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JOHANNA LEISTER
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SALLIE MAGRUDER
. . . Dallas
WHITNEY VICKERS
. . . Charleston, W. Va.
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Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1964
Number 85
Clebanoff Appears Friday
1964 Fish Score Higher
On Entrance Examinations
JUDY JONES
.. . New Boston
JUDI MAHANEY
.. . Fort Worth
A&M University freshmen this
fall scored “significantly higher”
on national tests than freshmen of
1963, university officials reported.
And 81 per cent of the freshmen
ranked in the top half of their
high school graduating class.
“The average increase for all
of the aptitude and achievement
tests was between 15 and 20
points,” S. Auston Kerley, direc
tor of the Counseling and Testing'
Center said. The tests used for
admission and placement purposes
are scored in a range of 200 to
800 points with the national aver
age in the 500-point bracket.
“The increased percentage of
freshmen ranked in the top half of
their graduating class is signifi
cantly higher,” Bob Gleason, asso
ciate director of admissions, point
ed out.
A&M officials, on the basis of
tests scores and the high school
records of the freshmen, predict
“significantly higher average
grades” for these students.
University officials agree with
national testing authorities that
there is no single method of pre
cisely predicting an individual’s
subsequent academic performance.
Thus admission is based upon the
student’s high school record, his
personal history and the test
scores.
Distinctive to A&M is a system
of using different combinations of
scores for predictive purposes for
the several academic colleges.
“Since different courses of study
require different ability, different
weights or values are assigned to
the Scholastic Aptitude Tests
(SAT) score and high school aver
ages,” Kerley said.
“In the engineering or physical
sciences, for example, more weight
or value is placed on scores for the
mathematics portion of the -tests
than for a liberal arts major,” he
explained.
Scores from the SAT or aptitude
tests and the achievement tests
which are another portion of the
College Entrance Examination
Board (CEEB) tests, plus the Nel-
son-Denny Reading Test scores for
the freshmen have been tabulated
for statistical study.
“As a result of the rise in scores
and the high school grades, stu-
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dents are predicted to achieve a
significantly higher grade point
ratio (average) than a year ago,”
Kerley said.
The CEEB SAT tests offered
nationally for the first time in
1926 have gone through many
editions. More than 600 colleges
now require prospective students
to take the SAT as part of the
admissions process.
The SAT measures two impor
tant abilities necessary for college
level work—verbal and mathemat
ical.
The CEEB achievement tests in
English composition, advanced
mathematics, intermediate mathe
matics and chemistry also are
taken by the freshmen.
The Nelson-Denny Reading Test
involves rate or speed of reading,
reading comprehension and reading
vocabulary.
King Gets Peace Prize
By The Associated Press
OSLO, Norway — Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., an American Ne
gro leader in the national civil
rights movement, has been awarded
the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
In announcing the 1964 winner
of the coveted award, the Oslo
Nobel Institute said Wednesday
“Martin Luther King has consis
tently asserted the principle of
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By The Associated Press
International
LONDON—British voters elect a new 630-seat
House of Commons Thursday, deciding whether to
keep Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home’s Con
servatives at the helf or to replace them with the
Labor party led by Harold Wilson.
★ ★ ★
SAIGON, South Viet Nam—Prospects for the
pledged quick switch of South Viet Nam from
military to civilian government went glimmering
Wednesday. This development followed a week of
unusually heavy casualties in the U. S.-backed war
against the Communist Viet Cong.
★ ★ ★
MOSCOW—The three Soviet cosmonauts from
the world’s first group space flight met with
scientists Wednesday, went through medical checks,
and said later they were ready for another cosmic
trip.
National
MIAMI, Fla.—Small but dangerous Hurricane
Isbell, shooting tornadoes out of her leading edge,
slamed into Palm Beach Wednesday night after
racing across the Everglades of south Florida.
