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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1963
Number 79
Federal
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Okays Loan
H or
eney
Dorms
Cutie Trys On ’Crown’
anne Sorenson checks the fit of her newly acquired
trown. She was named Combat Cutie at Friday night’s
nbat Ball. Assisting Miss Sorenson is her escort War-
fen Dillard, ’64 accounting major from Houston.
What, No Shoes?
feokie MacKendrick, Sam Houston sophomore, gets in the
N swing of the spring Military Ball in her stocking feet.
Jer date, Joel Farrell of Houston, doesn’t appear to be as
wible as his barefoot partner.
Academy Plans
"Going Ahead,’
Says Dodson
“We’re going ahead with our plans. We’re not going to
change one iota.”
Capt. Bennett M. Dodson, superintendent of the Texas
Maritime Academy, told The Battalion Monday night he was
; ♦■going- to fight action by the House
r I Appropriations Committee elimin-
House Votes
To Investigate
Textbook Case
AUSTIN <A>) _ A House commit
tee voted Monday to investigate
charges concerning the printing of
copies of a textbook hearing in
Dallas.
The House State Affairs Com
mittee approved 11-5 a resolution
by Rep. Ben Atwell, Dallas, call
ing for the formation of a House
General Investigating Committee
to look into remarks made. by two
committee members.
Reps. Ronald Roberts of Hills
boro and W. T. Dungan of Mc
Kinney spoke on personal privilege
last week.
Roberts said Dungan had printed
copies of testimony, including that
of former Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker,
of the Dallas hearing at state ex
pense and had been selling them
for $2 per copy.
Rep. Dick Cory, Victoria ,asked
to be voted against approval of
the investigation.
He said he opposed the measure
because it had not been posted
for public hearing in accordance
with committee rules.
“I think we should have noti
fied the interested parties and
given them a chance to express
their views,” Cory said.
Both Roberts and Dungan were
members of the former House
Textbook Committee, which held
controversial hearings in Austin
and other Texas cities.
ating the academy from its budget
bill, and was going to continue
normal operation.
Dodson said his Board of Visi
tors was busy working against the
legislature’s move, which would
completely do away with the young
academy.
THE HOUSE committee’s bill
must still be debated on the floor
and then go to the Senate for
more study and debate before be
coming final, but Rep. David
Haines of College Station has list
ed chances of restoring the ap
propriation to the budget as very
slim.
Dodson said:
“We feel this way: this is only
the first game in the world series,
and we’ve lost it. But we’re g’o-
ing to win the last ones.”
SCHWARTZ RECENTLY anger
ed the Senate by disagreeing on
secret sessions to consider appoint
ments made by the governor.
Haines had given this as one
of the main reasons for the hatchet
job on budgets from Gov. John
Connally, the Legislative Budget
Board, the Texas Commission on
Higher Education and outgoing
Gov. Price Daniel, all of which
made provisions for the TMA.
DODSON SAID the Maritime
Academy will have 73 students
next year, and that the academy
has already had more money okay
ed by the federal government this
year than the entire sum asked
from the state. The academy has
25 students enrolled this year.
The TMA had asked for $222,000
for 1964-65. The Appropriations
Committee did approve $45,000 for
the College Station campus opera
tions of the academy, but cut the
funds for operation at the main
campus at Galveston.
Dodson said he would only quit
when the legislature goes home and
“leaves us penniless.”
’63 License Sales
Promised In MSC
Special arrangements have been
made to allow students and Col
lege Station residents to pur
chase automobile license plates
for 1963 in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
The license plate booth will be
set up in the post office area of
the MSC. The booth will be open
for business from 8:30 a.m.-
4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday
beginning March 18 and running
until March 29.
The last day for buying license
plates in the state is March 30.
Basil Rathbone
To Open Show
Here Thursday
One of the best-known voices of
the international stage will appear
Thursday and Friday in Guion Hall
as part of the Town Hall series.
“An Evening With Basil Rath-
bone” will be a dramatic presenta
tion of the words of some of the
world’s greatest poets, novelists
and playwrights.
