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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1961
Number 11
ARMING TREND FOLLOWS
lercury Hits 58;
■
Front Triggers Rain
fast-moving: cold front dumped
.31 inches of rain and dropped the
temperature helow 60 degrees at
' A A M Monday.
^■The front, which triggered down
pours of up to five inches across
thi state, dropped the temperatui'e
tc| a low of 58. degrees here early
lat night.
^■The high yesterday was 70.
■Officials at the local Federal
A\ iation Administration station
slid last night little more precipi
tation was expected and the tem-
i^wature should rise through the
day today.
^■Rainfall of more than an inch
wa widespread over North, East
and South Texas. The heavy down-
po jrs started Sunday.
■An area south of Big Spring
m dented by marble-size hail as
th* front skipped through that
Houston Has
' L Aggie Street,
Sw
Wit
/
Kggie’ Movers
■Influence from Houston Aggies
fs showing up in the naming of
^ ^■eets now; at least, one street
na ned “Aggie”, running south off
CaminOfRoad.
9% Ha ggie Street is one block long
I last report, and can be found
j|n the northern part of Houston
in what is known as Alber Grove.
You can find the street if you go
o t Airline to Camino, turn east
light, and follow the road until
you come to Aggie.
■There is also an Aggie Trans-
fc and Storage Company in Hous
ton owned by George G. Harris,
^Pass of ’41, who caters to Aggies’
■loving problems in the Gulf Coast
Hrea.
6-Week Course In
Ke<rinnin£ French
Offered At Night
■ A six-week course in beginning
i^Bench is now being planned by
an A&M student native of France,
^■mphasis will be placed on con
versation and pronunciation.
■ Classes are scheduled to meet
^^mesday and Thursday nights.
j^Bours have not been set.
■ Anyone interested in more in
formation concerning the '■course
should call VI 6-6857 after 6 p.m.
section of West Texas. Accom
panying heavy rain sent w r ater over
a highway, also near Big Spring..
Bowie, in North Central Texas,
gauged three inches of rain, while
Texarkana, in the northeast corner
of the state, measured 2.50 inches.
The rain continued yesterday
over most of North Texas and
began falling during the morning
in areas of .South Texas. Cars
were stalled at Ran Antonio as
more than an inch of rain fell
within a few minutes. The wind
blew in gusts up to .30 miles an |
hour and temperatures dropped |||
from 74 degrees at 6 a.m. to 61
at 10 a.m.
The U. S. Weather Bureau re
ported a waterspout off Corpus
Christi.
The bureau ordered small craft
warnings up from Port Arthur to
Pensacola, Fla. It warned of
“variable winds 5 to 13 knots yes
terday, shifting to northerly winds
of 25 knots last night and con
tinuing today.”
All the state was not wet yester
day, however. El Paso reported
blowing dust, while other areas of
West Texas had clear skies.
The Weather Bureau said rain
would continue over North, blast
and South Texas last night, but
skies would start clearing today.
It also said it would be slightly
warmer in most areas today.
New
Due
Cooling System
’63 Completion
History Group Sets
Reception Tonight
To Begin Activities
An informal reception tonight
will kick-off the second year of
activities for the A&M History
Society.
Hugh McDaniel announced yes
terday all interested students and
faculty members will meet in the
Social Room of the Memorial Stu
dent Center at 7:30 tonight to for
mally organize the society for the
new school year.
McDaniel said the group would
operate much like last year’s first
organization. Among the pro
grams presented last year were
several movies of Europe prior to
World War II, a discussion of
Russian Communism and the read
ing of several student papers.
The society is planning to have
several guest speakers and send
delegates to various historical con
ventions this year, McDaniel said.
Jack Frost Is Here
Dave Mueller, ’62, prepares to make a dash for class Mon
day afternoon as the thermometers began their plunge to
the 58 degree mark. The cold front which hit the area yes
terday was preceeded by .31 inches of rainfall. (Photo by
Benny Gill is.)
SCIENCE BUILDING DAMAGED
Lightning Strikes
TWU Class Rooms
Texas Woman’s University fac
ulty members and students were
thrown into a state of mass con
fusion late last week when mother
nature played havoc with a class
room facility.
TWU’s Science Building was
struck by lightning.
A&M Reps Busy
Hunting Cutie
Three A&M representatives
were at Texas Woman’s Univer
sity in Denton last weekend
making plans for the selection
this coming weekend of the 1961-
62 Aggie Sweetheart.
The three representatives, Stu
dent Program Director W. D.
Hardesty, Music Co-ordinator
Robert Boone and Juan Mar
tinez, interviewed the 31 sweet
heart contestants and tentatively
selected the finalists. These
finalists will be announced later
this week.
The three lunched Friday with
TWU officials and were guests
at an all-college dance Saturday
night.
Impromtu Yell Practice
About 300 cadets and their dates were on
hand at 1:25 a. m. Sunday morning when
the Aggie football team arrived home from
Baton Rouge. Here Coach Jim Myers
alights from the aircraft bringing the team
to Easterwood Airport. Details of the game
are on page 4. (Photo by Johnny Herrin.)
