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Gold Plated Rocket
A worker at the Chanee Vought Aircraft plant in Dallas
uses a spray-gun to spray sulfo-resinate of gold, mixed in
pine oil, onto interior shell of Scout missile nose cone.
This red-colored coating soon turns to pure gold as it is
baked in ovens up to 700 degrees Fahrenheit. Gold coat
ing costs about 60-cents a square foot for the solution.
The gold lining helps prevent heat from the missile’s
flight from damaging instrumentation inside the nose. (AP
Photo)
Despite Loss
Aggies Remain
Among Elite
From The Associated Press
A&M clung pi*ecariouBly to the
top ten in national basketball
rankings in the weekly Associated
Press cage poll, grabbing the tenth
slot.
Coach Bob Rogers’ talented Ca
dets, despite a two-point tumble
to the Southern Methodist Mus
tangs, amassed 219 points to lodge
between Utah State and Miami.
Cincinnati—another of the se
lect few along with eighth ranked
Villanova who crashed from the
unbeaten last week — maintained
the top spot with 86 first place
nods, but only a slight total over
Bradley, the team stopping the
Bearcats.
Bradley, California, West Vir
ginia and Ohio State round out the
fop five.
The nation’s sportswriters and
broadcasters voted Georgia Tech,
Utah, Villanova, Utah State and
A&M in the second five.
West Virginia was responsible
for tumbling Villanova from the
undefeated ranks, while Bradley
stopped Cincinnati, 91-90, in a
chilling last-minute triumph.
The second ten was filled by
Miami—which grabbed three first
place votes, North Carolina, Illi-
Women Set
i Leap Year ?
Requirement
The following article was sub
mitted to The Battalion as it ap
peared in The Bells, official
newspaper of Mary Hardin-Bay-
lor College recently—with respect
to Leap Year procedure.
“Rules and qualifications for
the 1960 contest of “How to Win
a Friend and Marry One” have
just been announced by the rules
committee of Mary Hardin-Bay-
lor College, the oldest female
college west of the Mississippi.”
“Contestant must be at least
16 years of age or older and
single. They must have been
disappointed in love during the
year 1969. Contestants must be
able to cook, sew, keep house and
manage a budget. (Or show def
inite proof that they are willing
to learn). They must know of r
single male who needs a “friend,’
and they must be willing to give
up a few of their precious stud}
hours in cheering up a lonesome
male. Any person who is found
guilty of “stealing” another con
testant’s friend will forfeit her
“How to Win Friends and Marr}
One” hunting license. There must
not be underhanded tactics used
such as bear traps, shotguns or
special invitations to dinner
(w'here the contestant has pre
pared his favorite dishes).
nois. Southern California, Iowa,
Kentucky, Toledo, St. Louis, Day-
ton and Detroit.
The Aggies tangle with the Rice
Owls in a conference test tonight
in Houston, befoi^e taking off for
the holidays. Conference play will
be resumed following the exam
pause—'but not before the Aggies
go West to do battle with San
Fr’ancisco and Santa Clara in non
loop competition.
A&M found its conference for
tunes rise slig-htly Monday night
when the Baylor Bruins dropped
the Texas Longhorns in Waco to
knock the Steers from a share of
the league lead.
The Ags, SMU and Arkansas
claim the top slot, but the Aggies
can take over undisputed possis-
sion of the first rung with a vic-
toi’y over the Owls, or fall into the
second post with Texas by a loss
in Houston.
A&M next plays a home contest
Feb. 6 against the Texas Tech Red
Raiders.
The top ten based on 10 points
for first, 9 for second, etc. First
place votes in parentheses:
Points
1.
Cincinnati 86
1,691
2.
Bradley 17
1,527
1,514
3.
California 22
4.
West Virginia 13
1,417
5.
Ohio State
1,046
6.
Georgia Tech 2
850
7.
Utah
465
8.
Villanova
314
9.
Utah State
280
10.
A&M
219
Second Ten
11.
Miama 3
205
12.
North Carolina
151
13.
Illinois
120
14.
South California
103
15.
Ilowa
83
16.
Kentucky
75
17.
Toledo
71
18.
Saint Louis
56
19
Dayton
54
20.
Detroit
49
The
TALION
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1960
Number 57
Rudder Declares Switch
May Not Effect Grades
President Speaks
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lo Jtisn in Lruion
President Earl Rudder warned freshmen changing-
schools would probably not have much effect on their making
better grades at a meeting of the Class of ’63 held Saturday
in Guion Hall.
