Cbe Battalion
Texas
A&M
University
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1964
Number 64
Thief Takes
Kennedy Halfs,
Stamps, Clock
Twenty-five dollars in Kennedy
ilfs, approximately eight dollars
i five cent stamps and an electric
lock were taken from the main
[fice of the Department of Journ-
lism Friday night or early Sat-
rday morning.
The burglar entered the journal-
sm office in the basement of
lagle Hall by breaking an office
[Mow, Glenn Bolton, campus
rarity officer said. Bolton gave
otry time between 11 p.m. and 3
.m., based on the lack of foot-
rints from the rainstorm.
Dr. John C. Merrill, acting head
f the department, discovered the
reak in at 10 a.m. He noticed
lie office door open earlier but
not investigate as everything
ppeared in order. At 10, he was
itting mail in the office and
rand the desk front removed.
Mrs. Flippo said the thief had
roken the desk front off in an
Sort to get inside the desk. After
aining entry to the desk, he went
bugh the keys.
The strong box containing the
ranedy half dollars was located
» file cabinet. The thief un-
ocked the file cabinet and strong
K > took the money and put the
tong box in the cabinet and the
ty back in the desk, Mrs. Flippo
laii
Mrs. Flippo said the student
Iks had also been knocked down,
■t nothing seemed missing.
After finishing in the file cabi-
d and returning the key to the
tong box to the desk, the thief
Ktad the file cabinet and took the
y Officers said he unlocked
^ office door and left by a build-
exist, the door was ajar Satur-
V morning when Merrill arrived.
Mrs. Flippo said the door to
“ice number 10 was open but
""gs apparently undisturbed. Of-
w 10 is unoccupied at the pre-
mt time.
Jb Kennedy half dollars were
IIZe mone y from the High School
•urnalism Workshop for a con-
to sponsored by J. E. Loupot,
|°rth Gate merchant. The money
* s returned to Loupot since
11 es f°rbid prize money being
warded.
A full and partial roll of five
tnt stamps valued at eight dollars
ere also taken from the desk
0n ? a n electric clock on the
cabinet belonging to Mrs.
■■ppo.
Mrs. Flippo said she had taken
m cash and checks from
' toography sales to the Fiscal
lce Friday morning.
Dormitor y Delay Announced;
Commandant Reassigns Rooms
hpi . \ i
Contractor Rushes
To Complete Work
Only two of the newly constructed air conditioned dorm
itories originally slated to be completed by Sept. 1 will open
to students at registration, announced Bennie A. Zinn, Di
rector of Student Affairs.
Dorms 19 and 22 will be open on schedule and will ac
comodate 352 students. Dorms 17, 18, 20, and 21 will be
opened for occupancy by Sept. 5.
At present all students that have signed up for the
concerned dorms, other than 19, 22, 17, 18, 20 and 21, will be
accomodated in Mitchell, Milner, 12, 1, 9, and 3. Athletes
normally assigned to 15 will be accomodated in Mitchell.
Cadets assigned to 14 and 16 will be accomodated in Milner,
NEW AIR CONDITIONED DORMS
only dorms 19 and 22 will open on schedule
12, 1, 9 and 3.
At present accommodation plans
call for some triple stacking in 12,
1, and 3.
“Students will be moved to
dorms 14, 15, 16 as they become
available,” said Zinn.
“The housing and Commandant’s
offices and all concerned depart
ments are doing their best to re
accommodate students as speedily
as possible,” added Zinn.
The construction delay appar
ently stems from temporary short
age of hardware and furnishings
as a result of holdups from the
suppliers. Although all major con
struction is completed on all of the
new dorms, articles of furniture
are still to be moved in, and in
some areas interior decoration is
still incomplete.
Engineers Set
Short Course
Electrical engineers representing
three states are expected for a
five-day short course starting Mon
day on the A&M University
campus. The engineers will study
the theory of symmetrical com
ponents, a mathematical method
of analyzing electrical circuit con
ditions.
Professor Lewis ML Haupt Jr.
teaches the course offered for the
tenth year. Enrollment is limited.
Twelve engineers from Missis
sippi, Oklahoma and Texas are
registered for the Aug. 31-Sept. 4
Albert Creech
^pointed To
' (irnpus Post
Creech, a veteran of
*en earS of for eign service, has
Ifam/f ° lnted Coordinator of Pro-
ice ofT f0 !' A&M University’s Of-
ack [j n erna tional Programs, Dr.
oday ray ’ c ^ rec t°r, announced
''Th re P laces William S. Swin-
iept, i ° as re signed effective
° d ° £ ra 4uate study at
ilan trairr eW P° s *Uon, Creech will
!i en vk;+ ngr pro & ra ms for all for-
L itors to the A&M Univer-
including some 300
annually for informal
'1
[h . .^sit
'Siting.
*ch 20 °thers who come
Si„ ? ar for formal academic
He will also counsel
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Bryan Conducts
Spraying, Fogging
The following is a letter from the acting director and city
health officer of Bryan, C. M. Cole, M.D., concerning the
threat of encephalitis in the Bryan-College Station area.—Ed.
