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A FIRST-DOWN GAINERTailback Larry Stegent takes a second-quarter Charlie Riggs pass against Florida State and goes 11 yards for a first down. FSU’s Mike Blatt halts the action. Stegent made a suggestion.

. . . LED TO A LONGER PASS . . .Edd Hargett took the suggestion and hit Stegent wide-open two minutes later. Here he has out-distanced the defenders and is cross­ing the Florida State 20-yard line en route to a touchdown.

. . . THAT PRODUCED A TOUCHDOWNStegent crosses the goal, bringing the Aggies’ lead to 9-0 in the second quarter. Florida State came back in the second half to post a 19-18 victory. See story, page 4. (Photos by Dave Davis)

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Kathy Heldman Selected 1967-68 Aggie SweetheartfeTWt/ Sophomore Is Music MajorPetite Kathy Heldman of Cald­

well, a sophomore music major at Texas Woman’s University, is the 1967-68 Aggie Sweetheart.

The 19-year-old brunette, one of 14 TWU finalists vying for the honor of representing Texas A&M’s 12,000 students, was named Sunday and will be formal­ly presented to the student body at the A&M-TCU football game at Fort Worth Oct. 21.

Kathy, who stands 5-4, is prob­ably more closely associated with A&M than any other Aggie Sweetheart in history. Both of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Heldman, are employed at the university. They commute daily from Caldwell, a small town 23 miles west of College Station.

THE 14 finalist were weekend guests of the A&M Student Sen­ate and participated in a full round of campus activities, in-

drenching at the A&M- State game Saturday

Diver To Address OceanographyClub

Lt. Cmdr. Don Walsh, who has made the world’s deepest sea dive, 35,000 feet, in the Trieste Bathy- scope, will speak to the Ocean­ography Club at 7:30 tonight in room 2B of the Memorial Student Center.

His topic will be “The Ocean From Space.”

Commander Walsh received his master’s degree from A&M in January and is now serving in the United States Navy.

University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M”

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eluding Florida night.

Following the Aggie Sweet­heart selection, the finalists named Student Senate Vice Presi­dent Bill Carter “Mr. Congenial­ity.” The junior from Decatur was one of the escorts for the girls.

Kathy, a music-voice major, has dark brown hair and brown eyes. Her over-all grade point ratio is 1.5.

Her activities at TWU include Freshman Talent Assembly as­sistant music director, Modern Choir counselor, Freshman Class Stunt and the Lass-0 Choraliers.

IN HER contest application, Kathy said her “most important experience” of the past months was her United Service Organiza­tion tour with the Choraliers this summer. The group sang for American armed forces in service clubs in southern Germany.

“To see so many smiling Amer­ican soldiers was great,” she wrote. “The people we met and the scenery we saw made this a memorable and educational sum­mer.”

Kathy says she has been “around A&M a long time.” Her father is employed at the A&M Press and her mother is an Ex­change Store employee.

“I’ll do my best to represent both TWU and A&M,” she said after the announcement, “and I know I can. I’d like to see the relationship between TWU and A&M even closer.”

Last year’s Aggie Sweetheart was Kathi Austin of Dallas.

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AGGIE SWEETHEARTKathy Heldman, Texas Woman’s University sophomore who was named the 1967-68 Ag­gie Sweetheart Sunday, gets a kiss on the cheek from Jerry Campbell of Center, Texas A&M student body president. Miss Heldman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Heldman of Caldwell, is studying music at TWU.

Mimms Recalls Background Of ‘Spirit Of Aggieland’

The author o f Texas A&M’s school song believes the second line of “The Spirit of Aggieland”

Coast Guard Admiral Named Maritime Academy Director

Rear Admiral James D. Craik, commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District at New Orleans until his retirement earlier this year, has been named superintend­ent of the Texas Maritime Acad­emy at Galveston.

The appointment, effective Nov. 1, was announced during a meet­ing Saturday of the Texas A&M University System Board of Di­rectors.

Admiral Craik, 56, succeeds Captain Bennett M. Dodson who established the academy five years ago and is now retiring.

