Texas
A&M
University
Cbe Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1963
Number 158
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Players
Slated
Opener
For Next Week
By JAY FERGUSON
Battalion Special Writer
The Aggie Players, directed by C. K. Esten, will present
as their first performance this year Somerset Maugham’s
“The Constant Wife”, Monday through Saturday, at 8:00
atGuion Hall.
“The Constant Wife” is a three-act sophisticated comedy
an modern marriage which attempts to present some of the
problems met by people who are adjusting to married life,
aid Esten.
What do married people do after they cease to love each
other, is the theme of the production.
In the cast of “The Constant Wife” will be Lee Hance
as Mrs. Culver; Rhea Smith as Constance and Bob Hipp as
Better Roads
ire Valuable,
Survey Shows
A&M University is making avail
able copies of a report on value
of time saved to commercial motor
vehicles through use of improved
highways.
Authors are Charles R. Haning
and William F. McFarland of the
Texas Transportation Institute at
A&M.
The report, originally written
for the Bureau of Public Roads,
stresses dollars and cents value
of time savings to trucks and bus
es on improved highways.
THE STUDY concentrates in in
ter-city operations of commercial
carriers in the southwest United
States.
According to the report, time
savings must be put to productive
use if they are to be of real value
to commercial highway users.
There are numerous obstacles that
restrict utilization of time saved.
Some of these obstacles include
route restrictions, methods of fig
uring driver compensation, fixed
terminal locations, rigid schedul
ing, and equipment inter-change
agreements.
THE VALUE of time, as de
veloped in the study, is not neces
sarily the value arising from use
of improved highways. Various
intangible benefits are not includ
ed in the report.
Data from the report show that
the estimated range of value was
highest for contract and private
carriers and lowest for common
carriers of general freight. Range
of estimated values for the com
posite freight vehicle was $3.16-
{4.11 per hour of time saved.
tConstance’s husband, John
Middleton; Adriene Stout as
Martha Culver, spinister sis
ter of Constance; Sally Wynn
as Marie - Louise Durham;
Renee Reece as Barbara Fawcett;
Kip Blair as Mortimer Durham;
Bill Thornton as Bernard Kersal;
and Terry Mayfield as Bentley, the
butler.
The production crew will consist
of Harry Gooding and Liz Brad
shaw for set design; Gooding, Liz
Bradshaw, C o r k e y Couvillon,
Charles Kuykendall, Alan Love,
Terry Mayfield and Cynthia Smith
for set crew; Couvillon, Kuyken
dall, and Cynthia Smith for light
ing; Charlene Ragsdale for cos
tumes; Pat Huebner for props and
furniture; Jim Singer as house
manager; Vic Wiening as assistant
director and in charge of voice.
The furniture used by the Aggie
Players will be provided by Hart
Furniture of Bryan.
Admission will be 75 cents i^ejv.
person at the door.
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Winning Dorm Sign
Law Hall COrfte up with the winning football
sign this week as the Aggies prepare for
Saturday night’s tilt with the University of
Arkansas in Little Rock. Charlie’s Food
Market at North Gate presented this week’s
prize to Chuck Hook, dorm president.
Graduate Student Increase
Credited To Business Trend
A&M University has 42 active
candidates for the Master of Busi
ness Administration degree as
compared with 22 students a year
ago.
Why this great increase?
The trend toward professional
education in business is the most
important factor. Dr. John E.
Pearson, head of the School of
Business Administration, believes.
Taking a new booklet from his
AEC Fellowships
Are Available Here
Two types of the Atomic Ener
gy Commission’s special fellow
ships for 1964-65 are available at
A&M University and applications
must be submitted by early in
1964, Graduate Dean Wayne C.
Hall said recently.
The fellowships are for gradu
ate studies in health physics and
in nuclear science and engineering.
A&M is one of 10 universities
participating in the health physics
program which involves formal
course work here and on-the-job
training at an AEC facility. Ap
proximately 60 universities partici
pate in the nuclear science and en
gineering program.
Scaffold Goes Modern
George Price, supervisor of the Preventative Maintenance
Shop of the Department of University Services, operates
an electrically driven scaffold used to aid building repairs.
The machine moves up and down and over ledges, with a
two-man crew.
EITHER PROGRAM may be
used by successful students in com
pleting requirements for a Ph.D.
degree, but the initial term of ap
pointment is 12 months.
Applicants for first-year partici
pation in either program are re
quired to take the Graduate Rec
ord Examination. Special fellow
ships in nuclear science and engi
neering are available for graduate
students already at an advanced
level.
ALL APPLICANTS in the
health physics program should be
U. S. citizens, hold a bachelor’s de
gree, and be less than 35 years of
age.
The basic annual stipend in the
health physics program is $2,500
with an additional $500 allowed for
a wife and each dependent child.
