Volume 60
The Battalion
, COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1962 Number 93
Alpha Zeta Initiates
Dean Vern C. Freeman (center, front row)
honors four initiates to the A&M Chapter
of Alpha Zeta who were formally installed
in ceremonies Monday. Freeman, associate
dean of the Purdtie School of Agriculture,
spoke later at the annual convocation of
agricultural students. Pictured here are
(front row, left to right) Dr. Richard C.
Potts, assistant director of agricultural in
struction; Dr. John E. Hutchison, director
of the Agricultural Extension Service; Free
man ; William Harrison, ’62 from Alleyton;
and Melvin C. Young, ’62 from Lockhart.
On the back (left to right) are Dr. H. O.
Kunkel, professor of animal husbandry,
biochemistry and nutrition; Harry Ohlen-
dorf, ’62 from Lockhart; Dick Runge, ’62
from Christoval; and Dr. Donald L. Huss,
assistant professor in the Department of
Range and Forestry. (Photo by Ben Wolfe)
County Candidates Repeat
Coeducation At A&M Plea
Brazos County’s four candidates
for state political office all re
iterated their stand for coeduca
tion at A&M at a political rally
attended by 200 persons in, Edge
Saturday night.
State Senator W. T. (Bill)
Moore, Representative B. H. Dew
ey Jr., representative candidate
David G. Haines and Bryan insur-
Dr. George E. Potter
. .. buried here Monday
Dr. G. E. Potter
Services Held
Here Monday
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon for Dr. George Ed
win Potter, retired professor of
zoology, who died here early Sat
urday morning.
Dr. Richard H. Poss, pastor of
the Bryan First Baptist Church,
officiated at the service. Burial
followed in the College Station
City Cemetery.
Potter, considered one of the
most influential men in obtaining
premedical and predental programs
at A&M, retired this February be
cause of ill health.
At an appreciation dinner for
Potter in 1959, it was estimated
that approximately 500 physicians
and dentists had gone through the
program he organized here.
Potter came to A&M in 1939
after serving as professor of zoo
logy at Baylor from 1927 to 1939.
He was a member of countless or
ganizations, among them Who’s
Who in American Education, Who’s
Who in Texas, International Blue
Book and American Men of Sci
ence.
Born Nov. 18, 1898 in Kansas,
he was an active member of the
First Baptist Church in Bryan
and the Bryan and College Station
Knife and Fork Club.
Survivors are his wife, of 502
Kerry Street in College Station;
one son, Robert of College Station;
one daughter, Mrs. Errol D. Fry
of San Antonio; two sisters, Miss
Isabel Potter of Rock Mill, S.C.
and Mrs. Merlin Drake of Notoma,
Kan.; one brother, Theodore of
Milwaukee, Wis.; and five grand
children.
ancemean Joe Vincent, speaking
for senatorial aspirant Marion
Pugh, all repeated their desire
that A&M’s doors be opened to
women students.
Vincent told the gathering that
Pugh’s personal desire is coeduca
tion envoked only by the A&M
System Board of Directors.
“Mr. Pugh does not believe that
any one man or group of men in
Austin should make this decision,”
Vincent declared.
Pugh’s opponent Moore remind
ed the audience of his fight since
1953 to coeducate A&M. He add
ed that he will continue this fight,
even to the point of refusing to
confirm any Board of Directors
appointee who is not willing to
vote for coeducation.
Dewey and Haines, the two can
didates for the Brazos County seat
in the House of Representatives,
both added other issues to their
statements at the rally.
Haines, who repeated his stand
for coeducation at A&M, also
continued to endorse the polio in-
noculation program that has been
instituted by Bryan public schools.
He added further that he hopes
to work for a right-to-work-law
and restoration and repair of the
Washington State Park on the
Brazos River north of Brenham,
Tex.
Dewey strongly stated his op
position to legalized horse race
betting, an issue that will be placed
in a referendum on the May 5
democratic primary ballot.
