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Aggies Win 82-59 Over TCA
Pat Stanley Grabs Rebound
. . . two Frogs watch helplessly
The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 5,1961
Number 50
More Name-Change Talk
Senate Planning*
Discussion Tonite
Holiday Death Toll
Includes One Aggie
The delicate strains of “Silver Taps” echoed from the
buildings of Aggieland Tuesday night as the men of A&M
honored a dead buddy.
John W. Sauer, a 21 year-old electrical engineering stu
dent, was found dead in his Bell--f~
Numerous items of business will be discussed at a meet
ing of the Student Senate tonight at 7:30 in the Senate
Chamber of the Memorial Student Center, according to Rol
and Dommert, president.
New business will include committee reports, chiefly a
report from the sportsmanship committee. Also to be dis
cussed are plans for the annual Mother’s Day program to
be held May 14.
Another item of business will be discussion on whether
or not the Student Senate will handle the blood drive again
this year. In past years, the Senate has sponsored this drive
with great success.
+ Under old business, Dom
mert said the Senate would
talk about possible speakers
for the Muster program April
21; this program will be
handled under the direction of the
student life committee of the
Senate. The student welfare com
mittee will have a report on the
campus chest conducted Dec. 13
and 14. Also to be discussed will
be plans and possibilities for the
12th Man Bowl.
Broussard Hits Field Goal
. games’s high scorer with 29 points
aire apartment Sunday morning.
His wife is in serious condition in
a Houston hospital with two bullet
wounds in her head.
A Harris County medical exam
iner said that Sauer apparently
shot his wife and then turned his
rifle on himself.
Sauer’s two children, John Jr., 4,
and Michael Wayne, 2, were stay
ing with a baby-sitter when the
tragedy occurred.
The Sauers had been married
five years.
Sauer met his wife while they
attended Bellaire High School in
Houston.
Mrs. Sauer lived in Bellaire with
the children while her husband at
tended A&M.
The Sauers had been described
as an “ideal couple” by Mrs. Royce
Hienen, their baby-sitter.
John J. Sauer, the husband’s
father, told investigating officers,
however, the pair had frequent
marital difficulties.
No other deaths or serious in
juries were reported among the
Aggies that took to the nation’s
highways during the Christmas
724 Visit
Campus During
December
A total of ,724 visitor,s were on
the campus during the month of
December, P. L Downs, Jr., official
greeter of the College, announced.
They were attending short
courses, conferences, class reun
ions and other scheduled meetings.
The college had 663,741 visitors
on the campus for scheduled meet
ings and activities during the elev
en years and seven months that
ended Jan. 1, 1961.
N
ew Course
In Engineering
Announced
A new course will be offered in
the spring semester by the Depart
ment of Engineering Graphics, Dr.
W. E. Street, Head of the Depart
ment, has announced. The course
is designated E. G. 403, Graphical
Computation Devices, (1-3, credit
2) and is offered as an elective for
juniors and seniors.
“The new course will cover the
theory and construction of nomo-
. : graphs for use in the solutions of
H recurring scientific and engineer-
ing problems,” Street says. Pre-
V requisites are E. G. 105 and E. G.
H;: 1 106 or the equivalent.
Street says E. G. 403 will offer
. more advanced work in nomo-
1 graphs than E. G. 209, nomographs
(2-0, credit 2) offered for the first
v? time last spring and to be con-
, tinued this spring. E. G. 209 is an
elective course for sophomores and
includes charts and graphs, graph
ical mathematics and introduction
to nomographs.
“E. G. 403 will not appear in the
printed schedule of classes for the
spring semester because of its very
recent approval,” Street points out.
“Registration in in this course will
be on an ‘hours to be arranged’
basis.”
AT LEAST ONE HURT
Riots Erupt
Over Cuban
In U.N.
Situation
By The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. —
Demonstrators for and against
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Cas
tro clashed outside U. N. head
quarters Wednesday as the United
States and Cuba traded bitter
charges in the Security Council.
