Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1964)
Che Battalion Texas A&M University Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1964 Number 42 Donald Pusch New President Singing Cadets Donald E. Pusch of Houston has been elected president of the Sing ing Cadets at A&M University. A junior mathematics major, Pusch will be responsible for the chorus’ public appearances next year which include a nationwide television show in November and several concerts. The 21-year-old Aggie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Pusch of 3310 Chaffin. James Craig Riggs of College Station, son of Mr. and Mrs. John K. Riggs of 307 Lee St., will be vice-president. A junior zoology major, he is also active in the Corps of Cadets. Business manager is Larry Alwyn Keese, another Houston resident, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Keese of 1725 Wood- crest Drive. He is a sophomore pre-veterinary medicine student. Donald R. Warren of Richard son will serve as publicity manager. A junior electrical engineering major, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Warren of 713 Terryland Drive. Kurt Alan Schember of College Station, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Schember of 511 Ayrshire, will be come librarian. The Singing Cadets are the of ficial glee club for the Miss Teen Age of America Pageant, held an nually in Dallas. They conduct a series of concerts throughout Texas each year, in addition to local appearances. Wire Review By The Associated Press WORLD NEWS TAN HIEP, South Viet Nam — Smoke streamed from the port engine of a U. S. Army Caribou transport on a takeoff Tuesday with 15 men, 9 of them Ameri cans, and seconds later the plane crashed, plunging all aboard to death in flames. ★ ★ ★ THUMAIR, South Arabia Fed eration — A 120-man British paratroop company was pinned down in a little mudhut village near here today while sharp shooting Bedouin warriors fired at them from rocky vantage points in the surrounding hills. US NEWS WASHINGTON — The long- fought battle between Fort Worth and Dallas over the designation of a regional airport may be re viewed by the Civil Aeronautics Board. A CAB examiner, Ross I. New- mann, ruled April 7 that it would not be in the public interest to designate either Fort Worth’s Greater Southwest International Airport or Dallas’ Love Field as a regional airport. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON — The Smith sonian Institution today present ed its rarely awarded Langley Medal to the first American astronaut. Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. In Memory of Patrick L. Crouch A&M students purchased a painting by ber. Presenting the painting to President of E. M. (Buck) Schiwetz in memory of Pat- the Memorial Student Center Council Terry rick L. Crouch, Arlington student who was Oddson, far left, are, left to right, Rick killed in an automobile accident last Novem- Tessada, Bud Weldon and Bill Campbell. 49 Students Register For Senate Elections Forty-nine students registered for the 27 positions to be decided in the Student Senate elections May 14 before filing for the elec tion closed Tuesday afternoon. Twelve Student Senate chairs and 15 members of the election commission will be decided in the Thursday election. Election com mission candidates will be elected by members of their respective classes. The candidates for the Student Senate will also be elected by the class system but only by class members in the college that they are seeking to represent. Juniors filing for Arts and Sciences senate seats are Jerome Rektorik, Donald Atwell and Don ald Warren. Sophomores filing were David Graham, Ronald Pate, Lani Presswood, Terry Norman and Michael O. Beck. The five freshmen filing for Arts and Sciences were Louis Obdyke, Dan Rice President Explains Why U of H Vetoed HOUSTON <A>)_The president of Rice University, explaining the school’s blocking the University of Houston’s bid to enter the South west Conference, said Tuesday the league is as large as it can be. Dr. Kenneth Pitzer said: “The Rice position is that the present conference is as large as it can be to permit a complete round robin schedule.” The conference has eight members. ROUND-ROBIN play means each school plays all other mem ber schools. He said the addition of another school “would almost certainly mean discarding the round robin schedule.” “And the impression we have is that member schools want the round robin and want enough flex ibility of scheduling to permit three non-conference games.” See editorial page 2 Dr. Philip Hoffman, president of the University of Houston, said Monday Rice would not sponsor his school’s bid for membership. Rice had been expected to back Hous ton, which now must wait until the conference December meeting to renew its bid to join the league, Dr. Hoffman said. AT THE request of certain Rice officials, said Hoffman, Houston had asked other conference schools not to sponsor the Cougars until Rice could consider doing it. The conference has a rule mem bers will be accepted only by invi tation and a present member must submit the application. The con ference will meet this weekend at Lubbock. There were certain signs lately of an accord between the two Houston universities, but the feel ing apparently didn’t extend to a majority on Rice’s governing board at this time. U. S. - Common Market Cut Tariffs After Negotiations GENEVA <A>) — The United States and the European Common Market agreed late Tuesday night to make a 50 per cent across-the- board tariff cut the working basis of the Kennedy round talks on freeing world trade. The decision came at the end of a long day of backstage argu ment between officials of the two giants of world trade. They also agreed to set Sept. 1 as the deadline