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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1963
Number 71
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President, |
Begins Work
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■Sterling C. Evans of Houston, a noted rancher, was
med president of the A&M System Board of Directors
it Jr day. John W. Newton, Beaumont businessman, was
o»n vice president of the group.
■Both are graduates of A&M, and Newton once taught
*re.
■Evans is the owner of the show-place Nine-Bar Ranch
ry I Hempstead and Newton is retired vice president and
/jOyjmaral manager of the Magnolia Petroleum Co.
Battalion To Get New Press
■The Board Saturday approved the purchase of a new
>5,D00 offset printing press for The Battalion.
■The new press, the Goss “Community,” will be delivered
id put into operation in about seven months.
■The press ha$ a capacity of 8.000 papers per hour and
iliees the newest concepts of printing. The flatbed press
>w in operation was purchased in 1947.
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Haines Says Legislature
Will Okay Name Change
New President’s Home Purchased
The Board of Director^ formally announced the purchase
! a four-bedroom house for President Rudder and his family | -
; their meeting Saturday. The house, at 115 Lee St. in Col-
ge Station, will serve as a temporary replacement for the
■pus presidental residence that burned last month.
■ The Rudders have been in their new home since Feb. 14.
■ The Board also alloted $1,500 for an architectural study
)r a new campus home. A site mentioned was behind the
lancellor’s home, facing G. Rollie White Coliseum and Kyle
'ield.
Benson Assigned New Duties
■ Fred J. Benson, dean of engineering, was given the addi-
io|ial duties of director of the Texas Engineering Experiment
tation by the Board Saturday.
■ He succeeds Dr. Archie M. Kahan who resigned last
lonth to take a post at the University of Oklahoma.
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$1 Million Accepted
The Board accepted grants-in-aid, gifts, scholarships,
ellpwships and awards totalling $1 million Saturday.
Those to A&M were:
Schoiarships, fellowships and awards—$22,900.
For research and grants-in-aid—$22,350.
Special and other gifts—$693,000.
Professors Wanted By Engineers
The Board heard a report from Dean of Engineer-
ng Fred J. Benson that he was having a serious problem
'illing eight-to-ten teaching vacancies.
K “We’ve had very little luck this year in finding the kind
)f people we want.” He blamed low salaries here for putting
in “a poor position competitively.”
.■ Benson said a full professor here is paid on the associate
ffofessor’s pay scale at Oklahoma State University.
Introduction Of Bill
Slated Next Week
By RONNIE BOOKMAN
Battalion Managing Editor
Rep. David Haines said Monday night that the legisla
ture will give its Aggie-ex members “anything we want” in
regards to a new name for the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas.
The freshman legislator from College Station, in an
exclusive telephone interview, told The Battalion:
“Wednesday night the Board of Directors, Dr. Rudder
and Dr. Harrington will meet with the members of the House
and the Senate who are Aggies, and officially ask for the
name-change.”
The administration request will follow a move by the
Board of Directors Saturday to ask the legislature to change
the school’s name to Texas 4 1
A&M University.
Whirlybird Shows Process
Helicopter, crop dusters and stunt flyers the show included a demonstration by the
demonstrated their abilities Monday at an helicopter and a spectacular stunt flying-
agricultural air show at Easterwood. De- exhibition,
signed to show off the latest in crop dusting,
AIRPLANES ATTRACT CROWD
Vet Suggests Following
Of Chemical Instructions
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
|; GENEVA — The United States
promised Monday to remain flexi
ble in nuclear test ban negotiations
if the Soviet Union will only define
the type of inspection Moscow will
allow on Russian soil.
■leutral delegates at the 17-na
tion disarmament conference suo
jbsted the United States and the
Soviet Union may ultimately com
promise on five test ban inspec
ts ns a year on each other’s ter
ritory.
U. S. NEWS
■WASHINGTON — Mike Mans
field, Senate Democratic leader,
confirmed Mondav niprht that four
Americans lost their lives in the
■sastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of
[Cuha in April 1961.
■ Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, the
■epublican leader, had said ear-
per that four Americans were lost
in the ill-fated invasion attempt, i
|He said they flew unmarked planes
| in support of the invasion force. I
I Cuban freedom fighters made
■e abortive invasion effort.
TEXAS NEWS
I AUSTIN — Sen. A. R. Sch-
ipartz told his fellow members j
Monday that the long cherished
■ecret vote on nominations is a
■king of the past.
I However, a pending rule change
■ould re-establish the practice.