At least one man was hurt and
several others were spattered with
eggs and tomatoes before police
restored order between two groups
fighting, outside the public en
trance. Inside the Security Coun
cil chamber, the debate was twice
disrupted by hecklers.
The United States told the elev
en-nation council Castro was turn
ing Cuba into a springboard for
Communist subversion of the West
ern Hemisphere. Cuba said the
United States was about, to attack
her.
Seven men and a woman were
expelled from U. N. headquarters
for yelling, “Viva Castro,” from
the public gallery of the council
chamber.
As they reached the street, about
as many anti-Castro pickets threw
eggs and tomatoes at them from
the other side.
Dr. €. E. Terrill Speaks
At Graduate Lecture Tonight
“The Place of Sheep, Goats, Wool and Mohair in the
Future Domestic and World Markets,” will be discussed in
a graduate lecture tonight at 7:30 in the Assembly Room of
the Memorial Student Center. The public is invited.
The lecture will be given by Dr. ♦
Clair E. Terrill, head, Sheep, Goats
and Fiber Research Section, Agri
cultural Research Service, USD A,
Beltsville, Md.
Terrill’s duties involve adminis
tration of research over the United
States dealing with the production
of sheep and fur animals. His re
search work has been primarily in
the field of sheep breeding with
the objective of developing methods
for sheep improvement.
BS Degree
He received his BS degree in
animal husbandry from Iowa State
College in 1932 and his PhD in
animal breeding from the Uni
versity of Missouri in 1936.
He served briefly as animal hus
bandman at the Georgia Experi
ment Station and then as animal
husbandman at the U. S. Sheep
Experiment Station, Dubois, Idaho,
from 1936 to 1955.
During the last two years he
was director of the Station and the
(See LECTURE On Page 3)
The anti-Castro group charged
across the street, police swung
clubs to keep them back and one
man was knocked down, bleeding
from the forehead. The man said
he was Felix Garcia, a leader of
the anti-Castro pickets. Police
took him away. They separated
the two groups and herded the
pro-Castro demonstrators toward
a bus stop. t
The Castro sympathizers began
shouting, “Viva Castro,” in the af
ternoon after U. S. Delegate Jas.
J. Wadsworth charged that Castro
was leading Cuba into the Soviet
bloc and turning it into a Com
munist subversion center.
Six men and women cried “Mur
dered, liar, Communist,” in the
morning as Cuban Foreign Minis
ter Raul Roa told the council the
United States was planning to at
tack Cuba.
U. N. guards ousted both groups
from U. N. headquarters.
Wadsworth spoke twice. At the
morning session, he said Castro’s
government drove the United
States to break off diplomatic re
lations with Cuba Tuesday night
through a “strategy of harass
ment,”
In his afternoon speech, he ac
cused Cuba’s leaders of “the offi
cial creation of a Yankee devil,
whom the unfortunate people in
cluding the smallest school chil
dren are taught to despise.” He
called Roa’s charges false.
(See RIOTS ERUPT On Page 3)
SWC Bowl Wrapup — Page 4
Opposes Change
During the last meeting of the
Senate, held Thursday night before
the holidays, members went on
record as opposing a college name
change by a vote of 12-8, with two
abstentions.
The group also chose to draw
up majority^ and minority reports
on the issue, the majority report
being written by Bob Bower, Frank
McFarland and Mike Schneider,
and the minority report prepared
by John Abbot, Brantley Laycock
and Clayton LaGrone.
These reports will be submitted
to the Name-Change Committee,
which has a meeting scheduled
sometime next week, along with
other repoi'ts from Cadet Col. of
the Corps Syd Heaton and Civilian
Student Council President Mike
Carlo.
At the last meeting of the
Senate there was some discussion
of holding a forum between Col
lege President Earl Rudder and
the student body, but Dommert
said nothing had actually been done
further on that, since the issues
had been covered through reports
and work of the Name Change
Committee.
Ceremonies
Honor Former
Professor
George Barton Wilcox has been
awarded a life membership in the
Texas Association of School Ad
ministrators.
The award was made at a cere
mony this morning in Austin at
the annual conference of the 1961
School Administration Advisory
Confei'ence on Education.
