Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1961
Number 8
ome A&M Students Face Active Duty
wards, Grants
t Fete Total
Over $20,000
The importance of initiating a life long 1 program of pro
fessional development while in college was stressed by M.
S<jott Kraemer of the Pan American Petroleum Corp., Hous
ton in addressing the Petroleum Engineering Club here Tues-
% ^
jO-aemer was the scholarship
3; y : ,rds banquet speaker of the De
portment of Petroleum Engineer-
Awards and special grants
totalling over $20,000 from the
petroleum industry were presented
to [students and the department at
banquet, at which J. C. Kaney
^■Colle^e Station presided. Raney
is president of the student chapter
Society of Petroleum Engi-
nefci'S.
^■Scholarship awards were pre-
f^Kted to the following seniors:
HLhristian A. Galindo, of Cocha-
kL,,!,:!, Poll via, $'>00 from Standard
Oil Company of Texas; Axel V.
Been of Holing, $500 from Mobil
Oil Company; Doyle NV. Read. Jr.,
Gladewater, $100 plus fees to
*-00 from Socony-Mobil Oil Com-
HLy ; Charles K. Reeves of College
Mai ion. $750 from the R. C. Baker
Foundation, an( j Conley R. Wil-
of Mineola, $800 from Mis-
gjon Manufacturing Company of
Houston.
^Kpecial grants to the department
;^K]uded $100 from the R. C. Baker I
Texas and $400 from Mission
Manufacturing Company.
Graduate students receiving fel
lowships included James W. Givens
of Brookshire, $2,100 plus fees
from Shell Oil Company; Arthur
E. Pinson Jr. of Houston, $1,800
from Humble Oil and Refining
Company; Richard A. Startzman of
Point Pleasant, W. Va., $1,500 from
Pan American Petroleum Com
pany; Robert E. Carlile of Ard
more, Okla., $2,000 from Conti
nental Oil Company; Jack E. Little
of Dallas, $2,000 from Gulf Re
search and Development Company;
Edward P. Miesch of Clarksville,
$1,800 from Cities Service Oil Com
pany, and D. M. Bass, Jr., of
Bryan, $1,500 from “The Fund for
Improvement of Teaching.”
Graduate research assistantships
were presented to Marion 1). Arnold
of Corsicana, Morris H. McWil
liams of College Station, Leonard
J. Porter of Houston, Robert C.
Schlaudt of Fredericksburg and
A. W- Talash of College. Station.
The Mission Manufacturing Coin-
Foundation, $G00 from Cities Ser- pany awards were presented by
vice Oil Company, $500 from Conti- Bass Hoyler; Alan Gibson pre-
Sital Oil Company, $500 from sented the Mobil Oil Company
Cillf Re* e arch and Development awards and Frank Wise presented
Company, $1,000 from Humble Oil the Standard Oil Company of
an<i Re f > nin K Company, $400 from Texas awards. R. L. Whiting,
g h ,.ll Oil Company, $400 from head of the Department of Pe-
Mcony-Mobil Oil Company, $5001 troleum Engineering, presented the
frpm Standard Oil Company of' other awards.
Richard Startzman
Wins Fellowship
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Advanced ROTC
Pupils Exempt
By ALAN PAYNE
Battalion News Editor
Only a portion of A&M students in the 49th Armored
Division, Texas National Guard, will be exempt from the Oct.
15 call to active duty issued Sept. 19 by the United States
Defense Department.
Dean of Students James P. Hannigan disclosed today
juniors and seniors in the advanced ROTC program and stu
dents who have completed the advanced ROTC program but
have not graduated will be the only college pupils exempt
from the call.
He added, however, certain other students may he
exempt if they can get special waivers from their respective
commanding officers,
A&M students who are* -
forced to withdraw from
_ T ^ , school will be able to collect
New Home For Aggie Guardsmen fee refunds except for a pro-
A&M students in the 49th Armored Division Oct. 15 for active duty maneuvers necessi- rata charge to cover actual
will join their fellow guardsmen here at Fort tated by the worsening of the Berlin crisis, use of rooms ami meals, Hannigan
Polk, La., to replace the cows. The 49th
Armored Division will move into the post
(AP Wirephoto)
Aggies Sweating Out Service
As Aictive Duty Time Nears
■The College has announced the
appointment of Richard Albert
Rtartzman of Point Pleasant, W.
Va., as the Pan American Petro
leum Foundation fellow in petro
leum engineering for the 1961-62
academic year.
H Startzman, w’ho will study for
an MS degree in petroleum engi
neering, is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. T. Startzman, also of Point
Pleasant. He is a graduate of
Point Pleasant High School and
holds a BS degree in petroleum
engineering from Marietta College
at Marietta, Ohio.
