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.