station. Ag Sophomore, 18, Killed In Auto Accident Thomas K. Young Jr., sopho more architecture major at A&M, was fatally injured Friday night in an automobile accident at Grand Prairie. Another occupant of the ve hicle also lost his life. Grand Prairie police said the accident, within the city’s limits, occurred between 10 p.m. Friday and 1 a.m. Saturday. The wreck was not discovered until 9 a.m. Saturday they said, adding that it apparently was a one-car acci dent. Paul Spencer Vaught, a Ling- Temco-Vaught employe, was with Young. Bodies of the two men were taken to the Dallas County Morgue at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Silver Taps for Young was held last night. Refunds Available On Statistics Book Three students who purchased a book of probability tables from the Exchange Store were over charged by $12.09 and are urged to go by the store and obtain a refund, Tom Taylor, Exchange Store accountant, said Monday. The book, The Chemical Rubber Co.’s “Handbook of Tables for Probability and Statistics,” stu dent edition, was mistakenly clas sified as the professional edition and sold for $17.50 plus tax, Tay lor said. Correct price for the volume, he said, is $5.90 plus tax. Students who have bought the book, he advised, should take the book and the sales slip to the re fund counter in the bookstore sec tion of the Exchange Store to receive their refund. Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. —Adv. BB&JL