A&M Gets $440,000 In Grants
Award Given
For Research
In Radiation
The University has received a
grant of $260,000 from the Na
tional Institutes of Health to sup
port radiation research on ani
mals, A&M President Earl Rud
der has announced.
The grant, which covers a four
year period, was made by the
Division of Radiological Health in
the National Institutes of Health.
The NIH is an agency of the De
partment of Health, Education and
Welfare.
Dr. Eugene Hupp, associate pro
fessor of biology and the project’s
chief investigator, said goats have
been selected as the experimental
animals. Effects of continuous
low level radiation on their phy
siological performance will be ex
plored.
Dr. George Krise, professor of
biology is co-investigator.
Hupp said the project is linked
to a study now underway by Dr.
Sidney Brown of the Department
of Biological Science and Dr. Al
bert Casey of the Department of
Educational Psychology, who are
investigationg radiation effects on
sensory perception in goats. The
research is supported by a $111,-
000 NIH grant received in Septem
ber.
Both programs use the gamma
radiation facility at the Nuclear
Science Center.
Hupp said goats have been chos
en for the research. He said the
animals will be subjected to con
tinuous irradiation for about 42
months, with cobalt - 60 as the
radiation source.
Cbe Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1964
Number 90
Black Day In A&M-BU Relations
Came During 1926 Football Game
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Managing Editor
One of the oldest football
rivalries in the Southwest will be
renewed Saturday when A&M and
Baylor University meet in Waco.
It was an earlier Aggie-Bear
clash which wrote perhaps the
most widely-known chapter of
Aggie folklore.
The year was 1926 and the
setting much the same as this
year’s game. Baylor was cele
brating homecoming and the Ca
dets were visiting Waco in an
unofficial Corps trip.
At halftime, with Baylor lead
ing, a feud broke out between
the two student bodies and an
Aggie was killed. The infamous
incident severed athletic rela
tions between Baylor and A&M
for five years.
It all began when Baylor stu
dents, as was the procedure then,
entertained at halftime with a
stunt. A Ford, filled with fe
male Baylorites, was driven onto
JAN. 24 — FEB. 12
Executive Course
Hosts Oil Magnate
0. Pendleton Thomas, President of Sinclair Oil Corp.,
will be a principal speaker for the Executive Development
Course Jan. 24 - Feb. 12 here.
Plans for the thirteenth annual course were announced
by Dr. John E. Pearson, head of the School of Business
Administration. ‘
More than 100 firms, branches and U. S. Government
"♦■organizations have sent man
agement personnel to previous
Danforth
Lectures
Open Nov. 3
Architect Victor Christ-Janer’s
arival on campus Nov. 3 opens the
Danforth Visiting Lecturer pro
gram.
Christ-Janer, whose background
and training includes sculpture,
painting and architecture will be
on campus for two days. His
public lecture scheduled at 8 p. m.
Nov. 4, opens the 1964-65 Univer
sity Lectures.
Dr. Jotham Johnson, classical
archaeologist, will visit here Dec.
3-4 as the second and final Dan
forth Visiting Lecturer of the year.
“The Danforth Visting Lecturers
project,” Dr. R. W. Barzak, Uni
versity lectures chairman said,
“has as its purpose the strength
ening of the intellectual, religious
and cultural aspects of liberal ed
ucation in the United States.” The
project commencing its seventh
year is sponsored jointly by the
Danforth Foundation and the As
sociation of American Colleges.
“Texas A&M is proud to join
this significant program,” Barzak
said, “and happy to have the Uni
versity Lectures strenghtened
through this cooperative effort.”
The Danforth Foundation has
made a “generous grant” to the
program to make available to col
leges for visits of two days a week
men and women of outstanding in
tellectual stature from this country
and abroad.
sessions of the EDC. Atten
dance is limied to approxi
mately 50 men each year.
“We are particularly pleased this
year to have President Thomas of
Sinclair among the outstanding
speakers from across the nation
who will address sessions of the
EDC,” Pearson said.
