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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.
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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
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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.
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placed betvm! This legislative outline will
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ap and gw> tion, foreign aid and the space
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he would propose new programs of
aid to education costing $1.5 bil-
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U Examinsfc from pre-school to college.
Dissertation) Man y Washington sources be-
te Heimers.li® jjeve the $1.5-billion figure is just
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. 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.
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(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.
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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-
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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.