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Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1962 Number 81 37 Professors Are Promoted For Next Fall A total of 37 members of the A&M faculty will receive promo- motions effective Sept. 1, accord ing to an announcement from Pres ident Earl Rudder’s office. Release of the names was made public today following recent con firmation by the A&M Board of Directors. School of Agriculture Agricultural Economics and So ciology: Donald S. Moore from assistant professor to associate professor; Howard S. Whitney, from assistant professor to associ ate professor. Agricultural Engineering: Ern est T. Smerdon, from associate professor to professor; Nat K. Person, from instructor to assist ant professor. Animal Husbandry: John T. Morrow, from instructor to as sistant professor. Dairy Science: Carl Vander- zant, from associate professor to professor; Murray A. Brown, from assistant professor to associate professor. Poultry Science: Cecil B. Ryan, assistant professor to associate professor. Soil and Crop Sciences: Hubert New Orleans Fetes RV’s At Festival By COLYAR McILHERAN Battalion Correspondent The Ross Volunteers were feted yesterday at Arnold’s by the New Orleans A&M Club as they began to get into the festivities of the Mardi Gras. RV Commander Tilmon J. Ree- tes was presented the key to the city and made an honorary citi zen of New Orleans by the local club’s president, John Cuthrell, ’29. After the dinner, the Aggies left to take in the sights of New Orleans, with their next formation at 9:30 a.m. today. After a night at Alvin-Callender Naval Air Station, the RV’s were up early today and downtown to Barrone and Felicity Streets where they formed just ahead of King Rex for the Rex Parade. People lined the streets all the way along the seven-mile parade, toute, literally thousands upon thousands, hoping to catch a piece of candy or a favor from the ever- generous float riders. Six hours of precision drills later, the tired but still smiling group in white began making prep arations for the ball tonight. They received applause all up and down the parade route with their intri cate rifle and marching maneuvers. Connally Schedules Local Area Visits Today, Tomorrow John Connally, former Secretary of the Navy now campaigning for the Texas governorship, will be in the Bryan-College Station area Tuesday and Wednesday. He is scheduled to visit the A&M campus at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning and will appear on the Town Talk program at KBTX-TV at 11:30 a.m. After having lunch with local Workers, Connally will be at his local campaign headquarters, 208 W. 26th Street at 1 p.m. He is expected to hold a press confer ence at 2:30 p.m. before leaving for Waco. Connally will be the principal speaker at the Hearne Chamber of Commerce banquet, set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, in the Hearne High School gymnasium. C. Mohr, from associate professor to professor - . School of Arts and Sciences Chemistry: Ralph D. Lee, frorp assistant professor to associate professor. English: Robert W. Barzak, from assistant professor to associ ate professor; Parks C. Hunter, from assistant professor to associ ate professor and Hugh J. Luke, fi-om instructor to assistant pro fessor. History and Government: Wil- bourn E. Benton, from associate professor to professor; Lloyd G. Taylor, from assistant professor to associate professor; Fred Gantt Jr., Martin T. Kyre and Haskell M. Monroe, all from instructor to assistant professor. Health and Physical Education: Henry H. Walton, from instructor to assistant professor. Mathematics: Orville L. Baugh and Norman W. Naugle, both from instructor to assistant professor. Oceanography and Meteorology: Kenneth Brundige and John D. Cochrane, both from assistant pro fessor to associate professor. School of Engineering Architecture: Ben H. Evans, from assistant professor to associ ate professor. Civil Engineering: Donald E. Cleveland, Teddy J. Hirsch, Ru dolf A. Jimenez, William R. Mc- Casland and Edmund P. Segner, all from assistant professor to as sociate professor. ' Electrical Engineering: Billie J. Ball, from assistant professor to associate professor; Jerrel B. Jones, from instructor to assist ant professor. Geology and Geophysics: Sulhi H. Yungul, from assistant profes sor to associate professor. Mechanical Engineering: John V. Perry, from assistant professor to associate professor; James M. Nash, from instructor to assistant professor. Nuclear Engineering: Roy A. Axford, from associate professor to professor. School of Veterinary Medicine Robert S. Titus and Mark F. Young, from instructor to assist ant professor. Student Jobs As Janitors Under Study The Student Life Committee of the Student Senate has begun a study of the possibility of stu dents holding positions as jani tors in dormitories and class rooms. According to College Station businessman J. E. Loupot the practice is not new but was formerly used here. The move now would offer employment to over 300 student seeking part- time jobs. A tentative plan calls for the replacement of current janitors with students on a trail basis. The present employees will not he dismissed, but replaced when they resign. Water, Sewer Operators Due To Meet Here A thousand water and sewage plant operators from municipali