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KILLEEN WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH
Dorothy Heaths car collided with large truck.
SCON A IX Delegates
Review U.S. Policies
By RONNIE FANN
Battalion Managing Editor
Is it possible to lower or abolish
the national debt? Should foreign
aid be curtailed or turned over to
an international body such as the
United Nations? Should there be
an immediate tax cut and who
will benefit most?
These were just some of the
questions debated in the student
roundtables last week during the
ninth annual Student Conference
on National Affairs. No attempt
was made by the students to solve
these questions — that’s not the
purpose of SCONA.
This year’s theme, “U. S. Mo
netary and Fiscal Policy: A Tax
payer’s View,” left ample room
for the eight student roundtables,
the heart of SCONA, to disect and
minutely inspect the taxing and
spending policies of the U. S.
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Editor’s Note: This is the fourth of a series of six
articles which tuill discuss the development of Texas A&M
and present facts that students interested in recruiting new
Aggies during the Christmas Holidays may find valuable.
We encourage Aggies to clip these factual articles for refer
ence in discussing A&M ivith high school seniors while at
home during the holidays. It is important for each of us
to do a selling job for A&M every chance we get.
By MICHAEL REYNOLDS
Battalion Staff Writer
If A&M has accomplished great things in the past, it
is constantly planning and building for a greater future.
A 100-member committee, known as the Century Council,
recommended various programs that should be followed at
the institution during the coming years.
It is the belief of the council that if this program is
followed, the next 87 years of the university will be greater
and more eventful than the first 87.
The program advanced by the board calls for:
Plans to secure the highest caliber of faculty members
with provisions to reward achievement.
Selective development of strong programs of instruction
in engineering, natural and applied science, agriculture,
veterinary medicine and liberal arts with stress on space
related fields.
Attraction of students characterized by outstanding
intellectual capacity, maximum integrity and dedicated to
the pursuit of knowledge.
Addition and improvement in physical facilities, par
ticularly those used in the sciences and technologies of the
Space Age.
Strengthened research efforts both as an instructional
technique and as a service to the state.
Close relationships between researcher and extension
educator to better disseminate laboratory discoveries to the
fields and factories where it can be applied.
New resources to support heavy expenses required in
college development and apportion the available money in
light of the goals and aspirations of the institution.
Inform the people of the state of the services as well
as the needs of the institution.
Insistence upon excellence as the watchword of every
aspect.
“That about sums up our program for the future at
A&M,” said President Earl Rudder.
“We plan to accent the graduate program at A&M in
the future. We have felt that the undergraduate program
has been top notch for years. For instance, take a look at
the enrollment in the graduate school in 1959. We had only
600; now just four years later we have doubled the figure,”
concluded Rudder.
The physical plant of the university is undergoing
changes right now that the high school seniors of today
can look forward to enjoying during their stay at A&M.
Five new air conditioned dorms are under construction.
Plans have been laid to air condition the others.
The new cyclotron, nuclear research center, wind tunnel
and other facilities will challenge the abilities and knowledge
of tomorrow’s students.
government.
AIDING THE STUDENTS in
their discussions and furnishing an
insight into to the mechanics of
economics were five keynote
speakers. Addressing the first
plenary session was Edwin P. Neil-
an of the United States Chamber
of Commerce, who told the stu
dents that every American citizen
has a duty to require that his
congressman either be fiscally re
sponsible or face being voted out
of office.
Herbert J. Miller, former di
rector of the Tax Foundation in
Washington, D. C. told the dele
gates Thursday afternoon than in
dividual citizens have a responsibi
lity in tax reforms and tax cuts
that no one can perform for them.
Warning the students on what he
called “back door spending,” Mil
ler said this government spending
with insufficient appropriations
can lead to ruinous inflation.
PHILLIP S. HUGHES, assist
ant director for legislative refer
ence for the Bureau of the Bud
get, spoke to the group on Thurs
day night on “A Taxpaying Staff
Member’s View of the Federal
Budget Process.” Hughes likened
the triming of the federal budget
to a TV western that involves
a whole crowd of clean-cut good
guys Without a villian in sight.
