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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 8, 1963
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By KENT JOHNSTON
Battalion Staff Writer
I Gifford K. Johnson, president of Ling-Temco-Vought,
ll[ told Space Fiesta visitors last night that there is no reason
Texas cannot be the nation’s leading area in meeting the
.pace challenge if its schools can provide a continuous supply
of brainpower.
Johnson, speaking to a full audience in the Memorial
Student Center Ballroom, said that the vitality of Texas can
QU measured by what its schools are accomplishing on the
graduate level.
“It is disturbing,” he said, “that as recently as five years
I W AYV 0 ’ Southwest produced only five per cent of the doctor’s
degrees in the nation.”
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area where 80 percent of his
company is located, he pointed
out that “there are 275 PhD’s
working in Dallas County, and
not one of them in engineering or
science was produced there.”
Johnson quoted from a speech
recently given by Governor Con-
nally, outlining the inadequacies of
Texas higher learning.
Naturally, Johnson added, uni
versities doing the best graduate
| level training are the ones that
receive and help nearby industries
| receive federal funds for develop
mental tests and research work.
THE SPEAKER also emphasized
that the brainpower must be pro
duced in all fields—not just science
and engineering.
“The space age is not, just of
itself, a good thing,” he said. “It
4-could be turned against us unless
our political, spiritual and intel
lectual leaders prove equal to tre
mendous opportunity ahead.”
In a question-and-answer pex-iod
following his speech, Johnson said
that there is no doubt that the
U. S. will put a man on the moon
by 1970, but he emphasized that
dollars are the limiting factor in
our space program.
THE II- S. SPACE program, he
maintaiped, is not progressing as
rapidly as possible because
stepped-up spending would not be
practical at this time. He said the
U. S. cannot afford to create an
effort approaching the crash pro-
gram Russia used to get large
boosters.
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WORLD NEWS
■ BONN, Germany — Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer sought Parlia
ment’s support Thursday for his
kw treaty with France by promis-
ing it could be used to help get
Britain into the European Com-
ifon Market.
■ The chancellor told the Bunde-
sjag — Parliament — that at their
st meeting in Paris on Jan. 23
resident Charles de Gaulle
romised me that the first sub
let of joint consultation after the
eaty goes into effect will be
British entry into the European
Economic Community.”
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U.S. NEWS
■ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A
B?\v breed of Polaris missile de-
■gned to bring all land areas of
■e world within range of rocket-
|ring nuclear submarines scored
s first test flight success Thurs-
y after six failures.
The advanced Polaris, the third
meration A3 model, roared off
land launching pad and raced
40 miles down the Atlantic
eking range. Eventually the
issile will have a reach of 2,875
lies.
The Navy reported the launch-
g was highly successful. A
Jpokesman said the flight demon-
jtrated the soundness of the A3,
fhich features many revolution-
|fy rocket systems.
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TEXAS' NEWS
FORT WORTH — An appeals
ourt upheld a district judge’s rui
ng that Fort Worth’s public
chools must integrate and school
fficials indicated Thursday they
•bn no further appellate action.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Ap-
>eals at New Orleans upheld Judge
^eo Brewster’s 1961 decision call-
ng for filing of a plan for de
segregation by the board of edu
cation.
The New Orleans court said the
esegregation plan is to be filed
within 30 days from the time the
school board’s appeal is returned
to federal court here.
A Time For
Congressman Olin Teague, third from left,
makes the introductions of Gifford K. John
son, president of Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc.,
second from left, and Robert L. Smith, head
of the Data Processing Center, right, while
Space Talk
Horace J. Rektorik of the Great Issues Com
mittee looks on. Teague and a group of fel
low congressmen are on the A&M campus
to review the Space Fiesta.
PETERSON ONLY AGGIE SELECTED
Board Appointments Reduce
Former Student Majority
By RONNIE BOOKMAN
Battalion Managing Editor
With the appointment of
three top Texas industrialists
yesterday to the A&M College
System board of directors,
Gov. John Connally reduced a
seven-to-two former-student
majority to five exes and four
non-Aggie members.
Subject to approval of the legis
lature, the new directors are:
Gardiner Symonds, chairman of
the board of the Tennessee Gas
Transmission Co., Houston.
L. F. Peterson, president of the
A&M Association of Former Stu
dents and a partner of the Keller-
Peterson Oil Co., Ft. Worth.
Dr. A. P. Beutel, vice president
in charge of Gulf Coast operations
School In Caldwell
To Use A&M Plan
The Caldwell School Board has
received a $6,300 grant by Educa
tion Facilities Laboratories, Inc.
to work with the Architectural Re
search Group at A&M in develop
ing preliminary plans for a new
elementary school, announced E. E.
Johnson, president of the Caldwell
School Board. The purpose of the
grant is to assist Caldwell in de
termining the feasibility of using
A&M’s lift - shape construction
technique for building a new ele
mentary school.
