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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1963
Number 58
ongressmen To Visit Space Fiesta
Brass
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Budgets
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y College and A&M System offi-
ials were awaiting: further de-
elopments Thursday in the long-
rodedure of obtaining funds from
lelstate.
Next expected development is the
mwuncement of Gov. John Con-
ally’s budget estimates in the
ext few weeks. Already Chan-
?lloi- M. T. Harrington, President
lari Rudder and other officials
Urflve appeared before the Senate
PliiiMnce Committee and the House
,ijlpft’opriations Committee.
Km A ml two budgets have been re
leased calling for A&M to receive
^ ;ayer $8 million for the fiscal year
150 Mothers
I Harch Tonight
n Dimes Drive
A corps of 450 women will be
nocking on every door in Bryan
nd College Station Thursday night
5 part of the 25th anniversary of
le March of Dimes.
The Mothers’ March will begin
Dout 5:30 p.m. and continue un-
1 7 p.m., according to Mrs. L. L.
tuart of 702 Broadmoor and Mrs.
A. On* of 500 Dexter, general
lairmen.
ALL OF THE volunteers in the
larch of Dimes Mothers’ March
now how important the job is,
p^en though it will take only about
hour,” C. E. Sandstedt, Brazos
unty March of Dimes chairman,
lid.
“Just about every person in
ryan-College Station area will be
isited by a neighbor Thursday
gening,” he added.
Sandstedt also praised teenagers
.-/ho have contributed “greatly to
'He campaign during January.”
heir most recent effort—a bread
tie—netted the MOD drive $275.
THE MOD CHAIRMAN pointed
at that contributions made by
ryan-College Station residents
ill benefit Texans. Last year,
B cents of every dollar contribut-
J went to Texas medical centers
)r treatment and research ex-
enses.
beginning Sept. 1.
The Legislature Budget Board
and former governor Price Daniel
’■'oth recommended the $8 million
figures, which are only slightly
more than the $8,109,596 the col
lege is now spending.
BOTH FIGURES are far short
of the amount asked by the A&M
Svstem’s Board of Directors. The
directors requested well over $10
million for each of the next two
years.
Hearings before the Senate and
House finance committees were
concluded early this week, with
Chancellor Harrington calling the
sessions, “pleasing and the earli
est hearings on A&M annronria-
tions reouests have been heard in
any legislatuive session.”
PRIMARY AREAS of increased
costs, as outlined by President Rud
der in one of the Austin sessions,
are:
1. An increase in administrative
salaries of 11 per cent in 1964 and
five per cent more in 1965.
2. A similar increase in faculty
salaries, bringing the average first
year salary to $8,196 and the aver
age second year salary to $8,562.
3. An increase in the library bud
get to $106,295 during each of the
next two years.
4. A sizable increase for grad
uate fellowships.
RECOMMENDATIONS submit
ted by the Board of Directors in
cluded sizeable salary increases for
the chancellor and presidents of
schools in the A&M System.
The directors recommended a
$30,000 chancellor’s salary, $25,000
for President Rudder, $20,000 for
the president of Arlington State
College and $18,000 for the presi
dent of Tarleton State and Prairie
View A&M.
Speech Slated
As Part of Tour
A congressional subcommittee will make a brief stop on
campus next week to visit the giant Space Fiesta scheduled
next Wednesday through Friday.
The announcement came from Representative Olin E.
Teague of College Station, who will accompany the group.
The main purpose of the trip is to take a look-see at the
Manned Spacecraft Center of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration in Houston concerning the spending
of federal funds.
Members of the group to make the visit here have not
been announced yet, according to J. Wayne Stark, director of
the Memorial Student Center and one of the ram-rods behind
the Space Fiesta. 4 ’
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FIREMEN FIGHT RUDDER HOUSE FIRE
flames ravished 70-year old presidential residence
TO REPLACE CHARRED MANSION
Board To Study New House
For Rudder At Next Meeting
New quarters for President Earl
Rudder will definitely be taken up
at the next meeting of A&M’s
Board of Directors.
