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Che Battalion Texas A&M University Volume 61 Price Five Cents COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1964 Number 108 Funds Approved To Air-Condition Sbisa Dining Hall A $340,000 appropriation for the air-conditioning of Sbisa Dining Hall was included in the $357,800 approved by the Board of Directors at its November meeting. At the same time, the Board awarded contracts for $29,466 and accepted $281,051.99 in scholarships, grants-in- aid, awards and other gifts for the University. Present plans call for the air-conditioning of one large room in Sbisa to be completed in time for use during summer school. The remaining rooms will be air-conditioned on an “^■individual basis, and the en tire project will be completed Store Funds Appropriated For Activities More than 300 campus organi zations will benefit from the al locations of $31,561 of Exchange Store profits, Dean of Students James P. Hannigan said Monday. He is chairman of the Exchange Store Advisory Board, a faculty- student committee which recom mended the allocations. Final approval of the allocations was given by the University Sys tem Board of Directors. Hannigan in releasing the de tailed listing noted the important financial role the Exchange Store profits allocations play in varied aspects of campus life. The more than $31,000 allocation made from profits of the Exchange Store for the 12 months ended Aug. 31 are in 17 categories. Members of the Exchange Store Advisory Board attending the Fall meeting at which the allocations were made were Hannigan, profes sors A. G. Kemler and G. T. King and students Donald R. Warren, Hale Burr, Frank W. Cox and Ron ald E. Pate. The board agreed to recommend the retention of $46,232.51 in the Exchange Store for operating and further improvements of the facili ties. The following allocations also have been made: Student activities club aid, $12,- 386; library, $1,000; religious life program, $1,000; Hensel Park im provements and program, $1,000; rifle and pistol team, $1,500; cadet corps headquarters, $500; and Civilian student government, $800; apartment council, $800; band awards and trips, $1,700; Ross Volunteers and Freshman Drill Team, $2,200; Aggie Players, $1,900; and NIRA Rodeo Club and Quarter Horse show, $600; physical educa tion recreational club equipment, travel and supplies, $3,275; Singing Cadets, $1,200; cadet corps awards and trophies, $800; Parachute Club, $600; and foreign student activi ties, $300. by next fall. Other appropriations in clude $3,300 for architectural and engineering planning of the president’s home; $4,000 to supple ment a previous appropriation for moving the Engineering Test Lab oratory to the Research Annex, and $7,500 to supplement a previous appropriation for paving test fa cility at the Research Annex. Scholarships, fellowships and awards totalling $42,875.45 were accepted from 72 donors, including $3,150 from Texaco, Inc.; $2,471 from Sun Oil Co.; $2,400 from the Marshall Foundation; $2,250 from General Motors Corp., and $2,000 each from the Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation, the Sid W. Rich ardson Foundation and the Clint W. Murchison Opportunity Award. Research grants and grants-in- aid totalled $223,250 and included $200,000 from the Moody Founda tion and $20,000 from International Business Machines Corp. Special gifts totalling $4,905 were received, including $3,500 from Texas Instruments, Inc. for the purchase of semi-conductor products for the electrical engi neering department, and $1,400 from Western Electric Co. for $1,- 000 transistors and a photo ele ment kit for the electrical engi neering department. New and additional capital gifts of $10,021.54 included $7,203.22 from Mr. and Mrs. Wofford Cain for landscape lighting of the All Faiths Chapel. Chancellor Post Dissolved lllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllillll!l!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll^ Ags Sing Anchors Aweigh Local Naval Unit Enlists Students, Profs Aggies in naval uniform ? Students who are group viduals. Recruits train aboard More than one A&M student members take their two-week ship while others attend tech- has shaken his head in amaze- summer training as indi- nical schools, ment at seeing a fellow Aggie WEM 9M wearing Navy blues as he walked across the campus to attend a weekly session of a Naval Reserve unit. “This is not exactly a Navy town,” Garland E. Bayliss of the Department of History said in his role as a Navy lieutenant commanding the unit known formally as Naval Reserve Naval Security Group Division 8-19. Like Bayliss, most of the officers and all 22 enlisted men in the unit come from the faculty or student body. Membership is open to anyone qualified. “We’re essentially involved in providing radio training and the other types of in formation the men need, plus basic training for recruits,” Bayliss said. A second Naval Reserve unit on campus is composed of faculty members and others who are officers. This is Naval Reserve Company 8-3. Most of the Aggies in the Naval Security Group unit are Naval Reserve enlisted men before they arrive at Aggie- land. Others enter the or ganization as part of the Naval Reserve Officer Candi date program leading to an ensign’s commission upon graduation plus special train ing. The Naval Security Group is