■ The fellowship awarded Start z-
man at A&M is one of 16 offered
at 15 US colleges and universities
for the 1961-62 academic year by
Pan American Petroleum Founda
tion, Inc.
K The foundation was created and
is supported by Pan American Pe
troleum Corp., which is in turn
the exploration-production affili
ate of Standard Oil Company (In
diana).
I Startzman, who will study at
|1»&M under the guidance of Pro-
■essor Robert L. Whiting, was the
recipient of a four-year scholar
ship while at Marietta College,
and was listed on the dean’s honor
roll for 4 consecutive years.
■ College memberships included
Beta Beta Chi, Pi Epsilon Tau
and Kappa Mu Epsilon. He is al
so a student member of the So
ciety of Petroleum Engineers of
the American Institute of Mining,
; Metallurgical and Petroleum Engi
neers.
I Startzman has obtained practi
cal experience in the oil industry
by working as an oilfield rousta
bout and well pumper for various
oil firms throughout West Vir
ginia, Louisiana and Texas during
summer months.
• The fellowship at A&M carries
a stipend of $1,500 for the aca
demic year and covers costs of tui
tion and fees. Fellows are select
ed by the institutions where the
fellowships are offered and the
fellow is not obligated to the foun
dation or its sponsor in any way,
either during his tenure as the
fellow or at any time thereafter.
By TOMMY HOLBEIN
Battalion Managing Editor
Calling up all members of the
49th Armored Division has been
the main subject of conversation
for many downhearted Aggies dur
ing the past week. The following
is an 'account of situations in
which three Aggies ! find them
selves at -present:
Jack McNeely, graduating sen
ior from Bryan living in Walton
E-10, said that until yesterday, he
had hopes of graduating in Janu
ary with a degree in Agricultural
Economics.
“Now, I’ve almost lost all inter
est in school, although I still have
some weak hope of getting de
ferred from service until I re
ceive my degree,” said McNeely.
The sergeant is a member of
Headquarters and HQ Company,
386 Engineer Battalion of the 49th
Armored Division.
“If I were to go in on Oct. 15,
it would make me lose 17 hom-s
this semester, and would probably
set me back in graduating for at
least two years. All my required
courses are Fall courses, and even
if I were released in a year, the
semester would be well underway,”
he added.
McNeely said his situation was
bad, but not half as bad as many
Tatum Named To
Information Staff
W. R. Tatum, assistant director 'l* *
of information at Texas Tech for ^ ' f
the past four years, will join the
Department of College Informa- :
tion and Publications Oct. 16.
The position Tatum fills is part
of an expansion program in the
department. “The increased de- |
mands for informational services
necessitate this additional infer- ;
mational representative,” Lee
D u e w a 1 1, information director,
said.
“Tatum will have primary re- | =.>;
sponsibility for information about
programs in engineering and the
sciences, along with his general
informational duties.”
A native of Kansas, Tatum is a
graduate of the William Allen
White School of Journalism at the
University of Kansas. In addition
to the BA degree, he has complet
ed academic work toward a MA
degree in government and jour
nalism at Texas Tech.
Following graduation from Kan
sas in 1951, Tatum enlisted in the
United States Ah’ Force. He
served in informational services
and edited the base newspaper for
nearly four years at Gary Air
Force Base in San Marcos.
He was news editor of the Se-
guin Enterprise and director of
public relations for an aviation
W. R. Tatum
. . . joins information staff
training school prior to his associ
ation with Texas Tech in Septem
ber, 1957.
The new informational repre
sentative is a member of the
American College Public Relations
Association, Sigma Delta Chi, Ma
sonic Lodge and Protestant Epis
copal Church, as well as other
civic and fraternal organizations.
He is author of “Guidelines to
Texas Press Law,” and for four
years has edited the South Plains
Parade of Progress yearbook.
of the men in the unit, who were
selling their homes and businesses,
making plans for their expecting
wives and small children, and try
ing to figure out answers to the
myriad problems presented.
“I would estimate that over half
of the 200 men in the unit are
Aggies; at least 75 are, and these
include at least 30 seniors and
graduate students. Many have al
ready dropped out of school,”
said McNeely.
C. S. Council
Names New
City Attorney
College Station City Council
Monday night named John L.
Sandstedt, assistant professor in
the Division of Business Adminis
tration, new city attorney. He re
places C. E. Dillon who died Sept.
8 in a plane crash. The council
passed a resolution of respect for
Dillon and specified that a copy
of the resolution, signed by all
council members, be sent to the
Dillon family.
An ordinance creating a Munici
pal Defense and Disaster Relief
Committee with the mayor to
serve as chairman was passed.
Mayor Ernest Langford will be
known as the municipal defense
coordinator. City Manager Ron
Boswell was named assistant de
fense coordinator.
Other members, not to exceed
20, are expected to be named Oct.
