Texas
A&M
University
Cbe Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1963
Number 159
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Hosts Budget!
Bureau Chief 1
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By RONNIE FANN
Battalion Managing Editor
The ninth annual Student Conference on National Affairs
will host Phillip S. Hughes, of the United States Bureau of
the Budget, as one of their five guest speakers at SCONA
IX, to be held in the Memorial Students Center Dec. 11-14.
Hughes, assistant director of the Bureau of the Budget
for Legislative Reference, is re
sponsible for the review of all
legislative proposals coming from
the executive branch and for de
termining their relationship to the
President’s legislative program.
THE ASSISTANT director is al
so responsible for coordinating the
executive branch’s review of eco
nomic proposals, and for advising
congressional committees on the
President’s intentions.
He joined the Bureau of the
Budget in 1949 as a budget exami
ner handling nonmedical programs
of the Veterans Administration.
In 1955 he became assistant chief
of the bureau’s Labor and Wel
fare Division in charge of social
security and nonmedical veterans
programs.
BEFORE COMING TO Wash-
PHILLIP S. HUGHES
8 Ag Staffers
To Cooperate
In Workshop
Eight A&M University staff
members will go to Prairie View
fV&M Monday through Friday to
present a communications work
shop, said Dr. Earl Knebel, work
shop coordinator and head of the
Department of Agricultural Edu
cation.
A&M staff members from the
Department of Agricultural Edu
cation are John Holcomb, Dr. Ben
Cook, Henry Ross and Knebel.
Participating from the Agricul
tural Extension Service is Dr. Dan
C. Pfannstiel, assistant director.
Those attending from the De
partment of Agricultural Inform
ation are Hal R. Taylor, editor;
R. B. Hickerson, radio editor, and
Tom Bishop, artist.
The Workshop is designed to
give training in agricultural ex
tension methods to three people
from Nyasaland, four from North
ern Rhodesia and five from North
ern Nigeria, Knebel said.
“An important objective is that
these men acquire a broader vis
ion of the development potential
in improving all phases of agri
culture,” Knebel added.
The agenda is designed to show
such things as the use of audio
visual aids and the preparation
of teaching aids.
ington D. C., Hughes was in gov-
♦ ernment service in the state of
Washington. He was statistician
and chief of the research division
of the Veterans Administration
Branch in Seattle from 1946 to
1949. Hughes was senior labor
market analyst in the state office
of the War Manpower Commission
fro 1943 to 1944, and was chief
of research and statistics for the
Washington State Department of
Social Security from 1941 to 1943.
Russell Huddleston, chairman of
SCONA IX, said Hughes is one
of five nationally known figures
to be invited to the conference,
whose theme is “U. S. Monetary
and Fiscal Policy: A Taxpayer’s
View.” Subjects of Hughes’s talk
will be “A Taxpaying Staff Mem
ber’s View of the Federal Budget
Process.”
HUDDLESTON ANNOUNCED
the selection of Hughes Thursday,
and credited Congressman Olin E.
Teague of College Station for his
efforts in obtaining the speaker.
“Hughes has gained a well de
served reputation as an outstand
ing staff analyst and expert in
legislative relations,” Huddleston
said.
This year’s topic was chosen by
a committee of faculty and stu
dents, Huddleston reported, and
will be attended by students from
universities and colleges through
out the United States, Canada
and Mexico.
Subtopics include the effects of
government spending on the na
tion, international aspects of
spending and an overall appraisal
of past and future expenditures.
California Girl
Is Talent Winner
BY PEGGY SIMPSON
DALLAS tiP) — “I can’t believe
it is really happening.”
That was the exclamation from
the pixie-like girl who was an
nounced as talent winner of the
Miss Teen-Age America Pageant
here Thursday.
But she also spoke for the six
other teen-age beauties who were
named semifinalists and from
whom will be chosen the 1964
queen Friday night over a na
tionally-televised program.
The talent winner is Karen Val
entine, 16, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Semi-finalists are Mary Jane
Daly, Miami Beach, Fla., and Ei
leen Melody Speering, New York
City, both 15; Jeanine Zavrel,
Washington, D. C., 16; and Judy
Doll, Akron, Ohio, Peggy Ann
Nielsen, Seattle, Wash., and Mari
lyn Roat, Shreveport, La., all 17.
