Weather j:;: SATURDAY—Clear to partly cloudy, g :|:i winds southerly 10 to 15 m.p.h. High 68. Low 42. SUNDAY—Partly cloudy to cloudy, :£ •i;: winds'southerly 10 to 20 m.p.h. High Che Battalion g: 72. Low 48. £: Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1967 Number 399 Mathis Show Set For Monday Night Tickets Remain On Sale At MSC Tickets to the Monday Johnny “Our Young Generation,” He Mathis Show at Texas A&M went selected the five boys and five aiiii on sale to the general public to­ girls in the group from more than day in the Memorial Student 300 students. Center Student Program Office. The youngsters also have a 20- Sammy Pearson, MSC Town minute segment of the show to Hall chairman, said 3,500 tickets themselves, allowing Johnny a were picked up in two days this breather while they take the spot­ week by students with activity light to sing, dance and “live it cards. Students may still use up.” their activity cards to obtain Mathis sings in English, llll tickets, he added, although tickets French, Spanish, Italian, Portu­ i are being issued on a first-come, guese and Hebrew in his quest to I first-served basis. present new and unique material. ' The show is set for 8 p.m. in One of his latest albums, “Ole,” G. Rollie White Coliseum, which utilizes the music of Portugal and seats 8,000. Spain. Mathis will be backed up by his The brown-eyed Mathis keeps own orchestra and a group of ten his conversation on stage to a singers and dancers billed as minimum. “The fact is, I have always had CUPID’S MESSAGE the feeling that the public is pay­ An enormous foot-and-a-half-wide box of candy should Howze Presents ing to hear me sing, not talk,” convey the Valentine message for senior Robert McLeroy. Mathis remarks. “Therefore, by Candi Jacob, MSC gift shop employee, aids in selection. keeping my gab down to just a Fourth In Series few words while I perform, I’m able to sing three or four songs Of R0TC Talks more than if I started telling Debus Is Featured Speaker Gen. Hamilton H. Howze, U. S. jokes or getting ‘cute’ with the Army (ret.), will deliver a Fourth audience.” TOWN HALL PERFORMER Army ROTC guest lecture here Johnny’s songs for Town Hall For Coming ‘Space Fiesta’ will be from his more popular Singing- star Johnny Mathis brings his Monday for a Town Hall performance at Wednesday. Dr. Kurt H. Debus, director of University at Maxwell AFB, Ala., “Our Young Generation” show to A&M G. Rollie White Coliseum. Col. D. L. Baker, commandant albums, including “Tender Is the Night,” “This Is Love,” “Johnny,” the John F. Kennedy Space Cen­ will review both manned and un­ of cadets, said General Howze’s “Faithfully,” “Romantically,” “So ter, will be a featured speaker manned programs April 7. address, “The Battle of Chancel- Nice,” “The Shadow of Your during Texas A&M’s “Space Fies­ Static displays of space-related lorsville,” will be at 5:15 p.m. in Smile,” “Sweetheart Tree,” and ta” April 2-9. equipment and photographs will Singing Cadets Announce the Memorial Student Center Dr. Debus will describe NASA be exhibited during Space Fiesta. “Open Fire-Two Guitars.” Ballroom. Town Hall season tickets are launch facilities and operations Space Fiesta is sponsored by “The lecture is open to any­ good for the show. at Cape Kennedy and the Adja­ the Great Issues Committee of one interested in Civil War his­ cent spaceport in an April 3 ad­ A&M’s Memorial Student Center. Schedule Of Spring Events tory,” Baker noted. dress at A&M’s Memorial Stu­ Vice president for product dent Center. By PATRICIA HILL a salute to Stephen Foster, songs Civic Auditorium and will be planning at Textron’s Bell Heli­ Students Still The launch organization Debus Book Published Battalion Staff Writer of the Revolutionary, Civil and sponsored by the Bryan-College copter Co. in Fort Worth, Gen­ directs has conducted more than Robert L. Boone, director of the World Wars and portions of the Station A&M Mother’s Club. For eral Howze will be in charge of Break Costly 150 launches of military missiles By A&M Profs Texas A&M Singring Cadets, an­ “Testament of Freedom.” the first time, admission will be three Bell helicopters in which and space vehicles including the nounced today that the organiza­ The Cadets will go from Hous­ charged and the proceeds will go Army ROTC students will get first U. S. earth satellite, Ex­ A new design workbook by En­ tion had a busy schedule ahead ton to Baytown for another con­ toward a scholarship fund. orientation rides. Flights Wed­ Traffic Rules plorer I in 1958; the first man­ gineering Graphics Department of it this spring. cert March 18 and from there The Singing Cadets will repre­ nesday afternoon will originate ned, suborbital flight of Freedom professors has been published, announced Dr. Jim Earle, depart­ On March 17 the cadets