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Cbe Battalion Cloudy, humid, hot Vol. 66 No. 3 College Station, Texas Thursday, September 3, 1970 Friday — Partly cloudy, slight ly scattered afternoon rain- showers. Winds southerly 8 to 10 m.p.h. High 93, low 74. Saturday—Partly cloudy, some rain. Southerly winds 8 to 10 m.p.h. High 95, low 73. Telephone 845-2226 South Vietnam has bigger role SAIGON UP) — The United States turned over control of a U.S. Army helicopter company to South Vietnam’s air force and transferred responsibility for coastal patrols to the South Viet namese Navy in major new steps toward Vietnamization of the war Wednesday. The helicopter company was handed over to South Vietnamese control at the Bien Hoa base 18 miles north of Saigon in what a U.S. spokesman called a “his torical and significant step for ward” in the Vietnamization pro gram. Officials said the transfer of the 10 UH-1 “Huey” aircraft and other equipment of the Army’s 190th Assault Helicopter Co. was the first complete changeover of such company in the Vietnam war. Officials said 21 other Huey copters would be turned over to South Vietnam and the Vietna mese pilots would assume the role of helicopter support former ly provided by American flyers in the provinces around Saigon. The U.S. unit providing the helicopters will be redeployed, military officials said. The South Vietnamese Navy took over the “inner surface bar rier” coastal patrols in the culmi nation of an accelerated turnover program of U.S. patrol boats and Coast Guard cutters started last year. A South Vietnamese Navy cap- Student leaders to gather Friday Texas A&M will have 125 stu dent leaders assembling at Lake- view Methodist Assembly near Palestine Friday for the annual Memorial Student Center - spon sored Leadership Conference. Leadership Committee Chair man Otway Denny noted both male and female students will take part in the Friday night through Sunday afternoon con ference. Dr. W. R. Smith, head of A&M’s Psychology Department, planned the program, which will include supervision by faculty members. This is the first year the con- Seniors named to Aggie Band 70 bugle rank Twelve seniors have been named to march on the bugle ranks of the Texas Aggie Band during 1970-71 by Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, director. Senior-booted cadets on the band’s front row traditionally carry silver bugles and responsi- chity for starting precision ma neuvers of the famed marching nhlitary organization. Drum majors James F. Con- nally of Houston, Harry M. Fong °f San Antonio and Ernest E. Johnson of Weatherford will sig nal the bugle rank to the goal line on Kyle Field Sept. 12 for the Aggie Band’s first public nppearance this year. The band also will march at the A&M-LSU game in Baton Rouge the following weekend as one of nine football appearances this year. The organization, which numbers almost 300 cadets, will Perform at all of A&M’s last seven games, including the na tionally televised Nov. 7 contest with SMU at the Cotton Bowl. Bugle rank members are Sigurd ^ Kendall, band commander of Houston; Gregg K. Weaver, band executive officer, San Angelo; Robert A. Stolting, Houston; Warren R. Jamieson, Wills Point; Stephen W. McDaniel, band op erations officer, Pleasanton; Walter D. Fischer, day student Raison officer, Rockdale. Also, Taylor S. Garner, Maroon Hand executive officer, San An- Wnio; Laurance W. Langston, Midland; John T. Potts, White Hand executive officer, Palestine; William C. Chamberlain, Marlin; Mitchell J. Timmons, Maroon Hand commander, Shreveport, and Ralph K. Jenke, White Band com mander, Giddings. Though every marching mem- H 61, of the band must be prepared t° lead maneuvers, Colonel Adams ex plained, the bugle rank usually guides intricate movements, such as split band criss-crosses, min strel turns and folded entrances. Selection for the key positions is based on marching ability, mili tary bearing and other criteria, the colonel said. ference has been held during a semester. In previous years the leaders met the week prior to the start of classes, Denny ex plained. Texas A&M began classes two weeks early this year and the Fall semester will be completed by Christmas vacation. Registration is from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday at Lakeview. The invited leaders pay $17 for food and lodging. Denny suggested coeds bring swimming suits, sandals or flats, levis or cutoffs, slacks and shorts, pant dresses and bed linens. Men should also bring casual clothes and bed linens. Fishing equipment is suggested for the students who wish to use the Lakeview Lake. Selected students who do not have cars may contact the Stu dent Program Office for trans portation information. tain assumed command of patrol activities along 1,200 miles of coastline running from the De militarized Zone in the north all the way around to the Cambodian border. The coastal operation, known, as “Market Time,” in