Volume 60
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1963
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Plans for the annual Fourth of July family carnival and
fireworks display in College Station were announced Tuesday
by project chairman Chester Meinecke of the College Station
Lions Club.
Activities will beeln at 5 p.m. - *
rhursdav at the A&M Consoli-
lated High School stadium.
Conservation
and spectate According’ to Rob Schleider, en-
uffalo’s H's ^rtainmeut chairman, entertain-
for the m will include sack races, ladies
eh will be| w iij n g- p,’ n races, three-legged
by the Ai faces anc } 0 ther contests for all
company, t 1 | eSi Prize watermelons will be
American Fi jwar( ] e( ] i n each contest,
ation.
I Schleider said one feature of the
HopkiEi [arn j va i games will be a dunking
pe Co-Capip where a good throw with a
ong with b [ i;ise ] 1a ]] w j]] c i un k a prominent
Itizen in a vat of water,
football coa College Station Lions will man
r, Hank concession stands. Meinecke
said Bar-B-Que, as well as hot
dogs, ice cream, snow cones and
cold drinks will he favorable. Bar-
B-Que plates will cost .$1.25 for
adults and $1.00 for children.
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timated that over 4,000 people
post-seasod witnessed the display last year,
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ay clas a- y ear „ be sa j ( ] ; “ an( j we will have
me of our most impressive dis-
flays this year. It is really a cred
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The fireworks display, sponsored
by the College Station Recreation
Bryan Bank
Will Erect
New Building
The First State Bank & Trust
Company, which has two directors
from the college staff and faculty,
nil erect a new home in downtown
Bryan, Bank President Henry B.
Clay announced.
The modern facility will be lo-
\ tated on the block of land east
. if the Brazos County Courthouse
® Highway 6. Plans include
drive-in windows and parking
space, Clay said.
“We hope to start actual con-
i|u itruction this September,” he con-
™ tinued. Fifteen months will be
I required for completion.
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Clay pointed out that First State
Bank had outgrown its present lo-
( ation at 200 North Main Street
“and we were unable to expand
there.”
Clay said the bank has plans to
Pcrease its combined capital and
surplus to $1,000,000 prior to ac-
rupying the new home.
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Uoted, “will enable the bank to
dandle an individual loan up to
1*250,000 without assistance from
torrespondent banks.”
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Jim Lindsey, director of college
^formation, and Robert L. Smith,
Jr, head of the Data Processing
Center, are directors of the First
State Bank.
Workshop Will
Begin Monday
Farming and conservation alter
natives in the East Texas Timber-
lands and Coastal Prairies will be
accented during the annual Con
servation Workshop Monday and
Tuesday at A&M.
Lynn Pittard, soil conservation
ist with the Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service and workshop co-
chairman, said the program also
will consider wildlife and recrea
tional opportunities for both areas.
V. W. Woodman of the Soil Con
servation Service in Fort Worth is
program co-chairman with Pittard.
Co-chairmen for the Wildlife
and Recreational Committee are
Vernon Hicks of Temple, SCS, and
Ivan Schemedemann of A&M;
East Texas Timberlands Commit
tee, Don Young, Texas Forest
Service, and G. M. Monas of Tem
ple, SCS; Coastal Prairie, R. J.
Miears of A&M and Phil Price of
Temple, SCS.
The program will open at 8:30
a.m. the first day in the Memorial
Student 'Center with short talks
by Dr. R. E. Patterson, dean of ag
riculture at A&M, and H. N. Smith
of Temple, State Conservationist
with the SCS.
Next will be a discussion of
“Operation Build East Texas” by
E. M. Trew, Extension Service pas
ture specialist, and “Single” En
terprise-Conservation Practice Ap
proach to Conservation Planning”
by Rex Kennedy of A&M, econo
mist in management.
Sanity Hearing Set
For Defendant In
Heaton Kidnaping
Geradus F. Hauwert, 35, the
man being held for the June 12
kidnaping and robbery of Regis
trar H. L. Heaton, will face a pre- f
trial sanity hearing at 9 a.m. July
16 in the 85th. Judicial District
Court in Bryan.
