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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1962
Number 114
_\£gie Mother: Mrs. Lottie Neumann
MRS. DOTTIE NEUMANN
... Aggie Mother of the Year
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
Estes Case Set
In College Station
WASHINGTON — William P.
Mattox, vice chairman of the
Reeves County Agriculture Stabili
zation and Conservation Service
ASC Committee, has been sus
pended as an outgrowth of the
Billie Sol Estes case, authorities
announced Wednesday.
Mattox, a Pecos farmer, said
lie understood his suspension was
ordered by Washington Agricul
ture Department officials.
Mattox figured in the Estes
case because of testimony that
Estes once asked that Mattox be
appointed to the state ASC Com
mittee.
Mattox said he was turned down
by the office of Vice President
Lyndon Johnson for geographical
reasons. He said he did not ask
Estes to recommend him.
W. Lewis David, state execu
tive director of ASC, and his as
sistant, Jack Bradshaw, stressed
that the suspension was not an
ouster and was pending a hearing
on the ease. They said the state
committee ordered the suspension
and informed Washington authori
ties of its action.
David read a formal statement
from the ASC Committee saying
the suspension came after pub
lished reports that Mattox accept
ed an airplane trip and hotel ac
commodations in Washington from
Estes last January.
Mattox’ committee approved
transfers of cotton allotments to
Estes’ land from acreage put out
of farming by new lakes and the
like. Mattox said the approval
was given according to ASC rules
in such cases.
Mattox said the state ASC Com
mittee will hear 'the case May 22
in College Station.
The suits against Superior Man
ufacturing in Amarillo were
brought by Walter E. Heller and
Co. of Chicago and Pacific Fi
nance Co., Los Angeles.
Heller, a lending company, filed
32 suits asking more than $3.5
million, and Pacific Finance filed
19 asking nearly $2 million.
CIT Corp., New York, another
lending firm, asked $137,610 for
default in payments on equipment
against Gerron S. Wheeler of
Hereford.
Testimony has shown that Estes
and Superior persuaded farmers
to sign mortgages for fertilizer
tanks and agreed to lease the
tanks from the persons signing
the mortgages. The FBI claims
the tanks do not exist. The mort
gages were sold to numerous fi
nance companies.
Sacrificing Mother Will
Be Honored This Weekend
Each May the mother of an Aggie is selected to represent
and honor the mothers of all Aggies everywhere and to serve
as a symbol to the sacrifices which mothers down through
the years have made for their sons.
This annual commemoration has a special significance
for Donald B. Neumann. ’63, because this year his mother,
Mrs. Lottie Neumann, was chosen to be the Aggies Mother
of the Year.
The selection came as a result of a letter in which Neu
mann began by saying, “I feel that my mother is qualified
for the position as the Aggie Mother of the Year because of
her enduring unselfishness in rearing myself and my three
★ ★ ★
A&M Mothers
Clubs To Hold
Annual Meeting
Presidents of local clubs over
the state will meet with the Exec
utive Board of the Federation of
A&M Mothers Clubs Friday at 2
p.m. in the Birch Room of the
MSG.
Elected delegates frdm the local
clubs are also expected at the an
nual meeting of the federation
Saturday at 9:30 a.m. in the MSC
Ballroom. Coffee will be served
before the meeting to all delegates
and visiting mothers by the Bia-
zog County Mothers Club, begin
ning at 8:40 in Room 2-A.
Highlight of the program for
the meeting will be special music
by the Singing Cadets. Frank W.
R. Hubert, dean of the School of
Arts and Sciences, will be the
guest speaker.
The 1962-63 officers of the fed
eration will be elected and in
stalled.
The meeting will conclude 33
years of service to A&M students
and to the college by the federa
tion.
brothers. And even though we
often gave her cause to worry
she never failed in her under
standing and devotion to her
family.”
Mrs. Neumann, who attended
Sam Houston State Teachers Col
lege and taught school for eight
years before marrying B. A. Neu
mann, is now a housewife on a
farm near Chilton, Tex. In addi
tion to her dedication to her fam
ily, she has been prominent in the
activities of the community in
which they were brought up.
“Mother has taught Sunday
school for over 20 years and has
been very active as an adult 4-H
Club leader. At one time she was
elected Falls County 4-H Club
adult leader. Last year she was
named Area VIII Soil Conserva
tion Homemaker of the Year.”
Of her three sons, two of them
are Aggies. They include Thomas
W. Neumann, ’59, who is an Army
1st Lieutenant presently stationed
at Fort Hood, and Donald B. Neu
mann, ’63, who is now majoring
in education and psychology. Her
oldest son, Bernhard Neumann Jr.,
studied at Tarleton State College
for two years and is presently en
gaged in farming near his parents
farm.
