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Returned By Estes
EL PASO, Tex </P> — A federal
rouit jury heard first testimony
Wednesday in the mail fraud and
tonspiracy trial of Billie Sol Estes
after the one-time promoter plead
ed innocent to 16 charges.
And Estes’ defense ’ attorney
John Gofer defended fertilizer tank
lease-purchase agreements that
figure strongly in the indictments.
IX HIS OPENING remarks to
the court, Gofer said, “Loan com
panies loaned approximately $22
million on a number of tanks that
would have fertilized the entire
world... which they knew could not
possibly exist.”
These companies, he said, made
ahout $6 million on the deals.
A Midland geologist, the first
and only witness heard Wednes
day, testified that he and his
asociates entered into a fertilizer
tank deal with Estes that they
thought contained some element
of risk.
However, he said, Estes told
them he would see to it they
rould never become obligated for
any unpaid balance.
ESTES EARLIER in the day
suffered four straight setbacks as
kis attorneys entered a series of
motions shortly after a jury of 10
men and two women was selected.
Umnoving, hands dropped stiffly
to his side, the poker-faced West
Texan uttered a mere “not guilty”
when asked how he pleaded after
tach count was read to the court.
He stared solemnly at the jury.
All together, the state took 27
minutes to read the charges.
As the trial got underway Estes
faced the prospect of hearing
three former close business asso-
riates testify against him. The
three pleaded guilty earlier to the
lame charges on which Estes is
tn trial.
In opening statements, Assistant
Five Students
fin Accounting
Scholarships
Five students have been award-
sil5250 scholarships in recognition
lor outstanding records as account
ing students.
They received Thomas W. Le-
land Scholarship Fund awards at
a meeting 1 of the Accounting So-
fiety, Leland, in whose honor the
fund was established, m a d e the
presentations. Leland, who joined
fte faculty in 1922, retired as head
of the Division of Business Admin
istration in 1961.
Honored were James E. Lewis
and Hume W. Reeves Jr. of Bryan,
Curtis R. Bedrich of Burlington,
George W. Wiederaenders of Nor-
»an, Okla., and M. W. Margraves
of Phoenix, Ariz.
Winners were announced by Dr.
Hubert M. Stevenson, acting head
•f the division. The students were
selected by a committee of the ac-
tounting faculty with academic
tecords as a major factor. Lead-
ftship, campus activities, class-
»om participation and need also
•ere considered.
U. S. Atty. Gen. Rufus D. McLean
told the jury, “We’re frying Billie
Sol Estes and no other persons.”
....HE SAID THE government will
prove that Estes conspired with
the three former associates and
The Superior Manufacturing Co. to
use the mails to defraud and to
transport securities obtained by
fraud from state to state.
McLean said that in support of
these the government will prove
assorted “overt acts” and that
“he Estes devised the scheme to
defraud persons and firms that
could be induced to sign papers
for purchase and lease of fertilizer
tanks and equipment.”
OSU Agronomist
Slated To Speak
At Convocation
An Oklahoma agronomist will be
guest speaker at the Student Agri
culture Convocation on March 25 in
the Ballroom of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Jack R. Harlan of Oklahoma
State University will speak on
“Agriculture Perspectives.”
Harlan is widely known for his
work in genetics and forages. He
has a B.S. degree in botany from
George Washington University,
Washington, D.C. and a Ph.D. in
genetics from the University of
California. He has published 75
technical papers and one book,
“Theory and Dynamics of Grass
land Agriculture.”
Egg Clinic Slates
Three Speakers
From Three Areas
Three out-of-state speakers will
be featured on the Commercial Egg
Clinic program March 27.
They are Hajime Ota and Dr.
William E. Shaklee of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, and
Dr. R. H. Shrode, geneticist with
DeKalb Agricultural Association,
Inc.
Ota is an agricultural engineer,
Shaklee is with the Co-operative
State Experiment Station Service
and Shrode is a former teacher of
genetics here.
Journalism Dept.
Announces New
Graduate Courses
Delbert McGuire, head of the
Department of Journalism, has an
nounced that two new journalism
courses for graduate credit are
scheduled for the first summer ses
sion.
Journalism 462, High School
Journalism and Publications; and
Journalism 406, Publicity and Pub
lic relation will be offered to high
school and college teachers who
need additional work in journalism
and publication. They will also be
available to seniors and graduate
students.
lead Classifieds Daily
THE BATTALION
Thursday, March 14, 1963
College Station, Texas
Page 3
FOR SIX PROJECTS
Data, Practice Goals Of NASA Grant
Both data and scientific prac
tice are end products in a space-
oriented basic research program
supported by a special National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration grant to A&M. The grant
covers work in the physical, life
and engineering sciences.
The six projects of the A&M
program are supervised by fac
ulty members and staffed by
graduate students who utilize
phases of the undertakings as
thesis and dissertation pursuits.
