University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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race. The only two contested positions in the entire election was a seat in Communication in which Donna Englander received 105 votes and Alan Erwin got 103. A recount showed no change. A Law seat in which Royce Lamberth won over Jim Haynes by a margin of 5 votes, 249-244. A total of 4,834 students voted with Communication having the highest percentage of voters at 33 percent. Thursday, 27th Good Grief! To be shamed like that! ' The Great Pumkin ' failed poor Linus again but this time in front of a nation-wide viewing audience of 5 million. Poor Linus, accompanied by his faithful friend Pepper- mint Pattye, sat in a pumpkin patch 30 minutes, missing trick-or-treats and a wild Halloween party attended by the rest of the gang, only to be left alone and pumpkinless at the end. Friday, 28th To make up for Linus ' embarrassment, The Great Pumpkin Carving Contest took place on the Union Patio with twenty entries in categories including most sincere, most secure and happiest. The most secure pumpkin belonged to the Alpha Delta Pi pledges, the most sincere went to the Alpha Xi Deltas and the happiest was carved by Century House. The Great Pumpkin was sported by the Eta Sigma Phis. Saturday, 29th The Ponies from the north invaded the home of the original longhorn and with the help of a field goal by John Partee inched by the unsuspecting ' Horns 13-12. Mary Ann Mellenbruch and Jack Leroy Howe Jr., were named Outstanding Girl and Boy. Sunday, 30th Dr. Juscelino Kubitschek, former president of Brazil, arrived in Austin to fulfill his duties as a Visiting Fellow at the University. Monday, 31st Campus Chest ' s Dimes Day on campus brought hundreds of costumed coeds and fraternity men to campus with such gimmicks as a map of the best parking places in town and passion punch to get dimes for the campus March of Dimes drive. Delta Gamma took the grand trophy for sorority division, and the Phi Gams won the fraternity division. Sigma Delta Tau collected the most money. NOVEMBER Tuesday, 1st Dr. Juscelino Kubitschek, former president of Brazil, in a speech on campus called for more American aid and development in order to make Latin America one of the great leaders of the world and a strong ally of the United States. President Johnson ended his Asian tour, jetted to Alaska, and finally settled down in Washington for a long and well-deserved nap. Wednesday, 2nd W. W. Heath, chairman of the Board of Regents of The University system, resigned effective Dec. 1 due to a conflict of business and responsibility to the University. He had served eight years on the board and four as chairman. Gamma Alpha Chi, national sorority for women in advertising, named the University chapter, Alpha Nu, the top chapter in the nation. Thursday, 3rd Gentle Thursday took over the campus with balloons, pets, children, flowers, flutes, bands, picnics, and lollipops filling the campus with the most original and charming idea since Eeyore ' s Birthday Party. Words such as gentleness and love were written all over campus and even staid old George Washington sported a bright red balloon. Ousted A M Battalion Editor Thomas DeFrank was nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship. Friday, 4th The Freshman Council Advisory Board was elected Wick Allison, Tom McGregor, Steven Carsey, and Jeff Kline. Secretary will be Gail Spencer. In a revenge game, the Texas Yearlings continued unbeaten and slipped past the TCU Wogs 14-12 in Memorial Stadium. Saturday, 5th The election of Frank Erwin as succeeding chairman of the Board of Regents was announced at Regents meeting in Waco. The Austin attorney and ex- national Democratic chairman will serve with Jack S. Josey as his Vice-Chairman. The Longhorns and their faithful caravan travelled to Waco Saturday to teach the Baylor Bears a lesson they have been learning 10 years. This year the tune was 26-14. Chris Gilbert estab- lished a new ' Horn record by totaling 238 yards in the game. In the final meeting of the Texas State Teachers ' Association, Governor John Connally, with his political invincibility showing, received a standing ovation from the state educators after telling them he couldn ' t promise a teachers ' pay raise in the next session of the legislature. Alpha Delta Pi sorority won first place in Sigma Chi Derby Day, furthering the campus ' donation to the March of Dimes. Mary Ann Spears was named Miss Campus Chest. Sunday, 6th President Johnson announced that future draft calls may be cut in half, with increasingly fewer Americans being sent to Viet Nam in the future. Tuesday, 8th Senator John Tower, in a sweeping Repub- lican victory termed by CBS a repudiation of the Great Society, rode to a victory against Demo challenger Waggoner Carr, dealing a blow to Texas Democratic prestige. Arkansas elected a Republican for the first time since Reconstruction and Massachusetts sent a Negro to the Senate another first. Wednesday, 9th Wednesday was censorship day on campus with Austin police pressuring a crowd gathered in the University Y to see Jack Smith ' s Flaming Creatures not to show the movie it wasn ' t shown. The General Student Organization Committee met in order to confirm whether or not they possessed enough power to ban SDS newspaper, The Rag, from the campus, due to obscenities it contains. Thursday, 10th Author Truman Capote brought a touch of early Christmas to the campus by closing his reading program with A Christmas Memory. The over-flow crowd drifted out in the night with a spellbound feeling of Christmas Eve. Friday, llth A high school