described by Bayliss as a world - wide, largely shore- based operation concerned with special communications. STUDYING ON DRY GROUND . Naval Reserve trainees learn techniques. Bayliss said the reserve unit here is unique in the southwestern area encom passed by the Eighth Naval District because it operates away from a Naval Reserve Training Center. Serving with Bayliss as unit officers is a fellow fac ulty member, three advanced students and a former gradu ate student. They are Lt. Jack M. Inglis, a wildlife man agement instructor; Lt. Phil lip Buchanan, formerly a graduate student but now a consulting engineer in Bryan, and students Tommy R. Mc Clelland of Gilmer, Horace A. Smith of Jonesboro and Mau rice L. Schiller of Rosenberg. McClelland, graduate stu dent in agricultural education, serves as a lieutenant junior grade. Smith is a veterinary medi cine student and serves as a lieutenant. Schiller, working on a master’s degree in electrical engineering, is an ensign. Other A&M enlisted men are Jessie H. Smith Jr., John D. Allen, Max S. Amoss Jr., Joseph L. Rush, George A. Bradley, John Ruppersberger, Fred B. Pringle, William W. Browder, Jerry W. Chapman, William M. Norris, Raymond C. Minks, Albert M. Czar Jr., James A. Estes, Thomas H. Gardner. Others are Noble Hether- ington Jr., Charles W. Milli- kin, Robert C. Mersmann, Michael L. McAdams, John R. Holcomb, Charles O. Hook, William T. Mayfield and Carl W. Lahser. A&M Historians Study Texas Congressmen The Texas delegation to Con gress virtually always has en joyed a reputation for being among the strongest and most able, two A&M University histor ians say after extensive research. “Texans in Congress from Sam Houston through Sam Rayburn” is the title of a study begun two years ago by Dr. Claude H. Hall and Dr. Thomas L. Miller. They are near the midway point in their research, working on the project as teaching loads allow. The A&M historians know of no other study quite like theirs. Essentially they are compiling brief biographies of the approxi mately 200 persons who have rep resented Texas in Congress since 1846. “It’s not the Sam Houstons and the Sam Rayburns who give us the trouble, it’s those not so prominent . . . trying to get information on them is difficult,” Miller said. “In every decade,” Hall said, “the Texas delegation possessed interesting, colorful and effective members. Even in the recon struction period, a Yankee cap tain, John E. Conner, who, as a boy had assisted escaping slaves on the ‘underground railroad,’ be came disillusioned with the recon struction program, obtained the Democratic nomination, resigned his commission and was elected. He was the only Democratic ‘car petbagger’ in Congress. Despite the amnesty which made many ex-Confederates eligible for of fice, Conner was reelected.” Texans in the 1880s were rep resented by such men as John H. Reagan, nationally prominent for legislation concerning interstate Mrs. Jahn Retires Monday—between phone calls, checking merchandise and waiting on customers—Mrs. Naomi Jahn, 806 24th St., found time to express feelings of her 22 years of employ ment in the Exchange Store. Mon day was her last day before re tiring. “I’ve been here for 22 years and I have enjoyed every minute of it,” Mrs. Jahn said. “When I came here in 1942 it was for two weeks during the September rush, but I’ve been here ever since,” Mrs. Jahn recalled. She has worked as a sales lady in the clothing department of the campus store. She considers A&M students and staff to be “awfully fine,” and praised store manager Carl Bird- well and Robert B. Barham, assist ant manager for personnel. Her last day had the same char acteristic hustle and bustle that is so common to the Exchange Store. Throughout the day, friends dropped by to tell her goodbye and wish her well. The store employees honored Mrs. Jahn at a breakfast and pre sented her with a transistor radio. She also received a certificate of appreciation from A&M officials. When asked what she planned to do after Monday, she replied, “Just take it easy, and live life.” Sales Lady Says Goodby To A&M A PARTING GLANCE Mrs. Jahn pauses on her way toward retirement to observe merchandise. commerce; David B. Culberson in antitrust activities; Roger Q. Mills, tariff matters; C. B. (Buck) Kilgore, the “watchdog of the Treasury;” and William H. Mar tin. “Old Howdy,” as Martin was called, upon his arrival in Wash ington asphyxiated himself by blowing out the gas in his hotel room to become the butt of end less jokes. Another Texan of that era, Tom Ochiltree, the “Red Ranger of the Rio Grande,” was elected as an independent and became an inter national celebrity, Dr. Hall said. Miller, who is concentrating on the post-1900 congressmen, cites two Texans’ service during the Woodrow Wilson period. “Old Dave” Culberson’s son, Charles, was chairman of the Senate Judi ciary Committee and Robert Lee Henry headed the powerful House Rules Committee. Texans for a time during the New Deal days headed six House committees while both Texas senators, Tom Connelly and Mor ris Sheppard, also were chair men of important committees. “Mr. Sam” Rayburn, the “Squire of Bonham” easily is the dean of all Texas congressmen. He served from 1913 to 1961 and was speaker of the House longer than any other man in history. With the Senate majority leader, Lyndon Johnson, the two Texans strongly influenced