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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1961
Number 18
CSC Hears Study Findings
Information Head Retires
op Clements, right, director of the A&M news bureau,
«!cetiring after 14 years with the College Information Of
fice. Here he is presented a certificate of appreciation by
President Earl Rudder. In private ceremonies held in the
president’s office, Rudder praised Clements for his “many
pears of loyal and efficient service to the college.” Clements
is a widely known Texas newspaperman.
aw School Test
Slate Announced
Bulletins of information and ap- .
Ration blanks for Law School
toission Tests to be rtven this
|t*r have just been received, ne-
nding to Dean Frank Hubert of
lighway Chief
ants Applicants
Hajor i. W. Elliott, Commander
the Texas Department of Pub-
tSafety’s 46-county Waco region
is announced that the depart-
Mt is ; taking applications from
isons interested in law' enforce-
ffi ftoik. The dertdtino for ap-
itations to take the next en-
»flce examination is Oct. 20.
[ualifications necessary for se-
ftion includes males between the
*s of 21 to 35, not less than 08
ihes or more than 70 inches in
fight. The applicant must have
«n a resident of Texas for one
or prior to application and be
United States citizen. He must
ive a high school education and
of good moral character and
ikits. A conviction for any fel
ly automatically disqualifies.
The examinations to select re
lit patrolmen will be given in
aco on Oct. 24 and in Austin
Oct. 25.
Hannigan Asks
Student Aid
Dean of Students James P. Hannigan addressed a meet
ing of the Civilian Student Council last night in the Memorial
Student Center, presenting questions which the Century
Council is facing in the coming years.
Members of the CSC were asked to make suggestions
toward the solution of various problems which the Century
Council is working on.
One of the primary questions discussed was, “What is
the responsibility of the college toward the student other
than academic?”
Other discussion involved recent organization of day
students, which will not he completed until next week. CSC
Saw Antonio
hnce Slated
The San Antonio A&M Club
'ill sponsor a dance for Aggies
ind their dates Saturday night
liter the Trinity football game.
Aggie Park, at the corner of
Up 410 and West Ave., is the
site for the dance. Tickets will
^available at $1.50 per person
it the door.
An orchestra will he present
wd refreshments will be served.
the School of Arts and Sciences.
These tests, which are required
by a number of law schools as a
prerequisite to admission, are giv
en under the supervision of the
Educational Testing Service,
Princeton, New Jersey, and will he
given in Texas Nov. 18, Feb. 10,
April 28, and Aug. 4.
All four examinations will be
given at the University of Texas,
Southern Methodist University,
and the University of Houston.
The tests will also be given here j
April 28. In order to take the
tests, however, Hubert pointed out
that the candidate’s application j
blank, with a fee of $10 must-be
received in Princeton, New Jersey,
by the Educational Testing Serv
ice not later than Oct. 21 for the
examination to be given Nov. 18,
not later than Jan. 13 for the Ex
amination of Feb. 10, not later
than March 31 for the examina
tion to be given April 28 and not
later than July 7 for the examina
tion Aug. 4.
Pennant Sale Drive
To Begin Tuesday
A drive to raise funds for the
senior ring dance and senior gift
to the college will begin Tuesday,
Senior Class President John Wad
dell announced today.
Large maroon and white school
pennants will be sold in both corps
and civilian dorms for the bulk of
these funds, Waddell said. This
decision was made yesterday in a
class officer meeting with W. D.
Hardesty, MSC student program
advisor.
A meeting of corps unit execu
tive officers is scheduled Tuesday
to get the drive officially under
way. These executive officers will
be in charge of corps pennant
sales.
president has appointed a
committee to work with this
problem.
Members of the committee
are Bob Hugh, chairman;
Edward Todd, Charles Dyer and
Jason Edgington.
Schwenk urged that any student
interested in working with this
committee contact its chairman or
any of its members. Also available
is William Breazeale, civilian coun
selor for student affairs, whose
office is located in Puryear Hall.
Another committee of the CSC
is corresponding with other schools
in the Southwest Conference, in
vestigating the selling and cost
of date tickets.