Eugene B. Darby of Pharr, chair
man of the board, said Wednes
day that “action will be taken on
new quarters for the president at
our next regularly scheduled meet
ing Feb. 23.”
The two-story, five-bedroom co
lonial house on campus, formerly
occupied by Rudder and his family,
was razed by fire Saturday. The
70-year-old dwelling was first oc
cupied by Lawrence Sullivan Ross,
and has been home to 14 of the
college presidents.
The Rudders have moved into
the board of directors’ guest house
temporarily.
Much of the Rudders’ personal
belongings were destroyed in the
blaze that burned for four hours
before being brought under con
trol. The Rudders and more than
ato
Tint Sciences
luilding Opens
The $2.3 million Plant Sciences
uilding was opened Monday. The
rar-story structure will house the
epartments of Plant Sciences,
ange and Forestry, Floriculture,
torticulture and parts of Genetics
nd Biology.
The four upper floors in the
adding consist of offices, class-
QlIAMoms and laboratories. In the
jUGHasement are laboratories and con-
RESE^folled-environment growth cham-
ers.
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Harvey Urges Americans,
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‘Dare To Be Uncommon’
With a hearty “Good evening
Americans,” News Analyst Paul
Harvey embarked upon a 60 min
ute speech Monday night in which
he urged Americans to dare to
be uncommon and to become con
cerned about those things which
are important.
Harvey was speaking to ap
proximately 1,200 persons attend
ing the Bryan-College Station
Chamber of Commerce banquet in
Sbisa Hall.
He told the group, “We worry
about the wrong things.”
Of Russia he asked, “Is the Red
Bear house broken?”
He went on to say that the Red
Bear is not house broken. He
based his claim on his belief that
Khrushchev needs trouble. He said,
IONS
g Texas
[gecrest
Here’s Spring Semester
Registration Schedule
Cards for spring semester registration will be issued
tv o returning students at the News Stand in front of Sbisa
& lining Hall according to the following schedule:
M Friday, Feb. 1
otf 1-3 p. m.—All whose surnames begin with P, Q, R and S.
I 3-4:30 p. m.—All whose surnames begin with C, D, E
< n( * F.
7Mr Saturday, Feb. 2
I 8-10 a. m.—AH whose surnames begin with G, H, I, J
nd K.
t 10-11:30 a. m.—All whose surnames begin with A and B.
s 1-3 p. m.—All whose surnames begin with T, U, Y, W,
I Y and Z.
3-4 p. m.—All whose surnames begin with L, M, N and O.
“Fear is the stickem that keeps
dictatorships together.”
“FEAR IS the whip of a dicta
torship,” Harvey continued. “Pro
mises are the carrot which leads
the people.”
The veteran newsman then said,
“The dictatorship in Washington
is mushrooming. Are we not too
being lured into the totalitarian.”
“I think Uncle Sam is a lousy
businessman,” Harvey said. He
went on to describe Uncle Sam
as “lazy, incompetent and chicken.”
Harvey statbd, “Government is
a good servant, but it’s a bad
master and a treacherous god.”
THE CONDITION of the United
States was compared to the second
stage of marriage in which Har
vey said there is a period of un
rest in which the parties often
want to “jump the fence” in search
for something better.
The same thing is happening
in the U. S., according to Harvey.
We are creating a government
which will make everyone equal,
while in reality, Harvey says,
everyone is not equal.
“Some are built for leadership
and some are not and we had bet
ter start encouraging those who
are,” Harvey said. “We should
never weaken the strong by dis
criminating against excellence.”
THE SPEAKER said that there
is no super-race, hut there are
superior individuals. “If Uncle
Sam ever does get licked it won’t
be by Russia,” Hatwey said, “but
by a hussy named something-for-
nothing.”
