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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1964
Number 19
KING COTTON KASKEY WITH COURT
Court members; Supak, Chaney, Conner, Smith, McClung, Bartek, Adams, Fuchs.
Soviets May
By Keeping
Risk Relations
2 U. S. Airmen
MOSCOW UP)
The United Germany. But there was a quick
States told the Soviet Union Wed
nesday their warming relations
will be jeopardized if the Soviets
continue to hold three U. S. air
men shot down in Communist East
Fish Drillers
Seek Repeat
Of LSU Title
A&M University’s Freshman
Drill Team trys for its 3rd champ
ionship in as many years Saturday
in the Southern Invitational Drill
Competition at Louisiana State
University.
The freshmen returned with the
top trophy in 1962 and 1963.
The meet includes 12 teams from
five states with the Military Sci
ence Department of LSU serving
as sponsor.
“We’re going down there to re
tain our honors,” Calvin Reese, ad
visor to the A&M team, said.
Something new this year for the
35-man all freshman unit is 12-inch
steel bayonets on their drill rifles.
The team, commanded by Cadet
Richard W. Grossenbacher of 139
Millwood, San Antonio, won third
place honors recently in Purdue
University’s competition involving
18 teams from several states. The
Texas Aggies also participated in
a drill competition at Davis-Mon-
than Air Force Base near Tucson,
Ariz.
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
MOSCOW — The Russians
launched another sputnik Wednes
day to study the earth’s radiation
ielts. It was No. 26 in the Cosmos
series of satellites. The first Cos-
toos satellite was launched in
March 1962.
The government news agency
Tass said the equipment aboard
the satellite is functioning nor-
ttally.
★★★
BONN, Germany — Chancellor
Ludwig Erhard’s Cabinet decid
ed Wednesday that West Ger
many will contribute half a mil
lion dollars toward maintaining
the U.N. force on Cyprus.
hint the Soviets may risk it.
Soviet authorities in Germany
turned down a new American
request that they release one of
the three —the injured Lt. Har
old W. Welch of Detroit — for re
turn to U. S. control.
The U. S. warning encompassed
Welch, 24; Capt. David I. Hol
land, 35, of Holland, Minn.; and
Capt. Melvin J. Kessler, 30, of
Philadelphia, whose unarmed jet
reconnaissance plane was shot
Mrs. Rudder
Honors Wives
At Reception
Mrs. Earl Rudder was hostess
Wednesday morning to approxi
mately 60 guests and members of
the A&M Newcomers Club at the
annual spring coffee honoring
wives of newcomers to the faculty
and staff in the Birch and Assem
bly Rooms of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Serving in the receiving line
were Mrs. Rudder, wife of the
president of A&M University; Mrs.
Everett Glazener, president of the
Newcomers Club; Mrs. Garland
Bayliss, president of the A&M
Social Club, and Mrs. Fred Ben
son, Mrs. Robert G. Cochran, and
Mrs. Don Young, the sponsors for
Newcomers.
Mrs. William T. Gordon regis
tered the guests. Presiding at the
coffee table were Mrs. C. H. Sam
son and Mrs. H. O. Kunkel, both
past presidents of Newcomers, and
Mrs. Clark Munroe, program chair
man, and Mrs. Allen Porter, neigh
borhood coffee chairman.
A centerpiece of pink carnations
and candy tufts in a silver urn
decorated the serving table.
Instructor’s Wife
Dies Of Injuries
Mrs. Beulah Pantalion, 42, wife
of Master Sergeant Charles A.
Pantalion, a military science in
structor at A&M, died Wednes
day afternoon at Brooks Army
Medical Center, near San An
tonio.
Mrs. Pantalion died of injuries
suffered in a 2-car collision in
Bryan March 8. She was air
lifted from St. Joseph’s Hospital
to Brooks last week.
Funeral arrangements are pend
ing.
down March 10 by a Soviet fight
er over East Germany.
The U. S. charge d’affaires,
Walter J. Stoessel, delivered the
warning to Mikhail Smirnovsky,
chief of the Soviet Foreign Min
istry’s American section.
Stoessel made three points:
— Further delay in releasing the
prisoners will jeopardize good re
lations.
— American officials repeatedly
have stated that the plane was
not on an espionage mission and
was unarmed.
— U. S. air control officers made
every effort — even radio calls
in plain language that Soviet moni
tors could understand — to prevent
the plane from straying off course
on a training flight from a French
base and this is known to Soviet
officials.
A U. S. Embassy spokesman
said Smirnovsky was told:
“Further delay in release and
return of the crewmen clearly jeo
pardized possibilities for expand
ing areas of U. S.-Soviet coopera
tion and can affect present efforts
in cooperation in various fields.”
Smirnovsky promised to pass a-
long Stoessel’s representation. Pre
sumably it will be referred to
Premier Khrushchev, though he is
on vacation on the Black Sea.
