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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.