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The Battalion Volume 59 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1961 Number 109 No Students Face Charges In Galveston By ALAN PAYNE Battalion News Editor ‘‘There are no criminal records against any A&M student in the files of the Galveston Police De partment, the Student Senate was told last night. W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, Senate advisor, told the members Dean of Student James P. Hannigan had SDX Chief To Be Guest At T Banquet Warren K. Agee, national exec utive officer of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic society, will be the guest speaker for the fifth annual Journalism Awards Banquet tomorrow night. The banquet is sponsored by the A&M journalism faculty and the So ciety of A&M Journalists. Agee, 44 and a native Texan, has spend much of his life in Ft. Worth. A graduate of Texas Christian University, he was a reporter for the Ft. Worth Star- Telegram for nine years and went on the become head of the depart ment of journalism at TCU, a post he held for eight years. A past dean of the School of Journalism at West Virginia Uni versity, Agee was president of the Ft. Worth Professional Society of SDX. He has also headed the American Society of Journalism School Administrators and the As sociation for Education in Journal ism. He has been a member of the American Council on Education for Journalism. Agee is co-author of the text, “Introduction to Mass Communi cations,” a book adopted by more than 75 colleges and universities. The Awards Banquet will be the year’s highlight for A&M jour nalism students. Besides depart mental awards and chapter awards by SDX and Alpha Delta Sigma, professional advertising fraternity, tn honorary degree, Ph T, “push ing husband through,” will be be stowed upon the wife of a jour nalism student selected for her de votion and sacrifice in helping her husband through college. A picnic and baseball game be tween rival chapters of SDX and ADS will start the day’s festivities. investigated with Galveston offi cials and there was definitely no record of any offenses by A&M students. The investigation followed num erous queries by students who were arrested over the Splash Day weekend and were worried over the possibility of criminal charges being filed against them. The Senate also voted to draft a letter to Attorney General Will Wilson officially opposing the ac tions of the Galveston Police De partment in the reported student riots in the island city. The letter, to be written by Roger Ratcliff, will also be sent to governing bodies of several other Southwest colleges and universi ties, the Galveston Chamber of Commerce and editors of several Texas daily newspapers. Attorney General Wilson will be especially urged to make a thor ough investigation of the police proceedings. It is reported that such an investigation is currently in progress. The Galveston Chamber of Com merce will also be thanked for its actions in reportedly preventing even more arrests. In other Senate action it was an nounced that tickets for the 12th Man Bowl football game will be on sale Monday through Cadet Corps commanders and the Cash ier’s Window in the Memorial Stu dent Center. They will sell for 50 cents each. The Senate also voted to author ize a second run-off in the dis puted tie between Jeff Wentworth and Dave Halm for Class of ’62 representative to the MSC Coun cil. The two candidates originally deadlocked in the April 6 class elections. It was first announced that the tie wiuld be broken by a flip of a coin. This proposal was ousted and the two candidates have been unable to decide a method to use to break the tie ever since. The second run-off will be con ducted in next Wednesday’s Stu dent Senate School Election. Senate President Roland Dom- mert announced that a meeting of the current Senate and members of next year’s Senate will be held May 18. At this time the new of ficers will be officially installed for the 196-62 school year. Dommert also reminded mem bers of next Thursday’s Senate Banquet, which annually closes the work year of the Student Senate. Seniors Eat Steak John Eagle, senior from Dallas, joined with the rest of the Class of ’61 Thursday night to eat steak at the annual As sociation of Former Students sponsored Senior Banquet. Sterling C. Evans, ’21, a prominent rancher and member of the A&M Board of Directors was the featured speaker at the event. Rodeo 1st Night Completed Dry Grounds Aid: Initial Showings Dry ground was an important factor in the first night of events at the A&M 12th annual National Intercollegiate Rodeo Thursday night. Many of the entrants remembered the rain and mud which hampered them last year. Riders competed in eight events to start the three-day rodeo. Included in the events were bareback bronc riding, tie-down roping, saddle bronc riding, ribbon roping, girls barrel race, steer dogging, girls goat tying and bull riding. Only one of the contestants in the first event, bareback bronc riding, was able to score. Bobby Bennett of A&M scored a total of 152 points for his ride. In the bareback rid ing only one ride is allowed each