Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1963)
AIRCRAFT BECAME TORCH . . . struck utility pole first alias Man Killed Plane Crash ame - Change ailed Joke, ^ NMt Vkfci 1 I f Y+Vfa < $|§f|||!|i | pi | v--' ■ ^.: ■ ■ : - ::: : ; ■ ; ■ :t i* ■i ■'} But Was It? | The House tabled a proposal Wednesday to change A&M’s name to include the word “university.” News dis patches from Austin called the action a joke, but was it really ? rat’s quite likely that Wednes-+ 33 27 19 }A )7 day’s move may have been only a sign of things to come. At least two legislators have already prom- i®d that they will push for such a change during this session of the legislature; ■Wednesday Rep. James Gotten of Weatherford introduced an amendment to change A&M’s name to ‘The University of Texas Agri culture and Mechanical Branch at College Station.” Cotten’s move was tacked. onto a bill proposing a change in the name of West Texas State College to West Tex as State University. The bill was advanced, 78-55. ■DURING DISCUSSION of Cot- ten’s move, Rep. David Crews of Conroe asked, “don’t they have a school for cow milking and the jford Foundation Awards Big Grant for Engineering I o C> ■The Ford Foundation has grant- ■ $50,000 to the School of Engi- ftering to encourage graduate stu- ■nts toward a teaching career. ■ Dr. Richard E. Wainerdi, associ- ; ate dean of engineering and chair- fian of the Forgivable Loan Com mittee, said grant funds will be Psed on a forgivable loan basis. || He said the loans may be grant- pd over any period up to three Bears to any one applicant, but tl i total lent to the recipient shall Pot exceed $10,000. Recipients Bust each be a qualified gradu ate student in engineering who |<fcmmits himself to a teaching ca- Ber. The loan does not require ipayment on this basis. ■ The grant is the second round in Bi expanded forgivable loan pro- ■ram the foundation announced Bst year, when it provided. $2,- ■85,000 to 42 universities. ■ Graduate engineering students interested in the program can ■et further details at the dean’s iffice. like ? It seems they have . more schools than West Texas State and are more entitled to be called a university.” Cotten’s amendment was shoved aside on call of a point of order. Gotten may soon receive sup port, and not jokingly, from the two local legislators, Sen. W. T. (Bill) Moore and Rep. David Haines. During campaigns last spring both promised to push for a name change, as well as for the admission of coeds. Most popular proposed names are Texas State University and Texas A&M University. THE BATTALION was unable to reach Gotten, Moore or Haines late Wednesday because of power failures caused by the plane crash at Wellborn late Wednesday after noon. Moore, an Aggie-ex, sponsored legislation during- the last session of the legislature to change A&M’s name to Texas State Univei-sity and Agricultural and Mechanical College. The bill, co-authored by three other former students, was not passed. At the time of the last legisla tive proposal, the. System Board of Directors had requested that the name be changed to Agricul tural and Mechanical University. Moore and his cowarts, however, were equally opposed to the term “agricultural and mechanical,” as well as to the word “college.” MOORE THEN listed two rea sons for the change: 1. “A&M hasn’t progressed as much as it should because the name is misleading to prospective students. 2. “Top-flight professors don’t want to teach in a college because they feel it would lower their standards.” When Moore’s last bill was be fore the legislature, then-Atty. Gen. Will Wilson clarified that an act of the legislature is all that would be needed to change the name of the college. Many persons had thought a constitutional amendment might be necessai-y. HERE WE GO AGAIN ‘University” again being mentioned in connection with A&M FOR SERVICES NEXT WEEK Hlngson, Dr. Goltermann Among RE Week Speakers (Editor’s note: This is the second of a series of three articles devot ed to off-campus Religious Em phasis Week speakers. The Batta lion will present two of the six guest speakers in each issue dur ing the remainder of the week.) “Faith in the Twenieth Century” is the theme of this year’s Reli gious Emphasis Week which begins Monday with 10 local denomina tions participating in s.ix series of services. Services with special speakers are planned at 7:10 p.m. Monday through Thursday. During the ob- DR. S. I. GOLTERMANN servance, call to quarters for ca dets will be postponed until 8:30 p.m. Baptist students will be able to hear Robert Andrew Hingson, M.D., who is now professor of anesthesia at Western