Respectfully called “the grand
old man of Texas education,” Wil
cox retired in 1959 after serving
40 years at A&M as professor and
later head of the Department of
Education and Psychology. Many
honors have come to Wilcox, one
of which was the statewide recog
nition hg received for his part in
the organization of the state teach
ers retirement system.
Wilcox served for 10 years in
the public schools of the state. In
1920 he helped organize the A&M
Consolidated public school of Col
lege Station and served as it first
principal.
At the ceremony he was lauded
as “a successful public school
teacher, principal, superintendent
and in his peak years made valu
able contributions to education in
Texas as professor of administra
tive education and as a consultant
on many productive studies and
workshops in public school sys
tems. Many successful school ad
ministrators of the state today at
tribute their success, especially
their philosophy of education, to
the influence of George B. Wilcox.”
Wilcox is presently serving as
Grand High Scribe of the Ancient
and Beneficent Order of the Red
Rose, an active organization of
school administrators in Texas. He
is past president of the Texas
State Teachers Assn.
Attending the three-day meeting
in Austin from A&M are Dr. Grady
P. Parker, head, and member, Dr.
Paul Hensarling, Department of
Education and Psychology. The
meeting was attended by superin
tendents of public schools and col
lege officials involved in the train
ing of school administrators.
World Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
Stock Market Hits Year’s Peak
NEW YORK—The stock market put on its biggest one-
day advance in more than a year Wednesday as aggressive
buying entered steel, motor, aircraft and rail shares.
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Death Takes Barry Fitzgerald
DUBLIN—Barry Fitzgerald, Irish star of the movies,
died Wednesday in a Dublin nursing home. He was 71.
Fitzgerald underwent a brain operation here in 1959 and
since then had been under medical care.
Diphtheria Takes Second Victim
GONZALES, Tex.—The second fatality in two weeks
from diphtheria in this South Texas town was reported Wed
nesday. The victim was a 6-year-old Negro girl.
Six cases have been reported since Dec. 23.
Gas Tax Reconsideration Ousted
AUSTIN—The Third Court of Civil Appeals Wednesday
turned down the state’s request that it reconsider its decis
ion that the controversial “severance beneficiary” gas tax
is unconstitutional.
Bremond School Ruling Appealed
AUSTIN—Complainants in the Bremond School case
Wednesday appealed a ruling by State Commissioner of Ed
ucation J. W. Edgar testing the constitutionality of Catholic
nuns wearing the robes of their order while teaching in a
Bremond public school.
Pinnell Presented
Fellowship Grant
Charles Pinnell, an assistant pro
fessor in the Department of Civil
Engineering, has been awai’ded a
National Science Foundation Fel-
lewshop.
The fellowship is for study to
ward a PhD degree in civil engi
neering. It is in the form of a
“salary grant” which will permit
nine months of study at North
western University in Evanston,
111.
The major field of work will be
in transportation and urban traffic
engineering. He plans to begin
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work at Northwestern in Septem
ber of 1961.
Pinnel is also assistant research
engineer of the Texas Transporta
tion Institute and holds a BS de
gree in civil engineering from Tex
as Tech, 1952, and an MS degree
in civil engineering, with a major
in highway and trafife engineer
ing, Purdue University, 1958. He
came to A&M in 1958.
His honors include Highway Re
search Board award, January, 1960;
and Past President’s award, Insti
tute of Traffic Engineers, Septem
ber, 1960.
New Safety Zones
Shown above are the seven new safety zones for campus
driving announced by the college. In charge of each zone
are Dr. Bernard M. Cooley of the School of Veterinary Med
icine, zone 1; Herman B. Segrest of the Department of
Health and Physical Education, zone 2; William G. Brea-
zeale, a civilian dormitory counselor, zone 3; Capt. Perry J.
Sheppard of the Department of Military Sciences, zone 4;
Robert L. Boone, music coordinator, zone 5; Charles J.
Keese of the Department of Civil Engineering, zone 6, and
Ralph H. Rogers of the Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Sociology, zone 7.