“Government should never be
first aid, but a last resort,” Har
vey said. “A man must have a
reason to live and a reason to die.”
“Let’s stop blaming the commun
ists for what is our fault,” he
urged. A challenge was presented
for Americans to stop worrying
about getting something for noth
ing, but to concern themselves
with being productive.
“I refuse to believe that my
country is ready for the glue fac
tory,” Harvey concluded, “but, the
republic born in Philadelphia will
have to be born again.”
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Chamber Manager ■
Named At Banquet
L. H. (Hill) Westmoreland, a
partner in Channel Services, Inc.,
an industrial service firm in Bay-
town, has been named manager of
the Bi-yan-College Station Cham
ber of Commerce.
Announcement of his- appoint
ment was made at a headliner
membership banquet here Monday
night featuring radio news ana
lyst Paul Harvey as speaker.
Westmoreland, a 46-year-old
graduate of Tulsa University, is
former plant manager of Texas
Butadiene and Chemical Corp. of
Houston. He has been a member
of both the Houston and the Bay-
town Chamber of Commerce.
Westmoreland succeeds Jimmy
Dillon who resigned Jan. 1. He
will assume the new duties March
1.
100 volunteers salvaged a great
deal of furniture and household
goods from the first floor.
President and Mrs. Rudder ex
pressed “sincere gratitude to the
students, neighbors and firemen
who braved the fire and smoke to
save our belongings.”
“If it had not been for the kind
help of so many persons, we would
have lost everything,” Rudder said.
Mrs. Rudder and their three
daughters were inside the house
when the fire was spotted on the
roof by their son walking home for
lunch. The president was in his
office two blocks away when the
blaze was reported.
Firemen from the College and
Bryan were joined by students still
on campus, in quelling the blaze.
College fire chief Gilbert Eimann
said the fire apparently started
around a chimney of a double fire
place between two sitting rooms.
Eimann estimated total fire loss
at $75,000.
THE VISITING congress
men will arrive here from
Washington next Friday and
will hear an address that
right by Dr. Robert R. Gilruth,
director of NASA’s Manned Space
craft Center.
Other speakers at the Space Fi
esta will be Dr. Herbert Trotter,
chairman of General Telephone and
E'ectronics Laboratories Inc. next
Wednesdav. and Gifford K. John
son, president of Ling-Temco-
Vought Inc. next Thursday. The
soeeriies are set for 8 p. m. in
the MSC Ballroom.
Bob Wimbish, chairman of the
MSC’s Great Issues Committee, one
of the sponsoring groups, said the
main purpose of the Snace Fiesta
was to show the public the im
portance of space explorations.
IN CO-OPERATION with the
Great Issues Committee are the
Departments of Aerospace Engi
neering and Air Science.
In addition to the major speeches,
the Space Fiesta will feature
space-oriented exhibits, representa
tives from the various firms send
ing displays and movies to be
shown twice daily depicting Air
Force missile launching-, both suc
cessful and other-wise.
Lt. Col. Paul Maret of Andrews
Air Force Base, Md., will present
the films at several different times
each day.
DISPLAYS INCLUDE those
from American Airlines, Collins
Radio, General Telephone and Elec
tronics Corp., International Busi
ness Machines, Ling-Temco-Vought
Inc., NASA’s Manned Spacecraft
Center—Houston, NASA—Wash
ington, Southwestern Bell Tele
phone, Texas Instruments and the
U. S. Air Force.
The exhibits include a replica of
the Mercury capsule, a space suit,
various rockets and technical dis
plays.
One exhibit will be a full scale
model of the Telstar satellite.
Some of the representatives of
the firms to attend the Space Fi
esta are recent A&M graduates.
Students May Now Pay Rent
On P. 0. Boxes By Semesters
An experiment by the Post Of
fice Department will now allow
College Station box patrons to
pay rent by the semester instead
of the quarter, Postmaster Ernest
Gregg said Wednesday.
