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Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1963
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Cindy Brings Foul Weather
An unwelcome lady name Cindy has brought of the same and freshmen, left to right,
nearly one-inch of misty rain to the campus Mike Boydston, Ray George and Buddy Klee-
as she heads inland from the Texas-Louisi- meir don’t seem to approve,
ana Coast. The weatherman predicts more
FOR A&M STUDENTS, OTHERS
National Grad Record Tests
Will Be Administered Here
The A&M campus within com
ing' months will be the site for the
national Graduate Record Examin
ations both for Aggies and others.
An increasing number of gradu
ate and professional schools and
some major firms require prospec
tive students or employees to com
plete the tests. More than 57,-
000 candidates took the examina
tions the past year.
A&M SENIORS now are required
lo take the test in meeting gradu
ation requirements established by
the Academic Council of the Uni
versity.
Seniors planning to graduate in
January or who plan to seek early
admission to graduate school may
take the Graduate Record Examin
ations the afternoon of Nov. 1 and
morning of Nov. 2, Dean of In
struction W. J. Graff announced.
A makeup testing period will be
held the following Fridav afternoon
and Saturday morning, Nov. 8 and
9.
Dean Graff said registration
dates for these tests will be in
October and will be announced
later.
Dates for administering the ex-
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
BRASILIA, Brazil — Yugosla
via’s President Tito flew to
Brasilia for an official visit Wed
nesday and immediately came un
der the wing of machine-gun-equio-
ped securitv troops. Brazil’s Ro
man Catholics had bitterly pro
tested his visit.
The Yugoslav Communuist sten-
ped from a chartered jet air
liner with his wife, Jvanka, and
greeted Brazilian President Joao
Goulart. It marked the start of
his four-country Latin American
tour seeking partners . for trade
and his nonalignment policies.
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ISTANBUL — A sharp earth
quake struck Istanbul and most
of western Turkey Wednesday,
killing at least one person and
injuring several others.
Firemen still were digging for
other victims.
Many tourists at the Istanbul
Hilton Hotel ran outside after
the nine-story building began to
sway.
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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. —
The U. N’s 21- nation Steering
Committee recommended Wednes-
day a wide range of issues tor
debate in the General Assembly,
including treatment of Buddhists
in South Viet Nam and U. N.
membership for Communist China.
It was apparent that despite the
hopes for harmony stemming from
the signature of the limited nu
clear test ban treaty, the as
sembly was heading into some bit-
amination to seniors planning to
graduate in May or August will
be set later.
The Graduate Record Examina
tions, both the aptitude and advanc
ed tests, will be given next week
to all graduate students who have
not previously taken the tests. The
test will be administered Sept. 28.
Graduate students who will take
the Sept. 28 examination must pay
the $5 fee before Friday and pre
sent the receipt at the Graduate
College Office to register and select
the advanced tests of their choice.
THE GRE TESTS consist of a
WASHINGTON (^—President
Kennedy carried to the people
Wednesday night his plea for an
$11-billion tax cut as “insurance
for prosperity”—free from what
he termed ruinous amendments to
curb spending.
In a nationwide radio and tele
vision address Kennedy pledged
“true fiscal responsibility, leading
to a balanced budget in a balanced
ter debate in the three months
ahead.
- U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — James C.
Buckley, airport consultant, testi
fied Wednesday that 90 per cent
of the employes at Love Field,
Dallas, probably would leave the
city if air operations at Dallas
and Fort Worth were consolidat
ed at Fort Worth’s Greater
Southwest International Airport.
Buckley was a witness at a
Civil Aeronautics Board examin
er’s hearing into the question
of whether Dallas and Fort
Worth air operations should be
consolidated at one airnort —
and if so, at which field. The
two fields are 12 miles apart.
★ ★ ★
ABERDEEN, S. D. — The Fis
cher quintuplets, described by
their doctor as “developing nor
mally, with nothing apparently
wrong,” completed their fifth day
of life Wednesday.