volves patroling and the daily inspection of as many as 50,000 small craft to prevent their use by the Communists. The North Vietnamese observed their 25th independence day an niversary Wednesday with a vow to fight on to the end but with little action on the battlefields. Only small-scale fighting was reported in South Vietnam. The tone of Hanoi’s national day observance, marking the dec laration of independence in 1945, was set in a speech in the North Vietnamese capital by Premier Pham Van Dong. “We are fighting to win, at all costs, genuine independence and peace,” he declared. “So long as these sacred objectives are not reached, we will fight on no mat ter how long it will take.” As his price for peace, Dong repeated Hanoi’s oft-stated de mand for unconditional withdraw al of all American and Allied troops. Even as Dong called again for the Americans to get out, the United States went ahead with its gradual withdrawal when the U.S. Command announced the start of deactivation of two American combat brigades total ing 10,000 men. On the battlegrounds, U.S. Headquarters said there were 25 rocket and mortar attacks in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wed nesday, only nine of which caused damage or casualties. The U.S. Command said one American was killed and two were wounded in the shellings and one American was missing and two wounded in the loss of a Skyhawk bomber and a helicopter. In Cambodia, fighting con tinued at Srang, a town 30 miles southwest of Phnom Penh which is held by enemy forces. THE MORE POWERFUL was victor Wednesday night when A&M's 360 model 65 computer was checkmated by Northwestern University’s 360 model 91. Dr. Dan Drew, professor and director of Computer and Information Sci ence, pictured here moving for A&M, says a computer can’t beat a rated human chess player, but it can stump an amateur. Lecture program speaker told Town hall cancels schedules two rock “The Original Caste” and “Pa cific Gas and Electric” have been signed in place of “The Jaggerz” for the first Town Hall presen tation of 1970-71 at Texas A&M University. The two groups which come across with the rock sounds of today will perform Sept. 11 at G. Rollie White Coliseum in the Town Hall feature preceding the Texas A&M-Wichita State foot ball game. Town Hall Chairman Bill Left- wich noted tickets for the 8 p.m. performance are on sale at the Student Program Office in the Memorial Student Center. “ ‘The Jaggerz’ for some rea son did not sign the contract we sent them, so we withdrew the offer and replaced them with what we feel will be a better show,” James Griffin of the Town Hall committee explained in an nouncing the change. “The Original Caste” is a Ca nadian-born folk-singing group composed of lead guitar Innes, vocalist Dixie Lee guitarist Bliss Mackie, Graham Bruce and drummer Pete Brown, the lone Yank who comes from Oregon. Their top Dot Records include “Can’t Make It Anymore and “Snakes and Ladders,” an Innes- written tune. A former jazz gui tarist, he founded the group aft er an apprenticeship with Maury Wills. Innes has led the Caste, formerly known as the North Country Singers, to successfu appearances with Glen Campbell, Steve Allen and Ed Ames. They toured American puses with Campbell and introduced to Los Angeles audi ences by Pat Paulsen. The Original Caste first ap peared on CBC, found demand in Canada’s leading nightclubs, made Chicago’s Continental Plaza and Seattle’s swank Olympic Hotel and is a regular at Lake Tahoe’s Sahara Tahoe Hotel. A relatively new group that dishes up a mixture of soul, rock and gospel, “Pacific Gas and Ei]&c- tric” brings a five-man grouppiio A&M’s opening football we end entertainment. Charlie Allen is the lead sing er; Ken Utterback, lead guitar; Ron Woods, drums; Frank Peti'ic- ca, bass, and Brent Block, guitar and bass. Charlie is the leader of Texas A&M’s 1970-71 Univer sity Lectures Series opens Sept. 16 with a presentation entitled “Chinese - Russian Border Dis putes”, announced Dr. W. A. Landmann, lecture series chair man. The 8 p.m. public lecture in the Memorial Student Center ball room will be presented by Loyal N. Gould, former Associated Press and NBC foreign correspondent who became chairman this month of Wichita State University’s Journalism Department. Dr. Teddy J. Hirsch, recently Jaggerz, groups the Pacific Gas and Electric. A large measure of PG&E’s excitement comes from sponta neous musical interplay between Allen and Utterback. The sound seems planned but usually it’s not —just two fine musicians “get ting it all together,” Leftwich noted. PG&E has two LPs in current releases, “Are You Read?” and “Pacific Gas and Electric.” Sand wiched in between cross-country tours is work on another album. designated “Faculty Lecturer of Texas A&M University” for the 1970-71 academic year, will be the University Lectures speaker Nov. 9. His topic will be “De fusing Roadside Booby Traps.” Hirsch is professor and head of the Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics Division of the Civil Engineering Department and also head of the Structural Research Division of the univer sity’s Texas Transportation Insti tute. Dr. Landmann said Dr. Hirsch is an international authority in the field of structural design and materials used for highway effi ciency and safety. Other University Lectures speakers and their topics are Dr. William A. Owens, former Texas A&M English professor and cur rently director of folk material at the University of Texas, “Oil Field Tales and Other Stories,” Oct. 2; Dr. Frederick J. Stare, chairman of the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, “Nutrition and Your Health,” Dec. 2. Also Dr. Gladys M. Kammerer, political science professor and director of the Public Adminis tration Clearing Service, Uni versity of Florida, “Dangerous Trends in Federal Administra tion and Budgeting,” Feb. 9; and Dr. Dante G. Scarpelli, professor and chairman of pathology, Uni versity of Kansas Medical School, “Disease and Civilization,” April 21. Dr. Landmann emphasized there are no admission charges for Uni versity Lectures presentations. He explained the series was initiated in 1963 to give the faculty, stu dents and general public the opportunity to hear renowned authorities speak on subjects of broad social, political and intel lectual interest. Senate plan told: all can be active Bruce Stone, bassist cam- were By JOHN CURYLO Battalion Staff Writer The Student Senate is process ing applications for the position of executive aide, announced Rog er Miller, vice president of the Senate. The executive aide program is the big chance freshmen have to take an active part in school gov ernment, Miller said. Although designed primarily for freshmen, the program is not restricted to them, he added. The idea behind executive aide is to give interested students an opportunity to work in the Stu dent Senate. Clerical work and other necessary details make up the duties of an executive aide, Miller said. “We’re very happy with the freshman response to our pro gram,” he said. “We have received six times as many applications as in the past.” Miller said that cards are be ing sent to all applicants setting up interviews for next week. Any student interested in being an executive aide should turn in an application in the Student Pro gram Office or the Student Sen ate Office in the Memorial Stu dent Center. While there are a limited num ber of executive aides, there is room for any student who is in terested in helping, according to Kirby Brown of the Senate Ex ecutive Committee. “Subcommittees are being open ed to all,” Brown said. “Students who want to join a subcommit tee should get in touch with us. This applies to all classes.” The Senate is composed of members of each of the three upper classes of each of the col leges of the University. The num ber of representatives is deter mined by the enrollment in that particular college. When mid-semester grades are announced, five senators are elect ed at large from the freshmen class. In addition, there are va rious ex-officio officers who have seats on the Senate. The Student Senate is headed by the Executive Committee, con sisting of the five officers and the chairmen of the four com mittees, welfare, student life, is sues, and public relations. This year’s Student Senate president it Kent Caperton of Caldwell. The first Senate meeting is Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the con ference room on the second floor of the Library. There will be an other meeting Sept. 17. After that, regular meetings are sched uled for alternate Thursdays. Any (See Senate plan, page 2) Applications for sweetheart available to coeds in MSC HURRICANE BATTERED Church of Immaculate Conception at Taft, Tex. is the scene for a mass read by the Rev. Gregory Boensch. The church was severely damaged by Hurricane Celia. Parishioners occupy pews in the unroofed section of the building. (AP Wirephoto) By MIKE STEPHENS Battalion Staff Writer Aggie coeds interested in be coming Aggie Sweetheart this year now can pick up applica tions, announced Jim Alexander, chairman of the Aggie Sweet heart Committee of the Memorial Student Center. Any woman student of A&M or Texas Woman’s University can apply if she has completed two semesters at either university, Alexander said. A 2.2 grade point ratio also is required. Applications may be picked up at the Student Program Office in the MSC and the office of the Women’s Advisor, located in Nagle Hall room 305, Alexander said. He also said applications will be available until Sept. 18. All applications must be accompanied by a three-inch by five-inch black and white photograph. This is the first year A&M coeds have been eligible for Aggie Sweetheart. A vote by the Stu dent Senate last year made it possible for coeds to participate. The winner will be announced Oct. 10 during the halftime of the A&M-Texas Tech football game on Kyle Field.