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M 'Nj '> too, 1 and r ISt CA. ie Battalion - -UL /■olume COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1961 Number 2 >t hi* mitiot lt *stior bo h»r| " ’ ^ |rd Brigade ives Corps ew Look’ Newest addition to the Corps of Cadets table of organiza- is a third brigade, with two battle groups and eight ew brigade, commanded by Cadet Col. Stedman ♦■Davis of College Station, is made up primarily of day students, ath letes, pre-veterinary, pre-med and science majors. r Allege ^ecs Iso Raised w Sales Tax 8f B<‘\ns’ new sales lax, which is roducing pennies from rustom- rn’ pockets at a record pace, ill also he felt when Aggies MlfrAnt the teller at the cash ew window to pay their semes* ?r fees. ' Heaton Says 7,500 Due At Enrollment Freshmen Enrolling; vised fee slips show an in- e of $.1.78 in fees due at tration time or in install* lent payments. C. A. Itoeber. »!ness manager of the fiscal ■ce. said today. But the “new” brigade is not really new, according to Comman dant Col. Joe E. Davis. A third brigade was recommended to the School of Military Sciences two or three years ago. Formation then, however, would means three understrength brigades. The first and second brigades are new actually understrength (seven companies in the First and Second; eight in the Third). How ever, one or two more Army cadet companies may be added to the first two brigades next year, bringing them up to strength. The Third Brigade is actually nothing more than last year's Approximately 7,500 students will pass through the doors of Sbisa Dining Hall to register for A&M’s fall semester, H. L. Hea ton, director of admissions and registrar, has predicted. Of this number, approximately 1.900 will be freshmen, Heaton said. Freshman registration began this afternoon and will continue through noon tomorrow. Upper classmen will begin registering tomorrow afternoon and finish late Saturday afternoon. Classes will begin Monday at 8 a.m. Others Tomorrow New Military Program Will Be Introduced 9 9 H'hi* i rai However, is not en- 1 T' due to the Halen tax. Roe- u lid. < ? an ndry fees have been in Has;* d fi rom 75 cen is to $1. |ni a I rily because ther e has not 1 4n an increase In laundry CH U * the college laundry fifth Battle Group of the Second Brigade. Only one new outfit has been formed, D-8, made up of sci ence majors. The new company will be housed in ramps I, J and K of Walton Hall. In 1947. 9 ■he other S3.57 is tax derived the original SI 78.50 due pmester for board. The if the state tax cover- uirant meals accounts raise. Meals in scc- rhools, however, are ex- ftpt from the tax. I New Third Brigade shields have | been ordered, but Davis said de- ! livery is not expected until after Thanksgiving. The shields will] I have three fasces from the Cadet j Corps insignia. Over the fasces will be the knight’s helmet and the [ [legend, “All or None.” i Q / ■ Students paying their fees tin- lir the installment plan will pay hi ir entire 21-cent laundry in- __ 'Iraso at registration and $2.49 Lv.af the hoard increase at regis- ^MBition. The other $1.08 tax on .jflard will Ik* paid with the first iifitallment, due Sept. 15*16. 5 Roeber and five other A&M Cofficials were* confronted with He changed fee prices in a spe- riti! meeting in the state comp* Holler's office last Friday. CS Schools Show Increase In Enrollment ■Others attending the meet- ' iflg were S'stem Comptroller ■ . C. Freeman, Assistant Homptroller R. C. Anderson, y System Attorney J. A. Amis, J* (’. H. Doerge, executive assist- fvHrt of the Texas Engineering Hxtonsion Service, and Ernest Hentrcek. administrative assist- imt of the Texas Engineering E\tension Service. College Station schools opened Tuesday, Sept. 5, without a hitch, showing an increase in enrollment of 106 students over last year. By the end of the week, the new College Hills Elementary School had enrolled 254 children in grades one through five. Opening of the new elementary school took a load off A&M Consolidated Elementary School, which opened this year with 407 students in the first five grades, compared with an over crowded 615 in grades one through four last year. The new school also allowed fifth grade classes to move from (See SCHOOLS On Page 5-1) Army ROTC cadets will begin spending less time in military science classes this fall, cutting contact with military science in structors and allowing more time for academic studies. Beginning this fall, certain sub jects normally taken for academic credit will be also credited as '‘aca demic substitutes” for hours of military science. In most cases, these “substitutes” will already be required for graduation. For example, the “academic substitute” for freshmen will be English 103, a reauired three-hour English course. The freshmen will spend only one “contact” hour in military science classes each week in addition to