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Cbe BattalionVol. 65 No. 32 College Station, Texas Thursday, November 6, 1969 Telephone 845-2226
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GOP toTexas Senator Says
Lead State
MANTOVANI MAGIC” IN ACTION1i§antovani and his orchestra perfom before a Town Hall audience numbering in the
pousands Wednesday night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Through the varied types of Jusic and exciting style, he showed all present why he has come to be known as the incomparable Mantovani.” The maestro and his musicians received no less than three
-Jpnding ovations from the audience. (Photo by Mike Wright)4i§j Three - Year Sch olarships
Offered by Army ROTCArmy ROTC scholarship pro- kms at Texas A&M have been
Ularged this year to include ree-year scholarships, Col. Jim
|jyi H McCoy announced.IIHjThe professor of military sci-
noted that awards of two- three-year scholarships are
JSJjSBade at A&M on a competitive ,v»sis. Applications of qualified
* ™Bdets in the four-year ROTC ■ogram will be accepted until 'Ijln. 15.
®^Colonel McCoy indicated A&M Is the highest quota of two-year wards in the nation, along with yio State. The Fourth Army
^allocation of three-year scholar- iiips is 70.
All applicants must be enrolled in the four-year senior ROTC program and qualify for entrance into the advanced course. A cadet nominated and selected for an Army ROTC scholarship must possess the same qualifications for Distinguished Military Students, including standing in the upper third of his military class and upper half of his academic class.
Selection and approval of nominees is based primarily on academic achievement, leadership potential and demonstrated motivation toward an Army career, McCoy said.
He added that interested cadets
should report to the Basic Section, Room 304-A, Military Science Building. Cadets will be informed of the Arniy scholarship programs in military science classes and better students will be interviewed about making application.
In time, the dominant political party in Texas will be the Republican Party.
The trend is that way, asserts Texas Senator Henry C. (Hank) Grover of Houston, and can be considerably enhanced by a Republican unseating Senator Ralph Y arbo rough.
Increasing the rate of change in the trend depends on whether key Republicans in Texas are Willing to start in the right place, the former Democrat who turned Republican in 1966 told a capacity Political Forum audience at A&M Wednesday.
“Very few of them want to start at the level of the state Legislature, where they could cut their political teeth and learn the ropes,” Grover said. “Emphasis is on the top state and national offices.”
“The problem with this emphasis is that the Democrat-controlled Texas Legislature draws the districts for Democratic wins,” the Houston legislator continued. “What we need to do is work at the legislature and do it to them for awhile.”
Gerrymandering, he reminded.
Two-Tour Vietnam Veteran Will Talk to Corps Nov. 12
S United Chest its, Exceeds Goal
College Station United jE5||hest fund-raising drive Wednes- ;~Jmy exceeded its $28,050 goal, WBinounced Campaign Chairman 2Bob Evans.
Evans said contributions tabu- \ywBited Wednesday morning pushed
total to $28,121.52.“We appreciate the support we ceived from the citizens of Col-
feg-e Station, and especially from Jib persons who volunteered to
WSBelp in this year’s record drive,” Ivans noted. “I never doubted
that the community would provide the necessary funds.”
United Chest President Wesley Donaldson also expresses his gratitude for the excellent response to this year’s campaign.
“Our community has again demonstrated that it will meet its responsibilities,” Donaldson remarked.
The United Chest’s 1969 budget will provide support for 16 charitable and civic organizations.
An Army officer wounded four times in two Vietnam tours will speak to A&M cadets Wednesday through the Army Speakers Program.
Maj. Dalals L. Cox will appear before cadet corps members in Room 321 of the Physics Building, announced Col. Jim H. McCoy, commandant.
The two-time recipient of the Silver Star, the nation’s third highest award for valor, will be sponsored by Wings and Sabers, organization of A&M cadets on Army and Air Force ROTC scholarship. Participation is limited to members of the Corps of Cadets.
A native of Hiwassee, Va., Major Cox, 33, joined the Air Force in 1954, transferred to the Army as a staff sergeant in 1960 and was commissioned through Infantry Officers Candidate School in 1962.
He became fluent in the Serbo-
Croatian language during a year study at the Defense Language Institute in California, completed special warfare school and went to Europe with the 10th Special Forces.