The lift-shape process is a meth
od of constructing a thin concrete
shell building by fabricating a
Openings Told
In Hensel, C. V.
Several vacancies in the new
Hensel Apartments has been an
nounced by A&M Housing Office
officials. The announcement stat
ed that there is also one unfur
nished, upstairs apartment vacant
in the College View housing proj
ect.
These apartments are available
to students at A&M with families.
Persons interested in renting one
of the apartments should apply at
the Housing Office on the A&M
campus.
“spider web” of steel rods on the
ground, lifting this into a three
dimensional shape, and then spray
ing it with concrete. The process
was developed by James H. Marsh,
III, of the Architectural faculty
at A&M.
Marsh has worked with the re
search group at A&M in develop
ing the process and constructing
the first prototype lift - shape
building at Hensel Pai-k in Col
lege Station.
EDUCATIONAL Facilities Lab
oratories, Inc., who made the
grant, is a nonprofit organization
established by the Ford Founda
tion in 1958, with an appropria
tion of 4.5 million dollars to help
American schools and colleges with
their physical problems by the en
couraging of research, experimen
tation and the dissemination of
knowledge regarding educational
facilities.
E.F.L. hopes that Caldwell will
build one or more schools using
the new lift-shape process so that
economic savings can be realized
along with high quality facilities,
according to Ben H. Evans, coordi
nator of A&M’s Architectural Re
search Group.
The plan calls for the Architec
tural Research Group to conduct
a three-month study on a feasible
design for a new elementary
school for Caldwell using- the lift-
shape process.
of the Dow Chemical Co., Lake
Jackson.
THEY REPLACE Eugene B.
Darby of Pharr, William J. Lawson
of Austin and L. H. Ridout of Dal
las, all former students whose
terms ended this year. Technically
however, the three old members,
remain on the board until the ap
pointees receive confirmation,
which could come before the end
of the month.
The board will vote on a new
president at its first meeting after
confirmation. Darby had headed
the group. Dh'ectorships run for
six-years.
Peterson, 49, the only new di
rector who is an Aggie-ex, is a
1936 graduate. He was elected
alumni president Jan. 26 and was
a member of the Century Council.
SYMONDS, 59, is a 1924 grad
uate of Stanford University and
holds a master of business admin
istration degree from Harvard. In
addition to heading the multi
pronged Tennessee Gas complex,
Symonds is a director of corpora
tions including General Telephone
and Electronics, the Carrier Corp.,
Southern Pacific Co. and Cham
pion Papers Inc.
The is a member of The Business
Council, vice-chairman of the Na
tional Industrial Conference Board
and a trustee of the Committee for
Economic Development.
Symonds is a trustee of Stan
ford University and a member of
the visiting committee of the Har
vard School of Business.
He is married with five children.
BEUTEL, 70, is a native of
Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate
of Case Institute of Technology
with degrees in mining engineering
and electrical engineering. He holds
an honorary doctorate from Case.
He is a 43-year veteran with
Dow, and now is in control of
operations along the Texas Gulf
Coast, plus those in Oklahoma,
Louisiana and Mexico.
Beutel is a past regent of Lamar
State College at Beaumont, and is
a counselor of the A&M Research
Foundation. In addition, he is a
member of the Rice University As
sociates and the advisorary com
mittee of the University of Texas’
Executive Development Program.
A Lake Jackson school has been
named after the new director.
He is married and has three
married children.
Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director of the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration’s Manned Spacecraft Cen-
i ter, will make the final address at A&M’s Space Fiesta to
night at 8 p. m. in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom.
The director of the Houston space facility will give a
“progress report” on the Manned Spacecraft Center.
Holding honorary doctorate degrees from Indiana Tech
nical College, George Washington University and the Uni
versity of Minnesota, Gilruth has been a pioneer in space re
search for more than 25 years.
Gilruth is responsible for achieving manned space flights
through Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo and has re
ceived many awards for ac
complishments in his field.
IN ADDITION TO Gilruth’s
speech, Friday’s roster in
cludes a film, “The Air Force
in the. Aerospace Program” to be
shown by Lt. Col. Paul L. Maret,
assigned to Headquarters, Air
Force Space Systems Command at
Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
This is the third and final day of
the film-talk.
Attending Friday’s session of the
fiesta will be six congressmen
who make up the House subcom
mittee now studying spending of
federal funds at Houston’s Manned
Spacecraft Center.
Included in the group from
Washington are Olin E. Teague,
D-Tex., chairman of the subcom
mittee on Manned Space Flight; R.
Walter Riehlman, R-N. Y.; James
Fulton, R-Pa.; Joseph Karth, D-"* -
Minn.; Emilio Q. Daddario, D-
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Wesley L. Hjornevik, deputy di-
reetbr of business administration
for Manned Spacecraft Center, and
Phillip Yeager, special consultant
for the subcommittee, will accom
pany the congressmen.