will they will travel back to Houston sent A&M in the television pres­ from the Duncan Dining Hall Some Aggies are perhaps una­ 7 in 1961; and 10 successful ment head. leave by chartered bus to Hous­ to present “The Prodical Son” at entation of Talent ’67, singing drill field, Colonel Baker said. ware that each day they are vio­ launches of NASA’s Saturn I “Design and Descriptive Geom­ ton to present an 8:15 p.m. con­ the First Baptist Church in “There is Nothin’ Like a Dame.” The general’s lecture will in­ lating traffic and parking regu­ vehicles. lations of Texas A&M Univer­ etry Problems II” is the joint ef­ cert at the new Jones Hall for the Spring Branch. Boone said at the present time clude direct quotes from a diary Dr. Debus is currently engaged They will again take to the the cadets are holding auditions of his grandfather, a second lieu­ sity. in Apollo/Saturn programs. fort of Dr. Earle and engineering Performing Arts. The concert graphics faculty members Sam open road March 31 and head to­ to fill spaces left by students who tenant at the Chancellorsville “Many students continue to Numerous honors have been will consist of the major work, Cleland, John Oliver, Lawrence ward San Antonio. The first are no longer in the organization. battle. use their vehicles to get to classes made to Dr. Debus for unique “The Prodical Son,” folk songs, Stark, Paul Mason, North Bar- stop on that trip will be at Camp The engagement is considered and to make errands on the cam­ technical accomplishments. He dell and Michael Guerard. Gary, near San Marcus, where Gen. Robrt E. Lee’s finest hour. pus,” Campus Security Office holds the U. S. Army’s highest they will present three concerts. Combined Confederate forces un­ Chief, Ed Powell, said, “and this The 90-page workbook, initially Picture Exhibit civilian decoration, the Excep­ published by Taylor, will be used Prisoner List Boone explained that because der his and Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) causes traffic congestion and tional Civilian Service Medal, and in Engineering Graphics 106, the auditorium at Camp Gary Slated For MSC Jackson’s commands performed a parking problems for staff and NASA's Outstanding Leadership Earle said. Reaches 354 only holds 1,000 students it will An award-winning picture ex­ classic example of a double en­ faculty personnel who are author­ Award. “We’ll put it to use in our be necessary to present multiple hibit of the Texas Fine Arts As­ velopment to overcome numer­ ized to use their vehicles.” Space Fiesta Chairman Harry classes, work the bugs out and programs in order for all students sociation will be displayed in the ically superior Yankee forces in As stated in the traffic-park­ In Viet War Britt said two additional pro­ then send it to Addison-Wesley to hear the cadets. Memorial Student Center Feb. 12- the Virginia encounter. The ing regulations: “(Student) ve­ hicles must not be taken from grams will feature renown speak­ publishers in Redding, Mass.” WASHINGTON OP)—The John­ The cadets will then go on to 18. Rebel victory led to penetration son administration now lists 354 their assigned parking areas for ers. “This project was started to San Antonio, where they will Mrs. Ann Keel, MSC social di­ northward and the Battle of men as possible prisoners of the purpose of attending classes Jack N. James, deputy assist­ keep materials up to date,” the sing at the San Antonio College rector, said the 20-picture exhibit Gettysburg. North Vietnam, government offi­ or for making other campus stops ant director for lunar and planet­ department head went on. auditorium March 31. The next was cited by juries of the 1966 His 35 years distinguished cials disclosed Thursday, with no during business hours.” ary projects at the Jet Propul­ “Through it, we keep our instruc­ night they will be guests at a State Citation Exhibition and the service includes commands of U. signs that Hanoi is willing to ne­ “The term ‘business hours’ is sion Laboratory in California, tion in line with industrial re­ SAC party. Since that is April Fall Invitational Exhibit, both S. forces in Korea from which he gotiate an exchange or permit interpreted to be from 8:00 a.m. will speak April 5 about past and quirements and practical engi­ Fool’s Day the cadets are not real sponsored by the TFAA. retired, Eighth Army, STRAC, neutral inspection of prisoner fa­ to 5:00 p.m., except 7:00 a.m. to future unmanned spacecraft op­ neering applications.” sure what to expect! cilities. The collection includes oils, 18th Airborne Corps, 82nd Air­ 5:00 p.m. during June, July and erations. “Design problems included in Sources emphasized in inter­ The group will conclude its trip crayon drawings, charcoals and borne Division and the 13th August. Business hours on Sat­ The