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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 ?
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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
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■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.