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How Beautiful
A Day Can Be
When Kindness
Touches It.
WEDNESDAY — Partly cloudy
this afternoon and tonight. Cool
tonight. Winds becoming west
erly 5 to 15 m.p.h. Low of 40.
THURSDAY
High of 70.
Fair. Mild day.
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Apollo’s Last Voyagers
End Exploration Era
INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR—Dress of different na
tionalities made the Discovery Program Christmas party
a colorful event. Comparing fashion notes are (from left)
Berit Kleppe of Norway, Florence Awoyoni of Nigeria, Ket-
ty Hernandez of Venezuela and Ann-Christin Unneberg of
Norway. They are wives of international students at Texas
A&M University. West Coast and Tonsberg variations are
reflected in the styles of Mrs. Kleppe and Mrs. Unneberg.
51
Women Of 33 Countries
Students Find Peace, Fun At Party
“Peace on earth, good will to
men” is practiced on a person-to-
person basis in a Baptist church
romen’s program for interna
tional students at Texas A&M.
It was highlighted Wednesday
at a Discovery Program Christ
mas party at the First Baptist
CONGRESSMAN Olin E. Teague, with Texas A&M
University President Jack K. Williams, prepares to greet
constituents and other friends after presenting his papers
to the university Tuesday. Teague flew to Houston imme
diately afterwards for the splashdown of Apollo 17.
Church in College Station.
Women of at least 33 different
nationalities sang carols in sev
eral languages, told about differ
ences in observing Christmas in
their countries and enjoyed re
freshments with an international
flavor.
“Silent Night” was presented
in seven languages by student
wives from Brazil, Japan, Nor
way, Korea, Nigeria and China.
“Silent Night” in Spanish was
offered by women of Argentina,
Ecuador, Bolivia, the Dominican
Republic, Guatemala, Costa Rica,
Venezuela, Panama and Mexico.
Music of India was also sung.
“You’ll notice that Dianne
(Miles, pianist) played in seven
different languages too,” smiled
Erwin Johnson, music director of
the First Baptist Church in
Bryan.
Christmas in China, England,
Israel and Bolivia was described.
About 60 women of five Bap
tist churches in Bryan and Col
lege Station participate with in
ternational student wives in Dis
covery.
Colorful native dress was worn
by most of the 80 student wives
to the Christmas observance.
Some of their children, along
with youngsters of the host wom
en, also joined in caroling the
group.
“We always have a good time
and enjoy ourselves,” observed
Ketty Hernandez, whose home is
in Venezuela.
A year-around program, Dis
covery helps the visitors gain
confidence and proficiency in
English. It also provides train
ing in a variety of areas, such as
cooking, sewing and art, which
help the women feel at home in
America. Eighty to 90 are us
ually involved.
“We get satisfaction from it
too,” commented one of the Bap
tist women. For the non-English
speaking student wives, Discov
ery works on a one-to-one basis.
“The program has a double
value nature,” remarked the Rev.
David Rowland. “While it helps
a person from another country
adjust and live comfortably here,
it turns around over there.”
Other countries represented in
the fall semester Discovery group
are Colombia, Puerto Rico, the
Philippines, Turkey, Hong Kong,
Taiwan, Bangladesh, France,
Peru, Morocco, Lebanon, Holland,
Denmark, Finland and Australia.
By VERN HAUGLAND
AP Aviation Writer
ABOARD USS TICONDER-
OGA (&)—The last Apollo voyag
ers came safely home from the
moon Tuesday, splashing down in
the Pacific Ocean to end an un
precedented era of exploration
and adventure which carried
man’s quest for the unknown to
another world.
Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene A.
Cernan, Harrison H. Schmitt and
Ronald E. Evans, perhaps the
last humans to visit the moon in
the 20th Century, parachuted to
a bull’s-eye landing in their
spaceship America that was a fit
ting climax to the most perfectly-
executed and scientifically - re
warding of the Apollos.
Scientists said they returned
with data which might alter
man’s theories about the evolution
of the moon, and perhaps our
earth and solar system.
Command ship America hit
gentle seas 400 miles southeast
of American Samoa at 2:25 p.m.
