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Texas
A&M
University
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1964
Number 60
College Station Views
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Joe G. Hanover, Assistant District Maintenance Engi-+
neer, announced Wednesday that a proposal has been tend
ered to the College Station City Council that calls for re
placement of the present traffic circle on Farm Road 60,
at the North East corner of the campus, with a regular
intersection that would control traffic by means of traffic
lights or police direction.
Hanover said that the proposal had been readied some
time ago when it was first thought that the present traffic
circle was inadequate. Hanover emphasized that the pro
posal is only tentative, depending upon acceptance by the
College Station authorities.
In addition to replacing the traf-*
TO BE REPLACED WITH INTERSECTION?
. proposal calls for traffic lights or police direction.
New Program To Provide
More Elementary Teachers
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Increasing the number of male
teachers in elementary schoolrooms
is a basic goal of a new program
in elementary education to start
in September at A&M University.
Dr. Paul Hensarling, head of the
Department of Education and Psy
chology, announced the plans.
He described the program as a
response to suggestions from
schoolmen, as well as on-campus
Aggie Players Set
Varied Program
Producer C. K. Esten of the Ag
gie Players has announced a varied
program for the Texas A&M Uni
versity theatrical group’s 1964-65
season.
The season opener will be “The
Death of Satan,” a sophisticated
comedy popular several seasons
ago on the London stage. The pro
duction of Ronald Duncan’s satire
opens Nov. 9 and runs for six
nights in Guion Hall.
Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass
.Menagerie” is scheduled Jan. 11-16.
'The influence of environment upon
people is a basic theme.
“The Comedy of Errors,” Shake
speare’s always popular comedy,
I opens March 18 as the third and
final major production of the sea
son. The play will run for six
nights.
studies.
A&M ranks as a major source
of male teachers for Texas schools
at the junior and senior high school
levels, Hensarling pointed out.
The new program makes it possi
ble for students to receive Texas
Education Agency certifications as
elementary teachers.
“Male teachers qualified for the
elementary grades can practically
take their pick of jobs,” Hensar
ling said. He also noted “good
opportunities” for these teachers to
advance to administrative posts.
A survey last spring showed 63
school systems of all sizes and
areas in Texas favor a 13 percent
increase in the number of male
elementary teachers. Hensarling
said the study also showed a de
sired eight percent increase in the
number of men serving as elemen
tary principals and a 16 percent
increase in the number of men as
signed as elementary supervisors.
Employing officers of Texas
school systems have suggested for
a number of years that A&M
should be preparing teachers for
their elementary schools,” Hensar
ling said.
Students preparing for the ele
mentary teacher’s certificate will
complete 60 hours of basic acade
mic work in such fields as English,
history and mathematics, have an
area of academic specialization
such as science, English or modern
language, and also complete cours
es in education and psychology for
professional development. Includ
ed in the 30 hours of professional
courses are six semester hours of
internship and twelve hours in ele
mentary subject matter areas such
as mathematics and language arts.
fic circle, the proposal also calls
il for removal of the median between
the lanes of the portion of FM 60
that leads from North Gate East
to highway 6. “Removal of the
median would enhance drainage
and generally improve the road
conditions,” said Hanover.
College Station City Manager
Ran Boswell said that the City
Council was currently studying the
proposal.
Asked if there was any tentative
date for start of the project, Bos
well said that at the moment
things were very indefinite and
could not name any date.
Hanover also emphasized that
the City of College Station would
be responsible for furnishing any
traffic lights that would be re
quired for the intersection. “How
they control the flow of traffic in
the intersection is the problem of
College Station,” added Hanover.
College Station approval of the
proposal depends upon the esti
mated cost said Boswell. He is
presently engaged in the cost esti
mates.
The traffic circle has long been
a thorn in the side of drivers. None
seems to know who has the right
of way in the circle and the result
is traffic congestion and constant
danger of accidents.
“I guess who ever has the oldest
car and the most guts has the
right of way,” Boswell laughed
when asked about rules for driv
ing in the circle.
The plans for the traffic circle
are in addition to an earlier deci
sion to build an underpass on FM
60 under the railroad track at the
intersection of Old Highway 6.
Construction of the underpass is
currently awaiting the purchase of
the right-of-way necessary for the
construction. If the City Council
approves of the traffic circle elimi
nation plan, and proceeds with the
underpass project, the major road
way bottlenecks in the College
Station-campus area will have been
eliminated.
Water Research Legislation
To Meet 2 National Needs
Legislation recently signed into
law by President Johnson will help
an “acute water shortage” facing
Texas and other states by the year
2,000, Congressman Olin E. Teague
asserted.