SINCE GRADUATING from the U. S. Coast Guard Academy in 1932, Admiral Craik has served in a variety of line, staff and command positions. Prior to be­coming commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District in 1963, he was chief of staff and deputy area commander for the third district with headquarters in New York.

More than 10 of Admiral Craik’s 35-year Coast Guard Career have been spent at sea, with his last such assignment being captain of the cutter Cook Inlet.

During World War II, he served as commanding officer of the cut­ter Ingham. He later transferred to London where he was officer- in-charge of merchant marine de­tails for the Mediterranean, Na­ples and Suez areas.

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ADMIRAL CRAIK is a native of Andover, Mass. He is married and has one son, Willis, a student at Northeast Louisiana State Col­lege.

In other action affecting the Texas Maritime Academy, the board voted to increase the mem­bership for the academy’s Board of Visitors from 15 to 18.

Selected to fill the three new advisory positions were: RobertM. Calder of New Orleans, South­ern Division manager for United Fruit Company; Robert Paul Walker of Port Arthur, manager of Texaco’s U. S. fleet and Sydney Wire of Houston, assistant gen­eral manager for the Marine De­partment, Humble Oil Co.

The Texas Maritime Academy, a division of the Texas A&M Uni­versity System, is the newest of the nation’s six major accredited maritime academies and the only one on the Gulf Coast. It offers four-year courses of instruction leading to B.S. degrees in marine engineering or marine transpor­tation.

best describes why A&M is great.“. . . .There’s a Spirit can ne’er

be told. . . .”Marvin Mimms, 62, declared he

has never heard anyone satisfac­torily describe the spirit of Ag­gieland.

Background of the alma mater sung 41 years by Aggies was ex­plained Saturday at a Texas Ag­gie Band Association meeting. Mimms, of Banquete, was honored at the conclave and presented a plaque by Tom Murrah of San Antonio, TABA president.

“I had to stay in Marlin the summer of 1925 and put most of the ‘Spirit’ together then. It struck me that in the ‘Aggie War Hymn,’ we’re singing ‘Goodbye to Texas University’ when the team is playing TCU, Arkansas or any­body else,” Mimms recalled.

WHEN HE enrolled for his sen­ior year in September, 1926, he met with Col. Ike Ashburn, com­mandant, and Maj. Richard J. Dunn to discuss the school song. Dunn, the band director who later became a colonel, wrote the mel­ody.

A yell leader who was also an Aggie Band member, John D. (Jake) Langford Jr. of Tyler, taught the corps the “Spirit of Aggieland” in a yell practice on the steps of the YMCA that fall.

Mrs. Richard J. Dunn, widow of the late band director, was a

Bryan Building & Loan Association, Your Sav­ings Center, since 1919.

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special TABA guest Saturday.A bass horn player who gradu­

ated in 1933, C. N. (Newt) Hiel- scher of Shreveport, was master o f ceremonies. H e instructed bandsmen whose hair is depart­ing how to solve the problem.

“WIPE THE bald spot with a mixture of persimmon juice and alum. It doesn’t grow hair,” Heil- scher remarked. “It shrinks the bald spot and pulls the fringes together.”

A 1953 senior trombone player, Ed Cooper represented the uni­versity.

“The combined impact of the $100 million physical plant of Texas A&M, the greatest faculty in the school’s history, the largest and most intelligent student body we’ve ever had. . . .impress upon the people of this state that Tex­as A&M is emerging into great­ness,” the director of civilian stu­dent activities addressed 530 in attendance.

“But no unit, branch, division individual, building or research in­strument, or any of these com­bined, has done as much as has the Aggie Band in winning the hearts of people,” Cooper went on.

The former assistant to Presi­dent Earl Rudder promised Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, bandmaster going on 22 years, that the as­sociation will be “your 12th Band —and we will march for you any time, any place and at whatever cadence you desire.”

Peterson Elected Board President

Fort Worth oilman L. F. Peter­son was elected president of the Texas A&M University System Board of Directors Saturday.

S. B. Whittenburg, publisher of the Amarillo News and Globe- Times and Lubbock Avalanche- Journal, was elected vice presi­dent.