EST, just 2.5 miles from this
recovery carrier. Commander
Cernan happily announced:
“America is stable one in the
water . . . All is well on board.
We all feel good. We all feel
great.”
The spaceship, its exterior
blistered by re-entry heat of
more than 4,000 degrees, had
completed a journey of 1.48
million miles that lasted 12 days,
13 hours 52 minutes. It began
with a spectacular night-time
blastoff from Cape Kennedy,
Fla., at 12:33 a.m. Dec. 7.
Fifty-three minutes after
splash, the astronauts were on the
deck of the Ticonderoga, where
in a brief ceremony, they thanked
the recovery team for a “fan
tastic” job and then went below
decks for extensive medical ex
aminations.
Dr. Royce Hawkins, director of
medical operations at the space
center here, reported an hour
later that he had received word
from the ship that all three space
men were id “excellent” physical
condition.
President Nixon in Washing
ton issued a statement praising
the accomplishments of the Apollo
program and stating that the ex
ploration of space “has barely
begun.”
Space agency officials in Texas
were both joyous and nostalgic
about the final Apollo. Dr. Rocco
A. Petrone, director of the Apollo
program said:
“Apollo 17 goes into the record
books as the most perfect mis
sion, the most sophisticated sci
ence mission ever conducted.
This closes a golden chapter in
an era of space exploration. It
brings to a close what has been
a very romantic era.”
George Low, deputy director of
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, said “Man
has learned that space is his to
explore and man will return to
space to explore, to the moon and
beyond. Apollo has paved the
way.”
The families of Cernan and
Schmitt watched the spectacular
splashdown on television at their
homes near the space center and
Barbara Cernan exuded: “The
last has been my man and I
couldn’t be happier.”
Janet Evans tilted her cham
pagne glass toward the TV set
and toasted: “Here’s to them.”
After the landing, the space
men were lifted, one-by-one by
a basket chair into a helicopter
and were deposited on the deck
of the Ticonderoga for a heroes’
welcome.
SCONA Workers
Look For Donors
Seven Texas A&M students will
devote their Christmas holidays
to making the 18th Student Con
ference on National Affairs a fi
nancially solvent undertaking
Feb. 14-17.
Headed by SCONA XVIII
chairman Chet Edwards of Hous
ton, they will canvass potential
donors in Houston, Dallas, San
Antonio and Fort Worth.
SCONA, one of the student or
ganized and operated programs
of the Memorial Student Center,
will bring college delegates and
prominent spokesmen to TAMU
in February for consideration of
“The Controlled Society.”
No appropriated funds or fees
are allocated the conference,
which operates through student
solicitation. SCONA has been
highly successful, from topic par
ticipation and financial view
points, for the last 17 years.
Finance chairman of the 1973
conference, Scott D. Steffler of
Houston, announced that funding
currently stands at 80 per cent
of the budgeted $23,500 for SCO
NA XVIII.
Largest contributors are the
Moody Foundation, Sid Richard
son Foundation, Republican Na
tional Bank of Dallas and the
Houston Endowment. Numerous
friends of Texas A&M also un
derwrite SCONA with $50 each
contributions.
Edwards, Steffler and other
conference leaders will be shoot
ing for nearly $3,700 in the
Christmas - between semesters
holidays. Delegate registration
fees round out SCONA revenues.
Conference expenses include
speaker honorariums, travel and
delegate housing, meals, general
operation expenses and printing.
SCONA XVII was budgeted at
$20,000 and came out with a $275
excess. Expenses to date on the
18th conference have been $3,042.-
71, Steffler said.
Soliciting during a week-long
fund drive in January will be Ed
wards, vice chairman Phillip
Smith, Kathy Adams and Steffler
in Houston; planning committee
chairman Steve Kosub in San
Antonio; David White, Fort
Worth, and Gary Taraba, plan
ning vice chairman, Dallas.
The majority of SCONA XVIII
revenues were raised during a
summer fund drive.
MSC Director J. Wayne Stark
noted that student experience
working on SCONA is one of the
unseen benefits. Contracts with
business executives through the
fund drives help build poise and
confidence.
