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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1964
Number 38
NASA Signs Agreement To Build
$1 Million Space Center At A&M
Former Students
To Host Seniors
The Association of Former Stu
dents has invited all members of
the Class of 1964 to a banquet to
be held in the dining room annex
of Sbisa Hall on Monday evening,
at 6:30 p.m. The banquet will be
the fourth annual affair of this
type.
All members of the Class of
1964 to graduate in May, August,
or February are invited to attend,
J. B. (Dick) Hervey, executive
director of the association said.
John H. Lindsey, ’44, president
of the association and an oil man
of Houston will welcome the class.
Making the principal address will
be Field Scovell, ’30, vice president,
Southland Life Insurance Co. of
Dallas.
The arrangements committee has
announced that the tickets have
been limited to 1,200 because of
dining hall facilities. Each mem
ber of the class is requested to
pick up his ticket in the association
offices in the west end of the
Memorial Student Center. All
tickets should be picked up for the
stag affair no later than noon to
morrow. The committee has re
quested that complimentary tickets
Wire
Review
By The Associated Press
WORLD NEWS
SAIGON, South Viet Nam —
U. S.-supported government troops
pressed attacks on two sectors 400
miles apart today against Com
munist Viet Cong units that took
quick toll in casualties and aircraft.
★ ★ ★
MOSCOW — Columns of
trucks and bulldozers with dyna
mite and construction engineers
moved up the narrow canyon
road to the big landslide dam
on the Zeravshan River Tuesday
to try to cut a drain-off canal
to save the Samarkand Valley
from a flood.
U. S. NEWS
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At least
23 persons were reported injured
Tuesday as hundreds of civil rights
demonstrators marched to the heart
of Nashville’s business section and
refused to budge until threatened
with fire hoses.
be picked up as promptly as pos
sible so that an accurate count
may be gotten for the steak dinner.
Graduating seniors are requested
to complete and leave with the
association a form which is needed
in order for the group to place in
active membership each member of
the class.
Association secretary Dick Her
vey stated, “It is hoped that each
member of the graduating class of
1964 will attend this special dinner
to be given for them, in order that
they can be officially welcomed as
members of, and better informed
about, our association.
Hopes High
For Expected
Review Results
The official results of the annual
Federal Inspection of Army ROTC
units and the Department of Mili
tary Science held Friday and Satur
day have not yet been received,
but all indications are that A&M
was rated favorably, said Major
John Vilas, Deputy Commandant
of the Corps of Cadets, early this
week.
“Naturally there were some dis
crepancies, but the over-all opinion
is that we did very well,” said
Vilas.
“We are expecting a very satis
factory report from the team,” said
Col. Denzil L. Baker Wednesday
prior to the inspection.
The inspection was headed by
Col. Daniel H. Heyne, Lt. Col.
W. F. Moore and Lt. Col. G. T.
Bird, officers from Fourth Army
headquarters at Ft. Sam Houston.
Heyne, Moore and Bird arrived
Friday morning. That day they
observed classroom instruction, ad
ministrative procedures and train
ing processes and facilities.
Ten other officers arrived Friday
night to aid in the in-ranks in
spection and review scheduled for
Saturday morning. However, due
to inclement weather the inspection
was held inside the cadets’ rooms
and the review was cancelled.
The inspection was closed fal
lowing a meeting of the inspecting
officers with Col. Baker and Dean
of Students James P. Hannigan.
The Department of Military
Science will be notified later of
the rating, said Vilas.
Outfit Contributes To Champ
Charles Griffith, left, Jim White, center and Zim Zimmer
man, members of Squadron 10, make a final count on the
money their outfit contributed to “Project Champ.’ A list
of contributors showed that the outfit is strongly behind
the project.
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Singing Cadets, Ambassadors In Harmony
The 1963-64 version of A&M’s all-male charged. The program will feature classical,
chorus will present a concert at 8 p. m. Fri- pop and folk music,
day in Guion Hall. No admission will be
Lodge Gets Write - In Win
In Massachusetts Primary
(/P) — Henry Cabot
a thumping victory
BOSTON
Lodge won
Tuesday as a favorite son in the
Massachusetts preference primary
write-in for the Republican nomi
nation for president.
Lodge, a former senator and
head of the U. S. mission to the
United Nations, isn’t a candidate
for the nomination. He is U. S.
ambassador to South Viet Nam.
Senate Seekers
Hold TV Campaign
By The Associated Press
The big guns of the torrid
Democratic primary senatorial
race took over television screens
in many parts of the state Tues
day night.
Sen. Ralph Yarborough, D-
Tex., promised he would pro
duce witnesses on a 7:30 p.m.
telecast from Houston to prove
false reports he accepted $50,-
000 from Billie Sol Estes in 1960.
Gordon McLendon, Yarborough’s
primary opponent scheduled a TV
program in El Paso.
