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ASC Urged To Accept
Proposed Reorganization
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blades cuts through sidewalks. The machine is being used
by a Department of Buildings and Utilities employe pre
paring to repair a leaking water line.
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night »t| sociates will present his latest film
half rally pat 8 p.m. Feb. 5 in Guion Hall,
rersity oi li Appearing under the auspices
iwest Conk of the A&M Fish and Game Club,
the well traveled expert with rod,
splurge by« rifle and camera combines a trek
pulled Sou! across the newly opened trans-
of Rice raoi Canadian highway, with a border-
left in the s to-bordor safari in Tanganyika,
"oniestoa j oe gurovjk, president of the
iwest Conf® pi s h and Game Club, commented
Tuesday on particulars of the film,
nted a ‘Warren safaris with white hunt-
was ne ' e ]|er Pat Hemingway, son of the
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oIncrease
A&M will play host to 50 to 60
dult education programs during
he next calendar year, announced
F. W. (Bill) Hensel, director of
continuing education.
Enrollment in the programs is
also expected to increase, possibly
above 15,000 persons. Registra
tion figures range from an esti
mated 15 for the municipal police
school to 2,000 anticipated for the
annual 4-H Roundup.
The office of continuing educa
tion handles about half the con
ferences, while the remainder is
directed by the agriculture and en
gineering extension services, and
groups who organize and carry
out their own programs.
Hensel said A&M may be able
to house more student groups in
the future with the erection of
air-conditioned dormitories on cam
pus. And addition of larger motels
will make possible the scheduling
of national and international con
ferences of almost any size, he
commented.
A conference which may draw
5,000 participants is tentatively
scheduled here in 1966. Formal
announcement of the conference
will come from the organization’s
headquarters.
Until last year, such programs
were headed by the Short Course
Office. They date back to 1944
although training courses were
held as far back as the early 1900s.
Conferences will vary from
dairy to art.
Five of African game—leopard,
lion, buffalo, rhino and elephant.
In addition there are stalks for
oryx, impala, knogoni, wildebeest
and many other African species.
“Warren's movie ont only covers
the hunting of these animals in
urofessional style,” Surovik added,
“they also show how sportsmen and
white hunters live on safari.”
He said included in the film are
close-ups of more African wildlife,
shots of beautiful scenery includ
ing snow-capped Mt. Kilimanjaro,
and scenes showing the Masai na
tives.
“In Canada,’ Surovik pointed out,
“Warren and his party catch
tackle-busting Atlantic salmon and
lunker-size speckled trout. They
also bag Stone and Dali sheep,
moose, caribou and grizzly, amid
the beautiful scenery which makes
up the animals’ environment.”
“Possibly the most colorful se
quence in the entire program is
that made on Gods River while
fishing for mammoth square-tail
trout,” Surovik said. “Using hefty
freighter canoes, outboard equip
ped. Warren and his Cree guides
shoot rough rapids and come back
with brook trout of trophy size.”
“In the Cassiar mountains of
British Columbia, Warren’s party
bag Stone sheep,” Surovik continu
ed, “and then journeyed to the Yu
kon Territory to collect Dali
sheep.”
Tickets prices are $1.25 for
adults and 75 cents for students
under 16, if purchased before the
night of the show. Door tickets
will be 25 cents higher.
Officials Predict
Grad School Loss
By TOMMY DeFRANK
Staff Writer
A spokesman for the Dallas Chamber of Commerce said
Wednesday that Arlington State College will be in danger
of losing its newly-established graduate school if it does not
accept the reorganization plan of the A&M University
System.
Gifford K. Johnson, chairman of the education commit
tee of the Dallas Chamber, warned that if ASC goes before
the Texas Commission on Higher Education as an independ
ent university, its master’s degree program will not be
approved.
Johnson made the prediction at a meeting in Arlington
between President Earl Rudder, A&M Board Chairman Sterl
ing C. Evans and various civic 4-
and political leaders in the
North Texas area.
State Sen. Don Kennard of
Fort Worth disagreed strong
ly with Johnson, claiming that the
degrees would receive TCHE ap
proval even if Arlington State
were independent of A&M.
Johnson contended that the pro
posed merger of System schools
would aid the development of
Arlington State’s graduate school.
He added that a graduate school
in North Texas was necessary in
order to provide qualified person
nel in the technical fields.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area is
ringed by numerous firms doing
a big business in government de
fense work, and these firms are in
need of more and better qualified
engineers and scientists, the Dallas
Chamber of Commerce education
committee contends. The graduate
school at Arlington State, provid
ing master’s degrees in seven engi
neering fields, mathematics, phys
ics, chemistry and biology, would
aid supplying such personnel, the
committee said.
President Rudder explained that
until now each System school had
made out separate budgets and
presented them to the System’s
Board of Directors for approval.
He maintained that under the re
organization plan the schools
would be able to appeal more effec
tively for legislative funds.
Under the reorganization setup
each of the System’s schools would
be merged under the parent school
at College Station and would be
administered from there. Names of
the schools would be changed to
Texas A&M University at Arling
ton, Texas A&M University at
Tarleton and Texas A&M Uni
versity at Prairie View.
