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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1962
Number 12
Grid Pilgrimage To Florida
Dies From Lack Of Interest
BAND ENTERING KYLE FIELD
. . . after rough treatment
pamage To Band
Is Near $2,000
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William T. Barnhart, ’63 from
Temple, commander of the Con
solidated Band, announced today
that approximately $2,000 damage
was suffered by the band during
I midnight yell practice Friday.
“We do not hold the Corps re-
[ sponsible for what had happened
but we believe it could have been
avoided,” Barnhart said. “With
more cooperation from the Corps
as a whole we could control fu
ture midnight yell practices,” he
added.
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Wire
Review
By the Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
LONDON — A coroner’s jury
returned Tuesday a verdict of
suicide in Robert A. Soblen’s
death. It found the bail-jumping
spy killed himself with an over
dose of sleeping pills which he
had hidden in a secret pocket of
his trousers.
The verdict, reached after 82
minutes of deliberation, left un
solved the mystery of how and
where Soblen, 61, got the pills
with which he knocked himself
into a fatal coma Sept. 6.
. U. S. NEWS
AKRON, Ohio — A minister’s
daughter who thinks it’s morally
wrong to show her bare knees
has until this weekend to agree
to wear shorts in gym classes
at Springfield Township High
School.
If Judy Rae Bushong, 16, sticks
to her decision not “to waver
from what I believe in,” the sus
pension school authorities handed
her Sept. 24 will become a per
manent expulsion.
The school board decided Mon
day night unanimously to expell
the freshman unless she wears
the traditional gym uniform of
other girl students. Judy wants
to wear pedal pushers, which
would cover her knees.
★ ★ ★
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A
Polaris-packing nuclear submarine
recently launched two missiles
within minutes in a demonstration
of the craft’s quick-strike ability,
reliable sources reported Tuesday.
The submarine was not on the
Atlantic Missile Range when the
firings were conducted, the sour
ces said, but launched the rockets
from a point in the ocean into an
impact area on the range where the
accuracy could be measured.
“Not only were band instruments
damaged but some students cut
into the band from behind and
knocked down four seniors and
their dates,” Barnhart stated. “We
know it was done unintentionally
and hope that next time it will be
eliminated,” he added.
Cadet Col. of the Corps William
D. Nix, ’63 from Canadian, said
that from now on it will be a
senior privilege to march immed
iately behind the band.
Barnhart said that most of the
damage was suffered along - the
route between the Exchange Store
and Kyle Field. He also said that
if the corps didn’t cooperate the
band would not be able to partici
pate in future midnight yell prac
tices.
William H. Brasbears, head yell
leader, said the “Twelfth Man”
played its part this weekend and
he hopes they will make this ad
justment at future midnight yell
practices.
37 Minimum
Never Reached
The battle will go on, but the pilgrimage is off. The
“Twelfth Man” will not follow the eleven to Florida this week
end, at least not by bus, according to Head Yell Leader Bill
Brasbears.
The planned bus trip to the Aggie-University of Florida
game has been called off because the minimum of 37 riders
could not be mustered from the student body. Only two
people had money refunded on the deadline date Tuesday,
Brasbears said.
Brasbears said that some Aggies had put money on the
line for the trip, but for unknown reasons had backed out
and asked for refunds. At no time during the ticket sale
were there more than 10 or*
12 Aggies signed to make the
trip, he said.
Brasbears coordinated the
2,000-mile trip with a Houston
firm before the opening of school
Sept. 17 to accommodate students
for $31.10 plus personal expenses.
The fix - m had also agreed to carry
dates, wives or other guests at
the same rate.
Tickets were placed on sale the
first week of school, but as late
as Sept. 27, no tickets had been
sold. However, with a show of
confidence in the “Twelfth Man,”
Brasbears extended the deadline
of - Oct. 1 to Oct. 9, because “sev
eral students had purchased tickets
for the trip after an unexpected
slow start.”
BRASHEARS EXPRESSED dis
appointment when he announced
the failure of the trip to material
ize.
