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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1961
N umber 4
ptudents Face Possible Active Duty
Most ’60-
49th Ordered
Graduates Employed To Actim Dut
‘Review Shows
$425-$525
Starting Pay
Class Of ^5 Accepted r /
Cadet Col. of the Corps Bill Cardwell pins the Corps in
signia on the collar of Michael P. Sievers, a freshman from
Galveston, signifying the Corps’ acceptance of the Class
of ’65 at All-College Night. The ritual will become an an
nual event every All-College Night. (Photo by Bennie
Gulls')
New Sabers Due
Here November 1
A&M is jjettinp: its own custom
earned saber, etched with sym-
ols of AfOfieland. The first ship-
nent of the new sabers is due
bout Nov. 1.
The blade etchings are the only
nodification of the regulation U.
?. ^rmy saber now standard here.
The new saber is the result of a
lesign by the N. S. Meyer Co. of
Mew York and Col. Joe Davis,
•onunandant of cadets.
The New York firm has previ-
msly designed sabers for Virginia
Mijitary Institute and Culver Mili-
;ary Academy. The company also
narkets various military insignia
md devices.
%Carl Birdwell, manager of the
Exc hange Store, said the idea be-
?an last March, with final designs
Jeing approved the middle of Au
gust.
Birdwell said the scrollwork on
the blade of the symbolic military
weapon now incorporates a pic
ture of Sully, the arm patch de
sign, the A&M collar insignia, the
legend “A&M College of Texas”
and the founding date of the
school.
The new saber will not replace
the standard army saber, but will
be available for cadets desiring
them. They may be used by cadet
officers instead of the standard
sabers.
The Exchange Store has placed
an initial order of 50 sabers with
the Meyer Company. Price of the
sabers will be the same as the old
models.
Birdwell said he believed other
uniform and military supply
stores in the area would carry the
new sabers since all of them had
accounts with the Meyer firm and
all carried other Meyer products.
Almost all available A&M
graduates of the 1960-61
classes were employed by
Sept. 1. This and other em
ployment information is con
tained in the annual review of the
activities of the placement office.
Starting salaries for those with
a bachelor’s degree increased, the
report showed. The scale ran
from about $425 a month for non
technical personnel to more than
$525 for engineers and science ma
jors. >
“Employment, however,” W. R.
Horseley, director of the placement
office, said, “of recent college
graduates during the past aca
demic year is still reflecting the
recent ‘downturn’ or ‘recession’ in
business. Statistics show a reduc
tion of ten to 15 per cent in the
number of employers seeking grad- j
uates, as compared to the 1959-60
school year.
“One of the factors, the report
shows, influencing this situation is
the recent rash of mergers and
reorganization of many of the na
tion’s larger business organiza
tions. In this region, too, the
problem of foreign oil and over
supply of some products has had
a pronounced effect on employ
ment in certain disciplines,” Hors
ley said.
Employers are continuing to
seek well-trained college grad
uates, the report reveals, for op
portunities with good futures in
their organizations. Employers
are much more selective today and
many graduates “have reason to
wish they had spent more time on
the books, so that a better grade
average would furnish a less diffi
cult entree to a job.
“Placement of experienced alum
ni dropped off at about the same
rate as that for current grad
uates,” Horsley said. “However,
there is an increasing demand for
experienced men in the fields of
electronics, data processing, phys
ics and accounting. There is also
an increased need for those with
advanced degree training. Per
haps this accounts for the approxi
mately two and one-half per cent
increase in graduate training
shown by this year’s report.”
Registration Confusion
A mass of the predicted morp than 7,000 students that
have registered for the semester is shown iri Sbi.sa Dining
Hall during Friday's registration proceedings. Students
are still registering and changing courses, and will do so
the remainder of the week. (Photo by Johnny Herrin)
MAN ON MOON SOUGHT
Houston Awarded
Huge Space Site
WASHINGTON </P)—A spraw
ling 1,000-acre site in Houston,
Tex., was picked Tuesday for a
$60-million laboratory command
center—the mastermind of Amer
ica’s efforts to get a man to the
moon.
