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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1963
Number 56
62 Graduates
Will Receive
Bars Saturday
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Sixty-two senior cadets who will
graduate Saturday morning are
also slated to receive the gold bars
of a second lieutenant and a com
mission in one of the armed forces.
The commissioning exercise is
scheduled at 1:30 p.m. Saturday
in G. Rollie V/hite Coliseum with
Air Force Maj. Gen. John F. Fos-
| ter as the main speaker.
ELEVEN CADETS are slated to
receive commissions in the Air
i Force while 50 senior ROTC ca
dets have applied for commissions
in the Army. One student will
also be commissioned in the reg
ular Marine Corps.
Gen. Foster, president of the Re
sumed a second lieutenant in the
Army Air Corps Reserve.
He saw service dining World
War II with the Second Air Force
and later in the combat operations
section of the Mediterranean Al
lied Air Force.
RETURNING TO San Antonio
after the war, Gen. Foster re
mained active in the Air Reserve
program. He organized and com
manded for ten years the 433rd
Troop Carrier Wing and earned
the rank of brigadier general in
1954.
His present assignment is aide
to the commander of the Twelfth
Air Force in Waco. Gen. Foster,
DR. R. E. GOODRICH
serve Officer’s Association of the . who was promoted to the rank of
United States, began his service ! major general in 1961, is a mem-
j her of the Reserve Forces Policy
' Board of the Department of De
career in 1931 when he completed
flight training and was commis-
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Smiles Under Sabers
White-Clad Ross Volunteers provide a saber t'icial honor guard the Ross Volunteers took
arch for a smiling Gov. and Mrs. John Con- part in the traditional and colorful festivi-
nally just prior to the inaugural ceremonies ties, including the inaugural parade. The
in Austin Tuesday. As- the governor’s of- A&M Band also marched in the parade.
PR LAW, PURYEAR
Student Janitor
To Increase In
Jobs
Spring
■am expanded program of mak-
| ng dormitory janitorial jobs avail-
iblc to students was outlined Wed-
xesday.
<: The success of the program
.-linges upon the cooperation of
’'itudents residing in dormitories,
'’lean of Students James P. Han-
iigan and Walter H. Parsons Jr.,
iepd of the Department of Build-
ngs and Utilities, said.
PARSONS ALSO emphasized that
he use of students will not af
fect the number of full-time jani
tors. The new Plant Sciences and
Architecture buildings shortly will
ifeate the need for additional jani-
;orial service.
B.aw and Puryear Halls will be
Served by student janitors starting
J&fly in the spring semester.
■Later, I hope Walton and Hart
Sails can be added,” Parsons said,
‘but the location of showers in
these halls creates a problem.”
•WO STUDENTS worked dur
ing the fall semester as janitors
ifor three- floors of Dormitory 13,
B()0'' 3ac ^ student working 18 hours
weekly. The experiment proved
satisfactory, as student residents
cooperated, Parsons said.
The Student Senate last year
suggested the possible use of stu
dents as janitors, Hannigan said.
Students long have served as din
ing hall waiters.
The dean of students residing
in dorms where student janitors
work need to be especially careful
to avoid sweeping dirt and trash
into the halls and to refrain from
destructive pranks.
HANNIGAN NOTED recent re
ports from at least one dormi-
toi’y of “excessive water damage.”
He also said some students burn
trash in a wastebasket, on the
“highly dangerous assumption”
that a masonry building is fire
proof.
The possibility that savings re
sulting from the use of student
janitors can he used to provide
more things such as bulletin boards
in individual rooms and door clos
ers on the ramps was cited by the
dean.
PARSONS SAID students resid
ing in the vicinity of Puryear and
Law Halls and interested in the
possibility of working as janitors
should contact the Placement Of
fice immediately. More applicants
are needed than immediate open
ings because of possible turnover
and other reasons, he ,said.
Increments of work in Law and
Puryear Halls readily lend them
selves to the use of varying num
bers of student janitors, Parsons
said. Work assignments easily di
vided to be acceptable to a vary
ing number of young men is a
key to a successful student labor
program. The dormitories with
long hallways do not easily lend
themselves to student labor, he
explained.
The two full-time janitors in
Law and Puryear Halls could be
replaced by as many as 10 stu
dents, part-time janitors, Parsons
pointed out. The number of daily
hours a student janitor works will
vary depending upon the amount
of free time each student has for
this purpose.
r. F. R. Duke To Hold
elch Chemistry Chair
Dr. Frederick R. Duke, one of
the world’s foremost authorities on
oxidation and fused salt technol
ogy, has been named to fill the
Robert A. Welch Foundation chair
of chemistry here.
Duke, author of more than 100
scholarly papers on analytical and
physical chemistry, is scheduled
to come to the college in Septem
ber from Iowa State University.
the University of Illinois in 1940.