participant and the rider ♦‘with the most points at the A&M Nuclear Society Plans Initiation Dr. Lon Moi’gan, vice pi'esident and director of research for the Texas Nuclear Corporation in Aus tin, will be principle speaker at the installation of officers and members of the A&M Chapter of the American Nuclear Society, at a meeting on campus May 18th. The occasion is the formal in stallation of officers and the char ter night meeting- for 21 senior and graduate students of the col lege who will make up the first student chapter of the American Nuclear Society in Texas. The chapter was recently grant ed permission to organize by the American Nuclear Society, through Dr. Octave Du Temple, executive secretary of the A.N.S. At the May 18 meeting, in the Memorial Student Center, installa tion ceremonies will be under the direction of Eldred Burkhard, chairman of the North Texas Chap ter of the A.N.S. Only senior rank or graduate students majoring in nuclear re lated engineering and science cur ricula are admitted to the student A.N.S. chapter here. Chief officer of the A&M chap ter is Jack V. Walkei*, chairman of the board of governors. Walker is an instructor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering, and a candidate for the PhD degree in this field. He was the first grad uate in nuclear engineering from A&M, receiving his master’s de gree in January, 1960. Members of the governing board are George Day, Jon Reuscher and Ross E. Smith. end of the rodeo is the winner of the event. Top times in the tie-down roping were Newell Atkinson of A&M with 15.0 seconds and Elmer McLeod of Texas A&I with 14.2 seconds. Each of these and the other entrants will be allowed a second try in order to make a better time. The top winner in the event is the person who has the lowest average time for the two tries. Rodney Butler of A&M scored 169 points in the saddle bronc riding last night, and Leo Ander son of Sam Houston will be al lowed to try a reride tonight be cause his bronc refused to buck. Each contestant in the saddle bronc riding is allowed two different horses. The winner is the rider with the highest total points. Kenneth Burkholder of A&I was the top scorer in the ribbon roping with a time of 12.7 seconds. Close ly following Burkholder was Roger Lacy of A&M with a time of 14.1 seconds. In this event there are two participants, one ropes a calf with a ribbon tied to its tail and runs the ribbon back to the start ing point. The other man is to catch the calf, and untie it as soon (See RODEO on Page 3) Graduation Announcements Are Available Graduation announcements may be picked up from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1-5 p.m. today, Monday and Tuesday at Record Playing Room No. 1 in the Me morial Student Center. They must be picked up by 5 p.m. Tuesday, and extras will go on sale after that time. Score One For The Bull . . Aggie Rodeo performer bites the dust SET MAY 11-12 Dedication Of Building Heads Oil Recovery Meet The 13th annual oil recovery con ference of the Texas Petroleum Research Committee will be held at Texas A&M College Thursday and Friday May 11-12. Highlight of the conference will be dedication of the W. T. Doh erty Petroleum Engineering Build ing Thursday at 4:30 p.m. The new petroleum engineering facility will be named in honor of W. T. Doh erty, a prominent Texas engineer and oilman from Houston. General chariman of the confer ence is W. J. Murray, Jr., chair man of the Petroleum Research Committee of the Railroad Com mission of Texas. Co-chairman is Robert L. Whiting, member of the Committee and head of the Col lege’s department of petroleum engineering. The conference will feature talks concerned with various segments of the oil industry by pi’ominent oil men from throughout the na tion. Dedication ceremonies of the new petroleum engineering facility will be climaxed by a banquet at 7:30 Thursday evening. The million dollar structure was completed and outfitted with lab oratory and research equipment in January. The new building houses the Department of Petroleum En gineering, the Texas Petroleum Research Committee, the Depart ment of Nuclear Engineering, and the Activation Analysis Research Laboratory. The three storied main building and a single storied wing to ac commodate high pressure-volatile type research encompasses 42,000 square feet, enough space for 600 undergraduate students and 60 graduate students as well as of fice space for 15 faculty members and research supervisors. Although the undergraduates and graduate laboratories are es pecially designed for instruction and research in petroleum engi neering, they may be adapted to virtually any type of teaching and research in science or engineering\ Undergraduate laboratories in clude a drilling and production lab oratory, core analysis laboratory, fluid property laboratory, and fluid flow laboratory. A subsur face engineering laboratory with associated map, log and file rooms is also provided. Areas are also Schedule designated for display and library purposes. The majority of the laboratory equipment is portable so that it may be used for both undergraduate instruction and graduate