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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, July 3, 1963
BATTALION EDITORIALS
A Short Vacation
There is not much time until Friday morning'—time
enough only for a short break.
But there is time enough to die or cripple oneself for
life.
A car traveling at high speed needs only a split second
to turn itself into a twisted, smoldering coffin. Only a mo
ment’s neglect of the business of driving can send an auto
mobile out of control or crashing into another.
Holiday traffic will be thick. A safe but unhappy
prediction can be made that most of the drivers will be in a
hurry. Likewise, it can be predicted that most of the drivers
will be thinking about where they are going, who they will
see, what they will do.—Not the job at hand.
According to safety officials’ forecasts 550-650 American
travelers will die over the Fourth of July holiday. One state
ment foresees 50,000 casualties altogeter. A record was set
last year and they expect it to fall.
The carnage forecasters are regrettably accurate. It
would be relatively simple to prove them wrong. Drivers
could slow down. They could pay attention to what they
are doing. They could be considerate and mindful of traffic.
We hope The Battalion won’t have to report the loss or
injury of any students or area residents next issue.
There is not much time until Friday morning. But isn’t
it worth it to take a little more time and care to make sure
you do get to your destination?
Former Students
Keep Attack Alive
(Editor’s Note: The following
story was sent Friday from Ron
nie Fann, a junior journalism
major at A&M and news editor
of The Battalion during the reg
ular school year. Fann is serv
ing his newspaper internship on
the Beaumont Enterprise this
summer.)
Beaumont—“The great history
of Texas A&M has not been writ
ten in home economics, hair dress
ing and pin cushions,” Rep. Will
Doctor’s Wife
Decides On
Own Career
GALVESTON, Tex. <A>)_It was
almost like the old days when doc
tors learned medicine by what they
called “reading” under a doctor’s
supervision.
At least that is the way Mrs.
David Blacklock started on her
way to medicine. She was one of
the candidates for medical degrees
at the recent Texas Medical School
graduation.
Her husband, a doctor, suffered
injuries in 1956. Among other
things, his eyes were impaired.
During the physician’s long-
months of recuperation at home
during a part-time practice, Mrs.
Blacklock read books on radiology
to him.
A petite, blue-eyed blonde, Mrs.
Blacklock received a bachelor’s de
gree in music from Baylor Uni
versity.
“The more I helped him and the
more I read to him, the more fas
cinating the subject of medicine
became, but it was my husband
who first suggested I return to
school and study medicine and it
was he who gave me the most en
couragement,” she said.
Her first step was two years of
pre-med study at the University of
Houston.
“I commuted every day, putting
22,000 miles on the family’s car.”
In the fall of 1959, she enrolled
at the Galveston medical school.
“It hasn’t been easy, but I’ll
never get tired of learning and
with my family’s help and encour
agement I’ve come through,” she
said.
“I plan to intern at the medical
center and then all I want to do is
supplement him (Dr. Blacklock)
and be with my family.”
Smith ’39 told the Beaumont A&M
Club this week.
The state representative, in his
introduction of Bob Rowland ’57 to
the 250-man rally, advised Aggie-
exes throughout the state that the
fight to reverse the board decision
of April 27, has just begun.
ROWLAND, THE NEWS direc
tor of radio station KFMK in
Houston, spoke to the group of his
personal efforts to get the Board
of Directors to reverse their deci
sion admitting coeds in the regular
term. He was hailed by exes from
throughout the state when he pre
sented board chairman Sterling
Evans his ring, saying A&M
would mean nothing to him after
the decision to enroll coeds.
Pressing his attack, Rowland
has sent out approximately 15,000
letters of protest to senators, con
gressmen, industrialists and exes
to gain support to have the deci
sion reversed. Considered by many
as the East Texas General in the
anti-coed fight, he boasts the sup
port of 9 out of 10 fonner students.
Also attending the meeting was
Travis Smith Jr. ’98, who with
drew his support from the college
after the board’s decision. The
Houston oilman had proposed build
ing an addition on the Memorial
Student Center, but told the board
he Would continue with his plans
only after he had received in writ
ing a guarantee that women would
not attend A&M.
WHEN ASKED whether he
might not reconsider his refusal
in the light of seemingly impossi
ble odds, Smith told The Battalion
he had two grandsons and two
grandnephews at the college and
would take that into consideration.
In closing the meeting, Rowland
told the group that the House of
Representatives had voted 4% to 1
to keep at least one state institu
tion all male.
“I think A&M is worth saving,”
he said, “and the failure of A&M
exes to fight the board’s decision
will cause the loss of respect the
people of Texas have had for Ag-
gie-exes so far.”