Mrs. Neumann’s youngest son
was speaking on behalf of his
brothers when he wrote, “The rea
son I would, like for my mother
to receive this honor is that I want
in some way to repay her for her
continuous love and sacrifice to
we three sons.”
Two Aggies Chosen
For Undergraduate
Research Study
Russell J. Christie and Billy R.
Irish have been selected to par
ticipate in an undergraduate re
search program supported by a
National Science Foundation grant,
according to Dr. Richard J. Bal-
dauf.
Baldauf, associate professor of
the Department of Wildlife Man
agement, will direct the research
program to be held this summer.
Irish is a senior wildlife manage
ment student from Temple. Chris
tie is a junior pre-veterinary med
icine major from Tulsa, Okla.
NSF approved the research on
the basis of similar programs di
rected by Baldauf in the summers
of 1960 and 1961. Several manu
scripts on the results of the pre
vious programs are now being pub
lished.
The study will involve the prep
aration of tissue serial sections
and illustrated descriptions of the
cranial anatomy of frogs belong
ing to the family Leptodactylidae.
This family includes forms from
Africa, South America and Aus
tralia.
This summer’s project stems
from work carried on for the past
10 years by Baldauf and currently
supported by a $17,000 grant from
NSF.
Senate School
Elections Get
Many Filings
Filing for Student Senate School
Elections, to be held next Thurs
day, will close Thursday, at 5 p.m.,
according to W. D. (Pete) Hardes
ty, director of the Student Pro
grams Committee.
Representatives from the Class
es of 1963, ’64 and ’65 and five
election commission members from
each class will be elected to the
Student Senate.
As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, 15
from the Class of ’65 had filed to
represent their class on the elec
tion commission. Eight had filed
for Class of ’64 representatives on
the commission. Three had filed
for the position from the Class of
’63.
Four persons had filed for Class
of ’65 representative from the
School of Arts and Sciences. Only
one had filed to represent the
school from the Class of ’64, and
two had filed from the Class of
’64.
The School of Engineering had
four filings for Class of ’65 rep
resentative, two from the Class of
’64 and two from the Class of ’63.
The School of Agriculture had
one filing for Class of ’65 repre
sentative, and three for the Class
of ’63 representative.
One filing had been made from
the School of Veterinary Medicine
for Class of ’65 representative,
and two from the Class of ’64.
Four had filed from that school
for Class of ’63 representative.
48.2 Per Cent
Cast Poll Votes
By RONNIE BOOKMAN
Battalion Managing Editor
In informal balloting yesterday Aggies narrowly voted
to admit girls to A&M, change the school’s name to include
the word “university” and to make membership in the Corps
of Cadets noncompulsory.
Election commission chairman John Anthis said 3,435
students voted in the special poll. With 6,925 students of
ficially enrolled for the spring semester, this amounts to al
most 48.2 per cent.
Here is the breakdown on the individual questions:
1. Would you favor co-education at Texas A&M Yes—
1,748; No—1,599.
2. Would you recommend a name change for Texas A&M
eliminating “college” and add-"*
Wet Signbearer
Charles D. “Spike” Freeman, ’63 from Seagoville, wipes
some of the water from his face immediately after being
“drowned out” by four Corps freshmen for urging students
to vote in yesterday’s elections. The freshmen thoughtfully
dropped the towel he was using. Freeman was standing in
front of the Memorial Student Center when the sousing
occurred. (Photo by Bob Mitchell)
Army Plans ROTC
Program Revisions
The Army has submitted a plan
to the Department of Defense
which provides for significant
changes in its ROTC college pro
gram.
Essentially military schools and
colleges, such as A&M, will be
exempt from the enrollment re
striction, becaus of their partic
ular status and requirements, it
was annouqced, however.
The new program calls for a
two-year program, with a four-
week basic training summer' camp
session between the sophomore
and junior years of college and
eight-week advance training sum
mer camp between the junior and
senior years.
The present senior division
ROTC program requires a four-
year stint made up of a two-year
basic course, and an advanced
course for the final two years of
study, plus a six-week summer
camp held between the junior and
senior years.
Adoption of a two-year ROTC
program does not necessarily
mean elimination of all four-year
programs currently being followed,
it was announced, and those insti
tutions which desire to do so on
a required or elective basis, may
maintain their four-year course
with authorization from the Army.
Identical programs of instruc
tion will be followed in both the
two-year and four-year ROTC pro
grams, but most subjects now cov
ered in the first half of the four-
year program will be taught in the
Dean Aids Girl In
Search For ‘Tink 9
Dean of Students James P.
Hannigan has asked that a stu
dent whose nickname is “Tink”
come to his office and claim a
letter for him written by a girl
whom he probably met in Las
Vegas, Nev., last summer.
four-week basic training period in
the summer preceding the junior
year.
