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^ ■■ ■ ■ exans Back Connally, Other Demos; OP Takes Four Governor Positions ck enii ohn Etti near ® r given a Razoria rives th; ;ie deb ach He-: Che Battalion , “The.!} le I’ve SB that fe Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1962 Number 28 radiiate Record Exam ates Are Announced set t!it latfiel 35 ail 9 I Plans are now being finalized Joi' administering graduate record Bxaminations to both fall and Spring graduates. I Seniors who plan to graduate | In January will be given the exam inations Saturday, Dec. 8, accord ing to S. A. Kerley, director of [he Counseling and Testing Center. I Students of the Graduate School [vho have not yet taken the exam ination will be expected to do so st that time. J THE EXAMINATION will be riven Friday, Apr. 19, for students Wanning to graduate in May. ; Purpose of the examinations is to evaluate graduating seniors in per to rate the various depart- nents of instruction. Last year’s graduates were the first students kt A&M to be given the tests en nasse. “The use of the graduate record lamination,” President Earl Rud der said, “is an indicator of the level of proficiency of graduating ;eniors and is a means of evaluat- ng the overall A&M program of nstruction. This is an important ispect of the college’s continuing irogram toward ‘excellence.’ ” The examination, consisting of i battery of tests, will be admin- btered by the Counseling and Testing Center with the assistance )f selected faculty members. REGISTRATION procedures will )e announced at a future date, Kerley said. The site for both examinations will be a room in ;he Chemistry Building. Tests in the graduate record ex amination are designed to measure too things—general aptitude and advanced achievement in selected fields. All students tested will receive the same type of aptitude tests but will be given achievement tests which parallel their course of study. The verbal portion of the apti tude test measures students’ gen eral ability to deal with written and verbal material, while the quantitative part is used to meas ure a student’s ability to deal with numerical concepts useful in engi neering and science. “SOME SCHOOLS and depart Campus Chest Drive Closing Short Of Goal An additional $200 was collected Tuesday as this year’s Campus Chest drive comes slowly to a close. This brings total contribu tions to over $1,700, according to Ken Stanton, chairman of the stu dent welfare committee of the Student Senate. Corps Staff became the four teenth campus group to contribute 100 per cent to the drive. Stanton said that he is expecting to receive additional contributions Wednesday as more campus groups make last minute donations. “If we reach the $2,000 mark I’ll be very happy,” Stanton added. Seventy per cent of the funds collected will be used as an emer gency assistance fund for Aggies. It will be reserved for students who need help because of accident or loss of property. The remainder will be divided among the Brazos County Tuber culosis Association, the March of Dimes and the College Station Community Chest. A bronze plaque will be awarded to the corps unit or civilian dormi tory which collects the most per man. “The winner of this award has not yet been announced since contributions are still being re ceived,” Stanton said. A certificate will be awarded to each group which averages $1 per man. ments of the college,” Kerley said, “are handicapped by the fact that special advanced achievement tests do not exist at this time for such courses of study as agriculture, business, industrial technology and veterinary medicine.” Over a period of years advanced tests will be developed or test scores accumulated so that they may be used as a comparative group for future students of A&M. The Class of 1962 generallly compared favorably with seniors of 21 other colleges and univer sities, said Dr. Lannes H. Hope, assistant professor of psychology and a staff member of the testing center. The examination allows college officials ' to compare the senior classes of various years and to compare the classes with those of other colleges and universities. “The annual evaluation is an in tegral part of the total education program of the college,” Dean of Instruction W. J. Graff said in discussing plans for the 1962-63 sexfes. BEST USE FOR the graduate record examination is yet to come. Entering freshmen are now re quired to take the college entrance examination board aptitude and achievement tests. After they have completed their course of study at A&M, their scores on graduate record exam inations will