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Volume 60
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1963
Number 175
Clear Creek Boyst Beady For Opener
Two Clear Creek high school products, Ben- prepare for tonight’s cage debut against
nie Lenox and Paul Timmons, flank A&M the University of Houston at 8 p. m. in G.
basketball coach Shelby Metcalf as they Rollie White Coliseum.
Parades, Jaycee Projects
Mark Nearing Christmas
Santa Claus is coming to town!
The annual Christmas parade,
sponsored by the Bryan - College
Station Chamber of Commerce,
will march through downtown
Bryan at 7 p.m. Thursday.
The Christmas festivities, which
will be led by the color guard of
A&M, will include 23 floats, 13
bands, eight drill teams, including
the A&M Fish Drill Team, nine
miscellaneous pieces, and of
course, Santa Claus. More than
$1000 in prize money will be given
to the outstanding units appearing
in the parade.
“WE EXPECT the parade to be
one of the best ever,” said Cham
ber of Commerce manager Hill
The Brazos Valley Gun Club will
have a regional NRA representa
tive as guest speaker at a meeting
Thursday night at 7:30 in Room
145 of the Physics Building.
Clement L. Theed, one of three
regional representatives in the
U.S., will speak to the newly or
ganized club and will show two
movies and some slides about other
gun groups in the Southeast Re-
Spacecraft Center
Director Speaks
To Campus Groups
Robert R. Gilruth, director of
the NASA Manned Spacecraft
Center in Houston, was scheduled
to speak twice Thursday in the
first of a series of lectures as vis
iting professor in A&M’s Depart
ment of Aerospace Engineering.
Gilruth was to speak to the sen
ior seminar and to graduate stu
dents in aerospace at 1 p.m. and
to the faculty of the College of
engineering at 4 p.m. Both lec
tures were to be held in the Arch
itectural Room.
AN AERONAUTICAL engineer
for more than 25 years, Gilruth is
responsible for the design of the
Mercury capsule for the first U. S.
manned orbital flight. He began
government service in 1937 with
the Langley Laboratory of the Na
tional Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics. In 1952, he was
named an. assistant director of the
Langley Laboratory with responsi
bility for three research divisions,
pilotless aircraft, structures and
dynamic loads. He became head of
the Mercury project in 1957.
Gilruth’s technological achieve
ments won for him the Sylvanus
Albert Reed award, presented an
nually by the Institute of the
Aeronautical Sciences for achieve
ments in aeronautical sciences. In
1951, he was given the federal gov
ernment’s superior accomplishment
award by the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics for his
Work in organizing and directing
the pilotless aircraft research divi
sion.
Gilruth was elected a fellow of
the Institute of Aerospace Sciences
in 1959. He was awarded NASA’s
Distinguished Service Medal by
President Kennedy n 1962.
Westmoreland.
The parade is expected to last
a little more than an hour, and
will march on Main Street between
27th and 21st Streets, and then
back to 27th Street on Bryan
Street.
“One of the greatest problems,”
said Westmoreland jokingly, “is
getting the back out of the way
before the front arrives.”
BOTH LOCAL and out-of-town
bands will be marching in the pa
rade, including the Allen Military
Band. Bryan-College Station bands
have asked that they not be con
sidered for prize money in order
that out-of-town bands may re
ceive more recognition.
gion. The color movies will indi
cate what other clubs are doing as
far as getting organized and what
they are doing to become more
successful.
The Brazos Valley Gun Club
was started in October of this year
and already has about 70 members,
and has obtained its NRA charter.
The club offers many opportuni
ties to persons interested in guns
and shooting. A clubhouse and
range is available at the A&M Re
search and Development Annex,
and allows persons to shoot rifle,
pistol and skeet. Reloading equip
ment and a gun storage room may
also be used by members.
Persons interested in joining the
club are invited to attend the
meeting. Membership dues are $5
for present NRA members, and
are $9 for anyone who is not an
NRA member.
The "Old Hosiery Drive,” spon
sored by the Aggie Wives Council
is now underway. The purpose of
this drive is to collect old hose,
plastic bottles, and clothing which
will be used to stuff toys made by
members of several Wives Clubs.
The toys are given to various
New Basic Course
Begins In Spring
The Department of Education
and Psychology will be offering
a one hour survey course, Basic
105 (Survey of Man’s know
ledge), during the Spring semes
ter.