for submitting a list of items to be considered as exception to the general negotiat ing plan. The submission of these lists will mark the beginning of down-to-earth bargaining on tariff cuts. BRITAIN went along with Tues day night’s agreement, which is virtually certain to be approved Wednesday at a plenary session of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade—GATT. A last-minute hitch developed at the formal opening of the Kennedy round Monday when French Fi nance Minister Valery Giscard d’Estaing objected to wording which would have made a 50 per cent cut the unchangeable target of the negotiations. Under Tuesday’s compromise of fers will be made on the assump- Article By Prof’s Daughter In May Issue Of Magazine The literary work of Kristine house Anderson, the 17-year-old daugh ter of an A&M University profes sor, is featured in the May issue of Seventeen Magazine. The high school senior wrote “The Pill Bug Affair,” which ap pears in the “You the Reader” sec tion of the teen publication. Her humorous essay describes a teen ager’s efforts to compete in the space-science race with the Rus sians. Kristine amusingly tells how she tried — unsuccessfully — to train 10 hyperactive pill bugs to walk through a maze. This, she says, was the result of “hearing about Ivan for years, ever since you- know-who launched that first sat ellite . . . Ivan ate all his buttered carrots ... made his bed before he watched Mighty Mouse Play- Today’s Thought This is a great country, but you can’t live in it for nothing. Will Rogers did his homework with the radio turned off . . . knew an adverb when he saw one . . . (and) did not let his teacher, school and country down by not entering the science fair.” Daughter of former mission aries, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Ander son, Kristine was raised in the Near and Middle East until she was seven. She is now a senior at A&M Consolidated High School and plans to enter A&M Univer sity, where her father is an in structor in the Department of His tory and Government, next fall. Aptitude Test Set Saturday The Army Aviation Flight Apti tude Test will be administered at 0830 hours, Saturday, 9 May 1964, in Room 205, the Annex to the Military Science Building. All in terested cadets who are eligible for the Army ROTC Flight Training Program will report to Room 205 not later than 0815 hours. FORMER STUDENTS Builders And Leaders Needed BY GLENN DROMGOOLE Managing Editor In 1932 a petroleum engineer ing student stepped out of Guion Hall with a college diploma in his hand. Twenty-four years later he was elected president of one of the nation’s major oil com panies. James W. Foley today is vice- chairman of the board of direc tors of the Texas Company, only one step away from the highest position with the corporation. His career with Texaco began immediately after his graduation from A&M; he started as a ro tary rig helper. On May 23, 1959, Foley re turned to A&M to speak to that year’s graduates. The advice he offered to graduates that day still holds true now, five years later. “The world is in great need of the ‘builders’ and ‘leaders’—the men of initiative and judgment who, rather than shrinking from responsibility, reach out for it as a means of making their contri bution to the good of society,” Foley told that group. “If a business organization is to adapt quickly to everchanging conditions, and to meet success fully competition in the market place, it must have a reservoir of manpower with ever-new ideas. “This does not mean that a man must always be an objector or attempt to do things differ ently merely for the sake of be ing different. On the other hand, it does not mean that he must be a conformist. There is ample room and time for being a con formist on the one hand, and for the exercise of creative and re sourceful ideas on the other.” Foley emphasized the need for a well-rounded education: “One regret I have as to my own edu cation is that in the avid pursuit of an engineering degree, I ne glected to pay as much attention as I now wish I had to the liberal arts.” However, the most important subject a student can master is one on how to live his daily life. “Mastery of this subject is necessary if all the other knowl edge one has acquired is to be properly applied,” Foley said. Speaking to graduates, but ap plicable to all students, Foley ad vised, “Liberty and freedom are the keystone of your future. They are things of the spirit. They cannot be bought. They re side not in well-furnished houses, but in hearts that are brave and courageous. “As you go forth to attain your goals in life, keep sight of this larger objective. Rather than be ing dismayed, you should look upon the challenges confronting you as opportunities.” On his way up the Texaco lad der, Foley’s first promotion was to the position of petroleum en gineer with the corporation. He was then called to serve in the Bahrain oil fields in the Persian Gulf. Returning to the U. S., he held various posts in Louisiana before being named assistant to the manager of the producing depart ment in Houston. In 1949 Foley went to New York at the company’s national headquarters, and after serving in several capacities was elected a vice president of the oil com pany. His ladder-climbing gained mo mentum, as he was elected a di rector in 1954, executive vice president in 1955 and president in 1956. The late Burt E. Hull, '04, said of Foley, “I doubt whether any other institution can boast of any record that will compare with Foley’s remarkable achievement.” tion of a 50 per cent cut, but no country is formally committed to it. THE FINAL average cut may be considerably lower. A 50 per cent cut is the maxi mum authorized by the U. S. Trade Expansion Act of 1962 which be came law mainly