The incumbent representative
also outlined his duties on the
various committees and the aid
these duties have given him in
having a working knowledge of
the state government.
Representatives of gubernatior-
TB Association
Members Will Go
To El Paso Meet
J. H. Sorrels and Mrs. Otis Mil
ler, members of the Brazos County
Tuberculosis Association, will go
to El Paso this week where they
will attend the annual meeting
of the Texas Tuberculosis Associ
ation.
Sorrels, who is a member of
the executive committee of the
local TB Association, and vice-
president of the Board of Direct
ors of the Texas TB Association,
will be up for election to the pres
idency of the Texas Board at the
meeting.
Mrs. Miller, executive director of
the local association, will be on the
program of the Christmas Seal
session Thursday and will serve
on the nominating committee for
the Texas Conference of Tubercul
osis Workers at their business ses
sion Friday.
The meeting, which will be held
at the Cortez Hotel in El Paso,
will open Thursday and close at
, noon the following Saturday.
ial candidates Will Wilson and Don
Yarborough, and lieutenant gover
nor hopeful Bob Baker also spoke
at the meeting.
A&M Visitors
From Austria
Praise School
Austria’s Minister of Defense
said here Friday that A&M’s mili
tary training is a good combina
tion with technology and the arts
and sciences.
The minister, Dr. Karl Schlein-
zer, said during a visit to campus
that military training and higher
education enable the graduates to
better serve their country both in
peace and war.
“I like the idea of the military
disciplines and technical training
together. It is an effective com
bination,” he said.
Schleinzer and five other high
Austrian government officials were
on a 15-day tour of U.S. military
and agricultural sites. He request
ed to visit an agricultural school
while in the country, and A&M was
selected.
The group visited the King
Ranch after leaving here Friday.
Their tour was made on invitation
of the U.S. Department of De
fense.
After inspecting A&M’s teaching
and research facilities, Schleinzer
said the students are fortunate to
get both the theoretical and prac
tical sides of education, which pre
pares them to “meet almost any
challenge.”
He said he was impressed with
the ‘tremendous” size of A&M’s
physical plant on the main cam
pus and the outlying farms, and
the abundance of equipment for
teaching and research.
“Students have opportunity to
specialize, and there are special
laboratories for special problems.
I can only congratulate you on
what you have here for the people
of Texas and the nation,” Schlein
zer said.
Other Austrians on the trip were
Otto Roesch, State Secretary of
Defense; Lt. Gen. Otto Seitz, cheif,
Training, Planning and Opera
tions; Maj. Gen. Otto Mitlacher,
chief, Supply and Maintenance;
Col. Bruno Rainer, Air Attache,
Embassy of Austria, Washington,
D. C.; Maj. Lothar Brosch-Fohra-
heim, special assistant and inter
preter.
Schleinzer is former chief of
the Bureau of Agriculture for the
Carinthian Government in Austria.
They were accompanied by Col.
Donald Thackray, U. S. Army
Attache, Vienna, Austria; Lt. Col.
Conrad Kreps, USAF Escort Of
ficer; and Capt. George Beve
ridge, Randolph Air Force Base.
The Austrians spent two days
touring A&M facilities. President
Earl Rudder was host at a dinner
for the group.
TMA Fund-Seeking
Begins This Friday
Interest High
In New School
With interest growing in A&M’s newest addition, the
Maritime Academy, Rep. Clark W. Thompson of Galveston
will begin the financing for it Friday as he asks the House
Appropriations Committee for funds.
Thompson, Capt. Rennet M. Dodson, head of the Maritime
Department, and Sherman Wetmore, a retired rear admiral
who has been an active backer of the academy for years,
will make up the committee which will appear.
The State Maritime Academy Act, heretofore left idle
by most states except those on the eastern and western sea
boards calls for the federal government to match funds from
the state up to $75,000 a year for operation of the school.
