The Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1962
Number 77
Fish Sweetheart Honored
Freshman sweetheart Janet Wark was pre- sweetheart at an intermission during the
sented with a gift on behalf of the Class of Fish Ball Saturday night. She was escorted
’62 by Dennis Barr. Miss Wark was voted by Michael J. Forticq.
Century Council Meets Here
To Draft Final Suggestions
TMA Funds OK’d
By A&M Directors
MEETING SET
’62 Class Starts
Early Fund Drive
Includes Repair
To Fort Crockett
A&M’s Century Council will meet
here Thursday and Friday, and
from this meeting will come the
first draft of the Council’s final
report to the A&M Board of Di
rectors — a document designed
to recommend the course of the
future at A&M.
Although this report will be re
viewed again at a later meeting,
most of the report will be con
tained in Friday’s di’aft.
This will be the third group
meeting at Aggieland, although
smaller planning sessions of the
Century Council have been held
in all corner’s of the state since
last July.
The Texans come from all walks
of life, as evidenced by the scat
tered thin-brimmed hats of the
business men and industrialists and
the gallons-plus variety of ranchers
and farmers at the meetings.
Following, its organizational
meeting last September, the Cen
tury Council divided itself into
smaller work groups each given
specific assignments in regard to
continued improvement of higher
education in Texas and in A&M.
Specifically, the laymen were
asked by the A&M Board of Di
rectors to examine the educational
program of the college and come up
with recommendations for future
action. The Council’s suggestions
will involve the next 15 year’s.
At that time, A&M will be 100
years old.
What, progress has been made
by the Council thus far?
Council members combined have
traveled over 100,000 miles at their
own expense to attend meetings,
and over 26,000 man hours have
been invested by the Council in
the 12-months study.
By September 1962, the target
date for completion of the study,
over 200,000 miles and 35,000 man
hours will have been donated by the
Council members.
The Board is due to respond to
the Council’s findings at a special
convocation of former students
and guests of the college in Nov
ember.
Another part of the overall Cen
tury Study report is the Facul
ty - Staff - Student Aspirations
Study, an internal survey' of the
85-year-old school and its anti
cipated needs by 1976.
The report from the faculty and
students will be completed in
March. It will contain recommend
ations regarding resident teaching,
extension, student life, research
and services.
“The future of Texas in a large
measure will depend on how suc
cessfully her institutions of higher
education plan now to meet the
challenges anticipated during the
next 15 years,” President Earl
Rudder told the Council at the
outset of the Century Study.
“Programs of instruction, re
search and educational services
must be tailored to meet the chang
ing needs of an expanding Texas,”
he said. “We genuinely appreciate
the major sacrifice being made
by these Texas citizens who are in
vesting their time and talent in as
sisting A&M to identify its fu
ture service roles.”
Regarding the costs of the study,
the Association of Former Stu
dents are picking up the tab, ex
cept for expenses of individual
Century Council members.
Marion C. Pugh fought back at
Sen. W: T. Moore’s charges of
“empire builder” last night in a
telephone interview with The Bat
talion. Pugh is opposing Moore in
the race for state senator from the
eleventh senatorial district.
‘The only empire I’ve built is my
little lumber company,” Pugh said.
“I don’t know what Moore is talk
ing about.”
“Possibly he thinks industry
money is behind me since the
AFL-CIO is footing his campaign
bill,” Pugh continued, “But I don’t
know what he means.”
Moore’s campaign has coeduca
tion for A&M as one of its planks.
The Associated Press reported
Moore as saying he has the backing
of five members of the board of
directors in the coeducation ques
tion. .
He has refused to name the
board members, saying “It was
told to me in confidence, and I
won’t violate that confidence.”
Moore could not be reached yes
terday or last night for comment.
The Senior Class officers have
announced that for the first time
in the 86 year history of A&M a
senior class is conducting a de
velopment fund campaign prior to
leaving the campus, according to
class president John Waddell.
No actual money will be solicit
ed, however, each graduating
senior -vVill be asked to make a
committment to the 1962 Develop
ment Fund to be paid later on in
the year. .
Senior class officers will present
this plan to the class in a meet
ing to be held Wednesday at 5
p.m. in Guion Hall.
They said, “We certainly do not
expect to equal the older classes
in amount, but we expect to start
with a 75% giving record and go
up from there.”
This program is under the watch
ful eye of all other schools in the
southwest according to, Richard
(Buck) Weirus ’42, Director of the
Associations’ Development Fund,
who announced the plan at the
American Alumni Council District
IV Conference in San Antonio.
Such programs are not new in
Ivy League and many private col
leges but it will be the first time
for state-supported schools, or any
school in the ' southwest.