College Station is the only area
in the country with the semester
payment plan, Gregg said.
“If it works here, the Post Of
fice Department is going-to put it
into effect in all college towns,”
he said.
Here is the way the new system
will work:
1. Students just starting here
will be able to rent a box for $2.55
for the spring semester.
2. Students who already have
their post office boxes are paid
through March and will be able to
pay a fee of 85 cents for rent until
the end of the semester.
3. Summer school students may
rent boxes for 85 cents for each
six-week term.
4. When school starts next fall
box rent of $2.55 will be collected
for the entire semester. Then an
other charge of $2.25 will be re
quired for the spring semester.
Gregg said the new set-up would
affect regular patrons as well as
students.
Students would save about 57
cents under this system, he said,
since they will not have to pay for
time that they were not in school.
Brubeck’s Quartet
Here Mon day Nigh t
Dave Brubeck and his famous
jazz quartet will star in a two-
hour program Monday night in
G. Rollie White Coliseum. The
show, which begins at 8, is spon
sored by the Town Hall Com
mittee of the Memorial Student
Center.
Students with activity cards
will be admitted to the program
L. F. Peterson
To Head Exes
For Next Year
L. F. Peterson of Fort Worth
has been elected president of the
40,000-member Association of
Former Students.
The election of officers for 1963
highlighted the annual conference
of association members here last
Saturday and Sunday. More than
175 former students attended the
meetings.
PETERSON, a 1936 graduate of
A&M, is a partner with Keller-
Peterson Oil firm. A member of
numerous committees of the as
sociation and the college, Peter
son served as vice president of
the former student group in 1962.
The new vice president is Jack
A. Crichton of Dallas, a 1937 grad
uate and president of Oil and Gas
Property Management, Inc.' Crich
ton, president of the Dallas A&M
Club, has been active in the associ
ation, serving- on numerous com
mittees.
Three additional members were
added to the executive board. They
are Guy King Jr., Waco; John M.
Younger; and Jake T. Long, Gil
mer.
OTHER OFFICERS elected in
clude 11 district vice presidents and
representatives to major commit
tees of the association.
District officers for 1963 are
Oscar L. Crain, Lubbock, District
1; Ed Durrett, Odessa, District II;
Frank Pool, San Angelo, District
III; E. D. Sheridan, Dallas, Dis
trict IV; Royce Wisenbaker, Tyler,
District V; Bill Chamlee, Temple,
District VI; W. Jeff Montgomery,
Houston, District VII; Will Ed
Jauer, San Antonio, District VIII;
W. C. Lonquist, Corpus Christi,
District IX; Fred Clarke, Lafay
ette, La., Louisiana District; and
Henry Eddins, Tulsa, Okla, At-
Large District.
Bryan-C. S. Jaycees Pick Wainerdi
As Area’s ‘Outstanding Young Man’
Dr. Richard E. Wainerdi, associ
ate dean of engineering, has been
named this area’s “Outstanding
Young Man” by the Bryan-College
Station Junior Chamber of Com
merce.
The 31-year-old scientist, pro
fessor of engineering science and
head of the college’s Activation
Analysis Laboratory received the
honor during the annual Bryan-
Colloge Station Jaycee distinguish
ed service awards banquet.
“Dr. Wainerdi has brought more
international distinction to the col
lege and to this area than perhaps
anyone in recent years,” Don F.
Morrison, assistant to the A&M
vice chancellor for development,
said.
Morrison, who nominated the
young scientist for the award, said
Wainerdi ‘has been a catalyst to
the entire faculty.”
Wainerdi was chosen from a-
mong five candidates for the a-
ward.
The New Yorker’s climb to pro
minence is closely associated with
the Activation Analysis Laboi-a-
tory, which has brought wide re
cognition to A&M. He pioneered
development of computer-coupled
automatic activation analysis.
Morrison said these facilities are
probably the first in the world
to be devoted solely to activation
analysis.