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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1963
Number 138
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$250,000
Bond Issue
Set Oct. 8
Qualified voters in the A&M Consolidated School District
vill vote on a $250,000 bond issue Oct. 8 to determine the
ate of a proposed $350,000 building program.
$100,000 of cash surplus combined with a short term
125,000 loan will supplement they*"
|250,000 bond issue to provide the
;otal $375,000 proposed expendi-
ure.
The proposed building project is
the result of increased enrollement
)pmd curriculum expansion, school
jfficials said.
aI Superintendant W. T. Reidel
VBaid that the program is a follow-up
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Navy made the greatest
climbing from ninth to fifth
routing a massive and
rated West Virginia team
The Midshipmen were just
Texas, which moved from
fourth after trimming Tulase
Then follow 1 ed, as the lower
Wisconsin, Northwestern,
sas, Georgia Tech and Pitt. I Leadership training courses for
Wisconsin, the defending Kiri Scout adult volunteers will be
Ten king, leaped over Northjleld Oct. 1-16 at the Girl Scout
ern s head apparently becausHiittle House in Bryan for all area
voters were more impressed lyBpomen interested in scouting.
Badgers 41-0 victory over H'p Sessions have been scheduled be-
ern Michigan than the WildMinning Oct. 1, with a general meet-
23-12 decision over Missouri, png for all scouting age level lead-
kansas, 21-0 winner over ftirs which will include a new film
Intitled “This is Girl Scouting.”
I THE SENIOR program, consist-
homa State, was the only tear
stand still—in eighth place.
ini Bin
)N’S PANCAKE HOUSE
pancakes, aged heavy KC steaks,
ie foods.
chants lunch 11 to 2 p. m.
ing of girls in the 10th, 11th and
l2th grades, will scheduled Oct. 15,
|nd an “Out of Doors Day” at
Camp Howdy, southwest of Bryan,
dll be held Oct. 16 for all program
vels.
Mrs. S. L. Loveless, volunteer
"ainer, and Mrs. Julia Hillman,
Bistrict advisor, said that the cours
es are open to all interested adults,
and is a requirement for all new
■Poop leaders who have not previ
ously taken it.
I REIGSTRATION applications
■or any or all parts of the course
Ihoukl be mailed to the Bryan Girl
Scout Office, Mrs, Hillman said,
and a 25-cent registration fee will
■e collected at the first meeting.
■ Girl Scout leaders taking the
Baurse have been asked to bring
■heir leaders notebook, a copy of
the Girls Scout handbook, note
taper, pencils and a sack lunch.
to one recommended by a citizen’s
committee in 1959. At that time
the committee advised additional
funds would be needed at a later
date.
If the bond issue passes, there
will be a 8 cent tax rate increase
over the present $1.90 per $100
property valuation.
The proposed $375,000 amount,
if approved, will be expended as
follow's: high school, $235,000;
elementary school, $80,000; admin
istration building, $28,000; archi
tects fees, $20,000; financing fees
$2,000 and equipment, $10,000.
Expansion of facilities at the
high school will include a library,
a health and physical education
building, a language laboratory,
and three new classrooms. The
old library will be converted into
two additional classrooms.
The College Hills Elementary
School will be provided with six
new classrooms, with a additional
two unen consideration.
Included in the building program
is a new' central administration
building to house the superintend
ent’s office, tax office, and a board
room.
The increased enrollment of high
school students has neccessitated
the expenditure for the new' Health
and Education Building. The pre
sent building was originally de
signed to handle 88 high school
students. It now' handles 832 sen-
oir and junior high students.
The polls wdll open at 8 a.m.
and close on 7 p.m. Oct. 8.
Faculty-Staff Reception
President and Mrs. Earl Rudder are shown Mrs. Rudder are Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Als-
greeting faculty members Tuesday night at meyer, and with the president are Mr. and
the faculty-staff reception held in the Mem- Mrs. D. C. Carter,
orial Student Center Ballroom. Greeting
AT NEWS CONFERENCE
Governor Predicts ‘Chaos’
If Poll Tax Not Repealed
AUSTIN (A 5 )—Gov. John Con- some San Antonio residents had
nally predicted Tuesday “chaos”
in the state if Texas voters do not
repeal the poll tax voting require
ment.
“If we fail to repeal the poll
tax law it’s going to be a very
difficult situation,” Connally told
newsmen at his first news confer
ence in nearly two months.
Connally also said he has a
“wait and see” attitude about
calling a special legislative ses
sion to handle the congressional
redistricting controversy.
ONE NEWSMAN SAID that
SHSTC Holds Registration
Thursday For Local Classes
Sam Houston State Teachers
College has scheduled two extension
classes for the Bryan-College Sta
tion areq, this semester and could
NT
possibly offer four additional
classes.
Final registration for Govern
ment 261 and History 164 wdll be
held Thursday at 6:30 p. m. at the
A&M Consolidated Junior High
School building on Jersey Street.
REGISTRATION for four other
courses wdll also be completed
Thursday night. A minimum of 15
students wdll be required for each
of these courses, including Psy
chology 231, English 161, English
261 or 262 and an advanced Eng
lish course.
