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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1964 Number 70
New Underpass Awaits County Nod
Rudder, Athletic Council Praise Foldberg, Teams
Group Wants Hank
For Long Tenure
Athletic Director Hank Foldberg has drawn praise from
President Earl Rudder and the A&M Athletic Council for
improving the university’s athletic teams and facilities.
President Rudder expressed hope of having Foldberg and
his present coaching staff continue as an integral phase
of the A&M family for years to come. He cited the long
tenure—25 years—and record of Coach Jess Neely of Rice
University, the dean of Southwest Conference football coach
es, “as an example of the stable athletic program for which
♦'A&M strives.”
The high praise for the
YMCA Starts
’64 With Feed;
50 To Attend
The YMCA, almost as old as
A&M, formally begins a new year
Monday with at least 50 Aggies
expected for a supper followed by
a program on campus life.
The weekly series in only one
aspect of the “Y’s” broad range of
programs and services and some
events will draw 300 students, J.
Gordon Gay, general secretary,
said.
The early history of the Aggies’
“Y” apparently is lost but it
dates back 75 years or more to
the meeting of a small group of
students in a dormitory room. Not
until 1912 did the organization
have the start of a building of its
own.
“I’ve got 15 cords of wood in
this building,” an old Aggie once
told Gay. The man explained that
as a student he pledged $15 to
ward construction of the YMCA
Building and he made the money
by cutting 15 cords of mesquite
at $1 a cord. A sizable grant
from the Rockefeller Foundation
was necessary to augment the
gifts of Aggies of earlier genera
tions for completion of the build
ing which eventually had a base
ment swimming pool and three
floors.
“The program has evolved and
expanded through the years but
its ideals and objectives remain
essentially the same,” Gay said.
“This is to supplement and en
rich academic life with spiritual
and religious values.”
Student leadership is stressed.
A&M had the largest number of
visiting representatives — 22 stu
dents — of any school at the re
cent National Student YMCA con
ference at the University of Illi
nois.
YMCA Officers for 1964-65 are
Don E. Warren of Uvalde, presi
dent; Edwin H. Carpenter of Tyler,
vice president; Louis K. Obdyke
of San Antonio, secretary; David
F. Gardner of Waco, treasurer;
William W. Mason of Liberty, sen
ior representative; Irving M. Dietz
III of Corpus Christi, program
chairman, and David E. Graham
of Bay City, publicity chairman.
accomplishments of Foldberg
followed a meeting of the
Athletic Council with Rudder
this week.
Dr. Chris Gorneman, chairman
of the Athletic Council, pointed
proudly to the glowing achieve
ments of Aggie athletic teams dur
ing the past year.
“The Aggies won SWC cham
pionships in basketball and base
ball,” he reminded. “It was the
first time in 40 years that the Ag
gies won the outright crown in
SWC basketball. And our fresh
man football team captured the
unofficial SWC title.
“Randy Matson, the fine fresh
man from Pampa, has garnered
worldwide attention on himself and
A&M with his achievements in put
ting the shot. He is the youngest
of five Texans to win berths on
the United States Olympic Team,”
Groneman continued.
Aggie athletic fortunes are look
ing up,” President Rudder ob
served. “in addition to the many
achievements of the past year, we!
are particularly pleased with the
efforts of Athletic Director Fold
berg in providing modern and im
proved facilities. Through Coach
Foldberg’s direction a Lettermen’s
Lounge is nearing completion in
G. Rollie White Coliseum. It will
be dedicated to the achievements
of lettermen over the years.”
“Coach Foldberg deserves spec
ial commendation because the Let
termen’s Lounge and patio are
being built largely with funds con
tributed by interested alumni,”
Rudder noted.
Groneman said prospects look
great for possible repeats in bask
etball and baseball championships
this school year.
“Aggie football prospects are
greater than ever with a nucleus of
lettermen bolstered by excellent
sophomore prospects from the
splendid freshman team of 1963,”
he said. “We would like to point
out that this is the first season
in which Coach Foldberg will have
a football team made up largely
of players recruited by him.
“Our golf teams have been ra
ther consistent champions, losing
only one championship in the past
five years,” Groneman continued.
“Tennis has mushroomed toward
success at A&M, evolving from a
low ebb.
First Bonfire Log Secured
Batt Axes
The Batt staffers donned wood-chopping
duds Thursday afternoon, picked up two
axes from J. E. Loupot and scooped the rest
of the campus to a much valued prize . . .
the first log for the 1964 bonfire. Left to
Chop Wood
right are Tex Rogers, Mike Reynolds, Clovis
McCallister, Jerry Cooper and Glenn Drom-
goole. The last man is Ham McQueen, editor
of The Agriculturist. Our editor had to take
the picture.