The space - oriented projects
deal with plasma acceleration,
heat transfer from plasma jets,
waste stabilization to provide
potable water, scattering of
pulsed laser radiation from plas
mas, solution of differential
equations with coefficients aris
ing in the quantum mechanics of
the atom and study of the de
tailed crystalline properties of
polyethylene and similar mate
rials which serve as prototypes
for the synthetic polymeric ma
terials. They are being adminis
tered by the Texas Engineering
Experiment Station.
Mechanical engineeripg re
search in plasma acceleration is
being conducted by Dr. Earl Lo
gan Jr. to determine the maxi-
m u m possible specific impulse
and energy efficiency which can
be realized from the traveling
wave accelerator for a particular
geometry. Graduate students
Jose Jullienne and Bannister
Farquhar are assisting in this
woi’k to provide ideal propellant
velocities for space missions in
electrodeless accelerator opera
tion.
Educators Criticize
College Admissions
(Special To The Battalion)
WASHINGTON—A biologist and
several educators have taken sharp
issue with selective admissions
practices at colleges and universi
ties.
The point of view and the basis
for concern was different in each
case, yet each came to the same
conclusion — many students who
could profit from a college educa
tion are barred from pursuing it by
selective admissions practices.
“BECAUSE OF the sudden in
crease in world population, uni
versities are now taking only the
students with high grades,” said
Dr. John Tyler Bonner, Princeton
University biology professor. “One
must have flowered at school, be
fore college, to be accepted. There
is nothing in our system that rec
ognizes the Darwins that flower
after college.”
“We waste a million kids a year,”
said Dr. Ernest 0. Melby, disting
uished professor of education at
Michigan State University. “We
admit students largely by grades
and measures of verbal intelli
gence, yet current studies show
that high I.Q. students are not
necessarily those most creative.”
“THE PUBLIC college system
that shuts its doors to a student
must be sure he cannot progress,
that his intellectual difficulties
cannot be cured,” Dr. James E.
Russell, secretary of the National
Education Association’s Education
al Policies Commission, told the
Association of State Colleges and
Universities last month in Chicago.
And two new studies suppoi’t
their conclusions. A University of
Toronto study concludes that no
means of prediction exist as yet
which would eliminate potential
failures and withdrawals , without
also eliminating many more poten
tially successful students. A Co
lumbia College experiment, de
signed specifically to test fresh
man performance of students with
lower than normal verbal aptitude
scores at the time of admission,
found they did as well or better
than students with higher scores.
In chemical engineering the
space-oriented work consists of
measuring heat transfer coeffi
cients from a plasma jet in the
interest of removing heat for
power utilization, quenching a
chemical reaction or control.
Variations of the coefficient with
the enthalpy driving force, flow
rate and physical properties of
the plasma will also be studied
in an effort to produce a relia
ble correlation. P. T. Eubank and
graduate student J. R. Johnson
are conducting the research.
Waste stabilization to provide
water for an astronaut and bomb
shelters is being pursued by Dr.
W. W. Meinke, associate profes
sor of chemical engineering, and
J. H. Sorrels, professor of sani
tary engineering, in research in
volving chelations and metal ion
antagonisms in closed systems.
A small water recovery sys
tem with anerobic and aerobic
digestion tanks, filter and efflu
ent tubes has been built. The
general effectiveness of the unit
and factors of diet and medica
tion of the astronaut will be
studied in the experiment.
Laser experimentation super
vised by Dr. Melvin Eisner, pro
fessor of physics, has as its aim
the study of the properties of a
plasma inferred from the light
scattered from the plasma. A
plasma will be irradiated with
laser light and the scattered light
observed as a function of scat
tering angle, frequency shift and
intensity.
Mathematical research on dif
ferential equations with periodic
coefficients, better designated as
differential equations invariant
under certain transformation
groups, was recently begun by
Dr. Ernest R. Keown and gradu
ate assistant Charles W. Conat-
ser. The research will deal with
numerical procedures for the so
lution of such differential equa
tions. The point of departure
will be the investigation of cer
tain differential equations of this
nature arising in the quantum
mechanics of the atom.
The sixth and newest project
under the NASA grant is a study
of the detailed crystalline prop
erties and similar materials
which serve as prototypes for the
synthetic polymeric materials.
Preliminary experiments already
$have been conducted on this sub
ject in the field of physics by
Dr. Joe S. Ham, the supervisor
of the project, and his two grad
uate assistants — Donald Ash-
burn and Brian De Facio. The
work is of space interest because
of the need for materials that
can serve reliably in great ex
tremes of environment.
The several projects of the
special basic research program
for NASA, represent only a start
in providing data for the further
experimental needs of the space
effort. As foundations in equip
ment and procedure are laid, the
endeavors will grow in scope
and productivity and their en
vironment will bring forth new
undertakings in related and other
fields, the Texas Engineering’
Expeiiment Station advises.
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