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7 •ching T re- out a pring. Quire, ■ hails from ustler from hails 11 Ro- from 3, the Short- tponed The Field, ooking game r their larroll, year’s Short- m The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1961 Number 102 i Darby, Newton Named System Prexy, Yeep By ROBERT DENNEY At its regular meeting last Saturday, the Board of Di rectors of the A&M System elected Eugene E. Darby of Pharr president and John W. Newton of Beaumont vice-pres- S ident. The officers were elected at the first meeting 1 attended by three rewly appointed members, Clyde Itiompson of Diboll, Clyde H. Ms of Granbury and H. C. Wdenfels of Corpus Christi. The Board also made appropria- fions totaling $474,392 and awarded tontracts for construction and im- jrovement of the System totaling 1319,196. Funds from private wees totaling $143,053 were ac- tepted by the board. The funds ame as support for research, [Htits-in-aid, scholarships, fellow- ilips, special gifts and awards in mterials and equipment for the (irious parts of the System. Appropriations for work at the IttI College included $154,000 for (instruction of an underground ater distribution pipe for air- Witionirig of classroom build- cgs, $4,842 for improvements at le Galveston Marine Laboratory, 100 for improvements to the Ill-Faiths Chapel and $95,000 for (modeling Bizell Hall and provid- lig additional equipment for the lepartment of Oceanography and Keteorology. The Texas Agricultural Experi- Kent Station received $36,000 for hiprovements at Substation No. 7 hSpur. Other appropriations we^e lade for Arlington State College, Jarleton State College and Prairie W A&M. Contracts were awarded to the US. Co., Austin, for underground uter pipe lines, $147,677; to imgory-Edwards Inc., Houston, ir air-conditioning and plumbing a the Galveston Marine Labora- by, $80,801; to W. C. Hixson Co., hllas, for installing furniture at te laboratory, and to Stringer 'instruction Co., Lubbock, for instruction of a feed barn and image building at the Spur sub station of the Agricultural Experi ment Station, $35,222. In addition, the board authorized Chancellor M. T. Harrington to enter into negotiations with the Federal Housing Administration for a loan of $1,250,000 for con struction of dormitories at Arling ton State College, and for a loan of $400,000 for dormitories at Tarleton State College. The directors also approved ap pointments of the heads of athletic councils for the four colleges of the System. Appointments are for the 1961-62 school year are as fol lows: For the A&M, College, Dr. C. H. Groneman; for Arlington State College, J. D. Boon; for Tarleton State College, Dean Cecil Ballow, and for Prairie View A&M College, C. L. Wilson. Reed McDonald, a long-time member of the staff of the System, was named head of the Feed and Fertilizer Control Service, effec tive Sept. 1, 1961. McDonald began his career as a mailing clerk in the Agricultural Extension Service in 1927, shortly after his graduation from Bryan High School. He has served as assistant chief clerk, chief clerk, executive assistant and assistant controller. He became director of the Feed Control Service in 1959. The new agency will carry out provisions of the Texas Com mercial Feed Control Act of 1957 and the Texas Commercial Ferti lizer Act of 1961. As director, McDonald will be responsible for directing operation, administration and enforcement of both acts in one service organization. The ac tivities now being conducted under the Feed Control Service and en forcement activities of the State Chemist are to be transferred to the Feed and Fertilizer Service. World Wrap-Up By The Associated Press Algerian Mutiny Heads For Showdown PARIS—The mutinous generals in Algeria were report- bolted by opposition from the air force and navy Monday. J France, the government girded for a showdown by turn stile nation into an armed camp and again closing all air ildstobar any airborne invasion. Paris and other major cities were guarded by tanks and 'Enforced security units as the government warned of a pos- ile attack by parachute troops from Algeria. Ten thousand turity forces were on duty in Paris alone. ★ ★ ★ Farm Program Enters Congress , WASHINGTON—Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. 'reeman brought the administration’s farm program before %ess yesterday and immediately ran into a sharp Repub- '■an attack. The core of the administration program—and the inno- %i that sets it apart from previous approaches—is the ■tting up of farmer committees to work out with the secre cy programs for the commodities they grow. ★ ★ ★ SEATO Forces Stage Exercise [ SINGAPORE—Warships of four Southeast Asia Treaty ^anization nations sailed through the China Sea Monday ’ ,f ard British Borneo, where an imaginary nation under at- ^has called for SEATO aid. . They were under mock air and submarine attack from ^es of the aggressor nation as part of SEATO’s biggest ■flitary exercise, “Pony Express.” Red River Development Hearing Continue , PARIS, Tex.