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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1962
Number 5
library Facilities To Double By ’65
Expansion
Cost $1.5
Will
Million
WILLIAM J. GRAFF
ARCHITECT’S DRAWING OF LIBRARY
Bonfire Work Is Organized
For Fast Two-Day Effort
Committees were formed and
other organizational plans formu
lated during the first meeting of
this year’s bonfire committee late
Tuesday.
Details for this year’s blaze,
set Tuesday, Nov. 20, will be
more crowded than ever before—
with two full working days lost
from a year ago.
Since the Texas game is in Aus
tin, the bonfire will burn Tuesday
Football Trip Might Fold
No tickets have been sold yet for the planned bus trip
to the Aggie-University of Florida football game Oct. 13,
Heady Yell Leader Bill Brashears reported Wednesday,
t Deadline for purchasing tickets is next Monday at 5 p. m.
the Student Finance Window of the Memorial Student
Center. Brashears admitted Wednesday that the outlook
for the proposed trip was dim and that the excursion might
have to be cancelled.
An overall fee of $31.10, plus individual expenses, has
leen negotiated for the trip. Arrangements have also been
ade to carry along dates, wives or other guests at the
same rate.
The buses, if the trip is carried out, will leave Houston
the morning of Oct. 12, arrive in Gainesville, Fla., Saturday
norning and start back for Texas after the afternoon game.
They would reach Houston Sunday afternoon.
United Fund Drive Campaigns Lauded,
Preparations Still Underway Here
September, October and Novem
ber have been proclaimed United
Community Campaign Months in
Texas by Gov. Price Daniel, who
las urged all Texans “to partici-
iate generously in the campaigns
which are carried on in their local
:ommunities.”
The governor issued his procla-
nation with Frank H. Heller of
Dallas, campaign chairman for the
Texas United Fund and Maurice
Acers of Austin, board chairman
of the fund, representing all Unit
ed campaigns in Texas.
The official proclamation was is
sued as United Funds and Com
munity Chests all over the state
prepared for their drives. United
campaigns in Texas last fall raised
over $26 million to aid health, wel
fare and character-building a-
gencies.
A date or campaign goal for
the College Station United Chest
drive has not yet been set. Chair
man Dr. G. M. Watkins was out-
of-town Wednesday, but publicity
director Delbert McGuire said a
meeting was on tap in the next
two weeks to work out all details.
instead of Wednesday. And the
A&M Convocation is on tap Friday,
Nov. 16, a day usually devoted
exclusively to working.
As in the past, classes will be
dismissed Monday, leaving stu
dents two full days to work —
Sunday and Monday. The Rice
game in Houston is Saturday and
Avill be attended by many.
PRESENT PLANS call for
stacking to begin as early as
Thursday, with civilians and volun
teer corps students) cutting and
hauling as much wood as possible
in the cutting area.
Civilians are planning to con
tinue work through the corps’ ab
sence Friday and Saturday and
then join in during the full days
Sunday and Monday. Voluntary
work in the cutting area will be
encouraged the entire week before
the bonfire.
Even with this head-start and
civilian assistance, stacking may
be extended to a 24-hour schedule,
chief coordinator Bill Brashears ex
plained. The first cranes will be
in the stacking area Thursday as
the center pole goes up the same
day.
Civilians will work primarily cut
ting and hauling logs, with full-
scale stacking expected to be under
way by early Sunday.
OILING, AS in the past, will be
conducted immediately before the
gigantic stack is ignited. John R.
Pedigo of the Department of Pe
troleum Eugineering will be in
charge.
Other persons heading coordi
nating committees include:
Kirk Blackard, personnel; Andy
Schdulla, transportation and equip
ment; Clayton B. Lyle, cutting
area; Dennis Graham, food; David
M. Richardson, oiling;
‘Policy, Procedures Manual
Planned For College Use
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The college is planning a fac
ulty-staff “Policy and Procedures
Manual,” according to an official
memorandum from Tom Cherry,
director of business affairs.
He said:
“The purpose is to provide a con
venient single reference on pol
icies and procedures for use by
the faculty and staff.
“Information will be in sufficient
detail for the majority of reference
purposes and will be supplemented
"^th a list of other sources and
cross references where more de
tailed information can be found.”
Director Cherry said the man
ual, as now envisioned, would in
clude sections on the following
subjects:
Basic policy, administrative rou
tines, personnel, employe benefits,
fiscal regulations and school and
department memoranda.
Cherry said the latter section
would be reserved for intra-school
use. He said:
“The manual will be in loose-leaf
forrq to facilitate revisions. Dis
tribution is planned .to all heads
of departments.”
Cherry has asked for suggestions
on items that should be included.