ties and industrial plants across Texas will convene here March 11-16 for the 44th annual renewal of one of the nation’s most unique educational ventures. The meeting is the Texas water and sewage works short school, or ganized during World War I to help water and waste disposal plant operators enhance their ef ficiency as public servants. As part of the State Health Department’s program of operator certification, the short school is conducted in the do-Jt-yourself tra dition. Operators use their own time and pay their own way to the course to qualify for official certification for competency. The instruction is ofered free, with the faculty supplied by the State Health Department, the En gineering Extension Service and the Texas Water and Sewage Works Association. All instruction is tailored to keep city and industrial plant person nel abreast of their field and to instill in them a sense of the pub lic health importance of their work. All states and several foreign countries are now conducting si milar courses along the lines first established in Texas. Wire Wrap-Up By The Associated Press World News LEIPZIG, East Germany—The Soviet Union signed a trade and aid agreement with East Germany Monday esti mated to be worth about $825 million, East German officials announced. The agreement covers Soviet-East German economic relations for the current year. It calls for the Kremlin to grant the financially shaky country a 1.3-billion mark credit, informants said, plus about two-billion marks worth of trade between the two nations. At the official rate for the mark in this country, the total’s about $825 million. ^ ^ Ac MOSCOW—Soviet Premier Khrushchev declared blunt ly, Moscow radio said Monday, that the Soviet Union needs more food for its 200 million people, especially meat. He reported complaints from some cities that there is little meat for sale in shops, as well as butter, the radio said. “The fact is that we simply do not have enough meat,” the radio said he told the opening secret session of the Com munist party Central Committee. U. S. News WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO President George Meany put a must tag Monday on a shorter work-week to curb unemploy ment, which he said has become the nation’s No. 1 domestic problem. He would reduce the hours without cutting pay. Meany said he did not know how much the regular 40- hour week should he shaved to share available jobs, but it should be reduced enough to assure employment to very American wanting work. Texas News SAN ANTONIO—The fall of the Alamo to Mexican forces under Mexican president Santa Anna 126 years ago Tuesday will be marked in colorful ceremonies in front of the famed shrine. Members of the 1st Battle Group of the 141st Infantry of the Texas National Guard’s 36th Infantry Division will participate in the observance sponsored by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. SWC Officials Take Lie Detector Tests > A lleged "Fixing 9 Probe Continues Southwest Conference basketball referees were reported at the Department of Public Safety office in Austin Monday to tell a polygraph lie detector if they are involved in the alleged “fixing” of SWC basketball officiating. According to Abb Curtis, supervisor of SWC officials, “All of them wanted to take the test. It will be up to the Department of Public Safety to give out any results.” Curtis also said he didn’t know exactly how many of ficials took the test, but “it’s nearly all of them.” The Department of Public Safety said it would turn the results over to Curtis and conference officials. A DPS spokes man said the department was in the position only of granting ^a request. Testing comes as a result of word last Friday that sev eral officials are suspected of “fixing” and accepting bribes. No players or coaches are thought to be involved. New York Post Sports Columnist Gene Roswell started the uproar with a column in which he said gambling bookmakers “are having headaches with the hoop shenani gans reportedly coming out of the Southwest Conference . . . the point spreads move like water and most books won’t carry their action.” The Dallas Morning News said Friday it has learned at least two game officials apparently are in volved in the investigation, with one game drawing the most atten tion. Both the Department of Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation disclosed later in the day Friday that they are looking into the reports. “The matter has been brought to our attention and is under investi gation as a matter of course,” said Col. Homer Garrison of the De partment of Public Safety. The FBI said it does not release information on possible investiga tions until charges are filed. In Dallas Friday, Howard Grubbs, executive secretary of the South west Conference, said he knew of no foundation for such reports. “As far as I know, the officials are just as good people and as honest as we can get. I have com plete confidence in them.” The Dallas Times-Herald said an unnamed out-of-town federal agent confirmed the investigation. The newspaper quoted him as say ing, “You understand we can’t com ment on this because we’re dealing with real pros.” The paper said the Department of Public Safety has been investi gating the reports for several weeks. It quoted one unnamed official investigative source as say