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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1965
Number 122
Extra Tuition Scholarships
OH Planned By Commission
W V AUSTIN UP) — The director of The tuition recommendation, pre- Texas residents and
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the Texas Commission on Higher
Education announced plans Thurs
day to give an extra boost in tui
tion scholarships to students at
four state-supported colleges and
universities.
“We picked schools whose stu
dents need the scholarships the
most,” said Dr. Lester Harrell,
commission director, in explaining
the tuition proposal.
The tuition recommendation, pre
pared by the commission’s staff,
would provide for 3 per cent of
the students at Tarleton State
College at Stephenville, Prairie
View A&M at Prairie View, Texas
Southern University at Houston
and Pan American College at Edin
burg to receive tuition scholar
ships of up to $200 annually.
Tuition at state - supported
schools is now $100 a year for
IN WEST TEXAS
Highway Ghost
Defies Scientists
By The Associated Press
AUSTIN — The Texas High
way Department has its own
story about ghosts, called the
Ghost Light of U. S. 90.
The department, in a recent
publication, reported that the
light can be seen best on U. S.
90 about 12 miles west of Alpine
in Far West Texas.
If it is shining — and some
times it is a little timid — it
can be seen on the horizon to the
southwest at the foothills of the
Chinati Mountains.
About it being timid — it does
not shine at any predictable time,
and when brave souls have tried
to track it down, it simply dis
appears.
The legend about the light is
that it is a campfire kindled by
the restless soul of a wayward
Apache brave condemned to roam
the Chinati Mountains forever.
The light is visible most nights
all season. But capricious ghost
that it is, it may not appear for
several hours. Some nights it
does not shine at all. Often it
is a few degrees to the left
or right of where it was seen pre
viously.
There seems to be no scienti
fic explanation. Some say it is
the moon reflected from a vein
of mica. But there is no mica
there. And it shines when there
is no moon.
Swamp gas often produces such
a phenomenon. But of all the
things West Texas doesn’t have,
syamps lead the list.
The Ghost Light has been seen
for 100 years, and even then, as
today, it shone with the bright
ness of a train’s headlight.
It hardly would be a 100-year-
old prankster of generations of
pranksters. They would have to
hike 40 miles or so for a gag
and it isn’t worth it. And none
of the many expeditions seeking
the source of the light have
turned up any evidence of hu
mans.
Harvard Sociologist To Visit
Dr. Talcott Parsons, professor of
sociology at Harvard University,
will lecture here Tuesday.
“Dr. Parsons is one of the lead
ing sociologists in the United
States,” said Dr. Robert L. Skra-
banek, chairman of the sociology
division of the Department of Agri
cultural Economics and Sociology.
Parsons founded the school of
sociological theory at Harvard,
International Club
To Sponsor Film
A colored slide talk, “Inside the
United States and Canada,” will
be given by Isaac Peters as a
highlight of the A&M International
Club meeting at 7:30 p.m. Friday
in the YMCA Building.
“Refreshments will be served
and all international students, oth
er A&M students and local resi
dents are cordially invited,” Club
President Kamal M. El-Zik said.
Peters teaches in the department
of dairy science.
considered one of the best in the
nation.
The seminar, “The Role of the
Professional in American Society,”
will be at 3 p.m. in the College of
Architecture auditorium, and the
lecture, “The Development of Re
ligious Organizations in American
Society,” will be at 8 p.m. in the
Memorial Student Center Ball
room.
A graduate of Amherst College,
Parson continued his graduate
work in London and Heidelberg.
He is the immediate past president
of the Eastern Sociological Society
and the American Sociological
Association and has published
seven books.
Skrabanek said that approxi
mately 15 Texas colleges and uni
versities have been invited to
attend.
Parsons is integrating the classic
theories of European sociology
with the theoretical approaches of
other social-scientific disciplines,
notably anthropology, psychology
and economics, Skrabanek said.
$200 for out-
of-state residents, but there has
been widespread talk that the legis
lature may consider doubling the
tuition fees. In October the commis
sion recommended a $50 tuition in
crease per semested for Texas resi
dents and out-of-state students. In
effect, this would double resident
tuition and raise out-of-state fees
to $300.
