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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1963
Number 100
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A night clerk at the Memorial Student Center remains in
.Joseph Hospital Wednesday as area law enforcement of-
ersseek the man who severly beat him while he was in the
SC lobby early Tuesday.
+ The clerk, Frank McGee, 50,
was attacked by a lone assailant
as he sat in the MSC Iqunge, fac
ing’ the main desk, about 3 a.m.
MSC Director J. Wayne Stark said
a check of the cash register, gun
collection now on exhibit, showed
nothing missing.
Stark said apparently McGee
was beat mercilessly about the
head with some kind of blunt in
strument. He said officers search
ed the building for a weapon, but
none was found.
“We have been afraid for a long
time that something like this was
going to happen.” Stark said.
He said that McGee, in his dazed
condition, told officers that his
attacker was someone young, poss
ibly wearing a white shirt.
Sheriff J. W. Hamilton said that
the assailant fled when McGee
struggled and called for help.
Stark said there was no indica
tion that the person sought for
the attack was a student.
McGee lives at 1518 Boone St.
in Bryan. He works from 11 p.m.
to 7 a.m. in the MSC.
Campus Security officers and
College Station police are also in
vestigating the beating.
ir George Thomas, 1937 Nobel
ireate in physics, will serve as
visiting lecturer here May 13-
Dr. J. G. Potter, head of the
partment of Physics, has an-
jnced.
fhe physicist will he here under
auspices of the American As-
liation of Physics Teachers and
! American Institute of Physics
part of a national, program to
mulate interest in physics. The
expensive mtj ram of visiting scientistR in
ysics is being conducted with
support of the National Sci-
infte Foundation.
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THOMSON WAS president of
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graduate lecture and also will
ak to Physics Glab members and
ier science students.
Hie British scientist was edu-
ted at Perse School, Cambridge,
J Trinity College, Cambridge
liversity.
Thomson's professional career
eludes many appointments
rough the years: Fellow and
hirer in mathematics at Corpus
iristi College, Cambridge; re
archer on positive rays at Caven-
sli Laboratory; professor of na
tal philosophy at Aberdeen Uni-
rsity; Baker Lecturer at Cor-
1 University and professor of
lysics at Imperial College, Uni-
tsity of London.
RE SERVED as scientific ad-
sor to the British Delegation to
e U. N. Atomic Energy Com-
ission during most of 194G and
% He has served as consult-
tatthe Harwell Atomic Energy
ithbrity.
His honors are many: Fellow
the Royal Society, recipient of
c Royal Medal, Hughes Medal
4 Potts Medal of the Franklin
-Kitute, recipient of honorary de-
from major universities, Fel-
* of the American Academy of
rts and Sciences and a foreign
tmber of the Academies of Lis-
■fi and Vienna.
Thomson is the author of a
®nber of books including: Applied
wodynamics and Wave Mech-
lics of the Free Electron, The
tom. The Foreseeable Future and
■« Inspiration of Science. He
ped J. J. Thomson with the third
Si tion of Conduction of Electricity
' ! ough Gases and wrote Electron
^fraction with W. Cochrane.
He American Association of
'’?sics Teachers is one of the
member societies of the Amer-
Institute of Physics.
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to Ladies 9 Lounge
Female guests at the Hillel
oundation Ball Saturday night
4d quite a surprise upon visit-
the ladies’ lounge.
Eren Col. Joe E. Davis, com
mandant of the Corp of Cadets,
*as speechless when he saw a
Partly dressed cadet comfort-
% seated on a certain piece
^ porcelain furniture in the
%8’ lounge.
Fortunately for all concerned,
cadet turned out to be a man-
Hquin jokingly placed in the
Wge earlier by two Hillel
^ondation members.
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The annual Ross Volunteer Ban
quet and Ball will be held Satur
day night, with Doyle R. Avant
Jr., of San Antonio as the principal
speaker.
Also featured will be the pre
sentation of the 1962-63 permanent
firing squad, an honorary group
of 21 company members.