ing, “It looks very bad.” Oliver Smith . , . offers summer job's YMCA Official Will Conduct Interviews Oliver Smith, regional student YMCA secretary, will conduct in terviews here Wednesday and Thursday for YMCA summer ser vice projects available to students. In addition to seeing students. Smith will meet with the YMCA Cabinet and Advisory Board and confer with college officials. He travels in Arkansas, Okla homa and Texas from his main of fices in Dallas. Smith, a native of Pennsylvania, began his public service career in Coatsville, Pa., in 1940. After a year in the service, he went to India and Burma in 1943 for the International Committee on a war emergency assignment. Smith, a 1939 graduate of Spr ingfield College, joined the South west area staff in 1957. He em phasizes student work and world service programs. |rg Sf! ~,v ; - ...v,:.:.;;. |H ' — ’ \ Jazz Trio Talent Show Bound Southwestern Oklahoma’s Lee Wilson Modern Jazz Trio will be one of ten acts at Friday’s Intercollegiate Talent Show in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Trio members are, from left, James Cole, Jerry Yates and Lee Wilson. Southwestern Oklahoma is located in Weatherford, Okla. TWO TESTS PER SENIOR Graduate Exams Set March 24 All seniors who plan to graduate in May will take the Graduate Re cord Examination Saturday, March 24, acording to the Office of the Dean of Instruction. Dean of Instruction Dr. Wil liam Graff said this is in accord ance with an earlier decision of the Executive Committee and will he a requirement of all graduating seniors. Three Gagers End Careers In Last Game Here Tonight Three Aggie cagers—C a r r o 11 Broussard, Ron Durbon and Tom my Smith—will don their familiar maroon and white uniforms for the last time tonight as the Bay lor Bears invade G. Rollie White Coliseum for a contest that will wind up the Southwest Conference race. Going into tonight’s battle Coach Bob Rogers’ Aggies have compiled a 14-9 season record and an 8-5 mark in SWC play. With a victory over the Bears, who are doomed for the SWC cel lar, the Aggies will end up in third place in the conference behind Texas Tech and SMU. Even though the Aggies have lost five games in the conference, they have the best defensive team as they have allowed only 63.4 points a game. A&M, is also tops in rebounds with 607> , for an aver age of 53 a game. Earlier in the season, the Aggies defeated the Bears in Waco, 54-52. Rogers will probably start Broussard, Smith, Durbon, Jerry Windham and Bennie Lenox in to night’s finale. Coach Shelby Metcalf’s Fish team wall end their season tonight before the varsity game. The Ag- Ad Group Attends Houston Ad Forum In Shamrock Hilton Fourteen members of the A&M chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma, the national professional advertising fraternity, attended the Houston Ad Forum and Southwest Regional Conference of Alpha Delta Sigma. Held in the Shamrock Hilton Hotel, the Ad Foi - um offered speak ers on “What’s New in Advertis ing” the theme of the forum. gie first-year men go against the Baylor Cubs with a 5-6 season record. In their first conference game, the Fish trounced the Cubs 65-44 in Waco. They have won four of their six SWC games bfter a dis paraging pre-conference season. In their last game, played two weeks ago in Houston, the Fish tromped the Rice Owlets, 77-51, six more points than they whipped the same team in G. Rollie White. Leading scorer for the Fish is guard Paul Timmons, who has scored 169 points and has a 15.4 per game average. He is followed in the scoring department by Jay Baker, who has 160 points and a 14.5 per game average. Big Tim Timmerman, the Fish center, has collected 109 of the Ag freshmen’s 528 rebounds. The Fish have scored 733 points this season to their opponents’ 721. They have a 66.6 per game av erage. The purpose of the institutional testing program is to evaluate the academic excellence of A&M. To do this, the Graduate Record Ex amination must be given to each senior class over a period of sever al years. Although the ordinary cost to the individual is $15, the cost will be born by the college for the test ing fee. Seniors will have the same services and privileges as partici pants in other types of Graduate Record Examination programs, and may request that their scores be forwarded to any prospective grad uate school that they so desire. Results will be available before the end of the spring semester. The examination will consist of an aptitude test and an achieve ment test. The aptitude test is further divided into verbal and mathematical aptitude while the achievement test is an advanced test in specific fields such as bio logy, chemistry or history. The places of testing will be the Chemistry Building and the Bio logical Sciences Building. The sche duled time will be from 8:30 - 12 noon, and 1:30 - 5:00 p.m. March 24. Alt seniors are asked to pick up their specific room and building assignments from their respective departments at any time between 8 a.m. March 20 and 5 p.m. March 23. Students may not be admitted after the examinations have begun at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, March 24. The aptitude test will be given in the morning and the advanced test in the afternoon. The Counseling and Testing Cen ter will be in charge of the ad ministration of the examination.