Teague added the legislation
“will greatly assist in supporting
research needed in order to pro
vide an adequate water supply for
an expanding population and econo
my of Texas.”
The act authorizes funds to
establish a water resources re
search institute at each state’s
land grant college or university.
“These institutes are to stimu
late, sponsor, provide for and sup
plement present programs of water
resources research and training of
scientists, the Texas congressman
reported.
Teague also praised land-grant
colleges, including “my own alma
mater Texas A&M, for pioneer
work in the field of water research
and conservation.”
Congressman Teague said the
bill will meet two national needs:
the acceleration of research in wat
er problems and a stepped-up pro
gram to train hydoscientists “who
are desperately needed to deal with
increasing regional and national
water problems.”
The Texas congressman earlier
during House , floor debate dis
cussed A&M’s progress with water
Project Mohole ? Director
Will Lecture Here Monday
Dr. Gordon G. Lill, National
Science Foundation director of the
Mohole Project, will speak at 8
p.m. Monday on the A&M Uni
versity campus.
bill’s lecture on the Mohole
Project will be heard in Room 113,
Biological Science Building as an
other in the National Science
Foundation Summer Institute Lec
tures. The lectures, open to the
^ public, are planned especially for
participants in the summer in
stitutes at A&M.
Lill was corporate research ad
visor with Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
before his appointment last Feb
ruary as NSF director of the
Mohole Project.
The porject contracted to Brown
& Root of Houston involves dril
ling at a deep point of the sea a
hole thousands of feet into the
earth. Published estimates indi
cate it may require three years
of continous drilling to pierce the
crust of the earth and reach the
heavy “mantle” rock believed to
lie beneath. The drilling will be
done in deep water to eliminate
as much rock drilling as possible.
A contract for construction of
the special drilling ship m&y be
awarded this fall, a Houston news
paper reported in June.
The drilling site was reported
narrowed to a choice betw r een a
■ point near the Hawaiian Islands
U land an area southeast of Puerto
^ I Rico.
I Lull’s prc
include the Geological Society of
America, Geological Society of
Washington, D. C., American Geo
physical Union and the Ameri
can Association for the Advance
ment of Science.
He also is a member of Phi
Kappa Phi and Sigma Gamma
Epsilon.
Lill completed the B.S. degree
at Kansas State University in
1940 and after wartime service in
the Navy received the M.S. degree.
Kansas State presented the Dis
tinguished Service Award (Sci
ence) to him in 1957.
He holds the doctorate from the
University of California.
Lill headed the Geophysical
Branch, Office of Naval Research
from 1951 until he joined Lock
heed Aircraft in 1960.
‘Aid Fund’ Loan Applications
Being Currently Processed
A&M University’s Student Aid
Office is now processing applica
tions for loans under the recently-
approved United Student Aid Fund,
Inc.
Robert M. Logan, assistant di
rector of student placement and
aid, said A&M students, with
sophomore rank or higher, are eli
gible to apply.
The USA Funds program recent-
Dorms Honor
3 Aggies Killed
In WW’s I, II
Two dormitories whose names
honor A&M’s first men killed in
World Wars I and II are among
the four dormitories being reno
vated and air conditioned in the
$4,000,000 project also involving
construction of three new dormi
tories and five student lounges.
The dormitories will house more
than 2,000 students. Completion
is expected late this summer.
The A&M Board of Directors in
1954 directed that the two dormi
tories bear the names of the first
war casualities.
Norman G. Crocker Hall honors
the memory of Pvt. Norman G.
Crocker of the Class of 1917. His
parents were Mr. and Mrs. T. N.
Crocker of Center. Crocker
drowned when an American trans
port was sunk in the Atlantic by
a German submarine early in 1918.
The directors decided that Davis-
USA Funds for final approval,”
Logan commented. “With USA’s
approval, the bank issues the stu
dent a check.”
Repayment of principal and in
terest is made in monthly install- | Gary Hall bear the names of two
ments after the student leaves col- Aggies killed almost simultaneous-
lege. Maximum interest charge ly as World War II began for
is six percent. American forces in the Philippine
Undergraduates are eligible for i Islands.
a maximum loan of $1,000 each j Maj. Clarence R. Davis, 1927
ly was approved by A&M’s Board | year, and graduate student may civil engineering graduate, vol-
of Directors for university stu- borrow up to $2,000 annually or a ! unteered for active duty with the
dents. I combined total of $4,000. ; Army Air Corps in 1940. A native
Once the application has been Logan said the new loan plan ■ of Lufkin, he was formerly with
received, the university certifies will provide financial aid to stu- the Magnolia Petroleum Co. in
the student’s eligibility, Logan ex- dents who were unable to borrow ' Beaumont.
plained. The student then takes from other loan funds. Second Lt. Arthur E. Gray,
the application to his hometown USA Funds is a private organi- j whose parents lived in San Marcos,
bank where promissory note forms : zation that works with banks and , also was in the Army Air Corps,
are signed. J colleges to provide student aid. He first attended A&M in 1935 and
“The hometown bank, in turn, Honorary chairman of the group completed pilot training at Kelly
Lill’s professional memberships forwards the applicant’s file to is former President Eisenhower. Field in 1940.
research and added that the uni
versity is equipped “to assume the
leadership for research activities
provided for in this bill.”
