The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, July 30, 1969, Image 1

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VOLUME 64 Number 12S/.-
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1969
Telephone 846-2226
Journalism Shop
^Attracts 370 Here
Selection of Miss Workshopper
tonight highlights social activities
for the High School Publications
Workshop sponsored this week by
Texas A&M’s Journalism Depart
ment.
Miss Workshopper will be chosen
from 25 contestants at a dance
beginning at 8 p. m. in the Me
morial Student Center ballroom.
SAY ‘JEEZ*
A delegate to the Journalism Workshop practices his technique on a candid cooperator.
The workshop, for students involved in high school publications, started Sunday and will
last a week. (Photo by Monty Stanley)
College President’s Group
Endorses Four Revisions
The Council of Presidents of
State-Supported Colleges and Uni
versities has endorsed the passage
of four of the nine proposed con
stitutional amendments to be
voted upon by Texans in a special
election August 5, A&M President
Earl Rudder reported.
The council voted in an Austin
meeting this week to urge ap
proval of Amendments 2, 3, 6
and 8.
The amendments either are
directly related to higher educa
tion or are of such general im
portance to the state to require
the council’s consideration, Coun
cil President James C. Jernigan
said. He is president of Texas
A&I University at Kingsville.
“The council is not saying that
the other amendments are not
valid but the group as a whole
desired to support the four amend
ments,” Jernigan pointed out.
The amendments “thought by
the council to be vitally essential
Firemen Put Out
Final A&M Blaze
Dorsey Named
AdmissionHead
Dr. Oscar L. Dorsey of Angelo
State University in San Angelo
has been named director of ad
missions at Texas A&M, an
nounced A&M Academic Vice
President Horace R. Byers.
Dr. Byers said Dorsey will
head a new program emphasizing
recruitment of more highly quali
fied students at both the under
graduate and graduate levels.
Dorsey has been a member of
the ASU faculty since 1958 but
served as assistant to A&M’s
liberal arts dean while studying
for his Ph.D. degree here two
years ago.
Prior to joining the ASU fac
ulty, Dorsey taught science four
years at Bronte High School.
University National Bank
“On the side of Texas A&M.”
—A dr.
Municipal firemen from 421
towns and 23 states put out their
final Texas Firemen’s Training
School blaze Friday and headed
for home.
Chief Instructor Henry D. Smith
termed the 40th annual Texas
A&M school “a real success.”
No major injuries were re
ported.
“We had perfect weather and
a real fine school,” Smith com
mented.
A&M will host the second of
the three one-week schools start
ing again Sunday when Smith
expects 520 to register at the
Ramada Inn for the industrial
fire-fighting session.
Included in the industrial school
will be instructors and students
from an estimated 30 countries
outside the United States.
“The industrial school is for
people engaged in industrial fire
protection,” Smith noted. Indus
tries from different nations send
several key men to the one-week
school, which is the largest in
dustrial training school in the
world.
Following the industrial school
is a one-week Spanish school,
which opens Aug. 3.
to the future development of the
full potential of human and
natural resources” are:
Amendment No. 2—providing
for a water plan for Texas.
Amendment No. 3—providing
for a procedure for establishing
higher salaries for the Lieutenant
Governor, Speaker of the House,
and members of the Texas Legis
lature.
Amendment No. 6—removing
constitutional interest rate limita
tions subject to limits imposed by
the legislature for bonds pursuant
to constitutional authority.
Amendment No. 8—authorizing
the legislature to provide for addi
tional loans to students at institu
tions of higher education under
Texas Opportunity Plan.
Registration for the six - day
session totaled 370 students from
69 cities, announced Mrs. C. J.
Leabo, workshop director. She
said enrollment this year repre
sents an increase of approximate
ly 70 percent over participation
last year.
Workshop courses include be
ginning and advanced classes in
yearbook planning, newspaper
production and photography. Ap
proximately 200 of the students
are enrolled in yearbook classes,
100 in newspaper sessions and 60
in photography.
Following Sunday registration,
the students hit the ground run
ning with a full agenda of class
room, laboratory and field work.
Numerous interviews, surveys
and pictures have been taken by
the junior journalists across the
campus.