the Eisen hower years. Texas congressmen, generally accustomed to relatively long tenures and benefitting from the seniority system, have often be come better known in Washington than elsewhere in Texas outside their won districts, the A&M his torians say. “These men” Dr. Hall said, “have varied greatly in their principles and in their willingness to stand firmly by them. Some voted their convictions despite popular pressures, others altered their views to accommodate them selves still others mirrored pret ty accurately each passing atti tude.” Board Gives Harrington New Duties Chancellor M. T. Harrington will assume the position of Coordinator of Programs in the A&M University System Office of International Pro grams and President Earl Rudder will become president of the entire System, effective Sept. 1, 1965, announced the Board of Directors. While meeting in Austin, the Board approved Harrington’s re quest to be assigned this post and also said the office of Chancellor will be renamed the office of President of the Texas A&M Uni versity System. At the same time, the Board announced that jobs of present System administrative officers will be absorbed into the new adminis trative organization, though some existing titles may be changed. Harrington will complete 41 years of service to A&M and the System in September, of which the past 11 years he has been adminiis- trative head. He was the first A&M graduate to serve as Presi dent and Chancellor. “While we regret losing Dr. Harrington’s services as Chan cellor of the System, we deeply appreciate his desire to continue serving the A&M System in an area that is so vital to its con tinued growth,” President of the Board Sterling C. Evans said. “We all realize that the time for Dr. Harrington’s retirement from administrative duties is fast approaching, and it is therefore especially gratifying to us that he still will be giving to the System the kind of guidance that a person of his long and varied experience can provide,” Sterling said. “It is, indeed, a satisfying chal lenge to be asked by our Board to assume these new and broad ened administrative duties,” Rud der said after his appointment. “I look forward to being around to help do the tremendous job that still needs to be done, and I antici pate this will take some time,” Rudder said. “Higher education in Texas, and the role A&M is to play in it, especially in graduate studies and research, must achieve a position that is second to none in the nation. All of my efforts will be dedicated to this end,” Rudder added. “With the increasing number and extension of contracts with the Agency for International Develop ment of the State Department and with private foundations for tech nical assistance in developing schools and various educational programs in other countries, this Nation’s Land-Grant universities are being asked to take a leading role in this work,” Harrington said of his new post. Rudder has been president of A&M since July 1, 1959, after serv ing as vice president for 17 months. He presently holds the rank of Major General in the Army Re serve and is deputy commanding general for mobilization, Conti nental Army Command. The World at a Glance By The Associated Press National UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—Alex Quaison- Sackey of Ghana, slated for election today as president of the U.N. General Assembly, will have two distinctions in the office. He will be the youngest president and the first African Negro in the post in the 19 years the assembly has been holding annual sessions. ★ ★ ★ UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—In an atmosphere of unprecedented uncertainty diplomats from around the world converged on U.N. headquarters Monday for a General Assembly session many regard as the most critical in history. ★ ★ ★ MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—The nude body of a New Jersey widow, wrapped mummy-style in a blanket, was found Sunday night in her winter home in North Miami Beach. Police said Julia Berger, about 50, was beaten and strangled almost a week ago. A coat hanger was twisted around her neck. ★ ★ ★ PASADENA, Calif.—Guided by a giant, once- worshipped star, the Mariner 4 spacecraft streaked toward Mars Monday with cameras designed to send back the best pictures yet of that mysterious planet. WASHINGTON—A new round in the Bobby Baker probe starts here Tuesday, this time to explore in public hearings allegations of a hidden payoff to the 1960 Kennedy-Johnson national cam paign fund. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor held a final round of preliminary talks Monday before reporting directly to President Johnson at the White House Tuesday on the tangled South Viet Nam situation. Texas SAN ANTONIO—After a surprise move by Dist. Judge Archie Brown that quashed a fraud charge against Paul Arnos Sandblom, the state was granted a delay Monday in Sandblom’s trial until after the first of the year. ★ ★ ★ McALLEN—Gov. John Connally paid tribute Monday night to U. S. Rep. Joe Kilgore—an old college classmate at the University of Texas—as “one of the best congressmen Texas has ever sent to Washington.” ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—The State Railroad Commission boost ed Monday special gas production allowables for 22 wells owned by 10 operators in the Jefferson County Port Acres field.