Due to the encephalitis epidemic in Houston and the
publicity given, many local citizens are calling the City
Health Officer, the Health Department and Sanitation De
partment, regarding spraying and fogging for mosquitoes.
Regular spraying and fogging has been carried on all
summer and has been increased after the recent rains. Fog
ging can only be done from streets, and too, many times
the breeding place is in back yards or under houses where
the fog will not drift or settle.
Each house holder should check his own property and
eliminate the standing water if he wants to eliminate the
mosquito. The most common source of standing water are
containers under the eaves of houses and garages which
hold the water. Old tires hold water and offers shade the
mosquito wants. Also, driveway culverts are common breed
ing places, especially when grass has grown at each end
of the culvert to hold water inside the pipe.
Another common place for the “wiggle tail” to hatch
is where evaporative fans leak water or condensation
from air conditioners cause pooling. In another month or
two air conditioning towers will be an excellent place or
mosquitoes to lay their eggs. Low places holding water m
yards can and should be filled or drained. If it cannot be
filled soon, a light oil such as diesel or kerosene will kill
the wiggler.
Just because a mosquito bites you does not mean you
will have encephalitis. The mosquito must be the Culex.
It is only the female that can bite. It must first bite a
sick host several days before it bites you. The most com
mon host is a fowl, but may be a number of other animals,
even snakes.
C. M. Cole, M. D.
Acting Director and
City Health Officer
City of Bryan
Delegates Slate 14th Annual
Industrial Research Meet
F
ou hg Republicans Set Goals
0r 1964-65 School Year
Cblic 9 ® 4 :? TeXas A&M Young
thev umT 6 Set £° a l s f° r
,Cl1001 year 1 stri ve during the
^tical Ph 86 “Aggie for
thev Ucatzon ” the officers
httbers y WlU strive for 1,000
< ! ?ani 2atin« nStrUCt dorm itory level
^ an Office K Set Up a ren tal
order uddin g a t North Gate
J**l>lish * ract new members,
, d buti on r j ence ’ and provide
during. fk nd ° rganiza tional cen-
0t her i • , Cam P a ign.
^ on- Ca j!^ tlVes set by the club
^ ^de deb^ 8 reco ^ nit ion, cam-
L ats - ProviH S With Youn e Dem -
SW j^^PPortunity to hear
r b Ucan o J ° Wer and h elp elect
Officer, f andlda tes.
°r 1964-65 are Everett
Lindstrom, club chairman; Mike
Hooper, area chairman; Bill Gies-
enschlag, vice-chairman; Joe Edel-
brock, secretary, and Bill Smith,
treasurer.
Doctoral Grant
Joseph Roland Troxler of Col
lege Station, a Ph.D. student at
A&M University, has been awarded
a $3,270 grant from the Shell Oil
Companies Foundation.
A mechanical engineering major
and a former Louisiana resident,
Troxler has completed a year’s
study toward the doctorate.
Shell also awarded a $1,000
grant to the mechanical engineer
ing department to help finance
special research projects.
Cashier Retires
After 40 Years
Of A&M Service
Cliff Edge, cashier in the Fiscal
Department, will retire from the
activities of A&M University
Monday, after 44 years of service.
Open house for his friends will
be held this afternoon from 1:30
p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Faculty
Room (second floor) of the Rich
ard Coke Building, honoring the
Edges.
Edge joined the Fiscal Depart
ment as a payroll clerk on July 15,
1920. 'Through the years he has
come to know countless Aggies in
addition to county agriculture
agents.
Edge’s acquaintanceship with
Aggies came full cycle in the
1940’s, when he began receiving
fees from the sons of men he had
known as students.
More than 250 delegates will at
tend the 14th annual Texas Indus
trial Development Conference at
A&M University Sept. 17-18,
James R. Bradley, head of A&M’s
Industrial Economics Research Di
vision and conference director, an
nounced.
Among the speakers will be Ar
thur A. Smith, Dallas bank execu
tive; Paul R. Thomson, General
Electric Co. official, and Robert
McCulloch of Dallas, Ling-Temco-
Vought, Inc., executive.
Registration will begin at 8 a.m.,
followed by a welcome address by
A&M President Earl Rudder and
Smith’s talk on the future eco
nomic picture for Texas. Smith is
vice president and economist for
Dallas’ First National Bank.
Also speaking at the opening ses
sion will be Thomson, manager of
GE’s employee and community re
lations. The Salem, Va., resident
will discuss, “What Industry Looks
for in a Town?”
Growth of industry through the
space program will be discussed by
McCulloch, chairman of LTV’s ex
ecutive committee, at a noon lunch
eon.
Other key speakers include John
Navy Increasing
Computer Usage
To Solve Problems
Increasing use of electronic com
puters to help solve the Navy’s
operational problems of growing
complexities was forecast by a
Navy research officer Monday at
A&M University.