research. Thei’e are 18 individual research laboratories, 20' x 25', in the build ing. Six of these are provided in the wing and have individual tem perature and humidity control as well as explosion and safety fea tures. ' All research laboratories are out fitted with standard chemistry desk tables equipped with either a permanent or portable type hood. Several laboratories are designed to accomodate vertical type exper iments by providing a shaft be tween floors. Other facilities include a Con tinuing Adult Education room in •which the special courses in Ad vanced Petroleum Reservoir En gineering and Advanced Drilling Engineering for petroleum indus try personnel are conducted. A special conference room for use by various committees of en gineering as well as from the pe troleum industry is also provided. Membership in the student chap ter is composed of James E. An derson, Walter M. Breen, Roe Davenport, Jr., George M. Day, Thomas W. Duke, Donald E. Feltz, Lloyd E. Fite, Oscar F. Goines, Albert Z. Hands, M. F. Khudart- hullah, Glenn E. Edmundson, Niel B. Poulsen, M. A. Quddus, Jon A. Reuscher, John E. Simek, Hem’y R. Slagle, John L. Shanks, Ross E. Smith, R. C. Stinson, Jr. and Jack V. Walker. To All Fish: Tessie Invite For Weekend Attention, freshmen! The Class of ’64 at Texas Woman’s Univer- | sity is inviting all Aggie freshmen I to a weekend of fun frolic on the | Tessie Campus starting tonight ; and lasting throungh Sunday. Housing will be provided for $1 a night, and freshmen may pur chase tickets at the guest dorms, at the door, or from class officers here on the campus. The “Moonlight and Roses” dance will begin at 9 p.m. Saturday, but a “get acquainted” decorations party will be held Saturday after noon. The night dance is formal, with suits and uniforms approp riate attire for the event. Future Farmers Getting Set For Judging Contest Saturday Members of the Future Farmers of America began arriving in Col lege Station today for their annual State FFA judging contests Sat urday. Four hundred of the three man teams are expected to partici pate in the giant meet, according to Dr. J. R. Jackson, associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Education and gen eral chairman of the contests. Each team has earned the right to compete in the state meet by placing in the top ten per cent of its area in contests held re cently. Competition is expected to be stiff, said Jackson. Every contest—Livestock, Dairy Cattle, Poultry, Dairy Products and Meats—will be conducted by the department within the School of Agriculture which is in charge of teaching the subject. Dr. W. T. Berry and Professor Douglas Wythe will handle the Livestock Contest; G. T. King and Frank Orts will operate the Meats Contest; R. E. Leighton and Dr. M. A. Brown will take care of the Dairy Cattle Contest, with Dr. A. V. Moore and Dr. I. I. Peters con ducting the Dairy Products Con test. The Poultry Contest will be directed by Dr. Cecil Ryan and Ed Parnell. Joe D. Penn of Lufkin, state president of the FFA, will be on hand for the afternoon program. State leaders from the Texas Edu cation Agency who will attend in clude George Hurt, director of ag ricultural education; J. A. Mar shall, assistant director; Dick Weekly, executive secretary for the FFA of Texas; E. L. Tiner, executive secretary of the Young Farmers of Texas and Lester Bu ford, supervisor of the Houston District FFA. Alton Lee, execu tive secretary of the Vocational Rudder’s Welcome We are happy to have you on the campus of Texas A&M. Already you are winners. It was no small achievement to place among the first ten per cent of teams in your area, thus earning the right to compete at the state level. The skills you are developing in agriculture as well as the interests you have exhibited are most encouraging and commendable. We know how urgently these skills will be needed in our nation’s future Many of the A&M students saying “Howdy” to you were first here as contestants in State Future Farmer Judging Contests of other years. We hope you have a pleasant and rewarding visit and that many of you will return to our campus as students to continue jour study of modern agri culture. Earl Rudder, President Texas A&M College Agriculture Teachers Assn., will also be on hand with some 300 ag’ricultural teachers. The entire staff of the School of Agriculture will lend a hand in running of the contests. Jack- son serves as chairman of the State Contest Committee and will be in charge of the the entire pro gram. E. V. Walton, Dr. Jarrell Gray, Dr. Ben Cook, O. M. Holt, Bob Craig, George Cason, John Holcomb and Clarence Luedke will share duties in various parts of the programs. Students in the School of Agriculture will assist in handling livestock, serving as section leaders, scoring placings and in other ways helping in parts of the contests. Announcement of results of the contests are expected about 3 p.m. Saturday. Prior to the completion of tabulation, a program of enter tainment will be presented in Guion Hall for the contestants. First place teams in each of the contests will represent Texas in the National Contests to be held in Kansas City later this year.