Better grades come not from changing schools, but from
correcting something within the individual person, Rudder
said.
Look Closely
“Students should look closely into this matter (changing
schools) with an eye for staying at A&M and possibly choos
ing a different course, or taking a lighter load or attending
summer school to complete their college education,” Rudder
said.
Rudder told the freshman
gathering this year 180 cadet
freshmen and 53 civilian stu
dents have indicated that they
may desire to shift to another
school at the end of the first se
mester.
400 Last Year
“Last year some 400 students
left at the end of the first semes
ter, many through no choice of
their own,” Rudder said.
Addressing his remarks to those
students who were planning to
leave at the end of the semester,
Rudder said students who leave
school sometimes feel they must
justify their action to their par
ents and friends by blaming the
college rather than themselves.
“Unjustifiable complaints against
instructors, college policies, Corps
life, civilian dorm life or high costs
do not do the student any real
good and are a definite dis-servico
to the college,” Rudder said.
Exaggerated Tales
Usually such tales are exagger
ated in their re-telling so much,
it becomes hard for people who
ai'e connected with the college to
recognize A&M from the later ver
sions, Rudder added.
“Remember,” Rudder warned,
“Apiong your classmates tales of
schdol boy adventures may prove
entertaining, but to an outsider
they will not make sense and will
certainly be mis-construed.
‘Say So’
“If you were poorly prepared
for college—say so. If you chose
the wrong course and lacked the
necessary interest to make good
grades admit that fact. If you
did not know how to study in the
time available to you admit that
also.
“Do not invariably blame it on
the instructor or the Cadet Corps
or some outside organization,” he
said.
Not Only Corps
Rudder said it wasn’t only Coips
freshmen who were planning on
changing schools at the end of the
semester.
A number of young civilians,
including many who have already
changed to civilian status “on the
theory that their grades would be
come better rapidly, but found that
such was not the case,” are also
planning to change schools, he said.
350 Apply
For Degrees
On Jan. 23
Three hundred and fifty students
at A&M, are candidates for de
grees at tho Jan. 23 commence
ment in the G. Rollie White Coli
seum at 10 a.m.
Dr. Eugene Slater, minister at
Polk Street Methodist Church in
Amarillo, will deliver the com
mencement addess. Slater will be
pi-esented by President Earl Rud
der, who will also confer the de
grees.
Carl Tisher, professor and head
of the Department of Health and
Physical Education, is chairman
of the Convocations committee.
The program follows:
Procession, “Triumphal March,”
Grieg, Mrs. A. B. Medlen, organist.
Invocation, Cadet Lt. Col. Phillip
G. Robberson of San Antomo, corps
chaplain. >
Announcements and introduction
of spaiaker. President Earl Rudder.
Commencement address, Dr. Eu
gene Slater, minister of Polk Street
Methodist Church of Amarillo.
Confei’ring degrees, President
Rudder.
“The Spirit of Aggieland,” Dunn,
graduates and audience led by Ca
det Joe M. Leeper of Dickinson.
Benediction, James O. Manley of
Baytown, civilian chaplain.
Recession, “Festival Postlude,”
Martin, Mrs. A. B. Medlen, organ
ist.
Guide Posts
“Religion is man’s quest for as
surance that he can live by faiteh
and love while doubt and fear lay
siege to his heart. It is his at
tempt to resolve inward dilemma
by organizing his relations with
the world in a way that will serve
his need for security and fulfill
ment. It is the search for what is
enduring in time and eternity.”
—Oren Huling Baker
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New Parking Area
The parking - area running along the boule- trated above. The move was necessitated
vard west of the Memorial Student Center by giving the area along the MSG to visitors
reserved for faculty and staff has been mid .guests,
moved across the street in the area illus-
More in $1,000 Bracket
Local Aggie Club Raises
$40,000 in Scholarships
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In the meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Aggie Club in .the
Bryan-College Station area which
was held Saturday in the Memorial
Student Center, President Wesley
W. McKemie of Tyler announced
this area produced almost 10 times
as much money this year in the
several $1,000 rather than in the
several $100 bracket towards the
athletic scholarship fund.
The total amount raised was
$40,000.
