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T into the k v e Feb. i i°n under ' Plans to in t ' his H | Volume y of spe,;.! in the & Che Battalion Texas A&M University Price Five Cents COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDTY, JANUARY 12, 1965 Number 123 iph e ifeel the in 1965 is si 1 12, accori school’s dirt; the school at a low Jj e indivh ven to staie es of 12 or! ; he Engine;! . the school ish a comi*: >n to semi ' states, 'en hours a; for six m aterials asp: , interrogia on, psycht il aspects Air Force Maj. Gen. Lucius D. Clay Jr., vice commander of the Twelfth Air Force, Tactical Air Command, Waco, will be the principal speaker Saturday for the commissioning exercise involving 73 A&M graduating seniors. The general’s acceptance of the invitation to speak at the exercise scheduled for 1:30 p. m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum was announced by Col. Raymond C. Lee, senior officer of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program here. Commissions as s e c o n d 4 NOTICE RY GRADJffi 14, at 8:0h! in the lobby ili r of all cui their acaderc:: s, to be mi Each candidis list to detn ommissiomng Rites To Host AF General lieutenants in the regular or reserve components of the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps will be awarded during the afternoon. Forty-five gradu ating seniors seek Army commis sions, 25 have applied for Air Force second lieutenant bars and three for the Marine Corps: The commencement is planned that morning. Sam Houston State Teachers College President Ar- leigh B. Templeton will be the featured speaker. There are 574 candidates seeking to complete all requirements for bachelor or grad uate degrees including the Doctor of Philosophy. Clay’s knowledge of the armed services is lifelong for he is the LBJ Sends , ‘War' Note iplished by r? Diversity E>te fr} Vsuch°£*, l o CjOiigvGss » stage as p«t C 7 .tes for the list , cap and gow WASHINGTON (A*) — President are canfliwl , , , . will wear N Johnson began a senes of requests t"Degree to with a message Tues- jrm. All mi day expected to chart education’s rg'radTate^ role in the “war” he has declared tentai of ap s 5 ; on poverty. I with the Eitta placed betvm! This legislative outline will ^9 The”® followed by messages on immigra- ap and gw> tion, foreign aid and the space ■n $4.75, Bn* Hood rentals ^ Program, cap :red Chairman >mmittee in n adfc lo his State of the Union mes t is required i: sage last week, the President said he would propose new programs of aid to education costing $1.5 bil- e college ^ on the first year, and reaching U Examinsfc from pre-school to college. Dissertation) Man y Washington sources be- te Heimers.li® jjeve the $1.5-billion figure is just , f jjoctd, of W a starter, with annual costs even- ^Effectsof' 1 kmlly reaching $3 billion to 4 bil- t Transfer h ? '; Hon. Saturday* 1 ^ i All this would be in addition to . current federal programs costing ^Tsidg. about $3.5 billion a year. While waiting for the busy days ahead, the House met for only 45 minutes in routine session Monday, and the Senate didn’t meet at all. his, will not be disclosed until noon g color T, 1 Tuesday, plex F M Studies 10 & ^ TA 2^ UNCLAIM0 HT landise) Bi LVAGE TA $ UK'S no., Car dio Serri« TA 2-lS |! :s & etc i WmA. son of Army Gen. Lucius D. Clay, (ret.). He was graduated from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point in May, 1942, and immedi ately commenced flight training. His World War II service culmin ated with command of the 344th Bomb Group, Medium, in the Euro pean Theater of Operations. He was a lieutenant colonel. In 1947 he returned to the United States and was primarily associ ated with activities dealing with the development of the Air Force’s atomic capability. A subsequent assignment to the Air War Col lege involved further concern with atomic weapons and their applica tion in terms of Air Force policy and doctorine. He was named a brigadier gen eral in 1961 and last Aug. 1 he became a major general. His as signment a vice commander of the Twelfth Air Force, Waco, was effective Aug. 15. A&M Granted Bio School By Commission AUSTIN—The Texas Commission on Higher Education Monday approved a School of Natural Bio-Sciences in the College of Agriculture at A&M. Three of four departments proposed for the school re ceived the nod from the Commission at its meeting in Aus tin. The schools will include the Departments of Range Science, Recreation and Parks and Wildlife Science. The Commission turned down the Department of Forestry Science. A bachelor of science de- 4 Behind The Glass Menagerie