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■ " • •. . _ - -• - n - ball game at( , :$ 1 r °pped in two 1 ‘ds later the 10 w hen Ballad, ■head for the ^ ; ’d s go ahead dj 5 quintet were the Fish came^ four more ti®, EN Studenh 5 COMPLETE THEIt K. ON, INC. T. PAUL 1, MINN, ^E, THE COCA-COLA COHPAHt, r hi. 9 ■ ai ■ ■ i eed vait 9 ! e stallations nations we ha ve ; that you- 'ts will b 6 I Paul Dresser | Receives Top | ROTC Award I Cadet Col. Paul A. Dresser, Jr., who commands the A&M University Corps of Cadets, will become one of six students throughout the United States to receive the Army Legion of Valor Award for achievement this academic year. Dresser was chosen for the honor by headquarters Fourth Army in San Antonio from Army Senior ROTC cadets at approximately 35 schools in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma. A&M President Earl Rudder will present the award at a Corps of Cadets Review at 4:30 p. m. Thursday on the parade grounds in front of the Memorial Student Center. DIGNITARIES and approximately 145 delegates from 4 60 colleges and universities over the nation will be honor guests for the review. They arrive Wednesday for the ninth Student Conference on National Affairs. Dresser, whose major field of study is history, is the son of Col. and Mrs. Paul A. Dresser, 808 West Seventh Avenue, Corsicana. The Dressers resided in San An tonio until his retirement and the cadet colonel is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School. Dresser and the outstanding Army ROTC cadets at other col leges and universities were nomi nated by their respective profes sors of military science for the award. Announcement of Dresser’s se lection was made to A&M cadets at a practice review Saturday. THE CRITERION for nomina tion and selection of a student to receive the award includes achieve ments in five areas: military scho larship and grades, academic grades, military leadership, aca demic leadership (extracurricular activities) and discipline, courtesy and character traits. The award, a bronze cross and an accompanying certificate, is sponsored by the Army Legion of Valor, Inc., of Arlington, Va. His first year here, Dresser won membership in Phi Eta Sigma, freshman honor society, and also was chosen as the outstanding freshman cadet. He was named the outstanding sophomore cadet and then the out standing junior. This year, as ca det colonel, Dresser has the high est position a cadet can earn. DRESSER SERVED as social secretary of his sophomore class and as class president his junior year. He holds membership in Phi Kappa Phi, honor society whose members are within one year of graduation and rank within the top one-tenth of their class scholasti cally. Grad Student Robert Woody Dies Monday Robert C. Woody, a 38-year-old graduate student at A&M Uni versity died about 5 a.m. Monday of a heart attack in his home at 708-A Cross Street in College Station. Woody was working toward his doctorate degree in poultry nutri tion. The body was taken to the Callaway-Jones Funeral Chapel in Bryan and then to Houston, Miss., for funeral services and burial Wednesday. Services will be con ducted by Memorial Funeral Home of Houston, Miss. Woody was bom and attended high school in Forrest City, Ark. He was graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1949 with a BS degree in agronomy. His MS degree in poultry nutrition came in 1962 at Mississippi State Uni versity. Survivors include Mrs. Sue Longworth Wiody; two sons, Robert and David; one daughter, Linda; three brothers, Rufus Woody, Jr., of Cannon Air Force Base, N. M.; Walter W. Woody of Shannon, Miss., and Joe B. Woody of Little Rock, Ark.; and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Woody, Sr., of Houston, Miss. Silver Taps will be held to honor Woody Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. Today’s Thought Men who cut themselves off from God are left with only human re- Science Academy Chooses President Dr. R. A. Eads of College Sta tion, a former professor of chemis try at A&M Uuiversity, is the new president-elect of the Texas Aca demy of Science. The election of Eads and other Texas Academy of Science officers was announced in Abilene at the annual meeting which ends Sat urday. The election was conducted by mail. THE GROUP’S secretary-treas urer for 1964 is Dr. Charles La- Motte, A&M biology professor. Fort Worth Zoological Park Director Lawrence Curtis is com pleting a term as president-elect and will head the academy in 1964. Eads will be the president in 1965 of the academy whose mem bership is open to persons engaged in or interested in scientific work. OTHER OFFICERS for 1964 in clude Dr. Robert E. Boyer of the University of Texas to the editor ship of “Texas Journal of Science;” Dr. Bailey Calvin of the University of Texas Medical Branch, representative to the na tional organization, and Robert C. Sherman of North Texas State University, to the board of di rectors. Runoff Elections Slated Wednesday Eight candidates will take the field Wednesday as the freshman class elections enter the runoff stage in the Memorial Student Center. In the election of president, runoff candidates are Wayne B. Fudge and Louis K. Obdyke. Vice presidential runoff candi dates are Tommy C. Stone and Dennis R. McElroy. Donald C. Burleson and Robert J. Myers are slated fo rthe secre tary-treasurer contest, while Jack E. Nelson and Alec P. Pearson will vie for the position of social secretary. Named as sectional vice presi dents were Dr. Roger C. Osborn, the University of Texas, mathema tics section; Dr. Clifton Bob Clark of Southern Methodist University, physical sciences; Dr. James W. Dixon, Baylor University, earth sciences; Dr. Cornelia M. Smith, Baylor, biological sciences; Dr. Richard E. Kennerly, Baylor, en vironmental sciences. Eads, the president-elect, served