Objective of this investigation
is to determine whether or not
the price of date tickets can be
lowered from the present rates.
Another of the present projects
being taken up by the CSC is an
effort to improve laundry service.
Carried over from last year, the
project at present entails investi
gating specific incidents of mis
handling by the college laundry.
Juniors Planning
TWU Reception
Plans for a reception for A&M
and Texas Women’s University
juniors have been announced by
Junior Class President Paul Bar
rett.
The reception has been set for
6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20. Exact
location of the reception will be
announced next week, Barrett said.
The function will precede the
A&M-TWU dance also scheduled
for that night.
Since this will be a junior class
function all A&M juniors ai’e in
vited, Barrett said. If an A&M
junior is dating a Tessie classified
other than a junior, she also is
invited.
Barrett said rooms with linens
will be furnished at TWU for $1
the night of Oct. 20.
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State BSU
Meeting Set
Next Weekend
Several A&M students are ex
pected to attend the vast Texas
Baptist Student Union Convention
in Dallas Oct. 20-22.
The local students attending the
annual parley will he part of more
than 2,500 students from 65 col
leges and universities throughout
the state anticipated for the meet
ing.
The convention is designed this
year to emphasize the application
of Christianity in a world in crisis,
according to W. F. Howard, stu
dent work director.
Principal speaker at the week
end gathering will be Dr* CJoorge
K. Schweitzer, chemistry profes
sor at the University of Tennessee
and research radiochemist for the
Atomic Energy Commission’s Oak
Ridge research program.
Schweitzer will speak on the re
lationship between the church and
science during the convention’s
Saturday morning session at Gas
ton Avenue Baptist Church in Dal
las.
Other principal speakers for the
meeting include Dr. J. W. Mac-
Gorman, professor at Southwest
ern Baptist Theological Seminary,
Fort Worth; Dr. Ralph Langely,
pastor of the Willow Meadows
Baptist Church in Houston, and
Dr. T. A. Patterson, executive sec
retary of the Baptist General Con
vention of Texas.
Langely will bring the keynote
address on the. convention’s theme,
“A Living Church in a Revolu
tionary World.”
During a special Saturday eve
ning missions emphasis session,
Southern Baptist missionaries from
Japan and Southern Rhodesia will
address the convention. They are
Charles L. Martin of Japan and
Mr. and Mrs. Milton E. Cunning
ham of Africa.
Special music during the meet
ing will be presented by both a
70-voice state Baptist Student
Union choir, and the “Project Un
derstanding” 16-voice choir that
toured the Orient representing
Texas Baptist students this sum
mer.
Horsley Named
Workshop Head
W. R. Horsley, director of the
college jjlacement office, is chair
man of the workshop on commun
ications for the Southwest Place
ment Assn., meeting Oct. 11-13 at
Shreveport, La.
F. W. Hensel, assistant director
of the placement office, is a fnem-
ber of the association’s executive
committee. Both men are past
presidents of the association.
The meeting will include talks
from industry, government and
college officials. ‘Changing Man
power Requirements in the Six
ties,” will be the theme of the
meeting.
. . . Trinity Timers’ bubble hursts!
22 YEARS OF PROGRESS
College Station Mayor
Watched Town Grow
By JIMMY WENDLAND
Battalion Staff Writer
The Honorable Ernest Langford
has seen many changes in the city
of College Station during his 22
years as mayor.
Before its incorporation in 1938
it had no form of government. The
first city council, of which Lang
ford was a member, took office in
February, 1939.
The delay was due to an inter
pretation by the Attorney General
of a statute of the Texas Consti
tution (written after the Civil
War to eliminate “Carpetbaggers”
from office) that officers of the
state could not hold two offices.
Reserve Squadron
Slates Training
Easterwood Airport will be the
site tomorrow and Sunday of the
regular monthly weekend 1 unit
training assembly of the 9412th
A i r Force Reserve Recovery
Squadron activated July 1.
Purpose of the 9412th is to pro
vide safe landing sites for USAF
aircraft 1’eturning home from mis
sions in the event of war. Military
planners anticipate that home sta
tions might be destroyed and that
aircraft would then require pre
determined alternate fields.
