The Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1962
Number 99
AGGIE CLUB HOST
Quarter Horse
Show Set Here
The third annual Aggie Rodeo
Club Quarter Horse Show will be
held Saturday on the A&M campus.
The show is approved by the
American Quarter Horse Associ
ation and the National Cutting
Horse Association and is super
vised by the Aggie Rodeo Club.
Ken Dorris of Fort Worth and
Willard Stuard of Aledo, co-chair
men, said the event will be held no
matter what type of weather pre
vails. In case of rain, an indoor
arena will be available.
They said free stalls will be pro
vided for exhibitors at the auction
barn and the shows grounds on a
first-come-first-serve basis.
Exhibitors are urged to make
their entries as soon as possible.
Show time is 9:30 a.m. All entries
should be mailed to Jerry Ann
Bowman, 2200 Lincoln, Fort Worth
6, Texas, phone MA 6-5270.
Dorris and Stuard said all en
tries must be registered with the
AQHA (permanent, tentative or
appendix), and NQHBA horses are
eligible. For halter classes, foals,
yearlings and 2-year-olds listed in
the appendix are eligible. Stallions
SCONA Group
Meets Sunday
A SCONA VIII general commit
tee meeting will be held this Sun
day to discuss this year’s Easter
finance drive, to be held April 13
through 24.
According to John Krebs, fi
nance chairman, the drive should
yield $12,000 of the proposed $18,-
660 Budget.
The meeting will be held from
2 to 4:30 p.m. in the Ballroom of
the Memorial Student Center.
Also at the meeting tentative
topics for the conference will be
announced by the program com
mittee.
Atomic Chemist
To Speak Here
A chemist who served with the
War Research Division of the fam
ed Manhattan Project during Wor
ld War II will be here Friday as
another in the series of graduate
lectures. He is Dr. Harold Kwart,
now an Associate Professor in the
Chemistry Department of the Uni
versity of Delaware.
The public is invited to hear
Kwart lecture on the topic of
“Some Aspects of the Nature and
Magnitude of Inductive Effects,”
Dean Wayne C. Hall of the Grad
uate School said in announcing
the lecture scheduled at 3 p. m.
Friday in Room 231 of the Chem
istry Building.
Kwart received his A.B. degree
from Brooklyn College in 1948.
He was with the Manhattan project
from 1941 to 1945 and was a teach
ing fellow at Harvard University
from 1947 to 1949.
The chemist was an assistant
professor at Byrn Mawr College
from 1949 to 1951, and then join
ed the University of Delaware
faculty.
Kwart’s field of research relates
to a study of the kinetics and
mechanisms of change reactions in
solution and other chemical re
actions. He is also a specialist in
spectroscopy in the near and far
infrared and the ultraviolet re
gion under vacuum.
and mares 3 years old or older
must have a registration number.
Geldings need appendix registra
tion only. Appendix registration
only is necessary for registered
performance classes.
Two years ago, the Aggie
Quarter Horse Show qualified as
Class A under AQHA classifica
tion, with 284 entries.
“At that time, it was extremely
unusual for a one-day show to
qualify as Class A, much less on
its first show,” Dorris and Stuard
said. They added that in 1961, the
show’s entries rose to 287.
This show was among the top
10 shows of Texas for 1961, ac
cording to AQHA totals, which
are based on number of entries in
the halter division, performance
division and overall total entries.
The show qualified in all three
categories.
Of the 695 AQHA-approved
shows held in the United States
in 1960, only 30 were Class A
events. Of those 30, eight were
held in Texas, and one of those
was the first annual Aggie Rodeo
Club Quarter Horse Show.
Dorris and Stuard said the show
this year will be judged by R. A.
(Jebb) Stuart Jr. of Fort Worth,
Texas, and Paulden, Arizona.
Walker Says
Red ‘Collusion’
Hindering U. S.
WASHINGTON (^P) — Edwin
A. Walker, far-right ex-general
told a Senate committee Wednes
day that both he and the Ameri
can way of life are victims of
dark forces in ‘collusion'with the
international Communist conspir
acy.”
From President Kennedy down,
Walker raked high officials and
even suggested that a onetime
ghost writer for former President
Dwight D. Eisenhower would bear
looking into. He didn’t name the
writer.
