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Chursday, November 13, 1969 College Station, Texas Vol. 65 No. 36 Telephone 845-2226
‘Jericho’
Set For
F ebruar y
ly Clifford Broyles
lattalion Staff Writer
A conference to cultivate A&M
tudent leadership on the campus
till be held Feb. 18-20, under
he co-sponsorship of the Student
lenate and the Memorial Student
tenter Student Leadership Com-
nittee.
"Jericho” was initiated recently
ly the MSG panel in an effort to
help increase the leadership on
|ampus and thereby bring about a
;reater understanding of campus
roblems and how to solve them,
laid James R. Hawthorne, chair-
fan of the project.
Hawthorne said the conference
rill use the situational analysis
echnique to prepare members for
kie conference. The technique,
Ihich was develeoped by Dr. Wil
iam R. Smith, head of the Psy-
liology Department, shows stu-
lents their weak points in leader-
kiip in an effort to increase their
leadership potential.
The technique, Hawthorne said,
would have student leaders meet
together and present problems of
increasing difficulty for discus
sion.
First, delegates will hear
speakers from the student, facul
ty and administration give facts
concerning the problems relative
to the A&M campus, Hawthorne
said.
These will include problems
suggested by administration and
faculty members as well as those
brought out by the Student Sen
ate’s current “Operation Feed
back.”
When speakers have given the
facts, the conference will divide
into smaller groups to discuss
the problems, Hawthorne said.
The members will be super
vised by a trained adult observer
who will comment on discussion
participation after the groups
have completed their talks.
(See Leadership, page 2)
Voter Drive On
Aimed at ‘Silent Majority 9
LIFE HAS ITS LITTLE TWISTS
Mrs. Daniel Lloyd, above, is the owner of this pretzel-like
palm tree with a twist in its trunk. The deformity is at
tributed to a lightning bolt years ago. (AP Wirephoto)
Research Shows It
“GIG’£|
AGGI
> Kyle Field Not A Memorial
By Clifford Broyles
Iflattalion Staff Writer
■ There is no tradition saying
liat a person must remove his
hat while in Kyle Field, because
jty is not a memorial to the Aggie
ar dead.
This conclusion was reached
Wednesday by leaders represent-
ig different sectors of the stu-
Bent body after they researched
tpe problem.
Sam Torn, head yell leader;
erry Geistweidt, student body
Iresident, and Marc Powell, pub
ic relations chairman of the Stu
dent Senate, talked with many
ifferent sources before coming
to the conclusion.
I Among the persons they talked
with were Earnest Langford, uni
versity archivist and a member
|f the class of ’07, Richard (Buck)
jWeirus, executive secretary of
|he Former Students Association,
Marvin Tate, assistant athletic
Birector, and A&M President Earl
Rudder.
None of them had any know-
edge of such a tradition at A&M,
Powell said.
The need for such a clarifica-
ion has arisen, Powell said, from
he fact that many people have
>een asked rather abruptly to
emove their hats while in the
stadium.
Kyle Field is not a memorial
to the Aggie ward dead, Powell
said, noting, however, that the
52 flags around Kyle Field are
memorials honoring Aggies who
died in World War I.
Powell said that three reasons
have been found to verify the
fact that Kyle Field is not a
memorial:
—The stadium has never been
dedicated as a memorial.
—Various activities that would
be unfitting for a memorial take
place there. An example of this
would be midnight yell practice.
—A hat-wearing rule would have
to be flexible. An example of this
would be the 1967 football game
between A&M and Florida State
played in a torrential downpour.
People put on their hats to pro
tect themselves from the rain,
but in a true memorial there
would not be hats no matter what
the weather.
The research brought out the
WEATHER
Friday — Partly cloudy to
cloudy. Northerly winds 10-20
m.p.h. High 57, low 46.
Houston — Partly cloudy.
Easterly winds 10-15 m.p.h.
