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Blood Donors Steadily Sign For ’64 Drive Donors for the Aggie Blood Drive are signing up at a steady rate in the Memorial Student Center to give a pint of blood next Wednesday and Thursday for the Wadley Research Institute of Dallas. “As of 1 p.m. Wednesday, 305 individuals have signed up,” said Bobby Springer, a senior in Alpha Phi Omega, a service organization which is handling the registration. “We’re trying for 1000 pints this year. A&M gave 605 pints last year, more than did all of the other Southwest Conference schools com bined,” Springer pointed out. He added that it was also the most blood Wadley had ever gotten at one time, anywhere. Donors may sign up through Thursday in the hall midway be tween the Coffee Shop and the post office in the MSC. However, in the event that persons wanting to give blood don’t get to sign up, they may still give a pint next Wednesday or Thursday. Previous registration is for the purpose of scattering out the individuals so everyone won’t be giving at one time. The blood will be taken in the MSC next week, either in the base ment or ballroom. Signs will be up to direct the donors. Springer pointed out that blood donors will be aiding Wadley Re search Institute in the fight against leukemia and other blood diseases; they or members of their immedi ate family will be eligible to draw as much blood as they need during the next year from the Aggie Blood Bank. Donors will be mailed a card with blood type and Rh factor. As an added incentive for giving, Springer added that there will be pretty nurses from Dallas to take the blood, plus free coffee, orange juice and cookies. Gass Of ’24 To Celebrate 40th Reunion The class of ’24 will hold its 40th anniversary reunion this week end on campus. Activities begin Friday afternoon with registration and continue un til the class picture is taken Sun day morning, concluding the event. Luncheons, dinner parties and in formal visiting will all be a part of the three-day reunion. Class members from throughout the nation are expected, to be present, some of which are: Ben D. Leuty, president of City Ser vice Pipe Line Company, Atlanta, Ga.; Maj. Gen. William D. Old, re tired from USAF, San Antonio; Ira B. Baccus, professor of elec trical engineering at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.; Jim B. Bradford, retired professor of physical education and athletics, San Fernando, Cal.; Nels C. Magnuson, Army Corps of En gineers, Wilmington, N. C.; Zay Smith, architect, Chicago, 111.; Harold J. Johnson, Marine In spection Engineer, Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Dr. E. King Gill, “The 12th Man,” Corpus Christi. Some “profs” of yesteryears who taught in 1924 have been in vited to the reunion. Che Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1964 Number 31 Aggie Muster Set Tuesday “What The Devil!” Dr. Faustus (Bob Hipp), discusses the Marlowe’s famous tragedy. The play will power of hell with, left to right, Mephi- continue through Saturday at Guion Hall stophilis (George Long), Belzebub (Paul as part of the Department of English’s Bleau) and Lucifer (Terry Mayfield) at the Shakespeare Festival. Aggie Players production of Christopher Xf Former AP Chief To Appear Here 8 8 ! Frank J. Starzel will be the featured speaker at the annual Journalism Awards Banquet to be held in the Ramada Inn Saturday evening at 7:30. Starzel is the former chief execu tive of the Associated Press and has over 35 years experience in the field of journalism. His topic for the evening will be “Get Ready for the Brickbats.” The banquet will follow a picnic Connally To Speak At Commencement Governor John B. Connally will deliver the spring commencement address at A&M University, May 23, announced President Earl Rudder Wednesday. About 900 degrees will be con ferred in the Saturday graduation exercises following the chief execu tive’s address. Rudder, a member of the Gover nor’s Committee on Education Be yond the High School, called Connally “a genuine friend of higher education.” “Governor Connally is providing dedicated leadership to strengthen the educational institutions of Texas,” he pointed out. “He has a deep understanding of the need for excellence in higher education and its economic rewards to the state.” for all Journalism majors and a baseball game between Sigma Del ta Chi and Alpha Delta Sigma, A&M’s two professional journalism societies. The picnic and ball game will be held in Hensel Park. Robert Knight, an instructor in the department of journalism, will be the master of ceremonies. De partmental awards and scholar ships will be presented by Dr. John Merrill, acting head of the de partment. SDX awards will be presented by David Jones and Ted Jablonski will handle the ADS honors. The six awards which will be given out