Saturday morning drill), where they used to spend two hours a week in ‘‘bull-text” classes. To make up for the “lost” mili tary science time, they will take English 103 (which they have to take anyway). However, now they must pass English 103, their “aca demic substitute,” to pass military science. Operations Officer Lt. Col. T. A. Hitchkiss of the Department of Military Science said the pro gram yas designed to allow mili tary science students a chance to spend less hours in military class es and more time taking elective courses accepted by their major. The new program was adopted by the Army in 1960 following two years of study. It went into effect on an optional basis this fall at several colleges and uni versities offering the ROTC pro gram. At A&M, the program will work this way: Freshmen will take one contact hour of military science a week instead of two as in the past). In addition they will take (See MILITARY On Page 5-1) Hectic Orientation Week Nears End Aggies Learn Leadership Jeff Wentworth (left) and Malcolm Hall (second from rij^ht) are shown at the Colleg’e Student Leadership Con ference at Lakeview Methodist Assembly near Palestine. Second from left is William A. McKenzie, ’44, a member of Wynne McKenzie, Stroud, Jaffe and Tinsley law firm of Dallas. On the right is W. J. Montgomery, ’48, president of the Kirby Petroleum Compahy in Houston. 50 Aggies Attend Leadership Meeting Registration began this afternoon and will continue through noon tomorrow for nearly 1,900 freshmen, as a hectic New Student Orientation Week nears its end. The fury of Hurricane Carla added to the woes of the Class of ’65 from the very beginning Tuesday of New Student Week. Tuesday the beginning freshmen paid fees in the Me morial Student Center, drew housing assignments and were issued uniforms. They were confronted in the dorms, especially those in the west cadet area, by evacuees from the Texas Gulf Coast who had fled to College Station in the wake of Hurricane Carla. President Earl Rudder wel comed the freshmen at A&M in the first general assembly held Tuesday night in G. Roi- lie White Coliseum. C. H. Rans- dell, chairman of the New Student Orientation Committee, presided, and a second welcoming address was delivered by Student Senate President Malcolm Hall. Group singing was led by Robert Boone, director of the Singing Cadets. The freshmen spent the entire day yesterday in meetings with representatives of their respective academic schools and departments. City Attorney, Realtor Killed In Plane Crash Success This Time About 50 A&M students attend ed the ninth annual College Stu dent Leadership Conference Sept. 8-10 along with students from other colleges and universities of the southwest. The conference was held at the Lakeview Methodist Assembly near Palestine. The conference was planned for and operated by student leaders here as well as from the Univer sity of Texas, Louisiana State University, Midwestern Univer sity, Stephen F. Austin College, Sam Houston State College and East Texas State College. Those representing A&M in cluded students from the cadet corps, civilian student body, Me morial Student Center Directorate, student publications, student sen ate and other areas of student life. Many business men and faculty leaders participated as well as the students. From the A&M staff and faculty were: Dorsey Mc- Crory, assistant to the president; W. A. Dow and W. B. Mansfield, engineering extension service; J. P. Hannigan, dean of students; Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant and B. A. Zinn, director of stu dent affair!;. A&M students with major roles in the conference were Malcolm Hall, president of the student sen ate; Gary Lively, corps chaplain; William H. Harrison, president of the State Association of Baptist Student Unions and Michael Schneider, president of the MSC Council and Directorate. The conference was financed jointly by corporations and foun dations in Texas and by registra tion fees paid by the students par ticipating. Purpose of the conference is to bring together student leaders from A&M and other colleges and universities to learn the techniques of leadership and to hear recog nized leaders in business, educa tion, military and religious walks of life in preparation for the lead ership job that each individual will hold dui'ing the coming year. Maybe our “hurry up and wait” way of enrolling students isn’t as bad as we think. A&M Consolidated High School used an enrollment procedure based on A&M’s method this fall. Principal E. P. Oz.ment called it “the smoothest regis tration in 14 years.” The scholars went to school a few days early to get their books, assignment cards, lockers and first day homework assign ments. When they enrolled (by class es, seniors first), they took their assignment cards from subject to subject, while teachers made class rolls. Then when classes started