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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1964
Number 190
Registration Schedule
Registration for the Spring Semester 1964 will be con
ducted in Sbisa Hall. Registration cards will be issued in
accordance with the following schedule:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31
1:00 to 3:00—All whose surnames begin with G, H, I, J, K.
3:00 to 4:30—All whose surnames begin with A, B.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1
8:00 to 10:00—All whose surnames begin with T, U, V, W, X,
Y, Z.
10:00 to 11:00—All whose surnames begin with L, M, N, O.
1:00 to 3:00—All whose surnames begin with P, Q, R, S.
3:00 to 4:00—All whose surnames begin with C, D, E, F.
Texas Maritime Academy
Galveston Dedication Set
Solons,
Preside
Officials
Feb. 1
Chapel Gets New Night-Time Look
Officials from the B&U Department were new distinctive look at night. The mercury
experimenting with a new mercury vapor vapor lamps are one of several types that
lighting system for the All Faiths Chapel will be tried a spokesman for the depart-
Wednesday in an effort to give the chapel a ment said.
Former Students Groups
To Woo Prospective Aggies
Telling prospective Texas Ag
gies and their parents of A&M
University’s rich, varied program
is the aim of meetings to be
staged this weekend by Associa
tion of Former Students clubs in
several major cities.
This cooperative program is the
result of a challenge issued to
presidents of certain A&M clubs
by L. F. (Pete) Peterson of Fort
Worth, president of the Associa
tion.
Clubs in Corpus Christi, Dal
las, Fort Worth, Houston and
Waco already have expressed in-
Ags Can Increase
Career Day Group
Approximately 1000 high school
students are expected to be on
campus for the annual High School
Career Day to be held March 14.
'‘Although every high school in
the state is slated to receive noti
fication of the annual event, Ag
gies could greatly aid in increasing
the turn out by personally contact
ing high school students during the
midsemester break,” said Kenneth
Radde, chairman for publicity for
High School Career Day.
Radde added that letters would
be mailed to the guidance counse
lor or principal of each high school
in the state. A schedule of events
and poster will also be included.
Similar letters and material will
be sent to all Former Students As
sociations and Mothers Clubs in
Texas, asking them to assist in
publicizing the event.
He suggested Aggies point out
that High School Day is designed
to give prospective students a
close look at the educational facili
ties found here in their particular
field of interest.
Career Day will also enable them
to become familiar with the cam
pus, meet several of the student
leaders and talk with students
about the value of an education at
A&M.
The Inter Council, central plan
ning agency for Career Day, urged
students to invite high school stu
dents to come and spend the night
in the dorms because no arrange
ments have been made to provide
housing for the high school stu
dents this year, said D. L. Barke-
meyer, chairman of the High
School Career Day Committee for
the College of Engineering.
Career Day will officially begin
with registration in the Memorial
Student Center from 7:30 to 10:30
a.m. An opening session will be
held in Guion Hall at 10 a.m. with
A&M President Earl Rudder wel
coming the students.
Students will move to their area
of interest at 10:30. Those inter
ested in engineering will meet in
Guion Hall. Agriculture prospects
will meet in the Animal Industries
Building.
The students will have lunch in
one of the dining halls with a
guide from their department.
Barkemeyer said those students
who plan to study engineering
would be taken through their chos
en department where they will ob
serve various exhibits. There will
be students at the exhibits to an
swer any question which the high
school students may have.
“In engineering we are going to
try to conduct Career Day on a
more informal basis this year and
allow them to visit a specific de
partment rather than tour the en
tire College of Engineering,” said
Barkemeyer.
terest in prospects for staging
the program.
“On Saturday and Sunday when
the Association Board and Council
meet here, it is anticipated that
the presidents of clubs participa
ting will talk with Heaton, our
director of admissions, and me
about details of the program,”
Dean of Instruction W. J. Graff
said.
A&M President Earl Rudder has
appointed the dean as university
coordinator for the program.
The plan calls for the clubs to
sponsor programs in their re
spective cities in February or
March with all interested high
school seniors and their parents
invited to hear a group of A&M
administrators and faculty dis
cuss the program and outline op
portunities on the campus. Speci
fic information on the university,
its colleges, their curricula and the
student life program will be giv
en.
Dedication of A&M’s Texas Martimie Academy campus
in Galveston, rescheduled after the assassination of President
Kennedy, has been set for 2 p. m. Feb. 1.
Participating in the ceremonies will be A&M President
Earl Rudder, Lt. Gov. Preston Smith, Speaker of the House
Byron M. Tunnell, Adm. Edwin J. Roland, Commandant of
the Coast Guard, and Rear Adm. Charles Lyman, comman
dant of the Eighth Naval District.
ALSO SPEAKING will be Chancellor M. T. Harrington,
Sterling C. Evans, president of the A&M Board of Directors,
and Captain Thomas King, Gulf Coast Director of the U. S.
Maritime Administration.