on the A&M faculty from 1927 to 1948, except for a brief military leave. Following service in the Korean conflict, he was director of the science division at Howard Payne College from 1954-58. He is now consulting chemist. €bt Battalion Volume 60 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1963 Number 177 SCONA Delegates Arrive To Discuss Fiscal Policies Neilan To Deliver Keynote Address fi s! More Than Just “Good Buir’ Crews were still busy Wednesday cleaning with gasoline and sulfur and set fire to the second floor of Dormitory 14 after them. He said only the explosion of gas in pranksters (?) built fires in the floor’s two one of the tires, which aroused sleeping shower rooms Sunday night about 4:30. students, probably diverted harm to stu- Dean of Students James P. Hannigan said dents by the fumes from the fire. “Its just the responsible persons apparently stuffed possible those fumes might have killed newspapers into auto tires, covered them someone,” he said. American Studies Meeting Selects Anderson As Chief The new president of the Ameri can Studies Association of Texas is Dr. John Q. Anderson who heads the Department of English. He was elected during the eighth an nual meeting held Saturday on campus. Scholarly papers in various fields on the humanities were pre sented during the meeting attend ed by 75 persons from 14 Texas colleges and universities. “The American Identity” was the general topic. ANDERSON, who was vice pres ident, succeeds Gordon Mills of the University of Texas. Also elected were David Van Tassel of the University of Texas, vice president; Charles W. Hagel- man, Jr., Lamar State College, sec retary-treasurer; and three coun- celors. These are Edwin Miles of the University of Houston; Leon ard A. Duce, Trinity University, and Mills. The state group tentatively scheduled its 1964 meeting for the Lamar campus in Beaumont. Miniature Flight Recorder Of Fatal Jet Crash Located ELKTON, Md. <A>)—The nation’s civil aviation chief said Monday that a jet airliner which crashed killing all 81 persons aboard can not be reconstructed as is usually done. “There is not enough left to re construct,” said Alan S. Boyd, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. “We are hopeful to take some parts to Washington when they are removed from the ground where they are buried.” Standing near the field where the Boeing 707 fell to earth Sun day night after exploding in the air, Boyd told a news conference that the four-engine flight record er had been found. But he raised the possibility it would prove of little value. “It was so compacted there is no way to tell at this time whether we can derive any useful informa tion from it,” he said. The plane crashed during a thunderstorm, falling in fiery frag ments about 15 miles southwest of Wilmington, De. There were no survivors. The recorder is an instrument package about the size of a brownie camera. Engineer Institute To Host Speaker Charles Broussard, Class of ’55, assistant engineer with South western Bell Telephone, will speak to a joint meeting of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and Eta Kappa Nu societies. The subjects of the speech are “The Engineer in the Business World” and “Long Distant Switch ing,” and will be given Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Bolton Hall. Professors of the Department of Electrical Engineering have stated that no exams will be held on Wednesday in order that students may attend the meeting. AMONG THE NINE persons presenting scholarly papers was Dr. Harry P. Kroitor, an associate professor of English at A&M. His paper was entitled “The Artist, the Scientist, and the ‘Pershing Re public’.” Professor Robert E. Spiller of the University of Pennsylvania was unable to speak due to illness. He is a former president of the American Studies Association and a preeminent scholar of American literature. The American Studies Associa tion membership includes both scholars and laymen from many fields. A&M FACULTY members formed the local arrangements committee with J. Milton Nance, head of the Department of History and Government, as chairman. Serving with him were John Q. Hays, Harrison E. Hierth and Car- roll D. Laverty, all of the Depart ment of English. The new president joined the A&M faculty in 1953 and in 1962 became head of the Department of English. He has won recognition both as a scholar and as a teacher. In 1961 he received, as a teacher, a coveted Faculty Distinguished Achieve ment Award from the A&M Asso ciation of Former Students. An derson is the author of three books and numerous articles and also is active in several professional and learned societies. Basketball Great Returns To School Former A&M basketball star Carroll Broussard is back on the campus, but opponents need have no fears. Broussard is a graduate student with his eyes on a Master of Busi ness Administration degree in May. His athletic activities are limited to “a little handball, golf and stuff like that.” BASKETBALL, in which he won All-American honors as a high school student at Port Arthur and then as a Texas Aggie, now is simply a spectator sport for Broussard. Studies and serving as a gradu ate assistant, teaching a statistics course laboratory, keep him busy. Why does a star basketball player decide to return to the campus for graduate studies when he has attractive offers to play professionally ? BROUSSARD made his decision on the basis of longterm outlook. His special field of studies now is marketing and he wants eventually to enter the sales field. “I guess I’d always thought about coming back,” he said. His basketball career ended in 1962 and that same year he re ceived a Bachelor of Business Ad- ministration degree from A&M. Carroll became purchasing agent and inventory control manager for a Dallas aluminum products manu facturer, a