Grove Movies
Wednesday — “Beneath the 12
Mile Reef”
Thursday—“Roman Holiday”
Friday—“North to Alaska”
Monday—No Movie
Tuesday—No Movie
Wednesday—“World the Flesh
and the Devil”
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Agency display on educational institutions is a picture of the A&M student center,
here. To the right of the center man, all
Requests From
Prompt Peace
47 Nations
Corps Test
Requests from 47 nations for ad
ditional Peace Corps Volunteers
late this year have prompted the
addition of a July 20 date for na
tional administration of the Peace
Corps Placement Test.
Di\ Ed Henry, director of the
Peace Corps selection division, said
the non-competitive test will be
given by the Civil Service Com
mission in more than 800 communi
ties on Saturday, July 20, and
again on August 24. Both start at
8:30 a.m.
“In order to meet even the most
urgent requests from Latin Amer
ica, Africa and Asia, we plan to
start training programs each
month from August through De
cember,” Henry said. “I hope all
interested college students who
complete degree requirements dur
ing - summer sessions will submit
Aggie Enrolls
At West Point
William Scott Benson, who spent
last year as a freshman pre-law
student at A&M, enrolled Monday
at the United States Military Acad
emy.
He is the son of Dr. and Mrs.
W. R. Benson of San Saba. His
parents were notified of the ap
pointment last week.
Benson was a member of Com
pany A-l while in the A&M Corps
of Cadets.
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More than 2,000 prospective Vol
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the last five months of 1963 to sup
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and the 3,000 in training - during
the summer.
Students can obtain the location
of the nearest test site by calling
the local CSC. Only requirement
for admission is that the applicant
has already submitted a Peace
Corps Questionnaire or brings his
completed application with him.
The test, which can’t be “passed”
4,004 Visit A&M
During Last Month
A total of 4,004 visitors were
on the campus of A&M during the
month of June, 1963, P. L. Downs,
Jr., official greeter of the college,
announced Monday. They were at
tending short courses, conferences,
class reunions and other scheduled
meetings.
The college had 859,157 visitors
on the campus for scheduled meet
ings and activities during the 14-
year period and one month to July
1, 1963, from June 1, 1949, Downs
pointed out. They spent $18,042,-
297.00, he estimated. There were
17 different groups on the cam
pus during the month of June,
1963.
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CAMPUS
CLEANERS
or “failed” in the traditional sense,
includes one-half-hour sections on
general aptitude and modern lan-
gnage aptitude. Students who have
had any prior training in Spanish
or French take an additional one-
hour test of proficiency in the ap
propriate one.
New System Mq
Speed Up Harms
Two A&M agricultural engineers
have worked out a system which
they believe can put mechanical
cotton harvesters into the field
much sooner than usual.
Backing up their conclusions are
tests they conducted at experiment
stations at College Station, Pecos
and El Paso. Results show that
harvesters can go to work two
weeks earlier with no reduction in
cotton yield or quality.
THE TWO ENGINEERS, Asso
ciate Professor Lambert Wilkes
and Instructor Bill Cochran, j-ushed
things up by combining bottom de
foliation of the cotton plant with
bottom picking.
Bottom defoliation, Wilkes says,
is not new. Farmers are already
practicing this technique. On the
other hand, bottom picking is
something Texas Cotton patches
haven’t seen yet.
Wilkes explained that hand pick
ers can start work in a field when
only 15 to 20 per cent of the bolls
are open. But the mechanicalj )ne-hundie
er is obliged to wait until tk| Brec * j n ^
is 60 to 70 per cent ready,si ^ er Sunde
of two to three weeks. d Texas 1
HERE IS HOW the ijJ^-oidboys
devise the system to elic
some of that delay:
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up which i
I A&M car
I over Texa
Ilarence M
Bottom Defoliation — Most J&jty Unive
have three to five nozzles
spray each side of the plant,itJ
bottom. Wilkes removed slip Player a
nozzles except the bottonuapt Bartzen,
each side. The result is a
which reaches only the low
third or one-half of the plait
Bottom Picking — the etijigj
removed the top six to eigtt
of spindles in the picker
plugged the holes. Since courts
bolls open before the upper mcreasec
the remaining spindles pidi
the ripe cotton. At the same a
the machine takes in fewer?
leaves and bolls, injures thei
less, and saves wear and tec
the unused spindles.
women ai
Jlegiate pla
ptas helping
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Class Schedule Chang®
The Office of the Registrar has announced the fob
ing changes in the schedule of classes for the second sa
mer session:
Education
Course 427 — Principles of Guidance. (9-0) 3. Sects
Daily, 11-12:30. Room 160 Academic.
Psychology
Course 301 — Educational Psychology. (9-0) 3. Sects
Daily, 9-10:30. Room 105 Academic. 1
Mechanical Engineering
Course 328 — Thermodynamics. (9-0) 3. Sectioni,
Daily, 9-10:30. Room 208 Fermier.
Course 340 — Physical Metallurgy. (6-9) 3. Sec
Daily 7-8:30, TTh 1-5:30. Room 5 Fermier.
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