Dr. James Berbos, who deliv
ered the quints, said thev are
thriving on a steady diet of for
mula milk and water.
TEXAS NEWS
SAN ANTONIO — A motion
to dismiss the suit filed by Crys
tal City Mayor Juan Corneio
against Texas Ranger Cant. Al
fred Allee was denied by Federal
Judge Adrian Spears here Wed
nesday.
The motion was presented by
Alice’s attorney, Sam R. Wilson,
assistant attorney general of
Texas. Neither Cornejo or Al
lee made an appearance in the
courtroom.
general scholastic ability or apti
tude test, plus advance level tests
of achievement in 17 fields of
study.
The fee for A&M students to
take the examination at times an
nounced by university officials un
der the institutional testing plan is
$5. On the national testing dates,
the fee set by Educational Testing
Service is $12.
The national test dates are Nov.
1G, Jan. 18, March 7, April 25 and
July 11.
The Counseling and Testing Cen
ter staff administers the GRE here.
full-employment economy.”
But he rejected—and called on
the public to support his stand—
a Republican plan unveiled a few
hours earlier to make the two-
stage reduction conditional upon
congressionally fixed budget ceil
ings.
THE REPUBLICAN National
Committee quickly announced it
will demand of the networks equal
time for a reply.
“If we are to make the most of
what this bill has to offer in
ex-eating jobs, fighting recession
and balancing our international
payments and internal budgets, it
must not be diluted by amend
ments or conditions,” Kennedy
said.
“It must not be put off until-
next year.
“This nation needs a tax cut now
—not a tax cut ‘if’—not a tax cut
‘when’—-not a tax cut in the future
or a tax cut for the few.”
THE PRESIDENT’S tone was
conciliatory, in that he gave full
heed to congressional sentiment
against piling tax reduction on
higher federal “pump-primer”
spending. Kennedy promised that
“no wasteful, inefficient or un
necessary government activity will
be tolerated” to boost employment.
But he refused to accept the
harness which the Republican
House leadership sought to impose
as the price of its support—White
House-certified ceilings of $97
billion on this fiscal year’s spend
ing and $98 billion on next year’s
before the tax reduction could take
effect.”
With the House due to vote on
history’s biggest tax cut only a
week from now, the President told
his nationwide audience that the
bill “needs your help, your voiced’
AND HE CLOSED his 20-minute
appeal: “As the Congress prepares
to vote on this issue, I strongly
urge you to support this bill for
your family’s sake and for your
country’s sake.”
And with apparent reference to
recent Republican charges that the
tax bill is vote-getting bait for the
1946 presidential election, Kennedy
replied that Americans “should not
be petty or partisan on matters
such as this.”
Kennedy Pleads With Nation
For His $11 Billion Tax Cut
Wire Review
Rudder Urges Exes
To Back Fund Drive
Locals Challenged
To Beat Abilene
Thirty-Two Aggies
Enter Med School
Thirty-two students who com
pleted premedical and predental
studies at A&M are members of
the 1963 entei-ing classes at med
ical and dental colleges in Texas
and elsewhere, a faculty commit
tee reported Wednesday.
This total establishes a record
except for one year when veterans
returned from the services, com
mittee chairman Howard L. Gravett
said.
“We are very pleased at the
steady increase in enrollment in
this program,” he said.
THE RECORDS SHOW that 96.5
per cent of the Aggies recom
mended for acceptance by a medical
or dental college successfully com
plete advanced studies. Those who
abandon their studies usually do
so for other than scholastic rea
sons,” he reported.
Ten, or about one-third of the
students, were accepted for the
1963 classes at the University of
Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.
These students include Billy D.
Alexander, Gene F. Brossman,
Richard G. Castanon, George James
Collins, William H. Fisherman,
William W. Follett, Ted S. Novo-
sad, Harve D. Pearson, William R.
Rector and Ira Tunnel.