Under the commission’s latest
proposal, the other 18 senior
schools in the state system would
have $200 tuition scholarships for
one per cent of their full-time en
rollment. For example, the Uni
versity of Texas, with a projected
full-time enrollment of 23,955 in
1966, would have 240 tuition schol
arships to give needy students.
The staff proposals on tuition
scholarships are subject to the
commission’s approval at its regu
lar meeting Monday.
Harrell and three staff members
also discussed faculty salaries in
the state system, noting that there
are now 36 full-time positions pay
ing more than $8,000 for nine
months work. The top faculty
Salary in the state is $25,000 for
a University of Texas astronomer,
Harrell said.
This pay scale will go up, he
said, if the Legislature approves
the commission’s request for a 23
per cent average increase in sal
aries for the 1966 fiscal year, and
another 5 per cent increase in
1967.
Cuba, Castro Flick
Coining Wednesday
The first and only full-length
color documentary on Cuba under
Castro, “Inside Castro’s Cuba,” is
scheduled for showing at 8 p.m.
Wednesday in the Memorial Stu
dent Center Ballroom.
Robert Cohen, noted film lec
turer, produced the film which is
uncensored by Cuban officials. It
has been called a significant re
port on a most controversial prob
lem area — Marxism 90 miles
from American shores.
The film is the second of five
color films in the World Knowledge
Series, “The World Around Us,”
sponsored by the Great Issues
Committee.
Tickets are available in the Stu
dent Programs Office of the MSC.
A&M students with student activ
ity cards will be admitted free.
Student wives, public school stu
dents, and A&M students without
activity cards will be charged 50
cents. Single admission for adults
is 75 cents.
Other films announced by pub
licity chairman Jerry Stevens in
clude “Timeless Turkey” on Feb.
18, “Highlights of Brazil” on March
18, and “Escape From Tibet” on
April 2.
Aggie Players Production
Adds Life To Dead Week
PLAY IN FINAL PREPARATIONS
. . . Lee Hance, left, Nancy Schoenewolfe, and David White rehearse.
The World, at a Glance
By The Associated Press
International
JAKARTA, Indonesia—With another “go to
hell,” President Sukarno declared Thursday night
Indonesia has “walked out of the United Nations”
and turned its back on U.N. agencies that had ear
marked $50 million for him.
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TOKYO—Con munist China's New China News
Agency charged that “naval vessels of the United
States and its Saigon puppets” opened fire on a
North Vietnamese island early today.
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SAIGON, South Viet Nam—Vietnamese war
planes Thursday poured explosives and fire bombs
on woods in the Binh Gia area reputed to shelter
2,000 Viet Cong troops.
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SAIGON, South Viet Nam—South Vietnamese
authorities evidently consider the Gulf of Tonkin
crisis over. Public works men began Wednesday
filling in zigzag air raid trenches in the main City
Hall Mall.
National
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—Malaysia notified
the Security Council on Thursday it will seek U.N.
aid immediately in the event Indonesia steps up
military attacks in the wake of Indonesian with
drawal from the United Nations.
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NEW YORK—An American-born Air Force
veteran, who despite a court-martial had access to
U. S. military secrets, was arrested Thursday as
a paid spy for Russia. Involved in the case was
an aide at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, who
was ordered expelled from this country.
WASHINGTON—Administration sources indi
cated Thursday that President Johnson’s new
budget will hold federal spending to around $99.5
billion.
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WASHINGTON—The Air Force announced
Thursday that it is disbanding 155 more Air Force
Reserve units by April—probably a preliminary
step toward merging the remaining Air Reserve
units into the Air National Guard.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo.—A majority of Midwestern
Republican leaders have agreed Dean Burch should
be replaced as GOP National Committee chairman,
the national committeeman from Missouri said
Thursday night.
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WASHINGTON — President Johnson probably
will ask this session of Congress to unfreeze the
gold held by the Federal Reserve System as a
backing for band deposits.
Texas
GALVESTON — Facing a Monday deadline
that could prompt a crippling dock strike, Gulf
Coast shippers and longshoremen bumped heads
again Thursday without coming up with a new
contract.
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HOUSTON — The Manned Spacecraft Center
said Thursday it may be the fifth launching of
the Saturn IB rocket booster before three astro
nauts can make a moon training trip.