After one year of postdoctorate
study at the University of Illinois,
he became a research chemist for
DuPont Chemical Co. In 1942 he
joined the faculty of Princeton
University and in 1945 was named
an assistant professor of chem
istry at Michigan State Univer
sity.
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DR. F. R. DUKE
DUKE MOVED to Iowa State
THE WELCH RESEARCH chair j University in 1948 and was named
was endowed through a $650,000 I a professor there in 1954.
grant from the estate of Robert j He has served as consultant to
, Alonzo Welch, Houston philanthro- | many firms including the Man-
lll pist, who sponsored more than ! hattan District on uranium anal-
$8.6 million of fundamental chem- j ysis in 1942-45.
1' ical research in Texas. The new Welch
The chemist was born Mar. 17,
1917, in Unityville, S. Dak., and
attended Dakota Wesleyan Uni
versity. He received a B.A. de
gree from the University of South
professor is a
member of many learned societies,
including the American Chemical
Society, the American Electro
chemical Society, Sigma Xi, Alpha
Chi Sigma, Phi Lambda Upsilon
Dakota in 1937 and a Ph.D. from ! and the Iowa Academy of Science.
Large Crowd
Bite To Hear
Paul Harvey
Early ticket sales indicate a
large area representation at the
annual Bryan - College Station
Chamber of Commerce member
ship banquet Jan. 28, Gene Sutp-
hen, chamber president, said Wed
nesday.
“The response has been unusual
since special invitations went out
to Brazos Valleye residents to join
us,” he continued.
Paul Harvey, prize-winning radio
newscaster, will speak at the ban
quet in Sbisa Hall. More than
1,500 persons are expected.
fense.
MAJ. GEN. J. H. FOSTER
Here Is Your
Final Exam Schedule
Here is the official schedule of final examinations for
the fall semester:
Date
Time
Class
Jan. 19
1-4 p. m.
TWF3, TThF3, TF3
Jan. 21
8-11 a. m.
MWF8
Jan. 21
1-4 p. ih.
TThSFl
Jan. 22
8-11 a. m.
MWF9
Jan. 22
1-4 p. m.
MWThl
Jan. 23
8-11 a. m.
MWF10
Jan. 23
1-4 p. m.
TF1
Jan. 24
8-11 a. m.
MSTThlO
Jan. 24
1-4 p. m.
MWTh2
Jan. 25
8-11 a. m.
MWF11
Jan. 25
1-4 p. m.
M4TThll
Jan. 26
8-11 a. m.
TTH9F2
Jan. 26
1-4 p. m.
TF2
No ROTC Changes
Due In Next Year
No change is being contemplated
in college and university ROTC
programs during the next fiscal
year, a Pentagon official told the
Associated Press Wednesday.
The official added, however, that
elimination of all ROTC units
A&M Researcher
Dies In Florida
Of Asphyxiation
The body of a reseai’cher with
the Department of Oceanography
and Meteorology was found Tues
day in his Panama City, Fla, home.
Investigators said John Alli
son Lyons Jr., 48, died of accident
al asphyxiation. No inquest was
planned.
Dr. Dale Leipper, head of the
Department of Oceanography and
Meteorology, said last night that
Lyons had only been in Florida
about a month at the time of his
death.
Leipper said that the dead man
had been hired in California and
sent directly to Florida, where he
worked under a contract with the
Navy. Leipper said Lyons had
only been on the A&M campus
for brief periods.
An Associated Press report said:
Lyons was working under con
tract with the Navy Mines De
fense Laboratory at Panama City.
Officers said fellow employes
requested a check after Lyons
failed to report for work Monday
or Tuesday. The body was found
on a couch in the living room
with a gas heater burning nearby.
Police said he apparently had
been dead since late Saturday
night.
from high schools is contemplated
in the budget recommendations
President Kennedy submitted to
Congress today.
Even though no college changes
are planned during the next year,
the Pentagon spokesman added
that the Defense Department is
contemplating a cutback in the
senior ROTC program sometime
in the future so that such train
ing would be available only to col
lege juniors and seniors.
There is no request for money
to maintain the ROTC program in
high schools during the fiscal year
starting next July 1, the official
added, whereas during the current
year $5 million was appropriated.
Some 60,000 youths are enrolled
now in such courses.
The Budget Bureau is request
ing approximately the same
amount as last year for maintain
ing the Reserve Officer Training
Corps in colleges and universities,
so that at least during the new
fiscal year no change is contem
plated in the senior ROTC pro-
gi’am.
Batt Publication
Dates Announced
After today’s edition Battal
ion staff members will take a
break, attempting to pass up
coming final examinations. There
will be no Batt tomorrow/and
the only issue next week will be
published on Thursday.