FOUR OF THE students were
accepted by the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical School, Dal
las. They are Thomas D. Easley,
Luis N. Pena, William K. Rundell
and Barry N. Silberg.
Accepted by the Baylor Uni
versity College of Medicine, Hous
ton, were James A. Dotson and
Ralph D. Loyd.
Three of the students earlier
thjs year entered the University of
Tennessee College of Medicine at
Memphis. They are Harvey D.
Barber, John H. Harrington and
Harry H. Pepdery.
Accepted by the University of
Texas Dental Branch, Houston,
werfc John P. Cassity, Thomas M.
Little, Mackey D. Morgan, Ronald
R. Novosad and Colbert W. Traw-
hon.
Students Now Use
Checks, Not Cash
Statistics Report
College students apparently carry
checkbooks nowadays, not cash.
At least that’s what statistics
indicate at the Memorial Student
Center, where a total of $1,330,819.-
23 worth were exchanged for cash
during the 1962-63 school year.
This is $9,319.35 more than the
previous year, although the num
ber of checks cashed dropped from
208,989 to 148,980. The reason
60,000 fewer checks in 1962-63 is
attributed to a $10 minimum a-
mount adopted last year.
The greatest number of checks
were taken in October — 22,750 —
although the checks were fatter
in November — $169,272.23 worth.
The number and amount were re
duced approximately 50 per cent
during summer months.
THE BAYLOR University Col
lege of Dentistry at Dallas accepted
Robert E. Carpenter, William K.
MacTavish, William T. Oliver,
Sammie Ray and Charles E. War-
lick.
Three students earlier this year
entered the University of Tennes
see College of Dentistry, Memphis.
They are Howard C. Ham Jr., Pat
Hartsell and Errol S. Dowling.
The Premedical and Predental
Committee members serving for
the 1962-63 year were Dr. Norman
C. Rose and Dr. Henry Rakoff,
associate professors of chemistry;
Dr. C. D. Laverty, English pro
fessor; Dr. J. G. Mackin, head of
the Department of Biology; Dr.
Joseph M. Nance, head of the De
partment of History and Govern
ment; associate professor Palmer
W. Barker, physics; and Dr.
Gravett.
Saturday Last Day
For Class Changes
H. L. Heaton, director of ad
missions and registrar, said Wed
nesday that Saturday is the dead
line for students to add courses
to their curricula.
Changes in the list of courses
for which any student is cur
rently registered may be made
only on the recommendation of
the head of each department con
cerned and with the approval of
the dean of student’s college.
Any course dropped after Sept.
25 shall normally carry a grade
of “F,” Heaton announced.
Rudders To Hold
Faculty Reception
President and Mrs. Earl Rudder
will hold a faculty and staff re
ception Tuesday to honor deans and
their new senior staff members.
The event is set for 7 to 9 p.m.
in the ballroom of the Memorial
Student Center. Invited are faculty
and staff and their wives and hus-
6. $70,000 for the operation and
expansion of the association pro
gram.
Former students have given more
than $2,400,000 to the fund since
it was initiated in 1943, but this
year’s goal of $238,000 is the larg
est in the fund’s 20-year history.
Space Fiesta
Is Scheduled
For February
Great Issues Committee Chair
man Hal C. Brown has announced
that “Space Fiesta 1964” will be
held Feb. 3-14.
Brown said that the first Space
Fiesta held on the A&M campus
last year, proved so successful
that this year the Great Issues
Committee is making an all-out ef
fort to present to the student body,
and the patrons of this area, a
comprehensive report of this nat
ion’s progress in the field manned
space flight.
Very few university campuses
are able to present a program
equal to the depth and detail of
“Space Fiesta,” said Brown.
Wernher von Braun, current di
rector of NASA’s George C. Mar- j
shall Space Flight Center in Hunts- ;
ville, Ala., will be one of the head
line speakers at the Space Fiesta.
