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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1962
Number 18
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To Recognize
1)S Privileges
Deans of all schools on campus will be asked to encourage
their faculties to recognize the privileges of distinguished
students to be absent from lecture classes. This action was
aken in the Thursday night meeting of the senate.
♦ An informal poll by the issues
committee revealed that few stu
dents attempt to exercise this
privilege, according to Doug Hotch
kiss, committee chairman. It was
suggested in discussion that fol
lowed the committee report that
students might ignore the privi
lege because of the readiness of
professors to exercise their privi
lege to deny the distinguished stu
dent the excused absence.
Hotchkiss proposed that James
P. Hannigan, dean of students, be
asked to assist the senate in the
effort. Hotchkiss said that stu
dents should be reminded that the
privilege regards lectures only,
not labs.
Hannigan reported that the ex
ecutive committee has considered
the Student Senate proposal for
exemption from final examinations
for students with a 95 or above
average in a course. The commit
tee agreed to take the question
to the faculty for discussion, after
which a decision will be made.
Cushing Library will be open
from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturdays
“for a while” on trial basis, ac
cording to Gregg Laughlin, senate
vice president. The trial is being
made to see is enough students will
use the library on Saturday after
noon to justify extending the hours
even more. He pointed out that
the new hours will not be in effect
on week-ends of home football
games or Corps trips.
Metropolitan
Votes Figure
Big This Fall
I AUSTIN CP) _ Top Republican
land Democratic leaders are talk-
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vo
ig' — and worrying — about the
date’s big population centers’
lotes in the Nov. 6 general elec-
ion.
The big-vote areas of Texas,
nore and more important in
itatewide elections in the past two
lecades, can swing the election of
virtually any statewide candidate.
When acting State Republican
chairman Tad Smith met with
jlkustin newsmen this week, he
jlalked about the state’s 35 largest
populated counties.
I Republican Jack Cox will be
Needed governor by carrying at
|east25 of these 35 counties, Smith
redicted. Des Barry, GOP candi-
ate for congressman-at-large, will
i m'o into office on the same vote,
| a Kmith said.
» I A FEW DAYS earlier, Chairman
fEugene Locke of the State Demo-
eratic Executive Committee met
with the same capital newsmen
and talked about the same big vote
areas.
Locke predicted Democratic wins
in the large El Paso and Bexar
County votes and said the growing
South Plains area would produce
a close vote between Cox and
Democratic gubernatorial nominee
John Connally.
However, he declined to predict
Connally wins in the state’s two
largest populated counties, Harris
and Dallas.
Smith predicted a Cox win in
Harris County by “a big margin”
and in Dallas by a “sizeable
margin.”
He differed with his counterpart
on the outcome of the Bexar Coun
ty vote and predicted a GOP vic
tory there by “an edge.”
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Activities Begin
With Town Hall
This week’s home-game weekend will feature an event-
packed schedule which may hold something for all.
Friday evening’s events will begin with this year’s first
Town Hall presentation of the Smothers Brothers, described
as having a “Brash, irreverent approach to folk music with
a genuine comic flair,” and Leon Bibb, a concert and night
club performer.
Curtain time for the performance is 8 p. m.
After the performance at Town Hall the Memorial Stu
dent Center Dance Committee is sponsoring Cafe Rue Pinalle
in the lower level of the MSC.
Admission will be $1 per couple at the door. Entertain
ment will be furnished by the"* *
A Familiar Scene
When the Aggies gig the visiting Frogs be repeated. As the Toad fan says to his
this weekend an all too familiar scene will buddy: “These guys are too darn friendly.”
Blaschke Gets Nomination
For Rhodes Scholarship
President Earl Rudder today an
nounced his approval of the recom
mendation of Charles L. Blaschke,
senior from Skidmore, as the col
lege’s nominee for a Rhodes
Scholarship. Dr. Richard H. Bal
linger, as the campus representa
tive for Rhodes Scholarship mat
ters, had recommended the desig
nation of Blaschke.
Little Boy, Short Drive —
But What A Crazy Trip
SHAMOKIN, Pa. (A 5 )—Timmy Dindbrf took his parents’
car for a short and unexpected drive Thursday with this re
sult:
The car ran into the yard of a neighbor, knocked down a
pole from a porch, damaged several steps, bowled over a fence,
hurdled a hedge, struck a telephone pole and finally came
to rest at—as the local police called it—a sturdy fence.
Timmy is only 4 years old.