Rathbone, whose program in
cludes dramatic performances of
the poems of Edgar Allen Poe, Ro
bert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
and others, feels that poetry should
be dramatized rather than read
silently.
He says, “With poetry, the essen
tial sense is the ear. In poetry,
sound is the vital element. It is
not meant for reading,* but is de
signed for a spoken, dramatic pre
sentation.”
His evening will begin with re-
minscences of his career in the
theatre, will include a poetry ses
sion and will close with scenes from
Shakespeare.
Rathbone, a native of Johannes
burg, South Africa, began his act
ing career before World War I in
England and came to the U. S. in
1921.
One of today’s foremost stage in
terpreters of Shakespeare, Rath
bone served his acting apprentice
ship in repertory, playing a differ
ent role in a different Shakespeare
play every night of the week.
He asserts, “Shakespeare should
not be taught in school. It should
be performed. There is drama in
words, but you find it only when
someone shows it to you, that is,
presents it to you on its own
terms.”
$750 In Property, Cash
Taken From Puryear, Law
Just A Few ITS Attractions
•fie Kilgore Rangerettes go through their The high stepping ladies from Kilgore
Ns in an effort to please the crowd at opened and closed the annual show.
'fiiday Night’s Intercollegiate Talent Show.
An estimated $750 in property
and cash was taken from students
living in the Law and Puryear
dormitories during a three week
period.
T. D. Windham and Bill Stur
geon, who live in 5-A Puryear,
reported that someone had entered
their room on the weekend of Feb.
16 and taken four books, a port
able typewriter, a portable radio,
an electric razor, a drawing kit, an
jj, alarm clock and a jewelry box con-
II taining a gold ring. Windham said
that the value of the articles was
about $250.
On the weekend of Feb. 23, Phil
Adams and Doug Spellman of 4-A
Puryear said that a phonograph,
two portable radios, one text book
and $4 in change were taken from
their room. The articles were valu
ed at $200.
During the same weekend, Floyd
Waller and Herbert Kothman of
8-C Puryear reported that $100
worth of property was taken from
them. Missing are a typewriter, a
radio, a pair of gloves and a slide-
rule. They think someone entered
their first-floor room through a
window.
Also on the weekend of Feb. 16,
Robert Smallwood of 6-D Puryear
reported two text books and a slide
rule missing with a total value of
$40.
Saturday night, March 2, some
one broke into the room of Billy
Yasser and Maynard Rogers at 8-C
Law and took about $160 worth of
goods consisting of a typewr-iter, a
transister radio, a wrist watch and
two slide rules.
W. G. Breazeals, counselor for
the two dorms, said the thieves use
a pattern of entering rooms on
ground floors when no one is
watching. They take only valu
ables such as typewriters, radios,
slide rules and books, that can be
easily sold. Coathangers have
been used to break into the rooms,
and on two occasions victims
thought that their rooms were en
tered through the windows.
Campus Security officers are in
vestigating.
Renovation Work
Due Four Dorms
The Federal Housing and Home Loan Administration
has announced approval of a $4,743,000 college housing loan
to A&M to finance construction of three new dormitories and
renovation of four existing dorms, according to Senator Ralph
W. Yarborough and Congressman Olin E. Teague.
Plans indicate that the three new dormitories, to be lo
cated in the northeast area of the main campus, will provide
housing for 1,120 men. The halls will be of brick and will be
four stories high.
SCHEDULED FOR renovation and air conditioning
under the loan are Dorm 14, 15, 16 and 17. After renovation
the four dorms will accomodate 48 additional students, Yar
borough and Teague stated.^
Contracts for the new con
struction are slated to be
awarded at the June meeting
of the Board of Directors,
Avith construction expected to be
gin in July, Tom Cherry, director
of the college business office, told
the Battalion Monday night.
Final architect’s drawing will be
finibhed in April and then sent to
the Housing and Home Finance
authorities' for approval, Cherry
said.
FEATURES TO BE included in
the new dormitories are exterior
hallways, lounges, a bath between
every two rooms, acoustical ceil
ings and rubber tiled floors. Each
room will accommodate two stu
dents and have several built-in
features.