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DALLAS — A lawyer preparing the appeal
case of Jack Ruby said Thursday he had discovered
numerous discrepancies in sworn testimony given
at the Ruby trial.
The Aggie Players start “dead
week” on an appropriate note as
they present a tale of a hopeless
family struggling during depres
sion years beginning Monday at
8 p.m. in Guion Hall.
“The Glass Menagerie,” by Ten
nessee Williams, will continue
through Saturday night.
The play which first opened on
Broadway 20 years ago in 1945,
was Williams’ first successful play
and was included in the Burns
Mantle selection of “The Best
Plays of 1944-45.”
It centers around four people
who are living by illusions in an
effort to escape their unremark
able lives. They are unable to
cope with circumstances and ful
fill their desires, they live in “quiet
desperation.”
“It is considered by critics to
be one of the great modern Amer
ican plays in the tragic vein,”
C. K. Esten said. He is director
of the Aggie Players and an assist
ant professor of English. Vic Wien-
ing, also an assistant professor
of English, is directing this pro
duction.
Cast and staff members of “The
Glass Menagerie” include A&M
students, student wives and local
residents.
Nancy Schoenewolf will play
Laura, and Mrs. Lee Hance will
portray Amanda. Acting as Tom
will be David White, and as Jim,
the gentleman caller, Paul Bleau.
H. P. Bloomer is scene designer,
Cynthia Smith is light designer,
and Robert Wenck is technical
director.
In the crew for set construc
tion are Bud Franks, Gustavo Pena,
Dan Bloomer, James Hunt, Charles
O’Brien and David Holcomb. In
the lights crew are John Wynn and
James White, and for house man
agement, George Long, Robert
Hipp, William Lawlor and Terry
Mayfield. The properties crew in
cludes Barbara Peknik, Jordan
Brooks, Ramona Koonce and Joe
de Pasqual.
Costumes were designed by Jane
Eisner, and a portrait for the play
was provided by Howard Berry.
Tickets will sell for 75 cent at
the door. There is no advance
sale.
Alien Registration
Reports Available
Alien address reports are avali-
able now at all Post Offices.
Aliens have until Jan. 31 to
register, said N. C. Holland, assist
ant postmaster of the College Sta
tion Post Office.
Every non-citizen except those
not requried to register must re
port.
This form must be filled out
and returned to any post office
before Jan. 31. The cards are
not to be mailed by the alien, said
Holland.
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Candid Comments On Current Crises
Students Voice Disapproval Of Proposed System Change
Question: are you in favor of the proposed reorganizational changes to the A&M system?
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Mike Martin
Sophomore, Montgomery, Ala.
No. I’ve talked to some of my
friends who go there and went
here and they say ASC isn’t as
hard as A&M. I think that if
they’re going to say that they
got their education at A&M
people think they were graduated
from here. We will get a lot
better education here, and they’ll
just be using our name for
prestige.
Gary Sumpter
Junior, Fort Worth
No. The main reason is that the
granting of a degree with the
same name as Texas A&M to
students of ASC or any of the
other schools would take away
from the prestige of getting a
degree from A&M.
Robert Merritt
Freshman, Kerrville
No. Because we should be satis
fied with the way it is. I think
A&M has always been here in
College Station and that’s where
it should stay. We have more
important things to worry about
here.
Charles Downey
Senior, San Antonio
No. I don’t think it will help the
school that much. A lot of people
up there aren’t going to accept
it and nobody I know wants it.
I want it to stay part of the
System but it shouldn’t be any
closer linked to A&M.
Oscar Pena
Junior, Brownsville
No. I’d like to keep the name
here because I think no other
school is worthy of the A&M
name. If we spread our name
around it will cause us to lose our
individuality. It seems like the
changes are a move by the Board
to increase theeir own prestige.
Jim Bourgeois
Senior, New Braunfels
Yes. I foresee in Texas’ educa
tional future a change toward
the type of educational system
California has—where univer
sities are closely coordinated.
This will give A&M fully equal
standing of any other state
school, and it will do a lot toward
improving A&M educational fa
cilities.
William Johnson
Freshman, Laredo
No. ASC has been associated
with this school for a long time.
I don’t think it’s necessary and
I don’t think that they’re going
to like it either. I think they
like themselves being associated
with A&M, but I know I wouldn’t
like it if they tried to change
our name.