★ ★ ★
DENVER, Colo.—Detectives and FBI agents
searched Denver Wednesday night for Leslie
Douglas Ashley, 26, Texas state hospital escapee
convicted of slaying a Houston real estate man
in 1961.
★ ★ ★
NEW YORK—Walter Jenkins, the White House
assistant longest associated with President Johnson,
was hospitalized Wednesday in Washington “suffer
ing from extreme fatigue,” the traveling White
House said.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Harry S. Truman, sport
ing blue-striped pajamas and a slight shiner, sat
up in his bed Wednesday apparently taking a
philosophical view of the bathtub fall that put him
in the hospital.
Texas
AUSTIN—A stream of witnesses before the
state textbook committee assailed evolution Wednes
day as an atheistic, unscientific and materialistic
theory that should be kept out of high school biology
textbooks.
An estimated 200 persons jammed the Texas
Education Agency’s conference room and spilled
into adjacent corridors to listen to the hearing
reminiscent of the famed Tennessee “Monkey Trial”
of the 1920’s.
Ministers, two scientists and a publisher of a
religious newspaper concentrated their attack on
three books being considered for adoption for use
in Texas public high schools.
★ ★ ★
HOUSTON—A helicopter exploded and fell in
flames Wednesday, killing its pilot and a traffic
broadcaster.
★ ★ ★
DALLAS—The Times Herald said Wednesday
that FBI agent Ken Howe, in charge of the security
section in the Dallas FBI office Nov. 22 when
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, has
been transferred to Seattle, Wash.
★ ★ ★
SAN ANTONIO—Gov. George C. Wallace of
Alabama won support of Deep South governors
Wednesday in his fight against federal court juris
diction over school affairs but he was blocked by
two border state leaders at the Southern Governors
Conference.
nonviolence.” In an Atlanta, Ga.,
hospital for a routine physical
checkup King said: “I’m deeply
moved, gratified and honored to be
chosen for such a significant
award.”
“I do not consider this merely
an honor to me personally, but a
tribute to the discipline, wise re
straint, and majestic courage of
the millions of gallant Negroes
and white persons of good will
who have followed a nonviolent
course in seeking to establish a
reign of justice and a rule of love
across this nation of ours.”
King said the prize money would
be spent on the civil rights move
ment.
King is the 12th American and
the third Negro to be awarded
the prize. Dr. Ralph J. Bunche,
U.N. undersecretary for special
political affairs, was the first
American Negro so awarded, win
ning the prize in 1950. He sent
King a letter of congratulations
The Clebanoff Strings provide the entertainment for
Town Hall’s second presentation of the year with an 8 p. m.
performance Friday in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The concert will be divided into two programs. The first
half will consist of a classic string concert with the emphasis
on classical music, while the second half will consist of a
“pop” concert featuring popular favorites as well as music
from Broadway shows.
Since its formation seven years ago by noted conductor
and violinist Clebanoff, the
20-piece string orchestra has
met with overwhelming
success and widespread crit
ical acclaim for its distinctive
style of music. It has made two
concert tours, appeared on several
national television programs, and
recorded 16 instrumental albums
for Mercury records.
The Clebanoff strings is com
posed of 15 strings, an accordion,.
H piano, harp and percussion. Its
repertoive ranges from classical
symphony arrangements to the
more modern and popular melodies
of Leonard Bernstein, Richard
Rodgers and Lerner and Lowe.
Conductor-founder Clebanoff be
gan his musical career as a vio
linist at the age of five, and he
gave his first recital two years
later. He became the youngest
member of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra when he joined the group
at the age of 20. He later became
the concertmaster and violin so
loist for both the Illinois Sym
phony Orchestra and the Nation
al Broadcasting Company Orches
tra. He made his conducting de
but with the New Orleans Sym
phony.
Feeling a need for a type
of instrumental orchestra which
would fall between the traditional
small chamber ensemble of three
to six musicians and the regular
symphony orchestra, Clebanoff or
ganized the Clebanoff Sinfonietta
in 1957. This ensemble was the
forerunner of the Clebanoff
Strings.
