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A&M Tangles With Tigers Saturday
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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
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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.