“The key to this tradition is
not the amount of money the
graduating seniors pledge to the
1962 Development Fund, but rather
the percentage of the graduating
seniors that will pledge some
thing,” said Waddell.
YD Club Debate
Is Postponed
Marion C. Pugh opposing Sen.
William T. Moore for the state
senate seat form this area, told
The Battalion last night that he
would not be able to appear at
the Tuesday meeting of the Brazos
County Young Democrats. “I read
in the Bryan paper that there
was going to be a debate, but I
told the YD’s last week that I had
prior committments.” Pugh said.
The Young Democrats had in
vited Pugh to debate with Moore
at their meeting. Moore could not
be contacted to confirm his ap
pearance before the group.
A 1940 graduate of A&M, Moore
said he opposed bills in the last leg
islature to create two more senior
colleges. He said he was working
for the 11th districts at A&M in
keeping these bills from reaching
the voting state and further “di
luting the Texas educational sys
tem.” This statement was made at
an American Legion political rally
in Bryan last Thursday.
Pugh, owner of a College Station
lumber company, is a 1941 grad
uate of A&M.
He described himself as a “pro
gressive conservative.”
I am opposed to wild spending
and am primarily interested in
sound honest government,” Pugh
said last night “But if a change is
for the good, then I’m for it.”
“So far Moore’s main charges
against me are that I have had
outside help in my campaign,” he
continued “but I haven’t. I wish
I could get some, I didn’t realize
that a fight like this could cost
so much.”
No amount is specified as this is
a voluntary gift which entitles the
donor to the “Texas Aggie” and a
copy of the new 1962 Directory of
Former Students. The amount is
also deductible for Federal Income
Tax purposes.
Dick Hervey ’42, Executive Se
cretary of the Association of Form
er Students, has stated that this is
the most significant milestone of
progress in the recent history of
the Association.
Frank Harvey ’41, President of
the Formen Students Association,
has extended his congratulations
and stated:
“It appears to me that the class
of 1962 will have a powerful im
pact on the entire Association,
perhaps more so than any class
since the fund was initiated in
1942.”
Also to be taken up at the
senior class meeting Wednesday,
will be a financial report by Char
lie Moore, a discussion of the Sen
ior Ring Dance and Banquet, a
discussion of the class history and
possibilities for a class gift, and
a report on the Former Students
Association.
Mechanical
For Weekend
New techniques in printing and
photography will be emphasized at
the 13th annual Mechanical Con
ference and Photo Workshop sche
duled here Friday and Saturday.
Publishers, editors, shop fore
men and printers from weekly and
daily papers throughout the state
will be on hand for the conference
sponsored by the Texas Press
A^sn. and the Department of Jour
nalism.
Wesley Calvert, assistant profes
sor of journalism and conference
director, said the Photo Workshop
will begin at 1 p.m. Friday in the
Memorial Student Center.
The printing mechanical session
gets underway at 8 a.m. Saturday.
Topics for discussion and demon
stration will include “markup” in
advertising and job printing, four-
color separation plates in hours
with a Klischoigraph, production
backshop efficiency, coldtype pro
duction, care and feeding of equip
ment.
Ross Volunteers
Leave Saturday
For Mardi Gras
The Ross Volunteers leave Sat
urday to again be the parade honor
guard for Rex, Lord of Misrule,
in the annual Mardi Gras celebra
tion in New Orleans.
Numbering 120, the group has
scheduled drill each day from 5-6
this week to prepare for the event.
They are traveling in private cars,
and will spend Saturday night in
the New Orleans YMCA. The rest
The first required formation will
be Monday at noon, when the New
Orleans A&M Club will be host to
the group for lunch at Arnolds.
Tuesday morning the group will
take their place for the seven-
mile Rex parade.
The'highlight of the trip comes
Tuesday night when the drill team
is the guest of Rex at a ball in
his honor in the Municipal Audi
torium. •
The Board of Directors of the
A&M System formally approved
Saturday several actions, some of
which involved the establishment of
the Texas Maritime Academy at
Galveston as the newest part of
A&M.
An appropriation of $119,740,
provided by the state as Senate
Bill No. 1 of the first called ses
sion of the 57th Legislature, for
major repairs and rehabilitation .of
buildings at Fort Crockett, Gal
veston, now held by A&M, were
approved. Included in this amount
is $21,300 appropriateed to the
Academy for general administra
tion and operation expenses.
A total of $15,433 was appropri
ated from the $45,000 Maritime
Academy Reserve account in
A&M’s operating budget for ex
penses prior to the opening of the
academy next fall. This amount in
cludes cost of wages, capital out
lays, supplies and expenses.
Chancellor M. T. Harrinton was
authorized to request the U. S.
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare to grant authority for
the use of property conveyed to
A&M for research purposes, for
activities of the academy.