According to Great Issues publicity
chairman Bob Bell, von Braun
agreed early this summer to parti
cipate, but the date of his talk
has yet to be arranged.
Willy Ley, co-author with von
Braun on “The Exploration of
Mars,” has also accepted an invita
tion. An American' citizen since
1944, Ley has earned a world-wide
reputation for his publications on
the conquest of space. He will
speak on Feb. 13.
Major Robert Rushworth, who
won his astronaut’s wings as an
X-15 pilot, will be the third princi
pal speaker at the Space Fiesta.
His talk will be heard Feb. [7.
bands. Bell said a number of exhibits
‘We look forward to this meet- from industry and government re-
AbouU 75 key workers for the A&M Development Fund
campaign accepted a challenge from President Earl Rudder
Wednesday morning to “prove that Bryan-College Station
has greater loyalty to A&M than any other Texas commu
nity.”
Addressing a kickoff breakfast meeting at the Triangle
Restaurant, Rudder noted that in past campaigns several
cities in the state had contributed proportionally more than
A&M’s hometown.
“Let’s take on Abilene where 98 per cent of our former
students contributed this year,” the president said. “We
should shoot for 100 per cent here to prove our loyalty is
greater.”
The A&M president em
phasized contributions to the
Development Fund from Bra
zos County residents were in
their own self interest.
“The money is spent for im
proving faculty salaries, providing
assistance to graduate students
and improving university programs
which will attract visitors and new
residents to our community,” he
said.
GOAL OF the ,two-week local
drive is $6,000 according to drive
co-chairmen Sen. W. T. (Bill)
Moore and Dorsey McCrory. Mc-
Crory heads College Station solici
tation. The Bryan team is lead
by Moore.
Key workers will make contacts
with individuals this week and give
a preliminary report on gifts early
next week.
GIFTS TO THE FUND come
from individual Aggie - exes all
over the world.
J. B. Hervey, executive secre
tary of the Association of Former
Students, has outlined the 1963
Development Fund program as fol
lows : :
1. $130,000 to the fund for acad
emic excellence. This fund allots
money for salary supplementation,
graduate fellowships, faculty re
search projects, a university emer
gency fund and an unrestricted
fund for departmental, college and
university improvement.
2. $8,000 for eight $1,000 faculty
achievement awards.
3. $10,000 for ten $1,000 Op
portunity Award Scholarships.
4. $10,000 for the first install
ment of the 1967 Directory of
Former Students.
5. $10,000 to a special fund for
conversion of former student rec
ords to magnetic tape.
Faculty-Staff
Dance Tickets
Now On Sale
Season tickets for the four 1963-
64 dinner-dances of the A&M Fac
ulty-Staff Dinner Club are now
on sale, W. E. Eckles of the School
of Business 'Administration has an
nounced.
The season ducats, which are
transferable, may be purchased
at the main desk of the Memorial
Student Center or from Dr. R. J.
Kohel, cotton section of the De
partment of Soil and Crop
Sciences, until noon Wednesday.
Individual non-season tickets for
the first event may be purchased
at the MSC main desk until noon
Wednesday.
Season tickets sale for $9, while
individual tickets are priced a!t
$3/ : '" !
The first dinner-dance is set for
Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the MSC
Ballroom. Completing the : club’s
schedule will be three other socials
on Nov. 21, Feb. 20 and April 9.
Dick Baldauf’s Aggieland Combo
will furnish dance music ’ for the
informal affair.
All members of the A&M faculty
and staff have been invited to join
the dinner club.
mg wtih the faculty and staff and
we feel such fellowship contributes
significantly to our university,”
Rudder said.
search are expected. Among those
known to be coming will be a full
scale replica of the Gemini space
capsule.
Annex Hosts Science Institute
Kenneth Bartz, left, and Cragi Hawthorne study research
projects at the two-year Institute of Electronic Science,
now being held at the Research and Development Annex.
This is the first of several programs to be held at the cen
ter, sponsored by the Engineering Extension Service.