He said recommendations and com
ments on format would also be
helpful so the manual could be of
maximum convenience to its users.
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Jerry Moore, finance and suppl
ies; Dale Sinor, lighting; Alan
Payne, publicity; John Blackburn,
center pole; Paul Vilvoa, traffic
and safety;
John Hedrick, stacking; Jim
Adams, radios; Jeff. Harp, civiL
ians; and yell leaders Brashears,
Gene Anderson, Tom Nelson, Mike
Dodge and Frank Summers, co
ordinators.
Tessies Name
30 Sweetheart
Semifinalists
TWC students have chosen 30
semifinalists for Aggie Sweet
heart, The Battalion learned Wed
nesday. The 30 were chosen from
the main campus and nursing cen
ters in Dallas and Houston.
The field will be trimmed to 12
finalists this week-end, with the
sweetheart being named the week
of Oct. 8-13. The sweetheart will
be formally presented at the TCU
game in Fort Worth Oct. 20.
Senior semifinalists include Sha
ron Clark of Dallas, Kathy Coffey
of Sulphur Springs, Marge Cris
well of Millersview, Jean Elsass
of Wellington, Kan., Caroline Far
ris of Waxahachie, Tina Lamborn
of Winter Park, Fla., Gail Pope of
La Grange, 111., Janice Pruitt of
Richardson and Mary Youngblood
of Beeville.
Junior semifinalists are Lou
Ellyn Coffey of Ferris, Carolyn
Franklin of Elysian Fields, Betsey
Larkin of Dallas, Lee Martin of
Jourdanton, Ruth Palacios of San
Antonio, Tillie Ragsdale of Killeen,
Frances Smith of Marshall, Bobbie
Sue Stephenson of Sinton, Maxine
Varisco of Houston, Gail Wallace
of Daingerfield and Carol Wardlaw
of Denton.
Sophomore semifinalists are Dot-
tie Carter, Ann Clark and Betty
Langford of Dallas, Joanna Coffey
of Sulphur Springs, Carlen Mabry
of Batesville, Ark., Ellen Mattison
of San Francisco, Lynn Parks of
St. Joseph, La., Judy Rotramel of
Devine, Juanita Rowland of Ray-
mondville and Betsy Welburn of
Port Arthur.
FLOODS RIP SPAIN
Raging Waters
Slap Chief City
A&M will expand its library facilities at a cost of $1.5
million.
Additions and remodeling will more than double existing
floor space. Preliminary drawings are being prepared to
enlarge the present Cushing Library building, erected in 1929,
and to build around and over the Texas Engineers’ Library
building.
Library Director Robert A. Houze said construction
may be started next summer with completion in 1965.
“The emphasis in the new building will be upon bringing
together the undergraduate student and library materials,”
Houze said. The present Cushing Library building will be
oriented to serve graduated-
students. “This doesn’t mean
that graduates and under
graduates can’t use all of the
facilities, however” he added.
THE NEW construction will be
two stories and linked architec
turally with existing facilities.
Later stages of construction will
provide two additional stories to
add space deemed adequate for the
College’s library needs through
1996. Ultimate cost of the expan
sion program is estimated at $3,-
800,000.
Houze, who with Dean of In
struction William J. Graff and a
firm of Dallas architects, has been
studying library building construc
tion and arrangement for almost
an entire year. Houze said:
“We estimate this first stage of
.construction will carry us for
about 10 years. Then additional
floors will be added.
“One of the most important
things about the new facilities is
the fact that material will be or
ganized into divisions.”
THE DIRECTOR said the divi
sions would be those for social
sciences, the humanities, physical
sciences, life sciences and govern
ment documents. All related pe
riodicals will be shelved with the
particular division, Houze said.
“Students will learn that what
they need will be in a certain di
vision,” he added.
Houze told The Battalion that
plans were being considered to
provide an open-round-the-clock
air-conditioned study area for stu
dents. Other innovations will be
the availability of individual study
areas with lockers for graduate
students, a rare books section, mi
cro photograph section, typing
rooms and seminar rooms.
THE FIRST stage of the con
struction program, plus existing
facilities, will provide 650,000 vol
umes and seat 1,500 students.
Present holdings of the Cushing
Library and its branches are 425,-
000 volumes, and seating is avail
able for fewer than 600 students
in all libraries combined.
The construction is being
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ROBERT A. HOUZE
BARCELONA, Spain CP)—Flash
flpods from drought-breaking rain
storms ripped through industrial
centers of the Barcelona area early
Wednesday, killing hundreds of
people and destroying many fac
tories, homes and bridges.
By nightfall, more than 333 bod
ies had been reported recovered.
Officials said hundreds of persons
were missing.
The injured totaled at least
1,000. Damage estimates ranged
over $14 million.
