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LIBRARY
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The Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1962
Number 5&>
A&M To Receive Rryan Air Base
Oops!
Eager Aggies scurring to classes today found an unusual
type of substance underfoot, and this scene was probably
repeated on many parts of the campus as ice and sleet made
footing unsteady all day. A Batt photographer caught
this graceful looking pose just as a freshman went down
in front of the YMCA Building. (Photo by Ben Wolfe)
Snow, Sleet Fall
As Mercury Drops
An unheralded blizzard swept
the entire length of Texas yester
day, killing at least eight persons
throughout the state and sending
the temperature below 20 degrees
in the Bryan-College Station area
last night.
The cold monster, which swept
all the way into the Rio Grande
Valley, swept through College Sta
tion with full force early yester
day morning.
Yesterday’s high recorded at 1
a.m., was 53 degrees. By 8 p.m.
last night the mercury had dived
to 19 degrees. Temperature was
below freezing from mid-morning
on.
The Federal Aviation Agency
Weather station at Easterwood Air
port recorded .61 inches of mois
ture yesterday in the form of rain,
sleet and snow.
The Weather Bureau predicted
Wednesday temperatures as low
as 12 below in the Texas Panhan
dle, 2 below zero in North Central
Texas, and near zero in northeast
Texas.
The rich vegetable-citrus area
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
expected the coldest weather in
a decade with readings as low as
20 degrees above zero in the west
ern section and to 26 along the
coast by Wednesday night.
“Things look grim,” a forecast
er said.
As the state braced for even
colder weather, Northwest Texas
and North Central Texas expected
clearing skies Tuesday night. But
Northeast Texas looked for more
snow in its eastern and southern
portions. Texarkana already had
dVz inches on the ground, more
than at any time in 20 years.
The intense cold with sleet and
snow struck early Tuesday with
out warning and continued most
of the day in the northern half of
the state as blizzard conditions
moved quickly southward.
Roads iced over from the Pan
handle to the Gulf and a low of 22
was predicted for the Houston
area, where freezes rarely occur.
Snow continued late in the day
at Wink, Midland, Lubbock, Abi
lene, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin,
Junction, Carthage, Tyler, Corsi
cana, Greenville, Longview, Waco
and even at Beaumont in the
state’s extreme southeast corner.
The Texas Highway Depart
ment pleaded with citizens to stay
at home if they lived north of a
zig-zag line that ran through the
Big Bend National Park, San An
tonio, Houston and to Jasper in
East Texas.
Reason For It All
By CHARLIE MAULDIN
The cold, wet weather that’s been freezing Aggie ears
and coating campus sidewalks with ice may be blamed on
Christmas.
Christmas fell on Monday this year, and according to
a recent edition of the Territorial Enterprise o/o Virginia
City, Nev., this might have been an ill omen. In 1865 Christ
mas also was on a Monday, and the following appeared in
that paper:
If Christmas day on Monday be,
A great winter that year you’ll see.
And Full of winds both loud and shrill;
But in Summer, truth to tell.
High winds shall there be, and strong,
Full of tempests lasting long;
While battles they shall multiply,
And great plenty of beasts shall die.
They that be born that day, I ween,
They shall be strong each one and keen.
He shall be found that stealeth aught;
Tho, thou be sick, thou diest not.
The following year was the year of the Austro-Prussian
War and a year of disastrous gales and cattle-plague. In 1871
Christmas again fell on Monday. Cattle plague in the north
and some great storms marked 1872, but one must go back
a few months into 1871 to find the “battles.” In that year
came the capitulation of Paris and the conflict with the
Commune. In 1876 Christmas fell on Monday for the third
time in a dozen years.
So if you see an Aggie slip on the icy sidewalk, help
him up gently because it’s not really his fault. It’s just that
Christmas was on Monday in 1961.
OPEN TO FACULTY, STAFF
Workshop Opens Next Week
On Use Of Movie Projector
The Department of Education
and Psychology will hold a work
shop Jan. 17-19 in the use of the
latest model overhead projector.
Dr. Paul Hensarling, head of the
department, said the projector is
known as the Tecnifax, a device
designed to assist teachers to
develop excellence in teaching.
Dr. Hensarling said the work
shop is open to all A&M faculty
and staff members and teachers in
the College Station and Bryan
school systems.
“In order that we may deter
mine space and material require
ments necessary for the work
shop, we request that you notify
us by Jan. 10 concerning the mem
bers who will participate from
your department,” he said.
Clifton W. Darby, an educational
consultant for the Tecnifax Cor
poration, will help conduct the
Intellectual Life Missing,
Sociology Professor Claims
“The most important problem on
the A&M campus, academic ex
cellence” was the topic of a talk
given by Dr. C. Harold Brown, as
sistant professor in the Depart
ment of Agricultural Economics
and Sociology, to members of the
Economics Club last night in the
Memorial Student Center.