New Officers
Newly elected officers for the
coming year are president, Bruno
Schroeder, ’39, from Austin; vice
presidents Lewis Dodson, ’25, from
Amarillo and Niley Smity, ’39,
from Cameron; and executive sec
retary, Dr. David R. Fitch, from
College Station.
In the report McKemie delivered,
he said, “A special program was
designed for the Bryan-College
Station area which emphasized the
economic importance of the Col
lege in general and the athletic
program in particular.
‘Help Asked’
“Help was asked and received
from the Bryan Chamber of Com
merce. All civic clubs in Bryan
were wi’itten at least one letter ex
plaining the Aggie Club. Sub
stantial help was sought and re
ceived from the four Bryan-College
Station banks.
President Earl Rudder, Chancellor M. T.
Harrington, H. B. Zachry, president of the
Board of Directors of the A&M College
System, and Homer Norton, coach of the
1939 Aggie team which won the National
Henderson Dedication
Championship, congratulate Jim Myers,
head coach and athletic director, at the
dedication ceremonies for Henderson Hall
Sunday. Henderson Hall is the new A&M
athletic dormitory.
Architecture Gets
Scholarship Slate
The Division of Architecture at
A&M has received a $750 scholar
ship program from the Tile Coun
cil of America.
The program was established on
a three-year basis and A&M was
selected as one of seven colleges
in the nation to participate in the
program. This is the second year
of its participation.
$500 of this fund will be award
ed to the student scholarship fund
and $250 will go to the division for
equipment and teaching facilities.
“A great degree of cooperation
was received from the Bryan-Col
lege Station area. This support
'was not included limited to Aggies
but included many people, non-Ag-
gies but good citizens of the com
munity.”
McKemie Commended
The Board of Directors com
mended the work of McKemie as
president for the past year. They
also commended the sub-committee
on raising funds which was com
posed of John C. Mayfield of
PTouston as chairman, with A. W.
Davis of Paducah and W. T. Burns
of Brownsville, also serving with
him on the committee.
VIRGNIA PLANE CRASH
CLAIMS 50 MONDAY NIGHT
HOLDCROFT, Va. —(A 1 )— A
Capital Ahdines plane, fi’antically
circling at housetop height in a
blinding fog, crashed on a marsh
land hillside near here Monday
night, carrying 50 persons to flam
ing death.
Early today, rescuers still had
not been able to get close enough
to the white-hot wreckage, to re
move the bodies of the victims, 46
passengers and a crew of four.
The big jet-prop Viscount, Capi
tal Flight 20 from Chicago to Nor
folk via Washington, plunged to
earth like a leaden pancake short
ly after 10:30 p.m.—the time she
was due in Norfolk.
Only a few hundred yards away
was an open field where the plane
might have made a safe emergency
landing—had the pilot been able
to see the field.
“She seemed to come down like
somebody pulled a rug out from
under her,” said Robert H. Tench,
whose farmhouse is only about 300
yards from the crash scene near
the Chickahominy River. “She
came straight down.”
Tench said the plane, which had
left Washington for Norfolk at
9:48 p.m., was perilously low and
circling, apparently lost in the
heavy fog and light rain, shortly
before the crash.
“It came pretty near hitting my
house twice,” Tench said. “The
second time it went over it was so
low that w r hen I went outside, my
whole yard was full of smoke
from the engines.
“I went back in the house, and
all of a sudden I didn’t hear any
thing. I didn’t hear an explosion
and I didn’t feel a jar.
“All of a sudden, everything
was quiet.”
Tench went upstairs then, saw
the beginning of the fire that sub
sequently swept the plane, and
summoned police.
All of the plane except its tail
assembly and a part of a wing,
which were torn off by the crash,
burned for hours.
The charred trunks of trees pro
truded upward through the flam
ing fuselage in which passengers
and crew died.
Formation, Letters
Topic at Meeting
Temporary non-compulsory for
mations and letters of complaint
from parents were main topics dis
cussed at the Friday commander’s
conference held in the Biological
Sciences Building Lecture Room.
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant,
told the assembled commanding of
ficers, first sergeants and sergeant
majors formations for the rest of
the semester would be non-cbm-
pulsory to facilitate studying. Uni
form of the day for finals week
will be fatigues, according to Col.
Davis.
James P. Hannigan, dean of stu
dents, stated student dropouts
were lower than the average in
other American universities and
colleges.