provide an evaluation of their overall progress and the general effectiveness of their edu cational experience. “Although this does not account for many human elements in life and learning at college, it already has proved helpful and its promise is great,” Hope said. Graduate schools have used the graduate record examination for many years, but relatively few colleges have elected to evaluate their senior class with the stand ardized examination. JOHN CONNALLY . . next governor of Texas Cutting Area Ready For Bonfire Axes A cutting area for the 1962-63 bonfire has been selected. Head Yell Leader Bill Brashears an nounced Tuesday. Brashears, who also serves as coordinator for the bonfire, added that initial cutting and clearing work will begin next Monday for the Nov. 20 blaze. The cutting area is located four miles west of campus off Farm Road 60. It can be reached by turning left off FM 60 immediate ly past the only church on that side of the highway. The first gate into the area is exactly one mile from the highway. According to Brashears a gravel road extends from the highway to this gate. The road past the gate is dirt. Parking areas for An Evening With Bernstein Music of the American Ballet Theater Production of Jerome selections was presented including songs from “West Side Kobins “Fancy Free” was presented in the third Town Story,” “On The Town,” “Candide,” “Wonderful Town” Mall production of the year Tuesday night. A variety of and “Peter Pan.” workers will be available in two different places before reaching the gate. The Battalion will pub lish a map of the area in next Tuesday’s edition. Juniors and seniors will work during free periods all next week cutting wood and clearing the wooded area, Brashears said. Civil ians will work in the cutting area during the convocation next Fri day and while many Corps mem bers are in Houston next Saturday for the Rice football game. Full-scale work will begin as early as 6:30 a.m. the following Sunday, Nov. 18. Classes also will be dismissed Monday, Nov. 19, for work on the huge structure. The center pole will be erected next Thursday, but stacking won’t start until Saturday. Operators Needed For Chain Saws A meeting of students in terested in operating chain saws during bonfire opera tions has been called for 8 p. m. Wednesday in Room 3-C of the Memorial Student Cen ter. Saw committee chairman Leslie Crabb said students who would be able to provide their own chain saws were also invited to attend. Crabb said actual cutting was tentatively set to begin the afternoon of Nov. 15. The Bonfire Committee is being furnished five McCul lough chain saws by Carlos Cacioppo of the Timberland Saw Co. of Marshall, Crabb said. Democrats Retain Edge In Congress By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Texas Democrats fought off the most spirited Republi can drive in decades Tuesday to sweep all state-wide races but the GOP increased its number of U. S. House seats from one to two and possibly three. John Connally, who resigned as secretary of the Navy to run for the governorship, scored a decisive victory over his Republican opponent, Jack Cox, to climax a heated campaign that gave Texas all the appearances of a two-party state. On the national scene, Republicans have nailed down the governorships of four big industrial states-New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio—a powerful vote arsenal for the 1964 presidential elections. In addition Democrats have 4 " increased their already top- heavy U. S. Senate margin and the new House of Repre sentatives closely resemble the lineup of the one which pack ed up and went home less than a month ago. THE TOP GOP governorship prize in California may have e- luded Republicans as Richard M. Nixon lagged behind Democratic Qov. Edmund G. Brown in the most dramatic of the state races. State Democratic Rep. J. T. Ru therford conceded his defeat late Tuesday night in the 16th district to Republican Ed Forman, a newcomer to politics who had linked Ruthei-ford with Billie Sol Estes, the bankrupt West Texas promoter. Bruce Alger, now the only GOP Congressman from Texas, held a comfortable lead over his Demo cratic opponent, Bill Jones, in the 6th District. Republican William Steg’er was in a see-saw battle with Demo cratic Rep. Lindley Beckworth in the 3rd District. DEMOCRATS, however, picked up one House seat as Joe Pool of Dallas bested Desmond Barry of Houston in the statewide race for Congressman - at - large, a post created as a result of the state’s population increase. The Republicans, who are still without a seat in the state Senate, lost