“The course is designed to ac
quaint the student with various
schools of thought and the many
areas of knowledge of which our
culture is comprised,” a notice
posted by the department said.
Lectures and readings will be
devoted to> such topics as geo
graphy, geopolitics, government,
psychology, education, religion,
art, sociology, cultural anthropo
logy, paleontology, architecture,
folk music, folk lore and space.
The Bryan Police Force has vol
unteered its services to direct traf
fic and control the crowds around
the parade area, said Westmore
land.
★★★
The annual Christmas toy drive
now being conducted by the Bryan-
College Station Junior Chamber of
Commerce will end Dec. 21.
Ridley Briggs, Jaycee vice-presi
dent, said the purpose of the drive
is to collect repairable toys which
will then be distributed by Jaycees
to needy families in the area. He
said that all interested persons
should leave any toys which can
be repaired in one of five collec
tion boxes.
THE LOCATIONS include Main
Street in Bryan, Weingarten’s in
Bryan, Townshire Shopping Cen
ter, across from A&M Consolidat
ed High School and Orr’s Mini-
Max in Ridgecrest.
The toys will be repaired by
firemen at the Central Fire Sta
tion in Bryan and distributed on
December 23 to a group of fami
lies which will be selected, accord
ing to need, by local churches.
THIS DRIVE has been conduct
ed for the past few years and has
been very successful in the past,
said Briggs. Ernest Perkins is
chairman of the project.
Another project of the Jaycees
is a shopping tour for children of
needy families to he conducted Dec.
20.
A GROUP of about 25 children,
each given $5 and accompanied by
a Jaycee, will be taken on a shop
ping tour and allowed to buy pres
ents for family and friends.
The children will then be enter
tained at a party during which the
gifts will be wrapped and refresh
ments will be served. The tour is
under the direction of Travis En-
glebrecht.
charities at Christmas. Boxes have
been placed in Orr’s Food Market,
Townshire Washateria, and similar
stores for collection of these
articles.
The Council, which is sponsored
by Mrs. J. Hannigan and Mrs. B.
Zinn, consists of approximately 31
Wives Clubs. The officers are:
President, Bonnie Morgan; Vice-
President, Muriel Silcock; Secre
tary, Cheryl Ahren; Treasurer,
Paula Burke; Parliamentarian,
Jane Tidwell, and Reporter, Ray-
monda Almand.
Several functions which have al
ready occurred include the Fresh
man Reception, President Rudder’s
Faculty Reception and the Aggie
Wives Council Annual Fall Tea.
The Council also sponsors the “Mrs.
Texas A&M” Contest and Ball, to
be held on Valentine Day.
A Married Student’s Directory
and Campus Guide is being pu-
lished by the Council.
Today’s Thought
Slowly and painfully man is
learning that he must do to oth
ers what he would have them do
to him—Anthony Eden.
NRA Local Representative
To Speak At Gun Club Meet
Aggie Wives Hold
Old Hosiery Drive
Field Of 76 Is Cut
To 8 For Fish Runoff
SCONA IX '■
I Boyd Will Assist
1 Roundtable Talks
C. H. Boyd, director of the East
Texas Chamber of Commerce, will
be a roundtable co-chairman for
the ninth annual Student Confer
ence on National Affairs, Dec.
11-14 in the Memorial Student
Center.
Topic of this year’s conference
will be “U.S. Monetary and Fiscal
Policy: A Taxpayer’s View,” host
ing approximately 150 student
delegates from about 80 colleges
and universities throughout the
United States, Canada and Mexico.
Boyd received his elementary
and secondary education in Abi
lene. He was graduated from the
University of Texas in 1940 with
a bachelor degree in physics. Aft
er a brief term with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Boyd
joined the Dow Chemical Co. in
1941.
During his 22-year employment
with Dow, he held a supervisory
position in magnesium production
for 15 years; was made general
superintendent of inorganic pro
duction in 1957, and was made
director of research pilot plants
in 1959.
Other positions Boyd has held
at Dow include magnesium pro
duction manager, and manager of
electrolytic products, including
magnesium chlorine and caustic
soda.
He is presently president of
Brazosport Chamber of Commerce
for Freeport, Lake Jackson and
Clute; director of the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce and leader
ship chairman and executive com
mittee member of the Brazoria
County United Fund.