The hearing had been previously
set for Tuesday but Judge John M.
Barron announced the postpone
ment late yesterday.
Hauwert is under indictment for
kidnaping and extortion. Barron
said the purpose of the sanity
hearing is to determine if the de
fendant was sane at the time of his
alleg’ed act and if he is sane at the
present time. '
The former mechanical engineer
ing student at A&M is being held
without bond in the Brazos County
Jail. Houston attorney Clyde
Woody is handling Hauwert’s de
fense.
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DAVID WOODCOCK
Texas’ Official Liberty Bell Replica
As part of the “Make Freedom Ring” cam- Haupt, left, of Post 735; Boy Scout Jerry
paign four scouts examine the copy in the Nanice, who traces his ancestry to include
Academic Building. Touching the bell is 12 men in the American Revolutionary
Boy Scout David H. Alsmeyer of Troop 102. Army. The fathers of all four serve on the
Cub Scout Rodney Baker of Pack 802 is A&M Campus,
kneeling, standing are Explorer Lewis
MAKE FREEDOM^ RING ’
Scouts’ July 4th Program
Has Special Meaning Here
The Boy Scouts’ “Make Freedone
Ring” program July 4 has a spe
cial meaning on the A&M campus
for here is the State of Texas’ of
ficial replica of the Liberty Bell.
The nearly two-ton replica was
presented to the State of Texas
during ceremonies on a hot July
afternoon in 19!?0.
Allan Shivers* then governor of
Texas, presented the bell to A&M
in recognition of the outstanding
patriotic record of Texas Aggies.
ACCEPTING THE bell for A&M
was Dr. M. T. Harrington, then
president of the College and now
chancellor of the A&M System.
The hell was one of 53 exact
replicas cast in France, displayed
in this country on behalf of the
U.S. Savings Bond program, and
then given to the states.
Boy Scouts of the Sam Houston
Area Council are cooperating in
the national “Make Freedom Ping”
program. The council includes
Houston and Harris County and
15 , area counties.
Scout units of the council are
urged to contact churches and
schools having bells and to obtain
permission to ring the bells for
two minutes, beginning at 12 noon
July 4.
President Kennedy and Gov.
John Connally have issued procla
mations urging Americans to ring
bells at noon on the Fourth of July
to remind all citizens of their pre
cious American heritage.
THE COPY of the Liberty Bell
at A&M is housed in the rotunda
of the Academic Building- at the
center of the campus. The bell
hangs from an oak beam between
two supports. A g’lass case pro
tects the bell and also helps keep
thing's quieter in the Academic
Building by preventing passers-by
from ringing the bell.
Navy officers, beekeepers, tech-
ers, policemen, bankers, ranchers,
high school journalists and fire
men are among more than 6,500
Texans who will attend short cours
es and conferences at A&M the
next six months.
Young and old, they come to gain
the latest information in their spec
ial field of interest.
The tentative schedule for the
July through December period
shows 46 short courses or confer
ences. Some involve a handful
of people, others will attract sev
eral hundi’ed Texans to the A&M
campus.
Largest event for the six months
is the firemen’s training school
scheduled July 21-26 under spon
sorship of the Texas Engineering
The case was removed recently
so four local scouts could ring- the
bell while tape recording machines
recorded the sound for area radio
and television stations.
Inscribed on one of the two
plaques beside the bell is a fitting
reminder to all who pass:
“Dedicated to You, A Free Citi
zen in A Free Land.”
Extension Service. Approximately
1,500 men are expected.
The 4-H Roundup held in June
nearly 1,900 registered is the larg
est conference of the year. The
Texas Agricultural Extension Serv
ice is the sponsor .
The short course office registered
6,341 persons for 23 courses during
the first six months.
The extension services, A&M in
structional departments, Texas
Ti’anspoi'tation Institute and others
sponsor the conferences.
