The Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1962
Number 61
Free Fall y
Dick Brown, ’64 from Tyler, goes into a 15-second free fall
parachute jump from 5,000 feet. Brown, a member of the
27-man A&M Parachute Club, fell a half mile before pulling
his rip cord. The organization, unofficial, yet one of A&M’s
most popular and active, has its headquarters at Bryan’s
Coulter Field. Now being considered for membership in the
Parachute Club of America and the National Collegiate
Parachute League, members of the group have participated
in jump meets and demonstration jumps throughout the
state. The club is also one of A&M’s wealthiest. The mem
bers own 22 parachutes plus other equipment. They are
now in the process of buying a Cessna 170 for a jump plane.
More pictures and a story on the skydivers appear on page
6. (Photo by Bill Herrin)
SAFE FOR ONE WEEK
Dairy Foods Will
Survive Attacks
Dairy foods should survive nu
clear attack, toxic chemicals or
biological warfare in fairly g'ood
condition, a Civil Defense official
iaid at the A&M Dairy Manufac
turers Conference which ended
yesterday.
H. J. McConnell, director of
Civil Defense with the Food and
Drug Administration in Washing
ton, D.C., said packaged dairy
products would usually remain in
edible condition during nuclear or
toxic chemical attack but some
precautions might have to be taken
in the event of biological warfare.
Dairy foods, unless destroyed by
direct blast, would be safe to eat
about one week after attack. Most
of the radio-activity will have dis
sipated by then, he said. If the
bomb is close enough to heat the
food, a peculiar but harmless taste
might result.
Most dairy products are pack
aged or in closed storage and
would be safe form an attack with
loxic chemical agents, such as
Ras.
“The big problem with gas war
fare is the fact that the public
foes not have gas masks,” McCon
nell said.
Foods exposed to germ wai’fare
are another matter and citizens
must take preventive measures to
destroy harmful bacteria.
A moist heat of 250 degrees for
20 minutes, or a dry heat of 270
degrees for two hours or more
should take care of any bacteria,
he said. Formaldehyde and methyl
State Senator’s
Life Threatened
AUSTIN (A 5 ) — Sen. Hubert
Hudson told the Senate Banking
Committee yesterday his life has
been threatened because of his op
position to Gov. Price Daniel’s
abandoned property bill.
Hudson’s statement came imme
diately after the committee ap
proved a committee substitute bill
for Sen. Crawford Martin’s meas
ure and sent the bill to the senate
calendar.
Hudson said someone called his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Dan Moody,
the wife of the former Texas
governor, and said “if I didn’t lay
off I would be found floating
down the Colorado River.
He said he reported the threat
to Director Homer Garrison of the
Department of Public Safety and
to Sen. Charles Herring, president
pro tempore of the Senate.
Hudson said someone, apparent
ly the same person, also called
his office in Austin and made the
same threat to a secretary.
bromide also are good germ fight
ers.
McConnell listed many disease
organisms which might be used in
biological warfare. Some of, them
are anthrax, bubonic plague, yel
low fever, smallpox, rabbit fever,
typhus, parrot fever, brucellosis,
and toxins from certain food poi
soning bacteria.
Dr. A. V. Moore, professor of
dairy science and general program
chairman, said that about 75 per
sons attended the conference. They
represented 150 processing plants
in the state
The conference was sponsored
by the Department* of Dairy Sci
ence in co-operation with the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station,
Texas Agricultural Extension Ser
vice and the Texas Engineering
Extension Service.
Another speaker, R. J. Ramsey,
president of Ramsey Laboratories
of Cleveland, Ohio, said Food and
Drug Administration rules usually,
do not affect dairy precessors who
operate strictly within their own
state.
“But you may rule this situa
tion out for the future,” he said.
“Most states will eventually adopt
FDA regulations.”
Current rules for interstate
movement of dairy goods, the
speaker said, are these: The pro
cessor cannot make adulterated
foods; cannot receive adulterated
foods; it is illegal to make false
guarantees; it is illegal to misuse
information coming from a FDA
inspector’s findings in a plant.
Penalties are severe.
“You who are in interstate com
merce can expect to see more of
these inspectors.” Ramsey said.
