Directors Vote To Improve Parking
Contracts totalling $184,312.70
were awarded and $109,997.60 was
appropriated for various projects
throughout the A&M University
System by the Board of Direc
tors meeting here Friday.
Contracts awarded included
$36,711.07 to Houston Tank and
Steel Inc. of Houston, for clean
ing, repairing and painting water
tanks;
$14,970 to Vance and Thur
mond of Bryan for remodelling
the second floor of the Civil Engi
neering Building, and
$32,487.50 to B-W Leasing Inc.
of College Station, for additional
parking lots in the south dormi
tory area.
The board appropriated $15,-
997.60 to supplement a previous
appropriation for preliminary
plans and expenses for expan
sion of the College of Veterinary
Medicine. This increased the
total contract amount to $30,743.-
69.
Grants-in-aid, gifts, scholar
ships, fellowships, awards and
special gifts totalling $572,382.53
were accepted for various parts
by the board.
Among the principal ones to
A&M were scholarships, fellow
ships and awards totalling $98,-
579.05 from 82 donors, includ
ing $11,950 from the Associa
tion of Former Students; $7,500
from Houston Endowment Inc.;
$4,500 from Dow Chemical Co.;
$4,000 from the Automotive Safe
ty Foundation; $3,800 from the
Pan American Petroleum Found
ation; $3,700 from Gulf Research
and Development Co.; $3,500
from the Clayton Funds; $3,200
from the Shell Companies Found
ation; $3,000 from the Sears-
Roebuck Foundation; $2,900 from
the Gen. Henry H. Arnold Edu
cational Fund; $2,800 from the
Texas Eastman Co.; $2,200 from
the American Society for Engi
neering Education; $2,050 from
the Air Force Central Welfare
Fund, and $2,000 each from the
Effie and Wofford Cain Founda
tion, E. I. DuPont de Nemours
and Co., the Ideal Cement Co.
and the Union Carbide Educa
tional Fund.
Grants-in-aid totalled $243,486
and included $211,186 from the
Robert A. Welch Foundation,
$15,000 from the Humble Oil
Education Foundation, $5,000
from R. P. Gregory and $3,000
from the Rockefeller Founda
tion.
New and additional capital gifts
amounted to $14,913.65. Mr. and
Mrs. Wofford Cain gave $7,796.78
for All Faith Chapel landscape
illumination. A $6,000 gift from
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur S. Cleaves
created the John Lincoln Cleaves
Memorial Fund. Additions to the
Cleaves Fund totalled $816.87.
Special gifts totalled $119,654,
and included $100,000 from the
Dresser Controls Division of
Dresser Industries Inc. for the
purchase of a process dynamics
recorder. The Memorial Student
Center received $17,954 for the
1964-65 school year from memor
ials, A&M Mothers Clubs and
various other sources. Quaker
Oats Co. contributed $1,500 to
pay for the College of Veterinary
Medicine Convocation Banquet.
The Texas Agricultural Exper
iment Station received grants-in-
aid totalled $80,299.83 from 20
donors. Among the larger grants
were $31,764.98 from Plains Cot
ton Growers Inc., in support of
research on cotton; $6,900 from
Hollman-Taff Inc., for research
of feed additives in the diets of
chicken and turkeys; $6,200 from
Dow Chemical Co. to support fer
tilizer and weed control research.
Charles Phizer and Co. gave
$4,945 for research of anaplas-
mosis in cattle.
A $375 enrollment fee for stu
dents in the Electronics Techno
logy Course was approved.
Students in the two-year pro
gram of the Engineering Exten
sion Service will pay the fee at
the beginning of each of four
six-month terms. Presently the
program is entirely supported by
local funds, which include stu
dent fees and reimbursement from
National Defense Education
Funds. The fee is unchanged
from the 1963-64 school year.
The course provides specialized
technical instruction at A&M’s
Research Annex to prepare stu
dents for employment in the elec
tronics industry. It was started
in September, 1963.