Other speakers include
Clark W. Thompson of the
House of Representatives,
Aaron R. Schwartz of the Tex
as Senate and Carey Mayfield,
president of the Galveston Cham
ber of Commerce.
THE NEW SCHOOL, located
at the site of old Fort Crockett,
recently underwent an 18-month
program of repair and moderniz
ing, now matching facilities equal
to or better than those found
anywhere else, academy command
ant Bennett M. Dodson reported.
For the dedication, freshmen
maritime cadets, who are spend
ing their first year on campus
here, will join the sophomores in
Galveston.
One day after the dedication
ceremonies, 43 cadets will board
the Training Ship State of Maine
of the Maine Maritime Academy
as “working guests” for a cruise
in Caribbean waters.
Dodson said, “The training
cruises provide excellent oppor
tunities for cadets to prepare for
their future roles as seagoing
officers, as well as to visit inter
esting ports of the world.”
THE SEAGOING AGGIES will
return in April to resume class
room studies. The studies and
training cruises are preparation
leading to a university dgree, a
merchant marine officer’s license
and a career in the maritime in
dustries, Dodson stated.
“The first cruise on our ship
will be in June of ’65,” the academy
head noted.
Students who are presently
sophomores will be expected to
operate the training ship for the
1965 cruise.
DODSON EXPECTS enrollment
to increase rapidly in the near
future. The academy has 43 cadets
enrolled, with a maximum allow
able enrollment of 200.
“We expect to have more appli
cants than we can possibly take
care of,” Dodson commented on
the bright future of the school.
Research Grants
To Be Awarded
Six summer fellowships in
thermonuclear research again
will be awarded to Texas grad
uate students in physics, mathe
matics and engineering.
Notice of the fellowship pro
gram has been received by Grad
uate Dean Wayne C. Hall from
the General Atomic Division of
General Dynamics Corp. and the
Texas Atomic Energy Founda
tion. The foundation consists of
ten investor-owned utility com
panies operating in Texas.
The fellowships are tenable at
the John Jay Hopkins Labora
tory for Pure and Applied
Science in San Diego, Calif.
The stipend for a three-month
period ranges from $1,650 to $1,-
950. A dependent’s allowance is
available.
Further information may be
obtained at Dean Hall’s office.
SHSTC Courses
Offered Locally
Extension courses from Sam
Houston State Teachers College
will be offered this semester in the
Bryan-College Station area.
Practically any course in the
SHSTC catalogue will be offered
and will carry full college credit.
The only stipulation is that 15 peo
ple want the same course. In order
to determine the selection of cours
es, a meeting will be held tonight
at 7:30 in the A&M Consolidated
High School Auditorium.
Classes will be held one night a
week for 16 weeks at the school.
Cost of the courses will be $12 per
semester hour plus the cost of a
textbook.
The courses are under the spon
sorship of the Auxiliary to the
Texas Student Chapter of the
American Veterinary Medical As
sociation.
Space Fiesta Gets
Rocket Scientists
Willy Ley, the man who predict
ed man will be on the moon before
the end of the century, and a for
mer student of his, Wernher von
Braun, will be among the speakers
at the Space Fiesta Feb. 3-14.
The other speaker is an astro
naut, Major Robert A. Rushworth,
a U. S. Air Force X-15 pilot who
has flown the craft more than 50
miles into outer space to earn the
winged astronaut’s rating.
Rushworth will speak first, at
8 p.m. Feb. 7, followed by Ley on
Feb. 13 and von Braun Feb. 14.
THE SPACE FIESTA, now in
its second year, also will feature
an elaborate display of the nation’s
space flight equipment. The space
gear will be shown thi’oughout the
event.
Ley was von
Braun’s first tu
tor in rocket re-
search more than
30 years ago, and
he encouraged
the young scien
tist to join a pio
neering rocket re
search organiza
tion, the forerun
ner of the present
German Rocket
Society.
They got together again in 1956
to produce a book entitled “The
Exploration of Mars.” One of
Ley’s books, “Rockets, Missiles
and Space Travel,” has been re
vised completely three times and
has gone through 16 printings. All
of his books have German and
Italian editions, and some have
other foreign language editions.
Ley, who had planned to be a
geologist, actually got involved
with space travel as a result of
book reading, namely one on rock
et theory by Professor Hermann
Oserth in 1925. A year later, Ley
went to the publisher with his own,
“Trip Into Space.”
LEY
Mothers Club Slate
Executive Meeting
The Federation of A&M Moth
ers’ Clubs will hold an executive
board meeting on campus Feb. 1,
Mrs. J. O. McMahan of the assoc
iation announced.
Attending the meeting will be
14 officers on the executive board,
Mrs. McMahan, publicity advisor
and a Dallas resident, reported.
The list includes Mrs. M. T. Har
rington and Mrs. Earl Rudder,
honorary presidents.
IN 1935, AFTER THE ADVENT
OF HITLER, Willy Ley left Ger
many for “an extended vacation”
in England and arrived in the
United States later that year.