Presenting an economist’s view
of the federal taxing and spending
process was Dr. C. Lowell Har-
riss of Columbia University, who
spoke to the conference Friday
night.
Roundup speaker for SCONA IX
was Max Freedman, writer of the
column “In Perspective,” for the
Publisher’s Newspaper Syndicate,
and who was voted recently the
best foreign correspondent cover
ing the Washington scene.
VICTIM PINNED IN WRECKAGE
Woman was en route to funeral of brother-in-law.
SPEAKING FOR JOHNSON
Former Gov. Price Daniel
Criticizes Outspoken Prof
AUSTIN GP)—Former Governor
Price Daniel criticized a University
of Texas professor Monday for
connecting Texas and Dallas with
the guilt for President Kennedy’s
assassination.
“The most extreme smear of
all,” Daniel said of an article by
Reece McGee, associate professor
of sociology, in the December is
sue of “The Nation.”
DANIEL’S OFFICE distributed
Monday texts of a speech Daniel
made Saturday night to an annual
youth and government conference
sponsored by the Young Men’s
Christian Association. He said he
spoke as a substitute for President
Lyndon Johnson, who was unable
to appear. Daniel brought John
son’s greetings to the dinner group
but said his other remarks were
strictly his own.
“Our country sorely needs truth
and tolerance on the part of those
who attempt to assess the blame,”
Daniel said. “I have tolerance but
no patience for those who blame
Yule Services Set
Christmas services will be held
in the All Faiths Chapel at 7:30
p.m. Wednesday. The services will
be sponsored by the civilian stu
dent chaplains.
Rev. Carlton Ruch, pastor of
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church,
will present the message.
Everyone has been invited to
attend.
NSF Offers Physics Majors
New Undergraduate Program
Four junior physics majors cur
rently are getting a taste of grad
uate research work thanks to a
program supported by the Nation
al Science Foundation. This un
dergraduate research program in
physics is directed by Dr. Joe S.
Ham.
Physics students participating
during this academic year are
James N. Downing Jr., Charles O.
Hook, David T. Megarity and Rob
ert Lee Petty.
Since limited number of grants
are available, applicants are
screened and selections are made
after grades and recommendations
have been studied, Ham said. The
program runs nine months and the
students receive about $175 from
the NSF to help cover expenses.
THE STUDENTS are able to get
an idea of graduate work and still
Today's Thought
Peace begins where selfish am
bition ends.
carry a normal class load.
“They are treated like graduates
and have good equipment,” Ham
explained.
Their research topics include
nuclear physics, Hook and Down
ing; biophysics, Petty, and poly
mer crystals, Megarity.
The students agree with Ham on
the usefulness of the program.
Hook, who works with Downing
under Dr. John A. Eisele, was
quick to praise the program.
“It gives the student the op
portunity to work in his field and
prepares him for graduate school,”
he said.
Megarity pointed out that one
could do the work during his free
time and that hours are not main
tained. Students usually get in
at least eight hours a week.
“We get to know the faculty
and graduate students,” he ex
plained, “and we are able to work
with very good equipment.”
He added that the pay was only
a small part of the gains from
the program.
this assassin’s bullets on all the
American people, a state, a city
or a group which had nothing
whatever to do with the act or the
climate or indoctrination which
spawned the crime.”
“TO CAP THE CLIMAX, the
most extreme smear of all comes
from Texas University associate
professor of sociology, Reece Mc
Gee, in the December issue of ‘The
Nation,” in which he said that once
the fate of the president was or
dained, the crime ‘had to be in
Texas . . . and in Dallas’ because
of the background and existing at
titudes of the people of this state
and city,” Daniel said.
