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BARBARA ANN LONG
Escort Gene Riser
JACKIE WOOLEY
Escort James Bornhorst
GRETCHEN KNAPP
Escort Gary L. Cooley
STEPHANIE CARNEY
Escort Dennis Biles
SUSAN JANE HINNANT
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Dear Jim:
On behalf of the Texas Aggie basketball team and my
self, I want the A&M student body to know that we sincerely
ippreciated the rousing welcome they gave us on our return
rom Lubbock early Wednesday morning.
1 It was service beyond the call of duty in view of the
fact that we blew a 19-point lead and lost to Texas Tech.
We certainly didn’t expect—nor deserve—the tremendous
surnout of students and fans at the airport.
I can assure you—and again I feel that I am voicing
in the first kljthe opinion of every player on the squad—that we will do
our utmost to win the Southwest Conference championship.
I think an all-out effort on our part, plus the student’s
loyal support, can combine to bring the championship to
Texas A&M.
Winning the championship has been our aim all season.
But now it is even more important to us because it would
justify the “Spirit of Aggieland,” something which no other
student body in the land can match.
Sincerely,
Shelby Metcalf
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Monday Deadline
Set For Graduates
Monday brings vital deadlines i The assignment of building,
for seniors planning to graduate in I room and seat numbers for the
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| May according to a joint announce-
jment from the Counseling and
Testing Center and the Office of
the Registrar.
The seniors are encouraged to
(report as quickly as possible —
many already have done so—to file
a degree application at the regi
strar’s office and to register at
! the Counseling and Testing Cen
ter for the Graduate Record
Examinations to be given April
18. Monday is the final day for
meeting these requirements.
The graduating seniors also
should report , to the Fiscal Of
fice and pay the graduation fee.
Seniors scheduled to graduate in
August may take the GRE in
either June or August with the
examination dates to be announced
later.
The GRE is being required this
year, as approved much earlier, as
part of the graduation require
ments. Taking this examination
provides benefits both to the stu
dents and the University, an of
ficial said.
Connally Praises
[ A&M Cyclotron
AUSTIN (A*) — Governor John
Connally said Wednesday that the
announcement of a cyclotron to
be constructed at A&M Universi
ty is “one of the most significant
announcements in Texas this year.”
A grant will pay for one-half
the cost of the “atom smasher,”
to be one of five in the United
States.
“This will lead to steps in sci
entific developments beyond any
thing which has occurred,” Con
nally said. “This is a great tri
bute to the A&M Board’s actions
in the face of what all said was
an impossible task.”
A&M has been preparing for
construction of the cyclotron for
two years, and has secured sev
eral top scientists.
The cyclotron is a 400-ton mag
net, measuring 88 inches across the
pole face. Numerous small mag
nets direct beams of charged parti
cles around the electrical field
created by the larger electromag
net. The charged particles are
accelerated until they reach speeds
high enough to fling them into a
chamber where they strike targets
under study by researchers.
The cyclotron will be used main
ly for basic research.
GRE on April 18 can be completed
only after all graduating seniors
register, Counseling and Testing
Center Director S. A. Kerley said
today. He explained the GRE bat
tery contains many tests with
each student taking only certain
portions depending upon his major
field of study, thus assignments
are personalized.
A ticket of admission giving
an individual’s building, room and
seat assignment for April 18 will
be available April 1-17 at the
Counseling and Testing Center,
Kerley said.
Sweetheart Finals Slated
For Fish Ball Festivities
‘South Sea ’ Motiff
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A&M University partisans
in all parts of the state should
soon be able to tune in to a
nearby radio station and listen
to a play-by-play description
of Aggie basketball games.
The Aggie Basketball Network,
created Feb. 1 when the Aggies
visited Houston for a date with
Rice, gained impetus Tuesday night
with the addition of two radio
stations to its chain.
KRLD of Dallas and KBAT of
San Antonio joined the network
in time for the A&M-Texas Tech
cage game Tuesday, extending
coverage to most of Texas and
several adjoining states.
Mike Mistovich, who has been
broadcasting Aggie games over
KORA in Bryan, can now be heard
over KSIX in Corpus Christi,
KRLD and KBAT through the new
network. The various outlets
schedule their own sponsors for
the games.
As the creator of the radio chain,
Mistovich said, “I envisioned what
we could do in recruiting and such.”
Mistovich said he began early in
the season trying to line up various
stations throughout the state to
broadcast the Cadets’ games, meet
ing his first success with the acqui-
‘Loyal Aggie AudienCSS
Aggie Basketball Network
Created By KORA Owner
WTAW Schedules
Area FM Station
Radio Bryan Inc., owners of
WTAW radio, received permission
from the Federal Communication
Commission in Washington, D. C.,
Wednesday to begin construction
of a new FM broadcasting station.
The new facility, to be operated
on 92.1 megacycles, will have a
power of approximately 3,000
watts. Construction of the new
station is expected to begin im
mediately.
PAT GARRETT, WTAW pro
gram director and news director,
said, “This will give us some way
to get out at night. We’ve been
hampered with this problem for a
long time.”