Monday night, the students
were treaated to a “Meet the
Professionals” program which in
cluded discussions by representa
tives from Houston and local news
media, as well as from The Uni
versity.
Sports writing enthusiasms
Tuesday night were given the
opportunity to interview Gene
Stallings, A&M’s head football
coach and athletic director.
The workshop continues through
Friday moraing, with an awards
ceremony scheduled from 9:30 to
11 in the MSC ballroom.
BigEn tertainmen t
In Line For A&M
The workshop banquet will be
held Thursday night, also in the
MSC ballroom, beginning at 8
p. m.
Judges for tonight’s Miss Work-
shopper contest are Ronnie Peret,
A&M’s All-Southwest Conference
basketball star last year, and
Reggie Majors and Duke Butler,
both members of A&M’s SWC
champion golf team.
Master of ceremonies for the
program will be Robert L. Boone,
director of A&M’s Singing Cadets.
Gang Beats Up
2 Footballers
Rep. Will Present
House Resolution
Eng. Center Site
Being Prepared
Site preparation for the $7.5
million engineering center at
Texas A&M continues this week.
Charles Brunk, assistant man
ager of physical plants, said
actual construction should start
within a few days. Completion
of the engineering center is
scheduled for the summer of
1971.
The center will house under
graduate and graduate instruc
tion, plus engineering research.
A&M received federal funding
for the complex, to be located
facing the Cyclotron Institute.
The building will consist of
317,575 gross square feet with
a basement and four floors.
A&M’s board of directo rs
awarded a $7,546,000 contract for
the project to the W. S. Bellows
Construction Corp. of Houston
in June.
State Rep. Ray Lemmon of
Houston will present a formal
copy of a House of Representa
tives concurrent resolution on
oceanographic development to
A&M President Earl Rudder here
Friday.
The resolution, authored by
Rep. Lemmon, notes the contri
butions Texas A&M is making to
the state through oceanographic
research and development.
Endorsed by Lt. Gov. Ben
Barnes, the document officially
represents the entire 61st Legis
lature.
Lemmon, who represents Dis
trict 24 and is serving his first
term in the Legislature, pointed
out in the document that Texas
A&M is the only institution of
higher learning in the state offer
ing a degree in oceanography.
The Houston solon introduced
the resolution following a visit to
Texas A&M and inspection of the
university’s various oceanographic
and related facilities.
Texas A&M was selected last
year by the National Science
Foundation as one of six U. S.
universities to receive major insti
tutional support under the new
Sea Grant Program designed to
develop the nation’s marine re
sources. Texas A&M’s Sea Grant
work complements the basic re
search conducted by the univer
sity’s Oceanographic Department.
Two Texas A&M football play
ers and another youth were beat
en by 12 to 15 youths on a
Galveston beach Thursday and
thus far five boys have been
charged.
Galveston police are investigat
ing the incident which involved
Allan Wayne Hanson, a junior
tackle, and Jerry Minyard, a
sophomore rover back. The other
boy was identified as Steve Stew
art, a former University of Texas
football player.
The boys said that they were
beaten with tire tools and a car
jack while being held at gunpoint
by a gang who jumped them after
yelling obscenities in a passing
car as Hanson and Minyard talk
ed to a girl nearby.
The boys charged with aggra
vated assault and battery with
a deadly weapon and simple as
sault were Jack Higgins, 19;
David Huddleston, 21; and Bob
Hodges, 22.
Others charged with two counts
of simple assault were Don Heg-
man, 19 and James Rawlings, 19.
Hanson, 20, of Kemah, Tex.,
identified two of the suspects
from his room in John Sealy
Hospital in Houston, where he is
in good condition after suffering
lacerations over the left eye. His
eye was swollen shut but he is
expected to be released from the
hospital this week.
Minyard, 20, a sophomore who
played defensive end, rover, and
split end, was reported in satis
factory condition in a Nederland
hospital with a fractured left
arm and abrasions on the fore
head.
Stewart, of League City, was
treated for cuts and bruises and
released.
The hit Broadway show
“Marne,” Mantovani, The Cow-
sills and the Houston and Dallas
Symphony Orchestras are among
the 1969-70 presentations sched
uled by Texas A&M’s Town Hall
Series and the Rotary Community
Series.
