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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1963
Number 137
MSC Council
Eyes Report,
SCONA IX
By RONNIE FANN
Battalion Managing Editor
SCONA IX, Town Hall and the Summer Directorate re-
314; were among topics discussed Monday night at the semes-
L’s first of the Memorial Student Center Directorate, in
jie cafeteria of the MSC.
' David Amad, summer chairman
of the directorate reported a pro-
2 New Degrees Approved
By Board Of Directors
,ocal Schools Set
Barents Reception
There will be a reception for
|rents of children attending Col-
Hills and A&M Consolidated
|| Elementary Schools, A&M Con-
iolidated Junior High School, and
Consolidated Senior High
figh School Tuesday night, 7:30
9 p.m. at the Consolidated
lab.”
Hob Schlieder, president of the
Mothers and Dads Club, and Tay-
Itiedel, superintendent of A&M
rsolidated, will be on hand to
pet all parents.
te
,1k
zed
l)
idustrial Men
Schedule Meet
pproximately 250 persons will
ive here Thursday for the 13th
mual Texas Industrial Develop-
Jnt Confernece, James It. Brad-
sy of the Texas Engineering Ex-
eriment Station and confer-ence
H firector has announced.
event is sponsored by the
WM Idustrial Economics Research Di-
P»ision of the Engineering Experi-
■ ■lint Station and is co-sponsored
H jy the Texas Industrial Develop-
lent Council.
^Speakers will include executives
?bm numerous industrial firms in
exas. The subjects will range
Tom banking and agri-business to
le industrial outlook for the
iate.
REGISTRATION at 8 p. m.
mirsday will begin the two-day
leeting. President Earl Rudder
111 welcome delegates to the cam-
us at 9:15 p. m.
E. B. Germany of Austin, chair-
lan of the Texas Industrial Com-
lission, will discuss “Texas and
idustrial Development” at 9:30.
|gri-business” will be the sub-
of a talk by Millard Shivers
Waco, Texas Farm Bureau di-
tor of organization, at 10:40.
Bjjrhe afternoon session will feat-
ire a panel on industrial financing,
Itluding talks on small business
; ; >ans, investments and commercial
anking.
BUSINESS meeting is
eduled for 3:25 p.m. Raymond
7. Hedges of Odessa, president of
ie Texas Industrial Development
guncil, will preside,
our other speakers will ad-
ss the delegates Frdday morn-
. Included are William M. King
Austin, commissioner of the
te Securities Board; Sam W.
g of Dallas, representing the
S. Department of Labor, and
H. Danner of San Angelo,
aking- on the industrial outlook
Texas.
a
fit of over $200 for the groups’
work on the 10 dances and four
hootenannies sponsored during the
summer. The most spectacular suc
cess was with the hootenannies,
Amad said. The average attend-
ence was between 300 and 400
students.
Larry Garrett, chairman of the
Town Hall Committee, submitted
a budget of $19,050 for six per
formances this semester, including
Benny Goodman, The Brothers
Four, The Norman Luboff Choir,
The San Antonio Symphony. Leon
Bibb and Marty Robbins. Also in
cluded in the schedule but not in
the regular Town Hah programs
will be The Kingston Trio, to ap
pear Oct. 21.
TICKETS WILL BE $1.50 per
student for the. Trio’s performance,
and $2.50 for non students. Gar
rett also announced a new price
of $1 for date tickets for Town
Hall, beginning this semester.
This year we tried to balance the
programs between pure entertain
ment and the educational-cultural
type, Garrett said. Gate receipts
will be used for sponsoring pro
grams next year and additional at
tractions this year, he reported.
Soon to be undertaken by the
executive committee of the direct
orate is a proposal to raise the
portion of money received by the
Town Hall Committee, out of the
student activities fund. Garrett
said each student now pays about
50 cents per performance.
A PROGRESS REPORT of
SCONA IX was discussed by the
directorate and a motion was pass
ed to hold periodic reviews of
SCONA’s progress during this de
velopment stage. The ninth annual
Student Conference on National
Affairs will be held Dec. 11-14 in
the Memorial Student Center. This
year’s topic will be “U. S. Monen-
tary and Fiscal Policy: A Taxpay
er’s View,” and will host promin-
ant businessmen and politicians
from throughout the county.
MSC COUNCIL HEARS REPORTS
Year’s programs discussed at first meeting.
MY A CHING BA CK!
Fish, Sophomores Workout
During PE Fitness Test
By JOHN WRIGHT
-Asst. News Editor
There are probably some pretty
sore freshmen and sophomores on
campus this week. And all be
cause the Department of Physical
Education is determined to make
students aware of their physical
condition.
On Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday of last week all freshmen
and sophomores were subjected to
a four-item physical fitness test
comprised of pull-ups, sit-ups, a
broadjump and, to cap it all off,
a 300-yard shuttle run.
i&M Grad Chosen
[ssistant Registrar
lohn T. Wynn is a new assistant
pstrar in the office of A&M
uversity Registrar H. L. Heaton,
fills the vacancy created by
ihe resignation of Roy Hickman,
10 has begun a doctoral program
jt Iowa State University.
