Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1964
Number 58
Young Reporters
Meet News Pros
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Editor Jack Butler of the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram told high
school journalists at A&M Uni
versity not to sell the newspaper
profession short.
| Butler said tomorrow’s news
paper reporters will tell about hap
penings of other planets, of micro
scopic life and of the mysteries
of men’s minds.
“We’re caught in a vast ex
plosion of knowledge,” the veteran
newsman told journalists attend
ing a five-day High School Journa
lism Workshop.
“The complexities of govern
ment are piled layer upon layer,
and social problems such as in
tegration are becoming more cri
tical,” Butler commented.
“It’s also getting more difficulty
to get the average person’s at
tention before he turns on TV,”
the editor confessed.
Butler is one of several pro
fessional journalists who are parti
cipating in the sixth annual work
shop.
Twenty-three news men from
the Houston area allowed delegates
to the High School Journalism
Workshop “meet the press” Tues
day night.
The panel session followed a
Houston Firm
Donates Data
Gathering Unit
Dresser Controls of Houston an
nounced plans Saturday to donate
a mobile data gathering unit, built
to sell for $100,000, to A&M Uni
versity’s Chemical Engineering De
partment.
The custom designed unit, known
as a process dynamics recorder,
will be used largely by undergrad
uate students engaged in labora
tory and research work, Dr. J.
D. Lindsey, head of chemical en
gineering, said.
Announcement of the gift was
made by W. F. Haley, general
manager of the Houston firm, a
division of Dresser Industries of
Dallas.
The mobile unit, similar in size
to a moving van, is filled with
electronic equipment capable of
recording data at a high rate of
speed.
Inside the van is an analog re
corder, an analog-digital converter,
a paper tape punch, a multiplexer
or sender of data, and low-fre
quency signal generation equip
ment.
Two other similar units have
been built by the electronics firm
for industry. These are being
used by two Gulf Coast chemical
producers for process dynamics
studies and process optimization
through the use of small digital
computers.
“This equipment will be of great
value to our educational and re
search program,” Lindsey said.
The presentation will take place
July 21 in Houston.
5:30 p.m. barbecue at the Memorial
Student Center.
Eleven of the visitors were mem
bers of the Gulf Coast Chapter
of Sigma Delta Chi, and the oth
ers were women from Houston’s
professional chapter of Theta Sig
ma Phi.
SDX men include Farris Block,
University of Houston; Myles
Knape, public relations; William
Clayton, Houston’s UPI bureau
chief; Gayle McNutt, Houston Post
state editor; Jack Sheridan, Post
police reporter.
Houston Post columnist Leon
Hale addressed the 350 delegates
at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, and Bryan
school superintendent A. O. Bowen
will be interviewed at a press con
ference Thursday.
Former Students
Open Nominations
To Honor Alumni
A&M University and its Associa
tion of Former Students will honor
distinguished alumni Oct. 31, Dr.
Wayne C. Hall announced.
The convocation also will feature
a nationally prominent speaker
and numerous campus activities,
added Hall, dean of the graduate
college convocation chairman.
Nominations for distinguished
alumni awards are being accepted,
and final selection will be made
by a nine-member committee of
faculty and former students.
The selection commitee will name
from one to four former students
to be honored, Hall explained. Win
ners will not be announced until the
afternoon convocation.
Any person who has been en
rolled in a regular course of study
at A&M and has not already re
ceived the award is eligible for
nomination, the dean said.
The first alumni awards, pre
sented in 1962, went to W. W.
Lynch of Dallas, president of Edi
son Electric Institute; Dr. Edward
P. Knipling of Beltsville, Md., a re
search scientist; Gen. Bernard A.
Schriever of the U. S. Air Force;
and John W. Newton of Beau
mont, former Magnolia Petroleum
Company official.
Nominations may be submitted
by former students, faculty-staff,
current students and members of
Aggie Clubs. Nomination forms
are available from the Association
of Former Students in College
Station, Dr. Hall said.
Record Enrollment
Enrollment for the second sum
mer term is up 11 per cent over
last year, Registrar H. L. Heaton
reported this morning.
Some 3,116 students had en
rolled for courses here and at
the Junction campus by 5 p.m.
Tuesday. Total for the second
summer term in 1963 was 2,973,
he said.
Heaton expected to have final
enrollment figures late today.