In opening his talk Brown stat
ed that “excellence” has become
the watchwood of our time. Every
goal is expressed as a striving for
“excellence,” although exactly what
this “excellence” and the charact
eristics of its composition are, is
left in doubt.
In regard to the question of
academic excellence, Brown went
on to say that merely speaking of
“excellence” does not bring about
the occurance of such a state.
He added that when many students
hear the use of the word “intellec
tual,” they automatically think of
a person who is a radical or is
somewhat “eccentric.”
Another opinion contributed to
many students by Brown is that
“a ‘C’ is a good enough grade
for the average course and a ‘D’ is
good enough for English or Chem
istry.”
Brown contents that this outlook
on grades and the corresponding
effort which brings about those
grades tends to result in the re
duction of intellectual competition
and a mass effort to smooth off
the individual student differences
and put everyone on the same aca
demic level.
According to Brown, “There is a
lack of intellectual atmosphere on
our campus. This is not restricted
to A&M’s campus but is perhaps
more pronounced here.”
In attaining an intellectual at
mosphere at A&M, Brown went on
to say, A&M must broaden its
outlook. He added that students
who come to A&M should have the
chance to come into contact with
ideas outside the fields of engineer
ing, agriculture and military train
ing.
Bi’own stressed the need for a
much increased liberal arts pro
gram and added school support to
the departments in the liberal ai’ts
areas.
In closing Brown stated that to
attract the better students among
our high school graduates, we
must offer a comparative educa
tion in all subject areas. Brown
considers this to be but one step
in acheiving- a state of “academic
excellence.”
Following the talk was a discus
sion period in which Economics
Club members probed Brown con
cerning many of the problems now
being considered by the Century
Council.
Producer Reviews
Aggie Players Play
“Tiger At The Gates,” a play by
the French play write, Jean Girau-
doux, will be discussed by C. K.
Esten, producer of the Aggie
Players, in a meeting Monday
night for any persons interested in
working with the production next
semester to be held in the Music
Hall.
Esten plans to explain the play,
and how it will be presented in
the Players’ rendition set for
April 16-21. “Tiger At The Gates”
will be the thespian group’s major
production for the spring semester.
“The play is a satire on war,
and is the story of how Hector
and the Trojans were forced into
a war with the Greeks,” Esten said.
“It was first done in the 1940’s
in Paris, and was then translated
into English and presented on
Broadway in 1955. The two-act
play will be presented at A&M on
the Guion Hall Stage.
Spring Room
Reservations
Open Monday
Procedures for spring semester
room reservations have been re
leased by the Department of Stu
dent Affairs, and students are
urged to comply with the re
gistration methods, according to
Harry L. Boyer, housing manager.
In order to reserve the rooms
they now occupy, all students now
enrolled who expect to attend
school during the spring semester
should pay fees and reserve rooms
beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan.
15, but following this procedure:
Fees are to paid at the Fiscal
Office in the Richard Coke Build
ing, and students should bring fee
slips to the Housing Office in
the YMCA Building.
Rooms should be reserved ac
cording to the following schedule:
Students who wish to reserve
the rooms they now occupy should
register between 8 a.m. Monday,
Jan. 15, and noon Saturday, Jan.
20.
Those who wish to reserve any
room other than the one they now
occupy, including students chang
ing from military to civilian dormi
tories and vice versa, may do so
between 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 15,
and noon Saturday, Jan. 20 by pre
senting written permission (room
change slips) from both house
masters and organization com
manders concerned.
A student moving from a mili
tary to a civilian dormitory, in
addition to other signatures, will
also secure the signature of his
tactical officer on his room change
slip. Students in this category
must also turn in a “clearance for
dropping ROTC’” form to the
Housing Office before registra
tion.
All remaining rooms will he
available on a first come, first
serve basis beginning at 8 a.m.
Monday, Jan. 22.
Students moving from the cadet
area to civilian areas are remind
ed that they must turn in their
mattress covers to the place they
were drawn and draw new ones
from the issuing agency for their
new area.
workshop.
The workshop will be held for
three afternoons. Each session is
a successive step of certain techni
ques in the use of the machine and
the production of teaching mater
ials, Dr. Hensarling said.
The following is the schedule:
Jan. 17—Uses of the projector,
1-2 p.m.; Diazo-master prepartion,
types of bases, methods of block
ing light, pencil, pen, cut-outs, 2-5
p.m.
Jan. 18—Projectual preparation,
exposure, development mounting,
1-2 p.m.; Diazo-master prepara
tion, types of bases, methods of
blocking light, pencil, pen, cut
outs, 2-5 p.m. •
Jan 19—Reversal techniques, 1-2
p.m.; photo-copying art from books
and magazines, 2-3 p.m.; non-pro-
jectuals, making copies on paper,
cardboard and Technisheens, 3-5
p.m.
