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FORMER COMMANDANT
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(Continued from Pace 1)
H« returned to A£M after the
war and aerved aa commandant
Ashbum came to Auatin in Jan- a pu.t president of the BOth Divi-
uary 1M7. He was a member of! Won Asen. and of the National
the First Methodist Church, krmy ,G<«A Hoods Assn. Ho was a past
and later became vice president, and Navy Legion of Valor, Pint j potentate of Arabia T• p of
He also served as general manager Officer! Training Camp Aaan. and I Houston.
of the Houston Chamber of Com- ''f ' \\| ' | r *' ’
merca.
He was rejected for active duty |
ia World War II hut served as,
director of cixnlian defense for
Harris County. In 1943^Gen. Ash
bum became director of industrial I
and public relations, and later sen
ior viee president and e»jmptroller ‘
of Todd Houston Shipbuilding
Corp.
Kennedy Removing
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WASHINGTON—President Ken-
In 1949 Gov. Beaufotd H- Jester j nedy Wednesday announced he ia
appointed him deputy eommandor j lifting former President Dwight
of the Texas National Guard. D. Kiaenhower*s controvaraial ro-
- I friction* on dependents following
servicemen to overseas posts.
Kennedy said the order, calling
for a gradual reduction ia de
pendents overseas, will be lifted
as soon as arrangements to do to
ran be made.
Kennedy said Secretary of De-
| fense Robert S. McNamara has
worked out arrangements for cor
responding giving* of dollars
abroad. The* restriction oa de
pendents accompanying service
men was one of several measures
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Eisenhower ordered to stem the
outflow of deitara.
Kennedy also announced at the
Start of hit news conference that
to lower the coat of housing credit,
he has directed that the maximum
permissible interest be reduced
from 5% to 54 per cent.
In addition be has asked reduc
tions for the construction of public
facilities. ^
More than 380 newsmen had ga
thered for Kennedy's second na
tionally televised conference.
At the request of Mrs. Kennedy,
announced that he and the
First Lady had received more than
100,000 messages of rongratula
lions and they were atill piling up
They couldn’t answer them all
Kennedy said, so he took this op
portunity to express their appreci
ation.
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Final Rites
Friday Morn
For Jensen
Dr. Fred W. Jensen, 67, former
head of the chemistry department,
Texas A4M College, died Tuesday
afternoon in a Bryan hospital. He
had been ill for sometime.
He came to A&M in 1925 as as
sociate professor of chemistry and
rose to the rank of professor in
1929, became head of the depart
ment in 1947 and in 1957 was
named Distinguished Professor. He
retired August 31. 1959.
Funeral services will be held at
10 a.m. Friday from HUlier Fun
eral Home Chapel with Rev. Bill
Oxley, rector of St Thomas Epis
copal Chapel, officiating.
Burial will be in College Station
City Cometary with the following
serving as pallbearers: Dr. Albert
Jacbe, J. Gordon Gay, Dr. Grady
P. Parker, Pete L Rodriqucs, John
Beckham and Sgt Harold Hill.
A&M MOTHERS
(Coatinued from Page 1)
duct and intellectual attainment.’*
In the years since their organi
sation the Federation of Mothers
Club# have devoted much time and
effort to many projects to further
their purpose. In their initial
meeting for the year 1960-61, held
ill September, the Executive Board
of the Federation voted to head
their list of projects with the pro
viding of money for scholarships.
The group was inspired by
Everett E. McQuillen, executive
director of the Development Fund,
who told the mothers:
“It is good that we emphasize
the performance of the upper one
or two per cent of a high school
graduating class, but I think we
err greatly by not equally encour
aging those in the upper 50 per
cent"
"Exceptional talent is needed
and should be encournged,” Mc-
uillen said, “because these top
students are the ones who may
mastermind great technological ad-
A&M Researcher
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To Keynote Meet
An A&M researcher is the key-1 profit organization of those who
note speaker for the 22nd Annual operate motor trucks as an inci-
Convention of the Truck Council dent to their own primary busi-
of America, Inc., meeting at the nesses of farming, manufacturing,
Sheraton-Dallas Hotel in Dallas | mining, processing, wholesaling,
this week. He is Charley V.
Wooten, associate research
omist, Texas
stitute.
“However,he said, “we must
have large numbers of highly
capable young men to effect these
advances. Thus this group is just
as important as the exceptionally
talented."
econ-
Transportation In-
The theme of the confe-ence is
retailing and servicing.
At the Texas Transportation
Institute Wooten has conducted
numerous research studies dealing
with the economics of transports
Khalilur Rahman of Cast Paki
stan, a doctoral degree candidate
i in the A4M Department of Agri
cultural Economics and Sociology,
' has been awarded a desk pen set
' and a eftation for “outstanding
. a irship and scholarship."
The awkrd was presented by the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Sociology, and the
citation Was signed by all the staff
members. 1
The citation reads, in part:
“You have displayed a rare
quality ia generating goodwill in
the midst of people with different
ad diverse training. You
yourself so well to
environment, conducted
such fricndlineoa and
ing, we would like to
nominate you as one of Pakistan'!
beet ambassadors of goodwill.
“If all men of all nations would
conduct themselves with the apirit
that yo« have displayed here ia
A meric at suspicion, fear and hatred
would soon be dissipated among
sat ions.
May this pen serve as an in
centive to boost your efforts to
become a lewder among your people
and to write your name high on
the list among the leaders of East
Pakistan."
hroan came to A&M in the
fall of 1958 to begin work on his
PhD degree- Specializing in farm
credit, the student plans to receive
his doctorate this spring and then
return to teaching in Eagl Paki
stan.
•Cutting Costs Through Practical ^ He u pre&ent , y invo , ved *
Controls. Tka talk with which d ea |j ng W ith the impact
Wooten will open the convention of new con8truction of tfc inUr
i. titled "How to Determine Your 9Ute ayttMn on i a|ld uu
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and land values in various areas
The Council is s national non-! in Texas.
in economics in 1945 at the Uni
versity of Dacca in East Pakistan.
Specialising in currency and bank
ing, he earned hi* MS at the same
school a year later He then taught
at the Government College of Com
merce at'Chittagung.
The student hss been named to
“Who's Who in American Colleges
and Universities," is a member
and past president of th« United
Nations Club at A&M, and a mem
ber and past president of the A&M
Pakistani Students Association.
Other organizations of which
Rahman is ajnember are the A&M
Agricultural Economics Club, A&M
Economics Club, A&M Rural Soci-
ology Club, American Kcoionv.cs
Association, American Rural Soci
ology Society, American Farm
Economics Association, Interna
tional Agricultural Economics Con
ference and Pakistani Economics
Association.
What does Rahman think ab >ut
Texans?
"They are so tall and friendly
—and they eat good,” he said.
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The Pakistanian has maintained
a grade point ratio of' 2.8, even
though he had trouble understand
ing professors’ English during his
first /ear. He can read six lan-
uages—English, Bengali, Arabic,
UFdu, French and German—and he
can sp<ak English, Bengsls and
Urdu.
Rahman received his BS degree
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