are the Scholastic Achievement Award, for a senior; outsanding senior award; outstand ing junior award; outstanding sophomore award; the SDX Award and the ADS Award. There will be eight scholarships and grants awarded. The Ander son Clayton Agricultural Journa lism Grant will be awarded to an outstanding Agricultural journa lism student. Other scholarships will be award ed by the Texas Gulf Coast Press Association, the now defunct Hous ton Press, The Amarillo Globe- Times, the Houston Post, the Ar lington News-Texan and the Dallas Press Club. Entertainment for the banquet will be provided by the Coachmen, a group composed of three A&M students. Ag Experiment Station Gets $37,000 In Grants - In - Aid New grants-in-aid, renewals of grants-in-aid and one reimburse ment totaling more than $37,000 have been received in the past two weeks by the A&M University Agricultural Experiment Station. A majority of the money will be used for research and control of insects and weeds, said Dr. R. E. Patterson, dean of agricul ture and director of the experi ment station. New grants-in-aid total more than $12,000 with three contribu tors. Mobil Chemical Company has made available $1,200 in support of research on use of chemical in control of cotton and rice in sects being conducted in the De partment of Entomology under the direction of Dr. R. L. Hanna. ABOTT LABORATORIES have made available $2,300 in support of research on improvements of the fertility and hatchability of turkey eggs. This research is be ing conducted in the Department of Poultry Science under the di rection of Dr. J. R. Couch. RKS Company has made $2,990 available for research and con trol of plant parasitic nematodes; $805 for research on cotton seedl ing disease complex, and $5,000 for research on effect of ecologi cal and physiological factors of insects to insecticides. Renewals of grants-in-aid total more than $23,000, with six con tributors. Dr. Salsbury’s Laboratories have made available $2,500 for research on turfgrass being conducted in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences under the direction of Dr. E. C. Holt. HUMBLE OIL and Refining Company has made $11,000 avail able for projects on the use of petroleum oils as selective insecti- Summer Grads May See Records Prospective summer graduates may now review their academic records and degree requirements at the Registrar’s Office. Students should check with the Registrar during final exam week if they are unable to visit the office before May 8. cides on citrus. The work is being conducted at Weslaco, under the supervision of Mr. H. A. Dean. $1,000 has been made available in support of research on field ef fectiveness of chemicals for con trol of cotton insects with the studies being conducted in the De partment of Entomology under the supervision of Dr. Hanna. Support of research on weed control in the Texas rice area was received when Rohm and Hass made available $500. Research is being conducted at Beaumont, un der the supervision of H. R. Hud gins. Hercules Powder Company has renewed two grants, one for $5,- 500 to aid research on insect phy siology and toxicology, being con ducted by P. L. Adkisson and an other for $2,750 to support re search on treatment schedules for control of insects attacking cotton being directed by Dr. Hanna. Tennessee Corp. is supporting research on peanut diseases with a $500 grant. A reimbursement has been made by Plains Cotton Growers, Inc. in the amount of $1,608.19 to sup port research on boll weevils. Globe Theater Miniature Built By Architects A model of the Globe Theater, where most of Shakespeare’s plays were enacted, is being completed by five architecture students for display in the Cushing Memorial Library for this month’s Shake spearean celebration. The modeL which is expected to go on display by the end of this week, is patterned after the exact replica of the Globe Theatre that is on display at Folgers Shake spearean Library in Washington, D. C., said Melvin Rotsch, profes sor in the School of Architecture. Terrence J. Mattern, assistant professor of the Department of English, and plans from a book were other sources used to make the model. The Globe will re main as a permanent exhibit in the department after the model is re moved from the library. Students constructing the model are Ray Abbott, Bob Wimbish, Ricky Shaw, Howard Lathrop and Robert Billingsly, all in the third year history of architecture class. Banker Will Speak At Campus Confab “Economics Today” will be the topic of a speech by Watrous Irons at the seventeenth annual Accounting Conference on the A&M campus Monday night. Irons is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The banquet which is the high light of the two day conference will also feature a program by the Singing Cadets. Thomas N. Jenness of Fort Worth, chairman