The board authorized Chancel
lor M. T. Harrington to ask of
ficials of Bryan, College Station
and Brazos County to make air
port zoning regulation for the
“hazard” or approach areas to
Easterwood Airport.
Growth of the community near
the airport prompted the action.
Buildings in the approach areas
would be unsafe and would re
strict the use of the airport.
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1964
Number 74
Overpass Gets
Commission’s
Approving Nod
The Brazos County Commissioners’ Court Thursday
approved plans for a cloverleaf interchange near the campus.
With this group’s approval now received, the College
Station City Council may begin joint right-of-way condemna
tion proceeding needed for Farm Road 2154 and one for
the T&NO and Missouri Pacific railroad tracks. Farm Road
60 will run under the the overpasses.
The commissioners also agreed for Brazos County to
pay 25 per cent of right-of-way costs for the $720,000 state
♦■pro j ect.
CSC Approves
Constitution
Section Change
The Civilian Student Council
voted Thursday night to either
amend or strike from the CSC Con
stitution, Article III, Section V,
which prohibits a member of the
council from holding a position
on the Student Senate concur
rently.
In opening the discussion, presi
dent Paul Oliver said he disagreed
with the section.
Vive-president Jim Benson said,
“This clause was originally put
in to keep Corps members from
being members of the council.”
The motion passed without op
position.
Installation of telephones for
council members was introduced
under new business but was
dropped when the council agreed
that CSC funds should not be used
for the project.
In other new business, the coun
cil briefly introduced a Sbisa din
ing Hall Committee proposal, elec
tions in Dorms 19-22 and for Day
students, Town Hall Program for
Civilian Student Weekend and the
Corps trip to Dallas.
In business not on the agenda,
council members voted to move
meeting time from 7 p.m. to 7:30
p.m.
Jacob Beal, Bryan realtor
and appraiser present at the
meeting, said right-of-way
properties are valued at $90,-
405. This price may not be the
final bargaining price for the
property, however, since several
other estimates have been rec
eived by the council.
County Judge W. C. Davis was
to have appointed a three-member
condemnation committee Friday to
set prices for the properties.
According to Commissioner Wil
liam Stasney, condemnation pro
ceedings should be completed in
20-30 days.
Before state operations on the
project begin, consolidation of the
T&NO and MP tracks must be
completed. It has been estimated
that this program will require six
to nine months.
Discussion on the proposed over
pass, to be located at the far west
end of North Gate, began in the
1940s, but hit a peak in May when
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion granted approval to the Col
lege Station City Council for a
merger of the two tracks.
The city council voted last week
to purchase the needed property,
sending the proposal to the county
commissioners for final approval.
Most of the property north of
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture Building to the College Sta
tion City Hall will be cleared.
Traffic will be routed around the
area when construction begins be
cause of the installation of two
bridges and the connecting rail
ways.
Convocation Speaker Set
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New And Old Personnel Take A Night Out
New and old members of the A&M faculty Socials. Committee members who plan the
and staff enjoy a dance Thursday night at events were introduced following a dinner,
the first of four Faculty-Staff Dinner Club
ALONG THE CAMPAIGN TRAILS
Johnson Touring Southwest;
Humphrey Befriends JFK
By The Associated Press
President Johnson started out
early Friday on a roundabout, four-
stop trip to El Paso, the Eufaula
Dam and the state fair in Okla
homa, and Texarkana.
There will be speeches at every
stop during the 15-hour day, and
a meeting at the outset with Mexi
co’s president, Adolfo Lopez Ma
teos.
Rep. Wright Patman, D - Tex.,
predicted that 100,000 persons will
see President Johnson in Texar-
JC Press Meet Scheduled
Hermes Nye, Dallas attorney,
folk singer, novelist and lecturer,
has been named banquet speaker
for the twelfth annual Texas Jun
ior College Press Association here
Oct. 4-6.
Nye will speak and sing folk
music at the awards banquet Oct.
5.
The conference, expected to at
tract 100 junior college journal
ists, begins with registration Oct.
