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President Rudder
Lauds Students
As President of Texas A&M University, I would
like to express my appreciation to the student body
for its exhibition of true Aggie Spirit in the recent
days of crisis.
Upon hearing the tragic news of President Ken
nedy’s death, student leaders, meeting with members
of the staff of the University, chose to sacrifice the
traditional Thanksgiving bonfire as an expression
of deep sorrow. This feeling permeated the entire stu
dent body and will be long remembered as a tribute
to the President of the United States.
On November 25 the student body once more paid
tribute to this fallen leader by conducting an impressive
memorial service.
Then on Thanksgiving Day the eyes of the nation
watched the inspired and magnificent Aggies come
within inches of upsetting the number one football
team in the nation. The famous Aggie Band performed
superbly at half-time. Again, the student body re
flected credit on itself and the institution by its
demonstration of true Aggie Spirit.
We have received many congratulatory messages
regarding the student body’s conduct. The faculty,
staff and I join these friends in commending you.
Che Battalion
Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1963
Number 173
Research
Is Dedicated
At Galveston
GALVESTON UP) — The research vessel Alaminos, the
only university—operated oceanographic vessel in the Gulf
of Mexico capable of all ocean research work, was dedicated
Tuesday.
The ship will be operated by A&M’s department of
oceanography and meteorology.
‘ * A&M President Earl Rudder
Xmas Seal Drive
Chairman Requests
Student Donations
Mrs. A. V. Moore, chairman of
the Brazos County Christmas Seal
Campaign, today urged all A&M
students who have not contributed
to this year’s drive to send a gift
regardless of size for the Christ
mas Seals they received through
the mail a few days ago.
“The A&M students have al
ways enthusiastically supported
the Christmas Seal Campaign in
past years, but this year receipts
have been slow in coming in,” Mrs.
Moore said.
“We are counting on the stu
dents taking time from their many
activities to send their usual dona
tions for the Christmas Seals,” she
said.
“Many have sent in gifts with
regrets that they were unable to
send larger contributions,” the
chairman noted.
“We know many Aggies are un
able to make large contributions,
but if every one would send as
much as 50 cents or a dollar, it
would help our campaign tre
mendously,” she said.
Mrs. Moore pointed out that two
employees on the A&M campus
had recently been diagnosed as
having tuberculosis.
The Brazos County TB Associa
tion needs more funds according to
Mrs. Moore to continue its work in
the field of detection and preven
tion.
AuditionsContinue
For Talent Show
Auditions for the annual Ag
gie Talent Show will continue
each night through Friday at the
Music Hall at 7:30, Michael Use,
talent committee chairman, an
nounced.
Use said any individual or
group on the A&M campus
should fill out applications be
fore 5 p.m. Wednesday at the
Student Program Office.
The Aggie Talent Show will
be presented Dec. 14. The win
ner will represent the university
in the Intercollegiate Talent
Show in the spring.
said the Alaminos will help
strengthen the university’s sig
nificant work in the study of
oceanography and meteorology.
“It is imperative we move ahead
with research projects in which
the Alaminos will play a vital
role,” he said at dedication ceremo
nies attended by about 30 persons.
Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head of
the department, officially dedi
cated the 180-foot ship and pre
sented the official commission to
Capt. Stan Fidel, the ship’s skip
per.
The Alaminos is a converted
U.S. Army freight and supply ves
sel and is named for Anton de
Alaminos, who sailed with Colum
bus and later piloted early voyages
in the Gulf of Mexico.
NEW BUILDING TO BE COMPLETED BY 1965
Will feature a Community Room for approximately 150 people.
$850,000 PROJECT
Officials
To Start
Set March 1
Bank Building
Plans for a $850,000 bank build
ing designed “with the community
in mind” has been revealed by the
First State Bank and Trust of
Bryan.
“This new building should be an
asset to this bank and the com
munity both,” said Henry Clay,
bank president, in making the an
nouncement.
Jack Ruby’s Trial
Set For February
DALLAS <A>) — Night club
owner Jack Ruby’s trial on
charges of murdering John F.
Kennedy’s accussed assassin now
is set for Feb. 3.
Houston Foundation Awards
University 4 Graduate Grants
A&M University has been noti- ment of Chemistry associate pro-
fied of four grants-in-aid totaling
$150,000 from the Robert A. Welch
Foundation in Houston.
