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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
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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. <A>) _ 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.
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Meridian, Billy Reagor, and Sage-
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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.
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AGGIE MOBILE
THE AGGIE MOBILE will stop in front of the M.S.C.
and the side entrance of Sbisa Dining Hall each weekday at
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week, please call us and express your desire.
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