4.
Wallace Chosen
Election Boss
Officers for the Election Com
mission were elected in the first
meeting of the year Wednesday
night.
Charles Wallace was elected
chairman; Don Warren, vice-chair
man and Benney Fudge, recording
secretary.
Requests were made that all elec
tion commission members should
turn in a schedule of their classes
to the commission box in the Stu
dent Programs Office in the Me
morial Student Center by noon
Saturday.
Workshop sessions for yearbook
and newspaper staffs fill most of
the Monday program. The Texas
Junior College Press Association
will hold its annual business ses
sion Tuesday. Bob Felling of San
Antonio College heads the associa
tion and Ken Smith of Odessa Col
lege is president of the sponsors’
group.
Dr. Warren Agee of Texas Chris
tian University was announced
earlier as principal speaker for the
first general session. He is dean
of the evening college of TCU and
a past national executive secre
tary of Sigma Delta Chi, profes
sional journalistic society.
Dr. David Bowers of A&M’s De
partment of Journalism will be
conference director, assisted by
Robert P. Knight of A&M, Mrs.
Edith King of San Antonio Col
lege, Mrs. Jeanne Johnston Dunn
of Odessa College, Walter E. Ellis
of Texarkana College and Ste
phens.
The yearbook sessions will be
directed by D-Eon Priest of Hous
ton, Taylor Publishing Co. repre
sentative.
Dr. Max Haddick of Austin will
conduct a yearbook critique and
discussion. He is journalism direc
tor of the Texas Interscholastic
League.
Student president Bob Felling
will serve as master of ceremonies
for the awards banquet.
Nye, the featured speaker, has
been a practicing attorney in Dal
las since 1935 but has found time
for creative writing and folk songs.
NYE
kana Friday night when he dedi
cates a memorial to the late Presi
dent John F. Kennedy.
It will be Johnson’s first visit to
Arkansas since he became head of
the government. Texarkana strad
dles the Texas and Arkansas line.
The administration threw its arm
around Robert F. Kennedy as Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey, President
Johnson’s running mate, toolj/fhe
former attorney general campaign
ing through the busy streets of
New York Thursday.
They stopped noontime traffic
from Gimbel’s past Macy’s on 34th
Street, and on sophisticated Fifth
Avenue ran into a solid wall of
bodies, cheers and applause.
The Democratic nominees for
vice president and for senator from
New York rode on the rear deck of
an open convertible which surging,
enthusiastic crowds halted twice.
Sen. Barry Goldwater told a
farm country crowd in Mason.City,
Iowa, Thursday the Billie Sol Estes
scandal still casts its reflections on
the White House and brands the
way the Democrats handle agri-
cutural problems.
Chess Tournament
Begins Saturday
Chess competition returns to
campus this weekend as the Memo
rial Student Center Chess Commit
tee sponsors its second annual
Brazos Open Chess Tournament
Saturday and Sunday.
Chairman Tom Turzak said the
tournament is open to all chess
players and is expected to draw
strong contingents from Houston,
Dallas and San Antonio.
The Republican presidential nom
inee hopped from Wichita, Kan.,
to Mason City, to Madison, Wis.,
and then to Boston with a call
for GOP unity.
“We can win this election and
we’re going to win this election,
but the important ingredient is
unity,” he told about 5,000 lowans
at the wind-swept Mason City Air
port.
Dr. Carey Croneis, chancellor of Rice University in Hous
ton, has been named speaker for the biennial A&M University
Convocation Oct. 31.
Thousands of persons are expected to attend the 2 p. m.
event which will precede the football game between A&M
and Arkansas that night at Kyle Field. /
The convocation is open to the public and A&M students,
faculty and staff.
Croneis has been chancellor at Rice since 1961. He served
as acting president of Rice
in 1960 after joining the uni
versity staff as provost and
the Harry C. Wiess Professor
of Geology in 1954. He had
been president of Beloit College in
Beloit, Wis. for 10 years.