Dr. Wayne C. Hall, dean of
graduate studies at A&M, said the
funds are part of $1,343,000 for
grants-in-aid approved by the
Welch Foundation to support fun
damental chemical research at va
rious Texas colleges and universi
ties.
Two of the A&M grants are new
and two are renewals. Hall said.
One of the new grants is $45,000
for a three-year period to Dr. Carl
M. Lyman, head of the Department
of Biochemistry and Nutrition, to
support research on “Chemical Re
actions of Proteins.”
The other is $45,000 for three
years to Dr. J. A. McIntyre, pro
fessor in the Department of Phys
ics Department. His research is
titled “Resonance Fluorescence
Studies of Energy Levels of the
Atomic Nucleus.”
A renewal grant of $45,000 goes
to Dr. J. M. Prescott of the De
partment of Biochemistry and Nu
trition for a three-year period.
Prescott’s project is titled “Chem
istry of the Metabolism of Protein
and Amino Acids.”
Another renewal grant, this one
for $15,000, will go to a Depart-
fessor, Dr. Ralph Zingaro. The
scientist’s research concerns
“Studies in the Chemistry of the
Metalloids.”
Peace Corps Gives
Quizzes Saturday
The next area Peace Corps
examinations will be held Satur
day at '8:30 in the Bryan Post
Office. Volunteers who do not
have examination numbers may be
admitted by a filled out question
naire.
Questionnaires may be obtained
from the post office, county
agents, or placement office and
Daniel Russell 316-17 Agriculture
Building. Need for volunteers con
tinues great for people with almost
any skills, but especially teachers,
farmers, nurs
farmers, carpenters, nurses and
engineers.
High school education and 18
years of age are minimum require
ments. There is no upper age
maximum. Seventy per cent of
the returning Peace Corps volun
teers are re-entering college to
finish their education or take grad
uate work.
Judge Joe B. Brown reset the
trial, originally scheduled for Mon
day, by agreement with Dist.
Atty. Henry Wade and defense at
torney Tom Howard who said they
had not completed their cases.
Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald,
the accused assassin, in view of a
nationwide television audience Nov.
24 as Oswald was being transferr
ed from one jail to another.
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
in Washington said an anonymous
tip had been given the FBI Dal
las office that an attempt would
be made on Oswald’s life, and this
tip was passed directly to Police
Chief Jesse Curry. The police
chief has said numerous warnings
of this type had been sounded,
and therefore he had ordered an
armored car to be used, but Os
wald never reached it.
An FBI investigation into the
assassination and its subsequent
events neared completion. Wash
ington sources said it will pic
ture Oswald as a gunman who
operated alone and who had no
connection with Ruby.
Texas Atty. Gen. Waggoner
Carr has put his staff to work
in drawing the groundwork for the
state investigation of the deaths
of Kennedy, Oswald and patrolman
J. D. Tippit. Oswald had been
charged with slaying Tippit soon
after Kennedy was assassinated.
CARR SAID HIS investigation
will supplement that of a special
presidential investigating commit
tee and the FBI.
Carr plans to hold a court of
inquiry, a legal means to obtain
sworn testimony without taking
a case to trial.
THE NEW two story building
will face Texas Avenue on a block
bounded by that street and Hous
ton, 25th and 26th Streets. There
will be parking facilities available
for at least 75 cars on the same
block, the officials said.
The building will contain a total
of 26,000 sq. ft, with 5,000 of this
set aside for future expansion.
ONE OF THE features listed as
important to the community is a
Community Room, which will be
on the second floor of the build
ing. Officials said that the room
will accommodate approximately
150 people or as many as three
groups of 50 people each. The
Community Room, which will be
available for public meetings free
of charge, will have its own en
trance and service elevator.
THE GROUND FLOOR will
house 16 teller cages and 16 loan
officers. Also, as part of the plan,
there will be three drive-in win
dows and room for a fourth on the
same block, but away from the
main building.
Construction on the building is
scheduled to begin about March 1,
1964. The bank officials said they
hope to be in the new facility by
January 1, 1965.
SCONA Group
Has Named 24
A&M Delegates
By MIKE REYNOLDS
Battalion Staff Writer
Twenty-four A&M University students have been select
ed to represent the university at the Student Council on
National Affairs, which will be held here Dec. 11-14.
A&M delegates were chosen by two faculty and student
committees, headed by Clark C. Munroe, director of personnel
at A&M and Howard L. Furr, civil engineering professor.