The nuclear science and engineer
ing program stipend is $2,400 for
the first year, $2,600 for the inter
mediate year and $2,800 for the
terminal year, plus $500 allowed
for a wife and for each dependent
child. The fellowship awards also
include tuition and travel allow
ances.
Further information may he ob
tained from Dean Hall’s office in
the Richard Coke Building.
Great Issues
Talk Is Reset
The Great Issue presentation,
“Crisis in Higher Education,”
scheduled Friday on the A&M
campus, has been postponed un
til Spring.
Issues Chairman Hal Brown
said panelists for the program
had been forced to cancel their
appearance due to committments
elsewhere.
Tentative speakers on the pro
gram were Gov. John Connally,
Speaker of the House Byron
Tunnell, Dr. Harry Ransom,
chancellor of the University of
Texas, and William Steven, edi
tor of the Houston Chronicle.
Brown said the same speakers
would be invited for the Spring
presentation.
desk, Pearson cited it as an exam
ple of the national interest in
graduate or professional training
in business administration.
“Ten years ago,” he said, “there
would not have been enough in
terest in graduate business ad
ministration courses to justify
this booklet.”
BUSINESS STUDIES are de
scribed as being in a period of
transition comparable to that un
dergone earlier in other profes
sional fields of study.
“What we call professional busi
ness administration studies now
start at the junior level. The first
two years are pretty much general
curriculum studies,” Pearson said.
The year of graduate study re
sults in three years of profes
sional studies following two years
of general curriculum. Medical
and legal schools and colleges ac
cept students only after a period
of broad studies as a basis for
the professional courses.
English Students
Display Paintings
Art inspired by a variety of
literary works and painted or
sculptured by students majoring
in English is on exhibit in the
Memorial Student Center.
The show sponsored by Sigma
Tau Delta, English honorary frat
ernity, includes 16 paintings and
two small pieces of scultured wood.
The artists are Assistant Pro
fessor Victor Wiening; Robert E.
Lowrey, a graduate student, and
James M. Hunt, a senior English
major.
Captions under each art piece
indicate the literary work which
furnished the theme for the artist.
In some instances, appropriate
lines of literature are quoted.
A&M students have expressed
considerable interest in the ex
hibit, Dr. Roy E. Cain, an assistant
professor and sponsor of Sigma
Tau Delta, said.
The exhibit will continue through
Nov. 6.
Hunt, graduate of McAllen Sen
ior High School, has been a mem
ber of the Memorial Student Cen
ter Creative Arts Committee and
also a staff member of the “Texas
A&M Review,” publication of stu
dents in the College of Arts and
Sciences.
Lowrey entered A&M in 1958
and received the B.A. degree in
May, 1952
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ALL INDICATIONS point to
ward considerable student interest
in business administration studies.
At A&M, as nationally, about
one out of seven undergraduate
students now lists business admin
istration as his major field of
study.
Only since World War II, Pear
son said, have most campuses had
a building housing only the busi
ness administration faculty and
classrooms.
Business studies have been of
fered here for many years, with
the Bachelor and Master of Busi
ness Administration degrees con
ferred since 1955.
Young Demos,
Republicans To
Try Once More
By MIKE REYNOLDS
An Executive Committee of the Academic Council de
cision forced the Texas A&M Young Democrats to move their
meeting Wednesday night from the Memorial Student Center
to the Wesley Foundation Building of the A&M Methodist
Church.
The committee denied recognition for the club, as well
as for the Young Republicans, as official clubs because “it
is undesirable to have organizations on university property
engaging in partisan politics,” according to a letter from
James P. Hannigan, Dean of Students.
“IT IS HEARTBREAKING to be denied official recogni
tion after so much work has been done building our organiza
tion into what it is now, said Randall W. Bland, club president.
“This is not a party issue, ♦
KBTX-TV To Air
Teenage Pageant
and I plan to work hand m
hand with the Young Republi
cans to gain recognition from
the administration,” con
tinued Bland.
“I hope to convince the admin
istration that we exist only for
student participation in political
education outside of the class
room,” he said.
“AS AN UNOFFICIAL club we
would have to rent a room, and we
would be able to do that only when
an official organization didn’t have
first call,” concluded Bland.
The letter from Hannigan ex
plained that recognition was de
nied on the basis of Article II of
the University Articles, and that
the administration felt that off-
campus organizations in the Bra
zos County area provided enough
facilities for political study by uni
versity students.
The meeting was concerned with
adoption of a club constitution and
a presentation of the “Facts and
Falicies of Goldwater Conserva
tism” by Theo Harris of the De
partment of History.
Bland stated after the meeting
that no matter what the decision
of the administration was, it would
not slow the functions of the club
in the least.