“It’s something for a junior
to walk into an oil executive’s of
fice asking for SCONA support,”
Stark once said. “It’s an experi
ence in itself just to be thrown
out of such a place.”
Debaters Assemble Winning Semester Record
Teague Gives Paper To Archives
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Scholarly study of facets of vet
erans affairs, the U. S. space pro-
?ram and other legislative pro
grams and people became pos
sible Tuesday at Texas A&M
through presentation by U. S.
Rep, Olin E. Teague of his pa
pers.
A key legislator since 1946,
Congressman Teague turned over
a part of his personal correspon
dence to the library of his alma
Mater. The veteran lawmaker has
served on the Veterans Affairs
Committee since 1946, but he
plans to give up the chairmanship
of that group since he is in line
to become chairman of the Science
and Astronautics Committee.
More than 80 persons, includ
ing State Rep. Bill Presnal and
TAMU System board members
Clyde H. Wells, Ford D. Albrit
ton and William H. Lewie, were
at the presentation.
President Jack K. Williams
aid the Teague papers are “sim
ply the latest in a long list of
assistance Congressman Teague
given Texas A&M Univer
sity. His efforts have been so vig
orous in so many ways.” - "
“I think it is particularly fitting
that Mr. Teague at this time add
to his career by giving Texas
A&M and the people of Texas and
America a good portion of his
public papers,” commented Dr.
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Ralph W. Steen, principal speak
er at the ceremony.
“One of the things we need
more than anything else in any
government is this element of
truth,” added the Stephen F.
Austin State University presi
dent and former TAMU history
professor. “You can get truth
from papers, much more effec
tively than you can get truth
from people. The reason is that
as people grow older, they be
come slightly confused, and they
begin to confuse what they did
with what they heard,” Steen add
ed.
“In a few more years, they
confuse what they did with what
they imagined,” he continued. “As
a result, recollection of 30-year-
old occurrences is not always the
truth.”
Someone who is trying to re
member “thinks it is the truth,
he intends it to be the truth,
but it really isn’t,” Steen observ
ed. He claimed the failing is “ab
solutely true of everything and
everybody.”
“Papers are important,” he add
ed, “because they tell us the
truth, and the truth is what we
need to know. Society today has
many problems because we haven’t
learned from the past the things
we ought.
“It’s from papers of this kind
that we’re going to learn the
things we need to learn in order
to correct mistakes that have
been made,” Dr. Steen stated.
Dr. Williams also called on Dr.
John Paul Abbott, professor eme
ritus of English; TAMU student
body president Layne Kruse, and
Association of Former Students
executive director Richard Wei-
rus for comments on Teague’s as-
MSC To Close
After Thursday
Memorial Student Center serv
ices will close Thursday after
noon for the 12-day A&M Christ
mas holiday.
Guest rooms, food, gift and
barber shops, browsing library
and general offices will reopen
Jan. 3, announced Carmon Tax,
facilities scheduling manager.
Window service at the MSC
Post Office will also shut down
during the student-faculty-staff
holiday period. The fountain
room will close at 4:30 p.m. Wed
nesday and remain closed until
the start of spring semester
classes, at 8 a.m. Jan. 15.
The Association of Former Stu
dents and Braley Travel Service
will operate six days of the holi
day period, Dec. 22, 26-29 and
Jan. 2. Access will be by the
northwest entrance.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
sistance to Texas A&M.
Director of Libraries John B.
Smith and Dr. Charles Schultz,
\university archivist, designated
the Teague papers “a resource of
major importance, which will
draw scholars from all over the
nation to Texas A&M.”
Texas A&M students John Nash
of Houston and John Miller of
Beaumont assembled a winning
record in fall semester debate at
Kansas City, Fort Worth, Hous
ton and Washington, D. C.
Their 19 wins and 14 losses
included victories over teams
from Tulane, Texas, Southern
Cal, Kansas, Boston College and
MIT.
“The record is made more im
pressive by the fact that all four
tournaments Nash and Miller
attended were ‘direct power-
matched,’ in which winning teams
meet winning teams,” commented
Russell Usnick, debate director
in the English Department.