All of the courses to be offered
carry three hours college credit.
Classes wdll meet for 16 Thursday
nights from 6:30-9:30.
TUITION for each course has
been set at $36 plus the price of
textbooks.
Government 261 is entitled
“Principles of American Govern
ment National and State.” It meets
the legislative requirement for all
j out-of-state transfer students and
■ is a basic course required in all
, degree programs.
Another basic course contained
in every curricula, History 164,
will be offered. The course deals
with United States history since
1865.
Psychology 231 is a general
psychology course. English 161 is
beginning freshman English, while
English 231 and 232 are sophomore
courses. The advanced English
course may be chosen from the
number 300 or 400 courses listed
in the SHSTC catalogue.
charged that Connally in fact is
opposed to repeal of the poll tax
voting requirements, which comes
before Texas voters this Nov. 9.
“Those who would make such
remarks just can’t understand
clear language,” the governor said.
“There is no question of my posi
tion. I am for repeal.”
Connally told a. meeting in Aus
tin earlier that some politicians,
namely Albert Pena, president of
the Political Association of Span
ish-speaking Organizations, PASO,
would use poll tax repeal for po
litical aims.
Pena in turn charged that Con
nally does not favor repeal.
TWO METHODS of banning the
poll tax as a voting requirement
ai’e pending.
The proposed change in the
state constitution was set for Nov.
9 vote by the last legislature. The
same session also passed a 25-cent
voter registration law that will be
effective when and if the repeal
is voted.
There also is pending a pro
posed change in the federal Con
stitution that needs ratification by
only two more states. Thirty-six
state legislatures have already ap
proved the federal poll tax ban.
The question of Texas ratifying
tjie federal change was never
brought to a vote in the recent
legislature.
CONNALLY NOTED that if the
state constitution change is de
feated but the federal constitution
change is ratified, as is likely be
fore the November 1964 general
election, then Texas voters would
be required to have a poll tax to
ballot on state and local officials
but the poll tax would be banned
for the hot presidental race.
“It would bring chaos to the
state and might cut down on the
voter turnout,” he said.
Enrollment
Will Be Equal
To Last Year
A&M University enrollment figures released Tuesday
indicate that this year’s enrollment will be as large if not
larger, than in the Fall Semester, 1962.
There were 8,128 students enrolled Tuesday, compared
with 8,113 for the same time last year. Registrar H. L.
Heaton said that final figures on enrollment will not be avail
able until Oct. 15. He explained that even though last Satur
day was the last day for enrollment, there are always some
students who for one reason or another do not get on the
official enrollment roster for a few days.
Final enrollment for this semester in 1962 reached
8,142 by the Oct. 15 date. As of Tuesday the enrollment is
14 students short of that’
figure.
Informal reports by all the
presidents of all the educa
tional institutions at the Tues
day meeting of the A&M Uni
versity Board of Directors re
vealed an overall increase through
out the system.
There are currently 175 women
enrolled at A&M, reported Heaton.
However, only 12 of the women
are single, he said.
A preliminary enrollment report
early last week showed the enroll
ment to be 73 students short of the
comparable period last year. Last
year’s 8,142 students was the larg
est enrollment on the campus since
1949.
This year’s enrollment includes
a record 1,177 resident graduate
students, Wayne C. Hall, dean of
the Graduate College reports. This
is the fiyst semester in which A&M
has had more than 1,000 graduate
students.
Hall said that in addition to the
1,177 graduate students enrolled
as resident students, 47 others are
enrolled in off-camptis programs.
★ ★ ★
U Of H Announces
17,610 Enrollment
HOUSTON <dP> _ The University
of Houston, starting its first term
as a state school, has registered
17,610 students for the fall sem
ester.
The high increase was recorded
even though applications from
some 2,000 prospective students
were rejected. An enrollment of
only 15,500 had been forecast.
★ ★ ★
Record Enrollment
Expected At UT
AUSTIN <A>) _ A total of 21,006
students attended classes at the
University of Texas Tuesday, the
second class day of the fall term.
By Oct. 5, the 12th class day,
a total of 22,314 students is ex
pected, an all-time high enroll
ment for the univei’sity.
Journalism Receives $3,725
In Grants From News Media
The Department of Journalism
at A&M University has received
scholarship grants totaling $3,725
from professional news media and
other groups, Delbert McGuire, de
partment head, announced.
Tommy DeFrank Of Arlington
has received a $1,500 four-year
grant from the Fort Worth Chap
ter of Sigma Delta Chi, national
journalism society. A freshman,
DeFrank earlier this year was chos
en the outstanding high school
journalist in Tarrant County.
Another $1,500 grant came from
the Clayton Fund of Anderson-
Clayton Company of Houston for
journalism - wildlife management
students.
Demolition Work Begins On Smokestack
Sirs'.;: sssssrstf=.«£s
on it. Removal of the landmark is part of a $2 500 000
project to increase the capacity of the plant and aid m
remodeling.