THE BANQUET will begin at
6 p.m. in the banquet room of the
Triangle Restaurant. The ball, with
music by the Aggieland Orchestra,
Four Flying Kadets
WiU Fly To Meet
By JOHN WRIGHT
Battalion Staff Writer
Four members of the Flying
Kadets will take off Thursday from
Easterwood Field and fly to Car-
bondale, 111., to represent A&M at
the annual National Intercollegiate
Flying Association’s air meet and
conference at Southern Illinois Uni
versity Thursday-Saturday.
The meet will be the 15th in the
series. The SIU chapter of the
NIFA, which is sponsoring the
event, said word has been received
from more than 30 chapters that
plan to send flying delegates to
Nils Ekfelt
Wins National
Merit Award
Nils Ekfelt of A&M Consolidated
High School has been named win
ner of a National Merit Scholar
ship.
Son of Dr. and Mrs. Fred E. Ek
felt of 306 Francis Drive in Col
lege Station, he will receive a
scholarship ranging in value be
tween $400 and $6,000, as he enters
Harvard University after gradu
ation.
A senior at A&M Consolidated,
young Ekfelt has participated in
the Interscholastic League Science
contest, the student council and
the National Honor Society.
He was manager of the high
school basketball team this year.
His hobbies are juggling, tennis
and bicycling.
The sponsor of the scholarship
is the National Merit Scholarship
Corporation.
All Merit Scholars are selected
in an annual academic competition
conducted in cooperation with sec
ondary schools. Stipends of the
four-year award are based on need
and may be adjusted if the stu
dent’s need changes.
Over 1,400 Merit scholars were
named from some 11,000 semi
finalists. About 875 of the stu
dents received the four-year scho
larships.
Since the program was begun
eight years ago, more than 7,000
Merit scholarships have been
awarded, a value of over $34 mil
lion.
the conference. Flying competi
tion, to be held at the Southern
Illinois University Airport, is con
fined to members of NIFA clubs.
The four A&M entrants, are
Ronnie Miller, Ray Jones, Dennis
Bently and Mick Dumm.
THE MEMBERS will leave at
noon in a Cessna 182.
Jack Threadgill, president of the
A&M chapter, said that the Ka
dets plan to arrive in ample time
to attend a safety lecture that will
be given that evening to familiar
ize all entrants with local flying
conditions.
While in Carbondale the Kadets
will stay at the Plaza Hotel.
Competitive flying will begin
Friday and will include four events:
a 180-degree power-on spot landing,
a 180-degree power-off side ap
proach spot landing, bomb drop
ping and a fourth event chosen
each year by the host school.
Skill, safety and sport are the
NIFA’s chief objectives. Members
range from commercial pilots to
those who are just learning to fly.
OFFICIALS FROM the Federal
Aviation Agency and NIFA offi
cials will judge these events.
Trophies are pi’esented to the
five top teams, and individual,
permanent and rotating trophies
are awarded to the five top pilots
of the five top events.
Maj. Walter Daniel, 37-year-old
Air Force test pilot who recently
set four new time-to-climb re
cords in a T-38 jet trainer, will
speak at the awards banquet Sat
urday night. The Master of Cere
monies at the Banquet will be Ray
O. Mertes, director of school and
college service of United Airlines.
Awards will go to the out
standing man and woman pilot
and to the club flying the great
est number of passenger-air-miles
enroute to the meet.
A SAFETY AWARD will be
given to the team showing the
greatest amount of care in hand
ling its aircraft.
Between events the Kadets will
at the
is scheduled for 9 p.m.
Memorial Student Center.
Among the special guests at the
dinner and ball will be A&M offi
cials. Roger M. John of Bellaire,
the RV commander, will serve as
master of ceremonies at the ban
quet.
Avant, ’50 served as a cadet
colonel while a petroleum engi-
Class Election
Filing To Begin
On Thursday
Filing for class elections will be
gin Thursday, election commis
sion advisor Wayne Smith said
Tuesday.
Positions open will be officers
for the classes of ’64, ’65 and ’66
he said. Officers to be chosen are
president, vice president, secre
tary-treasurer and social secretary.
An historian will be elected by the
junior class.
FILING WILL close May 1,
Smith said, and the election will
be held May 8. Elections for all
classes will be held on that day.
According to the college regula
tions, class officers must be aca
demically classified with their
classes at election time and at the
beginning of the year for which
they are elected.
Class officers must have a mini
mum grade point ratio of 1.00 at
the time of the spring election
(through the preceding semester).
