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Texas A&M University Che Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1963 Number 156 8 College Bowl Finalists Aired On ‘Town Talk’ The eight finalists for A&M University’s College Bowl team appeared on the KBTX-TV, Channel 3, “Town Talk” program Tuesday at 11:30 a. m. Their participation was part of an elimination series designed to choose A&M’s five representatives to the College Bowl program to be held in New York Nov. 10. TEAM COACH, Dr. Harry P. Kroitor of the Department of English, said Tuesday three of the finalists have already been chosen to preliminary positions on the team. One more team member and an alternate will be chosen Thursday night. Already selected to the team are Calvin C. Simper, his tory; John A. Schmidt, electrical engineering, and Lawrence ‘Kelminson, finance. Keep* Combined Band is Overall Marching Lead The Maroon and White Bands gathered a total of 86 points Sat urday in the graded pass-by in Kyle Field for the Baylor game to maintain their hold on first place in the marching competition in the Corps of Cadets. Squadron 13 finished second in the pass-by with 79 points. Tied for third were Squadron 17 and Squadfon 7 with 78 points. In fifth position with 76 points was Squadron 9. Close behind Sqd. 9 and tied for sixth were Squadron 10 and Squadron 11 with 75 points. Company F-l finished in a tie with Company F-2 for eighth with 73 points. Tenth was Squadron 11 with 72 points. Outfits are graded on 10 aspects of marching. The points they re ceive from each grader are added to give the point totals. There is a possible score of 100. After three graded pass-bys the Maroon and White Band is in first place for the year. Second is Company F-l, third is Squadron 7, fourth is Squadron 13 and fifth is Squadron 9. Tied for sixth are Company G-3 and Squadron 10. Eighth is Com pany G-l, ninth is Squadron 1 and tenth is Squadron 4. Four of the top ten outfits for this year were in the top ten out fits in the final results for last year. Last year the Maroon and White Band finished in first place. Squadron 13 finished fifth. Com pany G-l was seventh. Squadron 4 was ninth. THE OTHER FINALISTS are William J. Darling, math; Jerry H. Jessup, English; Bobby L. Dimmer, prepar atory medicine; Alan C. Love, English, and John A. McClure, his tory. Two more eliminating sessions remain as the final selections near. They are scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday nights at 7:15 in Room 113, Nagle. These sessions are open to the public, Kroitor an nounced. According to Kroitor, “The boys look awfully good.” The team will oppose either Brooklyn Polytechnical College or Ripon College in the television playoff. The eight-man group has al ready held a counseling session with faculty members of the De partment of Architecture. Before their advance to New York, the team will hold similar meetings with specialists in the fields of English, history and music. YMCA Meet Set Tonight Freshmen who attended the YMCA Camp earlier this year will hold their bi-monthly meeting Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the YMCA Building with Dr. John Merrill as guest speaker. The event will last one hour and will include a supper. Texas Area College Science Students Invited To Confab Seventy-six outstanding science students from colleges through out Texas have been selected to attend the Collegiate Science Re search Conference at A&M Uni versity Dec. 16-17. The conference, sponsored by the Texas Academy of Science, is one of three conducted at major state colleges and universities for students interested in graduate work. Dr. Charles LaMotte, A&M bio logy professor and chairman of the statewide program, said only col leges without doctoral programs in the sciences are eligible to send students. Students chosen will hear lec tures by university scientists and will visit various research facili ties on the campus. Other research conferences will be held at the University of Texas Nov. 11-12 and at North Texas State University Nov. 25-26, Dr. LaMotte said. Wire Review Wire Review By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS LUECHOW, Germany — Two brothers escaped across the mined and barricaded East German frontier Monday night, but only after One of them lost a leg to a land mine. West German border patrolmen said the two, 18 and 20 years old, crawled over the last death strip toward the last barbed wire and concrete barricade separating them from West German territory. ★ ★ ★ JOHANNESBURG, South Afri ca — All 63 miners trapped 5,000 feet down - in a gold mine near Carletonville reached the sur face safely Monday. The last group of 50 white and African miners was brought up late Monday night. Thirteen Oth ers had been freed earlier from the cage in which they were trap ped for 12 hours underground aft er a mishap to the winding mecha nism. U. 