due to the per sonal initiative of the late Presi dent John F. Kennedy. The agreement declared that the 50 per cent cut would be the “working hypothesis” of the Ken nedy round. The main negotiators of the compromise were W. Michael Blumenthal of the United States and Robert Marjolin, vice presi dent of the Common Market com mission. Galveston Officials Debate Splash Day GALVESTON <A>) — Three Gal veston officials say they want to abolish the annual Splash Days celebration which officially opens this resort city’s summer tourist season. The advisability of discontin uing the yearly festivities will be debated here this week, City Coun cilman M. J. Gaido said. Chief of Police W. J. Burns said, “I’m definitely against Splash Days and wish it could be stopped for good.” Fischer, Mike Walker, Edward Mo reau and Gilbert Mayeux. Six filed for seats in the senate representing the College of Agri culture. Those filing for the agri culture were juniors Billy Jarvis and Ruby Wuensche, sophomores Ronald Smith and Leonard Holder, and freshman Eddie Davis and Eu gene Riser. Only two students filed for the College of Ehgineering. They are junior David Clifton and sopho more Michael Raybourne. Juniors Jim Kelly and Keith Clark and sophomore Stacy Lack ey were the only three that filed for seats representing the College of Veterinary Medicine. Twenty-five filed for positions on the election commission. Jun iors filing were Jim Kneisler, James Gunter, Michael Wier, Lov ell Aldrich, Charles Wallace, Ar nold Ghormley and Donald War ren. Sophomores filing were James G. Hooton, David V. Gibson, Jim my Ray Barlow, Roland D. Smith, Ronald Pate, Paul Studley, An drew Salge, Leonard Holder, Mi chael Raybourne, Lani Presswood, William Parry, Louis Piboin and Michael O. Beck. Five freshmen filing were Cam Fannin, Jack Myers, John Choate, Tommy Godwin and George Moench. Wayne Smith, election commis sion adviser, said that the dean of the graduate college will appoint the graduate representative. Deadline Set For Housing All students wishing to live in civilian dormitories in the fall semester, 1964, must sign up for their rooms before Friday in the housing office. Harry L. Boyer, housing man ager, added that both corps and civilian students must return their room reservation cards by July 31 to insure being assigned the room they are reserving. Those appearing on the fall 1964 cadet roster must return their res ervations in order to be assured of being assigned to their correct outfit. All students will receive their room reservation cards with their spring grade reports. Students who have a $20 room deposit on file will not be required to make an additional deposit. University Of Houston Dean To Talk At A&M Banquet The dean of the University of taught at Tulane University, Har- Houston College of Arts and Sci ences, Dr. Alfred R. Neumann, will speak at A&M University’s Phi Kappa Phi initiation banquet Tuesday. Neumann, who came to the United States from Germany in 1937, will talk on “The Search for a Full Life.” Dr. A. B. Wooten, secretary of the honor scholastic society and associate professor in the Agri cultural Economics and Sociology Department, said 113 new members will be initiated at the 6:30 meet ing in the Memorial Student Cen ter. Twelve of the initiates are faculty members, the balance are students. Neumann received his AB degree from Marshall College and MA de grees from the University of Ken tucky and Harvard University. His doctorate in German literature came in 1951 from the University of Michigan. After three years in the U. S. Army during World War II, he vard University and the University of Michigan. In 1953, he joined the University of Houston faculty. He became assistant to the presi dent in 1956 and was appointed dean of arts and sciences in 1959. Neumann’s publications are con cerned mainly with literature and music. He is program annotator for the Houston Symphony Or chestra and the Houston Grand Opera. Dean Neumann is chairman-elect of the Stillwater Conference of Academic Deans and is vice presi dent of the South Central Modern Language Association. He is a member of the executive committee of the American Con ference of Academic Deans, the boards of the Houston Grand Opera Association, the Houston Jewish Family Service, the Houston Friends of Music, the Executive Committee for German of the Col lege Entrance Examination Board, and is bibliographer for the Modern Language Association. Former Hungarian Refugee Gets Citizenship, Contract Andras Csagoly (pronounced Chog-lee) says his life has been exciting but nothing compares to his most recent experience. Andy was a Budapest resident until the Hungarian Revolt of 1956, entered the Wichita Falls High School without a knowledge of English and as an Opportunity Award Scholarship holder has compiled an outstanding record at A&M University. His newest experience was tak ing the oath of a U. S. citizen in ceremonies Friday. Later he sign ed a contract as an officer candi date in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. The A&M junior is a distinguish ed student with an average grade point of 2.4 an a scale of 3 serv ing as sergeant major of the Sixth Battalion. He is a former cap tain of A&M’s pistol team and works as a dining hall waiter. The Csagoly family moved to Wichita Falls from a refugee camp in Austria under sponsorship of the Rotary Club. The elder Csagoly now is director of the Boys’ Club there and the family resides at 3310 Kemp. Aggies in the Wichita Rotary Club helped steer Andy toward A&M. Two years ago he won half of the 64 awards given at an invita tional meet in Austin attended by marksmen from law enforcement agencies and the military. COL. D. L. BAKER AND CADET ANDRAS CSAGOLY .. . new citizen and officer candidate.