post he held until he returned to Aggieland this semes ter. At Dallas he did play some basketball in an amateur industrial league. BROUSSARD CAME to A&M in 1958 and as a guard made the All Southwest Conference freshman team. The following three seasons as a forward he made the All Southwest Conference team. During his junior and senior years he was named to the Helms Foundation All-American Team. By BOB SCHULZ Special Writer The ninth annual Student Conference on National Af fairs will begin Wednesday as approximately 180 delegates from colleges and universities through the United States, Mexico and Canada register on the A&M campus. The conference will be held Wednesday through Sat urday. Its purpose is to bring together outstanding leaders from the various schools represented to explore timely na tional and international issues. It does not attempt to solve these problems, but an effort is made to study their impact and complexity. THIS YEAR’S TOPIC of discussion mill be “United States Monetary and Fiscal Policy: A Taxpayer’s View.” The subject will be reviewed in 4 " five addresses and eight roundtable discussions. Em ployment, tax reforms, infla tion, national debt, the arms race, reciprocal trade, foreign aid, and the effectiveness of past and proposed policies will be stressed. Speakers were chosen on their ability to handle these questions. They are Edward P. Neilan, presi dent, U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Phillip S. Hughes, Asst. Director for Legislative Reference, Her bert J. Miller, former execu tive director, the Tax Foundation; Dr. C. Lowell Harriss, professor of economics, Columbia Universi ty; Max Freedman, writer of ”In Perspective.” Seventeen men from the fields of education, industry, and govern ment have accepted posts as co- chairmen of the roundtable dis cussions. They will serve to lend professional advice to questions that arise and help shape argu ments into solid facts. REGISTRATION OF delegates will- be held between 8 a.m. and noon. A press conference with Edwin P. Neilan, keynote speaker, will be held at 10:45 a.m. in room 2-A of the Memorial Student Cen ter. At 2 p.m. that afternoon a Wel come will be extended to the dele gates and the keynote address will be delivered. All the speeches will be open to the public. Neilan will speak on the subject of the con ference, a taxpayer’s view of U. S. monetary and fiscal policy. The first roundtable meeting will fol low at 4:15. DELEGATES WILL be treated to a smorgasbord in the ballroom of the MSC. At 8 that night Her bert Miller will present the second address on “Tax-Cut-Tax Re forms.” A reception in the Birch and Assembly rooms will wind up the first day’s activities. The conference has been or ganized by the SCONA IX staff, R. Russell Huddleston, chairman. Huddleston and his staff raised the money, contacted the speakers and delegates, chose the topic and arranged for the food and housing requirements. A&M Debaters Sweep Tourney Two A&M University debate teams won all their debates to gain an unofficial sweep of the Southwest Texas State College an nual speech tournament held over the weekend in San Marcos. Colleges and universities of the Southwest Conference, as well as other Texas schools, participated in the tournament. Winning all four of the debates which they entered were two-man teams composed of Robert Denney and Paul Humphries and Simeon Lake and Sam Henry. Karl Rubenstein and Arthur Powell won two of their four de bates, giving the Aggie Discus sion and Debate Club teams 10 wins in their 12 tournament de bates. A&M was the only university that had two all-winning teams. Since the tournament was not an elimination affair, no school win ner was named. Each two-man team later will be mailed its rat ing. Air Force Sweetheart Sharon Spellman, South west Texas State College coed, was selected Air Force Sweetheart at the Air Ca dets’ Ball Saturday night. She was escorted by Jan Linsey. A Icoholism Lecture Slated For Tonight The Sociology Club will pre sent a lecture on Alcoholism, 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, in. the audi torium on the new Architecture Building. The free lecture, to which the public is invited will be present ed by Mrs. Frances A. Robert son, executive director of the Houston Council on Alcoholism. The lecture was previously er roneously reported scheduled for Monday. Navy Recruiters To Discuss Flight Program This Week A recruiting team from Dallas Naval Air Station will be on cam pus in the Memorial Student Cen ter through Friday. The team will present informa tion concerning the Navy’s flight training program to interested students. ActuaL qualifying tests will be offered without obligation, to in terested persons. Four programs of flight train ing leading to commissioned rank and designation as a naval pilot or a naval observer are available. Aviation Officer Candidate which requires a college degree, leads to a pilot designation. Naval Avia tion Cadet requiring two years of college also leading to pilot desig nation. Naval Aviation Officer Candidate-Observer which requires a degree. Only NAV Cad requires that the student be single. Age limits are NAV CAD 18 to 25, AOC 19 to 26, NAOC 19-27%, with veterans ages adjusted up to 36 months. Seely Set To Speak In Chapel Tonight Paul Stark Seely, member of the Christian Science Board of Lec tureship, will speak on how to ap ply God’s healing power to solve everyday problems of living, Tues day at 8 p.m. in the All Faiths chapel under the auspices of the A&M University Christian Science Organization. The lecture is free and local members haw invited the students, faculty and staff of A&M to at tend. 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 Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. He has lec tured to audiences throughout the world. 4