Capt. Winfred S. Berg of the Of
fice of Naval Research spoke at
the opening luncheon of the second
annual Research Reserve Seminar
on Electronic Computers. The two-
week seminar is sponsored by
A&M and Naval Reserve Re
search Company 8-3, a local unit.
Thirty reserve officers are here
from across the nation to hear lec
tures by A&M faculty and others
to write programs for the com
puters at the A&M Data Process
ing Center. On Aug. 28 they will
tour the Manned Spacecraft Cen
ter Data Computation Division and
other faciilties at Houston.
The seminar chairman is Comdr.
B. C. Moore, a A&M mathematics
professor in civilian life. The sem
inar administrator is Capt. R. H.
Ballinger, USNR, an English pro
fessor at A&M.
B. Turner, Jr., coordinator of Bay-
port Industrial Development for
Humble Oil & Refining; L. C. Au-
Buchon of Dallas, regional buyer
for Sears Roebuck & Co., and Har
ry W. Clark of Austin, executive
director of Texas Industrial Com
mission.
The conference, sponsored by
the Industrial Economics Research
Division of the Engineering Ex
periment Station and co-sponsored
by the Texas Industrial Develop
ment Council, will attract bankers,
railroad and chamber of commerce
officials and others from industry.
4 Personnel
Changes Made
By Air Science
Four personnel changes in the
Air Force ROTC unit at A&M Uni
versity have been announced by
Col. Raymond Lee, head of A&M’s
air science program.
New personnel include Maj. Rob
ert B. Moore, former ROTC in
structor at the University of Geor
gia and the Air Force Academy.
Maj. Thomas F. Hines reports to
A&M from Hawaii, where he flew
C-130 aircraft to catch satellites
returning from orbit.
Another newcomer is Capt. Phil
lip I. Caleb, previously an instruc
tor at James Connally AFB in
Waco. A University of Arkansas
graduate, he has served overseas
in Iceland, Scotland and England.
Capt. Lester R. Hewitt Jr., a
two-year member of the A&M air
science staff, will report to Max
well AFB in Alabama Sept. 3 for
a new assignment.
Major Moore, a 1947 graduate
of the U. S. Military Academy, is
a command pilot. He has flown
the F-82, F-94, F-86 and F-100
fighter aircraft.
In 1955 Major Moore became
military training officer at the Air
Force Academy and later served as
combat operations officer in Tur
key. He will serve as a branch
chief at A&M.
Major Hines, World War II vet
eran, was recalled to duty during
the Korean conflict and flew troop
carrier planes. A native of Vir
ginia, he served at Far East bases
and received satellite recovery
training at Edwards AFB, Calif.
Vice-Presidential Nominee
Has Impressive Experience
By Associated Press
Sen. Hubert Horatio Humphrey
acts, thinks, eats and sleeps poli
tics.
The 53-year-old Minnesotan,
after 16 years in the Senate, still
has the ebullience, the optimism
and the zest he brought to it as a
fiery young liberal in 1949.
But there have been changes.
Humphrey candidly has moderated
his views to the point that he now
prefers enacting a cut-down bill
into law rather than going down
to defeat trying for the entire loaf.
Always interested in issues and
not only the strategy and tactics
of politics, he has pursued this
policy so successfully in the last
half-dozen years that he has an
impressive string of legislative
credits.
Humphrey and President John
son are entirely similar in their
complete absorption in political
matters.
And they are alike in a folksy,
homespun approach to their trade.
But in other ways the senator com
plements Johnson on the Demo
cratic ticket. Humphrey is a
Northerner, a liberal throughout
his career, and an intellectual.
The chunky Minnesotan capped
his career in Congress this year
with 115 weeks of sluging work
as floor manager for the far-
reaching civil rights bill.
His colleagues gave him high
marks for this performance, in
which a cloture vote to shut off a
Southern filibuster was obtained
for the first time on civil rights.
Humphrey’s reward from the
President was one of the pens used
to sign the measure and a copy of
Johnson’s speech to the nation at
the ceremony. Inscribed on the
copy were these words: “To Hubert
Humphrey — without whom, it
couldn’t have happened.”
Johnson is reported by some of
his associates planning a “high
t
road” campaign this year on the
major issues, with the No. 2 man
on the ticket tabbed to do the
slugging with the Republicans.
Humphrey seems to fill this bill
perfectly. Articulate, immersed in
issues of both foreign and domestic
policy, with boundless energy, he
is prepared to carry the Demo
cratic campaign to every section
of the country.
His beltline has expanded a bit
and his hairline has retreated, but
his bouncy, bubbling energy re
mains the same.
Humphrey was born May 27,
1911, over a drugstore at Wallace,
S. D., one of a succession of small
town stores run by his father. He
worked off and on in these stores
for years, still calls himself a
pharmacist.
In 1929, he entered the Uni
versity of Minnesota on a shoe
string budget. But he had to go
back to help in the family drug
store in the depression and it was
1939 before he was graduated,
winning membership in Phi Beta
Kappa.
SEN. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
chosen by the President as the best man for the job.