The Department of Journalism
sponsors the high school journalism
workshop, July 14-19, with more
than 300 persons expected. The
Department of Animal Husbandry
sponsors the Beef Cattle Short
Course, July 29-31. Expected at
tendance is 225 persons.
6,500 Expected
At Short Courses
Power Plant
Work Begins
In Ten Days
Construction is expected to begin within the next 10 days
on a major expansion of the A&M Power Plant. Completion
is scheduled not later than July 15, 1964. Howard Badcett,
College Manager of the Office of Physical Plant, said Tuesday.
The expansion is being financed from proceeds of a
$2,500 000 revenue bonds sale.
The program will more than double the plant’s capacity
and increase tbp capacity of the chilling section used to
provide air conditioning.
The urogram includes remoAring of one of the two more
than 900-fopi- smokestacks beside the power plant.
BADGETT SAID the expansion program will meet in
creased R p eds .resulting from’
Die dormitory expansion and
improvements prooram also
to be started this month,
other new buildings, addi
tional research proiects with their
often heavy demands for electricity,
and improvements on the A&M
campus.
Notices Issued
On Refunds,
Reservations
The A&M Board of Directors
recently awarded A. P. Kasch and
Sons of Big Springs a $1,619,900
contract for construction of addit
ions to the power plant. The firm
has a separate contract for $24,000
to construct a nearby shop and
storage building.
Earlier the hoard awarded con
tracts totaling $746,000 for a 14.000
kilowatt turbine generator which
will generate power at 12.470 volts
and related equipment including a
steam generator and a condenser.
The first work by the Kasch firm
is expected to be removing an old
shop and storage building on the
north side of the power plant. The
new generator and related equip
ment will be located there. The new
shop and storage building will be
a short distance away, between the
College Laundry and Ireland Street.
A new wing on the south side of
the plant will provide space for
five additional one thousand ton
chilling units to serve the campus
central air conditioning system.
Two such units were installed last
summer and three more are in
cluded in the Kasch conti’act.
Badgett said gas company em
ployes have begun the job of re
locating and enlarging the gas line
supplying fuel for the power plant’s
steam generators.
The Westinghouse Electric Corp.
is building the turbine generator
unit. The firm has an approxi
mately $426,000 contract for the
unit which is expected to be de-
livei-ed late this year.
The power plant, which has a
power generation capacity “name
plate rated” at 9,750 kilowatts,
supplies the College, other members
of the A&M system with facilities
on the campus and other agencies
located on the campus such as the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
The Housing Office issued two
reminders Tuesday, the first con
cerning’ refunds of property and
room deposits and the second ex
plaining procedures for reserving
rooms for the second session of
summer school.
All dormitory students, includ
ing- g-raduating seniors, who do not
plan to register for the second
summer session or the fall semes
ter of 1963 are required to secure
a clearance form from their ci
vilian counselor.
THE FORM is to be processed
and turned in to the Housing Of
fice with the room key before the
student leaves the campus. Mat
tress covers are to be turned in to
the Department of Stores Ware
house during the clearance proce
dure.
Day students who do not plan
to register for either the next sum
mer session or the fall term may
make application directly to the
Fiscal Office for refund of the
property deposit.
Students whose return in the
fall is Questionable at this time
wait until September to request a
refund of the room deposit, pro
vided they have not reserved a
room for the fall.
The memorandum stressed that
students who do reserve rooms for
the fall must cancel them by Aug.
15 or the denosit will he forfeited.
THE SECOND notice listed two
schedules for reservation of rooms
for the second summer session;
1. Monday through Wednesday
—Students who wish to reserve the
room they now occupy and stu
dents who bring a room change
from the housemaster of the dorm
concerned for a room other than
the one they now occupy.
2. July 11-13. — All students
who have not signed up in accord
ance with the above conditions
may sign up for rooms on a first
come, first served basis.
Englishman Will Remember His Visit
David Woodcock will remember
his visit to the United States—
particularly his two-year stay in
Texas—for a long time.
