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DOG PILE—At least thats what it looks like but actually it’s a goal line stand by the
dark-clad maroon team against the white in Saturday's annual Maroon-White spring in
trasquad game on Kyle Field. Maroon won, 20-7. See story, page 6. (Photo by Mike
Wright)
1940 A&M graduate
Nebraska U chancellor is
commencement speaker
For Cambodian operations
Senate panel passes
bill halting funds
Durward B. Varner, chancel
lor of the University of Nebraska
and a 1940 graduate of Texas
A&M, will be the spring com
mencement speaker for his alma
mater.
A record 1,526 students have
applied for graduation, with cer-
VARNER
emonies to be conducted at 9 a.m.
May 23 in G. Rollie White Coli
seum,
Varner will share graduation
day speaking honors with Gen.
William C. Mestmoreland, Army
chief of staff who will address
students receiving military com
missions.
Varner, 53, was named Univer
sity of Nebraska chancellor last
December, succeeding Clifford M.
Hardin who was named secretary
of agriculture by President Nixon.
Prior to moving to Nebraska,
Varner was chancellor and one
of the founders of Oakland Uni
versity in Rochester, Mich. He
had previously served 10 years at
Michigan State University, in
cluding four years as vice presi
dent in charge of off-campus edu
cation programs.
The Cottonwood, Tex., native
was an honor graduate at A&M
and cadet colonel of the corps his
senior year.
Following graduation, he work
ed one year as assistant to the
president of the Federal Land
Mrs. J. Kelly Neal, a San An
tonio minister’s wife, was honored
Sunday as “Aggie Mother of the
Year.”
The mother of James K. Neal
Jr., senior physical education ma
jor, was introduced at a Sunday
morning Student Senate parents
day program and given a promi
nent position to view the Sunday
afternoon Corps of Cadets re
view.
Mrs. Neal succeeds Mrs. Peter
N. Reed of San Antonio as the
Aggies’ mother of the year.
Bank of Houston before entering
the Army for four years of serv
ice, which included combat opera
tions in Europe. He was released
from active duty as a lieutenant
colonel.
Varner returned to A&M as
assistant dean of students in 1946
but began work the following year
for a master’s degree at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Varner was awarded an honor
ary doctor of letters of humanity
degree from the University of
Oakland last month and is sched
uled to receive an honorary doc
tor of laws degree May 17 at
Wesleyan University in Lincoln,
Neb.
Collie R. (Doc) Watson of Cole
man announced Mrs. Neal’s se
lection and cited her contributions
to Texas A&M and its students.
The Student Senate, chaired by
Gerry Geistweidt of Mason, pre
sented her a bouquet of roses.
The mother of three was in the
reviewing line with Acting A&M
President A. R. Luedecke, Col.
Jim H. McCoy, commandant, and
Col. Keith C. Hanna, professor
of aerospace studies, for the re
view.
(See Aggies select, page 3)
By James Phillips
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, re
acting swiftly to last week’s
widespread antiwar sentiment,
has approved legislation to block
funds for all American military
action in Cambodia.
The bill also would prohibit
the Pentagon from authorizing
military construction for Cam
bodia or conducting any air com
bat activity in support of Cam
bodian ground troops.
“The way out of Vietnam does
not lead through Cambodia,” said
Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-Maine.
“The time has come to substitute
new policies for old policies in
Southeast Asia.”
The amendment, sponsored by
Sens. Frank Church, D-Idaho, and
John Sherman Cooper, R-Ky.,
also bars the use in Cambodia of
South Vietnamese troops that are
supported by U. S. funds.
The committee approved the
measure 9 to 4 Monday as Sen.
George S. McGovern, D-S.D., said
he had received pledges of sup
port from 31 senators for an
amendment to cut off all funds
for U.S. operations in Southeast
Asia except for what is needed to
bring home the troops.
And President Nixon repeated
his pledge to 43 of the nation’s
governors that U.S. troops would
be withdrawn from Cambodia by
June 30.
As Nixon met with the state
executives in the White House,
hundreds of college students de
scended on Capitol Hill to lobby
congressmen.
The Foreign Relations Com
mittee also approved an amend
ment to repeal the Gulf of Ton
kin Resolution used by former
President Lyndon B. Johnson as
the legal basis for sending a mas
sive troop increase to Vietnam.
Chairman William J. Fulbright,
D-Ark., said the vote on the lat
ter was unanimous.
In addition, the committee pass
ed a resolution placing a $35
million ceiling on the amount of
equipment the Defense Depart
ment can give annually to a for
eign government.
Presidential press secretary
Ronald L. Ziegler said the White
House would sot have any com-
David Middlebrooke of Houston
will be the 1970-71 editor of The
Battalion, announced Student
Publications Director Jim Lind
sey, chairman of the Student
Publications Board.
Other student editors at A&M
next year include Jerry Boles of
ment on Church’s amendment
barring U.S. military activity in
Cambodia.
