The Battalion
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Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1961
Number 110
SchoolElections Scheduled
MSC Voting Polish L Babcock
To Open At 8 a.m.
RUDASILL WINS AG FIRST
Rogers, Bearcats
Win Rodeo Honors
Score One For The Rider
. . rodeo competitor piles up points
Bobby Rudasill walked off with
the only A&M first place as Sam
Houston State and Royce Rogers
of Southwest Texas Junior College
dominated the winnings . in the
weekend’s 12th annual National
Intercollegiate Rodeo in the Aggie
Arena.
Sam Houston captured team hon
ors in the 13-team meet, while
Rogers won the bull-riding, ribbon-
roping and steer wrestling events
and then was named all-around
Parents’ Day Schedule
Announced For Sunday
Thousands of parents and
friends from throughout Texas will
be on campus for Parents’ Day
Sunday.'
Mrs. Hilma S. Huitt of Bay City,
‘Aggie Honor Mother of the
fear,” will be the honor guest for
die activities.
The Sunday activities will get
under way at 8 a.m. with the col
orful flower pinning ceremony.
Parents will pin flowers on the la
pels of the shirts of the cadets.
The best drilled freshman and
sophomore students will be pre
sented at 8:25, followed by the
National TV
Considering
Show
A&M
Alan Neuman, executive pro-
; ducer of Showpac, arrived on the
■ A&M campus today in search for
material which might be used in
the development of a new 30-
minute television series which
I would be called “Campus USA.
>: Accompaning Neuman on his flight
irom New York and visit to the
: iampus is television writer Lou
j Salanen.
“ Neuman first became interested
in A&M, the only school in the
; Southwest to be visited, after hear-
{ ing reports of the annual Intercol-
s legiate Talent’ Show. In his visit
U
Ned Sandlin,
Gillis Win
Aero Awards
Alexander Gillies of Bryan and
1 Ned H. Sandlin of Fort "Worth, sen-
l ior students in the Department of
| Aeronautical Engineering, are re-
5 dpients of the Institute of Aero-
t space Sciences Awards for 1961.
Gillies was given the Scholastic
I Award as recognition for outstand--
f ing scholastic achievements during
| Ws undergraduate studies.
: Sandlin was given the Lecture
| Award for the outstanding paper
■; Presentation during the year.
A. E. Cronk, head of the Depart-
: Went of Aeronautical "Engineering,
| Presented the awards at the annual
I banquet May 2.
Guest speaker for the banquet
^as B. A. Erickson from Convair,
a Division of General Dynamics in
I Fort Worth.
Erickson, who was the chief test
Pilot for Convair and made the first
I Nights in the B-32, B-36, XC-99
| ai >d the B-58 March 2 bomber,
; spoke on the subject, “The
Achievements of the Individual in
tte Aeronautical and Space Era.”
He pointed out that the success
, °f a company, state or nation is
> based on the solution of many
f problems by many individuals. He
I challenged the students to place
I the nation back into the position
| of leadership in the fast moving
f; space era through their individual
t achievements.
Fred Hall served as master of
i ceremonies for the banquet. David
| Frank, the out-going chairman of
l the student section, introduced the
| officers for next year: Thomas
Fields, chairman, and Robert K.
Wright, vice-chairman.
he will receive a firsthand look at
the background and color which
A&M has to offer.
In recent years Neuman has pro
duced several television shows and
series including NBC’s “Wide, Wide
World” and “Person to Person.”
Fie was also producer of a tele
vision spectacular which was spon
sored by Coca-Cola two years ago.
A busy agenda is scheduled for
Neuman during his stay on the
campus. He observed a pass-by
this afternoon after which he wals
guest of honor of the Corps Staff
at the evening meal. Other activi
ties which he will view will include
a performance by the Singing Ca
dets, and an Aggie Follies rehears
al. Neuman will return to New
York after the completion of his
tour tomorrow.
corps units presentations to the
commanding officers at 8:30.
The Corps of Cadets review and
Mother’s Day awards presentation
will get under way at 9 a.m. on
the main drill field in front of the
Memorial Student Center.
The freshman drill team will
give a precision drill at 10:40 a.m.
on the main drill field.
The Student Senate will give a
Parent’s Day program at 11 a.m.
in Guion hall. The Mother’s Day
dinner for parents will be held at
12:30 p.m. in the Sbisa Dining
Hall.
Dormitories will be open from
12 noon to 4 p.m,, and at 2 p.m.
the Ross Volunteers will give a
special drill on the main drill field.
The program prior to Mother’s
Day Sunday follows:
Friday at 1 p.m., the Federation
of A&M Mothers’ Clubs will hold
a board meeting in the MSC and at
7:30 p.m. the 12th Man Bowl will
be held on Kyle Field. The Aggie
Players will present the “Aggie
Follies” at 8 p.m. in Guion Hall.