Organizations which entered ex
hibits in the Space Fiesta are A-
merican Airlines, Bell Telephone
Co., Collins Radio of Dallas, Gen
eral Telephone and Electronics, In
ternational Business Machines.
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, Washington, D. C.,
NASA — Houston, Ling-Temco-
Vought, Texas Instruments, and
United States Air Force, VARO.
Construction Bids
Taken On Adjunct
Improvement Plan
The apparent low bidder for
construction of a classroom build-,
ing and other improvements to the
A&M Adjunct at Junction is A. P.
Kasch and Sons of Big Spring.
The four bids as tabulated by the
A&M System Office of Physical
Plants ranged from the low bid of
$75,900 to $87,524.
The bids will be studied and
recommendations made to the
Board of Directors here Feb. 23.
Completion of the classroom
building is planned to allow sub
stantially higher enrollment this
summer in the Adjunct program.
Polio, Flu Vaccines
Available At Clinic
By GERRY BROWN
Battalion News Editor
Influenza vaccine and all three
types of the oral Sabin polio vac
cine are now available at the col
lege hospital for any A&M stu
dent who wishes to take them, Dr.
Charles R. Lyons, director of stu
dent health services, said Thurs
day.
The multiple influenza vaccine
will provide protection against the
three main types of flu—Type
“A,” Type “B” and Asian flu—if
the vaccine is taken at least ten
days and preferably two weeks be
fore exposure, the doctor stated.
STUDENTS MAY receive the
multiple vaccine in a series of two
shots. The cost of the series is $2.
About 2,500 students have taken
the flu vaccines so far, according
to Lyons.
No influenza cases have been
reported so far at the college hos
pital, Lyons said. Nebraska is the
nearest of the three poi’tions of
the United States which have been
listed as recent epidemic areas, he
added.
Use of the Sabin oral polio vac
cine in the Bryan-College Station
area began last summer when the
Type I vaccine was first dis
tributed on Aug. 12.
Later, on Nov. 4, over 2,500 per
sons, mostly students and their
wives, took the Type II vaccine-
coated sugar cubes in a campus
mass innoculation program.
ALTHOUGH the planned innoc
ulation program for the Type III
oral vaccine was canceled last
year, the vaccine is available now.
“All three types of the Sabin
oral vaccine are in the frozen
liquid form,” Lyons stated. Indi
vidual doses of each type may be
obtained by students at a charge
of 50 cents per bottle dose.
The state health commissioner’s
oral polio advisory committee rec
ommended the use of all types of
the oral polio vaccine in Texas
after making a study last Septem
ber.
Cushing Keeps
Midnight Hours
The extended library hours which
have been on trial since the mid
dle of the fall semester have been
accepted by library officials on a
permanent basis according to Greg
Laughlin, vice president of the Stu
dent Senate.
Laughlin said Robert A. Houze,
library director, announced the de
cision earlier this week.
The new hours will keep the
library open from 8 a.m. until 12
midnight every day of the week,
with the exeeption of Satuday
when the closing time will be 5
p.m.
Senate Moves
On Selection
Of Sweetheart
Major changes in the selection
procedure of the Aggie Sweet
heart were adopted by the Student
Senate in its Thursday night meet
ing.
In the future applicants for
Sweetheart must submit an appli
cations with a photograph to the
President of the Student Council
of Social Activities at Texas Wo
man’s University.
A COMMITTEE composed of the
Dean of Women or a representa
tive, Aggie Sweetheart for the
previous year or a representative,
and the President of the Student
Council of Social Activities from
TWU will work with the Dean of
Students or representative, Vice
President of the Student Senate
and a representative from the Stu
dent Senate from A&M.
This group’s function will be
to select 30 or 40 finalists from the
applications This process will re
place the popular vote by TWU
students which has been used in
the past.
A FOUR-MAN selection com
mittee composed of a representa
tive of the senior class chosen by
the senior class president, the
president of the junior class, the
president of the sophomore class
and a Student Senate advisor or
his representative will be responsi
ble for the selection of the 10 or
15 finalists.
The final selection of the Aggie
Sweetheart will be made by the
Aggie Sweetheart Selection Com
mittee as set up in the Magna
Carta of 1961 as ammended.
IN ORDER to be qualified for
the contest a girl must be a student
at TWU of sophomore or higher
classification and must have a
1.5 grade point ratio or higher.
In other action the Senators ac
cepted changes in the Magna Car
ta wljich added the President of
the Senior class as a member of the
executive committee of the Aggie
Sweetheart Selection Committee.
The chairman of the student life
committee of the Student Senate
was made an ex officio member of
the Selection Committee.