their two present state rep resentatives hut won at least seven other state house races. Neither the seats of Sen. Ralph Yarborough, D., nor Sen. John Tower, R., were at stake in Tues day’s elections. Texas voters gave their stamp of approval to nine of the 14 pro posed state constitution amend ments. Among the five rejected was the controversial “trail de novo” proposal. EARLY WEDNESDAY nearly 1.3 million of the estimated 1.5 million votes cast had been tabulat ed and the Texas Election Bureau said that only the Beckworth- Steger race remained in doubt. Gov. Nelson A. Rockfeller con tinued his charge toward the GOP presidential nomination two years from now by sweeping to re-elec tion as governor in New York. In Pennsylvania, William W. Scranton also pushed into the ranks of possible presidential con tenders by drubbing Democrat Ri chardson Dilworth. Republican George Romney, po litical rookie and former compact car maker, sideswiped Democrat ic Gov. John B. Swainson in Mich igan and thus rambled into the widening list of Republicans to be reckoned with in 1964. In Ohio, Democratic Gov. Mich ael V. DiSalle was shouldered a- side by Republican State Auditor James A. Rhodes. With 25 of the 39 U.S. Senate races decided, the Democrats made (See ELECTION, Page 3) Faculty-Staff Dance Slated For Thursday A&M faculty and staff members will get together for the second session of the college Faculty- Staff Dinner Club this season in the Memorial Student Center As sembly Room at 7:30 p.m. Thurs day, according to Willard P. Wor ley, chairman. Music will be furnished by Dick Baldauf’s Aggieland Combo. Season tickets for the remain ing three events may be pur chased at a reduced rate at the MSC Main Desk or from Dr. Rus sell J. Kohel, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, between 8 .a.m. Monday, Nov. 12, and 2 p.m. Wed nesday, Nov. 14. Donors To State Colleges Can Take Bigger Deductions President Kennedy recently signed a bill which allows donors to take a 30 per cent tax deduction from their total incomes for con tributions to publicly supported colleges and universities. The law is the result of action by the Senate finance committee to place state college donations on an equal footing with private col lege donations. In the past, deductible donations to state colleges were limited to 20 per cent on the donor’s income tax forms. This limitation was made due to the fact that the en dowment foundations who received the funds were not directly associ ated with the colleges. Since 1954, however, contributors to private college endowment foun dations have been eligible for a 30 per cent tax deduction because the foundations were directly con nected with the colleges. Wire Review By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS DAMASCUS, Syria—Saudi Ara bia charged Tuesday that United Arab Republic naval units and planes were bombarding two vil lages in southwest Saudi Arabia and broke off diplomatic relations with the U.A.R. A communique broadcast by the government-controlled Mecca ra dio said an air and naval attack began at noon Monday and was still under way. The diplomatic break and re ported attack created the widest fissure yet in the Middle East as a result of the republican revolu tion in Yemen. + it it NEW DELHI, India—Red Chi nese forces have made two thrusts into undisputed Indian territory and are building up for an attack on a key Indian air field near Ladakh high in the Himalayan frontier, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Tues day. The government announced it planned to recall nearly 7,000 Indian troops serving overseas under the U.N. flag. It also said it will begin teaching vil lagers to shoot, as a back line of defense against Communist intruders. U.S. NEWS WASHINGTON—The United States has told the Russians they cannot use troubles with Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro an excuse for not carrying out Premier Khrushchev’s pledge to remove offensive weapons from Cuba under international inspec tion. The Soviets in turn have passed word that Khrushchev’s promise still stands. But they have pointed to the difficulties posed by Castro. This was described by authori tative sources Wednesday as the essence of the secret U.S.-Soviet talks being carried on in New York while the United States maintains diplomatic and military pressure for a Cuban settlement. TEXAS NEWS TYLER—The Billie Sol Estes swindle-theft trial moved Tuesday toward a conclusion. Judge Otis Dunagan said his long-delayed court charge had reached final form and would be read as soon as the 50-page docu ment was typed.