Any record over 50 per cent in
this system usually ranks a team
in the top 20 or 30 per cent’ of
competition, Usnick explained.
Miller and Nash, though both
underclassmen, have competed
against top varsity competition,
he noted. Consequently, the teams
they engage are usually junior
and senior level debaters with
several years experience.
The season continues through
April when the TAMU duo will
attempt to win a spot at the Na
tional Debate Tournament, for
the top 36 teams in the U. S. To
win a tourney berth, Miller and
Nash must continue winning and
do well at a regional qualifying
tournament, Usnick said.
At Rockhurst College in Kansas
City, they were seventh among
56 teams with a 6-2 record after
preliminary competition. They
lost to Macalaster University of
Minnesota at the octo-final round
but received a plaque.
After a 3-5 effort at TCU, Nash
and Miller narrowly missed the
eliminations cutoff at U-H with
a 5-3 record. It placed TAMU
19th among 112 teams, with wins
over Southern Cal, Southwest
Missouri State, Tulane, UT and
Rockhurst.
At Thanksgiving the team went
5-3 at the Georgetown University
tourney in D. C. They placed 21st
among 134 teams and achieved it
with wins over Boston College,
Kansas, Augustana College,
Southwestern Louisiana and MIT.
YC Language Oddity; It Works
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
AP Special Correspondent
The Vietnamese language has
only one word for “no,” but a
half-dozen for “yes,” all the way
from maybe to the equivalent of
“cross my heart.”
This linguistic peculiarity
seemed to serve the present pur
poses of the Communist side in
its talks with Henry A. Kissinger.
Before Oct. 26, the North
Vietnamese, from their own
words, seemed pretty confident of
nailing down a cease-fire agree
ment to their liking. Then some
thing happened to suggest that
their ‘’yes” had really been a
“yes, but,” and now would give
way to a resounding “no.”
What Hanoi’s ruling party was
saying to its members makes it
appear that North Vietnam en
visaged a settlement that would
be only temporary and at the
same time would advance both
its own territorial aims and the
aims of what it calls “the lasting
interests of the entire movement,”
meaning international commu
nism. ^
The whole Indochina business
started years ago because of a
Communist penchant for playing
grim games with nations and
peoples to propagate an ideology.
Somebody seems still to be play
ing games.
While there is room for argu
ment that the penchant is not
peculiar to the Communist side,
Hanoi itself provides evidence
that it still wants to pick up all
the marbles. One piece of evi
dence was in editorials of the
North Vietnamese party journal
Hoc Tap, one early in November,
another later on.
The first, written by Nguyen
Khanh Toan, a prominent pro-
Soviet figure, reflected a feeling
that a cease-fire was still near.
The article seemed to be prepar
ing the party rank and file for
a shift in tactics.
Hoc Tap said there is “a time
for us to advance but also a time
for us to step back temporarily
in order to advance more steadily
later on.”
“We cannot exterminate im
perialism at one time in a single
battle,” it went on. “We drive it
back step by step.”
Thus: “Sometimes we must
accept a certain agreement with
the enemy . . . aimed at weaken
ing his forces and increasing our
forces . . . Communists do not
always reject all kinds of agree
ments nor are they ready to
accept any agreement. When it
is necessary to reach an agree
ment, Communists do not neglect
their revolutionary objective nor
allow limited and immediate in
terests to blur awareness of the
lasting interests of the entire
movement. They do not allow
national selfishness to control and
undermine the common interests
of the world revolution.”
There was a vague hint of
complaint in that, as if to remind
their Soviet allies that the North
Vietnamese were offering some
concessions, being obedient to
long-range goals of the inter
national movement.
Then it became clear that the
talks in Paris had hit a snag.
Another Hoc Tap editorial dis
cussed U.S. “treachery,” but this
time said nothing that could be
interpreted as meaning agree
ment was imminent. Instead it
exhorted the party to prepare for
a fight to the end.
If Kissinger was after a last
ing agreement and Hanoi had its
mind set on something temporary,
it is not at all surprising that the
talks hit an impasse.