IT WAS THE WORST natural
disaster in the modern history of
Spain, eclipsing the 1959 tragedy
that killed 300 in the village of
Rivadelago in central Spain in wa
ters from a collapsing dam.
The destruction centered in a
heavily populated industrial com
plex of roughly 150 square miles
fanning north and west of Barce
lona, a Mediterranean port of two
million that is Spain’s chief in
dustrial and commercial city.
Fed by a nine-hour rainfall,
flood waters pushed along by hur
ricane-force winds crumpled indus
trial plants and cottages in their
path. Many persons died in their
sleep as their homes fell under the
combined forces of wind and wa
ter. Others died at work, trapped
in collapsed buildings.
HARDEST HIT WAS Tarrasa,
an industrial city of 120,000 in a
hilly region about 10 miles north
west of Barcelona. In the evening
rescue workers said Tarrasa had
accounted for 150 of the bodies re
covered and predicted the town’s
total dead would pass 200.
The bodies of 78 workers were
found in one Tarrasa textile plant
alone. They were unable to es
cape before the wave of flood-
waters collapsed the building,
trapping them inside.
“It was something fantastic,”
said Carlos P. Martorell, one of
the few survivors from the mill.
“I DON’T KNOW what hell is
like, but it could not be worse than
that flood.”
Four other textile mills and two
brick factories were destroyed in
Tarrasa. Flood waters there swept
away more than 100 homes and
450 automobiles.
Barcelona itself escaped major
damage, but some areas were
flooded.
Prayers In Schools Are Permitted,
If State Does Not Write Them
AUSTIN (A*)—Texas children
can pray in the public schools pro
dded the state does not write the
prayers or require that they be
said.
Atty. Gen. Will Wilson held that
a recent U.S. Supreme Court de
cision outlawing certain prayers
in New York schools has a narrow
implication, only rejecting “as un
constitutional any effort by gov
ernmental bodies or agencies U
compose, prescribe, support oi
place its approval upon any par
ticular prayer . . .”
The opinion went to State Com
missioner of Education J. W. Ed
gar.
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TOM CHERRY
Suttle Joins
Defense Staff
Dr. A. D. Suttle Jr., vice-presi
dent for research at A&M, will
take a leave of absence to serve
as deputy director for a special
staff group in research and engi
neering for the Department of De
fense.
His appointment will become ef
fective Oct. 1.
The special staff group is one
of the major divisions of research
and engineering in the Department
of Denfense, coordinating activit
ies of other divisions in research
and engineering.
Presbyterian Student Center
The old College Station State Bank building at the North
Gate has been converted to A&M’s newest religious student
center. Under campus minister Rev. Arlen L. Fowler the
new Presbyterian center is holding an open house Sunday
from 4 to 5:30 p. m. to show off its new quarters now in the
process of being refurnished. Formal dedication services
will be presided over by Dr. William A- Baine of Bellaire.
Wire
Review
By the Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
CORK, Ireland—Survivors of a
ditched American airliner, many of
them tough paratroopers, sang
“Glory, Glory Hallelujah,” and re
cited the Lord’s Prayer together
as 10-foot waves tossed their raft
around like a toy for five hours
before their rescue.
This and other graphic accounts
of the nightmare Atlantic ordeal
were given Wednesday by injured
survivors lifted by helicopter to a
hospital here from the Swiss
freighter Celerina. They came
ashore thanking God, their pilot
and their navigator for the rescue.
★ ★ ★
O T T A W A — Canada’s 25th
Parliament convenes Thursday
against a backdrop of financial
crisis and political turmoil that
threaten to overthrow Prime
Minister John G. Diefenbaker’s
minority government.
A motion to declare no-confi-
dence in his regime is expected
to be presented early in the ses
sion.
U.S. NEWS
WASHINGTON —The Internal
Revenue Service announced Wed
nesday an unprecedented nation
wide drive to seize up to $5 million
of the proceeds from Tuesday
night’s heavyweight title fight be
tween Sonny Liston, the new cham
pion, and Floyd Patterson.
IRS said the pui-pose was to
make certain that organizers of
the fight pay an estimated $3.9
million in taxes on their receipts.
The coast-to-coast money hunt
took revenue officers into theaters
and corporate offices in 217 cities
in 46 states. The carefully planned
operation—the most extensive in
IRS history—was kept secret until
agents with synchronized watches
moved into 260 theaters at the
start of a closed-circuit telecast of
the Chicago fight.
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WASHINGTON — Army engi
neers recommended Wednesday to
the Budget Bureau that the Brazos
River Project in Texas be modified
to include three new projects that
would involve an additional au
thorization of $20,250,000.
The project now has an author
ized cost of $40,450,000.