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Piled I mer. 1 led the ,(| points (t; tfte .ij . Ackley !S H. El 'ardV.H , Rohett Segura j he last | vard, a each fall d rider i lags, 9 A&M Tangles With Tigers Saturday Che Battalion Seasons Is Early First Sellout Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1962 Number 2 senate Seeks inal Exam Exemptions By DAN LOUIS JR. A recommendation that all students with 95 or above rade averages be exempted from final exams was presented jo the first regular meeting of the Student Senate Thursday ight. Sheldon Best, student body pres ident, asked his vice president, Gregory Laughlin, to take the chair so he could address the group. “In view of much talked about efforts for academic excellence I wish to present an item to the Student Senate for consideration,” he said. “I BELIEVE,” he continued, “that we should ask the student life committee to look into the possibility of having all students with a 95 or above grade average in a course be exempted from tak ing the final examination in that course.” A brief discussion, a motion and the committee was charged with making the study. Best explained that it was hoped that while the 95 average might be difficult to meet, be feels such a policy would create initiative to help move the school toward “academic excellence.” IN OTHER business Best told the senate that a budget bad been prepared asking for $1,700 during the year and was ready for senate approval so that it could be sub mitted for final approval. However, before the budget was approved, Joel Terrill moved that Best be asked to submit an esti mate of expenses which would be incurred by him as president of the student b<5dy and that this sum be added to the budget re quest. The motion was approved by the senate. The traffic committee was giv- the job of studying, ways to make the Aggie community more aware of the need for traffic safe ty. A large number of traffic deaths among Aggies prompted the action. Ways to strengthen and stress the need for a more active reli gious life on the campus are to be sought by the student life com mittee. The committee was in- srtucted to consult local religious leadei's for ideas. The balance of the first senate meeting was taken up with the normal process to appointing com mittees and hearing reports from established committees. i&M Hospital | C ^ysician Dies " lere Thursday ■ Dr. Borden M. McGee, a well Known physician and a member of fepe A&M Hospital staff, died ear ly Thursday. IA member of the staff since It)59, Dr. McGee came here after K years of private practice in ■osenberg. ■ He was 'active member of the ■razos County, state and Ameri- jan Medical organizations. An engineering graduate of the Jlniversity of Arkansas, Dr. Me lee received his medical degree |rom the University of Chicago [fter pre-medical study at Baylor jlniversity. Born July 21, 1900, he served |i the U. S. Navy from 1917 to |920. Survivors include his wife and ree brothers. Funeral services will be held at ■0 a.m. Saturday in Calloway- ■ones Funei’al Home chapel with Jh\ Richard Boss, First Baptist -hurch pastor’, officiating. Graveside services will be at 3 •m. Saturday at Mount Olivet Jemetery in Fort Worth. >€ ■ i .Polity - I A dr A . E Iyaa t/V • :Y\ SSIy ■t'l At i.. ■ SIS r-'J. I jblp 1 V.£' : rr ; LJ ,,vA The First Animal For Foldberg’s Cage? IN INTEGRATION ACTION Contempt Citations Sought Against Ole Miss Officials WASHINGTON CP)—The Jus tice Department announced Thursday night it would ask immediately for contempt of court citations against three University of Mississippi offi cials for failing to enroll James H. Meredith as the first Negro student in the all-white institu tion. They were identified as Chan cellor John Davis Williams, Dean Arthur B. Lewis and regis trar Robert Byron Ellis. The department indicated It had decided to ignore the ac tions of Gov. Ross R. Barnett, who a short time earlier had announced he had assumed en rollment powers at the univer sity. ★ ★★ OXFORD, Miss. OP)—Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi defied or ders of federal courts Thursday and refused to admit James H. Meredith, a Negro, as a student Wire Review L S. Confirms ussian Ships ending In Cuba WASHINGTON <AP> — U.S. of- icals reported Thursday that be- r'veen 65 and 75 Soviet ships have Hived at Cuban ports since late uly with cargoes including mili- "ry equipment and personnel. The figures indicate an increase n the rate of Soviet deliveries ^ Cuba. The total number of Soviet mili ary personnel in Cuba is now put at 4,200. And authorities here re- orted establishment of 12 short- range surface-to-air missle sites in western Cuba, many on the northern coast opposite the United States. Officials first said that the 65 75 Soviet ships all carried military equipment and personnel, but a few hours later told newsmen that possibly half the ships were carrying general cargoes, including food and