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I hope you will join your friends and associates in showing appreciation to the four distinguished former students being honored. Sincerely, Earl Rudder President Maritime Needed — odgers who , have woi mants. upA do: > of weaf fig RES It ) IS we «d. un- ent slsS 9 N New concepts in answering the question “How do you get the car go from here to here?” are a major need, U. S. Maritime Ad ministrator Nicholas Johnson told a Graduate Lecture audience Wed nesday at the Memorial Student Center. “There are many things we can do if you let your imagination run wild . . . we’re trying to en courage new concepts,” the 30-year old federal executive told an au dience of 75 faculty members, students and others. Congressman Olin E. Teague in troduced Johnson as a man “who has crammed more into nine years of adult life than many men ac complish in their entire lifetime.” Johnson praised Teague and also | cited the Texas Maritime Acaedmy. Johnson briefly outlined the five programs of the 2,500-member Maritime Administration with its half billion dollar budget and then for almost an hour answered ques tions. Much attention was given to nuclear propulsion for commer cial vessels and other research and development projects. More than 70 per cent of the ad ministration’s research and devel opment budget now is allocated to the Nuclear Ship Savannah which began a world cruise from Houston last May. Johnson indicated a strong desire for additional fund ing for research and development. “The future of nuclear propelled passenger ships is the number one question before (varied federal agencies),” he said. The administrator said the great advantage to nuclear propulsion for shipping is allowing 30-knots speed. But, he pointed out, half the use ful life of a ship is spent in port, while providing the additional speed requires more space devoted to power plant. And nuclear ship ping costs considerably more. Now under study by experts is the economics of using nuclear- power ships on the New York City- Far East trade, the longest route for American shipping. Perhaps this study will show that one 30- knot nuclear - powered ship could replace two 15-knots ships, thus offsetting the increased costs of a reactor-powered ship, they specu late. Johnson said a trade serviced by ships such as the Savannah also would “establish a kind of service no other nation can offer.” “Basically the shipping operation is about the same as it was 2,000 years ago,” he noted. The installation of centralized engine room controls, improved propeller design and other meas- Advances ■ Johnson ures were cited by Johnson as re search and development accom plishments improving present con cepts. Cargo-carrying submarines and hydrofoils skimming above the sur face of the sea were cited as pos sibilities under investigation for radical changes in shipping. Che Battalion Volume 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 29, 1964 Number 93 Convocation Set Saturday BELL CAIN ZACHRY DUNN Freshmen Attend English ‘Flicks’ Four hundred Aggies attend freshmen English classes unlike anything known to the tens of thousands of Texans who have studied that standard subject. A teaching method so new only a few colleges in the East use it — “with great success” — al lows such innovations as lectur ing to 200 students at a time and brief quizzes flashed upon a large screen. Students also meet twice weekly in small classes to prac tice what was learned during the weekly lecture. The new approach substitutes an overhead projector flashing transparencies upon a screen for the blackboard known to genera tions of students, but the techno logical change involves much more, Dr. Lee J. Martin said. “It’s too early to tell the re sults here, but we are hopeful,” Martin said. He teaches the “screen” sections. As a veteran teacher, however, he misses the personal contact possible in con ventional classes. A&M’s progressive Department of English has begun limited use of the new teaching approach fol lowing much study and prepara tion. Martin, for example, attended a 10-day seminar in 1963 on the use of the overhead projector in teaching English. Much of this past summer was devoted to pre paring the transparent overlays flashed upon the screen to pre sent information and examples. A typical lecture involves the use of 30 transparencies. The same material is offered in the “screen” sections and those taught in the conventional man ner. “The only difference is in presentation,” Martin said. Students attending the “screen” lectures study materials flashed upon the large screen with vib rant colors emphasizing the more important facts. Drawings and diagrams help