The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1960
Number 133
Near 2,000
Fish Expected
By Sept. 12
Near 2,000 freshmen will invade the A&M campus Sept.
12 for the annual New Student Orientation Week beginning
Sept. 13 and closing Sept. 17.
First Assembly
The first general assembly for"t
the new students will be held Tues
day night at 7 in G. Rollie White
Coliseum. C. H. Ransdell, assist
ant to the dean of the School of
Engineering and chairman of the
New Student Orientation Commit
tee, will preside at the meeting.
Student Senate President Roland
Dommei’t will welcome the new
students prior to an address by
A&M President Earl Rudder. Fol
lowing the talks, Dr. A. M. Soren
son, assistant professor in the De
partment of Animal Husbandry,
will lead the freshmen in group
singing.
Assemblies Wednesday
Wednesday will be devoted to
assemblies of the freshmen, ac
cording to their academic majors.
All agriculture majors will meet
in the Memorial Student Centep
Ballroom with Assistant Director
of Agricultural Instruction R. C.
Potts in charge.
Division of Architecture Head T.
R. Holleman will meet with all
architecture majors in the Biologi
cal Sciences Lecture Room.
All arts and sciences majors will
meet with Associate Dean of the
School of Arts and Sciences G. W.
Schlessleman in Guion Hall.
Business administration majors
Will meet with Division of Busi
ness Administration Head T. W.
Leland in^the Chemistry Building
Lecture Room.
Assistant Dean of the School of
Engineei’ing Ransdell will meet
with engineering majors in G. Rol
lie White Coliseum.
Pre-veterinary medicine majors
will meet with Dr. E. D. McMurry,
assistant to the Dean of the School
of Veterinary Medicine, in the Vet
erinary Medicine Building Audito
rium.
At the general meetings the stu
dents will hear an address by the
presiding faculty member and will
then be sub-divided into groups to
meet with advisers from the re
spective departments.
Wednesday night another gen
eral meeting will be held in G. Rol
lie White Coliseum. J. Gorgon Gay,
general secretary of the YMCA-
and cooi'dinator of campus reli
gious life, will be in charge. At
the meeting ministers of the local
churches will be introduced and the
freshmen will be invited to attend
open houses at all the churches,
following the meeting.
Thursday morning will be occu
pied with a continuation of meet
ings started Wednesday with de
partmental advisers.
Registration for classes will be
gin Thursday afternoon for those
students with less than 15 semes
ter hours of college credit. This
registration will continue through
Friday morning.
There are no formal activities
scheduled Thursday evening.
Friday afternoon at 1:15 a gen
eral assembly for all new students
will be held in White Coliseum.
James P. Hannigan, dean of Stu
dents, will be presiding. Talks on
“Student Life at. A&M” and “Stu
dent Activity Programs” will be
given.
At 3 Friday afternoon all cadets
will remain in White Coliseum for
a meeting with Commandant of
the Corps of Cadets Col. Joe E.
Davis. Talks will also be given by
Professor of Air Science Col.
Charles E. Gregory and Professor
of Military Science and Tactics
Col. Frank L. Elder.
Civilian students will meet at 3
in the Memorial Student Center
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same as other children’s except
for braille classes.
Ann’s parents are Mr. & Mrs.
Norman G. Phillips. Katheryn’s
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ken
neth Wilson.
4 Watch Out Below’:
Cautious Statement
By The Associated Press
DALLAS, Tex. Sept 1—The cry, “Watch out below,” is
not one of arrogant warning in a little group Charlie Amacher
has been instructing to swim this summer.
It is a precautionary statement before Ann Phillips and
Katheryn Ann Wilson dive into a**
pool. For both are blind.
Amacher, a YMCA instructor
training the children on his own
time, reports that the children
are not afraid of water.
Needed Confidence
At first they were cautious,
but Amacher, with patience and
understanding, gave them the
needed confidence.
Amacher says the girls are more
eager to learn than children with
out their handicap. And like all
children, once they are in the water
they dbn’t like to leave the pool.
They have no difficuulty find
ing the shore once they are in the
middle of the pool. They simply
follow sounds, usually Amacher’s
voice.
Amacher also gives the girls
trampoline lessons once a week.
Little Ann is able to do a back
flip with the assistance of a safety
belt.
Activities Blessing
The mothers of the girls say
the activities Amacher has taught
them are a blessing, because they
are unable to take part in many
other recreations.
Ann is a twin, and her sister is
Lynn who takes lessons along with
Ann and Katheryn. Ann lost her
sight shortly after birth.
Katheryn and Ann attend public
school and their schedule is the
Useful Tips
To Graduates
Going to Work
(Editor’s Note: The following
article was written by R. N. Hil-
kert, vice president of the Federal
Reserve Bank in Philadelphia.
Hilkert gives his advice to the
student graduating from college
and going to work. Being a suc
cessful businessman, Hilkert’s
tips may well prove valuable to
the young college graduate.)
You are about to join a busi
ness organization. Consider these
things:
(1) You have certain needs and
desires.
