Commission Favors Tuition Hike
Special To The Battalion
The Texas Commission on
Higher Education voted Monday
to recommend that the 1965 legis
lature increase tuition of state
supported senior colleges to $100
per semester.
Tuition for nonresidential stu
dents would also be upped $50.
The establishment of a Depart
ment of Philosophy and Humani
ties at A&M was approved by the
group. The establishment of the
new department carried a provi
sion that it may not award a de
gree and new course offerings
must be approved by the commis
sion.
The commission also voted to
permit A&M to change the name
of the Department of Animal
Husbandry to the Department of
Animal Science.
Also recommended Monday was
nearly $150 million for medical
education, agricultural and en
gineering services of the A&M
University system and other costs
of the state-supported higher edu
cation program. The $457.1 mil
lion total for higher education
is 45.2 per cent greater than the
amount appropriated for the cur
rent biennium.
The commission endorsed a
record - breaking $307.5 million
budget for tax - supported col
leges and universities on 1965-67.
Coupled with $5.95 million the
commission requested for its own
appropriation to meet enrollment
increases in the 1966-67 school
year, the proposed budget comes
to $313.5 million. In their own
budget presentations, the 22 col
leges and universities schools
have asked the legislation for
$323.2 million.
The 1963 legislature appro
priated $197 million for 20 pub
lic colleges and universities.
The commission estimates the
tuition increase would raise about
$33 million during the 1965-67
biennium.
The commission also voted to
phase out of the law school at
predominantly Negro Texas
Southern University in Houston
by Sept. 1, 1967. A unanimously
adopted staff recommendation
said the cost of the 35-student
law school is excessive and the
University of Houston Law
School, six blocks away, is ra
cially integrated and charges the
same tuition as Texas Southern.
Included in the budget recom
mendation is a 23 per cent av
erage increase in faculty salar
ies, which the commission esti
mates will put Texas at the
national average. More money for
research and libraries also is in
cluded.
Dr. Harry H. Ramson, chan
cellor of the University of Tex
as, praised the proposed budget
as a step to advance higher
learning in the state.
The commission also recom
mended that institutions be al
lowed to award full tuition schol
arships if students show finan
cial need. Schools presently can
grant half-tuition scholarships
under legislation that accom
panied the 1957 raising of tui
tion from $25 to $50.
The commission’s recommend
ed funds for the schools calls
for $107 million more from tax
funds, making a total of $263.9
million from the general revenue
fund.
Volume 61
Cbe Battalion
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1964
Texas
A&M
University
Number 83
Aggie Sweetheart Finalists Selected
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Ross Volunteers To Initiate 87 Juniors Tonight
Fete Features
Former A&M
Corps Boss
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Managing Editor
Eighty-five juniors have
been selected to the Ross Vol
unteers, honor guard for the
Texas governor and King Rex
of the Mardi Gras in New Or
leans, RV Captain Jim Bourgeois
announced Monday.
The newly elected members will
be honored at an initiation ban
quet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the
Memorial Student Center.
Chosen to the honor group, com
posed of outstanding junior and
senior members of the Corps of
Cadets, were Gary Clyde Aglietti,
Benjamin Frank Alford, Donald
Everett Allen, Kevin Richard An
drews, Kippen Lee Blair, Jimmy
Ray Barlow, Jack Wier Bratton,
Gary Hilmer Brotze, Ronald Lee
Burnette.
Narciso Ortiz Cano Jr., Larry
Dee Crocker, Richard Balbach Dar-
mon Jr., Thomas Shannon Davis,
Thomas Marcel Day, Robert Henry
Dillard, James Harold Doolittle III,
Russell Lee Doran, John Willard
Douglas, Thomas Arthur Doyle.
Ronald Eugene Elsey, Alton Dale
Felps, Ralph Bernard Filburn III,
Terry Leo Fisher, Ronald William
Fletcher, William Neal Fulgham,
Paul Frost Gardner, John Davis
Gay, Danny Marshall Gordon, Jay
Alan Gray.
Dickie Aaron Harris, Sam Sher
rill Henry Jr., Eric Joseph Holden,
Leonard Donald Holder Jr., Jack
Barrington Holt, James Glenn Hoo-
tan, Paul Morris Humphries.
Pete William Jacoby Jr., Char
les Patrick Kelley, Larry Clinton
Kennemer, Robert Gordon Lee,
Frank Lopez Jr., Jerry Lynn Lum-
mus, Thomas Mason Lunsford,
John Carlton McKinney
Warren Thomas Matthews, Roy
Louis May, Charles Augustus Mel-
la David Wallace Miller, Wesley
Leroy Miller, Thomas Frank Mur-
rah, Michael Nabors, John Edwin
Nelson, Reginald Daniel Newton,
Eugene C. Oates III, Miro Arthur
Pavelka Jr., Donald Lee Peterson.
(See RV’s Page 3)
NEW SPACE RESEARCH CENTER
NASA-aided $1 million plant boost A&M’s role in space age.
A&M Gets Ace In Race For Space
Plans for a new-type educa
tional facility designed to place
A&M University in the forefront
of space research and training
were unveiled here Saturday.