R. E. Branson of the Department
of Agricultural Economics describ
ed results of dairy foods promo
tion in Austin on fluid milk, but
ter milk, chocolate milk, cottage
cheese and ice cream.
So far, special displays plus
point of sale material have work
ed best, but customer reactions
varied widely. He found that al
though the American Dairy As
sociation has been promoting in
creased adult consumption of milk,
the public still associates milk with
children.
Other A&M personnel participat
ing in the conference were J. C.
Gaines, head of the Department of
Entomology; L. K. Jonas, training
supervisor, Engineering Extension
Service; R. E. Patterson, Dean of
Agriculture; I. W. Rupel, head of
the Department of Dairy Science;
and I. I. Peters and Carl Vander-
zant, associate professors, Depart-
| ment of Dairy Science.
House Hopes
To Reconsider
Sales Tax
... AUSTIN (A*)—The House, aft
er learning that Gov. Price Dan
iel had expanded the special ses
sion agenda, asked the governor
yesterday to include sales tax
revision also.
“This is the most important
emergency matter before us,”
said Rep. Wesley Roberts of
Seminole, sponsor of the sales
tax resolution HSR 80. His res
olution asked Daniel to let the
law-makers go to work on re
vising the sales tax, and said
there is “an immediate and ur
gent need of revision.”
House members approved Rob
erts’ resolution. 127-6. Roberts
told reporters that if the session
is broadened to include sales tax
changes, he has a bill ready for
introduction that would strip the
tax of almost all its exemptions.
In a message to both houses,
Daniel opened the session’s a-
genda to 12 more categories of
legislation, on condition that
they not delay the four main
issues before the session.
Graduation For 379
To Be Held Saturday
Dr. Carlyle blarney
. . commencement speaker
Commissioning Is
Set At 1:30 P.M.
Degrees will be conferred on 379 students in graduation
exercises in G. Rollie White Coliseum Saturday at 10 a. m.
Then at 1:30 p. m., 51 cadets will be commissioned, and Maj.
Gen; Ralph Osborne will deliver the commissioning address.
Of the 276 undergraduates who have applied for degrees,
116 are engineering, 95 in art and sciences and 65 in agricul
ture. The graduate school has 103 candidates for degrees,
75 masters and 28 doctoral.
Chancellor M. T. Harrington and Eugene B. Darby of
Pharr, chairman of the Board of Directors, will bring the
opening greetings.
The commencement address will be delivered by Dr. Car
lyle M a r n e y, minister of*
Maj. Gen. Ralph Osborne
. . . commissioning speaker
Campbell President
To Speak Tonight
Dr. William B. Murphy, presi
dent of the Campbell Soup Com
pany with home offices in Cam
den, New Jersey, will address fac
ulty, staff, and graduate students
tonight on the “Future Relation
ships of Agriculture and Indus
try.”
The graduate lecture will be
held in the Biological Sciences
Lecture Room beginning at 8:00
p.m., Dr. Wayne C. Hall, dean of
graduate studies, stated. The pub
lic is cordially invited to attend,
he said.
Agriculture is in the midst of
a drastic transition from the ex
tensive pastoral types of bygone
days to highly intensive indus
trialized patterns. As president of
one of the nation’s largest cor
porations operating both in the
production of agricultural com
modities and in the elaborate proc
essing and distribution of such
items, Murphy is in a position to
highlight and forecast with valid
ity the dominant trends of the
present and the future.
Murphy was born in Appleton,
Wis., and received his B.S. degree
from the University of Wisconsin
in 1928 with a major in chemical
engineering. He received the
LL.D. from Lawrence College in
1954.
From 1928 to 1938 Murphy
served as executive vioe president
of the A. C. Nielsen Company of
Chicago, 111. Since 1938 he has
been associated with the Campbell
Soup Company except for the pe
riod 1942-45 when he served with
the War Production Board as
Chairman, Industrial Facility Com
mittee; he was awarded the Medal
for Merit in 1945. In 1953, Mur
phy was made president of the
Campbell Soup Co.
John Vick
. . . one of 12 finalists
John Vick Moves
To Final Stages
In Annapolis Bid
John Vick, ‘64 aeronautical en
gineering major from Houston,
is among twelve Texas youths
who have been named for com
petition for two appointments to
the United States Naval Academy
in 1962.