I Schwartz served notice at Mon-
Bay’s session that from now on
■e will reveal how Senators voted
| in secret meetings.
Traditionally, everything said
u ring secret sessions called to
onsider nominees has been con-
idered strictly private-including
otes and statements concerning
he nominee.
Approximately 200 persons at
tending the Texas Agricultural A-
viation Conference and numerous
Bryan-College Station residents
watched wide-eyed Monday after
noon as daredevil pilots snapped
rolled, flipped and turned their air
planes.
Aerial acrobatics high-lighted a
show in which airplane and helicop
ter manufacturers demonstrated
the efficiency of their products in
applying chemicals to farm crops.
Earlier Monday those people in
attendance at the 12th annual con
ference heard Dr. R. D. Turk of
the Department of Veterinary Par
asitology say that the secret of
avoiding poisoning farm animals,
or any other crop, with agricul
tural chemicals is to follow direc
tions.
TURK PARAPHRASED the old
axiom: “When everything else
fails, try following the directions.”
But then there are always , per
sons who feel that if a little bit
is good, a little more is better, he
Who? Me?
Pam Primdahl of Dallas ex
presses surprise upon being
named 1963 Band Sweet
heart at the annual Band
Dance Saturday night. She
was escorted by sophomore
pre-vet major, Larry Phil
lips.
Rent Will Increase
In Hensel, C. V.
Next September
The Board of Directors Satur
day hiked the rent of all'College
View and Project Housing apart
ments $10 per month, beginning
this September. Hensel Apart
ments rent was unchanged at $65
per month.
Recommendation for the increase
came from President Earl Rudder,
who said that the apartments had
operated at a $91,000 loss over
the past three years.
The increases raise College View
furnished from $38 to $48 per
month; College View unfurnished
from $30 to $40 per month: and
Project Housing from $42.50 to
$52.50 per month.
Rudder said the losses on stu
dent apartments came from depre
ciation and debt service on bonds.
He said in 1960 the loss was $13,-
000, $20,500 in 1961 and $57,500
last year.
said.
“We have the crop duster who
turns over a lake without shutting
off the spray or dust, and dead
fish result,” he said. “We have
them turn over pastures where cat
tle are grazing, or over fields of
forage crops, and we even have
^ome who poison themselves. How
ever, these incidents are becoming’
fewer and fewer.”
Flu Outbreak
Hits Campus
Dr. Charles D. Lyons, director
of Student Health Services, said
150 cases of influenza were report
ed to the College Hospital Monday.
Of the ailing group, 35 had to
be hospitalized.
Despite the influenza attack,
Lyons does not encourage students
unprotected by the preventive vac
cine to take the shots now.
He will decide by late Tuesday
afternoon whether to use the re
maining’ vaccine on these students.
He stated that the vaccine will do
little good if it has not been taken
prior to the time an individual is
exposed to the disease.
REFERRING TO current unfav
orable publicity about alleged ef
fects of pesticides upon humans,
livestock and wildlife, Turk posed
this question to the group: “Do we
need chemicals?”
The veterinarian cited statistics
showing how chemicals have made
U. S. farm production the world’s
best, and how chemicals have im
proved human health. But he add
ed that chemicals can be impro
perly used.
Another program speaker, Hous
ton Post Farm Editor Bill Durham,
lamented the lack of agricultural
public relations to counter the pub
lic’s reaction to such literature as
Rachael Carson’s hook, “Silent
Spring.”
HE SAID THE small voice of
agriculture is trying to tell how
U. S. farm production is superior to
any country’s, but anti-chemical
groups are shouting much louder.
“We are outnumbered,” Durham
said. “Agriculture needs a positive
voice to tell its side of the story.”
He said the Texas Health De-
partmenet has no record of any
person being hospitalized because
of spraying pesticides, except in
a few cases where workers handled
materials improperly.'
Haines said he was not sure
just who would submit the
name-change bill. He said
that either he would, or all of
10 Aggies in the House would co
author the bill. Haines is a 1951
graduate of A&M.
HAINES SAID THE bill would
probably be introduced next Mon
day or Tuesday, and that it stood
“a good chance” of getting to the
floor.
He told The Battalion he belives
such a bill would not run into
snags. Said Haines:
“I’m sui’e that whatever we want,
the House will give us. Of course
there will be some needling, but
probably no serious opposition.”
SATURDAY STERLING C.