—A group of men convinced that the seme mes shallow, sometimes raging Red River can be turned ; to a navigable waterway meet Tuesday on the eve of a % of Engineers hearing on development of the Red River. The engineers hearing Wednesday follows by a week brings in Alexandria and Shreveport, La., held to give in- ^sted persons a chance to express their views on develop- of the river. ★ ★ ★ Pro-Cuban Supporters Harrassed , RECIFE, Brazil—Pho-Castro' peasants were bombarded rotten eggs and oranges near here over the weekend by ‘flobthat sang “God Bless America.” , The pro-Cuban mob was holding a victory rally-led by ■’’e Socialist Peasant League leader, Francisco Juliao—in the ^rby town of Aruaru. Doubt Shrouds . Destiny 5,000 Hear 'Aston Stress Uncertainty Aston Delivers Muster Address . crowd of 5,000 attend campus ceremony FESTIVITIES PLANNED Flying Conference To Open Thursday Ea«terwood Airport will be a busy place Thursday through Saturday as the 13th Annual National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s Annual Air Meet and Conference convenes. ( The 1961 conference is being sponsored by A&M’s flying club, the Flying Kadets. Aviation dignitaries from throughout the nation will be on hand as well as student representa tives of more than 40 colleges and universities. Actual flying competition will begin Friday and last through Saturday. A full schedule is planned for the visitors between events. The United States Air Force will have a big part in the three-day affair when its crack aerial team, the Thunderbirds, performs Satur day at noon. Saturday morning at 10:30 the Corps of Cadets will pass in re view, honoring Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, Commander of the Air Research and Development Com mand, and the NIFA delegates. Just before the Thunderbird demonstration there will be a Western-style barbecue at the air port under the direction of the Saddle and Sirloin Club. Saturday night the meet will be climaxed with an awards banquet in the Memorial Student Center with the main address being de livered by Gen. Schriever. Composed of 94 member colleges and universities in the United States, the NIFA air meet is held annually to promote skill, safety and sport among its members who range from commercial pilots to those who are just learning to fly. A&M is hosting the meet for the first time. It has been held in Texas only twice, both times by Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Competition will be in three categories including power-on and power-off spot . landings, flour bomb dropping, and filing and fly ing a cross country course. Sunday the meet will officially end with a fly-a-way breakfast at Easterwood airport. Charles C. Murphy, senior aero nautical engineering major, is president of the NIFA and urges the public to attend each event of the meet. Along with the Thundei'- bix-d demonsti’ation there will be vai’ious static displays by different aviation agencies of interest to the public. Board Authorizes Planning Council The creation of a Centux-y Council of 100 outstanding Texans to help map the futux-e of A&M was authorized here Saturday. The group will woi'k with faculty com mittees on plans for development of the college in the next 15 yeai’s, under a pi’oposal appi'oved by the hoax’d of directors of A&M College System. The plan is aimed at developing A&M to the fullest, in line with needs of the state, dux-ing the period between this, its 85th year, and its 100th anniversary in 1976. Approximately two years is to be devoted to making the long-x'ange plans. In announcing the action, Board President Eugene Dai’by said: “We are jhst now getting • under way several major programs of research and teaching, in nuclear engineering, data processing, oceanography and other fields. We know these are important to the future development of Texas. We believe they can be of greatest value if we have the help of the people who will use our research and the talent we train, in the early stages of planning and de velopment. “A&M College was created by the people of Texas for the de clared purpose of aiding the agri cultural and industrial development of the state and providing soundly educated citizens. These purposes have not changed. Times have changed, and we are changing with them. It is important that we move in the direction of the great est need in Texas. We are asking the people of the state, who own this institution, to help us in plan ning its fxiture within the role and scope established for it by the Texas Commission on Higher Edu cation. In this way we can be sure that our growth will be in the right direction.” The 100 Texans to be appointed to the Century Council will repi’e- sent all phases of Texas industry, the pi’ofessions and pi’incipal fields of intex-est. They will be named from nominations made by the citizens of Texas to the board of dix-ectors. The group will study the college as it is at present and suggest the course it should take as a part of the coordinated state system of higher education during the next fifteen yeai’s. Work of the Century Coxxncil and faculty committees will be the basis of a 15-year (See BOARD Page 3) “Looking- about us on every hand today,” James W. As ton, Dallas banker, said Friday, “we sense an unrest, an un certainty and even an element of doubt about where this country is going, about what is going to happen to us. “This is only natural, for we are living in a time of tre mendous change,” Aston, president of the Republic National Bank, declared. He delivered the Muster Day address before some 5,000 persons on the lawn in front of the Memorial Stu dent Center. He is a graduate of A&M and president of the Association of Former Students. Musters are held each year throughout the world where- ever Aggies gather, in observance of the independence of Texas and the sacrifices of* “those gallant sons at San Ja cinto, the Alamo, Gonzales, Goliad.” It pays homage to all