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    The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1961
Number 106
NIFA Meet
Participants’
Opinions Vary
Saturday morning, Easterwood
Airport was literally packed with
people; interested students, and
mothers with small children rim
ing about, and more attentive
than anyone, the participating
pilots waiting their turn to be
airborne.
Sixteen schools’ teams partic
ipated in the meet; among the
IfiG delegates, various impress
ions of the three-day feast were
expressed.
Traveling over 1,450 miles,
delegates from Montana State
College finally landed on Easter
wood Strip Saturday morning
after being detained by weather
in several spots during the trip.
“But we finally made it, and
it has been a mighty fine meet
so far,” said Dan Weppler, one
of two men piloting the Montana
State Cessna 150.
“I just hope we can get it in
1964 and do as good a job,” add
ed Larry Jens, other member of
the pair.
The University of Minnesota’s
club, “The Flying Gophers,”
brought four planes and sixteen
pilots to the meet. Decked in
new western hats bought to ward
off the hot sun beaming down
on Easterwood, they expressed
disapproval of control tower
practices during the meet.
“The meet is going too slow,
and we think the tower is to
blame! it is messing up our fly
ing, and we feel all other air
craft besides those entered,
should have been baned from
landing here during the event,”
said one of the delegates.
‘Heavy Flying’
Team Inspects Army Units
Unofficial NIFA Headquarters
. . . tent for registration, communications
Highlights NIFA Meet
Annual ‘Federal’
Now In Progress
By RONNIE BOOKMAN
Battalion News Editor
A 12-member team of Fourth Army officers was busy
today inspecting the military science program at A&M. On
tan for the group are visits to military science class rooms,
all instructional facilities, spot checks of cadet dormitories
and an inspection in ranks of all Army cadets.
The team, headed by Col. Lawrence E. Cummings of
Fort Sam Houston, arrived on campus yesterday afternoon.
“This inspection is a two-edged sword.” Col. Frank L.
Elder, professor of military science, said, “the ROTC instruc
tion unit will be inspected as well as the cadets.”
Elder explained that the instructor unit’s grading would
be based on administration, quality of instruction and use of
facilities.
Military science classes of
freshman, sophomore, junior
and senior levels were to be
visited and scored.
A general inspection in ranks
for Army cadets is set for 5:15
p.m. in the dorm areas.
After the inspection the cadets
will have a “pass-by” on their way
to evening chow. This is to give
the inspectors a look at the units’
marching abilities.
Elder said the inspection would
be held inside the dorms in the
event of inclement weather.
A breakfast for the inspectors
was held this morning in the Me
morial Student Center. At the
breakfast Cadet Col. of the Corps
Sydney N. Heaton and Elder brief
ed the team on various phases of
the military program here.
Heaton gave the officers an in
sight to corps life and activities
and Elder covered the instructional
and administrative end of the mil
itary operation here.
The team is to leave College Sta
tion tomorrow Elder said.
After three days of “heavy
flying,” the National Inter
collegiate Flying Meet and
Conference ended Sunday
morning with a flyaway
breakfast at Easterwood Air
port.
During the conference, dele
gates from the North and
Midwest circulated about and
over Easterwood decked in
newly-bought Texan western
hats and jeans; in the words of
an Oklahoma State University pi
lot, ‘It has all been a helluva good
time!”
An activity-filled program con
fronted the college pilots from all
over the nation, opening Friday
with preliminary competition in
power-on and power-off landings,
filing and flying a cross country
course, and flour bag bombing.
Saturday morning, the Corps of
Cadets passed in review honoring
distinguished guest, Gen. Bernard
Schriever and delegates to the
meet. The review was followed by
a talk in G. Rollie White Coliseum
by the visiting General.
Special entertainment was pro
vided the crowds of interested ob
servers and pilots at the airport
Saturday afternoon when the
Thunderbirds, Air Force jet aero
batics team, performed a 30-min
ute program of aerial skill.
That night, the NIFA Awards
Banquet was held in the Memorial
Student Center, with the presenta
tion of awards and an address by
Gen. Schriever entitled “Technol-
A&M Students Arested
During 4 Splash Day’ Fun
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Battalion Managing Editor
Galveston’s Splash Day mass
arrests were not without their
share of A&M students this past
weekend.
The trouble started Friday, when
minor student riots touched off a
rage of police-versus-student inci
dents leading to the apprehension
of over 600 holiday participants.
Armed with sawed-off shotguns,
tear gas, clubs and various other
weapons, law enforcement officers
from eight cities moved onto the
Island during the weekend in an
attempt to maintain peace and
order.
Techniques used by the police in
cluded mass arrests on various
charges; at least two A&M stu
dents were victims of such tactics.
Norris Gilbreath, junior electric
al engineering major from Mt.
Pleasant, said that he and four
other people were stopped on the
Way to a motel while driving down
a street, following instructions of
a policeman.
“We were forced to get out while
tW’O policemen searched our per
sons and car. We had no liquor,
firearms, or even identification,
since we were in swimming trunks
and had left our wallets at the
motel,” Gilbreath said.
“One officer turned to the other,
and said, “What do you want to
do with them?’ The answer was,
‘Lock ’em up!’
“The next thing we knew, we
Vere in the city jail, which was
already packed and swarming
with apprehended students. After
being hooked, we were taken to
the county jail, and over 150 of us
were crowded into cells made to
hold a maximum of 40 people.
“During the entire time from
2 a.m. until 10 a.m. .Saturday, we
were given no water or food, or
permitted to make phone calls.
