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Report Says Two SWC Referees To Be Ousted
A national sports magazine re
ported Monday that two South
west Conference basketball refe
rees will be banned from athletics
as a result of the current “fixing”
probe underway in the conference.
Sports Illustrated, on page 10
of its March 19 edition, report
ed:
“T w o Southwest Conference
basketball officials will be barred
from athletics even if author
ities now investigating fixing of
games by officials are unable to
get enough evidence to convict
them in court.”
The report comes right on the
heels of a statement made last
Thursday, in which a candidate
for state office said he knows of
two r'eferees taking part in game
“fixing.”
State Representative Tom James,
a candidate for attorney general
in May 5 democratic primary, de-
! dared that one referee received a
payoff of $2,500 from a gambler,
while another made a bet of $5,000
on a game in which he officiated.
James, in a taped interview with
WFAA-TV in Dallas, said that
small number of officials, two or
three, were involved in the in
vestigations. Asked to describe
the method in which the “fixes”
took place, James declared:
“The bookmakers approached
the referees to control the spread
of points, and in some cases the
games. The referees in turn would
reveive a fee, in one instance $2,-
500. In another instance, a referee
went outside the game and made
a bet in the direction he was going
to control the game.”
Immediately after national and
state authorities began an investi
gation, 21 SWC officials volunteer
ed to take polygraph examinations
at the Texas Department of Pub
lic Safety Office in Austin.
Results of the tests were mail
ed to each individual referee, and
turned over to the state and fed
eral authorities. They have not
been made public.
The investigation began when
a New York sportswriter claimed
that bookmakers would not accept
bets on Southwest Conference
games because of “hoop shenani
gans.”
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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1962
Number 89
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Bull Rider
Eddie Rosenberger of Nacogdoches seems to have second
thoughts as he rides his Brahma out of the chute to 4th
place in the Arlington State College Rodeo. The Aggie
Rodeo Team placed third in the show.
Vic Donnell Named
SC ON A Chairman
Vic Donnell, ’63 from Dallas,
Was officially named chairman for
the eighth annual Student Con-
| ference On National Affairs Sun
day afternoon at a general SCONA
meeting held in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
The new executive committee
was also announced. Appointed to
serve for the conference to be
held here next winter were:
Paul Dresser, vice chairman;
John Krebs, finance; Frank Towns
end, planning, Dave Thrasher,
secretariat; Carlos Vela, transport
ation; Van Phillips, secretary;
Raimundo Riojas, arrangements;
Joe Horn, program; Pete “Corky”
Forster, housing; Robert Hall, con-
Graff Emphasizes
Graduate Record
Exam’s Importance
In a recent letter to deans, di
rector and department heads, Dr.
W. F. Graff, dean of instruction,
urged that the importance of the
Graduate Record Examinations, to
be administered to all graduating
seniors Saturday, be stressed to
all students taking the examina
tions.
The letter said, “I cannot over
emphasize to you the need for
objectivity on the part of the stu
dents in this testing exercise. If
done in a lackadaisical half-heart
ed fashion, many erroneous infer
ences will be the outcome. No one,
student or faculty, wishes this to
be the case.”
Last night, Graff told The Bat
talion:
“I am very desirous of having
all graduating seniors take the ex
aminations. As far as actually
forcing seniors to take the exam,
this will not be done. They were
planned as a voluntary move, and
the college will be wasting a lot
of money if seniors fail to take
the exams,” said Dean Graff.
All students who do not take
the exam Saturday will be given
an other opportunity during the
first week in May, Graff said.
ference manager; and Ronnie Book
man, publicity.
The announcements were made
at a meeting designed to evaluate
SCONA VII, held December, and
provide a basis for improvements
and changes for SCONA VIII.
Krebs told the group that next
year’s SCONA budget had been
set at $18,660.
Doftnell also listed delegates
from the SCONA organization to
similar conferences at the Air
Force Academy, the Naval Aca
demy and Principia College at
Elsah, 111. near St. Louis, Mo.
To go to the Air Force Academy
Assembly from April 4-7 are Don
nell and Townsend.
Scheduled to attend the Princip
ia Public Affairs Conference also
April 4-7 will be Dresser, Dale
Mason, Hall and Thrasher.
Attending the Naval Academy
conference May 3-5 will be Krebs
and John Penrod.
‘Library Week’
Kicks Off Here
Miss Lou Russell, director of
placement and field relations at the
University of Houston, will speak
in Bryan Wednesday night as a
prelude to National Library Week,
upcoming during the week of April
8-14.
Miss Russell will outline steps
for the annual observance and
how individual libraries can make
the week a success.
She will speak to both librarians
and the general public at 7:30 in
the Flame Room of the Lone Star
Gas Company in Bryan.
As for National Library Week at
Cushing Memorial Library on cam
pus, Director Robert A. Houze
said late Monday that plans are
still being formulated for the ob
servance.
