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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1962
Number 135
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RESULT OF LABOR DAY CARELESSNESS
... thirty Texans due to die this weekend
■30 DEATHS FORECAST
[ State-Wide Traffic Safety
Drive Ready For Weekend
Special to the Battalion
AUSTIN—Governor Price Dan
iel has announced the opening- of
the annual Statewide Labor Day
traffic safety campaign, and said
the official Texas Department of
Public Safety estimate of 30 traf
fic deaths during the three-day
llaboi- Day weekend “shows we
jnjust stage one of our most stren
uous campaigns to get the cooper-
pion of Texas motorists in driv
ing safely, legally and soberly.”
igThe governor said the “sum
mertime death record underlines
the urgency of the effort. When
Jime set a new all-time death rec
ord for that month in our state,
en the first three days of that
lonth took 54 lives in 35 fatal
crashes, when we hear about 20
plrsons being killed in three
Satashes in six days in West Texas,
it is tragically plain that we need
to step up every effort.”
|: Texas newspapers, radio and
stations, through the Texas
Press Association, Texas Daily
Newspaper Association and Texas
Association of Broadcasters, will
again assist the governor’s High
way Safety Commission, state
agencies and local traffic safety
councils throughout the state in
organizing the campaign.
Radio broadcasters have offi
cially adopted the “Drive Lighted
and Live” campaign as one of
their annual public service pro
grams. Radio stations through
out the state will invite all drivers
to drive with headlights burning
during the daytime as a signal
that they are driving safely and
legally.
In past campaigns, Texas mo
torists have responded so well to
this idea and practice that, in nu
merous metropolitan and other
traffic-crowded areas, there was
not a single serious crash nor a
ti-affic death.
“This is a simple suggestion,”
Daniel said, “that anyone can fol-
our Architecture
Appointments Made
[Appointment of four men to the
I) vision of Architecture has been
jbinounced by Theio Holleman, head
Ff the division.
, A native of Cuba, Guillermo Vi-
laud, will join the architecture
■culty as an assistant professor,
le is coming here from the North
larolina Highway Commission,
laleigh, N. C., where he also
Jiught at North Carolina State
Jollege.
jVidaud is a graduate of the Ha-
kna University School of Archi-
A&M Consolidated
Teacher Accepts
Navasota Position
J. D. Chaney, 37, formerly busi
ness manager at A&M Consoli
dated, has been named principal
f Navasota High School.
I Chaney, who has been at Con-
blidated since 1954, will assume
Jis new position when classes open
in Navasota Sept. 5. He plans to
pove his family during this week.
I The new Navasota principal
tolds two degrees from A&M—a
helors and masters in indus-
ial education. He studied this
mmer for his doctorate.
At Navasota, Chaney will deal
My vrith his principal duties.
ile at Consolidated he served
s business manager, directed the
intenance and janitorial force,
ndled the receiving and distri-
lution of textbooks, directed cen-
ras drives, headed the civil de-
l .fe program and served as pur
sing agent and transportation
Mmager,
tecture. From 1953 to 1959 he was
in private practice, specializing in
private homes and apartment
buildings. He was a professor of
architecture at Havana Univer
sity before coming to the United
States in 1961.
Weldon C. Steward, a native of
Pampa, Tex., is returning from
New York to join the architecture
faculty as an assistant professor.
A 1957 graduate of A&M, Stew
ard earned his Master of Archi
tecture degree at Columbia Uni
versity in 1961, concentrating in
architectural design and research.
He Is Resigning from the
firm of Perkins and Will in White
Plains, N.Y., to accept the appoint
ment.
The two instructors named to
the faculty are Steve M. Vaught
of Port Arthur and David G.
Woodcock of Manchester, England.
Vaught, who first earned a busi
ness administration degree here in
1952, returned after five years of
Air Force fighter-bomber pilot
duty to earn his Bachelor of Arch
itecture degree.
He has been associated with
architectural firms in Beaumont,
Bryan and Houston.
Woodcock is coming from the
firm of Howard & Seddon in Man
chester, England. A I960 archi
tecture graduate of the University
of Manchester, he also earned a
certificate there in urban and sub
urban planning.
He has previously been a design
critic and lecturer at the Univer
sity of Manchester, and has done
considerable research in architec
ture history and urban decay in
industrial areas.
low. In addition to reminding him
self to drive safely and legally, its
use reminds the other fellow, too.”
Texas Junior Chambers of Com
merce, as for the past three years,
will also take their Labor Day
safe-driving campaign out to the
highways and the motorists. Lar
ry Tate of Tyler, Jaycee state
safety chairman, has advised the
governor that the Jaycees “are
shooting for a new, all-time record
with our highway rest-stops and
distribution of safety literature to
motorists on the highways.”
Working through state execu
tive vice president Bill Davis at
Grand Prairie,' some 3,000 Jaycees
in 165 Texas clubs are planning to
devote 30,000 man-hours to the
Labor Day program, to man 150
rest-stops along the highways
where motorists can receive 60,000
free cups of coffee and soft drinks
and 300,000 pieces of safety litera
ture. They expect to erect 1,200
safety signs on private property
along the highways.