The course is unique in that the
participants not only hear recog
nized authorities discuss good man
agement but cooperate in discus
sions and personal interchange of
ideas with experienced executives,
W. E. Eckles of the business ad
ministration faculty said.
Thomas will speak Jan. 26 as the
EDC participants examine the
American business environment.
His topic is “The Quiet Revolution
in America’s Economy.”
The native Texan is no stranger
to the Bryan-College Station area.
He taught in the Bryan high school
in 1939-41 and earlier at Franklin.
Thomas was born in Forney and
attended East Texas State College
where he received a BS degree with
a major in mathematics in 1935.
He received a MBA degree
from the University of Texas in
1941 and was teaching in the Dal
las schools when he entered the
Navy.
He returned to inactive status
as a Naval lieutenant in 1945 and
joined Sinclair Oil in the comp
troller’s department. In 1954 he
became an asisstant comptroller
and three years later was named
executive vice president. In 1960
he was elected a director.
Earlier this year he was named
president of Sinclair and a direc
tor of Richfield Oil Corp.
CSC Attempts To Hold Down
Civilian Noise During Retreat
The Civilian Student Council
decided Thursday night that
dormitory representatives should
inform civilian students to hold
down noise during retreat.
Don Warren, Dorm 20 repre
sentative, said a complaint had
been filed with him Thursday
that civilians were causing dis
turbance during flag-lowering
ceremonies.
Treasurer John Carter said he
had also noticed yells from the
Corps at this time,
In other action, vice president
Jim Benson reported on a meet
ing of the senior class with vhe
senior football players. Benson
said he was convinced that the
team is doing the best they can
and gave complete support to the
team.
Benson said the student body
should get behind the team. He
added that it was rough for the
team after being outscored in
five games.
the field. The girls were carry-
nig placards indicating the scores
of their previous victories that
season.
Only two years before, Baylor
students had staged a similar
stunt which had highly provoked
the Aggies. So in 1926 an Aggie
yell leader asked Baylor cheer
leaders to refrain from the Ford
trick and he had received a pro
mise that they would.
Therefore, the Cadets wei'e a-
gain provoked when the halftime
stunt occured in 1926. They took
the joke to mean mockery of the
Aggie uniform and tradition, and
thought the female characters
were actually boys dressed as
girls. Two Aggies rushed onto
the field intending to turn off
the ignition and one of the girls
fell in the shuffle.
Baylor’s male students then
came to the defense of woman
hood and the riot started. The
City UF Campaign
Paces State Drive
The College Station United Chest
Fund campaign was the first in
the state to reach its goal this
year, Texas headquarters reported
Thursday.
Hard work and prompt report
ing of collections were responsible
for the record, R. L. Hunt Jr., cam
paign director here, said.
The College Station goal of $19,-
000 was oversubscribed within the
14 days set aside for the cam
paign. Workers collected 103.7
per cent of the goal.
Aggies were greatly outnumber
ed, as only about 100 Cadets got
into the melee before the Aggie
Band struck up “The Star Spangl
ed Banner.”
With this tune the Aggies stop
ped fighting and assumed atten
tion, but a fellow classmate fell
dead. The cause of his death was
never documented, but the story
goes that he was hit in the head
with a chair. At any rate, a blow
during the melee felled and kill
ed Aggie Charles M. Sessums.
The incident was investigated
by the two institutions’ presi
dents, T. O. Walton of A&M and
S. P. Brooks of Baylor, and this
story was taken from their re
port.
The other half of the tale is
not documented, but practically
every Aggie has heard some ver-
Air Force Art Show
Sixteen paintings from the Air Force’s Doc- Center Monday through Nov. 6 The paint-
umentary Art Collection will be shown in a ings depict varied subjects around the
special exhibit in the Memorial Student world.
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
MOSCOW—Nikita Khrushchev was denounced
indirectly Thursday by his successors for haughty
one-man rule and delusions of infallibility.
★ ★ ★
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—Secretary-General
U Thant said Thursday it would be helpful and
desirable if Nikita Khrushchev could tell the world
about the circumstances leading to his exit as leader
of the Soviet Union.
