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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