67 degrees, 45 per cent humid
ity.
point that if Kyle Field is a
memorial it should be treated as
such, Powell said. Since it is not,
however, people should be allowed
to do as they wish. Those who
wish to wear hats may do so
and those who do not have the
same right.
Any person disagreeing with
the conclusions based on the re
search by the three is urged to
contact them and express his
views, Powell said.
If enough disagreement is
voiced, then the matter will be
sent before the Student Senate
to get a clarification on the
matter, Powell said, adding that
no matter what clarifications
were brought out, it is up to each
individual whether he does or
does not wear a hat in Kyle Field.
A community-wide voter regis
tration drive, organized by A&M
students, begins today in an ef
fort, as one participant said, to
“get the silent majority to ex
press their views on today’s is
sues.”
Bill Maskal, student participant
in the drive, said he expected at
least 250 persons to join in the
four-day effort to make “voter
registration possible for every
one on campus and in the com
munity.”
A booth has been set up in the
Memorial Student Center, Maskal
said, and volunteers are handing
out registration forms to eligible
voters.
“We also plan to advise those
interested on how they can help
with voter registration in the
community. We may have a booth
in the Academic building at the
same time, but we don’t know for
sure yet.”
Organizational meetings for
registration drives in the com
munity are going to be held from
6 to 7 p.m. Friday and from 9
to 11 a.m. Saturday at Hensel
Park under the dome, Maskal add
ed.
“The meeting Friday night will
be to give everyone instructions
on how to fill out the registration
forms,” Maskal said. Specific pro
cedures have to be followed and
explained to those who will be
registering.”
The purpose of the meeting
Saturday morning, he continued,
will be to assign teams to people
with automobiles so that the
whole Bryan-College Station area
can be covered.
All weekend, teams of two will
be knocking on doors and talking
to community residents about the
privilege and responsibility of
using their right to vote, he
said. They will be able to explain
the steps necessary for registra
tion and give residents the prop
er forms, he added.
“We want to get people involv
ed by getting them to vote. There
are so many people under 21 who
can’t vote, that we’d like to see
those who can take advantage of
the opportunity and learn about
the issues and express their
views.”
In Texas, voter registration is
on a yearly basis and must be
renewed annually. The registra
tion period for the 1970 elections
ends on Feb. 1, 1970.
(See Vote, Drive, page 2)
Mexico Sends
13 to SCONA
Thirteen delegates from Mex
ico to the 15th Student Confer
ence on National Affairs, have
been accepted, announced SCONA
XV chairman Harry K. Lesser of
Brenham.
He noted the international
delegates to the Dec. 10-13 con
ference on “Black Africa — The
Challenge of Development” will
join students from several na
tions on the African continent,
Canada and A&M international
students designated delegates for
the event.
Delegates from 148 colleges
and universities also will come
from throughout the U.S.
The Mexico contignent will in
clude graduate and undergradu
ate students of four universities
and Mrs. Alicia Sanchez, assist
ant to the national director of
the Experiment in International
Living.
They include Miguel A. Agui
lar, law student at the Universi-
dad de Michoacan; Irene Gomez,
accounting major, Universidad
La Salle; accounting majors
Manuel Gomez and Jesus Goyri,
Universidad de Puebla, and from
the Universidad Nacional Auto
noma de Mexico, Alajandro Cruz
and Eduardo Rodriguez, eco
nomic; Roberto Garza, Rosa P.
Hernandez and Antonio Mendez,
business administration; Sergio
Gonzales and Rosa Villarello, in
ternational relations, and Oscar
Sanchez, certified public account
ing.
Carter To Speak
On Early Man
Basses Will Be Star Act
At Rice Halftime Saturday
The Fightin’ Texas Aggie
Band’s Sousaphone section will
be featured Saturday during the
Texas A&M-Rice football half
time.
The 24-instrument section —
largest in the band’s history —
will step out front of the 279-
member Aggie Band to “Them
Basses,” famous King march that
also will take advantage of the
organization’s 145 other brasses.