★ ★ ★
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Writer-philisopher
Jean-Paul Sartre won the 1964 Nobel Prize for
literature Thursday and turned it down—explaining
that he wanted to remain free in East-West cultural
conflicts.
★ ★ ★
STRASBOURG, France—The European Parlia
ment recommended by a lop-sided vote today that
the European Common Market nations fix uniform
prices on grain, meat and milk products within the
next three months.
National
WASHINGTON—The FBI told President John
son Thursday that its investigation of Walter W.
Jenkins disclosed no information that the resigned
White House aide “has compromised the security
or interests of the United States in any manner.”
★ ★ ★
BAXTERVILLE, Miss.—The United States ex
ploded a five kiloton nuclear device half a mile
underground Thursday to see if American detection
devices can spot sneak atomic tests by foreign
powers.
★ ★ ★
DETROIT — Negotiators tried Thursday to
evaporate the diminishing pool of local issues in
the General Motors strike before United Auto
Workers vote Sunday on contract and return-to-
work proposals.
★ ★ ★
NEW YORK—Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st
president of the United States, received a simple,
impressive private funeral service Thursday. The
mourners were led by President Johnson, who came
from Washington with his wife.
The tumult of the 1964 presidential campaign
died away during the 15-minute memorial service
as Johnson was joined in St. Bartholomew’s Epis
copal Church on Park Avenue by his running mate,
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, and their Republican
opponents, Sen. Barry Goldwater and Rep. William
E.. Miller.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—Former President Dwight D.
Eisenhower entered Walter Reed Army Hospital
Thursday suffering from a “moderately severe”
inflammation of his windpipe and the air tubes
leading to his lungs.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—A Republican task force said
Thursday U. S| aid to Latin America’s under
developed nations cannot succeed until Cuba is freed
from Communist domination with American help.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—Secretary of Defense Robert S.
Mcnamara predicted Thursday it would be many
years before Red China could be able to make a
nuclear attack on the United States or its allies.
★ ★ ★
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Harry S. Truman has left
Research Hospital after spending nine days there
recovering from injuries suffered in a fall.
Texas
TYLER—The Tyler Junior College Apache Belles
and Apache Band will lead 75 marching units and
floats of roses in the 27th annual Texas Rose
Festival parade at 10 a.m. in Tyler Saturday.
★ ★ ★
SAN MARCOS—Officials of Southwest Texas
State College said Thursday one of their ex-students,
President Lyndon Johnson, has tentatively accepted
an invitation to speak at the college Nov. 20.
★ ★ ★
SAN ANTONIO—A proposal to allow Negroes
membership in the Texas State Teachers Association
will be considered during the group’s convention
which opened Thursday.
sion of it. According to the
fable of two generations, the Ca
dets returned to A&M, stocked
up with artillery stolen from the
campus armory, hijacked a train
en route to Waco and headed for
the central Texas city to oblite
rate the school where their buddy
had been slain.
Texas’ state militia was sum
moned to put down the attack
and the Aggies were forced to
return to Aggieland, and so the
story ends.
A&M and Baylor didn’t meet
again in football until 1931 when
the Aggies played host for the
first time in the long series.
Before that game, The Batta
lion editorially welcomed the
Baylor students to Aggieland.
“We extend a hand of gladness
and hospitality to renew our re
lations with a sister college . . .”
the editorial stated. “Memories
of past disagreements are forgot
ten.”
And they still are today.
Stipends Set
For Institute
Of Statistics
The National Institutes of
Health has awarded A&M a $180,-
000 grant for a five-year program
of the Graduate Institute of Sta
tistics, President Earl Rudder an
nounced Thursday. The grant is
for developing a program in medi
cal and biological statistics.
“The grant provides essentially
for an additional associate profes
sor and stipends for graduate stu
dents,” Dr. H. O. Hartley said.
He directs the Institute.
Four trainees already had been
named in anticipation of the grant
which provides for up to eight
trainees at one time as the pro
gram develops. Trainees receive
stipends of $175 to $225 monthly
and can receive this financial sup
port for several years.
“The trainees major in statis
tics with a minor in the biological
sciences,” Hartley said. No sti
pends will be granted unless the
student has a biological minor
or a public health minor including
veterinary science.