Central Intelligence Agency
Schedules Local Interview
A Central Intelligence Agency’s
Southwest personnel representa
tive will visit A&M University
Nov. 18-19 to interview students
interested in the field of strategic
intelligence.
The CIA is responsible to the
National Security Council of which
President Kennedy is chairman.
Mission of the agency is to provide
information needed by the Coun
cil.
Methodist Youth
To Aid Milk Fund
The Commission on Missions of
St. Paul’s Methodist Church in
Bryan will sponsor a “trick-or-
treat” for CROP, the Christian
Rural Overseas Program, Thurs
day evening.
The young people of the church
will have milk carton and tin can
“banks” and will wear the CROP
insignia on their costumes.
Any size contribution will be
taken. One cent buys twelve cups
of milk and three cents buys a
balanced meal for a hungry person
overseas.
After “trick-or-treat,” the chil
dren will gather at the church
fellowship hall for refreshments
and games.
Esten To Attend
Theater Conclave
C. K. Esten, an assistant pro
fessor of English, will attend the
Southwest Theater Conference
being held jointly at the Universi
ty of Texas and Southwestern Uni
versity Friday and Saturday.
Esten, president of the Texas
Educational Theater Association,
will discuss association activities.
He will remain in Austin Sunday
to appear before the legislative
council of the Interscholastic
League One-Act Play Contest to
argue new proposals.
It is an independent agency in
the federal government and was
established by Congress under the
National Security Act of 1947.
William B. Wood, the CIA rep
resentative, said the agency em
ploys college graduates and per
sons holding advanced degrees in
such fields as international rela
tions, political science, public ad
ministration, economics, history,
geography, engineering, physics,
chemistry, sociology and foreign
languages.
Salaries range from $5,500
through $13,000, depending upon
qualifications, Wood said.
Persons interested in talking
with Wood should contact W. R.
Horsley, director of the Placement
Office in the YMCA Building.
Residents of the Bryan-College
Station area will be able to watch
the Miss Teenage of America
pageant over KBTX-TV in Bryan,
beginning at 9 p.m. Friday.
The Singing Cadets of A&M
University will provide the vocal
music for the hour-long show to be
presented over the nationwide CBS
television network.
Jim Mitchell, program director
for KBTX-TV, said the station’s
request to carry the show was
approved Wednesday.
R. L. Boone, director of the 60-
voice men’s chorus, said the group
will rehearse in Dallas Thursday
and Friday. The Aggies will sing
the title song “Miss Teenage of
America” and special and back
ground music.
Following the Friday night per
formance, the Cadets will present
a concert on the campus of Texas
Women’s University in Denton.
The concert will begin at 7:30
p.m. with a reception scheduled
for 8:30 to 10 for the cadets and
other Aggies. A dance, begin
ning at 9 p.m. will follow the con
cert and will end at 1 a.m. Ad
mission to the dance is $1.50
and only couples will be admitted.
Stags and couples may attend the
reception and there will be no
admission charged.
Dress for the dance is semi-
formal—suits and ties for boys.
In vita tion Deadline
Is Today In MSC
Deadline for January graduates
to order invitations is 4 p.m.
Thursday. Orders may be placed
at the finance window in the lower
level of the Memorial Student
Center.
Leather booklets are priced at
$1, with paper booklets, 25 cents;
French folds, 10 cents; engraved
cards, $2.50 a hundred, and printed
cards, $1.50 a hundred.
Wire Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. —
The United States demanded on
Wednesday that three men in the
Soviet United Nations delegation
leave the country by Friday aft
ernoon on grounds they had taken
part in a spy plot.
★ ★ ★
LONDON — An advisory
group urged Britain Wednesday
to stop a scientific “brain drain”
by pumping more research mo
ney into universities.
Many British scientists have
emigrated to the United States.
Most said salaries and research
facilities are better in the Unit
ed States.
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SAIGON, South Viet Nam —
Three U. S. military advisers are
believed to have been captured
by Communist guerillas who whip
ped a South Vietnamese company
Tuesday 140 miles southwest of
Saigon.
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — The Unit
ed States ordered a nine-month
delay in the first orbital flights
of its Apollo astronauts Wednes
day in hopes of saving $5 million
and easing the path to the moon.
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TEXAS NEWS
AUSTIN — The state won a
$304,800 penalty Wednesday
against four East Texas oilmen
in the first jury trial of a state
slant-hole suit.
A five-man, seven-woman jury
deliberated five hours before re
turning a verdict against H. M.
Harrington Jr., Charles Lutes,
Reid Allgood, and J. W. Baton,
all of Gregg County.
The decision is expected to in
fluence settlement of the remain
ing 77 civil penalty suits filed
by the state in the wake of last
year’s slant-hole drilling investi
gation.