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?0, A&M Board Releases Meet Results games 4 ; nce ca ?! 'M at ;hodist s echgaj; The A&M Board of Directors, Hy. meeting Saturday, awarded sev- eral construction contracts, voted ^T,Tt, ' to create a new college, appoint- f Centt ed new members to the Board of g f or Visitors of the Maritime Aca- > demy, repositioned a faculty member and accepted grants-in- tor Cars a ^> scholarships, fellow- s—Servi, ships and awards totalling $442,- Foreigi 983.20. Among the contracts awarded were: ijq ]j rew Woods Inc., of Car- ■"thage, a contract for $302,400 for air conditioning two buildings on > 'JO the A&M campus. The buildings , are the Mechanical Engineering 1 *‘01 Shop Building and Bolton Hall, the electrical engineering build- nest par To Drake Co. Inc., of Fort Worth, a contract for $48,641 for central heating and air condition ing of the old library building at Arlington State College which is being remodeled and converted into a music building. To Dickey Electric Co., of Houston, a contract for $40,300, and to W. E. Kutzschbach Co., of Bryan, a contract for $39,492, for underground primary electric modifications and extensions and for utility extensions, respec tively at Prairie View A&M Col lege. The Board approved a request by A&M President Earl Rudder that he be allowed, through Chancellor M. T. Harrington, to present a request to the Com mission for the establishment of a new college. The Commission will be asked to approve a consolidation of the present Departments of Oceano graphy and Meteorology, Geo graphy and of Geology and Geo physics into a College of Geosci ences. Under the new setup, if approved, there will be four de partments, instead of the present three; oceanography and meteor ology would become separate de partments. The University administration noted in its request that though these sciences are diverse, there are fast-growing interdisciplin ary and multidisciplinary aspects among them that makes this move advisable. The Board reappointed three and named one new member to the Board of Visitors for the Texas Maritime Academy, at the directors’ meeting Saturday. The Texas Maritime Academy located at Galveston is a part of the A&M System and is ad ministered by A&M University. The following had been chosen by lot to serve for one year as charter members of the Academy board, and now have been reap pointed to three-year terms: John A. Parker of Galveston, Capt. Sam D. W. Low of Hous ton and J. C. Rudd of Orange. Also named for a three-year term was Capt. Ernest Hendrix, Director of Operations, Lykes Brothers Steamship Co. of New Orleans. He replaces Dallas Gor don Rupe of Dallas who is com pleting a one-year term. The Board accepted a formal request by Dr. Dale F. Leipper, head of the Department of Ocean ography and Meteorology at A&M, that he be reassigned from university administration to teaching and research. Leipper will retain his title of professor of oceanography and meteorology. His new assign ment, he said, also will permit him to devote more time to his additional position of Associate Director of the A&M Research Foundation as well as give him the opportunity of engaging more actively than he recently has been able to in some major re search projects that have been of great interest to him. The Board also approved the appointment of Dr. Willis Pep- quegnat, professor of biological oceanography, as acting head of the department for an interim period. Pequegnat came to A&M a year ago from the National Science Foundation in Washing ton. Scholarships, fellowships and awards totalling $32,519.05 were received from 55 donors, includ ing $2,265 from General Motors Corp., $2,000 from Donald B. Leverett of Overton, $2,000 from the Union Carbide Corp., $1,800 from Anderson, Clayton and Co., $1,750 from The Newspaper Fund of the Wall Street Journal and $1,500 from the Borden Company Foundation. Research and grants-in-aid funds amounted to $12,250 from five donors including $5,500 from the A&M College Development Foundation, unrestricted; $5,000 from the Gulf Research and De velopment Co. to support petro leum engineering research, and $1,000 from Union Carbide for use in chemical and mechanical engineering research. Cbc Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1964 Number 5 ^Panhandler Litter-Bugs Meet Ags In ‘Title Bout’ XJTY VED. G’S. lUATIC; Society Displays Cowboy Paintings live CONGRATULATIONS Chancellor Harrington greets the team. Drawings of the West by the late Harold D. Bugbee, former A&M student whose paintings have been displayed throughout the nation, will be shown March 1-13 ot the Memorial Student Cen ter. The paintings, on loan from the Panhandle Plains Historical So ciety in Canyon, picture all phases sA&M Increases Support Dominican Ag School 4&M President Rudder an- anced Saturday the completion arrangements under which the iversity will expand and in- isify its