industrial equipment. WORLD NEWS BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A rebel tank column rumbling to ward Buenos Aires clashed with government artillery forces Thurs day near La Plata in the first bloodshed of Argentina’s newest crisis. The loyal military command in Buenos Aires said three rebel tanks were destroyed in the ar tillery bombardment of about 50 Sherman tanks in a suburb of La Plata, about 50 road miles from here. AcAcfc UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. — Adlai E. Stevenson demanded Thursday that the General As sembly act to compel members to share all costs and keep the United Nations from acting like “a beggar in the street.” The chief U.S. delegate made the request in a major policy speech in which a reference to Cuba touched off a fiery re sponse from its U.N. representa tive. U. S. NEWS WASHINGTON — Ignoring an 11th hour plea from President Kennedy, a rebellious House a foreign- whopping passed Thursday night aid funds bill slashed a $1.4 billion below White House re quests. The roll-call vote was 249-144 to trim funds to $5.9 billion, against the President’s request for $7.3 billion. Voting for the bill were 174 Democrats and 75 Republicans. Voting against were 61 Democrats and 83 Republicans. TEXAS NEWS AUSTIN — The Texas Rail road Commission virtually as sured Thursday that 1962 will be the state’s most restricted oil production year in 30 years by ordering an eight-day pattern for October. The commission’s retention for the ninth consecutive month of the record-low eight-day sched ule was asked by all but three of the state’s 12 major produc ers and purchasers. ★★★ EL PASO — Three associates of Billie Sol Estes were sentenced to federal prison terms Thursday for mail fraud and conspiracy in connection with Estes’ widespread operations. t the University of Mississippi. The Mississippi governor made his defiant decision in a face-to- face meeting of 23 minutes with Me-redith, who hopes to be the first person of his race to enroll in Ole Miss .in the school’s 114- year history. HE SAID “no” despite a federal court edict that Meredith must be admitted and in the face of a con voy of four men believed to be U.S. marshals. Gov. Barnett courted a con tempt citation fro m a federal court by the action, taken upon authority given him by the Mis sissippi College Board a few hours ago. A week ago the governor told Mississippi in an impassioned speech that he would go to jail rather than integrate a Mississippi school and more than hinted that he would close schools before so doing. THE DRAMATIC meeting of Barnett and Meredith, 29, took place behind the guarded doors of Alumni House on the Ole Miss Eight A&M Faculty Members Selected For NSF Program Eight A&M faculty members have been selected to participate in the Visiting Science Program of the Texas Academy of Science. Under the Texas academy pro gram, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the eight men will visit junior and senior high schools throughout the state, lec turing to classes in general, bio logical, chemical and physical sci- They also will discuss careers in science and engineering. A total of 120 Texas college teachers are participating in the program. Participants from A&M are Dr Richard J. Baldauf, zoology; Dr. C. C. Doak, biology; Jack T. Kent and Dr. William S. McCulley, math ematics; Dr. J. F. Fudge, soil chem istry; Coleman M. Loyd, physics; Dr. Donald W. Hood, oceanogra phy; and Dr. Dale F. Leipper, oceanography and meteorology. campus a few minutes after the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Hattiesburg, Miss., overthrew a new state law that would have barred from the school the Kosci usko, Miss., Negro. When Barnett took his action the court had ordered all Missis sippi officials: 1. Not to interfere with Mere dith’s admission to Ole Miss un der previous court orders; 2. Not to try to arrest Meredith under his conviction on voter reg istration fraud charges; 3. NOT TO put into effect an order by Jones County, Miss., Chancery Court which would Bar Meredith from the state univer sity. About the same time, Barnett held a telephone conversation with Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy in Washington. While the conversa tion remained courteous, a Justice Department spokesman said, nei ther man retreated. Kickoff time will be 8 p. m. Saturday when a new era of football begins for the Aggies and LSU’s Tigers in Baton Rouge, La. Seating in Tiger Stadium was sold out by the middle of this week as thousands of fans .from Louisiana and Texas planned to attend the season-op.ener between two old rivals with veteran-filled teams under the direction of new coaches. Head Coach and Athletic Director Hank Foldberg will field a Cadet team studded with lettermen and promising sophs. Success this .season, says Foldberg, will depend for the most part on how these sophomores develop. After many years as assist-* Sadler