Earlier in Abilene, McLendon
told an Abilene TV audience
that Yarborough “in effect dug
his own political grave.” He
said he would not have men
tioned the alleged Estes-Yarbor-
ough financial dealings “unless
the senator had forced me into
it by filing a formal complaint
with the Federal Communications
Commission against our McLendon
radio stations, asking the FCC to
send federal monitors into Texas”
to prevent the stations from carry
ing stories on the alleged $50,000
gift.
Lodge not only walked away
with the write-in on the Republi
can ballot, but also scored a sur
prising number of write-in pre
ferences on the Democratic bal
lot. His Democratic score ran
about 10 per cent of that of Presi
dent Johnson.
The slate of Republican dele
gates at large favoring Lodge
swamped a rival slate presented
by supporters of Sen. Barry Gold-
water of Arizona. A complicated
ballot resulted in slow counting,
and there was no early indication
of the results in district delegate
contests.
Lodge, however, seemed to be
in a fair way to duplicate his
feat in the New Hampshire pri
mary of last month, when he
scored an upset victory in the
preference poll and captured all
14 delegates to the national con
vention.
Under Massachusetts law dele
gates are not bond by pledges.
Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, who will
lead the Massachusetts GOP dele
gation, has expressed confidence
all 34 will vote for Lodge at
San Francisco if Lodge becomes
an active candidate.
The Republican returns from
469 of 1,746, precincts in the pre
ference poll gave Goldwater 931;
Lodge 6,295; Richard M. Nixon
572; Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
268; Sen. Margaret Chase Smith
of Maine 70.
The Democratic write-in figures
from the same precincts gave John
son 7,746; Att. Gen. Kennedy 2,539;
Lodge 1,011.
Friday Deadline
For Vanity Fair
Friday is the last day that
entries will be accepted for The
Aggieland’s annual Vanity Fair
contest.
Only seniors may enter girls
in the beauty contest, Aggie-
land editor Chris Schaffer said.
Entries must be accompanied
by a portrait and a full-length
photograph and must be turned
in to the Office of Student Publi
cations in the basement of the
YMCA Building before 5 p.m.
Friday.
A million-dollar space center for Texas A&M University
was announced Wednesday by Rep. Olin E. Teague of College
Station.
Teague, chairman of the House sub-committee on Space
and Astronautics, said the 30,000 square foot building will
house A&M’s Activation Analysis Laboratory and other
space-related research activities.
A&M President Earl Rudder reported that the institution
had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration for construction
of the facility on A&M’s main campus.
“The space center will add new dimension to A&M’s re
search p r o g r a m,” Rudder - * -
pointed out.
The research center’s activ
ities will include the Activa
tion Analysis Laboratory now
designing a “probe” for space
flight; the Space Technology Di
vision; sections of A&M’s Institute
of Statistics; and members of the
Data Processing Center’s staff.
“Relocating these related activi
ties under one roof will allow closer
cooperation and a multidisciplinary
approach to the nation’s space pro
grams in engineering, physical,
social and life sciences,” Rudder
continued. “It will also promote
efficiency by allowing these agen
cies to use common facilities.”
RUDDER said the structure would
permit expansion of governmental
and non-governmental space re
search at A&M.
Plans call for the space research
center to be staffed initially by
members of A&M’s faculty. Schol
ars from other universities and
private business may be added
later, Rudder said.
Dr. Richard E. Wainerdi, associ
ate dean of engineering and direc
tor of the Activation Analysis Lab,
said that he was delighted with the
news of the space center. The
facilities at the new space center
will allow Activation Analysis to
pursue applications of its project
to the lunar surface, said Wainerdi.
Louisiana DA Says
No Charges Filed
District Attorney Richardson,
Caddo Parrish, Louisiana, told
the Battalion Tuesday afternoon
that no formal charges have been
filed against Henry C. Miller Jr.,
A&M student from Shreveport.
Miller was involved in a fatal
accident in Louisiana April 17.
Richardson said that the Louis
iana State Police had made out
a ticket to Miller, but emphasized
that no formal charges had been
filed pending the results of a
coroner’s inquest to be con"
ducted 30 days from now.
Richardson said that such an
arrangement would enable any
court proceeding to be delayed
until after the end of the semes
ter.” I have no idea if any
charges will be made against
Miller,” said Richardson.
Class Of ’14,
50-Year Men
Slate Reunion
The Class of ’14 and the Sul
Ross Group will hold a combined
reunion on the A&M campus
Thursday through Saturday.
The reunion will be held in the
Memorial Student Center. Regis
tration of the 200 former students
planning to attend begins at 1 p.m.
Thursday and a bus tour of the
campus is the final event Saturday
morning.
The Sul Ross Group, which is
made up of former students who
graduated more than 50 years ago,
will intitiate the members of the
class of ’14 into its group during
the reunion.