a student to grasp the relationships under discussion. “I want to finish talking about the use of detail in writing para graphs,” Martin said as he open ed a recent lecture. Flashed onto the screen was a transparent overlay bearing the explanation, “General: That which includes all of a class.” A second overlay was projected, then a third, a fourth and final ly a fifth as the thought was de veloped. Students easily follow ed the logic that “building” is more specific than “structure” and “house” is most specific. “Concerning the general and the specific I have a little quiz I’d like you to look at, to take in fact,” Martin said a few mo ments later after projecting varied examples. The quiz completed within a few minutes, attention turned to another aspect of writing good paragraphs. Rice Chancellor To Speak “Success and Failure” will be the subjects of Dr. Carey Croneis, chancellor of Rice University, for the featured address to the second biennial convocation Saturday. The address is scheduled for 2 p.m. at G. Rollie White Coliseum. Four former students will be presented Distinguished Alumni Awards during convocation cere monies. They are Tyree Bell, ’13, Wofford Cain, ’13, H. B. Zach ry, ’22, and J. Harold Dunn, ’25. Bell is president of the Austin Road Company in Dallas. Cain is chairman of the board of Southern Union Gas Company in Dallas. Zachry is president and board chairman of H. B. Zachry Con struction Company in San Antonio. Dunn serves as chairman of the board of Shamrock Oil and Gas Corporation in Amarillo. Presentation of the awards will be made by Earl Rudder, president of A&M. Dr. Croneis will be introduced by Dr. M. T. Harrington, chancel lor of the Texas A&M System. Also featured on the program will be selections by the Singing Cadets. They will sing “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” the fourth segment of “The Testament of Freedom,” and lead the audience in singing “The Spirit of Aggie- land.” An open house to selected key facilities will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. The Data Processing Center, architecture building, plant sciences building and nuclear re actor are included in the tours. Also scheduled for the weekend on campus is a meeting of the executive board of the Association of Former Students from 8 to 11 p.m. Friday in room 3-D of the Memorial Student Center. The Association Council will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Assembly Room of the MSC. A buffet luncheon for the council and guests is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the ballroom of the MSC. THERE ARE NO COWBOYS, THERE ARE NO INDIANS but freshmen studying English show interest in the new type of teaching. CAMPAIGN^ TRAILS Throngs, Confetti Greet LBJ In LA By The Associated Press Downtown throngs estimated by police at 150,000 gave President Johnson a tumultuous welcome in Los Angeles Wednesday as he rode up Broadway through cascading No Franklin Approach For A&M Researchers Ben Franklin could go fly a kite and make an important dis covery, but A&M researchers are called upon for far more compli cated experimental studies. So they use a statistical approach as an aid. Currently 50 faculty and grad- } uate students are learning one of the newest such approaches from a man who almost literally wrote the book. Visiting Professor William S. Connor, Jr., is conduct ing the seminar on “Fractional Factorial Experiments.” The mathematics are esoteric but the results can be as specific and definite as improving the process of producing bricks. The fractional factorial ap proach is described as useful in any experimental study involving many variables and is applic able in engineering, agriculture and the sciences. “Dr. Connor is the senior co author of a number of publica tions issued by the U. S. Buearu of Standards giving for the first time, a completely comprehen sive tabulation and documenta tion of the most important famil ies of fractional factorial de signs,” H. O. Hartley said. He directs the Institute of Statistics. Connor’s appointment as a visiting professor in the Insti tute is supported mainly by a Na tional Science Foundation grant. The statistician has taught and has conducted research studies for the National Bureau of Stand ards, industry and the Research Triangle of Durham, N. C. He came to Texas A&M from Dur ham. An experiment to assess the effects of particle size, pressure and temperature on the quality of a certain type of brick was cited by Connor as an example of the fractional factorial ap proach. Many variables like these lead to an almost endless number of possible test condi tions. “Only a part of these condi tions can be tested, and such a part