Authority was given to hire
Capt. Bennett M. Dodson, USN
Fall Semester
A&M has established a dormi
tory room deposit of $20.00 to be
required of all students making
application and ruled that no de
posit be refunded after August 15
for the fall semester and January
15 for the spring semester.
This action was taken at the
System Board of Directors meeting
held today at College Station.
The board further ruled that the
$20,000 sum will be maintained as
a deposit against damage or break
age by the room occupant.
JPrior to this ruling, the room
reservation deposit had been only
$6.00, as compared to the following
charges assessed by other colleges:
Texas Technological College, $40.-
00; University of Texas, $20.00;
Texas College of Arts and Indus
tries, $20.00; Southwest Texas
State College, $20.00, and Rice Uni
versity, $50.00.
(ret) as superintendent of the
academy at $11,400 per year, ef
fective Feb. 5, 1962. Capt. Dod
son, 52, retired from the Navy
Feb. 1 after 25 years of service.
The fees established for Mari
time Academy students will be
generally higher than those for
A&M students. The tuition, books,
supplies, and activity fees are
about the same; however, the stu
dents at the academy, will have to
pay for their own uniforms, which
are estimated to run about $475
for the initial issue, plus the usual
upkeep costs.
The fees also include three sum
mer cruises, and transportation
fees to New York, where the cruis
es begin.
A federal grant of $550 for the
freshman year and $600 for the
other three years is being received
in other mai’itime academies in the
U. S., and the same is expected
for A&M’s. With this grant, the
student’s expenses will be $1,128 as
a freshman, $1,297 for the sopho
more year, $1,259 for the junior
year, and $1,044 for the senior
year.
The fees are based on a 12-
month school year, and averages
just less than $100 per month for
the four years.
In other action, the board re
ceived $35,000 for improvements
of the firemen’s training field,
$9,600 for the Nuclear Science
Center, $6,000 for improvement of
the electrical distribution system,
$4,000 for plans and expenses of
renovation of the fourth floor of
the Academic Building annd $125,-
000 for movable equipment in the
Plant Sciences Building.
A contract for livestock pens and
shelter at the School of Veterinary
Medicine was let to B-W Consti’uc-
tion Co. of Bryan for $45,579.
New title and additional respon
sibilities were given to System
comptroller William Clyde Freeman
Jr. He is now Vice Chancellor of
Fiscal Affairs and Comptroller for
the system, with a reported salary
of $18,000.
A native of Terrell, Freeman
graduated from Bi’yan High School
in 1936, and received his B.S.
degree from A&M in 1940.
Before joining the A&M System,
he worked for the Texas Employ
ment Commission and in the of
fice of state auditor.
He came to A&M in 1947 as
auditor of branch colleges for the
System. In 1948 has was made
assistant comptroller and in 1953
was made comptroller.
Wire Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
World News
DUBLIN, Ireland—The underground Irish Republican
Army dumped its arms and announced Monday night it has
quit its war of terror to unite Ireland.
The announcement said the Irish people had given the out
lawed army little support.
Since the army renewed a terror campaign five years
ago, skirmishes on the northern border, bombings and am
bushes had taken at least a score of lives.
* * *
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—Acting Secretary-General
U. Thant has invited U. S. astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. to
visit the United Nations Thursday to meet members of the
U. N. Outer Space Committee.
Informed quarters said the invitation was extended
through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
U. S. News
WASHINGTON -— In a speech broadcast around the
world, President Kennedy said Monday the United States
wanted its affairs presented fully beyond iron curtains and
stone walls—even when it hurts.
This nation is not afraid to reveal itself—its blemishes
as well as its good features, Kennedy told 40 officials and
employes at a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of
the first Voice of America Broadcast.
Texas News
DALLAS—An American history book used in Dallas
Public Schools came in for severe criticism Monday for giv
ing credit to the United Nations for defeating Germany,
Japan and Italy during World War II.
The book is “The Story of America Freedom,” By Edna
McGuire, a resident of Greencastle, Ind. It is published by
the Macmillan Co. of New York.
'At tAt
HOUSTON—The bright eyes of youth had a slightly
redish tint Monday in the livestock barn of the Sam Houston
Coliseum.
The hundreds qof youngsters spent Sunday night truck
ing their livestock from all parts of the state to the Houston
Fat Stock Show. Many got no sleep.
> “There’s no doubt about it, this will be one of the best
junior shows we’ve had,’.’ said John S. Kuykendall, livestock
manager for the show.
Receives Plaque
A&M’s Fish Drill Team commander Jack Schmid of San
Antonio received the third place plaque for his team in the
drill competition held at Laredo last Saturday. The Fish
were the only drill team made up of freshmen only.
Pugh Denies Role
Of ‘Empire Builder’
Room Deposits
Conference Set Increased For