King Cotton Selected
For Annual Pageant
Events To Honor
Cotton Production
A&M University’s King Cotton for 1964 is Kindred P.
Caskey of Weslaco, a senior in plant and soil sciences.
Caskey will reign over the 30th annual Cotton Pageant
and Ball April 4, the year’s social highlight at the university.
The even honors cotton production, still the state’s king cash
crop.
The student is the son of Mr. and Mrs. K. P. Caskey of
1011 Indiana in Weslaco.
Members of the A&M Student Agronomy Society, spon
sor of the pageant and ball, selected Caskey on the basis of
his activities, leadership and high grades.
The society also selected eight members of King Cotton’s
court. ^
THEY ARE James Supak
of Coupland, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Supak; Bill Chaney
of Sherman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. G. Chaney; James Conner
of Izoro, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John H. Conner; and Roland Smith
of Lawn, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lance L. Smith.
Others are Roy McClung of Sey
mour, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
L. McClung, Sr., James Bartek
of Temple, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dennis Bartek; David Adams of
Wills Point, son of Mr. and Mrs.
James D. Adams; and Jim Fuchs
of Ballinger, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Arnold Fuchs.
CASKEY IS a Distinguished
Student, social secretary of the
pageant and ball, a major in the
Corps of Cadets, and a member of
Phi Eta Sigma and Alpha Zeta
honorary fraternities. He was
chosen top junior last year in the
Department of Soil and Crop Sci
ences.
The pageant is set for 7:30
p.m. in Guion Hall, followed by the
Cotton Ball in Sbisa Hall.
A feature of the pageant is
selection of a queen and eight
members of her court from more
than 150 young ladies representing
colleges, universities in the fash
ion and art fields.
Agronomy Student
Involved In Suit
Stanley Murff, an A&M junior
agronomy student, has been named
as co-defendent in a $41,000 dam
age suit filed by Joe Carter of
Bryan.
The suit, filed in Bryan’s 85th
District Court, seeks damages for
medical expenses and injuries suf
fered by Carter’s wife, Bernice, in
a three-car accident last October
7.
In the suit. Carter contends his
wife’s injuries are permanent.
They were the result of an acci
dent involving Mrs. Carter, Murff
and a third driver, Mrs. Benola
Jones of Crockett, at the intersec
tion of Highways 6 and 21. Mrs.
Jones is the other defendent.
Folk Singer To Appear Friday
In Town Hall Performance
Leon Bibb, one of America’s
finest ballad and folk singers, will
be on the A&M University cam
pus at 8 p.m. Friday for a Town
Hall appearance.
For four years, Bibb has pur
sued a career as a concert and
night club performer, appearing on
numerous college campuses, he also
has performed on numerous tele
vision shows, including Ed Sulli
van’s and a BBC appearance in
England.
Now in his 30’s, Bibb launched
his musical career when he was
cast in the Rogers and Hammer-
stein production of Irving Berlin’s
“Annie Get Your Gun.”
After this show, he joined a tour
ing company called “Finian’s Rain
bow,” and later was cast in the
Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson mus
ical hit, “Lost in the Stars.”
He appeared in a straight act
ing part in “Flight into Egypt,”
and then worked for two seasons
at New York’s Phoenix Theatre.
In 1961 Bibb appeared in Eng
land for BBC and is scheduled to
return to the British Isles for add
itional television work.
He was one of the Town Hall
attractions in 1962.
Tickets to the concert are avail
able in the Memorial Student Cen
ter. Regular Town Hall ticket
holders will be admitted without
additional charge.
LEON BIBB
Harvard Prof
Slates Lecture
At Grad Series
Dr. Lawrence E. Fouraker, A&M
graduate and now a Harvard Uni-
erals are getting put in the field.
A&M University Graduate Lecture
at 4 p.m. Friday in the Architec
ture Auditorium, Graduate Dean
Wayne C. Hall announced.
“Potential Changes in the Role of
American Business Management” is
his subject.
Fouraker has been a lecturer and
professor in the Graduate School of
Business Administration at Har
vard since 1961.
The Graduate Lectures, which
are open to the public, bring to
A&M outstanding men from many
fields of study.
Native of Bryan, Fouraker re
ceived a B.A. degree from A&M in
1947 and a year later received the
M.A. degree.
He served as an instructor at the
University of Wyoming in 1948-49
and completed doctoral studies at
the University of Colorado in 1951.
Fouraker then joined the faculty
of Pennsylvania State University
and remained there until 1961.
Today’s Thought
A nation may be said to consist
of its territory, its people, and
its laws. The territory is the
only part which is of certain
durability.
—Abraham Lincoln
‘Incapabilities’
Receive Blame
For Drop-Out
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third part in a
series of four articles concerning the A&M Corps,
its organization, problems, administration and its
future.
By RAY HARRIS
Battalion Staff Writers
A school’s “raw material” might be said to be its new
students. The freshman at A&M University, whether he
likes it or not, is becoming the center of attention. Some
students and administrators believe that at least part of the
reason for such a great number of freshman drop-outs the
first semester of this year was that a percentage of the
new students actually weren’t capable of doing college work.