is a fractional factorial de sign,” Connor explained. The crucial point is choosing the right conditions for testing. Connor is a native South Caro linian and 1943 graduate of Davidson College where he was a Phi Beta Kappa member. He holds the MA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina and also has studied at Columbia University. In 1946-47 he taught at David son and then joined the Univer sity of Kentucky faculty where he was an associate professor for several years. Two assign ments with the National Bureau of Standards were broken by a period as statistical consultant to Johnson and Johnson of New Jersey. Connor was among the earliest staff members of the Research Triangle and also was an ad junct professor at North Carolina State University. He was there for five years. The statistician is a member of several professional societies and a Fellow of the American Statis tical Association. The World at a Glance By The Associated Press International WARSAW, Poland—Wladislaw Gomulka, leader of the Polish Communist party, said today the recent changes in the Kremlin occurred according to Leninist principles of party unity. He referred to the removal of Nikita S. Khrushchev. ★ ★ ★ LONDON—Sir Alec Douglas-Home reshuffled the Conservative leadership in Parliament today to emphasize the party’s younger leaders and bring two Tory rebels back into the fold. ★ ★ ★ VIETIANE, Laos—A government communique forecast today the pro-Communist Pathet Lao will stage another offensive after the dry season arrives next month. ★ ★ ★ UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—Cambodia told the U. N. Security Council today it can only rely on “appropriate action by friendly governments” to halt what it described as acts of aggression by the United States and South Viet Nam. ★ ★ ★ SAIGON, South Viet Nam—Cambodia won am munition Wednesday from Saigon for its propa ganda campaign against U. S. and South Viet namese armed forces trying to root out Communist Viet Cong bases along the Cambodian-Vietnamese frontier. National DETROIT—The United Auto Workers Union threatened Wednesday to strike Nov. 6 at all Ford Motor Co. plants lacking local-level agreements. 'At 'fa WASHINGTON — Moreton Rolleston Jr., an Atlanta attorney, has asked the Supreme Court to announce before election day its decision on consti tutionality of the public accommodations section of the new Civil Rights Act. fa fa fa WASHINGTON—Retired Justice Harold Hitz Burton, a Republican appointed to the Supreme Court by Democratic President Harry S. Truman in 1945, died Wednesday of a combination of ail ments at the age of 76. fa fa fa ST LOUIS, Mo.—Local police and the FBI were investigating Wednesday the theft from a retired St. Louis contractor of jade, silver and ivory model boats—possibly worth $1 million. The theft and investigation had all the elements of international intrigue, as police indicated the loot may be en route to Hong Kong. Texas DALLAS—Jack Ruby’s defense staff did a new flip-flop Wednesday, and former chief counsel Clayton Fowler said a “secret group” of lawyers are drawing their own appeal for the convicted slayer. fa fa fa BIG SPRING—The Security State Bank was robbed of §4,960 today by a youth who casually came and departed in a cab. Police arrested a young man described as a Puerto Rican minutes later at the Bi* Spring State Hospital. confetti and spoke in front of City Hall. At every intersection from 9th to 1st streets the beaming Presi dent gave a short talk. Generally, has words encom passed young people, the elder ly, medicare, economic growth and peace. The campaigning chief execu tive said at each stop: “I want you to meet the boss of the President of the United States.” His wife, Lady Bird, in a lime green coat and dark green dress, would stand up, grin and wave at the crowd. The chief executive arrived by plane from Albquerque to car ry his campaign into Southern California, an area in which his Republican opponent, Sen. Barry Goldwater, is believed to have his greatest strength in the state. Johnson, seeking California’s 40 electoral votes, will be followed in to the area Thursday by GOP vice- presidential nominee William E. Miller by Goldwater Friday and Democratic vice-presidential nomi nee Hubert H. Humphrey on Sat urday. Sen. Barry Goldwater declared in Belleville, 111., Wednesday that he has been “attacked by extrem ists for not outlawing extremism,” and demanded that Democrats re pudiate what he called Communist support. “Now I’m not accusing any Democrat of being a Communist,” the Republican presidential nomi nee said. “But I am getting a little sick and tired of their not denouncing this Communist group, not denouncing their backing.”