He escaped without a scratch, police said.
His mother said the boy entered the car to retrieve a
toy from the front seat and apparently released the brake.
The car was parked on a slight hill.
Wire Review
The scholarships, which provide
for two years of study at Oxford
University, are awarded after com
petition at the state and district
level. Colleges and universities of
the state select nominees from
whom the district committee mem
bers make their choice. A total
of 32 men will be chosen as Rhodes
Scholars to enter Oxford in Octo
ber of 1963.
“Mr. Blaschke has an excellent
record both in academic and extra
curricular activities,” Rudder said.
Majoring in economics, he is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond G.
Blaschke. He has achieved a nearly
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
PARIS — President Charles de
Gaulle spelled it out plain and
clear Thursday: Unless he gets
what he wants in the Oct. 28 ref
erendum on the presidency — and
by a big vote — he will resign and
never return to French political
life.
He could lose.
The referendum is to decide
Whether to elect future French
presidents by popular vote, can
celing the present system of elec
tions by a sort of electoral col
lege of 80,000 persons.
De Gualle, stern and lofty as
always, told a nationwide televi
sion and radio audience: “If your
response it ‘no’ or even if the
majority of ‘yes’ votes is weak,
mediocre, doubtful, it is clearly
evident that my task will be end
ed at once and without return,
because what could I do after
ward without the warm confidence
°f the nation ?”
U. S. NEWS
PASADENA, Calif. — U. S.
Space Agency officials said
Thursday night that the Ranger
5 moon rocket launched earlier
Thursday is expected to miss the
moon by approximately 300
Gromyko Reports
‘Useful’ Berlin
Talk With Kennedy
WASHINGTON OP) — Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei A. Grom
yko said Thursday night he had
a “useful” talk with President
Kennedy about the Berlin issue,
but he declined to say whether
Premier Khrushchev will come to
the United States.
Gromyko gave this word to news
men after a 214-hour meeting with
Kennedy at the White House start
ing in late afternoon.
There was no immediate com
ment from the White House or
the State Department on the out
come of the talks.
The White House press secre-
. „ , tary, Pierre Salinger, sought in
dition in a Bethlehem Pa., hos- advance of the conference to play
pital after a flight of 75 miles
miles.
Officials said this means that
Ranger 5 will not be able to ac
complish any of its missions. It
was designed to take television
pictures of the moon and land an
instrumented capsule containing
a quake measurement device.
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NEW YORK — A husky Czecho
slovak diplomat killed his wife
with a single bullet in the head
Thursday at the Czech United Na
tions mission on Madison Avenue,
then took off on a panicky, cross
country flight. It ended in a ditch
in Pennsylvania, where the hus
band shot himself as police closed
in on the wreckage of his black
Cadillac.
The diplomat, Karel Zizka, a-
bout 40, an attache of the Czebh
U. N. mission, was in critical con-
from New York at speeds up to
110 m.p.h.
TEXAS NEWS
TYLER — Miss Harriet Sue
Caldwell was crowned queen of
the 25th annual Texas Rose Fes-
tivel Thursday night. The corona
tion ceremony, held in the munic- : coming to the United States. He
ipal auditorium, will be repeated j and Kennedy last met at Vienna
Friday night. j in June 1961.
down the possibility of a Kennedy-
Khruschchev meeting on the Ber
lin crisis.
And a dispatch from Moscow
quoted diplomatic sources as say
ing the Soviet premier actual
ly has not made up his mind about
Former Ags
Plan Meeting
This Weekend
All members of the Association
Council and the Executive Board
of the Association of Former Stu
dents are scheduled to meet here
Friday r through Sunday, J. B.
(Dick) Hervey, executive secretary
of the Association, said Thursday. * 1 * * *
The Executive Boa^d began the !
weekend with a meeting Friday
morning in the Memorial Student
Center. •
Registration opened at 8 a.m. in
the Serpentine Lounge on the sec
ond floor of the MSC. At 9 a.m.
coffee was served to the members
than at 10 a.m. the first meeting of
the council was held in the MSC
Assembly Room.
Beginning at 11:30 a.m. Saturday
a buffet luncheon will be served in
the Ball Room. Following the
luncheon members will attend the
A&M-TCU football game here on
Kyle Field.
Closing the weekend, the Nomi
nation Committee for the Associa
tion Councilmen will meet in the
the association office in the MSC.
