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.
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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
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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.
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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.