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The Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1962
Number 64
Texas Maritime Academy Established
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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)