Several of the cast members of the current night. The play will endure a week run at Guion Hall run of the ‘‘Glass Menagerie” the famed Aggie theatrical palace. (See by Tennessee Williams appear to have stage review, page 2) fright before the first presentation Monday gree in recreation and parks was okayed but the Commis sion asked delay in the request of A&M for a master’s degree. Dr. W. J. Graff, dean of instruc tion at A&M, said the Commission will consider the master’s degree in parks and recreation after the establishment of the baccalaureate program. The Departments of Range Sci ence and Wildlife Science will award bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D degrees. The degrees were redesignated by the Commission. President Earl Rudder, Dean Wayne Hall of the Graduate Col lege and Graff represented A&M at the Commission sessions. The Commission also authorized new graduate programs in several other state colleges. In other action, the commission voted to give priority in tuition scholarship programs proposed earlier by the Commission to Tex as Southern University, Houston; Plans Outlined For Reapportionment AU STIN <A*) — The Texas legis lative council recommended Mon day two possible plans for con gressional reapportionment. Both plans would pit some incumbent congressmen against one another for re-election in 1966. Only one member of the council Rep. Roger Thurmond of Del Rio, voted against the recommended plans, saying they did not con sider community of interests with in districts. Both plans would put parts of Dallas, Tarrant and Bexar coun ties with other counties in an ef fort to get districts of substantial ly equal population, as directed by the U. S. Supreme court. The plans were submitted for the council’s approval by a special seven - member committee which went to work shortly after the Supreme Court ruled that a state’s congressmen should be chosen on a population basis. Recommendations by the coun- Finals, Clothing Declared Illegal EWE.* lit# Id tire 16-58—It-®* “ Gil- ft# W/c otf- . bearing. ,et M. G., ’ AVE By CLOVIS McCALLISTER News Editor With dead week upon A&M at full force, professors along with students, including females, have joined the ranks of the rule- breakers. Each dead week, professors break paragraph a, section 2 of Article 46 of the Texas A&M University Regulations. This article states: “Participation in any act or threat, physical or mental, perpetrated for the purpose of submitting a student to physi cal pain or discomfort, indig nity or humilation, at any time or any place. This includes . . . interference with a student’s use of his free time.” Last minute quizzes and finals are clearly a violation of this paragraph. Every year. Article 58 takes a beating from the student body, both Corps and Civilian. Article 58 contains the clothing regula tions of the University. Section 2 of the article reads: “ ‘T’ shirts will not be worn on the campus by a student un less he is participating in an athletic activity.” Under this ruling, officials should proceed with plans to order the laundry starch. under this article, such as section 5, which states: “Socks will be worn with shoes( of all kinds) on the campus at all times.” This ruling with enforcement could cause a revolt with the trim ankles being covered with bobby socks. The females follow section 6 of the article in fairly good taste. It reads in part, “. . . will be clean shaven with proper hair cut, and without beards.” No questions have been raised concerning the beard matter with females but the proper haircut and clean shaven business is touchy. Some people really like the beatle haircut, but should maggies shave the peach fuzz? cil, the research arm of the legis- | S. Reps. Lindley Beckworth of lature, are advisory only. The council did not submit a recom mended bill, but any legislator can introduce legislation embody ing either of the two proposals. The first plan, “Plan A,” would put congressmen Wright Patman of Texarkana and Ray Roberts of KcKinney in an expanded District 1. “Plan A” also would put U. Gladewater and John Dowdy of Athens in the same district. Beckworth and Patman would be after votes from the same dis trict under “Plan B,” as would Congressman O. C. Fisher of San Angelo and Jake Pickle of Austin. “Plan B” also would put Congress men Jack Brooks of Beaumont and Clark Thompson of Galveston in one district. The study committee, headed by State Sen. George Moffett of Chil- licothe, sought ways of redrawing the district to come as closely as possible to an average age population of 416,508, the ideal under the Supreme Court’s “one man