Displays and other items will be
coordinated for the observance, he
said. Also working on the campus
project are Mrs. Macon Capelle,
Engineers’ Library, and Mrs. Card-
well, Veterinary Medicine Library.
Coeds, No Corps Asked
Staff, Student Study
AFTER VOTING NO
Tech To Request
SWCSA Review
A proposal will be made at
the annual spring meeting of the
Southwest Conference Sportsman
ship Committee to reconsider the
ill-fated Southwest Conference
Student Association, Texas Tech’s
Student Association president has
reported.
The president, Carlyle Smith, in
a letter to SWCSA temporary
chairman Maurice Olian of the
University of Texas, said Tech will
make the proposal even though the
Tech Student Association last week
unanimously rejected the group’s
proposed constitution.
Tech’s vote temporarily ground
ed the association, which needed
six affirmative votes from SWC
member-schools to ratify its con
stitution. In adition to Tech, A&M
and Rice also rejected the con
stitution.
According to Smith, Tech will
ask for a meeting of the 1962-63
student body presidents to con
sider reforming the organization
with certain revisions. A desire
for these revisions was listed as
Tech’s reason for not ratifying
the constiution.
Smith outlined four complaints
that Tech will seek to have clari
fied in the proposed spring re
organization meeting. These are:
1. It is hard to find definite pro
positions and benefits expressed in
the document (constitution).
2. It would be a financial burd
en to send delegates to the Texas
Intercollegiate Student Associa
tion, Southwest Conference Sports
manship Committee and the South
west Conference Student Associa
tion.
3. There would also be a person
al burden on the delegates, since
the same people would be repre-
entatives for each group.
4. What would the future rela
tionship of this proposed associa
tion be in regard to Southwest
Conference Sportsmanship Com
mittee and TISA.
Wire Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
World News
ALGIERS—Europeans opposed to Algerian independence
angrily greeted the cease-fire ending the 7^ year nationalist
rebellion Monday with paralyzing general strikes in all major
cities. But for the moment, at least, Algeria was spared the
bloodbath many fear will come.
The cease-fire, signed Sunday by French and Algerian
nationalist negotiators, went into effect at noon. French
headquarters for Algeria reported later with a sigh of relief:
“All is well.”
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Argentina’s military hier
archy pressed President Arturo Frondizi Monday for drastic
action to bar Peronists from the offices they won in a land
slide election victory Sunday. Frondizi seemed to be yielding.
Informed sources said orders were issued for interven
tion in Buenos Aires Province and similar steps would be
taken in the nine other provinces where Peronists were due
to assume governorships May 1.
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Dewey Claims
Co-Ed Plank
Set In Platform
A fourth candidate for public of
fice in Brazos County in the May
5 democratic primary has advocat
ed coeducation for A&M as a plank
in his platform.
State Representative B. H. Dew
ey Jr., running for reelection a-
gainst David G. Haines, came out
for coeducation at A&M at a
political rally at the Reliance Com
munity Center Friday night.
Earlier Haines, State Senator
William T. Moore and his challeng
er, Marion Pugh, had all advocated
coeducation. Pugh added, how
ever, that he favors admitting girls
only “if the A&M Board of Di
rectors approves it.”
Even though advocating coeduc
ation, Dewey further emphasized
that his record — and not his stand
on coeducation — was his main
campaigning issue.
He suggested that a change at
A&M will be made only if recom
mended by the Century Council,
Texas Senate or State Legisla
ture.
“I do not think the Board of
Directors will make A&M coedu
cational unless the majority of the
board, administration, former stu
dents and voters of the state are
for the change,” he added.
The representative also criticized
the other candidates for making
coeducation an election issue. He
was particularly critical of his op
ponent, an advertising agent, when
he said the practice “sounds to me
like an advertising trick.”
Haines answered the charge with
another push for coeducation, plus
praising the compulsory polio in-
noculation program for students in
the Bryan public schools.
U. S. News
FT. POLK, La.—Maj. Gen. Harley B. West, commanding
general of this sprawling western Louisiana military reserva
tion, cracked down on disgruntled reservists Monday and told
them to stop protest meeting.
His order, contained in a letter read to all troops at
reveille, followed four meetings at which between 50 and
300 reservists and National Guardsmen talked, about organiz
ing a letter-writing campaign to Congress to find out when
they would be released.
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WASHINGTON—President Kennedy restricted U. S.
military rule over Okinawa Monday but decleared this nation
must continue to govern the Japanese-owned Ryukyu Islands
to deter Communist threats.
Texas News
BRYAN—Marvin Bauer took the stand in his own de
fense at his murder trial Monday and told of harassment and
threats from police officers in obtaining a confession.
Bauer is accused of killing his elderly aunts, Miss Lillie
Bauer, 71, and Miss Hattie Bauer, 64> on Christmas Day, 1960
to inherit their ranch home near Groveton.
The defendant was on the stand from 2 p. m. until 5:30
p. m. when the defense rested its case. The trial will resume
at 9 a. m. Tuesday and observers say it may go to the jury
Tuesday night.