“I think the sociologist is wrong
in blaming any geographical area
for this man’s crime, but if he sim
ply has to do so, why did he over
look Russia? During the past 10
years Oswald spent more time in
Russia than in Texas. Library
records show his reading material
was pro-Communist. He certainly
was not a product of Dallas, hav
ing lived there less than two
months, a far shorter time than
in New York, New Orleans, San
Diego, Moscow and Minsk.”
When asked for comment on the
ring directly to McGee, the univer
sity professor said:
“From what you have read me
it sounds as if the governor has
not read the article to which he
referred. I have no other com
ment.”
A car-truck collision took the
life of a 41-year-old woman just
inside the Bryan city limits late
| Monday afternoon.
I Miss Dorothy Gertrude Heath
of Killeen became Brayn’s first
traffic fatality since June 22, 1962,
as the 1963 Buick Special she was
driving collided with a large Tex
as Highway Department striping
truck.
Three Bryan men, employees of
the Texas Highway Department,
were taken to St. Joseph’s Hospi
tal in Bryan where they were
treated for minor cuts and bruises
and released. The injured men
were Dyer Henderson, Monroe Ter
ry and Gerald Nobles.
A witness to the accident said
Miss Heath’s automobile, heading
east, apparently started to pass
another car and pulled into the
path of the oncoming truck. She
was declared dead on arrival at
St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Miss Heath was a registered
nurse at North Ft. Hood Hospital
and was en route to Ft. Lauder
dale, Fla., for the funeral of her
brother-in-law.
The accident, which occurred
about 5 p.m. on Highway 21 East,
marred a period of nearly 540 days
without a traffic death in the city
of Bryan, Bryan Police Sgt. Way-
land Watson said.
Head Elected Chief
Of College Unions
Memorial Student Center Coun
cil President Howard Head was
elected chairman of the new Re
gion XII of the Association of
College Unions at the annual
A.C.U. convention held on the Tex
as Tech campus in Lubbock this
past weekend.
Head succeeded the chairwoman
from Oklahoma State University,
Nancy Connor, as chairman of
A.C.U.
The A&M University bid for the
chairmanship of the new region
was unopposed. In the general
meeting held Friday afternoon,
Head was elected by acclamation.
Margaret Saetre of Tulane Uni
portions of Daniel’s speech refer- '• versity was elected first vice-chair-
Christmas Party Honors Foreign Students
About 200 people attended Monday night’s holiday party
honoring A&M University foreign students. The annual
affair was held in the YMCA Building, where the guests
were treated to refreshments and a Christmas concert by a
group from A&M Consolidated High School.
man.
CONFERENCES on various stu
dent union programs were held
Friday and Saturday. Student
leaders led the group discussion
with advisors from member school
as observers. Twenty-two schools
and 237 students from a five state
area were represented at the con
vention.
Porter Butts, Editor of Publica
tions for the Association of Col
lege Unions and Editor of Publica
tions at the University of Wiscon
sin delivered the opening address
of the general session. The nation
al officer for the Association of
College Unions spoke on “What a
College Union Is For.”
THE THREE DAY convention
was concluded by Kennet Hobbs,
Lubbock lawyer and after dinner
speaker. Hobbs issued a challenge
to student unions to play a more
active role in student life.
This conference was the final
meeting of Region IX. Next year
Texas will be in Region XII with
Head serving as chairman of the
new region. Southern Methodist
University will be the host school
for the 1964 Region XII conven
tion to be held next December.
Head ran on a platform of in
creased co-operation among mem
ber schools through speakers, li
brary facilities and correspond
ence. Head is a senior Veterinary
Medicine student from Richardson.
He is chairman of the A&M Uni
versity MSC Council and was se
lected to Who’s Who Among Stu
dents in American Universities
and Colleges.
MayGrad uatesTold
To See Transcripts
Students with plans to gradu
ate in May are well advised to
check their official transcript
before the Christmas holidays.
Assistant Registrar Luke Harri
son said Wednesday.
“A preliminary check now al
lows more time to consider any
problems which might arise dur
ing registration for the final se
mester,” he explained.