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THE
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Published Daily on the Texas A&M College Campus
Number 56: Volume 58
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1959
Price Five Cents
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Said He’d ‘Run Him Off
Corps Junior Suspended
For Harrassing Fish 9
A junior student was dropped
from the Corps of Cadets and sus
pended from A&M today for “un-
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Missing ‘Fish ?
Ends Mystery,
Rides Home
The A Field Artillery fresh
man who disappeared from
Dorm 6 Monday night is no
longer missing.
He arrived early yesterday at
his home in Lubbock, his pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Rod-
den, reported to college offic
ials.
The freshman, Douglas T.
Rodden, said he spent Monday
night in a Bryan hotel, leaving
Tuesday by bus for Lubbock.
Rodden had been the object
of a search after his disappear
ance—leaving behind only a
note to his roommate saying he
had decided to go somewhere
and join the Navy to explain
his absence.
Rodden returned to A&M this
morning.
Senior Gets Grant
For Medical School
Moss Antony, senior pre-medical
Btudent majoring in biology, and
son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Antony
of College Station, has been award
ed a $500 scholarship by tfre Bay
lor University College of Medicine
for the 1959-60 college year.
The award was made by the
Committee on Admissions and is
based on high scholarship as mea
sured by achievements in college,
outstanding potential as measured
in part by the Medical College Ad
missions Test and an estimation
of outstanding usefulness in the
field of medicine as indicated by
All other data available.
Antony is currently correspond
ing secretary for the Pre-medical-
Pre-dental Society.
authorized punishment and har-
rassment” of a freshmen student
and for telling the freshman that
he intended to “run him off”.
Action against the junior was
announced this morning by Col.
Joe E. Davis, commandant. He did
not disclose the junior's name.
Davis said the student will be
allowed to remain at A&M as a
civilian student for the remainder
of this semester to complete final
examinations, but will be required
to move out of the Corps housing
area. The student may apply for
re-admission to A&M, as a civilian
student only, in the coming spring
semester he said, but his read
mittance will depend on a review
of his case by college authorities.
Vice President Earl Rudder said
this morning, the action is based
on the principal that freshmen
have the same right to remain
at A&M as upperclassmen—this is
a public institution, supported by
taxpayers of Texas, and the fees
and tax monies from payments of
our freshmen entitle them to equal
consideration with all other stu
dents. No one is going to harass
or force any boy to leave this
school against his will.
“Our first obligation in an edu
cational institution is to provide
an atmosphere where all students
can get the most from the time
they spend here, preparing for
their futures. We will not tolerate
any actions that interfere with
the pursuit of an education.”
To House 252 Couples
Apartment Project
Bids Due Feb. 17
Additional housing facilities for
252 married students will soon be
provided by A&M, Howard Bad-
gett, physical plant manager, said
yesterday.
Bids will be received Feb. 17
for the construction of 21 apart
ment buildings. Thei’e will be 12
apartments in each of the build
ings. •
The two-story masonry struc
tures will be erected near the
campus, just north of the Col
lege View married student apart
ment area on a site now used for
the Firemen’s Training School.
In the future, the firemens school
will be held in the vicinity of
Easterwood Airport, west of the
main campus.
Each apartment will contain ap
proximately 550 square feet of
floor space and will include a
combination living and dining
room, a kitchenette, bedroom and
bath.
The buildings will have exter
ior walls of concrete block and
face block and interior walls of
concrete block and plywood. They
will be 121 feet in length and 37
feet wide.
Year’s First
Linda Ann Weatherby, 18, of Hillsboro, became the new
year’s first beauty entry by turning in her Miss Universe
entry blank at 12:01 a. m. Jan. 1. Her mother, Mrs. H. A.
Weatherby Jr., is shown measuring Linda’s waist, which
is a trim 23V2 inches. Miss Weatherby, a 5 foot 7 inch
blonde, is a freshman at Texas Tech. (AP Wirephoto)
The apartments will be furnish
ed and each will have a separate
sun porch.
Badgett said that May, 1960, is
seen as the possible completion
date for the housing project.
Plans and specifications for the
new buildings were prepared in
the office of the A&M system
architect, Henry D. Mayfield Jr.
The college now has 526 apart
ments for married students—466
in the College View area and 60
others just south of Kyle Field.
18 Aggies Added
To ’59 DMS List
Eighteen Army and Air Force
Cadets were added to an already
lengthy list of Distinguished Mili
tary Students for the school year
1958-59, it was announced yes
terday.
To become a Distinguished Mili
tary Student, a cadet must pos
sess outstanding qualities of lead
ership, high moral character and
definite aptitude for military serv
ice. He must have attained an
academic standing in the upper
half of his class with a grade
point ratio of 1.50 or must be in
the upper 10 per cent of his mili
tary class, a 2.60 grade point ratio.
