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
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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.