CLEBANOFF
TSEA Meet
Opens Friday
Mrs. Elizabeth Little of Corpus
Christi, president of the Texas
State Teachers Association, has
been added to Friday’s program
of the Texas Student Education
Association conference here.
More than 100 education stu
dents from 10 colleges and univer
sities in Southeast Texas are ex
pected for the one-day meeting.
Philip J. Lanasa of Beaumont
is president of the host A&M
chapter.
Two A&M faculty advisors to
the local chapter of the Texas
Student Education Association have
lead roles in the chapter advisors
discussion session. Dr. William
W. Stokes will serve as chairman
and Dr. William Graves will be
recorder.
immediately after the award was
announced.
“This announcement is a strik
ing international recognition of the
cause and struggle of the American
Negro for full equality in the
American society and for full par
ticipation in the mainstream of
American life,” Bunche wrote.
The other Negro prize winner
was South African leader Albert
Luthuli, in 1960.
SUZANNE HUNT
. . . Dallas
DIANNA LYNN KENNY
. . . Reeville
BELINDA DAVIS
. .. Port Arthur
CECILIA RUIZ
. Bogota, Colombia
ALONG THE CAMPAIGN TRAILS
Fourth Visit By Gold water
To Texas Makes History
By The Associated Press
Sen. Barry Goldwater, making
Texas political history with a heavy
dose of campaigning in the Lone
Star State, returned for his fourth
visit Thursday for stops at Har
lingen, Beaumont and Houston.
The Republican presidential nom
inee, with two sidekicks — tele
vision western actor Clint (Chey-
ene) Walker and Sen. John Tower
of Texas-arrived in Harlingen at
mid-morning to address a crowd
in the football stadium.
After the Beaumont appearance
at Lamar Tech Stadium in the af
ternoon, Goldwater was scheduled
to ride in a Houston motorcade and
address a rally in Houston’s Colt
Stadium, with 20,000 expected to
attend. He will stay overnight
in Houston.
Democrats will import their
own television cowboy, Dan Block
er of the “Bonanza” series, to help
the Johnson - Humphrey ticket.
Blocker will appear at Abilene and
Lufkin Saturday and Giddings on
Sunday. He also will meet with
campaign leaders in San Antonio
early Saturday.
Goldwater’s state headquarters
announced John N. Schaefer and
Frank Hill Jr. of Austin, Univer
sity of Texas law school students,
are directing Goldwater activities
in Texas colleges.
Goldwater pledged Wednesday
night to take off “bureaucratic
Transporta tion A id
From Dallas Listed
The Dallas A&M Mothers’ Club
has released names and telephone
numbers of members of the club’s
transportation committee.
Included on the list are Mrs.
D. G. Guy, WH 6-2017 or WH 6-
8768; Mrs. Jack Clark, DA 8-2135;
Mrs. Roscoe A. Betz, TA 4-6214;
Mrs. J. R. Ferguson, FL 2-5376;
Mrs. R. I. Landtroop, WH 3-8651.
These women have said they will
be glad to assist Aggies in getting
rides from Dallas back to school.
shackles” if the people make him
president.
“We want strength at home,” he
said, “and we want it through
freedom.”
The Arizona senator came here
from buoyant receptions in Kan-
sa City and Omaha, at both places
jabbing at “Lyndon.”
He charged a “White House
whitewash” in the Bobby Baker
case, the issue he thinks is hurt
ing the President most in this poli
tical campaign.
“The man who occupies the
White House does not want Bobby
Baker exposed because Bobby Ba
ker’s affairs lead straight into the
White House itself,” he declared.
President Johnson said Wednes
day night foreign policy manage
ment requires “caution in the cock
pit and an experienced pilot.”
Implying that he is the candi
date with experience and caution,
Johnson pledged that, if elected, he
will make new efforts to lessen
East-West tension and slow the
arms race.