Seventeen roundtable co-chair
men are selected for SCONA IX
from outstanding educators and
businessmen of the United States
and Mexico.
C. H. BOYD
Luboff Choir Sets
Town Hall Debut
Norman Luboff and his famed
choir will present a concert in
G. Rollie White Coliseum at 8 p.m.
Friday as part of the regular
Town Hall series.
The Luboff choir includes 28
professional singers, accompanied
by four instrumentalists, Robert L.
Boone, music coordinator at A&M,
said in announcing the choir’s
scheduled appearance.
Luboff and his choir are cur
rently engaged in their first “in
person” tour after achieving fame
with New York or Hollywood
shows, movie and television en
gagements and recordings.
The choral director is tall, husky
and full-bearded and has the ap
pearance of a Roman gladiator
rather than a musician, Boone
pointed out.
AFTER COLLEGE, Luboff start
ed arranging and teaching music.
He made his professional debut as
a barritone on Noble Cain’s radio
choir program in Chicago for a
fee of $3. He began to make ar
rangements for various orches
tras and choruses.
Following World War II days
with the signal corps, Luboff has
lived in New York, Hollywood,
Southern France and for the past
four years London.
Mrs. Luboff will not make the
College Station trip. She is a
featured sciolist and lead singer
with the choir. The Luboffs have
two children, who also are interest
ed in musical careers.
TICKETS to the concert are
available at the door or the Memo
rial Student Center Friday. Town
Results Announced
For Last Pass-By
Results of the Thanksgiving
Day pass-by in Kyle Field preced
ing the A&M-Texas game are as
follows: First place with 80 out
of a possible 100 points was Com
pany E-l; second place was Com
pany F-l with 78 points.
Company C-l and Squadron 8
tied for third place with 77 points;
Band and Squadron 13 tied for
fifth with 76 points; Company D-l
and Company G‘-l tied for seventh
place with 74 points; and 73 points
tied Company B-3, Company D-3,
Squadron 12, Company C-2 and
Squadron 3 for ninth place.
Hall season tickets include the
Luboff choir.
Luboff and his group has pro
duced 20 best-selling albums, which
includes tunes from Bach to the
blues. The choir will sing classi
cal tunes as well as cowboy num
bers and hits from Broadway.
Christian Science
Organization Hosts
Prominent Speaker
How to apply God’s healing pow
er to solve problems of everyday
living will be the topic of a public
lecture to be given here Tuesday
at 8 p.m. by Paul Stark Seely of
Portland, Ore.
Seely, a member of The Chris
tian Science Board of Lectureship,
will speak in the All Faiths Chapel
under the auspices of the A&M
University Christian Science Or
ganization.
His subject will be “The Origin
and Power of Thought.” The lec
ture is free, and local members
have invited the students, faculty,
and staff of A&M to attend.
A prominent figure in the Chris
tian Science movement for many
years, Seely has served as associ
ate editor of the Christian Science
religious periodicals, and as Presi
dent of The Mother Church, The
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
in Boston, Massachusetts. He has
lectured to audiences throughout
the world.
Seely is a member of the Bar in
New York and Oregon and a grad
uate of Harvard Law School and
Princeton University.
PAUL STARK SEELY
Suspension Mars
Senate Post Voting
By MIKE REYNOLDS
Eight runoff candidates for the top four Fish class of
fices were sifted through from the original 76 candidates that
filed for the election held Wednesday.
In the runoff for President of the Class of ’67 are Wayne
B. Fudge and Louis K. Obdyke.
Vice presidential runoff candidates are Tommy C. Stone
and Dennis R. McElroy.
Donnald C. Burleson and Robert J. Myers are slated for
the secretary-treasurer contest, while Jack Ej Nelson and
Alec P. Pearson will vie for the position of social secretary.
FIVE FRESHMEN were elected to the election com
mission. They include William C. Wisenbaker, Jr., Jack E.
Myers, Alec P. Pearson, Na-*^— —
humm B. Tate, and Francis E.
Savage.
Winners claiming Student
Senate seats were Daniel H.
Fisher, Robert M. Miller, Douglas
Sharp and Michael R. Walker.
HOWEVER, WALKER was one
of eight students suspended from
the university for attempting to
paint the lights in the tower at
Austin and will be unable to fill
the position.