“Three times, policemen brought
police dogs into the cells with us,
permitting the animals to charge
and scratch several of the inmates.
“We continued to protest about
no water, and also the fast that
the majority of us were arrested
for no apparent reason. We quiet
ed down when they threatened to
shoot tear gas into our cell.
“Among us in the cell was one
person whose hand had been muti
lated by a police dog; he was given
no medical aid until we were re
leased nine hours later.
“When we were finally released,
I found out w T hat they had charged
me with: disturbing the peace. My
four companions riding in the same
car with me were charged with un
lawful assembly. We all had to
pay a $15 fine before being re
leased.”
Gilbreath, who is vice president
of the Student Senate, said plans
were being formulated for a for
mal protest to the City of Gal
veston.
Gary Byrd, freshman electrical
engineering major from Dallas,
had a similar story about the
Splash Day arrests.
“Four of us were walking along
the sea wall when we were stop
ped by several policemen. As they
were talking to us, another offi
cer from across the street called
and said he had room for five more
in his paddy wagon.
“Two of us were thrown in it,
and taken to city jail; we had a
choice of paying $15 or being lock
ed up; since I had only $3 on me,
there wasn’t much choice. We
weren’t allowed to write checks or
use the telephone.
“I had seen one or two students
try to disagree with the police at
the station; they got slugged
across the head with a piece of
rubber pipe. So we took our
charges, mine was for loitering
and my buddy’s was for vagrancy,
and went into the cell.
“Most of the students were quite
irate about the whole thing, and
loud protest was raised; soon after,
we were moved to the county jail,
where I saw several men get beat
en with rubber pipes, and police
dogs turned on some of the pris
oners.
“After we persisted in raising
more protest, crying for water and
telephones, the police turned water
hoses on us; as a result, most of
the students almost froze to death
all night long.
“We were all without food or
water for 13 hours, when we were
finally released. We didn’t stay
very much longer in Galveston af
ter being turned loose, either,”
concluded Byrd.
ogy, Time and Man.”
The commander of the Air For
ce’s research and development pro
grams dealing with such missiles
as the Atlas, Titan, Thor, and Min-
uteman, said man can be the only
ultimate weapon in warfare.
“It is men, Gen. Schriever said,”
not machines, that fight the wars.”
And he added that it is men who
make the peace.
The General likened this nations’
competition with Russia to a tech
nological explosion. He said the
chief battle lines are drawn in the
research laboratories with victory
locked in countless test tubes.
He added that “When you com
bine a contest of ideologies with a
technological explosion, you get in
tense competition—competition in
which no prizes are given for sec
ond place.”
“You are all familiar with the
saying that necessity is the mother
of invention, and when that neces
sity is a military one, there is a
tremendous surge in science,” the
General said.
“But man himself is still the
ultimate, either in war or in
peace,” he concluded.
Among recipients of the various
flying awards was Jack Thread-
gill of A&M, a junior electrical en
gineering major from Brady.
Threadgill placed third in naviga
tion in the meet; the first place
winner was ftuss Gerber, of the
University of Missouri.
Other first place winners, in
cluded David Dixon, of St. Cloud
University, in the Power-Off Land
ing event; Robert Keller, of West
ern Michigan University, in the
Power-On Landing, and C. De
wain Carnes of Oklahoma State
University in the Bomb Dropping
event.
SECOND IN A SERIES
Extension Award
Is Newest Prize
(Editor’s note: This article is the
second in a series on the faculty
distinguished achievement awards
to be presented May 23 in Guion
Hall).
The faculty distinguished a-
chievement awards programs, sche
duled for May 23 in Guion Hall,
will assume new demensions when
the first $1000 award is made for
meritorious service in the areas of
extension work.
Supported by the Association of
Former Students, the new exten
sion service award will bring the
number of yearly awards to seven.
Other $1000 awards include four
in teaching, one in individual stu
dent relationships, and one in re
search.
J. B. Hervey, executive secretary
of the Association, said the basic
purpose behind the new award is
to recognize a man or woman in
either the Agricultural or Engi
neering Extension Services who
through dedication to duty, inter
est, enthusiasm, and attitude has
brought high honor to the College
and to the Extension Services.
“This new award is tangible evi
dence of the deep appreciation wo
hold for the Collegs’s extension
workers. These people play a sig
nificant part in molding the fu
ture of our State. For this reason
the Association is honored to rec
ognize distinguished work in ex
tension,” Hervey said.
The achievement awards were
established in 1955 by the Associa
tion through the College Develop
ment Fund. Nominations for the
awards are submitted by faculty
and students, and selections are
made by a faculty committee whose
identity remains secret.
Hervey pointed out that the a-
wards are designed to illuminate
distinguished work in areas of
teaching, research, student rela
tionships and extension.
“We can’t recognize everyone for
obvious reasons,” Hervey said,
“But by singling out a few, we
hope to stimulate and encourage
the entire faculty and staff to their
best efforts.”
KK’s Go Kompact
The era of the compact has come to A&M! Campus
Security Patrolman Curtis E. Lusk shows off the “Kampus
Kops’ ” new Falcon which arrived last week.
Opinion on the new addition to the Campus Security
force varies, however. Security Officer Rufus Batten likes
the little car for its manuverability.
“We do most of our driving in parking lots and other
close areas. It’s just what we need,” he said.
Other officers disagree.
“Try driving that little thing on those dirt roads behind
the dairy barns and see how fast you want to get back into
a big car,” said one.
Nevertheless, the compact is here to stay . . . and there
may be more.