vote” doctrine. Districts recommended range in population, however, from a low The World at a Glance 3 More Batts This Semester The Battalion will publish three more issues before the spring se mester begins in order to allow already-overworked and underpaid staffers to study for final exami nations. The next Batt will appear Thurs day and the final issue of the fall to hold the semester will appear Jan. 21. An other will appear during the se- The maggies break several rules mes ter break on J an. 28. International NICOSIA, Cyprus—Two more mystery bomb blasts jarred divided Nicosia Monday. One caused panic during the opening of the American film “Lolita,” and another went off in a public lavatory. No one was reported injured. ★ ★ ★ SINGAPORE—The British carrier Eagle, with missile-firing jets aboard, steamed off Singapore Monday night, completing a buildup of British sea, land and airpower for the defense of Malaysia against Indonesian attack. National NEW YORK—More than 100 ships lay idle Mon day in ports from Main to Texas, marooned by a $20-million-a-day strike of 60,000 East and Gulf Coast longshoremen. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—Ohio Republican chairman Ray C. Bliss said Monday night he would not accept the party’s national chairmanship unless former Sen. Barry Goldwater asks him to do so. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON—The Navy disclosed Monday it has acted on 20 safety recommendaations designed to prevent another tragedy such as the loss of the atomic submarine Thresher. WASHINGTON—Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., said, after a briefing by the nation’s top intelligence officer today, “We can’t win the war in Viet Nam” unless a more stable government is established in Saigon. Texas HOUSTON—Dockworkers picketted Texas gulf ports Monday in a longshoreman strike that puts a huge crimp in the areas economy each hour it con tinues. The Houston area alone is expected to lose an estimated $300,000 to $500,000 a day from the strike which began at 11:01 p. m. Sunday. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—State Comptroller Robert S. Calvert said today the legislature will have more money to spend from the general revenue fund than Gov. Connally estimated. Calvert estimated tthe state would end the 1964- 65 fiscal period with a surplus of $97.8 million com pared with Connally’s estimate of a $95.9 million balance. of 395,472 to a high of 437,183 in “Plan B” and from 394,679 to 447,249 in “Plan A.” Several guidelines for congres sional reapportionment were adopt ed by the council, including that the job be done before Aug. 1, the deadline for legislative redis tricting, but that problem was not encompassed in the council study. The council said all variations from equal population should “have some reasonable basis that would be convincing to the court.” Another recommendation was that the legislature “make every reasonable effort to avoid placing two incumbents in the same dis trict.” Prairie View A&M; Pan Ameri can College, Edinburg; and Tarle- ton State College, Stephenville. The commission agreed to allow undergraduate and master’s work in the forestry at Stephen F. Aus tin College. Requests for a master in Span ish and French at East Texas State Colleges were rejected but will be reviewed later. The commission also agreed the pharmacy schools at the Universi ty of Houston and Texas South ern University should continue, but urged study on merging the administration of the programs. Refund Forms Now Available Graduating seniors and other students who will not be in school during the spring semester may obtain a refund of the spring por tion of their student activity fee by making application at the Hous ing Office. Students must turn in their activity cards when ap plying for refund. Room clearance forms are avail able from Civilian Counselors and must be completed and turned in to the Housing Office before prop erty deposits and room deposits can be refunded. Clearances will not be accepted until the required signatures are obtained and the student is ready to turn in his room key. Graduating seniors living in the dormitories may receive a refund for the board and laundry fees for the spring semester by report ing to the Fiscal Department be ginning Tuesday. Dormitory students who do not turn in a processed clearance form before leaving school will be charged a $5 penalty for failure to properly check out of his room. Ex-Employe Killed In Car Mishap John Lindsey Todd, a 71-year- old former A&M employe, was killed instantly Monday morning when the car he was driving col lided