ALONG THE CAMPAIGN TRAILS
i roldwater Invades Texas,
Humphrey Continues Tour
By The Associated Press
Sen. Barry Goldwater invaded
President Johnson’s home state of
Texas Friday, with an airport
speech at Longview.
Goldwater was introduced by
Martin Dies Sr., former chairman
of the House Un-American Acti
vities Committee. Traveling with
the Goldwater party is Sen. Strom
Thurmond of South Carolina, who
this week renounced the Demo
cratic Party and became what he
called a ’’Goldwater Republican.”
Sen. Barry Goldwater Charged
Thursday night that President
Hot Water Supply
Expected Tuesday
Workmen are pushing projects
necessary to provide the hot
water supply for two newly oc
cupied dormitories, 19 and 22,
Howard Badgett said earlier this
week.
He expects the dormitories to
have hot water “Tuesday some
time.” Badgett heads the uni
versity’s Office of Physical
Plant.
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
MOSCOW—Premier Khrushchev denied Thurs
day that he had told a Japanese parliamentary
group that the Soviet Union had a terrible new
weapon which could annihilate mankind.
He said his remarks, which set off a furor
around the world, had been distorted in translation
from Russian to Japanese to other languages.
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BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa—South Africa
announced Thursday that legal practice will be
barred to any Communist lawyers and that no Com
munist will be permitted to teach in the country’s
universities.
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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—Casting a veto
Thursday, the first in more than a year, the Soviet
Union killed a Security Council resolution deplor
ing the landing Sept. 2 of Indonesia-based para
troops in Malaysia.
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GENEVA, Switzerland—Unable to make any
progress on East-West differences the 17-nation
disarmament conference in Geneva Thursday re
cessed for five months. In the interim, the dis
armament debate will shift to the U. N. General
Assembly opening Nov. 10.
National
BOSTON—The Hearst newspapers, in an edi
torial in the Boston Record American signed by
publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr., Thursday
endorsed President Lyndon B. Johnson for the
presidency.
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NEW YORK—Editor and Publisher reported
Thursday that Sen. Barry Goldwater is leading
President Johnson, 241-222, in a poll of daily news
papers that have announced their support.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.—President Johnson dis
closed Thursday the United States is able to spot
missiles beyond the curve of the earth and also
destroy bomb-carrying satellites in space.
Texas
HOUSTON—Astronaut Scott Carpenter, the
second U. S. spaceman to make an orbital flight,
was given what space officials termed a “conva
lescent assignment” Thursday.
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HOUSTON—Sen. John Tower, R.-Tex., said
Thursday he is happy to welcome Sen. Strom Thur
mond, D.-S. C., to the Republican party.
Johnson is trying to cover up the
Bobby Baker case and anything
else that might embarrass his
Democratic administration with
“tidal waves of whitewash.”
Earlier in the day, in a televi
sion interview in Raleigh, N. C.,
Goldwater touched on the civil
rights issue for the first time
since coming South in the cam
paign.
Republican Rep. William E.
Miller declared Thursday that De
mocratic President Johnson’s re
peated appeals for national unity
are an attempt to cut off partisan
campaign debate and point toward
one-party rule.
He added in a speech in tradi
tionally Democratic Dubuque that
Soviet Premier Khrushchev’s new
weapon makes the election of Sen.
Barry Goldwater as president im
perative.
Miller said the Communists know
that Goldwater “will not retreat
or appease.”
Hubert H. Humphrey carried the
LBJ campaign to the heart of
Texas — the Alamo — Thursday
night and ran into a pro-Gold-
water demonstration.
The group of demonstrators
stood at the back of a large ral
ly outside the Alamo, called the
cradle of Texas liberty, and held
aloft signs and a large banner
Civil Rights
Section Hit
By The Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—A three-
judge federal panel, expressing
concern over spreading congres
sional powers, struck down Thurs
day a section of the Civil Rights
Act as applied to a Birmingham
restaurant.
The judges referred specifical
ly to interstate commerce in is
suing a temporary restraining or
der preventing Acting U. S. Atty.
Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach from
enforcing the public accommoda
tions section of the law against
Ollie’s Barbecue.
Restricting its ruling to the
Birmingham restaurant, the panel
held that Congress violated the
Fifth Amendment in applying the
accommodations section against Ol
lie’s.
boosting Sen. Barry Goldwater, the
Republican presidential nominee.
