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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.