Vick and the others were the
top ranking candidates from 50
applicants,, and received between
71 and 89 on the Civil Service
Competitive Examination. In addi
tion they had to pass a ridgid
physical examination.
Sen. John Tower made the
nominations today. The candi
dates will have to take another
academic examination and anoth
er physical, and the two finalists
will be selected on the basis of
these examinations.
Death Claims
Founder Of 1st
Louisiana Gub
Funeral services were held in
Shreveport, La. Sunday for Har
mon W. Egger, 64, the founder of
Louisiana’s first club in the As
sociation of Former Students.
Mr. Egger, Class of ’21, died
Saturday in a Shreveport hospi
tal after a long illness.
He founded the first Louisiana
Aggie Club in Shreveport in the
1930’s.
At the time of his death, Mr.
Egger was general superintendent
of compressor stations and build
ing operations of United Gas Pipe
Line Co. He had been an employee
of United Gas since Jan. 10, 1925.
Born at Paris, Tex., July 11,
1897, Mr. Egger spent his early
life in Dallas, Denison and Terrell,
where he attended elementary and
high school.
He is survived by his widow:
one son, R. King Egger of Mt.
Vernon, Ohio; one daughter, Mrs.
Will H. Jackson of Shreveport; his
mother, Mrs. E. L. Egger of San
Antonio; threh brothers, W. L.
Egger of San Antonio, H. L. Egger
of Dallas and Dr. R. A. Egger of
Charlottesville, Va.; and four
grandchildren.
Myers Park Baptist Church,
Charlotte, N. C.
Marney is. an outstanding
minister, speaker, writer and
traveler. He was pastor of the
First Baptist Church in Austin for
10 years.
The invocation will be given by
Gary G. Lively, Corps Chaplain,
and the benediction will be pro
nounced by Jason M.'*Edgington,
civilian student chaplain.
Prior to the benediction Robert
L. Boone, music director, will lead
the graduates and the audience in
the singing of “The Spirit of Ag*-
gieland.”
Bryan’s Radio KORA will carry
Marney’s address.
Marney has lectm-ed and
preached at more than 50 colleges
and universities. While he was at
the First Baptist Church at Aus
tin, he served as professor in
homiletics and Christian ethics at
the Austin Presbyterian Seminary.
Extensive travels have taken
him through Peru, Brazil, Bolivia,
Argentina, Paraguay, Alaska, the
Yukon Territory, Korea and
Japan.
Marney has served on the Study
Committees of the World Council
of Churches, the Theological Com
mission of the Baptist World Al
liance, and is presently serving on
the Board of Trustees for the
Christian Century Foundation and
Mars Hill College.
At 1:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon
51 cadets will receive commissions
during exercises in G. Rollie
White.
Maj. Gen. Ralph Morris Os
borne, deputy commander of the
4th Army, will address the cadets
during commissioning, and will
present the gold bars, following
the administration of the oath by
GWO H. A. Plaisance of the De
partment of Military Science.
Gen. Osborne has seen military
duty in numerous areas through
out the world. He served as the
Army member of the United Na
tions armistice delegation. At the
conclusion of the armistice, he di
rected the prisoner of war ex
change program.
In 1945, he was assigned to the
European Theater of Operations
for duty as assistant staff for per
sonnel in the office of the theater
commander, and later assigned to
the Intelligence Division of the
Supreme Headquarters Allied Ex
peditionary Forces in Europe.
He assumed duties as deputy
commander of the 4th Army in
June, 1961.
51 Cadets Eligible
For Commissions
Final Exam Schedule
Jan. 20, Saturday
Jan. 22, Monday
Jan. 22, Monday
Jan. 23, Tuesday
Jan. 23, Tuesday
Jan. 24, Wednesday
Jan. 24, Wednesday
Jan. 25, Thursday
Jan. 25, Thursday
Jan. 26, Friday
Jan. 26, Friday
Jan. 27, Saturday
Jan. 27, Saturday
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p.m.
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1-4
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8-11
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1-4
p.m.
8-11
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p.m.
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p.m.