In the only significant Cambo
dian action reported this morn
ing the U.S. Command said
American helicopter gunships kill
ed 37 North Vietnamese soldiers
nine miles inside Cambodia after
the enemy opened fire on them.
South Vietnamese headquarters
reported that its forces killed 91
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong
troops Monday at two widely
scattered points inside Cambodia.
A spokesman said the govern
ment troops also seized 10 tons
of ammunition and 35 weapons.
Three South Vietnamese soldiers
were reported killed and 54
wounded.
Radio Phnoni Penh reported
that the 30-vessel South Viet
namese flotilla that arrived in
Port Neches, Aggieland; Janie
Wallace of Duncanville, The Re
view; Charles W. Hale of Tyler,
Agriculturist; Harry L. Hall of
Dallas, Engineer, and Blaine S.
Purcell of Wichita Falls, The
Southwestern Veterinarian, Frank
E. Griffis of Big Spring will be
summer editor of The Battalion.
The editors were introduced at
Student Publications Banquet
Monday night.
Middlebrooke, junior journalism
student, has worked on The Bat
talion two years and is currently
managing editor. Earlier this
year he won a $500 scholarship
from The Newspaper Fund and
was selected to intern as a copy
editor this summer on The Daily
Oklahoman in Oklahoma City.
Boles, junior management ma
jor, has been a member of the
Aggieland staff three years and
currently serves as editor of the
military section.
Miss Wallace, junior majoring
in journalism, has written for
both The Review and The Bat
talion.
An agricultural economics ma
jor, Hale is a senior who is pre
sently managing editor for the
Agriculturist.
Purcell, son of Congressman
Graham B. Purcell Jr., is a second-
year veterinary medicine student
serving now as an editorial as
sistant for The Southwestern
Veterinarian.
the Cambodian capital Monday
carried 48 tons of food and two
tons of medical supplies for the
200,000 Vietnamese residents
living there. The broadcast said
about 5,000 refugees would re
turn to Vietnam aboard the ships.
In South Vietnam, six mem
bers of a U.S. reconnaissance pa
trol were killed in a clash near
the A Shau valley in the north
ern region. Enemy losses were
unknown.
U.S. headquarters reported
more than a score of rocket and
mortar attacks overnight, includ
ing a three-round rocket bar
rage on Saigon that knocked out
some military phone lines, heavi-
Jy damaged four houses and
wounded four Vietnamese civil
ians.
It was the first rocket attack
on Saigon in nearly a month.
Hall, junior chemical engineer
ing major, is an assistant editor
for the Engineer this year.
Griffis, a junior majoring in
journalism, previously served as
a writer for The Battalion, The
Review and the Agriculturist. He
currently reports for The Daily
Eagle, Bryan daily newspaper.
Silver Taps
tonight for
vet student
Silver Taps will be held tonight
for Denny Lee Davis, third-year
veterinary medicine student.
He died Sunday in a Houston
hospital following an extended ill
ness.
Funeral services were to be
conducted at 2:30 p. m. today at
Messiah Lutheran Church in
Houston under the direction of
Heights Funeral Home.
Davis, 25, resided with his wife
at University Acres, Route 4,
Bryan.
He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe B. Davis of Route 3,
Hempstead.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
champions for the third year straight, goes through its
routines during halftime at Saturday’s Maroon - White
game. See related story, page 6. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Mrs. J. Neal new
Mother of the Year
1970-71 editors named
for publications
6 Vanity Fair finalists selected at publications banquet
Six Vanity Fair finalists were selected
Monday night during the annual Student Publica
tions Banquet held by the A&M Press Club.
The six were chosen from 13 entries.
The senior class at A&M chooses no sweet
heart as such. Instead, The Aggieland sponsors a
contest, open only to members of the class, to
select the six most beautiful sweethearts or wives
of the seniors.
The women are presented to those attending
the Student
TESS MENDEZ
Publications banquet, and the
NORMA ROGERS
audience votes for the six they feel are the most
beautiful. Those selected will be presented at the
Senior Ring Dance Saturday.
The finalists are:
—Miss Susan Dale Boggs, 20, of Dallas. A
junior at the University of Texas at Austin, she was
escorted by 1969-70 head yell leader Sam Torn.
—Miss Peggy McNeel, 20, of Galveston. A
bank employee, she was escorted by Bernard J.
Rapp.
—Miss Tess Mendez, 23, of College Station.
Gerry Geistweidt, student body president, escorted
the secretary.
—Miss Norma Gale Rogers, 21, of Freeport.
Mark X. Vandaveer escorted the Texas Women’s
University senior.
—Miss Daisy Mary Sloan, 22, of Dallas. A
graduate of Southern Methodist University, she
was escorted by John D. White.
—Mrs. Ramah Kathryn Taylor, 21, of College
Station. A technician in Oceanography, she was
escorted by her husband, Allen Taylor.