.Why all this effort? Tate told
Daniel: “Maybe we can save an
other 10 lives with our gentle re
minders and friendly approach.”
The Texas Council of Safety
Supervisors, composed of safety
directors of the Texas trucking
industry, will again put its “Holi
day Road Patrol” on various main-
traveled highways to help travel
ers in trouble. These units will
bear identifying signs, and will be
equipped with extra oil, gas, wa
ter and communications facilities.
They will do no law enforcement
work, but will report accidents if
necessary and aid stranded motor
ists.
Club Opens
Mem bersh ip
Drive Here
Brazos County’s A&M Club
has kicked off its 1962-63 mem
bership drive with a goal of 600
members from the 1,287 former
students in the county.
Membership committee chair
man P. L. (Pinky) Downs has
announced that $4 dues will be
collected any time between Sept.
1 and Aug. 31, 1963, for new
members.
Downs explained that most of
the funds will go to the Wallace
Kimbrough Memorial Scholar
ship Fund, which supplies schol
arships for three Brazos County
students.
Other membership committee
members are J. H. Quisenberry,
’31; B. H. Dewey Jr., ’38; Carl
Birdwell and Bob Boriskie. ’55.
Directors for the coming year
will be H. B. Adams, ’45; John
Box, ’42; and H. L. Cashion, ’53.
Opening Nears
Plans are fast nearing 1 completion for the 86th opening
of A&M’s doors Sept. 12 to new and returning students.
Freshmen will arrive in only two weeks and will begin
registration Sept. 13. This will be proceeded by two days of
orientation and instruction during ‘New Student Week.’
Returning students begin registering Sept. 14”, with
classes to begin the following Monday, Sept. 17.
Other prominent dates on the calendar for the first
semester include:
Sept. 22—Last day for enrolling, or adding new courses.
Sept. 26—Last day for dropping courses with no grade.
Nov. 12—Mid-semester grade reports due.
Nov. 22-25—Thanksgiving holidays.
Dec. 20—Beginning of Christmas recess.
Jan. 19—Commencement.
Jan. 21—Semester exams begin.
Jan. 26—Fall semester ends.
Prog
ram
Graduate
Enjoys Prosperity
Greater than expected enroll
ment marks the Doctor of Educa
tion in industrial education pro
gram at A&M. The program next
month enters its second full aca
demic year and is the only one of
its type in the Southwest. Fewer
than 12 colleges and universities
throughout the nation offer the
degree plan. ‘
“We already have as many stu
dents as we anticipated we would
have after four years,” Dr. Chris
H. Groneman, head of the depart
ment, said.
Fourteen full-time students are
expected in residence this fall, as
compared with four students a
year ago. Forty-two students have
registered for the degree program
and are carrying either less than
a full schedule or attended classes
during the summer sessions.
Principal purpose of the new
program is to develop college
teachers of industrial education.
The undergraduate program pre
pares industrial arts teachers for
high school shops, drafting and for
certain types of technical sales
and industrial production and
safety careers.
A&M has offered a master’s de
gree with a major in industrial
education since 1930. More than
200 graduates have completed
work on this degree, and the ma
jority serve in the field of edu
cation, Groneman said.
The new doctoral program
has attracted widespread atten
tion. Professional magazines have
helped boost enrollment.
State Seminar
Will Include
A&M, Texas
A&M, along with the Univer
sity of Texas, will have parts on
a program Sept. 8 in El Campo
to help community leaders of Tex
as’ smaller cities in industrial and
community development.
The occasion will be the “Pro
gram of Progress” seminars held
in conjunction with “Operation
Hometown,” the day Texas’ state
government moves to El Campo as
acting lieutenant governor Culp
Krueger notes his “governor for
a day” observance.
Representatives of the Schools
of Agriculture and Engineering at
A&M will talk on their specialties
at the seminars, with the Bureau
of Economic Research also partici
pating.
The university will be repre
sented by members of its School
of Architecture.
Four basic approaches to piob-
lems of smaller cities will be made
in the seminars, scheduled in El
Campo’s Floyd’s Theatre. Each
approach will be a seminar.
The first seminar topic will be
“Effect on Small Towns of the
Planning, Construction and Main
tenance of Major and Minor High
ways,” to be presented by the Tex
as Highway Department.
The department has received
120 inquiries from persons in 25
states and two foreign nations.
Already there is considerable
demand for graduates of this pro
gram, although it will be a year
before the first doctorate is con
ferred. Thirty colleges and uni
versities in as many states have
inquired about hiring a total of
47 gtdvanced students,
“One student was offered a po
sition beginning in September at
an out-of-state college, but said he
wanted to remain here to complete
his degree in August, 1963. The
student has been tentatively em
ployed by that college effective in
September, 1963,” Groneman said.
Additional interest stems from
the National Defense Education
Act which offers fellowships for
top students to study toward the
doctorate in various fields includ
ing industrial education. Three
men will begin studies here under
this program in September.
Land Grant Fete
Tickets Available
College officials Thursday urged
the immediate purchase of tickets
for the USDA-Land Grant College
Centennial Luncheon in Sbisa Hall
Sept. 6.
