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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1962
Number 131
Appreciation Gift
larvey Caddess, left, a professor in the Department
f Mechanical Engineering-, receives a pen and pencil
et from George L. Royce on behalf of delegates to the
List-completed National Science Foundation sponsored
onference for teachers held here for the past nine
r eeks.
'en Aggies To Get
irmj Commissions
I tn Aggies attending- summer
-p at Ft. Sill, Okla., were com-
ioned second lieutenants in the
■ed States Army in the commis-
ing ceremony held in the Artil-
Bowl, there today.
i$ commissioning ceremony was
final goal reached after four
s of study in the basic and
.need courses of A&M’s Re-
e Officers’ Training Corps and
I completion of the six weeks
mer camp for 84 cadets from
miversities and colleges from
^ Fourth Army area.
p.ce the General Military Sci-
ROTC summer camp opened
! 23, the cadets have received
ling with individual and crew
|| ed weapons, in physical con-
iS oning exercises, organized
5tics, first aid, CBR Warfare,
bayonet, map reading, the
oass, communications, and in
II unit field problems pertain
ing to individual, squad, and pla
toon level tactics.
Field training was concluded last
week when all the cadets participa
ted in the Leadership Reaction
Course where the cadets were test
ed as combat patrol leaders. The
tests were designed to place the
the cadets in varied and complicat
ed situations where an accurate
decision had to be made immedi
ately and to test all basic combat
skills he learped during the train
ing.
Those receiving commissions
were Russell Adams of San An
tonio, Anton Stache Jr. of Clif
ton, Word B. Sherrill of Uvalde,
John Schmidt II of Galena Park,
Tommy Nickell of Odessa, George
E. Moore of Bryan, Jim Denison
of Pleasanton, Forrest Benthul of
Dallas, Boyd Branch of Fort
Worth and Darrel P. Baker of
Burnet.
■AF MEDAL WINNER
Wing Commander
Here Is Honored
Air Force ROTC Cadet Claude
Randol Jones, ’63, has been select
ed as one of nine outstanding sil
ver medal winners to be honored
A&M Asking
Budget Hike
A staggering 41 per cent in
crease from the Texas general
revenue funds is being asked by
the A&M System for operational
funds for the year 1963-64, and if
it is granted the additional amount
will mean almost eight million
more for the college complex.
Total amount sought is $25,-
294,042, as compared with the
$17,915,430 already granted for
this fiscal year. The proposed
budget was submitted by mem
bers of the A&M Board of Direc
tors and administrators at a meet
ing with state officials at College
Station.
Representing the state at the
annual meeting is the Legislative
Budget Board, Executive Budget
Office and the Texas Commission
on Higher Education. The re
quests are for A&M, Arlington
State, Prairie View A&M and
Tarleton State, all members of the
A&M complex.
A&M’s individual request for
funds represented an increase of
$2,296,632 from the general reve
nue fund for 1963-64. This in
crease would give A&M a total of
$8,200,777 from the state.
A forecast decrease in revenues
from “other sources” such as
grants, federal funds and interest
on time deposits was one of the
major i-easons in asking for the
large increase. A&M is expecting
a large increase in enrollment in
the coming years, another major
reason for the increased budget
request.
These projected “other revenue
sources” is expected to yield $2,-
006,732 in 1963-64, down from the
projected revenue for this fiscal
year.
ORE CONSTRUCTION PLANNED
Gal. (|
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New Dormitories Only Part
\Of A&M’s Future Planning
By T. S. HARROVER
lattlaion Managing Editor
ie A&M Board of Directors re
ly approved funds in the a-
nt of three million dollars for
construction of 500 new dor-
>ry rooms and the renovation
air-conditioning of dormitor-
14, 15, 16, and 17.
I je move came as part of the
ter plan for the development of
M A&M campus facilities. Ac-
1^^ ing to Dean of Students J. P.
J nigan, it is the first phase
multi-phased plan to expand
college plant as enrollment in-
ses. Target date for comple-
of this first phase is Septem-
1964.
wo four-story Corps dormi-
;s, with spacious lounges and
[^Conditioning are to be construct-
'parallel to, and immediately
h of Dormitory 14. These new
as will have rooms designed
ccomodate two students. Rest-
r.W'i ^ anc ^ shower units built be-
vtfjSm every other room so that
| Vvlie facilities are shared by only
| m students.