As for the state of the armed
forces, he said that with the na
tion’s survival at stake they are
“paralyzed by our national policy
of ‘no win’ and retreat from vic
tory.”
The big Senate caucus room
was crowded with spectators,
many of them Walker admirers,
as the former major general
came to defend himself against
charges that he tried to sway
votes of his troops in the 1960
elections, in violation of Army
regulations.
Walker now is seeking the Dem
ocratic nomination for the govern
orship of Texas.
Practical Training
Members of the CE 401 class went to Brenham on a field
trip where they were shown the coagulation procedure used
in the water treatment plant there. Water plant personnel
conducted the Aggies on the tour.
Delegates To Principia
Return After Accident
Lady Architect-
Historian Will
Speak Friday
A noted architectui’al historian
—Sibyl Moholy-Nagy of Pratt In
stitute, Brooklyn, N.Y.—will de
liver the next guest lecture on cur
rent issues in design here Friday.
“The Future of the Past in
American Architecture” is the
topic to be discussed at 8 p.m. in
the Memorial Student Center. The
guest lecturer is sponsored on
campus by the Division of Archi
tecture. The public is invited.
Mrs. Moholy-Nagy is professor
of architecture at Pratt Institutes
where she has taught theory of
architecture and history since
1951.
A native of Germany, her father
was Martin Pietzche, a pioneer
architect and leader of German
architectural associations. She
was married to Laszlo Moholy-
Nagy, painter, photographer, de
signer and educator, who was a
close association of Walter Gro
pius in formation of the German
Bauhaus. After living in Holland
and England from 1931 to 1937,
she and Moholy-Nagy were associ
ated with the Chicago Institute
of Design until his death in 1948.
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
. . . guest lecturer
Grant
Study
Received
Of Thin
A research grant of $23,341 has
been made to the Architectural
Research Group of the Texas En
gineering Experiment Station by
Educational Facilities Laborator
ies, Inc., New York.
The grant will support a study
of lightweight covering materials
for use with thin shelled archi
tectural shapes. These are formed
by the new technique of layinb
out their pattern with steel rein
forcing rods and mesh and spring-
To Continue
Shell Shapes
ing them into shape by applying architecture and developer of the
tension between opposite legs by
means of cables and a winch.
One structure already erected
here by this process is in Hensel
Park, where a cover of concrete
was made with lightweight ag
gregates.
The research will be conducted
under the general supervision of
Ben H. Evans, coordinator of arch
itectural research, with James H.
Marsh III, assistant professor of
Sperry Named ‘Roy Of Month’
In April By Exchange Club
The Bryan-College Station Ex
change Club has chosen Neil Sper
ry, a senior at A&M Consolidated
High School, for Boy-of-the-Month
for April. Sperry was chosen for
his accomplishments in the class
room, student government and
community leadership.
The Exchange Club will honor
Sperry on Monday at their lunch
eon where he will be presented a
certificate by W. R. Matthews,
Junior Engineers Conference
Registration To Begin Friday
Registration will begin at 4 p.m.
Friday for the third annual South
west Regional Conference of the
Junior Engineering Technical So
ciety (JETS) to be held Satm*-
day in the Memorial Student Cen
ter, J. G. McGuire, assistant dean
of engineering and chairman of
the Conference Committee, said to
day.
The conference is sponsored by
the School of Engineering.
According to McGuire, the an
nual meeting will entertain some
Senate Planning To Discuss Signs
Asking Students ‘Keep Off Grass’
Possible signs around campus
' warning students not to walk on
grass will be one of three main
topics of discussion at a regular
meeting of the Student Senate
Thursday night in Room 3-D of
the Memorial Student Center.
According to the Senate agenda
received by members Wednesday,
“don’t make a path” signs will be
discussed as a remedy to numerous
paths appearing in greenery around
campus. Prevalent are two large
paths in the area west of the
Academic Building.
Other items on the agenda in
clude a report on a meeting with
motel owners, reported last week
in The Battalion. Senators will
also discuss A&M’s relationship
with the World University Service.
100 high school junior and senior
students interested in engineering.