support of agricultural relopment in the Dominican Re- t>lic. This expansion is an outgrowth the success of the first round of the program undertaken in 1962 with a plan to establish an Institute of Agriculture at the secondary level at Santiago de los Caballeros, the second city of the Republic and the cultural and trade center of the rich farming and ranching region known as the Cibao, the broad valley of the yclotron To Boost State’s Economy Dr. George J. Igo, director of :M University’s Cyclotron Insti- e, said Friday the newly- sroved atom smasher will in- ase the state’s economy many les over the $6 million cost by ating new industries. The cyclotron, the scientist said, 1 attract top nuclear scientists train students capable of estab- ling new industries associated •h peaceful uses of atomic ; rg-y- Dr. Igo, currently a senior staff mber with the Lawrence Radia- a Laboratory at the University land Sweetheart liss Susan Jane Hinnant ’as selected Band Sweet- eart Saturday at the roup’s annual ball in the temorial Student Center, ter escort was Steve G. ;eever. of California in Berkeley, was on the A&M campus to discuss pre liminary plans with the Board of Directors leading to actual con struction of the facility. It was his first trip to Texas since the Atomic Energy Commis sion announced approval of $3 million in funds earlier this month to build the cyclotron. The Robert A. Welch Foundation is contribut ing $1 million and another $2 mil lion is from university funds. THE NUCLEAR SCIENTIST expects actual construction to be gin in early 1965 on the initial part of the project. “We plan to produce the first beam of charged particles in 1968,” Dr. Igo said. A&M’s cyclotron, he added, will be the most powerful “spiral ridge cyclotron in the world.” It will feature improvements over the present cyclotron, with which Dr. Igo is associated at Berkeley. “We should be able to produce 120 MeV (million electron volt) protons, which is twice the energy the California cyclotron has,” he said. “At the same time, we will be equipped to reduce this energy as low as 10 MeV, which will per mit us to conduct a greater variety of experiments.” In addition, A&M’s machine will produce other types of accelerated particles the Berkeley unit is able to do. The 400-ton magnet, which requires a 2,000 kilowatt power source, will be modeled after the California unit, he continued, al though modifications will give “us a greater energy proton range.” Rio Yaque del Notre. The cam pus of the new institute lies along that river at a point called La Herradura (The Horseshoe), about five kilometers from the city. The agricultural institute, which will open for its first class of 80 boys at the end of March, was formally dedicated in a ceremony on the new campus last Jan. 26, at which A&M University was represented by Dr. M. T. Harring ton, chancellor of the A&M Sys tem, who gave a brief address of greetings from the university. UNDER THE NEW PHASE of the program, the beginnings of agricultural research and farm de monstration projects will be added to the formal academic class room instruction now underway in the institute. The total coordi nated enterprise will be known as the scientific center for agricul tural development. Financial sup port for the participation of A&M in the Dominican program has come largely from the Ford Foundation which has just made a four-year grant of $547,500 to support the new research-demon stration phase of the program. of the old and new West by the well-known “cowboy artist.” Born in Massachusetts in 1900, he died in 1963. Bugbee attended A&M in 1917, where he received his first formal training in art in addition to courses in animal husbandry. World War I interrupted his schedule and his taste for military training. The art exhibit is sponsored by the MSC Creative Arts Committee, headed by acting committee chair man Howard Head. Head said Irving F. Sorelle of Canyon, member of the A&M class of 1920, reported recently by telephone that he helped re cruit Bugbee to attend A&M. Sorelle also mentioned that the artist came to Texas “because of his desire to be a cowboy.” His parents purchased a ranch near Clarendon, where Bugbee’s dream became a reality. Bugbee once admitted that he had little time for oil paintings because of the demand by book publications and magazine editors for illustrations. By JIM BUTLER Battalion Sports Editor The Texas Tech Red Raiders, holders of the SWC lead in speeding tickets and litter-bugging, bring their one-string special to G. Rollie White Coliseum tonight for a rematch with the Aggies, holders of first place in the SWC and a special condemnation from the National Heart Foundation. The Cadets have been accused of looking forward to the Matadors while achieving close wins over Baylor and Ark ansas. They need look no further than over their shoulders at the 8 p. m. tip-off time. The Raiders will be there, in a do-or-die