Here the crews will be trained
to fly the missions and the space
craft themselves will be designed,
developed and tested.
This is the final step in assign
ing the major centers from which
project Apollo—the moon mission
—will be coordinated.
American scientists hope to get
a man on the moon by 1970.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration announced
that its manned space flight re-
Study Group Due Tomorrow
Outstanding Texans from all
over the state will begin arriving
on the campus tomorrow for the
Meeting Room
Applications Open
j Applications for meeting rooms
in the Memorial Student Center
will be accepted beginning Fri
day, Sept. 29, it was announced
today by MSC Social Director
Mrs. Ann Keel.
The rooms, for student organi
zations and clubs, may be reserved
by contacting Mrs. Keel in the
MSC Social and Education De
partment.
Pet. Engineering
Awards Banquet
Scheduled Tuesday
The annua] Petroleum Engineer
ing Awards Banquet will be held
at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the As
sembly Room of the Memorial
Student Center.
M. Scott Kraemer, ’43, division
engineer for Pan American Pe
troleum Corp., Houston, will be
the principal speaker.
The recipients of undergraduate
scholarships and graduate fellow
ships will be recognized at the
banquet.
Tickets at $2.55 per person will
go on sale at the MSC main desk,
tomorrow at 1 p.m. All petroleum
engineering students and their
wives and dates are invited to at
tend.
first series of meetings
100-man Century Council.
The members of the council will
endeavor to find the path A&M
should follow during the next 15
years.
The Thursday and Friday meet
ings will be the first time the
group has met since members wei’e
appointed last Aug. 1. During the
two-day meeting, three nationally
known speakers will address the
council, college officials and other
guests at a P’orecast Conference
designed to acquaint them with
the problems facing them.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, editor of
the Tulsa Tribune, will be keynote
speaker at a banquet in the Me
morial Student Center tomorrow
at 7:30 p.m. He will discuss “The
World and Its Challenge for the
College Graduate—Class of ’76.”
Abraham Hyatt of Washington,
D.C., director of program planning
and evaluation of the National
Aeronautical and Space Adminis
tration, and Dr. Richaixl Johnson,
Head of the Department of Eco-
of the nomics at Southern Methodist
University will address the group
Friday morning.
Tokyo Professor
Slates Lecture
Here Tonight
Dr. Yasuo Meijaki of Tokyo Uni
versity will lecture on “Penetra
tion of Artificial Radioactivity in
the Pacific and Rate of Vertical
Diffusion of Sea Water,” tonight
at the Department of Oceanog
raphy and Meteorology.
A visitor this week to the de
partment is Dr. Richard Caldwell,
physicist of Socony-Mobil, Dallas.
He is due to discuss a proposal for
drilling the mohole.
John W. Antoine is visiting the
Lament Geological Obseiwatory,
John Ewing and his staff for final
evaluation and computation of re
sults from the joint A&M-Lamont
Seismic Cruise of January, 1961,
search laboratory in Houston
would be the command center for
project Apollo and subsequent
space flight missions.
It previously announced that the
launching pad to the moon will
be at the giant space base at
Cape Canaveral, Fla. The rockets
to loft the first American to the
moon will be built at the govern
ment-owned Michoud Ordnance
plant in New Orleans.
The space agency said both the
warm climate and the nearness to
educational institutions influenced
its choice of Houston for the com
mand center.
The thousand acres of water
front land in Harris County, bor
dered by Clear Lake and salt
water canal, was made available
by Rice University.
Rice and other nearby univer
sities will be tapped for scientific
know-how and educational facili
ties, a NASA spokesman said.
About 200 miles away at Brooks
Air Force Base in San Antonio,
Tex., is the Aerospace Medical
Center, where the effect of space
travel on humans is being inves
tigated. |
The Canaveral - New Orleans-
Houston moon-shoot complex is a
region permitting out-of-doors
work for most of the year, NASA
pointed out.
Boys Scouts Need
3 Troop Leaders
Boy Scout Troop 380 .is looking
for three assistant scoutmasters.
The troop, sponsored by St. Thom
as Episcopal Church in College
Station, wants Aggies with previ
ous scouting experience to fill the
three posts.