of the confer ence advisory council, will preside at the conference. Other coun cil members are E. M. White Jr., of Houston, first vice chairman; Paul W. Hillier of Dallas, second vice chairman and A&M Associ ate Professor Walter S. Manning, secretary. Industrial officials and account ants including several from other states will speak Monday on a broad range of subjects of in terest to acountants, Manning said. Dr. John E. Pearson as head of the School of Business Adminis tration will welcome the confer ees Monday morning. R. E. McGee, senior vice presi dent of Tennessee Gas Transmis sion Co., Houston, will speak Tuesday on “Budgets and Business Management.” Bridge Tourney Set The 4th annual A&M Bridge Tournament will be held Saturday and Sunday in the Memorial Stu dent Center. The tournament will be sponsored by the MSC Bridge Committee. Registration will be held Saturday from 1-5 p.m. 6 12th Man 9 Gill To Be Featured A&M’s first “Twelfth Man,” E. King Gill, will be the principal speaker for one of the university’s oldest and most symbolic events—the Aggie Muster to be held Tuesday. Muster has been held annually on San Jacinto Day, April 21, since 1903. It is now held by groups of Aggies all over the world. The ceremony pays tribute to Texans who helped in the fight for the state’s independence from Mexico. It also honors Aggies who have died during the year. TEN A&M STUDENTS have died since April 21, 1963. These students will be honored: William G. Lucey, Richard P. Jeffrey, Patrick Leroy Crouch, Robert C. Woody, James P. Jenrett, Edward Leroy Lewis, Rodolfo A. Aragon, Donald Ray Carpenter, Joe Frank + RV’s To Hold Annual Fling Saturday Night The Ross Volunteer’s will hold their annual banquet and ball Saturday night. The guest speaker will be Shelby Metcalf, head bas ketball coach. Charles Gregory of Houston, RV Commander, said that University officials will be honor guests. The banquet will be held at the Triangle Banquet Room and the ball at the Ramada Inn. The unit is composed of out standing juniors from the Corps of Cadets and with seniors in leader ship posts. It has officially repre sented the State of Texas at vari ous events, including the inaugura tion of several governors. Officers in the Cadet honor outfit are Gregory, commander; Thomas Ashy of Beaumont, execu tive officer; George Hubler of Three Rivers, Russell Jasek of Lake Jackson, and John Gabbert of Paris, platoon leaders; Albert Sim mons of Vega, administrative offi cer; James Schnabel, operations officer; Harold Schmid, first ser geant; Frank Summers, public in formation sergeant, and Abelardo Valdez, supply sergeant. Becera and Norman W. Beard, Jr. As these names are called, a close friend of each will stand and answer “Here” as a symbol of A&M students’ undying respect for their fellows. Muster will be held Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in front of the Systems Administration Building. In case of bad weather the ceremony will be held in G. Rollie White Coliseum. GILL, now a Corpus Christi physician began the tradition of the Twelfth Man in 1922. A&M and Centre College were playing a hard-fought intersectional foot ball game. Centre’s famous “Pray ing Colonels” were taking a heavy toll of A&M players. Dana X. Bible, then head coach of the Aggies, watched with growing con cern as his squad grew smaller and smaller. With some time left to play, Bible found himself with one man left on the bench, so the story goes. He then remembered Gill, who had traveled to Dallas with the Corps of Cadets. Gill had been practicing regu larly with the team but had been too small to make the traveling squad. Bible sent a yell leader into the stands to find him. Gill came out of the stands and suited up. He never played a down, but he became known as the “Twelfth Man” on the team. Since that date the Corps of Cadets stands throughout all A&M football games, indicating their willing ness to help the team. 24 On Dorm Way Benches To A&M By GLENN DROMGOOLE Battalion News Editor The 24 permanent-type benches ordered nearly a month ago by the Department of Ground Main tenance are expected to arrive this week. Richard Thornton, department superintendent, said they would be installed immediately after their arrival. Originally a project of the Stu dent Senate, the benches were purchased by A&M University for an estimated $780. or $32.50 each. Last year the Senate sponsored the buying of 10 such benches on a trial basis, with 30 more in their future plans. Then after being throughly con vinced that the student body and visitors would not, or could not, damage the benches, the Depart ment of Ground Maintenance ap proved the purchasing of 24 ad ditional seats. Plans call for 10 benches for the Corps area: one each in front of Dorms 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12. Dorms 