Reserve University School of Medicine and director of anesthesia at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio. HINGSON WILL speak Sunday through Wednesday at the First Baptist Church in College Station. , The medical researcher is the in ventor of an anesthesia-resuscita- tor and a developer of a jet inject or- for mass small pox immuniza tion. He led an interdenomina tional, interracial medical mission survey team which assisted Asian and African hospitals in 1958. Sunday he will speak on the challenge of Asia, Africa and South America. Monday he will discuss Africa. Tuesday he will speak on the immunization of pest ilential diseases, and on Wednes day he will speak on the import ance of an integrated attack on world problems. Local Lutheran congregations are cooperating in bringing Dr. Samuel I. Goltermann to the Lu theran Student Center. The pastor is president of Concordia Junior College in. Austin. GOLTERMANN WILL speak Tuesday and Wednesday and parti cipate in an interdenominational panel discussion Thursday at the Hillel Foundation. The speaker is a native of Ham mond, Ind., where he was born in 1925. He is a graduate of Concordia College, Ft. Wayne, Ind., and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis Mo. Goltermann did graduate work at Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Ken tucky and the University of Texas. He was pastor at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Lexington, Ky., and campus pastor at the Univer sity of Kentucky before going to | Austin in 1955. Rryanite Suffers 6 Critical’ Burns By RONNIE BOOKMAN Battalion Managing Editor One man was charred beyond recognition and another critically burned last night when their light plane crashed and exploded on FM 2154 at Wellborn, seven miles south of here. The craft, which radioed for landing instructions at Easterwood Airport at 6:40 p. m., struck a utility pole and burned only seconds later. The airport reported that the plane had engine trouble and was enroute to Houston from Dallas. Dead is the pilot, identified as Frank Abel 59, of Dallas, and the injured man is Barton Adams, 45, of Bryan. Adams who graduated from A&M in 1940, was taken to Hermann Hospital in Hous- * 1 2 * 4 ton last night with third de gree burns over most, of his body. AN EYEWITNESS, 11-year old Dave Whitt of Wellborn, said he saw the plane hit the pole and ii spin into the highway. He de scribed the scene: “It was coming in real low, and it looked like there was either a fire or a bright light on one of the wings. After it hit the pole it went down, and seemed to start burning before it touched the ground.” The boy’s father, Dan Whitt, picked up the story: “AS SOON as it was down a man jumped out—he was on fire —and began rolling on the ground to put out the flames. “He told us his name, and that there was still a pilot in the plane. Some people started screaming to get some water, but no one could get near the plane. I yelled that it was going to explode, and it did, several times.” Bobby Clay, tower operator at Easterwood Airport, said that the plane told him that its engine had quit, but had re-started. The aircraft, a single engined 1961 Mooney Mark 21, knocked down phone lines—isolating Bryan and College Station, for about six hours. ADAMS, THE son of a former Bryan mayor, was in the grain business. Abell was also in the grain business. THOMAS LUTNER Speaker Named For Chapel Series Set Next Week Tight-lipped Federal Aviation Administration investigators re fused to comment on the way the crash occurred, but speculation among other investigators was that the plane was attempting to land on the highway when it hit the telephone pole. ROBERT A. HINGSON A plane in the air at the time of the crash was understood to have heard the doomed craft radio that its carburetor was icing. Thomas R. Lutner, chairman of the pulpit supply committee at the Trinity Baptist Church in Lake Chai’les, La., will be the featured speaker at daily noon services in the All-Faiths Chapel during Rs- ligious Emphasis Week. Lutner, a native of Oklahoma who attended A&M during the 1942-43 school year, is also director of Baptist student activities at Mc- Neese State College in Lake Charles. The daily chapel services will be conducted from 12:35-12:50 p.m., with students in charge of arrange ments. Mack Moore, ’64 from Houston will serve as music di rector. Lutner is a graduate of Baylor and also holds two degrees in re ligious education. He served as pastor of two Oklahoma Baptist churches and was with the Bap tist General Convention of Texas before assuming his current posi tions in Louisiana.