Any student interested in the
scouting work should contact
Phillip Buchannan at Buchannan
and Associates in Bryan.
By The Associated Press
DALLAS—The Defense Department Tuesday ordered
the 49th Armored Division of Texas, an outfit with atomic
capabilities, to active duty.
The division, called by the Texas adjutant general pos
sibly the finest National Guard division in the nation, will
report to Ft. Polk, La., Oct. 15.
Gov. Price Daniel said these other military units also
were placed on active duty:
The 122nd Transportation Co. medium helicopter. Hous
ton; 277th Engineer Co. and'the 349th Military Intelligence
Co., both ^)f Dallas; the 490th Civil Affairs Detachment of
Abilene, the 347th Military Intelligence Platoon, Fort Worth;
the 980th Engineer Battalion,’ 4 '
Wichita Falls; and the 974th
Quartermaster Co. of Galves
ton.
The 49th Division was
alerted Sept. 5 and told that it had
a high priority for a call to active
duty, j
The division commander, Maj.
Gen. Harley B. West of Dallas,
said the division largely will be
Ags ’ Status Hazy
The official status of A&M
students in Bryan’s 49th Divi
sion unit. Headquarters Com
pany, 386th Engineer Battalion,
is not yet known, Maj. Howard
S. Perry, Battalion staff assist
ant, said late yesterday.
Maj. Perry said indications
are that some of the students
will be required to leave for ac
tive duty, while others will be
permitted to continue their stud
ies.
He said the unit hopes to have
official word from defense head
quarters by Sunday afternoon,
when a drill has been scheduled.
beefed up to combat strength of
14,000 men and officers by a call
up of ready reserve men.
He said that 800 men will prob
ably be inducted early to prepare
Ft. Polk for the troop arrival.
On length of time the division
will remain on active duty, Gen.
West said, “Anything about that
is speculation.”
He said the division personnel
will i-eport to their home stations
Oct. 15 and start moving to Ft.
Polk about 10 days later.
Answering a question about
wives and children and whether
they can go to Ft. Polk, he said:
“I do not knovy the answer to that.
My guess is that they will stay at
home. Certainly there is no hous
ing there for them.”
The general said the division is
equipped with two weapons cap
able of using atomic warheads.
These are the eight-inch howitzer
and the Honest John Rocket. He
indicated the division has no such
warheads at this time.
Course Draws
Delegates
Of 3 Nations
A two-week course in petroleum
reservoir engineering will begin
Monday in the W. T. Doherty Pe
troleum Engineering Building, at
tracting students from two coun
tries other than the United States
as well as students from across
the nation.
Robert L. Whiting, head of the
Department of Petroleum Engi
neering, said the session includes
12 hours of lecture on rock prop
erties, 12 hours of lecture on fluid
properties, six hours of lecture on
analysis of field rock and fluid
data, 12 hours lecture on estima
tion of oil and gas in place, six
hours lecture on basic reservoir
mechanics and 28 hours devoted to
prediction of future performance
and estimation of reserves.
The current offering is an out
growth of courses initiated in the
summer of 1956, and together
with the advanced petroleum res
ervoir course, scheduled Oct. 30-
Nov. 10, provides a complete study
of the latest developments in res
ervoir engineering.
Companies represented are the
Atlantic Refining Company, Hous
ton; British American Oil Com
pany, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;
Colorado Interstate Gas Company,
Colorado Springs, Colo.; California
Standard Company, Calgary, Al
berta, Canada; Skelly Oil Com
pany, Tulsa, Okla.; Texas Gas
Transmission Corporation, Hous
ton; Truckline Gas Company,
Houston, and Venezuelan Sun Oil
Company, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Instructors are Whiting, James
W. Amyx and D. M. Bass Jr.
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Consolidated Twirlers
The four girls above are leading the A&M Consolidated
Band as twirlers every Friday night at Tiger grid battles.
Kneeling is trick twirler Margaret Brown, while standing,
from left, are Suzanne Medlen, Carolyn Brazzell and Sherry
Holland. (Photo Courtesy Ag Information Office)