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.