'S. NEWS Wire Review By The Associated Press NEW YORK — A mid-Man hattan restaurant Monday began serving free champagne instead of water because of the city’s water shortage. To the glasses bearing the sparkling beverage, the Assem bly Steak House attached notes to its customers saying: “With apologies of the man agement, during the water shortage, champagne will serve as a substitute. Please bear with us.” ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON — Old Tom Connally of Texas, one of the most colorful, powerful and razor- tongued senators of them all, died Monday at the age of 86. The former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who had lived quietly in Washington since he quit the Senate in 1953, had been ailing for years. His wife was at his bedside when he died. Skydivers Take Top Honors Members of the A&M Parachute Club gained a first place in the team event in a parachute meet held at Arlington’s Municipal Airport over the weekend. Jumpers in the 30- second delay baton pass event were John Olden, Don Deveney and Skip Heard. Cadets Act As TV Music Men Play ‘Sir Galahad 9 A t Beauty Pageant Faculty Sets Religion Talk The third program of the Faculty Interfaith Fellowship series planned “toward a better understanding of the religious community” is scheduled at 7 a.m. Wednesday in All Faiths Chapel. “The Sacramental” will be the topic with one representative each of Christianity, Islam and Judaism to speak briefly. Dis cussion completes the program. Speaking Wednesday will be Dr. Bruno J. Zwolinski of the chemistry department, Christ ianity; Dr. A. Ahmed, a grad uate student in biochemistry and nutrition, Islam; and Sol Klein, physics, Judaism. Six topics are being considered in as many weeks in the Faculty Interfaith Fellowship series. Dr. Cleveland A ids Traffic Study For Houston Area Through the research of Dr. Donald E. Cleveland, the Texas Transportation Institute of A&M University, participated in a study of public transit in the metropoli tan Houston area. Cleveland was among the re searchers working on the public transit study which concerned it self with supplying the best serv ice possible to the Houston metro politan area which has experienced a 50 per cent population increase in the last decade. This study of public transit in Houston is part of a comprehen sive study of urban transportation. It is one of a number of reports in the Houston Metropolitan Area Transportation Study begun in 1959 by the City of Houston, Har ris County and the Texas Highway Data Processing Given New IBM The Data Processing Center has recently received an additional IBM 1401 and a Calcomp Plotter, a new device for drawing plots. The new 1401 has a 1403 print er, capable of printing on paper and then reading the information back to the 1401. The 1401 then prints the information on an IBM card. The 1401 in general is used in business and especially in writ ing checks because of its high speed output, said R. E. Hill, research-assistant at the Data Pro cessing Center. The Calcomp Plotter is a plot ting device, Hill said, that may be used by a programmer to produce the same graph automatically. This computer can perform five routines of the IBM 709. Manning To Speak To Parents Club The A&M Consolidated Mo ther’s and Dad’s Club will have a meeting Tuesday, at 7:30 p.m. in the High School Auditor ium. The speaker will be Ash ford Manning, assistant war den of the Diagnostic Center at the Department of Correc tions in Huntsville. Manning is in charge of re ceiving all incoming inmates and supervises their activities for the first 30 days. Prior to this assignment, he was voca tional counselor at the Ferguson Unit where he interviewed and counseled all first offenders 17 to 20 years of age. A homeroom contest will be held and the children who ac company their parents will be invited to view movies in the school cafeteria. The meeting will adjourn at 8:45 p.m. Department with the cooperation of the Bureau of Public Roads and the cities of West University Place and South Houston. WITH TRAFFIC demands in creasing both in central areas and on the fringes, a transit system provides a means by which many Student Injured In Sleep Saturday Edward Dean Dyer, 20, re ceived a linear fracture of the skull when he rolled from his top bunk in Hart Hall during sleep early Saturday morning. Students in Hart took Dyer to the University Hospital about 2:30 Saturday morning. He was unconscious. Dyer is presently showing sat isfactory progress and should be released from the hospital with in 10 days, said the attending physician. Dyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edd Dyer of Beaumont, is a jun ior management major and a member of A&M’s tennis team. Range Specialist Sets A&M Talk For Wednesday Dr. E. J. Dyksterhuis, regional range specialist with the Soil Con servation Service at Lincoln, Neb., will lecture Wednesday at A&M University. Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall said the specialist’s topic, “The Ecosystem Concept,” will be heard at 8 p.m. in Room 112 of the Plant Science Building. The public has been invited. Dyksterhuis was born in Iowa and received his BS degree in 1932 at Iowa State University and his doctorate in 1945 at the Uni versity of Nebraska. The speaker has held visiting professorships at Montana State University and Kansas State Uni versity during his career with the U. S. Forest Service and Soil Con servation Service. He is a member of the Natural Resources Council, is associate editor of Ecological Monographs and has received the Mercer A- ward from the Ecological Society and Superior Service and Author ship Awards from the U. S. De partment of Agriculture. Dyksterhuis is author of a num ber of research papers and papers interpreting research. He is an active member of many scientific organizations in the area of bio logical sciences. people can be served in a single vehicle. The 1960 Houston Central Business District Cordon Count re vealed that 20 per cent of the peo ple entering and leaving the area were in buses, and were carried in less than one per cent of the total vehicles. A careful study of the past record and trends in public transit use was needed to point the way to improvements in the Houston system. Unlike some of the larger and older cities which developed before the present expansion in the use of the motor vehicle, Houston grew up with the automobile and is making provision for it with a freeway and major street system. Topography, favorable climate and customs have shaped travel habits and desires in Houston. Juniors To Meet Wednesday Night The Junior Class officers held their first meeting with their ad visor, Wallace Johnson, recently. Officers for the year are Frank Muller, president; Butch Triesch, vice president; Charlie Wallace, secretary-terasurer and Gary Tis dale, social secretary. Items discussed by the group in cluded plans for the junior ball and for some other type of social event for the Junior Class. All junior, civilian or Corps stu dents, may attend an organiza tional meeting in the Corps Con ference Room Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., Muller said. Any suggestions concerning class matters should be left in the junior box in the student programs office in the Memorial Student Center, Muller pointed out . Colloquium Series Begins Thursday A&M University will hold the first of its Graduate Faculty Colloquium series at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Memorial Stu dent Center. Graduate Dean Wayne C. Hall said the session will cover cur rent research on livestock and livestock products by graduate faculty members in the Animal Husbandry Department. “The colloquia will provide op portunities for researchers in the many areas of graduate study at A&M to exchange ideas and to learn something of the progress made by other re searchers,” Hall said. Graduate faculty members and graduate students are invited to each colloquium. Coffee will be served and time reserved for questions. “We were treated like small kings last year and there is no reason for us to expect any less this year.” With these words, Bob Boone, Director of the Singing Cadets, propheised a wonderful weekend for the 59 members of A&M University’s singing organization as they prepare to leave for Dallas and the Miss Teenage America Pageant this weekend. THE CADET’S SCHEDULE lists departure as 5 p. m. Wednesday, rehearsals on Thursday and Friday morning, the Pageant Friday night, a concert Saturday night at Texas Woman’s University and a dance afterward. They will return to campus Sunday at 3 p. m. The Pageant itself will be 4 held Friday at 9 p. m. in the Dallas Memorial Auditorium, at which time the Singing Cadets, who have been appointed as official pageant glee club will be seen over nationwide