Phipps Rites Held
Here Saturday
Funeral services were held Sat
urday for D. Bart Phipps, 48,
of the Engineering Extension Ser
vice, who died Thursday night
following a heart seizure while at
woi’k earlier in the day.
The services were conducted in
the Hillier Funeral Home chapel,
with burial following in the
Bryan city cemetery.
Phipps was coordinator for the
Texas State Joint Apprentice Com
mittee of the Plumbing and Pipe
Fitting Industry, and was active
in church and civic affairs. He was
a member of the First Methodist
Church in Bryan and was a volun
teer fireman with the College Fire
Department.
He was a graduate of A&M Con
solidated High School and attend
ed A&M. He served for three years
in the U. S. Navy during World
War II, then was employed by the
Department of Buildings and Utili
ties for five years before joining
the Engineering Extension Service
in 1950.
Survivors include his wife, Alice,
and son, Jimmie, 15, of Bryan;
his mother, Mrs. Amber Phipps,
Bryan; a sister, Mrs. Oleta Ses
sions, Wells; and a brother, Jack,
Austin.
Report Released
To Papers Early
By ROBBIE GODWIN
Battalion News Editor
A premature story stating that
a committee of faculty and staff
members and students recommend
ed abolition of the Corps of Ca
dets and compulsory military train
ing and the admission of women
has been released in several Texas
newspapers.
True as the stories may be,
many factors were left out, all of
which will contribute to the over
all progress of A&M in the fu
ture, said Lee Duewall, Director
of College Information.
When the Century Study was
first organized, two major groups
were set up. One hundred of Texas’
leading citizens were to make up
one group, and a faculty and staff
study was also called for, said
Duewall.
From these two reports, the
Board of Directors of the A&M
System will formulate its plan
of action, called a “Blueprint for
Progress,” based upon the recom
mendations of both groups, he
added.
The report submitted by the
committee to which the newspaper
reports refer was a gigantic 213-
page document setting out objec
tives and recommendations of the
faculty and staff, and of stu
dent groups. Out of the report,
the story picked up three of the
most controversial issues, high
lighted them, and chose to ignore
the other parts of the report,
Duewall said.
The report was compiled, pre
pared and finally submitted as a
confidential document, one which
the Board of Directors was to
take under advisement in making
its final decision.
Second Major Report Due
Another report, which is being
compiled now by the even larger
group, the actual Century Council,
also will make recommendations.
Their report will actually carry
more weight than the Aspirations
Study, and will constitute the re
sult of even more research and as
many opinions as did the first
report.
This report took longer to pre
pare, since its many phases were
handled by smaller groups who
have submitted their plans to the
committee now for a final com
pilation.
The total century study, inter
nal and external, is to culminate
at a major convocation in the fall,
when members of the Century
Council, the Association of Form
er Students and many other inter
ested groups will gather on campus
to receive the Board’s final deci
sion.
Several major newspaper pub
lishers on the Century Council, re
cognizing and appreciating the
need for proper handling of the
reports, have formed a committee
to foster the best interest of the
Century Council by presenting the
views and recommendations in
their proper perspective.
Account Quotes Report
The story quoted the section
of the report dealing with co
education and abolishing compul
sory corps as a summary:
“Two factors have long affect
ed the students who enter this col
lege; the tradition of required
military training, including com
pulsory membership in the Corps
of Cadets, and the all-male ad
missions policy. Each of these
factors is difficult to consider ob
jectively, without emotion or bias.”
The story went on to quote the
report as saying he committee
“strongly recommended that all
students be admitted to Texas
A&M College under the same aca
demic requirements with no con
sideration as to their sex.”
Also included was a portion of
the report in which the Committee
recommended:
(1) That military training be
voluntary for all students.
(2) That the Corps of Cadets
no longer exist as a residential
organization; and
(3) That an adult supervisor
reside in each residential unit.
In another quote, the story stat
ed the faculty “is overwhelmingly
in favor of coeducation. Their
training has led them to the philo
sophy of equal academic standards
and rights for all students, and
they believe the present negative
policy toward coeducation consti
tutes a major obstacle to academic
excellence and institutional sta
ture.”
Concerning military training,
the story quoted the report as say
ing:
“The continued emphasis on mili
tary training at Texas A&M Col
lege has resulted in this school’s
becoming strangely unique among
the land grant institutions: the
only school in this group design
ated a ‘military school’ by the
Department of Defense and the
only one to require a regimented
life for all students during their
first two years of college.
“Military life penetrates every
phase of campus activity, and un
fortunately this peer culture in
cludes many features considered
undesirable by this faculty. Thus,
the existence of the Corps is not
the heart of the matter; it is
the existence of this unit as a
residential organization, for many
problems of student life originate
in the dormitory.”
The report also pointed out
that under similar conditions and
academic class the civilian stu
dent makes higher marks than
does the Corps student. It said
the existence of the Corps has
served to divide the student body,
and although cadets number less
than one-half the total student
body at the present time, Corps
policies dominate student life.
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