Doctoral Program Added
By Education Commission
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‘Bloomer Girl’ Cast Holds Dress Rehearsal
The ‘Bloomer Girl’ cast held a full dress re- through Saturday night, and portrays a
hearsal Wednesday night in preparation for hoopskirt manufacterer whose livelihood is
their opening performance at 8:15 p. m. threatened with the advent of bloomers.
The summer musical comedy will run
Boyer To Assume Duties
As Acquisitions Librarian
The appointment of an acquisi
tions librarian has been announced
by A&M University Library Di
rector Robert A. Houze.
Calvin J. Boyer has assumed the
duties of acquisitions librarian,
succeeding Miss Phillyis Brown,
named recently as science and
technology librarian.
Boyer is a native of Illinois and
former high school librarian who
has just completed requirements
for a Master of Library Science
degree at the University of Texas
Library School. He completed
undergraduate studies at Eastern
Illinois University in 1962 and did
graduate work at Bradley Uni
versity.
Mrs. Boyer and their two chil
dren are expected to move here
soon.
“Miss Brown in her new post
has primary responsibility for the
operation of the Engineering Li
brary, but she also has supervi
sory responsibility for the Veteri
nary Medical Library and the
Chemistry Library,” Houze said.
He described the change as
“looking ahead towards needs as
they will exist when the library
building program is completed.”
Miss Brown joined the library
staff as acquisitions librarian last
Aug. 1. She had been librarian at
Laredo Junior College since 1950
and earlier held library and other
posts in San Antonio.
Her undergraduate studies at
Our Lady of the Lake College in
San Antonio were mathematics.
She will be working with Houze
and Associate Library Director
Rupert C. Woodward in the li
brary automation planning in ad
dition to other duties.
Miss Brown holds the B.A.,
Bachelor of Science in Library Sci
ence and Master of Education de
grees from Our Lady of the Lake
College. She also has done grad
uate work at the Warden School
of Social Work in San Antonio and
at the University of Texas.
Action by the Texas Commission on Higher Education
has added a 49th doctoral program to A&M University’s
offerings: a Ph.D. in education.
With options for educational administration or curric
ulum and instruction, the degree was approved this week.
It will first be offered in the fall.
Graduate work in education at A&M has increased 150
per cent in the past five years, according to Dr. Paul Hensar-
ling, head of the Department of Education and Psychology.
The Master of Science in education and Master of Education
degrees already are offered.
“The university has also offered work above the master’s
levels in cooperation with doctoral - *
programs at other institutions,”
Hensarling said. “Our intention is
to continue this cooperation.”
Additional faculty members will
be employed for the new degree
program. Hensarling expects one
professor to be added this fall and
two next year.
The new Ph.D. in education ad
ministration is designed to broaden
knowledge of school administrators.
Hensarling described the curricu
lum and instruction option as em
phasis on specialized subjects.
Both programs require research-
in-depth and foreign language
tests, he said.
Other recommendations by the
Governor’s committee on education
are briefly as follows:
Establish 18-man coordinating
board to guide junior and senior
colleges, replacing the Texas Com
mission on Higher Education and
assuming some functions of Texas
Education Agency Powers include:
Recommend, approve and initiate
policy.
Rule on schools’ requests to
modify role and scope.
Classify schools into three
groups: junior colleges, senior col
leges, universities.
Rule on all major college con
struction plans before carried out.
FAA Awards Men
The Federal Aviation Agency
has honored seven of their College
Station Employees with Length of
Service Awards in ceremonies held
at Easterwood Airport.
Officers,
2 Weeks
Airmen
Active
To Begin
Duty Here
Father Elmer Visits Pope
Father Charles W. Elmer, assistant superior the Newman
of the graduate house of studies at the
North American College in Rome, recently
had a 10-minute private audience with the
Pope Paul VI. Father Elmer accompanied
Father Richard Butler, national chaplain of
Federation of America, to
make a report on Newman activities in this
country. Father Elmer was chaplain at the
Catholic Student Center at A&M from 1954
to 1964.
Officers and airmen from 18
Central Texas cities will arrive in
College Station Sunday to begin
two weeks of active duty training
with the 9412 th Air Force Re
covery Squadron.
The reserve unit, one of 200
training at civilian airports, meets
monthly at Easterwood Airport in
addition to this annual summer
tour. Easterwood is designated a
pre-strike dispersal area and a
post-attack recovery point for Air
Force tactical planes.