Some members of the class of
’14 are: Chester A. Biggers, Sacra
mento, Calif.; Searcy D. Camp,
Mexico City; Scott Broome, Den
ver, Colo.; and D. K. Killough, Col
lege Station.
A member of the Sul Ross Group
familiar to A&M students is P. L.
(Pinky) Downs, ’06, College Sta
tion. Other local members are:
Olin Sanders, ’96; Edgar Jones,
’08; Eugene Miller, ’08; Don Lee,
’ll; H. H. Williamson, ’ll; and
T. R. Spence, ’13; all of Bryan,
and Earnest Langford, ’13, College
Station.
The 1911 Class Dinner Thursday
night is the first evept of the re
union program. Friday’s events
include the 1914 Class Luncheon,
the Sul Ross initiation ceremony,
the Ross Volunteer Drill and the
Sul Ross Reunion Banquet with
members of the class of 1914 as
honored guests.
President Earl Rudder will speak
at the initiation ceremony and Dr.
Richard Wainerdi will address the
Sul Ross Banquet Friday night.
Upon initiation into the Sul
Ross Group, the members of the
class of 1914 will be presented the
Golden Circle Certificate by the
Association of Former Students.
This certificate, bearing the A&M
insignia and an engraving of the
statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross,
signifies the devotion that these
men have held for A&M for fifty
years as former students.
FORMER STUDENTS
College Performance Counts
Graduate Faculty
Slates Meet Today
“Statistical Methods and Prob
lems of Reliability” is the topic
of the monthly Graduate Faculty
Colloquium at 4 p.m. Wednesday
in the Memorial Student Center
Ballroom. An informal coffee
period starting at 3:30 p.m. will
precede the program by the In
stitute of Statistics.
Institute Director H. O. Hartley
will discuss the Institute’s pro
grams in teaching, consulting or
advisory work with on-campus re
searchers and the statistics re
search program.
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Managing Editor
“Most employers know that a
graduating student will perform
in his chosen profession about as
he performed in school,” Con
gressman Olin E. Teague recently
said.
“The student who makes an ex
tremely poor showing has a lot
of explaining to do.”
Said Teague, “I do not suggest
that every student must be a
genius or in the top 10 per cent
of his class, but I am very much
opposed to the philosophy often
heard among students, ‘It’s not
what you know, it’s who you
know.’
“This is a form of rationaliza
tion for the lazy man. It will
not take the average graduate
long, when he enters his first
job, to find out that it is indeed
‘what he knows’ that his employ
er is seeking to buy.
“A student who takes a sloppy,
irresponsible approach to his
school career can not be expect
ed to become an efficient, aggres
sive young professional destined
to succeed over-night.”
Offering advice to the graduat
ing seniors, Teague said, “I be
lieve the most important single
thing which can hasten a young
college graduate’s advancement
in his first employment is to ap
proach his job with cheerfulness
and willingness, and prove that
he is a person who actively seeks
responsibility.”
What advantages can a young
man receive from attending A&M
rather than some other school?
Teague commented, “One of the
great advantages that A&M has
to offer to a young man is a bus
iness-like campus atmosphere.
All young persons of college age
naturally seek social life. Never-
the less, social matters should not
dominate the student’s academic
life. A&M provides an oppor
tunity for a young man to seri
ously pursue this business five
days a week and yet provides
amply for the proper social life.
“I have long been a believer
in the value of military training
to the individual. The ROTC
program provides a young man
an opportunity to contribute to
the welfare of his country while
preparing himself for a career.
There are very few persons who
have had military training of any
sort who do not readily concede
that it has helped them in later
life.
“There is a certain bond be
tween students of all schools, but
I know of none in Texas and
few in the nation that approach
A&M in the feeling it develops
between students and ex-students.
“Since A&M is highly specia
lized in certain technical fields,
this gives the graduating student
a great advantage, because he
will likely find many former stu
dents in positions of responsibility
and management in the field in
which he enters.”
Encouraging extra-curricular
activities, the 1932 Aggie grad
uate noted, “If a student applies
himself diligently he needs diver
sion. Extra-curricular activities
widen the range of one’s personal
association and provide opport
unities for the student to assume
responsibilities of leadership and
management. A student whose
capacity permits doing part-time
work, carrying on extra-curricu
lar activities, regulating his social
life, and at the same time meet
ing his academic responsibilities
seriously is well on the way to
achieving the personal discipline
that is necessary for any person
who expects to succeed in a busi
ness or profession.”
Teague was first elected to the
U. S. Congress on Aug. 22, 1946,
and now has served 18 years with
the lawmaking body.
He was instrumental in secur
ing funds for a cyclotron at A&M.
The College Station Congressman
also played a key role in ob
taining Dr. Wehmer von Braun
for the 1964 Space Fiesta held on
campus.