A&M’s Board of Directors re
cently approved renaming of the
Water Research and Information
Center to the Water Resources
Institute, Teague pointed out.
“At the same time, the institute
is being given added strength so
that greater emphasis can be
placed on research and education
in water resources on a multi
disciplinary basis,” Teague con
tinued.
“The institute will provide a
focal point. for concentrating the
many aspects of A&M’s total re
sources effort toward a unified
plan for better understanding and
solution of water problems,” he
said.
There Goes That
Aggie Song Again
The following is an excerpt from “Central Texas Notebook,”
a column by Thomas Turner, Dallas Morning News—Ed.
MAJ. GEN. Harry Crutcher of
Dallas, the big eagle for the Texas
National Guard, represents the fly-
folks at each summer’s review of
the Texas National Guard’s earth-
bound divisions. It has been some
thing of a pain for the affable
blue-coat this summer.
At the 49th Armored Division’s
review his countenance began to
turn the hue of his jacket as
the division band kept blaring into
the Texas Aggie Fight Song,
which is something of a cockle-
burr-under-the-blanket to alumni
of other institutions.
A quick check disclosed that the
band was merely playing with the
alma mater tunes of the various
battalion commanders as they
marched by.
Crutcher noted ruefully, “I count
ed that danged tune eleven times;
that’s overdoing the whole idea.”
He offered to step down from
the reviewing stand and march
smartly by if the band would give
out with a “Peruna” or two. He’d
about recovered from the 49th’s
indignity when he took the viewing
stand for this year’s 36th Infantry
Division parade. He was relaxed
until the parade narrator intoned,
as Lt. Col. Thomas Black of Mar
lin strode by, “Col. Black is presi
dent of the Falls County Aggie
Club.”
Last we heard, Crutcher was
taking the matter up with Secre
tary McNamara.
Business Graduate Program
Includes Professional Field
Realignment of the Master of
Business Administration programs
at A&M University to include pro
fessional fields in computer sci
ence and statistics has been an
nounced by Dr. John E. Pearson,
head of the School of Business
Administration.
“The realignment is a response
to the needs of the complex and
ever changing business communi
ty,” he said.
Pearson described the new pro
gram as providing terminal edu
cation for development of Texas
business and industrial executives.
The realignment requires that a
graduate student choose from
among four professional fields of
concentration, accounting, organi
zation and administration, compu
ter science and statistics.
“The reorganization also pro
vides for the needs of students
desiring the M.B.A. degree but
who did not major in business as
undergraduates,” Pearson said.
The 60 semester hour plan tradi
tionally called the “Harvard Pro
gram,” as it first was instituted
there, includes 24 hours of grad
uate study at the pre-professional
level for students other than busi
ness administration graduates. Stu
dents entering the program with
a B.B.A. degree will complete three
semesters of professional and oth
er courses.
Pearson said the interdiscipli
nary realignment stems in part
from “the strong faculty and ex
ceptional facilities in computer
science and statistics at A&M.”
The professional fields of ac
counting and business organiza
tion are described as “traditional
strongholds of the A&M School of
Business.”
The master’s thesis is optional
under the new plan.
“This is in keeping with the bet
ter business administration schools
and in recognition of the current
patterns of business research,”
Pearson said.
NSF Seminars
Continue Friday
A. R. Burgess of the A&M Uni
versity faculty will lecture at 2
p.m. Friday on “Computer Appli
cations in Industrial Engineering.”
The lecture in Room 231, Chemis
try Building is for the National
Science Foundation Seminar on ap
plications of digital computers.
Signing of the agreement that established
the nation’s first Army reserve unit to use
data processing in Army Intelligence. Left
to right, Chancellor Harrington, Brig. Gen.
Historic Signing At A&M University
R. L. Ashworth, and Lt. Col. B. W. Carroll,
G-2 Hq. VIII Corps. Standing is Lt. Col.
W. C. Freeman, A&M System vice chancel
lor who will command the new unit.