Music on the new station,
WTAW-FM, will be a combination
of folk, popular, concert and jazz.
“We are going to program pri
marily to the Aggies, faculty and,
in essence, the adult audience who
can’t stand ‘Top 40’ music,” Gar
rett announced.
THE FM STATION will run only
a bare minimum of commercials,
just enough to cover cost, said
Garrett. The radio will be pri
marily a public service supported
by WTAW-AM, Garrett continued.
“There has been quite a demand
for an FM station to offer the
public a choice at night,” Garrett
noted.
The WTAW staff presently plans
to say on the air until midnight.
During the daytime hours, the two
stations will operate on a simul
cast basis for economic reasons.
From sunset on, the easy-listening
FM music only will be played.
The FM station should be com
pleted in one to three months.
Radio Bryan Inc. has already pur
chased 85 per cent of the necessary
equipment which must be installed,
tested and inspected by an FCC
agent before the station may begin
operation. Roger B. Watkins, vice
president and general manager of
Radio Bryan, estimated the test
runs will be held within 30 days.
“WE’RE EXTREMELY HAPPY
to get it. We had our application
in for it two and a half years.
Above all, we feel the need for a
good night-time station of this
type,” Watkins said.
The only FM station in the
Greater Brazos Valley, WTAW-
FM> will have a range of about 50
miles. Two additional employees
will be hired by the firm when the
new station begins broadcasting.
sition of KSIX prior to the Rice
game two and a half weeks ago.
Charley Manning, sales manager
of the Corpus Christi station, con
tacted Mistovich and the game was
piped to KSIX.
“A GOOD, LOYAL AGGIE,”
Manning hoped to spread accounts
of A&M basketball fortune into his
area.
Mistovich, president and general
manager of the originating station
in Bryan, continued his drive for
state-wide coverage.
Finally the powerful San An
tonio and Dallas stations, which
cover areas of strong Aggie sup
port, signed with Mistovich this
week. According to Mistovich,
KRLD alone covers two-thirds of
the state.
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The stations were encouraged by
the early wins over Southern Meth
odist, the University of Texas and
Rice, Mistovich said.
The network will try to bring
Aggie baseball games to the listen
ers if the basketball games receive
good support in the area of the
stations.
“When we appeared to be right
in the thick of the race, several
stations were anxious to broadcast
the games,” he added.
THE BRYAN ANNOUNCER is
currently trying to persuade a
Houston station to join the group.
“They’re getting the game in
Houston over either the Dallas or
San Antonio outlet, but coverage
there would make it complete for
the state,” Mistovich noted.
Gitmo Dependents
To Return To U.S.
WASHINGTON <A>> — The
United States is going to turn
the Guantanamo Naval Base into
a strictly military garrison with
no wives, children or other depen
dents.
The Defense Department said
Wednesday that families will be
withdrawn gradually over the next
two years in line with President
Johnson’s decision to put the
Cuban base on a self-sufficient
footing.
“Dependents now on station will
be returned to the United States
at the normal expiration of their
sponsors’ regular tours of duty,”
Asst. Secretary of Defense Arthur
Sylvester said.
“Since all military tours pres-
enly are for a period of two years,
and no extensions will be granted
on station, there will probably be
no dependents remaining on the
base by early 1966.”
NO MORE FAMILIES either of
military personnel or of civilian
employees will be sent to the base,
which is now under forced water
rationing as a result of Prime
Minister Fidel Castro’s order cut
ting off the normal supply.
Defiant Senior Scorns Shoes
To ‘Get His Money’s Worth’
Since he became eligible for
Senior boots, Robert M. Denney,
senior civil engineering major
from San Antonio, has never worn
low-quarter shoes with his uni
form.
He wears his boots constantly
to chow, class and any other acti
vities attended in uniform. Con
sequently, as Final Review comes
nearer and nearer, many of his
buddies nervously realize that he
means what he says.
Denney, Inspector General, Sec
ond Brigade Staff, gives this ex
planation for the constant pre
sence in his boots. “Last spring
I made the statement, without
really thinking about it: “I’m
going to wear my boots every sin
gle day next year and get my
money’s worth out of them. Sev
eral cadets in my old outfit, G-2,
as well as several others in E-2,
bet that I wouldn’t”
Well he hasn’t missed a day yet,
and he plans to remain in his boots
whenever the uniform is Class A
or B until Final Review.
“A group of girls, friends of
my fiance at Southwest Texas
State College in San Marcos, have
vowed to come to A&M and steal
my boots,” said Denney. “This,”
The water allowance for the 10,-
500 people on the Base—Navy and
Marine personnel, civilian workers,
and their families— was reduced
to one-fourth of the usual supply
after last Thursday’s shut-off.
Of the total number on the base,
about 3,000 are listed as depen
dents.
THEIR GRADUAL REMOVAL
was described by Sylvester as “a
further step in the process of mak
ing the Guantanamo Naval Base
entirely self-sufficient, and to im
prove the garrison posture of the
forces there.”