The conference will begin with
an address by Fred J. Benson, dean
of engineering. Following will be
talks by J. W. Martin of the Texas
Research and Electronics Corpora
tion, McGuire, and two past pres
idents of chapters of the Texas
Society of Professional Engineers,
Kelly Elliott and M. E. L. Mise-
gades.
McGuire said that awards will
be given for outstanding exhibits
and one scholarship will be pre
sented.
JETS is a pattern for high
school extra-curricular clubs to
stimulate interest among juniors
and seniors in engineering and sci
ence careers. It is a non-profit
corporation with a board of di
rectors composed of leaders from
industry, education and the arm
ed services.
Members of the Conference Com
mittee are McGuire, J. W. Amyx,
J. H. Caddess, J. S. Denison, B.
M. Gallaway, T. R. Jones, W. R.
Tatum and R. E. Wainerdi.
president of the club.
Sperry is president of the stu
dent body at A&M Consolidated,
and a member of the National
Honor Society. He led his coun
cil recently in a project to beauti
fy the school grounds by holding a
work day on the campus and clean
ing up the grounds.
He also helped push a project
to put a bridge across the creek,
and to put benches under the
trees to provide a pleasant setting
for those who bring their lunches
and eat out.
Sperry, who has a rather natural
talent for “ornamental horticul
ture,” plans to become a plant sci
entist after graduation from col
lege.
He is the son of Dr. and Mrs.
Omer E. Sperry, and lives at 1011
James Parkway in College Station.
Sperry is a professor in the De
partment of Range and Forestry.
Two Ags To Speak
At Dallas Forum
Two Aggies will be on the panel
of conservative speakers for the
first Youth Freedom Forum for
the Dallas area, scheduled April
28 in the Theater of the Dallas
Memorial Auditorium.
J. Douglas Cherry, senior me
chanical engineering student, is
scheduled to appear on a panel to
discuss the topic “Fallacies of
Communism and Socialism.”
James L. Taylor, a graduate
student in entomology, is slated
to speak to the group during the
afternoon. The meeting is designed
for Dallas area high school stu
dents.
lift-shape technique, as principal
investigator. He will be aided by
other members of the Architect
ural Research Group.
In the new reesarch a two-fold
problem faces the investigators:
to find one or more lightweight
materials for the covering and to
determine feasible methods for de
veloping necessary strengths in
the armature itself.
In a two-phase research pro
gram the Architectural Research
Group will first analyze several
plastic materials from the stand
point of structural characteristics,
application techniques, and eco
nomy. Actual physical tests will
be performed on materials and
material combinations whose pro
perties are not known.
Construction of some relatively
smal scale (10 feet in diameter),
inexpensive armatures is proposed
to aid in the testing of adhesive
characteristics of adjacent mater
ials as related to strength.
Doctoral Candidate
Awarded Grant
For Traffic Study
A $2,800 grant has been award
ed to Olin K. Dart Jr., doctoral
candidate in civil engineering, by
the Institute of Traffic Engineers,
Washington, D. C.
Engineering Dean Fred J. Ben
son said the grant was made
through the Institute’s Technical
Development and Research Fund
to support Dart’s studies in traffic
engineering.
Under auspices of the Texas
Transportation Institute here, Dart
is developing factual information
important in determining need for
left-turn lanes in traffic. His doc
toral dissertation for a Ph.D. in
civil engineering will cover de
velopment of factual warrants for
left- turn channelization.
After conducting field work in
heavily travelled intersections of
Waco, Fort Worth, Houston, Dal
las, Austin and San Antonio, Dart
will analyze his data and then
simulate traffic conditions through
the 709 computer in the Data Pro
cessing Centex’.
FFA Groups
Due Saturday
For Contests
About six hundred Futui’e Farm
ers accompanied by vocation agri
culture teachers from A-rea III of
southeast Texas will compete here
in their’ annual judging contests
on Saturday accox’ding to Lester
Buford of Houston, area super
visor of Vocatipnal Agx’icultux’e.
The contest^, conducted by the
School of Agriculture, are design
ed to let the , FFA members de
monstrate theih proficiency in six
separate areas ; of agriculture.
The livestock judging contest
will be conducted by the Depai’t-
ment of Aninial Husbandry and
will be headed by L. D. Wythe.
Fifty teams of three boys each
will compete in selecting beef cat
tle, sheep and swine.