Army students include William
M. Huskinson Jr., Walter F.
Kappel, Arthur M. Emery, Travis
L. Englebrecht, William V. Hill
Jr., Robert D. Maxwell, Grady W.
Barr, Earl A. Nye, Ralph D.
Cahill, Glen A. Estes, Ervan E.
Zouzalik, Robert F. Hunter, Le-
land A. Chvatal.
Air Force students are Joseph
L. Bergeron, Donald B. Brown
ing, Joe E. Ward, Ray W. Laird
and Donald B. Kirby.
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Winton Covey, graduate
student, is shown above do
ing master science work on
this micro - meteorological
tower, located east of the
traffic circle. This tower
measures wind temperature
and humidity from one me
ter below the ground to 32
meters above the ground.
This is Project 193 of the
A&M Research Foundation,
headed by Dr. William Clay
ton.
National Scientists
Plan A&M Visit
A group of officials from the
National Science Foundation,
Washington, D.C., will visit A&M
in January to study and confer
with A&M officials about re
search in the nuclear sciences be
ing conducted here.
The group, headed by Dr. Ar
thur H. Waynick, program direc
tor of engineering sciences at the
foundation, will arrive Jan. 19.
Other NSF personnel to make the
visit will be Dr. J. Howard Mc-
Millen, physicist, Dr. Walter Kir-
ner, chemist, and Dr. William
Benson, earth scientist.
News of the World
By The Associated Press
Mechta Goes Into Orbit
MOSCOW—Soviet authorities reckoned Wednesday
night that the cosmic rocket Mechta has swung into orbit
around the sun and started edging up toward its top speed
of about 72,000 miles an hour.
They said the peak will come next Wednesday when
the U/o-ton rocket reaches its nearest point to the sun—about
91V2 million miles from it—on an egg-shaped course as the
solar system’s first artificial planet, the news agency Tass
reported.
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DeGualle Takes Prexy’s Office
PARIS—Charles de Gaulle takes over the presidency of
France Thursday from grandfatherly Rene Coty, the man
who summoned him last May to save the nation from civil
war.
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Reds-Nats Exchange Fire
TAIPEI, Formosa—Red China’s gunners shelled civilian
centers of the Quemoys Wednesday in what Peiping called
a retaliatory action. This led to the offshore war’s biggest
artillery duel in two months. Nationalist batteries hit back
vigorously.
Fiscal Cure-All
Offered Daniel
Department Heads
A&M Scientist
To Lecture At
Miami School
Research Scientist Stuart G.
Bigler of the Department of
Oceanography and Meteorology,
will be a guest lecturer for a
series of training courses at the
University of Miami this spring.
Beginning in March, he will lec
ture once a month for five months
before U.S. Weather Bureau per
sonnel attending special classes on
the operation of a new radar sys
tem being installed for tracking
hurricanes and other severe
storms.
Bigler’s lectures will be on the
use of radar and synoptic meteor
ology.
A 1952 graduate of Pennsyl
vania State University, Bigler
has been on the A&M staff for
the past four years, coming here
in February, 1955, from Urbana,
111., where he was research as
sociate with the Illinois State
Water Survey.
Prior to that he spent three
years in the Navy as a weather
observer. He had a part in the
atomic bomb tests at Eniwetok
Atoll in the spring and summer
of 1948.
Bigler received his M.S. degree
in meteorology in February, 1957.
Grads Get Refund
On Activity Fees
Graduating seniors who will not
be in school the spring semester
may make application for refund
on the spring poi’tion of the Stu
dent Activities fee by presenting
their Town Hall, Great Issues and
athletic tickets at the Housing
Office.
Graduating seniors living in
dormitories may also receive a
refund of fees for the last week
of school.
Both refunds may be secured
by calling at the cashier’s window
at the Fiscal Department after 8
a'm. Jan. 12.
Students other than graduating
seniors who will not be in school
in the. spring may make arrange
ments for their activity refund
when they turn in clearance at
the Housing Office at the end of
the semester.
U. S. Skier Wins
European Ski Meet
GRINDELWALD, Switzerland
(A*)—American Olympian Betsy
Snite Wednesday outclassed some
of Eui’ope’s outstanding skiers in
winning the giant slalom, opening
day feature of the 21st Interna
tional Grindelwald Ski Meet.
The 20-year-old model from Nor
wich, Vt., beat out feminine favor
ites from Italy, France, Norway,
Switzerland and Austria, in the
race against the clock over a 1,050-
meter course which drops 215 me
ters.
Her time for the difficult course
was 1 minute 44.4 seconds.
Penny Pitou of Guilford, N.H.,
the other American starter, lost a
chance to win when she hit the
last gate and somersaulted on the
home stretch. She finished far
back in 1:53.3.
Miss Snite was a member of the
1956 Olympic team.
Potter to Present
Paper at Capitol
Dr. J. G. Potter, head of the
Physics Department, will attend
meetings of the American Associa
tion of Physics Teachers and the
American Physical Society, Jan.
