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libpars F& 13 COPIES Fergu sra l! tel \vift nil joints. \ Richter 15 mTr» TTT 0\ Center” or geo* Carl Service reign f ,r !' XA MlUtW* The Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1962 Number 64 Texas Maritime Academy Established I As Branefi Of A&M In Galveston 3 F n n Joe .70c a i c ^vn KSt rank Harvey Named Head Of A&M Exes Frank B. Harvey of Wichita Falls has been elected president of the Association of Former Stu dents. The announcement of the 1962 slate of officers was made today by Dick Hervey, executive secre tary of the former students, fol lowing a meeting' of the associa tion’s council on the A&M campus. Harvey, a 1941 graduate, is as- lociated with the Harvey Drilling Co. He was past vice president tf the Association of Former Stu dents and past president of the Wichita Falls A&M Club. A mem ber of the council, he has served on numerous committees of the former students. The new vice president is L. F. Peterson of Fort Worth, a mem ber of the class of 1936. He is a partner with the Kelly-Peterson Oil firm. A member of the Fort Worth A&M Club, he also served on numerous committees of the former student’s group. Three additional executive board members include A. W. Davis, Pa ducah; Dick Haas, Corpus Christi, and Melvin Maltz, Houston. Hold over members are John R. Hill Jr., Air Force Grant Given To Research In Physics The Texas A&M Research Foun dation has been awarded a physics research grant of $13,121 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Re search. Principal investigator is Melvin E. Eisner of the Department of Physics. A&M’s grant is one of 31 basic research grants and contracts, valued at $1.1 million, awarded during last December by the AFOSR. Twenty-two of the awards went to 18 universities in the United States and to one in Canada. The balance went to in dustrial and non-profit research laboratories in the United States. Dallas; Graham B. Purcell, Wich ita Falls, and W. E. Simpson, San Antonio. Other officers include 11 dis trict vice presidents and repre sentatives to major committees within the association. District officers elected are Os car L. Crain, Lubbock, District I; Ed Durrett, Odessa, District II; John Shepperson, San Angelo, Dis trict 111; J. W. Williams, Dallas, District IV; Royce Wisenbaker, Tyler, District V; Guy King, Waco, District VI; Eugene Howard. Houston, District VII; Harvey (Dulie) Bell, Austin; District VIII W. C. Longquist, Corpus Christi District IX; Bruce Lane, Bator Rouge, La., Louisiana District and E. Del Brockett, Pittsburgh, Pa., At-Large District. New Student Loan Fund Trus tees are A. O. Nicholson, Sham rock and Dallas; J. L. Sewell, Dal las; O. Dooley Dawson, Houston. Representatives named to the Development Fund Board are L. A Priester, Dallas, and Tom A. Mur rah, San Antonio. Agronomy Group Tours Valley Area And Mexican Farms Twenty-seven members of the Agronomy Society toured agricul tural areas of the Lower Rio Grande Valley last Sunday through Tuesday. Places visited were the King' Ranch, Weslaco Experiment Sta tion, citrus production and proc essing, United States Department of Agriculture soil and water re search, the Schuster Farms at San Juan, Harlingen’s Cotton Classing Office, the Rio Farms, and agri cultural experiment farms in Mex ico. Accompanying the students were Agronomy Society sponsors, Dr. H. E. Hampton, professor of ag ronomy, and Jim Justip, agronomy instructor. ^ Aggie Killed, Two Injured In Car Wreck Louis Bujnoch Jr., ’62, a 23- year-old business administration major from Karnes City, was killed and two other students were injured when a train hit their car near Waelder last Saturday. In serious condition in Luling Hospital is Esmeraldo Saenz, a freshman electrical engineering major from Pettus. The other student in the car was Wayne Liska, a senior business adminis tration major from Runge. His condition was given as critical by the Breckenridge Hospital in Aus tin. Silver Taps is being planned for Bujnoch early next week, although a definite date has not yet been set. ■ ' Louis Bujnoch Jr., ’62 . . . killed in accident A&M Meets NTSU In Debate On TV The A&M Debate Team will face the North Texas State Uni versity debaters Feb. 11 in a televised session over television stations across Texas. To be sponsored by the Sinclair Refining Co., the program is part of a series of 15 debates among Texas colleges and universities. The series will