Calls Padre Isle Bill ‘Worthless’ AUSTIN UP) _ Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Sadler said Thursday that without action of the Texas Legislature the Padre Island Seashore Bill “is a worth less .scrap of paper.” Sadler told the House land study committee, of which he is an ex- officio member, that he sees no advantage to Texas in any respect “except to establish even more of the state’s area as land which time forgot.” SADLER SAID the establish ment of a national seashore would suit only “poets and birdwatchers.” The commissioner said he op poses “the give-away of over 50, 000 acres of highway valuable La guna Madre and the choice 80 Vz miles of our coastline.” “I have repeatedly requested the attorney general to instigate court action and I have his state ment that preliminary investiga tion shows merit of the state’s claim to this land,” ‘Sadler said. HE SAID he contends that a- bout 7,000 acres of state land are being held as private estates on Padre Island and that the area involved includes producing oil wells. Sadler said the bill passed by Congress this week gives full con trol of mineral development to se cretary of Interior Udall. ant under Paul D i e t z e 1, Charles McClendon will take over Tiger coaching chores, inheriting for his first season a host of talented seniors. His only problem, it seems, will be the replacement of standouts Wen-, dell Harris, Earl Gros, Roy Win ston and Tommy Neck. Most of the Aggie starters will be men who turned in good serv ice under Jim Myers. Leading the Cadets up the middle will be All- American candidate Jerry Hop kins, a 215-pound senior center from Mart. A&M’S OFFENSE will be bul warked by the solid running of Sam Byer and Jerry Rogers. Fold berg looks to Jim Linnstaedter, Brenham scatback, for much-need ed speed at the halfback slot. A question mark for the Ags will be the performance of sopho more halfback Tommy Meeks. Foldberg has been pleased with Meeks’ work in practice and calls him “the most hard-nosed player on the squad.” At guard the Aggies are well- fortified with Jim Harper and Jim Phillips, both seniors with two varsity letters. The tackle and end positions are remaining question marks. If big Melvin Simmons, a soph flash from Odessa, comes through as expected, tackle shouldn’t be a great problem. Former halfback Eddie VanDyke has been switched to end to bolster that position. Two years experience on the part of Pat Latham, Bobby Huntington and Mike Clark should ease some of Foldberg’s worries at end also. JIM KELLER AND John Erick son will probably share most of the quarterbacking chores, with promising soph James Willenborg as relief. Foldberg has emphati cally disclaimed all pre-season re ports that he is hurting at quar terback and expresses great con fidence in these three field gen erals. The Aggies will move mostly from the so-called “flip flop” of fense with Linnstaedter in the tailback position. A&M fans are slated to see “a whole new bag of ti’icks” from Foldberg in his be ginning season. The offense will he more color ful but the emphasis will remain on running. Foldberg’s theory: “If the ground game works, use it. Pass, but don’t pass just out of desperation.” LSU, despite the loss of three (See LSU GAME on Page 4) LBJ To Land At Easterwood Vice President Lyndon B. John son will land at Easterwood Air port at 10:30 a.m. Saturday before traveling by car to the Somerville Dam and Reservoir ground break ing ceremonies. Johnson is to be the main speaker at the event. Gene Sutphen, president of the Bryan-College Station Chamber of Commerce, said the vice president will be met at the airport by an honor guard of Ross Volunteers. Others greeting the vice presi dent will be officials from A&M and the cities of Bryan and Col lege Station. Cushing Library Now Open Until 11 Cushing Library is now re maining open an additional hour each weekday night. The main library will be open until 11 p.m. Monday through Friday. Hours of branch libraries vary and are posted in the branches. The main library is open 15 hours a day under the new schedule. Exception to the new hours are night when Silver Taps is held. Circulation, peri odicals and reserve reading desks are not fully staffed after 10 p.m. and reference service will end at 10 p.m. Melvin Simmons Gets Steak Mrs. J. Gordon Gay serves sophomore tackle Melvin Sim mons one of the 500 steaks fed to the varsity football play ers and members of the senior class Thursday night at Hensel Park. Coach Hank Foldberg spoke at the affair, given by the senior class in honor of the ’62 grid squad. (See story, page four.) July Crash Hikes Summer Death Toll Larry Lee Dolezal, ’63 from Graham, was killed July 26 when he lost control of the car he was driving and collided with a bread truck near Taylor. Dolezal, an agricultural eco nomics major, was employed by the Department of Agriculture’s statistical reporting service. He was the only occupant of the car.