Until recently, said James P. Hannigan, dean of stu
dents, any student in the upper three-quarters of his gradu
ating high school class was admitted without question and
those in the lower one-fourth were required to take university
entrance exams.
FOR THE past three years A&M has been requiring
those students in the lower one-fourth of their high school
class to take “college board” exams such as those used in
many colleges and universities throughout the nation today,
said Hannigan.
Since college board exams were initiated, said Hannigan,
about 200 more students each preceding year were not
allowed admittance for the fall semesters of those years.
That is, 200 were rejected the first year of the testing
program, 400 the second, and 600 this year.
In reply to the belief that as a state supported, land
grant school, students should not be rejected admittance,
Dean Hannigan cited the fact that these students are per
mitted the chance to prove themselves during summer
sessions or the spring semester after university graduation
has reduced student enrollment. The University, said Hanni
gan, simply cannot afford to build its teaching and physical
facilities around enrollment figures which include many
students who are not “college material” and drop out of
school. There will not be in the near future a strict “cut
off” score on the college board exams as in other schools,
said Hannigan, but new students will continue to be screened.
FROM interviews with the bulk of those new students
who dropped out of school Hannigan determined three main
reasons were behind freshmen drop-outs:
A. The students simply were not capable of doing col
lege level work.
B. Students did not like Cadet Corps life,
C. Some students served in one of the services prior
to entering the Corps as a “fish” and did not like the
“military” life at A&M.
Many administrators and students believe the new stu
dent entering college today is quite different than students
who began their college educations ten years ago.
Arts, Sciences To
Faculty Advisory
Choose
Council
Ballots in the selection of a
seven-member Faculty Advisory
Council in the A&M University
College of Arts and Sciences will
be returned by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The ballots were distributed
Wednesday to the 240 fulltime
faculty members of the College of
Arts and Sciences by an election
committee headed by Professor
Sam Hoyle.
Four councilmen will be elected
as representatives of an area of
study, such as the natural sciences,
and three will be elected at large.
All faculty members may vote in
each of the races.
ORGANIZATION OF the new
advisory council started several
months ago with the first meeting
planned in early April.
“I think it is going to be a work
ing organization, and I am keenly
interested in working with this
group,” Frank W. R. Hubert, Dean
of the College of Arts and
Sciences said.
The nominees: School of Busi
ness Administration (one to be
elected), William A. Luker; the
natural sciences (one to be elect
ed), Lawrence Dillon, George Mar
tin Krise and Vance Moyer; the
humanities (one to be elected),
John Q. Hays, Harrison E. Hierth
and John M. Skrivanek; the social
sciences (one to be elected), Don
ald G‘. Barker, Herbert H. Lang,
Haskell Monroe, John J. Treacy
and Walter A. Varvel.
THREE MEMBERS will be
elected at large. The nominees in
clude Garland E. Bayliss, Edward
C. Breitenkamp, William^J. Clark,
Thomas E. Comfort, Edwin Doran,
Jr., Frederick R. Duke, Joe S.
Ham, A. F. Isbell, Harry P. Kroi-
tor and Thomas L. Miller.
Serving with Hoyle on the elec
tion committee are Professors
Richard Ballinger and Melvin Eis
ner.
The bylaws of the Advisory
Council call for elections each
October with a three-year term of
office.
THE MAN ELECTED this
month will start terms of office
Nov. 1 with a drawing to deter
mine who will have one- two- and
three-year terms.
The council, under terms of the
bylaws, will hold open meetings
and shall advise the dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences “on
matters of significant interest and
importance to the faculty of the
college, and it shall make recom
mendations to him on matters that
will enable the College of Arts
and Sciences to fulfill to the high
est degree its educational role
within the university and to the
people of Texas.”
Saigon Wealthy Leisure Class
To Join Anti-Communist War
SAIGON, South Viet Nam <A>) —
Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh said
Wednesday he intends to purge
his government and pitch Saigon’s
wealthy leisure class into the anti
communist war in a drive for
total mobilization.
The premier-strong man’s de
clarations were bad news for thou
sands of influential Vietnamese
draft dodgers who have carried
on as usual here while other Viet
namese and Americans died in
combat.
“It is difficult to admit that
there are two Viet Nams—one
fighting in the countryside, with
Saigon feasting every night,”
Khanh told newsmen. “In the
fight against communism, all
must participate.”
“AS YOU have seen, my gen-
versity professor, will present an
The morale of the army is high
er than before Jan. 30” — when
Khanh seized power in a blood
less coup. “The men will fight
if they see their leaders with
them. This is what I mean by
total mobilization.”
Officialdom of his regime got
this warning:
“We have decided to purge the
government machinery. We will
not hesitate to shoot or give life
imprisonment to those who have
been harmful to the people and
have not awakened” to the total
mobilization plan.