All students may vote for their
respective class officers. A run
off will be held May 14.
Students desiring to run for class
positions may file in the Student
Programs Office in the lower level
of the Memorial Student Center.
neering student at A&M. He was
a member of the Ross Volunteers.
Now associated with L. A. Nor-
dan, a San Antonio independent oil
operator, Avant worked for Sun Oil
Company from 1953 until 1957.
He served as an army officer fol
lowing his graduation in January,
1951.
THESE 21 MEMBERS were
chosen by the platoon leaders for
permanent firing squad honors:
David C. Anderson, Thomas M.
Ashy, Jimmie P. Burney, Billy G.
Clawson, John R. Dickson, John
H. Gabbert, Lawrence N. Garrett,
Joe E. Glover, Charles H. Gregory,
Gregory G. Holfochwost, George L.
Hubler.
Kent Hudson, Ben E. McSulloch,
William K. Monier, Larry G. Port
er, Richard C. Railston, Charles H.
Reese, James E. Schnabel, James
F. Setchell, Albert N. Simmons,
and Edward J. Zatopek.
U nderclassmen
Oppose Change
In Aggie Ring
Organized opposition to a ring committee decision to
change the Aggie ring in case of a college name-change was
voiced Tuesday by both the freshman and sophomore classes.
The sophomore class called a class meeting for 7:30
Thursday in Cuion HalL’f"
p.m.
while one freshman presented
President Rudder a petition oppos
ing the move.
The ring committee has voted
that all rings ordered after Sept.
1, 1963, will bear the new name.
Rings ordered after that same date
by members of the Class of ’64
or prior classes could bear either
the old or new name. The same
police would be in effect for class
favors.
The lenghty freshman petition
contained the signatures of 551
students. Four hundred fifty six
said they would prefer “A&M Col
lege of Texas” on their rings,
while 95 voiced preference for the
proposed new name, “Texas A&M
University.”
Peter B. Belinsky of Warwick,
R. I., presented the petition to
Rudder. The president told Bel
insky he would show the document
to the Board of Directors this
weekend “if that’s what you want.”
Belinsky favored the idea.
The board would not have to
take action on the issue, but could
send the question right back to
college officials.
If the college name-change is
passed by this session of the state
legislature, reconsideration by the
ring committee is doubtful. Com
mittee Chairman J. B. (Dick) Her-
vey told The Battalion Tuesday:
“I see no reason why we should
have to meet again if the name-
change is approved in this session.”
Final House approval of the
change is expected at any time,
after which the bill would go to
the Senate.
Lower Voting Age
Rejected By House
AUSTIN (A 5 ) — House members
turned thumbs down Tuesday on
a plan to bolster the Texas Dem
ocratic Party by lowering the
voting age.
“The young folks are mostly
Democratic,” argued Rep. V. L.
“Red” Berry, San Antonio legis
lator. “We need all the Democrat
ic votes we can get. We’ve got
to do something to head off the
Republicians.”
The House voted 91-49 for Ber
ry’s proposal dropping the mini
mum voting age from 21 to 19.
A proposed constitutional amend
ment must get 100 votes or two-
ALL STUDENTS who file must thirds majority in the House be
fore it can be passed to the Sen
ate. Unless Berry can scrape up
enough votes to make 100 and get
another vote on his measure, it
is dead for the session.
be cleared through the registrar’s
office before their names may ap
pear on the ballot.
Filing for Student Senate and
school representatives to the Sen
ate will begin May 9. The elec
tions will be held May 21.
Should any election result in a
tie vote, the winner will be select
ed by a run-off election.
BERRY FIRST proposed drop
ping the age limit to 18 but ac
cepted the 19-year-old minimum
which Rep. David Crews, Conroe,
claimed would put the voting priv-
Name-Change Bug Hits Tech
As Students Ask For ‘Status’
The name-change fever has again
reached Texas Tech, where for
years college factions and the stu
dent body have on occasions sought
a name-change so that Tech might
become a university.
With A&M’s name-change bill
almost out of the house and a simi-
, . lar bill already passed for West
have the opportunity to swim and Texas State( Tech>s student
camp out.
The expenses of the trip will
be partly defrayed by Memorial
Student Center funds. The host
school provides gas and other
necessary items.
