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Page 5 Auto Murder Charges Filed In Ruck Death Murder with an automobile charges have been filed against Jodie F. Valerian of Caldwell, according to Department of Pub lic Safety officials. The charges resulted from the three car-pedestrian accident Sat urday night that killed 15 year- old Nancy Ruck of College Sta tion. The maximum sentence for murder with an automobile is life imprisonment. Miss Ruck was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ruck of 1003 Village Drive. She was hit by a car on State Highway 23 about six miles west of Bryan, the DPS said. Miss Ruck and a companion, Donald Ellis, 15, of 1612 Arm stead, were walking back to their car from a birthday party at a near-by home. The car also slammed into El lis. He remained i n fair condi tion late Wednesday under inten sive care at St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan. Valerian told investigating offi cers his car, headed west, went out of control and swerved off the right side of the highway. . After the car left the highway. It careened into two parked) cars, hit Miss Ruck and Ellis, and struck two other vehicles (before coming to a stop, officers said. At Town Hall Luboff Choir To Sing Tonight The Norman Luboff Choir, whose musical servings range from Bach to Blues and Broad way, will appear tonight at Town Hall. Luboff will downbeat the unique group's first selection at 8 p. m. in G. Rollie White Coli seum and succeeding numbers will be selected by the conductor-ar ranger-composer to fit the mood of the audience. Town Hall Chairman Louis Adams said admission will be by student activity card, season pass or single admission ticket, avail able at the Memorial Student Center Program Office. The enormous repertoire from which Luboff picks selections is the product of six years touring for “live” concerts, more than 30 albums and his extensive com mercial music experiences. Though the records vary from “Songs of the West” to “The Latin Luboff,” all the discs have the distinction of being best-sel lers. WITH 20-WEEK and longer tours averaging better than 100 concert performances per season, Luboff employs the off-the-cuff program technique to keep his 25 to 30 member troupe from going stale. “We avoid set programs and, Bulletin Board LADY YETS arolyn Cupp (left) and Paula Reass, city girls from Hous- m, check a mare in the College of Veterinary Medicine, fihey attend class with 115 men. Scheduled to graduate in August, Carolyn and Paula look forward to careers as >racticing veterinarians in a field normally reserved for men. Both girls feel women have a “good opportunity” is veterinarians. A&M Women Yets rain Prominence While many women protest ex- lusion from what they term a 'man’s world,” two girls here are njoying all the benefits of a irofession usually reserved for nen. Carolyn Cupp and Paula Reass, loth 22 and from Houston, are nembers of that “rare breed” of ady veterinarians. When studies are completed in August, they become the ninth and tenth girl veterinarians the eterinary Medicine College has irned out since 1965 when the irst girl graduated with her DVM degree. They are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson W. Cupp of 4318 Lemac Dr., and Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Reass, 11914 Doncaster, of Houston. THE CITY GIRLS admit there s no such thing as a perfect situ ation and that they “occasionally io get embarrassed.” “We get use to it . . . some af it,” smiled Carolyn, as Paula aodded in agreement. How do they get along with 115 other classmates, all boys? Great! “They’re a great bunch of guys,” answered Carolyn and Paula almost simultaneously. The girls said their biggest problem is answering why they are in veterinary medicine. Neither one has a pat answer. “We’re here for the same rea son everyone else is,” replied Carolyn. AND, PAULA, whose family ■hails from New York originally, answered, “I’ve always liked ani mals . . . way back when,” point ing out she first thought of be ing a veterinarian in the sev enth or eighth grade. Although both girls generally agree on most subjects, their paths will take different courses after graduation. Paula prefers working with larger animals. “They’re easier to work with . . . dependably undependable,” she said. But she’ll settle for working with both small and large animals. Not so, said Carolyn, display ing a preference for smaller ani mals, especially exotic animals. TONIGHT Abilene Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Aca demic Building. Garland Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC lobby. Waco-McLennan County Home town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the lounge by dormitories 17 and 14. Aggieland pictures will be taken and plans for a party will be discussed. Lubbock-South Plains Home town Club will meet at 7:15 p.m. in room 3-A of the MSC. Club party and picture will be dis cussed. DeWitt-Lavaca County Home town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in front of the MSC. Aggieland picture will be taken and spring party will be planned. Wichita Falls Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 in front of the MSC. Wear Class “A” Winter uniform or suit and tie. Picture will be taken for the Aggieland. There will be a meeting immedi ately afterward in room 3-C of the MSC to select the sweetheart and collect $1 dues. Psychology Club will meet at 8:15 p.m. on the front steps of the MSC. Pictures for the Aggie land will be taken. Wear coat and tie or Class “A” uniform. Plans for the next meeting will be