student in Mesa, Ariz., with no apparent reason walked into a beauty school, forced the customers and operators to lie on the floor, and shot them leaving five dead and two seriously wounded. His reason to be like those guys in Austin and Chicago. Saturday, 12th With David Conway setting a University field goal record with a 52-foot boomer and Chris Gilbert reaching a season total of 943 yards rushing, sixth best in conference history with the season not yet complete, the Longhorns beat the TCU ' Frogs 13-3. New Braunfels ' Wurstfest, with flowing beer and delicious sausage, at- tracted as many University students as any CEC event. Monday, 14th Gemini Twins James Lovell Jr. and Edwin Aldrin Jr. ended their historic four-day mission through space in one of the most successful flights in this country ' s efforts to reach the moon. Tuesday, 15th The Splashdown of Gemini 12 was today and not Monday as previously stated. However, I failed to mention Monday: Cleveland Cat Williams purred through three kittenish rounds with champion Cassius Clay in the Dome, finally tiring out in the third round a TKO for Clay. The University of Texas at Arlington officially invited Greek organizations to establish colonies and chapters on the flat, surburban campus near Dallas. Wednesday, 16th President Johnson pulled through two operations throat and abdomen with flying colors, sending the New York stock Market soaring. The Austin Page 75

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Friday, 30th Tremendously powerful killer Inez, after her anti-communist 160 miles per hour winds devastated Cuba ' s banana, sugar, and tobacco crops, turned north and headed for Florida with much weaker winds but only after leaving a death total of more than 1,300 over the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean. Late registration figures reached a high of 27.286. OCTOBER Saturday. 1st Sparked by an emotional contagion after an injury took Super Bill Bradley out of the stadium, the Longhorns, under the supervision of impressive Andy- White, crushed Indiana 35-0. The Student Court gave the Student Assembly permission to choose a new vice president from its own ranks. Sunday, 2nd The Board of Regents of the University gave the go-ahead for Texas Student Publications to plan their new building which will house complete printing facilities for The Daily Texan and all student publication offices. A 24-hour communication system for students needing advice or information was instituted. Monday, 3rd Former President Eisenhower hinted he would not rule out the use of nuclear devices in Viet Nam were he president. The Dow-Jones average hit rock bottom 757.96 the lowest point since the Kennedy assassination. Campus Young Republicans celebrated their 30th year at the University and their biggest membership in that 30-year history, 1,050. Tuesday, 4th Hurricane Inez turned around and moved into the Gulf of Mexico, regained strength, and aimed at the Gulf Coast of the United States. Quarterback Andy White told a Texan reporter he turned down Yale, Princeton, and Brown for Texas ' Plan II program and Darrell Royal football. Wednesday, 5th Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald mesmerized an overflow audience in Municipal Audi- torium with performance number one of the Cultural Entertainment Committee year. The Rep Party held its first meeting of the year at the Kappa Alpha fraternity house to select a list of candidates for the Oct. 26 general election apparently with no competing party. Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overthrew Jack Ruby ' s convic- tion of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald and granted a new trial outside Dallas County. Thursday, 6th John Goodman, College of Business Admin- istration representative to the Assembly, was elected vice president of the Assembly. Coach Darrell Royal announced that Super-Bill would be ready for the Arkansas game. Law student Bob Sohn was voted as the Assembly ' s appointment to the Union Board of Directors. Texas Yearlings won their first game 13-7 with a last minute defensive effort over the Baylor Cubs. Friday, 7th A mass desertion of campus began as the famous OU-Weekend called students to Dallas for the annual orgy. In the Gulf of Mexico, Inez, now one of the oldest hurricanes in the history of weather forecasting, made advances on the Mexican and Texan coastlines with residents from Tampico to Galveston holding their breath. Officials at Texas A M announced the dismissal of Battalion Editor Tommy DeFrank and his top two aides for undisclosed reasons. Saturday, 8th Ending a nine-year dry spell in the state of Oklahoma, the Sooners kicked their way to an 18-9 victory over the Longhorns in the Dallas Cotton Bowl, while little Baylor, the only long-time school in the Southwest Conference never to have won the conference title, crumbled Arkansas ' fortress in the Ozarks with an unexpected 7-0 victory over the Hogs. Sunday, 9th The Baltimore Orioles swept the World Series in their fourth game by a score of 1-0, leaving Los Angeles scoreless for a world series record of 29 straight innings. The University campus slowly came back to life as the Dallas travelers returned and those who stayed in Austin came out of hiding. Monday, 10th Texan Editor John Economidy called for an end to the charges that the Texan was no longer a voice in student affairs as he stated that he had written many more editorials to date than his feminine ancestor Kay Northcott. The Rag, a small satire of the Texan, sold 1,500 copies its first day. The Supreme Court refused to hear Madelyn Murray O ' Hair ' s suit against the