The ducats, costing $3 each, are
available in the offices of the pres
ident, associate director of the Ex
tension Service and deans.
Luncheon speakers include Dr.
W. E. Morgan, president of Colo
rado State, and Dr. T. C. Byerly
of Washington, D.C., administrator
of the Cooperative State Experi
ment Station Service.
70 Expected
For Workouts
Approximately 70 young huskies will greet new Aggie
Coach Hank Foldberg early Saturday morning as the curtain
rises on another football season.
Foldberg’s charges will open fall drills at 7 a. m. on the
Kyle Field practice field a scant three weeks away from a
date with the LSU Tigers in Baton Rouge, La.
The Aggies will also workout Saturday afternoon, and
will continue twice-a-day drills until the beginning of school
Monday, Sept. 17. They meet LSU the following Saturday.
The gridders have already arrived on campus and were
guests Wednesday night at a smorgasbord in the Memorial
Student Center. They will take physical examinations Fri
day afternoon and be ready
to hit the practice field early
Saturday.
Time for the afternoon
workout Saturday and later
ones has not been pet. Foldberg
will probably leave the decision up
to the team.
Indications are that most of the
Aggie efforts will be pointed to
ward polishing and readying what
Foldberg and the staff considers
the team’s top 44 players. Spring
drills were devoted primarily to
finding these players, with the
final polishing and preparation de
layed until fall.
Big senior Jerry Hopkins, the
center from Mart, probably has
the closing cinch that can be found
to a starting job. Foldberg and his
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assistants are high in praise for
the veteran, who has also received
high pre-season notice on mythical
squads.
Hopkins will lead a large group
of fellow-seniors, all experienced
from two years of considerable
playing action. These include full
back Sam Byer, halfback Lee Roy
Caffey, and linemen Jim Harper,
Jim Phillips, Bobby Hunington,
Pat Latham, Keith Huggins and
sevei’al others.
Expected to see considerable ac
tion in the backfield with Byer and
Caffey are quarterbacks John
Erickson, Jim Keller and Jimmy
Willenborg, halfbacks Jim Linn-
staedter, Ronnie Brice, George Har
gett, Travis Reagan, Budgie Ford
and Tommy Meeks, and fullback
Jerry Rogers.
In the line other top performers
will probably be Melvin Simmons,
Walter LaGrone, Ray Kubala,
Yancy Bounds and Bobby 'Evans.
Following the LSU opener the
Cadets will have only two inter
section opponents — Houston and
Florida — before plunging' into
conference play against the im
proved Texas Tech Red Raiders.
Home games will be against
Texas Tech, Texas Christian and
the University of Arkansas.
Headed To Venus
This is the Mariner 2 spacecraft that was hurled aloft from
Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a 109-day flight toward the planet
Venus. Initial stages of the flight have been termed
successful and the spacecraft is expected to pass within
10,000 miles of the mysterious planet. (AP Wirephoto)
Four Campus
Short Courses
Being Planned
Four campus short courses are
on the docket for September, the
short course office announced Wed
nesday.
Planned are the Water for Texas
Conference Sept. 6-7, the Com-
merical Florists Conference Sept.
10-11, Landscape Design Seminar
Sept. 24-25 and the Industrial De
velopment Conference Sept. 27-28.
The Water for Texas Conference
is sponsored by the A&M College
System, with 200 delegates expect
ed for meetings in the Memorial
Student Center. W. W. Meinke will
serve as chairman.
Thirty-five delegates are ex
pected for the Commercial Florists
meeting, sponsored by the florti-
eulture section of the Department
of Soil and Crop Sciences. Meetings
will be held in the MSC, with A. F.
DeWerth serving as chairman.
The Division of Architecture will
sponsor the Landscape Design Se
minar, with Robert F. White acting
as chairman. Seventy-five dele
gates are expected for the MSC
meetings.
James R. Bradley will chair the
Industrial Development Confer
ence, sponsored by the research
division of the Department of In
dustrial Economics. Two hundred
delegates are due, with meetings in
the MSC.
Registration for all four confer
ences will be conducted on the
first day in the MSC.
Orange Man
Given Award
By Firemen
Jack C. Methner of Orange has
been cited for his “excellent teach
ing service” by directors of the
A&M Firemen’s Training School.
Methner, a safety supervisor at
DuPont in Orange for 21 years,
has served for the last five years
as the industrial fire protection
chairman at the annual training
school for firemen.
The school, now 33 years old, is
a week-long session held each sum
mer, attracting more than 1,600
firemen from throughout the
United States, Mexico, and Canada
to the A&M campus.
Members of the training school
advisor board have px-esented
Methner with a certificate com
memorating his service to the
school.
Approximately 530 industrial
safety representatives have partic
ipated in the program since Meth
ner has been chairman of the In
dustrial Fire Protection Course.
H. D. Smith, chief of the school,
said practically all Texas towns
and cities receive key rate credit
for maintaining and supporting a
fire department.
“These communities may receive
up to five per cent credit for send
ing members of their department
to the training school,” he added.
“Instructors such as Methner
have contributed toward untold
amounts of savings for insurance
policy holders and property own
ers in Texas,” Smith said.