ss'aa.u-rsr^r * Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, October 17, 1963 THE BATTALION Former Student To Address Texas Baptist Convention By GLENN DROMGOOLE Battalion News Editor Dr. Jesse C. Fletcher, a former A&M student, will address the 44th Texas Baptist Student Con vention in Abilene Saturday night. A distinguished military student here, Fletcher now serves as asso ciate secretary in the department for missionary personnel of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Fletcher’s duties include coun seling and interviewing missions candidates in the central and west ern sections of the United States. Candidates for these posts come primarily from Southwestern Bap tist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Midwestern Baptist Theo logical Seminary in Kansas City and Golden Gate Baptist Theologi cal Seminary in Mill Valley, Cal. A NATIVE of San Antonio, Fletcher received the bachelor of business administration degree V.V.'.V.W.V.WWSV.V.V.V Do Your Brakes Grab? Squeal? 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TA 2-0139 FREE PARKING TA 2-0130 College Ave. At 33rd OPEN Every Day TILL 6 Except Sunday Saturdays till 6 from A&M and the bachelor of di vinity and doctor of theology de grees from Southwestern Semi nary. The former A g g i e served as chaplain in the U. S. Army Re serve in Austin, and later took ad ditional study at the Institute of Religion of Texas Medical Center in Houston. This summer Fletcher took a 10-week trip to 18 countries served by Southern Baptist missionaries. While he was overseas his book, “Bill Wallace of China,” the biog raphy of a Southern Baptist mis sionary doctor who died in a Chi nese Communist prison, was re leased by Broadman Press. AT THE TIME of his election to the Board’s headquarters staff in April, 1960, Fletcher was direc tor of Baptist student activities and Bible teacher at the Univer sity of Texas. He has served as pastor at Well born and Kopperl and as executive secretary of Northside YMCA, Fort Worth. Besides Fletcher, other speakers at the three day conclave which convenes Friday include: Dr. J. P. Allen, pastor, Broad way Baptist Church, Fort Worth; Dr. Jimmy R. Allen, secretary, Christian Life Commission, Bap tist General Convention of Texas; Dr. Kenneth L. Chafin, profes sor of evangelism, Southweste -n Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth; Dr. William Hall Preston, asso ciate, Student Department, Bap tist Sunday School Board; DR. CLAUDE RHEA, director, Division of Fine Arts, Houston Baptist College, And Mr. and Mrs. Winifred Smith, Southern Baptist mission aries, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Other highlights of the conven tion will be special music by an 80 voice State BSU Choir directed by John Wyatt of Baylor, reports from the 1963 Texas BSU Summer Missionaries and a special dra matic presentation by the Hardin- Simmons Drama Department. ORIENTATION SESSION Singh, left, reviews report with Parker and Young. Indian Trainee To Be Visiting Agent Peace Corps Tests In Bryan Saturday Peace Corps placement tests will be given in the Bryan Post Office, 8:30 p.m., Saturday. A language test will be admin istered at 1 p.m. for those who re quire it. Prior to taking the tests, exami nees must fill out applications which are available at the post office. Applicants must be at least 18, have a high school education, and must have a skill needed by the Corps. The people who are hired will receive two years of credit towards civil service benefits. Amar Nath Singh, Extension training officer from India, visited the A&M University campus last week for a training and orienta tion session before going to Run nels County where he will serve as a visiting county agent. Singh is the seventh county agent from a foreign country to serve in Texas. SINGH will work closely with C. T. Parker, Jr., Runnels County agricultural agent and others of the county extension staff for about one year. He will learn skills and techniques of Extension work through observation, sharing of re sponsibilities and person-to-person contact. “WHILE IN TEXAS, we hope that Singh can increase his com petence in the communication of ideas he can share with the peo ple of India whereby they can learn and adopt improved prac tices in agriculture,” says V. G. Young, state