Jjnother new Corps dormitory is
ned for the area between Hen-
on Street and dormitories 15
| 16, parallelling the street,
et to be decided is whether
new corps dormitories will have
nal halls, such as the ones in
ent corps dormitories, or rooms
yjung to the outside with sur-
ding balconies at each of the
)per levels.
ie board is considering both de-
s in an effort to determine
:h will prove to be better adapt-
corps life.
ach of the two new dormitor
ies near Dorm 14 will have loung
es at their north ends, which face
Henderson St. A large lounge re
sembling the ones in the new
buildings will be added on to
Dormitory 14, and a covered walk
way will connect the three lounges.
Another new dormitory, for
civilian students, will be built adja
cent to Walton Hall, on what is
now a parking lot. It will be rec
tangular in shape with the same
room and bath arangement as the
new Corps dorms.
The new building will be con
structed near Walton, but not con
nected to it. The new dorm will,
in effect, close off the horseshoe
of Walton, forming a quadrangle
area between the buildings. It, too,
will be air-conditioned. Walton Hall
itself, however, is not included
in the first phase of new con
struction and air-conditioning.
The air-conditioning of existing
corps dormitories, built over 20
years ago, will require consider
able internal renovation.
It is planned to run the ducts a-
long the ceiling within the rooms,
just inside the halls. Each room
has a closet on either side of its
entrance which now occupy this
space.
Also, on one side of the rooms,
is a lavatory. This will be left
intact, in its original place, but
a permanent partition will be
built beside it, running across the
rooms.
In effect, this creates two rooms
out of one. A chest of drawers will
be built in beside the lavatory
where one closet was, and across
from this will be a walk-in closet
large enough to accomodate both
occupants.
The ceiling in this smaller room
will be from one to two feet lower
than it is now to allow space for
ducts. In the partition will be a
door, the second entrance to the
room. Plans are to build a set of
cabinets and desks wall to wall on
the same side of the room as the
lavatory. The bunk beds now in
use will be ultimately replaced by
twin beds.
As the college grows and the en
rollment increases, phases 2 and 3
will be put into effect, accord
ing to Hannigan.
Among other long range pi-o-
posals are the construction of six-
more Coi’ps dorms in the Duncan
Dining Hall area and the air con
ditioning of dorms existing there
now.
Also envisioned is the lengthen
ing and extension of the main drill
field, elimination of the Grove,
replacement of the Kyle Field base
ball stadium, and President Rud
der’s house.
A new and larger outdoor ampi-
theater is planned to replace the
Grove. Kyle Field Football stadium
may see an enlargement of its
existing upper deck and and event
ually, another upper deck may be
constructed on the opposite side.
A new baseball stadium is plan
ned for the area behind G. R.
White Coliseum.
All these additions and exten
sions are included in the college’s
master plan, executed by a local
architecture firm. Timing of these
changes will be based on increased
enrollment and the demands placed
on the college by the additional stu
dents.
by the Air Force Association dur
ing its annual convention in Las
Vegas in September.
Jones was selected by the Air
University faculty at Montgom
ery, Ala., as the outstanding mili
tary student from twenty-four col
leges and universities participat
ing in the Air Force Reserve Of
ficer Training Corps program.
The educational institutions are in
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Louisi
ana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and
Texas.
The selection provides an ex
pense paid trip to the Awards
Night program at which Jones
will be honored by civilian mem
bers of the aerospace industry and
ranking members of the U. S. Air
Force.
The convention will open on
Sept. 18, the fifteenth anniversary
of the creation of the Department
of the Air Force as a separate
seiwice. Scheduled as part of the
program is a spectacular USAF
Firepower Demonstration and the
Aerospace Panorama, largest de
fense exhibition in the nation.
Jones was selected upon the
basis of his outstanding leadership
performance in the Air Science
program, as well as his high per
sonal attributes and great futux-e
militai’y service potential.
He is a physics major and has
an academic standing in the upper
1 percent of the Class of 1963.