Tuesday, Sept. 5, things went so smoothly it caused Ozment to comment, “It looks like they’ve been here a week.” This program, which featured in terviews with academic advisors and tours of A&M’s academic fa cilities, continued until noon today. J. Gordon Gay, coordinator of (See SCHOOLS On Page 7-1) College Station City Attorney C. E. Dillon, ’42, and Realtor M. R. (Ray) Davison, ’44, were killed Friday when the 1961 Piper Co manche 250 plane they were in crashed between Bryan and Cor pus Christi. The wreckage of the light craft, piloted by Dillon, was found by Civil Air Patrol authorities Sun day nine miles southwest qf San Diego in Duvall County and 12 miles west of Ben Bolt, neat Alice. The bodies of the two men were found 50 feet from the wreckage, which was strewn over a quarter- mile area. Authorities theorized the plane exploded in the air. There was no fire at the crash scene. The blue and white craft was owned by Dillon and Bernard F. Swindler Jr., also of College Sta tion. The pair left Corpus Christi at 9:03 a.m. Friday without filing a flight plan. The Civil Air Patrol was notified of the incident at 1:30 a.m. Saturday when Mrs. Dil lon, Dillon’s brother Don, and Swindler learned what time the pair left Corpus Christi. By dawn Saturday search par ties were organizing and leaving Easterwood Airport. By 8 p.m. 26 sorties had covered most of the area between Bryan and Victoria, on both route and area searches. The area between Corpus Christi and Victoria was being covered by search units from Victoria, but (See ATTORNEY On Page 5-1) CARLA * BRINGS 700 TO CAMPUS Evacuees Pack Into A&M Dorms Civil Defense At Work 1 In the basement of the YMCA Building - , civil defense workers had a constantly active station directing evacuees to the Housing Office to be assigned rooms in dormitories. Their radio was part of a local net communications system. By TOMMY HOLBEIN Battalion Managing Editor As children played with their pets and toys, older per sons huddled near radios and bewildered incoming freshmen moved into their newly-assigned dormitory rooms, “Coed Carla’s” fury lashed the Bryan-College Station area for three flooded days this week. Over 700 refugees poured onto the A&M campus starting Saturday after President Earl Rudder ordered dormitories opened to hurricane evacuees Saturday night. “We were working with refugees until 3 Sunday morn ing,” said Cecil Bailey, commander of Company C-2, housed in Dorm 17. Early-arriving students and an off-duty policeman were pressed into service that night opening up dorms and es corting refugees to their rooms. Also needed were light globes usually provided by stu dents upon checking into dormitory rooms. Other needs of the evacuees were given attention by the students through out the night. From early Saturday afternoon, the wave of people fleeing from the wake of Carla’s initial tremors kept local Civil Defense and Housing personnel busy until the last drops of rain fell Tuesday night. More than 60 Texas towns and cities were represented in the droves of people, but the bulk of evacuees came from the Galveston-LaMarque-Texas City area. In cooperation with Brazos County Civil Defense of ficials, college dormitories were opened to evacuees at 11 p. m. Saturday; by 8 p. m. that night, all hotels and motels between Bryan and Austin were completely filled, and refu gees from the storm were in desperate need of shelter. Bennie A. Zinn, director of student affairs, set up opera tions in the housing office in the YMCA Building. A large red arrow with a Civil Defense symbol above it directed persons seeking accomodations to a Civil Defense unit consisting of Jerry Moseley, Lynn Pridgen and W. D. Brummel. Set up in the basement of the YMCA Building, the trio worked long hours each day during the onslaught, register ing evacuees, maintaining communications with downtown units and giving out information. Dorm 14, 15, 17, Law and Puryear, and three ramps of Walton Hall were filled with evacuees, and 40 more were housed in Dorm 7. Allen Madeley, assistant manager of housing, worked until about 4 a. m. Sunday and was back on the job at 7 a. m. to work until midnight. He was back again early Mon day morning to work until 9 p. m. Helping Madeley were many other dedicated workers putting in long hours during the emergency housing opera tions. Overnight college dormitories were converted from empty living quarters to domesticated housing; walking through the halls, one could hear children playing in the halls, dogs barking, the aroma of food—women talking, and most of all, radios bringing the latest news to keenly tuned ears. Groups of men would congregate at the ends of the halls and stare eastward toward the sky; in the afternoons, many families joined in games of cards and dominoes to pass the time. The drenching torrents of rain offered no help in boosting morale. (See HURRICANE On Page 8 Sec. I)