Saturday at 8:40 a.m. there will
be a coffee for the State Federa
tion of A&M Mothers’ Clubs and
at 9 a.m. the annual Federation of
A&M Mothers’ Clubs will meet.
A smorgasbord will be held from
5:30-7:30 p.m. in the dining room
of the MSC and the “Aggie Fol
lies” will be held again in Guion
Hall.
cowboy for the second consecutive
year.
The all-around cowgirl title went
to Flossy Brandes of Sam Hous
ton, as she upset the defending
champion and a fellow tegmmate,
Karen Bland.
RudasilPs lone Aggie first place
was in bareback bronc riding. Rog
er Lacy and John Beall of the
A&M squad captured' titles in the
second round of ribbon roping and
first round of steer wrestling com
petition, respectively, but both
failed to head the list of final av
erages for the two events.
The official results are as fol
lows:
Team honors: Sam Houston,
Southwest Texas Junior College
and McNeese State College; all-
around cowboy, Rogers, Southwest
Texas Junior College; all-around
cowgirl, Miss Brandes, Sam Hous
ton.
Bareback bronc riding: Ruda
sill, A&M, first place; Kenneth
Beasley, A&M, second place; Jim
Cambell, McNeese, .third place, and
a three-way tie for fourth place
between Floyd Hechler, Sam Hous
ton, Howard Vogt, McNeese, and
Jim Whitefield, Sam Houston.
Bull riding: Rogers, first place;
Leo Anderson, Sam Houston, sec
ond place; Beasley, A&M, third
place, and Wayne Foster, McNeese,
fourth place.
Saddle bronc riding: Anderson,
gam Houston, first place; Rodney
Butler, A&M, second place; Bobby
Blackbird, Sam Houston, third
place, and John Young, Sam Hous
ton, fourth place.
Tie-down roping: Lawrence Cas
ey, Sam Houston, first place; C. O.
Sage, McNeese, second place; El
mer McLeod, Texas A&I, third
place, and Clark Wood, TCU,
fourth place.
Ribbon-roping: Rogers, first
(See RODEO on Page 3)
Officers Hesitant
On New Drag Strip
By RONNIE BOOKMAN
.Battalion News Editor
Local law enforcement officers
•have adopted a “wait and see” at
titude toward a group of Bryan-
College Station teenagers calling
themselves the Brazos Valley Tim
ing Association. Objectives of the
association ? A drag strip.
Mark Hall and Bill Swafford,
representatives of the group, yes
terday visited with various city,
county and state agencies, making
their plea for a drag strip. Accord
ing to the pair, a drag strip in the
area would cut down on .racing on
public streets.
Such an illegal contest of speed
is believed to have been the cause
of a fatal accident that took the
lives of a Bryan couple last Tues
day.
Bryan Chief of Police L. L. Mar
tin said he couldn’t officially or
unofficially back such an organi
zation at its present formative
stage.
“I think it’s up to the associa
tion to prove itself first,” he said.
“Right now I can’t say one way
or the other. It’s a little prema
ture.”
“To clear up one point, though,
the Chief continued, “Teenage
drivers are not to blame for most
of the accidents we have. On the
greater part, teenage drivers are
safe drivers.”
The association had its first for
mal meeting last Saturday with
about 25 high school boys attend
ing. A tentative constitution was
drawn up and plans made to start
a campaign for the drag strip.
The constitution says:
“Our organization will have the
aim of promoting safe hot-rodding
and rod-building and safe dragging-
on a regulation drag strip. We will
put an end to all street dragging,
racing and speeding. We will pro
mote safe driving on all public
ways and demonstrate to the pub
lic that rodding is a safe sport and
that hot-rod drivers are the best
anywhere . . .”
Sgt. O. L. Luther, in charge of
the Highway Patrol’s office in
Bryan, plans to follow the same
sort of tactics.
“Whether or not we back a drag
strip depends on where it’s located
and what is involved,” Luther said.
“Another factor that will either
help or hurt a drag strip will be
the non-member’s attitude toward
the association. We want to know
about that.”
“I’m not against a drag strip,
but I don’t want to say now,”
he added. “I want to see rules, reg
ulations and safety procedures be
fore I go one way or the othei\”
As it is set up now in the con
stitution, any member must appear
(See PROPOSED oh Page 4)
Men Accused
In Fatal Wreck
Face Probers
Two area youths, charged with
the traffic deaths of a Bryan busi
nessman and his wife last Tues
day night, may have to appear be
fore the Brazos County Grand
Jury. One of the boys is a sopho
more at A&M.