Jones has elected to enter pilot
training in the Air Fox-ce upon
graduation and commissioning as
a second lieutenant. He received
the Brazos Coxxnty Chapter Re
serve Officers Association Award
for being the outstanding junior
cadet who plans to enter flight
training.
He also has been honored at
A&M through membership in the
Ross Volunteer Company, Phi Eta
Sigma, freshman honor society;
and Sigma Pi Sigma, physics
honor society.
CLAUD R. JONES
. . . gets AF Award
MAJ. R. E. MILLER
. . . new local AF leader
Miller Named CO
Of AF Squadron
Maj. Ralph E. Miller, 19-year
veteran of the Air Force and Air
Force Reserve, has assumed com
mand of the 9412 Air Force Re-
sexwe Recovery Squadron at Eas-
terwood Airport.
A native of Moberly, Mo., Maj.
Miller first entered the service in
1942 and was deployed overseas in
the Pacific Theatre during World
War II.
In civilian life, Miller is a farm
foreman in the Depai’tment of
Agx-onomy at A&M. He is also
a member of the Southwest Foot
ball Official’s Association.
Rent Housing List
Needed For Fall
An expected enrollment in
crease next month will probably
create the need for additional
housing, the College Housing
Office announced today.
A survey of available living
quarters will begin Friday by
the Housing Office.
Housing officials at A&M
urged Bryan-College Station
property owners .to list their
rent property with the Housing
Office for the convenience of
all students registering this fall.
Hypnotist Polgar
Slates Appearance
In Grove Friday
Polgar, hypnotist and master
prankster, will make an appear
ance at A&M in the Grove Friday
night at 8:15. He is a master at
mind reading, hypnosis, and is
credited with having a photograph
ic memory.
On his last appearance at A&M,
Polgar was. given a car by a local
dealer. He drove the car, blind
folded, around campus, making the
correct turns at the correct time
from memory. He also hypnotized
Corps Staff while they ate dinner
in the mess hall with him.
Polgar, featured in Who’s Who
In Amei’ica, has appeared on the
Ax-thur Godfrey, Gax-y Moore, Mike
Wallace, Steve Allen, Jack Parr,
and Arlene Francis television px'o-
grams as guest star.
He has been featured in Life,
Look, The Saturday Evening Post,
Colliers, Coronet, The New Yorker,
Time, Pageant, Read, True, and
numerous scientific journals.
Polgar has written several
books, his latest being The Story
Of A Hypnotist. He has appeared
at colleges and universities, fund
raising functions, forums, town
hulls, women’s and men’s clubs,
parties, country clubs, sumnxer
theatres, and conventions.
“Polgar is first-class entex’tain-
ment; he is gi’eat!” said W. D.
(Pete) Hax'desty, Student Pro
grams Director. He has been
called the “unchallenged sovex-eign
in the mysterious kingdom of psy
chic phenomena.”
‘Roaring 20 V
Dance Theme
Plans ax - e now being made for
the last of the MSC Dance Com
mittee’s Monday night dances, ac-
cox'ding to Bill Hite, assistant pro
gram dix-ector.
The dance, to be held Aug. 13,
will have as its theme the “Roar
ing 20’s,” said Hite. The dance
committee chairman, Harold Taylor
said that the Ballroom will be
decollated to go along with the
theme.
“We plan to have simulated
bathtub gin, too,” said Hite.
“We’ll tx*y to scrape up an old
bathtub fx’om somewhere and bring
it to the dance.”
The ‘simulated bathtub gin’ will
be in the form of soft drinks,
though, and not the high px*oof
stuff. The tub will be used as
a container in which to ice down
the dxdnks.
Admission to the dance wall be
75( 1 for individuals, and $1.25 for
couples. It is scheduled to begin
at 8:30 p.m.
“This will be the summer’s last
and we w r ant to make it the best,”
he said. “Everyone who plans to
attend is encouraged to dress in
keeping with the theme of the
twenties. We’d like to see flap-
pex*s, chemises and that sort of
thing.
“The boys are encouraged to
dress as their favorite character
of the pexdod, too,” he added, citing
Elliot Ness, A1 Capone, John Dil-
linger, among othex-s.