Classes meeting TWF3
or TThF3 or TF3
Classes meeting MWF8
Classes meeting TThSFl
Classes meeting MWF9
Classes meeting MWThl
Classes meeting MWF10
Classes meeting TF1
Classes meeting M3TThlO
Classes meeting MWTh2
Classes meeting MWF11
Classes meeting M4TThll
Classes meeting TTh9F2
Classes meeting TF2
These cadets have applied for
commissions in the armed forces:
Air Force
Norman V. Blackmon, Bartlett;
Donald V. Eastwood, Bellaire; Mar
cus Covington, Bloomington; John
A. Hale, College Station; Leonard
J. Dobias, East Bernard; Charles
R. Munnerlyn, Edna; Mark J. Dier-
lam III, Galveston; Otis W. Fine
and Robert K. Kooser, Houston;
David E. Roberts, Monahans; Wil
lie N. Ward, Refugio; Billy C.
Sewell, Waco.
Armor
Milton P. Martin, Midland; Wil
liam T. Ewing', San Benito.
Artillery
Edward D. Rigsby II, Andrews;
Larry F. Smith, Austin; Charles
L. Syptak, Beaumont; Paul K.
Piper, Brownwood; Jerry Mach-
emehl, Bryan; John T. Sell and
Richard K. Thomas, College Sta
tion; Jerry I. Gilliland, Liberty;
William B. Peyton, Midland; Ro
bert Goebel, New Braunfels; John
K. Neal, San Antonio; Delbert A.
Donelson, Stanton.
Infantry
Franklin H. Loudermilk, Coman
che; Billy C. Brown, Gatesville;
Joseph L. Gilbert Jr., Laredo; Lar
ry W. Ayers, Paris; Merwyn L.
Nutt, San Antonio.
U. S. Marine Corps
Fred H. Wrinkle Jr., College
Station; Herbert Lynn Currie,
Crane; Harry F. Sharp Jr., El
Campo; Wayne W. Frazior, Fort
Worth; John B. Hendricks, La
Marque;
Ordnance
Jack D. Tallman, Fort Worth;
Michael C. Wagner, Sherman
Quartermaster Corps
Hurm D. Pennington, Buchanan
Dam; Jimmy R. Ellington, Lyford.
Signal Corps
Jerry Baker, Bryan; Kent E.
Seiler, Port Worth
Chemical Corps
Ellis T. Walker, College Sta
tion; Roger S. Terry, Mercedes.
Army Intelligence
Charles F. Luker, College Sta
tion; George K. Whitehouse, Fort
Monroe, Va.
Finance Corps
Paul E. Ashley Jr., Cleburne
Military Police
James E. Riley, Houston
Medical Corps
Ben E. Dickerson, Houston
Religious Workers
Form Association
An Association of Campus Re
ligious Workers was officially
formed here yesterday with the
adoption of a statement of organi
zation and purpose.
Twelve religious workers, each
active in student religious groups
on campus, are charter members of
the new organization.
Chairman is the Rev. George
Becker of the A&M Lutheran
Church, Missouri Synod.
Stated purposes of the associ
ation are “to promote a better
understanding among campus re
ligious workers and provide a
means of carrying out matters of
mutual interest in the university
community
Membership is open to any per
son who is appointed, selected or
called by his denomination or con
gregation to be a religious work
er. Members must also be elected
by members of the association.
The association, which will meet
every third Wednesday of each
month, elected officers at a pre
liminary meeting in December.
They are:
Becker, chairman; Cliff Harris,
Baptist Student Union, secretary;
the Rev. Dick Dulin, A&M Christ
ian Church, reporter; the Rev.
George Nelson, Baptist Student
Union, the Rev. Charles Elmer,
St. Mary’s Catholic Chapel, and
the Rev. Carl Ruck, American
Lutheran Council, committee for
organization and purpose; and the
Rev. John Combs, Wesley Founda
tion; A&M Coordinator of Re
ligious Life J. Gordon Gay; and
Mrs. Raymond Reiser, Hillel Foun
dation; publicity committee.
New Chairman
Rev. George Becker of the
A&M Lutheran Church has
been named chairman of
the Association of Campus
Religious Workers. The or
ganization was officially
formed yesterday.