Assistant District Attorney Wil
liam Langford said yesterday that
the A&M student, Samuel J. Mack-
in, 19, of 303 Walton in College
Station, and Michael C. Roll, 17,
of 808 North Ave. in Bi-yan, may
be asked to testify before the
grand jury.
That decision will be made by
District Attorney Brooks Gofer.
Gofer is out of town for the rest
of the week.
Mackin and Roll were charged
with second degree negligent homi
cide following the death of Mr.
and Mrs. Troy McElroy. Officers
say the boys were in separate cars
racing down College Avenue when
Mackin’s vehicle struck the Mc-
Elroy’s panel truck broadside.
Mrs. McEh-oy was dead on ar
rival at St. Joseph’s Hospital and
her husband died there a few
hours later.
The charges were filed by Bryan
Detective Ray Williamson Thurs
day. Although Roll’s car was not
physically involved in the accident,
Williamson said he was “a con
tributing factor.”
Second degree negligent homi
cide is defined as neglect resulting
in death while committing an un
lawful act.
If found guilty, Mackin and Roll
could be assessed a fine of $3,000
and three years in jail.
Negligent homicide is classified
as a misdemeanor. An automatic
six-month driver’s license suspen
sion accompanies a convietion.
Elections for Student Senate and Election Commission
posts will begin at 8 tomorrow morning lasting through 5:30
p. m., with voting machines arranged in the hall between the
fountain Room and the Bowling Alley in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Approaching the Fountain Room, the first two machines
will be for students in the School of Arts and Sciences; the
third is for those voting in the School of Agriculture; fourth
and fifth machines are for engineering students and the last
is for the School of Veterinary Medicine.
In voting, a student may vote only for the candidate who
will represent his class year of his selected school; for
example, juniors in the School
of Arts and Sciences will vote
only for another A&S junior.
An exception to this will be
a runoff being conducted be
tween Dave Halm and Jeff Went
worth for senior representative to
the Memorial Student Center Coun
cil, making the election both class
and school category.
All juniors in all schools will
vote for one of these two candi
dates, and their names will appear
on all voting machines.
Write-in candidates will be ac
cepted where only one candidate
has filed for position, according to
Pete Hardesty, Director of Student
Affairs.
Sixty-one candidates have filed
for the general elections races, rep
resenting the four schools of the
college.
Of these, 14 filed for competi
tion in the School of Arts and
Sciences; they include, in the sen
ior representative slot, Joel Ridout,
Leonard Willmann, Larry Wallace
and Hugh H. McDaniel.
Junior representative contestants
in the School of Arts and Sciences
are George A. Wiederaenders,
Frederick T. Graham, Joel B. Ter
rill and Ben B. Boyd.
Sophomore representative con
testants in the school include
Michael T. Ary, Richard N. Conol-
ly, Jr, Warren M. Dillard, Law
rence N. Garrett, Jr, Earl Ray
Shaw and William K. Stanton.
In the School of Agriculture,
four candidates filed for senior
representative, including Ray W.
Gilbreath, Richard S. Runge, Ar-
land D. Schneider and Melvin Ches
ter Young.
Two contestants for junior rep
resentative filed, James Earl John
son and Dennis McIntosh, and one
sophomore candidate filed, Howard
Martin Head.
Thirteen candidates filed for po
sitions representing the School of
Engineering; senior representative
candidates include Lawrence W.
Christian, Don C. Ince, Robert A.
Miears and David Monteer.
Junior candidates are William
Thomas Barnhart, James C. Hilton
and Dale Lewis Sinor; sophomore
contestants are Robert M. Denny,
(See ELECTION on Page 4)
Senate Votes
New Election
Regulations
A new list of voting and
campaign regulations were ap
proved last Thursday night to
go into effect for all campus
elections next September. They
are as follows, to be included
in the College Regulations:
1. No candidate for any office,
nor any of the supporters of
such a candidate, shall cam
paign for that office or fur
ther his candidacy by using
any methods or means, un
less that method or means
shall have first been recom
mended by a majority vote
of the Election Commission
with a quorum assembled,
and approved by a two-thirds
majority vote of the Student
Senate with a quorum as
sembled, or unless that
method or means be one of
the following:
a. Personal oral solicitation.
b. Oral solicitation before
student assemblies, time
and place being scheduled
by the Election Commis
sion.
c. Writen solicitation pub
lished in The Battalion in
the “Letters to the Edi
tors” column or in some
other section by arrange
ment with the editor.
d. Equally apportioned writ
ten solicitation on a bulle
tin board or in an area to
be decided upon by the
Election Commission.