Humphrey was almost mobbed
by a large crowd of supporters
waving signs and shouting as his
motorcade arrived at the Alamo.
Humphrey declared, “I would
like in some little way to help
President Johnson carry a torch
of enlightenment for the young
people of America.”
Earlier, Humphrey addressed an
estimated 5,000 to 7,000 persons
jammed in a shopping center ar
cade in Waco.
B&UEmploye Inks
Professional Story
An article by Vergil B. Clark
of the Buildings and Utilties De
partment appears in the latest
issue of a professional publica
tion. Clark is assistant super
intendent for maintenance.
His article entitled “Employee
Performance” appears in the
“Monthly Newsletter” of the Na
tional Association of Physical
Plant Administrators.
City Council Votes
5-2 For Proposal
By CLOVIS McCALLISTER
Night News Editor
The construction of a railroad underpass on Farm to
Market Road 60 at College Station moved closer toward
acceptance Thursday as the College Station City Council
voted 5-2 in favor of the measure.
The afternoon meeting was scheduled to see if the City
of College Station would purchase the property needed for
the facilities.
A June announcement from the Texas Highway Depart
ment said that the Interstate Commerce Commission had
approved joint operation of-*
the Southern Pacific and
Missouri Pacific Railroads
from a point adjacent to the
Bryan Golf Course to Nava-
sota, enabling the underpass con
struction.
The city council action moved
the proposal to Brazos County
officials. The Brazos County Com
missioners Court will meet Tues
day to discuss and act on acquiring
the land needed.
Of the six city council men and
Mayor Ernest Langford that voted,
A. P. Boyett and A. L. Rosprim
cast the two dissenting votes a
reliable source said. Those voting
for the proposal were T. R. Hol
man, J. A. Orr, O. M. Holt, Robert
Rhodes and Ernest Langford.
Cost of the right of way will
be shared between the City of
College Station and Brazos Coun
ty.
C. B. Thames, District Engineer
in Bryan, said in June that the
ICC action enabled the State to
proceed with the construction
operations on the estimated $770,-
000 project as soon as the right
of way is ecquired, cleared of ob
struction and utility adjustments
completed.
The program provides for the
installation of railroad signals and
rearrangement of certain tracks
to provide joint operation with the
railroad embankment approximate
ly nine feet high and the con
struction on the underpass struc
ture.
The project includes an over
pass for FM-2154 with related
circular connecting ramps to FM
60 which will go under the rail
road tracks. Before state opera
tions begin, the railroad consoli
dation must be completed. It is
estimated to be six to nine months
before the state will be able to
begin work on the operation. Action
by the railroads should begin short
ly after action is taken by the
Commissioners Court..
Traffic will be routed around
the area when construction begins
because of the installation of two
bridges and the connecting road
ways.
Discussion on the present over
pass located at the far west end of
North Gate began in the 1940’s.
Student Senate
Relations Seat
Filled By Lee
By MIKE REYNOLDS
Day News Editor
Bob Lee, senior representative
from the College of Engineering
was elected by the Student Senate
Thursday night to fill the post
of public relations chairman vacat
ed by Eugene Gregory.
The Senate also served notice
to the Election Commission that
a general election must be held
before the next scheduled Senate
meeting to fill the positions of
recording secretary vacated by J.
Donald Bowen, a sophomore rep
resentative from the College of
Agriculture as well as the post
vacated by Lee.
The election will be held Sept.
29. Filing for the position vacated
by Lee and for recording secretary,
which must come from the sopho
more class opened Friday morning
and closes Sept. 25. Filing for
the College of Agriculture posi
tion was held last spring, but due
to a mistake in the preparation of
the voting machines, were left out
of the election.
Debate filled the Senate cham
bers minutes earlier resulting from
the fact that Hale Burr represent
ed both the Corps, as Deputy Corps
Commander, and the Senior Class
as their president.
Nearly everyone present agreed
with Jay Jaynes, Student Issues
chairman when he said, “I believe
that the position rates the vote,
not the man. Burr should occupy
one office and another man should
fill the other.”
A motion was then passed au
thorizing senior class vice presi
dent Mario Macaluso to fill the
position for the senior class.
Allen and Bill Altmen, student
welfare chairman, reported earlier
in the meeting that a revision
of the constitution had been pre
pared and will be presented to the
Senate for passage at the next
meeting.
Anybody Know How To Build A Bridge
Poor drainage resulting from construction in can be heard whispering under their
the Old Area has caused a small lake in breaths. “What is the use shining our shoes
front of Sbisa Dining Hall. Many freshmen if we have to use them for water skis.?”