The new space research center,
to be built under a $1 million
grant from the National Aero
nautics and Space Administra
tion, will be under construction
this Spring, President Earl Rud
der announced.
Designed by Bernard Johnson
Engineers, Inc., of Houston, the
new center “will play a major
role in catapulting Texas A&M
to the forefront of American uni
versities accepting the challenge
of the space age,” the president
said.
He said the design concept of
the new building, as conceived
by the Houston engineering and
planning consultants, has met the
demands “for a completely flexi
ble and functional laboratory and
office center to serve space sci
ence research and education.”
In addition to providing space
research training for graduate
students, one of the tasks of the
new center will be to help de
velop a “space probe” to be rock
eted to the moon and other plan
ets, in order to analyze soil and
other materials and transmit the
results back to earth.
The design of the new build
ing has been accepted by the
Board of Directors, and working
drawings are now being prepar
ed. Construction will begin next
March or April, and will be
completed a year later, in about
April, 1966.
The contemporary-styled, 4-
level building will house such
capabilities as special shielding
for neutron radiation, neutron
warning alarm system, isolated
foundation for vibration tests for
space vehicles, plasma jet re
search laboratory to produce tem
peratures up to 30,000° F. and
unique air conditioning system
able to exhaust air through the
building’s outer masonry piers.
Pnematic tubes will connect the
building to the University’s $5
million cyclotron, now in the
planning stage. The cyclotron
will irradiate samples for space
analysis.
Bernard Johnson Engineers,
Inc, Houston-based consulting
engineers and Planners, have
achieved a wide range of experi
ence in the space field. Among
its space oriented projects have
been mechanical, electrical and
structural engineering work for
various buildings at the Manned
Spacecraft Center.
Supervising the research and
training work at the center will
be Dr. Richard E. Wainerdi, As
sociate Dean of Engineering, and
Harry E. Whitmore, head of the
Space Technology division. The
space offices are part of the
Texas Engineering Experiment
Station. Key roles in the design
of the new building have been
played by Fred J. Benson, Dean
of the College of Engineering,
and C. D. Wells, director of phy
sical plant for A&M.
Dr. Wainerdi said much of the
research work at the center is
computer oriented, which is a
principal reason why the site
selected was adjacent to the
University’s Data Processing
Center.
The center is located on the
campus at a prominent intersec
tion, Lamar at Bizzell, near the
main administration building. It
consists of the main laboratory
wing, and a separate service core.
Located in the basement of the
building will be the neutron gen
erators and a special decay room
in which samples will be placed!
until they have lost some of their
radiation. In the ground floor
— actually 3 feet below grade —
will be various laboratories for
data processing functions, ultra
clean rooms for assembly of the
space “probe”, and laboratories
for space activation analysis and
beta and gamma counting rooms.
On the first floor will be vari
ous offices and additional research
laboratories. In the service core
are loading docks and receiving
and storage rooms.
The second floor houses the
plasma physics department, with
its high temperature apparatus,
the life science laboratories, space
electronics area, and space envir
onment laboratories.
13 TWU Students
Placed In Runoff
By TOMMY DeFRANK
Staff Writer
Thirteen Texas Woman’s University coeds were selected
Saturday as finalists for 1964-65 Aggie Sweetheart.
The new sweetheart, who will succeed Nanette Gabriel
will be revealed at about 10 a. m. Sunday in the Memorial
Student Center.
Finalists include Johanna Leister, Carol Ann Schuster,
Ronelia Quintanilla, Judi Mahoney, Whitney Vickers, Melanie
McCoy, Dianna Kenny, Cecelia Ruiz, Suzanne Hunt, Judy
Jones, Belinda Davis, Olivia Payne, and Sallie Magruder.
Photographs of the finalists will appear later this week in
The Battalion.
The finalists were chosen by a committee consisting of
Bob Boone, faculty advisor;-*
Garry Tisdale, senior repre
sentatives, Norris Cano, jun
ior representative; Barney
Fudge, sophomore class pres
ident, and Paul Oliver, civilian
representative. The 27 semi-fina
lists were interviewed before the
finalists were selected.
The sweetheart will be chosen
by the 14-man Executive Selection
Committee Sunday and will be
“pinned” at that time. She will be
formally presented to the Univer
sity during halftime ceremonies
at the Aggie-SMU game Nov. 7.
The finalists will arrive on cam
pus Friday afternoon to partici
pate in the TCU weekend activities.
In addition to another round of
interviews, the girls will eat in
Duncan Mess Hall attend the
Town Hall performance of the
Clebanoff Strings, and attend Mid
night Yell Practice, where they
will be introduced to the student
body.
In order to qualify for Aggie
Sweetheart, contestants had to be
at least a sophomore and must
have had at least a 1.5 grade
point ratio.
Approximately 50 girls submit
ted applications for the competi
tion, and preliminary selections
were made with the help of Nan
ette Gabriel and Jane Sullins, both
TWU coeds.
ALONG THE CAMPAIGN TRAILS
Barry Says Johnson Hurt
Most By Bobby Baker Case
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Sen. Barry
Goldwater of Arizona said Monday
the “Bobby Baker case” is hurting
President Johnson more than any
thing else and that his own cam
paign is showing swelling favor
with the voters.