Rudder also said that the use
of bond money for building funds
will be discontinued and another
method will have to be found for
securing such funds for Arlington
State.
Arlington Mayor Tom J. Van-
dergriff issued a statement after
the meeting that sharply criticized
the actions of A&M officials.
“We cannot be told on one hand
that ASC must accept the name of
A&M and a revised administration,
and on the other hand, be told we
can no longer expect a single dollar
of building money provided for the
A&M System,” he charged.
“If we are in the System we are
entitled to a portion of that build
ing fund money—not all of it, not
most of it, but some of it. To say
that we cannot have any at all, and
other sources must be found to
provide for building needs at the
school in Texas most deficient in
building capacity ... is frighten
ing,” he added.
In a telephone interview late
Wednesday Board Chairman Evans
said that no solutions to problems
between the two schools were
reached at the meeting and he also
defended the proposed changes.
“No conclusions were drawn but
it did clear the atmosphere,” he
said. “What we propose is good
for all the schools. When they look
seriously and consider it in the
proper light every school couldn’t
help but be for what we’ve pro
posed.”
ASC students leaders expressed
confidence that the day’s develop
ments enhanced the possibility of
complete separation from the A&M
System. Leaders of the “Save Our
School” Committee released a
statement late Wednesday saying,
“We do not feel that the name of
ASC will be changed. We feel
See Arlington Page 5)
President’s Home Taking Shape
Because of good weather, workmen are by fire in the Spring of 1963. The house
ahead of schedule in the building of Pres- is being built between the Duncan Hall dorm
ident Earl Rudder’s new home. The house area and G. Rollie White Coliseum,
will replace the old one which was destroyed
MSC Guest Rooms Undergo
$7,000 Holiday Renovation
Work is continuing on replaster
ing and painting guest rooms in
the Memorial Student Center fol
lowing a general $7,000 face lifting
during the year-end holidays.
Wayne Stark, MSC director,
praised Alfred Thieleman, building
superintendent, and Alvin Houston,
assistant building superintendent,
for directing the day and night
operation.
“Thousands of man hours were
spent by 15 of our staff members
and about 15 part-time workers in
doing major maintenance and re
pair work,” Stark explained. “They
took off only Christmas and New
Year’s Day and worked day and
night to make the needed repairs
before classes resumed Monday.”
Work accomplished included:
Replacing the floor of the hall
from the main desk of the MSC
to the Former Students’ Office on
the ground level. The walls were
also replastered and repaired.
Aluminum louvers were added to
the lights in the area, providing
a brighter, more cheerful atmos
phere.
Tuxedo white vinyl asbestos tile
was used as flooring in that area
as well as in the barber shop and
east and west to the telephone
center. Walls of the barber shop
were also plastered and painted.
Executive Course Speakers Chosen
Telephone Company Chief One Of 22 Selected
Date For A1 Hirt
Moved Up A Week
The Town Hall Series at A&M
will resume Feb. 12 with the ap
pearance of Trumpeter A1 Hirt at
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Early interest in tickets has
prompted Robert L. (Bob) Boone,
Student Programs director, to re
iterate that the date for Hirt’s
performance is Feb. 12, not Feb. 5
as originally scheduled.
Boone said a mailer is being sent
advising all season ticket holders
of the change in the date. He said
the switch was made at the request
of Hirt, who moved his entire
schedule back a week.
Tickets are available in the Stu
dent Programs Office.
Donald C. Power, one of the
nation’s top telephone company
executives, will be a faculty mem
ber of the thirteenth annual Exe
cutive Development Course open
ing here Jan. 24.
Dr. John E. Pearson made the
announcement as head of the spon
soring School of Business Admin
istration.
The veteran utility executive, sch
eduled to come here Jan. 27, is
chairman of the board and chief
executive officer of General Tele
phone & Electronics Corp.
Power is among the 22 senior
representatives of national firms
along with outstanding Texas busi
ness leaders who will speak to the
Executive Development Course in
workshop sessions. Participants in
this professional development
course have an intensive course of
study.
“We are especially happy to
have Power meet with the group,
since from the beginnings of the
EDC in 1952 many executives of
the utilities industries, along with
those from manufacturing and
other varied fields of business and
government, have participated,”
Pearson said.
Sinclair Oil Corp. President O. P.
Thomas will be another faculty
member for “The American Busi
ness Environment” segment of the
three-week course.
Power has held his present post
since 1959 when Sylvania Electric
Products, Inc., merged into General
Telephone Corp. which Power had
served in high executive posts
since 1951.
He received the BS degree in
Business Administration from Ohio
State University in 1922. He later
completed both a law degree and
the MA at Ohio State.
general of Ohio and attorney for
the Public Utilities Commission for
Ohio from 1933 to 1936. In 1939
he began a four-year term as secre
tary to the governor.
In June, 1951, he was elected
president of General Telephone
Service Corps., having previously
been a director of the company
and of General Telephone’s Ohio
subsidiary, as well as rate counsel
for the General Telephone System.