'he appointment was announced
:iday. Wynn heads the records
dsion.
|He received the B.B.A. degree
im A&M in 1962 and this semest-
will complete the requirements
|r the M.B.A. degree.
l‘We are delighted to have Mr.
r ynn as a member of the staff
id feel that he will make a con-
fibution that will be of much
’alue to this office as a service
hganization to the university,”
deaton said.
Wire Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
ROME — Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu
said Monday night she has con
fidence in U. S. good will de
spite what she called “exposure of
a Central Intelligence Agency plot
to overthrow the Saigon govern
ment.” Italian demonstrators pic
keted nearby.
★ ★ ★
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Brit
ish diplomats took turns Mon
day mounting guard alongside In
donesian police over the secret
laden vault in the ruins of the
British Embassy, burned by anti-
Malaysia rioters last Wednesday.
The British charged Indones
ians tried to deny them access to
'their diplomatic property and
might have been tinkering with
the vault. A British military
attache reported he found tools,
keys and steel lock picks near
the vault.
★ ★ ★
MIAMI, Fla. — Chino-Cuban
“friendship week” starts Tuesday
in Cuba and underground reports
say newly arrived hordes of Red
Chinese — armed ones — are there
for Fidel Castro’s subjects to glad-
hand.
Havana radio Monday night an
nounced friendship week amid signs
that the Communist Chinese are
playing an increasingly important
role in Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — The Senate
smashed Sen. Barry Gold water’s
Cuban reservation 75 to 17 Mon
day and went on to smother all
other proposed amendments to
the resolution for ratifying the
limited nuclear test ban treaty.
Oxford University
Rhodes Scholarship
Applications Ready
Students interested in applying
for a Rhodes Scholarship to Ox
ford University are requested to
confer with Dr. R. H. Ballinger,
302-C in the Academic Building,
prior to Oct. 9.
To be eligible a candidate must
be an unmarided male citizen of
the United States, with at least
5 years domicile, and must be be
tween the ages of YB and 24 on
Oct. 1.
By the time of application the
student must have at least junior
standing at some recognized de
gree-granting college or universi
ty in the United States.
In addition the applicant must
have the official endorsement of
his college or university.
The value of a Rhodes Scholar
ship is approximately $2500 per
year. Appointment is made for
two years, with a possible third
year if the scholars record at Ox
ford and plan of study warrant
such an award.
THE TESTS were the result of
an idea on the part of Dr. Caid W.
Landis and associate professors
Paul M. Andrews and Nicholas A.
Ponthieux to improve the Depart
ment of Health and Physical Edu
cation.
In addition to testing sopho
mores who may have allowed
themselves to become “unfit” dur
ing the summer months, the de
partment is following up on a
summer program that was admin
istered to freshmen attending the
A&M Adjunct. The object of this
phase of the program was to see
how students would hold up in
the testing program after a lay
off period of some 8 to 9 weeks.
Much of the staff’s attention
has been focused upon the Ameri
can Association for Health, Physi
cal Education and Recreation (AA-
HPER for short) Test.
THE TESTS CONDUCTED dur
ing the summer at the Adjunct
were based upon the Harvard Step
Test, where a student steps up
and down on a 20-inch bench to the
accompanying beat of a metro
nome. Due to the strenuousness of
this test, however, it has been
dropped in favor of the four-item
test.
After this weeks results are
compiled, the students will be
counseled as to what physical pro
grams they should follow to fit
their individual needs.
Rudders To Honor
Deans, Staffers
At MSC Tuesday
Deans and their new senior staff
menibers will be honored Tuesday
night when President and Mrs.
Earl Rudder hold a staff and facul
ty reception.
The reception is planned for 7-9
p.m. in the Ballroom of the Memo
rial Student Center. Faculty and
staff members and their wives and
husbands, as well as retired faculty
and staff members and their wives
and husbands, have been invited
by the Rudders.
No individual invitations were
extended for the reception.
Ponthieux emphasized that stu
dents will not be made to enroll
in any particular remedial course,
but that it is hoped they will vol-
unarily follow the advice of their
counselors.
PONTHIEUX SAID that those
students who scored in the lower
bracket of the test will be advised
to enroll in basic conditioning-
courses. Those who have demon
strated that they are in relatively
good shape will be allowed to en
roll in sports of their choice.
Freshmen who are unable to
pass a swimming test will be re
quired to enroll in a swimming-
class next semester.
Rudder Requests
Commission’s OK
The A&M University System Board of Directors meet
ing here Tuesday morning approved the recommendation by
President Earl Rudder that the Texas Commission on Higher
Education be requested to authorize two new undergraduate
degree programs for A&M.
No other institution in Texas offers a program similar
to the proposed Bachelor of Science in Construction Engineer
ing, and only the University of Texas and Southern Methodist
University offer one similar to the proposed Bachelor of
Arts in Geography, according to Rudder’s recommendation.
The request pointed out that existing degree programs
in geography can not provide instruction in soil science and
climatology comparable to"
that provided at A&M.