Season tickets for both series
are now available at the Student
Program Office in A&M’s Me
morial Student Center, announc
ed Rex Stewart, chairman of the
university’s Town Hall Commit
tee.
The Town Hall Series, includ
ing the Artist Showcase featur
ing classical entertainment, of
fers nine performances thi|S year.
Town Hall ticket holders also will
be admitted free to the final
Rotary Series presentation.
Four productions are included
in the 1969-70 Rotary Series,
with season ticket holders also
admitted free to a Town Hall
presentation.
The entertainment season
opens Sept. 18 with the Rotary
Series sponsoring the Houston
Symphony Orchestra.
Also included in the Rotary
Series are “Marne,” Dec. 17; “La
Traviata,” performed by the
Goldovsky Grand Opera Theater,
Feb. 23;, and pianist Misha Dich-
ter, March 17.
Town Hall begins its season
Oct. 24 with The Cowsills, a
family group which sings and
plays folk music, folk rock and
popular standards.
Other Town Hall presentations
are Mantovani, Nov. 5; Ray
Price, “country and western
music” star, Nov. 7; and The
First Edition, singing group
specializing in rock and folk
ballads, March 6. Arrangements
are pending for the final Town
Hall production, tentatively
scheduled April 25, in conjunction
with Civilian Student Weekend.
Four A&M Men
Injured Friday
Bryan Building & Loan
Association. Your Sav
ing Center, since 1919.
B B —Adv.
Four Bryan-College Station
residents associated with Texas
A&M were injured Friday in a
car-truck accident in Houston.
Hospitalized in Houston’s Sam
Houston Hospital were Gorden
Gay, retired YMCA coordinator
at A&M; Logan Weston, YMCA
coordinator; Ed Donnell, student
president of the YMCA cabinet
from Freeport, and Buddy Smith,
a student YMCA housing officer
worker.
Smith, who lives in Bryan, was
released early Saturday.
Weston is the most seriously
injured wtih a broken jaw, head
concussion and many facial cuts.
Gay and Donnell also received
facial cuts but are expected to be
released late Saturday or early
Sunday.
The accident occurred at 6:30
p.m. three miles inside the Hous
ton city limits on Hwy. 290. A
large transport truck hauling pipe
was passing Gay’s 1963 Ford
when the truck’s driver appar
ently misjudged the distance and
pulled the rear of the trailer over
the front of the car. Both vehicles
were headed toward downtown
Houston.
The car was demolished, accord
ing to a family spokesman.
The group was to attend a func
tion in Houston Friday evening.
Artist Showcase presentations
are pianist Stephen Bishop, Oct.
30; Spanish guitarist Sabicas,
Feb. 2; the Guarneri String
Quartet, March 5; and the Dallas
Symphony, April 23.
Town Hall also has lined up
three “special attractions,” for
which extra tickets will be re
quired. Included are singer
Johnny Rivers, Nov. 26; the
Harlem Globetrotters, Feb. 3;
and the Preservation Hall Jazz
Band, May 9.
Rotary Series ticket holders
will be admitted free to the Man
tovani performance and Town
Hall ticket holders to the Misha
Dichter concert.
Tickets for either series may
be obtained in person or via mail
from the Student Program Office
in the MSC, noted Stewart,
senior finance major from San
Antonio.
Town Hall season tickets are
$12 each for patrons, $10 for
A&M faculty-staff members and
$7 for student wives or dates.
Students possessing university
activity and identification cards
will be admitted free to regular
Town Hall performances, with
reserved seats available for $3
for the season. Students also will
be admitted free to the Dichter
concert.
Town Hall season ticket hold
ers and students with activity
and identification cards will be
admitted without charge to the
four Artist Showcase programs.
Individual tickets will be $2 for
adults and $1 for other students.
Rotary Series season tickets
are $16.50 each.
Individual tickets will be sold,
if available, for Town Hall pres
entations, Stewart pointed out,
but not for the Rotary Series.
He noted, however, 200 Rotary
Series tickets for each perform
ance are being retained for A&M
students and their wives or dates.
The tickets will be $2 each.
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