28-31, in Washington, D. C.
He will present a paper on sum
mer institutes for high school
teachers at the meeting.
Prepare Report
AUSTIN UP)—A 74 million dollar patch on the state’s
weakened fiscal structure was suggested to Gov. Price Dan
iel Wednesday by a committee of executive department
heads.
The economy panel named recently by the governor of
fered six methods which they said would result in a $74,599,-
957 short and long range boost for the faltering general
revenue fund, without new or increased taxes.
Some of the suggestions would require controversial
legislation. Others could be achieved through simple ap
propriations.
Others would require no legislative action, said Sec. of
* State Zollie Steakley, chair-
Honor Code
Questionnaires
To Be Screened
The Corps Honor Code Council
will discuss the contents of 3,500
code questionnaires at its meeting
in the Corps Conference Room
Friday a 5, Harvey Haas, chair
man, said last night.
Questionnaires were distributed
before the Christmas holidays by
junior and senior council members.
Haas urged council members
to bring these questionnaires to
the meeting if they have not al
ready turned them in.
Questions on the questionnaire
concerned the attitude of the stu
dents toward having a code at
A&M. They were also asked to
tell what changes should be made
in the present revised honor code
to make it effective.
U.S. Scientists
Draw High Praise
From Red Experts
LONDON tP)—A Soviet scien
tist said Wednesday a feverish
pace of research had caused U.S.
failures in rocket probes aimed at
the moon.
“American scientists are being-
pushed and given tasks which have
little in common with science,”
said Academician Anatoly Blagon
ravov, one of the leading scientists
behind the Soviet space rocket.
Blagonravov applauded the work
of some U.S. scientists saying “it
would be wrong to minimize the
importance of their research in
astronautics.”
Ags Can Purchase
New Car Permits
Students who own automo
biles and know where they will
live next semester may pur
chase their spring semester
parking permits now, Fred L.
Hickman, chief of Campus Se
curity, said this morning.
Hickman urged all students
who can to buy their permits
now in order to avoid the rush
at the first of next semester.
man of the committee.
The committee squelched
the idea that there could be a
quick transfer of surpluses in
numerous state funds—restricted
now by constitutional provisions or
statutes—to cure the general
fund’s ills. That fund, Comptroller
Robert S. Calvert estimated Tues
day, will be 65 million dollars in
the red by Aug. 31.
Calvert also estimated that the
Legislature will need to raise 167
million dollars in new money to
carry on services now provided,
for the next two fiscal years. The
74 million dollars suggested—if
approved by the Legislature—
would not wipe out the deficit but
would furnish some of the new
money indicated.
Gov. Daniel is expected to in
clude at least some of the com
mittee's proposals in various mes
sages to the Legislature, which
opens its 56th regular session at
noon Tuesday.
Daniel, commenting on the com
mittee’s work, noted that it had
“pointed out the possibility of
rasing more than the anticipated
deficit from governmental econo
mies and increased revenues under
present tax laws.”
From, the standpoint of practical
operation, however, much of the
money could not be raised in time
to more than help the deficit situ
ation, assuming that the Legisla
ture would follow the committee’s
recommendations in full. This
would include amendment of the
franchise tax law.
Daniel said that his purpose in
appointing the committee was to
make sure every means of econ
omy be explored before “we be
gin to discuss new taxes.”
Rose to Represent
A&M at Conference
Dr. Aai-on Rose^ director of Tex
as Engineering Experiment Sta
tion, will attend the 11th annual
College-Industry Conference of the
American Society for Engineering
Education at the University of
Houston Jan. 26-27.
Twenty colleges and universities
of the Southwest including A&M
will be hosts for the confei-ence. A
number of prominent speakers re
presenting industry are on the
three-day program of the meeting.
Theme of the meeting is “In
dustry Speaks Its Mind in Engi
neering Education.”
Exam Schedule
Following is the examination schedule beginning Satur
day, Jan. 17.
Saturday—Jan. 17 1-4 p.m.
Monday—Jan. 19 8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
Tuesday—Jan. 20 8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
Wednesday—Jan. 21 8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
Thursday—Jan. 22 8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
Friday—Jan. 23 8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
Saturday—Jan. 24 8-11 a.m.
1-4 p.m.
Classes Meeting TWF 3
Classes Meeting TThF 3
Classes Meeting TF 3
Classes Meeting MWF 8
Classes Meeting TTh 8F 1
Classes Meeting MWF 9
Classes Meeting MWTh 1
Classes Meeting MWF 10
Classes Meeting TF 1
Classes Meeting TF 1-2:15
Classes Meeting M 3 TTh 10
Classes Meeting MWTh 2
Classes Meeting MWF 11
Classes Meeting M 4 TTh 11
Classes Meeting TTh 9 F 2
Classes Meeting TF 2
Classes Meeting TF 2-3:15
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