By BOB SCHULZ
Battalion Staff Writer
“The South Seas” will be the theme of this year’s Fish
Ball to be held Saturday night in Sbisa Dining Hall.
The annual affair will begin at 8 p. m. and last until
midnight. Entertainment will include dancing, a tentative
performance by the Fish Drill Team, and the selection of the
Freshman Sweetheart.
Seven sweetheart finalists have been chosen. They are:
Miss Susan Jane Hinnant of Pearsall, escorted by Steve G.
Beever; Miss Marlene Webb, Texas Womans’ University,
escorted by Eugene Waters Jr;
Miss Barbara Ann Long of Bruni, escorted by Gene
Riser; Miss Jackie Wooley, Waco, escorted by James Born
horst; Miss Gretchen Knapp,
Baylor University, escorted
by Gary Cooley;
Miss Stephanie Carney
of
Houston, escorted by Dennis
Biles and Miss Donna Gurtler of
Dallas, escorted by Edmond Cham
bliss.
THE FRESHMAN SWEET
HEART will be chosen from this
group by the Freshman Class offi
cers, the Freshman Class advisor
and Miss Nanette Gabriel, 1963-64
Aggie Sweetheart.
Tickets for the Ball will be $3
with or without dates. The uni
form is Winter Formal, class A
with white shirt and bow tie.
Music will be provided by the
Aggieland Combo. Decorations are
being handled by the freshmen and
will present a South Seas motiff.
Freshmen and their dates will be
able to have their pictures made
by a professional photographer.
THE BALL is under the super
vision of four committees. These
committees are Program and
Guests, headed by Louis K. Ob-
dyke and David L. Holmes; Dance
and Decorations, John C. Tietze;
Tickets and Finance, William W.
Gordon and the Sweetheart Com
mittee, headed by Wayne B.
Fudge.
NSF Opportunities
Become Available
Heaton Announces
I.D. Cards Ready
Student identification cards are
now ready for distribution, accord
ing to H. L. Heaton, director of
admissions and registrar.
Heaton said those who had the
identification cards made during
registration, January 31-February
1, should pick up the new cards in
the Registrar’s Office at their first
available chance.
Heaton added that the temporary
identification cards wilel not be
valid after February 20.
he added,
done.”
‘may be easier said than
Now is the time for Aggie un
dergraduates to check into the
possibilities this summer of the
National Science Foundation-spon
sored Undergraduate Research
Participation and for interested de
partments to submit proposals for
programs effective this September
or the summer of 1965.
“Usually the program carries
very few students during the aca
demic year, but during the sum
mer the student can earn up to a
maximum of $600 while learning
to do research,” C. M. Loyd, NSF
coordinator on campus, said. Twen
ty-three students participated last
summer.
Undergraduates can apply for
this summer’s research programs
in the physics, soil and crop sci
ences, oceanography, and biochem
istry, Loyd said.
Loyd asked interested depart
ments to contact him for informa
tion about proposals for programs
after this summer. The rough
drafts of proposals must be filed
by Feb. 21.
The National Science Founda
tion will consider proposals from
departments in the sciences, in
cluding certain social sciences,
mathematics and engineering, Loyd
said.
The NSF has recently reorgani
zed to give separate status for
undergraduate programs includ
ing undergraduate research, in
dependent study and equipment
grants for undergraduate courses.
Eels Hold Interest
Of Space Expert
Space and rocket expert Willy
Ley, who is to speak at 8 p.m.
Thursday in the Memorial Student
Center, is interested not only in
rockets and space but also in sala
manders, eels and other animals
and the events in history relating
to them.
Dr. R. J. Baldauf, assistant pro
fessor of wildlife management,
considers Ley’s 1955 book, “Sala
manders and Other Wonders,” to
be of enough interest and value
that he has required his herpetolo
gy class to read the first chapter,
which is concerned specifically
with salamanders.
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
GENEVA — The Soviet Union
charged Wednesday that Yuri I.
Nossenko, an expert on the Soviet
disarmament delegation here, had
been lured to the West by agents
using “provocative activity.” The
chief Soviet delegate blamed Swit
zerland for loose security and de
manded that' the Swiss get Nos-
senko back.
★ ★ ★
BERLIN — An East German
Communist court has sentenc
ed a railroad worker to 3 Vi
years imprisonment because he
bought devices intended to con
vert his television set to receive
Western telecasts, a private
West Berlin intelligence bureau
said Wednesday.
U. S. NEWS
WASHINGTON — President
Johnson, paying tribute to the
memory of Abraham Lincoln, call
ed for “positive action on all levels
of our national community” to end
discrimination and promote new
opportunity for all citizens.
★ ★ ★
CINCINNATI — Former Vice
President Richard M. Nixon de
clared today he is not “throwing
in the towel” for the Republican
party in the coming presidential
election just because President
Johnson is a “formidable” oppon
ent.
TEXAS NEWS
ARLINGTON — A “real horse
race” between Gov. John Con
nally and Liberal Democrat Don
Yarborough in the party pri
mary was predicted Wednesday
by a top leader in the Texas
AFL-CIO.