church, thus saying the United States will not tax the churches. Tuesday, llth Fall general elections got underway with 32 candidates filing for the 18 available seats. The stock market began an upward trend, ending a month of record-breaking losses. Friday, 14th Theta Xi fraternity won the Arkansas Sign Painting contest with their entry Chop Sooey. Texas ' pep rally turned into a near-riot with an estimated 700 persons running wild on the campus after the official pep rally until about 3 a.m. Saturday, 15th Texas bowed to Arkansas for the third year in a row by a score of 12-7. The pigs ran wild as 55,000 proud but dejected Longhorns left Memorial Stadium and hibernated Saturday night leaving Austin unusually quiet. Sunday, 16th Six outstanding University men were initi- ated into the Friar Society Tommy Neal Cowan, David Lambert, Terry Peterson, Platt Davis, Patrick Oxford, and Joe Bill Watkins. Monday, 17th Cartoonist Bill Mauldin advised the journal- ists in his audience to acquire a sense of ethics as he spoke in the Union. Wednesday, 19th Speaker of the Texas House Ben Barnes spoke on campus urging students to support Waggoner Carr in the November senatorial election. Thursday, 20th President Johnson left Washington for a tour of the Pacific, beginning with a win in Viet Nam speech in Canberra, Australia. Friday, 21st Robert Prather, candidate for Communica- tion Assemblyman, withdrew from the race after charges of bribery made the campaign interesting and promised a big turn-out. The 89th Congress adjourned with a history of legislation President Johnson termed the greatest in history. Saturday, 22nd The Longhorns proved they were in the Southwest Conference race as they held the Rice Owls to a 14-6 win. Superbill was back in fine form and end Mike Robuck found himself in a lineman ' s dream as he intercepted a deflected Rice pass and ran 90 yards for a ' Horn touchdown. Student Life office announced that University men, with a 1.416 GPA, are less studious than women, with a 1.619. Monday, 24th The last day of the Manila Peace Conference came to a close with major leaders agreeing on just about everything but the issues of the Viet Nam war. The stock market began a rally upward for the first time in months, closing at 787.75. Tuesday, 25th American Allies in Viet Nam resolved to stay in Viet Nam until the war ends. A theft of suits, sports coats, and other clothing totaling $4,300 wiped out the winter inventory of Jack Morton ' s on the Drag. Wednesday, 26th Representative Party swept the fall gen- eral elections winning big majorities in almost every Page 74

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r President Johnson visited with the GI ' s at Cam Ranh Bay, South Viet Nam. i -US NOVEMBER (Continued) Council For Retarded Children announced that a $30,000 building soon to be built will be dedicated to the Texas Cowboys for their tremendous amount of work put into the council ' s present facilities. Thursday, 17th The Student Assembly voted to drop its support of the Dallas OU Weekend Saturday night dance due to complaints of the body supporting such a wild orgy. Austin shopping centers, including drag merchants, erected their Christmas decorations a week earlier than usual. Friday, 18th The Shorthorns tied the A M Fish 17-17, ending up first place in the Southwest Conference Fresh- man race. Saturday, 19th Blue jokes and beautiful sweetheart nom- inees added to more than $5,000 for the Austin Council for Retarded Children as the Cowboy Minstrels grossed out a full house for the fourteenth straight year. President Johnson returned to Central Texas for recuperation during the coming holidays. Texas Tech upset Arkansas 20-16. Sunday, 20th Life Magazine said Gov. John Connally told one of their reporters the Warren Commission did not fully print his statement he feels the bullet which hit him did not come through the body of assassinated Presi- dent Kennedy, but came from another gun because of the time element involved. UT soccer men topped Houston 5-4 for a championship of their own class. Tuesday, 22nd The Board of Regents announced general price increase for all University dorms which will average from $60-90 a year. Freshman attendance of classes was made compulsory by a faculty vote. Peanuts ' Charley Brown got nudged by a car in the line of duty while on safety patrol. Thursday, 24th For the tenth straight year, Texas Long- horns rolled over the Texas Aggies 22-14 in front of a capacity crowd in Austin. Texas accepted a Bluebonnet Bowl invitation after the game. Saturday, 26th TCU fell 21-0 to a determined SMU eleven, putting SMU in the Cotton Bowl with a Southwest Con- ference title for the first time since 1948. Sunday, 27th Rumors filled the world press from reliable sources in Asia that Chinese philosopher and demi-god Ho Chi Min was booted out by his own Red Guard and the Chinese Communist military. Monday, 28th Acacia fraternity was awarded Best All Around trophy for the annual Aggie Sign Contest for their Dump On the Aggies creation. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Harlem ' s controversial Congressman, was ordered arrested by the Supreme Court of New York State if he ever set foot in the state which he represents for failure to pay a libel suit he lost. Tuesday, 29th Twenty-six law students from Mexico were made honorary Texans as they visited the University campus on an exchange program between the two coun- tries represented. President Johnson announced a $5.3 billion spending cut for the remainder of the fiscal year. Truman Capote gave the in party of the year at The Plaza in New York City with everyone who is anyone Page 76