In addition,, the federal body
AT TTI MEETING
Ralph Yarborough
To Speak Friday
U. S. Senator Ralph Yarborough
has been announced as the lunch
eon speaker for the fourth annual
transportation conference here Fri
day.
Topic of Yarborough’s address
will be “The Government’s Role
in Transportation.” The speaker is
a member of the Senate interstate
may give a $600 per student
allowances for subsistence
uniforms and textbooks.
Rep. Thompson said in an
interview Sunday:
“The remarkable thing about it
is that less than one per cent (of
present schools’ enrollments) are
student from Texas. The obvious
factor here is that of distance.
Texas boys are discouraged from
going to the East or West for a
maritime education.
The number of inquiries receiv
ed from high school students in
Texas by Capt. Dodson also shows
considerable interest. Over 30 let
ters had been received in his of
fice last week requesting informa
tion.
The first session is slated to
start this June. The academy stu
dent’s first year will be spent on
the A&M campus, where they will
wear the typical Aggie uniform.
The last three years will be spent
in Galveston, where the cadets will
be issued a service and a dress
uniform of their own.
Dodson said there will be a con
tinual need for well-educated and
highly-trained officers to man the
new replacerpent ships in the Mer
chant Marihe. A $4.5 billion con
struction program to update ships
of the Merchant Marine is now
underway, with 52 other larger
and faster cargo ships now being
built.
About 12 licensed officers will in
struct the students on maritime
subjects at the academy. They will
serve as officers aboard the train
ing ship which will be operated
by cadets.
With successful completion of
the course of study, three training
cruises and passing the Coast
Guard license exam, a graduate
receives a BS degree in Marine
Transportation or in Marine Engi-
neei’ing.
Candidates Begin
Filing For Class
Officer Positions
Candidates for 1962-63 class of
ficer positions began filing appli
cations Tuesday for positions on
the ballot in the April 11 pri
mary election.
Positions open in the election
are president, vice president, social
secretary, secretary-treasurer, his
torian and student entertainment
manager of the senior class, and
president, vice president, social se
cretary and secretary-treasurer of
the junior and sophomore classes.
The runoff following the primary
election is scheduled April 17.
Applications may be obtained
at the cashier’s window in the low
er level of the Memorial Student
Center.
Qualifications are a 1.0 overall
grade point ratio for the pre-
ceeding semester or proceeding two
summer terms and retaining a 1.0
grade point ratio during the term
in office.
Five Youths Win
Livestock Honors
Five youngsters walked off
with grand champion ribbons after
the first day Tuesday of the sixth
annual Youth Livestock Show in
the Animal Husbandry Pavilion.
Over 200 4-H and FFA youths
participated in the full day of
livestock showing in the pavilion.
Proceedings will also continue all
day Tuesday.
Winners were:
Grand champion steer — Bob
Franke, A&M Consolidated 4-H
Club. The reserve champion steer
was shown by Dick Britten, Bryan
4-H Club.
Grand champion breeding beef
female — Bill Landiss, A&M Con
solidated 4-H Club. Reserve champ
ion — Tommy Cargill, Steep Hol
low 4-H Club.
Grand champion dairy female —
Sidney Coufal, Kurten 4-H Club.
Reserve champion — Bill Johnson,
Bryan 4-H Club.
Grand champion capon — Ricky
Carlton, A&M Consolidated FFA.
Reserve champion — Robert Carl
ton, A&M Consolidated 4-H Club.
Grand champion turkey — Roy
Novosad, Tabor 4-H Club. Re
serve champion — Sammie Novo
sad, Tabor 4-H Club.
Judges for the day were George
Gai’retson, beef division; Bill
Thomas, swine division; Roy Sny
der, lamb division; Dr. Murray,
dairy division; and Cecil Ryan
and Marshall Miller, poultry divi
sion.
On tap Tuesday night in the
pavilion is a 7:30 auction of live
stock. Bub Grubbs will be chair
man of the sale.
Show co-chairman Freddie A.