Famed for its precision drills
that grab and hold attention
withoutgimmicks, the Aggie Band
directed by Lt. Col. E. V. Adams
has been described as “thunder
GREAT DATE COMING
Members of the Singing Cadets flash smiles in anticipation of their “dates” for the next
three days. The A&M glee club, which left for Fort Worth Wednesday for rehearsals
and the Miss Teenage America Pagent, has a member for each of the 48 title contes
tants. The 9 p. m. CBS-TV color special will be aired in the Bryan-College Station area
by KTRK-TV, channel 11 in Houston. Commitment to a football game broadcast pre
vents KBTX-TV, channel 3 in Bryan, from carrying the event.
and blazes under tasteful re
straint, a veritable giant under
perfect discipline.”
It will appear twice during the
Houston Corps Trip.
Drum majors John C. Otto Jr.
of Dayton, Richard D. Garrett of
Freeport and Daniel W. Gower
Jr. of El Paso and the band will
set the musical pace for the 10
a.m. Corps parade on Main and
Fannin Streets Saturday morn
ing.
Rice Stadium’s gridiron will be
strained to contain the organiza
tion during its halftime show. In
standard marching formation, the
12-man wide by 23 deep band
can march only 51 seconds in one
direction.
The bass section, which re
cently added 16 new Sousaphones
valued at $10,000, will drop off
the back rank during the drill
and be picked up in front of the
bugle rank after the remainder
of the band has countermarched.
The 24 large instruments will
add a new sound dimension to
“Them Basses.” The section will
be backed in the stirring march
by brass sections including 38
trombones, 24 baritones, 12
French horns and 71 cornets and
trumpets.
Adams, who is in his 24th sea
son as director of the band, also
has in the 1969-70 band instru
mentation 35 clarinets, 46 saxo
phones, four flutes and piccolos
and a 24-drum percussion sec
tion.
The band’s signature block
“T”, with which all drills are
completed, will be turned around
for the first time in Rice Stad
ium. The maneuver will just fit
on a 66- by 120-yard football
field.
The Aggie Band has members
from most of the 50 states and
includes 37 musicians from the
Houston area.
They are Roland F. Bonewitz,
White Band commander; Sigurd
S. Kendall, sergeant major; Joe
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
D. Anderson in the featured bass
section; Dennis W. Gray, Der-
wood J. Freitag, Charles W. Har-
ling, Robert C. Thorpe, Royce B.
Swayne, Patrick J. O’Brien,
Clemon L. Montgomery Jr., Floyd
B. Delafosse and Bonewitz clari
nets; Paul E. Saibara, John W.
Vogelsang, William D. Bunt, Ern
est E. Kelly, Robert C. Barker,
Harry G. Reynolds III and James
R. Rawthorne, saxophones.
Also, Robert A. Stolting, Park
er A. Scott Jr., Christopher E.
Cory, Lawrence E. Foxworth,
Bonsall S. Wilton, Clinton L.
Hubbard, Herman O. Henderson,
Michael E. Weaver, Richard W.
Minix and Kenneth A. Palmer,
cornet.
Trombonists John T. Pratt, Roy
E. Yarbrough, Mark A. Forney
and Kendall; Ronnie W. Reed,
French horn; David L. Osteen of
Pearland, baritone; Mark D.
Stewart, flute, and Gary J. Mar
tin Jr., Martin D. Kramer and
Alvin R. Stewart, drums.
Band commander is Edwin
Lamm III of San Antonio. Rich
ard G. Sanchez of San Angelo
commands the Maroon Band.
Dr. George F. Carter, the 1969-
70 “Faculty Lecturer of Texas
A&M University,” will present
A&M’s second University Lecture
of the year at 8 p.m. Tuesday
in the Memorial Student Center
ballroom.
The distinguished professor of
geography will discuss “Problems
in Pre-Columbian Cultural Ex
changes Between the New World
and the Old World.”