Dr. Hensarling said there is no
charge for workshop participation.
Physics Expert
To Speak Here
Friday At 4
Dr. Harold W. Schmitt of the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
will a speak on “Recent Advances
in the Physics of Fission” Friday
at 4 p.m. in Room 211 of the
W. T. Doherty Petroleum Engi
neering Building.
Schmitt will address the weekly
seminar held by the Department of
Nuclear Engineering, according to
Dr. Robert G. Cochran, head of
the Department of Nuclear Engi
neering. Interested students and
faculty members are invited, Coch
ran added.
Schmitt did all of his under
graduate and graduate work at
the University of Texas, receiving
the Ph.D. in Physics in 1954.
He was a research and teaching
fellow at the University of Texas
from 1948 to 1952, a research as
sociate in physics at Los Alamos
Scientific Laboratory until 1954,
and is presently heading the phys
ics of fission group at the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, Oak
Ridge, Tenn.
Schmitt is a member of the
American Physical Society and is
listed in “American Men of Sci-
Exchange Due
In Two Months
By RONNIE BOOKMAN
Battalion News Editor
Bryan Air Force Base, including about 159 buildings,
will be turned over to A&M College in about two months,
President Earl Rudder confirmed yesterday.
The base will be used mainly for research purposes, Rud
der said. The Air Force deactivated the reservation in 1958.
Procedure for the turnover will be as follows:
All base property not required by the college for its pro
grams will be sold at auction Feb. 12. This amounts to about
198 buildings and an 11.2-acre radio range annex located
on Mudville Road.
Then the General Services Administration, now control
ling the base’s disposition, will turn the land and buildings
Solons Prep
For Opening
Of Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Con
gress already on notice that Pres
ident Kennedy wants to raise the
national debt ceiling rings up the
curtain Wednesday on what prob
ably will be a rousing election
year session.
House Democrats got ready
Tuesday at a caucus. Without a
murmur of dissent they voted to
nominate Rep. John McCormack
of Massachusetts to be House
speaker. They made Rep. Carl Al
bert of Oklahoma their unanimous
choice to step into McCormack’s
old post of Democratic floor lead
er.
Thus in the House, whRh
shapes up as this year’s major
battleground, the chief responsi
bility for piloting Kennedy’s pro
gram over legislative shoals will
fall on a new leadership team.
Kennedy, of course, wants a lot
more from Congress than a boost
that probably will shove the legal
limit on the national debt beyond
the $300-billion mark for the first
time. The ceiling now stands at
$298 billion.
High on the President’s list are
proposals on traiff cuts, medical
care for the aged under Social
Security, aid to education, tax
changes-but no general cut — a
new farm plan, higher postal
rates.
The President skimmed through
the list twice Tuesday, first with
McCormack, Albert and other
Democratic congressional 1 e a d-
ers, then with his cabinet.
The chief executive will unfurl
it to public view on Thursday in
the annual State of the Union
message he will deliver in person
to a combined Senate-House ses
sion, in the House chamber.
over to the Department of
Health, Education and Wel
fare.
It will then be turned over
to the school for educational
purposes. The department of
Health, Education and Welfare had
requisitioned the base on behalf of
A&M.
“We will not confine research
activities on the base to just one
type” Rudder said. “It will be
available to any department for
their own particular research
projects.”
The president said the college
would make use of permanent type
dormitories, warehouses and han
gars to be included in the turn
over.
The auction sale of the base’s
buildings include dormitories,
headquarters buildings, special
training weapons buildings, traf
fic check House, post exchange
and warehouse, supply buildings,
operation buildings and 22 duplex
four-room family housing units.
Handling the sale will be Ap
ple’s Auction Services of McKin
ney.
All of the structures will be sold
for cash with the radio range an
nex land for cash and/or terms.
According to auction officials the
appraised value of the buildings
and property will not be released.
The material will be sold on an
“as is” offer. It can be seen Jan.
29 through Feb. 2 and Feb. 5
through Feb. 12.
Address Reports
Due From Aliens
All foreign nationals residing
in the United States must report
their addresses during the month
of January, according to J. W.
Holland, director of the San An
tonio District of the U. S. Im
migration and Naturalization
Service.
Address report cards are
available from any Post Office
or Immigration and Naturaliza
tion Service office.
New Kiwanis President Takes Gavel
Bill Krueger accepted the gavel of the
Kiwanis presidency from outgoing president
Loyd Keel yesterday at their noon meeting
in the Ballroom of the Memorial Student
Center. Looking on from left to right are
Isaac Peters, second vice president; Hall
Beckman, secretary; and Ed Packenham,
treasurer. First Vice President Bob Fletch
er was unable to attend the meeting.