struggle to gain a tie for the league lead. Tech is one game behind the Aggies with a 8-2 record. Coach Shelby Metcalf's Maroons sport a 9-1 slate. The Aggies will be seeking to make up't for their colossal fold against Gene Gibson’s Raiders in Lub bock. A&M held a 19-point lead at halftime only to lose 84-82 on a last-second shot by Sid Wall. Fellowship Hosts Professor Panel Three A&M University faculty members from the panel for the weekly meeting at 4 p.m. Wed nesday at the YMCA Building of the Faculty Interfaith Fellowship. The topic The panel topic will be “If One Respects Another’s R e li g i o n Should He Engage in Proselit- ing?” Scheduled to be panel members are Richard H. Davis Jr., veteri nary physiology; Raymond Reiser, biochemistry; and Haskell Mon roe, history. Faculty Authors Featured In Cushing A&S Display The first of a series of displays featuring A&M Uni versity faculty and their publications in the arts and sciences has been posted in the main display case inside of the Cush ing Library entrance. Six faculty members of the Department of History and Government and their books are featured in the display to remain in place for about three weeks. Future displays will feature the scholarly works of others in the College of Arts and Sciences. The displays are a cooperative effort of the Library and the College of Arts and Science, library director Robert A. Houze said. “The purpose is to call to the attention of our faculty and student some of the fine scholarly work being done here,” Houze said. The Department of History and Government faculty members represented are Drs. Ramon E. Arango, Allan C. Ashcraft, Wilboum E. Benton, Claude H. Hall, Haskell M. Monroe and J. M. Nance, department head. The publications now on display cover such varied sub jects as recent Belgian politics, Texas government, the biog raphy of Virginian of the 1800s’ Texas history, and the Con federate States. Gibson will go with the same five that faced A&M in the Panhandle —guards Glen Hallum and Dub Malaise, forwards Norman Reu- ther and Tom Patty, and center Harold Denney. Hallum and Den ney are juniors, Malaise and Reuther are sophomores while Patty is the lone senior. All five Tech starters are averag ing in double figures and have logged most of the playing time. In last Saturday’s 94-83 win over SMU, Gibson used only these five for the whole game. Meanwhile, Metcalf has consist ently used 10 and 11 players a game. The great Aggie depth has certainly been a big factor in their success so far. Starting for the Cadets will be guards Paul Timmins and Bennie Lennox, forwards Bill Gasway and Bill Robinette and center John Beasley. Tonight’s meeting, before an ex pected sell-out crowd of 8,100-plus, has been billed as “The Game of the Year” in the Southwest Con ference, and it most certainly will live up to its billing. The biggest aid the student body can give, is to yell the Panhandlers off the court before they ever get started. Republican Cause Is For Individuals, Bob Morris States Robert Morris, Republican candi date for the U. S. Senate, said the Republican cause is a cause of re sistance to Communism and for individual freedom in this coun try, at a meeting of the A&M Young Republicans Monday night. “But we must be affirmative in our cause,” Morris said, “because it would destroy our purpose if we were against everything.” The former president of Dallas University then listed preservation of religious and spiritual fiber, maintaining of free enterprise and the common law as the components of an American heritage he is for. “Religion has been taken away from us by judicial decree,” he said. . . . “Free enterprise is being choked with high taxes caused by increasing government spending . . . common law is not honored. A farmer in North Dakota was sentenced to two years in jail for over planting wheat and not sup porting the Agricultural Adjust ment Act.” A solution to stop Communist gains in the world, Morris averred, was for the government to stop giving aid to Communist countries and not to recognize them. He stated: “Our policy is to merge with the Communists, not fight them.” LOOKING AHEAD Shelby Sees Tech $1,000 Gift From Oil Co. The Sun Oil Company of Dallas has given $1,000 to the A&M Uni versity Department of Chemical Engineering. Dr. James D. Lindsay, head of the department, said the gift will be used for general purposes. He said Sun Oil also provided an $800 scholarship last fall that went to John T. Baldwin of Tyler. Baldwin will graduate in May and then go into chemical engineering graduate work. Lindsay said the $1,000 was pre sented to the department by Bobby L. Short and Jim Davison of Sun Oil. Short and Division gradu ated from A&M in chemical engi neering in 1948 and 1954, respec tively. “Over the years, Sun Oil has hired many of our graduates in their Production Division,” Lindsay pointed out. HUMP IT! The Aggies show the Razorbacks what Spirit is.