Aggies who have passed on. Musters have been held since 1903. “We must remember,” the speak er, who was introdxxced by Pi’esi- dent Earl Rudder, said, “that times of great progress have always been times of great uncex’tainty. “Leading educators today have begun to pay more and more at tention to the rate of change in our society, rather than to the changes themselves. Never befox’e in his- tox-y has the rate at which change occurred had the importance and the impact on our everyday lives that it has today.” Aston declared that “it is with reverance, ever abiding respect and appreciation that we answer ‘here’ for our departed brothers, but this service is also for the liv ing, to x-ededicate self and effox't to the guarantee of continued free dom. In this connection we per haps face the greatest challenge in history. ‘Education—development of the knowledge and skills with which to manipulate physical resources at our disposal—has been the bed- x’oek base for growth and px-ogx’ess as we know it. “What is the ti’uth? Do we know? We know,now more than we did before—but do we know the truth ? “I need not emphasize to you,” the speaker said, “who ax-e gath- ei’ed hex-e how important a factor A&M College has been and con tinues to be in the search, the growth and the development of the truth. “For all of us the future holds great promise. But to realize the bounties of that promise, we must have the courage to meet the chal lenges which lie ahead. We cannot achieve positive goals if we give in to the fears which are voiced on every side almost daily. “Today,” he declared, “is the un paralleled age of oppoi’tunity and I challenge each of you—the sons of A&M—to cax'ry the torch of ex cellence, for only through excell ence can we x’etain the fx’eedom which we treasure so much and only in this manner can we fully dischax-ge our responsibilities to the px-esent and the futux-e and to those in whose honor we answer ‘here.’ ” Hrachovy Wins Four-Year Medical Grant James Hrachovy, senior premed ical major, has been awarded an $8,000 medical scholarship by the Houston Endowment Inc. The scholai’ship grant is for $2,000 a year for four years, effective Sep tember, 1961. He has been accepted at the Uni versity of Texas medical branch at Galveston, and will enter the fi’eshman class in September. He will wox’k at the rpedical branch this summer on the National Insti tute of Health experimental train ing gx’ants program. Hrachovy entered A&M in the fall of 1957 and has made a dis tinguished record, ranking seventh among 409 juniors in the School of Arts and Sciences last year. He has been the holder of an Oppor tunity Awax-d scholarship for eight semestei's. He is a mexnber of the National Education Association, the Pre- medical-Px*edental Society and Stu dent Arts and Sciences Council. He was recently, elected to membex*- ship in the honor society, Phi Kappa Phi. Hx’achovy is serving as an un- dei’gradate assistant in the Biology Department this year helping in both comparative anatoxxxy and be ginning zoology. Sloan Named SDX Officer Bob Sloan, a junior journalism major from Dallas and a news edi tor of The Battalion, Sunday was named state vice president for un dergraduate expansion of Sigma Delta Chi, the professional joux*- nalism society. Officers for the new year were named at the conclusion of the group’s annual state convention, held Friday thx'ough Sunday in San Aixtonio. Sloan will head undergraduate expansion pi’ogi’anxs in the profes- sional-undex-gx-aduate organization. First Texas State Anthem Given Boost The xxnofficial anthem of the Republic of Texas, “Will You Come to the Bower,” was re vived at the Aggie Muster here Friday. Wherever A&M students and former students are on Apr. 21, they get together for a Muster, hoporing the heroes of the bat tles for the independence of Tex as and those Aggies who have passed away. The old English ballad was played at the charge of the Bat-, tie of San Jacinto. Thex’e wei'e four musicians in the army of Gen. Sam Houstoxx on the day of the battle, records show. Three played fifes and one a drum. As the Texans reached the top of the xdse on which the Mexican camp was located, some 200 yards from the enemy—they charged and it was then that the fifes and drum stixick up the lilting lovesong—probably the weirdest accompaniment ever heard to a bloody battle charge. After the battle, “Will You Come to the Bower” became the unofficial Texas national anthem and wag played at all public ga therings. The txxnfi brought forth shouting and hat. waving, much like “Dixie” did and still does in the South. Playing this tune always bx’ought on a fire-eating speech about how 783 Texans whipped about twice their number of Mex icans on the Plain of San Jacin to, on a hot April afternoon, killing 630, wounding 208 and capturing 522 more. Somehow the old tune dropped out of usage—and so did the fifes:—it was played on three flutes and two drums at the Muster Friday. Few Texans x’ecognize their one-time national antheixx today— and fewer know its historical significance. By making “Will Yoxx Come to the Bower” a part of their annual Muster cex’emon- ies, Aggies hope to x’evive a graxxd old Texas tx’adition. Civilian Sweetheart Miss Cassandra Smith, Sweetheart Miss Cassandra Smith (right) of San Antonio receives congratulations from Aggie Sweetheart Lcuise Kuehn (left) after being named Civilian Sweetheart Saturday night. Miss Smith, 18, is an art major at San Antonio College and was escorted by Dan Scarborough.