For 15 minutes after the an
nouncements, make-up streaked
and photographers paced while the
girls sobbed—mostly in happiness.
The beautiful brunette who has
served as Miss Teen-Age America
this year, Darla Banks of Fresno,
Calif., finally joined the sobbers
and kept pinning the “semifinalist”
ribbons on upside down.
Bedford Wynne, chairman of the
sponsoring Teen, Inc., board, told
the girls finally, “Okay, let’s have
one good last cry.”
The girls worked through a
dress rehearsal Thursday night
with the Singing Cadets from
A&M, the show’s emcee, Bud Coll-
yer, and the host and hostess, Al
len Ludden and Betty White.
Unless the directors decide the
girls are “rehearsed out,” there
will be practice sessions Friday
until a few hours before the 9 p.m.
curtain time.
Recalling the contest, Karen
said, “They thought I was so shy
and everyone felt so sorry for me
all alone out there—until I started
to dance.”
Startled was the word most peo
ple used for their reaction to Kar
en’s jazzy, uninhibited pantomime
of “Blame It On The Bossa Nova.”
College Bowl Team Named
For National TV Contest
5 Week Selection
Fin ish ed Thu rsday
After weeks of preparation and elimination five students
have been selected to represent A&M University at the na
tionally televised NBC-TV “College Bowl” program to be held
in New York Nov. 10.
Four of the team members will constitute the panel that
will match knowledge with either Brooklyn Polytechnical
College or Ripon College, while the fifth member will act
as a reserve.
The team members in order of priority are Calvin C.
Simper, history major; Lawrence Kelminson, finance; John
A. Schmidt, electrical engineering; Bobby L. Dimmer, pre-
med; and Jerry H. Jessup, english.
INITIALLY ALL interested^
CALVIN C. SIMPEH
History
JOHN A. SCHMIDT
Electrical Engineering
L. KELMINSON
Finance
students attended a meeting
Sept. 24 to get acquainted
with the many sessions to be
held in the weeks ahead. A
high scholastic record was only
one of the requirements necessary
for final selection to the panel.
In the following week written
tests were conducted to further
weed the number of applicants
down to 35.
A faculty advisory committee
was formed to help with the selec
tion and instruction of the stu
dents. The committee included,
C. D. Laverty, Department of
English; L. C. Taylor, Department
of History; E. B. Doran, Depart
ment of Geography; A. T. Stacell,
Architecture; R. L. Boone, Music,
and S. A. Kerley, Testing.
OF THE 35 STUDENTS that
passed the written exams, one-
third were from the fields of his
tory and literature, one-fourth
were from the medical and gen
eral science fields, one-fourth from
math and engineering and one-
A&M Board Vice President
Honored At AGB Convention
Joh» W. NeWton, vice president
of the Bdard of Directors of The
A&M University System and
Beaumont business executive, was
honored recently at the 41st an
nual meeting of the Association of
Governing Boards of State Univer
sities and Allied Institutions at
Pennsylvania State University.
Newton is the retiring presi
dent of this national organization
which consists of directors, trus
tees and regents of tax-supported
institutions of higher learning.
He was awarded a bronze plaque
mounted on walnut for “Outstand
ing Service” to the AGB.
During Newton’s tenure as pres
ident of AGB, he was a leader in
influencing the organization to ad
mit to membership by constitution
al amendment directors, trustees
and regents from privately en
dowed colleges and universities,
and in his valedictory speech to
the membership, Newton said:
“Since it is obvious that the
boards, regents and trustees of
tax-supported colleges and univer
sities have no monopoly on wis
dom, competence or affiliations,
the comparable people from pri
vately endowed institutions un-
JOHN W. NEWTON
questionably could contribute their
many talents to the solutions of
problems we face in common.”
He added, “We are in the educa
tion business as members of the
AGB, and to a significant extent,
Prairie View A&M
Student Officers
Protesting Policies
PRAIRIE VIEW <A>) _ Stu
dent officers at Prairie View
A&M, a state Negro school, said
Thursday they are resigning.
They said the resignations were
designed as protests against cur
tailed student activities and fai
lure by the school’s administrators
to give full support to a boycott
of merchants in nearby Hemp
stead.