A Fulbright professor at A&M
and a former Manchester (Eng
land) resident, Woodcock has
taught architecture classes here
since September. His experiences
—both pleasant and not-so-pleas-
ant—are suitable for a book.
To begin with, he and his wife,
Molly, were greeted shortly be
fore their arrival by Hurricane
Alma and then by an unseasonal
heat wave that plagued the New
England area a year ago.
“Texas welcomed us in a suit
ably English manner with desul
tory rain, which looked very
pleasant till we left our aircon-
ditioned Pullman in Houston,”
Woodcock said, rocking his chair
back in his “ice-oool” office.
The Woodcocks then discovered
“to our borrow” the orttside tem
perature: 98 degree* with match
ing humidity.
Our first fortnight in College
Station was speat moving from
one airconditioned container to
another,” he added.
The climate is one thing the
Englishman will remember.
He soon was introduced to
America’s freeway traffic and
baffling downtown intersections
“aptly referred to as spaghetti
bowls.”
“It’s fantastic,” he sighed, now
safely evacuated to College Sta
tion.
The bespectacled 26-year-old
gentloman is the first Fulbright
professor the Division of Archi
tecture has had. At 24, he was
perhaps the youngest to receive a
grant under the international
teaching program.
Woodcock teaches design and
city planning courses. His teach
ing contract, due to terminate in
August, was extended by special
permission from Fulbright au
thorities.
At present he is working on a
research proposal on “high rise”
school building. Such a study, the
professor feels, would solve prob-
1«ms in metropolitan areas whsre
land is “highly expensive or sim
ply isn’t available” for single-
stoi’y structures.
“We are happy with his work,”
T. R. Holleman, head of the Di
vision of Architecture, said, “and
we ai’e pleased to know he will
teach here another year.”
The Woodcocks have made an
effort to visit other places in the
States, although their traveling
has been limited by their parti
cipation in campus life. They have
seen Houston, Austin, Dallas and
Shreveport.
Both volunteered to help the
Aggie Players, A&M’s dramatics
group. Woodcock designs stage
settings, and his wife designed
and made costumes for major
productions last fall.
It was this college group,
among others, that later assisted
the Woodcocks at a critical time.
“Shortly after the arrival of
their son, Jonathan Alfred, Mrs.
Woodcock developed severe head
aches. Twelve days later she was
rushed to the Texas Medical Cen
ter in Houston for major surgery,
to remove a brain tumor,” he re
calls.
“Her recovery was miracu
lous,” Woodcock states today.
“Although it was a very worry
ing time, we were sustained by
the help and prayers of many,
many friends.”
The Aggie Players staged a
benefit performance in May for
the Woodcocks to help defray
medical expenses. Other groups
and individuals helped with do
nations.
“During Molly’s illness,” he
said, “we were lent an apartment
in Houston, another example of
American generosity.”
His greatest adjustment has
been with the American working
hours.
Woodcock, a former Manches
ter University professor, said his
greatest shock came when he
learned college classes here begin
at 8 and go until 6 p.m.
Back Home, he said the dean
apologizes for assigning anyone
a first period class, which begins
at 9:30 a.m.
“Such a teacher is looked upon
with much pity,” he added, with
definite British accent. “I failed
to tell my friends back home that
summer school classes begin, at
7 a.m. I’m sure they wouldn’t
believe me.”
He labels football “pretty dull”
and terms basketball “f^r more
appealing.” He hailed the inau
guration of the “A&M Cricket
Club” in May as a “great step
forward in sports at A&M.”
Other English couples are lo
cated here, so the Woodcocks are
able to exchange copies of
“Punch” for English newspapers.
Gifts ’from home include “cas
kets of tea” and Giles and Andy
Capp cartoon books.
The Englishman has a distin
guished professional record. He
has worked for three architec
tural firms, in addition to teach
ing. His membership list includes
numerous groups, including the
Royal Institute of British Archi
tects.
“In spite of the weather,”
Woodcock said with agrin, “we
are looking forward to another
year in Texas.”