Croneis is a past president of the
American Geological Institute and
of the National Association of Ge
ology Teachers. In addition, he has
been vice president of the Ameri
can Paleontological Society and
president of the Society of Eco
nomic Paleontologists and Miner
alogists. He is chairman of the
board of educators of the United
Educators, Chicago, editor of the
Harper and Row series of texts
and monographs in the earth
sciences which now includes more
than 20 volumes with worldwide
distribution. He has served as edi- +
tor of the bulletin of the American
Association of Petroleum Geolo
gists.
A graduate of Denison Univer
sity in Granville, Ohio, he took his
doctorate in geology at Harvard in
1928, then became a professor at
the University of Chicago, where
he taught for 16 years. Croneis
also worked as an industrial con
sultant to the National Defense
Research Committee, designed the
geology section of the Chicago Mu
seum of Science and Industry, was
head of the Hall of Science at the
Chicago Century of Progress Ex
hibition, and was a member of the
National Science Foundation Com
mittee on Mathematics, Physical
and Engineering Sciences. He is
currently a member of the man
power panel of the President’s
Scientific Advisory Committee.
Croneis is a member of the board
of directors of the Graduate Re
search Center of the Southwest and
of Geotechnical Corporation, both
of Dallas.
CRONEIS
Tuesday Election
To Fill Vacancies
Three Student Senate positions
will be decided in a Tuesday elec
tion at the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
Positions to be filled are senior
representative from the College of
Engineering, sophomore represen
tative from the College of Agricul
ture and Senate recording secre
tary.
All students are eligible to vote
in the secretary race. Only en
gineering seniors and agriculture
sophomores may vote for their re
spective representatives.
By late Thursday only two per
sons had filed in each the engi
neering and secretary openings.
Candidates who appeared on the
spring ballot for sophomore agri
culture representative will be re
tained on the docket Tuesday.
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
BERLIN—An agreement permitting West Ber
liners to cross the Berlin wall during four holiday
periods in the next nine months to visit relatives in
the city’s Soviet sector was signed Thursday by
East German and West Berlin representatives.
★ ★ ★
BAN ME THUOT, South Viet Nam—Maj. Gen.
Nguyen Khanh intervened personally Thursday in a
simmering rebellion of mountain tribesmen against
lowland Vietnamese that a few U. S. Army Special
Forces men are trying to mediate. The situation
was explosive.
National
DETROIT—Ford Motor Co. today became the
second member of the automotive Big Three to hold
the basic price line on its 1965 cars. Chrysler Corp.
was expected to make a similar disclosure later
today.
General Motors, biggest of the auto makers, said
Wednesday it would hold the price line.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON — Texas Gov. John Connally
emerged from a Visit with President Johnson Thurs
day, voicing confidence the chief executive will
handily carry their home state.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications
Commission has cleared the way for a Texas busi
nessman to enter the television business in Austin—
a business now held exclusively by family interests
of President Johnson.
WASHINGTON—Another threat of a nationwide
railroad strike—the third such crisis since April—
was lifted Thursday when President Johnson created
an emergency board to look into a dispute involving
firemen and enginemen.
★ ★ ★
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla.—Minuteman 2, first new
U. S. startegic missile to begin testing in more than
two years, scored a “textbook” success on its maiden
flight today, hurling a new hardened warhead to a
traget 5,000 miles away.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—House and Senate conferees
reached quick agreement Thursday on a bill broaden
ing and expanding the National Defense Education
Act.
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WASHINGTON—Senate passage Thursday sent
to the White House a two-year extension of the
Food-for-Peace program, which authorizes disposal
of more than $3.5 billion of U. S. farm surpluses.
The House had passed it Wednesday.
Texas
AUSTIN—Texas Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr said
Thursday he will release next week a “Texas report
on the assassination of President Kennedy.”
★ ★ ★
AUSTIN—The Texas Highway Department tab
ulated Thursday low bids totaling $8,431,516 on state
highway and road construction projects. Low bids
in the two-day letting ended today totaled $17,683,-
356.