U. S. Air Force Aerospace the book parallel those found in serigraphs. views that the United States re­ April 2 with a performance at a Armored Regiment. urdays end at noon.” Presentation Team from the Air the profession.” mains in the dark on the health San Antonio church. and well-being of the growing Other important engagements body of American prisoners of on the Singing Cadets’ spring war in North Vietnam, despite agenda include Muster, held an­ recent reports from U.S. visitors English-Type Texan Coed nually at Texas A&M, and the to Hanoi. group’s annual spring concert. As of Wednesday, officials This year the spring concert said, the administration listed 113 will be presented at the Bryan men as known prisoners of war, Finds Adjustment Difficult 48 as suspected captives, and 193 as missing over North Vietnam. By JOHN HOTARD there she went to England to of which have been produced in Nearly all the POWs are pilots. Aggie Exes Battalion Special Writer school and later studied in Swit­ the Fallout Theatre. One of them, U. S. airmen are being shot down Take someone educated in the zerland and Italy. Then she “Leave of Absence,” has been and placed in the government’s British school system and place moved to Texas. presented seven times. “possible prisoner” category at a Plan Meeting her in an American History class “The flatness of Texas and the Besides going to school, Miss rate of 25 a month. Leaders of the Texas A&M for the first time. Have the pro­ length of the trains really im­ Flynn is now part-time secretary Officials, while making clear Former Students Association will fessor start discussing Vicksburg, pressed me when I first arrived,” for the Aggie Players and part- all POW reports are welcome, meet on the campus Saturday to Gettysburg and Sherman’s march she said. time secretary in the Department said the recent Hanoi visit by elect officers and study ways to to the sea. “Driving on the right side of of Physiology and Pharmacology. four women and three clergymen involve exes in the university. Pretty soon a voice from the the road also took getting used She also likes to cook, sew and produced little substantial infor­ back will ask, in a distinct Brit­ to.” knit, but doesn’t find much time A luncheon for 250 graduates mation about the status of U. S. ish accent, “Would you please She started work as a secre­ for it. POWs. representing A&M classes, clubs tell me again which side General tary in the College of Veterinary and geographical districts fea­ The big problem still comes Those U. S. officials who are Grant was on?” Medicine and later was a tech­ when she opens her mouth. After concerned with the administra­ tures a report from A&M Presi­ So it was with Frances Flynn, nician in the Chemistry Depart­ dent Earl Rudder and Head Foot­ being in Texas for four years, tion’s prisoner problems empha­ who came to A&M in 1962 to ment. She enrolled in school in her accent now ranges about half­ ball Coach Gene Stallings. sized there is some evidence that work and later enrolled as a part- the fall of 1964 and is now major­ way between Lady Bird’s and the American POWs are receiving Activities in the morning in­ time student. ing in Modem Languages. Queen Mother’s. People on the adequate food and medical care, clude a session for class agents “It got downright confusing As a member of the A g g i e other end of the telephone think but beyond that little else is and a workshop for club officers. when you were expected to know Players, Miss Flynn had the lead they’ve been connected with the in “Death of Satan” and played known about their treatment. the difference between Grant, British Embassy. Former students from major the role of Luciana in “Comedy Lee, Blue, Gray, North, South, “They always ask me where “Sure, he’s not beaten up,” one cities in Texas and every sena­ Yankees, Rebels, Confederacy, of Errors.” She also participated top official said of the American torial district in the Lone Star I’m from and I tell ’em that I’m Union and which side sang ‘Dix­ in the 1965 and 1966 Aggie Fol­ from Texas,” she said. “That State, plus representatives from POW. “His fingernails aren’t be­ ie’,” she said. lies and was lighting director for really confuses them.” ing torn out or anything like that as far away as Los Angeles, Miss Flynn was bbm in Bryan, “Death of a Salesman.” —but where’s he been for the Calif., New York Ctiy and Mexico making her a Tex ah by birth, but She is also active in the Fallout University National Bank past 12 months—that’s what we City are expected for the one-day FRANCES FLYNN moved to Venezuela when she Theater—in acting and writing. “On the side of Texas A&M” —Adv. want to know.” meeting. Native Texan with. British accent. (See 3tory.) was three months old. From She has written seven plays, five