be carried in Bryan over KBTX-TV. Other schools participating are Texas Tech, St, Mary’s University, Texas University, Midwestern Uni versity, TCU, Abilene Christian College, Southwest Texas State. Rice, Baylor, Hardin-Simmons, S. F. Austin, S.M.U., University of Houston and Lamar State. Wicket Picket Isn 7 Cricket LONDON <AP> — It just isn’t cricket to picket the wicket, old boy. That’s why things were so very* politely quiet Wednesday at the cricket ball factories of Chidding- stone — pronounced Chiddingstun — and Leigh-pronounced like as in untruth. There’s a strike on, but picket ing isn’t done, at Chiddingstone. And as for Leigh, they’d rather die. Anyway, there was nobody to picket. All 55 of the workers have walked out—every stitcher, seam- er, turner, closer, and quilt mak er. Captain Dodson Named As Head Capt. Bennett M. Dodson, Chief of Staff of the Service Force with the U. S. Pacific Fleet at Pear Harbor, has been named superintendent of the Texas Maritime Academy to be established at Galveston by A&M. President Earl Rudder, in making - the announcement, said the veteran seaman and naval officer was selected be cause of his “wealth of experience in the field of training merchant marine officers.” Captain Dodson. 52. will retire from the Navy on Feb. 1 and will come to A&M shortly afterwards, Rudder said. Organization of the Texas Maritime Academy, the only one of its kind in the South, was set in motion by action of the 57th Texas Legislature. 4 Capt. B. M. Dodson ... to head academy Registration Schedule Friday 1-3 p. m.—All whose surnames begin with T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z; 3-4:30 p. m.—All whose surnames begin with L, M, N, O. Saturday 8-10 a. m.—All whose surnames begin with P, Q, R, S. 10-11:30 a. m.—All whose surnames begin with C, D, E, F. 1-3 p. m.-—All whose surnames begin with G, H, I, J, K. 3-4 p. m.—rAll whose surnames begin with A, B. Home’s No Castle, Just A Culvert HIGH STANDARDS SET A&M Provides Top Training At Low Cost, Says Rudder A&M is fulfilling its original educational role of providing thorough training at the least possible cost to students and citi zens of Texas, according to Presid ent Earl Rudder. He said A&M is maintaining a student expense level which is one of the lowest in Texas. “This is not at the expense of the pro gram of excellence,” he said. While offering an education at a relatively low cost, A&M’s stand ards of excellence in teaching and research are among the outstand ing in the nation, Rudder said. This educational philosophy stems from A&M’s land grant heritage resulting from the Mor rill Act of 1862. One of the purposes of the Act was to help states establish low cost colleges, he said. Gov. Richard Coke, first chair man of the A&M Board of Di rectors, outlined the school’s edu cational goal in 1876 when he delivered the main address at the opening of the college: “It has been the constant aim of the board,” the governor said, “to bring down to the lowest possible figure the cost of an education which shall be at the same time thorough, liberal and practical.” Rudder said student expenses for a regular nine months session will vary with the individual concern ed and with the course of study. For new students, the total cost should range between $950 and $1,150 for nine months, including personal and incidental expenses. Here is a break-down of fees at A&M for the 1961-62 school year: For tuition, property deposit, board, room rent, laundry, room key deposit and estimated costs of books and other supplies, the sum for the first semester was about $410, and the second semest er will be about $353. In addition to these expenses, the Texas Legislature further requires the payment of laboratory fees which are not less than $2 nor more than $8 per laboratory course. Charles Roeber, business manag er for the Fiscal Office at A&M, said all fees are payable in one of two ways: in full at each semest er’s beginning, or in installments for the finailcial convenience of students. He said students can board for $1.50 a day and live in a dormitory for 50 cents per day. This is a total daily cost of $2.03, including tax. Laundry expenses are only $1 a week for 23 articles of clothing. This includes four shirts, two trousers, four sheets, and 13 small pieces, Roeber said. The college furnishes most ROTC uniforms for $8 per school year. EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (^) — Andrew West Jr. snaked