CBS network television, said Boone. THE CADETS WILL sing the opening number, “Miss Teenage America,” “Beyond the Blue Ho rizon,” a special number, and pro vide the background music as well as act as escorts for the finalists in the pageant. Bud Collier will be the MC for the pageant with guest stars Alan Ludden from “Password” and Bob by Rydel. Mickey Mantle and Har ry Ransom, Chancelor of the Uni versity of Texas will be two of the judges. THIS IS A FINE opportunity to get the university name before the public because each state will be watching to see how their can didate does in the competition. We have been promised more time on camera this year,” continued Boone, “and we will probably sing from the stage instead of the pit as we did last year.” Following the pageant the ca dets will attend the Coronation Ball at the Holiday Inn. Saturday night the cadets will present a concert at 7:30 followed by a reception and a dance at 9, featuring Louis Pastor’s Orches tra Accommodations have been made for the Singing Cadets at the Mar- iott Motor Hotel in Dallas and at the Forest Park Motor Hotel while they are in Denton. Tomasek, Fine Slated To Speak At Disease Meet Herbert F. Tomasek, chairman, Executive Committee of the Na tional Agricultural Chemicals As sociation, Kansas City, Mo., and Sam D. Fine, director, Food and Drug Administration, Dallas, will be the principal speakers at the 1963 Texas Insect and Plant Dis ease Control Conference. The conference will begin on the A&M campus Nov. 12, and will last until Nov. 13. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. in Serpentine Lounge of the Memorial Student Center. Dr. W. N. Williamson, as sistant director, Texas Agricul tural Extension Service, will then welcome the group to the campus. The purpose of the conference, said Dr. J. C. Gaines, head of the Department of Entomology, is to pass on to the individual the latest practices for controlling the in sects and diseases of plants. The program will consist of speeches from the two principal speakers and talks by faculty and staff members of the A&M Uni versity system. Joining in sponsoring this con ference are the Department of En tomology and the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences. Dr. David Rosberg, Dr. J. C. Gaines, and Dr. V. E. Schember will act as chairmen of the confer ence. Everyone who is interested in controlling the insects and diseases of plants has been invited to at tend, said Gaines. Research Trustees Eye Funds, Chiefs Research activities valued at $3,- 000,000 were reviewed and two new officers elected as the A&M Research Foundation Board of Trustees met here. Industrialist Raleigh Hortens- tine of Wyatt Metal and Boiler Works of Dallas and Houston was elected chairman. A veteran mem ber and officer of the board, he was elected to succeed Howard Tellepsen of Tellspsen Construc tion Co., Houston, who has served several years. A&M PRESIDENT Earl Rud der was reelected as president of the Foundation which is the con tracting agency for research act ivities involving A&M faculty and staff. Mrs. Judy Davis, who has been associated with the Foundation since its organization in 1946, was elected secretary-treasurer. The late Charles A. Roeber, A&M business manager, had filled the post. MRS. DAVIS WILL continue to serve as business manager of the Foundation, a post she has held since early in the 1950s, Dean of Engineering Fred J. Benson said Friday. Dean Benson serves as vice pres ident and director of the Founda tion and Carter Sparger as vice director. Both were reelected at the annual meeting Thursday with 10 board members present. Research contracted through the Foundation by industry and gov ernmental agencies is principally in arts and sciences and engineer ing. English Profs Plan Papers For Meet Three A&M University English professors will read papers at the South-Central Modern Language Association’s annual meeting to be held in Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 1-2. Reading papers -will be Dr. Car- roll D. Laverty, Dr. Roy E. Cain and Dr. John Q. Anderson, head of the English department. Also attending will be Dr. Lee J. Martin and Dr. Harrison E. Hierth. Professor Laverty’s paper is en titled “Astronomical Lore in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe.” Dr. Cain in his paper deals with The Faculty of Sympathy in Dav id Hume and Adam Smith: An Important Influence upon the Ro mantic Theory of the Imagina tion.” “Grim Barnett, Badman of the Big Bend—Ballad Making in the Twentieth Century” is the title of Dr. Anderson’s paper.