Peterson succeeds H. C. Hel- denfels, a Corpus Christi con­tractor who has served two years as president and was recently appointed to his second six-year board term.

WHITTENBURG, who resides in Amarillo, takes over the posi­tion held the past two years by Clyde Wells, a Granbury rancher. Wells also was recently reap­pointed for another six-year term.

Peterson graduated from Texas A&M as a distinguished student in 1936 with a B.S. degree in petroleum engineering. He is a past president of the university’s Association of Former Students and was appointed to the board in 1963.

Whittenburg, a board member since 1959, attended the Univer­sity of Texas. He is a former member and chairman of the Board of Regents for Texas Woman’s University at Denton.

IN OTHER BOARD business, Rear Admiral James D. Craik, commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District at New Orleans until his retirement in June, was named superintendent of the Tex­as Maritime Academy at Gal­veston, effective Nov. 1.

Admiral Craik, 56, succeeds Captain Bennett M. Dodson who established the academy five years ago and is now retiring.

The board also increased the membership for the academy’s Board of Visitors from 15 to 18. Selected to fill the three new advisory positions were Robert M. Calder of New Orleans, south­ern division manager,for United Fruit Company; Robert Paul Walker of Port Arthur, manager of Texaco’s U. S. fleet, and Syd­ney Wire of Houston, assistant general manager for the Marine Department, Humble Oil Com­pany.

Other key personnel appoint­ments included naming James Harold Allen dean of men at Tarleton State College and Dr. Jarvis E. Miller assistant direc­tor for the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.

ALLEN JUST completed work on his master’s degree in edu­cational administration at East Texas State and had also been serving as a high school teacher- coach at Commerce. Dr. Jarvis joined A&M in 1955 and for the

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past two years has headed the university’s Agency for Inter­national Development (AID) con­tract work in the Dominican Re­public.

Turning to construction mat­ters, the board confirmed award of two contracts totaling $101,498 for electrical modifications in a 12-dormitory renovation project at Texas A&M and air-condition­ing a Prairie View A&M dining hall. The Texas A&M job went to Mabry Inc. of Bryan on the basis of its $73,502 low bid. B. Schwarz & Sons of Hempstead won the Prairie View project with a low bid of $27,996.

The board also appropriated $96,000 for planning and other preliminary expense for four proposed Texas A&M projects.

One of the projects, tying in with the new library addition, calls for development of a central campus mall. Another involves a major addition to the Chemistry Building. The remaining two projects provide for renovating and air-conditioning the YMCA and Agricultural Engineering Buildings.

AN ADDITIONAL $73,300 ap­propriation was made to meet planning and construction ex­penses to improve the university’s primary electrical distribution system.

In another item pertaining to electricity, the board authorized university officials to sign a six- year contract with the City of Bryan for an interchange of elec­trical power. The agreement would assure A&M an adequate source of stand-by power.

University official also received authorization to enter into an agreement with the City of Col­lege Station regarding use of sewage lines. The agreement al­lows the city to connect on to university sewage lines on the west side of the campus and al­lows the University to tie into city lines on the east side.

Additionally, the board author­ized advertisement of bid for furn­iture for Prairie View’s new li­brary addition and air-condition­ing a portion of the Texas A&M- owned U. S. Department of Agri­culture Building.

The board also formally ac­cepted gifts, grants and scholar­ships totaling $495,000 from more than 100 donors.

Fish Wear Spurs To ‘Dig’ Raiders

The black stallion ridden by Texas Tech’s Red Raiders will sport spur marks Saturday if Tex­as A&M freshmen have their way.

Traditional spurs normally worn by “fish” during the week before A&M’s game with South­ern Methodist were hastily being designed Sunday. The Aggies and SMU played one day after regis­tration.

The footgear will be worn this week instead, announced Neal Adams of Tyler, head yell leader.

Spurs are constructed of wire, bottle caps and soda pop cans. Designs range from simple one- prong spurs to elaborate contriv­ances of tin cans containing rocks, marbles or anything that rattles.

The idea, besides spurring the Red Raiders’ mount, is as much noise as possible.

First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings certif­icates. —Adv.

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