(2) Company has it require
ments.
(3) Your desires and company
requirements must be harmonized;
if not, something must give.
The alternatives are:
(1) You must modify your de
sires to fit company requirements.
(2) Company can modify its re
quirements to fit your desires.
(3) You can take your desires
and go elsewhere. This idea may
originate with you, or come as an
insistent suggestion from the
company.
In reviewing the field, it seems
easier for you to modify your
desires than for the company to
modify its requirements. Com
panies are funny that way.
Somehow they lack the flexi
bility to tailor-make their require
ments to meet the desires of new
employees. Though you may be
filled with management ideas, and
busting at the seams with modern
knowledge, you will best serve
yourself by appearing as a learner
rather than as a management con
sultant.
Having come from a fine school,
full of management knowledge,
and perhaps the kingpin of your
college class, you may be shocked
to find that the company makes
sad mistakes and grossly violates
the principles you have learned.
Some day, you may have the
chance to set them straight;
meanwhile, bide your time.
Don’t create the early impres
sion that you are just the guy
the company has been looking for,
and that it is lucky you arrived
before it was too late. They
may reluctantly decide to struggle
along a few more years without
you.
Be alert, inquiring, observing,
and with a spirit of humility.
Then they will welcome you.
This leads to another problem
you should recognize. While you
may have been hired as a potential
manager, you will have to work
with many men who will never
become managers.
Many will have been with the
company for years, and they are
essential and valuable. They can
make you or break you.
You cannot ride roughshod over
them to advance your career.
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Graduate Fellowships
A&M has received a grant for $8,400 from
the Humble Oil and Refining Co. of Houston.
The grant goes for three graduate fellow
ships in 1960-61 in the fields of petroleum,
civil and mechanical engineering. The check
was presented to President Earl Rudder by
H. Dayton Wilde, Humble’s University Rela
tions Counselor. In making the presentation
for the 13th time for Humble, Mr. Wilde
said, “may I say that Humble is happy to
sponsor these fellowships and is well pleased
with the results.” Pictured, (L-R), are,
Fred Benson, dean of the School of Engi
neering 1 President Rudder, Mr. Wilde and
Dr. Harvey T. Kennedy of the Department
of Petroleum Engineering.
HOLIDA Y TOLL SET AT 29
Texans Urged To Prove
Death Guessers Wrong
“It is possible to prove the
statisticians wrong.”
So said Maj. W. J. Elliott today
as he reviewed the Department of
Public Safety’s prediction of 29
deaths for this Labor Day Weekend
holiday.
The commander of the Depart
ment’s Waco region continued:
“We not only want to prove the
statisticians wrong, we want to
prove that they overestimated by
a substantial nuumber how many
people would be killed on our
streets and highways ”
Maj. Elliott added that for the
past ten years the Texas death
toll has averaged over 32 people
killed each Labor Day weekend.
He added this Labor Day could be
another holiday filled with sudden
death and violence unless the tra
veling public determines to exert
an all-out effort against traffic
accidents.
“This weekend, as during other
peak traffic periods, all our traf
fic law enforcement officers will
be working extra duty in an effort
to apprehend law violators before
they can cause trouble,” Maj. El
liott added.
Col Homer Garrison Jr., director
of the Texas Department of Public
Safety, said:
“We hope the driving public will
help this Labor Day weekend to
prove that we have overestimated
the number of traffic fatalities
that will occur in the three-day
period.”
Garrison said some 125 extra
patrolmen from the department’s
other uniformed services will join
the regular Highway Patrol force
in attempting to halt traffic law
violations.
The department’s statistical ser
vice shows, excessive speed over
the posted limits was involved in
10 of the 14 rural fatal accidents
during the holiday last year, and
drinking was involved in seven of
them.
Thirty died in motorcides in
1958, 27 in 1959.
By ROBBIE GODWIN
Battalion Managing Editor
Bryan and College Station radio and television stations
and the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce teamed
up with similiar organizations in the state this week to begin
their drive toward safer highways over the Labor Day Holi
day weekend.
Over the three-day period, Radio Stations WTAW and
KORA and KBTX-TX will sponsor the “Drive Lighted and
Live” campaign, reminding drivers in the area to turn their
lights in the daytime to show they are complying with driv
ing safety laws.
They will be joined by radio and television stations over
most of the state, whose reminders helped.reduce the num
ber of Fourth of July and"*
CE Professor
Wins Award
For Essay
Charles Pinnell has been award
ed the Ninth Annual Past Presi
dent’s Award for Merit in Traffic
Engineering by the Institute of
Traffic Engineers. The award will
be presented at the annual meet
ing of the Institute to be held
in Chicago Sept. 12.
The winner is assistant profes
sor of highway and traffic engi
neering in the Department of Civil
Engineering and assistant research
engineer of the Texas Transporta
tion Institute at A&M.