FROM AN ANTICIPATED
initial enrollment of 20 to 30,
the proposed construction en
gineering program is expected to
have a cumulative enrollment of
1.50 at the beginning of its sixth
year.
The construction engineering de-
g-ree program is a professionally
oriented four-year program spe
cifically for the higher education
needs of the construction industry.
The geography program is neces
sary to help fill the national de
mand for geographers that has
developed rapidly since WW II.
STATE LAW requires that ad
dition of new departments and new
degree programs be approved by
the Texas Commission on Higher
Education.
The Board of Directors also ac
cepted a total of $261,785.50 in
grants-in-aid, gifts, scholarships,
fellowships and awards during the
Tuesday meeting-.
A total of $246,341 in contracts
was awarded and confirmed for
construction projects and $591,-
988.30 in funds were appropriated
by the Board of Directors.
APPROPRIATIONS approved
for A&M University included:
$301,900 for facilities for the Feed
and Fertilizer Control Service, the
Agricultural Analytical Service,
and related research; $21,000 for
plans and preliminary expenses
for air conditioning two buildings;
$16,000 for preliminary plans for
veterinary medicine expansion; $4,-
600 for air conditioning three
buildings; $4,000 for preliminary
plans for rehabilitation of two
buildings; and $890 for a water
supply line.
Resident Graduate Students
Show Record Enrollment
Two hundred more resident
graduate students now are en
rolled at A&M University than at
this time a yeag ago, Graduate
Dean Wayne C. Hall has an
nounced. The total of 1,177 stu
dents makes this the first semes
ter in which A&M has had more
than 1,000 resident graduate stu
dents.
Graduate enrollment is double
that of five years ago. In 1960 the
total was 688 students and in 1961
it was 728.
“THE LARGEST increases this
fall were in the natural sciences,”
Dean Hall said.
“In engineering and the physi
cal sciences it is the emphasis
brought about by the space pro
gram, the demands of industry
and the higher salaries paid for
advanced degrees that has caused
the graduate enrollment increas
es,” he said.
The recognition of the quality
programs offered here, the in
creasing demand for trained peo
ple and greater fellowship and
assistantship opportunities are
among the factors responsible for
the increased enrollment, the dean
said.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT factor
is the additional graduate pro
grams now available at A & M.
These are in such fields as Eng
lish, computer science, statistics
and veterinary medicine.
Dean Hall said that in addition
to the 1,177 g-raduate students en
rolled as resident students, 47
others are enrolled in off-campus
programs.
The largest graduate student en
rollment hikes in the College- of
Agriculture were in biochemistry
and nutrition, plant sciences and
agricultural economics.
The College of Arts and Sciences
reported the largest increases in
chemistry, physics, biology, ocean
ography and meteorology, English
and teacher education.
The new program in computer
science, civil, electrical and me
chanical engineering- and industrial
education reported important in
creases at the graduate level in
the College of Engineei-ing.
The new program in statistics
has attracted eight students at the
doctoral level.
Annuals Available
On Fridays Only
The Student Publications Of
fice announced today that all
students who have not yet picked
up their Aggielands may do so on
Friday afternoons only at the
Student Publications Office in
the basement of the YMCA
Building.
HAL R. TAYLOR
Information Director
Taylor Named
To Head Local
Ag Info Group
Hal R. Taylor, public informa
tion officer with the United States
Department of Agriculture Office
of Information, Washington, D.C.,
since 1961, has been named editor
and head of the Agricultural In
formation Department at A&M ef
fective Oct. 6.
R. E. Patterson, A&M’s dean of
agriculture, said Taylor will give
over-all leadership in the planning,
development and execution of ag
ricultural and home economics in
formation programs and will main
tain communications between the
university’s research, academic
and extension education staffs and
Texas farmers, ranchmen, home
makers and agri-business enter
prises.
HIS RESPONSIBILITIES will
include the planning and coordina
tion of all activities in the Agri
cultural Information Department,
including the news, publications,
radio-TV, visual aides and art
sections, Patterson said.
Taylor, a native of Columbia,
Mo., began work in the USDA Of
fice of Information in I960 as in
formation specialist prior to be
coming public information officer.
Before going to Washington, be
served as training specialist in the
National Project in Agricultural
Communications, a Kellogg Foun
dation project, from 1959 to 1960
at Michigan State University,
while doing graduate study there.
HE WAS DIRECTOR of infor
mation, serving both research and
extension, at the University of
Wyoming before going to Michi
gan. Taylor also served as assist
ant agricultural editor for Ohio
State University and was assist
ant extension editor in New Mex
ico for two years.
A graduate of Deering High
School in Missouri, Taylor has a
B.S. degree in agricultural jour
nalism from the University of
Missouri and an M.A. in general
communications arts from Michi
gan State. He was named the Mis
souri Ruralist’s outstanding agri
cultural journalism graduate of
1949 and was a member of Kappa
Alpha Mu, honorary photography
society.
Taylor and his wife have a nine-
year old daughter.