The position will go to the next
man in line by number of votes,
said Wayne Smith, advisor to the
election commission, but that run
ner-up’s name was not available
at the time.
“It is regrettable that the young
man was of such a calibre to be
elected to the senate position and
then to mar his record with a sus
pension, said James P. Hannigan,
Dean of Students.
THE RUNOFF ELECTION for
the four positions will be held
Wednesday in the Memorial Stu
dent Center, added Smith.
The penalty was completely
justified, Hannigan felt, because of
the recent publicity of the govern
ing regulations in The Battalion.
THE REGULATIONS, para
graph 46, No. 3 reads as follows:
“The following offense will result
in immediate suspension for not
less than the remainder of the
semester: Going to another col
lege campus with the intent to
paint or deface statues or build
ings or commit other depredation.”
The voting in the election was
heavy compared with last year’s
turnout. 44.8 per cent of the
freshmen voted as compared with
the 32.8 per cent that voted last
year.
Turf grass Confab
Set For Next Week
The fine points of modernization
and automation in turf manage
ment will be discussed here Dec.
9-11 at the 18th annual Texas
Turfgrass Conference.
The program, designed for man
agers of parks, cemeteries and golf
courses, is sponsored by A&M Uni
versity and the Texas Turfgrass
Association.
Aggie Talent Show
Is Next Saturday
The Aggie Talent Show will
be held Dec. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in
Guion Hall. The admission will
be 25 cents and cash prizes of
$25 for first place, $15 for sec
ond place and $10 for third place
will be awarded.
Tryouts will continue to be
held at 7:30 p.m. through Friday
night on the second floor of the
Music Hall. The talent selection
committee includes Mike Use,
Dave Slaughter, Tommy Liles,
Aldis Rutyna and Curtis Morton.
The talent show is a fore
runner of the Intercollegiate
Talent Show to be held Mar. 6.
Joint Journalism
Workshop Slated
High school journalism teachers
and publications advisers may at
tend the 1964 High School Work
shop at A&M University under an
expense scholarship.
The workshop, to be held July
12-17 on the A&M campus, will be
run jointly with the sixth annual
High School Workshop for stu
dents. It will be supported by a
grant from the Newspaper Fund
and one semester hour of graduate
credit will be available for those
who enroll through the college’s
registrar.
According to Delbert McGuire,
head of the Department of Jour
nalism, the enlarged program for
teachers will be designed to help
them produce better school publi
cations. Teachers will work directly
with student editors on actual pub
lications problems.
Scholarship support fi*om the
Newspaper Ftmd grant will be
accorded to approximately 30
teachers who sponsor newspapers
or teach classroom journalism.
Additional support is available
from hometown newspapers, high
schools and from friends of jour
nalism education.
TTI Staff Gains
Two Researchers
Two new appointments have been
made to the Texas Transportation
Institute staff at A&M University
to assist with an extensive study
of Houston’s Gulf Freeway.
Dr. Joseph A. Wattleworth, who
helped conduct a freeway surveil
lance project in Chicago in 1962-63,
has been named an assistant re
search engineer with TTI.
Another newcomer is William
Earl Tipton, a 1960 A&M civil
engineering graduate who will
serve as research assistant. A
native of Weslaco, Tipton recently
completed a two-year tour of duty
with the U. S. Air Force.
The freeway project, which is
currently underway, will involve
safer and more efficient operation
of the facility, Charles Pinnell,
head of TTI’s Highway Design and
Traffic Engineering Department,
said in announcing the new per
sonnel.
Research engineers (furrehtly are
studying traffic patterns, volume
and other questions pertaining to
use of the facility. Necessary
signal controls and surveillance
equipment such as television
cameras and other electronics de
vices will be added later.
About 30 television cameras that
will be installed along the six-mile
freeway stretch will give continu
ous visual information of traffic
problems.
Dr. Wattleworth previously
served as a research assistant at
Northwestern University before
joining the Illinois Division of
Highways as a traffic engineer for
the Chicago freeway project.
Highway Deaths
Set October High
CHICAGO <A>) _ Deaths on the
nation’s highways set a record in
October, the National Safety Coun
cil reported Tuesday.
The month’s total of 4,000 traf
fic deaths exceeded the previous
October high of 3,985 in 1936, and
was 3 per cent higher than the
3,880 deaths in October 1962.