discussed. Texas A&M Sports Car Club will meet at 7:30 in room 107 of the Military Science Building. Gas Company To Request Rate Increase The Lone Star Gas Company, which serves the College Station area as well as 300 other Texas cities and towns, has announced it would seek a rate increase from the Texas Railroad Commission. The increase hearing is expect ed to come before the commission in the early summer months of the year. The last application for an in crease in rates by Lone Star was in 1958. At that time the Rail road Commission granted a 5.4 cents per 1,000 cubic feet of gas increase. L. G. James, president of the firm, explained the reasons for the increased rates. The current city gate charges were insuffici ent to pay for increases in ex penses and investment incurred by the company since the last in crease, he asserted. Lone Star’s transmission divi sion purchases and gathers natu ral gas and transfers it to the city gates on the system. Lone Star’s distribution divisions re ceive and pay for the gas at the city gate and get it to the cus tomers. Logan Wilson, manager of the Bryan-College Station-Lone Star Gas outlet, said that an increase is not in the foreseeable future. Wilson said after a new gate charge is established, specific computation will be made for the area. A rate increase will only be set if the situation demands it. .. . ^ MARINES ON THE MOVE Marines prepare 105mm howitzers for action in dense jungle west of Hue, South Vietnam. Emplacements were created by explosives and earth-moving equipment. (AP Wirephoto) Hartley Attending NSF Grant Meet Dr. H. O. Hartley, director of the Graduate Institute of Statis tics here, is in Washington, D. C. this week for the evaluation of Graduate Fellowship Applications for National Science Foundation Fellowships. Dr. Hartley is a member of the National Academy of Sci ences’ evaluation panel. in their stead, distribute to spon sors copies of a long ‘Program matic Repertoire’ list from which individual selections are chosen as the concert progresses,” ex plained the tall, bearded leader. “This has other advantages be sides keeping the choristers and musicians fresh and on their toes. It gives me a chance to comnunicate orally and directly with the audience. In announcing Aero Majors Study Problem Of Flying Man Will man ever be able to leave the ground and fly under his own muscle power? Not until further developments in lightweight structures and power transmission mechanisms are available, according to two aerospace engineering majors. William R. Adkinson of Me- taire, La., and Charlie D. Hoover of San Antonio studied man- powered flight problems in a senior idea seminar and found muscle power capability too low and aircraft designs too heavy. Interest in man-powered air craft revived in 1959 when Eng lish industrialist Henry Kremer offered a $24,000 prize to the first such plane to fly a figure eight course around two pylons a half mile apart. “He added some conditions,” Adkinson commented. “The ship cannot be a lighter-than-air craft, power storage or assists (launch ing off a tower or catapult) are forbidden and a minimum of 10 feet altitude must be maintained.” “The human problem is most critical,” Hoover says. “What is needed is a champiofPcyelist who is an expert pilot capable of ex treme concentration.” Adkinson and Hoover agree that two men will be required, one to pilot and provide some cycle power and the other merely for pedal power. Hoover suggests making the proposed craft lighter than air with helium tanks for initial flights, so that aerodynamics problems can be discerned and worked out of the design before non-helium lifted flights. That leaves only engineering problems. They suggest that honeycomb panels, balsa wood, magnesium tubing in a three- dimensional truss or rigid plastic foam may solve weight problems. Improvements in efficiency of mechanical aspects should not be too long in coming, Hoover sug gests. “Even slight technological im provement might mean a signifi cant step forward in making the aircraft more practical and ac ceptable as a sport vehicle,” he says. each number a pleasant rapport is established and I am able to get a surpisingly good ‘feel’ of what the audience is like,“ Luboff added. “THIS method gives us an un- usally large repertoire, all of which we are prepared to perform at the drop of a downbeat,” he continued. “And we can comply with surprisingly many of the encore requests called out to us by members of the audience.” An RCA Victor release, “Go, Team Go!,” includes The Aggie War Hymn. The choir, usually consisting of 16 men and 14 women, is accom panied by four versatile instru mentalists who are equally at home with Bach's contatas or hit tunes of Broadway. Except for the classical selections, Luboff arranged most of the material himself. Luboff arranged and composed for major radio network programs in the early ’40s, moved to Hol lywood for contributions to TV shows such as “The Telephone Hour” and Dinah Shore Show and composed and arranged music for more than 80 movies Includ ing “Giant,” “Island in the Sun” and “The Miracle.” perma-crease Westbury Slacks 3xm Dtiunco unibtrsitp men's toeat 329 University Drive 7p./846-370(5 CoIIckc Station, Texas 77840 (5^0^ <E3Y&\JhJOun£fL For Complete Insurance Service Dial 823-8231 Ray Criswell, Sr.; Ray Criswell, Jr. “Insure Well With Criswell” 2201 S. College Ave., Bryan, Texas Call 822-1441 Allow 20 Minutes Carry Out or Eat-In THE PIZZA HUT 2610 Texas Ave. AVOLf Institute Electronics OtViaON OF WXF INDUSTRIES P.O. 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