agricultural agent. “We feel sure that our Texas Ex tension agents will gain much from their association with him and from the first-hand knowledge he can share about agricultural practices in his country.” BEFORE returning to India next August, Singh will go to Washington, D. C. for a communi cations seminar and for visits with personnel of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Third Group Of Astronauts Will Be Revealed Friday HOUSTON, Tex. ) _ The names of a third group of astro nauts will be revealed Friday. Some may be jet pilots with physical science training that will be useful in early exploration of of the moon. The group may double the size of the manpower pool for the ad vanced Gemini and Apollo space shots that have an objective of placing astronauts on the moon within the decade. THE MANNED Spacecraft Cen ter announced Wednesday the group will be introduced at a formal conference Friday after noon at 4 p.m. Their number is expected to be from 10 to 16. The original seven Mercury astronauts were selected in 1959 and nine military and civilian trainees were added in 1962. Applications were received from 271 military and civilian pilots including two women who were disqualified. Of these, 29 were invited to Houston last month for final interviews. QUALIFICATIONS were stream lined, possibly because of pleas that early moon shot crews in clude scientifically oriented per sonnel. Maj. Donald K. Slayton, coor dinator of astronaut affairs, said, “This next group should take us through the third lunar landing.” Aggie Meat Team Adds A Sixth Place Tuesday’s results in the meats judging contest of the American Royal Livestock Show in Kansas City, Mo., added another sixth place for the senior judging teams of Texas A&M University. Earlier during the show, the livestock judging team and the wool judging team also placed sixth. Fourteen teams representing major agriculture schools in the nation competed in the meat judg ing event. Oklahoma State University was first, followed in order by Kansas State University, Michigan State University, Illinois State Univer sity and the University of Wiscon sin. THE TEXAS A&M team was second in pork judging, and fifth in lamb grading and lamb judging. Jerry Simon of San Antonio was second in pork judging, and Clif ford Spaeth of Doss was fourth in beef grading. Other members of the team coached by Dr. Z. L. Carpenter, assistant professor of animal hus bandry, are Franklin Reagor of Llano, Gail Wood of Spicewood, and Vernon Fritze of San Antonio. IN THE WOOL judging contest, Billy Reagor of Llano was second high individual on reasons, and Joe Sagebiel of Fredericksburg was fourth high. Sagebiel was fourth high indi vidual in judging commercial classes. Other team members are Ronnie Rugh of Bandera and Clifford Spaeth. The team is coached by Jack Ruttle, graduate assistant in the Department of Animal Hus bandry. Twenty-four teams competed in the livestock judging contest, with the University of Nebraska taking top honors. Other placings, in or der, were Kansas State University, South Dakota State University, Oklahoma State University and North Dakota State University. THE AGGIE TEAM was second in cattle judging, fifth in hog judging, and sixth in Quarter horse judging. Chester Smith of Temple was second in cattle judging, and Ron nie Patterson of Lometa was fourth in hog judging. Rt $2 An Ai joring h $200 scl night, f of the E tute. H the Lov< Read Other members of the team coached by L. D. Wythe Jr., are Eteve Hammack of Ferris, Michael Drake of Alice, Kenneth Radde of Meridian, Billy Reagor, and Sage- biel. Services Canceled The Services scheduled to be held at the Hillel Foundation, 7:30 p.m., Friday, have been cancelled. The cancellation was announced by Mrs. Shirley Reiser, Secretary of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Founda tion at A&M. Gloves and Winter Caps Now Available Why wait until the cold weather gets here? Buy your gloves and winter hats now so you won’t have to fight the crowds. You’ll be that much ahead of everyone else. Get yours’ now. LOUPOTS 5,000 Aggies Can’t Be Wrong At The North Gate VI 6-6312 Tired of "Dope' The A&M Donut Shop has good, fresh coffee and donuts made fresh each morning CHECK THESE EXTRAS: • Breakfast (your choice) • Good Cooking • Lunches (6 days a week) 85