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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1962
Number 28
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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.