The busses had been scheduled
to leave Houston Friday morning,
arrive in Gainesville, Fla., Satur
day morning and start back for
Texas after the afternoon game.
The Aggie football team will
leave from Easterwood Field some
time Friday to make the 2,000-
mile trip for the game.
Today’s Thought
No people can survive and no
free nation can endure unless
its roots are imbedded in moral
principle. Our Christian faith
is basic to the spirit which moti
vates our society; It pointed the
road to our way of life long be
fore our forefathers gave it po
litical meaning. — Walter B.
Smith.
14 Chosen
To Select
Sweetheart
Fourteen students have been se
lected to form the Aggie Sweet
heart selection committee this
weekend, Student Body President
Sheldon Best disclosed Tuesday.
The 14 will spent the weekend in
Denton and name this year’s sweet
heart Sunday. Activities will be
gin Saturday at 12:45 p.m. and
continue through the naming of the
sweetheart at 10 a.m. Sunday.
Members of the committee, most
of them provided by the college’s
Magna Charta, are:
Best, Cadet Col. of the Corps Bill
Nix, Civilian Student Council Presi
dent Jeff Harp, senior class Presi
dent Charles Blaschke, senior class
Vice President Chuck Nichols, De
puty Corps Commander Reggie
Richardson, 2nd Wing Commander
Randy Jones, 3rd Brigade Com
mander John Meyer,
Law Hall President Frank Ve-
cera, Dorm 13-representative Wal
ly Echols, CSC senior representa
tive Charles Cockrell, Mitchell Hall
representative Bryan Ralph, Pur-
year Hall representative Mike Va-
leck and student life committee
chairman Jerry Vion.
In addition one change has been
made in the sweetheart finalists,
Best said. Junior nursing major
Carolyn Franklin of Dallas has
been added to the group.
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Nothing Serious,
More than one student was stunned to find
this wrecked auto in the sophomore parking
lot behind Duncan Hall Monday morning.
Campus Security officials told The Battalion
the car’s ownej - , had not reported the acci-
You Understand
dent and was attending classes as usual.
His tactical officer said nothing had been
reported and he knew of no injuries. Of
ficers assumed the car Yad rolled over sev
eral times at an apparent high speed.
PIERRE SAYS: ‘MISUNDERSTANDING
Jackie’s Guards Arrest
Reporter, Photographer
WASHINGTON (A>) _ Mrs. John
F. Kennedy returned to Washing
ton Tuesday under special precau
tions to guard her privacy that
brought the temporary detention
and brief questioning of two news
men who attempted to photo
graph her.
Photographer Roddey Mims and
courier John Steinberger, both of
United Press International, were
taken into custody by National
Airport police who told them they
had entered a restricted area.
Mims said he was told he was
under arrest.
HIS FILM was confiscated by a
White House Secret Service agent.
White House press secretary Pi
erre Salinger said later that “it
was a misunderstanding,” and the
film was returned.
The incident occurred as the
First Lady was returning from a
three-month vacation, most of it
in Newport, R. I., accompanied by
her two children, Caroline, almost
5, and John Jr., almost 2.
Their military plane landed at
the far south end of the airport,
far from the passenger terminal
and traffic areas.
Gathright’s Grave — Link To ‘Old’ Army
By RONNIE FANN
Battalion News Editor
“Thomas Gathright, born in
Monroe County, Ga., Jan. 5,
1829 — Died May 24, 1880.”
This is the inscription, cor
roded by years of wind and wea
ther, which is found on the
cracked and chipped marble col
umn that serves as the head
stone for A&M’s first presi
dent.
Because of this man, and one
other, Robert Teague Milner,
also buried in this same ceme
tery at Henderson, A&M is ut
ilizing its landscape architec
ture majors to improve the en
trance area of the Henderson
Cemetery and the grave area
of both men.
Robert White of the De
partment of Landscape Archi
tecture, accompanied by a team
of students, Phillip Bryant,
James Smith, Ross Calhoun and
George Pickels, journied to
Henderson last week for a pre
liminary study of the cemetery
and according to White “. . . to
gain a first hand impression of
the areas concerned.”