with a trailer-truck at the intersection of Texas Ave. and Coulter Dr. in Bryan. He was the city’s first traffic fatality of the new year. The driver of the grain truck, Johnny Adolph Dormier of Sey mour, Tex., was unhurt. Investigating officers said that Todd was traveling north on Texas Ave. and was attempting to turn on to Coulter Dr. when the col lision occurred with the south bound truck. Justice of the Peace Jess Mc Kee pronounced Todd dead at the scene. Todd was employed by the A&M College System for 38 years. He retired in 1959 as Farm Foreman I of the Sheep Center. He was bom July 23, 1893 in the Harvey Community and spent his entire life in Brazos County. Todd is survived by his wife, Mrs. Alma Todd, 302 Live Oak Street, College Station; one son, Wayne, of College Station; one daughter, Mrs. A. M. Carroll of Houston; six sisters; six brothers; nine grandchildren; and five great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are pend ing and will be handled by Calla way-Jones Funeral Home. ‘Slanguage’ Survives 3 Generations By TOM HARGROVE Special Writer One of the more unusual cus toms a newcoming freshman at A&M encounters is the necessity of learning the special “slangu age” used throughout the campus and especially in the Mess Hall. This colorful Aggie jargon is nothing new. Many of the fami liar terms used on the campus today — such as “bull,” “cush,” “fish,” ’’sawdust,” etc. — were also a part of the Aggies’ lang uage in what is nostialgically re ferred to my man as “. . . the Good 01’ Days . . .” Examples of early Aggie speech can be found in old editions of the origrinal A&M yearbook, the Longhorn. Apparently the Ag gies themselves haven’t changed greatly since those “Old Army” days if such a conclusion can be safely reached on the basis of a comparison of their dialects. Much of the slang used as far back as three generations has survived the changes of time and is in use currently, although the meaning of some has been altered and some is now practically non existent. The following examples are just a few taken from the 1903 and 1909 Longhorns under the titles of “Extracts from an A&M Cadet’s Vocabulary (With Due Apologies to Noah Webster)” and “The A&M Encyclopedia.” Axle-grease — A substitute for butter used at A&M and noted for its vile odor and marked tendency to crawl around the Mess-Hall floor; also valued as a lubricant for the campus wagons. Bull — The sonorous title of the warlike head of the Department of Military at the A&M a lad from West Point who rules with an iron hand. Bryan — where the Budweiser flows. Butts — An expression used by the Cadet to give him undis puted right to use next any thing from a cigarette “swipe” to a new uniform. Campus — The run around-the A&M Prison. Corporal — A living example of military despotism. Fish — A scaley oddity much in evidence, sometimes served in the Mess-Hall and continually served in the barracks. First Sergeant — Captain’s ram rod — “cussed” by many, loved by few. Guard Room — Lazy man’s head quarters. Goodwin Hall — A new mule barn. Hash — The last sad rites of Fido. Hell — Civil Engineering—Pover ty. Hot Air — The honorable art of “wind-jamming.” Jag — A cross between a jug and a jig. Mesa Hall — Where Bohe dames dispose of roosters too old to die and vegetables that have begun to give up the ghost. Incidentally, the Corps feeds here. Military — An easy way to beat the bull. Overworked — A good natured lie. O.D. — The Cadet who hunts trouble for others. Private — the poor devil who catches “IT” coming and go ing. Pony — An animal (thought to be extinct here) constructed of slips and paper rolls of book- lore and designed to carry a Cadet safely over his passing mark on examinations — ridden by many, seen by few. Piker — A Cadet who goes back on his crowd at a critical mom ent. One afflicted with cold feet. Punk — The technical name con ferred upon the lead-like bis cuits served at the Mess Hall. Poker — The popular form of athletics in which A&M holds championship. A great collegi ate game. Quart — A popular college mea sure of capacity. Rubber Goods — Sbisa’s steak. Rams — Compliments from Head quarters. Sawdust — Sbisa’s refined (?) sugar — used for fattening steers and A&M Cadets. Sbisa — a stealthy Latin, be lieved to be an anarchist. The man who waters the milk, “dopes” the coffee, shoves the cush and is otherwise indus trious in his efforts to pre vent sickness from rich foo<L Sermon — A sure cure for in somnia. Sergeant — A fellow receiving credit for what he does not know. Tobacco — The soothing weed used by all and bought by few. Zero — An evidence of Prof’s bad humor.