Dr. Murray Brown of the Dairy
Science Department will be in
charge of the Daily Cattle Con
test. Fifty teams are expected to
compete.
Thirty teams will judge poultry
and eggs at the poultry center,
whei’e Dr. Cecil Ryan will be in
chax’ge. A similar number of meats
teaxns will be at work in the meats
laboratory of the Department of
Animal Husbandry under the di
rection of Di\ Gene King.
Few Injuries
From Mishap
Four of A&M’s five dele
gates to the 24th annual Pub
lic Affairs Conference at Prin
cipia College in Elsah, 111.,
have returned to campus after
a one-car accident en route to the
confex-ence at Axkadelphia, Ark.
Hurt in the accident wex-e David
Trasher, ’63, Paul Dresser, ’64, and
Jeff Wentworth, ’62. A fourth
passenger, Robert Hall, ’63, was
not hurt.
Trasher, who was pinned in the
wreckage of the 1955 Volkswagen
bus for approximately 30 minutes,
is still confined to the College
Hospital with a cut and swollen
foot.
Dresser, who suffered a back
injury, and Wentworth, whose left
ax-m was badly cut, have both been
released from medical care.
The accident occurred in down
town Ax-kadelphia, located approxi
mately halfway between Texar
kana and Memphis, Tenn., at 4:30
a.m. Tuesday.
Trasher was driving the vehicle,
owned by David Killough, ’65,
when it went out of control on a
sharp curve and slammed into a
utility pole. Wentworth, asleep in
the front seat, was thrown through
the fx’ont windshield. Hall and
Dresser, both asleep in the x’ear of
the bus, remained in the bus.
Investigating officers at the
scene said the Volkswagen was a
total loss.
The delegates, all representing
A&M’s Student Confei’ence on Na
tional Affairs at the Pxrincipia
meeting, left Ax-kadelphia by train
Tuesday at noon, arriving in Col
lege Station last night.
At the time of the accident, they
were detouring by way of Memphis,
Tenn., to pick up a fifth delegate
to the conference, Dale Mason, ’62.
They wex-e cax-rying Mason’s
clothes, therefore he also will not
attend the conference and is re-
tux-ning to College Station.
The delegates were due to arrive
at the conference site, near St.
Louis, Mo., eax-ly Wednesday for
registration at noon. The meeting,
based on the theme, “The Strategy
of Nuclear Politics: Disarma
ment,” will end Saturday.
Wire Wrap-Up
By The Associated Press
World News
MOSCOW—Pravda, the voice of the Communist party,
came out Wednesday for individual bonus payments and in
centives to workers to speed production.
It means scrapping the system of incentive payments
to work brigades and other groups. Bonuses for the individ
ual worker have not been general.
Incentive payments to groups have been made to en
courage team spirit and collective morale.
U. S. News
WASHINGTON—President Kennedy accepted an invita
tion Wednesday to visit Brazil some time this year, the White
House announced after he concluded two days of talks with
Brazilian President Joao Goulart.
Pierre Salinger, presidential press secretary who told
newsmen of Goulart’s invitation and Kennedy’s acceptance,
said he could be no more specific about the exact date of the
U. S. chief executive’s journey.
'A r ★
WASHINGTON—The Army has decided to eliminate
four National Guard and four Reserve infantry divisions in a
major revamping of Reserve-Guard manpower, it was learned
Wednesday.
Informed sources said the four National Guard divisions
to be reconstituted into independent brigades are: The 34th
of Iowa and Nebraska, the 35th of Kansas and Missouri, the
43rd of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont, and the 51st
of Florida and South Carolina.
The four Reserve divisions were identified as: The 79th
of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland; the 94th of Mas
sachusetts, the 96th of Arizona, Idaho, Washington, Utah and
Nevada; and the 103rd of Iowa, and Wisconsin.
Texas News
PECOS, Tex. — A federal grand jury showed signs
Wednesday that it may dig deeper into the Billie Sol Estes
mortgage cases than the Justice Department originally asked.
The jury, meeting in El Paso, called at least three men
not known to be connected with the one specific charge of
fraudulent mortage dealings filed by the FBI.
The charge was filed against Estes and three associates
last Thursday.