Evans, newly chosen president of
the A&M System Board of Di
rectors, told The Battalion the
Board had voted to ask for a name-
change. He said:
“This request from the Board
to the legislature to change the
name to Texas A&M University
will be in keeping with the find
ings of the Century Council.”
He said that the Board had at
tempted to talk to state Sen. Bill
Moore, long an advocate of the
name Texas State University, but
that Moore had been out of town.
The Battalion tried Monday to lo
cate the senator, but was unable to
do so.
HAINES SAID HE was not sure
if Moore would introduce legisla
tion in the Senate to complement
a House name-change bill.
Rudder said Saturday, after the
Board decided to seek a new name,
that the new title Texas A&M Uni
versity had been selected in order
to retain the traditional “A&M.”
Technically, under the proposed
name, “A&M” will stand alone and
will not be a symbol for “Agricul
tural and Mechanical.”
Aggie Band To Play
‘Texas, Our Texas ’
The Aggie Band is planning to feature the state song,
“Texas, Our Texas” immediately before Friday’s Texas Tech
basketball game in G. Rollie White Coliseum, Lt. Col. E. V.
Adams, band director, announced Monday.
Friday is March 1, the day preceeding the observance
of Texas’ independence, the director pointed out. “We feel
it would be most appropriate to play the state song on that
occasion.”
The band will play the first verse of the song just prior
to playing “The Spirit of Aggieland,” Col. Adams said. Words
to the verse are:
“Texas, our Texas, all hail the mighty state,
Texas, our Texas, so wonderful and great;
Boldest and grandest, withstanding every test,
O’ empire wide and gloriest, you stand supremely blest.
God bless you Texas, and keep you brave and strong
That you may grow in power and worth throughout the
ages long.”
Calhoun Named
To Government
Research Post
Dr. John C. Calhoun Jr., vice
chancellor for development of the
A&M System, will assume a new
post next month as advisor and
special assistant to Secretary of
the Interior Stewart Udall.
Calhoun was granted a year’s
leave of absence by the Board of
Directors which met here Saturday.
In his new position, Calhoun will
serve as a staff advisor to Udall
and will direct research conducted
by the Department of the Interior.
Calhoun will be UdalTs repre
sentative on several committees
concerned with research programs
and problems affecting the De
partment of the Interior and other
federal agencies.
Before coming to A&M in 1955
as dean of engineering and director
of the Engineering Experiment
Station, he was head of the Depart
ment of Petroleum and Natural
Gas at Pennsylvania State Univer
sity.
Court Backs
Negroes Held
In Race Case
WASHINGTON 6P) _ The Su
preme Court ruled Monday that
187 Negroes were convicted un
justly on breach of the peace
charges ' filed after they demon-
strated on South Carolina’s Capi
tol grounds against racial segre
gation.
The reversal of the conviction
means the Negroes can not be
tried again in the 1961 case, All
have been free on bail.
The tribunal mentioned some
specific situations where police
can break up demonstrations but
said the circumstances in this case
were different. Thus, it did not
appear to set any new rule of
how far police may go in pre
serving order.
The lone dissenter in the 8-1 de
cision, Justice Clark, put a broad
interpretation on the majority’s
ruling, saying, “To Say that the
police may not intervene until the
riot has occurred is like keeping
out the doctor until the patient
dies. I cannot subscribe to such
a doctrine.”
Justice Stewart, speaking for
the majority, said South Carolina
infringed on the Negroes’ “con
stitutionally protected rights of
free speech, free assembly and
freedom to petition for redress of
their grievances.”
“They were convicted on evi
dence which showed no more
than that the opinions of the ma-
jarity of the community to attract
protection,” Stewart said.
“The 14th Amendment does not
permit a state to make criminal
the peaceful expression of unpopu
lar views.
In Columbia, S. C., the Rev. I.
Dequincey Newman, leader of the
demonstration, said, ‘We are very
happy to find out that we did not
commit the crimes with wich we
were charged.”
Jazz Ensemble
Plays New Style
In G. Rollie White
The American Jazz Ensemble, a
newly-formed quartet with a new
style of music, performed last
night at G. Rollie White Coliseum
as a part of the Town Hall series.
The group combines contempor
ary music and jazz to give its aud
iences a variety in concei’t music.
Formed in 1960 in Rome, the
foursome is cm-rently on its first
United States tour. Pianist Johnny
Eaton and clarinetist Bill Smith
formed the group, which has since
added Erich Peter as a bass player
and drummer Pierre Favre.
The ensemble, following its us
ual procedure, played one-third con
temporary music and two-thirds
jazz.