$500 Taken
At Austin Bank
AUSTIN 'A 5 ! — Burglars robbed
the Texas State Bank just off the
University of Texas campus and
escaped Monday night with $500
in silver coins.
“Somebody came in the back
door last night and got $500 from
one of the teller’s cages in the
main bank building,” detective
Jack Woody said. The safe vault
was not touched.
Underwater Movie
Set Monday At 8
“Village Beneath the Sea,” the
first of five film-lecture presenta
tions sponsored by the Great Is
sues Committee of the Memorial
Student Center will be presented
at 8 p.m. Monday in the MSC Ball
room.
Narrator will be Harry Pederson,
one of the world’s leading under
water photographers. His film
footage has been seen in such mo
tion pictures as “The Sea Around
Us,” “Hunters of the Deep,”
“Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea,” and “Mysteries of the
Deep.”
He has provided illustrations for
Time and Life publications. Some
of his expedition work has been
done for the Smithsonian Institu
tion.
The production of “Village Bene
ath the Sea” took 12 years. The
film, for the most part, was taken
in waters surrounding the Ba
hamas. j ,
Residents of Bryan-College Sta
tion area may purchase tickets at
the MSC.
The film and speakers are a-
mong events - sponsored by Great
Issues throughout the year. Other
movies will be presented through
April 17, Harold C. Brown, Great
Issues chairman, announced.
Goldwater Gets
More Support
For Nomination
CONCORD, N. H. CP) — Sen.
Norris Cotton, R-H.H, gave a
powerful boost to Goldwater-for-
president forces Tuesday as bat
tle lines began to take shape for
New Hampshire’s first-in-the-na-
tion presidential primary.
Cotton’s expected declaration of
support for Sen. Barry Goldwater
came as backers of New York
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller were hard
at work building a campaign or
ganization for the GOP primary
March 10.
It came as politicians weighed
the implications of informal polls
showing that Goldwater ranks
much higher than Rockefeller in
the hearts of conservative Granite
State voters.
NEITHER ROCKEFELLER nor
Goldwater has announced he will
enter the primary, but Rockefeller
will visit New Hampshire Oct. 18
for a speech at the University of
New Hampshire and a football
game the next day at Dartmouth
College, his alma mater.
Cotton’s announcement g av e
rise to immediate speculation that
Goldwater would not be far be
hind Rockefeller in making a foray
into New Hampshire.
The Dallas Press Club Founda
tion has given $400 to the depart
ment for financial assistance to
deserving journalism majors. The
foundation has provided grants for
journalists enrolled at other col
leges and universities in the South
west.
Three newspapers are among the
contributors to the News Media
Scholarship Fund. They are the
Arlington Daily News-Texan, $100;
the Amarillo Daily News & Globe
Times, $100, and the Houston Press,
$25.
The Texas Gulf Coast Press As
sociation, a regular contributor to
scholarship funds at A&M, present
ed a $100 check to the department
to be awarded to a journalism
major.
161 Communities
Enroll For 1963
Improvement Drive
A total of 161 communities have
been enrolled in this year’s Texas
Community Improvement P r o -
gram.
Reagan Brown, program leader
and extension sociologist with the
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service, said the project is a group
demonstration to help solve social
and economic problems in rural
communities.
Examples of the activities, he
said, are community beautification
campaigns, recreation, attraction
of industry, and rural youth pro
grams.
Enrollment cards have been
mailed to communities enrolled in
last year’s program. When the
card is returned, the area is offi
cially enrolled.
“We hope to have a record num
ber of entries this year,” Brown
said. “We are striving for this
goal because we know the com
munity improvement approach is
an effective extension method of
increasing income and providing
meaningful ways bf making com
munities better.”
The program is sponsored by
electrical utility companies in Tex
as and the extension service.
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia —
Prince Norodom Sihanouk says he
is convinced the Communists al
ready have won the battle for
South Viet Nam and feels that
neutral Cambodia eventually will
fall to the Communists.
★★★
SAIGON, South Viet Nam—
A U. S. Air Force transport
landed President Kennedy’s two
top military advisers here Tues
day night for a survey that may
help shape future Washington"
policy toward President Ngo
Dinh Diem and the war against
Vietnamese Communists.
U.S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — Spurred into
action by the $500 million Canadi
an wheat sale to Russia, two Sen
ate committees will meet infor
mally Wednesday to explore the
possibility of relaxing U. S. ex
port control policies.
★★★
HOUSTON—James E. Webb,
chief of the nation’s space pro
gram, said Tuesday a joint U.S.-
Russian moon shot effort would
not necessarily mean astronauts
and cosmonauts would ride in
the same space ships.
“A joint effort could start
with lots of things short of put
ting each other’s men on the
same spacecraft,” said the ad
ministrator of the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration.
President Kennedy has sug
gested that the United States
and Russia cooperate in carry
ing out mutual objectives of
reaching the moon.
★ ★★
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Two
presidential representatives de
scribing themselves as “friendly
guests” said Tuesday afternoon
they have scheduled meetings
Wednesday with both white and
Negro leaders in their effort to
patch up racial differences, and in
dicated such meetings will be held
daily.