Dr. George M. Krise, chairman
of the University Lectures Com
mittee, said no admission will be
charged for Dr. Carter’s lecture.
Such presentations, he noted, are
designed to give the faculty, stu
dents and general public the op
portunity to hear renowned au
thorities speak on subjects of
broad social, political and intel
lectual interest.
Carter has received national
attention for his theories on an
tiquity of man in America. He
believes man came to the New
World about 100,000 years ago,
long before the date accepted by
many of his colleagues. He also
contends Columbus missed the
first boat to America by about
4,500 years.
Prior to joining the Texas A&M
faculty in 1967, Dr. Carter was
chairman of the Isaiah Bowman
Department of Geography of The
Johns Hopkins University in Bal
timore. He had previously served
as curator of anthropology for
the San Diego Museum, educa
tional adviser to the United
States Indian Service and analyst
for the Office of Strategic Serv
ices.
Dr. Carter is the author of sev
eral books, including “Man and
the Land” which is widely used as
a text in college and university
geography courses. Several of his
articles have been translated and
reprinted in foreign journals.
He received his B.A. degree in
anthropology and Ph.D. in geo
graphy from the University of
California. A member of numer
ous learned societies, he is a fel
low of the American Association
for the Advancement of Society
and the American Geographical
Society and a liaison fellow of the
American Anthropological Asso
ciation.
Mild Weather Forecast
For Ags’ Last Road Trip
Below average humidity conditions for Houston will
greet A&M football followers Saturday at the Aggie-Rice
game.
A&M meteorologist Jim Lightfoot indicated no rain is in
sight for the Aggies’ last road game of 1969, though partly
cloudy to cloudy skies are in the weekend forecast.
The 2 p.m. kickoff should also have wind from the east
at 5 to 10 mph and 72 degree temperatures.
The Meteorology Department official said the
thermometer will be about 12 degrees lower for the 10 a.m.
Cadet Corps parade with humidity near 70 percent. The air’s
moisture content is expected to drop to 45 to 50 percent by
game time.
“We’ve got a weak front meandering back and forth
between here and Houston,” Lightfoot added. “It looks to
continue that movement until Friday, when it will shove out
into the Gulf. The front will likely start back inland Sunday
bringing afternoon and evening rainshowers.”
BBB Coming to
B-CS; 12 Named
As Directors
A major step toward the estab
lishment of a Better Business
Bureau in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area has been taken, accord
ing to H. Ray Smith, chairman
of the consumer relations com
mittee of the B-CS Chamber of
Commerce.
Smith said that the chamber
board of directors Wednesday
morning confirmed the appoint
ment of 12 businessmen and civic
leaders to a BBB board of direc
tors.
Smith also said that plans are
being made to join with Waco in
creating a Central Texas BBB
with offices in Bryan and Waco.
The purpose of the Better BU|S-
iness Bureau is to foster public
confidence in the responsible bus
inessman and will carry on an
education program to protect the
consumer and to promote a bet
ter understanding of business.
The BBB will be a non-profit
organization and the Board of
Directors will serve without com-
pentsation Smith said.
The newly-appointed directors
are: Whit McFarlin, Texas A&M
University; M. H. Cheely, Mont
gomery Ward and Co.; Tom Gies-
enschlag, Brazos County Abstract
Company; Frank Kahan, K. Wol-
ens Department Store; Ray Dow
ney, Bernath Concrete Products
Company; Lee Parker, Sear Roe
buck and Co.; Herb Shaffer, Shaf
fer’s University Bookstore; Herb
Thorn, H. J. Thom Custom
Homes; Larry Beal, Cade Motor
Company; Rusty Rush, Country
Squire; Ralph Ayers, Ayer,s Dry
Cleaners; Travis Engelbrecht,
First Bank and Trust.
Bry&n Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing CCnter, since 1919.
—Adv.
BB&L.