His first assignment in Vietnam in 1966-67 as Special Forces team commander led to construction of a special forces camp at Lang Vei. He returned to Southeast Asia in 1968 as an infantry company commander and later became battalion executive officer.
Twice he assumed battalion command when the battalion commanders were medically evacuated. During the second Vietnam tour, Major Cox was located in the Michelin Rubber Plantation, familiar with such names as the Iron Triangle, Trapezoid, Onion and Razor Back.
The William and Mary College graduate wears the Bronze Star with “V” device for valor.
is as old as the U. S. political system.
Grover pointed to several indications of the Republican trend, underlining that three of Texas’ four neighboring states have Republican governors.
“The trend has been going on over 100 years, maybe since pioneers started westward,” he said. “The shift of American population has been to the Western U. S., taking with it a shift in political power.”
Alliances of the conservative South and West are more favorable to the Republicans, Grover believes, because the Texas Democrats are shifting more toward the Northern liberals, alienating
DPS Requests Assistance of Local DriversThe Texas Department of Pub
lic Safety (DPS) is asking drivers to use a route other than State Highway 6 between Navasota and Bryan-College Station Sunday.
Sgt. Paul L. Allen, area supervisor for the highway patrol, made the request because of anticipated heavy traffic in connection with the Canadian-American (Can-Am) race scheduled Sunday at the new Texas International Speedway (TIS).
Allen said the highway normally operates at near-capacity during weekends anyway, and the traffic from the raceway will probably overload the highway.
People returning home Sunday from the A&M-Southern Methodist University football game Saturday will add to the probelm, Allen said.
He suggested that drivers coming back via Navasota use FM 2154 to make the journey from Navasota to the B-CS area. The farm road runs into highway 6 on the north side of Navasota, Allen explained.
It passes through Millican and Wellborn, he added, and goes through College Station on the west side of the A&M campus passing by Kyle Field.
the state’s conservative Democrats.
The two-term Republican senator who served from 1960-66 as a conservative Democratic representative indicated this was his case.
“I’m a fourth-generation Texan,” Grover said, “and the first member of my family to formally become Republican. With the direction the Democratic party is taking, Texas Democrats have to move more and more towards the liberals or get out of the party.
“Connally and Smith are making more and more concessions to the liberals,” he emphasized.
Grover pointed out that the 1960 and 1968 presidential elections support crystallization of the trend. Southern and Western wings of the Democratic party are diametrically opposed to the Northeast wing.
John F. Kennedy won in spite of the rift in 1960 by taking on LBJ, a move that held the two Democratic factions together in “baling wire and chewing gum fashion,” as Grover views it.
“H u m p h r e y tried again in
1968, but couldn’t swing it,” he noted.
“With the Kennedy’s defused ... at least for 1972 and maybe forever . . . it’s up for grabs,” believes the Houston senator who won his second Senate term by 73 per cent of the vote last year. “The U. S. Senate race in Texas is vitally important for both the Republicans and Democrats. Texas is the weak link in the growing Republican strength.”
U. S. Rep. George Bush has been observed as Yarborough’s opposition but such a decision by Bush is yet to be made.
“He has seniority on the House Ways and Means Committee,” Grover noted. “The question is whether he should put it all on one roll of the dice. Bush can’t say it, but he may feel that Nixon might take him as a running mate in the next presidential election. But Nixon can’t do that if Bush runs against Yarborough and loses.”
Bush’s decision could have a major effect on Grover’s political future, the Texas senator admitted.
Ags To Be Pals To 36 Orphans
Youngsters from the Depelchin Faith Home in Houston will be guests of A&M students Saturday for the A&M-SMU football game.
The 36 orphans will be met at the Memorial Student Center by students and their dates, taken out for lunch and sit with the Aggie escorts at the 1:30 p.m. game.
Arranged by the Student Senate Welfare and Life Committees, the program is well received by A&M students, according to Gerald A. Bramlett, committee chairman, of Shreveport.
“We did it last year and it was a lot of fun for the kids and for us too,” commented senior Ronnie Adams of Tyler.
The Houston home will bus the 36 youths, ages 7 to 19, to College Station Saturday morning. The
youngsters, most of age 14 or 15, are chaperoned by four adults.
“Usually, the student meets his pal at the ‘C’ about 11 a.m., goes for lunch and buys him a souvenir or gift before going to the game,” Adams added. They all sit together behind the Aggie Band.