In America, Ley found the pub
lic and newspapers unsympathetic
to rocket theory and made what he
calls a “precarious living” writing
articles for national magazines.
During World War II, he served as
a consultant for the federal gov
ernment.
Ley’s work for the United
States, to some extent, involved
the German V-2 rockets that struck
London.
It was von Braun, now director
of NASA’s Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Ala., who had directed
the development of the V-2 rocket.
The Army project at Huntsville
involves a Saturn space vehicle.
Rushworth, a newcomer in the
space field compared to the other
speakers, became known after
flights with the X-15 rocket plane,
including one 54-mile jaunt.
The decorated World War II vet
eran proved the craft could with
stand heat of 1,250 degrees Fah
renheit on its speed brakes and
1,000-degree wing and fuselage
temperatures in separate flights.
He earlier had. guided the plane
in flight without the lower portion
of its central fin for the first time,
which proved the vehicle had
greater stability for re-entry to
denser atmosphere from extreme
altitudes.
2 A&M Officials
To See Dedication
Two A&M University officials
will participate in the Sunday
dedication of the new Institute
of Agriculture under construction
at Santiago in the Dominican Re
public.
They are Dr. M. T. Harrington,
chancellor of the A&M Univer
sity System, and Dr. G. M. Wat
kins, director of agricultural in
struction.
A&M is aiding the project by
providing technical advisors on
construction and organiza
tion. The institute is sponsored
by the Santiago Development As
sociation, a non-profit corpora
tion composed of business and
professional men in the Dominican
Republic.
A&M’s participation in the
school’s establishment and con
struction has been led by Presi
dent Earl Rudder.
Globetrotters Due
To Appear Here
^Battlefield Gear’
Studied By Army
WASHINGTON <A>) — Some
thing for which many a GI has
felt a need — “quick release
drawers” — has been devised by
a member of the Army’s Infan
try Board.
The proposal could have more
downright personal appeal to a
fighting man than new light
rifles, tactical nuclear firepower,
or defoliating chemicals for strip
ping leaves from trees.
And it could meet the cost-ef
fectiveness criteria now demand
ed by the Department of Defense.
The current edition of Infan
try Magazine, published at Ft.
Benning, Ga., home of the
board, explains the idea sug
gested by Lt. Col. James A. Sud-
derth — with pictures.
It is almost impossible to retain
permanent supremacy in the topsy
turvy world of sport. If there is
an exception to this rule, it is the
indestructable Harlem Globetrot
ters, who will appear here Feb. 10,
8 p.m., in G. Rollie White Coli
seum.
The Globetrotters, who are ap
pearing under the sponsorship of
the A&M Chapter of Sigma Delta
Chi, are currently in their thirty-
seventh season of action. They
hold every record for the cage
sport . . . victories, attendance and
miles traveled.
The stage upon which they pre
sent their fantastic show circles
the face of the globe and encom
passes the greatest and most en
thusiastic audience in sports his
tory. Millions follow this skilled
troupe day in and day out with
vervid devotion, to see their now-
you-see-it, now-you-don’t basket
ball magic.
When and how did the Globe
trotters acquire this, hypnotic,
yogi-like power they possess and
which they will present here ? How
can they, year after year, enthrall
people to the extent millions re
spond to their beck and call ?
Simply the formula is this:
A basketball, plus skill, plus en
tertainment and showmanship
equal a cool million dollars a year
revenue.
The actors may give way to time,
but the script remains the same.
It always clicks.
Batt Basketballers
To Play In Prelim
Which one is the ball?
That is the question Aggies
will be asking when the roly-
poly editor of The Battalion
takes the floor in gym shorts
and sneakers on Feb. 10.
It’s all in the game as the Batt
staff takes on the Brazos Valley
Press Club in a short basketball
game preceding the appearance
of the Harlem Globetrotters in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Also making short appear
ances in the pre-game fiasco for
the undefeated Batt men will be
the sports editor, otherwise
known as “toothpick,” and a
limey news editor who has never
had his 260 pounds on a basket
ball court before.
ROBERT HALL
Center, Harlem Globetrotters Basketball Team.
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
U. S. NEWS
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla.—Amer
ica’s newest communications satel
lite, Relay 2, successfully passed
its first series of communication
tests Wednesday and space agency
officials described its performance
as excellent.
The initial experiments were of
a technical and scientific nature—
transmission of voice reports, tele
vision test patterns and radio sig
nals—to check performance of the
satellite’s equipment.
★★★
WASHINGTON — Congress
will be asked to appropriate
$14.1 million for work on Ami-
stad Dam on the Rio Grande
near Del Rio, in the year begin
ning next July 1, Joseph Fried-
kin, U. S. commissioner on the
International Boundary and
Water Commission, said Wed
nesday.
After talks with Budget Bu
reau officials, Friedkin said it
was decided to stick with the
estimates which were included
in President Johnson’s budget
sent to Congress Tuesday.