“We heard this big blast and
chunks started falling off the
building,” a faculty member said
after lightning struck the nox*th-
east corner of the building.
“It happened between 8:15 and
8:20 a.m. I was teaching in the
Arts and Sciences Building when
the current momentarily went off
and we heard this big blast,” an
other instructor said.
When he returned to the build-
ng he discovered that during the
sudden rain storm, lightning had
blasted off one of the comics
stones in the roof. The stone was
broken into three large chunks,
each weighing about 20 pounds.
The largest one dug a six-inch
hole into the ground when it fell.
Another professor theorized the
comics was cracked and weathered
before the accident.
“We went up after it struck and
couldn’t find any reason for it.
That corner is just like any other
corner on campus. It just hap
pened that way in that particular
place,” the plant foreman said.
Jr. High Names
25 To Council
For 1961-62
Twenty-five A&M Consolidated
Junior High students have been
elected by their classmates to the
school’s student council.
The council, composed of sixth,
seventh and eighth grade students,
will be headed during the school
year by President Mike Stevenson.
Other officers are Secretary
Diana Sutphen, Vice President
Paul Fagan, Reporter Duke But
ler, Treasurer John Skrabnnek
and Parliamentarian Joe White.
Other delegates are:
Sixth grade: Dede Wolters, Jim
Stephenson, Mary Hooper, Charles
Leinweber, Vickie Simmons, Chris
Longley, Sallie Stark and Don
Hutchinson.
Seventh grade: Sandy Cathcart,
David Alexander, Bill Price, Bar
bee Hedges, David Reidel, Deborah
Rchatte, Wallace Williams a n d
Charmille Bridges.
Eighth grade: Karlene Kuebel,
Lynda Welch and Linda Isbell.
TIT Releases
Economic Study
The Texas Transportation Insti
tute has released another in a
series of economic studies on ex
pressways in or near Texas cities.
The current bulletin, “Some Eco
nomic Effects of the Suburban
Portion of North Central Express
way in Dallas,” is authored by
Russell H. Thompson and William
G. Adkins.
The study is the third in the
Dallas area and is a special report
to the Bureau of Public Roads,
U.S. Department of Commerce.
The stretch of road under con
sideration is an 8.1-mile section of
U.S. Highway 75 extending from
just north of Dallas’ central busi
ness district to the Dallas County
line.
Donald Cunningham Given
$500 Socony Mobil Award
Donald J. Cunningham, ’62, civil
engineering major, has been
awarded a Socony Mobil Oil Co.
scholarship for the 1961-62 school
year. The scholarship, one of 85
awarded by the company this year,
provides a cash award of $500 for
the recipient.
Carnival Scheduled
Saturday By Lions,
Band Boosters
The A&M Consolidated Band
Carnival, featuring games, hay-
rides, spooks, food and other at
tractions, is scheduled Saturday at
5:30 p.m.
The annual fete, sponsored by
the College Station Lions Club
and Band Boosters Club, is held
to provide funds to pui’chase band
uniforms and instruments.
Last fall’s carnival grossed over
$800 and this year’s officials,
headed by Chairman Mrs. Frank
Brown, III, are hoping for a large
profit this year.
The Consolidated Band is com
posed of the senior high band of
44 members, the junior high band
of 42 members and the 65-member
sixth grade band.
Willard Johnson is beginning
his second year as band director.
In announcing the scholarship
award, Mi’. E. V. Watts, vice pres
ident of Mobil Oil Company’s
Houston Exploration and Produc
ing Division, stated that the pur
pose of the award is to encourage,
assist and recognize students in
fields of study directly allied to
the petroleum industry. Primary
considerations in awarding the
scholarships are academic stand
ing, leadership, character and sin
cerity of purpose.
Cunningham, a native of Hous
ton, graduated from Jefferson
Davis High School before coming
to A&M. He spent three years in
the Army, including one year in
Korea. He resides with his wife
and three daughters at 518 Gain
er in Bryan.
Navy Recruiter!)ue
In MSC Oct. 2-6
Lt. Cmdr. D. D. Rosenberg, na
val recruiter, will be in the Me
morial Student Center Oct. 2-6.
He will be interviewing students
as part of the Navy’s officer se
lection program.
Rosenberg is a veteran of both
World War II and Korea. Here
he will answer any questions con
cerning naval officer selection.
♦ A college-wide air conditioning system that will “rival
the academic excellence of A&M” will be a reality in two
years. President Earl Rudder disclosed yesterday.
Most main college buildings will be air conditioned two
years from now. Rudder said. Only four years ago, he added,
there were no air conditioned buildings on campus.
Rudder cited pleasant working conditions as a prime
factor in attracting and holding top-quality students, educa
tors and researchers at A&M. He said the college already
has modern teaching and research facilities and equipment
to compare with any school in the nation.
Howard Padgett, manager of the college’s physical plant,
said the air conditioning pro- -
ject has been divided into
three phases. Total estimated
cost of work now in progress
and in planning stages is $1,-
917,000.