The Past President’s Award is
a formal recognition of profes
sional excellence in traffic engi
neering and is awarded for the
conduct and Reporting of indepen
dent and original research and for
the recognition of outstanding ac
complishments. The award win
ning paper was titled, “Driver Re
quirements in Freeway Entrance
Ramp Design.”
Pinnell was co-author of a paper
which received the Highway Re
search Board Award of Merit in
January. He joined the faculty
of the Civil Engineering Depart
ment in June of 1958. He was for
merly a member of the Texas
Technological College and Purdue
University before coming to A&M.
Christmas holiday deaths by
18 per cent.
In addition, volunteers
from the local Jaycees will set
up their “Safety Watch”. Begin
ning at noon on Labor Day, they
will set up their stand at the road
side park just north of Bryan, ser
ving free coffee to travelers as
they wend their way homeward.
Chamber of Commerce pres
ident Ralph Record said:
“Our move enjoyed success over
the Fourth of July Weekend. We
had about 250 people take advan
tage of our offer, stopping for
free coffee. Since the idea has
caught on statewide, we hope more
people will take advantage of it
this holiday.”
Enthusiasm over the Jaycee
plan throughout the state is high,
according to W. F. Leonard of
Dallas, vice-president for traffic
safety of Texas Safety Associa
tion. More and more states are
joining the Texas groups, with
Georgia, New Mexico, Arizona
and probably California, Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama taking
part in the move.
Joining these two groups, the
Texas Council of Safety Super
visors has enlisted the support of
the tracking industry to set up the
Holiday Road Patrol.
Participating cars and trucks
will carry signs with that wording,
and will assist drivers in trouble
at no cost. They will take no part
in police work and will not be in
volved in law enforcement.
Tigers Top Choice in 19-A A
By RUSSELL BROWN
CHS Correspondent
A&M Consolidated’s Tigers,
sporting the beefiest crew in the
school’s history, are pegged to
grab off top honors in District 19-
AA this fall.
The bengals have been going
throuugh two practices a day since
Aug. 15, starting date for fall
practice for Class AA teams. They
have been knocking heads since
Aug. 17. Progress was pretty
slow for the first stringers in
scrimmage sessions as the red-
shirts ripped gaping holes in the
Tiger defenses until Tuesday
night.
To Bellville
Tuesday found the Tigers in
Bellville against the nuumber three
team in Class AA, and the team
that trounced the Bengals 29-0 in
the District 21-AA championship
gan to live up to expectations, out
last year. There the Tiger crew be-
manning the Brahmas defensively
and adding new twists to the hard-
running Split-T football.
Logan had senior quarterback
Condy Pugh and junior signal-
caller Russell Welch going to the
air and the two came through
with some good completions. This
coupled with the charging blasts
by squadman Frank Hagger and
two-letterman Vic Clark, 190-
pound tackle switched to fullback,
gave the Big Red a tough time.
“We’ve still got a long way to
go, but I was well pleased with
the scrimmage with Bellville,” said
Tiger Coach Ed Logan.
Problem of Depth
Depth problems seemed to face
Coaches Logan and Jack Church
ill, but the second unit has been
pressing for the white jerseys all
season.
“We’ll be able to use that sec
ond eleven quite a bit this year,”
continued Logan. “They’ve been
hitting good.”
Logan’s White team before the
Bellville clash had 155-pound jun
ior Larry Randolph and 170-pound
senior letterman Bob Adams at the
terminals, 205-pound senior two-
letterman Alex Quisenberry and
190 f -pound senior letterman Mark
Luther at tackles; 180-pound sen
ior letterman Bob White, 145-
pouund scrappy senior George Out
law, and 170-pound senior letter-
man Mike Bloom at guards; and
170- pound junior letterman Char
les Roeber and sophomore “B”
teammer Frank Brown, 155 at cen
ter.
Pugh (175) and Welch (155)
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have been running from the man-
under spot, Cyril Burke, 165-
pound junior letterman, John Ped
igo, 150-pouund senior letterman,
Hagler (170), and Pugh have seen
action at halves; and Clark, and
Hagler have been running at the
fullback slot.
“Both Brown and Hagler could
break into the starting line-up this
year, and others on the second
team will give the white-teamers
a run for their money; there’s
plenty of keen competition,” sum
med up the Tiger mentor.
SCHEDULE
Sept. 2 Navasota*
Sept. 9 Open
Sept. 16 Madisonville*
Sept. 23 Giddings
Sept. 30 Crockett
Oct. 7 Huntsville*
Oct. 14 Caldwell**
Oct. 21 Hearne**
Oct. 28 Rockdale**
Nov. 4 Open
Nov. Ml Cameron
* Home Games
** District Games
A&M Consolidated Coach Ed
six of his Tiger starters just how the team
stands as they prepare for their season
opener with the Navasota Bulldogs tomor
row night in Navasota. Listening intently to
the situation is (left to right) end Bud
Mapping Strategy
Logan tells Adams, guard George Outlaw, guard Bob
White, tackle Alex Quisenberry, guard Mike
Bloom and tackle Mike Luther. The Tigers
are picked by sports writers to take the
19-AA district this fall.