his long, skinny frame out of a hunk of iron pipe Wednesday and reluc tantly began hunting a new home. He doesn’t expect to find one nearly as satisfactory as the one he has had the last nine months. As he put it: “The rent is right. It’s free. “I’m crazy about the view. “I can’t stand nosy chamber maids, grabby neighbors or fussy landladies.” Home for West, 36, has been a galvanized pipe in a lonely cul vert in the sand dunes of nearby Playa del Rey, a Los Angeles seaside suburb. The cuvert is 2 , /2 feet in di ameter. West is 6 feet and weighs 116 pounds. He and his furnish- ings-a discarded car seat for a bed and a worn quilt for warmth -fit inside snugly. For privacy, there’s a beach towel draped over the entrance. Police found him Wednesday morning after a resident reported seeing a man “vanish into the sand.” West sat on the sand, puffing a pipe while he gazed at the sea “I never smoke in the house” and explained: “Oh, I’m not a bum. I used to work steady in the bowling alleys until these automatic pin-setters got my job. I’m a victim of automation. But I still work every day doing odd jobs. I average about $3 or $4 a day. On Tuesday I made $7. “I don’t have to worry about cooking and stuff. I always eat out. And when I get a yen to do something besides sleep, I just crawl outside, sit on the sand and watch the sea. “I was in the Navy during the war and I guess I just never got over watching the ocean. I perfer the sea to people. It’s friendlier.” “Well, there is one thing, Some times the noise from a compres sor in the oil refinery nearby echoes through the pipe and keeps me awake. It sounds like a jackhammer. But then I just stuff some paper in my ears and turn over. So I can’t really com plain.” The officers who found him took him down to headquarters, to prove to the desk sergeant he really existed, then released him -with instructions to find a new home. What kind of quarters will be seek? “I’d kinda like to find a spot by the sea. But I’ll never have another place with a view like this. “Not at these rates, anyway.” Judging Teams Place High In State Meets Judging teams representing A&M College in two separate meets across the state recently took first and second place honors, one held in Fort Worth, and the other in Corpus Christi. At the annual Fort Worth Southwestern Livestock Exposi tion, animal husbandry students won top honors in the livestock judging, placing first, and took second place in meats judging. Livestock team members are John Kuykendall of Cherokee, Lay- ton Black of Lometa, Obert Sage- biel of Fredericksburg, Larry Os bourn of Valley Spring and Bryan Stuckey of Monahans. L. D. Wythe Jr., assistant pro fessor in the Department of Ani mal Husbandry and team coach, said high point individual honors in the entire contest went to Kuy kendall who set a new record at Fort Worth with 995 points out of a possible 1,050. The college’s plant judging team took first place honors in a con test held during the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Range Management at Corpus Christi. The team, composed of students in the Department of Range and Forestry; scored 2,374 points out of a possible 2,400. The group edged out eight other teams in the competition. Farris Nixon of Eldorado tied for second high point individual for A&M, with Billy C. Brown of Gatesville winning third high point honors. Other Aggie team members were Ernest Nimitz of Eldorado and Bob Armstrong of Fort Worth. Team coach was Don Huss, assistant professor, in the Department of Range and For estry. The Legislature, in its Ap propriation Act of 1961, pro vided for a. maritime academy at Galveston to be admin istered by A&M. Rudder said the objective of the academy is to prepare deck and engineering officers for ocean going vessels. The purpose is to train young men to qualify as offi cers in the U. S. Merchant Marine. The Merchant Marine plays a major role in national security, the president said. “Other countries, compared to the United States, have many more seamen available,” he said. “The increasing complexity of ships requires men with better edu cations. The Texas Maritime Academy will help supply qualified officers for this need.” The academy’s first class prob ably will be enrolled next fall. Cur rent plans call for students to spend one year on the A&M Col lege campus and their last three years at Galveston, where the academy will share a building with the Marine Laboratory of the A&M