During the week-long period
between semesters The Battal
ion will have one edition, Thurs
day, Jan. 31. The first Batt
of the spring semester will be
Tuesday, Feb. 5.
Rrofoeck To Visit
The world famous Dave Bru-
beck Quartet will present a two-
hour program of the Brubeck
flavor of modern jazz on campus
Feb. 4, the first day of classes
of the spring semester.
The program, featuring Brubeck
at the piano, is sponsored by Town
Hall and will he given in G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Dr. Goodrich
Will Address
New Grads
Approximately! 400 under
graduate and graduate stu
dents are scheduled to receive
degrees during commence
ment exercises Saturday at 10
a. m. in G. Rollie White Coli
seum.
Principal speaker at the
graduation ceremony will be
Dr. Robert E. Goodrich Jr.,
pastor of the First Methodist
Church of Dallas.
THE EXERCISES WILL begin
with an invocation by Kirk Black-
ard, corps chaplain.
Greeting the graduating stu
dents, their families and their
friends will be Eugene B. Darby,
a member of the A&M Board of
Directors, followed by Chancellor
M. T. Harrington.
President Earl Rudder will then
introduce Goodrich as the main
speaker.
GOODRICH, A GRADUATE of
Birmingham-Southern College at
Birmingham, Ala., received his
master’s degree from the Southern
Methodist University School of
Theology. He also holds an hon
orary doctor of divinity degree
from Centenary College.
The speaker is well known over
the x’adio and television waves. He
has delivered five series of ser
mons for the Methodist series of
the Protestant Hour, a radio pro
gram carried by 408 radio stations
in North America and by the
Armed Forces Overseas Network.
THE MINISTER ENTERED the
field of television in 1950, creat
ing the weekly dramatic show,
“The Pastor Calls,” which ran for
nine years on KRLD-TV in Dallas.
Goodrich is currently broadcast
ing his shrmons each Sunday in
Dallas. Every fourth Sunday’s
services are televised by WFAA.
He has been pastor of the Dallas
First Methodist Church since 1946
and was a Wilson lecturer at Cen
tenary College in 1960 and Finch
lecturer at Thomasville, N. C., in
19,59.
FOLLOWING THE speech by
the Dallas minister, Rudder will
begin the conferring of degrees.
He will be assisted by Deans
Wayne C. Hall, Frank W. R. Hu
bert, Fred J. Benson and Director
G. M. Watkins, who will present
the graduates.
Concluding the ceremony will be
the singing of “The Spirit of Ag-
gieland.” Robert L. Boone, A&M
music director, will lead the sing
ing.
The Benediction will be given
by Donald Neumann, civilian chap
lain.
Wire Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
BERLIN—Soviet Premier Khru
shchev warned the balky Commun
ist Chinese to get into line with
the rest of the Red world and ac
cept Moscow’s blueprint for ex
pansion if they want to remain
in the Soviet camp.
In a highly emotional speech
Wednesday before a gathering of
Communist leaders from 70 coun
tries, the Soviet leader delivered
a sizzling rebuttal of Peking
charges that he knuckled under in
fear of the nuclear might of the
United States.
Declaring that his policies
averted war and saved communism
in Cuba, Khrushchev outlined the
horrors of a nuclear conflict be
tween the United States and the
Soviet Union. He declared that
the United States could loose a
storm of 40,000 atomic and nuclear
w r arheads capable of obliterating
whole nations.
U.S. NEWS
WASHINGTON—Sen. John L.
McClellan, D-Ark., introduced
bills Wednesday to outlaw strikes
against defense facilities and to
give the government a new wea
pon to deal with transport
strikes such as the current East
Coast-Gulf Coast dock workers’
strike.
The defense facilities measure,
McClellan told the Senate in a
speech, would prohibit strikes or
other works stoppages at missle
sites and other defense facilities.
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NEW YORK—In a rare test,
a court ruled Wednesday that oc
cupying a seat in a U.N. delega
tion does not in itself entitle a per
son to diplomatic immunity under
U.S. la'rtr.
The decision came in the case of
a member of the Cuban U.N. mis
sion, Robert Santiesteban Casa
nova, 28, charged with conspiracy
to commit espionage.
TEXAS NEWS
AUSTIN^- Texas lawmakers
cheered and applauded Wednesday
as Gov. John Connally told them
what laws he wants passed for the
next two years.
Immediately after his speech,
key senators and representatives
indicated they strongly favored
much of the vast legislative pro
gram outlined by Connally.
The new governor threw his
weight behind several of what will
be the most controversial bills of
the session—c o n t r o 1 1 i n g loan
sharks, election law reform, elim
inating inequities in the sales tax.
He also told the lawmaker’s it
is urgent that they give him
$50,000 as an emergency appropri
ation to begin a committee study
aimed at improving the field of
higher education in Texas.