”Our program,” Hartley said,
“already had the option of courses
in biological statistics for those
interested. These courses now will
be required for NIH trainees and
for the Ph. D students an addition
al course in statistical epidemio
logy will be newly developed.
The trainees will have assign
ments as part of their training pro
gram at the Institute.
CAMPAIGN TRAILS
Barry Gives Views
On Nationwide TV
By The Associated Press
Sen. Barry Goldwater presented his views on civil rights
in a nationally televised speech Thursday night. It is, he said,
a matter of freedom to associate—and freedom not to asso
ciate.
The Republican presidential candidate’s message was in
the form of a taped film of his speech last Saturday night in
Chicago. At the end of the program was a taped speech by
former Vice President Rich-'
ard M. Nixon, urging Gold-
water’s election Nov. 3, and
a repeat of another brief mes
sage from the senator dealing
with law and order.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, talk
ing of “smear bombshells” yet to
come, carried his campaign to Bos
ton Thursday after attending the
funeral for former President Her
bert Hoover in New York City.
The Democratic nominee for
vice president told a dinner meet
ing of the Associated Industries in
Massachusetts that the prospect of
Sen. Barry Goldwater “at the helm
of the U. S. government is enough
to give every banker, investor and
businessman in the free world
nightmares.”
Republican Senate candidate
George Bush predicted victory to
day.
“We are winning this race,” he
told some 65 East Side business
men at a breakfast. He said the
polls also have been encouraging.
The GOP nominee said many
Democrats over the state are help
ing him.
In the governor’s race, GOP
candidate Jack Crichton called
attention to Connally’s travels with
President Johnson in Missouri and
Ohio.
“The puppet-governor of Texas
has been called out of the state
by his boss, Lyndon Johnson, and
his absence has left the Texas
State Teachers Association with
out their publicized featured
speaker for their convention open
ing session in San Antonio,” said
Crichton in a statement.
Great Issues
To Present
Color Films
Five color films in the World
Knowledge Series, “The World
Around Us,” have been announced
by the Great Issues Committee.
All programs will be in the
Memorial Student Center BallA
room. Tickets are available in the
Student Programs Office.
Jerry Stevens, publicity chair
man for the Great Issues Commit
tee, announced the following sched
ule:
“Wonders of the Deep,” nar
rated by Geza de Rosner, Nov. 18.
The film features strange creatures
of the deep in action that is “fast,
sometimes furious, and often down
right funny.”
“Inside Castro’s Cuba,” narrated
by Robert Cohen, Jan. 13. Cohen
was authorized by the U. S. State
Department to produce the first
full length color documentary on
Cuba under Castro. It is billed
as eye-opening and thought pro
voking.
“Timeless Turkey,” narrated by
Arthur Dewey, Feb. 18. Dewey
shows the transition to the 20th
Century in cities of Turkey.
“Highlights of Brazil,” narrated
by Howard Pollard, March 18.
“Escape From Tibet,” narrated
by Thubten Jigme Norbu, April 2.
Harold Dunn Chosen Chairman
Of A&M Research Foundation
Shamrock Oil and Gas board
chairman J. Harold Dunn of
Amarillo was elected Thursday
to succeed Raleigh Hortenstine as
board chairman of the A&M Re
search Foundation.
Hortenstine is chairman of the
board of Wyatt Metal and Boiler
Works of Dallas and Houston.
Naming of a new board chair
man and the reelection of other
officers marked the annual board
meeting here of the research
foundation. The board reviewed
the $2,600,000 worth of research
activities administered the past
year by the Foundation which
serves as contracting agency for
research activities involving A&M
faculty and staff.
Reelected were A&M President
Earl Rudder as president of the
Foundation board; Dean of En
gineering Fred J. Benson, Foun
dation vice president and direc
tor; Carter Sparger, vice direc
tor for oceanigraphic and marine
operations; Mrs. Judy Davis, sec
retary - treasurer, and C. M.
Gaines, attorney. Gaines is a
San Antonio resident. The others
reside here.