2. Campaigning procedure in
dormitory areas for offices
for which students are eli
gible may be done under the
following conditions:
a. Campaign posters will be
only on dormitory bulletin
boards and will not exceed
(See NEW RULES on Page 2)
Essay Contest
Deadline Nears
The deadline for submitting en
tries in the C. L. Babcock essay
contest has been extended until
5 p.m. Thursday.
Contest judges consented to the
extention of the deadline because
of the low number of entries that
have 1 been received. The original
deadline for submitting entries was
April 14.
Winner of the contest will re
ceive 8250 for the best essav on
the 1961 subiect: “Educational As
sets I Find at Texas A&M.” In
addition to the 8250 first prize, the
writers of the next ten best com
positions will receive honor certifi
cates.
The winners will be announced
at the Student Publications Ban
quet May 19. The contest, now in
its third year, has been highly suc
cessful in the past. Winners have
had their essays published in vari
ous Texas publications as well as
in the United States Congressional
Record.
One of the purposes of the con
test, according to its founder, is
to collect the better papers and
incorporate them in pamphlets and
other publications to be used to
“tell the story of A&M from the
student viewpoint to prospective
high school students throughout
the Southwest.”
Requirements for entering the
contest are simple. The writer may
be any full time A&M student,
with the exception of members of
The Battalion staff.
Each paper should be between
250 and 1,000 words in length. The
essay must be typewritten, double
spaced and accompanied by two
carbon copies. Entries may be
sent or delivered to The C. L. Bab
cock Award Contest, The Battalion,
College Station, or or before 5
p.m. Thursday.
The Battalion staff will select
from all the papers submitted the
top ten entries. The final winner
will be selected by a committee
appointed by President Earl Rud
der.
The selection committee reserves
the right to publish any one or all
of the top ten entries as selected
by The Battalion, however no pap
er will be published until the win
ner is named.
The originator of the contest,
C. L. Babcock, ’20, operates the
C. L. Babcock and Son Insurance
Agency in Beaumont.
As a student at A&M, Babcock
served as editor of The Battalion;
assistant business manager of The
Longhorn, the forerunner of The
Aggieland, and was president of
the Glee Club.
Weekend
Professor,
Two deaths have come to A&M
in the past three days, one to a
professor emeritus of 39 years’
service, the other to a frehsman
only entering college eight months
ago.
Dr. Albert A. Lenert
Dr. August Albert Lenert, 69, a
staff member of the School of Vet
erinary Medicine for 39 years,
died at 1:35 a.m. yesterday in a
Houston hispital. He had been ill
for several weeks.
Funeral services have been set
for 10 a.m. tomorrow at the A&M
Methodist Chui*ch, with burial at
La Grange. Hillier Funeral Home
of Bryan is in charge of arrange
ments.
Dr. Lenert joined the School of
Veterinary Medicine in 1919 as an
associate professor in the Depart
ment of Veterinary Medicine and
Surgery. In 1937, he was made
head of that department, a posi
tion he held until going on modi
fied service in 1957. Full retire
ment came the following year.
Deaths
Laredo
Claim
Frosh
The veterinarian was born in
1892 at Warrenton and was rear
ed at La Grange. He received his
bachelor of science degree in agri
culture in 1914 at A&M. That
same year, he entered the Kansas
City Veterinary College, from
which he was graduated with a
doctor of veterinary medicine de
gree in 1917. He was a veteran
of World War I.
While at A&M, he was a mem
ber of the Ross Volunteers, and
in his senior year attained the
rank of cadet major, Second Bat
talion.
In 1957, Lenert received the Fac-
nlty Acihevement Award.
He was a member of the Texas
Veterinaiy Medical Association,
American Veterinary Medical As
sociation, U. S. Livestock Sanitary
Association, Lions Club, Alpha Psi
and Phi Zeta veterinary medicine
fraternities and the Masonic Lodge.
Survivors indue one son, Au
gust A., Jr. of Fort Walton, Fla.;
two daughters, Mrs. Mary Frances
Swatzel of Canyon and Mrs. Rose
mary Anderson of Odessa, and
five grandchildren.
Rafael Herrera
Silver Taps were held last night
for Rafael Herrera, Jr., a fx*esh-
man engineering major from La
redo who was a member of Com
pany H, First Brigade.
An account of Herrera’s death
from The Laredo Times stated that
he and some companions were
traveling from College Station to
Laredo last Saturday, and stopped
to take a short swim.
Their swimming place was in
the Rio Blanco River near Berg-
heim, Tex. in Kendel County, and
while swimming, Herrera submerg
ed and drowned.
Herrera is survived by his par-
etns, Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Herrera
of 2302 San Francisco Street, La
redo, and by two brothers and five
sisters. He was buried this morn
ing at 8:45 in City Cemetery, La
redo with funei-al arrangements
by Jackson Funeral Home.