Power serves presently as a di-
Power was assistant attorney | rector of 11 firms in addition to
subsidiaries of General Telephone
& Electronics Corp.
A number of industrial groups
and civic organizations have pre-
sentsed awards to Powers. He was
cited, for example, in 1959 by
National Sales Executives — In
ternational as “Business Executive
of the Year.”
Power also is the author of a
number of articles on various pub
lic utility subjects and a book en
titled “The Law of Contracts Con
densed.”
The World at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo—Premier Moise
Tshombe challenged his non-Congolese enemies to
meet him in Stanleyville to learn for themselves of
the horrors perpetrated by the Communist-backed
rebels.
National
PAYSON, Ariz.—Bodies of four school boys were
found in the city jail where the youths, arrested
for stealing beer, had spent the night.
Fumes from a faulty heating system in the new
jail wing were tentatively blamed.
★ ★ ★
WASHINGTON—Four presidential messages will
go to Congress at the rate of one a day starting
next Tuesday, the White House said.
NEW YORK—The AFL-CIO International Long
shoremen’s Association reached agreement Wednes
day on the language of a new master contract,
affecting 60,000 East and Gulf Coast dockers.
★ ★ ★
MIAMI, Fla.—One of the suspects in the $410,000
jewel theft at the American Museum of Natural
History turned up in Miami on Wednesday night
amid reports he has agreed to return the gems.
Texas
AUSTIN—Texas oyster fishermen lost Wednes
day another round in their legal battle to keep
shell dredgers away from live oyster reefs.
★ ★ ★
DALLAS—Mayor Erik Jonsson of Dallas pro
posed today that Fort Worth and Dallas set up an
airport authority to decide the question of a regional
airport for North Texas.
Ex-Aggie Awed
By Latin America
Social Customs
“At first I was awed by the dif
ferences in the Latin American’s
way of life as compared to ours,”
said former A&M student Wayne
Sharp in his report of his Interna
tional Farm Youth Exchange ex
periences in Argentina.
Most of the social customs are
European,- for 97 per cent of the
population is of European descent,
and the majority of the people
are of Spanish, Italian and German
descent, he said.
“Food over here is relatively
economical and of very high quali
ty,” said Sharp. In fact the food
is so good that he gained 10 pounds
the first three weeks in Argentina.
Breakfast in Argentina is a very
light meal consisting of coffee
with milk, toast and jelly or sweet
rolls.
“Very little of the milk is past
eurized so it is boiled and served
hot with their coffee,” added
Sharp.
“Lunch is their main meal and
it is quite similiar to ours except
that wine is served, with every
meal. They drink a lot of wine
because the water is not very good
in many areas and common wine
costs less than the family-size soft
drinks,” said Sharp.
“At 5 tea and cake or cookies
are observed in most areas, and
dinner is served about 8 or 9 at
night,” said Sharp. Therefore, the
people in Argentina begin their
night life about 10 or 11.
Flooring was installed by a
Bryan contractor.
Approximately 25 guest rooms
on the main level of the MSC were
replastered and painted. Work is
continuing on several additional
rooms.
Six tile showers in the guest
rooms were rebuilt.
The bowling area was revamped.
Ramps were torn out by airham-
mers and were replaced by steps.
New approaches and seats were
installed for all eight bowling
lanes. Walls and ceilings in the
bowling area were cleaned and
painted.
Stark said the Brunswick Com
pany of Houston has been hired to
recover all eight tables in the
billiards hrea next week in prepa
ration for the Association of Col
lege Unions’ Games Tournament in
February. Twenty-five to 30 uni
versities and colleges from Texas,
Louisiana and Arkansas are ex
pected to compete. The University
of the Americas, from Mexico City,
may also enter the tourney.
Deadline Nears
For Government
Intern Program
A&M seniors and graduate stu
dents interested in applying for the
management intern program of the
U. S. Civil Service Commission
must act immediately, W. R.
Horsley, director of the A&M
placement program, said today.
Details concerning the civil
service commission program with
approximately 400 openings for
1965 may be obtained at the Place
ment Office in the YMCA Build
ing. The deadline for commission
officials to receive applications is
Jan. 21 and the test will be given
Feb. 20.
The intern program is designed
to bring into the federal govern
ment each year a number of college
graduates with particularly out
standing potential for becoming
top level executives and adminis
trators in various agencies.
Last Rites Held For Grad Student
Funeral services were held in
Huntsville Thursday for Wesley E.
Wheeler, head of the Department
of Graphic Arts at Sam Houston
State Teachers College and a part-
time graduate student here.
Wheeler died Tuesday night in
a Houston hospital after a short
illness.
He was working on a doctoral
degree in industrial education here
while carrying on fulltime duties
at Sam Houston State.
Services were held at the First
Methodist Church in Huntsville
with burial in Oakwood Cemetery
there.
Survivors include his wife and
a son from Huntsville; his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wheeler, and
a sister, Mrs. James Price, all of
Pittsburg, Kan.