Delegates selected by Munroe’s committee included Paul
A. Dresser, Larry N. Garrett, Irvin Toole, Neil Lynn Kelt-
ner, Larry Allen Maddox, Raymond Douglas Freeman, Gerald
Marrow, Thomas Laird, and John Sidney Ballard, II.
International delegates selected by Munroe’s committee
are Muhammad Osman Farruk, Peter P. Rogulsky, Pu Ning
Sun and Lamae Milad El-Zik.^i
FURR’S COMMITTEE se
lected Robert A. Miller, Ken
neth A. Radde, Robert L.
Cates, Lawrence Kelminson,
Jerry H. Jessup, Ralph H. Mitch
ell, Calvin C. Simper and Jack L.
Gibbs.
Arvind P. Kudchadker, Fernan
do E. Quinonez, Andres Olivares
and Hans Peter Boy were selected
as international delegates by
Furr’s committee.
In addition to the Aggies, about
130 student leaders from colleges
and universities in the United
States, Mexico and Canada will
serve as delegates.
THE STUDENTS will partici
pate in roundtable discussions and
will hear five prominent authori
ties on government spending and
taxes, R. Russell Huddleston, con
ference chairman reported.
Speakers for SCONA include
Max Freedman, a Canadian news
paperman; Edwin P. Neilan, Unit
ed States Chamber of Commerce
president; Phillip S. Hughes, a
Bureau of the Budget official;
Herbert J. Miller, former director
of the Tax Foundation in Wash
ington; and C. Lowell Harriss, Co
lumbia University economics pro
fessor.
The purpose of SCONA IX is to
study the impact of world prob
lems on the nation that has
emerged as the leader of the Free
World.
It makes no attempt at solving
these problems, but seeks to grasp
their complexity.
In so doing, SCONA has the
long-range effect of promoting an
enlightened, responsible citizen
ship through the medium of free
discussion. The conference was
started with the idea that the sen
iors in attendance will be the fu
ture leaders of the United States.
Sons Of Slain Policeman
Awarded A&M Scholarships
DALLAS (A*)—The two sons
of slain patrolman J. D. Tippit
have been awarded scholarships
at Texas A&M. The announce
ment was made Tuesday as do
nations for the welfare of the
Tippit family appeared to be
heading well beyond the $100,-
000 mark.
The scholarships for Curtis
and Allen Tippit will be spon
sored by the Dallas A&M Club
and the Texas A&M Association
of Former Students.
“The only thing they will have
to do to obtain the scholarships
is to meet the entrance require
ments,” an alumni official said.
“As I understand it, one of the
boys is 15 years old and the
other is quite a bit younger.”
Meanwhile, contributions com
ing into the Dallas Police Sta
tion reached a total of $44,084
and the counting was still going
on. Money sent to other places
totaled about $55,000.
Lt. Verne Hipskind, supervis
ing the money counting, said
some contributions have come in
for the Oswald family. He said
one contribution was for $100,
but most of the donations have
been less than $5.
A Houston minister said his
church members gave $1,000 for
the Oswald family at services
Sunday.
Money for the Oswalds is be
ing turned over to Secret Serv
ice men, who give it to the fam
ily.
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Research Psychologist
Dr. Harry F. Harlow of the
University of Wisconsin
will present the second of
the University Lectures,
Wednesday at 8 p. m. in the
Chemistry Lecture Room.
Topic of his speech is, “The
Effects of Early Experience
on Heterosexual and Mater
nal Behavior.” Harlow is a
former president of the
American Psychological
Association.
Pinky, Spouse
Will Observe
Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. P. L. C inky)
Downs Jr., will observe their 47th
wedding anniversary Saturday in
a quiet way at their home, 301
East Dexter Street.
“Our home is always open to
Aggies and other friends,” said
Downs, official greeter of A&M
University and a member of the
University Information Depart
ment staff. “We plan to spend our
anniversary at home.”
Although no special event is
planned during the day, Mr. and
Mrs. Downs will attend the Air
Force Ball Saturday evening. They
are among special guests of the
ROTC.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Downs were
bom in Temple where they were
married in 1916. They have one
daughter; Grey Downs, who resides
with her parents.
A member of the Class of 1906,
Downs has been connected with
A&M for decades. He served from
1923 to 1933 on the Board of Di
rectors of the A&M College Sys
tem.
“My wife and I are happy that
we have been able to offer help to
Aggies down through the years,”
Downs commented.