Bramlett noted that both Corps and civilian students host the visitors and are glad to be a “big brother for a day.”
WEATHERFriday — Partly cloudy, afternoon rainshowers. Wind Northerly 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 74, low 52.Kyle Field — Clear to partly cloudy, wind Westerly 10 to 15 m.p.h. 74°. No rain.
en. Schriever Speaks Tonight n National Defense Policies
Retired Air Force Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, whose 33 years mili- lary experience ranged from piloting bombers to heading the jtomplex Air Force Systems Command, will be presented tonight >y Great Issues on “National Defense Policies and Priorities.”
General Schriever, 59, directed the nation’s highest priority project, development of the Air Force ballistic missile program and initial space programs, as AFSC commander.
Great Issues chairman Tom Fitzhugh of Waco said the 8 p.m. presentation will be in the Architecture auditorium.
Fitzhugh noted that admission will not be charged to General Schriever’s talk but that financial Patronage contributions by participating faculty-staff members and townspeople are solicited.
Great Issues, Political Forum and Contemporary Arts Committees of the Memorial Student Center provide A&M students and interested local patrons insight into current political and social issues and contemporary art forms at no charge, depending upon subscriptions to finance the respective programs.
A 1931 A&M graduate in architecture, General Schriever was one of the first Distinguished Alumni designated by the university and has appeared frequently at campus events. The Washington, D. C., consultant firm owner was speaker at the 1958 Mtister and will make the principal address Saturday morning at the post-World War II memorial dedication in the Cadet Corps dormitory area.
The San Antonio son who was
InvitationThe Corps of Cadets wishes to invite all civilian stu
dents, staff, and faculty of Texas A&M University to the dedication of the Memorial Meditation Garden at 9:30 a. m. on November 8 1969.
This memorial honors the more than three-hundred Aggies who have given their lives in the service of their country since World War II.
We would like all students to join with us in paying this tribute to those Aggies who have made the supreme sacrifice for our country.
Your attendance will be greatly appreciated and will help to make this a fitting tribute to these fallen Aggies.
Mathew R. Carroll Cadet Colonel of the Corps Commanding
born in Bi'emen, Germany, began his military career the year he graduated from A&M, accepting a reserve appointment in the field artillery. He entered flight training at Randolph Field in 1932 and received his wings and commission in June, 1933, at Kelly Field.
While inactive during 1937, Schriever was a commercial airline pilot.
Reactivated in 1938, he attended the Air Corps Engineer School and later studied at Stanford for a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering and the National War College.
Assigned with the 19th Bomb Group in the Southwest Pacific in 1942, the officers who holds the Distinguished Service Medal Ivith Oak Leaf Cluster, Legion of Merit, Air Medal and Purple Heart participated in Bismarck Archipelago, Leyte, Luzon, Papua, North Solomon, South Philippine and Ryukyu campaigns.
His later assignments included chief of staff, 5th Air Force Service Command, and the Far East Air Service Command.
General Schriever was assigned command of the Air Research and Development Center, later to become the AFSC, in 1959 and also directed the Manned Orbiting
University National Bank“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—Adv.
Laboratory program in addition to other duties.
Under his leadership, the Atlas,Titan, Thor and Minuteman ballistic missiles were developed along with complex systems for their launching, tracking and ground support. The propulsion, guidance and management techniques developed for the Air Force ballistic missile program served at the base of the U. S. space program.
General Schriever retired in August, 1966. He was appointed last year as a special consultant for business participation in Housing and Urban Development.
Bonfire Meetings Planned Tonight
Two Bonfire safety meetings will be held tonight, Head Yell Leader Sam Tom has announced.
One, for all people who plan to be wielding an ax, will be at 7:30 in the Grove, he said.
The other, also at 7:30, will be for freshmen in particular, he said, as well as for all students who have not worked on Bonfire before. It will be held in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student Center, he noted.
Bryan Building & L*>an BYE-BYE BIRDIEssocia ion. our av- ^ peacock at the Aububon Park Zoo in New Orleans takes to a tree to give chase to a
mg ,en er, since . ca^ jnyadjng the compond. The kitten decided to go out on a limb rather than meet upBB&Li —Adv. with the brave (and presumably angry) bird. (AP Wirephoto)
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