The new air conditioned dorms
and renovation of existing dormi
tories to include air conditioning
will mean cooler living quarters
during the summer months for
about 2,100 students.
NO NEW dormitories have been
built by A&M since 1940, although
apartments for married students
have bebn erected in recent years.
The new dormitories should- have
the flexibility to serve the needs
of civilian, corps or graduate stu
dents.
Architect for the dormitory pro
gram is W. R. Matthews of Bryan.
The estimated completion date
for the new construction is 18
months following the initiation of
work on the buildings.
New 1-2 Story
Reports Soviet
Plane Also Hit
NEW YORK <A>) _ The New
York Times Nbavs Service Said
Monday a new Aversion of the
Francis Gary Powers U2 plane
incident pictures the Russians as
having accidentally hit one of
their OAvn planes with a missile
at the same time.
The report, Avhich the Times
said was obtained from private,
unidentified sources, said the So
viet interceptor was one of two
that had been folloAving Powers’
jet, but at a lower altitude.
The report under a Moscow
datelines gave this account of the
incident:
“An alarm Avas sounded among
anti-aircraft missile units sta
tioned in the Urals south of Sverd
lovsk, but because of various mis
haps, the installations were unable
to go promptly into operation.
“The U2 was about to leave the
range of the air defense zone
Avhen one of the missile units re
ported it was ready to go into
action. Headquarters radioed to
the two jets to return to base but
for an unexplained reason one
continued to track the intruder
plane.
“The anti-aircraft unit launched
three missiles in rapid succession
in an all-out effort to down the U2.
“One missile caught the U2 in
the tail assembly as previously re
ported.
“The second hit the Soviet in
terceptor piloted by an air force
major. The third Avent Avild.
ROTC Chief
Says Program
Will Improve
The Commandant of the National
Air Force ROTC programs said
Saturday that most people have
the wrong idea about the bill in
Congress to change the Reserve
Officers Training Corps.
Col. William C. Bindley, on cam
pus for the spring military day,
said that the bill will make the
Senior ROTC program more effi
cient, more productive and less
costly to taxpayers. The bill
would increase emphasis on the
program, rather than decrease as
many first believed.
Col. Lindley said that he was
optimistic about passage of the
Congressional bill and added that
the ROTC program would be
changed considerably.
COL. LINDLEY SAID the pro
gram Avould be cut from four to
two years on all campuses except
those that are primarily military
schools. Those schools are Texas
A&M, The Citadel, Virginia Poly-
technical Institute and Virginia
Military Institiute.
The new program will provide
for a new curriculum, designed to
meet today’s requirements, parti
cularly in the aerospace area. One
of the most attractive features of
the program will be a scholarship
of about $1,100 for each of the
last tAvo years of school.
The reason for the change is that
the program is not producing
enough officers. The Air Force
needs approximately 11,000 neAv of
ficers yearly. The ROTC, the
greatest producer of officers, turns
out far less than is required. Last
year only 3,300 officers were com
missioned.
The new plan Avould allow per
sons to take a two-year course a-
long with two summer camps, the
summer camps making up for the
basic course.
EVEN THOUGH scholarships of
about $2,200 Avill be paid in tAvo
years, the program will be less
costly. The savings will be in the
area of manpoAver requirements.
Bindley cited the example of a
particular school that had a com
pulsory basic course, and a cadet
corps of about 1,500, but pro
duced only one officer last year.
This officer cost the Air Force
$65,000.
The major portion of the annual
$23 million budget is spent on the
basic course in those schools that
require all freshmen and sopho
mores to take ROTC training.
Col. Bindley said that the Air
Force favored high school ROTC.
He said the real benefits of junior
ROTC Avere in the area of character
development, development of self
discipline and the instilling in the
student of the feeling of dedication
and responsibility to his country.
This, he feels, pays off in the
long run.
Col. Bindley feels there is no
organized opposition against the
bill to change the ROTC program.
He is hopeful of early passage by
Congress. It Avill probably not be
before fall of 1964.