“Our polls that we saw Sunday
show us now over the 40 per cent
mark in almost every state,” he
said.
As for the one issue that is
picking up these voters, the Re
publican presidential nominee de
clared: “I honestly feel that the
Bobby Baker case is hurting the
President more than anything else.”
Goldwater in an earlier statement
said the Republican presidential
campaign was being financed by
the dollars of the “forgotten Amer
icans”—the people—while his op
position looked to the “fat cats”
for funds.
The issue that has hurt him most,
Goldwater said, is the “outright
lie that I am trigger happy.”
RENO, Nev. — President John
son was out Monday to win the
West—but not “with a quick draw
and a shot from the hip.”
“We here in the West,” said
Johnson, “aren’t about to turn in
our sterling silver heritage for a
plastic credit card that reads:
‘Shoot now, pay later’.”
The President took up this line
in a speech at Reno in the silver
state of Nevada.
Hoarse from up to 30 talks a
day, he picked up where he left
off Sunday night at Las Vegas,
Nev.
“One candidate,” he said, “is
roaming around the country saying
what a terrible thing the govern
ment is. He seems to be running
against the office of president in
stead of for it. Somebody better
tell him.”
Johnson was on a five-state
swing in Nevada, Montana, Wyo
ming, Colorado and Idaho, an area
that largely went Republican in
1960.
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
MOSCOW—Riding a powerful new rocket, a
Soviet space ship with a pilot, doctor and scientist
aboard was hurled into orbit Monday for a long
flight, the Russians announced.
The ship returned to earth this morning, landing
at a predetermined place.
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CARACAS, Venezuela—Terrorist kidnapers re
leased U. S. Army Lt. Col. Michael Smolen unharmed
Monday night after holding him captive since Fri
day, the U. S. Embassy announced.
The embassy said Smolen was abandoned in an
automobile and telephoned the embassy that he
was all right.
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VATICAN CITY — A progressive-conservative
struggle within the Vatican Ecumenical Council
burst into open crisis Monday, with 15 leading
liberal cardinals asking Pope Paul VI to intervene
personally.
National
MIAMI, Fla.—Juanita Castro said Monday that
her brother Fidel plans to leave Cuba in ashes “when
he finds himself lost.” And she said the time is
ripe for his overthrow.
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WASHINGTON—The Defense Department said
Monday the United States has conducted more than
35 underground nuclear tests in the last year.
Texas
SAN ANTONIO—Mississippi’s Gov. Paul B.
Johnson predicted today a Republican presidential
defeat and said the GOP is making a serious mistake
in campaign strategy.
Johnson also told a news conference he believes
Republican Barry Goldwater has lost ground in
Mississippi and other Southern states because, he
said, Goldwater is “crawfishing” or modifying, his
previous strong states rights stand.
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SAN ANTONIO—Tight 24-hour security—the
type officers say is exceeded only by that for a
President—has been set up to ensure the safety of
the 15 governors attending the Southern Governors
Conference.
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HOUSTON—Manned Spacecraft Center officials
said Monday that plans for a U. S. two-man space
mission early next year were on schedule.
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AUSTIN—Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr said today
all units of government, private enterprise and
individuals must work together to insure Texas’
continuing fresh water supply.
A A A
PORT NECHES—Some 550 pipefitters and
machinists returned to work today, ending a 105-
day strike at the Goodrich-Gulf chemical plant.
UCLA Prof
Keynotes JC
Conference
Preparation of citizens for em
ployment requiring less than four
years of college was the main topic
of Dr. Lamar Johnson, keynote
speaker here Monday for the 21st
Junior College Conference.
Johnson, speaking to approxi
mately 100 junior and senior college
executives, stressed the importance
of preparing these citizens to meet
the needs of society during the era
j of automation. The speaker is pro
fessor of higher education at the
University of California at Los
Angeles.
“By 1970, some 50 per cent of
the labor force will require educa
tion past the high school equivalent
to graduation from a junior col
lege,” Johnson commented.
“An additional 18 per cent will
be part of the labor force requir
ing a baccalaureate degree.”
Johnson said that in 1930 58 per
cent of the employed population
had elementary school educations
or less, and an additional 32 per
cent filled jobs requiring only a
high school education.
Dr. June Hyer, associate director
of the Governor’s Cimmittee on
Education Beyond the High School,
addressed the conference Monday
afternoon on “The Role of the
Junior College in the New Educa
tional Program in Texas.”
Dr. Robert B. Kamm, dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences at
Oklahoma State University, was
speaker at a dinner meeting of
the conference Monday night.
Presbyterians
Open Coffee Loft
The Presbyterian Student Center
near campus has a new addition
to its facilities — the “Coffee
Loft”.
Located upstairs in the old Col
lege Station State Bank building,
the loft is available to any stu
dent, regardless of religious affili
ation.
The “Coffee Loft” has coffee
brewing most of the time, espe
cially on Friday nights. It is
open until 11 p.m. on weekdays,
later on Fridays, Campus Minister
Jim Fenner announced.