Members of the unit, all former
servicemen, come from Huntsville,
West, Centerville, Waco, Cameron,
Navasota, Brenham, Mart, San
Antonio, Temple, Belton, Hearne,
Fort Worth, Rockdale, Hempstead,
Houston, Caldwell as well as Bryan-
College Station.
The active duty tour will include
drills and training for emergency
teams of fire fighters, crash-rescue
squads, decontamination specialists,
aircraft maintenance men, medical
personnel, communications tech
nicians and civil engineers. Several
practice “recoveries” of simulated
aircraft emergencies will test the
unit’s ability to cope with disaster.
Individual training will cover
small arms qualification, personal
first aid, physical fitness and on-
the-job testing of Air Force skills.
Organized in 1961, the 9412th is
commanded by Lt. Col. Ralph E.
Miller, a veteran of 23 years of
military service. Colonel Miller,
superintendent of research for
Texas A&M University’s Farm
Service Department in civilian life,
termed his unit’s active duty tour
“realistic and valuable training.”
“As part of the Ready NOW Air
Force Reserve, the 9412th main
tains a constant alert posture,”
Miller pointed out. “During the
past year, several Air Reserve units
were called to active duty and
their excellent performance demon
strated the value of citizen airmen
training at hometown airports.”
Miller continued that the annual
two-week tour served as refresher
training for experienced squadron
members and as initial courses for
newly assigned airmen.
During the training encampment,
several readiness inspections are
scheduled. Higher headquarters
visitors are expected from the
8507th Reserve Group in Austin,
the 2484th Reserve Sector in Dal
las and the 4th Air Reserve Region
Seed Section
Head Resigns
Dr. Lee C. Coffey, head of A&M
University’s Foundation Seed Sec
tion since 1950, has resigned to
enter private business, Dean R. E.
Patterson announced this week.
A native of Brownwood, Texas,
Coffey taught vocational agricul
ture at Richardson one year and
served three years in the Naval
Air Corps following his graduation
from A&M in 1940. Later, he
served as agricultural agent in
Fisher and Commanche Counties,
and returned to A&M for advanced
study under a Sears Roebuck Fel
lowship in 1948. He received the
MS degree in Agronomy the fol
lowing year and the PhD in Plant
Breeding from Iowa State Uni
versity in 1954.
In 1956, Coffey organized na
tionally and was elected president
of the Foundation Seed Producers.
During his tenure at A&M, more
than 200 new and improved crop
varieties and hybrids were re
leased to Texas producers.
based in San Antonio.
Out-of-town members of the
9412th will be housed in local mo
tels and fed in local restaurants at
government expense, Colonel Mil
ler noted.
35th Annual
School Set
For Firemen
The 35th annual Texas Fire
man’s Training School will begin
with registration Sunday and will
run through Friday.
The school will offer something
new for both rookies and veteran
fire fighters.
Among the new facilities will be
a rescue training center, a fire ex
tinguishment test laboratory and
other improvements at the Brayton
Firemen Training Field, located on
the southwest part of the campus.
New wet and dry chemicals,
tailored for specific fires, will be
demonstrated for the first time,
H. D. Smith, chief of firemen
training at A&M reported.
A dry chemical that can be used
around large kitchen ducts, for
instance, will be shown the 2,000
fire fighters, marshals, inspectors
and others.
“During the last year, we had
several hotel fires caused by a
collection of grease around venting
systems,” Smith pointed out.
Other new materials include a
flame-resistant paint, a high ex
pansion chemical foam and a large
dry chemical unit designed for
major oil fires.
Plans also are being made to
demonstrate a chemical that jells
spilled gasoline, Smith pointed out.
Rudder On Board
President Earl Rudder of A&M
University has been named to the
board of Tennessee Gas Transmis
sion Company, one of the largest
such concerns in the world.
Also joining the board of the
Houston - headquartered firm is
Herbert Allen, executive of the
Cameron Iron Works in Houston.
A native West Texas, Rudder
is a graduate of A&M University.
He resigned as land commissioner
of Texas to become vice president
of A&M in 1958. He was elevated
to the university presidency a year
GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona was clearly the
Republican candidate to be pitted against President Lyndon
B. Johnson in November. At approximately 11:45 Wednes
day night. South Carolina cast all 16 votes to put him over
the 655 needed by 8 votes. He received 833 of 1,308 votes
or 67.5% before the states changed their vote. Pennsyl
vania Governor Scranton received 16.3% of the vote.