Wolters of the Bryan-College Sta-
/tion Chamber of Commerce, which
is sponsoring the show, said Mon
day the show was progressing be
yond expectations. He praised
Lloyd Joyce, chairman of the show,
and Harold Franke, arrangements
chairman, for their efforts.
Wire Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
World News
PARIS—President Charles de Gaulle urged France last
night to approve the Algerian peace accords and at the same
time starnly warned the terrorist secret army that it could
look forward only to punishment.
De Gaulle, in a nationally televised and broadcast speech,
called for support in the April 8 referendum, when French
men will vote approval or disapproval of last week’s peace
accords ending the 7 1 /2-year Algerian nationalist rebellion.
He cautioned that the alternatives are development or
chaos for Algeria.
U. S. News
NEW YORK—A state investigation, spurred by Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller, was launched Monday into the cham
pionship prize fight that left welterweight Benny (Kid)
Paret near death. It was his second fight within four months
and each ended with the Cuban-born boxer badly beaten.
The 25-year-old Paret, who lost his world welterweight
title to challenger Emile Griffith in Saturday’s national tele
vised fight at Madison Square Garden, has been in a coma
since he was carried from the ring on a stretcher.
Texas News
FORT WORTH—Several of the state’s leading land-
owners and horse breeders met here Monday, formed the
Texas Horse Breeders Association and endorsed ;the move
ment to bring legalized horse racing to Texas.
The association, headed by acting chairman Lester Good-
son of Houston, said it will lend assistance to propositions
no. 1 and 2 on the referendum ballot for May 5.
The referendum for horse racing will appear on both
the Republican and Democratic May 5 primary ballots. The
voters will have a chance to express whether or not they
want to return of parimutuel betting to Texas.
AUSTIN—The U. S. Supreme Court issued a ruling Mon
day which in the future could mean a major reshuffling of
representation in Texas’ Legislature.
The high court abandoned its traditional reluctance to
enter the area of states’ legislative apportionment and ruled
that city voters are entitled to hearings in federal courts in
their complaints about unfair representation in state legisla
tures.
and foreign commerce committee.
Executives and management per
sonnel from I’ail, truck, pipe-line
and inland-waterway companies
throughout the Southwest have
been invited to participate in the
conference dealing with national
problems in the industry.
Keynote speaker will be Dr.
George P. Baker of Harvard Uni
versity, who is president of the
Transportation Association of A-
merica. He will speak on “National
Transportation Problems.”
C. V. Wootan, TTI economist
and conference chairman, said more
than 150 delegates are expected
for the conference, which will open
at 9 a.m. Friday in the Memorial
Student Center.
The afternoon sessions will fea
ture two topics of interest to the
transportation industry — illegal
trucking and the Trinity Canal.
Maj. Gen. John P. Doyle, a re
tired Air Force officer who is a
member of Transportation Con
sultant, Inc., will discuss “The Ille
gal For-Hire Trucking Problem.”
He is author of the Doyle report
and executive director of the Com
mittee Against Unlawful Trans
portation.
Robert G. Cherry
. . . chancellor’s assistant
Economist
Fills New
System Post
Extension economist Robert G.
Cherry has been appointed assist
ant to the chancellor by Dr. M. T.
Harrington, chancellor of the A&M
System, effective May 1.
Cherry, who has been with the
college and later with the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service at
College Station since 1943, has
been on leave since last Sept. 1
doing graduate work at the decor
ate level at North Carolina State
College.
The appointive position is a new
ly created one.
Harrington said, “Cherry has
had extensive experience in mak
ing tax studies for the state, and
his background will be extremely
valuable in making* some of the
studies conducted by this office
as well as in handling varied ad
ministrative duties.”
Prior to coming to College Sta
tion, Cherry had been an educa
tional adviser with the U. S. Of
fice of Education, oil accountant
for the Gulf Oil Corp, and a
franchise tax auditor in the office
of the Seci*etary of State in Aus
tin.
He is a native of New Waverly,
47 and unmarried.