The revision is necessary, an
nounced the Army, due to a chang
ing pattern for higher education
and the anticipated increase in col
lege enrollment.
The Army has also announced
that enrollment in the MS 1 fresh
man ROTC program will be lim
ited to 84,500 for the 1962-63 aca
demic year. MS 1 enrollment for
196D62 was 98,869, and, the Army
anticipates about 106,000 applica
tions this fall. Accordingly, some
restrictive measures will be taken
to keep within the imposed limit.
inj» “university”? Yes—1,943;
No—1,395.
3. Would you favor main-
I taining the present compul-
sory two years of ROTC? Yes—
' • 1,444; No—1,892.
A more detailed analysis re-
leased by President Earl Rudder
showed that on the co-education
question 699 corps students and
1,049 civilian students voted yes,
while 1,290 corps students and 309
civilian students voted no.
On the name change issue 925
corps students and 1,018 civilian
students voted yes, with 1,062
corps and 333 civilian students
voting- no.
For retaining the compulsory
two years of ROTC, 1,133 corps
students and 311 civilian students
voted yes and 861 corps students
and 1,031 civilian students voted
no.
The c o 11 e g e administration
called for the informal poll on the
three questions May 2. Anthis
said the questions were worded
exactly as they had been received
from college officials.
Many students had voiced com
plaints concerning the wording of
the third question on compulsory
ROTC.
Tempers flared occasionally dur
ing the day of voting-, especially
between civilian students and
members of the corps who seemed
more-or-Iess aligned on different
sides of the issues.
Charles D. “Spike” Freeman,
’63 from Seagoville, a civilian
physics-English major was an ac
tive campaigner for civilian stu
dents to get out and vote.. He was
“drowned out” by four corps
freshmen who threw two waste
baskets of water on him.
Dressed in a suit with tie, the
drenched Freeman wore a sign
saying “Vote Today, For or
Against Questions, 1. Co-ed, 2.
Name Change, 3. Non-compulsory
corps.”
Another incident was reported
Deadline Friday
In Photo Contest
The deadline for The Texas
•A&M Review annual photography
contest is rapidly approaching, ac
cording to Thomas Nickell, editor
of the Review. Entries should be
submitted before 5 p.m., Friday.
A prize of $10 will be awarded
to the winner of each category
and winning photographs will be
published in the summer issue of
the Review.
The categories of the contest
are scenery, portraits, action, and
human interest and design. The
human interest and design cate
gory will include picture stories
and photographic effects.
In addition to the four categori
cal awards, a sweepstake award of
$10 will be given the photographer
wh'ose overall efforts indicate him
to be versatile, imaginative and
capable.
Print size is limited to only 8
by lO inches. Entries should be
submitted to the Office of Stu
dent Publications in the basement
of the YMCA Building, and any
one who holds a current student
identification card is eligible.
(See VOTING On Page 4)
Patrick Greene
Is Disqualified
By Commission
Newly elected Student Senate
vice president Patrick R. Greene
was disqualified on one violation
of election procedures in a called
meeting of the election commis
sion Wednesday night.
The commission, after an hour’s
deliberation, voted 12 to 11 to dis
qualify Greene on a charge of put
ting campaign posters in class
room buildings.
Action by the election commis
sion is not final, and will have to
be approved in a called meeting
of the Student Senate. Election
commission president Johnny An
this said after the meeting that
arrangements have not been made
for the called Senate meeting.
Senators ah-eady have planned
their animal budget next Tuesday
night, and will hold their last
meeting of the school year May
24. At the last meeting, the offi
cers elected in May 4’s general
election will take office.
Greene was cleared of a second
violation charge in Wednesday’s
meeting of the election commis
sion. The group voted 18 to 5 not
to disqualify him on a charge of
leaving his campaign up for over
one day after the election.
According to Anthis, if the Stu
dent Senate upholds the election
commission disqualification, the
second high man in the May 4 vot
ing will automatically become the
new Senate vice president.
Finishing second to Greene in
the general election was Gregory
H. Laughlin, who received 310
votes to Greene’s 350. Others in
the race were Louis W. Zaeske,
Shelburne J. Veselka and Byrom
T. Wehner.
SSII
Surprise Party
Mrs. Earl Rudder beams as the college president cuts his
birthday cake. Some 75 friends of President and Mrs. Rud
der surprised them with a party Wednesday morning at
the MSC. The occasion was the president’s 52nd birthday
and the Rudders’ 25th wedding anniversary. They were
presented with a set of Wedgewood dinner plates depicting
campus buildings. P. L. (Pinkie) Downs Jr., ’06, college
greeter, was master of ceremonies. (College Information
Photo)