THE STUDENTS studied the
terrain of the cemetary en
trance and also took pictures.
The improvement of the en
trance and the areas about the
graves of the two men will be
q, class project, consuming a
period of six weeks, and the best
plan as proposed by the stu
dents will be used when the act
ual work begins.
“A civic charm and pride,
both unique and pleasant, can
be developed through the en
hance ai’ea, “White said. No
vehicular access to the old ce
metery is considered, he noted,
and added that each student
is to be responsible for a solu
tion to the problem, with the
choice to be made from the as
sorted sketches.
Henderson i s considering
plans for a memorial service
to be held after completion of
the improvements, and hopes to
have president Earl Rudder at
tend.
Thomas S. Gathright took
over the presidency of A&M in
1876, after Jefferson Davis de
clined. Classes began under the
new president on Oct. 4, 1876,
with an enrollment of 40 stu
dents.
As for the actual campus in
those early days, one professor
said:
“The campus was such a wild
waste that it was not consid
ered safe for children to be out
at night. The howling of the
wolves provided a nightly sera-
nade. On one occasion, a wild
animal wandered over the cam
pus and threw the whole com
munity into a frenzy of excite
ment. An alarm was sounded and
the whole battalion of students
and some professors turned out
to kill it, but in the high weeds
of the campus it easily escaped.”
Freshmen may be unhappy
with accommodations now, but
in the early days things were
even more cramped. During the
winter months, students kept
their rooms warm with firewood
cut from a common woodpile.
Woodpiles were kept outside
each room with the owner’s
name above each, threatening
THOMAS S. GATHRIGHT
. . . first A&M president
punishment if someone were to
steal them.
Even though uniforms were
woorn that first year, discipline
appeal’s to have been lax. Ex
ercises were held San Jacinto
day, but the corps broke ranks
at the conclusion, ran furiously
for the nearest woods, and found
a swimming hole.
The conduct of Hie professors
also left room for improvement
during this first year. Following-
complaints from throughout the
state, the Boaid of Directors
fired the entire faculty.
A mathematics professor
showed his concern at being
fired by going fishing. “I can’t
be bothered,” he said.
From its megar start under
President Gathright and his 40
students, A&M has grown to an
institution with an enrollment
of over 8,100 students and more
than 50 departments.
The facilities at A&M today
would surprise the student under
President Gathright. To even
list them would require many
pages. For example, new build
ings are going up at an amaz
ing pace. A $2 million Plant Sci
ences Building is nearing com
pletion, a new addition to the
Military Sciences Building was
added last year and a $3 mil
lion Nuclear Science Center was
recently completed.
SECRET Service agents had tak
en special steps to prevent Mrs.
Kennedy from being photographed
or observed, although she was fre
quently photographed during her
Italian vacation in August.
A wire fence ringed the area.
There were periodic signs read
ing, “Restricted Area, Keep Out.”
The photographer and courier
said they inadvertently had rid-
en on Steihberger’s motorcycle in
to the restricted area of the pub
lic airport through an open gate
and did not see the signs as they
went to carry out their assign
ment.
A White House motorcade and
Secret Service men were waiting
near the fence for Mrs. Kennedy’s
plane, but it taxied to a stop al
most half a mile way. The mo
torcade moved out to meet the
plane, in a maneuver to prevent
close obseivation.
MIMS said he was taking pic
tures with a long lens about 100
yards from the plane when he
was told by Clint Hill, Mrs. Ken
nedy’s personal Secret Service
agent, that he was under arrest.
Mims said both he and Stein
berger were released after brief
questioning.
An Associated Press photog
rapher took his pictures from out
side the fence of the restricted
area, a distance so far away that
his photographs, taken with a
worthy content.
long lens, showed little news-
Reporters at the fence could not
identify anyone at that distance.
SCONA Planning
Meeting Sunday
The first general committee
meeting of SCONA VIII will he
held Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the
Assembly Room of the Memo
rial Student Center, according
to Vic Donnell, chairman of
SCONA MIL
Members are reminded that
this will be a compulsory meet
ing.