The first of these phases is to
air condition new buildings, such
as the Plant Sciences structure,
and new wings of buildings, such
as the just-completed section of
the Military Sciences Building.
Next is the job of air condi
tioning existing buildings. The
final phase is to tie presently air
conditioned buildings into the big,
chilled water pipelines now r being
laid on the campus. This will be
done as these buildings’ self-con
tained units wear out or become
uneconomical to operate.
Eventually, all buildings to be
air conditioned will be served by
the underground chilled water
pipes. This will eliminate w’indow
units and self-contained units with
their companion wooden-slatted
water cooling structures on the
outside.
The pipes lead to and from the
college power plant, udiere they
will be connected to the central
chilled water plant soon to be
constructed. Cold water will be
sent through one pipe system to
the buildings and the warmed wa
ter will return to the central plant
to be cooled and recirculated.
Badgett said a $394,338 contract
has been awarded by the board of
directors to A. P. Kasch and Sons
of Big Spring for construction of
the central chilled water plant.
Work will start in October and the
bulling with its chilling equipment
is expected to be finished by May
15, 1962.
He said the chilling plant will
have a cooling capacity of 2,000
tons. The Plant Sciences Build
ing, Military Sciences addition and
the Physics Building addition are
to be connected to the central plant
when the plant is completed.
He also expects installation of
air conditioning installation con
tracts for 11 existing buildings to
be aw r arded by next April. Some
air conditioning will be in opera
tion by the following fall.
On Sept. 23, the college board
provided an appropriation of $65,-
000 for plans, specifications and
preliminary costs of cooling these
older buildings Ahich are to be
tied into the central system. The
buildings and estimated costs are
the following:
Agriculture, $124,000; Frances
Hall, $113,000; Biological Sciences,
$178,000; Engineering, 178,000;
Physics (old section with remodel
ing) $119,000; Veterinary Sciences,
$180,000; Animal Industries, $108,-
000; Veterinary Hospital, $80,000;
Nagle Hall, $88,000; Chemistry
(old section) $240,000; and Mili
tary Sciences (old section), $59,-
000. The total is close to $1.5 mil
lion.
Rudder said the air conditioning
program dovetails into the build
ing construction activity which has
been underway for the past three
years.
Corpus Mothers
Start Ride Service
Mrs. Claude L. McGregor of
Corpus Christi announced that the
Corpus Christi A&M Mothers’
Club has established a transporta
tion committee. The chairman is
Mrs. Sam N. Davidson and her
telephone number is TE 50571 in
Corpus Christi.
Any student needing a ride from
Corpus Christi to A&M or any
one returning to A&M that has
room for riders is asked to call
Mrs. Davidson.
FulbrightGrant
Applications
Due Nov. 1
The Institute of International
Education has announced that the
deadline for applications for over
700 Fulbright scholarships would
be Nov. 1.
Requests for applications must
be made to the Institute of Inter
national Education, 731 Texas Na
tional Bank Bldg., Houston 2,
Texas, before Oct. 15.
Fulbright scholarships are avail
able for graduate study or research
in 31 countries in Europe, Latin
America and the Asia-Pacific areas.
Applications for Inter-American
Cultural Convention awards for
study in Latin America, and for
awards for study in Ireland under
the Scholarship Exchange Program
between the United States and Ire
land have the same filing deadline.
Recipients of Fulbright awards
will receive tuition, maintenance
and round-trip travel. The terms
of awards to Ireland are the same
as those for the Fulbright grants.
IACC scholarships cover transpor
tation, tuition and partial main
tenance costs.
General eligibility requirements
for these programs are: 1) United
States citizenship; 2) a bachelor’s
degree before the beginning date
of the award; 3) knowledge of the
language of the host country, and
4) good health.
Preference is given to applicants
under 35 years of age who have
not previously lived or studied
abroad.
Applicants will be required to
submit a plan of proposed study
that can be carried out profitably
within the year. Successful candi
dates are required to be affiliated
with approved institutions of
higher learning while abroad.
The Institute of International
Education, founded in 1919, seeks
to foster international understand
ing through exchange of ideas and
knowledge among all nations. It
administers two-way scholarship
programs for more than 5,000 per
sons between the United States and
over 80 foreign countries, and is
an information center on all aspects
of inteimational education.
Missing Frosh
Finally Found
Henry Alburn Stroup, Jr., who
enrolled as a freshman at A&M
and had been missing since Sept.
12, has been located in Miami,
Fla., it was announced yesterday.
Information of his location was
obtained through a letter from his
mother addressed to the Regis
trar’s Office requesting his tran
script be sent to Alabama Poly
technic Institute in Auburn, Ala.
The letter was received Friday,
and forwarded to Dean James P.
Hannigan. It did not disclose the
exact date of his discovery, and
no future plans for Stroup were
included.
. The 18-year-old native of Abbe
ville, Ala., arrived in Bryan on
Sept. 11, during the peak of the
Hurricane Carla crisis, an d
checked into a dormitory room.
When his room-mate awoke the
next morning, Stroup and his be
longings were gone; a note on his
desk stated he had gone home.
He became the object of a wide
search when he didn’t arrive in
Abbeville.