The boycott began July 19 af
ter Prairie View students called
for desegregation of business
and entertainment facilities in
Hempstead.
Dr. E. B. Evans, president of
the college, was not available
for comment.
Judge Ralph Waters of Waller
County said the new protests by
the students result from failure
of Hempstead merchants to dis
cuss terms for ending the boy
cott.
“I have tried to get merchants
to sit down with these people
who ask desegregation but they
refuse,” Waters said.
Curtis A. Wood, director of in
formation and publications at
the college, said the students
feel they are being “pushed
around by college administra
tors” and contend some school
officials still are buying supplies
from Hempstead merchants.
Wood said no more than 25 per
cent of Prairie View citizens and
students are trading in Hemp
stead. Waters said he believes
10 per cent would be a more ac
curate estimate.
we are calling the shots as to what
things are going to be like tomor
row and a long time after tomor
row. We are going to have to put
to intelligent use all of the brain
power we can muster from every
source that it is available.”
Newton was succeeded as presi
dent of AGB by Roy Rowe, a re
gent of the University of North
Carolina. The organization pres
ently represents 84 boards govern
ing 257 publicly supported colleges
and universities.
sixth from miscellaneous fields.
On Oct. 8 oral sessions were
begun to further the eliminations.
The students were questioned by
their coach, Dr. Harry P. Kroitor.
The most important factor in the
selection process was the candi
dates performance before a live
audience.
ON OCT. 29 EIGHT finalists
were selected to appear as two
teams on KBTX-TV in Bryan. Two
final elimination sessions were
held on Tuesday and Thursday.
Prior to the final eliminations
all finalists were subjected to in
tense surveys of many topics by
various faculty members.
RIPON COLLEGE is 20 miles
south of Oshkosh, Wise., a private
ly controlled liberal arts college.
Let’s Count The Loot
Seven Halloween “Trick or Treaters” were caught by a
Battalion photographer Thursday night as they settled
down to divid the goods they had taken on their last visit.
The photographer reported that the girls would visit a
house and then divid everything before making their next
raid. The girls are, left to right, Vera Gonzales, Janie
Gonzales, Susan Gonzales, Rachael Valdez, Sally Martinez,
Esther Martinez and Rita Valdez.
JVDEA Offers
Scholarships
In Languages
Fellowships and scholarships
from the undergraduate through
postdoctoral levels are available to
students at A&M University for
study in languages and related
fields, the chairman of a recently-
organized committee said Thurs
day.
Dr. Thomas E. Comfort of the
Department of Modern Languages
said the National Defense Educa
tion Act grants also are open to
students in related fields such as
anthropology, economics, geogra
phy, history, linguistics, literature,
philosophy, political science and
sociology.
The undergraduate awards are
for study in the summer of 1964.
The awards, limited to American
citizens, are for study in most
languages except French, German,
Italian and Spanish as spoken on
the Iberian Peninsula.
Interested students are urged
to contact any member of the
Modern Language Fellowship
Committee.
The committee is composed of
Dr. Loyd C. Taylor, Jr., of the
Department of History; Dr. Parks
C. Hunter, Jr^, Department of
English: Dr. Jack A. Dabbs, De
partment of Modern Languages;
Dr. Vance W. Edmondson, Depart
ment of Agricultural Economics
and Sociology and Comfort.
The deadlines for several pro
grams fall in December or early
in 1964.
NSF Gives A&M
Second Large Grant
For Statistics Work
The National Science Founda
tion has awarded a one-year $17,-
000 research grant to the A&M
University Institute of Statistics,
President Earl Rudder announced
Thursday.
The Institute earlier this acade
mic year received an $18,000, one-
year research grant from the Ar
my Research Office.
Dr. H. O. Hartley, Institute di
rector, said the NSF grant is for
a research study of “Statistical
Estimation for Linear and Non
linear Models.”
The Army Research Office grant
is for research entitled “Unequal
Probability Sampling Theory and
the Time Series Aspects of Panel
Surveys.”
Hartley recently presented a
paper to the Ninth Conference
on Design of Experiments in Ar
my Research. The Army Research
Office sponsored the conference
at Redstone Arsenal, Ala. Dr.
Hartley’s paper dealt with “Non
linear Estimation.”