“We’d prefer to have the boys
leave their machine guns and brass
knuckles at home, though,” Hite
added thoughtfully.
Top Mexican
Officials To
Study A&M
About 25 Mexican government
officials, educators and x’anchers
from the State of Coahuila will
visit A&M Aug. 9-11 to study the
organization of a typical land-
gi’ant school.
The visitors will take their find
ings back to Mexico and attempt
to adapt them to the Antonio Nar-
ro School of Agriculture, a branch
of the University of Coahuila at
Saltillo.
In the group will be Rual Ma-
dero, governor of Coahuila; Dr.
Lorenzo Martinez, state secretary
of agriculture; Jose de las Fuentes
R., rector of the university; and
Luis Horacio Salinas, director of
the agricultural school.
While at A&M, Madero and Sa
linas will conduct seminars in
which they will discuss successes
of land reform programs in Coa
huila.
The visitors will tour the col
lege’s teaching and research fa
cilities and hear talks by Presi
dent Eaxl Rudder; Di\ R. E. Pat
terson, dean of agriculture; Dr. R.
D. Lewis, director of the Texas
Agricultural Experixnent Station;
and Dr. G. M. Watkins, dix'ector of
agricultural instnxetion.
Land reform talks will be at
7:30 p.m. Aug. 9 by Gov. Madero
Lynch Named
To National
Water Group
S. A. Lynch, px’ofessor and head
of the Department of Geology and
Geophysics, has been reappointed
to the Engineers Joint Council’s
natioxxal water policy committee.
He will x-epresent the American
Institute of Mining, Metalluxgical
and Petroleum Engineers. The
AIME has a membership of some
37,000 members.
Lynch said the function of the
committee is to help the Px-esident
of the United States to establish
a natioxxal water policy by study
ing national legislation affecting
water resources and advising for
the united engineexdng gx’oup.
Other members of the panel are
Douglas L. Inman, Scripps Insti
tute of Oceanography; W. C.
Kx-umbein, Northwestern Univer
sity, and Norxnan E. Taxxey, Beach
and Erosion Board.
and ,at 7:30 p.xxx. Aug. 10 by Sa
linas. Both sessions will be in the
Memorial Student Center Assem
bly Room. Futrell said the public
is invited.
Fred Walker, state agriculture
leader with the Extension Sexw-
ice, will talk on range impi’oye-
ment work during the morning of
Aug. 11. The gx-oup will then re
turn to Mexico.
Futrell said A&M invited the
Mexicans to visit College Station.
A&M is currently conducting co
operative plant research activities
with the Antonio Nairo School of
Agriculture.
Bryan, College
To Distribute
Sabin Vaccine
Bryan and College Station will
join Dallas, Fold Worth, Houston
and numerous other cities with a
Sabin oral vaccine drive against
polio Aug. 12.
The local campaign comes on the
heels of unbelieveable successes in
many large Texas and United
States cities after a nation-wide
increase in polio cases this sum
mer.
Polio cases are almost five times
higher in many sectors of the
state, with at least one case re
ported locally.
The Sabin oral vaccine drives
are designed to stamp out polio in
three installments. The first used
in most places and planned for use
here will defend against Type 1
polio, which is paralytic and the
most sexdous. It is also the most
common x’epoxded in this summer’s
increase.
Dates for the second and third
drives here have not been an
nounced.
The Aug. 12 campaign is being
sponsored by nuiherous organiza
tions with assistance from' local
in embers of the American Medical
Association. The vaccine, taken
orally on sugar cubes, will be dis-
tidbuted at all elementary schools
in Bx-azos County.
A pre-registration drive is
planned by 14 civic clubs the nigbt
of Aug. 10 to sign up persons for
the drive. Those not registering
early will have to register at the
improvised clinics before they x-e-
ceive the vaccine.
Displays Thalidomide Pills
Dr. George James, acting New York City health com
missioner, displays pills containing thalidomide, a drug
blamed for birth deformities. New York reported what
may be the nation’s first infant death involving the
drug. Used as a tranquilizing agent, the drug comes
in pills, white and blue about the size of aspirin tablets
and in liquid form. It has been banned in the United
States. (UP) Wirephoto)