23 at the next council meeting.
Contractor W. D. Fitch submit
ted for final approval the plat of
the subdivision, The Glade, second
installment.
Read Wipprecht was present
to raise objection to the paving
on* Moss and Foster streets, say
ing it was in violation of the deed
restrictions.
Frank Winkler, senior from
Taylor planning to graduate in
May of 1962 with a degree in
agronomy, said he had already
hired a lawyer to defend his case
and keep him out of service.
“We were told in last Sunday’s
meeting that if this calling up
presented too many problems, to
get a lawyer to work on it, so I
did. How much good he can do,
I don’t know yet. It is still too
early to tell,” said Winkler.
The corporal who has been in
the Army Reserves for three
years, said his own unit was the
3rd Medium Tank Battalion, 112th
Armor, but he had been attending
drills with the Bryan unit.
“If I do have to go in, it will
delay me at least a year in gradu
ating, and knock me out of 19
hours this semester. However, I
have made no plans to check out
of school yet,” said Winkler.
Robert Longwell, senior from
Raymondville originally planning
to graduate in May of 1962 with
a degree in math, said he would
probably check out of school to
day.
“I am expecting a letter oi’der-
ing me to report for my physical
in Raymondville tomoi’row, and I
don’t have any hope for defer
ment,” said Longwell.
In the reserves for five and a
half years, Longwell holds the
rank of sergeant in Company B,
4th Armored Rifle Battalion, 144th
Infantry.
said.
The exact number of Aggies
affected by the call has not been
definitely determined. Many are
members of Bryan’s Headquarters
Company, 386th Engineer Bat
talion, and others belong to units
in their home towns.
Several other units, of which
Aggies are also members, were
alerted with the 49th Division to
report for active duty Oct. 15.
These were 122nd Transportation
Co., medium helicopter, Houston;
277th Engineer Co. and 349th Mili
tary Intelligence Co., Dallas; 490th
Civil Affairs Detachment, Abilene;
347th Military Intelligence Platoon,
Fort Worth; 980th Engineer Bat
talion, Wichita Falls, and 974th
Quartermaster Co., Galveston.
49th Division Commander Maj.
Gen. Harley B. West of Dallas said
the division largely will be beefed
up to combat strength of 14,000
men and officers by a call-up of
ready reserve men.
He said 800 men will probably
be inducted early to prepare Fort
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 division personnel will
report to their home stations Oct.
15 and start moving to Fort Polk
about 10 days later.
Answering a question about
wives and children and whether
they can go to Fort Polk, he said,
“I do not know 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 capable
of using atomic warheads. These
are the eight-inch howitzer and
the Honest John Rocket. He indi
cated the division has no such war
heads at this time.
Oceanography
Prof Named
For Bader
Dr. Louis S. Kornicker, special
ist in geological oceanography, has
been appointed associate professor
on the staff of the Department of
Oceanography and Meteorology.
He replaces Dr. Richard G. Ba
der, who has accepted a post with
the National Science Foundation
in Washington D. C.
Kornicker received his PhD de
gree in geology from Columbia
University in 1957, where he had
received his MA degree in 1954.
H i s undergraduate background
consists of a BS degree in chem
istry in 1941, from the University
of Alabama School of Chemistry,
Metallurgy and Ceramics and a
BS degree in chemical engineering
in 1942, University of Alabama
School of Engineering.
He was engaged in industrial
work from 1942 until 1954 with
the Hercules Powder Company,
Cities Service Refining Company,
Inc. and the Uncle Sam Chemical
Company. In the last position he
was plant superintendent and
treasurer.
In 1957, he was appointed pro
gram director of Marine Geology
at the Institute of Marine Scien
ces, University of Texas, Port
Aransas. In 1960-61 he took a po
sition as geologist with the Office
of Naval Reseai’ch, Department of
the Navy, Chicago, 111. He left
that position to assume his new
post.
Fund Requests
Slated Tonight
By United Chest
Sixteen civic agencies of the
local area will meet with the bud
get and admissions committee of
the College Station United Chest
tonight to present requests for
1962 funds.
The meeting will be held in the
All-Purpose Room of the A&M
Consolidated School at 7 p.m.
Dr. John C. Calhoun, general
chairman of the United Chest, said
today that additional agencies who
have not submitted prepared re
quests are invited to attend the
session and outline their needs.
Fish Yell-Leader Tryouts
Junior yell-leaders Bill Brashears, left, and Rogers, Company B-l from Amarillo; Mike
Tom Nelson offer assistance to three of the Ogden, Squadron 6 from Colmesneil, and
approximately 40 freshmen who tried for Roger Bierbaum, Company F-2 from Hous-
freshmen yell-leader positions Tuesday, ton. (Photo by Bob Sloan)
These three applicants are, from left, Clint