Two hundred men are called up
on by the recovery squadi - on to
provide aircraft support facilities.
The new reserve program is de
signed to lessen the consequences
of a nuclear attack and to aid in
the reconstruction of the Air Force
capability after the attack.
Under the new Air Force Re
serve Recovery program, the re
serve recovery unit locally would
provide emergency landing facili
ties and sites for continued opera
tions. Recovery units at these
emergency sites would furnish
communications, crash and rescue
service, refueling, transportation,
medical care, food service, emer
gency maintenance, billeting and
a security force.
Several local officers have been
named to head the various sections
within the recovery squadron. They
are:
Lt. Col. W. O. Davis, Maj. J. L.
Rumfield, Maj. G. A. Davis, Maj.
G. O. Hoffman, Maj. R. E. Miller,
Maj. R. C. Qualtrough, Capt. H. D.
Pope, Capt. B. J. Bland, Capt. Cal
vin Reese and 1st Lt. H. L. Mere
dith.
Several of the council members
were also on the A&M faculty.
A new attorney general was
elected and he amended the ruling
that they could hold two offices
hut only receive pay frohi one
source. This opened the way for
the new council to serve, after
writing into the by-laws that they
would serve without pay.
In addition to serving as mayor,
Langford was head of the Divi
sion of Architecture 27 of the 30
years he spent as professor here.
Since September of 1957 he has
served as Archivist of A&M.
College Station now boasts a
population of 11,396 and has 2,200
utility connections. The city owns
the distribution system, buys water
and electricity from A&M and
Bryan and pays rental for the
firefighting services of the college.
For a city which could not claim
a paved street when it was incor-
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porated, it now has in addition to
many paved streets, two sets of
traffic controls, one at the East
Gate and one at the northeast cor
ner of the campus which alone are
valued at $25,000.
The manufacturer sold the
equipment to the college at cost.
They in turn sold it to the city
who furnished material to the col
lege who installed it. So its actual
cost was a fraction of this value.
On commenting about the rela
tionship with A&M Langford said,
“The city and the college coop
erate, I think, very amicably.”
One factor which might contrib
ute to this wonderful relation is
the fact that five of the six coun-
cilmen are employees of A&M.
They are C. W. Landis, professor
in the Department of Health and
Physical Education; J. A. Orr and
J. H. Sorrels, professors in the
Department of Civil Engineering;
D. A. Anderson, Head of the Re
search & Education Department of
the Texas Forest Service, and An-
tone Rosprim of the Department
of Poultry Science.
Rosprim is the latest A&M em
ployee being elected in April 1961.
Serving with him in Ward III is
A. P. Boyett. These members av
erage over seven years of experi
ence in their council positions.
Others in the city “Family” are
City Manager Ran Boswell; City
Secretary K. A. Manning, and City
Attorney J. L. Sandstedt, assist
ant professor in the Department of
Business Administration.
Approximately 40 local city em
ployees are headquartered at the
attractive city hall at 101 N.
Church St. The building was com
pleted in 1947 to replace the space
which had previously been rented
over Southside Food Market.
Langford feels College Station
is the finest little city of any col
lege town. He said, “We have no
manufacturing and we don’t want
any. We just want to keep it a
college town.”
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Golden Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.
Rohloff (known as Mr.
Cholly and Mom to hun
dreds of A&M students
during the depression) will
celebrate their 50th wed
ding anniversary Sunday
with a special service at our
Savior’s Lutheran Church,
College Station. An open
house will be held for the
Rohloff’s in the Lutheran
Student Center at 3 p. m.
“Mr. Cholly and Mom” came
to A&M in 1936 to help care
for Houston Aggies who
were finding things pretty
tough during the depres
sion. The pair cooked for,
mended socks and in general
helped many Houston Ag
gies make it through A&M.
The Rohloffs were married
in 1911. Mr. Rohloff work
ed for the college 18 years
as a watchman in the dining
halls. He retired in 1957.
They live at 702 Eagle Pass
in Bryan. The couple never
had any children of their
own, but claim “all these
boys at A&M.”