The Kadets will fly back to Col
lege Station Sunday.
news
paper The Daily Toreador has call
ed for action on a student poll
taken last spring in which the stu
dent body chose Texas State Uni
versity as the best new name.
The name most often pi'oposed
for Tech is Texas University of
Arts, Sciences and Technology.
According to The Toreador, ru
mors in Lubbock indicate that if
Tech is to have a name-change in
the next 10 years, it will have to
come in this session of the legisla
ture. No such legislation has yet
been introduced .
In a strong plea for university
status, The Toreador said:
“It’s a farce when Hardin-Sim-
mons, Midwestern, North Texas
and West Texas wear the tag
‘university’ while Tech is still
dubbed with the ‘college’ moniker.
If nothing else, we must truly
be unique; we are of the few col
leges — in name, anyway — left
in the Lone Star state.”
ilege out of the high school age
bracket.
Passed on voice vote to the
House was a measure that Sen.
W. T. Moore, Bryan, has argued
would allow state aid to be used
for the graduate school at the
University of Houston.
Moore said, in filibusters total
ing almost four hours, that sup
porters of the 1961 move to make
the University of Houston state
supported promised that no state
money would be needed for gradu
ate study. A similar House mea
sure has been tentatively approved.
THE OBJECT of Tuesday’s fili
buster was a bill th: t would allow
state game wardens to arrest per
sons for trespassing on private
property. Wardens now can make
arrests only for violation of game
and fish laws.
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HARRY E. WHITMORE
TEES Space
Division Gets
New Head
Harry E. Whitmore, former
General Dynamics Astronautics
official in California, has been
named head of the Texas Engi
neering Experiment Station’s new
ly organized Space Technology Di
vision.
Dean of Engineering Fred J.
Benson said Whitmore will have
responsibility in several areas, in
cluding finding - and organizing re
search talent in the several fields
of engineering and science that
relate to the space effort.
Whitmore said the Space Tech
nology Division has “tremendous
potential for A&M and the entire
State of Texas.” He has been in
the guided missile field since 1946.
Missile projects on which he has
worked are the Corporal, Nike,
Honest John, Dart, Hawk, Ser
geant, Redstone, Atlas, Centaur
and Agena.
Before coming to A&M he was
systems integration manager for
General Dynamics Astronautics’
Centaur space craft program.
Whitmore, a 1942 Texas A&M
mechanical engineering graduate,
is a retired colonel in the U. S.
Army Ordinance Corps. He re
ceived his MS degree in 1955 in
mechanical engineering at Purdue
University.
Whitmore is married to the form
er Martha Jane Nunn of Bryan,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. W.
Nunn of 1404 South College.
The Whitmores have a daughter,
Jeanne, 19, a student at Baylor
University, and a son, Ross, 15.
They live at 724 Mary Lake Drive
and are members of the First
Baptist Church.
Wire Review
By the Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
BONN, Germany — West Ger
many’s strongest party overruled
the objections of Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer Tuesday and nomi
nated Ludwig Erhard, sometimes
called “Mr. Economic Miracle,” to
head the next government.
It was a bitter blow for the
chancellor, now 87, who is com
mitted to retire from the No. 1
job this fall. He considers Erhard,
66, lacks political skills necessary
to run the government.
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — Four Cu
bans left American jails and re
turned to their Communist island
Tuesday in an exchange of 21
Americans freed by Prime Mini
ster Fidel Castro the day before.
The Cubans were whisked out
of Florida early Tuesday morning
to fulfill the U.S. end of a bar
gain with Castro.
Ttr "jr
WASHINGTON — A Pentagon
communications official outlined
Tuesday a plan to put five or
more satellites into orbit with a
single rocket to build a system that
would flash messages to command
posts around the world.
TEXAS NEWS
AUSTIN — Dist. Judge Jack
Roberts dismissed Tuesday a suit
aimed at blocking construction of
a $65 million dam in Central Texas.
Roberts threw out a suit by sev
eral Brazos and Grimes County
landowners against the Texas
Water Commission, which found
the proposed Millican Dam feasi
ble Aug. 2 after hearing six days
of testimony.
The Navasota River Dam, if
completed, will create the second
largest lake completely within
state boundaries.