2, 5, 6 and 10 already have one of the metal seats in front of their dorms. Four benches will be placed along Military Walk, west of the Academic Building; two outside Solo Flight For Housewife Gives Her World-Wide Fame OAKLAND, Calif. <A>)—A jubi lant 38-year-old Columbus, Ohio, housewife ended a Pacific Ocean crossing in her single-engine plane Wednesday and closed in on her goal to be the first woman ever to fly solo around the world. Mrs. Jerrie Mock, who left Columbus eastward March 19, ar rived at Oakland International Air port at 1:05 p.m. after a 2,400-mile flight of 17 hours, 39 minutes from Honolulu. She thus became the first woman to fly alone across the Pacific. “The rest of the way is all down hill,” the brunette mother of three exclaimed after her husband, Rus sell, an advertising executive, raced out to the plane, threw open the door, kissed his wife and gave her two orchids. She hopes to wind up her globe- circling feat of more than 22,000 miles by Friday—achieving a first for her sex which actually began as a jest. “My toughest job was staying awake,” she said after finishing her last overwater hop—an all- night and half-day eastward leg from Honolulu. Cushing Library; two at the im mediate west entrance to the Aca demic Building; two outside Wal ton Hall; and one each at Leg gett, Mitchell, Bizzell, and Law and Puryear Halls. Wire Review By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS NICOSIA, Cyprus — U. N. peace-keeping troops came un der fire and shot back Wednes day in several sporadic incidents of the warfare between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The day’s disorders were re ported to have left five persons wounded. U. S. NEWS WASHINGTON — The United States plans to recapture the of ficial world airplane speed rec ord from Soviet Russia soon with the supersecret A-ll. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON — Sen. Barry Goldwater kept the Pentagon dis pute over U. S. military might rolling Wednesday by accusing President Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara of “letting our power lag and slide.” Beauties May File For Vanity Fair Candidates for Vanity Fair for the Aggieland ’64 must be entered at the Office of Stu dent Publications in the base ment of the YMCA Building by May 1. A portrait (8x10) head and shoulder and 1 snapshot full length with vital statistics should be included. Fish-Burning 9 Marked Start Of Tessies 9 New Tradition By MIKE REYNOLDS Monday night marked the sec ond aniversary of a growing tra dition on the Texas Woman’s University campus, one that pro mises to out-strip many of those of which their brother school, A&M, boasts. Two years ago Monday marked the burning of a simple paper mache fish, but a fish that was steeped in tradition long be fore its death in a Wagnarian bonfire. The fish had been made for a prop in a stunt produced by the class of ’54. Stunts or skits are produced by each class each year and are judged by an im partial panel. The competition is so hot that even the panel’s impartiality is sometimes doubt ed. The fish was passed down from the class of ’54 to the next even numbered class, ’56. Immediate ly it became the object that the odd numbered classes desired most above all else. However, the class of ’56 and the other even-numbered classes managed to keep the fish in their posses sion. Broken bones were received by both groups and the adminis tration began to frown on the tradition of passing the fish along. Two years ago the trouble came to a boil. The Class of ’62 placed the fish atop a high pole outside of their dorm and passed the word that the fish was fair game for any odd-numbered class that thought they could get it down. They also passed the word that the pole was hot wired. It wasn’t too long before down the hill came the odd-numbered classes with a girl in full climb ing gear, spikes and all, in the lead. Here, accounts of what exactly happened become blurred as they usually do with an often repeated story. The main events are known. The girl is supposed to have started up the pole, when she was promptly doused with water, the switch was thrown, and down the girl came. Next, the Tessies on the of fense hired a helicopter and they were attempting to snare the fish when the administration fin ally got their fill of the whole thing. Some say that the pilot of the chopper lost his license for flying too low over a resi dential area. An ultimatum was given to the owners of the fish, and they decided to burn it to keep it from falling into the hands of the odd-numbered classes. Today on the TWU campus, many girls may still be seen with a small pennant in the shape of a fish dangling around their necks. On the side of the fish is either the figure ’64 or ’66 signifying that they should be the owners of the fish if it exist ed today.