Department of Oceanography and Meteorology. This facility is in that portion of Fort Crockett now under the jurisdiction of A&M. Captain Dodson’s experience in training merchant marine officers will be of great value in establish ing the maritime school and its curricula, Rudder said. The officer has, during the past 25 years, held executive positions Aero Department To Offer Course A new course, “Space Craft Technology,” will be offered by the Department of Aeronautical Engineering in the spring semes ter, Dr. W. J. Graff, dean of in struction, announced. This in another step in directing the emphasis of this branch of en gineering toward aerospace. The Board of Directors has approved changing the department’s name to the Department of Aerospace provided the Texas Commission on Higher Education agrees, Graff said. Alfred E. Cronk, head of the department, said the three-hour course will be open to seniors and graduate students majoring in aeronautical engineering and to seniors in physics and other engi neering departments. Hours for the course will be arranged, he said. Known as “Aero 431,” the course lectures will be given by faculty members in aero engineering, nu clear engineering and data proc essing. Guest lectures will be made by National Aeronautics and Space Administration personnel when possible, Cronk added. The textbook will be “Space Technology,” with addition of the latest supplementary material. The course will cover environ mental conditions, detectors and sensing devices, methods of orient ing spacecraft, power sources, telemetry systems, structural con siderations, electronic components, integration of spacecraft compon ents and fabrication techniques. in such training. He was execu tive officer of the California Maritime Academy and command ing officer of the school’s training ship; was head of the Department of Nautical Science at the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy, and was commanding officer of the academy’s training ship, Kings Pointer, on her South American cruise in 1947. For a year, during World War II, he was commanding officer of the Merchant Marine Cadet School at Pass Christian, Miss. He served after the war as superintendent of the former Pennsylvania Maritime Academy. Capt. Dodson supervised more than 1,000 cadets serving in ships throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceaqs while on the staff of the Seventh Fleet Service Force in Australia and the Philippine Islands during the war. In combatant-type ships, he has commanded a destroyer and was executive officer of the battleship, Iowa, which he later commanded during her inactivation. He com manded a fleet oiler during the Korean War. Capt. Dodson has had extensive service with the Military Sea Transportation Service. He was commander of MSTS forces in the Far East and later served as direc tor of MSTS world-wide cargo operations, with headquarters in Washington, D. C. The officer completed the senior warfare course at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, in 1953. He served two additional years as a faculty member of the college, where he lectured in ocean transportation and was editor of the Naval War College Review. In 1959, he was given command of the Pacific Fleet’s Service Squadron 1, a command composed of more than 50 ships including oilers, ammunition ships, repair ships and a number of lesser types. Capt. Dodson is co-author of a book, “Mathematics for Navi- gatoi-s” and is co-author of the Mathematics Supplement to the U. S. Naval Academy’s text, “Dut ton’s Navigation.” He holds a Coast Guard license as Master Marine!’, Unlimited, which means he is qualified as an officer on any ocean-going vessel, Rudder said. The federal government en courages the establishment of maritime academies. There are five such academies in existence in the United States. Four are operated by their respective states. They are in California, Maine, Massachusetts and New York. The fifth, operated by the federal gov ernment, also is in New York. The Texas Legislature author ized A&M to establish an academy as far back as 1937 but stipulated that no state funds could be used. This restriction was removed in 1959. C. A. Roeber, business manager for A&M, said that subject to con gressional appropriation, the fed eral government will match state funds up to $75,000 per year for maintenance and support of the academy. The federal government, he said, (See MARITIME on Page 3)