Executive Board members are
John R. Hill Jr., '44, Dallas; Gra
ham B. Purcell, ’41, Wichita Falls;
W. E. Simpson Jr., ’58, San An
tonio; A. W. Davis, ’45, Paducah;
Dick Haas, ’45, Corpus Christi; and
Melvin Maltz, ’47, from Houston.
perfect record with a grade point
ratio of 2.94.
THE RHODES Scholarships pro
gram has provided opportunities
for young American men since
1904. Intellectual abilities, phys
ical vigor and qualities of character
are factors considered in selecting
Rhodes Scholars.
Two A&M graduates have been
designated as Rhodes Scholars.
They are Charles Wright Thomas,
’22, and Jack Edward Brooks, ’47.
Blaschke has been designated as
a distinguished student each se
mester and also has been named
a Distinguished Military Student.
He served as president of Phi
Eta Sigma, national freshmen
honor society, and is a member of
Phi Kappa Phi, a student honor
organization similar to Phi Beta
Kappa.
Blaschke is corps adjutant with
the rank of lieutenant colonel. As
a junior, he served as corps ser
geant-major.
He is also a member of the Ross
Volunteer Company, an honor unit.
Bob Bryan Trio, composed of
students at A&M. The dance
will last until midnight yell
practice.
AT 11:30 p.m. the band will file
out of Dorm 11 and strike up the
War Hymn for the year’s second
midnight yell practice. The 1962-
63 Aggie Sweetheart will be offic-
.H ially presented at the yell prac-
j tice in Kyle Field.
Tours of the Nuclear Science
Center will be staged for visiting
parents and former students Sat
urday morning.
The tours, limited to groups of
25, will begin at 10 and 11, Floy
Smith, reactor operations chief
said. The science center is locat
ed southeast of Easterwood Air
port.
THE AGGIES will meet Texas
Christian University for the 58th
meeting since the series began in
1897, at 2 p.m. in Kyle Field. A
crowd of 25,000 is expected for
the game.
A dance sponsored by fourth
year architecture majors called
“Tomb Boom” will be held at the
Bryan Country Club Saturday at
8 p.m. Tickets will sell for $3
per couple in advance and $3.50
at the door.
Joe Daniels’ band fi’om Bryan
will furnish music. Proceeds will go
for a class trip for the fourth-year
students next year.
The MSC Dance Committee is
also sponsoring a dance Saturday
night known as the All College
Dance. It is scheduled from 8-12
p.m. in the Ballroom of the MSC.
Silvester Munoz and his 6-piece
band will furnish music, Admission
will be $1.50 per person at the
door, Dave Kabell, chairman of
the MSC Dance Committee, said.
Today’s Thought
Ture bravery is shown by per
forming without witness what
one might be capable of doing
before all the wmrld. —La Roche
foucauld
W.!!, Parmer
Honored Here
By Ministers
Texas’ outstanding rural minist
er of the year, the Rev. W. R. Par
mer of San Gabriel, was honored
here Thursday during the 17th
annual Town and Country Church
Conference.
Parmer, along with the Rev. W.
H. Wieting of Grapeland, runner-up
in the recognition program, were
presented plaques by Bud Fichte,
assistant editor of Progressive
Farmer magazine.
Parmer is pastor of the San
Gabriel Baptist Church. Reagan
Brown, rural sociologist with the
Agricultural Extension Service,
said the minister was chosen on the
basis of his community and agri
cultural services.
He was specifically cited for de
veloping a local flood w r arning sys
tem for area citizens and live
stock owners along the San Gabriel
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River; for organizing a Community
Information Night Program which
features speakers outside the San
Gabriel area; for his interest in soil
and water conservation; for his
assistance in establishing and su
pervising crop and fertilizer tests;
his co-operation with the Milam
County agricultural agent, exper
iment station personnel and local
farmers in promoting farm and
home improvement programs; and
for his outstanding church pro
gram.
Parmer is married and is the
father of three children.
Wieting, pastor of the Grapeland
Methodist Church, was recognized
for his activity in the Houston
County Development Foundation,
community improvement work and
his soil and water conservation
pi’omotion.
Greeting Line At Reception
Mr. and Mrs. J. Gordon Gay (far right) pass and Mrs. Tom Harrington. In the line, left
through the reception line at Thursday to right, are Harrington, Mrs. Rudder, Rud-
night’s president’s reception in the Memorial der and Dorsey McCrory, assistant to the
Student Center. President and Mrs. Earl president.
Rudder gave the reception for Chancellor